Chapter 153: Lovers Finally Become Cards

Watching as Shopkeeper Lin, with his high-level skills and bold courage, chased and killed a group of Daoists all by himself.

Longxi and the others, floating in mid-air, grew anxious at that moment.

The momentum of Huilong Temple was gone; they were already people of the Beggar Sect.

Shopkeeper Lin was showing off his great power to make a name for the Beggar Sect; there had to be someone live-streaming it!

"Shopkeeper Lin, we are here! We can recite tongue twisters, let us follow along to kill the enemy!" Longxi, who had always been quick-witted, shouted decisively.

"Fine." Lin Bai looked back at them, pointed his fingers to form a seal, and bound the Suspension Talisman to Huaxi Furen.

Sharing Qingyu's skills, he mobilized the talismans of Huilong Temple without any effort.

The principle of the Suspension Talisman was similar to Wind Riding; it was used by Huilong Temple to carry people and goods, and it required the guidance of someone who could use Wind Riding to function.

The Daoists of Huilong Temple were busy fleeing for their lives, so naturally, no one would waste energy guiding Longxi and the others.

With an unmanned Suspension Talisman, Lin Bai took over the guidance rights with ease.

With the Super Idol System, Lin Bai also needed exposure, so he was happy to take a few players along to live-stream.

After the Moon Elder Red Thread showed its great power, Lin Bai began to cherish every system that seemed useless.

"Traitors." Qingshan, who was guarding Qing Yu Daozhang, glared at Longxi and the others, raising his Sword to hack these fence-sitters to death.

"Qingshan, if you dare to touch them, I will hack Qingyu." Lin Bai raised his kitchen knife, making a gesture to hack Qingyu; now, Qingyu was also his Puppet, and no longer needed Huaxi Furen as a medium.

"..." Having his weak point held, Qingshan's momentum leaked away, and he said with a trembling voice, "You... despicable..."

"Better than you hundred-plus people coming to fight me alone." Lin Bai smiled contemptuously.

Just at this moment.

Xiaobai's tongue twister finished.

Lin Bai raised his hand and unleashed a Palm Thunder, striking toward Qingshan opposite him; the Daoists of Huilong Temple had all fled, so there was no need to use these living people for containment anymore.

It was more convenient to collect them into cards to carry.

Qingshan was caught off guard, his weathered face scorched black by the strike.

However, he did not pass out directly like an ordinary Golden Core True Person; after stuffing a healing pill into his mouth, he swept his Sword toward Lin Bai again.

The card-guard Qing Yu Daozhang raised his sword to block it.

Qingshan retracted his sword in depression; even though he was severely injured, he could not bear to hurt his beloved.

A Palm Thunder couldn't kill a Golden Core Peak after all; it seems his signature Skill needed an upgrade!

Lin Bai sighed inwardly, gave the order to attack to Qingyu, and turned to Longxi and the others: "What are you dazing for! Start reciting the tongue twisters."

Having been deprived of his consciousness, Qingyu only listened to Lin Bai's orders.

He raised the Fulong Sword and, with a move of Space-Splitting Slash, hacked down at the Junior Brother who had protected him at every turn.

Watching the huge sword shadow fall, a bitter smile crossed Qingshan's pitch-black face, and he gave up struggling in despair: "Forget it, dying under Senior Brother's sword is better than being humiliated by Lin Bai!"

Damn it!

Lin Bai secretly thought it was a pity; a perfectly good Super Idol System character card was going to be wasted!

At the moment of crisis.

With a cry of "Second Senior Brother," a nameless Daoist who had been struck by Cupid's arrow lunged in front of Qingshan, blocking the sword with his body, and was hacked into two by Qingshan's Space-Splitting Slash, dying an untimely death.

Lin Bai hurriedly changed Qingyu's attack order to defense; this guy's offensive was too fierce, if he kept hacking like this, would he still be able to collect the card?

Amidst several voices of "Mountain Before Has a Cui Thick Leg" in different tones, Daoist Qingshan looked at the Junior Brother who died for him, his eyes full of sorrow: "Why bother? I am not worth you doing this; wait for me a moment, I will return this life to you right now..."

"Qingshan, if I seal you into a card, you can still keep your Senior Brother company, why seek death?" Lin Bai looked at Qingshan and said earnestly, "Even if you lose your spiritual intelligence, you won't hear the world's gossip, right..."

The tongue twisters of Longxi and the others suddenly stalled, and they immediately mispronounced several characters. Good grief, Shopkeeper Lin really had no shame at all; the man was about to commit suicide, and he was still trying to trick him into a card.

Longxi couldn't help but recall the scene of first meeting Lin Bai, silently providing a wave of resentment for Lin Bai.

To their surprise, Daoist Qingshan's sword truly stopped; he looked at Lin Bai, then at Qing Yu Daozhang, and then back at his Huilong Temple Junior Brothers who were scrambling to flee, a look of struggle appearing on his face.

Lin Bai looked at him and continued: "I can even place both of your cards together..."

That was only because he was currently performing a truth quest.

Otherwise, he would definitely have said a bunch of flowery words to embellish their love, making Qingshan willing to die.

While the Great Language System improved his strength, it also invisibly limited his performance...

However, love makes people blind.

When Lin Bai offered the tempting condition, Daoist Qingshan seemed to have forgotten even his sect; he looked at Huaxi Furen with annoyance and gritted his teeth: "My card and Senior Brother's card must be placed together, and that woman must be separated."

"No problem." Lin Bai agreed readily.

"Lin Bai, your methods are indeed brilliant; I have skills but cannot use them, but now, can you still catch up to my Huilong Temple Junior Brothers?" Qingshan suddenly laughed, and as he laughed, tears suddenly fell; looking at his dazed Senior Brother, his gaze turned soft, "Senior Brother, you are not alone, I am coming to keep you company."

"..."

Lin Bai was speechless for a moment; he didn't care about Qingshan's little scheme.

He was just surprised by the power of the Moon Elder Red Thread and Lüxian.

Once tied, upon meeting the object of their affection, they were actually controlled to this extent, losing even the ability to think.

Too terrifying!

It was fortunate that he hadn't tied these marriage ropes to himself at the time.

Otherwise.

Seeking death for the other party at every turn, he would probably be ruined for life.

"Congratulations to both Daoist brothers for lovers finally becoming a couple." Although the misery of the two was caused by himself, Lin Bai still smiled and offered his most sincere blessings.

Then, he took out a Silver-Edged Card and flicked it onto Qingshan's head.

Silver light flickered, and Qingshan, wearing a smile, was sealed into the card without any resistance.

This was the first time Lin Bai had sealed a clear-headed living person; the effect was about the same as beating one to the brink of death before sealing.

Lin Bai looked at the card sealing Qingshan in his palm, fell silent for a moment, and thought to himself, perhaps he had been using the Card System wrong as well.

By breaking the opponent's will to resist, keeping them alive and sealing them might create an even greater deterrent.

In the blink of an eye, the Daoists of Huilong Temple had already run off until they were nowhere to be seen.

Aside from Longxi and the others, the only one left around Lin Bai was the nameless Daoist struck by Cupid's Arrow, who was obsessively guarding Huaxi Furen; seeing the fate of the First Senior Brother and Second Senior Brother, he was trembling with fear, daring to be angry but not daring to speak, yet unable to bear leaving.

Lin Bai glanced at him.

The Daoist brandished his Sword to protect himself: "I will not submit even if I die..."

"Then go die!" Lin Bai patted the little fox, and the little white fox understood, quickly chanting a tongue twister.

The nameless Daoist was terrified, waving his Sword as he prepared to fight Lin Bai to the death.

But under the protection of the two great gods, Huaxi Furen and Qing Yu Daozhang, his resistance was to no avail.

A moment later.

A bolt of lightning fell.

The Daoist entered a near-death state and was sealed into a one-time-use Blank Card.

"Shopkeeper Lin, are we still pursuing?" Longxi asked cautiously.

Over a hundred Golden Core cultivators from Huilong Temple had wiped out three thousand Beggar Sect Disciples with overwhelming force, yet in less than half an hour, they had been turned around by Lin Bai.

Lin Bai's strength was too terrifying, and he had long since conquered the players watching the battle on the scene.

"Pursue. I will go first, and you follow behind," Lin Bai glanced at them. "Also, notify the people of the Beggar Sect and tell them to find a way to catch up as well. If possible, we will take down Huilong Temple."

The mission for the extreme counter-kill had not yet shown a completion prompt, and Lin Bai did not want to give up the fruits of victory he had worked so hard to obtain.

Moreover.

The Super Sect Leader System mission to choose a place with good Feng Shui had been dragging on without progress, and he wanted to take this opportunity to complete it as well.

After all.

Huilong Temple had a total of fewer than two hundred Golden Core cultivators, and now the strongest First Senior Brother and Second Senior Brother had become his helpers.

If he wiped out the hundred-plus Golden Core cultivators who had come to attack on the way.

Then Huilong Temple would be left with only a few dozen Golden Core cultivators, their strength at its weakest; if he didn't take advantage of their illness to take their lives, when would he wait?

If he waited for Huilong Temple to come to its senses and go seek help from the Heavenly Dao Sect, then his trouble would truly be big...

After giving the instructions.

Lin Bai used Bow Body Single Shadow and Morning Flight, leaving everyone behind in a cloud of dust as he pursued.

Qingshan had sacrificed himself to delay time, thinking his plan was clever.

But he did not know that Lin Bai was not relying on Wind Riding to chase his junior brothers, but on the faster Morning Flight.

From the time Huilong Temple surrounded Lin Bai to their rout, only a short hour had passed.

The duration of Morning Flight had not yet expired, and using it purely for travel was more than enough to catch up to the Daoists of Huilong Temple.

Lin Bai took the lead.

Qing Yu Daozhang, responsible for protection, followed closely, followed by the slightly less powerful Huaxi Furen, and finally the few players sitting on the Suspension Talisman.

The group looked like a single line as they pursued all the way.

Qingshan Daoist was wrong.

Outside the battlefield, it was not as if there were no spectators.

Zhao Ang of the Chaoyuan Sword Sect, Sun Lie of the Spirit Tool Pavilion, Peng Ze of the Medicine King Valley, and Jiang Yuru of the Hundred Flowers Valley had watched the entire battle from afar.

They had not been able to sway the Heavenly Descended under their sects, and holding the thought of dragging things out as long as possible, they had arrived at the battlefield at a leisurely pace.

The players shuttled through the mountains and forests, and they hid their figures cautiously, fearing that if they were discovered by the Daoists of Huilong Temple, everyone would be embarrassed.

Thus.

While the Daoists of Huilong Temple were busy with the intense battle, they did not notice them.

Although they could not hear the sound, they witnessed the entire battle.

Zhao Ang asked blankly: "What happened? Huilong Temple clearly had the upper hand, why did they retreat?"

Unable to hear the sound, even until the end, they had not understood what exactly had happened!

"You ask me, who do I ask?" Sun Lie was in a bad mood.

He hadn't understood the process, but the result was very clear: Lin Bai had won a complete victory and was even pursuing them, which forced him to consider his future mode of interaction with Lin Bai!

Without the help of the Heavenly Descended, Lin Bai was still able to force over a hundred Golden Core cultivators to flee in terror single-handedly.

Compared to the prodigies of the Seven Orthodox Sects, even if his strength was not equal, it was not far off; bearing a grudge against such a ruthless person who could wipe out a sect alone was clearly unwise.

Jiang Yuru looked in the direction Lin Bai had left, not speaking for a long while.

Because of her connection with Jiang Qingqin, the relationship between the Hundred Flowers Valley and Lin Bai should have been the best, but now, she felt she had made a grave mistake.

"The matter has blown up!" Sun Lie's eyes narrowed. "Our judgment of Lin Bai's strength was wrong; we must let the sect know Lin Bai's true strength in time."

"Senior Brother Sun, how do you plan to deal with Shopkeeper Lin?" A player from the Spirit Tool Pavilion heard their conversation and asked curiously.

"That depends on the sect's intentions," Sun Lie said subconsciously. He looked at the player who spoke and asked, "Do you know what happened over there?"

He was just a small Disciple in the admissions office; suddenly encountering such a thorny issue, he had no idea how to handle it.

"Didn't you see it clearly? Shopkeeper Lin defeated Huilong Temple and is chasing them down to cut the weeds and dig up the roots!" the Spirit Tool Pavilion player curled his lips and said.

When Lin Bai was displaying his might, they were on their way, but that didn't stop them from taking the time to log off and watch the exciting battle process.

Seeing Lin Bai's heroic bearing, many people suddenly regretted joining their current sects.

They should have followed Lin Bai, taken down all these sects, seized their territory, and then learned Skills.

Now, the Beggar Sect players not only had the Skills of the Righteous Sect, but would soon have the Skills of Huilong Temple, and in the future, they would definitely sweep through the sects behind them.

If Huilong Temple couldn't stop Lin Bai, could the sects behind them stop him?

Out of selfishness, this player kept the matter of Lin Bai using "Words Manifesting into Law" from the NPCs.

The power of "Words Manifesting into Law" was too great, and it seemed to be something that could be mastered quickly; there absolutely must not be a second NPC who could grasp such a terrifying Skill.

At this moment.

The Heavenly Descended present appeared calm on the surface, but their private chats had already exploded; everyone was discussing the impact of Lin Bai wiping out Huilong Temple on their own sects, as well as the next steps the Beggar Sect might take.

The players were much shrewder than the few NPCs who couldn't make decisions.

"Senior Brother Zhao, rather than sitting here letting your imagination run wild, we might as well go to the battle site; perhaps we'll find something new." 【First Sword Immortal】 gave a light cough and reminded him, "Even though we didn't make it in time for the battle, we can still go and leech off Shopkeeper Lin's traffic afterward! That place counts as the site of a viral event, and we haven't even run our advertisements yet!"

Lin Bai had disappeared from the livestream camera in a flash, and a massive influx of viewers poured into their livestream room, which allowed them to see a prime opportunity to run their ads; after all, they couldn't breach their contracts.

Come to think of it.

They were quite glad they hadn't arrived at the scene early; otherwise, not only would they have failed to run their ads, but they might have ended up like the Beggar Sect Disciples, losing a level en masse.

Nowadays.

Although they had only just begun learning cultivation techniques, their levels were mostly built up, and losing a level for no reason was actually quite painful.

……

Players from the Chaoyuan Sword Sect and others who had accepted advertisements ran to the battlefield afterward to scavenge for loot and run their ads.

Inside Qian City.

The Beggar Sect players, however, were in a bind.

They hadn't expected Shopkeeper Lin to be so brave, resolving the trouble all by himself.

This gave 【Gugao Laoren】 a sense of great frustration.

No wonder Lin Bai only categorized them as an affiliated sect of the Justice Sect, intending to select the best among them to join the Justice Sect.

The Justice Sect's requirements for a Disciple's personal ability seemed a bit too high!

"Old Gu, what do we do? Shopkeeper Lin dueled Huilong Temple and wants us to follow him. Who knows how many miles it is from Huilong Temple to Qian City; the mountains are high and the forests are dense along the way, and even a Golden Core True Person would have to fly for a day and a night. With our current Skills, how could we possibly keep up?" 【Kanmu Yihao】 said, "Isn't Shopkeeper Lin making things difficult for us?"

"Perhaps this is a test from Lin Bai for us!" 【Gugao Laoren】 said, "This time, the Beggar Sect didn't help at all and even held Shopkeeper Lin back. I reckon he is somewhat dissatisfied with us, which is why he gave us such an order."

"What should we do?" 【Lao Mi】 asked.

"Let's talk to the City Lord and the people from the various major sects to see if we can persuade them to provide us with some help!" 【Gugao Laoren】 sighed, "In the Xianxia World, not having a flying Skill is truly troublesome!"

"How about we find a way to build hot air balloons?" 【Jingbuyi】 pondered for a moment, "Even if we negotiate with those sects, the number of people they have left in Qian City is too small; I'm afraid they couldn't transport our three thousand Disciples."

"We don't need three thousand to go; one thousand should be enough." 【Gugao Laoren】 gave a dry laugh and said, "Shopkeeper Lin wants us to go over, likely to take over Huilong Temple; I doubt he'll need us for fighting..."

(End of this chapter)