Chapter 167: Coming at Just the Right Time

Lin Bai walked out of the Spirit Field and met Deng Li Buduo, who came running over excitedly after mastering the Dragon Subduing Palm. He stood before Lin Bai and asked, "Master, can I practice other Martial Arts now?"

Nowadays, Deng Li Buduo's Martial Art was ranked first in combat power among the Beggar Sect players, but compared to the Golden Core True Persons of Huilong Temple, he was still getting bullied every single time.

Golden Core True Persons could fly; no matter how powerful his Dragon Subduing Palm was, it was all in vain if he couldn't hit anyone.

When all the other players had given up on the Nine Suns True Scripture and were learning the Huilong Art and the Ascending Dragon Art.

Deng Li Buduo, under Lin Bai's coercion, had insisted on grinding the proficiency of his Dragon Subduing Palm to the maximum, hoping for some special treatment.

After the clouds part, one sees the moonlight.

Deng Li Buduo had always believed that a personal disciple of the Justice Sect must be different from everyone else.

"You can. Go find Daokong and have him teach you the Ascending Dragon Art!" Lin Bai looked at Deng Li Buduo and instructed him with a smile, "Remember to be more diligent."

Just this?

Deng Li Buduo suspected he hadn't heard correctly. Two days ago, everyone else had already switched their cultivation methods, moving from practicing martial arts to immortal cultivation. Why had he been tirelessly practicing the Dragon Subduing Palm?

Wasn't it just for his status as a personal disciple, thinking that after Lin Bai gave him special requirements, he would receive special care?

But in the end, what the hell was this about having to practice the same cultivation method as everyone else?

What about the card techniques?

What about the cultivation tricks for 'Words Following the Law'?

What about more profound cultivation mental methods?

You can't bully people like this!

Deng Li Buduo's eyes turned red instantly. He suppressed the anger in his heart and said with a forced smile, "Master, I am your personal disciple. Shouldn't you teach me something that others don't know?"

Sensing the surging waves of anger from Deng Li Buduo in his mind, Lin Bai smiled slightly and naturally entered the cultivation mode of the Great Language System: "I can also teach you how to chop vegetables."

After the bragging mission was completed, Lin Bai's attitude toward the Great Language System missions was to let things take their course.

That is to say, he would always maintain the state of doing missions, and if he occasionally made a mistake, he wouldn't be angry or annoyed.

Pushing the time further, there would always be a day when it could be completed.

Doing missions just for the sake of missions, when encountering various emergencies, was highly likely to bring him more trouble.

Besides.

If a mission was forced to be interrupted, it would also affect his mood.

Unless the mission reward was particularly attractive, Lin Bai could spend a whole day specifically doing it.

This time, the reward for the Great Language System was to make the people around him angry along with him, which wasn't worth Lin Bai spending too much mental effort on.

After all.

The surroundings were full of silly players; it wouldn't be strange for them to do anything.

As long as he looked at problems from this point of view, Lin Bai could always easily forgive all idiotic behavior, and very few things could make him angry.

It was just that the Great Language System didn't allow skipping missions; otherwise, Lin Bai would definitely have chosen to abandon this mission.

Deng Li Buduo looked at Lin Bai's indifferent face and had the urge to land a palm on him. He took a deep breath and reminded him, "Master, I am the only official disciple of the Justice Sect!"

Combining the Emotion System with the anger mission allowed him to clearly know whether the mission had failed. Appreciating Deng Li Buduo's genuine emotions, Lin Bai looked at him and said, "You can quit."

Deng Li Buduo's eyes widened abruptly. He felt the thick malice coming from Lin Bai, and the corners of his eyes trembled slightly.

Sure enough.

Lin Bai has always held a prejudice against me; he is doing this on purpose.

"Great, great!" the little fox said excitedly, "After you quit, I'll be the senior sister."

"There are plenty of people who want to take me, Lin Bai, as their master." A flash of mockery crossed Lin Bai's eyes to increase the effect of his words. He didn't care about Deng Li Buduo's thoughts at all, just as Deng Li Buduo had never truly respected him as a master.

I'll endure it!

Deng Li Buduo took a deep breath and quickly made up his mind. The status of a personal disciple of the Justice Sect had brought him too many halos, and he enjoyed the glory these halos brought him.

If he didn't get any benefits from the Justice Sect and was kicked out by Lin Bai, he would truly become a joke.

He absolutely could not lose his status as Lin Bai's disciple.

He must be testing me.

Heaven is about to place a great burden on a man...

Deng Li Buduo found a reason to comfort himself. A smile piled up on his face, and he bowed deeply to Lin Bai: "Master, this disciple was wrong. I shouldn't have defied your arrangements. I will go find Elder Daojing to learn the Huilong Art now."

"You weren't wrong; I am serious," Lin Bai said.

F***!

How the hell did I offend you?

Deng Li Buduo was stunned for a moment, then fell to his knees with a thud: "Master, this disciple knows he was wrong. Please give this disciple another chance. You once said that even if the Justice Sect receives a terrible disciple, it will not expel them from the sect, and keeping a stupid disciple by one's side can serve as a mirror..."

"You are so stupid that you don't even qualify to be a mirror!" Lin Bai sighed and continued to ravage Deng Li Buduo's poor little heart.

F*** me!

Sooner or later, I will pay back today's humiliation a hundredfold!

Just a broken NPC, what are you acting so arrogant for?

Deng Li Buduo gritted his teeth and knocked his head on the ground: "Master, please tell this disciple, where did I go wrong? This disciple will try his best to correct it. Is it because this disciple is not diligent enough?"

"You weren't wrong; it was I who was blind," Lin Bai gave Deng Li Buduo a final critical hit, his eyes filled with deep disappointment as he walked past him.

There were too many affairs to attend to; this wasn't the time to keep picking on one sheep.

Deng Li Buduo felt aggrieved and angry. He stood up, looked at Lin Bai's back, and shouted loudly, "Master, just watch my performance. One day, I will definitely make you proud of me..."

Looking back at Deng Li Buduo, Lin Bai shook his head. The level of these players was truly uneven!

If it were Gugao Laoren, he would definitely have been able to tell that he was practicing 'Words Following the Law'.

However.

Such a clever person is not suitable to be taken as a disciple; they consider too many things, and instead, will not focus on practicing Martial Art, and the wool he can shear from them would be even less.

A foolish Disciple like 【Deng Li Buduo】 is actually quite suitable for him.

……

"Master, what did Senior Brother do wrong that you keep mocking him?" Xiaobai the fox asked curiously.

Fine!

The second disciple isn't clever either!

Lin Bai looked at the little white fox and shook his head; the little fox is not a player and has a simple mind, so he wouldn't provoke her.

Seeing Lin Bai didn't speak, the little white fox was stunned for a moment, then realized: "I understand, you must be motivating him, right?"

Lin Bai smiled and nodded, continuing to walk toward the Main Hall.

……

Huilong Temple covers a very large area, and five hundred players scattered within it are not conspicuous.

The battle outside Qian City, where three thousand Beggar Sect disciples were wiped out, made the players realize the gap between them and the NPCs.

After becoming Outer Sect Disciples of the Justice Sect, the players were all working hard to cultivate, striving to raise their levels as quickly as possible.

Spending money can make their lives in the game comfortable, but if their levels don't rise, all that comfort is just a reflection in a mirror.

Just as Lin Bai said, they cannot always rely on Lin Bai to charge forward in everything.

In that case, who is actually playing the game?

Furthermore.

It was fine to develop step-by-step at the beginning.

Being dragged by Lin Bai to fight across levels, and then suddenly becoming calm and isolated from the world to practice, the players found it truly boring.

Yet in Huilong Temple, besides practicing, they couldn't find any other way to cultivate.

Without reaching Golden Core, one cannot fly.

Besides mountain forests, there are only more mountain forests; to return to Qian City, one needs a Suspension Talisman, but with their level of Spiritual Power, they couldn't use a Suspension Talisman at all.

Relying on their Martial Art to walk back, who knows how long it would take!

And.

In case there is a Demon Beast or something on the road, it wouldn't be worth it to be killed and sent back.

Speaking of Demon Beasts, there is nothing at all around Huilong Temple, and at their current level, fighting those ordinary wild beasts is no longer of much help for leveling up.

Boring practice every day.

In just two or three days, the number of viewers watching their live streams dropped rapidly.

Many players already regretted joining the Outer Sect of the Justice Sect.

If they had known it would be like this, it would have been better to stay in Qian City to eat, drink, and have fun!

The general feeling among players is that it's not good for a game to pursue realism too much; they should at least add a leveling spot near the sect!

Many Beggar Sect players have already gone to the forum to protest that the cultivation process is boring, but the officials remained as cold as ever and ignored them completely.

Now.

The players are just hoping to raise their levels early so they can fly out and slaughter everyone, or have the people from the Evil Five Sects attack so they can make a quick profit...

Anything would be more interesting than now!

In order to raise their levels, most players practiced "Words Follow the Law" for a day, and after still not discovering any hidden Skill, they decisively gave up on practicing "Words Follow the Law" and invested their time into leveling up.

Thinking about it, it makes sense.

If a hidden Skill were so easy to obtain, it wouldn't be called a hidden Skill; the "Warm as Spring" language is too casual and has quantity requirements, and the server has too many ways to judge their cultivation method as unqualified.

On the other hand, most players are still maintaining the practice of the Incomplete Dao. After all, destroying things around them is just a matter of convenience and does not affect their practice and leveling up at all.

In the current Justice Sect, it is already hard to see a perfect object; everywhere the eye can see, everything has been given some small Flaws by the players.

If it weren't for them being so diligent, Lin Bai's Great Demon Dissolution technique wouldn't have been completed so quickly.

……

As for the Daoists of Huilong Temple, after hearing Daojing and Daokong recommend the Fazhe Zhidao, they no longer thought about resisting Lin Bai; each of them was full of energy, thinking about overtaking on a curve, suppressing the Heavenly Descended from another aspect, or suppressing Lin Bai...

The players feel that their cultivation is slow, but in the eyes of these native Daoists, their cultivation speed is already terrifying.

If they don't find a way, once these restless players grow up, there will truly be no way for them to survive in the future.

As for the trouble Lin Bai caused, the Daoists didn't take it to heart at all; he is so powerful that he can clean up his own mess, and if a real fight breaks out, they won't risk their lives anyway.

Taking a step back, in case Lin Bai can't beat the Evil Five Sects, they can just run back to their main sect, the Heavenly Dao Sect.

However.

The Daoists of Huilong Temple are also miserable enough. They want to practice the Incomplete Dao, but the things around them have been mostly destroyed by the players;

They want to practice the Love Dao, but besides Huaxi Furen, there isn't even a female around; they can't practice the Love Dao with their own fellow disciples!

Consequently.

The Daoists just had to put most of their energy into the practice of "Words Follow the Law," each racking their brains to say sweet words to the people around them.

But the Daoists have long been meditating and practicing in deep mountains and old forests, and they don't interact much with people on a daily basis.

Suddenly changing their style to speak "Warm as Spring" sentences was truly difficult for them; at first, they could still say things like wishing the other party longevity and prosperity.

But not long after, they started to stutter while speaking, and couldn't even manage normal communication.

So much so that the storybooks that the Outer Sect Disciples secretly brought in for entertainment became hot items, and all the Golden Core Daoists held the storybooks, studying the phrasing and pondering how to enrich their vocabulary.

After Lin Bai moved in.

Huilong Temple presented such a bizarre scene from top to bottom; except for Lin Bai who was farming, there was almost no one normal left.

……

Outside the side hall.

Qingyu and Huaxi Furen saw Lin Bai return and hurriedly went up to greet him.

Qingyu had been very busy these past few days; Lin Bai had acted as a hands-off manager and run off to farm, so all the big and small affairs of Huilong Temple were being managed by him and the two uncles, and he had also heard about the matter of the laws.

Today, now that the affairs of Huilong Temple were finally straightened out, he came to find Lin Bai at the first opportunity: "Sect Leader Lin, can Huaxi Furen and I comprehend the Law of Love?"

"You are Puppets," Lin Bai said, glancing at them.

"So that is how it is." Qingyu froze abruptly, shook his head with a bitter smile, looked at Huaxi Furen beside him, took her hand, and comforted her, "Don't be sad, it is already quite good that we can have thoughts and freedom."

"Yulang need not comfort me, this servant had psychological preparations long ago," Lady Huaxi smiled.

The Emotion System did not receive any feelings of anger from the two, but instead was fed a mouthful of dog food right to its face; Lin Bai glanced at them and sighed inwardly, it really wasn't that easy to provoke anger in others with a single sentence, it would be better to find those players who are easily provoked to grind this task.

"Is there anything else?" Lin Bai asked, "If there is nothing else, go help me find the Elders and Deacons of the sect, as well as the Main Hall Masters among the Heavenly Descended such as 【Crazy Man】, 【Silver】, and 【Longxi】; I have matters to discuss with them."

Qingyu was stunned for a moment, looked at Daoxu Zhenren who was standing in attendance behind him, hesitated for a moment and said: "Sect Leader, can you also restore my master's consciousness? In any case, he has already been controlled by you; even if his consciousness is restored, he cannot cause you any harm, but he has rich experience in cultivation and understands the affairs of the Cultivation World better than I do. Restoring his consciousness would be of great benefit to the Justice Sect and cause no harm."

"When it is time to restore him, I will naturally help him recover; now is not the right time," Lin Bai said. He knew that what Qingyu said made sense, but he didn't know who had formed a CP, and Cupid's Resistance Arrow had also been rolled out.

Lin Bai had originally thought about restoring Daoxu's consciousness and incidentally hitting him with a Resistance Arrow, but after carefully studying the description of the Resistance Arrow, he decisively abandoned this idea.

Resistance Arrow: The person struck by the arrow will instinctively loathe the first person they see.

Although this arrow could stop Daoxu Zhenren from acting love-struck toward him, it wouldn't be comfortable to have someone who loathes him following him around and annoying him!

It is quite good as it is now, being a Puppet bodyguard who is silly, mindless, and thoughtless!

Qingyu looked at his master apologetically and prepared to go find people for the meeting.

But before he could walk away.

【Crazy Man】 and 【Longxi】 had already run over in a hurry, shouting as they ran: "Manager Lin, something has happened."

"What is it?" Lin Bai asked.

"People from the Evil Five Sects went to Qian City and detained all our people from the Beggar Sect, specifically naming you to go over and give them an explanation; otherwise, they will completely blockade Jiamu City and cut off the roots of the Beggar Sect. Then, they will kill the Beggar Sect Disciples until they join their sect," 【Crazy Man】 said quickly.

"That's right! Manager Lin, we must hurry and save them!" 【Longxi】 said anxiously, "If you ask me, we should just go all out, wipe out the entire Evil Five Sects, snatch all their secret manuals, and build the Justice Sect into the number one sect in Qian City. They actually dared to detain our people; it's too arrogant, we must give them a taste of their own medicine."

"They also occupied our Xuanbing Quan," 【Crazy Man】 said, "To vent their anger, they even destroyed your Weapon Refinement workshop, Manager Lin..."

Qingyu's expression changed abruptly, and he hurriedly said: "Sect Leader, this matter needs to be discussed at length."

【Joy from Crazy Man, Longxi, Silver...; +1+1+1】

The true emotions of 【Longxi】 and the others reached his mind, and Lin Bai looked at them strangely.

【Longxi】 was still looking at Lin Bai nervously, while privately messaging 【Crazy Man】: "Manager Lin will agree, right! Damn it, cultivating in this godforsaken place is truly suffocating!"

【Crazy Man】 said: "He should. The Evil Five Sects came at just the right time. A pillow is delivered just as one is feeling sleepy; I'm not afraid of Manager Lin causing trouble, I'm only afraid of Manager Lin being too comfortable! If we keep letting Manager Lin grow flowers and raise grass, the Beggar Sect's attention will drop to zero."

(End of chapter)