Chapter 182: Hardcore Persuasion to Surrender

Nascent Soul expert +1.

"No!"

Watching Pei Yanzong being sucked into the card, Daoxu let out a desperate wail.

At that moment, he seemed to see a future of being entangled with Pei Yanzong day and night; the azure sky turned gray in that instant.

"Lin Bai, how could you do this?" Daoxu questioned Lin Bai angrily, "You went back on your word; didn't we agree to beat him to death?"

"It doesn't matter, as long as I don't restore his consciousness, he won't pester you." Lin Bai took back the card and snapped his fingers happily, "Pleasure doing business with you, Dao-Dao."

"Shameless." Daoxu said with a tremor; he felt he had been used and found Lin Bai increasingly eyesore.

"Don't say that, I know you loathe me." Lin Bai casually released Pei Yanzong, feeling the surging, icy Spiritual Power in his dantian, flicked his finger to scatter a flurry of ice petals, and then said, "But that doesn't hinder us from working together to round them all up. Daoxu! Anyway, your reputation is already ruined, why not drag a few more down with you?"

"..."

Daoxu was stunned.

The noisy voices opposite fell silent instantly.

The people of the Evil Five Sects were dumbfounded, as if they had seen a true demon lord; compared to Lin Bai, they really didn't deserve to be called a Demon Sect!

Zhao Tulong gripped the Bloodthirsty Blade in his hand, his throat bobbing as he swallowed, suddenly regretting coming to provoke Lin Bai!

"Dao-Dao, don't be afraid, we have Justice Weekly, we can turn black into white; I will correct your image..." Lin Bai continued to persuade Daoxu, "You have already lost your freedom; if you lose your reputation too, you'll have nothing left."

What reputation do I even have left, damn it?

Daoxu felt grief and indignation in his heart: "Don't call me Dao-Dao..."

"It's settled then." Daoxu didn't dwell on the matter of cooperation, but instead obsessed over a nickname; Lin Bai knew the cooperation between the two sides was achieved, and he had successfully injected the power of life into a decadent heart.

However, just in case, Lin Bai decided to add one more weight: "If you don't agree, I'll help Pei Yanzong restore his consciousness and let him do this task."

【Anger, resentment, and terror from Daoxu...; +1+1+1】

Xiaobai the little fox poked its head out from Lin Bai's arms, its gaze toward Lin Bai full of admiration; Master is so amazing, worthy of being the man who will become the Heavenly Dao, calculating everything, no one can escape his demonic claws...

"Confirmed, Shopkeeper Lin is the big BOSS, too evil; if this guy were in a TV show, he'd definitely be the big villain, the kind that lives to the very end."

"The officials said there is no plot; any NPC can be killed."

"You actually believe the words of the Game Company?"

"You really can't say Shopkeeper Lin is a villain; everything he does is reasonable and well-founded, and he has always been the one provoked first."

"Yes, Shopkeeper Lin indeed doesn't start trouble, he's just good at blowing a small matter out of proportion; if he were in the Real World, he'd be a troublemaker too."

"Everyone, I'll ask one question: compared to Shopkeeper Lin, who is more evil, the players?"

"I choose the players."

"I stand with Shopkeeper Lin."

"I choose the Game Company; without the game, there would be no harm."

"I super love Shopkeeper Lin's badness; he's bad in a reasonable and well-founded way, bad in a stylish and classy way."

"I just love the way you can't stand me, yet can't get rid of me."

"Right now, Shopkeeper Lin is just messing with NPCs; when you enter the game and go up against Shopkeeper Lin, if you can still say you like him, then I'll really admire you."

"The tides turn. At that time, it will be Shopkeeper Lin's turn to experience the evil of the players!"

"Yes, there is no BOSS that can't be taken down, only players who don't know how to play."

In the direction of the Evil Five Sects, there was an eerie silence.

Hearing is believing, but seeing is reality.

Lin Bai said two simple sentences in front of Pei Yanzong, which wouldn't even fool a five-year-old, yet Pei Yanzong fell for it.

Watching Pei Yanzong die on the spot, get sucked into Lin Bai's card, and have his injuries fully recovered in the blink of an eye to become Lin Bai's Puppet.

No one understood the operation behind this.

There is Puppetry in the Demon Sect.

To be precise, the evil spirits refined by the Demon Spirit Sect are a type of Puppetry.

But refining evil spirits is extremely difficult; one must ensure the integrity of the Soul, prevent the Soul from backlashing, and find a way to preserve the combat power of the evil spirit.

Refining a Golden Core level evil spirit takes at least three to five years, and one slight mistake leads to all previous efforts being wasted.

But what about Lin Bai?

A simple card flew out and subdued Pei Yanzong; one must know, he is a Nascent Soul expert of the same level as himself!

Judging from Daoxu's performance, Lin Bai also has a way to restore their consciousness, and he isn't afraid of a backlash?

Such methods, let alone the people of the Demon Spirit Sect, even those old demons in Wanhun Valley who have practiced for thousands upon thousands of years, probably couldn't do it so skillfully!

Is this young man before them really someone they can oppose?

How did he do it?

Isn't he afraid of becoming a public enemy of the world by being this arrogant?

By killing them all, neither the Righteous Seven Sects nor the Demonic Five Sects would tolerate him, right?

Zhao Tulong and the others all had the same thought of retreating.

But they didn't dare to retreat; they had imprisoned the Beggar Sect Disciple and plotted an ambush on Lin Bai...

Who could guarantee that Lin Bai wouldn't hold a grudge against them?

Once Lin Bai took revenge, which sect could withstand it?

That is a foundation of a thousand years, after all?

So everything Daoxu said was true; they should have retreated from the beginning and asked the Demonic Five Sects for help to deal with Lin Bai.

But it is too late to say anything now!

Zhao Tulong and the others were in a dilemma; Lin Bai alone had forced them into a dead end.

……

"Fellow Daoists of the Canyang Sect, Sect Master Pei has already become one of our own. Why not put down your weapons and join my Justice Sect?" Lin Bai ignored the remaining few sect masters and instead looked toward the direction of the Canyang Sect, smiling as he persuaded them, "Lin is not a bloodthirsty person, so you need not worry about your safety. Look over there at the lively fellow Daoists of Huilong Temple; they are your example.

They joined the Justice Sect, and we have only spent two or three days together, yet we have opened our hearts to each other and become a happy, harmonious family. This time, knowing that the opponents were you, the Evil Five Sects, and facing five enemies alone, the odds of winning were slim, yet they still followed me without hesitation, without the slightest complaint..."

F***!

Daoxu's face was dark as he remained silent. If it weren't for the fact that you tormented me to death at Huilong Temple and scared the wits out of them, would they even submit to you?

Do you really think you have personal charisma?

"Moreover, Lin has no grudges or enmity with you all. The mistakes made by Sect Master Pei should not be borne by you." Lin Bai sighed earnestly. As he spoke, he stuffed a Temperament Fruit into his mouth to enhance his Temperament, "Those who can come to Qian City to participate in the battle must at least have Golden Core cultivation, right! It is not easy to cultivate to the Golden Core; it would be a great pity to perish for a trivial matter. Sect Master Pei can still live in the world as Lin's Puppet and may have a chance to recover his sanity in the future. If you die, you are truly dead. Is it worth it?"

The Cultivators of the Canyang Sect were in a stir.

And not just the Canyang Sect.

The ordinary Golden Core Cultivators of the Blood Shadow Sect and the Xuanming Sect also fell into deep thought; their own sect masters were no longer moving, which clearly meant they could not beat Lin Bai!

"A person's life is lived only once; it can be heavier than Mount Tai or lighter than a feather. Ask yourselves, how many rounds of my Lightning Storm can you withstand?" Lin Bai stood with his hands behind his back, looking toward the direction of the Canyang Sect, and said sincerely, "Heaven has the virtue of cherishing life; do not say that Lin did not give you a chance."

He paused for a moment, his eyes sweeping over the dense crowd of Cultivators before him, "The Heavenly Descended have entered the world, and the world is no longer the world it once was. Lin is only in his twenties, yet he can use his own strength to suppress you Evil Five Sects until you cannot catch your breath. Does your broken sect still have anything worth clinging to? In the future, the Laws will prevail, and the Heavenly Descended will prevail. Will the high and mighty Demonic Five Sects give you better cultivation techniques?"

Lin Bai waved his hand, pointing at the players, his voice suddenly rising by eight degrees, "Can the techniques you practice guarantee that you will win against these Baimaicutong Heavenly Descended in the future? Are your techniques as powerful as my Laws? Today you cannot beat me, and tomorrow you will not be able to beat them. Tell me, are you willing to live that kind of life? Are you willing to go from being high and mighty Cultivators to becoming weaklings who are bullied by others?"

The players looked stunned. What did Shopkeeper Lin mean? Did he know something?

In the direction of the Canyang Sect, the commotion became even more intense.

Obviously.

Lin Bai's words had touched their inner hearts; of course, what touched them even more was that Lin Bai truly possessed the strength to suppress everything.

"Sect Master Lin, if we join the Justice Sect, can you protect us when the Demonic Five Sects come to hold us accountable later?" A voice suddenly emerged from the direction of the Canyang Sect.

"This time, your five sects united to pressure my Justice Sect; who was the one leading the charge?" Lin Bai wore a smile at the corner of his mouth and said proudly, "You have the Demonic Five Sects behind you, but do I not have the Justice Sect behind me! I forgot to tell you, you only have one chance to choose, and you have no way out. If you fight, you cannot beat me; if you are evil, you are not as evil as me. If you do not surrender now, when will you?"

(End of this chapter)