Chapter 203: Lin Bai

Lin Bai blocked all the loopholes with just a few words.

No matter how you look at it, the method of Law Cultivation is incredibly absurd; it's fine to try it with a skeptical attitude.

Who would truly believe from the bottom of their heart that this is the path of Law Cultivation?

What if they were being played?

Even if Lin Bai told them where the problem lay now, would they really believe him?

Ge Feiyun's expression was not very good: "Why didn't you explain this point in Justice Weekly?"

"Law Cultivation follows nature; those who are willing to believe will naturally practice it, and those who are unwilling will not." Lin Bai glanced at her and said, "Moreover, Law Cultivation is different from the current Dao Method of cultivation. In the end, only one person can truly master the Law, which is extremely cruel. If thousands of people practice it and all end up with nothing, they will still resent me. Instead of that, why not let it depend on fate? If they succeed, it is their own cultivation; if they don't, giving up early is not unacceptable, and it won't cause any loss. Since that is the case, why should I say anything?"

"But you said the responsibility of the Justice Sect is to promote the path of Law Cultivation, and then you say it depends on fate; isn't that contradictory?" Ge Feiyun pressed the issue.

"I have been promoting it. And, I lead by example." Lin Bai said, "Seeing my actions, my achievements, and my battle record, if one still doesn't believe the path of Law is real, it is enough to prove that this person has no fate with the path of Law at all. To prove the existence of the Law, I will continue to fight until the day I become the Heavenly Dao. You may all wait and see..."

He paused.

Lin Bai looked at Ge Feiyun and smiled: "Sect Leader Ge, you are trying every possible way to find loopholes in the Law just to prove that Law Cultivation is fake, right!"

Everyone was stunned.

Ge Feiyun was speechless and could only stammer.

Lin Bai said: "Holding such thoughts, the path of Law is fake to you. When you start trying every possible way to defend the path of Law and seek evidence for the existence of the Law, at that time, you will naturally comprehend divine abilities from the Law."

"..." Ge Feiyun suddenly raised her head and looked at Lin Bai.

Everyone was lost in thought.

"Sect Leader Ge, why not experience Love Separation and personally feel the divine ability of the Law?" Lin Bai smiled slightly and used a Skill on Ge Feiyun—Moon Chase.

Before Ge Feiyun could react, a massive force came from beneath her feet, and she had already assumed the same flying posture as Chu Wushuang, flying toward the sky.

Xin Shang looked at Ge Feiyun, who had suddenly flown up, and the corners of his eyes twitched inexplicably.

He was shocked to discover that the posture of Love Separation sending people into the sky was actually the same: one hand in front, one hand behind, fully displaying one's figure...

It was one thing for a woman to do such a pose.

If a man flew up so enchantingly and was seen by others, how could he go on living?

Gulp.

The burly Zhao Tulong swallowed a mouthful of saliva; he had clearly thought of this problem, and fine beads of sweat instantly appeared on his forehead.

Is this really the path of Law?

Could it be a technique or Martial Art passed down by demons in the name of the Law!

"Do you want to experience it too?" Lin Bai looked at Zhao Tulong and the others and asked.

Xin Shang and the others showed expressions of terror and shook their heads in unison.

Glancing at Ge Feiyun flying in the sky, Xin Shang's eyes flickered: "We appreciate the Alliance Leader's kindness. Now that we know the key to comprehending the Love Dao, we will comprehend it ourselves."

Lin Bai shook his head in disappointment and looked up at the sky: "Only by experiencing it personally can one realize the irresistibility of the Law's divine abilities, dispel doubts about the Law, and truly walk the path of Law Cultivation. In the end, even if one cannot become the God of Law, comprehending one or two divine abilities is beneficial to one's own cultivation. Being timid and indecisive is truly a pity."

As he spoke.

Lin Bai looked at Chu Wushuang and asked: "Senior Sister Chu, you were the first to experience a divine ability; how does Love Separation feel?"

Chu Wushuang shuddered and was suddenly stunned on the spot. The feeling of helplessness dominated by Moon Chase surged back into her heart. That's right, others didn't know, but she had the deepest understanding of the Law's divine abilities!

Sensing the emotional changes in Chu Wushuang behind the scenes, Lin Bai smiled and looked at her: "Congratulations, Senior Sister Chu, you have taken a step further than others."

"Thank you, Alliance Leader, for the enlightenment." Chu Wushuang looked at Lin Bai and performed a Disciple's salute to him earnestly, "I will discard distracting thoughts and focus on practicing the path of Law. At that time, I hope the Alliance Leader will not hesitate to teach me."

"It is only right." Lin Bai said, "My pursuit is the Heavenly Dao, and I fear selfishness the most. Therefore, if you have any doubts, feel free to ask me; I will not hide anything. It is one thing if you practice the Incomplete Dao or the Love Dao, but if you want to be like me and practice the Heavenly Dao where one's words become Law, you must also discard selfishness."

"Yes." Chu Wushuang paused for a moment and said, "I know I cannot be completely selfless, so I will not compete with the Alliance Leader for the Heavenly Dao. I will choose between the Incomplete Dao and the Love Dao that suits me and practice with devotion..."

While they were talking.

Ge Feiyun landed from the sky with a dark face. After landing, she suppressed the anger of wanting to slap Lin Bai and glared at him fiercely.

Lin Bai smiled indifferently: "Sect Leader Ge, since the other Sect Leaders are unwilling to experience Love Separation, why don't you tell them about your feelings!"

Xin Shang and the others looked at Ge Feiyun with expectant eyes.

Ge Feiyun hesitated for a moment and said: "One cannot control oneself during the ascent. The more one resists with internal energy, the faster the speed of rising. One has to rise about ten miles before falling back. Other than that, there is no other injury to the body..."

So the sudden speed and slowness were caused by resisting with internal energy!

Lin Bai remembered this characteristic and explained: "The Love Dao is the gentlest. Even if hit by the Love God's arrow, there will be no wounds on the body, so Love Separation naturally won't cause injury. But don't think the Law of Love is useless. When encountering an enemy, they cannot resist the process of separation, and at that time, we can strike ruthlessly. Moreover, this is only the first divine ability I have comprehended. In the future, as my feelings for Qingqin deepen, I might be able to comprehend more powerful divine abilities..."

Jiang Qingqin looked at Lin Bai shyly, blushing, and said nothing.

Qingyu and Huaxi looked at each other affectionately, strengthening their confidence in practicing the Love Dao. Lin Bai could comprehend divine abilities while practicing several Great Dao Laws; since he and Huaxi loved each other, there was no reason for them to be much slower than him. The reason they hadn't succeeded was probably that they didn't love each other deeply enough...

Ge Feiyun was left speechless by Lin Bai's rebuttal and had been sent to the sky again. She had worked hard for hundreds of years to reach the Nascent Soul stage, only to be wantonly dominated by a twenty-something-year-old brat.

Suddenly.

Her mindset opened up.

After pondering for a moment, Ge Feiyun asked: "Alliance Leader, if I want to practice the Love Dao, what should I do?"

Lin Bai looked at Jiang Qingqin with tenderness in his eyes, then looked at Ge Feiyun and said: "First, you must have a lover, and then love him with all your heart. When you think of him, you will feel joy uncontrollably; when you see him with others, you will feel jealous involuntarily; when you are willing to dress up carefully for him and ignore his shortcomings while tolerating his mistakes, you can consider yourself to have entered the gate of the Love Dao."

Jiang Qingqin's heart pounded. She stole a glance at Lin Bai; that's right, it was all correct. So, without realizing it, I have already entered the gate of the Love Dao!

Daoxu subconsciously looked at Ge Feiyun.

Xin Shang and the others cast their gazes toward the cultivators of Hundred Flowers Valley.

As everyone knew, the female cultivators of Hundred Flowers Valley were the most pleasing to the eye because of their cultivation techniques and had always been the first choice for Dao companions in the Cultivation World. Choosing one from among them to practice the Love Dao would not be bad.

However.

Xin Shang and the others also knew that they still held a skeptical attitude toward the theory of Laws. According to Lin Bai, it would be difficult to comprehend divine abilities.

Unless Lin Bai could go a step further and produce more evidence of the Law's divine abilities, they might be able to believe in the existence of the Law step by step.

But as soon as this thought emerged from the bottom of their hearts, the several Sect Leaders were stunned again.

All along, this is exactly what Lin Bai had been saying, and this is exactly what he had been doing!

In a mere instant.

The attitude of Xin Shang and the others toward the Law shifted from half-believing to seventy or eighty percent convinced.

No one thought that they had already been reeled in by Lin Bai's inversion of cause and effect...

Aside from completing System tasks, Lin Bai spent most of his time perfecting the settings for the Justice Sect and the Law.

Perfecting the Justice Sect would make enemies hesitant when attacking him and allow players to harbor expectations of him.

Establishing rules was an important step for him to grasp the right to speak and unite people's hearts.

The Justice Alliance had been forcibly established by him; the members had absolutely no sense of belonging to the Justice Alliance, and even hated it.

Coercion and inducement.

Perhaps this could hold the members together for a while, but as the number of people increased, it would eventually collapse.

The existence of players also did not allow him to slowly manage his own forces.

However, by establishing the Law's cultivation system, everyone who cultivated the Law would be forcibly tied to the great ship of the Law, huddling together to consciously safeguard collective interests.

Administration leads to distance, theory comes first.

This is the most brilliant art of governance.

By doing this, Lin Bai would not need to deliberately maintain interpersonal relationships; he only needed to do his own part well, complete the System tasks, and constantly give the Alliance members hope.

Of course.

As time passed, if no one comprehended divine abilities from the Dao of Law, they would eventually doubt him too.

But by that time, the Alliance should already be strong enough to generate more profitable projects that made them unable to leave; after all, joining the Justice Alliance meant betrayal of the Seven Righteous Sects and the Demonic Five Sects!

Furthermore.

By then, his personal strength should also be enough to suppress everything; things like the Law would no longer be important.

In all his plans, the only place that might collapse was if the Seven Righteous Sects and the Demonic Five Sects suddenly sent out peerless experts that even he could not handle.

However, Lin Bai could not worry about that anymore; he had already done well enough.

He wanted to squeeze out all the potential of the System within a short time.

If that still didn't work, then the guy behind the System was simply not as powerful as the Game Company, and when that time truly came, he would just accept his bad luck.

Who told him he was nothing but a chess piece right now!

"Alliance Leader, what should one pay attention to when cultivating the Incomplete Dao?"

"Casually make the objects around you incomplete, then comprehend from it the profound meaning that the Heavenly Dao is flawed and the Great Dao is impermanent."

"Can you explain specifically?"

"All things have flaws; extreme prosperity leads to decline. The Heavenly Dao is flawed; nothing flawless can endure..."

"You previously asked Jiang Qingqin to take you as a master, saying you wanted to comprehend the Teacher Dao; what is the Teacher Dao?"

"The Teacher Dao is the Dao of inheritance; without a teacher, there is no civilization. This is not an Innate Dao, but an acquired Dao. Teaching more Disciples allows one to comprehend deeper principles in the process of teaching them. The Teacher Dao is what I use to assist in Law Cultivation. You yourselves already teach Disciples, so you should have some insights; in this regard, your understanding should be much deeper than mine, so there is no need to ask me..."

"In other words, the Law of the Love Dao and the Law of the Incomplete Dao are, in the end, still inferior to the Heavenly Dao of 'speaking the law into existence'?"

"Each has its pros and cons! The Nine Ancestors of the Justice Sect once said that if the Heavenly Dao is achieved, one will merge the body with the Dao, eventually becoming devoid of thought and desire, guarding the normal operation of the world's rules; if I, Lin, achieve the Dao, then there will be no more Lin Bai in the world, only the Heavenly Dao; whereas other Law Gods only grasp a single Law, yet still retain their own thoughts; it just depends on which path you want to choose!"

"Lin... Master, I don't want you to become the Heavenly Dao. If you become the Heavenly Dao, what will I do?"

"Qingqin, if you love me, you should assist my cultivation, not hinder my Dao Heart. The catastrophe triggered by the Heavenly Descended is a collision of two worlds. I do not know if their world has a Heavenly Dao, but only by becoming the Heavenly Dao can I possibly truly eliminate the calamity and protect the world..."

When Lin Bai led the members of the Justice Alliance on a grand journey toward Jiamu City.

Qian City.

The players in the editorial department of *Justice Weekly* were working overtime to concoct the third issue of the weekly.

Because it was a Lin Bai special edition, the content was not very difficult.

After all, Lin Bai had grown up under the eyes of the players. The things he had done were well-known to the players; even if they forgot, they could just search the forums and find a whole pile of them. Not only was his personal resume there, but even the sweet nothings he said when he practiced 'speaking the law into existence' were preserved—truly, exhaustively detailed.

Many guys outside who couldn't enter the game even built a thread for Lin Bai, specifically used to analyze his behavior and thoughts.

The more the editors compiled Lin Bai's autobiography, the more they felt the Xianxia World should be renamed *Xianxia Lin Bai Zhuan*.

Up to now, all the plotlines were almost entirely revolving around Lin Bai and the Justice Sect behind him; if someone said he wasn't a plot NPC, even a ghost wouldn't believe it...

As Lin Bai embarked on his expedition and displayed a new Skill—Love Separation, the Beggar Sect's advertising department became busy again, receiving waves of advertisements until their hands went soft.

Every advertiser looked forward to their own advertisements appearing on the battlefield where Lin Bai attacked the mountain gates.

After all.

The progress of other players was too slow; counting on them to slaughter sects and destroy factions, who knew how long that would take.

For this reason, the advertising sponsors did not hesitate to engage in fierce bidding.

At the same time.

Players from the Chaoyuan Sword Sect, Medicine King Valley, and Spirit Tool Pavilion also received advertisements arranged by the Beggar Sect.

The battlefield belonged to both sides; having only one side display advertisements was too much of a waste of resources.

When the players were in Qian City, they formed an advertising alliance with mutual interest output; it was not strange for everyone to run advertisements together.

The Beggar Sect gave these sect players a basic requirement: they must find a way to stir up the fighting spirit of each sect; they must absolutely not surrender upon seeing Lin Bai.

Otherwise, it would lack watchability, lower the investment desire of the sponsor daddies, and ultimately lead to a decrease in everyone's income.

Thus.

The players responsible for passing on the message naturally distorted Lin Bai's meaning when expressing his intentions.

The opportunities for choice that Lin Bai had mentioned, and subduing the enemy without fighting, were all replaced with: Lin Bai heard they were plotting against the Justice Alliance behind his back, flew into a rage, and decided to kill the chicken to warn the monkeys, giving them a hard lesson; the dignity of the Justice Alliance could not be subjected to Provocation.

Lin Bai is treacherous; it is highly likely he would first lure them into surrendering, then strike from behind in secret, turning them into Puppets, or other such words that would drive them to a dead end.

For a time.

The three sects—Chaoyuan Sword Sect, Medicine King Valley, and Spirit Tool Pavilion—were in a state of panic and chaos.

After all.

Lin Bai now has the complete Evil Five Sects under his command, while on their side, Hundred Flowers Valley cannot help, and Huilong Temple has already gone over to Lin Bai.

With one side gaining strength while the other wanes, the odds of winning are too low.

They do not know if the request for help sent to the Seven Orthodox Sects will arrive in time, yet they are unwilling to easily abandon the foundation their sects have built over thousands of years...

After much deliberation.

The three sects made a decision: to combine their forces, hold out to the end, and persist until reinforcements arrive!

(End of this chapter)