Chapter 219: I'm playing the rogue, you go ahead and deal with it!

That is correct.

What Lin Bai has been doing all along is setting rules and establishing laws.

This is his means of breaking the deadlock.

The system mission forces him to stir up trouble for the world; if he ignores the big picture and only focuses on strengthening himself, he will eventually be unable to protect himself in the face of the inherent order formed over tens of thousands of years in this world.

Only by breaking the existing rules and creating a new order of rules can he bind more interest groups to himself, subsequently causing more people to maintain the new order and push him, the founder of this order, to a high position.

Once that time comes, he can ensure he possesses powerful strength and rest easy.

Personal charisma might attract a group of people to become his support, but an order established through systems and interests is more solid.

If he were the only transmigrator in the world, doing this would not be easy and might have died out before it even began, but the entry of players acting as disruptors has created an opportunity for him.

Not to mention he still has the system at his disposal...

The most critical point is that Lin Bai does not need to create any order out of thin air.

He only needs to transplant the mature order-based methods from Earth that are beneficial to him.

This is much simpler.

Lin Bai was explaining to everyone the benefits that the Patent Law could bring to holders of pill formulas.

Ma Changcheng's brow furrowed as he listened, and finally, he could not help but interrupt Lin Bai, saying: "Alliance Leader, how can alchemists speak of profit at every turn?"

Lin Bai swept a glance at him and retorted with a single sentence: "If you don't speak of profit, why has Medicine King Valley been monopolizing those pill formulas all this time?"

Ma Changcheng was left speechless; he stammered for a long time before saying: "For ten thousand years, the Danling Sect has split into countless alchemy sects, and most of their pill formulas are identical. Fundamentally speaking, all mature pill formulas originate from the Danling Sect. Even if the Justice Alliance truly establishes a Patent Law, one cannot say that those refined by other sects are inauthentic..."

"Was there not a Patent Law before?" Lin Bai smiled. "The Justice Alliance has established a Patent Law, so naturally, we will protect those pill formulas registered with us."

"Whoever registers the pill formula first owns it?" Ma Changcheng asked involuntarily, his brow furrowing as he laughed.

"Of course," Lin Bai raised his eyebrows and said.

"If a pill formula that everyone originally had is registered by Medicine King Valley, other sects can no longer produce it?" Ma Changcheng asked.

"Correct. Without our authorization, it is considered a violation, and we have grounds to send troops to crusade against them and confiscate their illegal gains," Lin Bai said righteously.

"..." Ma Changcheng.

"..." Xin Shang and the others.

Good heavens!

What interest?

What patent rights?

You established this nonsense Patent Law just to find an excuse to send troops yourself, right?

And you still say you aren't a demon?

Ma Changcheng said stumblingly: "This is a bit unreasonable, isn't it!"

Lin Bai coughed and said: "It is normal for there to be some chaos when any regulation or system is first established. It is inevitable that some people will suffer losses and their interests will be harmed. But once we protect rights enough times, they will naturally come to recognize our Patent Law. In the future, whenever there are new pill formulas, weapon designs, design concepts, or the like, they will apply for patents with us immediately.

As long as they apply for a patent with the Justice Alliance, we have the obligation to protect their rights. Over time, when patent rights are deeply rooted in people's hearts, naturally no one will dare to defy the world and go against our Patent Law.

With the Patent Law protecting the researched pill formulas, a single pill formula could very likely support one for a lifetime. In that way, more and more people will engage in invention and creation, subsequently leading various industries onto a path of virtuous cycles. Instead of being like it is now, where Medicine King Valley can monopolize everything based on a few dozen or a hundred pill formulas, to the point that the Medicine Dao has seen no development for ten thousand years. The Patent Law is a basic law beneficial to all living beings."

Everyone was silent.

Although what Lin Bai described was beautiful, none of the people present were fools. According to Lin Bai's vision, as long as the Patent Law is promoted, the Justice Alliance would not need to do anything to reap countless pill formulas, making it the biggest beneficiary.

In the long run.

The order established by the Seven Righteous Sects would inevitably be shaken.

Lin Bai is trying every possible way to destroy the original order.

The Justice Sect truly has grand designs.

However.

Can Lin Bai withstand moving the cake of the Seven Righteous Sects?

Even if Lin Bai can hold on, can they hold on?

They originally thought joining the Justice Alliance was just an expedient measure, but they didn't expect to have boarded a pirate ship...

He Qin sighed inwardly and asked: "Alliance Leader, once the Justice Alliance promotes the Patent Law, it will surely be attacked by all. The Justice Alliance is tucked away in Qian City, and although it has ten member sects, its scale is still too small..."

"Sect Leader He, have you ever played with a snowball?" Lin Bai looked at him and smiled. "The snowball is very small at the beginning, but as long as it keeps rolling, it will definitely get bigger and bigger. We are the Justice Alliance, and what we are doing is in accordance with the Heavenly Dao. As the saying goes, a just cause enjoys abundant support, while an unjust cause finds little. It may be difficult at the start, but as long as we persist in our beliefs, we will definitely succeed. You should think of it this way: the Justice Alliance has only been established for a few days, and we already have ten sects that have joined..."

Was that a voluntary joining?

Wan Qifeng choked, looked at Li Zhenren behind Lin Bai, and changed his angle: "The Alliance Leader's cultivation is still struggling to deal with one Transformation Realm expert. The Seven Righteous Sects have tens of thousands of years of accumulation; who knows how many Transformation Realm experts they have, not to mention the Demonic Five Sects. Moreover, above the Transformation Realm, there are the Void Refinement and Great Vehicle stages. In this old man's opinion, would it not be safer to proceed gradually?"

Proceed gradually?

I would like to, but do the players give me the chance?

Lin Bai sighed inwardly, but his expression remained calm. He stood up and said spiritedly: "The Seven Righteous Sects have Transformation Realm experts, but does my Justice Sect not have them? Pavilion Master Wan, there is no need to boost others' morale and dampen our own. If it were just normal competition, that would be one thing, but if the Seven Righteous Sects disregard their reputation and send Great Vehicle stage experts to strike directly, our Justice Sect's ancestors naturally will not sit idly by.

I have only been practicing the Law of Cultivation for a mere month, yet I can already resist Transformation Realm experts alone. The ancestors in my sect are all old monsters who have practiced for thousands of years. I am the person with the most hope of becoming the Heavenly Dao in the ten thousand years of the Justice Sect; the ancestors will not watch me fall. Surely you Sect Leaders don't think I am just a lone wolf, do you?"

Hu He's heart surged with excitement.

Xin Shang and the others looked at each other and fell into silence once again.

However, Lin Bai's wild words inexplicably injected some confidence into them.

The laws Lin Bai has mastered, the various Divine Artifacts he has brought out, the various concepts and systems established since the founding of the Justice Alliance...

If they were told this was all concocted by Lin Bai alone, they wouldn't believe it even if they were beaten to death.

Of course.

If it really was all created by Lin Bai alone, then Lin Bai is absolutely a unique child of heaven, protected by great Luck, and following him might not be a bad thing...

"Valley Master Ma, how have you considered it?" Lin Bai looked at Ma Changcheng again and asked.

"Alliance Leader, this matter is of great importance. Could you allow me a few more days to consider before giving you an answer?" Ma Changcheng said with a fawning smile, wiping the sweat from his forehead.

On one side is the high and mighty Danling Sect, and on the other is the mysterious Lin Bai and his Justice Alliance.

Ma Changcheng felt as if he were being roasted over a fire.

He was riding a tiger and could not get off.

He looked at Lin Bai with resentment.

Why did he have to make such a difficult decision?

Of all the cities, why did Lin Bai have to choose Qian City to strike...

He only wanted to drag things out now, wait for the situation here to ferment, see the reaction of the Seven Righteous Sects, and see if Lin Bai could handle it.

Lin Bai's personality was erratic and radical, and there were Heavenly Descended spreading information in private; as long as *Justice Weekly* spread the news of this battle, he believed the Seven Righteous Sects would definitely not remain indifferent.

By that time.

If Lin Bai could hold off the Seven Righteous Sects, it wouldn't be a bad idea for him to hand over the pill formulas!

If Lin Bai couldn't hold off the Seven Righteous Sects, he wouldn't have offended the Danling Sect either...

Once the pill formulas were given to Lin Bai, it meant he was completely tied to the Justice Alliance, with no room for maneuver left.

Consider it for a few days?

This young master is waiting for your pill formulas to complete a system task!

Consider it for a few days, and the day lily would have already wilted.

Lin Bai's face sank instantly, and the pressure of the Transformation Realm was suddenly released: "Valley Master Ma, do you know how precious time is to the Justice Alliance? I took Huilong Temple in a quarter of an hour, and your three-faction coalition in one hour? A few days—are your few pill formulas worth these few days of my time?"

【Fear from Ma Changcheng; +1 +1 +1】

【Shock from He Qin, Xin Shang, Ge Feiyun...; +1 +1 +1】

Transformation Realm?

Is this Lin Bai's true strength?

Or did his "Words Follow the Law" level up just now, bringing him such a terrifying improvement?

Under the deterrence of the Transformation Realm, no one in the hall dared to even breathe loudly.

Whether it was Lin Bai's Love Separation or Love God's Arrow, although the momentum was huge, they looked mostly like nonsense.

After all.

These Skills could not truly cause harm to people.

But if he possessed the strength of the Transformation Realm, he could completely slaughter everyone in the hall by himself...

Ma Changcheng was sweating profusely, and he defended himself sheepishly: "Alliance Leader, that is not what I meant..."

"Then what do you mean?" Lin Bai's voice increased slightly, using the newly acquired Skill, Decibel Multiplier.

The dull voice suddenly grew louder.

In an instant, a gust of wind whipped up in the meeting hall, and the doors and windows rattled noisily.

The massive sound made everyone's ears buzz.

Xiaobai and Hu San subconsciously covered their ears; the little foxes beside Hu He let out panicked screams, shrinking into Hu He's arms one by one. Looking closely, wisps of fresh blood were actually flowing from their ears...

Holy crap!

This powerful?

Lin Bai's own head was also buzzing from his own voice, and he subconsciously canceled the Skill.

He swallowed his saliva silently. Good heavens, if this broken Skill isn't handled well, it might even cause self-inflicted damage!

When actually using it, he might have to hide his ears first; throw his nose out, throw his ears out—he was becoming less and less like a human when he fought!

"Don't think I don't know what you're thinking," Lin Bai snorted coldly. "You have already asked the Seven Righteous Sects for help, aren't you just trying to delay for a few days, wait for reinforcements to arrive, and weigh Lin's worth?"

"Alliance Leader, please forgive us." He Qin and Wan Qifeng hurriedly stood up to apologize to Lin Bai.

Lin Bai scanned the three of them, finally settling on Ma Changcheng's face: "Valley Master Ma, rules are set to be followed. If you didn't want to follow them, you shouldn't have joined the Justice Alliance in the first place? Do you think that by biting down on the pill formulas and not letting go, I have no way to deal with you?"

"This subordinate dares not," Ma Changcheng said in terror.

"You aren't afraid of death, but are all the alchemists in Medicine King Valley as stubborn as you?" Lin Bai said. "If you don't want to do it, the Valley Master of Medicine King Valley can be replaced at any time. You think you can protect yourself? Keeping the pill formulas allows you to advance or retreat. But have you ever thought that if *Justice Weekly* reports on the Patent Law, and my Justice Alliance goes out to fight a few battles under the excuse of unauthorized use, will the world believe that Medicine King Valley never provided pill formulas to the Justice Alliance? At that time, will the Danling Sect believe you, or me?"

For a moment, Ma Changcheng's face turned deathly pale.

"I talk to you about morality and rules, but you insist on acting like a rogue with me." Lin Bai sneered and reached out his hand. "I am the same as you now, acting like a rogue and playing dirty. Are you satisfied? Come, I've made my move; tell me your countermeasure?"

"..." Ma Changcheng was submissive. He looked up at Lin Bai and stammered, "This subordinate has no countermeasure."

He was telling the truth!

With the Heavenly Descended helping to spread the word, *Justice Weekly* was simply a tool for smearing reputations.

Lin Bai didn't need to do anything else; just as he said, praise him a few times in *Justice Weekly*, then use the Patent Law as an excuse to go out and stir up trouble a few times, and his reputation and the reputation of Medicine King Valley would be completely ruined. There would be no way to explain it...

Lin Bai was right; with the Heavenly Descended, the old ways of doing things wouldn't work anymore!

"Pill formulas?" Lin Bai asked.

"Medicine King Valley is willing to cooperate with the Justice Alliance to promote the Patent Law," Ma Changcheng took a deep breath and said dejectedly.

"That's more like it!" Lin Bai's smile bloomed on his face as he looked at the people who were forced to smile. "Now that things are out in the open, Medicine King Valley is still our good partner. The Patent Law was meant to benefit the masses in the first place; why make things so awkward?

Old Ma, don't look so aggrieved. You will soon realize the benefits of the Patent Law. In the early stages of promoting the Patent Law, the sooner you register, the more you gain. After all, once you apply for a patent, others cannot apply for it, and you can blatantly charge them patent fees. This is a business with a huge profit margin!"

"Many thanks for the Alliance Leader's kindness." Ma Changcheng smiled involuntarily, his voice full of bitterness.

"Alliance Leader, if we create the Patent Law, what if the Seven Righteous Sects or the Demonic Five Sects also create a Patent Law? How should we respond?" Xin Shang suddenly asked. "Let's talk about the pill formulas again. As everyone knows, almost all pill formulas are in the hands of the Danling Sect. If they apply for patents on all their own pill formulas, couldn't they also charge us patent fees?"

"We just won't acknowledge it." Once the pill formulas were in hand, the Medicine God System's tasks could continue, so Lin Bai waved his hand dismissively. "Within the control of the Justice Alliance, we follow our patent rights. Once our alliance expands, we will promote patent rights wherever we go! Furthermore, the Danling Sect is high and mighty; as long as they want a shred of face, they wouldn't stoop to learning from us and fighting over these patent fees. Besides, if they really do learn from us and promote the Patent Law, it only proves that our path is correct!"

(End of chapter)