Chapter 247: Chicken Rib Divine Ability

With the waterfall blocking the path, Lin Bai temporarily ceased his Provocation, and the people of Illusion Valley were finally able to catch their breath.

It is the Spirit Transformation realm!

Luo Xue, who was charging at the very front, saw the power of the Wine God Curse and was overjoyed, hurriedly offering thanks: "Many thanks to you, Daoist brother, for your help, Luo... eh!"

She had only managed to say a few words.

The hazy wine mist blocking her path suddenly expanded rapidly, and layers of swift ripples slammed toward her at a speed visible to the naked eye.

Within her field of vision, branches and leaves flew everywhere.

Just as the thought of dodging arose in Luo Xue, the ripples arrived; the gale, mixed with the scent of wine, blew her clothes and hair into disarray.

"Die!"

That calm, mature, and magnetic mature-woman voice—which she could never imitate—suddenly intruded into her ears.

Hum!

A sharp pain erupted in her ear canals.

In an instant.

The world went silent.

Her body felt as if it had been struck heavily by someone in the Void Refinement Realm.

A tearing sensation spread from every part of her body, her dharma robes were shredded to pieces, her internal organs ached in waves, and Luo Xue felt a surge in her throat as a mouthful of fresh blood sprayed out...

Is this... Lin Bai's divine ability?

Unable to care for the injuries on her body, Luo Xue looked at the entire forest in front of her that had been torn to shreds, her mind a blank; it was not that her cultivation was stronger than Jian Shi and Bu Bei, allowing her to survive under the sonic attack.

It was mainly because Lin Bai's sonic attack was not aimed directly at her, and she was further away from the center of the sound wave, which was why she survived this massive sonic attack and remained conscious—and unprecedentedly clear-headed at that.

The most terrifying thing was that the sound wave continued to push forward, ceaselessly tearing apart all the trees along its path, extending to who knows where...

Great Vehicle Realm!?

Luo Xue had the same thought as Jian Shi; she froze in place, her hands and feet ice-cold, unable to recover her senses for a long time.

All this time, she had actually been an enemy of someone in the Great Vehicle Realm, and even wanted to lure and capture him?

How much water must one have in their brain to commit such a stupid act!

No.

It had nothing to do with her!

It was that Lin Bai was too good at disguising himself.

Why would someone in the Great Vehicle Realm pretend to be in the Spirit Transformation stage?

Despicable, shameless!

Luo Xue was beyond tears, cursing bitterly in her heart.

The Hundred Flower Boat was further behind than Luo Xue, and by the time the shockwave reached them, it had attenuated significantly.

Even so, the Hundred Flower Boat was still battered and scattered; the engraved Defense Array automatically popped out, and the Cultivators on board, like Luo Xue, had their eardrums shattered, clothes torn, and blood flowing from their seven orifices, all of them suffering heavy injuries; those with lower cultivation even fainted on the spot.

The players had the lowest levels.

The moment the sound wave rushed past, their health bars hit zero instantly, and they were sent straight back to the Resurrection Point.

As the players died, the live broadcast signal was cut off instantly.

Before dying, the broadcast screen contributed a wave of pale skin to the viewers outside, as there was no time to cover it with Holy Light...

Then, the live broadcast rooms of all the Illusion Valley players turned into black screens.

The image fixed in the viewers' minds was the terrifying scene of the forest torn to pieces, as if a Heidan had been dropped, and they even ignored the beautiful sight of the Illusion Valley fairies whose clothes had been shredded by the sound waves.

The viewers flooded into the forums frantically to investigate the truth.

"Holy crap, what just happened?"

"Shopkeeper Lin said the word 'die', then a terrifying explosion occurred, and then, the entire player party was wiped out?"

"What kind of divine ability is this? Words following the Dao?"

"Too terrifying. A Lightning Storm can destroy trees, but a single word 'die' actually tore apart such a large forest. At the time, the Hundred Flowers Valley's flying ship must have been over five kilometers away from Lin Bai, right? That means Lin Bai's one word 'die' destroyed at least a five-kilometer radius of forest. Was that a Heidan dropped?"

"The guy above is understating it; that was just the players dying, but the shockwave didn't stop and continued to expand outward..."

"This is just bullshit. If a BOSS can pull off such a wide-range map-nuke, how are players supposed to play? Might as well just be a commoner in the game and be done with it."

"In the early stages, players are supposed to act like grandsons anyway. Who told you to think about pushing Lin Bai in the early stages? Lin Bai is clearly a late-game BOSS."

"Why is a late-game BOSS acting so jumpy in the early stages? The game must be unbalanced!"

"The game focuses on realism. If you live in a city and a Heidan comes over, you'll still be insta-killed. How is this any different?"

"I want to play the game for fun, not go to another world to be a commoner."

"Be content. Where in the Real World do commoners have an Undying Body, or the opportunity to steadily improve just by cultivating? The game has already given players a cheat. If you want to play well in this game, it's impossible not to act like a grandson in the early stages. Everyone should think of it this way: when players reach the Great Vehicle Stage and use such powerful spells to bombard each other, how spectacular will that be? The game's special effects are so cool!"

"The game didn't give players a cheat; Lin Bai is the one cheating. Shouting one word to kill a group of players—if he really wanted to kill, he would just need to keep talking."

"If he says die, you die. It really is words following the Dao; being shaken to death is still death."

"Does anyone still want to go and push Lin Bai?"

"Push my ass. You can't even push past one opening of Lin Bai's mouth. I wouldn't even be surprised if Lin Bai could stare someone to death one day."

"The game is probably trying to tell you through Lin Bai: don't jump around before you have the ability..."

"Shopkeeper Lin is also quite good at acting. Back when Gugao Laoren brought people to push him, he managed to hold back and not make a move, even pretending to call for help from the martial arts schools in the city. He's a true master of playing the pig to eat the tiger!"

"Why don't you think Lin Bai grew to this level over these two months?"

"To the guy above, that's even more terrifying. It means the players' cultivation speed will never catch up to Lin Bai. I'd rather he be a master from the start; at least then I could see some hope."

"I suddenly don't know how to play this game. Why doesn't the Shenmo Dalu next door have so many weird issues?"

"Over here, we call it 'The Lin Bai Reality Show'. The players' task is to accompany him and serve as cameras!"

"What the hell, Lin Bai reality show."

"That's right, it's the Lin Bai reality show. Whenever other NPCs want to stir up some trouble, Lin Bai can always refocus the spotlight back onto himself; he truly is the biological son of the Game Company's boss."

"I just want to know, who is the unlucky soul blocking the way? What did he do to force such a massive ultimate move out of Lin Bai?"

"It is said that the Great Vehicle Realm can move mountains and drain seas; I suppose this is that kind of power. It's hard to imagine how the Natives will survive once players level up to the Great Vehicle Realm. If players go crazy, they could probably beat the world into a pile of Ruins!"

"No wonder most of this world's regions are mountains and forests; it turns out it's because of the wars in the Cultivation World. It is said that several great wars between righteousness and evil have occurred in this world. If the wars between righteousness and evil involved such methods and scale, the distance between cities really should be that far to leave enough of a battlefield for the Cultivators..."

"I thought it would be a war between the Righteous Sect and the Seven Righteous Sects that beat the world into a pile of Ruins, and then the players would play at rebuilding civilization. I never expected that the current world was already rebuilt from Ruins. From this strike by Lin Bai, I feel as if I have seen the buried truth of history..."

……

The Beggar Sect Disciple's livestream room was flooded with more viewers wanting to uncover the truth, but unfortunately, the people from the Beggar Sect didn't know what had happened either.

After all.

They were too far away from the scene of the incident.

And the person involved, Lin Bai, hadn't said a single word.

……

It wasn't that Lin Bai didn't want to speak, but that he was also frightened by the Decibel Multiplier ability.

Furthermore.

Whether it was his lips, his eyeballs, or his detached left hand, they were all burning with pain at this moment...

The sound was emitted through his lips, and the shockwave generated in an instant also affected him. Fortunately, the sound traveled outward through his lips, and he only said one word; otherwise, his eyeballs would likely have been torn apart by that shout of his own.

He hadn't expected that the most serious injury he would sustain since transmigrating would be caused by himself.

Fortunately, Lin Bai possessed the super-strong Physique brought to him by the Divine Doctor System, as well as the tenfold recovery rate and doubled physical fitness newly rewarded to him by the War God System.

The damage sustained by his eyeballs and left hand was slowly recovering, and his blurred vision was gradually becoming clear...

But the mess that met his eyes made Lin Bai gasp.

It was terrifying!

The area of the forest destroyed by the sound wave was boundless; he didn't know how far it had spread...

This must be the power of an atomic bomb, right!

He looked down; it was all scattered branches and leaves, and he couldn't see the attacker...

Lin Bai's eyeballs rotated, looking toward the direction of Illusion Valley. Luo Xue was floating in the sky in a daze, her clothes in tatters, her gaze vacant. More than thirty Hundred Flower Boats were battered and broken; some had fallen to the ground, while others were still suspended in the air, but even those suspended were battered and broken, clearly unable to move.

On the Hundred Flower Boats, there were few people left who could stand.

Lin Bai had thought the Decibel Multiplier would be very powerful, but he hadn't expected it to be this powerful, and it was an indiscriminate kill that didn't distinguish between friend and foe. With this map-wide attack, if the Justice Alliance Army were on the scene, they would probably all be lying flat in a large patch...

It was a chicken-rib-like Skill; it seemed it couldn't be used unless one was desperate, as it was easy to turn oneself into a true loner...

Of course.

After the level of the Craftsman God System went up, it wouldn't be impossible to use if he researched a Dharma Treasure that allowed sound to travel directionally...

This time.

The deterrent power should be sufficient, right!

【Fear from Luo Xue, Qi Lan, Feng Fei...; +1 +1 +1】

Feeling the emotions of the Illusion Valley Disciples, Lin Bai looked toward the direction of Illusion Valley, his lips moving, and the mature woman's voice rose again: "Fellow Daoists of Illusion Valley, are you all okay?"

The Provocation was issued.

Whether it was Luo Xue or the people on the Hundred Flower Valley who could stand, not a single one reacted.

Had the Provocation failed?

Lin Bai was stunned for a moment, then commanded the three organs to fly toward the direction of Hundred Flowers Valley. Now, he wasn't afraid of sneak attacks anymore; at worst, he would just shout again.

Seeing Lin Bai's eyes and mouth flying toward her, Luo Xue's face turned pale in an instant, and her whole body trembled like chaff. She had the heart to raise her Flower Chain to give him a strike, but she couldn't muster the courage. She wanted to run away, but her two legs felt as if they were fixed in place, unable to exert a shred of strength.

What's more, Lin Bai's strike was so powerful, where could she run to?

Before Lin Bai flew to Luo Xue's side, he understood the reason why the Provocation had failed.

Luo Xue's eyes, nose, mouth, and ears were all bleeding; in all likelihood, her eardrums had been shattered. She couldn't hear what he was saying, so how could she possibly harbor hostility toward him?

Well!

It turned out that to break the Provocation, one just had to make oneself deaf.

However.

This young lady's figure was actually quite good; I have to say, the Decibel Multiplier is quite convenient for stripping clothes...

High skill makes one bold.

Lin Bai commanded the three-piece organ set and flew to Luo Xue's close proximity.

Luo Xue's eyes suddenly widened, her legs went soft, and she almost fell from the sky. Seeing that Lin Bai had no intention of attacking, she steadied her mind, put away her Flower Chain, and said loudly: "Alliance Leader Lin, I am willing to lead all of Illusion Valley to submit to the Justice Alliance..."

Lin Bai hadn't brought his ears along, so seeing Luo Xue's mouth moving, he didn't know what she was saying, but guessing the meaning, it should be something about surrendering or submitting: "Don't be afraid, gather the Disciples of Illusion Valley who can still move and follow me to search for the attacker ahead."

Luo Xue stared with wide eyes, looking at Lin Bai's lips flipping up and down. She was stunned for a moment, then pointed to her own ears: "Senior, I cannot hear."

Uh!

Lin Bai was stunned for a moment. Well, the Decibel Multiplier, mass-producing deaf people.

Lin Bai's left hand flew to the front, pointed at Luo Xue, and then pointed at the Hundred Flower Boats behind. Luo Xue understood, squeezed out an ugly smile at Lin Bai, and turned to fly toward the Hundred Flower Boats.

The moment she flew, sharp pain immediately came from her internal organs.

With a bitter smile, she reached into her bosom, wanting to take out a medicinal pill to heal herself, but when she reached in, she touched nothing.

She subconsciously looked at her body; her Dharma robe was shattered, with only a few strips of cloth hanging on her body, and with her movement, they could fall off at any time...

Swish!

Luo Xue's pale face turned red in an instant, and her heart pounded rapidly. Just now, she had been face-to-face with Lin Bai like this; wouldn't he have seen everything? It was too shameful.

Luo Xue reached out to block behind her, not caring whether she could cover it or not, and accelerated her speed, flying into the Hundred Flower Boat as if fleeing.

The spare clothing inside the Hundred Flower Boat had all been shattered by the sound waves; she couldn't even find a single complete piece.

Having no other choice, she could only find some cloth strips to cover her body.

Then.

She informed the many Disciples of Illusion Valley of her decision by writing it down.

Cheers erupted instantly.

Even without this terrifying strike from Lin Bai, they had long wanted to surrender.

Everyone had had enough of Lin Bai's inhumane torture; the sooner they surrendered, the sooner they would have peace. As for Lin Bai, they would leave him to those capable of dealing with him!

As for what would happen in the future, no one cared anymore.

……

The many members of the Justice Alliance Army learned the latest news from the mouths of the Beggar Sect Disciples, and one by one, they were dumbstruck.

Although the Beggar Sect Disciples spoke unclearly, they were all people who knew their stuff; naturally, they knew that to cause the level of destruction described, one must have at least the cultivation of the Great Vehicle Realm...

Great Vehicle Realm cultivation!

No wonder Lin Bai was so fearless...

If he had Great Vehicle Realm cultivation, he should have said so earlier; why make them worry and fear?

And why keep toying with them all this time?

Is it a sick sense of humor?

"Master, are you in the Great Vehicle Realm?" the little white fox asked curiously.

"No." Lin Bai glanced at her with feigned arrogance, his gentle mature-woman voice ringing out, "This is the Law Power of 'Words Manifesting into Reality.' Keep practicing; even if you cannot reach my height, it will still bring benefits to your own cultivation. Everyone from Medicine King Valley, prepare healing pills. I have already subdued the sisters of Illusion Valley, but those newly joined sisters may need treatment. Disciples of Hundred Flowers Valley, bring out the spare clothing as well..."

Before he could finish his few sentences.

A gentle breeze blew past.

In everyone's ears, they faintly heard the word "die," identical to the voice of the Lin Bai before them.

The noisy scene became as quiet as death in an instant.

(End of this chapter)