Chapter 260: Give the True Immortal a Chance

Zhou Zu's Escape Technique is very similar to Flash, but in the end, it is not Flash.

However, even if it were Flash, it would not be faster than light or thought.

Within Lin Bai's field of vision, Zhou Zu simply cannot avoid Being Read Mind.

Lin Bai's Mental Power is sufficient; he activates the defensive function of the Hunyuan Jade and, in front of everyone, shows off his Extreme Micro-manipulation to the charging Zhou Zu.

The Nine Ancestors lead the way.

Every time Zhou Zu appears, a scene that is extremely lewd and highly insulting is bound to appear in his mind.

Either the Nine Ancestors are riding on his neck and defecating;

Or he has been stripped of his clothes, and the Nine Ancestors are pulling his nostrils while cracking a horse whip behind him;

Or he has been fitted with reins by the Nine Ancestors, who are stepping on his head and pressing him into a cow trough to drink water...

Time is tight.

There is no time to edit language or anything of the sort; all Lin Bai can do is take many static images from manga he saw on Earth that quickly make men's blood boil, swap the heads, and send them out immediately.

While interfering with Zhou Zu's train of thought, Lin Bai releases the Blacksmith Six-Piece Set and throws it all at him at once;

Soon, Lin Bai discovers that the Blacksmith Six-Piece Set cannot hit the opponent; Being Read Mind can keep up with Zhou Zu's speed, but the Blacksmith Six-Piece Set cannot.

Consequently, he changes his strategy, takes a Silver Card from his bosom, and the moment Zhou Zu appears, he pastes the card character right next to him.

Then, he quickly uses the Moon-Running Skill.

Moon-Running does not care whether the opponent is using an Escape Technique; as long as the conditions are met, it can be activated immediately.

Qingyu pastes onto his face.

Whoosh!

A person suddenly appears beside him; Zhou Zu, who has been tormented to the point of exhaustion, has not yet reacted when, the next instant, his Escape Technique is interrupted, his entire body changes direction, and he strikes a seductive Moon-Running pose, flying toward the sky.

During the process of Moon-Running, no Dharma Treasure or spells can be used.

Thus, the Blacksmith Six-Piece Set comes in handy, with the Hammer, fire tongs, Bellows, anvil, and so on taking turns smashing against his body.

Caught off guard, Zhou Zu thoroughly enjoys the treatment once given to the Cangming Sword Immortal; following the Jade Hairpin and Dharma Robe, the Waist Jade at his waist and the Protective Belt are destroyed one after another.

The Great Vehicle Realm is indeed the Great Vehicle Realm; Zhou Zu quickly realizes he has been hit by Lin Bai's Love Separation, rapidly activates his power, and with a 'whoosh', like a skyrocket, he quickly climbs to the peak of the Moon-Running.

Then.

He uses an Escape Technique to flash back down, then continues to charge toward Lin Bai.

With his Dharma Treasure destroyed, being toyed with by the Nine Ancestors in his mind, and being teased by Lin Bai in reality, if he cannot kill Lin Bai but instead turns and flees, there will be no place for him in this world...

Regret?

It is already too late for regret.

At this moment, for Zhou Zu, the ranking is no longer important; he represents not only his own face but also the face of the Heavenly Dao Sect...

Seeing Zhou Zu stubbornly charging forward again, Lin Bai repeats his old trick.

Huaxi pastes onto his face, Moon-Running, then smashes him with the Blacksmith Six-Piece Set;

Qingshan pastes onto his face, then Moon-Running...

Thus.

Zhou Zu's originally cool and flashy route turns into that of a nimble flea: one flash and he ascends to heaven, one flash and he ascends to heaven.

His perfectly good Escape Technique is rendered unrecognizable under Lin Bai's interference...

Ye Song's throat bobs; he wants to laugh but cannot, feeling a chill in his heart. He cannot help but swallow a mouthful of saliva, rejoicing that the plan he decided on was more stable and reasonable.

Otherwise.

It would be him suffering such a miserable scene.

Tsk tsk!

Too miserable!

"Great Vehicle Realm?"

"Should be, the speed of ascending to heaven is much faster than the Cangming Sword Immortal, and he can even flash."

"But encountering Shopkeeper Lin, he seems to have no power to fight back; it's not much different from the previous Spirit Transformation realm..."

"It can only mean that Shopkeeper Lin's Law Power is more overbearing; even the Great Vehicle Realm cannot resist it."

"It's different; the Great Vehicle Realm is braver. If it were an ordinary person being tormented like this by Shopkeeper Lin, they would have run away long ago. He has been charging over very persistently the whole way; I'm afraid he still has a trump card."

"Moreover, Shopkeeper Lin doesn't dare to rush over and paste onto his face to fight like he did to the Cangming Sword Immortal back then."

"Have you noticed that before Shopkeeper Lin uses Love Separation, he always sends a Puppet to Zhou Zu's side?"

"Noticed it long ago; before, when Shopkeeper Lin used Love Separation, there would always be one person left in place."

"That is to say, this skill cannot be used against a single individual..."

"Love Separation? You can tell just by the name; separation requires at least two people. How can one person separate?"

"I'm afraid this is the weakness of the skill; if they don't gather together, Shopkeeper Lin's Love Separation cannot be activated."

"What kind of loophole is that? Zhou Zu is still one person; Shopkeeper Lin can still release a Puppet at close range and send him to heaven."

"Zhou Zu is one person, that's true, but what if many people attack Shopkeeper Lin from different directions? Shopkeeper Lin doesn't have that many Puppets in total, and even if he had enough Puppets, how many things can he multitask? No matter how strong his micro-manipulation is, he can't release Puppets at close range on dozens of people simultaneously, right?"

"Sure enough, there is no such thing as an unsolvable skill. The battles between NPCs are probably the officials showing us the skills to give us confidence."

"Love Arrow, Love Separation; slowly, we will find ways to crack all of Shopkeeper Lin's skills."

"What I'm afraid of is that Shopkeeper Lin might jump out with new skills at any time; have you forgotten the skill that destroyed a forest for a hundred miles with one shout?"

"We are just here to make a living following Shopkeeper Lin; the ones who should really be worried are the players who go against Shopkeeper Lin..."

……

He Qin and the others looked at each other, feeling quite unsettled in their hearts.

So it turned out that by separating, one could counter Love Separation; such a simple method, why hadn't they seen it at the time!

But then they thought again, it was fortunate they hadn't discovered the method to counter Love Separation back then.

Otherwise, if Lin Bai had been provoked and let out a single roar, their entire sect would have been wiped out; how could they still be here watching Lin Bai toy with a Great Vehicle Realm expert?

Thinking of this.

Everyone felt relieved; there were benefits to being dull-witted, it was good they hadn't discovered it.

……

Watching Zhou Zu, who looked like a flea, hopping over from the distance and entering everyone's line of sight.

Everyone present cast a look of sympathy toward him.

Previously.

Lin Bai's large-scale battles had all been in the wilderness, and the world had only understood the battle processes indirectly through *Justice Weekly*.

Relying on imagination to complete the scenes of that time.

But this time, the battlefield was in Zhen City.

The commoners could see the battlefield outside just by looking up.

Laymen watch the spectacle.

The commoners could not sense the Qi locking from dozens of miles away, could not see the profoundness of Zhou Zu's Flash, nor could they see the mystery behind why Zhou Zu's speed of ascent was so fast during the process of being sent to the moon...

They only knew that compared to Lin Bai, who was majestic and had not moved his position from start to finish, the Great Vehicle Realm Zhou Zu, who had come to challenge with such great momentum, was like a clown, possessing no image whatsoever, and not at all worthy of the description given to him by *Heavenly Dao Review*...

"Hearing of a reputation is not as good as meeting in person; the Great Vehicle Realm is nothing more than this."

"The rumors were exaggerated."

"They deserve to be replaced by the Justice Alliance!"

"It is a pity that I once yearned for cultivation for so many years!"

"Zhou Zu Real Person is ranked second, yet he is this pathetic when encountering Lin Bai; I fear the other Great Vehicle Realm experts are even less worth watching. *Heavenly Dao Review* gave them too much face."

"I reckon that Wuwang Chanshi is also a fraud..."

……

Because of Zhou Zu's pathetic performance, the reputation of other Great Vehicle Realm experts plummeted all the way, falling to the point where even ordinary commoners looked down on them.

Listening to the unscrupulous comments within the city, Ye Song had black lines on his forehead and sighed helplessly.

It was troublesome; if the remaining Great Vehicle Realm experts could not crush Lin Bai, I fear they would never be able to clear their names for the Great Vehicle Realm.

……

"Lin Bai, is your Justice Sect only capable of these low-class tricks?" Zhou Zu roared hysterically, his eyes splitting with rage.

Ever since he was humiliated by Wuwang once at the Heaven's Pride Tournament, this was the second time he had been tortured to the verge of a Dao Heart collapse.

The distance of over fifty miles could be covered in an instant with his Escape Technique, but being interfered with by the Nine Ancestors and Lin Bai, he had spent half a cup of tea's time covering those fifty miles, still hadn't reached Lin Bai, and had made a fool of himself the whole way, having been sent to the moon dozens of times...

It was worlds apart from the plan he had once envisioned of unleashing thunderous means to kill Lin Bai in one stroke and clear his own name.

"Real Person Zhou, this is the Great Dao of Love; it is simply that your skills are inferior to others." Practice makes perfect; after dozens of times of training, Lin Bai could fully speak while cutting cards and sending him to the moon.

"My skills are inferior? If it weren't for your Justice Sect's Nine Ancestors doing all sorts of filthy things in my mind, how would this old man have fallen into such a state?" Zhou Zu struck the pose of being sent to the moon and roared in grief and indignation.

He had devoted himself to the Dao for hundreds of years and had entered the human world to experience it countless times; what kind of scenes had he not seen?

But the Nine Ancestors had almost played out every trick in his mind; the unimaginable postures and actions were enough to make some evil cultivators who harmed women bow down in defeat.

If the target of the Nine Ancestors' abuse hadn't been himself, Zhou Zu would have even praised him for these fancy tricks.

"Real Person Zhou, that's a way of putting it; the Righteous and Evil Paths mobilized twelve Great Vehicle Realm experts to bully a junior like me, yet you don't allow my sect's ancestors to help?" Lin Bai chuckled and stuffed another image of the tentacle-monster Nine Ancestors restraining him into his head.

All the lewd things happened in Zhou Zu's mind, so the image of the Justice Sect would not be ruined.

Presumably, Zhou Zu would not explain to the world what the Justice Sect's Nine Ancestors had done to him in his mind...

"Bullshit, is that called helping?" Zhou Zu was so angry his lungs ached. "Don't you know what kind of people the Justice Sect's Nine Ancestors are?"

"Zhou Zu, I respect you as a Great Vehicle Realm expert, which is why I am so polite to you. If you want to fight, then fight; but to insult my Nine Ancestors, today I will fight you to the death." Lin Bai feigned anger and stuffed another image of Real Person Zhou hanging upside down on a grape trellis into his head, saying righteously.

"What a 'fight to the death'; come, come, come, if you have the guts, don't use Law Power, and let's have a real fight with blades and guns." Zhou Zu said angrily.

"What I cultivate is the Law, why shouldn't I use it?" Lin Bai chuckled and changed the subject. "Real Person Zhou, I know you were defeated by Wuwang Chanshi and harbor deep hatred for him in your heart, and are eager to prove yourself..."

"That's right, I want to prove that I am stronger than him. What kind of thing is he to think he can suppress me?" Zhou Zu roared, but as soon as the words left his mouth, he realized something was wrong. He had intended to say that killing Lin Bai was for the sake of the world's righteousness, but he hadn't expected that his true thoughts would come out directly. His complexion changed drastically. "Lin Bai, what have you done to me?"

"I used Love Separation on you, I did nothing else. When you arrive close by, I will use the Love Arrow on you." Lin Bai shook the strung Love Bow in his hand. "The world knows that if one is hit by the Love Arrow, they will fall in love with the first person they see. The Real Person didn't bring a partner, so later, you can choose one that catches your eye from among my Puppets, and I will help you two become husband and wife to cultivate the Dao of Love together..."

"Go to hell, Lin Bai, you despicable and shameless villain. If you use the Love Arrow on me, I will surely tear you into ten thousand pieces." Zhou Zu sneered. "A Great Vehicle Realm expert can fight even with eyes closed; if I am truly hit by the Love Arrow, I will destroy my own eyes rather than let you have your way..."

Sigh!

Ye Song sighed again. Zhou Zu's heart was already in chaos; how could he speak his own thoughts during a battle? His mentality had already collapsed!

"Real Person Zhou is indeed inferior to Wuwang Chanshi." Lin Bai's voice was high-pitched, enough to cover the entire Zhen City. "Wuwang Chanshi has already let go, but the hatred in your heart has never been let go. *Heavenly Dao Review* ranked you second, and they didn't wrong you at all!"

"Bullshit, that old dog is a sinister villain who has been defeated by my hand several times; how could he have let go?" Zhou Zu had intended to say that he had never taken *Heavenly Dao Review* seriously, but he blurted out the truth again. The corners of his eyes twitched violently, and he roared, "Nine Ancestors, you despicable and filthy villain, get out of my sea of consciousness and stop using evil arts to influence my mind."

"After the Heaven's Pride Tournament, was Wuwang Chanshi defeated by you again?" Lin Bai asked gossiping.

The matchmaker's task required pairing two enemies as a CP; the fire ignited by *Heavenly Dao Review* was clearly not fierce enough, and Lin Bai felt that adding a few more logs would be safer.

Under the Truth Spell, it was too easy to sow discord between two people.

"Naturally." Zhou Zu said. "At the Void Refinement Realm, I once challenged him to a duel, and he was defeated by my hand in thirty rounds. If he hadn't knelt and begged for mercy, how could I have vented the evil anger of him humiliating me back then."

Since he was already this pathetic, Zhou Zu simply threw caution to the wind. At this moment, he could no longer distinguish whether his words were influenced by the Nine Ancestors.

He only thought that he could not let that hypocritical Wuwang Chanshi appear before the world with a majestic image again.

Otherwise.

Once this matter spread and Lin Bai sowed a few more words of discord, it would only make Wuwang Chanshi appear even more lofty.

"Zen Master Wuwang must hate you very much, right?" Lin Bai asked with a smile.

"It would be strange if he didn't hate me," Zhou Zu said, "Wuwang is fundamentally a sinister villain."

"Is this the True Person's honest evaluation of him?" Lin Bai asked again.

"Naturally," Zhou Zu said.

"Do you dare to swear that what you have said is absolutely true?" Lin Bai coaxed, "If it is true, the description of Zen Master Wuwang in the Heavenly Dao Review might need to be changed."

"Don't you know whether my words are true or not? The Nine Ancestors of the Justice Sect have influenced my mind, making everything I say come from my heart. You asking me to swear—is there any point?" Zhou Zu said angrily.

Ye Song's heart gave a start; the Nine Ancestors of the Justice Sect could actually reach directly into people's hearts, so his plan to infiltrate the Justice Sect under a disguise would likely need to be reconsidered.

"The Nine Ancestors' divine abilities have become increasingly refined," Lin Bai sighed, looking at the approaching Zhou Zu, and said, "True Person Zhou, you must have realized by now that with the Nine Ancestors assisting from the sidelines, you are destined not to defeat me. Your Dharma Treasures are all destroyed, and in front of the world, you are still jumping around like a clown, having lost all face."

"If you happen to be hit by the Love Arrow later, you might even have to gouge out your own eyes. Since you are already so miserable, why not calm your heart, tell a few more stories from the past, and drag that villain Zen Master Wuwang down with you? Once the facts are understood, the Heavenly Dao Review can re-rank you all; the world should not be blinded by false history..."

Zhou Zu pondered for a moment: "Very well."

Lin Bai cupped his hands toward Zhou Zu: "Please speak, True Person Zhou, I am all ears."

The commoners of Zhen City pricked up their ears in unison.

Zhou Zu paused again for a moment and asked: "Since you want me to speak, you must stop Love Separation."

Lin Bai shook his head decisively: "That won't do. Currently, True Person Zhou is still my enemy. Every enemy is a treasure to me; I want to use you all to demonstrate the power of Fazhe Zhidao to the world. Giving you a chance is merely to provide you with an opportunity to vent the baleful energy in your heart! Otherwise, fighting me is too stifling, and if you were to suffer from Qi deviation, it would make my Justice Sect appear overbearing..."

(End of this chapter)