Chapter 274: Ever-Changing

That day.

Several articles were published in "Poison Dao" and "Blood Publication":

The first article:

"The First Battle of the Poison and Blood Sects Against the Justice Gate": This article cited the analysis of the current situation by 【One High Person with Great Courage】, pointed out the wolfish ambitions of the Group, and pointed out the hypocrisy of the Heavenly Dao Sect...

The second article:

"The Great War Is About to Begin, Yet Some Sects Are Still Pretending to Sleep": This article strongly condemned the inaction of sects such as the Beast Taming Sect, Danling Sect, Spirit Tool Sect, and Heavenly Sword Sect in the face of Lin Bai, and called on all sects to take action, complete the strangulation of Lin Bai, and return stability to the world...

The third article:

"World Reform Should Not Be Led by Outsiders": The article exposed Lin Bai's origin as an outsider and the conspiracy behind the laws.

It pointed out that while practitioners should indeed reform, the reform should be led by local sects and not be led by the nose by the Justice Gate and the Heavenly Descended...

The publication of these articles caused a huge uproar all over the world.

After all.

The articles were published on the basis that the Poison Sect and the Blood Sect had won a battle against the Justice Alliance and possessed the results of the war.

Sects like the Heavenly Dao Sect, Heavenly Sword Sect, and Spirit Tool Sect were suppressed into silence, unable to even argue, watching helplessly as the Poison Sect and the Blood Sect hogged the limelight.

Previously, Zhou Zu and Wuwang Chanshi had indeed had a serious fight with Lin Bai, but as a result, the two became a joke and still needed the Heavenly Dao Sect and the Buddha Spirit Sect to wipe their backsides and cover up the truth of the matter...

The Heavenly Dao Sect wanted to fight back, but what kind of skill is it to take down the Beggar Sect under the Justice Alliance? If they have the guts, go fight Lin Bai directly!

But in the end, they could not bring themselves to do it.

Nominally, the Seven Righteous Sects and the Demonic Five Sects were opposites, but after the Righteous and Evil Execution Order was issued, in the eyes of the world, they had long since become a whole.

At least before the Justice Gate was eliminated, they were a whole; infighting at this time would only make people laugh.

Beast Taming Sect.

Elder Qiu received a new order from the Sect Master to attack immediately, wipe out Lin Bai's subordinates just like the Poison Sect, and if necessary, capture Lin Bai alive to the Beast Taming Sect and force the recipe for the Transformation Pill out of his mouth...

Elder Qiu's face turned black on the spot; not to mention Lin Bai's own abilities, trying to snatch someone from among eleven Great Vehicle Realm experts—who did they think he was?

The number one combat power in the world?

Was the Sect Master's head caught in a door?

"Master, what should we do?" a Void Refinement Realm Disciple asked from the side, "We sent Senior Brother Hu to observe the cooking competition; should we call him back?"

"Call him back for what?" Elder Qiu glared at him with a stern face, "Those guys above can't see the situation at all. They want fame and they want the Transformation Pill—how is that possible? Is Lin Bai someone easy to deal with? The more joyfully the Poison Sect and the Blood Sect are jumping now, the more miserable they will be in the future."

"Master, I feel that since something happened to the Beggar Sect, Lin Bai might not hold the cooking competition anymore," the Disciple said cautiously.

"It doesn't matter if he doesn't hold it. Lin Bai's disciple founded the Monster Kingdom and made a slogan to return freedom to all monsters. I have already told Hu Qing that if there is a situation with the cooking competition, he should go find the little white fox and take the opportunity to join the Monster Kingdom," Elder Qiu said. "Lin Bai favors foxes, and Hu Qing's Charm Dao is already perfected. Starting with the little white fox, tricking the Transformation Pill out of him should be as easy as turning over one's hand."

"Master is far-sighted, this Disciple admires you," the apprentice flattered.

"Doing nothing is more likely to arouse Lin Bai's suspicion," Elder Qiu hesitated for a moment and said, "Later, you take some people to nearby towns, find the Justice Alliance's properties, and wipe them all out!"

"Senior Sister, are we still going to Zhen City?" 【Phoenix Flying】 looked at Hong Xiu with concern, "I feel that the cooking competition is probably not going to be held. If we go to Zhen City, I don't mind, but I'm afraid Lin Bai will take his anger out on you!"

Hong Xiu was in the Void Refinement Realm, a Disciple of Cen Qing Fairy, and she had been sent by Cen Qing to handle the cooking competition.

At this moment.

She was only half a day's distance from Zhen City. Hearing about what happened in Qian City, she was in a dilemma. To be honest, she did not want to face Lin Bai at all.

In her heart, Lin Bai was a complete pervert and was not worthy of practicing the Dao of Love at all.

"What did Master say?" Hong Xiu sighed inwardly and asked.

"Master's meaning is for us to wait a bit longer," 【Phoenix Flying】 said, "The Sect Master asked her to take people to wipe out the peripheral personnel of the Justice Alliance and gradually approach Zhen City, but she doesn't intend to do that and plans to watch the situation..."

The Purple-Clothed Old Ancestor, who had just run out of Zhen City and intended to return openly as a guest, was stunned for a long time after learning the sudden news, then said indignantly: "A bunch of idiots, stupid beyond compare."

However.

He also had no intention of returning to Zhen City and flew his Sword to find the Heavenly Sword Sect Disciples he had brought out.

The Poison Sect and the Blood Sect had done such things; going to Zhen City at this time was equivalent to throwing himself into a net, and it would also lower the status of the Heavenly Sword Sect.

Ye Song also sighed at the same time; Lin Bai and the Justice Gate behind him had long since aroused enough of his interest.

He was now only worried that the cooking competition would be forced to be interrupted, and then he wouldn't know when he would find another opportunity to enter the Justice Gate.

If he hadn't been unable to leave Zhen City, Ye Song would have had the heart to go to Qian City to stir up trouble, drive away those two idiots from the Poison Sect and the Blood Sect, and relieve the Justice Alliance.

"Boss, there are players secretly making trouble." On 【Farsighted Eagle】's live broadcast screen, a barrage floated by, and after the barrage, a name was attached: 【Wolf of Good Battle】.

"Normal, just act according to the original plan," 【Farsighted Eagle】 said with a calm face, looking back at Zhang Zhenren, who had become wary of him, "When a Group enters a game, there are bound to be casual players who are unconvinced and want to take the opportunity to rise. These are all things within expectations."

"The players who secretly incited the Poison Sect and the Blood Sect understand the Group's strategy and are also very clear about the inside story of the Beggar Sect. I infer that they should be old players, very likely the few people like 【Gelige】 and 【Gugao Laoren】 who were forced to delete their accounts. The possibility of 【Gugao Laoren】, who was calculated against by 【Lao Mi】 regarding the Beggar Sect headquarters, is higher." Another barrage floated by, and the name attached behind it was 【Cunning Fox】.

"Should we send someone to find him and recruit him into the Group?" 【Tiger Guarding the Mountain】 asked.

"No need, even if recruited, he won't be settled. A lone wolf cannot become a climate; it's just right to use his hand to muddy these waters," 【Farsighted Eagle】 said.

"【Gugao Laoren】 is a talent; he once single-handedly built up the Beggar Sect. Aren't you worried that under his planning, the Justice Alliance will really be wiped out by the Seven Righteous Sects?" 【Paddling Fish】 asked.

"If Lin Bai were so easily wiped out, he wouldn't be called the official's own son," 【Farsighted Eagle】 chuckled, "Lin Bai's methods are too gentle, and the Seven Righteous Sects and the Demonic Five Sects haven't been hurt at all. We don't have a chance to move up. The Poison Sect and the Blood Sect provoking the Justice Alliance is just the right time. 【Black Sheep】, how is it over at the Justice Alliance?"

"Lin Bai held a meeting for the alliance's top brass. People from the Lianbao Pavilion and the Spirit Tool Sect are working overtime to refine Magic Tools, and people from the Medicine King Valley have started refining pills. Everyone is actively preparing for war; they should be about to fight back. However, listening to the Beggar Sect people, the cooking competition is proceeding as usual. Lin Bai should be using this to stabilize the morale of the army. The true function of the Magpie Bridge has not yet been detected."

【Black Sheep】 typed a long barrage, "Boss, there is one thing I must tell you. With my cooking skills, it is very difficult to win the runner-up of the cooking competition. There are practitioners secretly playing dirty, obstructing people with good results from advancing. Maybe because of my player identity, he let me go, but the other party is unscrupulous, and my probability of defeating him is extremely low."

"Go to Lin Bai and report him to gain Lin Bai's trust," 【Farsighted Eagle】 said decisively.

"..." After a row of ellipses, 【Black Sheep】 said, "Boss, you think too highly of me. I'm just a level one small account. When practitioners kill, I can't even see their shadows, okay? However, I will go to report it. First, I will brush a good impression on Xu Longyun. If possible, I plan to start from Xu Longyun, show my abilities, and save the country by a curve..."

……

Harassing the periphery of the Justice Alliance was merely a show put on for the world under the instigation of the Poison Sect and the Blood Sect; the high-level figures of the Seven Righteous Sects and the Demonic Five Sects still kept their eyes focused on Zhen City, waiting to see how Lin Bai would respond.

After all.

The destruction of the Beggar Sect headquarters was the first nominal failure of the Justice Alliance; if Lin Bai were truly lured out of Zhen City by the Poison Sect and the Blood Sect, it would prove that the strategy of the Poison Sect and the Blood Sect was effective, and they would subsequently re-occupy Zhen City, squeezing Lin Bai's living space bit by bit, until finally crushing him to death...

However.

The people of the Seven Righteous Sects and the Demonic Five Sects hoped even more to use this incident to force out the Justice Sect behind Lin Bai.

Compared to Lin Bai, the Justice Sect that cultivated this monster, Lin Bai, was the true hidden danger.

Yet, while everyone waited for Lin Bai's counterattack against the Poison Sect and the Blood Sect, what they got instead was the announcement regarding the Magpie Bridge in *Justice Weekly*.

The function of the Magpie Bridge once again triggered a massive uproar.

Just as Xu Longyun had worried, apart from the common people, no one cared at all whether the Magpie Bridge was for civilian or commercial use; they only saw the convenient transportation function of the Magpie Bridge.

Instantly traveling back and forth across the world through a Magpie Bridge built by people in love—once this divine ability appeared, the encirclement and suppression of Lin Bai by the Poison Sect and the Blood Sect immediately became a joke; with the Magpie Bridge, no one could stop Lin Bai, yet Lin Bai could strike whoever he wanted?

Lin Bai could strike at their doorsteps at any time; who could sit still with that?

……

However.

The description of the Magpie Bridge in *Justice Weekly* was overly exaggerated, and many people simply did not believe that the Magpie Bridge truly had such a great effect.

But Lin Bai soon slapped everyone in the face with actual actions.

Not long after *Justice Weekly* was published.

A Magpie Bridge spanned tens of thousands of miles from Zhen City, connecting directly to the capital of the Taiyi Kingdom.

The appearance of the Magpie Bridge shocked everyone, to the point that after the news spread, most people's minds went blank, and they actually lost the ability to think.

Was this truly a divine ability that could appear in this world?

Even at the Tribulation Transcendence Stage, invoking the power of heaven and earth could not achieve this.

Was the Fazhe Zhidao truly this terrifying?

……

The Xianxia World forum suddenly exploded.

"Holy crap, this is literally a portal from a game!"

"I said it long ago, the game map is too big; without portals and town-return scrolls, wasting all the time on the road is simply unreasonable. In the long run, players would eventually quit the game because of this. I didn't expect Shopkeeper Lin to just whip up a Magpie Bridge! Suddenly, it's all reasonable."

"The usage rights of the Magpie Bridge are in Lin Bai's hands; he can cancel it at any time. If players want to use the Magpie Bridge, they can't attack Lin Bai. How is that reasonable?"

"Giving the power to control transportation to Lin Bai—even a favorite son wouldn't be played like this!"

"Perhaps if others comprehend the Fazhe Zhidao, they can also master the Magpie Bridge."

"Players? Players can't even do XX, how could they possibly master the Love Dao in the game? Even if they used technological means to build a rocket, it wouldn't be as fast as the Magpie Bridge! Wherever the Magpie Bridge points, it is invincible; the Justice Alliance is now invincible."

"It can still be attacked. Didn't Lin Bai say that the Magpie Bridge needs to be transmitted via people in love? Kill the people in love waiting by the bridge, and you can interrupt the Magpie Bridge. Mobilize the whole population, establish a strict household registration system and censorship system. Use spies to infiltrate, closely monitor the movements of the Justice Alliance's people in love, and kill suspicious individuals in time. Better to kill the wrong ones than let one go. Shopkeeper Lin's Magpie Bridge won't be able to send anyone."

"That would cause wanton killing, and the world would collapse even faster."

"The appearance of the Magpie Bridge isn't what players should really be worried about. At worst, players can cooperate with Lin Bai to jointly develop this world. After finishing the world, then treat Lin Bai as a BOSS and finally push him. Right now, the ones who should be most uncomfortable are the Seven Righteous Sects and the Demonic Five Sects. If the Magpie Bridge isn't resolved, their cultivation empire will collapse."

"No wonder Lin Bai didn't send troops to seek justice for the Beggar Sect; it turns out his trump card was here."

"The game world is truly going to be in chaos."

……

"Magpie Bridge?"

Inside Qian City.

Ancestor Chilian and Song Yaoqing, who were admiring the exquisite craftsmanship of the Color Printer, looked at each other and were simultaneously stunned in place.

Song Yaoqing said, "Ten thousand miles in an instant. Brother Chilian, we are in trouble."

Ancestor Chilian's eyes were cold as he said, "The one in trouble is Lin Bai. He secretly set up the Magpie Bridge, perhaps hoping to deal us a surprise blow. Now that he has revealed the Magpie Bridge first, those who were hesitant must now be forced to take action and kill him first; no one is willing to see such a law mastered in Lin Bai's hands."

Song Yaoqing pondered, "Is the Love Dao truly this terrifying? Is this the Law Power?"

Ancestor Chilian looked at Song Yaoqing, "Brother Song, do you intend to find someone you love and study the Fazhe Zhidao together?"

"If I could kill Lin Bai, perhaps I would practice it, but not now. Lin Bai holds the Heavenly River in his hands; cultivating the Love Dao is like delivering a sheep into a tiger's mouth, being controlled by him everywhere." Song Yaoqing shook his head and frowned, "Brother Chilian, is it possible that the law is truly going to replace cultivation?"

Ancestor Chilian had not yet spoken.

【Yi Gao Ren Dan Da】 rushed in hurriedly and said, "Master, leave some people in Qian City to suppress the Beggar Sect Disciples and keep them from logging in; the rest of us should rush to Zhen City and eliminate the remaining members of the Justice Alliance! Eliminate all the people in love under him; this is the only way to stop the Magpie Bridge from spreading rapidly. Once Lin Bai spreads the Magpie Bridge, no one will be able to hold Lin Bai anymore."

Before 【Yi Gao Ren Dan Da】's voice had faded, the player acting as a messenger ran in behind him and said to Ancestor Chilian, "Ancestor, the Sect Master has ordered us to head to Zhen City immediately and eliminate the Justice Alliance at all costs..."

……

At all costs, intercept and kill all members of the Justice Alliance!

The Seven Righteous Sects and the Demonic Five Sects confirmed the authenticity of the Magpie Bridge and changed their strategy immediately, issuing the latest orders to all their members and Disciples outside.

This time it was mandatory.

The Beast Taming Sect no longer wanted to scheme for the Transformation Pill; Lin Bai possessed the Magpie Bridge, making it as difficult as ascending to heaven to take him down. If they continued to scheme, the sect would be gone, so what use would the Transformation Pill be?

The cultivators of every sect and faction almost poured out in full force, all rushing toward Zhen City.

The Great Vehicle Realm experts led the way.

Following them were the Void Refinement Realm experts, as well as the Spirit Transformation Realm and Golden Core Realm experts riding transportation tools...

The appearance of the Magpie Bridge truly touched the bottom line of the Cultivation World.

At this moment, no one was using public opinion to talk trash anymore; killing Lin Bai by any means necessary was the hard truth.

The Magpie Bridge could indeed change the world, but this sharp tool that changed the world had to be in their hands.

……

The sudden turn of events also caught the consortium players off guard.

The 【Eagle of Foresight】 remained silent for a long while before spitting out a single word with a dark expression: "Damn!"

"Boss, a world war is suddenly breaking out, what do we do?" the 【Tiger that Guards the Mountain】 asked, "All our previous strategies have gone to waste."

"What else can we do? Watch the show." The 【Eagle of Foresight】 felt waves of a headache, "Have the people in the Group perform Divination on the outcome of the war and formulate new strategies. Damn it, only after entering the game did I realize that having a troublemaker who can always cause unexpected situations is truly a headache! I, too, want to beat Lin Bai to death right now..."

(End of chapter)