Chapter 277: Invincible Luck

Only by stepping into the Golden Core Realm can one be considered a true cultivator.

The Justice Alliance has gathered eighteen sects, among which there are over twenty thousand Golden Core cultivators, more than sixty in the Nascent Soul Realm, and the Spirit Transformation Realm is the scarcest, totaling no more than seven; aside from Luo Xue, the remaining six are all Lin Bai's puppets.

Usually, every sect will have one or two Spirit Transformation ancestors to serve as a facade.

However.

The Spirit Transformation Realm requires Spirit Refining to be qualified to step into the Void Refinement Realm, and most of the rare treasures for Spirit Refining are controlled by top sects like the Seven Righteous Sects; therefore, those in the Spirit Transformation Realm do not stay in their sects, but go out to travel and seek opportunities.

However.

Wild rare treasures are few and far between, and finding such treasures often requires a stroke of great luck.

Thus, no matter how brilliant and talented the cultivators of the lower-tier sects are, entering the Golden Core at twenty, the Nascent Soul at fifty...

Most eventually find their lifelong achievements halted at the Spirit Transformation Realm due to insufficient Spirit Refining, until their lifespan ends or they fail to break through to the Void Refinement Realm...

Li Zhenren of Huilong Temple hiding the Lingjie Fengxi in Jiamu City was merely to leave a glimmer of hope for finding fruits for Spirit Refining within it.

It must be said.

The resource suppression by the Seven Righteous Sects and the Demonic Five Sects against the lower-tier sects is too overbearing; even if the lower-tier sects were given another twenty thousand years, they would never dream of challenging the status of the Seven Righteous Sects.

Spirit Transformation experts like Li Zhenren, Sword Immortal Cangming, Jian Shi, and Jian Shijiu came one after another to provoke Lin Bai, only to be turned into his puppets.

Therefore, even though *Justice Weekly* publicized that Lin Bai possesses Concentration Fruits that help Spirit Transformation experts break through, the sects of those Spirit Transformation experts traveling abroad have already become members of the Justice Alliance, yet they dare not show themselves to join the Justice Alliance.

No matter how nicely Lin Bai puts it, it cannot cover up his terrifying method of easily turning Spirit Transformation experts into puppets.

Who would be willing to risk losing their freedom for the sake of breaking through to the Void Refinement Realm?

This has led to a severe shortage of high-end combat power in the Justice Alliance; aside from Lin Bai, there is no one worth mentioning, and even with the aid of the Taiyi Kingdom, it cannot compare to any single sect within the Seven Righteous Sects.

Moreover, the Seven Righteous Sects and the Demonic Five Sects have mobilized their entire strength.

The gap between the two is like that between ants and an elephant; no one is optimistic about the Justice Alliance.

……

And the Golden Core Realm is cannon fodder in battles involving the Great Vehicle Realm.

However.

Lin Bai now has the Magpie Bridge, and the Golden Core Realm has found a new use.

Pairs of lovers selected one by one were sent through the Magpie Bridge to the Capital of the Taiyi Kingdom, then separated in pairs, departing from the Capital, spreading out like a web across all parts of the Taiyi Kingdom.

Walking out from Zhen City, they would likely suffer interception by the peripheral Seven Righteous Sects.

But distributing them from the Capital of the Taiyi Kingdom is much more covert; over a distance of tens of thousands of miles, even if the Great Vehicle Realm teams besieging Zhen City know what Lin Bai is doing, they cannot reach the Capital of the Taiyi Kingdom to intercept them in the shortest possible time.

And once the Magpie Bridge network is successfully laid, Lin Bai and his Justice Alliance can come and go freely between various cities.

The Great Vehicle Realm cannot catch up to the speed of the Magpie Bridge, and Lin Bai possesses the ability to cut off the Magpie Bridge at any time; by then, the Seven Righteous Sects will not be able to catch him even if they want to.

One side wants to set up the Magpie Bridge as quickly as possible, while the other wants to wipe out Lin Bai before the Magpie Bridge network is established.

Both sides are racing against time...

……

The series of countermeasures Lin Bai took did not solve the trouble of Lao Mi.

Under the suggestion of "Yi Gao Ren Dan Da", the Purple-Robed Ancestor and Song Yaoqing rushed to Zhen City, leaving several Void Refinement experts in Qian City.

The remaining Void Refinement experts are not responsible for accepting the surrender of players; the order they received is that as long as a Heavenly Descended appears, they are to be killed without exception, not even giving them a chance to surrender.

"Yi Gao Ren Dan Da" is the new account of Gugao Laoren; he had long hated Lao Mi to the bone, and defecting to Ancestor Chilian was for the sake of revenge, so how could he let Lao Mi have a chance to turn things around?

Moreover, what "Yi Gao Ren Dan Da" is destroying is not just Lao Mi, but also Lin Bai; this scorched-earth approach can clearly send a signal to the players who joined the Justice Alliance: follow Lin Bai, and you will never have a day of success.

This is unreasonable bullying with power, cruel but effective.

The Beggar Sect players in Qian City and Jiamu City tasted the feeling of being corpse-camped by NPCs, feeling stifled but having no way to deal with it.

They could only pin their hopes on Lin Bai; otherwise, they would have to delete their accounts and start over, having worked hard in the game for more than two months, finally leveling up and earning money.

Not a single player is willing to give up their current life and start over.

However, the strategy of "Yi Gao Ren Dan Da" also sounded an alarm for players in other sects.

Players must have their own territory; otherwise, if the NPCs get ruthless, they really might clear them all out of the game.

At this stage.

Almost all players hope that Lin Bai and the Justice Sect behind him will exert some effort to survive this round of encirclement by the Seven Righteous Sects; otherwise, their future gaming careers will likely be dark and sunless...

……

【Seal a move with a card during battle (Completed); Reward: 5 Silver Cards, 10 Blank Cards (Issued)】

【The stage is as big as your heart; try to discover the mysteries of the cards yourself (Long-term task); for every different way of using a card discovered, reward 10 of each of the three colored cards】

Having identified the lovers of the Justice Alliance, Lin Bai was not idle.

He and He Qin had a friendly sparring match on the martial arts arena and successfully used a Blank Card to seal his moves, completing the Card System's task.

Sharing the power of the Spirit Transformation Realm, Lin Bai cannot seal the moves of the Great Vehicle Realm in battle, but sealing the moves of the Golden Core Realm is easy and couldn't be simpler.

The card that seals the move is different from a person; the move is like being directly frozen and collected into the card.

And the method of use is also very simple: just flip the card and release it at the enemy.

Convenient and fast.

Releasing a fully-formed move in battle can achieve an unexpected effect.

The Skill is very useful.

However, it seems a bit lackluster in the subsequent battles.

The enemies Lin Bai faces are of too high a level; the attacks of the Golden Core Realm cannot even break through the opponent's defense, let alone injure the enemy; it is not as useful as the Lightning Storm of the Recording Pen, and sealing the moves of the Great Vehicle Realm head-on is too risky and not Lin Bai's fighting style.

Lin Bai's number of cards is scarce and cannot withstand such waste; sealing moves is far less satisfying than directly sealing the opponent.

The new task reward of the Card System perfectly compensates for his shortage of cards.

Every time he discovers a new way to use a card, he is rewarded with ten of each of the three types of cards; it simply couldn't be more wonderful.

However, the Card System's tasks becoming long-term tasks is not a good thing.

A small card—once developed, how many new ways of using it can one really find?

In other words, the number of cards Lin Bai can obtain in the future is limited, and his achievement of wanting to seal the world with cards can never be attained.

Moreover, finding new functions for the cards is not that easy.

The cards can currently seal people or moves, so what Lin Bai immediately thought of was sealing objects or buildings.

But he tried several times in succession, and none succeeded;

It was not until Lin Bai had a flash of inspiration that he released Qingshan, stuck his own kitchen knife into him, and then chose to retrieve him.

As a result, both the kitchen knife and Qingshan were retrieved into the card.

Only then did Lin Bai find a way to use cards to seal objects.

This method is somewhat cruel, but it is very practical—even more practical than sealing moves.

Just imagine, if the opponent's Dharma Treasure has the characteristic of off-body attacks, he can completely throw out his own Puppet, like borrowing arrows with straw boats, to forcibly seal the opponent's Dharma Treasure.

The only drawback of this method is the Puppet's endurance; once the timing is not mastered well and it is blown up by the opponent's Dharma Treasure, one loses both the person and the treasure.

This requires Lin Bai to possess more Puppets with higher cultivation, and he cannot let them regain their consciousness; this has little to do with whether it is humane or not.

The key is that Puppets with intelligence have controlled actions, but their thoughts are not controlled. Puppets that regain their consciousness still consider themselves human, and as humans, they would not be willing to accept the miserable fate of being pushed out to actively take a blade. Once they wail during battle and reveal their secrets, the opponent will take back their weapon, and then there is no point in sealing anything.

In the final analysis, the Card System's Puppets are not meant for the Card Master to restore their consciousness.

Regardless.

Lin Bai found a new way to use cards and successfully harvested ten each of common, silver, and Golden Cards, greatly enriching his inventory.

Next, the sealing of buildings that Lin Bai envisioned encountered a problem; digging a hole in the wall and stuffing a Puppet inside was of no use, and he could not exactly cover the building onto the Puppet...

But sealing buildings is not of much use in battle, so Lin Bai simply gave up on this idea.

He released several Puppets who had regained their consciousness, such as Qingyu, Huaxi, Daoxu, Pei Yanzong, and Jian Shijiu, to brainstorm and let them study the mysteries of card sealing, dragging more people into the water.

The result.

These guys' heads were more wooden than the last, and after a long time, no one could come up with an effective plan.

In a short while.

Qingyu and Huaxi huddled together, acting lovey-dovey; Jian Shijiu begged Lin Bai to restore Jian Shi's consciousness as well. Pei Yanzong hugged Li Zhenren and took advantage of him wantonly, while Daoxu scolded Pei Yanzong with a dark face...

The few Puppets were in a mess, and Lin Bai found it unbearably annoying.

Having no choice, he could only seal these noisy guys up again; letting these guys out was not as satisfying as thinking by himself.

Lin Bai swore that unless absolutely necessary, he would resolutely not open the consciousness of Puppets in the future.

After putting the Puppets into the cards, just as Lin Bai was preparing to continue thinking about new uses for the cards, a pop-up window suddenly jumped out in his mind.

【Spread the Incomplete, let 7893 people believe that the Incomplete is... (Completed); Reward: Eye of Seeing Flaws (Already issued)】

【Continue to expand the influence of the Incomplete, let 119679 people believe that the Incomplete is...; Reward: Defect Incarnation】

The task is completed?

Lin Bai was stunned.

This was simply an unexpected joy.

Soon, Lin Bai understood the reason for the task's completion; this was the harvest from the battle with Zhou Zu outside Zhen City.

At that time, the high difficulty of the debate where his words became law should have scared away a group of people practicing the Heavenly Dao; the Heavenly River he mastered also scared away a group of people practicing the Love Dao; the Way of Cooking and the Way of the Master were not promoted, and the only Fazhe Zhidao that outsiders could practice was the Incomplete Dao...

And he used the Nine Ancestors to bluff another wave; it would be strange if those who vainly hoped to achieve something in the Fazhe Zhidao were not studying the Incomplete Dao!

Lin Bai let out a scoff; one by one they despised his laws, yet they could not help but practice them in secret. The "True Fragrance" law is indeed applicable to any plane!

However, his method of doing the task was also correct; the base number is large enough, and with so many people in the world, there will always be someone who can realize something from the Incomplete.

It is a pity that in the end, Lin Bai still did not figure out what the "Incomplete" that the world needed to comprehend in the task was?

But those are no longer important; all Lin Bai wanted was the reward.

The Eye of Seeing Flaws automatically installed itself into his eyes, coexisting with the Eye of Breaking Miasma.

Lin Bai blinked his eyes and knew what this Eye of Seeing Flaws was!

At this moment.

The location he was in was the council hall of the Justice Alliance, and the building was the courtyard of a wealthy merchant in Zhen City, built quite luxuriously. Originally, in Lin Bai's eyes, this was just an ordinary house. But after the Eye of Seeing Flaws was installed in his eyes, Lin Bai could clearly see which part of the interior of the seemingly intact main beam on the roof was damaged, which blue brick used to build the house was the most brittle, where the cracks in the wood used for the table in front of him were...

The whole world changed in an instant.

Lin Bai could easily see the flaws in all objects; he even knew that with a light bump on the damaged part of the main beam, the entire roof would collapse.

He pressed his hand on the crack of the table and released a little Internal Energy, and the entire nanmu table fell apart in an instant...

Lin Bai turned his head and looked at Li Zhenren standing behind him.

There were at least three weak points on the Dharma Robe Li Zhenren was wearing, and there were two damages on the horsetail whisk in his hand.

His Spiritual Power's circulation had an imperceptible lag when passing through the Zhongfu acupoint. Therefore, attacking the lagging part of his Spiritual Power circulation could interrupt the circulation of his entire body's Spiritual Power and cause him heavy damage...

Jian Shi and Bu Bei were the same; their cultivation techniques all contained flaws and weaknesses.

Gulp!

Lin Bai swallowed a mouthful of saliva; he had hit the jackpot!

He once thought that the Great Demon Unbinding Book was already the best reward of the Wanwu Youque System, but he did not expect this Eye of Seeing Flaws to be even more powerful, directly allowing him to see the weaknesses of all things in the world.

It was simply awesome to the extreme.

With the Eye of Seeing Flaws, wouldn't smashing people with the Blacksmith Six-Piece Set be a guaranteed hit every time, breaking any Dharma Treasure into pieces...

Lin Bai's mind stirred, and he commanded the Cangming Sword Immortal to launch an attack on the trees in the courtyard.

Dozens of Sword Qi flew out, blasting a thirty-meter-tall ancient tree into smithereens, nearly flawless. But in the process of the move's execution, Lin Bai still clearly saw the weak points where the dozens of Sword Qi formed the sword net; as long as he was fast enough, he could retreat unscathed from this move without using Spiritual Power for protection, and take the opportunity to launch a counterattack.

Seeing through the flaws of a move and attacking where the enemy must save—this should be the principle of the Nine Swords of Dugu...

Back then, when Zhou Zu launched an attack on him, Lin Bai could not see the flaws in the opponent's moves at all and relied entirely on the Hunyuan Jade to hold on.

Now that he had the Pupil of Seeing Flaws, he could probably rely on himself to hide for a while.

The reward came at just the right time.

A genuine life-saving divine ability!

It is worthy of being the first system to jump out; it's powerful!

As for the next mission reward, "Defect Incarnation" should be "Defect Divided Spirit." Lin Bai pondered for a moment and felt that this divine ability should correspond to the "Great Demon Dissolution Scripture," but its specific function would only be known once he farmed the reward out.

At this moment.

Lin Bai was no longer struggling with whether the system wanted him to promote the beauty of flaws or the disaster of flaws; as long as he persevered in promoting the Fazhe Zhidao, when the time was right, the rewards would naturally be delivered into his hands.

It seemed that the temporary fall of Lao Mi did not affect the Luck he had previously obtained; he was still the Child of Destiny.

Lin Bai was immersed in the joy of the system mission's great harvest, while Ye Song in Zhen City was exceptionally conflicted. He did not know if he should follow the sect's arrangements to carry out a massive slaughter of the Justice Alliance members in the city, or calm his heart and continue to execute the original plan: participate in the cooking competition and enter the Justice Sect as a Disciple of Lin Bai to learn the Fazhe Zhidao.

The Magpie Bridge, spanning ten thousand miles from Zhen City, looked truly attractive.

Standing at the venue of the cooking competition, Ye Song pondered for a moment and decided to proceed according to his own plan.

With a great enemy at the gates, Lin Bai had not even suspended the cooking competition, showing he did not take the Seven Righteous Sects to heart at all; if he were to change his plan so casually and obey the sect's arrangements, wouldn't that prove he was weaker than Lin Bai...

(End of this chapter)