Chapter 305: The Might of a Single Roar

With private messages from players, and the Duke of Zhen constantly in contact with Xu Longyun, Lin Bai had a clear understanding of the surrounding situation.

But he no longer cared.

Lin Bai did not even intend to heed the Duke of Zhen's plea for help or use the Magpie Bridge to return and assist the Taiyi Kingdom.

Once he returned to reinforce them, he would inevitably drag the Justice Alliance into a quagmire of war, running around putting out fires everywhere.

It would be better to strike in one breath to take down the Blood Sect, then use the Blood Sect as a base to extend the Magpie Bridge; at that point, the initiative would be in his hands.

Put yourself in another's shoes.

Lin Bai firmly believed that as soon as the battle began, all actions targeting him would stop; the crowd-control ability of Phoenix Seeking Phoenix was too strong.

As for the players, Lin Bai had long since stopped worrying about them. He was already on the verge of controlling the entire world; no matter how powerful the players were, even with an Undying Body, what kind of waves could they possibly stir up?

Facts proved that players were not exempt from the skills rewarded by the system.

Once he pacified the world, his next step would be to suppress the players; whoever dared to show their head would be pressed down.

If they wanted to play in this world.

The rules of the game must be set by him.

……

Ye Song pointed to the boundless, monstrous blood energy ahead and said, "Alliance Leader, that is the Blood Sea ahead. Within the Blood Sea, the consumption of Spiritual Power for Blood Sect cultivators will be reduced by fifty percent. The Blood Sea will also exert comprehensive suppression on outside cultivators, affecting their speed and hindering their mobilization of Spirit Qi... This is also why most sects are unwilling to attack other sects. The advantage of the terrain is too great."

Looking out, fifty miles ahead, there was a patch of blood-red. A faint smell of blood lingered at the tip of Lin Bai's nose; the further forward they went, the thicker the smell became, and what was inside the blood energy could not be seen at all.

He signaled for everyone to stop and asked those around him, "How large is the area covered by the Blood Sea?"

Ye Song shook his head: "The Blood Sect has not activated the Blood Sea for who knows how many years; no one knows how large the coverage area is once the Blood Sea is activated."

Xiao Yu looked at the roiling blood energy before him, then looked at the surrounding environment, and said, "Alliance Leader, more than ten years ago, I came to the Blood Sect once. The range covered by the blood energy was about a hundred miles from the Blood Sect's gate."

A hundred miles?

Lin Bai pondered. Looking at the Blood Sea before him, he suddenly understood why the Seven Righteous Sects and the Demonic Five Sects could pass down their legacies for ten thousand years. The positions their sects occupied were too uniquely gifted; relying purely on cultivation to push forward, it was simply impossible to take them down...

The accompanying players looked at the roiling Blood Sea before them, each one already stunned. The private chat channels were almost entirely filled with shock at the power of the special effects and the strength of the sect.

They were also lamenting: how many levels would players need to grind to take down such a massive sect?

……

"Alliance Leader, are we going into the Blood Sea?" Xiao Yu asked.

"Knowing they will weaken us, why would we go in?" Lin Bai glanced at him and activated Pei Yanzong, who had been left at the Justice Alliance headquarters in Zhen City. The next moment, he released Li Zhenren. "Everyone return to Zhen City. Wait for me to break the Blood Sea before me, then come back to deal with the remnants of the Blood Sect."

Everyone was stunned.

Xu Longyun looked at Lin Bai strangely and asked worriedly, "Master, are you going to stay here alone?"

"No, a part of me will stay here," Lin Bai said. Suddenly, an eye and a mouth popped out from his face, giving Xu Longyun a fright.

The next moment.

Lin Bai had already grabbed Xu Longyun's hand, Xu Longyun grabbed Jiang Qingqin, Jiang Qingqin grabbed the little white fox... The members of the Justice Alliance held hands, skillfully linking up. Lin Bai, carrying the dazed Li Zhenren, stepped onto the Magpie Bridge.

In the blink of an eye, the Justice Alliance team had already returned to Zhen City.

……

The suddenly returned Justice Alliance Army gave the many Seven Righteous Sect cultivators hiding in Zhen City a fright.

At this moment, in Zhen City, it was Patriarch Yuan Qing of the Heavenly Dao Sect and Yi Wuji, the Sect Master of the Weapon Refinement Sect.

Yi Wuji looked at Lin Bai and his group at the Justice Alliance headquarters, hesitated for a moment, and asked, "Brother Yuan Qing, shall we activate Heaven-Kill now?"

The people of the Seven Righteous Sects had long since thoroughly studied Lin Bai's methods and had set up countless death traps targeting him.

The Dharma Treasure Heaven-Kill of the Weapon Refinement Sect was one of them. Heaven-Kill was currently set up at the Justice Alliance headquarters, just waiting for Lin Bai to return via the Magpie Bridge to activate it and strike them down.

Heaven-Kill was a large-scale attack Magic Tool; any cultivator who fell into Heaven-Kill's attack range would have their range of movement restricted.

Once the killing array fell, those below the Void Refinement Realm would basically be unable to resist, and even those in the Great Vehicle Realm would suffer heavy damage...

But Lin Bai had the Blacksmith Six-Piece Set, which specialized in breaking all Magic Tools in the world. Heaven-Kill actually only had one chance to strike. Setting up Heaven-Kill, which had been refined for who knows how many years, outside the Justice Alliance meant it would be destroyed after one use. Yi Wuji actually felt very pained.

But once he thought of Lin Bai's Blacksmith Six-Piece Set, which perfectly countered their Weapon Refinement Sect, Yi Wuji's feelings of pain vanished. If they could kill Lin Bai, let alone a mere set of Heaven-Kill, even exhausting the entire foundation of the Weapon Refinement Sect would be worth it.

Patriarch Yuan Qing looked at the 【Far-Seeing Eagle】 responsible for relaying messages. The 【Far-Seeing Eagle】 looked at the barrage of messages before him, shook his head, and said, "Sect Master, the Justice Alliance Army has stopped outside the Blood Sea and is not attacking. They suddenly set up the Magpie Bridge to return to Zhen City; it is highly probable that Lin Bai set up a retreat for himself in advance. The forces of Wanhun Valley and the Shengji Sect are five thousand miles away; it will take at least another stick of incense's time before they can form a siege on the Justice Alliance..."

"Wait a little longer." Patriarch Yuan Qing nodded and looked at Yi Wuji. "Brother Yi, if we activate Heaven-Kill now, it will draw Lin Bai's attention to Zhen City. We have no natural barriers, nor do we have the advantage of terrain. Fighting Lin Bai here is too disadvantageous; the Blood Sect side is the main battlefield."

"Wait until the people of the Demonic Five Sects and Lin Bai have exhausted each other to the point of mutual destruction, then when Lin Bai turns back to Zhen City, activating Heaven-Kill then will achieve miraculous results."

"The mantis stalks the cicada, unaware of the oriole behind. Lin Bai prepared a retreat for himself before the battle; he would never imagine that we would be waiting for him to return in Zhen City. If we can kill Lin Bai this time, the Weapon Refinement Sect shall be credited with a great merit."

"..." Yi Wuji looked at Patriarch Yuan Qing and said, "If one strike of Heaven-Kill cannot kill Lin Bai, then Patriarch Yuan Qing must take control of the overall situation; we cannot let the little thief Lin escape again."

……

Blood Sect.

Many cultivators were sharpening their weapons and horses, hiding within the Blood Sea; everyone was prepared for battle.

But just as the Justice Alliance Army appeared, a Magpie Bridge was flung out, and then they left the outskirts of the Blood Sea. Everyone was stunned, not understanding what had happened.

No one noticed that one of Lin Bai's eyes and one mouth had not returned with the team.

Separated by a hundred miles, the target of one eyeball and one mouth was too small.

"Senior Brother Tu Yan, Lin Bai wouldn't have been scared back by the Blood Sea, would he?" a cultivator named Zhang Guanghong asked suspiciously.

"Impossible." Tu Yan frowned. "Lin Bai has always been arrogant; he wouldn't retreat without making a single move. Moreover, he can set up the Magpie Bridge at any time; even if he entered the Blood Sea, he could retreat calmly. It is unlikely he wouldn't even dare to enter the Blood Sea. I fear he is plotting some other scheme. Fellow brothers, increase vigilance; do not take this lightly. Still follow the original plan: once the Justice Alliance enters the Blood Sea, eliminate the Puppets around Lin Bai first."

"The Magpie Bridge indeed has its unique aspects." The Tribulation Transcendence Stage ancestor Tuohai, hiding in the shadows, looked at the Magpie Bridge in the sky that extended who knows how far, and sighed, "Before, I thought that laws were just an alternative form of divine abilities and techniques, but if techniques could have the effect of the Magpie Bridge, calling it a law would not be an exaggeration."

"Senior Brother Tuohai's words are very true. Transporting thousands of people at once without any fluctuation of Spiritual Power is truly miraculous..." another ancestor echoed.

The words were only half spoken.

The blood energy before them suddenly began to roil.

Following that.

A heaven-shaking and earth-shattering voice rushed into their eardrums: "Fellow Daoists of the Blood Sect, distinguished guests have arrived at your door; what is the logic in avoiding us?"

The Blood Sect is far removed from the mortal world, and with the Xuehai blocking the view, Lin Bai cannot even find a target to Zhaofeng.

If he were to rashly enter the Xuehai, he might be able to retreat unscathed, but the people around him might suffer countless casualties.

Furthermore.

Under the cover of the blood energy, the effect of Phoenix Seeking Phoenix is not being fully realized.

Lin Bai decides to go all the way, simply utilizing a heavy weapon he has not had much opportunity to use—a sonic attack.

If one is to fight, it must be a satisfying and perfect victory.

If it is merely a narrow victory, as long as other sects see hope in defeating him, his subsequent troubles will be endless.

The Magpie Bridge sent his own people away.

This time, Lin Bai used all his strength for the sonic attack.

As the first word left his mouth, a massive shockwave formed before his eyes.

A gale raged.

The blood energy rolled back with the shockwave, rapidly compressing toward the direction the sound was traveling, revealing the land that had been covered.

The towering trees that had grown on the ground for who knows how many years were torn into fragments in an instant.

The thick trunks were shredded again and again, carried by the sound waves at supersonic speeds, shooting out like sharp arrows...

The ground closest to Lin Bai was blasted into a massive deep pit by the sound waves; mud splashed, surging thousands of meters into the high sky; an unknown number of miles of ground were overturned; rivers on the ground rolled backward; the mountain ranges that blocked the sound shook and collapsed under the impact of the sound waves, and huge rocks rumbled as they rolled down the slopes;

The sound waves impacted the Blood Sect.

The Blood Sect's mountain gate collapsed, walls fell, houses crumbled, and roof tiles flew everywhere.

The protective techniques of Cultivators below the Spirit Transformation stage were completely ineffective; first, their eardrums were shattered, then the clothing on their bodies was torn to shreds, and then they fell into a coma, one after another, falling from the sky like dumplings.

Cultivators below the Golden Core stage were torn into fragments by the powerful sonic attack the moment the sound waves arrived, merging into the Xuehai...

For players of even lower levels, the moment the sound waves hit their bodies, their health bars were instantly emptied, and they were forcibly logged out of the game, with live broadcast feeds cutting off one after another...

Only Cultivators above the Spirit Transformation stage were able to withstand the sonic attack, and this was only because Lin Bai's sonic attack had been depleted over a hundred miles and they had the reinforcement of the Xuehai themselves.

Even so, they were shaken until their eardrums ruptured, their blood and Qi surged, and their protective dharma robes were torn to tatters by the sound waves, losing their defensive function, while the Spiritual Power within their bodies was consumed at a rapid pace...

Those above the Void Refinement Realm fared slightly better, but there were still some caught off guard whose eardrums were shattered by the sound waves and whose clothes were torn;

During the sonic attack, the Great Vehicle Realm, representing the world's top combat power, had the Xuehai to replenish their Spiritual Power, suffering almost no loss...

But looking at the miserable state of the sect, the expressions of Tu Yan and the others still turned extremely ugly in an instant, and their eyes turned red on the spot; they knew Lin Bai had a sonic attack technique, but that previous sonic attack only affected a hundred-mile radius, with the most damage occurring at the very center.

The Xuehai stretches for a hundred miles, and they had originally thought that even if Lin Bai used a sonic attack,

the sound waves would be weakened by the Xuehai and would not cause much damage to the sect, never having imagined.

Lin Bai's sonic attack was actually several times greater than the description in the Justice Weekly.

Shouting a single sentence from a hundred miles away could still destroy their mountain gate and even force the blood energy of the Xuehai back a hundred miles...

The expression of Ancestor Tuohai became extremely ugly; he narrowed his eyes, and with a wave of his hand, he unleashed a stream of blood energy, heading straight for the eyes and mouth Lin Bai had left behind.

But the next moment, Lin Bai's mouth and eyes had already flown onto the Magpie Bridge, suddenly returning to his body, and his blood energy missed its target.

Ancestor Tuohai said with a grave expression: "Tu Yan, is this Lin Bai truly in the Great Vehicle Realm?"

Tu Yan said: "Reporting to the Ancestor, it is absolutely certain. His cultivation comes from a Puppet, and the ones he takes as Puppets are at most at the Great Vehicle Realm; therefore, his cultivation cannot exceed the Great Vehicle Realm. Several uncles and seniors, we speculate that if his Puppet is destroyed, his cultivation will also decline accordingly..."

After the sound waves passed, the blood energy spread, re-covering the previous positions.

Ancestor Tuohai looked at the scene before him and said: "A single shout forced back a hundred miles of blood energy; such a divine ability to move mountains and overturn seas is almost equivalent to the Tribulation Transcendence Stage. Even if I were to strike with all my might, I might not be able to cause such destruction. How could he only be in the mere Great Vehicle Realm?"

"Perhaps it is Law Power!" Tu Yan said. He hesitated for a moment and said, "Lin Bai has succeeded in one strike and will surely return. I hope several ancestors will assist this Disciple. With this one strike, the low-level Disciples of the Blood Sect have been decimated. If Lin Bai is not eliminated, my Blood Sect is in danger!"

"Law Power, and it actually does not trigger a Heavenly Tribulation?" Tuohai seemed not to have heard Tu Yan's words, still staring at the destruction caused by Lin Bai, his brows furrowed, muttering to himself.

Lin Bai's eyes and mouth returned to their original positions, giving Xu Longyun a fright. She flashed to Lin Bai's side and asked with concern: "Master, who hurt you?"

The little white fox and Jiang Qingqin also gathered around, looking at Lin Bai with concern, tears falling immediately.

Lin Bai's left eye was shattered, looking like a broken glass marble, continuously seeping bright red blood,

and his lips were no better, tattered and torn with flesh turned outward, to the point where the skin was no longer visible, dripping with blood that kept falling from the corners of his mouth...

However, what comforted them was that Lin Bai's lips and eyeball were recovering at a speed visible to the naked eye.

Looking at the miserable Lin Bai, Ye Song and the others were also startled; in their impression, Lin Bai had never been so severely injured...

Was this caused by being besieged by those in the Great Vehicle Realm?

Lin Bai stuffed a healing pill into his mouth, reached out to wipe away the blood left on his eyeball, nodded at Xu Longyun and the others, and grinned. His voice was hoarse as he said with difficulty: "Let's go, let's fight. The Blood Sect is ready to be beaten this time."

To be honest, he had not expected that the shockwave reflected back from the few words he shouted with all his might would almost destroy his eyes and mouth.

One must know that he shares the Heavenly Demon Art of Wen Ba and has ten times the recovery rate!

The impact of the sound waves was too terrifying!

To harm the enemy by a thousand and lose eight hundred—if it weren't for the Great Demon Solution Scripture rewarded by the Incomplete System and the Magpie Bridge of the Yuelao System, using such a sonic attack would truly be harming the enemy by a thousand and losing a thousand. The people of the Justice Alliance were in the center of the storm; except for those in the Great Vehicle Realm, not a single one would have survived...

At that time, his eyeball went from clear to blind in the time it took to shout one sentence. Lin Bai did not see the blood energy attack launched at him by Tuohai at all. After shouting that sentence, he immediately fled onto the Magpie Bridge. In the state those two organs were in, it would have been impossible to shout even one more word.

However, realizing the formidable power of the Decibel Multiplier, Lin Bai's anticipation for Three Heads and Six Arms became increasingly urgent.

"Master, let's wait a while; your injuries..." Xu Longyun reached out with heartache to wipe away the blood overflowing from the corner of Lin Bai's mouth.

"It doesn't matter; it will be mostly better by the time we get there. Let's finish the battle quickly to avoid further complications." Lin Bai spat out a mouthful of blood and smiled reluctantly. In this short while, his hoarse voice had already recovered. He looked around at everyone: "Everyone, listen to my command in a moment. Phoenix Seeking Phoenix cannot target female Cultivators. Fairy Cen will hold down all the male Cultivators, and the rest of you, strive to defeat the female Cultivators in the shortest time possible and turn them into Puppets. I fear the Blood Sect is truly locked in a life-or-death struggle with us this time..."

(End of chapter)