Chapter 315: Lin Bai's Luck in Dragging Others Down with Him

"Useless, useless. With such a vast lightning tribulation, do you really think Lin Bai can hold on?" Tao Zu understood all of Lin Bai's abilities. Watching the panicked crowd, all the pent-up frustration of her life was released to the extreme at this moment. Her shriveled mouth let out a cackling laugh, "If he dies, and you are turned into puppets by him, what good will that do you?"

The wind swirled and the clouds moved.

The Tribulation Cloud gathered more and more, black and heavy, obscuring the light of the sky as if night had fallen early.

The feeling of the space being locked down grew increasingly intense.

Within the Fengqiuhuang Group, there was a chorus of wailing and howling. Those singing or swallowing swords could make no other sounds, only using their eyes to express their unwillingness and terror.

The Negative Emotion in Lin Bai's mind scrolled and rolled like a torrential rain.

Ignoring the old hag above his head, Lin Bai looked at the crowd and said, "Everyone, there is no need to be so anxious. If you wish to be sealed into a card, a near-death state will also suffice. What if the lightning tribulation can be withstood? Therefore, it is best not to enter the cards yet. Once sealed into a card, even if one can recover their sanity, their cultivation will be locked, with no further possibility of advancement. It would be better to turn into a Butterfly and restart cultivation with a demonic body."

Xu Longyun, Ye Song, Cen Qing, and others had all been taken in as his Disciples, and the rewards from the Haoweirenshi System System System were equally generous; Lin Bai was unwilling to limit the future of these Disciples of his.

According to the Yuelao System's mission, he was to marry Xu Longyun and Jiang Qingqin in the future; what kind of sense would it make to seal them into cards?

Having already transmigrated into a different world, one couldn't still be using card-people as wives!

"Alliance Leader Lin, release us. Let us return to the Blood Sect immediately. The sect has the Tribulation Transcendence Artifact we prepared. If we work together to face the lightning tribulation, there may yet be a glimmer of hope."

Ancestor Tuohai held his hands high, clapping left and right, dancing a joyful prayer dance, and said to Lin Bai with a solemn face.

They knew that the Fengqiuhuang Group was immune to damage, but they did not believe Lin Bai's laws could withstand even the lightning tribulation. Unarmed, they were even more anxious than Lin Bai.

"What nonsense are you spouting? The Blood Sect and my Justice Alliance have tens of thousands of members; how could I, for the sake of my own selfish interests, implicate them and cause them to lose their lives?" Lin Bai said.

"They are just a group of ants; why care about their lives?" Ancestor Tuohai urged anxiously.

Lin Bai glanced at him and stopped speaking.

He looked up at the lightning tribulation in the sky and continued to ponder a countermeasure.

He wondered if a Lightning Rod or a Faraday Cage could withstand the lightning tribulation.

A Faraday Cage could not be built at the moment, but a Lightning Rod might be worth a try.

Seeing that the lightning showed no sign of striking down for the time being,

Lin Bai took out the Blacksmith Six-Piece Set and threw it to Zuo Lan of the Weapon Refinement Sect: "Fellow Daoist Zuo, please trouble yourself to forge some long iron rods, the longer the better..."

Under the Tribulation Cloud, Zuo Lan was distraught and had long since lost his composure. He was in the Great Vehicle Realm and had no preparation for Tribulation Transcendence at all; facing the lightning tribulation, he was at a loss.

Lin Bai asked him to forge iron rods, and he did not think much of it. He threw a few Spirit Stones into the furnace fire, took some ironware, and channeled his Spiritual Power to increase the heat, forging them immediately.

The Justice Alliance had vast supernatural powers; perhaps Lin Bai had a way to transcend the lightning tribulation!

On Qingmu.

Several players started a live stream.

The dense lightning looked like golden snakes weaving through the clouds. The tens of thousands of people in the Justice Alliance appeared so small beneath the Tribulation Cloud; one could feel their helplessness even through the screen.

Several Great Vehicle Realm experts hiding behind Qingmu stared at the Tribulation Cloud in the distance, their expressions solemn, as if intimidated by the might of heaven.

After a long while.

The Great Vehicle Realm expert named Mingyan finally came to her senses and said with a trembling voice, "I have never seen such a thick Tribulation Cloud. It is actually still gathering. I fear Lin Bai is truly unable to escape this disaster this time."

A zombie-like Great Vehicle Realm expert said, "He escaped via the Magpie Bridge and then returned; he must have been locked onto by the Tribulation Cloud!"

Another beautiful-looking Great Vehicle Realm expert said worriedly, "I just don't know if the Tribulation Cloud will implicate us if it continues to expand?"

"Shut up."

The other Great Vehicle Realm experts shouted at her in unison.

"Not being on the scene, you cannot feel that terrifying pressure. It is hard to imagine how those who ascended in the past faced such terrifying lightning head-on? Humans are too small in the face of heaven's might," a player named 【Happiness Without Reservation】 explained to the live stream audience via private chat. "I have to say, the special effects designed by the game officials are indeed awesome. If this technology were used to make movies, one could easily create a world-first."

"I wonder if Lin Bai can dodge it this time?"

"If he can even transcend the lightning tribulation, the game settings would be too unreasonable. Everyone could just pack up and join the Justice Alliance."

"I wonder what level one needs to reach the Tribulation Transcendence Realm. Experiencing the lightning tribulation in person must feel very cool..."

"Once locked onto by the lightning tribulation, you can't escape. Players can actually refer to this trick. Treat the lightning tribulation as a weapon of mass destruction. Anyway, players can't die; at most, they lose levels. By forcibly pushing up their realm, one person can wipe out a large sect. Dying under the lightning tribulation, even if you don't lose levels, it's worth it to delete your account and start over. By that time, every Tribulation Transcendence Realm player will be a Lin Bai, and everyone will have the ability to slaughter sects."

"Holy crap, the guy above is sharp. Lin Bai still has a bottom line, but you have none at all!"

"Why else would players be called natural disasters? This was started by the NPCs; you can't blame the players."

"According to this, there's no need to combine technology and cultivation or make nuclear weapons in the Xianxia World. Just cultivate diligently and strive to reach the Tribulation Transcendence Realm; every player is a self-propelled Heidan."

"Too buggy. The game officials will definitely plug this loophole..."

"I don't think so. Lin Bai messes around and makes the world a mess, and the officials never impose any restrictions on him. Why would they restrict players?"

"So it turns out controlling this world is also easy..."

The players' train of thought was always expansive. In the blink of an eye, the barrage had shifted from game special effects to how to use the advantages of the Tribulation Transcendence Stage's lightning tribulation to gain control of the world, as well as the issue of the redistribution of interests.

The barrage was discussing it heatedly.

High-level executives of several financial groups were secretly spying on the barrage, but their focus was on Lin Bai at the center of the lightning tribulation.

This was the only opportunity the sects could think of to eliminate Lin Bai.

If Lin Bai could withstand even this, then no one in the world would be able to stop him, and the players would surely face their doom.

Lin Bai's ideology and methods were far more aggressive than those of the people from the Seven Righteous Sects and the Demonic Five Sects who had been cultivated into fools.

By that time, let alone reaching the Tribulation Transcendence Stage, working for Lin Bai like a slave for free would already be the best outcome.

Tao Zu knew she was doomed. She clamored frantically above Lin Bai's head, crying and laughing, and for a moment, she was shouting things like "Wait for me, I'm coming to find you," falling into madness.

Zuo Lan's hands swung the hammer, rapidly forging the iron rods Lin Bai requested, alleviating the terror in his heart.

Tuohai and the others were still naggingly persuading Lin Bai to put away his womanly benevolence and return to the Blood Sect to let them retrieve the Tribulation Transcendence Artifact...

The three female disciples were leisurely discussing whether it was better to become card-people or to turn into butterflies. Under the Tribulation Cloud, the three had abandoned their prejudices against each other and were as close as sisters.

Xu Longyun and Jiang Qingqin were more willing to become a Puppet, because that way they could retain their current bodies, while the little white fox tended toward turning into a Butterfly, because her body was too small; being sealed into a Puppet meant she could do nothing, but turning into a Butterfly gave her a chance to grow up, and besides, a Butterfly could also undergo Form Manifestation, so she could likewise turn into her current appearance...

Lin Bai had eaten enough Spirit Fruit, and while multitasking to listen to the discussion of several women, he continued to search through the system for usable items with a head full of black lines...

Currently, the items he could use included a Red Rope, Love Arrow, Resistance Arrow, a pile of cards, as well as the Main Hall with doubled attributes rewarded by the Sect Leader System, the Earth Heart Fire from the Craftsman God System, and a Heavenly Demon Heart...

The Main Hall with doubled attributes might be a little useful; if he couldn't hold on, perhaps he could release it to see if it could be used to block the Tribulation Lightning...

Lin Bai pondered, and casually took out the Heavenly Demon Heart.

After receiving this mission reward, he had many affairs to attend to, and he felt that this Heavenly Demon Heart might have some side effects, so he had never seriously studied this thing.

Now that he had reached a critical juncture, thinking that the Heavenly Demon was Undying and Indestructible, perhaps it could be used to increase his strength and play a small role in the Tribulation Lightning...

The Heavenly Demon Heart was a pitch-black heart, thumping in Lin Bai's palm, exuding extreme temptation.

A piece of information surfaced in Lin Bai's mind: "Heavenly Demon Heart, (can be fused)"

When Lin Bai held the Heavenly Demon Heart in his hand.

The gazes of everyone around him focused on his head, their eyes revealing infatuation, as if they were seeing the most beautiful thing in the world.

Everyone's expressions were different, either greedy, or ferocious, or enjoying...

For a moment, all the noisy sounds around him quieted down.

Cen Qing, Ye Song, and others walked toward Lin Bai in unison, bringing the Fengqiuhuang Group forward as well, and Xu Longyun and the others closest to Lin Bai had already reached out their hands toward the Heavenly Demon Heart.

*Cough! *

Sensing that the situation around him was wrong.

Lin Bai coughed heavily, and everyone instantly sobered up.

Xu Longyun and the others abruptly retracted their hands, looking at the Heavenly Demon Heart with expressions of horror.

Ye Song widened his eyes and said with difficulty: "Master, what is that?"

"Evil demon, to think there is such an evil object, you really are an evil demon!"

Above his head, the shrill voice of the Peach Ancestor sounded again.

Lin Bai was just about to speak.

The Tribulation Cloud seemed to have been stimulated by something and suddenly accelerated its gathering; not even waiting to fully form, a bolt of lightning had already fallen from the sky, bypassing the Peach Ancestor who had attracted the Tribulation Lightning, and struck straight toward the Heavenly Demon Heart in Lin Bai's hand.

The Purple-Clothed Ancestor waved his Sword to divert the lightning.

Tuohai looked up at the sky and said with a trembling voice: "Alliance Leader Lin, put it away quickly, it is intensifying the Tribulation Lightning..."

In the sky.

The Tribulation Cloud seemed to have been enraged, churning and rolling.

The center of gravity of the Tribulation Cloud had originally been on the Peach Ancestor, but now it was shifting toward Lin Bai—or to be precise, it was shifting toward the Heavenly Demon Heart in his hand.

Damn it!

Lin Bai cursed inwardly, flipped his hand, and sent the Heavenly Demon Heart back into the system.

People from the Blood Sect practice evil arts and can still undergo Tribulation Transcendence; who would have thought that for a Heavenly Demon Heart, the reaction of the Tribulation Cloud would be this big!

Or rather, the Heavenly Demon Heart is a product that does not belong to this world, and the heavens and earth naturally reject it.

He is not a person of this world either!

But it was all too late.

Several bolts of lightning as thick as water buckets struck down toward Lin Bai.

Ye Song, Xiao Yun, Zuo Lan, and others each used their divine abilities to help block the lightning striking Lin Bai; everyone knew that Lin Bai was their last hope—they could die, but Lin Bai could not die.

Elder Qiu, Wen Ba, and other Puppets met the lightning, using their bodies to protect Lin Bai...

"You reap what you sow!" The Peach Ancestor, who had long been prepared to die first, watched the lightning go to strike Lin Bai first, cackling strangely and mocking him to his heart's content in the sky.

Zuo Lan was also busy dealing with the Tribulation Lightning; the Lightning Rod was clearly not going to be finished.

Lin Bai looked at the lightning falling one after another in the sky, turned his head, and suddenly saw the towering Green Wood in the distance; his eyes lit up—wasn't this a ready-made Lightning Rod?

Why bother refining one!

Taking advantage of the few in the Great Vehicle Realm who were blocking the lightning for him.

Lin Bai released Qingyu's card from beneath the Green Wood, then summoned Huaxi; Huaxi didn't yet understand what was going on, but Lin Bai had already grabbed her hand, then grabbed Xu Longyun, and called out: "Let's go."

Above the Green Wood.

Mingyan and the other Great Vehicle Realm cultivators of the Shengji Sect saw the Magpie Bridge suddenly being laid over, their expressions changed drastically one by one, and they shouted in despair: "No!"

They were just preparing to strike to take out Qingyu.

The next moment.

Lin Bai had already appeared beneath the Green Wood.

*Swish, swish, swish*, several ropes flew out and tied up all the female Cultivators.

As Lin Bai arrived beneath the Green Wood, the Tribulation Cloud gathered above his head once more; in the blink of an eye, it gathered into a larger-scale Tribulation Cloud than before, and what's more, it connected with the previous Tribulation Cloud.

Looking around, the sky above his head was almost entirely covered by the Tribulation Cloud; he couldn't see even a small patch of blue sky!

The lightning fell from the sky like a plow, indiscriminately enveloping everyone beneath the Tribulation Cloud.

The few Great Vehicle Realm female Cultivators bound by the Binding Immortal saw such a terrifying scene, abruptly broke the ropes, and joined forces to meet the lightning; clearly, they had been dragged into the Tribulation Cloud, and if they didn't resist, they could only wait for death.

Kill Lin Bai?

To hell with that!

Everyone was about to die, who still cared about the future of the sect!

The Tribulation Lightning and Lin Bai's Lightning Storm were not to be mentioned in the same breath; Ye Song, the Purple-Clothed Ancestor, and others did not have enough cultivation, and after holding on for a moment, they were struck by the lightning one by one, their clothes shredded and their faces covered in dirt.

The only ones intact were the Blood Sect Cultivators in the Fengqiuhuang Group; Cen Qing did not die, and the Fengqiuhuang Group did not disband, so after a round of lightning, the people inside were unscathed.

"Isn't it just a Heavenly Demon Heart? Is such a big reaction necessary?" Lin Bai looked at the apocalyptic scene and complained gloomily, "Too narrow-minded."

"You heaven-damned little thief, do you have any idea how hard it was for me to hide from the Heavenly Tribulation? You actually lured the Tribulation Cloud onto me..." With a hysterical roar, a cyan figure suddenly appeared above the cyan wood; she looked up at the sky and shrieked, her voice filled with despair.

Immediately following.

The cyan shadow soared into the sky.

With a wave of her hand, a massive shadow of a cyan tree collided with the sky-filling Tribulation Cloud.

The tree shadow exploded.

The thick Tribulation Cloud was actually struck with many large holes, revealing the blue sky above and allowing rays of sunlight to shine through briefly.

The lightning paused momentarily.

The crowd caught their breath and hurriedly crossed the Magpie Bridge to reach Lin Bai, looking with awe at the cyan shadow that had dispersed the Tribulation Cloud in a single move, their eyes filled with the joy of surviving a disaster.

"It's the tree spirit of the cyan wood," Ye Song gasped, saying excitedly, "Master, we are saved."

"Saved, my foot! If I had the confidence to undergo Tribulation Transcendence, I would have done it tens of thousands of years ago. Why would I have endured until now, only to be implicated by a bunch of idiots like you, and forced to undergo Tribulation Transcendence alongside over ten thousand people? I'm completely doomed because of you..." The cyan shadow flashed before the crowd, looking at Lin Bai as if she had gone mad.

She wore cyan robes, had green hair, and possessed a stunningly beautiful face, looking like a young girl, but at this moment, the girl's gaze looked as if it wanted to kill.

Ye Song and the others were stunned.

"So the Tribulation Cloud here was targeting you, Senior!" Looking at the tree spirit, Lin Bai suddenly realized, "I was wondering, it's just a mere Heavenly Demon Heart, and I had already put it away, so how could it possibly attract such a massive Tribulation Cloud? With you appearing, everything makes much more sense."

The Tribulation Cloud blotted out the sun and sky, and lightning struck down, yet no new system popped up to save his life. Lin Bai had originally been at his wit's end, but he hadn't expected that at the critical moment, the tree spirit of the cyan wood would jump out on its own and display such unparalleled strength.

At this moment.

Lin Bai set his heart at ease; it seemed someone was carrying this tribulation for him. The Luck brushed out by the Big Brother System was truly effective!

【Anger from Qing Yun; +1 +1 +1 +1 +1...】

(End of this chapter)