Chapter 321: Incomplete Division of Spirit

Upon seeing the divine tree growing in the starry sky, Qingyun found a new goal and began her cultivation with renewed vigor, striving to reach even greater heights.

As she began to circulate her Qi, a tide of Spiritual Power seemed to rise around Qingmu, and Lin Bai's cultivation base soared as if he had boarded a rocket.

Less than an hour later.

Lin Bai had already experienced the process of his Golden Core growing from small to large, shattering the core to form a Nascent Soul.

Inside his dantian, a tiny infant sat with its eyes closed.

As Spiritual Power flowed through its body and was released, it seemed to have been purified, in turn nourishing Lin Bai's body and meridians; when he mobilized his own Spiritual Power, the feeling of it being as responsive as his own limbs was completely different from borrowing the Spiritual Power of others.

Soon, Lin Bai was immersed in the joy of his rising Spiritual Power, and feeling his strength soar, he couldn't even bear to turn this "cheat-code experience pack" into a Puppet!

……

The Wood Law caused a huge uproar in the outside world.

This was the first time everyone had heard of the existence of Laws from someone other than Lin Bai.

Moreover, it was spoken personally by a super-expert who possessed heaven-reaching cultivation, could disperse Tribulation Clouds with a single strike, and had lived for who knows how many years.

Such an expert affirming the existence of Laws carried far more credibility than Lin Bai.

From this point on.

The path of Laws was finally accepted by all Cultivators and became the new direction for the Cultivation World.

However.

Qingyun had cultivated for tens of thousands of years before barely touching the threshold of the Wood Law; the time cost was something Cultivators simply could not afford.

Throughout history, no one in the Tribulation Transcendence Realm had ever stayed in the world for more than three thousand years; suppressing one's cultivation and avoiding the lightning tribulation for tens of thousands of years just to pursue a vague and illusory Law—no one would do such a thing.

While Lin Bai's method of practicing the path of Laws was outrageous, compared to the Wood Law, it was much easier to operate and better suited for humans.

Furthermore, Lin Bai had selflessly provided the method for practicing Laws; it was unknown if Lin Bai had held anything back in the method, but having a vague direction was enough.

The Cultivation World had been passed down for who knows how many years, and there was no lack of wise individuals who had created all sorts of cultivation techniques.

As long as they were certain that Laws truly existed, they were confident they could find the correct way to practice them.

Moreover, since Lin Bai might die at any moment, they could safely and boldly practice Laws without worrying about coming into conflict with him.

Consequently.

The entire Cultivation World suddenly presented a flourishing trend; from top to bottom, everyone was conscientiously studying the path of Laws, hoping to reach the heavens in a single bound.

The Holy Son, Fozi, and others did not pay too much attention to Laws, as they were practicing their own divine abilities.

These divine abilities descended from heaven and were ready-made; when cultivated to a high level, they were not much weaker than Laws.

The prodigies' speed in practicing their own sect's techniques far exceeded that of ordinary people, but when they began to practice the heaven-descended divine abilities, they discovered something.

The heaven-descended divine abilities were as if tailor-made for them; practicing them yielded twice the result with half the effort, even faster than practicing their own sect's divine abilities, advancing a thousand miles a day...

Avoiding the eyes and ears of the players, they used high-level Cultivators from their own sects to test the divine abilities, only to be shocked to find that the sect seniors, whose combat power had once far exceeded theirs, could now be easily defeated by them.

The prodigies were ecstatic.

The morale of the sect leadership was greatly boosted.

Publications like the *Heavenly Dao Journal* and the *Holy Journal* seized the opportunity to publish a series of articles smearing Lin Bai, claiming that he was the true demon of these troubled times.

Now, the descent of the lightning tribulation was heaven itself wanting to exterminate the evil, and they hoped the world would not be deceived by him again...

Meanwhile, the Beggar Sect and the consortium had joined forces, thick as thieves, and treated the Blood Sect as their own territory; the consortium hoped to develop with focus and did not want to cause any more trouble.

Even though Lin Bai used the players of the Shengji Sect to instruct the *Justice Weekly* to continue publication and maintain the influence of the Justice Alliance, they ignored it and treated Lin Bai's requests as wind passing by their ears.

Public opinion was one-sided.

Publications like the *Heavenly Dao Journal* smeared Lin Bai.

Lin Bai's *Justice Weekly* did not refute it, and not even a whisper of news came out.

The common people of the world finally believed that the young man who said he would lead them to overthrow the rule of the Cultivators had truly been trapped by the lightning tribulation.

While everyone felt regret, they could only choose to compromise.

However, having experienced the beauty Lin Bai brought them and having already seen the light, the people were naturally unwilling to continue living their previous lives; one by one, they also practiced Laws in secret, attempting to one day rise up like Lin Bai, walk the path of glory and freedom, and break through the cage above their heads...

The players, meanwhile, picked up traditional methods of cultivation and worked hard to level up.

They had different divisions of labor.

Some players were used for leveling up and served as combat power;

Other players, according to their established strategies, launched a series of commercial activities between various countries, replicating the technological weapons of the Real World in this world, combining technological civilization with the existing Weapon Refinement civilization, and so on.

With Lin Bai trapped in the lightning tribulation, the whole world seemed to have returned to normal, a scene of prosperity, with no more of those strange and bizarre incidents.

In the end.

Everyone was certain that Lin Bai was indeed the greatest scourge, the biggest troublemaker in the world, and that everyone was comfortable without him.

From Cultivators to players, while everyone did their own work, they all kept an eye on Lin Bai in the lightning tribulation, looking forward to his death, and prepared a series of defensive measures for Lin Bai's final struggle to drag them down with him.

……

The third day of Tribulation Transcendence.

The lightning in the sky became increasingly fierce, shifting from the initial linear lightning to sheet lightning.

The Tribulation Cloud had originally obscured the space between heaven and earth like night, but the continuous lightning illuminated the dark night as if it were broad daylight...

The constant thunder made it impossible for low-level Cultivators to cultivate with peace of mind; one by one, they could only look at the sky and pray, as in just three days, the lightning tribulation had already reached such high intensity.

Even though Qingyun was up there resisting the lightning tribulation and not a single bolt had fallen yet, the confidence Lin Bai had previously given them was still constantly weakening.

Everyone knew that once Qingyun could no longer block the lightning tribulation, they would be the first to be abandoned, and a sense of depression gradually began to spread among the low-level Cultivators.

Some even ran specifically to find Lin Bai and requested to restart the "Phoenix Seeks Phoenix," saying they were willing to perform their talents for the Justice Alliance for eighty days.

Lin Bai readily agreed to them, promising that when he could no longer hold on, he would definitely pull people into the "Phoenix Seeks Phoenix," and for the first time, he put forward the slogan "Never abandon, never give up," reaping a wave of support and Positive Emotion.

……

The fifth day.

Qingyun was still alone in the sky, supporting the Heavenly Tribulation.

Within a few days, Lin Bai fed Qingyun Spirit Fruit and Temperament Fruit without interruption.

After picking at least one-third of the ripe fruit, when Lin Bai also felt a pang of heartache, Qingyun finally stopped asking for the two types of fruit.

In her own words, the two fruits had already reached their limit for improving her strength, and eating more would be useless; it would be better to distribute the fruit to the other senior and junior brothers and sisters to help them improve their strength.

It was precisely because of this modest remark that the Spiritual Power feedback value Lin Bai received from Qingyun increased to five percent.

However.

The Spiritual Power feedback value had increased, but Lin Bai's strength had not improved much.

Firstly, the Spiritual Power required to go from Nascent Soul to Spirit Transformation is massive; secondly, after the first three days, the gaps between the Heavenly Tribulation strikes became shorter and shorter, and Qingyun could no longer cultivate for two hours during the gaps like before to provide Lin Bai with Spiritual Power.

With the loss of the stream from Qingyun, his biggest shareholder, the improvement of Lin Bai's strength naturally slowed down.

But Lin Bai did not pay too much attention to the improvement of his personal strength.

He did not rely on personal strength to stir up trouble in this world; surviving the Heavenly Tribulation was clearly more important than improving his strength.

During a lull in the fourth day's Heavenly Tribulation, Qingyun found Lin Bai and said that according to the increasing intensity of the Heavenly Tribulation, her cultivation could last at most twenty days before she would be unable to protect the people below, so he should prepare in advance...

Twenty days.

Only a quarter of the eighty-one days had passed.

Lin Bai looked at Qingyun and sighed inwardly, thinking that in the end, he might have to seal her as a Puppet, share her strength, and join forces to transcend the Heavenly Tribulation together!

But Qingyun had only supported it for twenty days alone, and there were still more than sixty days left, with each Heavenly Tribulation strike stronger than the last; even if he shared Qingyun's strength, was he really confident he could survive this Heavenly Tribulation?

Lin Bai looked at the sky and fell into deep thought; there were still fifteen days of stability, and he could not pin all his hopes on sharing Qingyun's strength—he might have to fleece the systems again.

【The Big Brother's business is being eroded; as the most capable underling under the Big Brother, please remove the external interference factors and help the Big Brother's business get back on track; Reward: 800 Luck】

【The media empire has suffered a Waterloo; the publication you founded is now obscure; help your publication regain its fame; Reward: Video projection equipment】

【Continue to expand the influence of Flaw, letting 119,679 people believe that Flaw is... (Completed); Reward: Defect Incarnation】

【Let half the world believe that Flaw is...; Reward: Earth-Deficiency Technique】

At the beginning of the sixth day.

A series of notifications popped up in Lin Bai's mind.

The notification from the Chief Supporting Role System was within Lin Bai's expectations; he had already learned of the cooperation between the Beggar Sect and the consortium from the private chats of several players.

Based on his understanding of the capabilities of the Beggar Sect's top brass, once the consortium and the Beggar Sect cooperated, the Beggar Sect being hollowed out was a certainty.

What he had been waiting for was the system's task notification.

Without a task reward, he didn't care if the Big Brother lived or died; only with Luck rewards was there motivation...

As for the Media System's task, it was closely related to him; if he wasn't outside to preside over things, it was basically impossible to restore the reputation of the two publications.

The most important thing for a media empire is the role of public opinion; if public opinion is restricted, the physical items rewarded by the task would be of no help.

That Reporter ID, which claimed to be able to enter all forbidden areas, could indeed allow him to walk out of the range of the Heavenly Tribulation.

But the Heavenly Tribulation was locked onto him as a person; even if he walked out of the Heavenly Tribulation, the Tribulation Cloud would still gather above his head, and the power would be just as great—the key was that he would lose Qingyun's help in blocking it.

It was as useless as a chicken rib.

In the current situation, tasks had to be prioritized; the media empire task could be put aside for now.

However, what surprised Lin Bai was that the Wanwu Youque System had silently completed the Flaw promotion task, and the system had issued the reward of the Defect Incarnation.

Just as Lin Bai had expected, the correct way to write Defect Incarnation should be "Defect Incarnation" (Spirit Soul).

This was a proper cultivation technique that, like the Great Demon Disintegration, could cut off a portion of one's own Spirit Soul; the cut-off Spirit Soul could act independently and share his own consciousness.

However, unlike the Great Demon Disintegration, once the Spirit Soul was separated, it could not be recovered; once it was attacked outside and the Spirit Soul dissipated, it would truly be gone.

But as long as it did not suffer a fatal attack, the Spirit Soul could exist indefinitely.

At the end of the technique, there was a stern note: those whose Spirit Soul is not strong, use this technique at your own risk!

Spirit Soul strong?

He had eaten more Spirit Fruit than Qingyun; his Spirit Soul should be strong enough!

Lin Bai glanced at the new task of the Incomplete System and threw it aside; he still couldn't understand the Incomplete System's tasks, let alone actively try to do them.

The last two tasks were completed automatically, and all he had done was expand his own influence.

Since that was the case.

Then he would just keep waiting for the tasks to complete automatically; getting the rewards was enough for him.

After understanding the operation process of the Defect Incarnation in detail, Lin Bai did not hesitate to run the technique, cutting off a portion of his Spirit Soul to form a Defect Incarnation outside his body.

The moment he cut the Spirit Soul, a momentary dizziness occurred in Lin Bai's mind.

But soon, he returned to normal.

In front of him, a drifting Spirit Soul avatar suddenly appeared.

The Spirit Soul body did not touch the ground, and it looked exactly like him, only it was stark naked and appeared slightly transparent.

And in Lin Bai's mind, the moment the Defect Incarnation was established, an extra perspective appeared.

In this perspective, he could also see everything around him and could see himself, like looking in a mirror, yet different from looking in a mirror.

This was a very strange feeling, as if all his senses had extended outward and become multiplexed...

Lin Bai tried to make the avatar turn around; with a thought, the Defect Incarnation had completed the operation, exactly the same as moving his own body.

Moreover, because of the nature of the Spirit Soul, it moved even more nimbly than his body.

Lin Bai directed his avatar to walk back and forth on the green wood, playing with it happily.

Suddenly.

A cry of surprise.

Xu Longyun flashed over to stand before Lin Bai; she ignored Lin Bai and instead looked at the Defect Incarnation, her face full of panic and anxiety: "Lin-lang, the lightning tribulation is right overhead, why did you let your Spirit Soul leave your body? Don't you know that the Spirit Soul fears lightning most of all? If the Spirit Soul is struck by lightning, you will either die or be severely injured; hurry and let your Spirit Soul return to its place..."

Her voice was very loud, attracting the attention of everyone present.

Lin Bai was stunned, suddenly remembering that his Incarnation was still naked, and subconsciously directed the Incarnation to pull off a Green Wood leaf to cover his private parts.

The voice of Green Wood drifted down from the sky: "Master, no need to cover up; my perception covers all of Green Wood, I have already seen everything that should and shouldn't be seen. This is Master's first time having the Spirit Soul leave the body, right! The Spirit Soul has a natural Illusion technique; if you don't want people to see, Master, you can simply manifest a set of clothes, there is no need to use my leaves to cover up..."

F***!

So embarrassing!

Lin Bai immediately manifested a set of clothes for the Incarnation, gave a dry cough, and feigned composure as he tossed the leaf aside.

Only then did Xu Longyun realize what she had just seen; her face flushed slightly, and she stole another glance at the spot from before, but quickly, she remembered why she had come and said anxiously: "Master, quickly withdraw your Spirit Soul back into your body; under the lightning tribulation, having the Spirit Soul leave the body is no laughing matter."

"Master, Senior Sister Yun is right; now is truly not a good time for the Spirit Soul to leave the body. Without the protection of the physical body, the Spirit Soul is extremely easily injured by lightning." In the sky, Qing Yun also advised.

"No matter, that is merely my second Spirit Soul, a divine ability I have newly comprehended; even if it is damaged, the main body will not suffer any harm."

Lin Bai walked over unhurriedly and stood together with his Incarnation; amidst the incredulous expressions of the crowd, the Incarnation blinked and cupped his hands: "Senior Brother is right; from now on, I am I, and he is he. We are two separate individuals, and everyone may call me Lin Erbai from now on."

(End of chapter)