Chapter 332: Spring Breeze and Rain Art

That day.

The *Heavenly Dao Journal*, *Poison Journal*, and other publications released a joint statement, demanding that the Heavenly Descended withdraw from the Justice Alliance; otherwise, they would launch an all-out strike against them.

At the same time.

Cultivators from the Poison Sect and Wanhun Valley began to migrate, preventing Lin Bai, who was inside the Heavenly Tribulation, from suddenly going mad and bringing the tribulation to their sects to perish together with them.

High-level cultivators of the Demonic Five Sects rushed to the Shengji Sect, guarding all vital roads leading to the Shengji Sect to prevent Lin Sibai from taking people to rescue Lin Bai.

Back then.

The players cultivated by the sects to deal with Lin Bai—the Seven Righteous Sects and the Demonic Five Sects respectively issued orders to them, led by military governors to go and strike the Heavenly Descended surrounding Lin Sibai, destroy the Beggar Sect's industries, and weaken the strength of the Beggar Sect Disciples...

Because of a few words from Lin Bai, the situation suddenly became extremely unfriendly to the players, and the tension was palpable.

Countries like Taiyi, Taichu, and Taihao stood by and watched.

Although the Heavenly Descended had shown great potential, their momentum had not yet formed, and the sects were determined to crush Lin Bai within the Heavenly Tribulation; these countries were not about to risk their own national fortunes for them.

Previously, the Taiyi Kingdom had used Lin Bai to rise, but now that Lin Bai was trapped in the Heavenly Tribulation, the Taiyi Kingdom was already riding a tiger and could not get off...

The people from the financial groups were frantic, immediately issuing a statement through publications to sever their relationship with Lin Sibai, stating that they were also in an adversarial relationship with Lin Sibai's Justice Alliance.

The players lacked high-level combat power; once the Seven Righteous Sects and the Demonic Five Sects launched a comprehensive crackdown on them, it would inevitably block their path of advancement.

They were considering maintaining peace between both sides; at the current stage, the players still could not leave the support of the sects.

After much thought, the financial groups made a decision.

Sacrifice the interests of a portion of the players, cooperate with the players within the sects to put on a show, pretend to fight a few battles, and first ensure the status and interests of the players in the sects.

These players were all skilled at this; anyway, there was no loss. When playing games, who hadn't PKed before?

Just consider it familiarizing themselves with Skills and training troops!

Meanwhile, Lin Sibai's Justice Alliance also issued a statement through the *Justice Weekly*, declaring that in response to the malicious actions of the Seven Righteous Sects and the Demonic Five Sects, he would launch an all-out retaliation, and the major sects would surely pay the price for their actions.

No longer building the Magpie Bridge, Lin Sibai led the players of the Justice Alliance and headed straight for the Beast Taming Sect...

The Chief Supporting Role System still had a long-term mission regarding the eldest brother: to annihilate the Beast Taming Sect, with the reward being Auspicious Qi. Lin Bai felt it was necessary to complete this mission first.

Auspicious Qi sounded like a good thing; even if it had no use, he could rely on it to confirm his title as the orthodox sect of the world!

The world was in chaos, but there was not much real contact between the two sides.

After all.

Mobilizing troops and sending generals took time, and traveling also took time; for now, it was just a war of words between the two sides.

Occasionally, conflicts occurred between Beggar Sect players and sect players, but these were only small-scale incidents.

Most people's focus was still on Lin Bai under the Heavenly Tribulation.

Qingyun had said that she could only hold on for three days; if Lin Bai died in the Heavenly Tribulation after three days, then all problems would be solved.

The real Lin Sibai was a player and would absolutely not go to resurrect Lin Bai.

If the sects pressed too hard, at worst, they would put on a show, let Lin Sibai fade away with Lin Bai's death, hide in the shadows, and seek steady development again...

In short.

Everything hinged on how many days Lin Bai could hold on in the Heavenly Tribulation.

After striking for more than ten days in a row, the person in the Heavenly Tribulation remained unscathed, and the Heavenly Tribulation seemed to feel its dignity had been insulted.

It put all its strength into striking down, becoming increasingly fierce, as if it wanted to finish off Lin Bai and the others in the shortest possible time.

Above the Green Cloud, everyone was looking for their own love; even the withered Puppet Peach Ancestor had become a hot commodity, with wave after wave of Great Vehicle Realm cultivators taking turns expressing their love to her.

Peach Ancestor was completely unmoved; she was a person wounded by love and had been turned into a Puppet, only thinking about one day being reduced to ashes under the Heavenly Tribulation and completely regaining her freedom. How could she possibly accept someone else's love?

"Mother, aren't you going to find someone to date?" the little white fox asked, looking at Hu He with worry.

Hu He looked at her Xiao Qi tenderly, rubbed her head, and shook it, saying, "No need. I believe in Master; he will definitely let us survive."

One knows one's own affairs best; Lin Bai was so doting toward the little white fox.

If they could survive the Heavenly Tribulation, they were destined to be together in the future. She was both Lin Bai's Disciple and Lin Bai's mother-in-law; which male Cultivator would be so blind as to dare come and woo her, not fearing Lin Bai's resentment?

Hindered by the little white fox, she could not go and express her love to Lin Bai either; this was an unsolvable problem from the start. Therefore, her best outcome was to become Lin Bai's Puppet; apart from that, there was no other way to live...

"Can you really not hold on anymore?" Lin Bai stood beside Qingyun, watching her support the Heavenly Tribulation alone, and asked softly.

"Yes," Qingyun said. "The Heavenly Tribulation will strike for eighty-one days; that was just our speculation. My Spiritual Power is being consumed very quickly, and I cannot recover at all during the intervals when the Heavenly Tribulation pauses. Someone could replace me, allowing me to recover my state and hold on for a while longer, but now, it is difficult..."

Replace?

This is talking about me!

Lin Bai was stunned for a moment; was Qingyun eager to become a Puppet a day early?

"Is the Concentration Fruit no longer working?" Lin Bai looked at the Green Wood below. The Green Wood was still lush and green, and the flowers urged into existence by the Concentration Fruit were becoming increasingly vibrant, yet they were not growing any larger.

"It can be used to recover Spirit, but it doesn't play much of a role in increasing strength anymore," Qingyun said.

Crack!

A bucket-thick bolt of lightning fell straight toward Qingyun. Qingyun shuddered violently, and the green phantom she had supported grew a bit more translucent.

Qingyun said, "Master, do you see? There are more and more such lightning bolts. Even if I fail to hold on for a moment, those guys below, even those in the Tribulation Transcendence Realm, wouldn't be able to withstand even a few? There has never been a ten-thousand-person Tribulation Transcendence before; it is simply not something an ordinary person can endure. You should prepare to let Uncle-Master Sibai return..."

Why hadn't any new system appeared?

Could it be that the person behind the system also had no way to deal with this Heavenly Tribulation?

Lin Bai looked at the Tribulation Cloud and lightning above his head, struggling to think of a solution. A moment later, his gaze turned to Qingyun's true form, that nearly three-thousand-meter-tall Green Wood.

And then.

With a flash of inspiration, he used the Spring Breeze and Rain Art on the Green Wood!

Beneath the Tribulation Cloud.

A massive rain cloud suddenly appeared, and the rain cloud faced the Green Wood, sprinkling down a fine, misty rain...

"Ah!"

The moment the fine rain landed on the Green Wood, Qingyun could not help but let out a low moan. She licked her lips and looked sharply at Lin Bai, "Master, what kind of water is this?"

"Spring Breeze Brings Rain Art!" Lin Bai asked, "Is it effective for you?"

"Effective." Qingyun nodded desperately and said excitedly, "My true form has grown to this point, and the nutrients and Spiritual Power underground could barely support me from dying; growing further was simply impossible. But the fine rain that just fell on me actually made me feel a long-lost nourishment. I feel like I can continue to grow. Are those two Divine Trees that can span the universe nourished by this Spring Breeze Brings Rain Art?"

Holy shit!

The breakthrough point is here...

Lin Bai's heartbeat quickened slightly. He had just used the Spring Breeze Brings Rain Art unconsciously; he never thought that a small spell could have an effect on the Green Wood.

Who would have thought it would actually be useful?

Spring Breeze Brings Rain Art: create a rain cloud out of thin air to nourish the land and increase the growth rate of crops.

So, no matter what kind of crop it is, as long as it fits the definition, it can be stimulated by this spell...

Grass will grow, spiritual herbs will grow, and towering trees like the Green Wood will also grow... but the effects brought about by the growth of these different crops are completely different!

This must be the Fazhe Zhidao, right!

Lin Bai swallowed his saliva gently, suddenly feeling that the Luck given by the Big Brother System was too powerful.

Turning bad luck into good, meeting danger and turning it into fortune; when you are sleepy, someone brings you a pillow.

If Qingyun's true form were not a plant, but any other kind of spirit monster, the Spring Breeze Brings Rain Art would not have had any effect at all. People with great Luck truly have no dead ends...

The Farming System that I abandoned is also not bad!

Sure enough, one cannot underestimate any system.

I must find time to go back to the sect, check on the crops I planted, and get the Farming System's tasks grinding. It is time to be a Divine Farmer!

"Master, what are you thinking about?" Qingyun asked. At this very moment, she believed more and more in Tai Shang Lao Jun's prophecy of fate. Sure enough, her way out lay in the Justice Sect. She looked at Lin Bai expectantly, "Is the consumption of the Spring Breeze Brings Rain Art very high?"

"It's not very high; I can support it. Qingyun, does this divine ability improve your strength?" Lin Bai said with a strange expression. This is just a basic reward!

"It certainly does." Qingyun said, "All my strength comes from the Green Wood. As the Green Wood grows, my strength will naturally increase."

"Good, you come to support the Heavenly Tribulation, and I will help you grow." Lin Bai smiled, "I said long ago that I am a Child of Destiny with great Luck; how could I possibly fail to transcend even a Heavenly Tribulation?"

The Spring Breeze Brings Rain Art does not care what the crops below are.

Its standard for Spiritual Power consumption is area; the larger the area, the more Spiritual Power is consumed.

The Green Wood is a behemoth; to completely cover it with a rain cloud actually requires a lot of Spiritual Power.

But that is for others.

Lin Bai has more than a dozen large power banks hanging on him; the thing he fears least is consumption.

Great Vehicle Realm Puppets, just use them in rotation. Whoever runs out of Spiritual Power, send them back to the card to recover and switch to the second one. Cycling back and forth, it will never be interrupted...

The three days when the outside world was in chaos.

Qingyun supported the Heavenly Tribulation, and Lin Bai used the Spring Breeze Brings Rain Art for her; neither of them had ever stopped.

Under the nourishment of the fine, misty rain, the Green Wood grew quietly.

People on the tree might not be able to feel it, but Lin Bai could see that Qingyun's complexion was becoming more and more rosy. The green phantom she used to support the Heavenly Tribulation, which had been swaying before, was now gradually becoming stable again...

It was said that after three days of support, Qingyun would not be able to protect the people below.

But after three days, the many Cultivators on the Green Wood were surprised to find that the lightning in the sky was much fiercer than before. Terrifying lightning bolts a meter thick fell one after another, yet they were all blocked by Qingyun, and they remained safe...

This is what a big shot is!

Everyone's hearts were temporarily put back into their stomachs, and they rekindled the hope of transcending the Heavenly Tribulation.

It must be the effect of the rain!

Zuo Lan looked up at the sky, and the speed of the Hammer in his hand suddenly increased. The Alliance Leader had created time for him; perhaps this Faraday Cage could also achieve miraculous results!

Xiao Yu looked at the sky, then at Zuo Lan, pondered for a moment, reached out, and used his sleeve to gently wipe the sweat from Zuo Lan's forehead.

Better safe than sorry.

He felt it was still necessary to deepen their relationship; he had to prepare for the Butterfly Transformation!

The sudden tenderness gave Zuo Lan a fright. His hand trembled, and he missed with another strike of the Hammer, ruining a positioning device. He glanced at Xiao Yu helplessly and said with a bitter smile, "Fellow Daoist Xiao, when you show tenderness next time, can you give a signal in advance? Coming out of the blue like that, this old man really can't take it..."

"Fellow Daoist Zuo, to tell you the truth, this old man is also enduring the nausea just to wipe your sweat." Xiao Yu looked at the surrounding Cultivators who were leaning on each other, some even feeding each other, desperately learning to be in love and immersing themselves in it, and said gloomily, "If the feelings are not pure, what if the Butterfly Transformation fails? Wouldn't that be a waste of the opportunity the Alliance Leader created for us? Fellow Daoist Zuo still needs to learn to get used to it and adapt."

Because the Green Wood flower buds, which had been spawned by the Spirit Fruit and the Temperament Fruit, had originally stopped growing, but under the nourishment of the Spring Breeze Brings Rain Art, they actually began to grow again, swelling and blooming one by one...

Seeing this scene, the Cultivators of the Shengji Sect were all stunned.

It has always been common knowledge that the Green Wood blooms in a thousand years, bears fruit in a thousand years, and matures in a thousand years...

Since they began transcending the Heavenly Tribulation, it has only been a dozen days, and the process of blooming is actually about to be completed. This is simply a miracle.

Sure enough.

In places where Lin Bai is, things like common sense do not exist!

"Master, is the rain created by Grandmaster also a law?" Ye Lan reached out, caught a handful of rainwater, and tasted it by her mouth, "But I feel it's just ordinary rainwater! Why can it stimulate the growth of the Green Wood? The flowers are blooming so fast; it won't be long before we can eat the Green Wood fruit, right!"

"It's possible." Ye Song said, "Joining the Justice Sect and becoming an apprentice is the most correct thing this master has done in his life."

"It's a pity that Grandmaster came out of the mountains late. Otherwise, if he had come out thousands of years earlier, the Green Wood would have run off with Master long ago; how would it have been the Shengji Sect's turn?" Ye Lan said faintly.

"The Justice Sect has a Divine Tree covered with Concentration Fruit; they don't care about the Green Wood at all, okay?" Ye Song said, "Spanning the San Qian Shi Jie, I really want to go to the Justice Sect to see what kind of existence it is."

Having suffered from Lin Bai's self-exposure, the livestream of "Happy Without Reservation" and the others had long since switched to a private channel.

On the livestream screen, sparse bullet comments drifted by, all expressing astonishment!

"What's the situation?"

"Wasn't it said that the lightning tribulation would strike in three days?"

"How did it stabilize again?"

"Does the Heavenly Tribulation even want to strike Lin Bai to death? Can't it just go all out, bring down the maximum power lightning, and strike him dead first? Why does it have to go step by step? Is there something wrong with it!"

"The Heavenly Tribulation is meant to help people ascend, not to kill them."

"Could it be that Lin Bai will really survive the lightning tribulation? That would probably be the end of the world."

"Actually, letting Lin Bai survive the lightning tribulation might be a good thing."

"Once he survives the lightning tribulation, he will be the number one person in the world, and with Qingmu assisting him from the side, how could that be a good thing?"

"All this time, everyone has been considering Lin Bai being struck to death by the lightning tribulation, or they simply hate him to the bone and hope he dies, rather than ascending. But everyone seems to have overlooked what happens to a Cultivator after they survive the lightning tribulation?"

"Do what?"

"Holy crap, ascension!"

"Right, ascension. The reason why a Tribulation Transcendence Stage Cultivator triggers a lightning tribulation the moment they make a move is because their abilities exceed the world's capacity to bear, and the world wants to exile them."

I asked a sect Cultivator; after surviving the lightning tribulation, a light of reception will descend to receive the person ascending. The light of reception only appears once. If one chooses not to ascend and stays behind, they remain at the Tribulation Transcendence Stage, and they will frequently trigger lightning tribulations, with power even greater than the previous one.

Therefore, almost all Cultivators who succeed in Tribulation Transcendence will immediately choose to ascend; not one is willing to stay behind, and I don't think Lin Bai will be an exception!"

"So, whether Lin Bai dies or ascends, he is destined not to remain in this world. The so-called number one person in the world is just us worrying; what those sects have feared from beginning to end is Lin Bai taking the lightning tribulation with him to perish together with them..."

"Even if Lin Bai wants to cultivate some kind of Heavenly Dao and truly chooses to stay, he would be a cripple who can no longer make a move. Therefore, the Heavenly Tribulation is the true path of balance. The reason those ancestors of the Justice Gate cannot return is probably also for this reason..."

(End of this chapter)