Chapter 338: The Banana Leaf Fan

The Heavenly Tribulation grew increasingly violent.

The Green Wood swayed precariously in the wind and rain, with branches and leaves constantly falling.

Lin Bai and the others, under the protection of Qing Yun, all wore solemn expressions.

Ye Lan held Ye Song's shoulders tightly; Nanrong Cenqing, Zuo Lan, Xiao Yu, and other elders at the Tribulation Transcendence Stage and Great Vehicle Realm huddled together in pairs, not forgetting to work on cultivating their affections even at this life-or-death juncture, for fear that after death, the Butterfly Transformation would not recognize their love...

At this moment.

Standing behind Lin Bai were Tao Zu, Qiu Liang, Gu Yi, and Wen Ba, four "power banks" providing him with electrical energy.

He had put away all the other Puppets; amidst the Heavenly Tribulation, low-cultivation Puppets could not play much of a role...

Zuo Lan and the others looked at Lin Bai, wanting to speak but hesitating.

To tell the truth, they wanted to go over to the Fengqiuhuang Group side to showcase their talents.

The Green Wood had been struck until it was falling apart, yet that group of people inside the Fengqiuhuang Group remained calm and composed; wasn't it obvious which side was safer?

However.

Lin Bai was also a man, and he was still standing there; as his disciples, no one felt embarrassed to be the first to propose such a request to their master...

Outside the Shengji Sect.

Dozens of Great Vehicle Realm experts from the Seven Righteous Sects and the Demonic Five Sects watched Lin Bai and the others, who were swaying in the wind and rain atop the Green Wood, from afar through the gaps in the lightning, standing by in full battle array.

"The Green Wood won't be able to hold on for much longer," said Senior Brother Wan of the Poison Sect.

"At this rate, the Green Wood will fall in two days at most." A Great Vehicle Realm expert from the Heavenly Sword Sect, who carried a long Sword on his back, looked toward the direction of the Lin Bai Support Group, eager to try, ready to strike at any moment.

Most of those protected by the Fengqiuhuang Group were people from the Blood Sect; no one cared about their lives.

What the Cultivators had cared about from beginning to end was Lin Bai.

Once Lin Bai used the Fengqiuhuang Group on himself, their attacks would land on the Support Group. Once the Heavenly Descended of the Fengqiuhuang Group died, the people protected inside would undoubtedly die.

No one hoped that Lin Bai would be able to survive the Heavenly Tribulation.

Likewise, no one wanted to provoke Lin Bai right now; a desperate counterattack carrying the Heavenly Tribulation—whoever touched it would die...

"Alliance Leader, are we going to save the General Alliance Leader?" 【Baiyin】 asked Lin Sibai.

With Lin Bai's avatar present, the players found it inconvenient to say Lin Bai's name directly in front of the avatar, so they naturally gave Lin Bai the title of General Alliance Leader.

"No need." Lin Bai was putting all his energy into dealing with the Heavenly Tribulation; his two avatars outside were basically in a semi-dormant state, only responding perfunctorily when encountering external stimuli.

The thoughts of the two avatars came from the main body.

If the main body were gone, the two avatars would be as good as useless; Lin Bai still knew which was more important.

It wasn't just Lin Sibai; after the Heavenly Tribulation suddenly intensified, the "Wubai" who had performed Soul Possession on 【Lin Jia Xiaoniangzi】 also returned to the game from reality to guard the main body as it underwent Tribulation Transcendence outside the Shengji Sect.

The Fengqiuhuang Group was Lin Bai's final resort; if he truly reached an insurmountable hurdle, Lin Bai would naturally use it when the time came.

By then, having an avatar that had mastered the Skill guarding outside could ensure his own safety...

"Alliance Leader, the champions of the national culinary competitions have been selected. Should we take them outside the Heavenly Tribulation to compete with Lin Bai?" 【Baiyin】 asked again.

"No need," Lin Sibai said. "The outside world now knows that I am an avatar of Lin Bai performing Soul Possession. Gather them together, and I will compete with them. Everything the Senior Brother knows, I know too. The Seven Righteous Sects and the Demonic Five Sects have blocked the road to the Shengji Sect, and I don't want to come into conflict with them at this time..."

The avatar also belonged to himself.

The avatar would perform the task in place of the main body; Lin Bai didn't know if the system would recognize it, but that didn't stop him from trying. If it succeeded, it succeeded; if not, he could just compete again after the Tribulation Transcendence.

Before, when Qing Yun was supporting the Heavenly Tribulation, Lin Bai might have diverted some energy to take the chefs to break through the checkpoints of the Seven Righteous Sects and the Demonic Five Sects to farm some reputation for himself.

Now, he didn't want to cause any complications at all.

Moreover, the reward for the latest task of the Chef God System was absolute control over ingredients, and he didn't think this reward could play much of a role in the Heavenly Tribulation.

Relying on the Chef God System's rewards was not as good as hoping that the system in his mind could activate a few more functions to help him survive the Heavenly Tribulation!

Fengda Group headquarters.

Zhou Geshang reported the situation to the board of directors: "... Lin Jia Xiaoniangzi has been found. She is the daughter of a real estate developer in Guanhai City, named Cai Jia. After Lin Bai performed Soul Possession on her, Lin Bai used her identity to wander around Guanhai City a few times. Later, the Heavenly Tribulation intensified, and her behavior went dormant again. Should we make contact with her?"

"What real estate?" the old chairman asked.

"Liheng Real Estate," Zhou Geshang said.

"Lin Jia Xiaoniangzi is a fan of Lin Bai; it is highly probable that she will be resistant to us. Make contact with the enterprise in her family first, start with her family members, and pull her into our team. When Lin Bai's avatar comes over, then make formal contact with her," the old chairman said. "One of Lin Bai's avatars controls the Justice Alliance, and one avatar controls the Support Group; clearly, he has already prepared for the main body to fall. In the future, it might be the avatars presiding over the big picture. Winning over a Lin Bai avatar will only benefit us, with no downsides..."

"Junior Sister Qing Yun is afraid she won't be able to hold on," Xu Longyun said.

"I know," Lin Bai said, watching the Qing Yun in the sky without blinking, holding a golden card in his hand, ready to seal Qing Yun at any moment.

He wanted to maximize the value of Qing Yun.

Under everyone's gaze, Qing Yun persisted for another day and night.

On the forty-second day of the Heavenly Tribulation.

The bright white lightning suddenly turned golden.

From the moment the Golden Lightning appeared, it displayed traits different from the bright white lightning; the moment it fell, it felt as if even the Spirit Soul was intimidated.

Falling simultaneously with the Golden Lightning was rolling Heavenly Fire. The Heavenly Fire appeared pale blue, burning out from the cloud layer, burning through the phantom image that Qing Yun was struggling to support, and rolling toward the main body of the Green Wood.

Fire overcomes wood.

The moment the Heavenly Fire ignited the Green Wood.

Qing Yun suddenly spat out a mouthful of blood. The cyan phantom image she was supporting suddenly revealed a large hole, and a bolt of Golden Lightning as thick as a water bucket passed through the hole in the phantom image, and with a "Crack!", it struck the main body of the Green Wood.

The thousands-of-meters-tall Green Wood was split down the middle by the Golden Lightning, cracking all the way down, and the leaves fell one after another.

Qing Yun suffered heavy injuries and fell into a coma on the spot.

Her head tilted, and like a shooting star, she plummeted from the sky.

She lost her protection.

One after another, bolts of Golden Lightning struck the Green Wood; in the blink of an eye, the Green Wood had been shaved down by several hundred meters in height...

"The Green Wood is finished." A Great Vehicle Realm cultivator from the Shengji Sect looked at the Green Wood, which was being ravaged by both lightning and Heavenly Fire, a trace of pity flashing in his eyes.

"The Heavenly Tribulation is too powerful. Since ancient times, I have never seen anyone face a tribulation where Golden Lightning falls from the Tribulation Cloud, and it is even accompanied by Heavenly Fire." Beside him, a Great Vehicle Realm cultivator from Tianmo Mountain felt a lingering fear, "Heaven is determined to wipe out Lin Bai!"

"Ten thousand people undergoing tribulation is already a provocation to Heaven, let alone the Green Wood, which has been dormant for who knows how many tens of thousands of years..." A Cultivator from Wanhun Valley shook his head and sighed.

"It is a pity that Lin Bai was considered a heaven-gifted talent of a generation; I never expected him to fall here. Indeed, one should not be too arrogant..." The Tianmo Mountain cultivator sighed in astonishment.

Before the words had even faded.

He saw a strange sight.

A golden card enveloped the falling Qingyun.

Qingyun disappeared, then reappeared.

Lin Bai flashed to her side and stuffed a Spirit Pill into her mouth; the Green Wood, which had been severed at the waist by the Golden Lightning, was instantly as good as new, and the tree top that had been shaved off by the lightning also grew back...

The many Cultivators were dumbfounded.

"This... this... Lin Bai's card truly has no restrictions? Can it even seal the Green Wood? That Green Wood has been growing for who knows how many hundreds of thousands of years, how could it recover to its original state in an instant? This... this is not logical?" the Shengji Sect Cultivator said, stumbling over his words.

"Master." The suddenly recovered Qingyun looked in surprise at Lin Bai, who stood side-by-side with her, feeling the abundant Spiritual Power within her body, "I..."

"Don't speak. From now on, I will fight side-by-side with you," Lin Bai said with a smile.

He mobilized the Spiritual Power within his body and easily created a canopy over the Green Wood, blocking the lightning that was falling once again.

Having shared Qingyun's strength, he finally understood how powerful she was.

If the Spiritual Power within a Tribulation Transcendence Realm cultivator was a lake, then Qingyun's Spiritual Power was an ocean—boundless and endless; any attack she made with a mere gesture could kill a Great Vehicle Realm cultivator.

"Master, your strength?" Qingyun looked at Lin Bai in surprise, forced to smile.

"As strong as your strength is, so is mine." Lin Bai re-injected Spiritual Power into the canopy he had propped up for her. Only by personally confronting the Heavenly Tribulation did he realize how much pressure Qingyun had been under; the Spiritual Power shield he propped up was like a snow house, while the ceaselessly falling lightning was like a red-hot branding iron.

The two were naturally opposed; all he could do was constantly increase the thickness of the snow house before the branding iron burned through it.

It was as passive as it could possibly be.

Qingyun had suddenly fallen, and everyone had thought she was doomed, but in the blink of an eye, the situation had been turned around by Lin Bai.

Everyone could not help but feel moved.

Ye Song said: "If he can survive the lightning tribulation, Master will truly be the number one person in the world."

"Master is already the number one person in the world," the little white fox said, "It's just that those people are despicable, using the lightning tribulation to deal with Master; otherwise, Master would have already taken them all down."

"Master, your Spiritual Power is the same as mine, it is wood-attributed, and there is no way to resist the scorching of the Heavenly Fire," Qingyun said in terror as she watched the Heavenly Fire rolling down from the clouds again.

When the Heavenly Fire rolled down from the Tribulation Cloud, Lin Bai could clearly feel that his Spiritual Power shield was melting faster.

Lin Bai possessed an extremely keen combat talent.

The moment the Heavenly Fire rolled down, his hand flickered, and the Yin Yang Fan, rewarded by the Peerless Divine Doctor, was already in his hand.

Yin Yang Fan: Fire control technique increased by ten percent.

Lin Bai raised the Yin Yang Fan and fanned it toward the Heavenly Fire; a portion of the flames was fanned away and changed direction, but most of the flames still stubbornly rolled toward the Green Wood.

In a short while, his protective shield was burned through, leaving a hole.

Qingyun acted in time and barely blocked the flames for Lin Bai, but after only a moment, a layer of fine sweat seeped out on her face; the Heavenly Fire's attribute suppression against her was too strong.

"Master, what should we do? We can't hold on at all," Qingyun shouted urgently.

Lin Bai was silent for a moment, then quickly took out the Blacksmith Six-Piece Set.

With one wave of the Yin Yang Fan, a bolt of Heavenly Fire was guided by him into the furnace.

Afterward, he placed the Yin Yang Fan on the anvil, raised the Blacksmith's Hammer, and smashed it down.

At this moment, Lin Bai no longer cared about any theories of Weapon Refinement or arrays; he refined the Yin Yang Fan entirely according to his own will, betting on his own Luck.

Yin Yang Fan: Fire control increased by ten percent.

The Blacksmith Six-Piece Set could improve the quality of a Dharma Treasure; as long as he could succeed a few times and increase the probability of the Yin Yang Fan's fire control, the Heavenly Fire would be nothing to fear.

As for refining it until it broke?

Ten percent fire control was about the same as no control; in a life-or-death situation, if it broke, it broke...

While Lin Bai was forging, Heavenly Fire continued to burn through the double-layered protective shield and fall.

Qingyun supported with all her might, afraid of disturbing Lin Bai's forging.

The Heavenly Tribulation at this moment was more violent than the previous forty days combined; if Qingyun had been supporting it alone, she would likely have vanished into thin air in no time, just as before.

Lin Bai saw out of the corner of his eye that more Heavenly Fire was descending, so he gritted his teeth and took out the Eight Trigrams Alchemy Furnace rewarded by the Peerless Divine Doctor, guiding a bolt of Heavenly Fire into the Alchemy Furnace.

Spirit Fruit, Temperament Fruit, the fruit produced by the Green Wood, Enlightenment Pill, and the pills he had stored away were all tossed in by him in one go...

Afterward, he gritted his teeth and summoned Gu Yi of the Danling Sect up, tossed an Enlightenment Pill into his mouth to help him recover his memory, and roared at him: "Control the fire and refine the pills."

Gu Yi blinked, recovering his sanity. As various previous memories flooded into his mind, his face couldn't help but darken, but Lin Bai's performance in the Heavenly Tribulation made him dare not act out. He obediently performed the Dharma techniques, controlling the endless stream of flames that Lin Bai was guiding into the Bagua Furnace, not even daring to ask what kind of pill Lin Bai was refining...

Asking would have been useless anyway.

Lin Bai didn't know what kind of pill he was refining either; he was simply making the Alchemy Furnace spin to consume the Heavenly Fire.

He didn't know what material the Bagua Furnace and the Blacksmith Six-Piece Set were made of, but after the Heavenly Fire—which could easily scorch the Green Wood—was introduced into them, it caused them not a single bit of damage; instead, it was controlled into total submission.

"Master, are these all Divine Artifacts?" Qingyun asked in surprise.

"Hmm, I suppose so!" Lin Bai smashed the Yin Yang Fan with hammer blow after hammer blow, occasionally sending it into the furnace to burn it for a while, busy and enjoying himself.

About half an hour passed.

A golden light flashed.

The attributes of the Yin Yang Fan have changed: fire control increased by 20%.

Lin Bai was overjoyed and fanned the Heavenly Fire once more.

This time, more Heavenly Fire turned away, and the pressure on Qingyun eased slightly more.

Afterwards.

Lin Bai threw a large handful of Spirit Fruit and Temperament Fruit at Qingmu to replenish Qingyun's energy, casually cast a Spring Breeze and Rain Art, then took back the Yin Yang Fan and stuffed it into the furnace to continue refining...

It was fortunate that Lin Bai's Spirit Soul was powerful; otherwise, he truly could not have managed this multi-tasking, while Lin Sibai and Lin Wubai outside, having lost his control, were already in a state of system failure, not responding to anyone who spoke to them...

Once, twice, three times...

Three days and three nights passed.

Lin Bai and Qingyun resisted the lightning and Heavenly Fire, and at other times, he was using the Blacksmith Six-Piece Set to refine the Yin Yang Fan.

Perhaps it was because he had become skilled, or perhaps his Luck was high enough.

Lin Bai did not have a single failure in his refining.

Until the fire control of the Yin Yang Fan was raised to 100%...

Ding!

The Craftsman God System popped up a new notification: 【Independently refined a Divine Artifact, your skill has broken through to the God level; Reward: High-level Weapon Refinement Theory】

In the Peerless Divine Doctor System, the name and appearance of the Yin Yang Fan have changed.

Banana Fan: Absolute fire control, can fan out water vapor to extinguish all flames.

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