Chapter 396: Just Plain Robbery

Since the Heavenly King is a player, the nature of the Immortal World has changed; no matter what kind of story Lin Bai fabricates, they will not believe it.

The plan Lin Bai previously formulated to use players to stir up the Immortal World and Shenmo Dalu, and subsequently profit from it, can no longer be implemented.

Yet that very plan pushed Lin Bai to the status of a public enemy of the world; he can neither gain benefits in the Immortal World nor win the trust of the many gods of Shenmo Dalu.

Therefore, the current best method is to improve his own strength and use absolute power to win allies for himself.

……

Letting the matter of the Heavenly King ferment naturally, Lin Bai turned his energy back to the battlefield between the Thunder Heavenly King and the God of Darkness, pondering how to profit from the battle between the two of them.

The battle between the two has already lasted for a long time.

The God of Darkness seems truly immortal.

The lightning of the Thunder Heavenly King rages incessantly in the dark space.

From time to time, one can hear the screams of the God of Darkness, but his screams have not weakened with the passage of time; they have maintained the same tone throughout, and even towards the end, the screams of the God of Darkness have become full of vigor.

This makes Lin Bai have to suspect that the God of Darkness has not suffered any harm, but has been toying with the Thunder Heavenly King all along……

While Lin Bai was busy manipulating public opinion, the anger of the War God Body had long since ceased.

The two have been relying on inertia to fight.

Following Lin Bai's discovery of the abnormality of the God of Darkness, the Thunder Heavenly King also discovered this point; he decisively stopped his attack and stood there quietly.

"So you've discovered it!" The mocking voice of the God of Darkness rang out from all directions, "Invader, I must say, your power is extremely strong, but in my dark space, any power will be absorbed by me and assimilated into my dark power, helping me grow and strengthen. Except for the God of Holy Light, you are the only man who has released so much energy in my dark space and still not felt weak. You should feel honored."

The Thunder Heavenly King did not speak, but looked in the direction of the War God Body and asked with a smile: "Lin Bai, what about the cooperation we agreed on? Why don't you make a move to help me?"

The God of Darkness had released a wave of Negative Emotion, so he did not suspect that the anger just now had anything to do with Lin Bai.

"Heavenly King, I am too weak to be of any help in this battle," Xingtian said humbly. After John died, the split soul that escaped from his body hung onto a head that Xingtian had separated, floating beside him.

"You are Lin Bai?" The voice of the God of Darkness rang out, and the War God Body felt his hair stand on end, feeling as if he were completely locked on.

"Are you the one who let them into our world?" the God of Darkness continued to ask, "You are weaker than even a bug; how did you break through the world barrier?"

"God of Darkness, this is just one of my countless split souls," War God Xingtian smiled, "It is perfectly normal for the Divinity to be weak. My main body is incomparably powerful; breaking through the world barrier is naturally as easy as turning over one's hand."

The several lightning spirits of the Thunder Heavenly King smiled simultaneously; he frowned but did not expose Lin Bai.

"Incomparably powerful?" The God of Darkness let out a scoff, "I have looked into your information; there is nothing powerful about you. I will give you a chance to pledge allegiance; be my servant! I like collecting interesting Souls……"

"God of Darkness, I incited the war between two worlds; do you think I would be content to be your servant? I will not be anyone's servant; what I want is profit, what I want is power," the War God Body laughed disdainfully, "Besides, you can't even beat one Thunder Heavenly King."

"Crushing him to death is as simple as crushing a bug," the God of Darkness said, "I am merely using his power to strengthen myself."

"Dark God, my split soul was captured by him. If you can kill him, perhaps we can talk about cooperation," Lin Bai blatantly sowed discord between the two, "For example, I can take you to other worlds to develop believers; for example, we can join forces to finish off your arch-rival, the God of Holy Light. I will not become anyone's servant, but I can become anyone's partner……"

"An arrogant and interesting fellow," the God of Darkness laughed, "I must say, I am becoming more and more interested in you."

"Lin Bai, are you always this shameless?" The Thunder Heavenly King was so angry he laughed, "Half an hour ago, you were still talking to me about cooperation."

"Heavenly King, you did not show sincerity in cooperation, nor did you show corresponding strength," the War God Body said, "The God of Darkness is just one of the many gods of Shenmo Dalu; you have no way to deal with him, so it is normal for me to change to a partner."

"Dark God, you heard it; this guy has no good intentions at all. He doesn't want to cooperate with anyone; he just wants to provoke us into fighting and then both suffer," the Thunder Heavenly King laughed, "I think we two strong ones should start cooperating and join forces to teach this kid a lesson and find the method of traversing worlds from him."

"That is a good idea," the Dark God agreed.

"Whatever," the War God Body shrugged his shoulders, "If you kill me, I will only lose two split souls. I can still go find other Heavenly Kings and other gods to cooperate with; there will always be someone interested in my proposal. When that time comes, you will understand what a good opportunity you have missed."

"A silver-tongued fox," the God of Darkness said, "Those gods do not know how long they have lived; their wisdom is like the stars in the sky, and who among them would not see through your flowery guts?"

"That is hard to say; after all, only I can traverse worlds," the War God Body said leisurely, "This is my greatest bargaining chip."

The God of Darkness fell into silence.

The Thunder Heavenly King blinked, looking at Lin Bai, not knowing what he was thinking.

"Are you two still going to fight or not? If not, I'm leaving; watching you fight is actually quite boring," the War God Body said. As he spoke, a Magpie Bridge sprouted beneath his feet, piercing through the dark space and connecting to an unknown place.

The moment the Magpie Bridge emerged.

A lightning lock was already bound around the waist of the War God Body.

The Thunder Heavenly King looked at Lin Bai with a half-smile: "If we go, we go together."

"No one can escape my dark space without my permission," the God of Darkness said.

And then.

Lin Bai felt the entire War God Body being restrained.

"You won't fight, you won't kill, and you won't let me leave; you two are truly interesting," when the War God Body spoke, he naturally applied the Dihua Skill.

At the same time.

His face sank, and he used the "Wrath of Man and God" Skill again.

"Invader, darkness is everywhere; I have already entered your body. Unless you kill yourself, your power will be devoured by me bit by bit……"

In the mind of the Thunder Heavenly King, a mass of black fog suddenly appeared, rolling up and down, "Lin Bai can only cooperate with me."

……

Being Read Mind.

Lin Bai could not find the main body of the God of Darkness, so he could only use Being Read Mind on the Thunder Heavenly King; Dihua plus anger was enough to destroy his sanity.

At this very moment, he was also certain that before the two of them decided the winner, he would not be in any danger.

The Thunder Heavenly King wanted to use his Magpie Bridge to leave the dark space.

The God of Darkness might not have looked down on him before, intent on devouring the energy of the Thunder Heavenly King, but now, knowing his identity, he was probably calculating some little schemes of his own.

But in Lin Bai's view, the two of them fighting until both were severely injured was the best result.

Having fought for so long, the Thunder Heavenly King was only releasing lightning; his Law Sacred Artifact—the Thunder Hammer—had not been used yet……

……

Shengji Sect.

Lin Bai used the Head-Splitting Technique of Three Heads and Six Arms to split heads and arms for himself. With the dense mass of heads and arms piled together, under the incredible gaze of Xu Longyun, he used a card to seal an unknown number of heads and arms inside.

Just because his whole person going over was too dangerous did not mean his torso could not go over.

Nowadays, his head and arms are consumables; losing a thousand or eight hundred of them doesn't make his heart ache at all...

And when Lin Bai sealed his own head and arms, he unexpectedly activated a new way to use the card and obtained a card reward.

He was stunned for a moment, then suddenly realized.

For a Card Master, sealing oneself is also a way to preserve strength; after all, the restoration property of the cards is too powerful.

"Idiot, you still have the face to say you have wisdom, and you're competing with me for Lin Bai? Can you compete with me? Do you really think that's all the ability I have?" Heavenly King of Thunder and Lightning did not hide his anger at all, "And you're devouring my power; you have no idea how fast my recovery ability is?"

"Fool, when did I ever want to compete with you for Lin Bai." A bucket of dirty water was splashed over, and the God of Darkness also lost his reason, "You've been hitting me for so long, it's time for me to attack."

As soon as the words fell.

The sky full of electric nets suddenly dimmed, leaving only dozens of lonely Thunder Spirits floating in the air, having lost contact with each other.

Then.

One by one, the Thunder Spirits disappeared into the darkness.

The Thunder Spirits vanished.

Heavenly King of Thunder and Lightning remained indifferent. He released himself from the state of the Thunder Spirit and sneered: "Darkness, throughout history, has no one ever been able to break your dark space? Today, let me show you how I break this dark room of yours. Do you really think I let you devour those lightning bolts and Thunder Spirits for nothing?"

As he spoke.

A Hammer wreathed in electric light suddenly appeared in his hand.

Lin Bai looked at that Hammer, his breathing suddenly held; it was it, the mission target had finally appeared. Having endured for so long, wasn't it just for this Hammer?

At the same time.

Darkness wrapped around his body; the area below the waist of Heavenly King of Thunder and Lightning seemed to have been eroded away by the darkness.

Heavenly King of Thunder and Lightning didn't care, he raised the Thunder Hammer and roared: "Thunder—Boundary Break!"

Countless lightning bolts returned to the Hammer from the darkness, cutting through the dark space like sharp blades.

The God of Darkness's scream of surprise rang out from all directions: "Impossible, how could the energy I devoured be stripped away again?"

"There is nothing impossible. The Thunder Hammer can master all the power of thunder, not just the current, but also the past." Heavenly King of Thunder and Lightning grinned hideously, "God of Darkness, you are nothing more than this, break for me!"

Crack!

Crack!

A shattering sound came.

The War God's Body looked up, the darkness above its head shattering bit by bit; wherever its gaze reached, there were jumping electric sparks everywhere.

"Ah!"

The God of Darkness's miserable scream rang out.

This time it wasn't a disguise; it was a genuine scream.

At the same time.

Lin Bai felt the body of the War God's Body also shattering.

"Heavenly King of Thunder and Lightning, it's just a dark space, let it shatter. You can't kill me. I will kill Lin Bai's split soul, trap you in this world, and grind you to death bit by bit, hahahaha!" The God of Darkness shouted wildly.

Kill me?

Is it that easy? I didn't escape before because there was no benefit, but now...

In an instant, the War God's Body fell apart—split head, split limbs, split legs, split torso...

Everything that could be split was split out by him, looking as if it had truly been crushed, and the head containing John's split soul was also torn to pieces by the God of Darkness.

Heavenly King of Thunder and Lightning had a cold gaze, not caring at all about the shattered War God's Body, and continued to manipulate the lightning to destroy the dark space.

Shengji Sect.

A flash of brilliance appeared in Lin Bai's eyes, his energy operating at full load.

Garbage information from his past life was projected at full load.

"Eat grapes without spitting out grape skins, don't eat grapes and spit out grape skins"

"You defend, even an eighty-year-old grandma defends better than you"

"Big Brother, it's time to take your medicine"

"Heaven adds years and people add weight, spring fills the universe and pigs fill the house"

"You are heartless, you are unreasonable..."

"I'm not listening, I'm not listening!"

In the mind of Heavenly King of Thunder and Lightning, a large pile of various images suddenly flooded in.

There was a fat man in black reciting tongue twisters, a basketball player talking trash, a woman affectionately feeding poison to her husband, a scholar writing couplets, a bickering young couple, and even classic two-person adult film scenes...

A massive amount of garbage information and images flooded his mind in an instant, causing his thinking to experience a brief delay.

A head and an arm appeared along the Magpie Bridge.

The card was released against the Thunder Hammer.

Densely packed Lin Bai heads and arms hugged toward the Thunder Hammer.

The next instant.

The card was retrieved.

After an unknown number of arms were destroyed by lightning, the Hammer in the hand of Heavenly King of Thunder and Lightning suddenly disappeared and was sealed into the card along with a pile of arms.

This was a new function Lin Bai discovered when he was experimenting with the cards: a Puppet sealed into a card can forcibly bring inanimate objects into the card.

At the time, searching for new functions was only to increase the number of cards; this was the first time using it.

【... Seize a certain Sacred Artifact from the hands of the Nine Heavenly Kings (Completed); Reward: Shadow-Following (Already issued)】

The Super Villain System sent a notification that the mission was complete.

Lin Bai let out a long sigh of relief, stopped pumping junk content into the Thunder Heavenly King's head, and tossed him a cartoon image of a character waving a Hammer amidst fireworks in the sky: "Thanks for the Hammer, Heavenly King."

Afterwards.

The severed limbs and fragments of the War God Body, along with the card that sealed the Thunder Hammer, surged onto the Magpie Bridge and vanished from sight.

In the dark space, only the livid Thunder Heavenly King remained, along with the dark space that had healed again after losing the destruction caused by the Thunder Hammer.

The Thunder Heavenly King looked at his empty palm, dumbfounded, his face full of bewilderment.

His Law Sacred Artifact—the Thunder Hammer, just like that, had been snatched away?

Recalling the encounter just now, he could no longer maintain his composure; his hair stood straight up on end, he clenched his fists, and roared hysterically: "Lin Bai, I will not coexist with you."

After a moment of silence, the voice of the God of Darkness sounded once again in the dark space: "Ha... haha... hahahahaha..."

(End of this chapter)