Chapter 409: No One Can Stay Out of It

The player turned on the livestream.

Tuohai found their livestream channel.

Afterwards, Lin Bai's split soul took them onto the Magpie Bridge, and in an instant, they arrived at the battlefield.

The livestream feed came to an abrupt halt.

Just like the heads and arms Lin Bai had sent over previously, as soon as everyone exited the Magpie Bridge, they were frozen in place on the battlefield.

Xu Longyun and the others watching the livestream looked at the Ruyi floating above Heavenly King Meng's head, feeling both frustrated and astonished: "Frozen again. If everyone has to fight on his home turf, wouldn't Heavenly King Meng be invincible!"

"There is no such thing as invincible. If living people enter his domain, they will also be dragged into the dream. The more people who enter, the more passive he becomes. If he is defeated within the dream, everyone should be able to get out."

Lin Bai was a party involved and understood what was happening inside the dream better than anyone else.

After the split soul and the players entered the battlefield, they were pulled into the dream at the first opportunity. Inside the dream, the few people appeared out of thin air, with no warning beforehand.

Lin Bai rested his chin on his hand and murmured: "I just don't know how large his domain coverage is, and if there is any way to attack him from outside the domain range."

"There are players rushing toward the Mist Forest; I believe we will soon know how large his domain coverage is." Xu Longyun glanced at Lin Bai and analyzed, "With enemies surrounding him on all sides, for Heavenly King Meng to dare to bring out the Ruyi, I think he must have the confidence to protect himself."

……

Several players entered the game, and with the protection of the split soul, they did not die for the time being; the livestream feed remained frozen.

Soon, viewers entered their livestream channel and requested via barrage that Lin Bai must kill Heavenly King Meng.

The voices asking Lin Bai to use the Magpie Bridge to send them to the battlefield had diminished quite a bit, as dying in the dream meant account deletion.

Lin Bai ignored them and instead looked at the Ruyi on Heavenly King Meng's head, pondering how to get his hands on it. Such an awesome Divine Artifact was too much of a waste in the hands of an enemy.

……

"Tuohai, go find 【Immortal World's Number One Paparazzo】." Lin Bai withdrew his thoughts from the battlefield for a moment and instructed.

Tuohai turned and left.

A short while later.

【Immortal World's Number One Paparazzo】 arrived: "Alliance Leader, what do you need me for?"

"Start a livestream," Lin Bai said. "I want to have a dialogue with the Goddess of Earth and the others."

【Immortal World's Number One Paparazzo】 opened the livestream and asked with slight excitement: "Alliance Leader, are you going to cooperate with the Goddess of Earth and the others?"

Lin Bai glanced at him and spoke to himself: "Your Excellency Goddess of Earth, apologies for only replying to you now. I presume you already know of Heavenly King Meng's methods. Currently, in the Mist Forest, the Abyss Lord and the Necromancer Monarch are fighting them inside the dream. According to my verification, anyone who steps into the Mist Forest will be pulled into the dream. At present, we do not yet know the means to break Heavenly King Meng's dream."

He paused for a moment and continued: "I think the reason you haven't appeared for such a long time is likely because you are unwilling to fight in alliance with the Abyss Lord. I can understand you."

However, the Nine Great Heavenly Kings of the Immortal World are players and possess Undying and Indestructible lives; in the future, they will inevitably be a hidden danger to all worlds. Bringing them into your world was my fault, but I had no choice. You should already know of the existence of the Game Company; even if I didn't do this, they would still break through the barrier between the two worlds and plunge both worlds into chaos.

Previously, you invited me to join forces with you, so you must have understood the stakes involved. Therefore, I have decided to open up a new battlefield to isolate all hidden dangers at the root."

"Heavenly King Meng, Heavenly King Thunder, Heavenly King Shui, Heavenly King Huo, and Heavenly King Jin—five Heavenly Kings have come to Shenmo Dalu. There are now only four Heavenly Kings left in the Immortal World. I believe we can launch a surprise attack on the Immortal World, take out the four Heavenly Kings left behind first, and then turn back to deal with the Heavenly Kings in Shenmo Dalu. If you agree to my strategy, we shall meet in Free City next to discuss the specific operational procedures..."

……

【Immortal World's Number One Paparazzo】 was a super celebrity among players. As soon as he started the broadcast, a massive number of viewers entered his livestream channel.

"Holy crap, Lin Bai."

"Clone-type Skills are truly awesome."

"Alliance Leader Lin, I am your super die-hard fan."

"Alliance Leader, you must defeat Heavenly King Meng; you are our only Jiusheng."

"Are you going to join forces with the Goddess of Earth? I support you."

"My friend is by the Goddess of Earth's side passing on information; I will notify him to report to the Goddess of Earth right now."

"Luring the Tiger off the Mountain, driving the tiger to devour the wolf—Alliance Leader Lin is playing a good strategy."

……

Lin Bai did not respond to the players and directly had 【Immortal World's Number One Paparazzo】 close the livestream.

"Husband, are you going to take the Goddess of Earth and the others to the Immortal World?" Xu Longyun asked.

"Yes, it was hard enough to gather them together; I can't let them sit idle. I am skilled at multi-line operations."

As Lin Bai spoke, he was thinking about the task of collecting the nine Law Sacred Artifacts. The most powerful Heavenly King Meng being entangled by the Abyss Lord was a good opportunity to seize other Sacred Artifacts.

He did not believe there were other guys as powerful as Heavenly King Meng over there; after all, back then, one God of Darkness had been enough to push back Heavenly King Thunder.

"Will there be danger?" Xu Longyun looked at Lin Bai and reminded him, "The Goddess of Earth and the others previously thought Heavenly King Thunder would seize their divinity, but now that the matter of the dream has been spread by the Heart of Darkness, they know it was you who seized the divinity. I fear they will vent their anger on you..."

"One cannot ask for too much; wealth is sought in danger." Lin Bai looked at Xu Longyun and reached out his hand, "Give me the Disguise Glasses."

Xu Longyun was speechless.

He had just said that wealth is sought in danger, and in the next breath, he was asking for glasses for himself. However, she still took out the glasses; a cautious Lin Bai was the Lin Bai she liked.

There were three pairs of Disguise Glasses in total: the split soul beside the God of Darkness had one pair, he himself had one pair, and Xu Longyun had taken one pair when she was impersonating him.

Back when he first obtained the Disguise Glasses, Lin Bai felt they were useless, but he hadn't expected that now, these inconspicuous little props would play a key role in the war.

Taking back the glasses, Lin Bai split off another split soul, then took a spare Darkness Divinity out of his Storage Ring and stuffed it into the split soul's body to help it stabilize its form.

The split soul itself only had System Skills and did not possess power, and the Disguise Glasses could not simulate power either. With a Main God divinity supporting it, the disguise would be more convincing.

Tu Yan watched the Darkness Divinity that Lin Bai had taken out so casually and curled his lip in silence. He felt more and more that he had been a bit rash when he took the Darkness Divinity back then. According to his master's way of playing, he feared that divinities would be a dime a dozen in the future, and it was no wonder the gods of Shenmo Dalu were afraid.

Tu Yan's brow twitched, and he sighed inwardly, fearing that his master's strategy of driving the tiger to devour the wolf would not go smoothly.

……

Having integrated the Darkness Divinity, the split soul put on the Disguise Glasses and transformed into Lin Bai's appearance. Aside from the sinister aura inherent to the Darkness Divinity, not a trace of a Spirit Soul could be detected.

Free City had a large number of players. Upon learning that Lin Bai and the Goddess of Earth were going to negotiate here, the players logged on with great interest, each finding a favorable position and opening a livestream at the first opportunity.

A golden hexagram array suddenly appeared on the ground, and as the light flashed, a group of gods led by the Goddess of Earth appeared outside Free City.

Behind them were various attendants: angels flying in the sky, tree-men hundreds of meters tall, giants holding long Swords, elves with pointed ears, and so on.

Looking at the army behind the gods, Xu Longyun felt a complex mix of emotions and sighed, "If only there were a time when my husband didn't have to go into battle personally."

The faces of Tuohai and the others turned red instantly, and shame arose from within their hearts. They asked Lin Bai for forgiveness: "Master, it is the Disciple's incompetence."

Tu Yan, Ye Song, and the others who had obtained the Darkness Divinity sighed to themselves, "They didn't even give us a chance to develop!"

"It has nothing to do with you. The Justice Alliance has only been established for a few months. Those guys are all old monsters who have lived for thousands or tens of thousands of years; it's normal that we can't compare to them," Lin Bai smiled nonchalantly and comforted them. "The alliance has only been established for a few months, yet it has already made these old monsters feel as if they are facing a formidable enemy. They are the ones who should be panicking. Besides, the Justice Alliance doesn't rely on orthodox cultivation, but on annexation and integration. Don't look at how powerful their forces are now; in the future, these forces will all belong to our alliance. I am most skilled at turning enemies into friends..."

"..." Tuohai and the others were speechless for a moment, but when they thought about it, it really was the case. They had once been Lin Bai's enemies too, but in the end, hadn't they all been manipulated by Lin Bai into joining the Justice Alliance?

One could only say that Lin Bai was too monstrous.

Free City was the first stronghold for the Western Continent to enter Shenmo Dalu. There were several Magpie Bridges, so Lin Bai didn't need to go through the trouble of rebuilding one; he directly connected to one of them, and his disguised split soul arrived above Free City.

The moment Lin Bai appeared, the players in Free City burst into cheers, and all the live-streaming cameras were aimed at him.

"Lin Bai, you despicable and shameless villain who incited the war, you actually dared to show up." The God of War's roar was like a Thunder Shock. The long Sword in his hand was pointed at Lin Bai, his entire body overflowing with a soaring fighting spirit that seemed capable of tearing the sun and moon apart.

The other gods also glared at him angrily; clearly, they already knew that Lin Bai had impersonated the Heavenly King of Thunder.

"Please calm your anger, noble gods. I have come with sincerity." Lin Bai stood opposite them, as if he didn't see their anger, his face wearing a humble smile as he spoke calmly and composedly. His gaze swept over the many gods, marking each one; every god would be his prey in the future.

"I cannot feel any sincerity from you," the God of Holy Light said coldly. "Even from thousands of meters away, I can sense the disgusting, evil aura of the God of Darkness on you. Presumably, you have placed the copied Divinity onto yourself, haven't you?"

"Despicable."

"Shameless."

"You do things yourself, yet you want to shift the blame onto the Heavenly King of the Immortal World. What kind of Alliance Leader of the Justice Alliance are you? The Divinity of the Deception God should belong to you."

"You must be planning to trick us into the Immortal World to seize our Divinities..."

"Don't waste your breath on him. Kill him, and no one will ever threaten our Faith again."

The gods scolded Lin Bai one after another, completely different from the cold and aloof Abyss Lord who would start a fight at the slightest disagreement.

"Heh, these gods have finally come to their senses."

"Alliance Leader Lin is afraid he'll be trying to steal a chicken only to end up losing the rice this time."

"Where there are players, there are no secrets. Once a conspiracy is placed under the sunlight, it will never succeed again."

"Let's see how Alliance Leader Lin handles the current situation!"

"Your Excellency Bairuisi, are you certain you want to go to war with me?" Lin Bai ignored the agitated gods and looked at the Earth Goddess instead.

The Earth Goddess had curly brown hair, wore a wreath on her head, held a staff made of a tree branch, and her long dress trailed on the ground. She looked calm and elegant. From beginning to end, she just looked at Lin Bai without saying a word.

The Earth Goddess gave Lin Bai the same feeling as the Abyss Lord—inscrutable, as if she had merged with the entire earth. Getting her Divinity to give to Xu Longyun would probably not be easy.

"If you threaten the safety of all the gods, going to war with you is not out of the question." The Earth Goddess swept a faint glance at Lin Bai and said, "But your Spirit Soul is too weak and not in harmony with your vast Divinity. The you who is talking to me right now must be just a split soul!"

"As expected of the strongest god, you saw through my disguise at a glance." Lin Bai smiled. "That's right, this is just a split soul of mine. Even if you kill him, it won't cause me any damage, but you will lose my friendship instead. If we meet again in the future, I fear we will only be able to face each other with blades."

"No one is afraid of you." The golden-haired Sun God was forced to smile. He twitched the corners of his mouth and said angrily.

"I don't wish for you to fear me; I haven't even thought about becoming your enemy. Even the Abyss Lord is unwilling to become an enemy of the whole world. Besides, I don't have that kind of strength." Lin Bai coughed lightly. "Noble gods, I have come with sincerity, for the sake of resolving the catastrophe of all worlds..."

"Lin Bai, flowery words cannot cover up the fact that you turned the God of Darkness into a Puppet and copied his Divinity," the Wisdom Goddess said coldly.

"Beautiful goddess, may I ask who you are?" Lin Bai smiled and looked at the goddess who had spoken.

"The Wisdom Goddess, Yatis," the Wisdom Goddess smiled proudly.

"Goddess Yatis, whether you believe it or not, the matter of the God of Darkness was an accident." Lin Bai looked at the Wisdom Goddess, using his Dihua Skill, his eyes sincere. "Don't be in a hurry to refute; listen to me first."

"Noble gods, if you understand my past, you should know that I don't use cards very often. Moreover, using a card to seal an opponent requires the opponent to be severely injured and near death, or for the opponent to be willing to be sealed by me."

"The God of Darkness is a Main God; his Divinity is endless. As long as there is a shadow, he will not die. I ask you, such a Main God—if I hadn't obtained his consent, how could I possibly have sealed him into a Puppet?"

"Besides, at that time, it was only a tiny split soul of mine beside the Heavenly King of Thunder. His strength was at most equivalent to a four-winged angel. At the time, he was captured and imprisoned by the Heavenly King of Thunder to be used as a tool for setting up the Magpie Bridge. Many people in Songshi City saw it. You should all understand that even a severely injured God of Darkness could not be harmed by a four-winged angel, right!"

The gods looked at each other in dismay.

Lin Bai's explanation came with its own Dihua effect.

Moreover, they themselves were unwilling to believe that they, who possessed such powerful strength, could be turned into Puppets.

Therefore.

The hostility of most people toward Lin Bai eased slightly for the moment.

"That doesn't change the fact that you ultimately turned the God of Darkness into a Puppet," the God of Wisdom said.

"Your Excellency Yatis, if I said that turning the God of Darkness into a Puppet at that time was to save him, would you believe it?" Lin Bai looked at the Wisdom Goddess and said, "Furthermore, I must correct a fact: I did not turn the God of Darkness into a Puppet, but used a special ability I possess to help him stabilize his Divinity."

He paused for a moment, looked around at the gods, and said, "After his Divinity was stabilized by my special method, even without a single believer, the power of the God of Darkness would not fade. This is the reason why the God of Darkness agreed to let me copy his Divinity. The current him no longer needs believers to provide power; he has become a true God of Darkness."

(End of this chapter)