Chapter 420: Wits and Courage

"Fine, let's see if you are faster, or I am," Lin Bai said indifferently. "In any case, I am merely a divine sense; as long as my true body does not die, I have countless divine senses. Let's just keep playing."

"Let's keep playing then," Meng Tianwang retorted tit-for-tat. "What I excel at is playing games; so far, there hasn't been a BOSS I couldn't conquer."

"I have high hopes for you," Lin Bai praised.

Amidst the resounding sound of the wedding march.

Meng Tianwang and Jin Tianwang walked hand in hand toward the Lin Bai divine sense on the podium.

The voice of the Lin Bai divine sense was passionate and surging: "... At this happy moment, the couple before us, hand in hand, heart to heart, walking toward us with smiles on their faces, this is the beginning of their happy life..."

"Meng Tianwang, the purpose of me doing all this is to oppose the Game Company. You have been playing games in the Immortal World for tens of thousands of years; have you ever come into contact with people from the Game Company?" Silently calculating the time until the end of the Abyss Lord's wedding, Lin Bai tried his best to pick topics everyone was sensitive to.

"Lin Bai, I know you want to stall for time, but I will not go along with your wishes." Meng Tianwang sneered, the dreamscape shattered once again, and everyone returned to their respective places.

The Lin Bai divine sense, having returned to reality, once again forgot the contents of the dream. However, he still remembered his mission. Looking at the Meng Tianwang in front of him, he continued: "I announce..."

"I announce that you and Laistun are joined as husband and wife..." Lin Bai completed the wedding pairing as a matter of course.

Meng Tianwang was wearing a Suit, while Laistun was draped in a Wedding Dress...

Wrong!

The wedding selection option had been skipped.

This was Meng Tianwang's Dreaming!

Lin Bai quickly realized something was wrong and snapped awake.

At this moment, having created a familiar scene to make him fall into a dream, Meng Tianwang had already taken the players and fled, turning into a small black dot on the horizon.

Damn, he's as cunning as a rabbit.

Lin Bai cursed inwardly. He didn't even use Shadow Follower, instead using a high-decibel Provocation: "Meng Tianwang, get back here."

The rolling sound waves spread outward.

With a look of horror on his face, Meng Tianwang flew back the same way he had escaped.

Lin Bai unfolded his dark space, using Provocation while announcing their wedding: "I announce, you and Lansidun..."

The scene before his eyes changed again.

He was back at the previous wedding venue.

Jin Tianwang, Huo Tianwang, the Abyss Lord, and others were all there. Meng Tianwang was still bound by the Tortoise Shell Binding, glaring at Lin Bai with hatred. Even the other Lin Bai divine sense was still continuing the previous lines: "... cheer for them, and send blessings for their perfect union..."

Wrong!

It was another fake dream.

Because the divine sense in reality had not entered the dream at all.

Realizing the flaw, Lin Bai woke up again.

At this time, Meng Tianwang had run far away again.

Looking at the small black dot on the horizon, Lin Bai helplessly continued his Provocation: "Meng Tianwang, I announce that you and Lansidun..."

Meng Tianwang flew back with red eyes.

A green light flashed.

The scene shifted.

It was the previous wedding scene again.

This time, everyone had entered the dream realm; the people from last time had all been pulled back. This was the real dream realm.

"Again?" Huo Tianwang said.

"Meng Laoda, were you unable to escape?" Shui Tianwang said in surprise.

Meng Tianwang glared at Lin Bai with resentment and roared: "Impossible! No one can distinguish between dream and reality in an instant. I have already crafted the dream to be so realistic. Lin Bai, how did you do it?"

"Fake is fake. You don't understand me; how could it be easy to deceive me?" The Lin Bai divine sense stalled for time, unhurried. "Do you know how powerful my Mental Power is?"

"Lin Bai, I agree to your conditions. Let's cooperate!" Meng Tianwang pondered for a moment and said, "You are right; the Abyss Lord and the others have no hope."

"Going back on your word, you despicable villain." The Undead Monarch had left the dream with his memories this time; hearing Meng Tianwang's words, he was furious. "You have no idea how powerful the Abyss Lord is?"

"As it stands, Lin Bai is more powerful," Meng Tianwang said.

"Meng Tianwang, given Lin Bai's temperament, once he defeats us, he will turn on you." The Abyss Lord remained relatively calm, looking at Meng Tianwang, and said peacefully, "Do not give up; we still have a chance. I am not so easily killed."

Lin Bai smiled at Meng Tianwang and used the True Speech Spell on him.

Meng Tianwang said: "Fool, I was only going to trick out..."

The voice stopped abruptly.

Lin Bai smiled and finished the sentence for him: "Trick out my weaknesses?"

Meng Tianwang glanced at him coldly and did not respond.

Subsequently.

The dreamscape fell apart, and the two returned to reality once again.

Before Lin Bai could speak, the dream was continued again.

Lin Bai's previous memories were wiped clean.

Without checking the follower-type camera, he would not be able to retrieve the lost memories.

But the memories of the Abyss Lord, Huo Tianwang, and the others remained.

Before Lin Bai could speak, Meng Tianwang said rapidly: "Everyone, our time is limited. I have been hit with a True Speech Spell by Lin Bai and couldn't trick his Skills out of him. The rest is up to you. If I don't understand all his Skills, I will be dragged into the wedding by him forever and won't be able to rush to the Mist Forest."

"Meng Laoda, no problem, leave it to us." Shui Tianwang looked at Lin Bai meaningfully, a trace of Zhaofeng flashing across the corner of his eyes.

Lin Bai was stunned.

Damn!

Discussing how to deal with him right in front of his face—this was a bit too insulting!

For an instant, his Spirit felt a bit dazed; he couldn't even remember how many times he had been dragged into the dream by Meng Tianwang.

What a troublesome guy!

I must find a way to get my hands on his wish-granting item.

Otherwise.

This guy might cause him no end of trouble in the future!

At this moment, the wedding was still ongoing. Lin Bai, who was presiding over the wedding as a split soul, looked at Heavenly King Meng and said, "Heavenly King Meng, are you willing to marry Heavenly King Jin, whether in poverty or in wealth..."

The Lord of the Abyss automatically ignored the wedding procedure and asked, "Is it really okay to discuss this?"

"It is absolutely fine; he will not have memories from the dream," Heavenly King Meng glanced at Lin Bai and said firmly, "Perhaps afterwards, he could deduce what happened in the dream based on clues from the outside, but I frequently switch dreams, which is enough to interfere with his memory and prevent him from forming coherent thoughts. In severe cases, it can make him unable to distinguish reality from illusion... I am not willing."

Although he said he was not willing, it did not affect the continuation of the wedding. The split soul presiding over the wedding glanced at Heavenly King Meng and said, "Very well, since you are not willing, I still declare in the name of the Holy Spirit, the Holy Son, and the Holy Father that the bride and groom are officially joined as husband and wife..."

Heavenly King Meng: "To hell with it!"

Lin Bai said with composure, "Heavenly King Meng, your heart is in chaos."

Heavenly King Meng's eyes were red: "Lin Bai, don't be smug, I will win."

Lin Bai said: "Perhaps! Your dream can indeed allow you to calmly discuss countermeasures with them and look for my flaws. But I must remind you, you are out of time. In three minutes, the wedding between the Lord of the Abyss and the Monarch of the Undead will end, and even if you find my flaws, you won't be able to make it in time."

"Once the wedding ends, it will be your death day," the Lord of the Abyss said coldly. He still hadn't realized the severity of the problem, or rather, he didn't know at all that his body outside the dream was stationary.

Heavenly King Meng glanced at the Lord of the Abyss, and fine beads of sweat seeped from his forehead.

It was his first time encountering such a situation, and he was completely unsure whether his dream could affect the Mist Forest thousands of miles away.

Since fighting Lin Bai, too many things had exceeded his understanding.

In the past, no matter how powerful a BOSS was, when encountering his dream, he would find their flaws and grind them to death bit by bit.

But Lin Bai simply didn't give him time, and fighting with dreams required time above all else.

After pondering for a moment, Heavenly King Meng gritted his teeth and said, "No, I still have a chance. The God of Fear and the God of Destruction have also rushed to the Mist Forest. You can intercept people you've seen, but how can you intercept people you haven't seen? As long as they buy me time, we can defeat you."

What else could he do?

He couldn't escape, so he could only gamble—gamble that the God of Destruction could stall Lin Bai...

He couldn't even end the dream. He belonged to the most powerful support class, but he didn't have many killing moves himself. Letting him face Lin Bai alone was no different from suicide.

Even if it wasn't suicide, he would fall into a death loop of entering and exiting dreams, trapped here forever.

The best result was to wait for the wedding in the dream to end, join forces with the Lord of the Abyss to kill Lin Bai's split soul, and then rush to the Mist Forest...

The worst result was that the Lord of the Abyss and the Monarch of the Undead would be subdued by Lin Bai, and he would die back to the Immortal World to reorganize his forces and deal with Lin Bai's army of gods.

However, if it really reached that point, the situation in the Immortal World would likely be dangerous.

No.

It couldn't be said that there was no chance.

The variable lay with the Game Company. The Game Company couldn't just watch Lin Bai grow powerful and suppress several worlds alone. After all, given Lin Bai's nature, he would absolutely not allow players to develop.

The wedding was still ongoing. Heavenly King Shui, the Lord of the Abyss, and the others were discussing how to deal with Lin Bai heatedly, as if he didn't exist...

Lin Bai's split soul watched everything before him. Far away in the Free City, Lin Bai's main body, after sealing a pair of righteous gods who had finished their wedding with a card, took out paper and pen from his Storage Ring. Sharing the information transmitted by the split soul, he rapidly recorded keywords on the paper.

It wasn't terrible that he had no chance to check the follower-type recorder; if he lost the memory, he could still know their conspiracy by flipping through the keywords...

The Goddess of the Earth had been silently proceeding with the wedding and hadn't spoken for a long time.

Through the players' remarks, she could roughly guess what had happened in the outside world. She knew that the end of the wedding on the Lord of the Abyss's side was her only chance.

Like Heavenly King Meng, she also hoped that the God of Destruction and the others could stall Lin Bai.

Time passed second by second.

Heavenly King Meng and the others discussed a basic plan and decisively exited the dream to restart it.

Lin Bai in reality also seized the time to create more Spirit Soul armies possessing godhood to monitor the gods getting married in the Free City, and frankly stated that he would go to the Mist Forest next. The matter of sealing them would be left to the split soul. The split soul did not have the Enlightenment Pill, so the matter of recovering their sanity would have to wait until he returned.

The gods' hearts had long since surrendered, so naturally, they had no objections. In just half a day, Lin Bai had already established absolute prestige in their hearts.

The wedding used for experiments in reality had long since ended.

However, Lin Bai did not bring the War God's Body to Shenmo Dalu. After having split souls with godhood that didn't fear loss, there was no need for the War God's Body to go into battle personally.

From a cost-performance perspective, the casually manufactured split souls and the War God's Body with a physical form were clearly not in the same price range.

Finally, the wedding of the Lord of the Abyss and the Monarch of the Undead in the Mist Forest came to an end.

Lin Bai used Shift Position and arrived directly behind the Lord of the Abyss.

With the wedding over, the Lord of the Abyss and the others stood stiff and motionless, having no reaction to the outside world, including his subordinate army; all the abyss creatures were attending the wedding in Heavenly King Meng's dream.

And because the dream and the wedding collided, causing a bug, the stiff and motionless Lord of the Abyss and the others were not protected by the dream. Lin Bai easily invaded behind him and placed his hand on his body.

At the same time.

The split soul presiding over the wedding also used Shadow Follower to stand behind the Death God.

Absolute Suppression.

The main body and the split soul attacked simultaneously, using Three Heads and Six Arms to suppress the Lord of the Abyss and the Monarch of the Undead...

At this moment.

On the outskirts of the Mist Forest, the God of Fear, the God of Destruction, the God of Vengeance, the God of Misfortune, and other gods of the evil side—everyone's gaze was forced onto Lin Bai, who was cooking.

They did not possess the ability of the Lord of the Abyss and the Goddess of the Earth to mobilize legions on a large scale, so they did not bring their subordinates and had come alone.

Dark Domain, Star Domain, Lightning Spirit, Thunder God Descent...

Lin Bai unleashed all his ultimate moves, and a terrifying pressure immediately enveloped all the evil gods. He struck first to gain the initiative.

The wedding was the simplest way to suppress everyone's strength, but the wedding would also suppress his own strength.

Although there was a priority order for the Red Rope, Lin Bai was not willing to gamble on this priority.

If it failed and he lost the Lord of the Abyss, whom he had managed to seize and control with such difficulty, that would be a loss that outweighed the gain.

By turning the Lord of the Abyss into a Puppet and sharing his strength, all the evil gods would be nothing to worry about, and he could take them down by force.

The God of Fear and the others were caught off guard.

The Dark Domain and the Star Domain could not harm them immediately; the most terrifying thing was the defense-ignoring Thunder God Descent, as the long Sword in the hand of the lightning giant swung out, and dense lightning shrouded the entire dark space, landing on those gods.

Caught off guard for a moment, they let out painful hisses.

However, unlike the God of Darkness from before, they were well-rested and in their prime state; the moment they suffered the blow, they opened all their domains and combined their defenses, managing to withstand the Thunder God Descent.

After they expanded their domains, negative effects like fear and weakness instantly fell upon Lin Bai, his attributes plummeted, and the thunder spirits in the dark space collapsed one after another for no apparent reason.

Lin Bai had no idea which god was attacking, but the drop in Negative Emotion did not affect his slaughter of the Abyss Lord; his strength was already very high now, not to mention that his own defense would increase thirty-fold while cooking.

And the cracks covering the lightning giant of the Thunder God Descent were enough to guarantee his safety for three minutes.

On the other side, the avatar had already dismantled the bone frame of the Undead Monarch...

At the same time.

Within the wedding of Heavenly King Meng, the Abyss Lord and the Undead Monarch let out shrill screams.

A large hole inexplicably appeared in the chest of the Abyss Lord, and the flesh on his body fell off piece by piece;

while the bones on the Undead Monarch's body fell off one by one, and were subsequently severed...

At this moment, they could no longer care about finding Lin Bai's weaknesses, and asked in terror: "Heavenly King Meng, what happened? Why are we getting injured?"

As expected.

The dream did not protect them.

Heavenly King Meng sighed, looked at Lin Bai's avatar in despair, and said: "Reality, Lin Bai is torturing your bodies in reality. Abyss Lord, I will end the dream and let you return; I hope you can defeat Lin Bai. Xiaojin, Xiaohuo, Xiaoshui, the moment the wedding ends, find a way to commit suicide and return to the Immortal World..."

Subsequently.

The dream shattered.

The Abyss Lord and the others returned to their bodies,

but soon, they fell into a new round of despair, because their Divinity was still sealed.

Moreover, with their consciousness returned, they had to watch helplessly as Lin Bai's kitchen knife disintegrated their bodies bit by bit, unable to resist at all, not even able to recover.

At this moment, they were fish on a chopping block, desperate and helpless, only able to let Lin Bai slaughter them.

Feeling their lives fading away, the Abyss Lord wept blood in his eyes and let out a desperate roar: "Heavenly King Meng, you idiot, I've been screwed over by you..."

(End of this chapter)