Chapter 430: The Truth of the Immortal World

The dream space was silent.

All this time, what were they afraid of?

It was nothing more than Lin Bai abandoning reason and suppressing others with force.

"So what if there is no Justice Sect? When you laid down your weapons, you already lost the qualifications to negotiate." Lin Bai smiled, looked at the pale-faced Meng Laoda and the others, and released the split soul of the God of Curses. "Old Meng, you had better believe that the Justice Sect truly exists; otherwise, you have no hope at all. After all, when I am not on a mission to save the world, I am even more fearless..."

The gods were in a stir.

Lin Bai looked around at everyone: "Not talking? Do you really intend to test my methods?"

Meng Laoda looked at Lin Bai and suddenly said, "All Heavenly Kings were once players."

Lin Bai was stunned.

The gods were stunned.

Meng Laoda spoke, and the other Heavenly Kings had nothing left to insist upon. Jin Tianwang, who had previously been cursed by Lin Bai, said, "Boss Meng, let me tell it!"

Lin Bai saw through his thoughts at a glance and signaled for him to continue. Having already dismantled their armaments, he did not care about lifting the curse or anything else.

As long as the truth was obtained, it made no difference who told it.

Jin Tianwang looked at everyone and said, "Many years ago, our world was the same as the players' world now; everyone lived a stable and orderly life. Until one day, a game called 'Expedition' suddenly appeared in the world. The Game Capsules were distributed directly into the hands of the public, and through this game, we came to the Immortal World. At that time, the Immortal World had indigenous people living in it, and they mastered all kinds of magical spells.

When the players first entered the Immortal World, every step was difficult. Although we had an Undying Body and better talent than the indigenous people, our actions were restricted everywhere when the game began. The local indigenous people were full of vigilance toward us. However, human hearts are too complex. Under the planning of the players, an internal war in the Immortal World was incited, and the undying players were used as tools by the big shots of the Immortal World..."

He paused, looked at Lin Bai, and said, "You also know that once players seize an opportunity, it is impossible to suppress them ever again. Division, alliances, suppression, slaughter, plus the Game Company constantly increasing the number of players—even though we later knew that the indigenous people of the Immortal World were not NPCs, but living people, for the sake of power, we could not stop. In less than a hundred years, the Immortal World was destroyed, and all the indigenous people were exterminated."

There was another silence.

Alei Ya looked at the several Heavenly Kings angrily: "You actually exterminated a world; that is too much."

The Lord of the Abyss looked at the Nine Great Heavenly Kings and suddenly felt like laughing. Compared to these players, it turned out he was the kind one...

All the gods were emotionally agitated. Their worlds also had players, and they felt the same way about the encounter of the Immortal World.

At this moment, they finally understood why Lin Bai was determined to integrate the power of several worlds; only by unifying the right to speak would he have the ability to deal with the players.

If they fought separately as they did before, I am afraid that, just as the Nine Heavenly Kings said, one day they would be defeated one by one by the players.

Although they were powerful, they each had weaknesses. By that time, even if they wanted to save the world, they would be unable to turn the tide.

The players were invaders and would likely not be as merciful as Lin Bai.

Lin Bai was still quite calm.

The players' actions were all within his expectations. If they were allowed to develop, the destruction of the world was inevitable. No matter how powerful a BOSS was, they were no match for them; no world could withstand billions of undying beings.

This was also the reason why he tried his best to stay ahead of the players.

Not being ahead of them meant destruction.

"Don't look at us like that; we had no choice," Meng Laoda said. "When swept up by the general trend, individual power is too insignificant. Human greed is endless. Once one possesses the power to change the world, who is willing to be an ordinary person? Moreover, when we were playing the game, there was no one like Alliance Leader Lin to come out and turn the tide..."

Jin Tianwang said, "Besides, our world was also destroyed."

"Didn't you all become Heavenly Kings?" Daisi asked.

"At the beginning, reality and the game could still be balanced, but as more and more people prioritized the game, the order of production and life in the Real World began to collapse. However, some people still insisted on living in the Real World. The real disaster was when someone found a way to use the spells of the Immortal World in reality. Then, the order of the Real World completely collapsed, and everyone was forced to enter the game, because only by entering the game could one protect oneself."

Jin Tianwang seemed to recall those crazy years, his expression lonely. "Compared to the collapsing reality, the players' life in the game was more fun. In order to compete for resources with the indigenous people, it naturally exacerbated the collapse of the Immortal World. This was a vicious cycle that no one could stop..."

"How did you become Heavenly Kings?" Lin Bai asked.

"After the extinction of the Immortal World, a chaotic war began among the players. After all, everyone had an Undying Body; who would submit to whom? You have a Skill, but I have one too!" Jin Tianwang snorted. "The war between players lasted for thousands of years. We were the ones who rose to power during that time. Later, we discovered a terrifying fact: as players died repeatedly, their memories of the Real World would gradually disappear. And by then, we could no longer log out of the game and return to the Real World..."

Meng Laoda said bitterly, "Realizing that we could not return to reality and that our memories were disappearing, everyone was very panicked and began to look for ways to break it, but everything was in vain. Later, things even evolved to the point where memories would suddenly disappear even without dying. Players even lost the ability to lose levels after death; after dying, they would go straight to zero and return to the Resurrection Point to start over. It was then that we knew the Game Company could tamper with our memories and even modify the game rules..."

"Why were your memories preserved?" Lin Bai asked.

"God knows. Perhaps it was because we held Law Sacred Artifacts, perhaps because we were needed to guard the Resurrection Points and maintain the stability of the Immortal World, or perhaps there were other arrangements. Anyway, our memories were preserved," Jin Tianwang said. "Later, as more and more players lost their memories, coupled with our guidance, the order of the Immortal World gradually stabilized. Later on, all the players lost their memories, and they unanimously believed that they were Heavenly Kings born from the Mother Body, and were given languages and names by the Mother Body. We were too lazy to correct them..."

"I think you just didn't want to correct them!" Yatis said. "All the Heavenly Kings respect you, you set the social rules and live the lives of people above others. Wouldn't helping people regain their memories be detrimental to your rule?"

"We had no choice." Jin Tianwang looked at Lin Bai and said sheepishly, "We also didn't expect that the Game Company's arrangement for us was to become NPCs, to provide a game for players from another world..."

Meng Laoda said, "So, Alliance Leader, when you asked us about the Game Company, we didn't dare to speak. One, we were afraid the Game Company would delete our memories and make us become like ordinary Heavenly Kings, completely losing our sense of self; two, we thought that if this matter spread, it would cause panic among new players. After all, we also wanted to use the players to deal with the Alliance Leader. Once they knew that playing the game would have such terrible consequences, I'm afraid they wouldn't dare to continue playing."

"You certainly had a good plan." Lin Bai snorted. "I'm afraid you were also thinking that one day, the Game Company would re-enable you, grant you some special permissions, and let you get back at me!"

"..." The several Heavenly Kings looked at each other and said nothing.

"There was indeed such a consideration. Alliance Leader, I have let you see a joke." Meng Laoda looked at Lin Bai, let out a long breath, and shook his head. "It feels easier to say it out loud. All the clansmen have lost their memories and are living in a daze, while only we are awake; it actually feels quite unpleasant."

"Have you ever seen anyone from the Game Company?" Lin Bai asked.

The several Heavenly Kings shook their heads in unison.

Meng Laoda said, "No one from the Game Company has ever appeared. Just like the current players, our information all comes from the game forums. Alliance Leader, your appearance is the biggest accident in the game."

Lin Bai looked at him and said nothing more.

As things stand, it is already very clear.

The Game Company is manipulating everything from the shadows, and they are inhumane. They do not take the lives of these worlds seriously at all, wantonly playing with them. Not only the indigenous people, but the players are also their playthings...

"The people from the Game Company must be demons!" The Moon Goddess Afula waved her fists in anger. "They destroy these worlds; for what? The Undead Monarch launching the undead calamity was also for power, but they haven't even appeared from beginning to end..."

The Undead Monarch's skull looked at Afula and said nothing.

"Perhaps the Game Company is collecting data to create a more perfect game," Guang Tianwang said. "It is also possible that they are just doing it for fun, just like driving a group of ants into another anthill to watch them fight..."

"We even speculated that Alliance Leader Lin was a wasp put into the anthill by the Game Company, just to make the game more interesting, as the final big BOSS in the game," Shui Tianwang said. "But later, Alliance Leader Lin wantonly destroyed the game progress, and the Game Company modified so many game terms to deal with the Alliance Leader, so we overturned this speculation and truly believed that the Alliance Leader was sent by the Justice Sect to oppose the Game Company."

As he spoke, he looked at Lin Bai, as if waiting for him to take the initiative to explain his origins.

Lin Bai was silent.

He had actually had the same thoughts as the Heavenly Kings, but now, he was confused.

After all.

Since he came to this world, no one had ever told him he had any mission, only a bunch of inexplicable systems...

As for saving the world and such, it was a slogan he fabricated to win people over.

It was the system tasks that forced him to his current position step by step, and also used his hands to completely disrupt the game progress.

So that's how it is.

The people behind the system really are the enemies of the Game Company.

But they are truly despicable; not daring to show their faces, what is the meaning of pushing out an ordinary person like himself who was living a perfectly fine life on Earth?

Did they never think about whether he might die in this different world if he failed to complete those bizarre and disgusting tasks?

Perhaps they never cared about his life or death at all!

When it comes down to it, he is nothing more than an ant to them.

None of them are any good!

……

"Alliance Leader, what should we do next?" the Goddess of the Earth asked.

"Make the truth about the Tianzhe Jie public, let everyone know the truth, and destroy this game from the roots." Lin Bai's gaze was cold, "Our fate is decided by ourselves; no one can be a marionette controlled by others."

"What about the Game Company?" Alei Ya asked.

"Haven't they not stepped in yet? Let all the worlds return to peace and see if they will step in. If they don't, their game will be over, and we will have won, having saved all the worlds," Lin Bai said.

"What if they step in personally?" Afula asked timidly.

"We'll talk about it when the time comes!" Lin Bai was slightly irritable, "Focus on the present for now; we don't even know what kind of things they are!"

"Lin Bai, does the Justice Gate really exist?" the Lord of the Abyss asked suddenly, "Are those Fazhe Zhidao you mentioned real?"

"They exist, and they are all real." Lin Bai thought of his Tongue Like a Lotus and nodded affirmatively, "The Justice Gate is real, and the laws are real, it's just that players cannot cultivate them."

In Lin Bai's setting, he is the strongest heaven-gifted genius in the history of the Justice Gate, a being with the potential to become the Heavenly Dao, and a Disciple doted on by numerous ancestors; if Tongue Like a Lotus truly took effect and turned the Justice Gate into reality, that would undoubtedly be most advantageous for him.

However, Lin Bai didn't actually hold that many fantasies.

Not to mention the issue of probability, if a Skill provided by the system could create an existence more powerful than oneself out of thin air, that would be contrary to reason.

Just like whether the omnipotent God can create a stone he cannot lift, it is a conflict in the setting itself.

After all.

In his setting, the Justice Gate is in a high-dimensional world, and the ancestors within are all powerful, with eyes and hands reaching the heavens, and furthermore, it transcends the San Qian Shi Jie……

……

Exiting the dream, everyone's memories were preserved.

Lin Bai returned to the Real World and gave the truth about the Immortal World, intercepted from the follower-type camera, to 【Immortal Hero First Paparazzi】, publishing it through various channels of "Justice Weekly".

But the reaction from the outside world was somewhat different from what Lin Bai had expected.

Underneath the posts on the game forum, there were all sorts of snide and sarcastic comments:

"It must be fake. To keep players in the Real World from entering the game, the stories Lin Bai makes up are getting more and more outrageous."

"What is the purpose of the Game Company doing this? Is it for fun?"

"It's clearly a case of shifting the blame. Up until now, we've only seen Lin Bai making things difficult for us, while the Game Company has only been giving us benefits and helping us clean up the mess."

"I won't believe it. Ever since Lin Bai, without asking right from wrong or making any distinctions, made every player who entered the game perform talents, I have been a hater of his for life."

"Better to believe it exists than to believe it doesn't. What if it's true? I said long ago that the Game Capsule could control thoughts, but you didn't believe it. Anyway, I won't be entering the Game Capsule."

"What's the point of just talking? Bring out the evidence! Who can't make up a story?"

"You ask Lin Bai for evidence, and he'll manufacture a pile of fakes for you in a minute. Aren't there old players in the Immortal World? Let them go find evidence. Even dinosaurs from tens of millions of years ago left fossils behind; even if a civilization were wiped out completely, it wouldn't leave absolutely no trace, right!"

"Almighty Game Company, please bestow your divine power and eliminate that monster Lin Bai! He is already trying every way to smear you!"

(End of this chapter)