CHAPTER 380: IS LIN BAI GETTING MARRIED AT THE MOST CHAOTIC TIME OF EVENT 380?

"Damn, leveling in the Fairy World is awesome! One day here is worth a month in the Lower Realm," a Player named Flower or Not excitedly remarked. "Leveling up here and then going back to the Lower Realm to show off is badass."

"We won’t be able to go back, bro. Don’t you know? The pathway to the Lower Realm, the Magpie Bridge, is broken," Foggy Flower stated. "Lin Bai needs us to stir things up in the Fairy World; he won’t let us go back."

"Just die and go back!" Flower or Not glanced at him and said proudly. "The Fairy World has Resurrection Points, and so does the Mortal World. If we can’t cope with the Fairy World, we can just lose a Level and choose to resurrect at a Resurrection Point in the Mortal World. If we want to level up, we can just choose to resurrect at a Resurrection Point here. At most, we would lose some experience. With the fast leveling in the Fairy World, whether the Magpie Bridge exists or not is irrelevant to us. We are Players; how can Lin Bai ever confine us?"

"..." Foggy Flower paused for a moment. Makes sense. "But dying causes all our equipment to drop, leading to huge losses."

"Bro, wake up. The Level of the Celestials is too high; our chances of seizing equipment from them are slim. Plus, we’re here to level up. What’s the point of carrying equipment around? Can’t you just hide your equipment before you die?" Flower or Not advised.

Foggy Flower’s eyes lit up with sudden realization. He gave a thumbs-up. "Bro, you think of everything."

"Brother," Flower or Not began, "you won’t regret sticking with me. World peace, my ass! We’re here to game, not be corporate slaves. No matter how strong Lin Bai gets, he’s only one person. Does he really think he can control the whole world? We should just do whatever we want. His mistake was giving us the high-level Cultivation Techniques of the Seven Righteous Sects too early. Come on, let’s head for the mountains before the Celestials get wind of us and level up before worrying about anything else..."

Foggy Flower interjected, "Bro, some people have created a Cultivation Mutual Aid Alliance. They’re looking for Cultivators who ascended earlier to form an alliance and get higher-level Cultivation Techniques. Why don’t we join them? It’ll be boring for just the two of us to cultivate in the mountains."

"Bro, this is Celestial territory. There are only a few Ascenders. Collaborating with them is just asking to die," Flower or Not reasoned. "Let’s level up quietly and let them do the probing, whether it’s cooperating with the Celestials or searching for earlier Ascenders. Once they’ve figured things out, we can join them. Let’s level up first so we can be ready to attack or defend."

"Bro, you’re right. Let’s level up first," agreed Foggy Flower. That makes sense. He then followed Flower or Not into Dashan.

...

Most of the Players entering the Fairy World were newcomers to the game. Even if they obtained the highest-ranking Cultivation Techniques, their leveling time had been too short.

Moreover, because the number of Players was too large, even the Pill and Spirit Sect couldn’t provide enough Pill Medicine for everyone.

Without the aid of Pill Medicine, their Levels weren’t very high. Many Players didn’t even know how to fly. In the eyes of the Celestials, even those at the lowest Bronze Realm, they were less than ants.

...

Ascenders were rare commodities in the Fairy World. Many Celestials were willing to keep an ascended mortal for amusement.

With such a sudden influx of mortals who had no hope of ascending, the Celestials, though initially shocked, were overjoyed. They looked at the Players as if they were walking Spirit Stones and immediately began capturing them.

Whether these mortals would lose value in the future was irrelevant for now; the Celestials focused on capturing them to keep as pets. If they became worthless later, they could just be passed on or disposed of.

City Lords everywhere were realizing the severity of the situation and began investigating the origin of these mortals.

At this time, the Magpie Bridge connecting the Mortal World to the Fairy World was broken, so the Guiding Pool naturally revealed no issues.

The Celestials couldn’t destroy the Magpie Bridge, so they resorted to interrogating captured Players.

Thus, all sorts of stories surfaced from the Players. Some continued the narrative from the Lower Realm, claiming to be Heavenly Descendants.

Some directly exposed the game company and requested cooperation with the Celestials.

Others displayed their strength to the Celestials, asking to join them and become their disciples.

Some exposed Lin Bai, warning the Fairy World to prepare against his Method of Rules.

Some were preaching the Method of Rules.

There were even those arranged by Lin Bai, claiming to be New Celestials born from the New Mother Body, sent by the Tenth Heavenly King as the Vanguard Army to explore the Fairy World...

And so on and so forth, the stories were innumerable.

These Players who entered the game had watched Lin Bai grow up. They were well-versed in all of Lin Bai’s various shenanigans. With low Levels and the Undying Body, Players were fearless and did whatever they pleased, completely uninhibited, releasing all the frustration they had felt while constrained by Lin Bai in the Mortal World.

At worst, they could delete their accounts and start over. Revived from a Resurrection Point, they’d be a brave hero once more. If they managed to swindle even a little advantage from a Celestial, they would profit greatly.

...

The assault team, temporarily assembled in the Eastern Continent on Lin Bai’s command, fired the first shot at the Celestials.

They had to do their due diligence and demonstrate their stance to Lin Bai.

Of course, they also wanted to collect data on the damage modern weapons could inflict on Celestials to help them improve their armaments.

Given the current situation, the real world could be considered the weakest party. Even if they were focused on surviving and developing, the higher-ups in the real world still harbored their own little schemes.

Who would be willing to be lambs for the slaughter forever?

All kinds of cannons transported to the Guiding Pool were quickly loaded and fired at the incoming Celestials.

Cannon fire filled the sky.

Most of the Missiles exceeded the speed of sound, but for the teleporting Celestials, the speed of the shells was still too slow.

The Spiritual Sense of the Celestials was not something the Knights and Priests of the Continent of Gods and Demons could match.

Even if a shell was about to hit them, they could easily dodge it.

Occasionally, a Celestial who wanted to test these mortal weapons would allow themselves to be hit by a few shells. However, the high-speed exploding projectiles couldn’t even break their Spiritual Energy defenses, let alone harm their bodies.

The only conventional weapons that could damage the Celestials were lasers.

Lasers traveled at 300,000 kilometers per second. Their concentrated beams hit instantaneously, meaning even Celestials could not react in time. But that was the extent of their effectiveness.

A laser that could easily intercept Missiles and destroy satellites in the sky could only cause minor burns on the skin of Celestials. The speed of the burning was not even as fast as their recovery rate.

The blinding effect of the laser was negligible. Without Lin Bai’s technique for restraining Spiritual Power, the recovery speed of the Celestials was too fast. A brief moment of blindness could be overcome, and normal vision restored, with just a slight circulation of the Spiritual Power within their bodies.

...

The most powerful weapon deployed was a low-yield mushroom bomb.

For this War, the Eastern Continent was demonstrating considerable sincerity.

This mushroom bomb fell on a town called Thousand Water City. Luckily, it dodged interception by the Celestials and landed accurately in the town center, exploding with a deafening roar.

A small mushroom cloud rose.

The buildings in Thousand Water City collapsed, from the center outwards.

A group of unprepared Celestials in the city were instantly killed. However, many more quick-reacting Celestials used Flash to escape the blast radius of the mushroom bomb, watching helplessly as their city was reduced to ruins.

Afterwards, the hastily assembled raid team of Players was torn to shreds by the enraged Celestials.

This mushroom bomb was the only weapon that achieved a significant result in that day’s assault.

After all, it was the most powerful weapon from the real world. Not even Crossing Tribulation Realm experts could necessarily unleash such destructive force. If a weapon with such immense destructive power couldn’t injure Celestials, then technology truly had no merit in this new reality.

But the solace this mushroom bomb brought to the real world was limited.

After all, while the mushroom bomb was powerful, it wasn’t easy to launch in the Fairy World. If intercepted in mid-air, its destructive radius would be minimized. If the enemy was prepared, it might not even hit anyone.

Moreover, the ones launching the mushroom bomb were Players. If they had been real-world soldiers, a counterattack from the Celestials would have resulted in mass casualties—a loss no one could bear.

From a cost-benefit perspective, it was far less effective than simply raising the Players’ Levels...

...

The leaders in the real world expressed deep sorrow, feeling as if their civilization had reached its end, with no hope in sight.

Officials in the Western Continent, who were also watching the live broadcast, fell into Silence.

On the battlefields of the Continent of Gods and Demons, they too had prepared mushroom bombs as a last resort, even intending to use them to slay gods.

The Eastern Continent’s test of the mushroom bomb in the Fairy World was like a bucket of cold water poured over everyone, jolting them awake. Consequently, even the diplomats, who had been arrogantly negotiating with Sandley, the City Lord of Free City, after their recent victory, now seemed to have lost some of their momentum.

Perhaps conquering the Continent of Gods and Demons could only be achieved by relying on the Players and Lin Bai.

...

However, even though the Players had detonated a mushroom bomb in the Fairy World, their influence still had not surpassed Lin Bai’s.

In the view of the Celestials, although the mushroom bomb was powerful, it was at most a peculiar Magic Artifact. Weapons capable of causing similar destruction could be easily found in the Fairy World.

However, Lin Bai, who comprehended Rules, was different.

The New Mother Body, the Rules, and the Tenth Heavenly King truly had the potential to change the situation in the Fairy World.

Particularly, the information they had received stated that the Rules of the Tenth Heavenly King were incredibly strange. The Love Principle, the Way of Incompleteness, and the Way of Cooking were unheard of. This made them feel the Tenth Heavenly King’s Rules were a hodgepodge, leaving them unable to determine Lin Bai’s actual power.

Moreover, the characteristics of the New Celestials born from the New Mother Body also shocked them. If these undying and indestructible New Celestials were to mature, their own group of old Celestials might be relegated to second-class citizens.

After verification by the Celestials, although the New Celestials were weak, their cultivation speed didn’t seem to be any slower than that of the established Celestials; in fact, it appeared to be even slightly faster.

As for the game company that the Players exposed, the Celestials didn’t take it seriously at all. The Fairy World had its Rules, and what these newcomers called "Rules" seemed much closer to the actual truth of their world.

「That night.」

The news about Lin Bai and the New Celestials spread like a hurricane, reaching every corner of the Fairy World and landing on the desks of the Nine Heavenly Kings.

The reaction from the Nine Heavenly Kings was strikingly consistent: investigate Lin Bai and the New Mother Body. They also decided to control all New Celestials entering the Fairy World and forbid anyone from teaching them any Celestial Skills or Cultivation Techniques.

...

In the real world, the Emperors of the Immortal World, as well as Players in the game world who had not entered the Fairy World, were all closely observing developments there.

Just as everyone was expecting Lin Bai’s reaction, he announced through "Justice Weekly" that he was going to hold a wedding that very night to further comprehend the Way of Love. He invited all well-known figures from various sectors to attend, wanting to hold an unforgettable wedding for his beloved.

In the real world, over ten famous directors were immediately invited by the Justice League to plan the wedding.

Lin Bai’s reputation was now earth-shattering.

The wedding planned back then by Duke Zhenguo of Taiyi Country seemed rather insufficient by current standards.

What if the System doesn’t recognize it? Then I’d have married for nothing! Holding a second wedding would be a joke. So, if I’m going to do it, it has to be a truly grand wedding, one that completes the mission in a single go. Besides, it’s not my money being spent anyway.

...

As soon as the news of Lin Bai’s wedding came out, an uproar spread across several worlds.

The forums of the Immortal World immediately exploded. Both Players and locals flooded in to discuss Lin Bai’s wedding.

The excitement surrounding the topic quickly surpassed that of the posts about the Fairy World.

...

"What’s happening?"

"Has Lin Bai gone mad? Getting married at a time like this?"

"When is he ever *not* crazy? It’d be abnormal if Lin Bai *were* acting normally, okay!"

"Didn’t Lin Bai say it himself? It’s to comprehend the Way of Love. And why comprehend the Way of Love? Isn’t it to deal with the Fairy World?"

"So, that means Lin Bai isn’t absolutely confident he can win against the Fairy World!"

"A Player got information from the Celestials earlier. The Celestials in the Fairy World also control Rules—actual Rules, like Metal, Wood, Water, Fire, Earth, and so on. In comparison, Lin, the Storekeeper’s Method of Rules seems a bit unconventional. He’s a newbie to Cultivation Rules, having cultivated for only about a year. How could he guarantee a win against a God of Rules who has lived for at least thousands, if not tens of thousands, of years? It’s normal for him not to be certain of victory."

"So, Lin Bai got scared and decided to get married on the spot!"

"He probably felt he had no other choice."

"Perhaps Lin Bai wants to leave behind an heir before the big War. Otherwise, if he really dies in battle without leaving any offspring, wouldn’t that be a huge loss!"

"That’s nonsense! Lin Bai, whose head flies all over the world, can’t possibly die!"

"Brother Lin Bai will never die! I just regret that he didn’t notice me. Otherwise, I’d want to marry him too, to help him comprehend the Great Path of Love!"

"The person above is crazy! Thankfully, what Lin Bai throws around is his head. If it were *that other thing*, probably many women in the real world would snatch it up and treasure it!"

"How do you know Lin Bai hasn’t thrown *it*? Throwing heads around openly is one thing, but *that* would have to be hidden. Imagine *those things* flying all over the sky... how embarrassing would that be..."

"Ahem, we’re getting off-topic!"

"Disgusting! Don’t speak about Brother Lin Bai like that."

"The woman who marries Lin Bai is so pitiful. She won’t get any real love from him. All he cares about is comprehending his Rules, comprehending his Rules."

"How is that pitiful? It’ll be a wedding watched by the entire world! She’s super lucky, okay? Any woman who gets a wedding like this would be so happy she’d wake up laughing from her dreams!"

"If I were Lin Bai, I’d have offspring all over the world by now. I wouldn’t bother with the thankless task of taking on the Celestials..."

"That’s why you’ll never be Lin Bai. Cultivating Rules requires a pure heart, and your heart is too tainted."

"Bro, the one above, you can’t seriously be cultivating Rules, right? Ordinary people definitely can’t handle the Method of Rules!"

"Has anyone noticed? It’s such a crucial time, so why hasn’t the ancient ancestor of the Righteous Door shown up yet?"

"The Righteous Door is analogous to the game company, isn’t it? The Fairy World is a new Map created by the game company for Players. If the ancient ancestor of the Righteous Door came out to deal with the game company’s new Map BOSS, it would be too demeaning. They’d lose face horribly, which would just prove the Righteous Door is definitely no match for the game company."

"The post above makes sense."