Worldwide Awakening: My Soul Kinds Are Lost-Chapter 664: A Hundred Years, the Rule of Tao Tian League_1
Wang Linchi delegated the subsequent matters to these three individuals and then returned to the Zombie World once more, beginning to Devour the world. Because his previous turmoil had left the Zombie World on its last breath, it possessed absolutely no ability to resist being Devoured. Thus, the Zombie World was defenselessly gnawed at by Wang Linchi. The entire process was remarkably smooth, yet despite its ease, it still cost him a hundred years. After all, it was an immense world.
After Devouring the world, Wang Linchi’s own physical form also began to grow rapidly. Previously, his world-form, though adult, was of the malnourished, skinny type. He had too many things to sustain, causing his own nourishment to fall behind. As for not sustaining them, that was not an option. He could always find new sources of energy, but he would never cut back on expenditures, as every expenditure was a way for him to grow stronger. It was true that he was of the small and lean type among worlds, but that didn’t mean he was weak; on the contrary, he was quite formidable. After Devouring the Zombie World and obtaining sufficient resources, Wang Linchi, previously severely malnourished, was instantly restored. His entire being finally reached the physical scale of a normal world.
The drawbacks were also quite apparent. His human skin—his game character—could no longer accommodate such a massive body. The effects of his various unnamable contaminations were also growing stronger. If his game character’s skin wasn’t fortified, the leakage of this contamination would become even more severe. Of course, in the judgment of other life forms and worlds, this was pollution. But to Wang Linchi, it was merely normal breathing. Who would ever think their own breathing was a problem? Restrain his breathing? Impossible. He wouldn’t die if he didn’t breathe, true, but on what grounds should he? He had the right to breathe. Besides, it wasn’t himself he was harming.
"I wonder what the situation in the Qiandao Realm is after a hundred years," Wang Linchi mused. A hundred years shouldn’t have brought about much change. For most Cultivators, a hundred years isn’t a particularly long time. Some of those at the lower levels are probably still stuck in the Foundation Establishment Stage.
Wang Linchi quickly returned. Upon arrival, he discovered the Virtue Sect had drastically changed once more. "Look at this scale. Don’t tell me they’ve annexed other Sects again?" Wang Linchi wasn’t surprised; in fact, he found it quite normal and headed directly to investigate the situation.
"Insolence! Who dares trespass into the Tao Tian League’s Main Hall?"
Just as Wang Linchi arrived, he was stopped by a stern and arrogant voice.
A careful look revealed it was a Qi Cultivation Third Level Virtue Cultivator. This confirmed he hadn’t come to the wrong place; otherwise, he would have encountered ordinary Cultivators.
"Isn’t this the Virtue Sect? How did it become the Tao Tian League?" Wang Linchi asked curiously.
This person must be a Disciple, and a new one at that, which is why he doesn’t recognize me. Wang Linchi had also sensed that the changes were too immense. Even Deng Chong and the other two... he had no idea where they’d gone. Could they be dead? Arriving here, he finally realized something was amiss. His Virtue Sect hadn’t been usurped by someone else, had it? That shouldn’t be possible. He remembered how resourceful those three were; how could they lose? However, a closer look revealed that the Disciples from the Yanhua Sect were still around. It was just that those three ’tool’ Disciples of his were all dead.
"The Virtue Sect? It was dismantled eighty years ago. Now, there is only the Tao Tian League. Who are you?" The Disciple’s expression softened slightly, mainly because Wang Linchi didn’t seem to be looking for trouble but rather appeared to be searching for someone from the Virtue Sect.
Wang Linchi was aghast. "What? What’s going on?" How could it have been dismantled? The Virtue Sect at least had Merits for protection... Oh, right. After I spread the ’Complete Evil to Complete Good Skill,’ everyone possessed Merits for protection, which effectively means no one did.
"Go, go, go! If you want to know, find out yourself. Don’t bother me!" the Disciple said impatiently, shooing him away. "I’m on duty here; what if I get delayed?"
Wang Linchi casually performed a Soul Search and quickly learned the full story.
Apparently, after the ’Complete Evil to Complete Good Skill’ began to circulate, the Virtue Sect’s power started to swell. This was especially true after the Virtue Sect declared that anyone who cultivated the ’Complete Evil to Complete Good Skill’ would be considered a Disciple of the Virtue Sect. Furthermore, when the ’Complete Evil to Complete Good Skill’ was leaked, the Virtue Sect responded by directly publicizing its contents, which naturally caused a worldwide uproar. After all, proactively publishing something versus having it leaked were two entirely different scenarios; the former was seen as challenging everyone’s bottom line, so suppression naturally began. However, this suppression had little effect; in the end, the Virtue Sect had nearly crushed its opposition. The main reason was that the Virtue Sect’s actions attracted a large number of Loose Cultivators. Coupled with some members of the Demon Path also abandoning darkness for light, the Virtue Sect eventually grew into a behemoth. But as the number of people increased, it became a motley mix of good and bad.
The Merits produced by the Virtue Career System Wang Linchi had created were not ordinary Merits; they were problematic. Even if one was a villain, as long as they survived their tribulations and began to perform some good deeds, they could obtain corresponding Merits, regardless of their true intentions. This led to a very serious problem: the system only accounted for Merits, not Sin-force. One could continue to do bad deeds while also performing good ones. Consequently, after the Virtue Sect expanded, a host of internal problems emerged—scheming, power struggles, and the like. Ultimately, Deng Chong and the other two were, of course, eliminated. Over the past hundred years, through numerous conflicts, the Virtue Sect had absorbed a large number of other Sects, welcoming all, whether from the Righteous Path or the Demon Path.
The final result was a grotesque, power-hungry monster. By now, everyone was focused on how to exploit the loopholes in the Virtue Career System Wang Linchi had built. And indeed, quite a few people had found such loopholes over the past century.
So, when Wang Linchi returned from his ’business trip,’ his Merits hadn’t just dropped from first to second place on the leaderboard; he had been squeezed out of the rankings altogether. This was cutthroat competition. However, his Merits were still the highest; they just weren’t being counted.
"This is truly bizarre..." Wang Linchi grumbled as he left. Regarding people exploiting his loopholes, he didn’t ban their accounts but silently gave them a thumbs-up. These people truly are talented. When it comes to profiting from loopholes, one must be clear about who foots the bill. No matter how these people exploited loopholes, all costs were borne by the Qiandao Realm itself; none of it had anything to do with Wang Linchi. As the developer and operator, Wang Linchi viewed their actions as equivalent to dismantling the world for the sake of Charging Money. He definitely wouldn’t lose out. After all, the ultimate destination of all cash flow was himself; he could make money just by standing there. He didn’t care about being number one anyway; his top rank had merely been to act as a shill. Now that things were running smoothly and everyone was becoming increasingly frenzied, there was no need for Wang Linchi to confront them directly. They would bear the consequences themselves; what did it have to do with him?
Compared to the original cultivation system, the Merit System he had created was essentially a Transcendent System that operated by draining the pond to catch the fish. According to Wang Linchi’s observations, in just a hundred years, the entire world had already begun to show signs of overdraft. If this continued, it would inevitably lead to catastrophic problems for the world. Therefore, before the Qiandao Realm’s ’illness’ fully manifested, he needed to drag the Green Nether Fairyland into the mire. Then he could continue to wreak havoc there.
However, the current problem was the lack of Transcendance Tribulation Stage Cultivators. The cultivation strength of those cultivating Merits—even the person who had exploited loopholes and abused bugs to reach the top of the rankings—was currently only at the Body Integration Realm. They were still an entire Mahayana Realm away from the Transcendance Tribulation Stage. As for the original Transcendance Tribulation Stage Cultivators, they had all dispersed their cultivation to pursue Merits. The current figures on the Merit rankings were, in fact, mostly these former Transcendance Tribulation Stage Cultivators. Only those who were already established powerhouses in their own right possessed the capability to find loopholes and bugs in Wang Linchi’s Virtue Career System and use Plug-ins. Otherwise, how could low-level Cultivators, lacking sufficient experience, knowledge, and even ability, possibly succeed?
Every Cultivator who reached the Transcendance Tribulation Stage was a genius, a prodigy. None of them were fools—unless they encountered a Fated protagonist and had their intelligence nerfed, in which case, no amount of brilliance would help.
"Next, I can’t let the Tao Tian League continue with its internal strife. I need to get them to unite against a common enemy and quickly develop a strategy for the Green Nether Fairyland." Wang Linchi, of course, didn’t plan to get involved personally. Pitting the Tao Tian League against the Green Nether Fairyland was the best approach.
In recent years, because many great Cultivators had dispersed their cultivation to start anew, the matter of Tribulation Ascension had gradually faded into obscurity. Consequently, even the Green Nether Fairyland itself was slowly being forgotten. After all, who would bother discussing something no one could achieve? It was better to focus on how to farm Merits.
