At present, neither side had the moral high ground.
The combat roster was determined by one's heart. Li Lin's name had appeared on it only because he had first entertained the thought of participating.
At the same time, Doumu Yuanjun had just let [I] and [Dao Nature] take control of her body to stop her disciples from joining the competition, only to force them to change their minds and make disciples who had just passed their Immortal Tribulation participate.
If Li Lin's Dao had not plainly been connected to something above the Dao Fruit, the immortals would not have shamelessly pressured him.
In the end, Li Lin agreed to participate, after silently communicating with the Time Immortal and Artifact Immortal and receiving two Immortal Sutras and an Embryo of Creation Immortal Artifact.
It was not that he could not demand more. If not for their differing pursuits, the immortals would have loved to spread Immortal Sutras everywhere.
It was simply that, before that thing was complete, he still needed to play this game of stopping just short, so he could only ask for so much.
"No, impossible! How can you possess Eight Phases Qi!"
Wude looked at Li Lin, his mind trembling violently.
Dressed in a Profound Yellow robe and wearing a gilded crown, he stood like the manifested heavens and boundless starry cosmos, surrounded by the eight forms of heaven, earth, wind, mountain, thunder, water, marsh, and fire.
Li Lin clearly was not a Qi Refiner, yet he now displayed the Eight Phases Qi in full, the so-called king of Qi paths, and was just a notch stronger than Wude.
It was not only Wude. Above the Cloud Top, the Four Symbols Sect inner disciples watching through gaps in the clouds, as well as the contestants who had already