[Bai Yin] had barely run a few steps before relaying Lin Bai's message to the players in the front courtyard over team voice chat.
[Lone Elder] paused briefly, then understood Lin Bai's intention.
This was Lin Bai's test for them.
Ultimately, they were still caught in the habits of the games they had played before. Whenever they encountered a problem, they thought only of solving it through violence. Subconsciously, they still had not treated this place as a real world.
A rapid exchange broke out over team voice chat.
Then, before Zhao Ao and the other four who had come looking for trouble, the players who had been poised for battle swiftly put away their weapons and dispersed.
"What happened?" Peng Ze of Medicine King Valley found the players' sudden change rather strange. "They aren't planning to run, are they?"
"Where could they run?" Qingming of the Returning Dragon Temple said disdainfully. "Lin Bai is their only support. Once Lin Bai dies, unless they're willing to remain in the mortal world forever, won't they have to obediently find a sect to attach themselves to?"
"..." Jiang Qingqin gripped her treasured sword, looking somewhat distracted.
Lin Bai's words kept echoing in her mind. Ever since entering Hundred Flowers Valley, she had been taught that the Seven Righteous Sects' rules were right. If everyone followed the rules, everyone could live well.
Yet what had happened at the Immortal Oversight Bureau today had left her feeling deeply uncomfortable.
Lin Bai had merely founded the Beggar Gang. He had done nothing to wrong the Seven Righteous Sects, yet their people had come to his door to wipe him out.
Just because Lin Bai's Beggar Gang had intercepted a Heaven-Sent One from Foundation City?
But...
From Lin Bai's perspective, he had done nothing wrong. He