Sure enough, the good fortune of having weak enemies delivered to the protagonist one level at a time to feed him experience, as in novels, did not exist.
The sudden storm of upheaval sweeping the city left Lin Bai feeling wistful.
A Mahayana Stage cultivator could rule over an entire region anywhere in the world, second only to experts at Tribulation Transcendence.
Tribulation Transcendence experts had to prepare for ascension and almost never acted unless absolutely necessary. Their cultivation already reached through heaven and earth, exceeding what this world could bear. Once they acted, they might trigger tribulation lightning, leaving them to either transcend the tribulation and ascend or be reduced to dust and ashes.
It could be said that the Mahayana Stage was this world's absolute ruler.
To dispatch as many as twelve such rulers at once—the Seven Righteous Sects and Five Demon Sects certainly thought highly of him.
Against rulers like these, Lin Bai's only usable means was the Matchmaker's Red Thread, but he had only four threads left, enough to bind four people at most.
The red threads' side effects were too severe for him to tie one to himself, while the Gold-Edged Card could not seal an opponent two levels above him. That meant his original tactics no longer worked.
Even if he had a chance to seal Mahayana Stage experts with Gold-Edged Cards, he could seal no more than four.
Four against eight offered little chance of victory either.
If the Seven Righteous Sects could send one Mahayana Stage cultivator, they could send a second. Yet the Righteousness Sect behind Lin Bai was nothing but an empty shell. No patriarch could possibly emerge to fight for him.
This truly was a moment of life or death!
However.
If he could weather this wave, he would