Cats had their paths, and rats had theirs.
Cultivators on both the righteous and demonic sides each devised ways to weather the storm brought on by the "Heavenly Dao Review."
The sects behind them threw themselves into heated wars of words, using them to expand their influence among the common people. As these public-opinion battles arose, the mysterious veil shrouding the lofty cultivators was torn away, and Dao hearts once devoted solely to cultivation were churned into shattered fragments.
Yet, lively as the discourse was, none of the sects ventured into reviews.
Lin Bai, an outsider, could review them, but if their official publications did so, it would amount to provoking a war. In these turbulent times, that would bring them no benefit.
With the Righteous Alliance and the Seven Righteous Sects at war, the players also found their fun in the game.
Lin Bai had broken the rules. They suddenly went from objects of suspicion and scrutiny to coveted prizes, no longer needing to climb step by step out of the Novice Village.
High-level cultivators in the Spirit Transformation Realm, the Void Insight Realm, and other realms they had never even glimpsed before sprang up like bamboo shoots after rain, replacing the original low-level NPCs and personally intervening in their cultivation.
Players responsible for publications raked in advertising fees by the handful;
Combat players being groomed by the sects received personal instruction from renowned masters and stuffed themselves with pills as though they cost nothing, their levels shooting upward like rockets;
The Moon Spirit Sect's players, meanwhile, went ever further down the road of living off women...
Before the fifth wave of players arrived, those already in the game enjoyed a windfall of their own.
The first four waves totaled over a hundred thousand players, divided among the Seven