With the players' private messages and the Duke Who Guards the Nation keeping in constant contact with Xu Longyun, Lin Bai knew the surrounding situation inside out.
But he no longer cared.
Lin Bai did not even intend to heed the duke's plea for help and return through the Magpie Bridge to support the Taiyi Kingdom.
Once he went back to help, he would inevitably drag the Righteous Alliance into the mire of war, putting out fires everywhere.
Better to take the Blood Sect in one decisive push, then use it as a base to extend the Magpie Bridge. The initiative would then be his.
Putting himself in their shoes.
Lin Bai firmly believed that once the fighting began, every operation targeting him would stop. Phoenix Seeks the Phoenix was simply too powerful at controlling the battlefield.
As for the players, Lin Bai had long since stopped taking them seriously. He was about to control the entire world. However formidable the players were, even with their undying bodies, what waves could they possibly stir up?
The facts had proved that even players were not exempt from the skills rewarded by the systems.
Once he pacified the world, his next step would be to suppress the players. Anyone who dared raise their head would be pressed back down.
If they wanted to play in this world.
He would be the one to set the rules.
Ye Song pointed at the boundless, towering blood aura ahead. "Alliance Leader, the Blood Sea is up ahead. Inside it, the Blood Sect's cultivators expend fifty percent less spiritual power. The Blood Sea also suppresses outside cultivators in every respect—their speed, their ability to draw on spiritual energy... This is why most sects are unwilling to attack other sects. The advantage of terrain is too