With the Heavenly Kings revealed to be players, the nature of the Immortal Realm had changed. Whatever story Lin Bai made up, they would never believe it.
Lin Bai's earlier plan to use the players to throw the Immortal Realm and the Gods and Devils Continent into chaos, then fish for profit in the troubled waters, could no longer be carried out.
Unfortunately, that very plan had made Lin Bai the enemy of the entire world. He could gain nothing in the Immortal Realm, nor could he win the trust of the many gods on the Gods and Devils Continent.
So the best course now was to strengthen himself and use overwhelming power to win allies.
Leaving the matter of the Heavenly Kings to ferment on its own, Lin Bai turned his attention back to the battlefield between the Lightning Heavenly King and the God of Darkness, pondering how he could profit from their fight.
The two had been fighting for a long time.
The God of Darkness really did seem immortal.
The Lightning Heavenly King's lightning raged through the Darkness Space without a moment's pause.
The God of Darkness's screams rang out from time to time, but they had not weakened as time passed. They maintained the same tone throughout, and toward the end, they even sounded full of vigor.
This forced Lin Bai to suspect that the God of Darkness had suffered no harm at all and had simply been toying with the Lightning Heavenly King...
While Lin Bai had been busy manipulating public opinion, the War God Body's anger had long since subsided.
The two had kept fighting out of sheer inertia.
After Lin Bai noticed the God of Darkness's odd behavior, the Lightning Heavenly King noticed it too. He decisively stopped attacking and stood there