Once the world was full of Lin Bais, the game became completely unplayable.
The Heavenly Beings accepted their fate, lining up in orderly queues in towns everywhere to have their power absorbed by Lin Bai, Xu Longyun, Tu Yan, and the others. Once they had fallen to the bronze realm, local officials led them away to work on urban construction.
Now, most of the divine artifacts were in the natives' hands. Any Heavenly Beings who rebelled after being reduced to slaves faced the harshest punishment.
Punishing those with undying bodies was simple.
They were secured in places rich in spiritual qi and forced to cultivate day and night, with someone stationed beside them to extract the spiritual power they cultivated.
Like Sisyphus pushing his boulder, their lives became hopeless and monotonous, far less comfortable than laboring.
The tribulation lightning in the Immortal World stopped after eighty-one days.
The inhabitants of an entire world collectively ascended to the Immortal Realm, each gaining the strength of the bronze realm.
The Immortal World's rules for tribulation lightning meant they could never return to their homeland.
If even one person used their power, it would trigger a chain of lightning tribulations in the lower world, ultimately turning it into another Lightning Cage.
Fortunately, the Immortal World's territory was vast enough that even with an entire world ascending together, everyone had somewhere to settle down and make a living.
Through his investigations, Lin Bai discovered a curious fact: the Immortal World's great sects had very likely been founded by survivors of the world the Heavenly Being players had destroyed long ago.
Ten thousand years earlier, the Heavenly Being players had destroyed their world. A handful of survivors had escaped into the world below through some unknown means and founded the Twelve Sects.
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