"Daojing, tell them, what is the purpose of Righteous Door?" Lin Bai turned to look at a stunned Daojing and commanded.

Purpose? Does Righteous Door even have a purpose? Daojing didn't react immediately, but soon, a voice whispered in his ear, "Teach without discrimination, embrace all diversity."

He stared at Lin Bai's back in surprise, gathered his Spiritual Power, and reluctantly repeated, "Teach without discrimination, embrace all diversity."

"Exactly." Lin Bai snapped his fingers and smiled. "Friends from Waning Sun Gate, my attitude is clear. You can make your choice now. If you agree to merge into Righteous Door, stand on my left within ten breaths. After ten breaths, if you haven't come over, you're considered an enemy, and there will be no need for you to exist. Although I, Lin, am benevolent, I don't practice letting the tiger return to the mountain. Life comes only once; treasure it while you can."

Benevolent? Everyone present was stunned by this shameless self-proclamation. Damn it. Has he no shame at all?!

Daojing's old face turned red, and he reassured himself, This must be the Sect Leader's pure heart!

Dao Kong remained silent, unsure of what to say. Call him shameless? Yes, he's truly shameless, saying whatever comes to mind. But call him selfless? Indeed, he's truly selfless, sharing everything openly. The most undeniable point was that although Lin Bai's words were absurd, he actually practiced what he preached... Perhaps, as his senior brother said, this is the purity essential to the Cultivation Rules!

"Ten!"

Lin Bai took a step forward. His left hand detached from his arm and floated in front of him, palm facing forward. It was the left hand that signified Palm Thunder, the Hand of Death.

"Nine!"

Lin Bai stepped forward again.

The expressionless Pei Yanzong and a grim-faced Dao Xu followed him. The pressure of Nascent Soul cultivators radiated from them without restraint, continuously increasing the pressure on the people from Waning Sun Gate.

"Eight!"

Lin Bai telepathically instructed Little Fox to recite the spell for Palm Thunder. Little Fox proudly raised her head, and her clear voice echoed through the mountain forest, "At the front of the mountain is Cui Thick Leg; behind the mountain is Cui Leg Thick..."

"At the front of the mountain is Cui Thick Leg; behind the mountain is Cui Leg Thick..."

Some quick-witted Players began to chant along. Storekeeper Lin was being so dominant; if they didn't suck up to him now, when would they? Having been mere spectators all this time, the Players finally felt a sense of participation.

The unevenly recited tongue-twister echoed through the valley. It sounded somewhat comical, but no one on the opposing side could bring themselves to laugh.

The recording pen's volume was low, so when Lin Bai released the Palm Thunder, the people from Remnant Sun Sect didn't hear the spell. But everyone knew about the massacre at the recruitment fair. This ridiculous tongue-twister was a death knell...

He clearly doesn't need a spell to unleash Palm Thunder, yet he insists on treating this ridiculous incantation as genuine. This is purely to mess with our minds! That was what all the Golden Core Monks of Waning Sun Gate were thinking.

"Senior Brother, should we surrender?"

"Let's see what Senior Brother Mo Ming says. The Sect Leader has been captured, so he's the highest-ranking among us now."

...

"Seven."

The first Palm Thunder descended from Lin Bai's left hand, splitting the trees below. The cultivators from Remnant Sun Sect finally couldn't withstand the pressure.

"We surrender! We surrender!"

"Storekeeper Lin, we are willing to merge into Righteous Door!"

...

In the pugilistic world, what is there to fear? Not those who are powerful, nor those with wicked tempers, but complete lunatics!

The people of Waning Sun Gate felt extremely aggrieved! We keep saying the Sect Leader's mistakes shouldn't be borne by us. He's already captured our Sect Leader! Instead of going after the few remaining sect leaders over there, he's relentlessly pressuring us weaklings. What kind of ability is that?!

What infuriated the people of Waning Sun Gate even more was that all the pressure was on them. They were on the brink of being wiped out by Lin Bai, yet the other sects remained indifferent...

Why should all the losses be theirs!

Once someone took the lead, it was like a dam bursting.

WHOOSH!

In the blink of an eye, the remaining cultivators of Waning Sun Gate didn't bother waiting for any 'Senior Brother Mo Ming' and all scrambled to Lin Bai's left.

Who cares about the future? The priority is to stay alive for now!

"Stop!"

Lin Bai turned towards the Players, gesturing downwards with his hand.

The chanting of the tongue-twister stopped abruptly.

In matters of great importance, the Players were quite cooperative with Lin Bai.

After all, Lin Bai was working for their benefit. The more sects that merged into Righteous Door, the more Skills they could learn.

"Congratulations on making the right choice." Lin Bai looked at the new members of Righteous Door, smiled, and offered a clasped fist salute. "Next, the pressure shifts to the remaining four sects. You can relax and enjoy the show with our Daoist friends from Return to Dragon View. Daojing, Dao Kong, welcome our new Daoist friends. Communicate to them the tenets and philosophy of Righteous Door, and help them integrate into our big family as soon as possible..."

Phew!

The disciples of Waning Sun Gate collectively relaxed.

Then, they realized their mindset wasn't quite right. What was there to be happy about at a time like this?! They glared resentfully at Lin Bai's back, thoroughly infuriated. This is so damn ridiculous! This guy is just playing house here!

[Resentment from Xin Shang, Zhao Tulong, Ge Feiyun, Shen Kuang... +1+1+1...]

"Esteemed Sect Leaders, how should we proceed? Who's next?" Having dealt with Waning Sun Gate, Lin Bai turned back to the opposing sects and asked with a smile.

Wherever his gaze fell, people quickly looked away.

"Lin Bai, do you truly intend to exterminate us all?" Xin Shang's soft, almost feminine voice came from the direction of Blood Shadow Sect, carrying a trace of desolation and helplessness.

"What are you saying?" Lin Bai laughed. "When did I try to exterminate anyone? Our friends from Waning Sun Gate are standing right there, safe and sound. You can't just make baseless accusations! Put yourselves in my shoes: if I were to lose to you, would you spare the disciples of Righteous Door?"

"..." Xin Shang choked, speechless for a long moment.

"You say it so lightly! Our respective sects have been passed down for thousands of years. With a single sentence, you want them to merge into Righteous Door? If this isn't extermination, what is?" said Ge Feiyun. "Storekeeper Lin, you are being too tyrannical. We are not Storekeeper Lin's match, so it is expected that we suffer this humiliation. But 'one should leave a path for retreat in doing things, so that you may meet again on good terms in the future.' How about we each take a step back? In the Qian City area, wherever Storekeeper Lin is, we will give you a wide berth. How about that?"

"You're giving up on the Heaven's Chosen then?" Lin Bai asked, looking towards Magic Spirit Sect.

"We can give them up," Ge Feiyun said through gritted teeth, finding Lin Bai's erratic conversational style hard to bear.

"I don't believe you," Lin Bai said, shaking his head. "The Heaven's Chosen have all their meridians open. One day of their cultivation is equivalent to a year for an ordinary person. With their aptitude, in just a few months, Righteous Door might have thousands upon thousands of Golden Core True Masters. They are not people of this era; their personalities are even more erratic than mine, and they are immortal and indestructible. If this entire group joins Righteous Door, will you be able to sleep soundly?"

"..." Veins throbbed on Ge Feiyun's forehead. Damn it! Isn't he going to give us any way out at all? All I want is to return to my Sect, make long-term plans, and give everyone some breathing room. What's the point of laying all these issues out so openly?

"Sect Leader Lin, are you truly not afraid of offending the Five Demonic Sects?" Shen Kuang voiced Ge Feiyun's unspoken thoughts. "If you annex our sects, the Five Demonic Sects will not tolerate you, and the Seven Righteous Sects will likely not tolerate you either! Is Righteous Door truly prepared to make an enemy of the entire world?"

"Or perhaps, after stirring up such enormous trouble, Sect Leader Lin will just pat his butt and hide back in Righteous Door? What then will become of the disciples who were lured by Sect Leader Lin into joining Righteous Door?" Zhao Tulong questioned. "Has Storekeeper Lin considered these problems?"

"Thank you, esteemed Sect Leaders, for worrying on my behalf," Lin Bai said with a smile and a clasped fist salute. "But those are matters for the future. Before I left my mountain gate, my master told me: 'Do not dwell on the past, for the past cannot be changed. Do not fear the future, for the future is unknowable. Live in the present, for the present is most precious.' Today, I offer these words to you as well. If you do not join Righteous Door today, then even if I become the world's public enemy, hunted by the Seven Righteous Sects and the Five Demonic Sects, you won't be around to witness it."

Damn it! Ge Feiyun, Xin Shang, Zhao Tulong, and Shen Kuang were stunned by this utterly reckless pronouncement. Veins throbbed on their foreheads as they furiously cursed in their hearts. What in the world did the people of Righteous Door teach this guy? Is he even a normal person? It's completely impossible to communicate with him!

Lin Bai looked at the dark crowd opposite him, raised three fingers, and said, "I'll give you three paths. One, merge into Righteous Door. Two, be beaten into submission by me, turned into Puppets, and then, like Waning Sun Gate, the remaining people will join Righteous Door. Three, you flee, I hunt you down one by one, beat you into submission, and then, you merge into Righteous Door. Choose one!"

Complete silence!

After Lin Bai finished speaking, not a single sound came from the other side.

DING!

At the same time, a new system popped up in Lin Bai's mind:

Super Villain System: Solitary Yang cannot generate; solitary Yin cannot grow. Where there is black, there is white; where there is day, there is night. The cycle of Yin and Yang gives birth to all things. When evil reaches its extreme, it becomes good. Please strive to become a Super Villain.

[Instill fear in 10,000 people. Reward: Charm +10]