Lin Zhengying's actions quickly intensified the entire battlefield. The fighting was fierce from the second floor of the unfinished building upwards, and the main force was divided into two camps.
The blocking camp of Chen Hai, Ji Jie, Lin Zhengying and others, and the attacking camp of Lu Yi, Nie Yu and others, that is, the attacking side was in chaos to a certain extent, otherwise the blocking battle would be difficult to fight.
There was a fierce fighting outside, but the main person who won the victory had little to do with these people.
In Lin Zhengying's inner world, after facing the obstacle in his heart, he returned to the scene that made it difficult for him to sleep.
Like an immersive movie, Lin Zhengying watched himself killing people all the way until the self in the film discovered something was wrong. Then the scene seemed to stop and the ticking sound of the clock echoed in his ears.
Taking a deep breath, Lin Zhengying raised the peach wood sword in his hand. The situation was critical now. As long as he could cut down with this sword, the problem would be solved and those living people outside would be able to continue living.
This is just an illusion... This is just an illusion...
Lin Zhengying kept reminding himself, but no matter how many times he said it, he still didn't raise the sword in his hand, instead his body tended to retreat.
That's right, no matter how much encouragement he gave himself when he came here, when the time came to make a choice, facing the easiest option, Lin Zhengying still couldn't make up his mind.
At this moment, outside, on Lin Zhengying's crown hat, a little white dragon was floating on it, as if waiting for someone's order. After a short wait, the white dragon soared into the air, then suddenly fell and entered Lin Zhengying's body.
After entering, the white dragon turned into mist and slowly spread over Lin Zhengying's body. Changes began to appear, and the appearance of the ghosts in front of Lin Zhengying began to change little by little.
This sudden change made Lin Zhengying realize the unpredictability of life and the unexpected surprises.
Soon, the ghosts all looked the same, and standing in the front row was the monster that he had just chopped into eight pieces.
The moment the monster appeared, Lin Zhengying had no thoughts at all. The hand holding the peach wood sword became strong, and the Taoist robe and hat on his body began to flutter.
"Master, Master, let's retreat!"
A voice came into Lin Zhengying's body from behind.
Hearing this, Lin Zhengying turned around and saw Chen Hai, Ji Jie, and all the people he had ever saved standing behind him.
"You retreat." In a trance, Lin Zhengying could no longer tell whether this was an illusion or reality.
After hurriedly saying this, he took the initiative to kill the enemy, and his body became hotter and hotter. This heat was not a perception of temperature, but a manifestation of his burning heart of Tao.
Having been a Taoist priest for so many years, maybe he had been an executioner, maybe he had done many wrong things, but there was one thing he had never done wrong, that was when the weak needed him, he would always stand at the forefront.
Lin Zhengying's charge was like pressing the start button of a movie. The monsters that were originally standing there all moved and rushed towards him one after another.
There was no mercy, no hesitation, Lin Zhengying's sword had never been sharper than it was now. The flashing light was a reflection of the righteousness in his heart. He didn't dare to raise the sword not because he couldn't lift it, but because he couldn't get over his own difficulty.
Lu Dongbin's help only made him realize faster that there is no perfect person in the world, and it is unrealistic to want to become a Taoist in the books.
With this realization, the light surrounding Lin Zhengying also changed, from golden to bright yellow. It seemed that its power had weakened, but this energy and this power made Lin Zhengying feel again the feeling of fighting against Loki in the New York battle.
Follow your heart and act at your own pace.
After finding the initial feeling, Lin Zhengying discovered that the terrifying and even unmatched enemies in front of him had become fragile without him noticing, and their numbers had been reduced to the point where he could count them directly.
When the last sword was slashed, there was no enemy standing in front of him, and the humans behind him had disappeared. He was the only one left in the entire illusion.
At this moment, Lu Dongbin's figure slowly emerged before his eyes.
Lin Zhengying made a seal with his ten fingers and performed the disciple's etiquette. He knew that it was Lu Dongbin who helped him with all this. Only a person of this level could change the whole world without alarming him too much and make him believe that this was the truth.
Looking at Lin Zhengying who had already found his way, Lu Dongbin nodded with satisfaction. He was very satisfied with this man's performance. He was a good candidate for enlightenment. At least he did not waste his risk to communicate with the Lord God.
"Go ahead. You are needed more outside. You must practice Taoism and cultivate your mind every day."
As Lu Dongbin finished his words, his figure disappeared. Lin Zhengying returned the greeting seriously. Not relying entirely on himself to pass the test of his heart naturally had disadvantages. The disadvantage was that it would be more troublesome to maintain him in the future, and he would be more susceptible to the influence of special energy than people of the same rank.
The illusion dissipated as Lin Zhengying was performing the ceremony. What appeared under his feet was no longer the golden road, but a room, a very ordinary room. It was here that Lin Zhengying learned Taoism for the first time in his life.
After realizing what was happening, Lin Zhengying's consciousness quickly returned to his body.
When he opened his eyes, Chen Hai's nervous and hurried movements came into his field of vision.
"Master, you're awake!" Chen Hai was delighted when he felt the movement behind him.
He didn't know what was going on. Just a minute or two ago, the attack from outside suddenly went from zero to saturated. The Bagua robe on the door curtain was constantly attacked. The talisman that Lin Zhengying gave him for charging before he entered into meditation had already taken effect for the most part.
"Wake up, it's time to end this fight." Lin Zhengying stretched out his hand and waved it from a distance, and the Bagua robe floated towards him.
"Master, there are..." Chen Hai stopped talking halfway. He wanted to remind Lin Zhengying that there were enemies attacking outside. If he took off the Bagua robe, the monsters would rush in.
But when the clothes disappeared, Chen Hai discovered that the ghosts and monsters that had been attacking outside had all disappeared at some point, as if they had never existed.
At the same time, he saw a little light from the corner of his eyes. He looked down and found that his body was slowly dissipating, as if it was about to turn into light.
Lin Zhengying put his hands together, made a Taoist seal with his ten fingers, and raised them above his head. When Chen Hai saw it, he seemed to understand something and nodded.
As Chen Hai completely disappeared, the surroundings also became dim. Lin Zhengying walked towards the door. The walls around him became rough and covered with dust, and spider webs were woven in every corner. This was what a real abandoned building should look like.
After crossing that hurdle, Lin Zhengying, who had initially possessed uniqueness, had escaped from the time loop. The formation could not accommodate someone of his level, so he had broken through the formation, but for the time being he was the only one who had escaped.
Boom boom boom.
As Lin Zhengying walked, the sound of his heartbeat became more and more obvious. When he reached the edge of the corridor, he finally saw where the sound came from.
It was a huge black heart. The blood vessels around the heart were connected to the walls next to it like a spider web. The purple outer wall climbed up the wall, making the entire building look full of cracks.
The six pillars of Yin energy were inserted into six points of the heart and were pulled out little by little as the heart beat.
Looking at this horrifying scene, Lin Zhengying jumped out from the door and window reserved on the wall behind him. He really wanted to get rid of this ghost thing directly, but now was not the time. If he took action now, all those who were still trapped in the time loop would be buried with the monster.
This is not what he wants. Killing demons and eliminating evil is just a side job, saving people is the first priority.
Lin Zhengying, who jumped out of the building early, was not idle. Instead, he took out all the remaining useful things in his personal space and began to set up a formation around the entire building.
In the time loop, after losing Lin Zhengying, the strongest fighting force, the situation became completely one-sided. Ghostly and haunted is the best description of this place. The only one who is still struggling is Chen Hai, who has one foot in the official rank. However, that is only Chen Hai in a certain timeline. Most of the Chen Hai in the timeline have already been eaten by ghosts.
As for the reasons why he barely survived, one was that he was lucky enough, two was that he had a certain level of strength, and three was that the other party was in a hurry and had no time to care about a little grasshopper like him.
The Taoist priests of Lin Zhengying's faction are not good at real-time combat. Compared with those who practice Taoism, they do not have much advantage in attack even when dealing with professional ghosts. Their advantage lies in taking advantage of the situation.
With the right time, right place and right people, there is nothing they cannot take advantage of. A Taoist priest who has made sufficient and targeted preparations can exert a force countless times stronger than a sudden confrontation. Therefore, after Lin Zhengying took the lead in breaking through the obstacles and reaching the fourth level, the Hell World had to speed up the fusion.
The fourth level is a very important level. If a non-technological native world cannot even give birth to the fourth level, then this world will not last long. Therefore, in the bidding between the Lord God Space and the Hell World, the Lord God Space has a slight advantage in the first round.
As for relying on developing special technology to break through the rank restrictions, that is more difficult than the previous one. With the advancement of technology, the temptations faced by intelligent life in the technological world are also greater. Before the individual level is established, this temptation may suddenly break out from a point like a virus, and in just a few decades or hundreds of years, it will completely cut off the future of a world.
In addition, don't mention anything like Lin Zhengying himself is at the third level. In the eyes of the world consciousness, the third level is just below the fourth level. It is not very difficult to spend ten or twenty years to create a batch of them.
Now that it is at a disadvantage, the only thing the Hell World can do is to prove that its method is better from another perspective.
As the opponent began to accelerate the fusion, the beating of the heart became louder and louder, and with each beat, hundreds of third-level ghosts from different timelines were devoured. However, the fourth level was not so easy. If the normal difficulty of breaking through the fourth level like Lin Zhengying was 1, then the difficulty of the ghosts created by this method in the Hell World to break through the fourth level was 100.
The reason for this has to start with the reason for the birth of the rank. Why no matter which world or what it is called, there is always a level similar to the fourth level of the main god space that divides the two sides? It is because only when you reach this level will you have enough power to fight against the chaotic consciousness.
In a world where the fourth level does not exist, once the chaotic energy condenses and breaks through the rejection limit of the world consciousness, then someone or a group must manually eliminate the infected part, or at least limit it to buy time for the world itself to break it up and eliminate it. However, if ordinary people go up, they will just become fodder and be assimilated again. After all, not every world has the ability to add a protection against chaotic energy for everyone within it like the main god space.
The difference of the fourth level is that even without the help of the main god space, they can face the chaotic energy infected bodies head-on. Every fourth level is different. From the perspective of ordinary humans, maybe they can be distinguished into good and bad, but no matter good or bad, they all have natural antibodies to the infection of chaotic energy.
The difficulty of assimilating them is not on the same level as that of assimilating ordinary people. This is why the world needs fourth-level cells. Their role is like the strongest immune cells in the human body, performing the duties and tasks of firefighters.
There is currently only one way for the main god space to reach the fourth level, which is to let the third-level members understand their true intentions through various tasks. After understanding, if there is no self-doubt like Lin Zhengying, then everyone will be happy and they can use attribute points to break through. If it does, they have to think of other ways to break through the obstacles and then break through to the fourth level.
The method of the hell world is another. It creates a collective consciousness in multiple directions. In the process of creation, it subtly sets an origin for the subject, and relies on this origin to achieve the effect of resisting the assimilation of chaotic energy. In simple terms, the input variables output fixed values. The more variables there are, the higher the degree of fixity of the fixed values.
The birth of this fixed value requires luck. As the number of variables increases, the difficulty of generating a fixed value also increases. But if there are fewer variables, the fixed value will not reach that level and cannot be considered the fourth order, so this is a dilemma.
There is no doubt that this time the hell world encountered a non-Lord. After Lin Zhengying completed the setting up of the formation, the fourth-level ghosts still did not appear, but became even more chaotic.
In this case, the degree of timeline disorder was even more exaggerated, and there were more and more variables with only slight differences. Lin Zhengying also took this time to improve the formation several times.
Finally, the Hell World discovered that the calculation progress of the fixed value was not as fast as Lin Zhengying's speed of improving the formation. In this case where the bidding advantage was greatly reduced, the first thing they considered was no longer the issue of winning, but to reduce the advantage of the main god space, that is, to prove that Lin Zhengying, who had already met the standards, was a fake.
Only by proving this can the two sides barely get back to the same starting line with the referee.