Master of Strange Dao

Yu Ziqing was right; only after coming out can one truly sense these things.

"You need to broaden your perspective. Do you think it's better to seize my body or to regain your True Form?"

"..." Che Lun remained silent.

Setting aside his current predicament, purely from a practical standpoint, regaining one's True Form is indeed better.

"You've contacted those left in the Mud Sea of the Muddied World, haven't you?"

With what appeared to be a casual remark, Yu Ziqing's words immediately made Che Lun tense.

"No, what use is there in contacting them?"

"They are trapped there, heavily influenced before they come out."

Che Lun dared not resist, even though he also felt there was no use. Truthfully, he hadn't thought about it these days.

Before coming out, he had been constantly writing about disgraceful scum, yet once he himself got out, he indeed turned his back on his comrades immediately.

It's not that he genuinely cared about the rest of them but rather that he felt awkward about his inconsistency.

"What exactly do you want to do?" Che Lun couldn't help but ask.

Before leaving, Yu Ziqing never sought power nor ever borrowed it.

And since coming out, trapping him, he never mentioned anything about rituals or sacrificial techniques.

To him, it was all he could think of.

Yu Ziqing not seeking power made him even more uneasy.

"I saw Wang Zixuan before, and I told him, the times have changed long ago.

I'm telling you now, the times have changed long ago. If you can't keep up, you will be eliminated.

Do you understand what I'm saying?"

"I don't." Che Lun answered honestly.

"In the era you lived, there was absolute opposition; it was either you die or me.

At that time, guys like you were dragged along by those at the opposite end, with no choice.

You were like that, and so was Wang Zixuan.

But now, times have changed. I think, what's the point in fighting and killing?

If you let go, what would you do?

Oppose the Divine Dynasty, stir up a war, but ultimately at most, you'd only destroy the human world now, turning it into something like the Abyss.

And then what?

Have you thought about what you would do next?"

Che Lun became even more bewildered, as he indeed had never thought about it.

He only thought that if he could come out, he would regain his former power, but this process was destined to be difficult, with wars continuing.

In the end, it might indeed be as Yu Ziqing said.

"Do you know why Wang Zixuan did nothing after coming out?

Because he knows, regardless of his ability, even if everything goes smoothly, the best outcome would be as I said.

You think, coming out of the Mud Sea of the Muddied World, you still need to go to a death battle.

In the end, watching the bustling world turn into a wasteland like the Abyss.

What's the point of that?

Or are you just thinking, winning doesn't matter, everyone losing is fine?

If that's your thinking, then you deserve to have been mired for years.

Haven't you thought, times have changed, and everyone can win together?"

Che Lun was greatly shocked.

He genuinely never thought of that.

Yu Ziqing was right; his thought was indeed, even if I lose, I won't let you win.

He started with such a mindset, never considering winning together.

Because he himself had little confidence in winning.

The wars of the past were too brutal, destroying the whole world.

Just losing the True Form and disappearing, or like him, falling into the Fallen Abyss, was actually considered fortunate.

Back then, many died completely.

Just by himself, he had little confidence.

But when spoken, it had to be loud, it had to call for revenge, everyone losing together.

Yu Ziqing could sense Che Lun's thoughts churning, his mind a bit chaotic.

He continued speaking.

"Actually, I don't have much malice towards you.

The events of the past were battles for the survival of the races. From the standpoint of my human race, your death was deserved, the more the better.

But my thinking is somewhat different from others, times have changed, and I am not that extreme.

And I think, given your status, you certainly weren't in a position to make decisions.

Moreover, I see that after coming out, you seem to have regained sanity.

That's why I'm talking so much with you, trying to bring you onto a path of mutual win."

"What exactly do you want to do?" Che Lun asked, genuinely curious.

"It's hard to explain right now, just listen to my arrangements, and don't waste my goodwill. Under the whole sky, I'm afraid I am the only one with such goodwill."

With a thought, Yu Ziqing released the suppression, giving Che Lun an exit for him to choose for himself.

If Che Lun chose to come out, then he would follow the path downward; if not, he would add himself to the feast.

If a person like Wu Shuangge dared to eat feces, swallowing a Che Lun who came from the cesspit, cleaned up, what's there to hesitate over?

Che Lun sensed an exit and hesitated for a moment.

Coming out would mean the end of the summoning ritual, and Yu Ziqing's constraints would disappear.

But if he didn't come out, he figured it might only be just eking out in a prison, at most moving from a smelly cage to a slightly better one.

Yu Ziqing appeared to have said everything, but actually, nothing tangible was revealed, just to see how Che Lun would choose. Updates are released by novel~fire~net

If Che Lun wasn't easy to manipulate, then quickly proceed to the next experiment, sending him to his death.

If he was easy to manipulate or recognized the situation, then we could take it slow, conducting other experiments, pausing the send-Che-Lun-to-death experiment.

Fortunately, Che Lun only hesitated a bit; feeling rotten through and through, he went out of the exit decisively, thinking it couldn't get any worse.