Facing an Ancient God for a Year

Chapter 1418: Chapter 1416: The Real Focus

[Current task completed]

Fu Qian certainly wouldn’t be bored enough to play hide and seek.

The ringing naturally came from the Eternal Clarity Mind, alongside the familiar prompt from the warehouse.

To be precise, it appeared a second earlier than it.

When the countdown reached seven, the task completion prompt appeared, appointing himself as completely free from the warehouse.

And the reason for choosing to ring the Eternal Clarity Mind in this situation is simple—while not wanting to hitch a ride with Alarakir, Fu Qian was also not interested in letting Him hitch a ride with him.

The effect of the Eternal Clarity Mind can drive away the corrosion on him to the greatest extent before leaving.

In fact, at that last moment, Fu Qian seemed to really hear a certain kind of roar full of anger, filled with a sense of betrayal.

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Humph!

Fu Qian naturally felt no psychological burden regarding this.

Everyone’s out there trying to make it, yet they’re not even willing to give the status of a senior partner, and still expect to be taken along in the jailbreak?

As for the main character in the original plan, Brother Tyler Gulad hasn’t even arrived. How exactly was the jailbreak accomplished?

Actually, it was very simple—he never needed to come at all.

Whether it was the Interlocutor’s introduction or the compromises after the deception with Alarakir, they have always been just things to be put on a presentation.

The real escape plan existed only in Fu Qian’s mind, as well as in a part that Miss Wen understood intuitively.

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Even though Brother Interlocutor thought the situation was somewhat optimistic, Fu Qian always only considered his judgments as references.

Given the high-standard prohibition, and instantly appearing all over him after entering the corridor, missing no weak point in penetration, he almost immediately made the worst assumption.

That within this dilemma, there exists a being with clear will, high status, strong initiative, able to easily control various matters.

He overlooks himself from above, with no action being able to escape His notice.

Meanwhile, He eagerly wishes to extract value from himself, transforming it into the possibility of leaving the corridor.

Subsequent investigations were only to verify this hypothesis.

Unfortunately, every verification succeeded.

In view of this, Fu Qian never thought there was any possibility of cooperation.

An almost all-knowing, all-controlling existence, facing a long-awaited opportunity to get out, would not take even the slightest unnecessary risk.

What He would do, and only do, is to control everything.

To block all possibilities of small actions, to maximally urge oneself to ”burn oneself,” turning it into His power to get out.

Preconditioned on achieving this, perhaps one could gain some incidental benefit, but that’s just a maybe.

Fu Qian was neither as naive as the Interlocutor nor as optimistic.

A place that could imprison many Divine Beings, and even cause associated Transcendents like Bernard to become dysfunctional.

Fu Qian had no interest in depleting his scant resources in a confrontation with Alarakir.

Using a diversion was a strategy almost instantly set, it never changed.

As for the specific content of the strategy?

Tyler’s dream indeed was crucial, but his role was only as a messenger.

The real focus was on his old rival Jiang En.

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The greatest value of Tyler’s dream was merely that the Abandonment King’s insignia was correctly conveyed.

That’s right, a noble, essential symbol of authority, perfectly matching the Evil God wishing to escape, how could He easily let go?

Realizing that physical contamination would only make wedding clothes for others, Fu Qian’s focus was always on the spiritual level; the first thing to do was to find a way to transmit it out.

And this involved a subtle psychological maneuver.

That was when facing Tyler in the dream state, full of conspiracy theories in his filled imagination, the visualization of the insignia was only to cater to his conspiracy theory, quickly control the dream, and then physically contaminate.

At least, it seemed that way on the surface.

For instance, Brother Interlocutor clearly didn’t notice anything strange.

As for His Excellency Alarakir, as mentioned before, trapped for long, He is an absolute self-interest maximizer.

Facing Tyler, such an excellent target for contamination, especially compared to sending off Wen Li earlier, He showed no sign of restraint.

Whether there was a need to assume the risk of affecting the enthusiasm of the tool person with preemptive actions then became a question for deliberation.

Knowing that in the first dream, realizing the anomaly, directly sending off Wen Li, you can ”see” that I’m a principled person with morals, unwilling to easily let the Evil God bring calamity to the world.

If realizing the overly desperate reality, what if I directly give up the escape attempt, sacrificing myself to suppress the Evil God?

Conversely, even if an insignia were brought into reality, its actual impact would still be questionable.

Even if it truly corresponded to my insignia, Tyler doesn’t look like a believer, thus unlikely to provide any kind of faith anchor.

Even if he suddenly had a lapse in judgment, how much power could he contribute to the Evil God’s descent?

Devotion, numbers, these easily conceivable factors of influence, any randomly picked one lacks significantly.

Alarakir’s final actions proved that His deliberation concluded—benefits greatly outweighed risks, don’t worry about it.

In fact, Fu Qian agreed with this judgment.

Because this was originally the result of carefully measured intensity, the earlier mastery of nuance was not self-flattery.

Conversely, his subsequent actions, like Riet and Su Gao, negotiations involving their insignia, were clearly seen as risks beyond limits, firmly prohibited.

But in reality, for the true plan, those were unimportant, only misleading diversions.

The core was a task assigned during the second meeting with Wen Li.

The task itself was of course sensible and showed no risk related to insignia; otherwise, given the stringent monitoring at that time, it likely couldn’t be conveyed.

If Wen Li did as instructed, with Tyler’s character, he would likely fall into the trap, and the Interlocutor might not have remained alone until now.

But Wen Li didn’t—because to avoid making a ”taboo,” I had switched topics and talked to her about Cultivation aspects, like the Kaleidoscope.

The core of that skill is to utilize Wen Li’s control ability to continually manipulate and torment the target’s emotions, thus forming a mental impact.

In these methods, the sequence of emotions undoubtedly has a significant effect, and as her former sparring partner, what I demonstrated with facial artistry was indeed her initial tuning sequence—just reversed.

Another issue discussed with her then was how to influence the meeting between Tyler and Jiang En.

What Miss Wen needed to do was not to make Jiang En firmly acknowledge but to firmly deny.

Until Tyler pressed step by step, even using the insignia for probing.