"Every ten years, I can independently condense and separate a 'node' crystal containing mental source energy equivalent to that of a Peak Deity Transformation Cultivator."
The ordinary Youth's face, formed of deep blue, stated this optimal solution it had calculated in an even, uninflected tone.
"Would that not be more worthwhile in the long run than your current practice of draining the pond dry to catch the fish, killing the hen to take its eggs?"
After hearing this, Su Bai's lips curved into an unreadable faint smile, while his eyes remained calm and unfathomably deep.
This lifeform evolved from a supercomputer was indeed shrewd in calculating gains and losses. It even knew to invoke the idiom of draining the pond dry to catch the fish, attempting to persuade him with long-term benefits.
Unfortunately, it might be able to deduce the laws governing all things, yet it could not calculate the treachery of the human heart. Nor did it understand how fragile an unconstrained one-sided promise was in the Cultivation World.
Placing his hopes on the other party keeping its word—especially when facing an existence that was inhuman by nature and placed logic above all else—was no different from building a tower in the air.
There was no need for such a seemingly long-term "benefit"!
His thoughts raced like lightning, and he made his decision in an instant.
If he could refine all several hundred Deep Blue nodes currently within the Deep Blue World, the benefit to the [Boundless Dao Source] would be tangible and immediate, far more reliable than some illusory ten-year agreement.
Perhaps he could use this to obtain his first law with a comprehension rate of one hundred percent!
There's no need for this benefit!
Su Bai sneered inwardly, his gaze already Locking On to another faintly flickering