"Based on Yu Ming's way of thinking and his grasp of the bigger picture, he deliberately took the key from me back then and released just over half of the dark seal... Could it be that he did so deliberately, waiting for me to retrieve the key today and undo the remaining seal on Guo Chen?"
"His goal was for Bodhi Patriarch and me to make some kind of agreement with Guo Chen while he was weakened, so that we could fight Azathoth together. If Yu Ming had completely undone Guo Chen's seal back then, everything that followed would have developed entirely differently. Guo Chen would certainly have relied on his immense power to begin slaughtering every strong individual, including the forces of Ling."
"Yu Ming's meticulous analysis of the overall situation... he truly was impossible to fathom!"
During the time Zhang Chen had spent with Yu Ming, Yu Ming had first used Zhang Chen's inheritance from the Emperor to help him defeat the Ling King beneath First Mountain in the prison realm, fully unlocking his body's true ghost limit.
Through the earlier "exploration operation," he killed the Destroyer of Vision and retrieved from the void Azathoth's left arm, which had been used as "payment."
Within Sand China, Yu Ming and Bodhi had laid out an even greater scheme. Not only had they obtained the Death Sentence Bracer, but right before Azathoth's eyes, they had fused with his original arm and dealt a blow to the undead faction.
And not long ago, when Yu Ming led them to the Sealed Land within the Sunken Ghost Realm, he had turned from mantis into oriole at the final moment, leaving the undead surrounded from both front and rear. Had Jia Xin not used Guo Chen's power in his scheme to breach the