In a sense, this counted as gaining something only after giving something up.
Looking at the mission rewards lined up before him, You Chen felt a measure of emotion.
With a second mission line available, You Chen naturally had more options.
He could have chosen not to abandon Kendall's mission, focused on developing the second mission line for a while, and searched for an opportunity to deal with Kendall at the same time.
That would have allowed him to avoid wasting precious time as much as possible while maximizing his gains.
After all, even if he left the first mission line alone and merely watched it, he still had the option of tackling the second mission line.
But if he had not abandoned Kendall's mission, You Chen would not have received Yu Xiaogang's mission.
Then, when he encountered Tang San, he would not have adopted his current approach. Whether it was the plan to turn Tang San into a sycophant or to divide master and disciple and provoke conflict between them, he would likely have kept himself entirely hidden behind the scenes, manipulating Xiao Wu and the soul masters of Notting City to carry it out.
Then he would not have triggered Tang San's mission in the short term, nor would he have discovered that his You Xing alt account could also trigger a mission line.
Loss and gain—sometimes, it was truly difficult to say which was which.
Now that things had come to this, You Chen did not dwell on it any longer. Compared with a Longevity Secret that could not be directly converted into combat power anytime soon, the rewards dropped by Yu Xiaogang and Tang San were far more in line with his expectations.
You Chen first looked toward the two most valuable rewards.
The first was