"It seemed Senior was determined to kill me."
Lu Yang sighed. "People, being too clever is not always a good thing. I merely gave it a little thought, and easily saw through Senior's plans spanning the ages."
"Yes."
Chu Sheng nodded slightly. "But perhaps that is precisely the [Variable]. Erasing you may help me further comprehend the mysteries of the [Variable]."
"So that was it."
Lu Yang came to a realization. "That is why you said I might replace the World Honored One."
How could he replace him?
By dying in his place, of course!
After all, the current World Honored One had long since switched to cultivating [Tribulation]. To Chu Sheng, he could not be called rare material—but he was at least completely useless.
At that thought, Lu Yang suddenly laughed. "In that case, the World Honored One's earlier judgment was not wrong either. Senior is far less at ease than he appears."
He had been frightened before.
Because Chu Sheng had displayed the Image of [Variable], he had assumed that Chu Sheng could use it to control [Variable]. The shadows cast by the past had simply run too deep.
The World Honored One, on the other hand—
Though he was Chu Yi'er, and could be said to have endured Chu Sheng's torment throughout his cultivation, his heart had never yielded. He remained confident as ever.
That was why he had discovered it before Lu Yang did.
"If Senior's scheme had superior, middling, and inferior strategies, then at present, Senior should be taking a risk and forced to use the inferior strategy."
The superior strategy was naturally Spirit Transformation Ascension.
Lu Yang had also understood the middling strategy: personally kill the World Honored One, use the unorthodox path of [Karma], this [Variable], and truly wield [Variable] through [Fixed Number].