Qin Yi and Ju Yunxiu almost immediately understood what Heavenly Mystery Child was thinking.
If he went along with Nine Infants and helped it rule the Three Realms, he would merely be an assistant—perhaps even a pawn. The Heavenly Palace was crawling with Wuxiang cultivators. Even if a Qianyuan like him offered Nine Infants strategies and counsel, he would not receive much importance. At most, he could become an adviser or take charge of some particular matter.
That would only be a splash amid the tides, of very little benefit to his Dao Path.
Scheme for oneself, scheme for others, scheme for the world—what did it mean to scheme for the world? Either one word set the world right, or one sentence threw the world into chaos; it did not mean becoming someone else's foot soldier.
Either he planned the entire game himself, or he ruined someone else's entire game. Better yet... he made something huge happen, until the entire situation of the Three Realms was thoroughly shaped by his own hand.
That was his Dao Path.
They had known long ago that the Scheming Sect's Dao Path could basically be summed up in three words: "Make trouble! Make trouble! Make trouble!"
With the Dao Path before him, who the hell was the Heavenly Emperor? Especially a false Heavenly Emperor, a monkey dressed in court robes. If they could not beat him head-on, could they not scheme against him from the shadows?
"Heavenly Mystery Child contacted me himself." At Xu Buyi's side, Chess Fanatic finally spoke. "Once he got in touch with me, we hit it off at once. This grand game between Heaven and Earth was what I wanted too. What did a few past frictions amount to?"
Qin Yi: "..."
A pack of lunatics. It felt as though,