Ultimately, the traits in Luande that belonged to the Grand Duke of Tian Yuan had become warped beyond recognition. He had grown accustomed to maintaining a supposed stability and balance under intense pressure; once removed from that environment, he might instead explode outright.
That warped stability and balance proved that his path forward had been utterly lost. He no longer possessed a true "inner universe," and there was no hope of reversing it.
Moving into the "Illusory Nightmare Domain" might instead allow him to recover some foundations of his self.
As for the "ruin and fall system," by driving Luande toward the "Isolated Star System," it had already written him off as dead.
Well, judging by the "ruin and fall system's" usual methods, it might also be forcing Luande to transform and fall, bringing him into a sphere where fallen death held the advantage and giving it a handle for controlling him afterward.
Yi Ya did not quite understand what Tai Yu had grasped, nor did Yi Ya care to ask. The same sneer remained:
"You understand him. Do you want to follow his example?"
"You should say he followed mine. I 'changed lanes' before he did, and my circumstances are far more promising than his."
His meaning was vague, but it made sense however one interpreted it, and the others present agreed. After all, reality had borne it out:
He was already a Great Monarch. What more was there to say?
As a Great Monarch in his own right, Tai Yu ultimately decided to continue leaving everything to others, dumping all the assorted matters on Yi Ya and the rest—including Xin Rui, who had come over for a vacation.
It was not that he insisted on being so inconsiderate. The "ruin and fall system" was simply never easy to