The "faint self" version of Great Monarch Wyatt intended to fully consolidate every resource at his disposal, including the now-fragmented Misty Jungle.
It was an absurd yet reasonable approach: as a pure practitioner of the Illusory Nightmare Domain, the Misty Jungle represented the furthest "boundary" of the resources he could control. Even if he later switched to the inner universe path, that "boundary" would only become more important.
The exposed fragments of the Misty Jungle, along with its underlying network structure, were meaningless on their own, destined to become mere playthings for the Divine Cloak and the Abyssal Spirit Net.
For every inch of this "boundary" he surrendered, his chances of victory would shrink tenfold... He truly had no room left to give.
That being the case, things became simple: if the ruin and fall system could squeeze him until he burst, so be it. But even if he burst, the Misty Jungle could only burst out from inside his stomach.
Great Monarch Wyatt turned ruthless, while the ruin and fall system remained unhurried.
Realistically speaking, the other Great Monarchs of the Illusory Nightmare Domain temporarily trapped in the Misty Jungle could not all be swallowed in one gulp, nor was there any need to do so.
The ruin and fall system was not fixated on suppressing every "outsider" still within the various fragments of the Misty Jungle. Alternating force with persuasion and picking them off one by one was the most basic approach.
That applied to the trapped individuals, but it was even more important to strike deals with the forces and God Systems behind them.
This was an eminently rational approach.
But if everyone was so rational, where would an opportunity come from?
Within one unstable fragment of the Misty Jungle, Great Monarch Mu Kuo was still somewhat