Based on all the information he had, Shen Mo employed every method at his disposal to calculate carefully, ultimately choosing the second approach.
If he chose the first approach, several prerequisites had to be met...
First, the Transcendence faction had to win this game. Otherwise, the Immortal Court world would be unable to smoothly absorb the universe's origin and would have no chance at transcendence.
Moreover, if the Transcendence faction lost, the Daluo Golden Immortals would be fine—they would remain supreme and sacred beings within this universe. But all True Immortals who had pledged themselves to the Immortal Court would face the Eternal faction's reckoning. Even with combat strength comparable to a top-tier Celestial Immortal, Shen Mo would find it difficult to preserve himself once the tide had turned. At that point, he could only flee beyond the heavens through the Ninth Heaven, perish into silence amid the old universe's corpse, and wait for the next era to arrive.
Second, even if the first prerequisite were met, Shen Mo could not guarantee that the Transcendence faction's Golden Immortals would not devour the Dao Fruits of the True Immortals under their command.
If the Immortal Court world drained the universe's origin and gained an opportunity for transcendence, then in order to seize that chance and enter the Ninth Dao Realm, the Daluo Golden Immortals would inevitably do everything possible to raise their cultivation. There was a ninety-percent chance that they would treat the Dao Fruits of the Immortal Court's True Immortals as nourishment for their advancement.
After the Immortal Court was established, a great many remnants of bygone eras pledged themselves to it and entered the Profound Yellow Universe in their true bodies. Clearly, this was a consensus reached by the Golden Immortals of both factions.
If the Eternal faction won,