The enemy wasn't that stupid; he wouldn't let Lu Yin fool him.
Of course, Lu Yin wasn't stupid enough to let himself become too passive, either.
If Meng Sang refused to hand over the method for making stepping stones, Lu Yin would rather see them destroyed.
He wanted to make stepping stones, pursue Meng Sang, and, even more likely, invade the Spiritualized Universe.
It was far too disadvantageous to place the battlefield in the Heavenly Origin Universe. He needed to plan carefully. If they absolutely had to reboot a universe, then from his perspective, it had to be the Spiritualized Universe. And the Little Spirit Universe was a major problem. If Yu Sang Tian were allowed to reboot it and enter the Eternal Life Realm, that would be just as catastrophic for them.
They had already been driven to the edge of a cliff. Often, they had no choice but to make sacrifices—and risk their lives.
"What, you don't believe me?" Lu Yin asked in return.
Meng Sang stared into Lu Yin's eyes. "You're going to the Spiritualized Universe?"
"Why would you say that?"
"To leave through this stepping stone, I'll have to keep making more along the way. Yet you haven't asked whether I might destroy them, or whether the Spiritualized Universe might notice. You haven't even asked if they'll notice when I make new ones. You don't care anymore. From the start, your goal was the method for making stepping stones." Meng Sang said.
"You want to go to our Spiritualized Universe and turn the tables."
Lu Yin's eyes flickered. That really was his goal.
The best possible outcome would be to use Meng Sang to make a stepping stone, then kill him once it was finished—killing two birds with one stone.
But he had to account for