Hearing Eight Colors, Lu Yin asked in surprise, "You knew?"
"You can understand this as the third prerequisite for this conversation. Yes, I knew. And I knew you knew, because you went to the Sea of Death and met Death Lord."
Lu Yin hadn't actually learned about this from Death Lord, but that didn't stop Eight Colors from thinking so. In fact, it was right.
"It's only natural that Main Dao wants to wipe out The Unknown. After all, once we left that chaotic stretch of Cubic Distance, The Unknown no longer had any reason to exist. We kept The Unknown alive by using it to crusade against the Ancient Adversary, but what really kept us going was the Divine Power Lines, not The Unknown itself. That's why one Main Sequence after another joined us."
"It's simple for Main Dao to erase The Unknown: it just needs to control all the Divine Power Lines. In fact, that's exactly what it's doing now."
"Knowing that, you're still willing to help them?" Lu Yin asked.
"Fairness within the rules can't be rejected. And the rule is that no one may defy the Master Clan."
Lu Yin's gaze sharpened.
"If the living beings of the Master Clan are right, no one can defy them, let alone four of them. The Unknown wants to survive, not fight Main Dao. Otherwise, we would've ceased to exist long ago."
"And competing for the twelve Divine Power Lines is another way I can secure our continued survival. Even though Shi Wen proposed it, it's still the best outcome." Eight Colors spoke slowly. .🅆.
Lu Yin looked at the Divine Tree. "Your so-called best outcome is to use me to deal with Main Dao, while making Human Civilization the bait."
Eight Colors replied evenly, "Since you've brought up