Ch. 3021Senior Three-Eyed Youth: I Did My Best!
Key plot points
- Tyrant Benevolence enters a memory realm expecting a delaying trap, but finds a hidden archive containing How the Netherworld Ruler Was Made—a record of the Netherworld Ruler’s creation, Ancient Nether materials, and related theories.
- Fascinated, he studies the instructions and considers how existing resources—Tyrant Song’s Immortality Attribute, Daozi’s Heavenly Dao Authority, the Dragon Network, the Demon Sea World, and Boss Fat Ball—might simplify the process.
- He becomes so absorbed that the half-hour viewing period expires before he can review more than a small portion of the archive.
- The contest moves to a fifty-question quiz; the first to answer thirty correctly wins. Senior Three-Eyed Youth secretly narrows the questions to the memories Tyrant Benevolence actually saw, doing all he can within the wager’s rules to help him.
Character developments and interactions
- Tyrant Benevolence shifts from suspicion to delighted scholarly absorption, then panics when he realizes he has run out of time. He assumes Senior Three-Eyed Youth deliberately baited him.
- Tyrant Evil is exasperated by Benevolence’s distraction and thinks he should have taken the challenge himself.
- Senior Three-Eyed Youth is genuinely confused by Benevolence’s accusation. He actually wants to lose: the Demon Emperor has already given him the knowledge he wanted, while the chance to study the Confucian Sage’s Eyes is more appealing.
- The wager puts Benevolence and Senior Three-Eyed Youth in opposition, but both are effectively working against the apparent outcome: Benevolence blames his opponent for a trap, while Three-Eyed Youth quietly tries to improve Benevolence’s chances.
Significant themes
- The joy and danger of knowledge: Learning brings Benevolence genuine happiness, but his fascination costs him valuable time.
- Building on past discoveries: Existing worlds, materials, and prior research may make recreating the Netherworld Ruler far easier than the original process.
- Appearance versus intention: Benevolence interprets the archive as a scheme, while Three-Eyed Youth’s real goal is to lose.
- Rules and limited agency: The wager ritual constrains Three-Eyed Youth, forcing him to help indirectly by adjusting the quiz’s scope.