The Big Shot heard the Domain Consciousness's request and cursed outright, "Enough my ass. Of course you don't need me to swear an oath. Such enormous karma is right there—wouldn't that be more binding than an oath? You really are shameless."
"Please, could you show a little of a senior's bearing?" The Domain Consciousness was unhappy as well. "You egged me into acting, yet you don't want to take responsibility... aren't you treating me like some fool?"
When it had received the Big Shot's request earlier, it could originally have acted immediately and created a fait accompli. Then, whether the Big Shot acknowledged it or not, he would have been dragged into it.
Yet it truly did not dare do that. For one thing, such behavior would indeed invite backlash from Heaven's Dao.
It believed it had ways to reduce the backlash, but no matter what, it had always guarded the Empty Mist Domain and basically regarded it as its own child. Whether Divine Souls or the Human Race, it was responsible for all of them, and instinctively adhered to the ironclad rules of protection.
Second, it feared that the Big Shot would go back on his word and flatly deny having "egged it on." If the other party claimed something like, "I was only joking," it would truly be at a loss.
Logically speaking, great powers all cared greatly about their status. But once someone decided to abandon all shame, there was nothing others could do about it.
Third, it had not yet reached the point of "life holds no more meaning, so sleep." Although it admitted that, according to its deductions, what that great power had said was likely true, it had not reached that point after all. A degree of doubt was only natural.
Only now, after