After entering Holy City, Qi Si had made a total of two deals.
The first deal was with Father Rachi. Its contents were to seize the enormous fleshy tumor that emerged at night—the World Fruit in which the gods had dwelled and slumbered before their birth.
Father Rachi hoped to obtain a newborn god, while Qi Si coveted the gathered authority of time and space. Their two goals converged at the same endpoint: having the World Fruit devour all the believers in Holy City.
Bound by the Rules of Holy City, neither Qi Si nor Father Rachi could directly harm a large number of innocent believers. But... what if those believers were no longer innocent?
The believers, who were not absolutely devout to begin with, grew dissatisfied with the clergy's rule. With a few words of incitement from foreign heretics, they organized themselves to storm the temple and destroy divine miracles, only to become food for the newborn god dwelling deep within the temple—what a perfectly logical script.
Thus, the clergy under Father Rachi's control imposed harsh decrees throughout every district of Holy City, while Qi Si manipulated the NPCs under his control to spread fear and resentment.
The second deal was with Fu Jue. Man and god had now reached a preliminary cooperation and consensus: they would use the principle that authorities of the same path and Identity Cards attracted one another to prevent the Ancestral God from awakening within the newborn god's shell.
Asakura Yuko's existence had thus been incorporated into the plan. The holder of the [Taboo Scholar] Identity Card was naturally compatible with derivatives related to the authority of time and space; placed together with the Ancestral God, she was clearly a magnet with greater pull.
As for what to do after eliminating the danger posed