After entering the Holy City, Qi Si had made a total of two deals.
The first deal had been with Father Rachi. Its contents were to seize the enormous fleshy tumor that appeared at night—the World Fruit in which the god had parasitized and slumbered before its birth.
Father Rachi hoped to obtain a newborn god, while Qi Si coveted the accumulated authority over time and space. Their two goals converged at the end: to have the World Fruit devour all the believers in the Holy City.
Under the constraints of the Holy City's Rules, 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, grew dissatisfied with the clergy's rule. Incited by a few words from foreign heretics, they organized themselves to attack the temple and destroy its miracles, only to become food for the new god dwelling deep within the temple—what a perfectly reasonable script.
Thus, the clergy under Father Rachi's control imposed harsh decrees across every district of the Holy City, while Qi Si controlled the NPCs under his command to spread fear and resentment.
The second deal had been with Fu Jue. A man and a god had now reached a preliminary cooperation and consensus: to use the principle that authorities of the same path and Identity Cards attracted each other to prevent the Ancestral God from awakening within the new 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, making her an obvious magnet with greater pull when placed alongside the Ancestral God.
As for what to do after eliminating