"One Page Book, Ye Xiaochai, Mad Blade of the Chaotic World, Xia Bi Boluo, the Three Xiantian..." Xuan identified each newcomer one by one, continuously calculating something in his mind.
The arrival of people from Pili World had been within his expectations—or rather, he had personally brought it about.
This time, he had moved together with Aizen. On the surface, they were attacking the Gotei 13 because of their alliance, but their true target was Aizen.
Xuan had a reason he absolutely had to obtain the Hōgyoku, and it was urgently pressing.
Under such circumstances, he naturally had to make use of every force available to achieve his goal. The highly formidable people of Pili World were naturally his first choice.
But mobilizing them would not be easy. They shared no common interests with Xuan, nor did they have any personal connection. If he wanted them to do his bidding, there was only one method: bluffing them.
Xuan was someone deeply versed in the art of deception—or rather, he himself was a master bluffer. From his rise in the Warring States Period to the present day, who knew how many people he had fooled along the way?
It was precisely because of this that he knew there were three types of people in the world who were hardest to fool. The first type: complete lunatics. The second type: hopeless fools. And...
Seeing this, some might guess that the third type was "genuine geniuses."
Wrong.
In most cases, geniuses were indeed difficult to fool. With their exceptional intuition and reasoning, they could detect most falsehoods. But they were not flawless, because geniuses still approached problems through "rational" thought.
And as long as something was "rational," flaws would exist. Those flaws came from all sorts of circumstances beyond calculation—for instance, coincidences, accidents,