"After all, I don't have much time left. The Supreme Calamity must not subside."
"You can intensify your pursuit of me. The Supreme Heavenly Lord's incarnation can't do anything to you right now, so this is the perfect time to hunt down my incarnations."
"Give the Supreme Heavenly Lord a second expectation to work from."
"The calamity facing my incarnation has weakened by twenty percent, greatly increasing his chances of success. But your pursuit will lower those chances again."
"That will give the Supreme Heavenly Lord two reasons to act."
"The first is to go all out and kill the Nine Heavenly Sovereigns, eliminating any possibility of the Anti-Immeasurable Final Calamity erupting."
"The second is to go all out to tie down your forces, ease the pressure on me, and increase my chances of initiating the Positive Immeasurable Final Calamity."
"Those two reasons should be enough to make him decide to descend in his true body."
"Of course, if he still refuses, the outcome is set. The suppression plan will fail."
"Then we'll have to activate our fallback plan for negotiations and use outside pressure to force the Supreme Heavenly Lord to yield."
What Li Qing was doing was expectation management, a tactic from the stock market in his previous life.
Through various means, he created an atmosphere across the entire market and guided everyone toward choices that matched the expectations he had planted.
In plain terms, he used the environment to influence decisions, letting outside forces interfere with a person's inner judgment.
People in the stock market were the easiest to sway with expectations—and then fleece like leeks—because those expectations could be false, carefully engineered by someone else.
Every piece of information they saw from beginning to end could be fake.
Now Li Qing was like a market operator.