He Ping settled on a plan to stir the various factions into a massive brawl.
He knew full well that to fish in troubled waters, he first had to muddy the waters. If the waters remained clear, these factions would not turn on one another. Instead, they would seek reconciliation and unite against outsiders.
Take the Mystic Moon spacetime, for instance. If North Water Divine Palace and Taiyi Thunder Prefecture, the two major powers there, cooperated sincerely without selfish motives, these two local tyrants could cast a net over heaven and earth throughout the Mystic Moon spacetime. Unless one was an expert at the Loose Immortal level, there would be no getting through.
Then there were Jiumoluoye and his master, along with the Great Xiye Kingdom. If those two factions were willing to cooperate and share the treasures of the land of the remains, how could he possibly have any room to interfere?
"What a pity, what a pity... The greed in people's hearts is not so easily shaken. The remains of Tribulationless Daoist, the immortal Dao laws of a mighty Loose Immortal—who could possibly resist joining the fight for them?"
Muddying the waters, put plainly, was the art of vertical and horizontal alliances.
Vertical alliances meant uniting the many weak against one strong.
Horizontal alliances meant serving one strong power to attack the many weak.
He Ping was deeply versed in the changes of this art. He knew that if he could not employ vertical and horizontal alliances, he could still find a way to disrupt the existing situation and further splinter the various factions.
Getting a group of people to cooperate and become as solid as a sheet of iron was undoubtedly difficult. Conversely, breaking apart an enemy from within, or widening the rifts between multiple factions, was