Since "seize the sword—detonate" had only an eighty-percent chance of success, why not change the approach, add a hundred million points of calculation, and ensure that while taking the Witch Soul Sword, they could deal the Demon Race an even heavier blow?
That way, even if half the Great Demons with Karmic Obstruction here ultimately escaped, the overall gains might be greater.
Though all this scheming and counter-scheming was ultimately for merit...
If he had enough confidence to balance his own needs with his side's interests, why wouldn't Shou do it?
Thus, Li Changshou and the Jade Emperor's two incarnations quietly withdrew to an inconspicuous corner of the underground grand array.
Li Changshou spent half an hour thinking and another half hour devising the entire scheme. In no more than an hour, he had produced a complete plan and begun a thorough discussion with Your Majesty Jade Emperor.
Though by the end of the discussion, less than one-thousandth of the overall plan had been revised...
He still had to give Your Majesty Jade Emperor, who had been watching eagerly from the side, some necessary sense of participation!
With time so limited, and this being a sudden idea, Li Changshou had no time to devise too many complete backup plans.
Therefore, he used this plan as the main framework and left several backup measures at the points most likely to produce unforeseen changes.
Even if something unexpected happened, he would drag the development of events back onto this predetermined main path!
The overall idea behind scheming against the Demon Race was actually simple: a straightforward "besiege the point and strike the reinforcements."
More precisely, they would pretend to encircle this place. On the premise of ensuring that the Great Demons with Karmic Obstruction here could not leave with that sword, they