[Colorful Class Card [Creator], the Nine Fundamental Origins of the Gods and Devils Realms]

["What... exactly do you want?"]

[You gave in. Past Li Ping was right. Since he was so certain, perhaps this [purple talent: Wish Echo] really was useless.]

[After all, it was a single-use [golden entry]. It might well prove useless in a situation like this. Besides, even taking ten thousand steps back, what if it did work?]

[Who could say for certain that he had not already prepared a countermeasure? You might end up wasting this trump card for nothing.]

[[Purple talent: I Am the Chess Player] had remained completely unresponsive, and you had no idea why.]

[But at least you were out of options. His claim that his past self was at his peak was not necessarily unreasonable. After all, that might have been when he had accumulated the most entries!]

[I was still too young...]

[If I had even one decent trump card, things could never have come to this. Or was he simply too underhanded?!]

[Both, probably. That was all I could say...]

[Within the memory scene, a faint smile surfaced in Past Li Ping's eyes, as though this was exactly the outcome he had anticipated. The Great Dao's Voice flowed forth,]

["Chen Fan... how about a deal between you and me?"]

["A deal?"]

[You were puzzled. Why did this Old Schemer keep jumping from one idea to the next?]

["What can you give me? What can I help you with?"]

[In any case, you did not want to make any deal with him. Staying alive was enough. Ideally, you would never see that Old Schemer Li Ping again. Past or future, they were all Old Schemers!]

[Within the memory scene, Past Li Ping smiled faintly, put away his somewhat casual attitude, and said solemnly:]

["You need not concern yourself with my true objective..."]

["Because that true