[Succeed as the next Great Li Emperor?]
[You were slightly startled. This demand truly caught you by surprise. The Great Li Imperial House had no shortage of cultivators, and those three Nascent Soul Middle Stage beings might well obey the [Venerable Lord of Yin-Yang Authority]'s commands.]
[So you asked:]
["How will you ensure that we compete fairly?"]
[Your meaning was obvious: no underhanded tricks like directly ordering those [Nascent Soul True Lords] around!]
[Yet, to your surprise, the [Venerable Lord of Yin-Yang Authority] replied disdainfully:]
["I would not stoop to controlling those three Nascent Soul Middle Stage cultivators of the Great Li Imperial House to resolve this. We each rely on our own abilities. How about it?"]
[You reluctantly agreed. Although you still felt uneasy, you had no other choice, so you said:]
["Tell me the requirements!"]
[The [Venerable Lord of Yin-Yang Authority], however, replied nonchalantly:]
["There are no requirements. Or rather, the only requirement is that we cannot act personally."]
["Choose someone, then play out our contest with both sides bearing witness, helping that person become the next emperor. No restrictions on methods, no restrictions on means, and certainly none on the outcome!"]
[No restrictions on means, and certainly none on the outcome. In other words, as long as they became... an emperor, that would suffice?!]
[Even if the person you chose ultimately became the emperor of somewhere other than Great Li, even if they died immediately after becoming emperor, you would still win!]
[Good! So that was what relying on our own abilities meant!]
[You could not help turning over all manner of schemes in your mind.]
[At the same time, you asked again:]
["The other me created by your Life-Bound Divine Ability, [Twin Blossoms], will assimilate me in less than five days. What about that?"]
[Indeed, you