[The conjecture suddenly sprang to mind. How likely was it?]
[Very likely. Previously, in the "Life-and-Death Chess Game" established by the [Venerable Lord of Yin-Yang Authority],]
[the other you created by his Life-Bound Divine Ability, [Twin Blossoms], could read your thoughts, so [Purple Talent: I Am the Chess Player] had activated and hidden your true self!]
[It had left an exceedingly small portion of your true spirit on the surface as Bait to deceive him.]
(This was mentioned in Chapter 433.)
[Then what if—just what if—the real you had never shown himself at all?]
[The real Chen Fan, namely you,]
[had been hidden within [Purple Talent: I Am the Chess Player] all along, while both your previous self and your current self were nothing more than Bait?!]
[At that thought, you turned your gaze toward Past Li Ping in the scene from your memories.]
[He had been speaking to you incessantly, but now he was surprisingly quiet.]
[His gaze, too, was fixed motionlessly on you.]
[Unlike the fervor with which he had tried to reassure you earlier, he now wore a contemplative expression you rarely saw.]
[For a moment, the atmosphere sank into an eerie silence.]
[You were silent because you felt that everything had been thrown into chaos.]
[You were merely Bait?]
[In other words, if that time in the "Life-and-Death Chess Game" had been meant to deceive the [Venerable Lord of Yin-Yang Authority],]
[then what was the purpose this time?]
[By this point, you already had an answer in your heart.]
[To deceive... Past Li Ping?]
[If the real Chen Fan, who had yet to show himself, truly lay hidden within [Purple Talent: I Am the Chess Player]...]
[Was your true self being hidden because Past Li Ping could read your thoughts?]
[*Then did that mean you had