Sima Ji nodded. "Although you wasted my time and disgusted me, I suddenly realized that after fighting you, either these will be the last moments of my life, or I will have endless time ahead of me. So I can accept wasting a little."
"Since I'm willing to waste time, I might as well ask: how exactly did you come around?"
Qin Siyang said, "Because I later realized that one of the major premises behind my earlier idea of 'not becoming the Star Lord' was wrong."
"I originally thought that as long as I didn't compete to become the Star Lord, Earth could develop rapidly, and Sequence Abilities would undergo explosive breakthroughs."
"But I overlooked the fact that Sequence Abilities in this world can still develop because the [Succession Star Competition] is still running. The Large Gods are still observing us, still setting trials, and still pushing humanity to grow stronger in their own way."
"If I forcibly held myself back from competing to become the Star Lord and refused to take that final step, the Large Gods might very well decide that Earth had lost its value. They would stop supporting me and wouldn't launch any new trials."
"At that point, the development of Sequence Abilities on Earth would grind to a halt."
Qin Siyang paused briefly, then continued, "More importantly, this world is, at its core, an examination."
"If a candidate puts down his pen before the final question and says he doesn't want to hand in his paper, no one knows how the examiner will handle it."
"Perhaps he'll wait. Perhaps he'll simply declare the examination a failure and end everything. The [Apocalypse Fragment] makes no mention of this. In my eyes, the odds might be fifty-fifty."
"But my chances of defeating you in a decisive battle