Chu Ge was both annoyed and amused, but he still felt a chill in his heart.
Chu Tiange had said he "had once considered" it, yet Chu Ge could tell that he still thought so even now.
This really was the most reasonable conclusion Chu Tiange could reach with the information available to him.
In fact, Chu Ge had read similar webnovels. Of course, the bosses always failed to strike the right balance, letting the protagonists grow until, just when they thought they could reap the rewards, the protagonists toppled them instead.
Whatever Chu Ge had read, Chu Tiange presumably had read too. At least in his character setting, Chu Tiange was a fan of Xianxia and fantasy novels.
"This is the main reason you want to kill me, isn't it?" Chu Ge shook his head with a smile. "In other words, you don't believe at all that I want you to manage the world?"
"No. Empty promises."
"In that case, shouldn't you keep those thoughts hidden and quietly wait for your chance to kill me in one stroke someday? Aren't you afraid I'll kill you first if you say it out loud now?"
"Whether I say it or not won't change the outcome," Chu Tiange said calmly. "You've been laying your plans for ten thousand years. How could you possibly draw in the net this early and waste all that effort? Of course you'll keep waiting for me to grow... Even Tribulation Transcendence isn't the end. I'll probably have to become a Profound Immortal at the very least, right?"
Chu Ge couldn't help laughing. "Mm-hmm. Putting it that way is pretty exciting. I really am a magnanimous final boss."
Chu Tiange's previously cross-legged posture slackened. Sitting in a casual sprawl, he drawled, "Honestly, for all my talk of killing