This was not the first time Xuanyuan Jun had played such a game of chess against himself after awakening his "memories."
In the dozens of games before this, he had also placed a black stone on the board from Bai Di's perspective.
However, in those games, he had never designed the black side's overall strategy with Bai Di's move as its core.
From Sea Pavilion True Lord's bird's-eye view over Azure Waves, the Devil Master Bai Di was already half-crippled, and most of the variables surrounding him had been eliminated.
Moreover, in any cultivation domain, the strong were revered—an iron law. After Bai Di's Dao Foundation had been severely damaged, it was already difficult for him to maintain his position as master of the Demonic Dao, let alone enter the game himself and shake Xuanyuan Jun's grand plans in the Lower Realm.
Yet within the Immortal Abode Secret Realm, the harassing operations of the Demon Soil cultivators once again drew his attention to Bai Di.
When this man had launched the Great Competition of Two Daos in the past, his goal had been to unify the land of Azure Waves and become the ruler of a concrete realm.
Such ambition and scheming had already reached the pinnacle within a Lower Realm concrete realm. And one who could turn such wild aspirations from imagination, to planning, to genuine execution was a rare phoenix feather and qilin horn even among the many concrete realms ruled by the Wave-Chasing Sea Pavilion.
Xuanyuan Jun would not naively believe that a person like him would abandon such grand ambitions merely because his cultivation had fallen and his Dao Foundation had been damaged.
It was simply that, before this, he had not truly regarded Bai Di as a key variable capable of affecting the board.
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