A Change of Attitude

"Professor, it seems your attitude toward the Old Age Mansion has changed?"

Zhang Xuezhou's expression was not good.

Having witnessed the power of mutual deterrence and countermeasures in Ren Yisheng, the psychological impact of such clashes is indeed unpleasant.

Zhang Xuezhou is inferior to Ren Yisheng in terms of spiritual strength and deterrent influence, but his artistic level is higher and his endurance is several points stronger than Ren Yisheng's.

Zhang Xuezhou was relatively passive in the early stages, but gradually caught up in the middle and later stages, maintaining a balance between their levels.

This also explains why the two people's confirmed situations were similar.

Strictly speaking, Zhang Xuezhou's level is close to Ren Yisheng's when fighting among those in the Sequence Holder. However, his deterrence and killing power are weaker than Ren Yisheng's, and he will have difficulty controlling other high- Sequence Holder.

However, once Zhang Xuezhou leaps into the Divine Ability Realm, this situation will change drastically, and his ability to suppress and intimidate with his Realm Technique will be similar to or even surpass that of Ren Yisheng's Dragon Elephant Combat Technique.

As for Zhang Xuezhou's Gene Fighting Technique, let's not even talk about them. He can't use them against high- Sequence Holder right now, just like Ren Yisheng is still in a state of being easily out of control and there's no difference in deterrence.

He calmed himself down, then turned off the live stream linking to Chang Kongluo and the others before asking Ren Yisheng a question.

"You were right to befriend them!"

Ren Yisheng pondered for two seconds.

He now had to admit that Zhang Xuezhou must have paved the way in the old mansion, which led to Chang Kongluo and others being too friendly.

In a normal clash between top-tier individuals, this group still possesses immense power, while Ren Yisheng is in a state of illness, making a cooperative relationship between the strong and the weak far from amicable.

Ren Yisheng had expected a confrontation, but he feigned inaction and death, ultimately managing to get through the situation by playing along.

But everything took Ren Yisheng by surprise.

Each of Chang Kongluo and the others contributed one or two X446 high-end medical devices. This kind of gift-like energy made Chang Kongluo very clear about the huge benefits that cooperation would bring.

Compared to the past when people hoped for the deaths of these people, even if they held onto that thought for Ren Yisheng, things have changed.

Ultimately, the foreseeable benefits outweighed the risks, and Ren Yisheng also realized that his side was not the weak and disadvantaged one he had perceived it to be.

This could even be related to whether Ren Yisheng truly enters the Seventh Sequence.

"Can we really establish a stable relationship with this group?" Ren Yisheng asked.

"I don't know either!"

Zhang Xuezhou shook his head.

Human desires are insatiable. Perhaps they are what people need, or perhaps it is what people like Chang Kongluo need, or perhaps some of them cannot see any hope, thus causing a change in their thoughts.

Dealing with these people can be complicated, and mutual trust is an even bigger issue.

Whether it's Mental Strengthening Chapter or life-extending drugs, these are merely methods of dependence for many elderly people, not means of control. Mastering the balance between them is extremely difficult.

"Fine, I'll take whatever I can get from them. What I get is real, so I can't lose out right now!"

Zhang Xuezhou's response was uncertain, and Ren Yisheng was well aware that such things could not be determined.

It's a race against time, a test of whether the many people in the old mansion can run faster or their group can.

Whoever runs the fastest has the upper hand. Even if the many elderly people in the Old Age Mansion walk out the door, Ren Yisheng can still handle it calmly.

"Speaking of which, your cultivation level is already quite high; you could manage without following the Gene Sequence path," Ren Yisheng frowned and said, "The benefits they offer you are limited, so why would you choose to cooperate with them?"

"You should know that we have been through a lot in the Thousand Islands Alliance. If the world changes in the future, their existence will be a line of defense," Zhang Xuezhou said.

What are the chances that this change will occur?

"Perhaps 100%!"

Zhang Xuezhou gave Ren Yisheng Ren Yisheng a statistic that immediately silenced him.

While infighting is inevitable in Western Capital City, personal interests are trivial matters when faced with an insurmountable disaster.

Ren Yisheng had seen some video materials provided by Song Fengying, and also read some news related to the Thousand Islands Alliance.

What happened in the Thousand Islands Alliance might not happen in the Scarlet Alliance State, after all, the two countries have completely different terrains and geographical environments, and the Scarlet Alliance State has not yet discovered any alien or ferocious insects.

It must be said that everyone has a tendency to take chances, and even Ren Yisheng is no exception.

When Zhang Xuezhou stated the probability of his assessment, it forced Ren Yisheng to give it serious consideration.

"Why are you so sure about the probability?" Ren Yisheng asked, puzzled. "After all, our situation here is different from that of the Thousand Islands Alliance!"

"That's what Presnel said," Zhang Xuezhou said, "And he wasn't the real master; he was just one of the master's subordinates!"

"Presenel is the name of that vicious insect?"

"Yes!"

Once you've truly experienced what happened in the Tuer region, and know that Presenel was merely one of the Devil Lord's subordinates, and that five fireballs summoned by Presenel fell in succession in the Qinmeng region, with the beings on these fireballs being equivalent to the Devil Lord, many of your thoughts will be cleared up.

The struggles in Western Capital City were important, but when disaster struck, all the benefits of those struggles became meaningless.

If it weren't for his lack of ability, Zhang Xuezhou would have even considered producing a batch of the Heavenly God General's potion and recommending it to the many elderly people in the Twilight Mansion when the time was right.

The Qinmeng Ruins are currently the largest buffer zone, but also the inevitable source of disaster. Zhang Xuezhou does not rule out the possibility of similar events occurring within the Scarlet Alliance State.

He said that a 100% probability was a genuine judgment.

Even Nagos had to seek allies.

Presenel rose to power in just a few months from its discovery, and if this calamity were to come sooner, the risk might even exceed the threat posed by the Extraterrestrial Heavenly Demon.

Seeing that the strength of the Western Capital City leadership was declining day by day and their ability to withstand risks was decreasing, Zhang Xuezhou was also helpless.

"Just how strong is that Presennel?" Ren Yisheng asked.

"Nags assessed the opponent's individual strength as being around the Seventh Sequence, and his overall ability as being at the Eighth Sequence. Our deterrent capabilities cannot suppress him, and it would be very difficult to exert any influence even if we wanted to," Zhang Xuezhou said.

"Where is the real person?"

"There's a 90% chance that Yu, whom Huang has repeatedly praised, will perish together with his opponent!"

"Huang Shuoyu ignited the divine fire, making him immortal and indestructible..."

"Those people too!"

The brief conversation conveyed something that Ren Anran's descriptions and the videos with Song Fengying could not express.

Ren Yisheng felt a sense of emptiness in his heart, and for no reason, a sense of urgency arose.

If he knew that a great disaster was inevitable in the future, many of the things he insisted on would become completely meaningless.

The struggles and hardships he encountered were incomparable to the calamities of major events.

Ren Yisheng did not consider himself a noble person, but he was never ambiguous about the general direction.

Like Zhang Xuezhou, he hoped for the first time that the elderly people in the Old Age Mansion could live a little longer.

For Ren Yisheng, the Seventh Sequence should not be the end of his efforts; his vision may be to go further and even be bolder.

He not only needs to break through the siege in Western Capital City, he also needs to go international, surpass Montesbaden, and even pursue even greater limits until he has the ability to face disaster.

When you're young, you have all sorts of unrealistic ideals, but as you get older, you succumb to reality.

Ren Yisheng never imagined that, at nearly sixty years old, he would have such a distant thought resurface.

But Ren Yisheng's idea was not just wishful thinking.

On one hand, the Mental Strengthening Chapter has been proven to stabilize the soul, so as long as he takes good care of his body, it won't be difficult for him to live a long life.

For most people, sixty is just a step away from the grave, but for Ren Yisheng, it's merely his prime.

After changing his mind, Ren Yisheng realized that the elderly people in the Old Age Mansion might be of some help, instead of him going on alone.

More importantly, the "Resonance Between Heaven and Humanity Manual" that Zhang Xuezhou had taken out these past two days was a perceptive Technique Method with no lower limit and no upper limit that could be detected. It was like a beacon, guiding him in the right direction.