Wang Xie’s smile slightly waned: "So what?"

"Now the opportunity is right in front of you." Xiao Jie continued, "Help us. Perhaps we can change this predetermined destiny together, break free from the manipulations of fate."

Wang Xie remained indifferent, merely snorting coldly.

Xiao Jie could see some clues; he didn’t refute, indicating he indeed had thoughts along those lines.

"Since you are bent on rebelling against your original self, you obviously know some of your original self’s schemes. Am I right?"

Wang Jie was silent for a moment.

Then he looked up, his face once again showing that arrogant smile: "So what if I know? Why should I tell you?"

"Because—" Xiao Jie said calmly, "only I can help you with revenge, help you deal with your original self."

"Hahahahahahaha!"

Wang Xie burst into laughter, laughed till he almost bent over, tears nearly coming out.

"You fool! Do you even know what you’re talking about!"

After laughing enough, he straightened up and looked at Xiao Jie: "Do you know the true identity of my original self?"

"Isn’t it the Tongtian Saint?" Xiao Jie said nonchalantly.

Wang Xie was slightly taken aback; this time, it was his turn to be surprised.

"And do you know what exactly my original self is plotting?"

Xiao Jie looked at him, slowly saying: "Let me guess—he wants to become the only Saint in the Great Thousand Worlds and All Heavens and Myriads of Universes. To hold sway over everything. Am I right?"

Hearing Xiao Jie say this, Wang Xie laughed heartily as if he heard something particularly amusing.

"Heh... the kid indeed knows quite a lot. Yes, I do know his schemes, and I have thought of a way to defeat him. This way is actually simple." He spoke slowly, "Just like this, like this..."

He revealed the plan word by word.

After listening, Xiao Jie’s face showed surprise.

"Doing this... will it really work? If you do this, you will die, right?"

He found it hard to believe. 𝒇𝒓𝒆𝒆𝙬𝒆𝒃𝓷𝒐𝓿𝙚𝙡.𝒄𝓸𝒎

You know, that’s a Saint! A being with Unity with the Dao and Unbreakable, able to change Heaven and Earth Laws with a single thought! And this Wang Xie... isn’t even an Immortal.

"Hmph." Wang Xie snorted coldly, a hint of disdain flashing in his eyes, "It seems that though you’ve become a Daluo Golden Immortal, your nature remains no different from an ordinary mortal. Your understanding of the Great Dao is truly shallow."

He stood with hands behind, proudly saying: "Cultivation and mana, they’re nothing but fleeting illusions. Before a Saint’s strength, Daluo, Independent Immortals, ants alike—make no difference."

"To win, one must attack the weak point, aim for the seven inches, and a Saint’s only weakness is himself."

"Do you know, a Saint can divine and calculate everything except himself?"

Xiao Jie shook his head, "I don’t know."

Indeed, he didn’t know this.

That left Wang Xie speechless, "When I helped Long Wushang to start a rebellion, I had calculated in advance, but I calculated everything except the calamity on myself, because of this, I was defeated by you all. For people’s hearts are unpredictable, people’s behaviors are not forecastable, a person faces choices every moment, once I calculate the future calamity on myself and thus change behavior routes to avoid it, the original divination result naturally becomes invalidated.

Even if I calculated no calamity and still do things according to the original timeline, the divination itself needs time, all events’ timelines would thus be altered, and I’m not able to do every original thing exactly the same, destiny’s trajectory will also thus be altered.

In other words, the future of divine one’s self is unpredictable.

Precisely because of this, Tongtian can calculate everything except us avatars, because we avatars are part of him.

So he needs to obscure our past memories, otherwise even he cannot control our actions.

And after our awakening, he can only use our humanity to infer our deeds at most."

"I once thought, my rebellion was free will, breaking the trajectory of fate." He said slowly, "unexpectedly... it’s a part of that original self’s plan. When I died, I finally realized.

My original self can control everything because he understands all human nature. He knew very well what I’d do for freedom."

"To defeat him, I must violate human nature—do what I ’don’t want’ to do. That bastard thinks he’s calculated everything, hahahaha, contrary to his will just for revenge on his manipulations over me, treating me like a chess piece to maneuver, even if I dissipate like smoke, I must let him know the consequences, I’m not someone easy to manipulate!"

Xiao Jie looked at the frenzied Wang Xie, without any confidence in his heart.

Delirious, hatred, twisted mind, no matter how you look, he seems like a madman, using a madman to confront a Saint, seems worrying...

Yet, does he have any choice?

Xiao Jie chuckled bitterly in his heart, if he doesn’t use Wang Xie, judging from the information he currently holds, if there’s no conspiracy from Tongtian tomorrow, it’s fine; once there is, it will almost certainly succeed.

Given those players’ mindset, they’ll surely fail at that time.

Forget it, treat the dead horse like it’s alive.

Xiao Jie took a deep breath, reached out his hand: "Alright. Then we are agreed, you help me defeat Tongtian, I’ll assist you in your revenge."

Wang Xie looked at Xiao Jie’s outstretched hand, a conspiratorial smile appeared on his face.

"Agreed."