Chapter 1531: Chapter 1178: Three Schemes—Strike, Sow Discord, and Attack the Heart! Beneath Unrivaled City!

The strongest power in this world has never been just one’s own strength alone, just like a man cannot lift a three-hundred-jin boulder.

But if he borrows the strength of others, or at the very least uses a wooden pole as a lever and finds a proper fulcrum, he can still pry up that boulder.

Whether it is the Wan Family or that arrogant, conceited Shakyamuni, in truth neither of them relies solely on their own strength, but fully exploits their own influence over others, borrowing the power of others to achieve their own ends.

The former, being within the Holy Dynasty, is beset by scruples and heavy restrictions, and thus has no choice but to act so.

The latter, on the other hand, cherishes his life, and even harbors a playful mindset of mocking human nature, savoring that exhilarating feeling of having all things in the world held in his hands to knead at will.

The former is compelled to borrow the hand of the Blood Transformation Divine Venerable and the Eternal Life God to severely punish this Black Wind Village Chief Jiang Dali, this reckless daredevil who dared offend them; it is a union of shared interests.

The latter covets the Mahavira power within the Eternal Life God’s body, yet is unwilling to personally make a move and have his Essence Qi harmed by Mahavira. With his attainments in the art of health preservation, he knows well that the pursuit of eternal life never lies in struggling and fighting with others, but in occupying the advantages of timing, location, and human harmony. If he can avoid direct conflict and instead borrow force to attain the best vantage point as a spectator, that would be ideal. Thus he goes with the flow and stirs the situation into chaos, pushing Black Wind Village Chief Jiang Dali to join with Bai Suzhen in exterminating the Eternal Life God, achieving his goal of killing with another’s knife without lifting a finger.

The aims of these two parties, in fact, are neither complex nor contradictory.

It is only because the latter is too mysterious that All-knowing Madman, having glimpsed a shred of the truth, overinterpreted it, and in turn brought about a catastrophe of annihilation.

But this so-called catastrophe of annihilation—when was it ever not a Choice that All-knowing Madman willingly desired?

No one knows what exactly the Wan Family has given to the Blood Transformation Divine Venerable.

Nor does anyone know what cooperation the Eternal Life God has ultimately reached with the Wan Family, that his mood could be so elated.

But what is certain is that a perilous conspiracy aimed at Black Wind Village Chief Jiang Dali is rapidly brewing and unfolding.

What will they do?

There are many ways to strike back at or even kill a man.

Even someone as strong as Black Wind Village Chief Jiang Dali, who appears to have no weaknesses, in truth most definitely has weaknesses.

At such a time, one must understand the Black Wind Village Chief very well before one can know his weaknesses.

Why must a man understand his enemies even more deeply than he understands his friends?

Because it is very easy for someone to harm his friends.

But it is not at all easy to harm his enemies.

In the intelligence gathered and analyzed by the Wan Family, there are three weaknesses to Black Wind Village Chief Jiang Dali.

The first is the Alien Army;

The Abnormal People have always been a force that the Black Wind Village Chief values extremely highly; indeed, the reason why many forces in the Mixed Martial Arts World have gradually maintained contact and cooperation with Abnormal People is almost entirely in imitation of the Black Wind Village Chief’s approach. All of them have reaped benefits from large numbers of Abnormal People. If they can strike in such a way that all the Abnormal People distance themselves from Black Wind Village, it would be equivalent to rendering the Black Wind Village Chief’s painstakingly built foundation completely desolate.

The second is the middle and upper echelon of Black Wind Village;

Apart from some experts who have taken the initiative to defect in recent years, the vast majority of Black Wind Village’s mid-to-high-level members were once the Black Wind Village Chief’s enemies, forced to submit and work for Black Wind Village. If one can secretly use coercion, temptation, and sowing discord to split these mid-to-high-level figures, then Black Wind Village will not be far from collapse, and will certainly leave the Black Wind Village Chief with his head aching and hands full;

The third is the many friends and confidants of the Black Wind Village Chief;

It is well known that though the Black Wind Village Chief is cold and overbearing, he alone also has a group of like-minded, loyal friends and confidants. If one can capture or kill many of the Black Wind Village Chief’s friends and confidants, it will surely drive him into madness, make him lose his reason, and ultimately step into the trap himself and bring about his own destruction.

For these three weaknesses, Clan Elder Wan Lin of the Wan Family has respectively devised three stratagems of "attack, sow discord, and strike at the heart," to be carried out separately by the Blood Transformation Divine Venerable and the Eternal Life God. One could say he is hitting the snake at its seven inches, seasoned and calculating, incomparably vicious.

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Jiang Dali of course did not know that the Wan Family’s revenge operation had actually been laid out this quickly, this fiercely, this insidiously.

Though he had been warned and alerted by All-knowing Madman and Ying Yuan, both Ying Yuan and he believed there were still two to three months of ample time for him to prepare.

In his subconscious, he had always believed that the most critical moment would come three months later—at most the Eternal Life God would join with two mysterious and evil powerhouses to make a move against him. During this period, he only needed to find ways to rapidly increase his strength, and so he overlooked the fact that the enemy would actually strike first at his power base, including his subordinates and friends.

If within these two to three months the Players could not contribute sufficient Cultivation Points and Potential Points for him to elevate his strength; if during this period the higher-ups of his faction defected one after another and the power splintered and fell apart; if his friends and confidants were also constantly in danger, forcing him to rush about exhausted—

then how could he possibly cultivate in peace and rapidly raise his strength?

When the most critical moment comes, how is it not also the moment when there is utterly no room to turn things around?

Unfortunately... he had already lost his vigilance, blinded by the leaf before his eyes.

At this time, after a day’s journey, their party had already ridden the Demon Dragon to Unrivaled City.

Since the great battle that erupted in Unrivaled City twelve days ago, the Unrivaled City Lord Dugu Yifang had already died under Nie Renwang’s blade after the latter went berserk, and the close confidants and high-level figures of Unrivaled City had all fled for their lives under the protection of Guardian Shizunxin, hiding everywhere (two certain characters cannot be typed), evading the pursuit of the Black Wind Village delegation led by the Ice God Couple, the Six Plate Taoist, and others.

And the majority of the territory once held by Unrivaled City’s occupation of the World Association has already been taken over by the Black Wind Village People who rushed over from the Divine Martial Country.