When the "Burning Martial" book fell into Qian Changsheng’s hands, Chi Xiao looked at Ma Ran with a half-smile and pointed at the Justice Instrument.

"What you gave him, is it really just an ordinary ’Burning Martial’?"

"I have my doubts about that."

The data displayed on the Justice Instrument had undergone some changes at that moment.

Ma Ran: 5

Chi Xiao: 80

"Just providing a text, without directly infusing it with power, makes such a small change in value. It’s quite normal, and I fully understand it."

After all, it’s just a book. These five points are considered the Justice Instrument’s respect for Extraordinary Knowledge.

At this point, Chi Xiao added with a grin, "An Extraordinary inheritance, no matter how advanced, can’t directly jump to five interference points."

"How many tricks did you leave in this book? It doesn’t matter. Anyway, 80 versus 5 can’t be an extraordinary setup."

"So..."

"You still have time now. Won’t you enlighten him?"

"If I direct Xu Qingqiu to charge in, it would take less than a second for him to slaughter the entire Qian family."

"With that, this match would lose all meaning."

"Trash talk" is considered one of the off-the-field tactics.

Everything is permissible if the rules don’t forbid it.

Ma Ran’s emotions showed no fluctuation, and he merely said calmly, "You can try."

"From my perspective, what you just said makes some sense."

"Indeed, if you have Xu Qingqiu attack the Qian family now, this match would end quickly."

Hearing this, Chi Xiao was taken aback, and his smile became even brighter. "Laying a false trail, huh..."

"This move means nothing to me."

"Honestly, I don’t really believe this little thing contains any ’knowledge’ capable of altering the overall situation."

As he spoke, Chi Xiao popped out a finger and gently poked the "Burning Martial" manuscript in Qian Changsheng’s hand.

This controller of the Qian family seemed completely unaware of Chi Xiao’s presence.

Even though Chi Xiao was right in front of him, he treated him like air.

"Look..."

Chi Xiao pointed at Qian Changsheng’s face, filled with excitement. "Although he seems fervent, in my opinion, there might be nothing inside this book."

"It might just say something like ’Today’s weather is sunny and cloudless, it’s a good day’."

Upon finishing his words, Chi Xiao turned his head to Ma Ran, with eyes sharp as knives, and said, "Cunning fellow."

"This little thing, rather than being ’Burning Martial,’ is more like a ’consumable item’ disguised as ’Burning Martial.’"

"You want to bet small for big, using five interference points to gamble and directly exchange pieces, annihilating my Xu Qingqiu valued at eighty interference points?"

As he said this, Chi Xiao stared intently at Ma Ran, observing his subtle facial changes.

Using oratory skill to force the opponent and gain valuable intelligence to gain an upper hand in the match, it is indeed a highly effective off-the-board tactic.

Ma Ran’s eyes flickered slightly.

Ah, this...

This is awkward.

In reality, he did write the "Burning Martial" cultivation method from the First Rank to the Twenty-Sixth Rank in this book.

The five interference points hanging behind his name on the Justice Instrument mainly originated from the Youwen Text Illusion and the Bright Star Gaze’s added original special effects.

This Upper Rank God in front of him might have lived too long and experienced too much, so when he gets serious, he tends to overthink things.

Chi Xiao is at the fifth layer.

He thought Ma Ran was at the third layer.

Actually...

Ma Ran is at the negative eighteenth layer.

Schemes? Strategies? Layouts?

What are those things?

Isn’t it better to counter on the spot?

The ability to make decisions on the fly is a trait that every excellent Guardian possesses.

When in doubt, just go for it!

Smash every problem to get the best results!

Ma Ran looked at Chi Xiao, sighed, and praised in a complex tone, "Very clever."

"Unfortunately, you’ve only guessed a small part."

"This ’Burning Martial’ is indeed real. Its contents can allow an ordinary human with average talent to cultivate to the Thirtieth Rank, reaching levels comparable to Upper Rank Gods."

"All it takes for the person who gets this manuscript is just a bit of insignificant time."

Chi Xiao’s smile remained the same, but the amusement in his eyes gradually faded. He said in a puzzled tone, "Returning the favor using the same means. I can’t figure out if you’re really bad at lying or a rhetoric expert with vast experience."

He licked his lips, his gaze locked on Ma Ran’s face like it was frozen, and the faint smile in his eyes suddenly transformed into a streak of pathological frenzy: "This damn sense of oppression..."

"It’s enough to intoxicate even Gods!"

"This is the ’fun’ I want!"

The psychological battle between the two sides instantly focused the attention of the deities and Earth humans in the live broadcast, igniting heated discussions.

From the audience’s comments, it was evident they belonged to two distinct factions.

The God Court’s deities were analyzing and pondering how much deep meaning was hidden in Ma Ran’s previous actions.

Meanwhile, the audience from Earth was brainstorming, trying to deduce from clues whether Chi Xiao’s operation worth 80 interference points really just cultivated a single Xu Qingqiu?

With too little intelligence, both sides were making some useless speculations, playing a detective game without a truth.

During this process, some sand sculpture Earth audience members, who didn’t pride themselves on intelligence or brain power, started trying to divert the topic to reduce the "off-the-field aid ability" of the God Court’s side in the live broadcast.

"Kudos to our [Prophet]! With five chips, they’ve exchanged for the opponent’s eighty chips!"

"What’s called winning with wisdom? (tactical lean-back.jpg)"

"Even Upper Rank Gods are just so-so."

"You vile babbling natives! You don’t know what great existence you’re provoking!"

"Foolish human subspecies, you’re courting death! Even if Chi Xiao lowers himself magnanimously, I’ll come to Earth to kill you all when time pause ends!"

"The honor of True Gods cannot be sullied!"

While the Earth humans and the God Court’s deities were tearing at each other in the live broadcast, Chi Xiao and Ma Ran, the parties involved, remained unfazed, maintaining an air of calm detachment.

"That ’Burning Martial’ can let someone cultivate to the Thirtieth Rank?"

Suddenly, Chi Xiao sneered neurotically, "Although I added a blur and random algorithm when creating the [Justice Instrument], but..."

"The claim that five interference points can push someone to a level comparable to Upper Rank Gods—such a statement is an insult to my intelligence."

"I trust in your wit and intelligence, you couldn’t possibly leave such an unbelievably fake flaw."

"Therefore, there’s only one truth!"

"You’ve set up a logical trap, intending to lure me in."

At this point, Chi Xiao seemed unsatisfied and wanted to say more.

But his speech was interrupted by changes in the live broadcast.

A string of dazzling golden characters filled the entire live broadcast room, shattering all other bullet comments—this time, the speaker wasn’t the Earth Faction’s Su Qiangwei, but an Upper Rank God from the God Court.

[Welcome Upper Rank God "Golden Domain" to the live broadcast.]

Golden Domain: [Sorry, Chi Xiao, let me interrupt.]

[In my view, the upper limit of this ’Burning Martial’ manuscript is a two-outcome scenario.]

[Under the interference of the blur and random algorithm, through ’five points’ reverse deduction on the Justice Instrument, the upper limit of this manuscript can only be either Twenty-Sixth Rank or Twenty-Seventh Rank.]

[There’s no third possibility.]

[So here, we can directly consider the worst outcome—namely "Twenty-Seventh Rank."]