201: A new approach!

What is a 'showdown'?

It means pushing all your chips in.

If you win, everything is fine; but if you lose, you're doomed!

'If we wait until Grain Rain, there might be a chance of winning. After all, destroying is harder than building, and planning a layout is harder than causing trouble,' Shanjun said.

Going all-in was too risky.

Without the chance to maneuver, losing once meant losing everything.

'Wait until Grain Rain? Unless the Golden Crow is an idiot, even if they just sent someone else to advance step by step, they could push us into a dead end,' Ye Su replied.

'On the contrary, going all-in is our most likely way to win.'

'We'll trap it to death, force the sun to clock out, and buy more time to develop.'

'The best time is the final moment of Tomb Sweeping Day. By then, even if the Universe side finds out and sends more people, they won't be able to act until the Start of Summer!'

Ye Su's core objective had emerged.

And that was to survive.

For every solar term he survived, his future self would scout the path, find a glimmer of hope, and make himself stronger.

In this wave of Tomb Sweeping Day, if 'Ye Su' hadn't been too reckless and died rushing into the Wang Clan passage, the information would likely have been even more complete!

His so-called 'taking it one step at a time'...

...was actually growing stronger with every step he took!

Shanjun was convinced.

There really was no way to disagree.

Ye Su held the advantage of initiating the situation.

If Great Xia truly wanted to fight to the death,

it could coerce the other races into joining in.

After all,

if Great Xia was finished,

then Planet Blue would truly be finished.

Great Xia was even more skilled at using mediation as a pretext for escalation!

'Fine!'

'I'll have the Wolf King pass on the message,' Shanjun said.

'No need,' Ye Su replied.

'Just stay peacefully by the Golden Crow's side. When the time comes, you'll know what to do!'

The battle between the two was not at all half-hearted.

With the Golden Crow's blessing, Shanjun already possessed the strength of the Zhao Yi Realm and even had the blessing of Heaven's Will.

Ye Su used his full strength.

He was fully testing the power of the Ascender combat system.

He gained quite a lot.

Currently, Ye Su was still too green.

It was only after touching the Golden Crow's Ascender blessing that he began to understand.

It seemed...

...that within the blessing of Heaven's Will, there was an underlying logic.

To put it simply,

a sword light blessed by Heaven's Will follows fluid mechanics; if the front is sharp, the speed will be faster and the penetration stronger.

Vaguely,

Ye Su seemed to gain a bit of inspiration from it.

And that was...

...after the sun truly extinguished,

would the underlying physical architecture have problems? Or could technological means also utilize a Professional's blood qi or Spiritual Qi?

Nuclear fusion was slowing down, and electron activity was also changing.

Was there a possibility that blood qi or Spiritual Qi could replace electricity?

Thus, using this as the underlying logic, they could rebuild a technological framework for another system.

This wasn't nonsense.

If even the blessing of Heaven's Will adhered to fluid mechanics,

it meant the Laws of physics hadn't collapsed.

What collapsed was just certain substances losing their function.

'After I go back, I'll talk to Li Qing about this,' Ye Su thought to himself.

Then,

he and Shanjun separated after a brief clash.

Neither side held back, and Ye Su had the chance to kill Shanjun.

But Ye Su didn't kill him.

He wasn't afraid the Golden Crow would overthink it.

Not killing him was normal.

After all—no sane person would force the Golden Crow onto the field under these circumstances.

"See, he might not be that resolute, right?"

The Golden Crow laughed and said to Ister.

Ye Su had held back at the end; in the Golden Crow's eyes, this was to leave room for future reconciliation.

An Ascender...

A fake one!

"Hehe."

Ister also laughed.

See, you, Ye Su, still have to consider the future.

The rules of the Universe are like this; no one will laugh at you for abandoning your race.

Everyone is like that.

Once you get over this psychological hurdle, you'll only know the brilliance of an Ascender when you reach the Universe.

"Keep the pressure on slowly," the Golden Crow said.

"In this situation, once the Grain Rain timing arrives, the Wang Clan will be able to seize the timing."

"At that time, use me to advance."

"Don't worry, I'm already very familiar with this operation," Ister said.

timing takes into account the strength of a certain race in the previous solar term.

In other words, it's a balancing mechanism.

The Wang Clan fighting all other races at once looks very powerful.

But that's not how it's calculated.

The real calculation is:

The Wang Clan is being attacked by all races at once!

They need a buff!

timing is blind.

This is also why Ascenders trick the timing!

If one race fights the whole field, the timing thinks it's the most miserable and needs compensation.

If one person fights the whole field, the timing thinks they're in the most danger and needs help.

Wasn't that how Ye Su tricked the timing to advance back then?

And now,

the Wang Clan fighting everyone from the start was for exactly this!

It was also why the Wang Clan hadn't gone all out to crush everyone.

They were under the Ghost Clan of the Universe; they had a process for doing things.

They were very experienced.

Bullying the natives.

Ye Su returned with the Blood Nether Heavy Cavalry.

They had killed many of the Wang Clan, but the Wang Clan's numbers were immense; they didn't care about the losses.

The main thing was that Ye Su had obtained quite a bit of intel on the Golden Crow.

He didn't need to worry too much about whether the intel was true or false.

Nor did he need to worry if there was a problem with what Shanjun said.

As long as Ye Su confirmed for himself that the Golden Crow truly couldn't act during Tomb Sweeping Day, that was enough.

The rest...

...would be crushed by the general trend.

This was something he had learned from Zhuge Hu.

Back when the Suzhou and Hangzhou was built, this was the tactic used.

Building the Suzhou and Hangzhou in Su Hangzhou was the general trend; other cities had to keep up.

That was why they were able to move all populations out of remote areas later, which led to Great Xia's Origin Qi still being present and sitting on its current terrifying national destiny.

Of course,

Ye Su still had to talk to Zhuge Hu and the Think Tank to learn more about this method of crushing with the general trend.

He was learning and growing, but he was still a bit away from reaching the peak of utilizing the general trend.

"Now, we really have to move the Think Tank to Su Hangzhou."

The first thing he said upon returning to Su Hangzhou was to The Executor.

"Going all-in?" The Executor asked.

He knew Ye Su and Shanjun had fought and that there were no casualties on either side, which meant Ye Su had gotten the intel he wanted.

And asking for the Think Tank to come...

...meant that during this solar term of Tomb Sweeping Day, he was going to play big and needed many people to fill in the gaps!

"Yeah, if we don't act during Tomb Sweeping Day, we have almost no chance of winning by Grain Rain," Ye Su said.

"Fine!"

The Executor agreed.

Then,

planes from the Imperial Capital took off, heading for Su Hangzhou.

In fact, at this time, this action already indicated many problems.

Because technology was about to collapse, if the Think Tank came from the Imperial Capital now, they might not have a chance to go back.

Great Xia's core power circle was shifting!

Ye Su didn't see this point; instead, he immediately went back to the Research Institute to find Li Qing.

"Director Li, do you think there's a possibility that Spiritual Qi could also flow through engraved circuits?"

Ye Su's words were shocking.

His core idea was to use Spiritual Qi to replace the electricity that was about to be lost!

Li Qing was stunned for a moment.

Then his brow furrowed.

This...

It wasn't that it was impossible.

Tangshan had metals that could conduct blood qi, so... a metal that could conduct Spiritual Qi didn't seem impossible either.

Conduction...

Eh?

blood qi technology?

Spiritual Qi technology?

A new idea!

[timing is blind; the core is many-against-one. At the Start of Spring, everyone starts the same. During Rain Water, the Human, Yao, and Spirit Races all began to develop while the Sea Race didn't take the field, so the Sea Race became the 'one,' and the Rain Water timing belonged to it. The Insect Race didn't take the field before Awakening of Insects, while the Humans were against the Yao and Sea Races, so the Insect and Human Races got the timing. During the spring equinox, no one moved, so it was split equally. During Tomb Sweeping Day, because the Ghost Race opened a passage, it was chaotic and not split. During Tomb Sweeping Day and Grain Rain, the Wang Clan has been fighting the whole field, so it's considered the Wang Clan's timing. Of course, there's more; I won't spoil the Spirit Race side (Explanation, doesn't count toward word count).]