Qin Siyang's words made Chang Tianxiong feel somewhat dejected.
He lowered his head and sighed, "So that's how it is… Little Qin, I'm sorry."
"Sorry? You still expect to get a 'it's fine' from me?"
"No, I just feel apologetic."
"At a time like this, apologizing is meaningless. Today, only one of us can leave here alive."
"I know."
"Any other questions?"
"Yes."
"Ask."
"I want to know why you were able to break free from the rules of the Path of the Believer."
Chang Tianxiong pointed at the offerings laid on the ground, "According to the requirements for opening the Path of the Believer, there are one hundred Blood Moon Tarantula round plate armors here with identical point values, and in the middle are the round plate armors of the Lava Crocodile and the Ice Crystal Giant Moth. You lay on them for more than an hour. You should already have opened the Path of the Believer, your consciousness taken away by the gods, and your body completely unable to sense the outside world. Even if you had a skill that could bring the dead back to life, with your soul wandering outside your body you wouldn't be able to activate your sequence ability to reconnect your head. You could only slowly die like a corpse—"
"So how exactly did you do it? Did you receive some special favor from the gods?"
Qin Siyang smiled slightly, "That's right. I'm someone favored by the gods! If you kill me, the gods will wipe you out for blasphemy—"
["Lie."]
Before Qin Siyang could finish his string of nonsense, he heard a mechanical voice.
His gaze locked onto Chang Tianxiong's wristwatch, "You brought a lie detector?"
"Something as simple as a lie detector isn't only something Lu Daoxing can make," Chang Tianxiong shook the gold watch on his wrist, "Little Qin, if you don't want to answer, you can choose not to answer. There's no need to lie."
Qin Siyang clenched his teeth and thought for a few seconds.
In order to increase his chances of defeating Chang Tianxiong, even if only a little, he decided to speak.
"Chang Tianxiong, why don't you take another look at the offerings?"
"Before I made my move, I already looked over the offerings several times. There's no problem."
Qin Siyang repeated calmly, "Look at the offerings again."
Chang Tianxiong glanced at Qin Siyang, then carefully checked the round plate armors again, confirming that the number of small-god round plate armors was correct. The main offerings in the middle were also the round plate armors of the Lava Crocodile and the Ice Crystal Giant Moth.
Then he frowned and questioned Qin Siyang, "Are you playing tricks? Or trying to stall for time?"
Qin Siyang chuckled lightly, "I thought you were someone overly cautious. Now it seems you can't even manage caution. You're just a coward who's scared of everything."
Chang Tianxiong's tone also turned unfriendly, "Little Qin, I thought you had already realized that winning an argument with words is meaningless. One hundred Blood Moon Tarantula round plate armors worth one hundred ninety-three points each, plus two round plate armors from medium-sized gods. There's no problem…"
"If your level isn't good enough, don't stand here acting like you know everything," Qin Siyang walked over to the bloodstained offerings, "These Blood Moon Tarantula round plate armors on the ground are indeed mostly worth one hundred ninety-three points."
Qin Siyang picked up one small-god round plate armor and held it in front of Chang Tianxiong.
"But this one is worth one hundred ninety-two points."
Chang Tianxiong's eyes widened after hearing that.
He looked at the round plate armor in Qin Siyang's hand, covered in dense circles and with two dents on it, and froze for a moment.
"The points of the secondary offerings are not completely identical. So from the very beginning, I was unable to complete the ritual to worship the gods and open the Path of the Believer."
Qin Siyang crouched down and gathered all the round plate armors back into the storage box, "This whole setup was just to guard against someone like you who planned to launch a sneak attack."
Chang Tianxiong clapped twice, "Wonderful, truly wonderful! One hundred ninety-three and one hundred ninety-two. Who else besides you would think of such a delicate trick? Qin Siyang, your methods really come one after another without end."
"Wonderful my ass. It's full of holes."
Qin Siyang sneered at Chang Tianxiong's praise.
"I don't even walk with my own two feet. I have a drill cabin. Parking the drill cabin underground, laying the offerings inside it, then lying down inside to open the Path of the Believer would have been the safest and most reliable choice. Exposed outside, I could be targeted by the gods or killed by enemies. The plan can't stand up to scrutiny at all."
"But even if my trap was extremely crude, Chang Tianxiong, you still fell for it. Because you're greedy."
"Greedy when you shouldn't be greedy, afraid when you shouldn't be afraid. You're simply useless."
Chang Tianxiong lowered his eyes for a long time, then admitted helplessly, "You're right. I really wasn't calm enough. I've been waiting too long for the day you would open the Path of the Believer. When the opportunity appeared in front of me, profit clouded my judgment, and my thinking was squeezed and twisted by emotion."
"I thought my preparations were sufficient, but unfortunately I still underestimated you and was deceived by your smokescreen. My ability wasn't enough. My strength fell short."
Then Chang Tianxiong sighed toward the sky, "I waited and waited with eager eyes, yet in the end it was like drawing water with a bamboo basket. Since I couldn't kill you when you opened the Path of the Believer, I also have to miss out on the massive amount of rare materials I've been longing for."
"What a pity. All my research plans and technological ideas will end up like drawing water with a bamboo basket."
"If I kill you now, all the materials you've contracted and the storage boxes sealed by the special lock will be destroyed and disappear. This trip of mine can be said to have been for nothing."
Then he looked at Qin Siyang again, his gaze turning cold, "But even so, I still have to kill you."
"Chang Tianxiong, if you want to silence me by killing me, I've got nothing to say about that," Qin Siyang showed a look of contempt and didn't care about Chang Tianxiong's words at all, "But you're too confident. Which one of us will live and which will die isn't certain yet."
"Little Qin, you're always full of energy, full of vitality. I really envy that."
Qin Siyang said with great disdain, "I'm a living person. Of course I'm full of energy."
Chang Tianxiong said calmly, "Maybe all the smooth experiences in your life have made you believe you can charge forward without stopping. But have you ever thought about it? If I'm really a coward who fears everything, then how could I possibly challenge you face to face without being certain of victory?"
Seeing that Chang Tianxiong remained calm and relaxed the whole time, Qin Siyang's heart couldn't help but sink a little.
He knew that this battle with Chang Tianxiong would definitely not be easy.
Whether it was his sequence abilities or his research methods, everything about him was an unknown.
But after steadying his thoughts, Qin Siyang said again, "Believe it or not, even if you're Sequence Level Six and can suppress me through the Path of the Believer, your chances of winning are at most fifty percent."
"Little Qin, you survived before the Sacrificial Giant Vine, escaped death from the Pooled Begonia, killed the Corrosive Black Centipede, the Ice Crystal Giant Moth, and the Lava Crocodile, and avoided the attack of the Nightmare Lantern Tree."
"If there's a child of destiny in this world, that would probably be you."
Chang Tianxiong slowly recounted Qin Siyang's experiences, then nodded, "You're right. Among Sequence Level Five, you're practically invincible. Even a Sequence Level Six might not be certain of beating you—"
"But I'm Sequence Level Seven."
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