Xuan Mie.
Black Abyss.
Li Ye.
Shi Nian silently repeated these three names in her mind.
Although it was her first time hearing these names, including the man who claimed to be Qian Ji, she felt an inexplicably familiar sensation.
It was as if she was supposed to know them.
"The system of Li Ye is formless and invisible, embodying his own Dao," Qian Ji continued nonchalantly, unaware of Shi Nian's contemplations, "To break this system, one must shatter his Dao. Otherwise, these systems are indestructible. However, as far as I know, you have already destroyed two of his systems, yet his Dao remains largely unaffected. I am curious, how did you manage to do it?"
Shi Nian raised her eyebrows.
In her mind, the little system had gone wildly berserk.
"How did I do it? Of course, with the little system! These mere systems are all trash before me,"
the little system boasted, hands on hips, laughing heartily.
Shi Nian, however, began to ponder.
Previously.
When the little system devoured that system, Shi Nian didn't find it too strange.
After all, she had never thought those systems were all that powerful.
But now.
Seeing this unfathomable man expressing curiosity, Shi Nian couldn't help but speculate.
These systems represented the Dao of a once Divine being.
Under normal circumstances, they indeed are indestructible.
But the little system destroyed them effortlessly.
It is well known.
If it is a Dao, then only a Dao of equal caliber can contend with it.
Shi Nian suddenly realized.
If those systems were created by Li Ye, then what about the little system?
Who created the little system?
If the little system was able to devour systems, it must also carry a powerful Dao within itself.
Who was it, who embedded their own grand Dao to create a being like the little system?
This seemed intentional, creating an adversary for Li Ye.
No, that's not right.
The little system is much more powerful than those systems.
Those systems need to resort to forceful, low-end tactics to empower their Hosts. The system must plunder power from others to make the Host powerful.
But the little system is different.
Its power seems endless and does not require plundering others; it can become incredibly powerful in a very short time.
Where does the little system's power come from?
Shi Nian did not respond to Qian Ji, but suddenly asked, "Since those three are betrayers of the Divine, are there Divines that have not betrayed?"
Qian Ji smiled slightly, "Among the nine great Divines of the Divine Realm, only those three are betrayers. But the other Divines have been implicated and are now undergoing Tribulation in the Human World."
Shi Nian nodded.
She had a vague idea in her mind.
To counteract a Divine, only another Divine is capable.
If Xuan Mie, Black Abyss, and Li Ye could strategize such a grand scheme.
What about the other Divines?
Do they not have any preparations? Have they not left any contingency?
Just by the numbers, they still outnumber those three.
The little system's stance is obviously different from those three betrayers.
Although the little system itself is somewhat muddled and may not have a very clear understanding, Shi Nian has realized that the very existence of the little system might be a contingency prepared jointly by other Divines to counteract those three.
Seeing Qian Ji's bewildered appearance, if he is not pretending, then he truly does not know about the existence of the little system.
This proves.
He was excluded from the plan.
In Shi Nian's mind, a camp diagram flashed like lightning.
Nine Divines.
Xuan Mie, Black Abyss, Li Ye, these three are the traitors.
Among the remaining six, Qian Ji is temporarily considered a Neutral.
Among those five Divines who haven't shown their faces, there must be one or several, possibly even all, involved in the plan of creating 'Xiao Tong'.
They exiled Xiao Tong to a minor world, perfectly avoiding the eyes and ears of those three traitors in the Immortal World, and then through Xiao Tong's power, they looked for someone who could break the stalemate.
What Shi Nian does not understand now is.
Why the chosen breaker of the stalemate would be herself.
Before, in a technologically small world with scarce Spiritual Power, she was just an utterly ordinary person.
After coming to the Cultivation World, she was not a person with great ambitions, just someone who wanted to lazily scrape by.
Why would Xiao Tong choose her?
This, Shi Nian did not understand.
Xiao Tong himself probably did not understand either.
Perhaps.