Before the last wave left for Dujiangyan, the Great Emperor had already clearly pointed at you and begun to interfere with the progress of Langhua.

This time, it's a complete showdown, a decisive hammer strike."

The body opened a drawer and took out a notebook as thick as a dictionary, with a "bang," and placed it on the table, patting the cover, which read "Walking River Behavior Regulations."

The body has a lot of time, and besides plotting future conspiracies, he also conducts comprehensive summarizations on skills, arrays, Feng Shui, among others, with a particular emphasis on the study of the Heavenly Dao.

In a certain sense, one major reason why the body is currently holding back from forcibly seizing control of the body is that if he succeeds in "reverse" now, it will inevitably disrupt the balance and tacit understanding between the Heavenly Dao and Li Zhiyuan, attracting even stronger targeting and suppression.

Body: "I have three methods to offer to you, to change the current situation."

Li Zhiyuan: "I think I will refuse, no, I will definitely refuse the first two, the third one is up for discussion."

Body: "Then should I directly say the third method?"

Li Zhiyuan: "If you're going to say it, say it all."

Body: "The first method is currently only you know the clues of the next wave; your subordinates are unaware. So find a way to make Yin Meng quickly die in an accident, then seal away your memories regarding the Fengdu Twelve Commandments.

Thus, try to weaken your causal relationship with Emperor Fengdu as much as possible, allowing Jiang Shui to once again contest with the Great Emperor like last time, changing the place for your next wave."

Li Zhiyuan: "Huh."

Body: "The second method is to completely impart the Fengdu Twelve Commandments to Zhao Yi, who is inherently smart and exceptionally talented. With you actively breaking down and teaching him, he will undoubtedly learn quickly.

Then, combining with the incident with those lazy dogs last time and the established fact of the Jiujiang Zhao Family listening to the seal, push the causality onto Zhao Yi as much as possible, making him your scapegoat.

See Jiang Shui, choosing between the two of you, whether to protect you or Zhao Yi. I believe, with your current tacit understanding formed with the Heavenly Dao, Jiang Shui will choose to push Zhao Yi towards Fengdu.

It will nurture you a bit more, sharpening this knife, to be used for greater value later."

Li Zhiyuan got out of bed, walked to the cabinet, took out a can of Jianlibao, opened it, and took a sip.

Body: "Are you tempted?"

Li Zhiyuan shook his head.

Body: "Will you still refuse?"

Li Zhiyuan: "Refuse."

Body: "Why, you should not view Zhao Yi so highly, is it really that you share a laughable friendship?"

Li Zhiyuan: "I've always been the one walking the river, not you. Your calmness sometimes fails to observe the details that require emotional involvement."

Body: "For example?"

Li Zhiyuan: "For example, those who willingly return to death underneath the General's Tomb, can you comprehend that?"

Body: "You can take the sense of tragedy and sacrifice as a form of anesthesia that can bring joy to the soul."

Li Zhiyuan: "Alright, you go ahead and commit suicide now, achieve something for me, and enjoy the pleasure of tragedy and sacrifice."

Body: "Your analogy is too foolish."

Li Zhiyuan: "It's just that you cannot empathize because you have no emotion.

Walking the river requires a certain spirit; I can stand from my position to contest with Jiang Shui, adjusting and avoiding Langhua for my long-term plans.

But if you push the wave to someone else and shrink yourself, this spirit dissipates.

What is pushed out is not disaster, but an opportunity to become the Dragon King.

I can't admit defeat by lighting a lamp again; once on the river, I cannot retreat, and if I can't become the Dragon King, then what am I doing on the river, rowing to see the scenery?"

Body: "You are too deeply bound by the Qin and Liu Families. You shouldn't bear these burdens."

Li Zhiyuan: "Saying this now is meaningless."

Body: "Taking the first step wrong intensifies all subsequent troubles."

Li Zhiyuan: "Firstly, I don't regret it; secondly, if I didn't show a difference with Wei Zhengdao, do you guess whether the Heavenly Dao would have formed this temporary understanding with me, or would it have killed me directly from the start?"

Body: "This is your retrospective reasoning; it might be possible that you could avoid the influence of the Heavenly Dao with an even more extreme approach than Wei Zhengdao."

Li Zhiyuan: "Arguing with you about this is meaningless."

Because the body would only choose the method Wei Zhengdao used back then, but ultimately, Wei Zhengdao regretted it.

Body: "Once you degrade into a Heart Demon, it is destined that I won't regret like he did back then and choose the absurdity of suicide. I will only go higher, farther, to see the real scenery."

Li Zhiyuan didn't refute but instead took another sip of his beverage and said, "It's time for the third."

Body: "To offset major causality with another major causality, since the next wave is seriously intervened by the Great Emperor, if you don't want to go to Fengdu, you can take another extreme.

For example, the Big Turtle deep in the East Sea, or the Goguryeo Tomb in Ji'an.

You can even suppress and change the whole Official General Chief System, thereby finding the true Daoist Field of Womb of the Earth Bodhisattva and play a game with the Bodhisattva himself."

Li Zhiyuan: "That's worse than going to Fengdu. Going to Fengdu, life and death are at the Great Emperor's whim, at least you can flip a coin.

Going to those places, for the current me, is certain death."

Body: "Neither you nor I like flipping coins, do we?"

Li Zhiyuan: "Continue your third method's elaboration; if you don't say it, I'll almost guess it."