Extra's Strategy: Cultivate Protagonists, Become Invincible-Chapter 129: My Goals Are Beyond Your Understanding...

Han Xuhan thought back to everything he had explained so far, mostly under the threat of Zhao Weiqing and his puppet army. Slowly gnawing on the charred meat, he launched off a different set of explanations, solely meant to be heard by these two golden thighs of his.

"Back at that time after you two entered the platforms in the third stage, I sent Zhanxian out of that place, carrying a letter I wrote to a nonexistent partner waiting outside the portal.

"I’ve already discussed the reasons why I felt it was unsafe there. So sending out Zhanxian with that bait was just another safety precaution. You could say it was a last resort, in a way. If my suspicions turned out to be true, the chances were high that I wouldn’t manage to escape the Holy Land in time during a sudden disaster.

"In that case, the cultivators waiting outside would end up apprehending Zhanxian and help the three of us teleport away while being under the illusion that they were summoning Zhanxian’s master, Shen Kai."

"How did you know that they would wait for Shen Kai outside?" Mu Ran asked in puzzlement. The question made Han Xuhan laugh.

"Because I singlehandedly destroyed their chances to acquire a ’super awesome inheritance’; at least that’s what I told them before I kicked them out. I mean, think about it...

"Some random asshat unfairly kicks you out of a competition for fortuitous encounters, that too in such a degrading manner. What would you do to avenge such humiliation if you had the chance? ƒreewebηoveℓ.com

"If you know where that competitor is, you are definitely going to try and take your revenge as long as you’re confident of success. And with all of them being kicked out together, how long would it take for them to form an alliance against their common enemy?

"Even if they didn’t wait for me outside the portal, how far could they have gone when the portal to the land of laws was in front of their eyes? At least a few greedy ones would have stayed back even in the worst case. Zhanxian could easily find them and pretend to be captured.

"And if this didn’t work out either, then Zhanxian would have gone straight to our sect to ask for help!"

It took Mu Ran a while to digest his words. While he gazed at the cackling campfire, Xuanyuan Zhou decided to voice her doubt.

"Don’t tell me you planned that all from the start..."

Han Xuhan laughed derisively.

"Of course not. How the hell would I know that the inheritance ground was really a trap from the start? I was just trying to mess around with Shen Kai’s name.

"Like I explained to Zhao Weiqing back in there, I simply found the nature of the testing ground rather suspicious and took some small precautions before the last stage using whatever I could.

"Moreover, the main reason why I was so suspicious about the whole thing wasn’t even those clues or my overactive imagination. Are you telling me you believed the bullshit logical deductions I fed Zhao Weiqing at that time to buy time for Zhanxian? Hahaha..."

Seeing his amused laughter, Mu Ran and Xuanyuan Zhou exchanged a confused look between themselves.

"Those were lies?" Mu Ran asked in disbelief.

"Of course... not. Well, half and half, actually. It’s not anything worth discussing. Under the pressure of death, my creativity flowed so well that it surprised even me!"

Han Xuhan clutched his stomach to relieve the painful sensation in that area while he was laughing wildly. His muscles had become really, really weak, it seemed. Even though that law fragment had saved his life, Han Xuhan vowed to never use it anytime soon.

"What do you mean half and half? Which half was the truth? Talk clearly!" Xuanyuan Zhou’s voice took on a commanding tone. She really wasn’t willing to take a half-assed answer.

Han Xuhan found himself facing a dilemma. The actual source of his information was the lore of the Holy Land, revealed through the golden book of the Main Storyline framed in his system.

All of his theories, suspicions, and subsequent plans of action were based on the story of how the Holy Land had been destroyed. His understanding of the situation could not be explained through logic and deductions alone.

He had no intention to discuss his system with these two. Neither could he explain how he had come to learn the desolate Holy Land’s backstory. So what kind of answer could he weave to convince these two?

After thinking for a moment, Han Xuhan came up with a passable reply.

"The thing is, while I did imagine the possibility where we all would fall into a deadly trap, that really was just something I came up with while trying to think of the worst-case scenarios.

"I mean, right now, I can just imagine that a bolt from the sky is going to fall on my head and kill me since the celestials seem to hate me so much. But would I bother to take precautions against that in this dry weather? No!"

"Then... why would you go out of your way to set up all those safety measures?"

Han Xuhan hid the cunning smile threatening to break out. With this answer, he was going to hit quite a few goals at once! The first would be to satisfy their curiosity towards his infallible plan. As for the other goals...

"It was because of you, boss! And you, my Lady!"

Pointing at the dumbstruck duo, Han Xuhan began to radiate the ’perfect underling’ energy that he had been painstakingly perfecting in front of his mirror since the day he had accepted his current role as a supporting character.

"What?" Mu Ran was so stunned that he couldn’t even ask the question. So Xuanyuan Zhou asked in his stead.

Proudly nodding in a way an underling should while facing the protagonist, Han Xuhan began to explain.

"Boss, do you remember? Even before entering the Holy Land’s territory, you kept saying how dangerous it might be, and you were practically being forced to go in; and that you didn’t want me to accompany you due to the danger factor?

"Even inside the inheritance ground, you tried to warn me multiple times. During those moments, this underling understood your struggle and the conflicts raging in your large-as-ocean heart. It made me wonder...

"What level of threat does it have to be to make you, the boldest and the most confident cultivator I know, cower in fear?

"How wary must my boss be of the danger factor to go so far as to tell me to abandon him and run away despite understanding my unwavering loyalty?

"Moreover, It’s not just you, boss, but my lady Zhou warned me as well! She’s the most talented and resourceful cultivator I know. So thinking about it all... I realized that perhaps I was just a frog in a well, unable to see the bigger picture due to my lack of vision.

"But I trusted your vision, boss! And I paid heed to your warning, my lady! So I decided to not participate in the third stage and created an emergency escape route for us!"

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