The Sims: I Open the Immortal Path for All Beings

Chapter 1573: Chapters 1520-1521 No Loopholes Accel Involvement_2 Chapter 1573: Chapters 1520-1521 No Loopholes Accel Involvement_2 This means his competitors were definitely not weak, perhaps even more formidable than him, otherwise, he wouldn’t have been in his current predicament.

“Taoist Monarch truly calculated everything, leaving us juniors no loopholes,” Wan Fayi thought with a trace of realization.

Even though he was a participant in the Myriad Laws trial, he was not truly alone; he was supported by a group, among whom some were strong, albeit slightly weaker than him.

Upon hearing the scoring rules, their first reaction was to band together.

Everyone would group together to score points, then sacrifice a portion of the group to concentrate all their points on a few strong individuals, allowing them to bypass the first round directly while the remainder secured their place in the top hundred thousand for the second round.

While Taoist Monarch hadn’t informed everyone about the third round’s rules, given the fierce competition from the previous two rounds, it was evident the third round was not going to be simple.

In such circumstances, ensuring your own people advanced to the third round’s trial was certainly the best strategy. With enough people, any kind of rule could be managed.

Even if having more people was useless under the third round’s rules, the presence of fortuitous opportunities wasn’t false and could also be used to overtake their competitors, ensuring their own people had greater competitive power.

After all, if everyone was participating in the trial of the Myriad Laws Realm, and you hadn’t even reached the third round’s trials, then where would you get the face to inherit the position of Sect Leader? Such a situation could hardly convince the masses.

This idea emerged immediately after Pei Xuanjing announced the rules; it was indeed a decent strategy since, after all, their approach didn’t violate the rules as per the letter.

However, Wan Fayi, in fact, didn’t care about this calculation since he didn’t believe such a loophole would ever exist. Others might not have encountered Taoist Monarch, but he had followed him in cultivation for a period and clearly understood his method of functioning; how could Taoist Monarch have left such a significant loophole in the rules.

As expected, once he truly entered the Myriad Laws Realm, he realized how laughable the ideas among his group had been.

By then, the Myriad Laws Realm had already undergone massive changes, perhaps even been suppressed by these people’s actions.

Most of them who had reached this stage of cultivation had visited the Myriad Laws Realm before to comprehend divine powers, so they were not unfamiliar with it.

They knew how much power the Supreme Strong could exert in this world, and the methods available. Even if they were separated, they could easily regroup.

Reality, however, dealt them a harsh blow. Since the Longevity Taoist Monarch had chosen this place as the trial ground, naturally, he would remodel this realm.

Apart from leaving various fortuitous opportunities, he had also imposed his will upon the Will of the Heaven and Earth of this realm, altering some of the fundamental rules of this world.

If previously the Myriad Laws Realm could exhibit power nearly on par with the Taoist Monarchs, the alterations now placed severe limits; showing True Immortal level combat power was already the maximum capability.

Not just in terms of combat power, but because of changes in the environmental rules of Heaven and Earth, the power that these Supreme Strong could exercise through their divine powers was greatly limited.

Initially, the spiritual consciousness of the Supreme Overlord could expand millions of miles, swiftly searching for opponents and allies, and quickly uniting once again.

But now, their range of spiritual consciousness was greatly suppressed. Even the strongest among them couldn’t extend beyond a thousand miles, meaning the range they could search had decreased manifold.

Even though their divine powers were limited, a thousand miles for such Supreme Strong was but a moment away. This meant that unless they had special methods, it was almost impossible for them to avoid competitors beforehand; they were likely to discover a formidable enemy when it was already within a thousand miles.

If two strong contenders gaze at each other from afar, unable to do anything to each other, they can still avoid one another.

However, if they are only a thousand miles apart, it almost equates to mortals encountering each other on a narrow path, making it not so easy to avoid each other.

When their strengths are nearly equal, sometimes victory or defeat hinges on who acts first or whose belief is stronger. Whoever first harbors the thought of retreating may not only be unable to retreat but could also fall into a disadvantage.

Thus, in such a situation, retreating does not only fail to ensure one’s safe withdrawal, it might also bear unnecessary risks. This decides that they simply cannot retreat; they can only confront their opponent, giving their all in every attack, perhaps even with a slim chance of victory.

“This has created a Dark Forest, turning us all into beasts of the Dark Forest, fighting each other with raw strength, forsaking all stratagems,” Wan Fayi shuddered.

Even someone as audacious as he shuddered in this moment, profoundly shaken.

To think, even someone like him, who had roamed numerous worlds within the Chaos Void and defeated powerful foes, believed his temperament to be indestructible.

Yet, when he truly stood here, he realized his so-called temperament was incomparable to that of the Taoist Monarch.

He might at most scorn the Heroes, deeming many as nothing, but the Taoist Monarch truly treated the world as a Chessboard, all beings as chess pieces, and everyone’s actions as part of his calculation.

Such magnanimity, such scope, was beyond his reach, not just his, but even True Immortals could not compare.

They, with their petty cleverness, thought they had found a loophole, but upon actually entering the Myriad Laws Realm, they discovered that although the Taoist Monarch did not prohibit their actions, he had imposed countless thresholds to their plans.

The current suppression undoubtedly turned the entire Myriad Laws Realm into a dark world, making them too wary to easily trust their opponents, leaving them no choice but to forge ahead.

And their so-called strategy of unifying to score points was doomed from the start; upon entering the Myriad Laws Realm, they were separated, rendering their scoring methods ineffective.

Even regarding this, the Taoist Monarch made no mention; he merely used this tactic to obstruct them, and even if they could eventually gather together, could they really continue as planned?

You should know everyone had the same opportunities; you weren’t prohibited from acting thus, but neither were others. You could score points, but so could others.

In such a case, perhaps for Independent Practitioners, there are significant disadvantages, but for them, many strong beings with the same advantages, no one held an upper hand, leveling the playing field completely.

In this scenario, if they wanted to gain points and climb the ranks, then unquestionably, competition would continue; they would still spiral into internal competition, simply transforming individual competition into group competition.

Group competition was even more intense than individual struggles; amidst individual competition, many who saw no hope could simply give up.

But within the group context, the will of the group overwhelmingly surpassed that of the individual. If an individual’s will cannot dominate, then he must follow the tide of the group.

Under such circumstances, unless one leaves the group, if the group is unwilling to give up, the competition and internal struggle will never cease.

Even the cost-benefit analyses done by individuals and those led by the group differ significantly, inevitably accelerating the competition and internal rivalry.

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