Chapter 567: Deceit is Also Belief

Qinglong heard Qi Xia's words and slowly curved his lips into a smile, then snapped his fingers in front of him.

Qi Xia felt as if the entire car was enveloped in a strange aura, much like *Jian Mo*.

"Of course you can! Qi Xia!"Qinglong laughed."Resist! Kill him!!"

"What...?" Qi Xia hadn't expected Qinglong to have such an attitude and didn't know how to respond for a moment.

"You should definitely rise up and resist!!" Qinglong shouted. "Only then will it be exciting enough! Why can't mortals kill off *Shen*? Why should only we be able to leave this place? That doesn't make sense!"

Qi Xia was trying to understand Qinglong's personality in the shortest time possible, but he quickly realized it was futile.

This man with a cold face had unstable emotions, even more erratic than anyone Qi Xia had ever met.

How could someone like this be understood?

"Qinglong, what exactly do you want?" Qi Xia asked. "Aren't you here to stop Xu Liunian?"

"Stop Xu Liunian...?" Qinglong seemed to suddenly remember something. "Oh, right... Though an elephant wouldn't bother killing an ant, *Li Wei* is still necessary."

"*Li Wei*?" Xu Liunian was startled. "What?"

"The 'chess pieces' I consider must remain 'chess pieces'," Qinglong said. "No one in this world is an exception. Once I've set my sights on someone, they become my 'chess piece', and all chess pieces must follow my instructions. That rule cannot be broken."

With that, he reached out toward Xu Liunian, his fingers overflowing with an unusual power.

"Don't worry, Xu Liunian, I won't let you die," Qinglong said with a laugh. "I just want to take back the *Li Zhi* I granted you, turning you completely into a *Dian Ren*. From then on, no one will help you, and no one will be able to return *Li Zhi* to you. That's the consequence of defying me, Qinglong."

Xu Liunian slowly widened her eyes. If she had never become a *Dian Ren* before, she wouldn't be so afraid.

But those two years of muddled, nightmarish days were etched in her memory, utterly terrifying.

"No... No..." Xu Liunian shook her head and kept inching backward, then hurriedly reached for the car door.

Yet the door seemed to have been sealed by some force, as immovable as poured concrete.

"Kill me... Better to kill me than take away my *Li Zhi*..."

Qinglong sneered. "That's not up to you."

"I said, wait a moment."

Qi Xia reached out and grabbed Qinglong's wrist.

This action made Qinglong feel greatly provoked, even causing his arm to flinch slightly.

"You... You're touching me...?" Qinglong furrowed his brow and asked. In his decades of memory, he had never been touched by a mortal, and the sensation was uncomfortable.

"Qinglong, you won't be able to take away her *Li Zhi*," Qi Xia said coldly, a smirk on his lips. "If you do take it, I'll kill Xu Liunian on the spot. In the next cycle, as a *Can Yu Zhe*, she'll still return here, and you won't win against me."

Xu Liunian was slightly stunned by Qi Xia's words. If he had just promised her something "from hell," now she truly had no way out.

But strangely, Qi Xia didn't believe that; he was convinced Xu Liunian was a *Can Yu Zhe*, and this choice that seemed to corner her actually played a crucial role at that moment.

"Qi Xia, not only are you ordering me around, but you're also touching me..." Qinglong murmured to himself. "Even though I've been so polite to you, that doesn't mean you can overstep your bounds. Mortals are mortals and shouldn't touch me with your filthy body."

"Pathetic." Qi Xia still held Qinglong's wrist firmly, showing no sign of letting go. "What kind of *Shen* are you? Even if you can treat lives like pawns in a game, here you are, sitting in the back seat of an old taxi, negotiating with me."

"Insolent..." Qinglong's face turned instantly ice-cold, his eyes full of killing intent.

"Qinglong... You can't even kill me." Qi Xia laughed. "In this cycle, I've been through enough. Now it's your turn to regret."

"What?"

"What if there's a possibility...?" Qi Xia raised the corners of his mouth, his eyes also filled with killing intent. "I've gained *Sheng Sheng Bu Xi* three times now. That doesn't mean I'm particularly strong; it's just that you've given me enough despair."

"So what?" Qinglong asked.

"So I boldly speculate that from the next cycle onward, I'll get familiar with this feeling more easily, making it simpler to obtain *Hui Xiang*. If I stop losing my memories starting today, how exactly will you and *Tian Long* stop me?"

Qi Xia's successive questions made Qinglong's expression change repeatedly.

"You say you won't lose your memories from today?" Qinglong furrowed his brow and scrutinized Qi Xia's eyes, as if judging the truth in his words.

After all, *Sheng Sheng Bu Xi* relied on one's subconscious to activate, yet Qi Xia had stated his idea outright.

Was he "bluffing" or truly "believing" it?

"Qi Xia... I'm glad you're so optimistic." Qinglong paused for a long time before shaking his head. "It seems you still don't know where the gap between us lies."

Qinglong's wrist trembled, shaking off Qi Xia's hand, and he said softly, "We don't need to go to such lengths to kill *Can Yu Zhe*. We could even do it directly in the *Mian Shi Fang Jian*, because *Tian Long* and I are the rules here. Whatever we do, no one will interfere."

Qi Xia's lips slowly curled up. What a ridiculous feeling?

Even someone like Qinglong could be caught in the flaws of his own words?

"How laughable... Qinglong, are you trying to deceive me?"

"You..."

"Are you and *Tian Long* the rules themselves?" Qi Xia completely disregarded Qinglong and laughed angrily. "That's absurd. If *Tian Long*'s ultimate goal is to kill all *Can Yu Zhe*, why bother with such complicated rules? He could just have you take away everyone's *Li Zhi* directly, wait for them all to become *Yuan Zhu Min*, and then slaughter them all. It might only take a few days for *Zhong Yan Zhi Di* to have no living people left. After all, back then, I only said I wanted *Can Yu Zhe* to be able to cycle."

Qinglong slowly furrowed his brow after hearing this.

He really should have stopped Xu Liunian from giving her 'weapon' to him.

Now, Qi Xia seemed to have cleared the obstacles in his thoughts and was advancing in a bizarre direction.

Seeing Qinglong's doubtful eyes, Qi Xia pressed his advantage:

"Qinglong, you don't think I'm just bluffing, do?"