Chapter 137: The Fox Divides the Cake

"Actually, the solution is very simple. Just divide it up." I calmly said the solution.

Almost everyone present shouted. "How do you divide this?"

"There are many ways to divide the ring of precepts into a bunch of parts according to the literal understanding. Everyone wants to get it simply because they want to get its functions. Parts are just a medium for realizing functions, so it is meaningless to divide parts."

"How do you divide it?" A god stood up and asked, "I will say it first, I will not listen to you if you divide it in a fair way."

"I just suggested that everyone think about how to divide it, but I didn't say that I must do it my way. Don't be too excited!"

Yuanshi Tianzun said, "Zi Ri, let's talk about it. Let's discuss whether it's OK." As Yuanshi Tianzun said, he turned to the gods around him and said, "Those who can get here are all well-known figures. Don't be too embarrassed to make people laugh."

Fellindir said: "We also know that it is embarrassing to do this, but the ability of this thing is so powerful that we have to give up some dignity for it. Do you think we like to come and compete with you for food like a pack of wolves that smell blood? We have no choice! If you want to pretend to be noble, just don't come. If you don't come, you will show that you are really noble."

No one was willing to speak up in one sentence. Everyone here knows the current situation. The ring of precepts is a piece of fat meat, and these guys are wolves. The current situation is just a wolf pack to fight for food, so no one is qualified to say anything. As the overlords of all parties, it is certain that shame is embarrassing, but no one of these gods and Buddhas is willing to give the ring of precepts to others for free, so they still come even though they know they are embarrassed.

Seeing that the big guys around me calmed down, I explained: "Since the situation is so clear, I won't say anything about turning the corner. Score is inevitable. If you really want to take the exclusive one, please defeat all the forces here. So are you willing to be the strongest position now?"

All the gods around him stopped talking. To defeat everyone, it was a purely impossible task. No one dared to say that they had this strength, so naturally they dared not say anything.

I saw that they didn't speak before nodding. "Since that's the case, let me tell you how to split it." After pausing for a while, I stopped and said, "Don't you think it's a silly thing to start fighting for the ring of precepts now?"

My words made the brows of the people around me frown, and they were all waiting to listen to the solution. Unexpectedly, I scolded me. Seeing that they were dissatisfied, they seemed to have the urge to strangle me to death. I smiled, regardless of their eyes, and continued to explain: "Okay. You obviously don't admit that you are stupid, so I'll analyze it for you. What is the purpose of your robbery of precepts?" Before they could answer, I said myself: "It is a benefit for your own development. Although your direct purpose is to obtain the ability to manipulate the robbery of precepts, the ultimate goal is to obtain strong abilities and ultimately benefit yourself. Are any of you objecting to this?"

There was no reaction around me, and obviously everyone agreed with me. I continued, "Okay, since your goal is welfare, then why are you robbing it? First of all, is it useful for you to take back this ring of precepts?"

When I asked this, someone immediately objected. "Your brain is flooded? Of course it is useful to take it back. Didn't you just say that we were trying to manipulate his abilities?"

Without saying a word, I walked directly to Ladi to get the ring of precepts. Ladi immediately made an action to hit me. However, the other nine forces that wanted to guarantee me immediately took a step forward, and did not dare to continue the deterrent action of Ladi. He stared at me and asked, "What are you going to do?"

"Since you agree to participate in the distribution, it should be normal for me to give it to me first, right? Anyway, I really want to have a trick on you and you can kill me at any time."

La hesitated for a moment, but in the end he handed me the shrinking ring of precepts. After I took the ring of precepts, I immediately walked towards the guy who said that water was in my head. He handed the ring of precepts to him. He looked at me in surprise, wondering why I gave him the thing, and everyone else looked surprised.

I said disdainfully: "Didn't you say that water is in my head? Then you have to show it to me?"

The guy immediately took the ring of precepts and tried to prove it to me, but he quickly understood that the ring of precepts must be activated with the stone of precepts. Without that thing, it is useless to give it to him. Thinking that this joint is not his, everyone around him remembered it, and this thing is still a waste now.

I reached out and snatched the Ring of the Precepts back. "Who is in the head?"

The guy's face turned pale and he didn't dare to do anything to me. But everyone around him understood that it was this guy's head that was flooded.

I returned to the center of the venue and said, "It's actually very simple. You shouldn't have snatched this thing from the beginning. What's the use of snatching it? It's just a waste. And I just said the first point, and now I'm talking about the second point. Let's assume that this thing is useful, but what price will you pay to grab it? Although the only ones who are here now are you elites from all forces, if any of you get this thing, will other forces watch your development? If it were me, I would definitely go back and throw all my strength to fight you to the death. If it were the success, the things will be won. If it were the failure, the ones will be lost.

Then I will analyze the situation. If you get this thing, the forces will inevitably be attacked by other forces, and finally destroyed. That is to say, you don’t want to get benefits without robbing the big ones. On the contrary, it will also bring disaster. After the attacking forces destroy this force, they will return to this cycle, and once again let one of them get the ring of precepts, and then everyone will attack him together. This cycle will continue forever until all the forces in this world are fighting one at the end, and what’s worse is that this force is almost gone. Does this situation have any part of your initial interests?”

All the gods around them shook their heads.

"Since you admit that you have nothing to do with it, then what else do you snatch?"

The people around were stunned for a moment. They were thinking, "Yes! Since it has nothing to do with the purpose, why are you robbing?"

After about ten minutes, someone finally realized it. "No, you guy is circling us. How could you say that? You took us all into the ditch!"

Of course I was fooling them. But I wouldn't admit it. I asked back with a righteous and stern voice: "So what purpose do you think you have? You should understand your own goals and tell me what purpose you get?"

"I... I'm confused by you anyway, and I don't know what it means for a while. We didn't think so anyway. We must have a reason to fight."

"Then why are you fighting like this?"

"I...I can't remember."

I said this guy was completely stupid. The people around me were not much better. A large group of people were wondering why they came to compete with others for this ring of precepts. It was useless if they took it, and it would be easier to get it.

Saying that these guys are just my first step, and now I will start to implement the second step. I patted my hands and attracted everyone's eyes again. "You are also confused, are you? Why do you want to grab the ring of precepts? I will help you answer. Your purpose is actually not to get the ring of precepts."

"Ah?" Everyone around them opened their mouths in surprise. "Then why are we snatching it?"

"Your purpose is not to get it, but to stop it." I replied seriously: "You should be very confident in your own strength. Do you confirm this?"

"Confirm!" Everyone nodded.

"Very good. You believe in your own strength, so getting this thing is actually not very meaningful to you. Maintaining your current rule is already easy for you, so there is no need to get stronger power. Even if you need stronger power to deal with the forces in your own territory, it is not worth paying such a great price to seize this ring of precepts, do you think so?"

Everyone nodded again.

"So your purpose is to stop. It is not to stop a specific force, but just to stop any other force. You actually don't care about the power of the ring of precepts. Even if this thing is smashed and completely unusable. In fact, it has no effect on you. What you can't tolerate is that other forces get this thing, thus threatening your existence. So you do not hesitate to destroy your long-term imagination and come to grab this thing at all costs. You are just afraid that others will get it. Instead of really wanting to get it. You have fought so many people for more than a day, right? It's long time since you tried your best. When I came here, I should have seen a battlefield full of corpses on the ground, and the winner had dragged his disabled body away. But you have fought for so many days and didn't lose at all, which only means that you haven't done your best. Your subconscious mind has already understood that it's not worth doing this. It's just that your subjective consciousness has not understood it."

"Oh, it turns out that we came for this!" Everyone was happy now. They finally figured out why they came here. It was so hard that they didn't even know what they were doing. This feeling was not good. Now that they knew the result, everyone seemed very happy.

I struck the railway while it was hot: "If you don't believe me, then just test it." I lifted the ring of precepts: "Imagine, if I ruin it now, what will you feel in your heart?"

Seeing that they were all thinking, I waited for them for a while before continuing, "You should have thought about it?" I think your feelings should be because you don't feel anything. You don't feel sorry, nor do you feel sorry, and you even feel relieved, right?"

Everyone around nodded, and they all said that it was indeed the same feeling.

I smiled and said, "Then this proves that you really don't want to get this thing, otherwise you should feel regret and discomfort. Relief should not appear in your thoughts."

Now the people around me are more sure that my words are correct. They are thinking in a directional manner according to my guidance. This trick is the top business method my dad taught me. I keep pulling the other person's ideas with simple questions and unknowingly impose my own opinions on the other person's thinking. No matter how firm his beliefs are, I will definitely lead them wrongly. Dad calls this reasonable misleading, but I think this should be considered a kind of subconscious hypnosis. No matter what, as long as the other person starts to answer questions according to your ideas, he will most likely be brought into the trap.

"Since that's the case, what do you think we should do?" asked a god.

I said, "Let's allocate its right to use it as I said at the beginning. Since your purpose is to not want others to get this thing, that means you don't care about getting it at all. Since that's the case, then we might as well set this thing up in a neutral place and let everyone use it together."

"But what if any of us secretly robbed after it was set up in this place?"

"So? It seems that I still need a caregiver!" I pretended to be thinking, but my eyes took a sneak peek at Shuixu.

Shuixu is the smartest among the people I know. After seeing my eyes, he immediately saw my fingers making small movements, and this finger was pointing at myself. Shuixu was stunned for a moment, and then suddenly laughed like an enlightenment. After adjusting his emotions for a little while, Shuixu suddenly stood up and pointed at me and said, "Since this is the case, let's put things there? You can watch and guard it, and no one can contact you."

I immediately pretended to be reluctant and said, "How can that be done!"

Everyone else stared at Shuixu, and Shuixu said seriously: "It is definitely not possible to let it go alone. If no one sees it, it cannot guarantee that anyone among us will go back and steal it, so there must be a protector. But it is not possible to find a protector casually. It is obviously inappropriate to let any of us be a protector, and we don't know the foundation of other forces. And if it is bought, it may give the thing to one party on its own initiative, which is not what we want to see."

"But I'm not afraid of me giving it to anyone?"

"That's different." Shui Xu said: "You have the protection of the forces of all directions, which means that your network of relationships is relatively large. There are too many people who restrain you, and you will not turn to a certain company. It is safer than others. And more importantly, your strength is very strong. If one of our forces comes back and grab it, you can still hold on until we can reinforce after issuing a notice, but others do not have the ability to do this. Even if he is loyal to his duties, he will not be able to stop it. At least you can support it for three or five days. As long as there is a problem, you can contact us immediately. We can only come to help you in one day. In this way, no one can snatch this ring of precepts from you, which is safer for everyone, right?"

"Aren't you afraid that I will use it?" I asked.

Shuixu was stunned by my question. Although he was very smart, he didn't know how to ask questions like me, and he was not as active as me. I originally planned to do a beautiful trick, but I didn't expect that I would get stuck here.

Fortunately, Alni suddenly spoke, "Anyway, there is no stone of precepts, and it's useless if you take it."

"But what if I find the Stone of the Precepts?" I really didn't expect that there was a smart person who could help. Alni usually acted awkwardly, but she was not stupid.

She immediately replied, "You are not God. Even if you find the Stone of the Precepts, can you still compete with us for territory? Although the territory of the Gods is mutually exclusive, your territory also requires faith, and our circle of power can be completely overlapped. Compared with others, your characteristics are what we are most at ease with. You don't need to find the Stone of the Precepts. As long as anyone among us finds it, they will take the initiative to send it to you, and you can use it. We don't care at all."

I thought for a while and said, "This is OK. If you all agree, you can indeed put it in me. If anyone finds the stone of the precepts, send it to me and install it on the ring of the precepts. Because each stone of the precepts only corresponds to one rule, then whoever finds the stone of the precepts can make a record. If you find the power of the land, you can use this precept infinitely, but you must not use the precepts to attack other gods, so that others will not be afraid of the land people who get the stone of the precepts. Besides, you did not intend to obtain these abilities, and now you have obtained some abilities for nothing is equivalent to extra money. Also, the stone of the precepts is unlikely to be found by one of you, so different forces may find several pieces so that everyone can exchange them. For example, one party has found the precepts of time and the other party has found the precepts of space, and you both can trade the right to use the precepts of your own. As for how you trade, you can discuss it yourself, just like doing business and selling things, it is very simple, right?"

The companies that supported me immediately nodded and agreed. Then, although the remaining parties were hesitant, they finally agreed.

After seeing them all nodding, I began to say again: "Although you agree, I still want to say that I will keep the things for you, and this thing is as dangerous as a time bomb. I am likely to be missed by others, so you must give me some benefits while I take responsibility."

Seeing that their faces were not good, I quickly said, "My request is not too much, and it is good for you."

"Good for us?" A man in a robe walked out. The guy looked familiar, but I couldn't remember where he had seen him. "Tell me, we'll agree if it works."

I nodded: "Actually, I don't have many requirements, there are only three in total. First, I need you to contribute money and work to choose a special place to build a fortress city."

"Why did you let us contribute to your efforts in building a city?"

"Because this city will be used to place the ring of precepts and become its security agency. I will keep this thing for you. Even if I don't want the storage fee, you can't let me pay the money, right?"

"Do you don't have a city yourself? Why do you need to rebuild one?"

Feilindil said impatiently to the guy wearing a linen robe: "Isn't it just a city? It's not worth a lot of money. The little things in the world have no practical significance to us. Just build it for him. Why do you ask so much? Zi Ri, please tell me the following one."

"Slow down." The guy interrupted us very angrily. "It's your business that you are willing to help with repairs. I didn't say I want to help with repairs."

"Legis, you are a god at least. Do you need to be so stingy?"

Damn! This guy is called the Lord, and the land here is full of God. Considering the two points together... Could this guy be the one who was nailed to the cross?

Seeing that the two sides were about to quarrel, I quickly said, "Don't quarrel for a moment. Since the Lord doesn't want to pay money, then you don't participate. If you don't have your share in the construction of a new city, you don't just use the ring of precepts."

"Why? It's agreed that everyone will share it, why don't I have a share?"

"Because you are unwilling to pay!"

"Why do you need us to pay for the city when you build a city? You can explain it clearly before we agree to pay for the money. You obviously have a city, so you don't need to rebuild a city, right?"

"Okay." I nodded. "According to your theory, you can't invade other people's things, right?"

"Of course." The Lord said confidently.

"Okay. Since you said that. I have a city that belongs to me, why should I help you put things?"

The Lord said without hesitation: "We can pay to rent a piece of land in your city, and we can't use rebuilding the city, right?"

"Lease land? Is land so easy to rent? My city has its own job, I have my secrets, and guarding the ring of precepts is just for everyone's sake. Do you want to use this as an excuse to interfere in the internal affairs of our guild?"

"How can rent a piece of land interfere in internal affairs? Besides, I'm too lazy to eavesdrop on your local information."

"Let me say so! If you are an ordinary human being and I am a person who has nothing to do with you, the village hopes you can help you settle my residence. Do you think it is better to ask the village to build a house for you to live in. Or let me sleep directly in your house?"

The Lord was not fooled. He said directly, "If you give money, I don't mind you sleeping in my house."

"Yes, I can sleep in your room and lie on your bed. When you come to chat with you, I will listen. You and your wife will be there at night. Then when you have any objections, I will say again: Your wife is so ugly, so I don't bother to watch you two do things! Have you suffered?"

The Lord wanted to say that he had suffered because he would not have to help me build a city like this. But he knew that such a cunning was useless and that the guys around him were not fools.

Seeing that he was stuck, I quickly added fire. "My city has my own affairs, doing business, and fighting. These are all my affairs. If you put this thing in my place, I have to give someone to see this thing. What should I do when I fight? What should I do when I do business? Also, you have also seen that I know a lot of gods, and I often have to receive them in my own city. If these guests come to my city, do you think you can rest assured?"
To be continued...