The man in yellow robes burst into laughter.
"Old Green, we've known Old Zi for so long, don't you understand him yet?"
"In any case, the four of us can never come to any agreement, so it's good to let Old Zi make all the decisions!"
"As for whether to tell him beforehand or not, what difference does it make? It won't change the predetermined facts..."
The man in purple robes nodded.
"Old Green is right, that's exactly what I was thinking..."
"Of course, this time is different from when we were just trying to prolong our lives to survive. We are facing a true transformation!"
"If we can snatch even a sliver of that opportunity to become a god, it might eradicate our chronic illnesses and even allow us to achieve super evolution..."
"So, we have no choice but to come!"
"I believe that after so many life-and-death struggles, you should no longer be afraid of such things, right?"
The man in blue robes waved his hand.
"Old Zi, what are you talking about... how could we be afraid!"
"Ever since I drank the Nai Luo Five-Colored Fruit on the road to the Yellow Springs with you, I haven't considered myself a living person..."
"If it weren't for the lingering attachment to this tumultuous mortal world, dying directly might not be a bad outcome."
The man in red robes shot the man in blue a displeased look.
"What nonsense are you spouting..."
"Now the five of us are like grasshoppers on a single string, sharing glory and sharing ruin..."
"Our very lives are bound together!"
"If you've had enough of living, then go find a place to hibernate, or let me seal you in the Divine Origin Profound Ice..."
"Then you can consider yourself dead, and we can continue to live normally."
The man in blue quickly chuckled apologetically.
"Oh my, it was just a casual joke!"
"Even for the sake of your brothers' dreams and perseverance, I must fight with all my might to live on!"
"After all, our survival in this world is a miracle to some extent..."
"To die obscurely with such a legendary event, how can I accept that?"
"Who would have thought that we, who drank the Nai Luo Five-Colored Fruit, said to be able to poison true gods, could return safely from the ten-death no-life road, and furthermore achieve a super leap in our cultivation..."
"Although it also burdened us with illnesses, caused us to lose many vital characteristics, and linked all our fates together..."
"It's still better than dying outright."
The man in purple narrowed his eyes.
"Since no one has any objections, let's set off!"
"The current Kyushu Island is like a dish being cooked over a raging fire, waiting for us to put a lid on it!"
"However, sealing this pot is a skillful task..."
"We can't seal it too tightly, lest the boiling water inside overflows, nor can we seal it too loosely, which would cause this delicacy to lose its flavor."
"A just-right seal is the correct approach!"
The man in yellow robes quickly waved his hand, interrupting the man in purple's rambling.
"Alright, Old Zi, you're starting with your cryptic pronouncements again..."
"With the time you spend on these metaphors, you could have already arranged everything!"
"Fine, we don't understand your fancy talk. Just tell us directly..."
"What are we supposed to do now?"
The man in purple stretched and looked at the few remaining gray stars in the sky, smiling.
"My refining formation is ready. All that's left is for those sacrificial lambs to fall under its influence!"
"I believe that led by the shadow of death, they will soon embark on a path of self-destruction..."
"We only need to wait patiently to prepare the groundwork!"
As he spoke, the man in purple took out a small object resembling a music box from his hand.
"This is called the Underworld King's Spirit Casket, and the refining formation is sealed within..."
"As an object of extreme yin and malevolence, comparable to Pandora's Box, the death energy it radiates is terrifying."
"Fortunately, we don't entirely belong to the category of the living, so we have fortunately avoided its corrosive effects..."
"Otherwise, we might have become its nourishment before we could even gather enough prime offerings."
At this point, the man in purple paused for a moment, then continued.
"Once enough sacrificial offerings are gathered, the Underworld King's Spirit Casket can provide us with an attack that can completely strip away all the energy essence, including the three souls and seven spirits, of any person – no living being in this world can resist it!"
"Therefore, we just need to wait patiently, waiting for the demise of the sacrifices, waiting for the end of chaos, waiting for the opportunity to become a god..."
"Then, we will use the Underworld King's Spirit Casket to launch a surprise attack and snatch the opportunity to become a god!"
The man in yellow robes was stunned.
"Hmm... it doesn't sound complicated at all!"
"With such a secret weapon, all we need to do is appear at the right time and place, appropriately place it on the right thing, and then appropriately retreat completely. We don't need to worry about anything else..."
"I originally thought that something as world-altering as this would be incredibly complex and arduous!"
"It seems I was overthinking it..."
"Perhaps this is what is meant by the great way being simple."
The man in purple shot the man in yellow a look.
"You don't think that achieving these few 'appropriate' conditions simultaneously would be easy, do you?"
"The simpler something appears, the more difficult it often is to execute..."
"If we don't rely on sheer luck, it might take ten or even decades to encounter such a suitable opportunity."
"Let alone for us, whose time is running out. The price of failure is often annihilation!"
The man in yellow chuckled sheepishly and stopped talking.
The man in red standing beside him stepped forward and asked a crucial question.
"So, Old Zi, after listening to you chatter on, I'm really curious..."
"What exactly is this so-called opportunity to become a god!"
"Is it a tangible treasure, or an ethereal, abstract concept?"
"We need to clarify at least this much!"
Hearing the red-robed man's question, the man in purple immediately laughed.
"Ah... you're asking about that..."
"Well, I'm afraid I'm going to disappoint you..."
"The opportunity to become a god is neither a tangible thing nor an abstract concept..."
The man in red was stunned.
"Huh?! Shouldn't there only be these two possibilities! Then what else could it be?"
The man in purple sighed leisurely.
"The opportunity to become a god... it's a person!"
"And this person, you are all very familiar with!"