"It's a snowballing process. Whoever accumulates enough believers and elevates their Divine Format first will gain an overwhelming advantage and swallow up the latecomers."
"Conversely, anyone who gets off to a slow start or gets tied down by something…"
"...like getting bogged down in a protracted war with a local hegemon, will be left far behind by the others and end up as fodder for someone else's snowball."
"So, we can't fight—at least, not a messy, drawn-out war we aren't sure of winning."
"Our time is more precious than any other resource."
His words were like a bolt of lightning, cleaving through the fog in everyone's minds.
They had only been thinking about how to fight Profound Prison, completely overlooking the competition from their own kind.
A flash of understanding lit up Ye Jinghong's eyes. "You mean, negotiate with Profound Prison?"
"Correct."
