Chapter 3031: 996

It is also because the original method was the most direct and effective that when deciding which world to annex, Zhou Tian would usually choose to forcefully attack, except in special cases. After all, Zhou Tian only needed to achieve his goal, and in that situation, using the simplest method to achieve it seemed not to complicate matters unnecessarily. Clearly, no matter how Zhou Tian was thinking internally, for the world he was currently focused on, he could no longer use his original methods for annexation.

A high-level world’s consciousness might not possess its own thinking capability and wouldn’t initiate an attack on Zhou Tian due to his threat. However, this doesn’t mean such world consciousness is easy to deal with. In fact, compared to personal strength, the power of the worlds is always much stronger.

Thanks to the help from the Abyss World, Zhou Tian is able to confront those world consciousnesses directly. Otherwise, under normal circumstances, even if Zhou Tian’s current strength were a hundred times stronger, he would still likely be unable to truly conquer any lower world. Thus, if a high-level world’s consciousness were to genuinely act against Zhou Tian, it would certainly pose significant trouble to him.

If Zhou Tian could use his full strength, regardless of how strong his combat power was, simply relying on the support from the Abyss World, there shouldn’t be any problem in suppressing a moderately strong high-level world.

Unfortunately, even though Zhou Tian could normally exert his strength, he often doesn’t need to concern himself with that high-level world’s consciousness. However, judging from various aspects of the situation, it seems Zhou Tian couldn’t easily use his own strength. This is because, if Zhou Tian used his real strength or mobilized the power of the Abyss World to attack other worlds, the Divine Kings watching him would inevitably discover his minor actions.

Just as Zhou Tian feared, if at that time the Divine Kings were unaware of Zhou Tian’s actions, everything would be fine. But once the Divine Kings noticed his minor actions, it was clear that they wouldn’t allow him to annex a world under their watchful eyes.

Thus, judging from the situation at the time, if those Divine Kings holding grudges against Zhou Tian took action, Zhou Tian’s plan to annex that high-level world would likely have no chance of realization.

Moreover, even if Zhou Tian’s enemies didn’t notice his minor actions, if Zhou Tian were to use too much power against that world, the Divine King ruling that world would inevitably notice him as the invader. Once a Divine King noticed Zhou Tian’s minor actions, it would signify the failure of Zhou Tian’s plan.

Therefore, from every perspective, since Zhou Tian had that plan in mind, to ensure the plan could be implemented smoothly, he couldn’t use excessive power. Before conditions matured, Zhou Tian could strive for annexation of that world, but his methods at that time could only be relatively gentle tactics.

Fortunately, although using relatively gentle tactics would require Zhou Tian to spend a lot of time to annex that world, no matter what, as long as Zhou Tian worked towards that goal, based on his abilities, he would inevitably achieve some results.

Zhou Tian wasn’t aiming to annex that world purely with those tactics, but according to his plan, he needed to use gentle methods to allow Abyssal rules to infiltrate that world. Eventually, as long as Abyssal rules took root in that world, rendering its world consciousness incapable of suppressing Zhou Tian, his plan would be halfway successful. If he wanted, he could then consider using violent tactics to see if the world could be annexed.

Since Zhou Tian was determined at that time, judging by the situation, it seemed his efforts to achieve a corresponding outcome were not impossible. After all, compared to Zhou Tian, the world consciousnesses lacked thinking capability, and when faced with complex situations, they rarely could respond effectively.

Thus, as long as Zhou Tian’s tactics weren’t too aggressive, even while infiltrating the world’s internal affairs, and acting against that world, its world consciousness wouldn’t necessarily take action against Zhou Tian. In that situation, as long as the world didn’t fully obstruct Zhou Tian’s actions, allowing Abyssal rules to take root there wouldn’t be difficult.

In fact, Zhou Tian had performed similar actions before, using the strong power of Abyssal rules to easily entice the living beings in that world to cultivate Abyssal Power. As the number of living beings cultivating Abyssal Power increased, even if Zhou Tian did nothing else, the influence of Abyssal rules over that world would passively increase significantly.