To be honest, there might be worse people in the world than Du Wei, but in the realm of cunning and deceit, he was a natural-born king.
When the Demon God Rahmer manipulated the timeline and pulled him back into the Inner World, at the cost of one of his own eyes, he had thrown out a portion of his power.
This was his contingency plan.
It was the confidence he needed to drag the Demon God Rahmer to death with him.
If he couldn't get out, the power he threw out could cause his most loyal subordinates to make moves, and at the very least, lock Rahmer and himself inside the Inner World.
But the words of James and Tiquel gave him a glimmer of hope for survival.
The coffin they encountered should be the one from the oil painting.
For some reason, his oil painting had formed some mysterious connection with this Inner World, which was very likely the doing of Ryan Hamel, who had been hiding inside it all along.
However.
This also gave Du Wei enough inspiration.