Using guile to deceive the heavens and cross the sea, Jiang Li had clearly exposed many secrets yet still managed to refine the Immortality Elixir.
The trump card of Tianxuan was rendered useless due to a misjudgment; the insidious Zhang Zhixuan did not make a move, and Gongsun Qi's departure did not affect the medicine-refining process... He hadn't failed, yet he had still failed.
The Emperor, standing tall in the Imperial City, was defeated by none other than himself, beaten by the Emperor Dao Fruit.
This outcome could be described as nothing if not deeply ironic.
And for the Emperor, this result was utterly unacceptable.
He had exhausted all his strategies to reach this point, even using the Immortality Elixir to recover, only to have it taken away. That was the cruelest part of all.
To gain only to lose again, the Emperor's Mental State would inevitably veer towards the extreme.
"Is this your goal, Zhang Zhixuan?" Jiang Li whispered to himself.