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When it comes to alliances, there will always be factional disputes. Even if there were no conflicts between Sumer and Hell, there would definitely be other times in the future when you need to take sides.
If you think about it carefully, now all we have done is cut off the possibility of everyone and Sumer forming an alliance. But there is still the underworld, the other world, and Mount Sumeru, right?
Jiang Lu gave everyone some pointers, and everyone's minds suddenly became clear. After realizing this, they suddenly felt that their previous worries were not a big deal.
Even more optimistically, isn't this a good opportunity to make friends with hell?
Maybe when I meet Lucifer in the future, I can use this incident to put on a smile -
"Lord Lucifer, have you forgotten? When we were in the underworld, we dealt with Sumer together!"
"Yeah, yeah, that's right."
Well, it’s all good with no harm, right?
It was not until this time that Old Man Moon and Emperor Yin realized the key.
Old Man Moon woke up as if from a dream and looked towards the other world and Mount Sumeru in disbelief.
My brother and I are connected by heart, and he uses his brain with me? ?
Yin Di, on the other hand, had an embarrassed look on his face, but it was not easy for him to intervene in such matters. He also realized that it seemed irrational to help Sumer now.
Seeing that the Other World and Mount Sumeru were just watching the fire from the other side of the river and enjoying it, and seeing the Yin Emperor's helpless expression, Old Man Moon finally turned evil and stopped pretending.
If he can't deal with these companies, can he deal with the others present?
"Who dares to sign it?"
"Look, you're anxious again." Jiang Lu shook his head at Old Man Moon with pity: "If you feel wronged, you can quit. There are plenty of people who will do it if you don't."
After thinking for a while, he added: "If you quit, it would be better for Hell to join the alliance. Then there will be fewer unnecessary people and everyone will be happy."
"Don't even think about it!!"
Old Man Moon rejected Jiang Lu with the idea that if he couldn't get it, no one else could either.
In fact, it was impossible for him to really withdraw from the alliance. Before he came, his father, Enlil, the supreme god of Sumer, had told him that he could only succeed and not fail, and he must strive for the highest possible position in the alliance.
The latter is now impossible, it has been completely messed up. If I quit the alliance out of spite, I really won't be able to explain myself.
You know, although he has the highest status among the third generation of main gods, he has an equally powerful brother, the Sun God Utu. If he is branded as incompetent, it is very likely that the title of Moon God will no longer be above that of the Sun God.
Therefore, no matter what, even if he suffered a lot of injustice, he had to endure it, otherwise he would be doomed both internally and externally.
However, Jiang Lu didn't know this. The reason why the Yin-Yang Moon Old Man added that he would join after he quit Hell was because he was really afraid that Sumer would quit.
He rarely does things to the extreme, let alone now that he represents hell.
The reason why he would do this now was, firstly, because Sumer was pro-Yin Emperor and had become his potential enemy, and secondly, because, judging by the attitudes of the Other World and Mount Xumi, the formation of the alliance was already irreversible.
Therefore, he had to leave a nail in the alliance, plant a foreshadowing, and create an unstable factor so that he could find an opportunity to disintegrate the alliance in the future.
If Sumer withdrew at this time, wouldn't everything done before be in vain?
He wouldn't allow this to happen.
"Okay." Jiang Lu shrugged, with a nonchalant attitude: "I didn't really want to join in the first place, and besides, you're really pretentious."
Then, he asked Yin Di: "Isn't it almost time to finish what you wanted to say?"
Yin Di knew that Sumer was doomed and that even the gods could not save it, so he could only force a smile: "The next issue is the distribution of rights and interests. This..."
He was very dissatisfied with Hell, but he couldn't show it openly, so he could only say: "Let's discuss this privately. Anyway, Hell doesn't plan to join the alliance, so it's not convenient for me to tell you these things."
"It doesn't matter."
Jiang Lu nodded, then took out a piece of white paper and shouted to the small worlds:
"You've heard everything, right? I've said everything I need to say. If you want to join the alliance, come here and register. If you haven't registered, be careful that I catch you."
At this moment, the mentality of the representatives of the participants in the small world has changed completely.
They acted as if they were being forced, looked at Old Man Moon apologetically, then "reluctantly" stood up and walked towards Jiang Lu.
Those who were more alert would write down their names and the world they came from on pieces of paper while reporting their names, intending to leave a deep impression on Hell.
No one expected that this step, which was supposed to determine the signing of a sacred agreement after the formation of the alliance, was actually taken precedent by Jiang Lu's white paper that was almost as simple as a registration form.
Although the representatives from the other world and Mount Sumeru seemed to feel sorry for Sumer's plight, they were actually already smiling in their hearts. It was just the wrong occasion, otherwise they would really like to praise them for a job well done.
Yin Di was pretending to pack up his things. Sometimes his notebook and sometimes his pen dropped, and he was picking them up back and forth. In short, he was just pretending to be deaf and dumb.
Only Old Man Moon stood in the middle of the field, out of place with the lively environment around him, like a clown.
Somehow, he couldn't help it.
Without a sound, he moved his feet, raised his hand, and grabbed Jiang Lu who was filling out the form with his head down...
Chapter 441 The Power of Sedimentation
He moves quickly.
The Sumerian world is now a dilapidated place, but it is a pantheon that has been passed down from ancient times and still stands today, and the Old Man of the Moon is one of the most powerful gods among them.
Perhaps "fast" is not enough to describe him, because his actions almost surpassed the limit of time, making it difficult to understand whether he acted in an instant or was simply moving from the future to the past.
People who notice him will subconsciously have such an illusion, because they clearly see him moving, but when they turn their heads to look at the place where he just stood, they find that he seems not to have moved at all.
Those participants from Mount Xumi and the other world who were able to stop it, after a moment's consideration, chose to stand by and watch, just as they had watched Jiang Lu push Old Man Moon to the edge of the cliff step by step.
For them, no matter what the outcome of the dispute between Sumer and Hell was, they had already gained enough from it.
Although from the results, they are all vested interests and have profited, but they do not care about the friendship of Hell. Everyone knows that this is just a bribe paid by Hell in order to cheat Old Man Moon and avoid being targeted by others. When Sumer was coerced, they did not show up, so they were considered even and no one owed anyone anything.
Even though they had secretly tripped up Old Man Moon, that was because Old Man Moon attempted to kidnap them. This was a small punishment and did not mean that they were on the side of Hell, nor did it mean that they were really close to Hell.
To put things one way or another, this was just a gesture of goodwill that both sides "had to" make in order to preserve their dignity and avoid unpleasantness in the future. It's just that the needs of both sides happened to be the same, so they temporarily stood on the same front.
But when everything is over, what happens next is none of their business.
“Don’t meddle” is not just directed at Sumer, but also applies to hell. Mount Sumeru and the other world are truly treated equally.
Looking further into the future, there is competition even within the alliance, let alone the hell of not joining the alliance?
It is difficult to say whether there will be a day when we will fall out with hell. After all, if two different systems want to develop in the long run and compete for hegemony in the same universe, sooner or later there will be a conflict.
They had seen Jiang Lu's performance just now, and no one would underestimate him. If left alone, and allowed to grow up, another Lucifer would appear in Hell, and maybe even surpass him.
It is certainly a matter of envy to see that other worlds have such a young man with the potential to become the Supreme God, but their own world does not.
Therefore, it might not be a bad thing if the future successor of Hell could die in a conflict with Sumer or die in a personal grudge.
Yes, they thought Kang Yool would die.
Almost no one was optimistic about him.
No matter how smart Jiang Lu is, or how unique he is, in this world, strength is the only thing that matters.
Only if your fist is strong enough will everyone sit down together and reason, and move the battlefield to the negotiation table. But if your fist is not strong enough, who will reason with you?
Either they are ruthlessly crushed to death, or, like those small worlds in front of us, they are used as guns and are complacent about it, with their spines broken.
Compared with the famous players who have been famous for a long time, Jiang Lu naturally has no chance of winning.
Perhaps in his class, he is the chief, but in a class where everyone is a main god, this seems to be stretched.
The so-called successor is a potential talent who is still being cultivated. If he has the strength that can match or even surpass Lucifer, then he will not be called a successor. He should directly replace Lucifer and become the new Satan of hell.
Old Man Moon was determined to kill and he really meant it.
Anyone can see this.
So, facing such a fierce attack from Old Man Moon, is it possible for him to survive?
Even if Lucifer, who was talking to someone beside him, reacted and saved him, look at the look on Old Man Moon's face, he looked like he wanted to tear the poor young man to pieces.
Even if his life was saved, if Old Man Moon tried his best to injure him, Lucifer would probably be powerless to stop it, right?
And if he is disabled, is he still qualified to be Lucifer's successor?
Even if Lucifer felt it was a pity, he was the leader of hell after all, and every word and action had to take into account the future of hell. Would he insist on letting a useless person take his place and take over the scepter in his hand?
The result is of course self-evident.
But it may be difficult to find another person like this.
No world can be favored again and again.
Even in the once prosperous underworld, after so many years since the death of the Lord of the Underworld, hasn't there been a second person as powerful and arrogant as him?
Yin Di also did not think highly of Jiang Lu, and also had no intention of stopping him.
His current mentality is like that of the Other World and Mount Sumeru when he saw Sumer being targeted not long ago, or even worse.
Because he hates hell just as much.
His own home ground has been turned into such a mess, and he can't do anything about it.
The source of everything was that damned young devil. For some reason, I felt disgusted the first time I saw him, and he did not disappoint me.
So when he noticed that Old Man Moon had lost his mind and started fighting over a disagreement, he was extremely happy.
OK! OK!
Kill him!
It is not convenient for the underworld to show up, but if the old man of the moon goes crazy, the situation will be different.
He could have stepped in to mediate after the dust had settled, paid some price to satisfy Lucifer, and put an end to everything.
This will make the Old Man of the Moon and the Sumerians behind him remember his kindness and become his most loyal partner, or...dog.
And if Lucifer persists, that's fine too.
After all, it is a personal grudge and will not involve the underworld or the alliance.
This is none of my business, but I still tried my best to show my sincerity, you just didn't accept it.
So what do you want to do next? I am invincible in the underworld and I have no way to do anything to you.
Even if you are so angry that you turn to Zeus because of this matter, it doesn't matter. You are not in the right. Doing so will only make public opinion favorable to me, because it is equivalent to Hell taking its anger out on the underworld and the alliance in order to retaliate against Sumer, and then joining forces with other forces to bully people.
This elevates personal grudges to the world level, and gives me a reason to declare war on you.
I believe that Sumer, which is already on my side, together with other worlds in the alliance driven by interests, would be happy to challenge Hell's position.