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Oh yeah I am back, couldn't stay away and so I've decided to keep this as my hobby. I'll be here for a while.

Now that King's Game Phase 1 is over, a 140 chapter war for resources to use in the next phase, which character's maneuver surprised you? You can also form a top 5 schemes/mini arcs.

I'll summarise the mini arcs and the schemes present for ease of use

1. Exploration, Rescue and Diversion { Chapters 822 to 829}

Yue Guanshan uses Zhu Yiting as bait to capture Han Fei with Chu Yinian.

Then a game that happens here is a gamble between Yue Guanshan and Chen Ran. I've summarised it below:

Chen Ran gave Lin Xuan a way to differentiate Reality from Mental Pollution (Having Lin Xuan use Reverse Future but not give him Return to Simplicity {which was also the invite for Yue Guanshan to participate in this gamble} ), while Yue Guanshan obscured that method in Lin Xuan's memory, making it a flawed memory.

Yue Guanshan gambles that either Lin Xuan doesn't deduce the flawed memory where he would use Qi Yanqing, or he does and shows sign of it in the Mental Pollution world, thus resulting in him withdrawing Qi Yanqing.

Acc to Yue Guanshan, Chen Ran gambles that not only will Lin Xuan succeed in deducing the flawed memory, but also hide it from Yue Guanshan and use a specific order of skills, that will not only help deal w Yue Guanshan but also with Qi Yanqing.

But Chen Ran goes multiple steps above

{Do note that Yue Guanshan's knowledge of the future isn't accurate due to Ego Extreme Chen Ran}.

He uses this gamble as a misdirection, while having Jiang Zhe execute his 3 shots strategy(Using 1 skill usage to mask other 2 and deceive Yue Guanshan) to rescue Han Fei. Yue Guanshan tries countering with Li Hailong but it's too late, allowing Chen Ran to learn of Li Hailong's existence. Han Fei in turn rescues Jiang Zhe who is trapped with Li Hailong and both return safe, while Li Hailong dismantled the time difference advantage Chen Ran's team got.

{This battle ends w a slight Yue Guanshan loss since Chen Ran got essential information}

Lin Xuan deduces a way, of using Han Fei's earlier marking of time to differentiate reality and Mental Pollution, not knowing Yue Guanshan foresaw it, and changed the time marking with Zhu Yiting to trick Lin Xuan into acting in the Mental Pollution world, thus having Yue Guanshan retrieve Qi Yanqing.

Yue Guanshan also uses Zhu Yiting into manipulating Lin Xuan, causing Lin Cuan to fail to deduce Chen Ran's contingency plan (Which Yue Guanshan has deduced in advance), to use Wheel of time to monopolise with time difference.

{This battle ends with Chen Ran's loss of a sure win advantage}

2. Han Fei vs Li Hailong - Test Battle (Chapters 840 to 845)

Han Fei uses the skills Jiang Zhe on the outside copied to make several traps, which Li Hailong countertraps with his skills, which Han Fei counters with his. Mainly a skill battle.

Han Fei is able to win the skill information of Li Hailong. Li Hailong in turn erases all the copied skills Han Fei holds.

Li Hailong deliberately leaks Yue Guanshan's skill abilities(the ability to time travel) to Han Fei(just to aura farm and to create cards against Yue Guanshan). But since Han Fei matches Li Hailong, Li agrees to a cooperation with Yue Guanshan on the surface.

3. Spear and Shield (Chapters 846 to 857)

Yue Guanshan uses First Jiang Zhe from the future for a series of schemes

By Yue Guanshan's arrangements, First Jiang Zhe

a. Clears Instance Boss's thought imprint on JZ and provids a way to do the same for other to increase trust

b. Diverts Jiang Zhe's thinking towards Murder Formulas and its decryption, which would eventually divert Chen Ran's attention too

c. Uses Superego Player club to appear like a superego player, which he wasn't. Uses Mental contamination to further make them believe he is a superego player (leading to others lowering their guard cuz superego players can't interfere, while also making the info he shares seem important)

d. Uses this future 1st Jiang zhe to manipulate our Jiang Zhe into infecting other teammates along with him, with a karmic mental pollution

e. Also Jiang Zhe, being granted the Di Ting skill by 1st Jiang Zhe wouldn't suspect of Mental Pollution due to the nature of the skill itself.

f. Foresees Jiang Zhe uncovering partly the invalidity of 1st Jiang Zhe's words and still goes with it. This would lead to Jiang Zhe sharing his doubts about 1st Jiang Zhe of Future to Chen Ran and others, distracting their thoughts while Yue can target Qiu Yinong.

Chen Ran is able to deduce that others are Mentally Polluted, with a really strong pollution that has Jiang Zhe as the origin.

We have seen Yue Guanshan predict the Extreme Ego answers of Chen Ran. Thus he has manipulated the events to have Chen Ran produce a wrong answer in his Extreme Ego state, mainly, making Chen Ran deduce an incorrect Murder Formula of his and make him think Han Fei's is targeted. While Qiu Yinong is the one actually targetted.

Yue Guanshan knows Qiu Yinong would have created a time difference, thus his use of 1st Jiang Zhe to give the skill Di Ting re-eshtablishes causality with Qiu Yinong, thus granting him a chance to attack Qiu Yinong while Chen Ran will be too late to intervene due to the 25 min time difference Qiu Yinomg created.

But Chen Ran deduces the danger on time and Qiu Yinong tapes her mouth to bide for time.

Yue Guanshan meanwhile has had Li Hailong and Chu Yinian hide in Bronze Coffin at the Eighteenth Floor. He intends to control the fight at Eighteenth Floor and find Main body Jiang Zhe. He also intends to bring out Chen Ran's trump cards through replicas. He suceeds in his second objective while failing to capture Jiang Zhe.

{This is a massive Yue Guanshan win. He forces Chen Ran's Eternal Kingdom, forces Chen Ran to reveal his Omniscient Perspective and Three Ghost God cultivations and the effect of Eternal Kingdom spam, while incapacitating Qiu Yinong, while making moves that will help his main overall scheme in the future}

Note that Yue Guanshan achieved a lot of objectives just by actually helping Chen Ran's Team with Di Ting. This starts as a base for multiple future schemes of his in the next mini arc.

Out of the first half's schemes, my favourites are

1. Yue Guanshan's Spear and Shield strategy

2. Chen Ran's Gamble misdirection

3. Chen Ran's 3 shot strategy

4. Yue Guanshan manipulating Lin Xuan along with Zhu Yiting

I'll do the second half, the better half later. Do note this is just a summary, and thus the areas of multilayered scheming are simplified.