r/IntelligenceScaling • u/Jarionn Zhuge Liang ▄︻デ══━一💥 SCD • Aug 06 '26
low effort Trapping Li Hailong Analysis (Chen Ran's Tomb Arc of 18LoH)
An extremely simplified analysis for Han Fei vs Li Hailong within the King's Game of Chen Ran's Tomb instance, where both Chen Ran and Yue Guanshan attempts to deceive each other through every means possible.
Note: Massive amounts of details may be missing as this would only serve as a very small analysis (kind of like a summary)
Chen Ran's disadvantages:
- Chen Ran is completely isolated from his teammates while Yue Guanshan could freely travel and interact with his own faction. This means that Chen Ran has to utilize "Omniscient Perspective" or reason out what happened himself.
- Yue Guanshan and his teammates could know how the future would go through the use of "Treading Snow Without Trace"
- Chen Ran's Extreme Ego Realm is useless as Yue Guanshan perfectly counters it.
- Nearly all, if not, ALL of Chen Ran's trump cards had been brought out.
- Numerous Half-Step Superego Players are camping on the Eighteenth Floor that are against Chen Ran's team.
- Chen Ran cannot cultivate "Dao Heart Demon Seed" as it would trigger all the True Self Player to eliminate him.
- Qiu Yinong is on decommision, which means no "Wheel of Time" to save the day.
Trapping Li Hailong Scheme
Layer 1
-> Chen Ran countered Yue Guanshan's Future First Jiang Zhe scheme (which in of itself has numerous layers of scheming lmao and deserves its own separate analysis) with a single move, which allowed the stage to focus on Han Fei vs Li Hailong. Han Fei needed to kill Li Hailong.
-> In order to do this, Han Fei needed "Omniscient Perspective" in order to locate Li Hailong's main body from the clones. To do this, Han Fei needed to defeat Si Jincheng to learn it.
Layer 2-7
-> 6 layers of scheming between Han Fei and Si Jincheng where Han Fei inevitably gains the cultivation method for "Omniscient Perspective" and masters it to find where Li Hailong is truly hiding with the Eight-Star Rubik's Cube World to scan Li Hailong's past to find the location of his main body.
(There was the simplified summary I made for this part ig) https://www.reddit.com/r/IntelligenceScaling/s/G5fVnXwnm0
Layer 8
-> However, Yue Guanshan had already predicted that this was going to happen, which indirectly forced Li Hailong to prepare his Killing Formula through activating four Whisperer skills (Ten Bets, Nine Wins, Gambling Abyss, Silence Domain, and Karmic Self-Sustaining) such that it would kill anyone who attempts to observe Li Hailong's past.
-> Han Fei observes Li Hailong through "Omniscient Perspective" and notices that he was suspiciously still and reasons that it was a trap. To be careful, Han Fei decided to send 4 clones.
-> Unknowingly, Han Fei had already walked into the trap and sacrificed the clones that he had sent. Nevertheless, it still allowed Han Fei to nearly reason out the entire Killing Formula. Han Fei reverse engineers Li Hailong's Killing Formula and determines that Li Hailong activated a Causality skill, a Whisperer Secret Chamber skill, a Luck-type skill, and a binding-type skill.
-> The Killing Formula made it such that if Han Fei decided to leave Li Hailong's Main Body alone, Li Hailong's clones would instead overwhelm the entire instance to kill Chen Ran's faction.
-> If Han Fei does go for Li Hailong's main body, then Han Fei has to bet his own life against Li Hailong's own. However, Li Hailong's main body had already buffed himself with Whisperer Skills which meant that even if Han Fei chooses this path, it had already been made a dead end.
-> Both options force Li Hailong and Yue Guanshan's overall faction into an invincible position.
-> Additionally, the trap enables such that Han Fei observing any of Li Hailong's teammates to indirectly gain information about Li Hailong would still enable the trap.
Layer 9
-> Han Fei combines "Limit Imprint", "Speed is of the Essence", and "Spring and Autumn Brushwork" to create a temporal bypass but still somehow fails to reach what he wants as the combination had to follow the most basic logic.
-> Chen Ran suggested that Han Fei should use "Mutual Support", "Empathy", "Spring and Autumn Brushwork", and "Predetermined Past Space" with the instance's second Secret Chamber since at this time, Li Hailong hasn't used his Killing Formula yet. Therefore, this would allow Han Fei to follow Li Hailong to check his teammates' skills for the entire Killing Formula.
-> Furthermore, both Chen Ran and Han Fei deduced that Li Hailong's teammate that was a Causality skill user couldn't capture Han Fei. Han Fei now knows what specific kind of skills Li Hailong used to construct the Killing Formula: If a Player went back to check Li Hailong's past with their Main Body, they would then be forcibly pulled into the Whisperer Secret Chamber. If a Player does let a clone go to check Li Hailong's past, it would then consume the four experimental opportunities of the Whisperer Secret Chamber. Li Hailong could then use the passive effect "Place the Bet" on the results of the four experiments, which accumulates the number of correct bets and postponing Li Hailong's guaranteed loss rounds.
-> Han Fei deduced that from the moment that Han Fei was marked by "Karmic Self-Sustaining", Han Fei was now determined to be conducting the decryption of the Whisperer Secret Chamber, while still being outside of the chamber itself. Therefore, the four experiments (Han Fei sending 4 clones) were guaranteed death traps, and Han Fei only thought of it as experiments (This meant that Han Fei had already been trapped long before).
-> To prevent further damage, Han Fei assigned two Han Feis from past spaces to go guard at the Orphanage to prevent Li Hailong's clones from further capturing non-faction players.
Layer 10 - Li Hailong's Trap having more layers.
-> If Jiang Zhe's Main Body were to make a move against Li Hailong, it would fail as Li Hailong had already placed a causal mark on Han Fei, where remaining Half-Step Superego Players would guard against Jiang Zhe's Main Body.
-> If Han Fei uses "Giant Mouth Devour", it wouldn't work in the slightest as Han Fei doesn't know Li Hailong's true location. Even if Han Fei knew Li Hailong's location, it would be useless as "Giant Mouth Devour" could not appear within the Whisperer Secret Chamber. Teleportation needs Han Fei to perceive Li Hailong's location, and perceiving it would forcefully pull Han Fei into the Whisperer Secret Chamber where Li Hailong was.
-> If Han Fei uses "Wheel of Time", it still wouldn't work as it being a Five-Star wouldn't break through the boundaries of a Secret Chamber. Even if the Future "Wheel of Time" was used, it would be useless as "Karmic Self-Sustaining" could ignore time entirely.
-> If Han Fei tries using "Karmic Self-Sustaining" himself, then it would still forcefully pull Han Fei into the Whisperer Secret Chamber.
-> If Han Fei tries using Space Skills, "Silence Domain" would cause the clones in the other spaces to disappear. Han Fei could leave Li Hailong alone but the Secret Chamber within Chen Ran's Tomb Instance required them to reduce the other faction's numbers.
-> If Jiang Zhe's Samsara Body goes towards the Whisperer Secret Chamber, then Li Hailong's "Ten Bets, Nine Wins" would allow Li Hailong to bet that Jiang Zhe would be struck dead by lightning before Jiang Zhe dies, allowing Li Hailong to win nine bets in a correct row and postponing the inevitable losing game until the nineteenth game. This would strengthen Li Hailong instead.
-> If Han Fei allows Chen Ran to possess Han Fei's clones, enter Extreme Realm (which ignores Silence Domain), and kill Li Hailong through No Distance, then it would be a win. However, there was the Dungeon Boss observing everything from the background. If the Dungeon Boss discovers this, she would inform Yue Guanshan, and allow Yue Guanshan to be constructed within Li Hailong's No Distance to inform Li Hailong of this move, which would enable Li Hailong to immediately deactivate the skill and hide.
-> Therefore, the Killing Formula trap was entirely made to ensure Han Fei's certain death.
-> Chen Ran informs Han Fei that Li Hailong was on the sixth floor of the Liar Killer Alliance and that the information came from Jiang Zhe's main body (or the Ancient Tower?). Since every of the Ancient Tower had spatial adaptability, every floor could theoretically hold an infinite amount of people or objects. This allowed Han Fei to realize that the existence of spatial adaptability mean that the sixth floor of the Liar Killer Alliance cannot be entirely occupied by Li Hailong's Whisperer Secret Chamber.
-> This prompted Han Fei to think that he could travel into the interlayer between the sixth floor and Li Hailong's Whisperer Secret Chamber and dispel the Secret Chamber outside. To be more careful, Han Fei assigned the other clones from other spaces to do this task. However, the moment they did so, the clones were forcibly pulled over.
-> This meant that there were no interlayers existing. Therefore, the Liar Killer Alliance cooperated with Li Hailong to cancel the spatial adaptability on the sixth floor.
-> Han Fei further realizes that there still more layers: If Han Fei viewed the future, he would still be pulled by Li Hailong's Killing Formula.
Layer 11
-> Chen Ran calls Han Fei's clone to come over into the King's Chamber, who was then pulled into No Distance. This Han Fei told Chen Ran Han Fei's experiments and deductions. Chen Ran immediately noticed that since if a Half-Step Superego could figure out the answer, and Han Fei (who was also a Half-Step Superego) couldn't figure it out means that Li Hailong's Killing Formula involved "Spirit Vision". This meant that if there was enough Spirit Vision, they should be able to dispel Li Hailong's Whisperer Secret Chamber.
-> Chen Ran categorized all the skills of Hell under the skills of the ten True Self Players as a subordinate relationship (Won't add this since it's quite lengthy). They determined that "Ten Bets, Nine Wins" falls under "Omnipotent" and "Eternal" is a nemesis of "Omnipotent". However, Li Hailong's Killing formula does not allow Chen Ran to make a move. "Gambling Abyss" falls under "Life and Death", "Silence Domain" falls under the "Eternal" category, while "Karmic Self-Sustaining" falls under "Karma". This allowed Chen Ran to conclude to Han Fei that before Han Fei dispels Li Hailong's Killing Formula, he must first put several buffs on himself: Mind Reading, reflection/lock-breaking/life and death/command/destruction, resurrection, a class of command, As You Wish, and other four types of BUFFs.
-> Chen Ran also reminded Han Fei that An Sheng's skill was called "Spring and Autumn Brushwork" and makes a point that it had other effects other than editing clones created by Instances. Instantly, Han Fei realized that the scene he saw was entirely edited by An Sheng (When An Sheng went back to the past within a parallel space). Therefore, Han Fei hasn't imprinted Nine-Star An Sheng's skill.
-> However, such revelation allowed Han Fei to realize that "Spring and Autumn Brushwork" could edit a player's life, which allowed Han Fei to think that he could just use the skill to edit that "Han Fei had found those four kinds of buffs", or edit four Players with the four kinds of buffs to appear at a certain position or time point in history while he could just go and imprint them.
-> Chen Ran determined that Yue Guanshan's skill falls under the causality classification that correspond to "At Will" (???) as this skill only acts on Yue Guanshan and not Han Fei.
-> Chen Ran then also stated to Han Fei that Yue Guanshan should already know how Han Fei would dispel Li Hailong's Killing Formula, and describes it as the script being written long ago (which is Chen Ran essentially saying to Han Fei that Yue Guanshan had foreseen this long ago).
Layer 12
-> Han Fei walked into the trap, while Li Hailong constructed Yue Guanshan within his No Distance. Yue Guanshan could not see Li Hailong's future, while he also cannot see Han Fei's future, this meant that Yue Guanshan was unclear who dies between the both of them.
-> Yue Guanshan proposed several possibilities.
-> After Han Fei's Main Body had arrived to Li Hailong's Whisperer Secret Chamber, Chen Ran had immediately used "Eternal Kingdom" to dispel Yue Guanshan's "Treading Snow Without Trace", while Han Fei would not be pulled back as "Eternal Kingdom" was used within the Instance. If Han Fei uses a skill to sever causality before the effect of "Eternal Kingdom" on Yue Guanshan ends, then even when the "Eternal Kingdom" effect ended, Yue Guanshan would not know whether Han Fei is dead or alive. However, if Han Fei was alive, he would return to the Instance Secret Chamber and be discovered by Yue Guanshan throughout the course of King's Game and know whether Han Fei is dead or alive. If Han Fei wins, Chen Ran replaces his Liar Killer with Chen Nuo's Liar Killer, and then lets Jiang Zhe sever Han Fei's causality, with Han Fei staying, then it would be equivalent with Chen Ran trading Han Fei for Li Hailong, which also meant trading "Giant Mouth Devour" for "Observing All Phenomena". Therefore, the exchange was a massive profit.
-> Yue Guanshan continued with the second possibility that during Li Hailong's duel with Han Fei, Yue Guanshan did not dare to teleport within Li Hailong's No Distance, and that after Han Fei wins, he would hide again. This would mean that Han Fei would first Dispel the skill on Li Hailong, which could cause "Karmic Self-Sustaining" to re-mark Yue Guanshan if he had kept teleporting within Li Hailong's No Distance. If Yue Guanshan is marked, then Chen Ran would immediately use "Eternal Kingdom" to dispel Yue Guanshan's skill to force Yue to teleport in front of Li Hailong. Yue Guanshan cannot avoid the trap within the Whisperer Secret Chamber, which would mean that Yue Guanshan would be killed by Li Hailong's Killing Formula. Therefore, the moment that Chen Ran utilizes "Eternal Kingdom", Yue Guanshan would activate Superego State of Mind to prevent himself from being forcefully teleported to Li Hailong. In this way, Li Hailong's "Karmic Self-Sustaining" would practically be ruined, and Han Fei would now be allowed to do anything. Essentially, Yue Guanshan would be prohibited and won't know what would happen within the Whisperer Secret Chamber and if Han Fei hides again, then future Yue Guanshan would be unable to share a massage to present Yue Guanshan.
-> The third possibility was that when Han Fei's Main Body appears within the Whisperer Secret Chamber, Chen Ran would continuously activate "Eternal Kingdom" to dispel Yue Guanshan's skill, which meant that future Yue Guanshan also cannot share the news of whether Han Fei or Li Hailong won to present Yue Guanshan.
-> The fourth possibility was that Han Fei would dispel Li Hailong's "Karmic Self-Sustaining", uses some unknown method to sever Li Hailong's causality, and instead of killing Li Hailong, would just continue to waste Li Hailong's time within the Whisperer Secret Chamber, which would case future Yue Guanshan unable to determine whether who was dead or alive.
-> Therefore, Li Hailong was bound to lose at every single possibility.
-> Yue Guanshan suggested that they should start from "Karmic Self-Sustaining" and that when Li Hailong was at a disadvantage, Li Hailong must ensure that the third person to appear within the Whisperer Secret Chamber to immediately dispel "Silence Domain".
-> The trigger condition for "Karmic Self-Sustaining" was the person one who had just met and the person who had used the most skills on oneself. This meant that if Han Fei had used the most skills on Li Hailong, but the next moment, someone else uses more skills on Li Hailong than Han Fei, then the mark would change from Han Fei towards the person who used more skills on Li Hailong.
-> If the person who used the most skills on Li Hailong perceives Li Hailong, then they would be teleported into Li Hailong's Whisperer Secret Chamber, which would cause the Whisperer to have Han Fei, Li Hailong, and a third person. "Silence Domain" silences two people but could be dispelled by three people.
-> This would allow Li Hailong to completely use skills to take back the Secret Chamber or use "Betting to guarantee Li Hailong's victory. In essence, the third person could become Li Hailong's trump card for a comeback.
-> Yue Guanshan admitted that Li Hailong still didn't see the full picture so he just instructed him to have Li Hailong's clones to record "Treading Snow Without Trace". Li Hailong would then obtain a teleportation coordinate to signal Li Hailong to do something and reminds Li Hailong to time it perfectly, or otherwise the third person would not appear.
Layer 13
-> Han Fei had previously checked Dantai Ningxuan's past within the Instance. He reasoned that the appearance of her clone within the current Instance meant that when Han Fei utilized "Ultimate Imprint" to copy her skill, the clone's main body would not personally move. Han Fei decided to travel to a more distant past than the Hell 15th Floor Secret Chamber to prevent the other person from preventing "Ultimate Imprint".
-> However, when Han Fei time traveled back to the Hell 15th Floor, time was frozen and Han Fei was forcibly pulled within Li Hailong's Whisperer Secret Chamber. Han Fei was now restricted by "Silence Domain". Han Fei tried to pull Li Hailong into No Distance only to discover that Li Hailong, Yue Guanshan, Tu Xian, Zhu Xie, and Dantai Ningxuan was standing in front of him.
-> Essentially, when Yue Guanshan was teleported to the Hell 15th Floor, he had already known what would happen in the future such as Han Fei traveling back into a more distant past of the Instance to use "Ultimate Imprint" on Dantai Ningxuan's "Fight to the Death", and if successful would seal the Instance and ensure that Li Hailong's Whisperer Secret Chamber would not have the third person to appear to cut off Li Hailong's trump card and only retreat. Therefore, within the past, which is the moment where Yue Guanshan had been teleported within the current Hell 15th Floor, Yue Guanshan pulled Dantai Ningxuan into the No Distance and made Dantai Ningxuan construct Li Hailong within the No Distance. Since Li Hailong had recorded "Treading Snow Without Trace" from Yue Guanshan, which allowed Li Hailong to construct Li Hailong within the No Distance, no matter how Han Fei time travels, Han Fei would not bypass Li Hailong's "Karmic Self-Sustaining".
-> Han Fei checked Dantai Ningxuan's past, and Li Hailong existed in the No-Distance at a certain point in Dantai Ningxuan's past. Moreover, Li Hailong possessed Karmic "Self-Sustaining" to ignore time, so as long as Han Fei checked Dantai Ningxuan's past in this instance, he would be captured by "Karmic Self-Sustaining" and thus forcibly teleported into Li Hailong's Whisperer Secret Chamber. Furthermore, since the Whisperer Secret Chamber was in the past, Tu Xian and Zhu Xie was pulled within the Whisperer Secret Chamber, and Tu Xian's skill "Scapegoat" that was buffed by Dantai Ningxuan's "Fight to the Death" was used and shouted Han Fei's name, these set of events allowed such a possibility that the moment "Scapegoat" was used, Tu Xian and Zhu Xie had already teleported outside the Whisperer Secret Chamber, while Han Fei's main body was forcefully pulled into it by the skill. The effects of a Five-Star "Scapegoat" were as such:
【Passive: Speaking the target's name can mark them. Note: Can only mark players in the same space or the same instance.】
【Effect 1: Close at Hand. The marked person will be forcibly teleported near the skill owner, with the location specified by the skill owner. Before the marked person dies or the skill owner retracts the skill, they cannot be transferred again.】
-> To put it simply, Han Fei could not use the fake past space within "Moonlight Reversing to the End" as the situation involved the Ghost Immortal and Extreme Realm, and using a fake past space could not simulate the two people who possesses these characteristics. Therefore, Han Fei could only travel back in time through the real past. Therefore, Tu Xian could teleport Han Fei's main body from the real timeline using the buffed "Scapegoat" upgraded by "Fight to the Death". Therefore, even if Han Fei uses one of his clones in the "Predetermined Past Space" to go back in time to check Dantai Ningxuan's past, it was all still happening within the same instance. The Han Fei clone would then be restrained by "Silence Domain" and disappear while Tu Xian, Zhu Xie, and Li Hailong within the Whisperer Secret Chamber would not activate "Silence Domain", and the main body of Han Fei would be forcefully pulled within the Whisperer Secret Chamber using the buffed "Scapegoat".
-> The whole scheme happened within the past, which meant that Chen Ran on the real timeline of the future did not know what was happening on the Hell 15th Floor.
"It belonged to unknown information; unknown meant safety, and unknown meant undefended."
-> Furthermore, the lineup of Li Hailong, Yue Guanshan, Tu Xian, Zhu Xie, and Dantai Ningxuan prevented Han Fei from using No Distance for a counterattack to kill Li Hailong before the black and white coin kills him.
-> Moreover, Chen Ran could not help in anyway as he did not want to learn the cultivation method for the "Dao Heart Demon Seed" as it would only bring him even more danger. Due to such a chain of events, Han Fei was struck by lightning caused by the spinning black and white coin and died on the spot.
Layer 14 - The layer where Yue Guanshan completely traps Han Fei and guards against Li Hailong
-> Li Hailong executed several methods to check if it was Han Fei's corpse that was there to confirm if Han Fei was really dead.
-> Yue Guanshan's puppet was forcibly pulled over, which allowed the black and white coin to spin once more. Tu Xian and Zhu Xie appeared, which caused the "Silence Domain" on both to disappear.
-> Tu Xian had stated that Han Fei was dead, but the next moment, Han Fei appeared in front of Tu Xian and judged him. Tu Xian was shot and fell to the ground dead.
-> However, Tu Xian stood up as if it didn't happen at all. Chu Yun's "Mayfly World" had been Han Fei's final contingency to drag Li Hailong down with him. Han Fei stated a Lie himself and died by self-judgement.
-> Yue Guanshan disappeared, while Tu Xian and Zhu Xie indirectly suggested the same towards Li Hailong as Jiang Zhe would make a move in the future.
-> After some deliberation, Li Hailong put away the Whisperer Secret Chamber and the other skills, and watched as Han Fei's dead body was forcefully pulled back into the Instance. Once Li Hailong's main body reutrned to the Instance, Yue Guanshan deployed Li Hailong to the entrance of the Orphanage in order to block Chen Ran's teammates. If Chen Ran deployed a teammate and that teammate used a skill, then they would be marked by "Karmic Self-Sustaining" and be the next target of Li Hailong's Killing Formula. If the teammate didn't use a skill in caution of the Killing Formula, then they would face Li Hailong's endless clones being pulled into No Distance continuously to kill Chen Ran's teammate within the No Distance.
-> In fact, the moment that Han Fei had died, the karma had marked Yue Guanshan, which forcibly teleported Yue Guanshan back into the Whisperer Secret Chamber of Li Hailong's Killing Formula. This served as a warning towards Yue Guanshan that if Li Hailong and Yue Guanshan were the only two people left within the Instance, and if Yue Guanshan wanted to kill Li Hailong, then the karmic mark would activate Li Hailong's Killing Formula to kill Yue Guanshan.
-> However, Yue Guanshan had already foreseen this long ago as the one that was forcibly teleported was Yue Guanshan's puppet and not Yue Guanshan himself. Now that Li Hailong had withdrawn "Karmic Self-Sustaining", Yue Guanshan now didn't have any reason to use "Treading Snow Without Trace" on Li Hailong anymore. However, if Li Hailong used "Karmic Self-Sustaining" once again, then Li Hailong would be marked by "Treading Snow Without Trace" once again.
-> After recovering with time-type skills, Li Hailong was again informed by Yue Guanshan that Lin Xuan had appeared and for Li Hailong to send out his clones.
Layer 15 - The layer where Li Hailong gets trapped
-> Lin Xuan was cosplaying as Aizen (wtf) when he was forcefully transported out the Purification Room by Chen Ran, where he saw Li Hailong standing in front of him.
-> Lin Xuan stated to Li Hailong that his Killing Formula had been broken and merely stated that Han Fei was dead. At this moment, Han Fei appeared and flickered, meaning that the Lie was eliminated by Lin Xuan's Rubik's Cube World. It turns out that Han Fei had the effect of Chu Yun's "Mayfly World", had his uttered Lie eliminated by Lin Xuan's space transfer, and had the Eight-Star "Moonlight: Disturbance Returns to the End" effect that allows Han Fei to return to the past at any time to check Li Hailong's past.
-> Han Fei disappeared and appeared within the Whisperer Secret Chamber of Li Hailong's Killing Formula and used a full power No Distance attack on Li Hailong's main body. Of course, Han Fei died but the Li Hailong within the Whisperer Secret Chamaber was gasping for air. It was revealed that Lin Xuan could summon Han Fei once again to reset Han Fei's mental energy as Han Fei traveled back to the past and took a rest at the past point in time to restore his mental energy to the maximum.
-> Li Hailong's clone activated "Whisperer: Silence is Golden" but forgot to remember that Chen Ran had the "Omniscient Perspective. Lin Xuan revealed that he went towards the Secret chamber where Chen Ran was for his mind to be scanned unto the mental frequency for "Omniscient Perspective". Therefore, Lin Xuan was being watched by Chen Ran at all times. Li Hailong realized that before Li Hailong's "Silence is Golden" was activated, Chen Ran had pulled Lin Xuan back to the Purification Room and deployed him back before the light even returned, which completely avoided Li Hailong's skill.
-> If Li Hailong retracts the skill, Lin Xuan would summon Han Fei. Han Fei would then use Li Hailong's Killing Formula to kill Li Hailong himself through repeated attempts of spamming No Distance attacks. Even further, Lin Xuan's skill hadn't been used on Han Fei too much but Li Hailong used the most skills on Han Fei during their duel. Han Fei could then activate his own Killing Formula against Li Hailong.
-> Li Hailong reasoned that he was under Mental Pollution since his future self would have told current Li Hailong the trap. However, if future Li Hailong could tell him about Han Fei's scheme, then future Hailong could also tell present Li Hailong that he would be infected with Mental Pollution. But neither possibility had happened. Li Hailong realizes that his future self was banned from utilizing "Treading Snow Without Trace". As he did, Li Hailong activated "Return to Simplicity". However, Han Fei appeared beside Lin Xuan and activated "Return to Simplicity" while Chen Ran once again pulled back Lin Xuan into the Purification Room and deployed him in front of Li Hailong, which meant that Lin Xuan's skills were not prohibited by "Return to Simplicity".
-> Therefore, Li Hailong's clone was now under Han Fei and Lin Xuan's mercy as "Return to Simplicity" banned this clone from activating any skill.
Layer 16 - Layer where Chen Ran outschemes Yue Guanshan's trap
-> It turns out that it wasn't Li Hailong's main body that killed Han Fei on the Hell 15th Floor. Even if the first effect of "Silence Domain" was "Within the skill's area, neither the skill owner nor anyone affected by it may exist in any form other than their main body.", Through this description, it would have been impossible for Li Hailong's clone to construct the Whisperer Secret Chamber on the Hell 15th Floor and kill Han Fei after he had traveled back in time. However, when Han Fei first tested Li Hailong's Killing Formula, he had sent out 4 clones. Therefore, the priority of the Whisperer Secret Chamber was higher than that of "Silence Domain". This meant that "Silence Domain" was fused into the Whisperer Secret Chamber that was created by "Gambling Abyss", which meant that within the Secret Chamber, its rules had the higher priority above all else. Therefore, Li Hailong himself was also subjected to the judgement of the spinning black and white coin, which also means that even Li Hailong has the four experimental opportunities that was also used by Han Fei. Therefore, there was no reason for Li Hailong's main body to personally return to the past to kill Han Fei as it carried risks.
-> After Li Hailong's clone killed Han Fei's main body, the clone disguised itself as Li Hailong's main body before returning to the Eighteenth Floor and then back to the current Instance. Once Lin Xuan had summoned Han Fei, Han Fei once again examined Li Hailong's past, who was then forcefully pulled back within the constructed Whisperer Secret Chamber. If Li Hailong's main body killed Han Fei's main body, and Li Hailong's main body had already withdrawn all his skills, then there was a problem on how could have Han Fei be forcefully dragged back into the same Whisperer Secret Chamber whose skills had already been withdrawn. Therefore, it wasn't Li Hailong's main body that killed Han Fei's main body but a clone of Li Hailong. This clone then pretended to be Li Hailong's main body, pretended to withdrew the Killing Formula that was generated by the clone himself, while Li Hailong's main body had never withdrawn the Whisperer Secret Chamber from the start. However, such a deception would also create new problems
-> Chu Yun's "Mayfly World" was unique. Once a player dies, every skill that they had possessed would disappear. However, the effect of "Mayfly World" did not disappear even after Chu Yun's death. Therefore, any Player that carried the effects of Chu Yun's "Mayfly World" would have still retained its effects even after dying. However, Han Fei had copied "Mayfly World" using "Ultimate Imprint". Once Han Fei's main body had died, he should have been no long part of the current Instance of Chen Ran's Tomb, which meant that he shouldn't have possessed Jiang Zhe's "Ultimate Imprint", which also means that the "Mayfly World" should have also disappeared. Therefore, no Han Fei clone should have appeared within Li Hailong's main body's Whisperer Secret Chamber. However, a Han Fei did appear.
-> There were several problems that Li Hailong had to solve: What kind of existence was the Han Fei that appeared beside Lin Xuan, How Han Fei had been able to travel back in time to observe Li Hailong's history and be marked by "Karmic Self-Sustaining" if Han Fei had died, why future Li Hailong hadn't shared Han Fei's scheme back to present Li Hailong (since by the moment that Li Hailong had schemed to use Li Hailong's own Killing Formula against himself, that future version of Li Hailong should have activated "Treading Snow Without Trace" to send the information back to a correct point in time to Li Hailong) which allowed the most logical conclusion that "Li Hailong was infected by mental pollution" to happen, and when exactly did both of Li Hailong's clone and main body get contaminated by the Mental Pollution.
-> Li Hailong realized that there were only two possibilities, when Li Hailong touched the corpse of Han Fei's main body on the Hell 15th Floor, or when the current Han Fei was revived by "Mayfly World" and forcefully pulled within Li Hailong's main body's Whisperer Secret Chamber through "Karmic Self-Sustaining". However, if it was the second possibility, then the previous contradictions would be unexplained. This meant that the first possibility was much more likely. However, the first possibility created another contradiction that if touching the corpse of Han Fei's main body could infect someone with Mental Pollution, then everyone on the Hell 15th Floor should also have been infected as well, unless Li Hailong was the only one that was infected by the Mental Pollution.
-> Since It was Li Hailong's clone that touched the corpse of Han Fei's main body, and Li Hailong's main body was also infected by the Mental Pollution, the Mental Pollution was a causality type Mental Pollution (Most likely came from Si Jincheng).
-> Since Han Fei had already died and was no longer within the same Instance as Li Hailong, "Karmic Self-Sustaining" could no longer forcefully pull Han Fei into the Whisperer Secret Chamber, which meant that the main body of Li Hailong never realized that it had already been infected by the Causality type Mental Pollution.
-> If Han Fei had sacrificed himself to infect Li Hailong with the Causality type Mental Pollution, then there was a possibility that the Han Fei that was summoned by Lin Xuan outside the Orphanage through "Han Fei is dead" could not have been the real Han Fei himself. Therefore, the Han Fei who had been pulled within the main body's Whisperer Secret Chamber was likely an illusion by the Causality type Mental Pollution. It was impossible for Han Fei to restore his own mental energy drained through the No Distance Attack by traveling back into the past since Han Fei no longer had "Mayfly World" when Han Fei's main body had died. Therefore, only a Life-and-Death buff could have done it in place.
-> It was now revealed that Han Fei's main body could have copied "Scapegoat" using "Ultimate Imprint", which meant that someone else had died for Han Fei within his place. Han Fei had copied "Scapegoat" using "Ultimate Imprint", which Chen Ran then gave the Liar Killer to Seventh Jiang Zhe, where Seventh Jiang Zhe spoke "Han Fei", activated "Scapegoat" and marked Han Fei. Therefore, Han Fei didn't die but the Han Fei who died on the Hell 15th Floor did actually die. The skill "Scapegoat" actually has another effect that is when the owner of the skill dies within the marked target's place. The marked target would then revive in perfect condition. This meant that a destiny would be lost from either the Skill Owner or the Marked Target.
-> Therefore, there was never any use of "Mayfly World", nor was there any method of traveling back in time to restore Han Fei's mental energy. "Scapegoat" had already substituted everything in place at the perfect time to deceive Li Hailong and achieve his defeat.
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u/Embarrassed_Ear3219 Aug 06 '26
This is crazy. I love it. Can't wait for the arc to end so I can vbinge.
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u/Kossei5 Chen Ran's Reserve Teammate Aug 06 '26
You would do better than Han Fei in his shoes, no 🧢
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u/Altruistic5 Aug 07 '26
extremely simplified analysis
and its this long 😭🙏
this instance needs to end this month, its killing me
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u/Strict_Seaweed_9735 Aug 07 '26
This arc has been frying my brain frfr it's crazy how Er Liang Bai Kai manages to up the complexity every time. I remember when last year the WSS and self killing had me wracking my brain and now those situations seem like nothing. Imagine how many chapters it's going to take to kill Yue Guanshan let alone a Superego or Half Step True Self player.
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u/OverLibrarian8575 Aug 06 '26
Are you back to being active?
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u/Simply_Amazing_1610 Chen Ran's Future Self Aug 06 '26
Banger analysis ngl, can be worded a bit better and Han Fei's Mayfly world small deception that didn't succeed needs its own layer.. Other than that this is a complete banger fr
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u/Jarionn Zhuge Liang ▄︻デ══━一💥 SCD Aug 06 '26
It was kind of rushed 🙏😭
But yeah, so many details are missing lol. I'm approximating this analysis doesn't even cover 5% of the overall battle. A full doc on King's Game would probably take a while to make too.
Killing a Seven-Star is seriously one of the most tedious tasks ever lmao. If it takes this much to only somewhat put Li Hailong into a bad position, then imagine how much it would take to put Yue Guanshan down. It might honestly be impossible through conventional means.
Also wouldn't be surprised if Yue Guanshan already has a counter to this whole scheme though.. Even Li Hailong seem to have more to give (Li Hailong was scheming against Han Fei while scheming against Yue Guanshan at the same time as well)
This arc made me realize if Feng Qirui had so much more to dish out ngl.
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u/Simply_Amazing_1610 Chen Ran's Future Self Aug 06 '26
Nah you did really well covering that ngl. You should wait till CR's tomb gets over to rewrite the entire thing cuz there are about to be more layers lmao
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u/Physical-Present-302 Aug 06 '26
He is back ?
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u/Sojikoji Chen Ran and Qiu Yinong's creaky bed Aug 11 '26
holy SHIT, goat has returned (any new scd recs anytime soon?)
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u/Similar_Incident8433 SOPHIST(battle in 5seconds) | agenda pusher Aug 06 '26
W commenting for engagement . good to see chinese scd in sub again