The strategy involves incorporating oneself into the game, concealing Long-Ba within the Mountain of Mind and Heart, and then going alone to meet the Soul-Devouring Sovereign... Once they meet, releasing Long-Ba.
In the face of life or death, the Soul-Devouring Sovereign will undoubtedly make a decision.
However, if the plan is executed, it will involve exposing the secret of one's Grotto Heaven Treasure, and it will definitely lead to a life-and-death escape afterward.
Moreover, it will be the kind involving running away together with Long-Ba.
But compared to this plan, a slightly safer option is having Long-Ba take Ji Yuan along to negotiate... one involving the Fountain of Eternal Youth and the other, the "Yin Transformation and Spirit Absorption Book."
Eith option is bound to entice the Soul-Devouring Sovereign.
