Seeing this, Mo Fan was shocked, a trace of anxiety appearing on his face for the first time. He hadn’t expected the White Tiger Holy King, who had just been overwhelmingly dominant, to be pushed to such a state by a mere chess game.
“Senior…!”
Just as Mo Fan was filled with urgency, the White Tiger Holy King suddenly burst into hearty laughter.
Hmm?
Mo Fan’s heart stirred at the sight.
Could there be a turning point?
The White Tiger Holy King’s laughter caused Kong Shan, sitting opposite, to frown, his face darkening with a cold, grim expression. “What are you laughing at?”
“White Little Su, from the moment this chess game began, you and I became the souls of this board. Only the victor can walk out alive, determining the other’s life or death.
Now the game’s outcome is decided. Your life hangs by a thread in my hands. Do you really seek death?”
“I laugh at your overconfidence!”
“As for seeking death? Sorry, you know nothing of my power!”
“And who are you, old man, to insult her so casually?”
The White Tiger Holy King’s smile gradually faded, replaced by a chilling coldness. He then said calmly, “I’ve played along with you long enough. This little chessboard can’t trap me. It’s time to end this!”
“Go, kill all the pieces. Destroy this board!”
The White Tiger Holy King spoke lightly, and one figure after another flew out from his body, quickly merging into the chessboard.
Watching these sword-wielding cultivators, Mo Fan’s eyes widened in shock.
These figures were all too familiar. They were unmistakably the disciples of the Bixiao Sect!
But how was this possible… Hadn’t the White Tiger Holy King already destroyed the Bixiao Sect?
So what were these figures before his eyes?
Thousands of sword cultivators struck, wiping out the cultivators trapping the demon clan in an instant. The golden giant pythons fared even worse, eradicated in no time.
Thus, the demon clan’s territory on the board gradually recovered, then expanded toward the human territory at a ferocious pace, sweeping everything away!
“Ghosts… No… I should have realised this sooner!”
“Monster, you dare cheat?!”
Seeing the chess game he had struggled to win collapse in an instant, even Kong Shan, the ancestor of the Great River Academy, could not sit still. His face turned deathly pale.
“Cheat?”
“Using your righteous aura to interfere with the game isn’t cheating?”
The White Tiger Holy King raised an eyebrow, then grinned. “Old man, it’s time for you to die!”
With that, he pointed toward the last stronghold of the human territory on the board!
In the chessboard world, the ghosts moved together, launching a final massacre!
“No!!”
“I haven’t lost yet!”
“Monster, even if I must stake the entire future of the Great River Academy and the fate of the Southern Border’s human race, I will slay you on this board!!”
Kong Shan’s hair bristled with rage, his righteous aura surging. In an instant, it poured into the chessboard. He stood, took a step, and entered the chessboard himself.
“Roar!!”
The next moment, golden clouds churned in the chessboard world. A golden divine dragon soared from the sea of clouds, swallowing countless ghosts with a single gulp!
Wherever the golden dragon passed, no demon clan member could stand against it. Even the stronger ghosts fled in fear,不敢与之斗法。
“Old man, you really don’t shed tears until you see the coffin!”
“No cultivator in the Southern Border has reached the God Transformation stage in a thousand years. Your so-called human fate is nothing special. You think you can fight me with that?”
“If so, your life is mine!”
The White Tiger Holy King snorted coldly, then stood and stepped into the chessboard world.
Roar!!
A colossal white tiger appeared, its roar shattering mountains and rivers, drawing the golden dragon’s attention.
Soon, the dragon and tiger clashed fiercely in the chessboard world.
In the end, the entire chessboard collapsed, turning into a pitch-black void, like a black hole or a bottomless abyss, chilling Mo Fan’s heart. Unable to see within, he could only wait quietly.
Before long, a figure flew out from the dark abyss, appearing before Mo Fan.
“Senior!”
Mo Fan’s face lit up with joy.
It was the White Tiger Holy King!
“Hmm, let’s go. Old man Kong Shan is dead. The Great River Academy has no reason to exist anymore.”
“From now on, I want the Ten Thousand Great Mountains to be a forbidden land for human powerhouses!”
The White Tiger Holy King spoke calmly, his words brimming with dominance.
Mo Fan no longer dared to question him. He realised that though this senior often seemed to boast, his words were never empty…
At the Great River Academy, on the plaza at the back mountain.
All the academy’s teachers were pale-faced, for they had just discovered the dean’s life tablet had shattered!
They knew exactly what this meant.
The dean had fallen!
The sky of the Great River Academy had collapsed!!
“Dean…”
“We respectfully send off the dean!!”
When all the disciples realised Kong Shan was dead, they wept in unison.
“Disciples, listen. The Great River Academy is about to face a calamity of destruction. Before this, the dean entrusted me with a method to summon immortals, inviting our predecessors from the upper realm to protect the academy!
But this requires all disciples to unite in will, guiding the way, to have a sliver of hope in connecting to the upper realm!
During this time, we may face slaughter from that monstrous titan. So, are you afraid of death?!”
In the Great River Academy, a middle-aged Golden Core cultivator looked sadly at the cultivators in the plaza.
“If any fear death, you may leave the Great River Academy now and descend the mountain!
But from then on, you can no longer claim to be a disciple of the Great River Academy!
The Great River Academy has no such cowardly disciples!”
The middle-aged cultivator’s words ignited the passion in the scholars’ hearts, and they roared in the uproar.
“We are not afraid!”
“We fight for the righteousness of the human race, for the millions of innocent people in the Southern Border. Even if we die, it’s a worthy death!”
“That evil demon killed the dean and now seeks to destroy our entire Great River Academy. We will not agree!!”
“If the Great River Academy falls, countless people in the Southern Border will die under the demon clan’s jaws. As cultivators of a major Southern Border sect, how can we stand by?!”
“Even if it costs our lives, we will summon our predecessors from the upper realm, slay that evil demon, and deter the demon clan! Restore the Southern Border’s clear skies!!”
The crowd was inflamed with passion.
The middle-aged cultivator nodded secretly, then made arrangements, having all disciples form a massive circle. He flew to the centre, using his blood as ink and the ground as a talisman, drawing a huge rune with a magic brush.
After completing this, he waved his hand, taking out half a stick of incense. Infusing it with spiritual power, the incense began to burn slowly, its faint smoke drifting upward.
Boom!
Perhaps triggered by the incense smoke, the blood-red rune on the ground erupted in a towering bloodlight.
Buzz—
The blood-red light burst forth like a ripple, spreading outward.
Where the ripple passed, the Great River Academy disciples exploded, their bodies bursting apart!
Seeing this, a flicker of pain crossed the middle-aged cultivator’s eyes, but he did not stop. Gritting his teeth, he continued casting spells, shouting to the heavens, “The Great River Academy faces destruction. I, Wu, have no choice but to light the immortal-seeking incense, praying for a glimmer of hope from heaven and earth, guiding our predecessors to descend, slay the evil demon, and protect our righteous legacy!!”
