Chapter 1260: Karma Chessboard Reveals the Future

In the cosmic starry sky, a Heavenly Dao chessboard spanning several thousand kilometers appeared, countless rule-runes and Heavenly Dao law-nets contained within, boundless immortal Dao mysteries hidden here.

"Pieces, come!"

Yuan and the great powers of Tianji Xiangong each tapped the void, and pieces one by one emerged.

Before the great powers of Tianji Xiangong, white pieces appeared one by one.

Though white in color, each contained the seven hues of red, orange, yellow, green, blue, indigo, and violet; the seven colors blended to form white, one hundred and eighty-one pieces in total.

Jiang Ding focused his spirit and held his breath, looking toward these white pieces.

Within them were contained eight kinds of rules, eight kinds of Heavenly Dao law-nets, condensed into a single tiny piece!

These eight kinds of rules were not piled together at random; between them existed precise and intricate formations, whose formation characteristics bore extreme similarity to those in the realm war when the Badaxian Sect jointly attacked the Immortal Gate last time, yet even stronger — the rules formed Heavenly Dao law-nets, condensed into a single point.

"Such strength…"

Jiang Ding, borrowing the Sun Star formation, looked toward the white pieces, his expression stirred.

Now, everyone was in a projected state!

This meant that the magic power and divine sense everyone could employ were extremely limited; the projections of the Badaxian Sect great powers did not contain too much power, only the level of peak Nascent Soul.

Yet, when the eight Dao-Unification projections joined hands to form a formation, each piece actually displayed the strength of the Void Refinement rank.

This was equivalent to one part of power being displayed by them as at least a hundredfold!

Merely in the application of rules and the Heavenly Dao's law-nets, they had reached such a terrifying degree — the magic power remained the original quantity, yet the destruction caused was terrifyingly amplified.

"Pieces, come."

Yuan likewise waved his sleeve.

A sheet of azure light flew from his sleeve, transforming into pitch-black pieces one by one.

These pieces were composed of countless Primordial Magnet Heavenly Dao law-nets and Fate Rule Heavenly Dao law-nets, containing within them the common will of three hundred million citizens — the Dao of myriad living beings gathered in one direction, countless intents mingled, and finally became profound.

The black pieces numbered one hundred and eighty, one fewer than the Badaxian Sect.

Yuan, in fact, acknowledged the view that the Badaxian Sect combined possessed greater overall strength than the Immortal Gate.

However, the great powers of Tianji Xiangong were not satisfied with this symbolic concession.

"Yuan, you should not possess one hundred and eighty black pieces."

"This is not reasonable."

The great powers of Tianji Xiangong frowned: "We are eight houses, yet your Dongji Demon Sect is only one house — it should be twenty-three pieces; even if the military formation is somewhat stronger, at most fifty pieces is the limit."

He waved his hand, generating a mass of fog that shrouded one hundred and thirty of the Immortal Gate's one hundred and eighty black pieces, vanishing them from sight.

Boom!

The sound of a volley of ship cannons.

This fog, which had already been concealed, was forcibly blasted apart; many of the covered black pieces were exposed once more, though some black pieces were still forcibly erased.

Now, there were only one hundred and ten black pieces, a full seventy fewer.

"This, then, can also be considered acceptable."

Yuan was silent, not continuing the attack.

At the same time, an invisible fluctuation, resembling a great Karma art, the aura of a Heavenly Dao covenant enveloped the surroundings and entered the minds of all surrounding cultivators.

'Karma art, Covenant art…'

A thought arose in Jiang Ding's heart.

The current state was very special — both sides each employed a certain art, and finally formed a great Karma art covering the realm; under this state, it was difficult to lie.

Unless one forcibly broke this great Karma art.

This was not difficult.

The only consequence was that this chessboard would also be torn apart; both sides would no longer have any elegant mood, and would decide life and death through blood and war, determining who was most qualified to live in the realm.

This was precisely the reason Yuan conceded, allowing the Immortal Gate's black pieces to drop from one hundred and eighty to one hundred and ten.

Clearly, in Yuan's heart, the Immortal Gate's hard strength could completely be compared to five Immortal Sects.

"One hundred and ten black pieces…"

The eight great powers of Tianji Xiangong exchanged glances, slowly nodded, and did not object.

"Senior Tianji, your pieces should also not be one hundred and eighty-one."

Yuan began to act.

His finger pointed toward the middle of the many white pieces; accompanied by the rumbling roar of billions of ship cannons firing in unison, fifty white pieces were blasted apart by destructive light, collapsing into streaks of spiritual light and vanishing completely.

"How dare you!"

The surrounding great powers were greatly enraged.

"You cannot exert your theoretical strength."

Yuan said indifferently: "The Badaxian Sect internally check and constrain each other, guard against each other, always must reserve strength to prevent others from sneak-attacking themselves — you cannot go all out."

"Reducing only fifty white pieces is already out of consideration for your being beings of the mortal world."

"Otherwise, the Immortal Gate fleet would have long since sallied forth."

"I refuse to believe that after the Immortal Gate fights desperately to slay one person, whether the remaining people will fight desperately or flee in rout, or whether they will use their certain death as the price to cover others' victory?"

Yuan looked toward the eight great powers of the Immortal Sects.

"What do the various seniors think?"

The eight were all silent.

Hum!

Hum hum!

The Heavenly Dao chessboard, having now gained everyone's acknowledgment, blazed with brilliant light, began to change and transform — stars one by one, Minor Thousand Worlds one by one appeared, cosmic gale currents, Netherwind storms, Sun Stars and so on.

All rose and set as usual, just like the surrounding starry sky.

This is a star chart, a three-dimensional star chart encompassing the Nine Spirit Domain and the Jiao Jiao Mingyu.

Snap!

The great power of Brother Brother Xuanwu's Heavenly Palace played the opening move; the Taiyi Qingmu Xianzong was the attacking side, and indeed had the right to the first move.

A wisp of Jin Chong Guang appeared on a white piece, shooting out from beyond the chessboard world and landing on a point at the northeast corner of the board.

"Quite a nerve!"

Yuan's expression shifted slightly, killing intent blossoming forth.

This point was within the Nine Spirit Domain, near the Immortal Gate's mother star.

A Taiyi Qingmu Xianzong Combined-Dao Divine Lord indeed had the ability to infiltrate the Nine Spirit Domain, and indeed it was possible to slaughter the several hundred billion citizens of the entire mother star in an extremely short time. Li Hai Zhen had no ability to resist, even though he controlled the Immortal Gate mother star's grand formation.

Fleeing was possible, though; the Mofa City could carry some of the citizens to escape.

"The mother star has fallen at least twice."

"Once to the Blood God Sect under your Brother Brother Xuanwu's Heavenly Palace, and once to the Great Sun Sword Pavilion."

Yuan said calmly.

He did not place a piece beside the mother star to reinforce it, but instead dropped the first black piece onto the Nine Spirit World of the Zhong Senior Qian Shi Gao Jie.

This black piece happened to land right on the mountain gate of Brother Brother Xuanwu's Heavenly Palace.

Furthermore, the geographical advantage of the Zhong Senior Qian Shi Gao Jie, because of the existence of this black piece, grew somewhat greater; this was an extremely important strategic stronghold.

Both sides were silent, piece after piece falling.

Soon, the location of the Immortal Gate's mother star was completely covered by eighteen white pieces, every place under their control, and all living beings within it perished without exception.

Yet the great power of Brother Brother Xuanwu's Heavenly Palace did not even spare a glance at his own sect's mountain gate in the Nine Spirit World.

Snap!

Yuan's gaze was cold.

He likewise dropped a black piece, crushing the mountain gate of Brother Brother Xuanwu's Heavenly Palace along with the remaining mountain gates of the Qidaxian Sect; the several billion elite disciples of the Taiyi Qingmu Xianzong within were reduced to clumps of blood mist, not a single person surviving.

The eyelids of the great powers of the Wuxingtian Sect and the Qingmuxian Sect twitched slightly.