Chapter 1261: The Final Victor of the Heavenly Dao Chess Game

The two sides went back and forth, and in the blink of an eye each had played thirty-two moves.

At this moment, the entire Jiuling Domain had already been covered by white stones; the Badaxian Sect had completed the unification of the Jiuling Domain and obtained the Po Fa Xian Jin production node, and the light on the chess pieces grew even brighter by a notch.

This was because the dao-integrating Divine Monarch's dharma treasure had been refined with the infusion of much Po Fa Xian Jin, causing its strength to increase.

And Jiao Jiao Mingyu was likewise completely occupied by the Immortal Gate.

More than four hundred Minor Thousand Worlds, including one Zhong Senior Qian Shi Gao Jie, all belonged to the Immortal Gate.

The Immortal Gate's mother star had been destroyed; after going through a period of internal governmental chaos, it enacted laws, designated the Jiuling Realm as the mother star, and the citizens began a great reproduction. In just a short hundred years the population increased by more than a hundredfold, the number of citizens reaching three hundred billion, and the number of Foundation Establishment cultivators reaching over one billion.

Therefore, another ten black stones of the Immortal Gate appeared out of thin air.

This rate of chess-piece generation seemed to still be continuing; as long as time kept passing and the number of Jin Dan and Nascent Soul cultivators among the citizens kept increasing, the Immortal Gate's strength would grow, and the black stones would continue to multiply.

"Send out the troops."

The great powers of the Tianji Xiangong could no longer sit by and watch.

Under his command, the many white stones that had already been woven into a net were taken out, and under the flickering light of Po Fa Xian Jin, they began to dispatch troops into Jiao Jiao Mingyu — and not along the domain passageways, but transmitted from another location, catching the Immortal Gate off guard.

The white stones of the Badaxian Sect fell one by one.

The Minor Thousand Worlds in Jiao Jiao Mingyu that originally belonged to the Immortal Gate were continuously occupied by white stones, no longer endlessly providing resources to the Jiuling Realm, and the growth rate of the black stones rapidly slowed.

It was estimated that if this situation were allowed to continue, the growth rate of the black stones would come to a complete halt.

Moreover, if all the Minor Thousand Worlds were lost and the more than six hundred Minor Thousand Worlds across the two domains were entirely occupied by the Badaxian Sect, the enormous number of cultivators on the mother star would be forced to decrease, and the number of black stones would decrease as a result.

Although the Jiuling Realm was a Zhong Senior Qian Shi Gao Jie, it still could not support several hundred billion cultivators of different ranks.

"What should we do?"

Yuan asked.

This was a consultation with the collective will of the Immortal Gate fleet; major decisions had always been made this way.

"Hold fast in the Jiuling Realm."

"The Jiuling Realm has the Xing Chen Ding Gao Jie formation, the central array-spirit computer's dao-integrating-level branch, and a dao-integrating-level sect-protecting grand formation. The home-field advantage is enormous; we should not give it up lightly."

"If we cannot support so many cultivators, then gradually reduce the number, raise the standards for cultivating immortality, and plan an immortality-cultivation policy."

Master Canghai Canghai Tianjun, Senior Wanji True Lord, and others said.

Outside the Jiuling Realm were all subsidiary forces; when the critical moment came, there was nothing that could not be sacrificed.

The Immortal Gate reached a consensus.

The black stones concentrated toward the Jiuling Realm and did not disperse their forces.

"Still holed up?"

The great powers of the Tianji Xiangong and others frowned.

However, they did not attack rashly; instead, they chose to construct defensive formations outside the Jiuling Realm, and gathered the power of six hundred Minor Thousand Worlds to build a "Minor Spirit Realm" beside the Jiuling Realm.

This was a plan the Jiudaxian Sect had back when the Jiuling Domain still existed and the Great Sun Sword Pavilion was still around; it was intended to artificially create a Secret Realm capable of allowing dao-integrating cultivators to be born and to cultivate.

At this moment, with eight dao-integrating cultivators going all out and gathering the power of more than six hundred Minor Thousand Worlds, this plan no longer posed any difficulty.

In just three hundred years — three hundred years within the Heavenly Dao chessboard — this dao-integrating Secret Realm named the Minor Spirit Realm had already taken shape.

The great powers of Taiyi Qingmu Xianzong dwelt within it, sitting cross-legged in cultivation, inhaling the spiritual energy of heaven and earth and the essence of sun and moon, their cultivation beginning to slowly increase; it was not absolutely necessary to have a Zhong Senior Qian Shi Gao Jie.

The Immortal Gate still held fast within the Jiuling Realm.

At this time, the number of citizens in the Immortal Gate fleet had dropped to around five hundred million. Over the three hundred years that had passed, a large number of Foundation Establishment cultivators had died, and without a sufficient number of Foundation Establishment cultivators being born, resources were insufficient.

However, the number of Jin Dan and Nascent Soul cultivators had increased considerably.

Therefore, the overall strength of the entire Immortal Gate fleet had not declined by much; it still firmly held the mother star and had no intention of sending out troops.

The great powers of the Badaxian Sect paid this no heed, continuing to cultivate, nurture their subordinates, refine dharma treasures, and drill their dao-soldier battle formations, in no hurry to attack.

Leisurely, three thousand years passed within the Heavenly Dao chessboard.

At this point, the number of cultivators in the Immortal Gate fleet had dropped to around three hundred million, among which the number of Jin Dan and Nascent Soul cultivators had returned to normal levels — because the Jin Dan and Nascent Soul cultivators had all died, their lifespans having run out, and the Chen Mian Mi Jing could not keep so many cultivators in slumber for so long; the spiritual energy expenditure was too great and unrealistic.

The only change was that many Soul Transformation cultivators had advanced to the mid and late stages of Soul Transformation, and Master Canghai Canghai Tianjun had advanced to the peak of Soul Transformation.

Yuan, Zhenjun Shenji, and the other eight Void Refinement cultivators had advanced to the mid stage of Void Refinement, and in addition more than a dozen Soul Transformation cultivators had advanced to Void Refinement.

There was one thing that caused the great powers of the Badaxian Sect to frown.

Master Canghai Canghai Tianjun was about to advance to Void Refinement, which might tip the scales of the situation somewhat.

"Kill our way in!"

The great powers of the Brother Xuanwu Heavenly Palace said coldly, no longer willing to endure.

Eight auras that had already completely stabilized appeared within the Heavenly Dao chessboard, and white stones fell toward the Jiuling Realm one after another.

The number of white stones was actually still increasing — they were cultivators of the Badaxian Sect such as many Soul Transformation Canghai Tianjun and Nascent Soul cultivators, as well as cultivators of the myriad races, numbering in the billions!

They had each had their divine souls controlled and been refined into dao soldiers through demonic methods, forming an enormous dao-integrating dao-soldier battle formation — a battle formation faintly emanating sword qi and sword intent.

A battle formation imbued with destruction, scorching heat, and the aura of the Great Sun!

The eight great

powers merged as one with this sword-path battle formation formed of billions of myriad-race cultivators and sect disciples, and their strength instantly surged enormously once more, bearing down upon the Immortal Gate's battle formation with the overwhelming might of Taishan.

White stones and black stones fell one after another upon the Jiuling Realm.

A fierce, bloody slaughter began in the starry sky.

The Badaxian Sect took the offensive against the Immortal Gate's lair, which it had been developing for several thousand years, heedless of casualties, heedless of sacrifice, launching a fierce assault; every second, millions of myriad-race cultivators died, drained of their divine souls and essence blood by the grand formation.

The Immortal Gate fell into a disadvantage.

The inheritances of the Badaxian Sect were far too complete and terrifying; their strength grew extremely quickly with the passage of time.

In just several dozen moves, the mother star's sect-protecting formation had already been breached.

Boom!

At this moment, Master Canghai Canghai Tianjun underwent Tribulation Crossing, and within an extremely short time had already succeeded in advancing; the might of the Immortal Gate's battle formation therefore rose by a large margin, and it was able to lock onto the eight great powers more precisely, achieving greater results with less force.

The situation between the two sides once again fell into a stalemate.

Every moment, the lives of the Xianzong's billions of Dao soldiers were burning away, and as time went on, the might of this critically important military formation was declining.

The situation began to turn against Badaxian Sect.

"Fall!"

The Tianji Xiangong great expert's face was cold.

"Kill!"

The Brother Xuanwu Heavenly Palace great expert, the Wuxing Wuxing Tianzong great expert, the Ten Thousand Beasts Immortal Sect great expert, and others all roared.

They simultaneously burned the essence blood, divine soul, and magic power of their mortal-world bodies. After all, these were not their true bodies, so they burned them decisively, without too much hesitation.

The white pieces of Badaxian Sect surged in strength several times over.

They broke through the mother star's formation step by step, broke through the immortal gate's hundreds of millions of warships' military formation, and broke through the location of the central formation spirit computer.

Facing enemies they had wrestled with for ten thousand years, everyone had fought themselves into a frenzy!

Boom!

Rumble rumble rumble!

And at this moment, as the central formation spirit computer exploded, several hundred seventh-tier forbidden nuclear weapons and over a hundred thousand sixth-tier forbidden nuclear weapons, rooted throughout the entire world, rose into the air.

In that instant, countless blazing suns soared into the sky; the light of shattering law and destroying law illuminated the entire world, reflected on the eight great experts' terrified faces, freezing everything in place.

Using the world as a cage, luring them into the trap, with no escape!

"Such resolve…"

The Tianji Xiangong great expert sighed.

No one knew how long passed before the brilliant light of the Heavenly Dao chess game began to fade.

In the thoroughly shattered Zhong Senior Qian Shi Gao Jie barrier, across the scarred Zhong Senior Qian Shi Gao Jie land where not a wisp of life could be seen, only three figures remained: the Tianji Xiangong great expert, the Qingmuxian Sect great expert, and the Wuxingtian Sect great expert.

No, very soon only the Tianji Xiangong great expert remained.

Because a divination stick appeared inside the Qingmuxian Sect great expert's skull, extinguishing all her vitality, and a hemp rope appeared around the Wuxingtian Sect great expert's neck, strangling his neck until it broke.

The surrounding great experts couldn't help but glance at the Tianji great expert.

The Way of Tianji had always seemed so treacherous; this could not be considered entirely a slander by the Dongji Demon Sect.

The Tianji Xiangong great expert became the final survivor, heavily wounded and on the verge of death.

No, it was not only him.

Tens of millions of kilometers away from the shattered Zhong Senior Qian Shi Gao Jie, the Great Sun Sword Lord at this moment cast a cold glance at this place and flew toward the direction of the Dongji Demon Sect's Nine Spirit Domain mother star.

There, a City of the Dharma-Ending Age was appearing.

There, the Great Sun Sword Lord would obtain a seed army of citizens.

In at most a thousand years, he would expand this army to over hundreds of millions in number, even going so far as to absorb large numbers of cultivators from the myriad races, so that the military formation would barely possess the strength of the Dao Merging realm.

The situation between the two domains over the next nearly ten thousand years would unfold between the Great Sun Sword Lord and the heavily wounded Tianji Xiangong great expert.

The Heavenly Dao chess game thus came to an end.

"……"

Yuan and the eight Weixian Sect great experts exchanged glances, all looking at each other in silence.