Chapter 333: Chessboard War

"Heavenly Lord, there must be a misunderstanding!"

Guang Jin forced himself to speak to Mu Yi, and although his explanation was feeble, he could not admit that they had come to cause trouble.

"We, the disciples of the Buddhist Sect, have come to lend the Heavenly Lord a helping hand, and we absolutely have no intention of breaking the Hundred Schools alliance!"

"Is that so?"

Mu Yi extended his hand, and a lively sable mouse crawled out and perched on his shoulder, staring at Guang Jin without saying anything, yet seeming to say everything.

Guang Jin realized he was truly in trouble; covert sabotage within the Hundred Schools was never considered a crime, but his mistake was being caught red‑handed by Mu Yi.

Clenching his teeth, Guang Jin forced himself to say, "The Buddha said: lay down the butcher's knife and become a Buddha on the spot; if the Heavenly Lord has any instruction, we will certainly give our utmost assistance!"

Mu Yi looked at Guang Jin with suspicion; from start to finish the other seemed to have only one goal—to intervene in this war, even if it meant being cannon fodder.

Although he did not know what that meant, whatever the opponent intended to do would be completely destroyed.

"I have only one request!" Mu Yi extended a single finger and said to Guang Jin.

"Please, Heavenly Lord, make it clear!"

Guang Jin forced himself to rally his spirit, forced a thin smile, and asked.

"Leave this world! Otherwise we'll meet in the Heavenly Court!" Mu Yi deliberately displayed the aura of his fifth‑rank divine position.

Guang Jin's complexion grew even paler; Mu Yi could directly lodge a complaint in the Heavenly Court, and since they were at fault first, many immortal deities would likely pile on them.

Although the Sacred Mountain had already merged into Jiuzhou, the ruthless methods used to expand the Buddhist Sect angered many immortals, and if given a chance to step on it, most would not hold back.

The loss then would not be something that relics or Arhat sutras could compensate for.

"Heavenly Lord commands, how could we disobey! We will leave at once!"

Guang Jin, also a bachelor, simply surrendered.

His heart ached to the point of breathlessness, yet he still obeyed Mu Yi's order directly; that was a kind of unwritten rule.

After all, the Hundred Schools have an alliance witnessed by the Heavenly Court; no one wants to be the first to overturn the table, lest everyone ends up with a huge mess, and the Heavenly Court's reckoning is unpredictable.

It's better for everyone to remain courteous; otherwise, it benefits no one.

Watching the utterly bachelorish Buddhist Sect members depart, Mu Yi couldn't help but pat the sable mouse in his hand.

Honestly, he only wanted to bluff Guang Jin; if he truly had evidence, he would have gone to Wei Qing to report it, not come here to confront Guang Jin.

He examined the mouse's soul and found no trace of Buddhist Sect information.

Only his divine rank and his grasp of the true meaning of reincarnation were enough to intimidate, and Guang Jin's own guilt left him without the courage to verify, so he left in haste.

……

In the void, the Bodhisattva of the Buddhist Sect, radiating endless Buddha light, frowned.

"Lord Wei, why endure this? With the Buddhist Sect's aid, conquering this realm takes but a moment; why make these juniors struggle so?"

【9】 (Note: line number corrected) "Lord Wei, why endure this? With the Buddhist Sect's aid, conquering this realm takes but a moment; why make these juniors struggle so?"

Meanwhile, Wei Qing, who was sitting directly opposite the bodhisattva, laughed.

Opposite the Bodhisattva, Wei Qing smiled.

"Bodhisattva, you should just return to where you came from!"

"What the Military Strategist desires will naturally be seized by our own hands; praying to gods does not suit us!"

"Lord Wei, your words are mistaken!" The Bodhisattva of the Buddhist Sect began to continue persuading, but his expression suddenly changed.

A sword light fell from beyond the nine heavens, Wei Qing's smile on his face grew even broader; he is a reasonable person, but some people are not reasonable.

A sword light fell from beyond the Nine Heavens, and Wei Qing's smile grew wider; he is a man of reason, but some are not.

With the sword light's arrival, the Bodhisattva of the Buddhist Sect faintly heard the clamor of hundreds of thousands fighting—metal clashing, helpless cries before death, and frantic curses after injury.

Along with the sound came dense war‑aura and blood‑killing aura, and the void instantly filled with a solemn killing atmosphere.

Sensing danger, the Bodhisattva instantly manifested numerous faces—some compassionate, some wrathful—while extending multiple arms to grasp various dharma seals, using Buddha light to block the sword light.

The sword light and Buddha light collided in the void, causing the void to tremble eternally, with countless ripples criss‑crossing.

A huge Cloud Energy dharma manifestation emerged from the void, and at its center was a fortress similar to a military camp.

A massive Cloud Energy formation burst from the void, and at its center stood a fortress resembling a military camp.

The huge Cloud Energy dharma manifestation waved the long sword in its hand and slashed down at the bodhisattva; the bodhisattva glared angrily, and on its multiple arms appeared Buddhist prayer beads, vajra, golden wheel, etc., Buddhist Sect dharma treasures, which all together hurled toward the Cloud Energy dharma manifestation.

The massive Cloud Energy formation swung its long sword at the Bodhisattva, who glared angrily; multiple arms displayed Buddhist relics—prayer beads, vajra, golden wheel—and hurled them at the formation.

The sword light violently split down, causing even the void to tremble uneasily.

The sword light rained down violently, making the void tremble uneasily.

The explosive impact shattered countless surrounding world‑bubbles, turning them into chaotic ether that surged outward.

The Bodhisattva's avatar, being the target, suffered the majority of the damage.

Originally a balanced confrontation, at the moment Wei Qing smiled and pressed the Cloud Energy onto the Bodhisattva's avatar, the equilibrium was shattered, and the Bodhisattva was utterly defeated.

The Buddhist relics on the avatar's many arms shattered the instant they met the sword light; the arms were all cut off, and even the avatar's chest was sliced by the sword light, the relics of its inner flesh—the sarira—being smashed into fragments.

A brilliant golden lotus platform instantly appeared at the avatar's feet, and in a flash faster than the eye could catch, it shot out into the void and vanished in an instant.

The void quickly returned to calm, leaving only two silhouettes, one large and one small.

"Damn, it got away!" a figure darted out from the Cloud Energy formation, appearing beside Wei Qing, its face full of resentment.

"Although we don't know which Buddhist Sect Bodhisattva's avatar this is, it must be a great Bodhisattva; dealing with a Bodhisattva of that stature is no easy task!" Wei Qing shook his head.

He didn't know whose avatar it was, but it was certainly a Bodhisattva with a recognizable form; repelling it counted as a masterstroke of his overt fortification and covert infiltration.

If Huo Qubing hadn't arrived in time after receiving the news, he might not have been able to chase the opponent away.

Huo Qubing was somewhat dissatisfied with the battle results, planning to pursue the fleeing bodhisattva incarnation; he had long taken a dislike to these buddhas.

Huo Qubing was somewhat dissatisfied with the result and intended to pursue the fleeing Bodhisattva avatar; he had long been displeased with these Buddhas.

"Qubing, stay calm, the formation is about to complete, I need your strength!" Wei Qing halted Huo Qubing.

He summoned Huo Qubing not to deal with the Buddhist Sect Bodhisattva—that was incidental—but to quickly seize this Plane world.

"Are you ready?"

【61】 Huo Qubing was startled; he hadn't expected Wei Qing to act so quickly, given that less than a year had passed since the Military Strategist Hall's distribution mission.

In a war where the unit is the world, a year's time isn't even enough for a fraction.

"There's no time left, so I called you here!"

Wei Qing shook his head; preparations had just begun, but the Buddhist Sect could intervene at any moment, and they had no time left.

Mu Yi drove off Guang Jin, but the Buddhist Sect disciples who intervened were far more than just that one wave of Guang Jin.

Besides those who failed and retreated like Guang Jin, there were also Buddhist Sect disciples who successfully intervened.

However, without the support of the Bodhisattva incarnation, these Buddhist Sect disciples not only couldn't stir up any major waves, but would instead become a helping force.

Wei Qing's gaze fell upon the world where Mu Yi and the others were waging war.

The vast world at this moment seemed to become a chessboard, with kingdoms, city-states, armies, heroes… and various other things turned into pieces.

At this moment, on this chessboard appeared the Buddhist Sect's pieces, also pieces representing Huo Qubing, and gazing at the opposite end where the Beastman God System's deity pieces stood, Wei Qing's smile grew deeper.

"Let's begin!"

Like some sort of incantation, as soon as Wei Qing spoke, a strange ripple swept through the Beastman God System's world, felt by deities and soldiers alike.

Mu Yi stared blankly at the heavens; after the ripple swept over him, he vaguely realized something—what exactly the concept of the 'Military God' was.

And at this moment, Mu Yi, touched by the ripple, seemed to understand a little.

Behind the name 'Military God,' he saw war after war, piles of corpses and seas of blood, witnessed slaughter, brutality, death, destruction…

These things gathered together constitute the 'Military God,' a deity who masters the concept of military calamity.

They fulfill their divine office, wield their divine office, and the manifested behavior is war.

War is like a grand ceremony, the ceremony that opens everything; for the Military Strategist, it is the best training ground.

War will open everything, reap everything, and the victor will take all.

War broke out without warning, and under Wei Qing's preparations, the war that engulfed the world was ignited.

Humans, elves… all races began a counteroffensive against the beastmen, and several vague divine silhouettes descended upon this world.

Meanwhile, Wei Qing and Huo Qubing hovered in the void, coldly observing all this, waiting for the moment they would truly act.

…

"What on earth happened?"

Bewildered, Mu Yi had just dealt with the beast tide problem when he was again confronted by the beastman army's siege.

Compared to the impact of the beast tide, the beastman army's attack seemed even more urgent, as if interfered with by some force.

This urgency gave Mu Yi no chance to exploit it; instead, it became a painful support for Mu Yi and his group.

The beastman army and the wild beast tide are completely different; hundreds of trebuchets ceaselessly hurled giant stones, and alchemical cannon fire relentlessly bombarded the city walls.

Chuyi, leveraging the Earth Vein Power beneath the entire city, still couldn't fully resist this attack, and the city walls began to show pitted damage.

However, the beastman army had no intention of attacking; it seemed determined to simply demolish the walls with siege engines.

"Where is Lin Yi?"

Mu Yi studied the map, calculating how the war would proceed, while awaiting a reply to his call for help.

The war's intensity had escalated; his available forces were no longer sufficient, so he reluctantly began seeking help from old friends.

War, sometimes, comes down to connections: whoever has more people is stronger.

Without further reinforcements, Mu Yi could only personally DIY reinforcements.

"Long time no see, Brother Mu Yi!"

The first to respond to Mu Yi's call for aid was Lin Xuan of the East Circuit Prefecture.

"Sorry to trouble you again, Brother Lin Xuan!" Mu Yi laughed and greeted Lin Xuan.

"It's nothing; without your help, Brother Mu Yi, the East Circuit Prefecture wouldn't have a chance to take part in such a grand event!" Lin Xuan shook his head; participating in this campaign was a great opportunity for his East Circuit Prefecture.

Opportunities to connect with the Military God are rare, and moreover Mu Yi's status has changed; the East Circuit Prefecture only needs to maintain good relations with him to avoid losses.

Mu Yi knew the East Circuit Prefecture had its own requests, but he likewise had requests of them, so he naturally didn't mind overextending.

The East Circuit Prefecture's ten thousand soldiers were more elite than last time, averaging above level fifteen, though not as elite as the regiment led by Wei Ke.

But now, every bit of this strength is precious.

Next came the War Mother Senida of Frostclaw.

"I brought twenty thousand White Disaster!"

Upon hearing those words, Mu Yi was speechless; he hadn't expected Senida to be so reckless, directly bringing the tribe's most elite barbarians.

"Without you, there would be no Lord of the Northern Border, so I came!" Senida said earnestly.

Mu Yi sized them up; frankly, having left the Frost Winter Land, these White Disaster troops were considerably weaker, yet not as weak as Mu Yi imagined—their spirit even surpassed that of the East Circuit Prefecture's soldiers.

What surprised Mu Yi was that this batch of White Disaster troops had already begun to master smelting techniques; unlike the Mu Family Army before, these White Disaster soldiers possessed only a single Elite Talent, one perfectly suited to them, and through constant hammering, a smelting reaction naturally emerged.

Mu Yi passed the section on technique smelting to Senida; after looking at it, her face changed in shock—they had also tried to summarize the mastery of this deep talent, but hadn't realized this was merely a beginning.

It could actually reach ninefold smelting? Truly a number that inspires both anticipation and despair.

"I didn't expect you, Yi, to have so many friends!"

Likewise responding were Princess Liliana Brenda, La Ge Na, and others.

To win this war, Mu Yi essentially rallied everyone he could.

Although he knew favors were hard to repay, Mu Yi refused to lose and could not afford to lose.

There was no direct evidence, but Mu Yi had a feeling that losing this war would be quite a hassle for him.

It might even affect his future development; Mu Yi himself couldn't put it into words, but he believed this feeling.

Having reached this point, he certainly wouldn't act on a whim for no reason.

So Mu Yi employed every ounce of power he could muster, aside from the Heavenly Court and the Underworld.