Chapter 158: Red Lotus Demon Venerable?! [Starting stable updates!!!]

【"You have won!"】

Beneath Taicang Mountain, two figures sat at opposite ends of a chessboard; the black and white pieces in their hands were, for a moment, like a black evil dragon scorning Heaven and Earth, and like a Heavenly Net covering the four seas and the eight wildernesses.

The more the black dragon struggled, the more the white Heavenly Net bound and tightened around it.

It is unknown how much time passed; perhaps a moment, perhaps a millennium.

It is unknown when it began, but the Heavenly Net formed by the white pieces began to totter, and the fierce-looking black dragon instead tore a gap in that white Heavenly Net.

If the white pieces were to move, the dense, net-like chess game on the board might still have a chance of being saved.

But at this moment, the Old Man of Taicang simply looked earnestly at the Gu Jiangming before him; after a long while, the Old Man of Taicang seemed relieved, and as if offering congratulations, slowly spoke the outcome to the Gu Jiangming before him.

"It is merely a torn gap; if we continue, I only have a thirty percent chance of winning!"

Gu Jiangming ignored the words of the Old Man of Taicang, simply looking earnestly at the chessboard before him, earnestly stating his own earnestness.

"The gap has already appeared; what use is there for me to place another piece?"

"The world is like a chessboard, but the world surpasses the game."

"On the chessboard, there are only you and me; outside the chessboard, besides you and me, there are the vast masses of living beings."

"A thirty percent chance of winning is enough; it is already enough!"

The Old Man of Taicang listened to Gu Jiangming's words and simply shook his head slowly; he had lost this game of chess, yet he lost it willingly. As he gazed at the Gu Jiangming before him, the Old Man of Taicang's eyes held even more admiration and joy.

"Again!"

Gu Jiangming heard the words of the Old Man of Taicang before him, but suddenly completely disrupted the chessboard.

The Old Man of Taicang gazed at the Gu Jiangming before him, his brows furrowed with astonishment and confusion, but looking at the increasingly thick and deep demonic energy between Gu Jiangming's brows, the Old Man of Taicang was silent for a moment before slowly raising his hand to place a piece.

No one knew what the Old Man of Taicang and Gu Jiangming were thinking at this time; the black and white pieces in their hands were placed rapidly.

The black dragon became increasingly ferocious, and the white Heavenly Net was murderous, as if it wanted to shatter the chessboard itself.

It is unknown when it began, but Gu Jiangming's eyes began to turn pitch-black, so pitch-black that anyone who saw Gu Jiangming's eyes would be startled and suspicious that Gu Jiangming's eyes had been stained with ink.

Gu Jiangming had entered the demonic path, completely entered the demonic path!

The pieces on the chessboard were still slaughtering each other, and of the two people outside the chessboard, one had completely entered the demonic path, while the other's face had long since become solemn and grave. The Old Man of Taicang looked at the Gu Jiangming before him, then looked at the chessboard, placing his pieces slower and slower.

When the Old Man of Taicang slowly placed his well-considered piece, the black dragon on the chessboard seemed to have been waiting there all along; the dragon had no eyes, and when Gu Jiangming's piece fell, the dragon was complete.

It was also when Gu Jiangming's piece fell that all the white pieces on the entire chessboard suffered a terrifying impact at this moment.

For a time, all that could be seen on the entire chessboard was the black dragon formed by the black pieces, showing off its power and roaring across the board.

When the dragon transformed from the black pieces won, Gu Jiangming did not make the slightest movement; he just sat at the ends of the chessboard like an eternal statue, slowly sinking into his own enlightenment.

The Old Man of Taicang looked at the chessboard before him, then looked at the Gu Jiangming before him, silent for a long time, speechless for a long while.

He could feel that Gu Jiangming had completely made his decision; he could feel the aura on the Gu Jiangming before him rapidly expanding and rapidly rising.

The threshold that had originally imprisoned Gu Jiangming seemed unable to cause Gu Jiangming the slightest obstruction at this moment.

Gu Jiangming's strength began to rise rapidly after that last piece fell, reaching Heaven and Earth Enlightenment. After four thousand and ninety-nine games, the Old Man of Taicang held the white pieces and conceded; you, having entered the demonic path deeply, disdained this kind of delivered victory.

After four thousand games, you completely entered the demonic path, and your demonic thoughts transformed into a dragon on the chessboard; this was the manifestation of your state of mind.

After four thousand games, you paid the price of entering the demonic path to break the shackles of Heaven and Earth Enlightenment.

You opened the Demon Venerable Path!

When Gu Jiangming woke up again, the Old Man of Taicang had already left.

Gu Jiangming looked at the inconspicuous crack on the chessboard, then looked at this Taicang Mountain before him, and after a moment of silence, left Taicang Mountain.

After four thousand games, after four thousand games, Gu Jiangming defeated the Old Man of Taicang on the chessboard, just like after the four thousand games of the past.

【After four thousand games, the Demon Venerable is born!】

【After four thousand games, you left Taicang Mountain, began to walk the world, and began to struggle for the Great Harmony of the world in your heart.】

【When you walked the world, you saw countless Demon Race oppressing ordinary people, and you also saw those cultivation sects oppressing their own kind.】

【In your eyes, whether it was those Demon Race or Human Race sects, there was no difference to you.】

【Your hands were stained with the blood of the Demon Race, and likewise stained with the blood of countless Human Race cultivators.】

【Those Demon Race who once made the Human Race tremble with fear began to die when they saw you, and those cultivators who oppressed ordinary people also died when they saw you.】

【Those Demon Race and those Human Race cultivators began to call you the Demon Venerable.】

【In the eyes of those Demon Race and Human Race cultivators, you seemed to care about nothing, seemed to be acting for the sake of ordinary people, or seemed to be simply satisfying your desire for slaughter; the name of Demon Venerable was their fear of you, and also their awe of you.】

【You began to consciously collect a pile of techniques that ordinary cultivators simply looked down upon; no one knew what you wanted to do, only you yourself knew that the words of the Old Man of Taicang still had a tiny bit of influence on you.】

【The people outside the chessboard that the Old Man of Taicang spoke of were cultivators, but you did not trust those Human Race cultivators; you were more willing to give those most humble, most helpless bottom-tier Human Race a hope, hoping they would become the ones to break the game.】

【You created a technique; the technique had no name, or was named Starfire Technique, taken from the meaning that a single spark can start a prairie fire.】

【You taught the Starfire Technique to ordinary people, to the bottom-tier people, letting them have a power of hope even when facing this desperate era.】

On the Mie Changsheng interface, messages began to be refreshed rapidly.

Yet Gu Jiangming's attention was no longer on Mie Changsheng at this time; Gu Jiangming was simply earnestly doing his own things according to his own thoughts and his own ideas.

For Gu Jiangming, teaching the Starfire Technique to the human world was what he wanted to do.

But for the Demon Race who viewed the Human Race as rations, and the great sects who viewed ordinary people as Slaves, Gu Jiangming's existence was an existence that broke the rules and destroyed the foundation.

Gu Jiangming did not know how many people he had killed, nor did he know how many Demon Race he had slaughtered.

He simply acted according to his own heart; he simply kept teaching the Starfire Technique to more and more people.

It was not that there were no strong experts from great sects who came to obstruct Gu Jiangming, nor were there no powerful Demon Race who came to snipe at Gu Jiangming, but at this time, Gu Jiangming was too strong, so strong that those who came to obstruct Gu Jiangming only had a way to come, but no way to return.

As time passed, Gu Jiangming's name as the Demon Venerable spread wider and wider, and even in the eyes of some who did not know the truth, Gu Jiangming was also a great demon of the human world; at this time, he was called the Red Lotus Demon Venerable by the world.

(End of chapter)