Chapter 1031

The complete Rotten-Cleft Chessboard is the most important existence among the three treasures of the Dao Sect.

It is not a supreme treasure for attack, and its defensive power is only average.

Its main role is to suppress the luck of a continent and absorb spiritual energy from the outside world.

The Tianyuan Dao Sect has gone through thousands of years and was able to become the number one Soul Transformation holy land in the Mountain and Sea World; the Rotten-Cleft Chessboard has made great contributions!

But to say that it really has no defensive ability would be nonsense.

Xiaxia Yuanjun had to shatter the entire Central Continent to severely damage the Rotten-Cleft Chessboard, which shows that it also has three parts of efficacy in defense.

Relying only on Luo Chen’s current avatar, he truly could not break it.

Especially after a great battle earlier, although he was leisurely and wantonly slaughtering many Nascent Soul True Persons, this physical body, which had not been tempered much, ultimately could not bear the burden after absorbing a large amount of power from the Ming Water Spring Eye.

Was it that Luo Chen didn't want to block Mingyan’s sword?

No!

It was just that Luo Chen’s body at that time could no longer withstand too much power from the spring eye.

If he used it again, it would collapse.

Therefore, Luo Chen relied on a soul technique in his life soul memory—"Ghost and God Avoidance"—to narrowly dodge Mingyan’s must-kill strike.

Right now, facing the complete Rotten-Cleft Chessboard and Ke Lianshan, who was burning himself in a flash of light before death, Luo Chen’s expression was calm and his state of mind was open-minded.

For the sake of some things, one must eventually give up some things.

The life soul was something he must have, and this avatar was just a tool, even if this avatar carried and integrated the Ming Water Spring Eye.

"Then let’s discard it!"

Muttering, Luo Chen floated up, and his fingers constantly pointed at himself.

Vaguely, the sound of shackles opening echoed in his ears.

Deep in his sea of consciousness, a restless, desperate, and even unwilling voice was shouting.

"Don't!"

Luo Chen turned a deaf ear and finally pointed heavily at the center of his eyebrows.

"Jade-Shattering Prohibition, Open!"

A gloomy voice slowly echoed in the Cave Heaven.

In the distance, Mingyan watched in horror as an eerie scene appeared.

Luo Chen’s physical body seemed to melt, turning into streams of black liquid, eerily floating in the void.

Then, a spring eye that looked like an eye appeared.

A large amount of liquid flowed out from the spring eye, as deep as ink.

That was... Ming Water!

A large amount of Ming Water emerged and rushed toward Ke Lianshan’s direction.

Drops gathered into streams, and streams gathered into an abyss.

Countless Ming Water formed a vast river, crazily scouring the Rotten-Cleft Chessboard.

One had protected the Ming Abyss Sect for thousands of years, restraining billions of demons and ghosts.

One had suppressed the luck of the Central Continent, achieving the name of the Dao Sect’s number one.

At this moment, inside the secluded Cave Heaven unknown to outsiders, a most pure collision unfolded.

Were the two evenly matched?

Until that spring eye expanded crazily in a trend visible to the naked eye, and a destructive aura instantly filled the entire Mirage Dragon Cave Heaven.

In the void, only one sound was heard.

"Explode!"

The next moment!

That Ming Water Spring Eye, which once nurtured the Nether Abyss, exploded with a bang.

Bang!

An extremely peerless force, like a heavy hammer, smashed onto the Rotten-Cleft Chessboard.

Crack!

The Rotten-Cleft Chessboard appeared with cracks again.

Ke Lianshan widened his eyes, looking at this scene in disbelief, and then the boundless Ming Water washed over.

Was the opponent actually willing to self-destruct such a heavy treasure, not even caring about his own physical body?

There was no time for too much reaction in his heart; he knew he had ultimately failed.

After detonating the Ming Water Spring Eye, a stream of light used the powerful recoil force to rush toward the vortex leading to the outside world.

Ke Lianshan watched all this, facing the fact that the boundless Ming Water was about to drown him with extreme unwillingness.

"Failed?"

"No!"

"As long as the person is still there, there is always hope."

Ke Lianshan muttered, waving his large hand.

The Rotten-Cleft Chessboard that protected him turned into a light shield and landed on several places on the wasteland.

Afterward, he calmly faced the scouring of the massive Ming Water.

Mingyan knelt on the ground, leaning on her sword, with the light shield of the Rotten-Cleft Chessboard protecting her, but in her eyes, there was only the figure of the old man submerged in the Ming Water.

Her eyes were blurred with tears, and she just wailed.

"Senior Brother..."

Ke Lianshan’s figure finally disappeared, and the massive Ming Water rolled forward, drowning the vast wasteland, roaring and rushing toward the distance.

The entire Mirage Dragon Cave Heaven was like falling into the netherworld!

"Monster, you cannot stop this Lord!"

Inside the sky-reaching pillar of light connecting the universe and the sea of stars, there was a roar filled with boundless killing intent.

A phantom was located in the sky, walking toward the Mountain and Sea World step by step.

In front of him was a strange space.

This space did not exist in the Mountain and Sea World, nor was it in the Xuan World; it seemed to form a world of its own in the universe.

It was precisely because of the existence of this space that the White Tiger True Lord was separated from descending into this world.

After the White Tiger True Lord roared, a sharp blade light was slashed from his hand.

That strange space suddenly shattered!

The White Tiger True Lord was one step closer!

Facing all this, Qingshuang’s expression was calm, and she did not say a word, just looking at the void and frequently pinching the formula to attack.

Pure white flower buds emerged from the primordial energy of the void and then unfolded.

Strange spaces, following the blooming of the flowers, were like mountains and natural moats, blocking the White Tiger True Lord’s path forward again.

Opening a world, empty peaks and thousands of ridges!

This was a divine ability she obtained when she was promoted to Soul Transformation by completely refining the accumulated space.

As long as her magic power did not run out, she could control the primordial energy of heaven and earth to form new small worlds one after another, binding enemies and even all attacks within them and wearing them away to nothing.

The White Tiger True Lord was very strong, unexpectedly strong; those small worlds could not trap him.

But the opponent came across the world and could only rely on his own magic power.

And Qingshuang could control the massive primordial energy of the Mountain and Sea World; as one grew and the other waned, she could barely block him for a moment.

In the void, countless worlds were annihilated and generated, endless.

In these wearings away, the White Tiger True Lord finally could not suppress his temper.

"Evil beast, you are courting death!"

He no longer suppressed himself, joined his palms like a knife, and slashed remotely toward Qingshuang’s location.

That was such a stunning blade, with nothing else in his eyes.

That was also such a domineering blade; countless spaces shattered into pieces under that blade like silk paper.

Ssh!

Qingshuang groaned, and a shallow red thin line appeared on her body.

Afterward, her entire body was split into two along this thin line, and her upper body slid down diagonally.

But the next moment!

Blood energy permeated Qingshuang’s body, stopping this sliding, and her physical body condensed into one again.

Indestructible Body, one of the powerful monster clan talents.

She looked coldly at that figure.

"You can't come over!"

The White Tiger True Lord became even more angry, roaring endlessly.

If it weren't for the distance being too far, his divine ability could only have killing intent cross the world, so why would he let the opponent calmly condense her physical body?

"This old man must descend into this world today!"

As the White Tiger True Lord roared, he wasted powerful magic power, wanting to forcibly squeeze into this world.

Qingshuang did not dare to be arrogant; with a loud and clear cry, she manifested her thousand-foot true body.

A divine and handsome Green Luan flapped its flowing light wings, constantly flying and circling in the sky-reaching pillar of light.

That divine ability to evolve space and isolate the world was constantly released as her wings trembled.

Until!

Boom!

A heaven-shaking loud noise came from under the mountain.

The primordial energy vortex caused by Ke Lianshan’s Soul Transformation shrank rapidly.

The portal connecting the Mirage Dragon Cave Heaven and Heaven and Earth Peak also disappeared in an instant.

Under the chain reaction, this sky-reaching pillar of light also began to decay crazily.

The White Tiger True Lord noticed something wrong and roared endlessly.

"These trash, trash!"

But the deafening roar gradually went away, as if separated by two worlds, only able to scratch an itch from outside the boot.

Qingshuang’s figure swayed, turned into a human form, and stumbled onto the peak of Heaven and Earth Peak.

She subconsciously looked down the mountain.

"That is..."

In that primordial energy vortex that was about to shrink, a ghostly light escaped at the last moment. The familiar aura and the life-and-death connection made Qingshuang recognize the essence of the ghostly light at a glance.

"Luo Chen!"

After the ghostly light escaped, it disappeared into the void without any hesitation.

Qingshuang looked far away; on the boundless ocean, a figure was rushing toward Heaven and Earth Peak quickly.

However, the moment the ghostly light appeared, that figure suddenly froze in place.

He turned around stiffly, looked at the battlefield before, and two words burst out stiffly from his mouth: "Luo Chen!"

Divine sense reborn!

Sword energy reappeared!

A massive divine sense locked onto Lian Cheng tightly, and then the terrifying sword intent broke through space and shrouded Lian Cheng.

In his startled pupils, a scene of breathtaking beauty was reflected.

Under the night sky, sword moves rose into the sky, and sword energy sprayed into the ocean.

Boundless Red Heaven sword energy condensed into one, formed a stream, illuminated the darkness, like a vast river of sword energy, scouring everything in the world.

It was precisely "Thousands of Clouds Flow Together, Qi Rushing to the Stars"!

There was no time to react, no space to maneuver; Lian Cheng was furious and subconsciously reached out forward.

A large umbrella unfolded in front of him in an instant.

The umbrella handle was like bone, the umbrella surface was like skin, countless hideous skulls appeared and disappeared on the large umbrella, and a terrifying pressure permeated out.

One of the three great spirit treasures of the Dao Sect—the Bone Burial Umbrella!

"Go!"

Countless skulls roared out and rushed toward the vast river of sword energy without fear of death.

Boom!

The contact between the two was only in an instant.

The monstrous roar shook the ocean.

The river of sword energy and the army of skulls began to bombard each other crazily, and then eliminated each other.

Until!

Swish!

A wisp of blood light shot out from the river of sword energy and touched the surface of the Bone Burial Umbrella.

Lian Cheng stared at that blood light and recognized at a glance that it was Luo Chen’s sword, named Yuan Tu.

The crazily rotating sword tip and the immovable bone umbrella contended against each other, and the harsh friction sound almost shattered people’s souls.

The next moment!

Boom!

The void exploded, and the flame light flickered.

A figure appeared abruptly in front of Lian Cheng; he held the sword hilt with one hand and pushed heavily toward the front.

Rip...

The sharpest sword tip in the world pierced the tough bone umbrella, moved forward all the way, and finally, in Lian Cheng’s crazy gaze, stabbed deeply into his exposed Primordial Spirit.

Lian Cheng was in disbelief, grabbed the hot and scorching sword body with one hand, and his lips moved.

"How is it... possible..."

There is nothing impossible.

When the life soul returned and the main soul was complete, Luo Chen’s Primordial Spirit had no flaws, and that massive divine sense had completely locked the opponent.

The collision of the last move was the key to turning defeat into victory and was also the fatal blow that broke the camel’s back.

Luo Chen held the sword hilt with one hand and pushed horizontally with the other.

The sharp Yuan Tu sword cut open Lian Cheng’s Primordial Spirit like a bamboo, and then the blood-colored halo permeated, just like when he killed the Black Marsh Old Ancestor years ago, absorbing his entire Primordial Spirit into the sword.

After doing all this, Luo Chen drew his sword and stumbled back a few steps in the void.

That bone umbrella that had been pierced fell toward the sea area below.

A pair of pure white, slender hands suddenly appeared, grabbed the bone umbrella, then flew to Luo Chen’s side, opened it like a flower bud, and at the same time supported Luo Chen’s arm.

Coincidentally, the great battle ended, the vast primordial energy slowly dissipated, and a heavy rain poured down.

In the rain screen, Luo Chen panted and looked at the woman beside him who had beautiful features and a frosty expression.

"I thought you really wouldn't come."

"Your business is your business, my mission is to stop the Xuan World True Lord from descending, that is all."

The woman’s face was pale, and while speaking, she still had a distant, indifferent, and cold appearance.

Luo Chen grinned.

This grin seemed to affect his injuries, and the palm print on his chest was shocking.

Qingshuang frowned, "Why take such a risk?"

Luo Chen coughed and laughed, "It’s not really a risk; when the primordial energy vortex of the Mirage Dragon Cave Heaven appeared, Lian Cheng sensed that the Chess Saint was about to break through to the Soul Transformation stage, but what I sensed was that my life soul was already free. Since he wanted to change the battlefield, I just happened to go with the flow and create an opportunity for the avatar’s actions."

Qingshuang shook her head, "I mean why did you collide with him head-on? You are ultimately a major realm lower than him."

Luo Chen smiled freely, "Some things are known to be impossible, but they must be done; just like you, didn't you also forcibly stop the descent of a powerhouse who was a major realm higher than you? Don't you fear death?"

Qingshuang fell into silence.

Luo Chen did not say anything more and looked into the distance.

On the Dongyuan Continent, streams of light were pulling away.

Compared to when they first entered, the number had decreased, which shows that this battle was not easy.

But what Luo Chen was concerned about was not just this.

His divine sense moved slightly, and Luo Chen raised his eyebrows.

"Li Canghai really didn't leave!"

Qingshuang glanced in that direction, with a look of disgust on her face.

Above the Rotten-Cleft Mountain Range, a figure appeared abruptly, holding a large seal, facing the Rotten-Cleft Mountain Range.

The massive suction force, amidst the despair of many Dao Sect members, pulled the huge Rotten-Cleft Mountain Range up by the roots and moved it toward the inside of that seal.

It’s no wonder Qingshuang was disgusted.

At the beginning of the great battle, Li Canghai was the first to run away.

After the great battle, he returned to snatch the fruits of victory.

How could such conduct be seen in the eyes?

Suddenly!

Luo Chen let go of the hand Qingshuang was supporting him with, held his long sword, and looked in one direction.

"Why do the two fellow Daoists hide your heads and show your tails? Why not appear and meet?"

Qingshuang looked in the direction Luo Chen was looking at in surprise, but saw ripples in the void, and two figures appeared one after another.

One was as majestic as an emperor, and the other was as ethereal as a flying immortal.

"At the Nascent Soul realm, killing a Soul Transformation great power in reverse, the Elixir Sect’s Luo Chen is truly surprising!"

"This praise, Luo Mou deserves it." Luo Chen’s expression was calm as he looked at the two. "I don't know how to address you?"

The emperor said in a deep voice, "Sea Emperor Whale!"

The other person smiled, "The world calls me the North Li Great Saint!"

Luo Chen did not seem surprised; he nodded and then asked, "Choosing to appear after the great battle, I don't know what the two fellow Daoists intend to do?"

As this question was asked straightforwardly, the atmosphere suddenly became heavy. (End of chapter)