Chapter 478: Chess Gu Completed

"You can actually see through all virtual insects?" Lingtian Ancestor shrank, a look of disbelief appearing in his eyes, and his expression slowly turned gloomy.

"Seeking death! Since you have the ability to see through all virtual insects, you will sooner or later become a serious threat to me. I cannot leave you alive."

Lingtian Ancestor's gaze toward Zhu Jiuge was suddenly filled with killing intent.

However, just as he was about to make a move, a sudden change occurred. The bottom of the Demon-Sealing Tower flying in the sky actually appeared with cracks at this moment, and the cracks were constantly expanding.

Lingtian Ancestor's expression changed drastically. He secretly said "not good" and hurriedly took back the little tower in the air.

This tower sealed countless virtual insects. Once it was damaged, causing all virtual insects to run out, not only would it bring disaster to the world, but even he himself might be killed by the powerful virtual insects that ran out. The consequences would be unimaginable.

"Damn it! This young girl cannot be touched!"

Lingtian Ancestor looked at the young girl with a gloomy gaze. Seeing that the cracks in the Demon-Sealing Tower were still expanding, he gritted his teeth, immediately abandoned the plan to make a move against Zhu Jiuge, and flew away at an extremely fast speed.

Sure enough, as the distance between him and Zhu Jiuge grew, the cracks at the bottom of the Demon-Sealing Tower stopped spreading.

However, seeing him suddenly flee the battlefield, everyone on the battlefield was dumbfounded.

Especially the group of Demon Sect leaders brought by him, seeing him flee before the battle, they suddenly had an urge to vomit blood.

With the appearance of massive amounts of Shadow Demons, the situation on the battlefield at this time was very unfavorable for them. Once Lingtian Ancestor fled, losing him, the powerhouse with the strongest combat strength, this group of Demon Cultivators who came to attack the Saint Gu Academy would likely be wiped out. Not many people could escape in this battle.

"Damn it! Lingtian Ancestor! You coward, you've really screwed us over!"

The Blood God Sect leader looked at Lingtian Ancestor's fleeing back with eyes about to split, the veins on his fists bulging. He hurriedly turned his head and roared loudly at the crowd: "All members of the Blood God Sect, listen to my order: break out immediately. Escape as many as you can!"

Following his order, the crowd was suddenly in chaos. Large batches of red-clad Gu cultivators withdrew from the melee and fled into the distance.

The people fleeing were far more than just the Blood God Sect's side. Many Demon Cultivators saw Lingtian Ancestor flee, and their morale was suddenly unstable, so they also began to withdraw from the battlefield and flee into the distance.

With this part of the people withdrawing from the battlefield, how could the remaining Demon Cultivators who were still struggling to support resist the siege of the Saint Gu Academy's Gu cultivators?

Defeat came like a landslide. Just because of one move by Lingtian Ancestor, the Demon Path alliance immediately began a great rout, being killed until they were in total disarray.

"Hehe! Running? Is my Saint Gu Academy a place where you can come and go as you please?"

"Since you've come, then all stay here for me!"

The Dean sneered, raised the city-protecting great array of Saint Gu City, and trapped all the Demon Cultivators who hadn't had time to escape in the city.

Now, the Demon Cultivators trapped in the array had no way to call for help, and could only be ruthlessly beheaded by the Saint Gu Academy's Gu cultivators and Shadow Demons who chased after them.

At this time, there were fights everywhere in Saint Gu City, and the whole city was plunged into chaos.

But the chaotic fight didn't last long. The invading Demon Cultivators were soon beheaded clean, and the city soon fell into silence again.

At this time, in the distance, the remnants who had successfully escaped the city gathered in a valley.

"Lingtian Ancestor! What the hell are you doing! It was clear that this battle could still be fought. Why did you suddenly flee?"

"Do you know that you are the alliance leader? Once you run, everyone has to follow!"

"Most of my Blood God Sect members were killed by you!"

The Blood God Sect leader looked at Lingtian Ancestor's back with red eyes and questioned him loudly.

The Demon Cultivators of other forces also gathered around one after another, looking at him with uncontrollable anger, waiting for his explanation.

"Hmph! Why do I need to explain to you what I do." Lingtian Ancestor turned his head to look at them and suddenly revealed an evil smile: "Since most of you stayed in Saint Gu City, then you all go down and accompany them."

"Your territory, my Lingtian Sect will receive it!"

"What?"

Before the group of Demon Cultivators could react, one after another screams came from the crowd. From time to time, Demon Cultivators were attacked and fell into pools of blood. Until they died, they didn't know how they died.

Facing this kind of invisible attack, all Demon Cultivators were in a panic and could only attack everywhere. From time to time, someone was accidentally injured, and the crowd was suddenly in chaos.

Lingtian Ancestor's mouth curled up. He knew that his act of fleeing before the battle would offend the group of Demon Path forces. Since he had already offended them, he might as well go all the way and kill everyone.

At this time, he had already developed the intention to wipe out all the remaining Demon Cultivators.

Following a silver little tower with nine layers flying high from his palm, growing larger and larger, the four lower doors of the tower opened wide, and countless virtual insects flew out from inside again.

I don't know how many virtual insects were sealed in this little tower. It seemed endless. A large batch had already been slaughtered by Shadow Demons in the previous battle, and now there were still more.

Lingtian Ancestor's virtual insects were not something normal people could see. There was no Long Xuan among this group of Demon Cultivators, so how could they see the virtual insects on the ninth layer?

If they couldn't see, they could only be beaten passively and be ruthlessly slaughtered.

Swarms of virtual insects flew into the Demon Cultivator army, setting off a monstrous slaughter. Demon Cultivators died in batches, having no power to fight back under the attacks of the virtual insects.

Before long, this small valley was already flowing with blood, and the ground was piled with corpses of Gu cultivators of various grades.

The Demon Cultivator army that had luckily escaped the city earlier now had no survivors.

The valley fell into silence again.

Lingtian Ancestor tore off the clothes of a corpse, wiped the blood on his hands, threw down the blood-stained clothes, controlled all the storage bags of the corpses with soul power, and finally walked away.

Saint Gu City.

After the great battle ended, Long Xuan returned to the abyss under the Demon-Suppressing Tower again. After completely repairing the remaining unfinished array formations, he dragged his exhausted body back to that cozy little shop.

Because a great battle had just occurred in the city and many people had died, his shop's business was sluggish. Today, not a single customer had come in.

Long Xuan yawned. Having been busy in the abyss world for so long, his spirit was already exhausted. Just as he was preparing to close the shop today and have a good rest, he suddenly saw a note with elegant handwriting on the paper.

Long Xuan furrowed his brows slightly and immediately walked over to pick up the note.

There were not many words on it, writing: You are the only friend I have now. I don't want to implicate you. I'm leaving. Don't look for me.

Without needing to think, this note was left by Zhu Jiuge.

After completing the graduation task the academy gave her, she no longer had a reason to continue staying here. Leaving had become inevitable.

Long Xuan's mood was a bit melancholic. During the time he was repairing the array formation in the abyss, his Chess Gu was completed. By playing chess with geniuses from all sides using the new version of Chess Gu, he would share a small part of the luck of geniuses from all sides. After accumulating it, he would become a person of great luck.

The Misfortune Gu's ability was ineffective against people of great luck. It could be said that his Chess Gu was one of the rare nemeses of the Misfortune Gu. "Sigh! That pill capable of attracting the Life-Transforming Thunder hadn't had time to be given to her, and she had already left. I don't know if this pill can be reneged on."

Long Xuan sighed, put away the note, and found the Chess Gu that had already been refined by his clone in the shop.

The appearance of this Gu was no different from before, still in the shape of a chess piece. It was just that it could now split into 361 sub-Chess Gu. By playing chess with geniuses from all sides, it would constantly strengthen the intensity of each sub-Chess Gu.

This was a cultivation-type Gu worm. At present, it was extremely weak, not even as good as a low-grade Gu worm.

Once it was cultivated, with 361 sub-Chess Gu reaching the full configuration, there wouldn't be many Gu worms in the world that could match his Chess Gu.

At this time, he had already begun to prepare for the matter of cultivating the Chess Gu. This was bound to be a time-consuming matter.

And the Saint Gu Academy, which gathered geniuses from all sides, became the best place for Long Xuan to select geniuses.

Although this battle caused the Saint Gu Academy to lose a massive number of students, it was ultimately Zhu Jiuge who turned the tide, and the loss of the top-level geniuses of the Saint Gu Academy was not heavy.

Holding this Chess Gu in his palm, Long Xuan was full of a sense of accomplishment and laughed loudly: "You were born in response to the nineteen-route chess rules, so I'll name you Nineteen."

After a day of rest, Saint Gu City returned to normal operation the next day.

And Long Xuan's coffee shop opened for business again. In order to play chess with the geniuses with the highest talent in the Saint Gu Academy, Long Xuan decided to use Coffee Gu as bait. He didn't intend to close this Coffee Gu specialty shop in the short term.

Today, just as he opened the shop door, he welcomed the first customer who came to his door.

The person who came had eyebrows like paintings, skin as white as jade, and a temperament that was noble and elegant. Her face, which didn't seem to have the smoke and fire of the human world, appeared out of place compared to the passersby on the street.

This woman held a delicate ancient zither in her arms, dragged her long skirt as she walked into the shop, her gaze falling on one of the town-shop treasures, revealing an interested expression, her small red lips parted slightly:

"An auxiliary-type Gu worm that can unconditionally increase the combat power of one's own Gu worms by one fold. The ability of this Gu is truly heaven-defying. With this Gu here, it can directly double the combat power of a Gu cultivator."

"I heard this is a kind of Coffee Gu created by Zhu Jiuge, named Jiuge Gu."

"How do you intend to sell this Jiuge Gu!"

Looking at the person who came, Long Xuan quickly understood the person's identity.

Since he was preparing to cultivate the Chess Gu, he naturally had to investigate the famous geniuses of the Saint Gu Academy clearly.

This woman was named Qin Mingyue, known as the number one beauty of the Saint Gu Academy, the head of the academy's four great school flowers, and she was also the genius currently ranked first on the Saint Gu Academy's Tianjiao List.

Such a genius figure completely met his standard for playing chess. He had to let this female prodigy establish a relationship with one of the sub-Chess Gu.

Long Xuan immediately gained spirit and immediately said: "You should know the rules of my shop. If you want to buy the top-grade Gu worms in this shop, you must play a game of chess with me."

"As for the transaction item, you just need to take out something of equivalent value."

Since the materials for refining the Chess Gu had been collected, Long Xuan didn't know what he needed now. Added to the fact that he was determined to get this woman, he didn't intend to put many restrictions on the transaction item. He just needed her to take out something of equivalent value.

Speaking of which, this Jiuge Gu was precisely the Gu worm she randomly extracted from coffee when he asked Zhu Jiuge to partner with him to open the shop that day.

She simply named this Gu Jiuge Gu.

Jiuge Gu possessed an amplification domain. Within the domain, one's own Gu worms, regardless of quantity, could unconditionally increase combat power by one fold.

Such an ability was not heaven-defying, and it was enough to surpass the vast majority of top-grade Gu worms in this world. The value was imaginable. At present, it had already surpassed the Sleepless Gu and become the town-shop treasure of this shop.

It was a pity that this kind of auxiliary ability was similar to his Tea Gu's ability and couldn't be stacked. Being the same amplification Gu worm, it was impossible for them to amplify each other. He could only give up the impulse to blood-contract a Jiuge Gu.

Otherwise, once that pile of his terrifying top-grade Gu worms collectively doubled their combat power, he really didn't know how terrifying it could be.

Hearing this, Qin Mingyue nodded, took out an insect jar from her insect-breeding bag, placed it on the table, and smiled: "This is a top-grade spirit insect, the Book Worm, which I obtained unintentionally."

"Don't look at it as just a spirit insect, but because of its rarity, and the success rate of refining Gu is one hundred percent, its value is completely on par with top-grade Gu worms."

"How about I exchange this top-grade Book Worm for your Jiuge Gu?"

Hearing that what was in this insect jar was a Book Worm, Long Xuan immediately became spirited.

In his mind, there were countless classic masterpieces from his previous life. Getting this world, they were all trump cards. The Book Worm in his hands was simply like adding wings to a tiger.

Regardless of whether this transaction was a loss or a gain, he decided to trade. He was determined to get this Book Worm.

"Good, I was just preparing to refine a Book Gu for the next Gu worm. I didn't expect to get what I wanted. We have a deal."

"But before the transaction, we need to play a game of chess, and it must be the nineteen-route chess I created myself. You don't mind, do you?"

As he spoke, Long Xuan had already walked to the table where the chessboard was placed and sat down.

The chess pieces placed on the table this time were no longer chess pieces, but one after another sub-Chess Gu with little legs.

Refining one Gu worm was equivalent to refining more than three hundred Gu worms. He had to sigh that refining Chess Gu was truly cost-effective—buy one get three hundred free.

"No need to explain specifically. Now, not only is the whole city playing nineteen-route chess, but the whole world is playing nineteen-route chess. The original seventeen-route chess has long been unplayed by anyone."

"You are truly a prodigy. In order to create the Chess Gu, you actually forcibly changed the rules of the game of Go, making the whole world adapt to you, and in the end, you actually succeeded."

Qin Mingyue's mouth parted slightly. While speaking, she walked to the opposite side of the table and sat down. She looked at Long Xuan opposite her and smiled: "This little girl cultivates the path of the zither and is good at the zither but not at chess."

"What's more, I have to use the playing method you created. I'm not used to the new playing method."

"For the sake of fairness, can you let me go first by four stones?"

Hearing this, Long Xuan's head shook like a rattle-drum immediately. He didn't want to learn Chess Gu. In order to show off, he let nine stones, but in the end, he lost several games.

This game was of vital importance to him. Only by winning this woman would the Chess Gu's ability take effect.

Under these circumstances, even if he had more certainty, how could he dare to let her? This game of chess could only be won, not lost. Even the face of a beauty couldn't be given. He had to play this game of chess with full certainty.

"Not letting a single stone!" Long Xuan said decisively, his tone not allowing for refusal.

"How about letting two stones?"

"Not letting a single stone!"

"Truly a stingy man. Then let me go first, how about that? You wouldn't even refuse this small request, would you!"

"No! This is my territory, I'm in charge, I want to go first!"

After the words fell, Long Xuan inserted two fingers into the chess jar, clamped a black sub-Chess Gu with little legs moving wildly, and placed it heavily on the right corner of the chessboard.

Seeing him have no manners, Qin Mingyue rolled her eyes greatly and could only sit down, inserting her slender jade fingers into the chess jar... (End of chapter) ===== CHAPTER 479 =====

Seeing him so lacking in grace, Qin Mingyue rolled her eyes dramatically. She had no choice but to sit down and insert her slender, jade-like fingers into the chess canister... (End of chapter)