Chapter 277: The Life-and-Death Crisis of the Superpowered! [Today 6000

Facing Chaoliba's frantic words, Ji Donglai retorted with a mocking tone of his own:

"What era is this? Still comparing Wu Gong? Compare weapons!"

"If you have weapons and don't use them, how can you be a superpower master!"

"Old fossils, the times have changed!"

Outside Guiyun Peak, blinding light flashed once more.

Just before the antimatter capable of erasing mountains exploded in Chaoliba's silver-gray palm,

the energy that destroys everything was immediately wrapped in an inexplicable force field.

This is a special application of the scorching energy after Jushan Chaoliba's heart-image turned illusion into reality, named 【Aotei Thought】.

This move can directly interfere with enemies using thought, bypassing conventional physical contact.

Seizing this opportunity, Chaoliba forced his entire body to reverse the geomagnetic field, retreating as if fleeing for his life.

He only hoped to get a bit further from the source of the disaster and take a bit less damage.

But it lasted less than 0.01 seconds; the energy from the antimatter explosion instantly broke through the constraints and shot skyward with even more terrifying power.

After Chaoliba's body came into contact with the energy, his molecular structure trembled violently on a microscopic level, and the silver-gray paint disintegrated into particles like a pencil drawing erased by a rubber.

Witnessed by the people of the various nations, the lower half of Chaoliba's arm was immediately swallowed.

Cracks appeared across his body; wherever the antimatter passed, all things were decomposed and torn apart.

Chaoliba watched the approaching wave of destruction with despair in his eyes, as if it were about to spread from his arm and swallow his entire body.

A fifty-meter body lacks mobility; if hit by this explosion, he would surely be severely injured or die on the spot.

Just when the onlooking masses, including Chaoliba himself, felt the situation was dire, an accident occurred.

At this life-or-death moment, a figure stepped in front of Chaoliba without hesitation.

Chaoliba was not fighting alone now!

Was it Emperor Xiang Hongtu Hongtu?

It was not Emperor Xiang Hongtu Hongtu!

It was that old man from the Four-Turn Chess Pavilion who had escaped with his life from the antimatter fire lotus.

But what use was having him stand in front?

The old man's body was far from as tempered as Emperor Xiang Hongtu Hongtu, who had reached the peak of the Four-Turn realm.

The moment of contact, his flesh and blood would likely be shattered in an instant!

The answer is inheritance!

Without dodging in the slightest, amidst Chaoliba's bulb eyes filled with surprise, shock, and a hint of emotion, the old man resolutely charged head-on into the destructive antimatter collapse.

The next moment, a solemn and high-pitched, aged voice emanated from the old man's heart-image.

"Chessboard — Unfold!"

In the next instant, a mysterious black-and-white formation spread out from beneath his feet and expanded rapidly.

Following this, Ji Donglai, who had been hiding nearby to watch the show, stared in astonishment as his body was forcibly moved to the scene.

Before him lay the wildly exploding antimatter bomb and the old man's cunning smile.

Immediately, a cold, emotionless voice rang in the minds of everyone present, including Ji Donglai, Fang Can, and the infamous Li Huowang.

【Yi Tianxing requests a match against you. Since you initiated the attack, the match is forcibly initiated!】

【Guess the opening move within three seconds!】

As the voice echoed in their minds, the masses discovered that the fire pillar about to engulf the old man was immediately suppressed by an invisible force and then extinguished.

Taking advantage of the gap while the antimatter vanished, Chaoliba's body immediately retreated.

Although the contact lasted only an instant, everything below Chaoliba's right elbow had completely disappeared.

The light-particle energy constituting his body shot out from the severed end like blood.

However, after transformation, Chaoliba's essence was a high-density energy body; as other parts of his body continuously replenished the material, Chaoliba's missing lower arm immediately regrew.

In that instant, taking advantage of Ji Donglai's momentary daze.

Seizing this brief opening, Chaoliba suddenly spread both hands wide.

As the diamond-shaped crystal on his chest erupted with scorching white light, the clouds within a hundred li were torn by an invisible force field into spiral fissures.

A vast amount of heart-image transformed into energy, with massive light-particle effects rapidly converging from within his body to his chest.

Following this, Jushan Chaoliba crossed his left arm over his chest and raised his right arm vertically, forming an L-shaped gesture.

"Wash Socks (Domain Ultimate Art · Zeperilao Beam) —"

Accompanied by a roar that shattered mountains.

Seeing this, Yi Tianxing urgently cried out, "Stop quickly, Brother Chi Huo! Do not waste energy recklessly."

But the warning came too late; in the sight of the masses, a magnificent scene was simultaneously reflected.

The high-density light particles had now compressed into a flowing liquid waterfall of light.

In the next instant, a blue-white beam several meters in diameter pierced through heaven and earth.

The air along the path was ionized into dark blue plasma, and the ground rocks melted into red glass in the lingering waves of escaping energy.

A massive stream of white particles, enough to easily flatten a large city, poured out at the speed of light from Jushan Chaoliba's raised right forearm.

By the time Ji Donglai reacted, his body was already unable to dodge; he thought that taking the full hit of this ultimate move would mean his gold coins would be blown up.

But then an astonishing scene occurred.

The Zeperilao Beam's energy particle waterfall seemed to hit an invisible wall, completely blocked from the outside, posing no threat whatsoever.

"Scared (What's going on???) —"

After executing the move, Chaoliba stared in astonishment at the two figures blocked by the black-and-white chessboard.

As he repaired his body just now and unleashed his ultimate move with full power, the diamond-shaped crystal on his chest gradually dimmed from warm white light, then turned into a flickering red light.

While flashing, it also emitted a rhythmic "beep-beep" sound.

After that moment of frantic consumption, the time he could maintain the transformation now probably lasted less than a minute.

Only then did the old man Yi Tianxing's regretful heart-image, slapping his thigh in frustration, reach them:

"Oh! How foolish! The 'Guess First' state is invincible; otherwise, how would I have dared to go up and tank damage for you?"

Jushan Chaoliba: "Ha (What? Why didn't you say so earlier!)—"

Even as the two conversed, Ji Donglai and the others had already begun seriously studying the chessboard formed by the grid squares beneath them.

No need for them to study; the massive volume of rule information unfolded by the chessboard had already been transmitted into everyone's minds without reservation.

【This is an absolutely fair life-and-death Go match.】

【While in the 'Guess First' or 'Place Stone' state, one possesses the right to 100% block outside interference.】

【During 'Guess First' and 'Place Stone', one cannot leave the opponent's 100-kilometer range.】

【Once defeated, the defeated unit will suffer damage at the peak of the Fourth Transformation level.】

And with Bai Xiaosheng's broadcast, these Go rules naturally fell into the sight of all living beings.

"So that's it; as long as one enters the 'Guess First' state, one is absolutely invincible?"

Xiang Ziyu's eyes flashed with sudden realization; she then clearly understood how Yi Tianxing and Yan Chuqing had survived.

They likely triggered a match against Yan Chuqing, directly using the 'Guess First' to lock in a three-second invincible frame effect, forcibly breaking through the antimatter encirclement.

'Trouble...'

Fang Can and his entire group frowned in unison, for they discovered that every superpowered individual within Ji Donglai's space was currently in a match state.

It seemed that because their space overlapped with Ji Donglai's, the target acquisition system had directly locked onto all seven of them.

"After defeat, suffering damage at the peak of the Fourth Transformation level..."

For a moment, everyone's hearts pounded in terror.

If they lost, no one dared to imagine what would happen to everyone present except Ji Donglai.

Seeing the solemn expression on Ji Donglai's face, Yi Tianxing revealed a triumphant smile.

If Ji Donglai hadn't run too fast at Guiyun Peak, exceeding his reaction speed and moving beyond his line of sight where he couldn't lock on,

he would have issued a match invitation long ago.

Moreover, this match cannot be triggered just anywhere.

With such terrifying ability, the constraints must be even greater.

For instance, after breaking through to the Fourth Transformation, unless one breaks through again, one has only ten opportunities for life-and-death Go matches in a lifetime.

And in this span of less than one incense stick's time, he had already used two matches.

Theoretically, both sides must agree unanimously to start a match.

But there is one exception.

That is, if the unit issuing the match invitation launches an attack, it will directly skip the invitation and forcibly initiate the match.

This was the reason he dared to block the antimatter just now.

Clearly, in the inheritance judgment, that antimatter was counted as Ji Donglai's attack behavior, directly forcing the person into the match.

"This game cannot be lost; it can only be won!"

Everyone, including Ji Donglai, gritted their teeth in their hearts.

Because once defeated, Ji Donglai would directly trigger "Isolated and Helpless," and no one else had the confidence to withstand damage at the peak of the Fourth Transformation level.

Wait, how did Yan Chuqing survive after the match?

Fang Can paused slightly; in a moment of thought, he inquired of the inheritance. Sure enough, there was a 【Surrender】 option, but they could not use it.

Because in this Wujian Battlefield, Yi Tianxing would not give them a chance to surrender.

Thoughts flashed through his mind like lightning and sparks; Ji Donglai decisively said, "Fang Can, time is tight; you do the 'Guess First'."

The so-called 'Guess First' is choosing who plays first or second in Go.

The older or higher-ranked player takes several white stones from the board and lets the opponent guess whether the number is odd or even.

The lower-ranked player shows one or two black stones as an answer.

One black stone guesses the opponent has an odd number; two black stones guess the opponent's stone count is even.

If guessed correctly, the lower-ranked player goes first; if guessed wrong, the opponent goes first.

At this moment, Ji Donglai let Fang Can do the guessing.

He wanted Fang Can to use his luck as a Fate Ability User to gain the first move directly in the 'Guess First'.

Before the eyes of all, the people of the various nations saw the superpowered individuals inside Ji Donglai's body space for the first time.

Inside the space within Ji Donglai's body, Fang Can's expression was solemn:

"Rest assured! So-called Go is merely a probability game with 10^768 variations."

Facing Fang Can's heart-image, Yi Tianxing's face bore a grim smile: "Kid, Go is not as simple as you say!"

With these words, Yi Tianxing grabbed a handful of white qi, formed it into white stones, and held them, extending his right fist: "Let's guess first!"

Fang Can said nothing; instead, he calmly grabbed black qi, forming it into a single black stone in his palm.

Fang Can chose to guess that the white qi in the old man's hand was an odd number!

The moment he saw the white qi in Fang Can's hand, the smile on Yi Tianxing's face widened slightly.

As Yi Tianxing slowly opened his palm, before the eyes of all, six black stones lay in his palm.

Fang Can guessed wrong!

Facing the shocked gazes of Ji Donglai and the others, Yi Tianxing said leisurely:

"They say this is an absolutely fair match; on this chessboard, it seems my luck is superior!"

At this moment, the superpowered side faced the greatest crisis since the battle began!

(End of chapter)