Chapter 640: No Regrets in the Game of Chess
The Water God General’s aura was decaying and languid.
His tone was also filled with exhaustion, as if he had only a last breath left.
This terrible state greatly alarmed Li Muyang.
"How did you become like this?"
The once Water God General, solemn and divine, immensely powerful.
Contrasted sharply with the current weak state.
In the city surrounded by surging blood fog, the weary Water God General spoke: "Our time is running short, you must stop Yellow Robed Immortal as soon as possible."
"First go to Futu Tower, a figure in black robes is waiting for you there..."
The Water God General did not finish speaking when his body, composed of flowing water, suddenly shook, and a stream of water-formed light beam fiercely pierced through his body.
The illusionary figure of the Water God General, with all his might, angrily shouted: "Go quickly! I will try to buy you as much time as I can!"
As the voice fell, the Water God General’s figure exploded with a bang, turning into a sky full of water droplets.
His last action before his incarnation dissipated was to furiously charge in a certain direction.
The Water God General, already in a state of decaying aura and weary weakness, once again mustered his remaining strength to battle a powerful enemy.
Although it was unknown who the enemy was, the feeling was that they were very strong...
"Could this Water God General be fighting against Yellow Robed Immortal?"
After frowning and pondering, Li Muyang himself overturned this possibility.
The oppressive presence of Yellow Robed Immortal was too strong, that figure suspended high in the heavens, looking down indifferently at all living beings, seemed to have transcended this world.
Although strong, the Water God General should not be able to provoke Yellow Robed Immortal.
Considering the Eight Witches, Tree God, and other divine entities within the World Outside the Ark... Tch... The divine entities from the World Outside the Ark obviously split into two groups.
One group was represented by the Water God and Wu Ming, almost silent.
The other group was the Eight Witches, Tree God, the divine entities who occupied the land, established Divine Countries, and enjoyed the worship and offerings.
The latter are the enemies that Li Muyang needed to defeat, the part of Wu Ming’s sealed body, were all in the hands of these divine entities.
It was just unknown how these divine entities were related to Yellow Robed Immortal.
Why they were able to occupy the land in the World Outside the Ark and establish Divine Countries right under Yellow Robed Immortal’s watch...
As Li Muyang pondered, his figure moved swiftly through Fuyun City.
Following the guidance of a map scroll, he arrived outside an Ancient Bronze Tower known as Futu Tower in Fuyun City.
This Futu Tower, with its nine levels, was made entirely of bronze, cold and solemn, standing tall in the middle of Fuyun City.
The base of the tower seemed to be one with the ground, as if it was integrated with the ancient city of Fuyun itself.
Li Muyang arrived in front of Futu Tower and kicked open the door, without the slightest politeness or courtesy.
After the bronze door was violently kicked open, the inside view was revealed to Li Muyang’s eyes.
The first floor of Futu Tower was utterly empty.
Only a hanging painting was enshrined in the center.
Within the yellowed painting, stood a faceless person amidst the clouds and fog.
This person’s figure was blurred, with a blank face void of any features.
But at the sight of this faceless person, Li Muyang felt an inexplicable sense of familiarity.
Just as Li Muyang was trying to recall where he had seen this person before.
The next second, the faceless person in the painting came to life.
It actually jumped out of the painting and appeared before Li Muyang.
"Wu Ming, you have finally arrived."
The faceless person, without any facial features, emitted a clear male voice: "I have been waiting for you for a long time."
Li Muyang curiously looked at it and asked: "Who are you? Why were you waiting for me?"
The faceless person waved his hand, and suddenly the scenery around him and Li Muyang changed greatly.
A vast and boundless chessboard appeared under their feet.
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Huge chess pieces as large as mountains, floated above their heads like countless stars.
The Faceless One gestured with his hand, "You make the first move."
Li Muyang was speechless: "Play chess?"
I suck at chess, damn it!
I can play Gomoku, but Go... isn’t that asking too much?
Li Muyang straight up abandoned the idea of passing the level by playing chess and charged toward the Faceless One ahead.
He turned into a 16-foot-tall divine figure, casting out Barrier-breaking Divine Light.
However, the Faceless One on the chessboard only shook his head.
Li Muyang’s Barrier-breaking Divine Light passed directly through its body, causing it no harm whatsoever.
Instead, with a summoning gesture from the Faceless One’s left hand, several chess pieces hanging in the sky like stars descended on Li Muyang with long trails like shooting stars.
In an instant, the chessboard flickered with light, and meteor-like pieces fell from the sky, causing intense explosions on it.
Three minutes later...
[You have died, game over]
[You can resurrect after 00:25]
The resurrection interface in his vision left Li Muyang at a loss for words.
"Only 25 seconds for resurrection, this one’s a total noob!"
There’s a pattern in this game: the larger the power disparity between you and the BOSS that kills you, the longer the resurrection time.
And this Faceless One kills him, yet he can resurrect after only 25 seconds, the power disparity between them is practically nonexistent.
But even though the panel data shows little disparity, this Faceless One in the game is overwhelmingly undefeatable.
Li Muyang frowned: "Damn it, I’ve run into a rules-based Divine Skill."
The Divine rely on various kinds of Divine Skills and Divine Powers, some Divines possessing special rules-based powers despite not being strong individually.
Encountering such Divines is the trickiest.
The Faceless One on the first floor of Futu Tower obviously requires winning a game of chess to be defeated.
But Li Muyang doesn’t know how to play chess, he doesn’t even understand the basics of Go.
At this moment, he was somewhat exasperated.
After the resurrection time ended, Li Muyang re-entered the game and tried to hack the Faceless One to death.
But the Faceless One could always summon the chessboard, forcing Li Muyang into the game to play chess with it.
Once in the game, Li Muyang had to play chess with it.
Completely clueless about playing chess, Li Muyang played randomly and was easily defeated by the Faceless One.
However, Li Muyang, who failed in the game, was not instantly killed by the Faceless One.
The Faceless One just waved his right hand, cleared the chessboard, and invited Li Muyang to the game again.
"...Please make your move."
After repeating this twice, Li Muyang caught on.
"This Faceless One is delaying my time!"
It was obvious that the Divine Power of the Faceless One was not strong.
If Li Muyang does not attack it actively or trigger the chessboard rule, it cannot do anything to him.
Setting up this chess game was purely to delay Li Muyang’s progress, hoping to wear him down right here.
"So these Divines are actually afraid of death too."
"They’re afraid of Wu Ming and don’t dare to confront him directly, so they send out the Faceless One to delay things?"
"Do they want to stall until the curse takes full effect?"
"Could it be that these curses have no effect on these Divines?"
Or perhaps, these Divines want to delay time until "the so-called tragedy" occurs?
Wu Ming’s purpose in resurrecting is to stop the Yellow Robed Immortal, to prevent the tragedy from happening.
But up to now, Li Muyang still doesn’t know what kind of tragedy he is supposed to prevent.
While contemplating, Li Muyang left the game and temporarily returned to reality.
He decided to seek out a chess master in Fuyun City to help him cheat.