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Chapter 757 - 638: Bone Whistle and Chess Piece

Chapter 757: Chapter 638: Bone Whistle and Chess Piece

"So, that’s how it is!" Wang Zijia uttered, stepping forward to slowly roll up the scroll painting, while saying: "You’d better leave this place!"

"Alright, if I’d known this was the dwelling of an Immortal Venerate such as you, I would have never recklessly barged in!" Yao Wenxuan responded immediately.

Wang Zijia shook his head, saying, "It’s not because of that, what I mean is, if ’the Big Shot’ shows up later and finds nothing here, and you’re still around, then you’d likely be scapegoated!"

Although making the other party take the fall would be quite amusing, and given this guy’s situation, it was quite possible that he could become the fall guy.

But the two had lived together amicably for half a year, and could be considered good friends. With no history of resentment or vendettas between them, it was better not to drag one another into a life or death situation. It was no joking matter!

Wang Zijia’s words left Yao Wenxuan dumbstruck for a moment. Upon realization, his face turned green in an instant, and he hastily said, "Thank you for the warning, Immortal Venerate. I will take my leave!"

Upon finishing his sentence, he vanished without any hesitation, not showing any intention of walking with Wang Zijia.

Wang Zijia did not try to hold him back as he had noticed long ago that Yao Wenxuan was somewhat resistant to him.

Even after half a year together, and the two of them growing quite familiar with one another and becoming good friends, that resistance had not changed. It wasn’t unfamiliarity, but Wang Zijia guessed it was probably because of Yao’s grandfather.

However, that was just fine with him. Wang Zijia didn’t want to be with him either!

This guy acted strangely and Wang Zijia, not wanting to get into any unwarranted big troubles or be pursued for no reason, decided not to follow him.

As a result, the two who were on good terms seemed to repel each other.

Wang Zijia, having retrieved the scroll painting with a flick of his hand, promptly left Changmei Island without lingering.

Just like he had said before, everything here had been ransacked, leaving only the core area untouched. If ’the Big Shot’ found out, he would be in big trouble!

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Leaving Changmei Island was easier than entering it; it didn’t require any permission. Wang Zijia concealed his presence and slipped out without causing even the slightest disturbance.

Soon after, Wang Zijia made his way toward the other six floating islands.

He chose the nearest one and, for experiment’s sake, tried to enter using both an Immortal Seed Identity token and a Head Teacher’s Array Control token.

But predictably, it didn’t work. He couldn’t sneak in at all.

His command token was only meant for crossing the tribulation and granted him control over Changmei Island, which was a given.

The seven Immortal Islands were the core of Taiching Palace’s array and its central hub. If the command token could be used to sneak into all of them, that would equate to possessing a Master Control token. And what kind of concept would that be?

Had either the Head Teacher, Lu Huaitao, or the entire Taiching Palace gone mad?

Although he knew what the outcome would be, Wang Zijia still visited each of the six Immortal Islands and hurriedly conducted an experiment.

Having achieved no results, Wang Zijia finally turned his attention toward his surroundings and began to ponder over the chess pieces and the contest at hand.

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By this time, since his return and the change from the Ghostly Domain to the Mysterious Domain had been revealed to the public, more than half an hour had passed.

Numerous cultivators who had been waiting outside had entered the domain, and more were pouring in constantly.

Almost all of the high-level cultivators in the Northern Region of the East Wilderness had arrived. The situation was far from calming down and was, in fact, continuing to escalate.

Within a day or two, it was estimated that it would sweep across the entire East Wilderness, possibly even alerting the Central Immortal Domain.

After all, whether it was the ruins of Taiching Palace or the Immortal Devil’s Body or the Extraterritorial Monster God, any of these was enough to provoke any Immortal’s nerves.

At this moment, even though many cultivators had entered this secret world domain, they appeared non-noticeable like a drop of water when compared to the sky full of skeletons.

This was, after all, a battle that had crossed realms and could have led to a situation where the overall leading sect of the Daoist East Wilderness at the time, the Taiching Palace, faced extinction.

There were too many skeletons in the sky.

There were more than a dozen Immortal-level skeletons, Devil Monarchs, Monster Gods, and Void Whales.

Having observed them for a moment, Wang Zijia took out a skeleton soldier.

Called a chess piece, this thing could have been a one-time God Monarch-level Dao Soldier when taken out. Even if he didn’t play the game, it would still be good to gather some more.

Just as he was about to join the sky-bound gathering army, Wang Zijia hesitated.

Looking at this skeleton soldier, he discovered something interesting.

After hesitating for a moment, he pulled out a bone whistle, the size of a little finger.

It was the only item that Wang Zijia had managed to acquire during the Three Realms Temple event. But after exhaustive research efforts led to nothing, and even after his cultivation advanced, Wang Zijia received no breakthrough upon further examination.

He had found it was a special instrument. But because it was severely lacking in energy and its purpose was unknown, there was no way to glean any specific information from it. So it had simply been left in the corner of the spatial ring to gather dust.

At the moment, however, he found that this Dao Soldier bore some resemblance to this finger bone.

It was an unexpected discovery at first. But who knew that upon taking out the finger bone, he would make an astonishing discovery.

[Discovery: Special Chess Piece Found. Can absorb other chess pieces for restoration and growth!]

Another special chess piece?

Immortal pills, Immortal Jade Talismans, and the it bone whistle, all of them were special chess pieces?

And what effects might these chess pieces have?

In the midst of flashing thoughts, Wang Zijia brought the finger bone and the skeleton soldier together.

The moment the two touched, an odd force inside the skeleton soldier in his hand was extracted and poured into the bone whistle, causing the skeleton Dao Soldier to disappear and the bone whistle to flicker with a small amount of spiritual light.

Subsequently, Wang Zijia finally understood what this finger bone truly was.

To his surprise, it was actually a Dao Soldier-summoning treasure of an Immortal Artifact-level.

However, similar to Talisman Weapons, there were limitations and restrictions on its use.

Probably because its Taoist soldier from the Bone Whistle was destroyed, this talisman weapon was actually broken, and could even be considered trash with no real use.

But at this moment, with the nourishment provided by Skeleton Dao Soldiers, and the strange rules of this place, it was possible to use it once more!

Staring at the Bone Whistle and several Immortal Jade Talismans in his hand.

Therefore, the force of the Immortal Level could be regarded as a special chess piece here, being able to unleash strange powers in a game against an Immortal?

At this moment, he already had quite a few Immortal Level chess pieces!

In his thoughts, Wang Zijia lifted his head again, looking at the sea of skulls in the sky with a delighted expression, and then at the Immortal Level skeletons in the center of the sky, his heart brimming with confidence.

Then, without any hesitation, Wang Zijia shot towards the sky and plunged into the sea of skulls in the sky.

He joined the huge army gunning for chess pieces.

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The entire hemispherical Secret Realm was huge, encompassing almost all of Taiching Palace. In terms of territorial range, it was several times larger than the territories of the Previous Life. Describing it as a Mini World Secret Realm wouldn’t be an exaggeration.

If it weren’t for Wang Zijia’s detonation, the double influence of Space-Time Energy and Power of Tao Fruits, it would be unlikely to form such a strange Secret Realm-like Mysterious Domain.

At this moment, countless cultivators from East Wilderness and Northern Region had penetrated into this realm, but had made little waves.

Wang Zijia selected a skeleton that was equivalent to a Primordial Spirit and charged towards it.

With a spatial shift, he stood on a chessboard-like ground. The starry sky formed a hemispherical dome above, and a skeleton charged at Wang Zijia from across.

Having had a prior encounter, Wang Zijia didn’t panic. He activated his shield and moved into a defensive stance.

After its attack ended, Wang Zijia didn’t hesitate. A spear attack tearing through the sky was launched at it.

"Boom!"

With one strike, the skeleton was annihilated.

At that instant, space shifted again. Wang Zijia reappeared, the skeleton vanished and a finger-sized Skeleton Dao Soldier emerged.

"It feels a bit like the old game ’Magical Journey to the West’. This Mysterious Domain is truly bizarre! Was it influenced by my actions? Could it be that I subconsciously like this kind of stuff? I didn’t like this sort of stuff in the past!"

In Wang Zijia’s murmurings, the recently-acquired Skeleton Dao Soldier came in contact with the Bone Whistle.

With the same shimmering streaming light, the finger-sized Skeleton Dao Soldier turned into ashes as it disappeared, and the Bone Whistle lit up a bit more.

Putting the messy thoughts out of his mind, Wang Zijia chose another Skeleton Soldier and charged at it.

This time it was one in the Tribulation Stage.

Looking at the familiar chessboard-shaped arena again, where he was on the defensive and the opponent attacked, it seemed that below the Immortal Level, all would have to fight in a round-based battle mode. The strange chess games must only appear when the big bosses fight.

Wang Zijia reinforced his defense with several layers out of caution.

Though his fighting capability had surged quite a bit, engaging in an attack and defense combat against a Tribulation Crossing Cultivator was about raw power, not integrated fighting skills.

Most of the means he had were virtually useless.

"Crash!"

"Crack!"

A strong attack came, leaving several cracks in the crystallized shield, but it finally withstood the attack without being fractured.

Wang Zijia was relieved.

The next moment, when it was his turn to attack, he didn’t hold back at all. A shattered, silver-red crystal longsword condensed and rushed toward the opponent with the twisted Divine Light of Primordial Magnet.

"Boom!"

Surprisingly, it didn’t annihilate the skeleton with one strike, only causing significant breakage to its body.

Having to slash back and forth three times, he finally managed to eliminate a Tribulation Stage Skeleton completely.

The space shifted again, and this time Wang Zijia not only received another Skeleton Dao Soldier from the Tribulation Stage, but also obtained a broken, strange Magic Staff.

Like killing a monster and gaining equipment!

It was roughly sixth grade, clearly different from Shen Hong’s Artifact Refining Approach.

This magical treasure emphasized on skill assignment!

It’s a pity there’s no storage bag or anything. Strictly speaking, none of the Skeleton Soldiers had any storage bags. They probably had them before, but all of them were destroyed by the erosion of Space-Time Energy.

All the spiritual objects inside became the nutrients that shaped the bizarre landscape of this place.

After examining the magic staff, the thought process was different, and the refining method was also different, but after all, it was still a magical treasure. The essential difference wasn’t too significant, and it could serve as resources for the advancement of his magical treasures!

Putting away these items, he fed another Skeleton Dao Soldier to the Bone Whistle. Wang Zijia charged again at another Skeleton Soldier.

Just like that, along with the various cultivators that entered, Wang Zijia began hunting down skeletons in the sprawling sea of skulls to obtain Taoist Soldier chess pieces.

The only difference was that Wang Zijia didn’t accumulate Taoist Soldier chess pieces. He fed them all to the Bone Whistle.

Having a bird in hand is worth more than a thousand in the forest. If he truly wanted to try reaching the sky and experiment with a chess match against an Immortal-Devil Skeleton, then no amount of trash could match up to a top-grade piece.

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The entire sky was filled with skeletons, most of them being Infant Gods and Primordial Spirits. The Tribulation Stage was significantly less.

After all, even in the battlefield in the sky dominated by the elites of trans-regional wars, a cultivator at the Tribulation Stage could hardly be considered a soldier!