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Chapter 760 - 641: Attempt

Chapter 760: Chapter 641: Attempt

As if nothing had happened, they continued to wander in the sky.

The corpse of the Demon Dao Corpse Gu also appeared, but before anyone could react, the corpse exploded, turning into corpse insects scattered everywhere, escaping in every direction.

Seeing this, a few orthodox Sect practitioners of the Profound Sect moved slightly, unexpectedly taking action with no warning, intending to kill all the Corpse Gu and cut off the Demon Dao Corpse Gu’s retreat.

"How dare you!"

"Seeking death!"

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Seeing this, the Devil Gate disciples started to intercept, and the Turbid Immortals from the other Taoist Schools who were slower to react also joined in, immediately plunging into a big melee involving more than a dozen Turbid Immortals.

Most of the Corpse Gu insects were hunted down, but still a small portion of the core Gu insects escaped, colliding with a skeleton soldier and disappearing on the spot, not planning to emerge for a while.

The abrupt start and abrupt end of the melee among the Turbid Immortals, was quite startling.

After the Corpse Gu escaped, they quickly withdrew their hands, each once again hunting down the skeletons as if nothing had happened earlier.

The special nature of the space round here meant that it was impossible to settle issues by fighting to the death. Instead of toiling for nothing, it was better to try and deal with an Immortal Skeleton and see what could be gained!

Although the Corpse Gu Demonic Dao failed, it broke free from the chess game, giving countless people confidence.

While they didn’t know what the specific situation of the chess game was, they knew it could end the game with their life-saving tricks. This made a bunch of them braver.

So, in less than a quarter of an hour, three Turbid Immortals entered the chess game.

"Can life-saving tricks like feigning death, be used to escape from the chess game?"

After figuring out the general situation, Wang Zijia didn’t wait any longer, planning to find a target and give it a try.

Regardless of whether he succeeded or failed, he planned to run away once it was over.

If he dragged things out, and proper Earth Immortals, or even Heavenly Immortals arrived, then he would be in real danger.

He had plundered quite a few things, and it wouldn’t be easy to run away if he got caught!

Wang Zijia looked at the sky, of the five giant skeleton statues, three were still wandering around, while the other two had been taken into a chess game and were playing.

There were seven Void Whales, all emitting an Immortal-level aura.

Taking into account that the Void Whales were some sort of biological nest weapon, Wang Zijia didn’t plan to mess with them.

Aside from these, there were four otherworldly monsters that were comparable to Earth Immortals.

One was a mummy-like witch monster, the face of a dry skeleton, holding a weird icy sword flickering with cold light, and clad in a dark, frosty armor.

This witch monster had made a very deep impression on Wang Zijia, it was the most outrageous in terms of power among the monster gods, somewhat like an invading general.

Surrounding it, was a cluster of mummy-like little witch monsters, wandering together.

Another was a four-armed, human-headed, fish-tailed, naga skeleton. If Wang Zijia remembered correctly, she seemed to be able to control the Void Whales.

Having had the experience of the special twin chess pieces, Wang Zijia felt that the most dangerous chess game should be against this one - carelessness might potentially draw seven Immortal-level Void Whales in to play the game with him at once!

This was the least ideal target!

One was a wolf-like giant skeleton. Wang Zijia didn’t have a deep impression of this guy, he just remembered that it was kind of crazy in battle.

The last skeleton was a guy dressed like a magician mage.

He hadn’t changed much when compared to his pre-Time Sin appearance, he was still appearing like a skeleton mage.

Moreover, he was the only one who hadn’t participated fully in the battle but was protected by several monster gods. The basic deployment of the entire invasion force was under his charge.

All Wang Zijia saw was him using a magic technique properly - right before he used his move to detonate the Time Sin, many disciples had died on the ground. He performed a Seventh-Level Divine Technique, causing many undead to crawl out from the bodies of the dead.

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These were more than ten Immortal-level targets.

The Skeleton Void Whale was the most exaggerated one. Not just in terms of its size, but also the sheer number of miscellaneous skeleton soldier mobs around it.

Going by the situation of the previous players, these miscellaneous soldiers would all be dragged into the game. So this was immediately ruled out by Wang Zijia.

What remained were three Demon Lords and four Monster Gods.

Wang Zijia had seen when they had besieged the seven decaying Immortals of the Taiching Palace. The Demon Lords had the greatest power, while two were Heavenly Immortals, so Wang Zijia gave up on them too.

The witch monster appeared to be an eighth-rank Heavenly Immortal-level Monster God, while the four-armed Naga was too uncertain.

Taking a slew of information into consideration, the most suitable targets were just the werewolf Monster God and the skeleton mage.

After thinking for a long while, Wang Zijia eventually turned his gaze towards the skeleton mage that seemed to be an undead mage god.

The reasons were that this mage was probably seen as the battlefield commander back then, and was also protected by several monster gods, which caused the lack of miscellaneous soldiers around him.

Moreover, this undead mage was relatively the weakest in terms of individual power.

Without enough corpses to summon, most of his fighting power was limited!

That werewolf Monster God was obviously from the same School of style as the witch monster, relying on personal martial power.

In case the chess games also involve outputting power while rooted, this kind of being would be the most dangerous!

So after weighing all factors, Wang Zijia felt that the undead legalist at the center, who looked like a king, might very likely be a soft target!

Of course, no matter how much he pondered, it wouldn’t matter until he tried personally. Without trying, everything was just speculation, and he might even end up going in the opposite direction.

So after a moment of thinking, Wang Zijia no longer hesitated, and stealthily vanished, quietly floating into the sky.

He entered the core circle of the wandering Demon Gods, heading straight for the skeleton legalist, who like a king from a different world, was being feared by all the Turbid Immortals.

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Just like when he made contact with the skeleton soldiers, once he approached a certain distance surrounding the legalist, both he and the legalist disappeared like phantoms.

This peculiar movement immediately caught everyone’s attention.

Because the Demon Lords were at least from Shen Hong’s subordinates, everyone was more familiar with them, and if trouble came up, they’d be more likely to use it.

Therefore, in a short period of time, no one had paid special attention to the strange world’s Demon Gods, especially the one at the core who was suspected to be the demon god commander.

"Someone is fiddling with the Demon God’s commander?"

"They’re playing straight for that skeleton at the core?"

"Did anyone see who went up there?"

"No, they seem to have disappeared suddenly!"

"Did an Immortal Venerate already arrived?"

"Impossible, if an Immortal Venerate really came, we would have seen a great commotion!"

"..."

The disappearance of the undead magician caught the attention of a large crowd of Turbid Immortals.

However, this was the fifth being that attempted to compete in a game with the Immortal, so there was no situation where a crowd was eagerly watching and waiting to claim the remains.

Everyone was paying attention to the ongoing games while collecting chess pieces to prepare for their own attempts.

By the time the four competitors came out of this round, they would roughly know the state of the competition and whether it was worth a try.

For this reason, it was of utmost importance to collect as many chess pieces as possible beforehand.

...

With familiar spatial changes, Wang Zijia prepared himself fully, ready to face a terrifying attack at any moment.

However, it seemed that this competition was entirely different from the previous Go competitions as there was no immediate start to the battle.

Wang Zijia still arrived in the chessboard space, but the massive chessboard had undergone strange changes, and it no longer resembled a Go board.

The center of the board now had a Border River. He sat on a towering main seat that resembled a throne, from where he could see the whole continental-like chessboard at a glance.

His opponent on the other side was not visible yet, being blocked by the light screen of the Border River.

Overall, it looked more like a western chess layout, except that apart from the throne, there were only massive Go grid squares around, with no other visible lines.

At the same time, some inexplicable information appeared in his mind.

[Please show the chess pieces you will use in this round. This round, the limit for ordinary chess pieces is ten. There is no limit for unique chess pieces.]

[Note: Any chess piece not placed in the chess piece repository beforehand will not be usable in this round.]

Feeling the information, Wang Zijia was stunned for a moment.

Only ten ordinary pieces?

Could they be skeleton soldiers?

So, did this mean that the competition was different from the previous round-based battles and was no longer a single-person fight?

Without hesitation, Wang Zijia first threw out ten Turbid Immortal Daoist Soldier Skeletons.

"Boom! Boom! Boom!"

With several earth-shattering sounds, Wang Zijia saw the skeletons he threw turned into huge bone sculptures and fell into the squares of the chessboard.

They looked like massive bone statues. Sitting on his towering throne, he looked out upon an orderly array of ten king guards before him.

"International chess? Or continue the fantasy Journey to the West team competition?"

Looking at this scene, Wang Zijia glanced at the Border River in front of him. Obviously, he couldn’t see the other side during the preparation phase.

Satisfied now, he started taking out various enormous treasures without any further random thoughts.

Three Immortal Pills;

A bone whistle;

A hexahedron crystal;

Two Immortal Jade Talismans;

This was the harvest from the Secret Realm.

Wang Zijia did not stop making his moves as a result of this.

With a slight movement of his mind, a black and white chess piece condensed and flew out of the False Dao True Record;

A piece of human skin emerged;

There was even a damaged Eight Trigrams Furnace Immortal Tool;

After some thought, feeling a little uneasy—he was, after all, going to fight against an immortal, even if it was just a competition— a God Wheel emerged behind him;

The Five Ghosts also came out and floated around;

The force of space-time fluctuated, and a strange fog emerged.

After rummaging for a while, he finally pulled out a Secret Book, the "Taiching Immortal Island Seven-Star Array Cultivation Scroll".

After thinking again for a short while, he could not come up with any other Earth Immortal level power or divine tool!

After Wang Zijia took out the items, phantom white chess pieces began to appear in front of him.

Loading special chess pieces: Pills (Immortal, Promotion, Enlightenment)

A one-off consumable chess piece, you can use to resurrect once, promote a designated chess piece to Turbid Immortal once, and allow a designated chess piece to comprehend unique ability once.

Note: Pills are one-off consumable chess pieces, and not only do they consume chess pieces, but they also consume the corresponding pill.

Loading special chess pieces: Bone Whistle (Team Leader)

You can use the bone whistle to summon a dual-bodied Earth Immortal chess piece. This comes with characteristic: Sexual Chaos.

Loading special chess pieces: Heart of Rune (Twin)

The holder of this piece can attack twice in each attack phase.

Loading special chess pieces: Immortal Jade Talisman (Seven-Star Guardian and Seven-Star Heavenly Heart Pendant)

Seven-Star Guardian: Summons seven stars that linger around, providing absolute defense, can be immune to all attacks under the Earth Immortal, usable five times.

Seven-Star Heavenly Heart Pendant: Summons seven heavenly lamps, falling like meteors, igniting everything, possessing the might of the Earth Immortal’s limit, usable three times.

Note: Immortal Jade Talisman pieces and pills are the same, they are consumables.