Chapter 772.1

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Old Chess Master laughed miserably, then said, “Man’s plans are nothing in front of Godly intervention.” He rushed towards the Sky Prison King, Gao Peng, who had disguised himself as the butler, Jiao Shi, intending to die together with him in the impending explosion of the Forbidden Light Star.

The Sky Prison King, Gao Peng, however, reached out a hand and made a grabbing motion, binding Old Chess Master in mid-air. He smiled before retorting, “I am no longer the same person as I was six thousand years ago. Besides, if I hadn’t been exhausted from multiple battles, how could you have killed me with your level of strength back then? King of Chess, my old friend, I shall send you off first, I still have a mission and can’t accompany you.” Gao Peng then lightly shook his hand.

Old Chess Master was instantly flung backward.

By the time Old Chess Master was able to rush back and lay out his Thousand Chessboard Diagrams, the Sky Prison King, Gao Peng, had already turned into a shadow and disappeared into the Radiant Light Secret Passage.

“ ”

A deafening roar erupted and a huge mushroom cloud rose high into the sky. Space itself was distorted due to the massive explosion. Spatial cracks formed in the sky directly above where Rizhao City had been. These spatial cracks quickly grew in size, merged into each other, and eventually evolved into a huge black hole that devoured everything.

All the creatures that fell inside would never be reborn!

Due to being interconnected to the Dark Realm when the passage between both realms was destroyed, the realms overlapped, resulting in a mysterious and eerie phenomenon—the ground cracked!

The entirety of Sun Island had been split into two halves!

The space around Sun Island was incredibly unstable. Countless spatial fissures were opening and closing. When these spatial fissures rubbed against each other they generated tyrannical energy streams that would destroy anything that came into contact with them.

The sturdy city lord’s castle had crumbled. Except for the Radiant Light Secret Passage, the entirety of Sun Island was deformed and twisted. It was as if a pair of invisible demonic hands were wringing it.

The surrounding skies were packed with fleeing people. The majority of them were fleeing towards the far valleys, intent on escaping beyond the barrier of the canyons and mountain ranges. Meanwhile, a few panicked stragglers seemed to have lost all rational thought and flew, like blind flies, towards Sun Island. On Sun Island, the enormous, cross-shaped center avenue suddenly burst open. The huge opening shorty formed into something that looked like a ferocious monster’s giant maw, silently mocking the remaining survivors.

The historical Rizhao City, which had never fallen, the bastion which six thousand years ago had successfully broken the invasion of the rebels from Tong Tian Tower, had finally fallen today.

~ Minutes ago, inside the Radiant Light Secret Passage ~

Old Chess Master closed his eyes. His steady fingers gently lowered the last piece he had been holding in one of his hands.

Only ten seconds were left.

These would be the last ten seconds of his life.

Just as Old Chess Master’s face broke into a smile, when he was ready to die, he suddenly saw a young man coming out of the secret passage. Standing behind the young man was a group of ghostly guys. Many of them were old acquaintances of the Old Chess Master.

“Impossible!” Since he was about to die, Old Chess Master preferred to believe that this was all a hallucination.

“Although I can’t stop the explosion of the Forbidden Light Star device, I can delay it for three minutes,” the young man said. Three minutes is not much, not even enough to play a full game of chess, yet a lot can happen.” The young man who walked out in front of Old Chess Master was, of course, Yue Yang. The group of ghostly shadows behind him were the Tong Tian Tower warriors who had been sealed, as well as the remaining rebel leaders that had remained in Heaven Realm.

“So, it turns out, Gao Peng appeared just to cover for you.” Old Chess Master now understood the situation completely.

Why had the Sky Prison King, Gao Peng, come in and exposed his identity when he couldn’t stop the explosion? He wasn’t trying to show off in front of his old nemesis. Rather he did it to give this young man cover so that Old Chess Master wouldn’t notice him infiltrating the sealed underground dungeon.

When he saw the Sky Prison King, he was so shocked that his attention had been wholly focused on his old enemy, Gao Peng. He didn’t realize there was a young man who was saving prisoners right under his nose. This young man was the Prison Emperor of the younger generation. A young man that was even younger than the previous Prison Emperor, and also wiser, Yue Yang, who was walking past him at this moment, did not even spare him a glance.

Old Chess Master felt like a huge hammer was rhythmically hammering on his heart.

Defeated!

Again! [1]

This time, he was not defeated by the invincible power of the previous Prison Emperor. He was defeated by the wisdom of this young man.

If the other party hadn’t taken the initiative and shown up, he was afraid he would have died without ever knowing that he had failed in carrying out his duties.

[1] EB: I think these are the thoughts that Old Chess Master feels are like rhythmic hammer blows timed to his heartbeat. It’s implied that these blows repeat, over and over.

(thump) Defeated! (thump) Again!