MTLNOVEL Chapter 1100 - 1056: Not In Control of Oneself
Chapter 1100: Chapter 1056: Not In Control of Oneself
Thirty-five cultivators at the Rule Integration Realm glanced at each other, their eyes full of helplessness.
Months ago, the Wu Meng Clan had already made it clear that no cultivator from the Rule Integration Realm was allowed to leave the Black Stone Domain; if even one was found missing, the corresponding Race would have to compensate with ten of the same rank from the Rule Integration Realm to pay with their lives.
Let alone the fact that one life was to be compensated with ten, the Wu Meng Clan could likely mobilize the Open Heaven Realm just to make an example by capturing you directly.
The Open Heaven Realm was entirely different from the Rule Integration Realm; the difficulty of escaping the pursuit of someone from the Open Heaven Realm was unimaginable.
As a result, not a single cultivator dared to flee from the Black Stone Domain.
As for the entire Race fleeing the Black Stone Domain together, it would most likely mean the extermination of the entire clan.
They could neither advance nor retreat.
“If we come out from the inside, do we really not have to engage in battles for a year?” A cultivator from the Rule Integration Realm couldn’t help but ask.
Now that the Xuan Clan had come to the Black Stone Domain, this year would likely be the most brutal time for confrontations between the two sides; avoiding this period was not unacceptable.
“You can choose not to believe and therefore not to enter!” Wu Han snorted coldly.
The thirty-five cultivators remained silent; at this moment, aside from believing, there seemed to be no other choice.
If you didn’t enter, and Wu Han took note of you, with the current situation, there really were many ways to kill you.
“Let’s go!”
A Forest Clan cultivator whispered sharply, then turned and flew towards the direction of the chessboard, with the other cultivators at the Rule Integration Realm gritting their teeth and following behind.
Chen Fei remained silent from beginning to end, as the strength of the Wu Meng Clan was too formidable, leaving those from the Black Stone Domain at the Rule Integration Realm with very few options, or rather, no choice at all.
When the cultivators from the Rule Integration Realm reached fifty miles away from the chessboard, a massive suction force emerged, followed by thirty-five figures vanishing into thin air.
Chen Fei felt a powerful force binding him, then this force flung him to a certain place.
Chen Fei tumbled through the air and landed on the ground, only to find that he still couldn’t move.
Chen Fei’s gaze swept around; mountains and rivers came into view, the terrain appeared to be quite complex.
Top Grade Dao Artifacts, in terms of might, could not compare with the peak of the Rule Integration Realm, but in sheer power alone, they were far superior to those in the late stages of the Rule Integration Realm.
Therefore, no one who entered with brute force could break the constraints, not a single cultivator from the Rule Integration Realm.
Chen Fei, with a cultivation at merely the initial stage of the Rule Integration Realm on the surface, naturally could not accomplish such a feat either, unless Chen Fei displayed all his power, but the situation had not escalated to that extent yet.
From a distance earlier, the chessboard didn’t seem large, but upon truly arriving here, one could no longer perceive the specific dimensions within.
They were forbidden from flying, and their perception was compressed within a mile; anything beyond was shrouded in fog.
Chen Fei activated the Desolate Universe God Devouring Sword, and the three Space Secondary Rules were mobilized, breaking through the fog beyond a mile.
In an instant, with the Space Rules as an anchor, Chen Fei encompassed the entire chessboard within his perception.
Three hundred miles long and one hundred and fifty miles wide, these were the specific dimensions of the space within the chessboard.
At this moment, the other thirty-four cultivators of the Rule Integration Realm from the Black Stone Domain were scattered in every corner of the chessboard, while the Xuan Clan’s several cultivators were on the other side of the chessboard.
The perception of the Black Stone Domain’s cultivators was confined within a mile, but those from the Xuan Clan had no such restrictions.
Moreover, the control over the vital energy of heaven and earth was entirely in the hands of the Xuan Clan; the cultivators from the Black Stone Domain could only draw upon their own power.
Thus, even though the number of cultivators from the Black Stone Domain appeared greater, the advantage was entirely on the side of the Xuan Clan.
Outside the chessboard, Tu Ying looked at Wu Han, casually tossing the Ruyi in her hand aside, then took a step forward, approaching the chessboard.
“Please!” Tu Ying gestured with her right hand.
“Hmph!”
Wu Han hummed coldly and moved to the other end of the chessboard.
This game was for them to act as flag bearers, while the many cultivators in the chessboard were the pieces in a contest of strategy and power.
Simultaneously, a force enveloped the area to prevent any interference.
Inside the chessboard, Chen Fei was observing everything around him when he suddenly sensed something, looked up to the sky, and saw two vast figures appear in the heights, overlooking everything here.
Chen Fei’s gaze fluctuated, and then he sensed the cultivators from the Black Stone Domain starting to move.
The turns were played by Wu Han and Tu Ying at swift speed; in just a short while, the cultivators from both sides within the chessboard had already clashed.
In this so-called game of chess, one’s skill at the game was one aspect, while the outcome of the battle among the cultivators within the chessboard was another.
Even if your skills at chess were superior, but your pieces within the chessboard faltered in battle, in the end, the entire game would still be lost.
All the cultivators inside the chessboard were at the mercy of the external players, controlled by Wu Han and Tu Ying, and only when two pieces opposed each other would they regain the ability to move; this was also when the battle would begin.
On the side of the Black Stone Domain, the only thing the many cultivators could do was to fight with all their might when encountering the opposing pieces.
Although they couldn’t control the vital energy of heaven and earth and their perception was limited, within their bodies each cultivator from the Rule Integration Realm had already cultivated a Source Point Space, so they wouldn’t run out of essence force in a short period.
Thus, although his battle strength was affected, it wasn’t to the most fatal extent.
Chen Fei’s figure had been displaced tens of miles within the chessboard, and as time went on, his face inevitably grew somewhat dark.
It wasn’t that Chen Fei was about to encounter the opposing chess piece, but rather that the chess skills displayed by Wu Han were not utterly abysmal, but they were still completely crushed by the Xuan Clan’s Tu Ying.
In a situation where he clearly had more pieces on his hands, he was being defeated so soundly that he was losing his gear in disarray.
In just the time that had passed, out of the thirty-five Rule Integration Realm entities from Black Stone Domain, four had already perished, whereas from the opposing Xuan Clan and its vassal clans, only one Rule Integration Realm entity had died.
The death of that one was not due to a sudden improvement in Wu Han’s chess skills, but purely because a Rule Integration Realm fighter from the Black Stone Domain fought desperately and managed to slay an opponent.
Within this chessboard, each area had its own rules; good strategic deployment of troops could afford one’s own side a greater advantage. But, as things currently stood, every clash between the pieces showed the advantage was on the Xuan Clan’s side.
At this rate, it wouldn’t be an overstatement to say that if things continued, not many from the Black Stone Domain’s Rule Integration Realm would survive, let alone die in droves.
Fortunately, there’s a rule in this chessboard game: once one side has fewer than five pieces left, it will be deemed to have lost.
Chen Fei, pulled by the power of the chessboard, leapt over a tall mountain and arrived in the midst of a basin, where the power of the chessboard dissipated, and at the same time, a Rule Integration Realm Early Stage warrior from the Qing Clan leapt into view.
The only thing Wu Han’s chess skills could guarantee, it seems, was to have warriors of the same rank in the Rule Integration Realm clash, rather than allowing the Xuan Clan to fight with an unfair rank advantage.
“Human race?”
Wu Yue looked at Chen Fei, his eyes flashing with a cold light, and within a twenty-mile radius, all the power of heaven and earth was bestowed upon Wu Yue, boosting his power instantly.
“Trap! Seal!”
Wu Yue pointed at Chen Fei, and the power of heaven and earth in the surrounding space began to constrain Chen Fei, causing his body to involuntarily sink a bit.
His essence force was weakened by more than 30%, and his perception of the rules also became blurred. To resonate with the rules, he would need to expend much more energy.
Of course, this didn’t affect Chen Fei much. At most, it just gave Chen Fei a taste of the suffocating conditions under which the other Rule Integration Realm warriors from Black Stone Domain had been fighting.
To be able to turn the tables and kill an opponent under such conditions, as that one warrior from the Hill Clan had in the Rule Integration Realm mid-stage, was truly not easy.
“Die!”
Wu Yue shouted furiously, his figure transformed into dozens of afterimages surrounding Chen Fei. With the enhancement from the power of heaven and earth, these illusions seemed incredibly real, making it difficult to distinguish the true from the false.
Naturally, Chen Fei could see clearly, but with so many of Wu Meng Clan’s eyes on the outside world watching, he could not reveal strength beyond what an early-stage Rule Integration Realm should possess.
Dozens of warriors materialized around Chen Fei, corresponding one-on-one and colliding with the afterimages created by Wu Yue.
In the time that had just passed, more than half of the 108 warriors Chen Fei had materialized on the front lines had dissipated.
During collective warfare, an individual’s power was indeed limited.
Only now could Chen Fei manifest warriors to aid himself.
“Boom!”
The warriors almost collapsed on contact, but some of the hints within were seemingly enough to help Chen Fei determine Wu Yue’s real body.
Chen Fei flipped his body, and the Qianyuan Sword was positioned in front of him.
“Bang!”
Tremendous Strength surged, and Chen Fei was knocked flying less than half a mile backward as Wu Yue charged at him again, followed by dozens of figures attacking Chen Fei all over again.
Chen Fei repeated his old trick, creating dozens of warriors again to crash against Wu Yue’s illusory figures to discern his real position.
In this back and forth defense, Chen Fei was guarding flawlessly. Although constantly pressed, the aura about him remained steady, and he did not show any signs of fatigue.
Wu Yue’s expression turned somewhat ferocious; killing a Rule Integration Realm entity from the Black Stone Domain would bring a handsome reward from the Xuan Clan, even the exemption from colliding on the frontline for a period of time.
Now, with both the right time and place in his favor in this zone, the failure to capture this human race was infuriating to Wu Yue.
In less than the time it takes for a cup of tea to cool, Chen Fei suddenly sensed the power of the chessboard reappearing slowly, while Wu Yue frowned.
Clearly, with no victory discerned here for some time, under the rules of the chessboard game, these two pieces, the flags of both sides, were soon free to be redeployed.
“Next time, you won’t be so lucky!” Looking at Chen Fei, Wu Yue declared coldly, his heart unwilling to accept the outcome.
Given a little more time, he was certain he could break through the defenses of this human race; he was just that short of time.
Chen Fei glanced at Wu Yue, his figure suddenly darted forward, stabbing the sword toward Wu Yue’s head.
Wu Yue was taken aback, then a mocking expression appeared in his eyes. Having been suppressed all this time, the human race dared to counterattack just before leaving.
Wu Yue moved forward instead of retreating, taking a step forward. But as he took that step, he didn’t appear in front of Chen Fei but behind him instead.
In that instant, the space around him suddenly expanded and then collapsed, causing Wu Yue to misjudge the distance.
“Chi!”
Before Wu Yue could react, a sword blade that had been ready for a long time pierced through the back of his head, the tip emerging from Wu Yue’s forehead.