Chapter 155 Playing Chess Against the Heavenly Emperor
"What does this have to do with you?" the Heavenly Emperor said coldly.
"You really hate me," Han Wei said sadly.
"Nonsense, utterly nonsensical." The Heavenly Emperor turned his back, took a large step, and vanished.
"Aheng—"
Han Wei rushed forward, but her hand only touched empty air. She stood there, her divine sense covering the surroundings, but there was no trace of that figure, nor could she sense that aura anymore. She gazed at the enormous and majestic Chess Saint Palace high above and murmured, "I only need to win a hundred games to enter the Chess Saint Palace. Okay, I'll be right there."
As she spoke, she flew towards the direction of the Eighty-Two Peaks. Halfway there, Han Wei encountered Xu Lingyue, who was searching for her everywhere.
"Weiwei, Weiwei, where did you go?" Xu Lingyue asked.
"It's nothing, there was a little mishap just now, but it's all fine now. Let's go, let's go to the Eighty-Two Peaks," Han Wei said.
Xu Lingyue looked at her strangely: "Huh? Didn't you just say you were going to rest for a few days?"
"No need to rest."
After Han Wei finished speaking, she sped off towards the direction of the Eighty-Two Peaks.
Xu Lingyue called after her, "Weiwei, wait for me!"
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Xu Lingyue noticed that Han Wei had become very strange. She used to play chess leisurely, but now she seemed to be in a hurry to be reincarnated.
Her speed in placing the pieces was ridiculously fast, leaving the champions of each peak with psychological trauma. But she was truly amazing; she fought her way up to the hundredth peak.
Finally, she defeated the white-bearded old man guarding the last pass. That white-bearded old man looked like an extremely powerful immortal, perhaps even a celestial being. Xu Lingyue only glanced at the white-bearded old man and felt that he was unfathomably profound; his pair of emerald eyes seemed to be full of wisdom.
But she didn't expect that Han Wei would still defeat the white-bearded old man.
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Chess Saint Palace.
Standing at the entrance of the majestic palace, Han Wei looked up at the plaque of the Chess Saint Palace.
The Immortal Lord Qingyi, who had just been defeated by Han Wei, laughed and said, "Why don't you go in? You are the thirty-sixth person to have come here in the past four hundred thousand years."
Immortal Lord Qingyi was an old man with a long beard, white hair, and white eyebrows. Han Wei used seventy-two Divine Wisdom Dao Fruits to defeat him. She looked at Immortal Lord Qingyi and asked:
"Have all thirty-six people before me failed in their challenges?"
Immortal Lord Qingyi nodded: "Yes, they all failed."
Han Wei asked with a smile, "So, do you think I will succeed?"
Hearing this, Xu Lingyue asked, "Why are you so unconfident now? You weren't like this before. I thought you had already thought of all three wishes."
Han Wei looked at him and said, "I've really thought it through."
After saying this, she strode into the Chess Saint Palace.
Xu Lingyue and the others followed behind her. The interior of the Chess Saint Palace was extremely magnificent, with huge white pillars supporting the dome, which resembled a vast starry sea, filled with a rich celestial aura.
Xu Lingyue and the others were not challengers; once they reached a certain point, they could not proceed further. Only Han Wei continued forward, with her defeated opponents standing beside the surrounding passageways, such as Luo Xuan, Hongye, Wei Ruoer, and Xie Wei.
Wei Ruoer and the others smiled as they watched Han Wei walk slowly down the red carpet to the center of the main hall. There was a huge lotus pond with white lotus flowers in bloom. The clear water was a spiritual spring with colorful fish swimming in it.
In the center of the lotus pond stood a white jade platform, upon which sat a man dressed in black robes embroidered with gold thread. His long silver hair cascaded down his back, and his face was covered by a mask, obscuring his features except for a pair of golden eyes visible beneath it.
Upon seeing the person she had longed for again, Han Wei suppressed her excitement and bowed with clasped hands: "Junior Han Wei greets Palace Master."
The Heavenly Emperor glanced at her but remained silent.
Han Wei walked to the seat opposite the Heavenly Emperor and sat down. They looked at each other across the illusory chessboard, neither of them saying a word.
All eyes in the Chess Saint Palace were on the two of them. They looked at Han Wei and then at His Majesty the Heavenly Emperor, and suddenly a sense of absurdity arose in their hearts: the Heavenly Emperor knew this little girl named Han Wei. But how could that be?
Xu Lingyue and the others could only use their divine senses to see from afar, but they could not see through the divine light that enveloped the Heavenly Emperor; they could only see a blurry figure.
Han Wei and the Heavenly Emperor stared at each other for so long that everyone found it strange. Finally, Han Wei spoke up: "If I can defeat you, can you really grant me three wishes?"
"We'll talk after you win." The Heavenly Emperor's voice was cold and tinged with contempt.
Han Wei looked at him and bit her lip: "I will beat you."
She stared into his eyes, her expression resolute. She asked him, "Want to play a guessing game?"
"You can go first."
Hearing the disdain in those words, Han Wei's fighting spirit was immediately ignited: "Okay, thank you very much."
Han Wei pointed with her finger.
A wisp of azure light silently fell into the "center" position of the chessboard, transforming into a white chess piece with a hint of emerald green. As soon as the piece was placed, the entire illusory chessboard began to rotate as if it were a universe. Emerald green light emanated from that piece, spreading across the entire chessboard and infusing the entire universe with vitality.
A mysterious smile played on the Heavenly Emperor's lips, but unfortunately, he wore a mask, so no one could see it. With a flick of his finger, black energy condensed into a black stone, which landed in a seemingly insignificant corner.
The black pieces were filled with a strange vitality, and ripples spread out, stirring up small-scale law storms in the star field, destroying life.
Upon seeing this, Han Wei immediately placed a piece to occupy a star position.
Within Han Wei's sea of consciousness, the Divine Wisdom Fruits on the Divine Wisdom Tree all lit up with light as she placed her stones. Han Wei knew this was the most terrifying opponent she had ever faced, and she had to defeat him. She had to defeat him to obtain what she desired.
So she gave it her all from the very beginning.
One by one, the divine wisdom fruits released dazzling light, which all condensed into complex spells. Then, all sorts of strange and complex spell calculation processes appeared in the entire sea of consciousness. The speed at which these spells changed was extremely fast, even faster than the speed of thunder and lightning.
Han Wei was completely focused. The illusory chessboard changed constantly as she and the Heavenly Emperor made their moves, and terrifying scenes such as the rising and falling of the sun and moon and the birth and death of the universe appeared on the chessboard.
The scene was truly terrifying. Immortal Lord Qingyi immediately used magic to send Xu Lingyue and the other cultivators who had not yet become immortals out of the Chess Saint Palace. They could not bear to watch this game of chess.
They would definitely find this game unbearable to watch.
Even immortals like Luo Xuan, standing by and watching the battle, felt boundless terror. The ultimate vision of the universe's heat death and the return of all things to nothingness appeared in their divine senses. Fragments of the past battles between ancient gods and demons, or terrifying premonitions of the collapse of future stars, flew by like fleeting shadows, making even immortals tremble with fear.
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