Clearly, several masters all confirmed that the Bodhi Evil Ancestor’s seal had been reinforced by Huo Shi Ji using the Derivation Dao body, and could not emerge again unless a karma calamity occurred.

Why was Xu Xi Ming still able to appear openly and grandly, and even find the Yin Yang True Saint’s inheritance place?

Exactly which part of the process went wrong?

This figure, carrying the Cast Plow Sword and manifesting as Xu Xi Ming’s image, what kind of existence was it? And why did it repeatedly come before him?

Many shocking questions filled his mind, but they ultimately turned into a kind of calm. Jiang Wang’s five fingers tightened on the sword hilt, and he slowly said, “From where did you start?”

He knew very well that facing the Bodhi Evil Ancestor, who possessed supremely detached power, he had not even the slightest power to resist. Even if the other side was impersonating Xu Xi Ming at this moment, only manifesting an aura around the Cave True level and possessing only the power of the Cave True realm, it would still be impossible for him to achieve victory in a fight to the death.

But with his sword in hand, he still wanted to try.

Xu Xi Ming seemed completely unaware of Jiang Wang’s vigilance. His ugly face wrinkled, and he seriously answered Jiang Wang’s question: “It’s been over two years, and you haven’t come again even once.”

Chen Pu once asked Jiang Wang why Xu Xi Ming would seek him out. He asked Jiang Wang about his true feelings at that moment.

Jiang Wang said at the time that he felt ‘Xu Xi Ming’ was very lonely.

At this moment, in Xu Xi Ming’s answer, he felt that loneliness again.

Regardless of the Bodhi Evil Ancestor’s schemes.

At least the person represented by the name Xu Xi Ming had indeed wandered alone in the calamity water for a very long time. This time, it had been at least thirteen years. Before Wu Bing Yi came to the calamity water again, no one had the experience of encountering Xu Xi Ming.

And whether it was fortunate or unfortunate, two years ago, Xu Xi Ming did not appear in front of Wu Bing Yi, but chatted with Jiang Wang for a long time.

“The myriad threads of the mundane world, I too cannot escape.” Jiang Wang sighed and said, “Outside the calamity water, there is still the border wilderness, the present world’s eastern extremity, and beyond that, the vast sea. Behind the Ten Thousand Demons Gate, there is even the Heaven Prison World. Brother Xu, if one day only the calamity water remains, perhaps we can often sit down and chat.”

“I understand.” Xu Xi Ming said, “People in the rivers and lakes, their bodies are not their own. Even if you want me very much, you cannot come to see me every day.”

“Brother Xu is truly reasonable.” Jiang Wang looked around at the furnishings of this Yin Yang Great Hall, and slowly said, “Then how about we leave it at that for now? You also saw, I still have some matters to attend to—next time I’ll bring some gifts to see you.”

Xu Xi Ming only laughed uglily: “Hehe.”

Jiang Wang sighed and had to ask, “How long have you been looking for me, Brother Xu?”

Xu Xi Ming let out an ‘ah’ sound: “I heard you came to the calamity water, and I’ve been looking for you ever since.”

“Heard?” Jiang Wang raised an eyebrow: “Heard from whom?”

Xu Xi Ming used a finger to point at his own heart, his tone mysterious: “Listen, listen with your heart. Every one of us has left traces in the calamity water. Some more, some less, no one in the world is free of dust. They told me… you came.”

Jiang Wang was thoughtful: “Buddhism says cultivators come to the rootless world to cut karma and eliminate evil, to repay cause and effect. Perhaps it’s also this meaning you are expressing.”

“I just said a couple of sentences casually. If you take it seriously as knowledge to discuss, then it’s meaningless.” Xu Xi Ming frowned and said, “What do those bald heads understand?”

“Then let’s talk about what you understand—those who came to this Five Virtues World with me, eh?” Jiang Wang asked, “How did you treat them?”

Xu Xi Ming said, “I must emphasize one point, I am not ignorant. I have also thoroughly read the classics of the hundred schools. I just don’t want you to become a boring person.”

Jiang Wang showed an understanding expression and nodded seriously: “I understand you.”

Xu Xi Ming then said, “Are you asking about the four who came first, or the one who came with you later?”

Jiang Wang was a little nervous: “Ask about all of them.”

“Rest assured, they are all fine.” Xu Xi Ming waved his hand: “I have no interest in them.”

This inexplicable bad taste, instead, revealed a few points of human nature.

Jiang Wang said in a bad mood: “Please tell me what part of me is worth you taking an interest in?”

Xu Xi Ming’s expression was somewhat surprised and hurt: “You’ve forgotten our agreement?”

Jiang Wang remembered: “Either you come to the old mountain, and the cold pool illuminates the sword, or I go to the heaven punishment cliff, and the instrument stone listens to the sound? Since we have such an agreement, then we’ll go—”

Xu Xi Ming sighed: “But I’m not at the heaven punishment cliff.”

Jiang Wang also sighed: “The old mountain doesn’t belong to me anymore either.”

Xu Xi Ming laughed: “Then we really have fate!”

Jiang Wang also laughed: “Fate isn’t something that can be manifested by meeting once or twice. How about we talk about it next time?”

“Next time won’t be as simple as this time.” Xu Xi Ming said profoundly: “But you should at least get through this time first.”

Jiang Wang only said: “I hope that what you mean by ‘simple’, and what I understand by ‘simple’, are the same meaning.”

Xu Xi Ming held his six-foot-long sword in his hand. The statue of the Yin Yang True Saint was right behind him, making him appear even shorter, but he calmly asked: “Cast Plow against Long Xiang Si?”

Jiang Wang drew his sword from its sheath, and simply said: “Then let’s try this edge!”

Once a proud talent of the Legalist school, and now a true person of this world, they confronted each other inside this ancient great hall standing near the statue of the Yin Yang True Saint. Sword intent filled the air, and a battle was about to break out.

Just at this moment, a loud “bang” sounded, like thunder rising from flat ground!

The entire dome of the Yin Yang Great Hall was directly lifted open! A brilliant golden arch bridge, with an incomparably overbearing posture, crashed straight in.

The scene was like a golden great knife lifting open a person’s skull.

Above the arch bridge stood a man in red-bottomed, gold-edged martial clothes, holding a thick-backed, sharp-edged knife. He was an unrestrained male, who was just coldly watching Xu Xi Ming!

This was, of course, the Other Shore Golden Bridge!

The person standing on the bridge could only be Dou Zhao.

Dou Zhao had already come searching!

More accurately, while Jiang Wang was talking to Xu Xi Ming, he drove his perception boat, secretly swimming in the subconscious ocean, and touched Dou Zhao’s subconscious. And Dou Zhao quickly became alert, and with the power of delusion, penetrated this Five Virtues World and found Jiang Wang and Xu Xi Ming in this layer!

They had always been in the same Five Virtues World, but Xu Xi Ming had stirred the rules and forcibly created layers, so that even though they were in the same world, they were in different layers and could not discover each other.

This was different from the means Xu Xi Ming used two years ago when he appeared in front of Jiang Wang yet hid from the eyes of the crowd of masters.

Xu Xi Ming glared at Jiang Wang, very angry: “We agreed to spar, why did you call for help? Is there still justice in this world? Do you still know the meaning of fairness?”

Rumble rumble!

Behind Jiang Wang, an ultimate majestic ancient stone gate rose from the ground, completely replacing the hall gate of the Yin Yang Great Hall, suppressing this hall and this world.

The secret transmission of the Martial Emperor, Heaven Que!

Jiang Wang stood under the stone gate with his sword in hand, and calmly said: “Today we spar, if I die, I die for nothing. If you die, there’s still next time. Is there such fairness in this world?”

“Then let it be like this.” Xu Xi Ming said, “If Xu Xi Ming dies, he also dies for nothing.”

Jiang Wang said: “Xu Xi Ming doesn’t count, change the name you’re betting with.”

“Which name?” Xu Xi Ming had a blank face.

Jiang Wang of course was not willing to say that name, and only said: “I think Brother Xu is an honest person—”

“Why waste words with this ugly monster!” Dou Zhao listened impatiently, stepped onto the Other Shore Golden Bridge, his body showing the Dou War Golden Body, and with a Heaven Xiao knife, chopped directly towards Xu Xi Ming’s face: “You’re so ugly I don’t want to see you a second time! Let me help you peel off this face!”

Dou Zhao really… dared to scold anyone ah.

Jiang Wang originally wanted to take the opportunity to chat a few more sentences, using the old trick again, and with the touch of the subconscious ocean, call over Zhu Shi Xiong and the others to give Xu Xi Ming a just gang beating.

But Dou Zhao rushed so fiercely, he couldn’t delay either, so he rose in momentum, his frost robe shaking, and with a sword pointed directly at the North Dipper!

No matter what, Dou Zhao had already rushed forward, and if he was even a breath slower, it wouldn’t be loyal enough.

Above was the Other Shore Golden Bridge, and in front was the Heaven Que.

Suddenly the Heaven Xiao knife, suddenly the Xiang Si sword.

Xu Xi Ming held the law sword and could not come out, retreating again and again.

He retreated to the side of the Yin Yang True Saint statue, and suddenly became furious: “So it was you!”

At this moment, his aura suddenly rose. That five-foot-short stature seemed to prop up the sky and stand on the ground, and the sword in his hand was also like the only truth in this world.

Sword intent echoed in the sky—”Dare to ruin my affairs!”

He chopped with an angry sword, but not towards Dou Zhao, nor towards Jiang Wang, but turned his body and chopped at the Yin Yang True Saint statue.

The Yin Yang True Saint had already transformed his fate, and this golden body statue could not withstand a single strike. It was diagonally cleaved by a sword, and its spiritual light extinguished!

The entire Yin Yang Great Hall seemed to dim by three points.

And Xu Xi Ming himself, holding the law sword, just disappeared into thin air like that.

Jiang Wang’s sword momentum and Dou Zhao’s knife momentum also stopped abruptly here, crossing in front of where Xu Xi Ming had been.

What was going on?

Why did Xu Xi Ming suddenly leave again?

Sword edge shone on knife edge, Jiang Wang and Dou Zhao exchanged a glance, then moved past each other.

As contemporary absolute top heaven’s proud ones, they both had already sensed danger.

The moment Xu Xi Ming disappeared, Zhu Wei Wo, Zhuo Qing Ru, and the others also manifested themselves and appeared inside this broken great hall.

In the perception of Zhu Wei Wo and the others, the four of them came to the high and wide majestic Yin Yang Great Hall, and had not yet started exploring. They were observing the environment, waiting for Jiang Wang and Dou Zhao to recover… The next moment, the dome was lifted open, the golden bridge was erected on it, the hall gate was also blasted apart, and the heaven gate blocked the front.

True Person Jiang’s cloak was bathed in fire, and True Person Dou’s golden body surged, each intersecting in the air, just as knife and sword crossed.

“Does it have to appear this way?” Ji Li asked blankly.

The True Saint statue at the very front of the Great Hall was diagonally divided into two, and crashed down with a rumble.

Rotten wood and yellow mud broke into pieces on the ground.

Zhuo Qing Ru’s pupils jumped. At the point where the golden body broke, she felt the trace of the law sword! “This is?!”

“Xu Xi Ming just came over!” Jiang Wang said casually, his palm supporting the heaven gate, god light circling his body, directly crashing down half of the great hall, and flying up into the high sky!

Dou Zhao, however, stepped onto the Other Shore Golden Bridge, falling in a straight line. Rumble rumble, the golden bridge landed and ground the entire Yin Yang Great Hall to dust.

They did not communicate, but cooperated tacitly.

They took the already broken Yin Yang Great Hall as a cage, and one lifted it open.

The entire Five Virtues World just unfolded in front of everyone like this, bringing a magnificent visual shock—

The sky dome was like a cover, bright and pure white.

The vast ground was square, with boundary lines crossing vertically and horizontally.

This was a vast and boundless, seemingly constantly extending huge chessboard. The Yin Yang Great Hall they were just in was only a black piece on the chessboard!

Majestic great halls, whose outer shells were black or white, were like black and white pieces, crossing each other on such a chessboard, unfolding infinitely.

Where vision extended, the world extended to. Where vision could not reach, the world still extended.

How small people were inside such a world!

Even in front of any single piece, they were only like a group of ants!

And in the eyes of people who truly understood chess, even more shocking than the world itself was this chess game. It was so complex that it seemed to perform all the changes in the world, exhausting the ultimate principles of the chess way, making people dizzy to look at and exhausted to calculate.

Xue Tan Hua’s blue gem-like cat eyes stared wide.

Ji Li also stood in a daze, losing her composure for a moment: “The legendary ‘Heaven Derivation Bureau’, is it not seen in this place!”

The era of various Saints, where a hundred schools contended, with all kinds of ambitions, history records are endless.

In the 《Four Seas Strange Records》, such an anecdote is recorded—

It is said that Yin Yang True Saint Zou Hui Ming once played chess with the famous family saint Gong Sun Xi on Cold Mountain. Their chess power was equal, and their dao conduct was similar. On a small chessboard, the changes were almost exhausted, and they played ten games with no clear winner.

This is the famous “Cold Mountain Ten Games” in the history of chess.

Throughout long history, it has always been a classic famous game, repeatedly studied.

Just like Zhao Wu Yan of the Dragon Gate Academy, who specifically wrote a 《Cold Mountain Chess Theory》, analyzing these ten games in detail.

But in reality, between the two saints, they still played the eleventh game.

The two saints played chess on Cold Mountain, originally to discuss dao, but chess is an art of contention and killing, how can one not see who is superior.

At the end of the ten games of chess, there was no clear winner, so Zou Hui Ming said: “Why don’t you and I take heaven and earth as the board, erase the barriers of the ten thousand worlds, and engage in a killing match in the infinite?”

Gong Sun Xi happily responded.

This game thus had no set boundary. The two true saints played chess with their dao bodies for a hundred years, completing this eternal famous game, which is called “Heaven Derivation”.

“I always thought the Heaven Derivation Bureau was just a legend, I didn’t expect it to actually exist.” Ji Li recalled while recording this eternal famous game: “The final winner of the Heaven Derivation Bureau was the Yin Yang True Saint… he held the black pieces!”

Zhu Wei Wo said, not understanding: “Since this game is infinite and has no set boundary, how can there be a winner? Who can decide the win or loss?”

Ji Li said: “Although heaven and earth are infinite, human power has time and exhaustion! This game was deduced for a full hundred years, and eventually exceeded the limits of Saint Gong Sun’s calculation, so he had to resign.”

Reflecting on the ancient times and thinking about the present, one feels even more magnificent.

How shocking was the calculation ability of the two saints? Taking heaven and earth as the board, playing chess for a hundred years without limits, and then deducing this game to what terrifying degree?

The atmosphere of the Saints is truly grand!

Ji Li was knowledgeable and pointed out that this was the “Heaven Derivation Bureau”, and also clarified that the winner held the black pieces, which of course counted as giving her own suggestion. The clue to the Yin Yang True Saint’s final inheritance should be hidden within this game.

Ancient and modern famous games are countless, but the Heaven Derivation Bureau can undoubtedly rank among the front row in history. It has just always been hidden in the fog of history, making it difficult to distinguish between truth and falsehood, and the chess score is not seen, so no one can prove it.

To find the answer in such a game, of course, requires a shocking degree of calculation. Non-experts in the chess world need not even look at it again. Even if a heaven’s proud like Ji Li were to calculate, it would take at least two or three months to calculate even a beginning, let alone find that only true solution.

This game was destined to consume a huge amount of time and energy, and it was impossible to take a shortcut like in the Yin Yang labyrinth anymore.

But at this time, Jiang Wang and Dou Zhao, one in the sky and one on the ground, their minds were fundamentally not on the so-called Yin Yang family inheritance.

What truly made them think was—just now in the Yin Yang Great Hall, Xu Xi Ming said that the Yin Yang True Saint ruined his affairs. What was he referring to? What did the Yin Yang True Saint do? What does Xu Xi Ming want to do again?

Saints drop pieces, and their detached actions can easily control their lives and deaths. How dare they follow the rules and walk along the path they have set?

True people have their own path; this world is not for them.

Moreover, they are true people!

Jiang Wang’s palm supported the heaven gate as he soared into the high sky, crashing open the cloud wilderness all the way.

The sky is round, the earth is square, the world is boundless, and true people of this kind fly up.

The vast chess game is all at their feet. This world is like a game, and he is outside the game. How can the Heaven Derivation game be between this!

His frost robe fluttered, seemingly blending with the bright white of the sky.

And in his red-gold pupils, a sun leapt out!

In an instant, the sky horse raised its hooves and neighed long, dragging an eternally brilliant sun war chariot, carrying a sword immortal person blazing with god light, and went straight to the high sky.

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