Hearing those familiar, piercing words, Chaos's expression turned utterly grim.
He turned to look at the center of the courtyard. More than half the pieces on the chessboard, once covered in black, had now been stained white... This meant that a portion of the Psychiatric Hospital's authority that had originally belonged to him had completely fallen into Lin Qiye's hands!
Ever since he had seized the Psychiatric Hospital, he had been trying to plunder its authority. Though there had been some resistance at first, it had gradually become easier and easier...
He had assumed that the Hospital's consciousness was simply too weak and had completely lost the ability to resist. Who would have thought that it had secretly transferred all its authority to an ant-like serpent-man??
Chaos had gone to great lengths to seize the Hospital from Lin Qiye, only for the attendants Lin Qiye had left behind to forcibly snatch it back!
His chest heaved violently.
"Were you... toying with me?"
"You set things in motion twice and nearly got me killed... This time, it's my turn."
Lin Qiye gently pushed up the black-rimmed glasses on his nose. The third room on the Hospital's second floor, which had been locked shut, opened automatically, and a figure clad in a black-and-white Daoist robe stepped out.
It was the Taoist Celestial Venerable, whom Chaos had imprisoned.
A smile appeared on the Primordial Celestial Venerable's lips. He and the Taoist Celestial Venerable stood on either side of Lin Qiye as two waves of supreme divine might descended with a crash!
Two Celestial Venerables, and Lin Qiye, invincible within the Hospital.
Authority shifted, identities changed... Chaos's once-certain victory took a sharp turn for the worse.
"Rise, sword."
With a flick of the Taoist Celestial Venerable's fingertip, the wooden sword behind him shot forth