Above the Ruined Plaza in the western district, the violent storm of starlight that had been strong enough to freeze the soul strangely calmed in just a few breaths.
There was no hysterical roaring, no indiscriminate bombardment that could destroy heaven and earth.
The extreme killing intent boiling in Han Yuchen's eyes because Leng Yuebai had been injured receded swiftly like an ebbing tide, finally replaced completely by bottomless cold and darkness.
The surrounding air still held a suffocating pressure, but Han Yuchen himself had returned to his usual relaxed, sinister look, hands in his pockets.
The angrier he became, the more terrifyingly clear this chess player's mind grew.
Blindly destroying this city just to vent his rage?
That was far too low-class. Since the laws of the Douluo Plane wanted to interfere by force, and since the rat in the shadows wanted to flip the table, then he would simply go with the flow and turn this chessboard into a meat grinder no one could escape.
"Buzz—"
A faint blue light flashed at Han Yuchen's chest, and a heavy book radiating an ancient, profound aura appeared out of thin air.
His slender fingers gently opened the Star Atlas, and the rustle of turning pages was especially clear amid the dead silence of the ruins.
As he poured in a wisp of pure Soul Power, the atlas's fourth function, Star Map Navigation, activated instantly.
A deep-blue holographic beam shot skyward from the pages, weaving itself before Han Yuchen into an extremely precise three-dimensional map of Heaven Dou City.
Most of the map's regions were shrouded in black mist that represented shadow corruption, but directly below his perspective, in the deepest reaches of the Underground Waterway, three dark-red skull icons were approaching straight upward at a terrifying speed that defied common