Li Hao had never seen such a spectacle even when watching his Master, the Dao Source Immortal Emperor, place his stones.
The two elders before him clearly possessed a Chess Dao realm far beyond his own, and beyond his Master's as well. They had likely reached the fourteenth dan, or even the fifteenth!
Li Hao became a stone on the board. All he could glimpse was an endless starry sky, with the myriad Dao laws forming its order and stellar continents scattered throughout. Within them lay world domains upon world domains, with layers of time overlapping into a fantastical, breathtaking vista.
"The order of laws forms the lines, space and time overlap, past and future..."
Li Hao's gaze grew dazed. Chess Dao-the board was one with heaven and earth.
A realization suddenly rose in his heart. An imperial ruler of Chess Dao used all living beings as stones. A venerable of Chess Dao used heaven and earth as the board, wielding galaxies, suns, and moons as stones. At the ultimate height of Chess Dao, the primordial universe, chaos past and present, were all mere drops in the ocean, all stones to be placed.
His own Chess Dao reversed yin and yang to change fate, using all living beings as stones. Even his opponent's stones could be deftly transformed into support for his own moves. But the Chess Dao before him stood far beyond that, transcending the board itself to lay out a game amid heaven, earth, and chaos.
"I am a stone..."
Li Hao looked around and saw that his position was already surrounded on every side.
His stone was already dead.
In another instant, it would be annihilated, shattered, and removed from the board.
"A way out, a way out..."
Li Hao's breathing quickened as his eyes swept his