At that moment, Ancestor Shiwei waited a little. When Pei Ling asked no further questions, he said, "Does the young friend have any other questions?"
Pei Ling came back to himself and thought carefully for a moment. Then he asked, "I have one last question... Do all paths to immortality require playing the Fusheng Chess Game? Why?"
This was also the last question he had asked Long Bo War King beneath Gui Sang in You Su Fen.
Long Bo War King's answer had been a simple "yes," with no explanation.
That was because Long Bo War King did not know the exact reason either...
Now that he was asking Jiuyi Mountain's ancestor the same question, he hoped to learn more clues about the Fusheng Chess Game!
At this, Ancestor Shiwei replied with an impassive expression, "All paths to immortality require playing the Fusheng Chess Game. As for why..."
He paused, then asked instead, "I wonder how much the young friend knows about the Three Divine Trees?"
The Three Divine Trees?
Pei Ling paused briefly, then said, "This junior only knows that Gui Sang of You Su Fen was once one of the Three Divine Trees: Fusang."
Ancestor Shiwei nodded, then said, "Besides Fusang, the other two Divine Trees are Xun Mu and Jian Mu."
"Xun Mu was vast, reaching up to the clouds and spreading over Yuyuan below. At the end of antiquity, when the Panyai Realm underwent a great upheaval, Fusang fell, and both Xun Mu and Jian Mu suffered heavy blows. Xun Mu retreated into Qingyao Mountain, where the demon race revered it as the Emperor Venerable."
"As for Jian Mu, it had no branches for a hundred ren, and nine trunks and nine forks. It was the passage to the upper realm."
"No matter which path to