Seeing that Pei Ling had agreed to the most important matter, Fu Qiong smiled faintly and said, "As for the Fusheng Chess Game, those are the only things you need to keep in mind for now."
"As for the rest, you'll have to wait until you've reached the Mahayana stage and the Nine Sects gather to exchange information about the upper realm before you can learn more."
"Is there anything else you'd like to know?"
At that, Pei Ling thought for a moment, then asked, "If the catalysts and their followers all successfully ascend in the end, what will happen to the observers outside the game who haven't entered yet?"
"Since they haven't actually taken part in the game, can they return to their sects?"
Fu Qiong shook his head and replied at once, "That situation won't occur."
"No matter how smoothly the game goes, all the observers will enter it in the end!"
"There's only one situation in which the game ends while observers remain outside: the game is so dangerous that the catalyst dies before they can enter!"
All the observers would enter the game?
Pei Ling was slightly taken aback. He was about to ask another question when Patriarch Xīng Hèn beside him calmly explained, "If the game goes too smoothly, there'll be fewer and fewer observers outside it."
"And inside the game, the Nine Sects will tacitly eliminate some followers who never had the qualifications to begin with."
"For example, members of other races and the Demon Race."
Patriarch Huai Bu chimed in as well. "If members of the Demon Race or other races come to take part in this game, it'd be best to include one or two among the first group of followers."
Hearing this, Pei Ling immediately understood. If the game went smoothly,