Si Hong Qingyan

Pei Ling instantly felt a great terror and calamity descend from the unseen beyond. The blood in his veins turned cold. It seemed that with the snap of a finger, he would drop dead on the spot, reduced to ashes!

Yet under the system's control, Pei Ling's next actions were the exact opposite of what he truly wanted.

He walked openly to the side of the board, swiftly picked up one white piece and one black piece, and swallowed them whole.

At the same time, he drew the Nine Souls Blade and struck three times in quick succession.

One slash shattered the board, one slashed at the Shadowy Figure, and one slashed at the Cloth-robed Figure.

The board shattered and vanished in an instant. Neither the Shadowy Figure nor the Cloth-robed Figure fought back. It seemed their match had exhausted the power they possessed within this illusion.

Yet their dim, shadowed faces remained fixed on Pei Ling, their gazes cold and eerie. Then, slowly, they faded away.

At the very last moment before the illusion disappeared, Ji Shuang'er came to Pei Ling's side once more and whispered, "Ji Wu..."

Her voice still lingered in the air when she and the illusion vanished completely.

The scene before him returned to reality once more.

Pei Ling immediately sensed that although the Nascent Soul tribulation had yet to begin, the "Law" had already been planted completely in his fate.

The karmic obstacle that should have spanned the entire tribulation process had also been fully refined by him!

Pei Ling was shocked, but quickly understood: it was those two pieces!

The black piece was the "Law," and the white piece was his "karmic obstacle"!

The system had controlled him into swallowing both pieces, and he had completed those two steps outright!

Realizing this, Pei