He had no idea how much time had passed.
It felt like a thousand years, yet also like a single instant.
At that moment, the colored energy cut off both time and space. The Destiny Fish Chen Lin had become hung motionless within its embrace, swelling constantly.
And swelling again.
At last, all the colored energy was absorbed.
Chen Lin's fish body had grown even larger than the old Daoist's had been, and all his scales had turned pale gold.
The Reverse Scale on his back had even developed faint traces of color!
The chess piece had also become smoother and rounder.
The boundary between black and white had turned entirely multicolored, radiating dazzling light as it slowly rotated.
Chen Lin's body trembled, breaking free of its motionless state.
A keen gleam flashed through his eyes.
He first checked his condition, then willed the chess piece to turn into a streak of light and disappear into his Reverse Scale.
The entire "world" abruptly collapsed.
When he opened his eyes again, he had returned from his fish form to human shape.
Everything returned to reality.
Chen Lin found himself deep at the bottom of the lake, still in the same place he had been investigating. It seemed as though everything that had just happened had been an illusion.
But he knew it had been no illusion. It had been a truly perilous experience!
He and Guangzhenzi had fought a battle of destiny. Had he not possessed a few tricks and a little more luck, the one who woke up would probably have been his opponent, not him.
But there were no ifs in this world.
He had won, and so his opponent's schemes spanning more than ten thousand years had merely sewn a wedding gown for someone else.
Chen Lin flexed