The Ji Clan's True Venerable really did have a match with True Venerable Qiu Jie. Since they stopped at the right point, it only took half a day.
Naturally, the battle was not held on the Icefield Plane, but in space hundreds of millions of li away from the Icefield. As a result, those able to rush over and watch were basically True Venerables or above. Below that level, there were only a handful, such as Feng Jun and Xia Nishang.
Even so, the aftermath of the battle was still quite intense and reached the Icefield Plane.
As for who won? There was no clear winner. Although everyone generally believed Chess Dao cultivators were somewhat weaker in combat, no one could deny that Chess Dao practitioners were extremely adept at setting up situations and controlling the field. Once one fell into their rhythm, it was far too easy to become constrained.
Moreover, Chess Dao was one of Heavenly Zither's oldest Four Paths and possessed quite a few trump-card divine abilities. Even the standard Chess Dao magical artifacts—the chessboard and pieces—were more powerful than ordinary magical artifacts.
Of course, the Ji Clan was no easy opponent either. They had long ranked among the top three clans and now firmly occupied first place, so they naturally had formidable methods of their own. At the beginning, the Ji Clan's True Lord had even been pressing True Venerable Qiu Jie hard.
Later, True Venerable Qiu Jie chose a suitable opportunity and used his chess arts to launch spatial restraint, reclaiming control of the battle. Yet he could only suppress his opponent and lacked any means to kill him in one blow, so the fight ended there.
The Ji Clan's True Venerable did not particularly mind being turned around after controlling the field. He casually