Jiang Wang in the mirror world silently watched everything replay in Divine Firmament Land. At last, he understood what Chongxuan Sheng and the others had meant: back at the Yellow River Assembly, when he and Huang Sheli had contended for first place, Huang Sheli's "sudden surrender" had left him so astonished... that he had looked clumsy in the eyes of the audience.
He had thought the two scenes were truly one and the same—the beginning and outcome identical, differing only in the details.
But then the great golden hand appeared, The Buddha Speaks: Fifty-Eight Chapters manifested its anomaly, Zhu Lanruo killed Spider Zheng, and Zhu Yi made her entrance!
At its conclusion, a grand drama rose and fell in turbulent twists, overturning itself again and again.
Zhu Lanruo said that the chess player represented by that great golden hand had indeed stirred time, but the time was incomplete and the karma flawed...
"What does that mean?" Chai Asi asked the Exalted One inwardly. "Did something happen that I don't know about?"
"Silence." The great ancient god said, "Keep watching and you'll understand."
The great ancient god himself only half understood. What concerned him more now was what method this third chess player had used to stir time.
This involved the replaying of eleven demons and the entire space surrounding the Fountain of Youth.
And Divine Firmament Land was such an extraordinary place!
The other party had not even shown himself, yet from afar had completed such a reversal of time. If it had all been accomplished by his own power, what terrifying strength must that be?
At the very least, he could not imagine it.
In his view, Zhu Lanruo beheading Spider Zheng had also been an attempt to trace matters back to their source—to see whether that chess player