When Lu Ye first saw those blood-red lines, he only felt that they crisscrossed in an orderly fashion. Upon closer inspection, he realized that where the lines intersected, they had carved this vast stretch of Void into countless square Chess Grids, forming an enormous chessboard that covered everything.
That chessboard was not an ordinary flat board, but a three-dimensional, square construct that enveloped the entire battlefield.
The four from their city stood within one of the Chess Grids. An inexplicable force sealed all four sides, preventing anyone from leaving.
Lu Ye raised a hand to grip his saber, intending to see whether he could forcibly break open the Chess Grid and leave. Yet just as his long saber left its sheath by three inches, Yuan Xi pressed it back with one hand. "Don't act rashly. Now that the Chess Game has formed, we can only act according to the Rules of the Starry Sky Chessboard. Otherwise, we'll surely suffer the backlash of the Supreme Treasure."
Lian even gestured with her lips toward one side. "Look over there."
Lu Ye immediately looked over and saw a cultivator gathering his strength to bombard the surroundings. Yet in the next instant, blue flames erupted across the cultivator's body, blazing fiercely. Miserable screams rang out, sending chills down everyone's spine. In the blink of an eye, the cultivator was burned to ash, leaving behind neither Storage Ring nor Dao Bone.
This was not happening in just one place. With so many cultivators trapped in the Chess Game, there would always be some whose curiosity got the better of them and who wanted to test it out. The moment they tested it, they lost their lives.
Lu Ye frowned deeply. "The Starry Sky Chessboard... could it be making us play chess here?" Instinctively, he felt