This was undoubtedly a test for Yuan Xi.
Lu Ye could not help recalling something Ni Chiluan had said before. A great upheaval had indeed occurred in the Snow Plain!
That was precisely why Ni Chiluan had wanted to take Yuan Xi back then, unwilling to let her remain in the Snow Plain. Yet Yuan Xi had somehow negotiated with her, and in the end, she stayed behind.
And now, not long after, she was facing such a crisis.
No matter what, nothing could happen to Yuan Xi. But in a clash like this, how much could he alone accomplish?
"Wash the board!"
As that ancient, hollow voice rang out again, Lu Ye suddenly felt weightless. It was as though he had fallen into a bottomless abyss, plunging endlessly downward. Not only that, but he rolled without end as he fell, as though some force were truly washing him clean.
Cries of alarm rose from all directions. Clearly, he was not the only one experiencing this.
Fortunately, after merely three breaths, that sensation of weightlessness abruptly vanished.
Lu Ye felt dizzy and disoriented. Once he steadied himself and looked around, he discovered that he was no longer where he had been before, but inside another Chess Grid. Lian and Huan Qing were nowhere to be seen beside him.
At the same time, a vast will descended, branding a stream of information directly into his mind out of thin air.
Lu Ye swiftly examined it and learned that the information contained the various Rules of this Chess Game. This was undoubtedly the work of the Starry Sky Chessboard's will.
The Starry Sky Chessboard had many kinds of Chess Games, suited for contests in all manner of circumstances. However, just as Lian had anticipated, because the number of cultivators participating on both