Beside the chessboard, Yuan Xi's enormous body bloomed with hazy light. She raised a hand and struck Black Blood with her palm. Under that blow, the protection around Black Blood's body trembled, its radiance dimming as his body swayed and blood spilled from his nose and mouth.
His expression was ugly. Ever since Jiao had died in battle, the situation had taken a sharp turn for the worse.
Wherever Lu Ye went, no one could stand against him. Countless black pieces had been cut down, continuously weakening the black side's overall strength and, in turn, affecting his own offense and defense as a chess player.
During the previous two rounds, seeing that the situation was unfavorable, he had gritted his teeth and deployed the Insect Mother of the Li Shuai Insect Nest to intercept Lu Ye.
After Jiao's death, that Insect Mother could be said to be the strongest chess piece under his command. She was originally a powerhouse on the same level as himself, had slain many enemies in the chess game, and possessed no small amount of strength.
To ensure nothing went wrong, he had even dispatched more than a dozen Dao Integration cultivators to accompany the Insect Mother.
Yet even such a lineup had failed to curb Lu Ye's frenzied slaughter. After paying the price of nearly half those Dao Integration cultivators falling, they had merely managed to injure Lu Ye slightly.
Had he not promptly withdrawn the surviving black pieces, they would likely have been wiped out to the last man.
No one could stop him! No one could defeat him!
The Starry Sky Chessboard had appeared in the Inner Realm many times, yet never before had a single cultivator, under the Legion Chess mode, been able to influence the course of the entire chess game.