The ground churned without cease, while fissures continuously appeared across the sky. Even space itself was trembling.
"What's going on?"
"What happened?"
For a moment, everyone stopped what they were doing and looked at one another, their faces filled with confusion.
"Again."
Ye Lin took out another black stone and placed it on the chessboard. In an instant, the entire sky turned dark, and space was completely sealed off.
From Ye Lin's perspective, a vast expanse below was shrouded in darkness. Deep within that darkness were the helpless, panicked figures of those prodigies.
"Seal."
Only after Ye Lin placed the last black stone did he nod in satisfaction. He put away the chessboard, slowly rose to his feet, and stepped forward alone.
At this moment, inside the formation, the gathered prodigies all looked around in bewilderment.
"What's going on? Why has the sky gone dark? Why has space been sealed? What exactly happened?"
"I don't know. Could this be a contingency left behind by Gu Tianyi and Gu Xinghe? Their battle was merely a ruse to lure us into a trap?"
The prodigies discussed it among themselves, traces of fear in their eyes.
Within the Star River Cosmos, among all living beings of the myriad races, none could escape their fear of the unknown.
Gu Xinghe and Gu Tianyi were equally dumbfounded. Instinctively, they had assumed this was the handiwork of this group.
But now, it seemed these people's reactions were almost identical to their own. The chances of them having tampered with things were slim.
Which meant there was someone else behind the scenes?
"That is..."
Suddenly, a voice drew everyone's attention over. At the far end of the darkness, a blood-red figure was approaching with his hands clasped behind his back.
The blood-red figure strolled leisurely, as though