Ancestral Seal Suppresses the Game, True Sky Outside the Cage

The moment a dim, ancient glimmer overflowed from the deepest source within Lin Chen's chest, the entire deathly silent world ushered in a cataclysmic change never before seen in the eternal chess game.

The power of Myriad Chess, which had previously suppressed the heavens, crushed Chaos, and locked away all vitality—that peerless, gray torrent spanning dimensions—suddenly stalled as if it had encountered a natural predator.

Immediately following this, it retreated across the sky!

Above the firmament, the dense gray light filaments that had paved the dimensional rifts trembled frantically; billions of strands of Chess Dao power uncontrollably recoiled, dimmed, and disintegrated. The gray light curtain that had shrouded this world, isolating it from all external forces, had been slowly descending with the crushing weight of Mount Tai, preparing to thoroughly refine this endgame. Now, it surged violently, its surface cracking with countless fine fissures, like an ancient mirror on the verge of shattering.

Rumble!

The heavens and earth trembled, and the winds and clouds rolled backward.

The previously solidified air began to flow again, the deathly silent Great Dao resumed its roar, and the laws of the heavens and the source of Chaos, which had been forcibly sealed by the momentum of Myriad Chess returning to one, all broke free from their shackles, surging wantonly throughout the world.

This scene overturned the cognition of every existence.

Within the eye of the formation, Lin Chen's cracked body ceased its disintegration, and his nearly exhausted golden source suddenly stabilized its decline. The barrier of his divine soul, which had been on the verge of collapse, was firmly protected by a strand of deep, archaic glimmer.

The billions of gray Chess Dao chains coiled around his limbs, bones, and divine soul consciousness let out a piercing hiss the moment they touched this glimmer. Those indestructible rune chains, which had crushed countless Fate Defiers throughout the ages, melted inch by inch and peeled away layer by layer, like ice meeting a raging fire.

The Out-of-Domain wills that had poured into his consciousness, constantly bewitching and eroding his true heart, were routed under the cleansing of the glimmer, unable to leave even a trace of their existence.

The excruciating pain receded, and the deathly silence dissipated.

A power far more profound than the laws of the Supreme of the Heavens, far more vast than the source of Chaos, and transcending the black and white chess game and the eternal cycle of reincarnation, took root in the deepest part of his source and began to flow slowly.

Lin Chen lifted his eyes slightly, his unfocused pupils reconverging, and the brilliant golden light at the bottom of his eyes, which had been on the verge of extinguishing, soared into the sky once more.

He looked down at his chest, where the Fate-Defying Ancestral Seal, silent for countless ages, was now flowing with a faint, dark light. It was neither dazzling nor violent, yet it carried an eternal composure and majesty, as if it had existed before the heavens and earth were opened and before the chess game had begun.

The whisper that had crossed the ages still lingered in the depths of his consciousness, clear and distinct.

The chess game steals the Dao; the Pseudo-Heaven is a cycle.

Finally, someone has returned with the Ancestral Seal to break the cage.

These sixteen characters laid bare the truth of the ages.

Lin Chen's mind shook; the countless puzzles and mysteries of the past were all solved in this moment.

He finally understood why his heart of defying the Dao could transcend the laws of the heavens, resist the disorder of Chaos, and repeatedly break the game despite being locked by the cycle of Myriad Chess.

His fate-defying was never a momentary obsession, nor was it the unwilling struggle of an ordinary creature.

The Ancestral Seal on his body was something from outside the chess game.

This eternal chess game, which spanned billions of dimensions, used thousands of universes as nourishment and all living beings as chess pieces—while it appeared to transcend the heavens and Chaos and control the finality of reincarnation—was, in the end, nothing more than a Pseudo-Heaven born from stealing the Dao.

The Pseudo-Heaven created the chess game, the chess game trapped all living beings, and the eternal cycle of reincarnation was merely a self-deceiving cage of a grand performance!

And the Fate-Defying Ancestral Seal on his chest was the only flaw in this cage, the only ultimate root capable of piercing through the Pseudo-Heaven Chess Game and shattering the eternal destiny!

"So that's how it is... so that's how it is."

Lin Chen murmured softly. The blood spilling from the corners of his mouth slowly stopped, and the shattered flesh on his body rapidly repaired and regenerated under the nourishment of the Ancestral Seal's glimmer.

All his previous struggles, all his persistence, and all his unyielding heart had never been in vain.

It was precisely because he had defied fate generation after generation, remained unyielding through the ages, upheld the Great Dao of all living beings, and refused to follow the fixed numbers of the chess game, that he had step by step awakened the Ancestral Seal in his sleeping source.

It was not the Ancestral Seal that granted him power; it was his own heart that was worthy of this unique qualification to break the cage!

Above the firmament, the deathly gray will was thoroughly enraged.

Since the formation of the billions of chess games and the Out-of-Domain Chess Player's control over reincarnation, there had never been such a humiliating turn of events as today.

Throughout the ages, countless universes had been destroyed, countless eras had ended, and countless peerless geniuses had attempted to defy fate, only to have their hearts crushed by the power of Myriad Chess and become nourishment for the game. Even the Primordial Ancestor of Chaos at his peak or the Supreme of the Heavens who opened the era could only bow their heads in this Pseudo-Heaven Chess Game, becoming invisible chess slaves.

Yet today, a mere creature born in the endgame of the chess game had used an awakened Ancestral Seal to counter the Chess Dao and repel the supreme power of Myriad Chess returning to one!

"Absurd!!"

A cold, furious roar exploded throughout the entire dimensional void. It was no longer the indifferent gaze from before, but a rage wrapped in monstrous killing intent.

In the billions of Out-of-Domain voids, countless suspended, rotating Black and White Jade Discs trembled frantically, emitting piercing clangs. The Chess Dao power that had previously retreated and avoided conflict was driven by the Chess Player's original will and began to gather violently once more.

This time, it was not a gentle domestication, nor was it an ordinary crushing, but an extinction strike that exhausted all the accumulations of the eternal chess game!

"A remnant of an Ancestral Seal that has long since vanished, and you dare to show off in this Seat's chess game?"

"A mere ember that broke the cage, and you want to overturn this Seat's eternal layout?"

The Out-of-Domain Chess Player's will, wrapped in endless killing momentum, pierced through the dimensional barriers and descended with a thunderous suppression.

The previously dissipated gray light curtain instantly expanded ten thousand feet, its gray light covering the billions of heavens, and a crushing force several times stronger than before once again shrouded the world. Countless shattered Chess Dao runes reorganized and gathered, transforming into billions of pitch-black chess blades, densely suspended above the nine heavens, each blade carrying the power to annihilate a universe.

The momentum of Myriad Chess suppressing the realm had formed once again, and it was even more terrifying and desperate than before!

All living beings in the world were once again locked by this suffocating pressure.

In the distance, Kallen, Frieza, and the Golden Super Saiyan were tense, their pupils shrinking, and the hope that had just risen in their hearts instantly teetered on the edge of a cliff.

They had witnessed the glimmer of the Ancestral Seal repel the power of Myriad Chess and had thought the desperate situation was reversed, but the Out-of-Domain Chess Player's counterattack, fueled by his full source, was far more terrifying than anyone had imagined.

"Is this... the true foundation of the eternal chess game?" Kallen's voice trembled. His purple battle aura guarded his body tightly, and he could not help but shiver.

That brief reversal just now seemed like nothing more than a reflection in a mirror.

The Golden Super Saiyan stared fixedly at the figure in the center of the formation, his fists clenched, his eyes filled with gravity: "The Out-of-Domain Chess Player has completely committed to killing, exhausting his eternal accumulation for the endgame. This strike is enough to thoroughly erase a dimensional world... Can Lin Chen withstand it?"

Beyond the Nine Heavens, the bodies of the Seven Supremes, hidden within divine light, were taut to the breaking point. In their supreme eyes, a flicker of fanatical hope emerged amidst the terror.

They had traversed the ages and lived in ignorance for half their lives, only to realize today that the Heavens whose order they had upheld through generations of conquest were merely part of a Pseudo-Heaven Chess Game.

If Lin Chen could truly shatter the chess game with the Fate-Defying Ancestral Seal, the shackles of destiny that had imprisoned the Heavens for eons would be broken forever!

If he failed, the world would be destroyed, the Heavens would collapse, chaos would perish, and all things would return to the reincarnation of the Chess Dao.

"Betting the fate of the eternal Heavens on this one chance to break the cage!" one Supreme roared in a deep voice. Endless divine light surged as he prepared to exhaust everything to provide support.

Nearby, the Chaos King's massive, pitch-black body heaved violently, and world-ending torrents of chaos churned incessantly around him.

As the source of chaos—naturally disordered and transcending order—he sensed the terror of the Ancestral Seal more clearly than anyone else.

That faint, dark glimmer did not merely restrain the Chess Dao; it stood above the Heavens and chaos alike, representing the true power of the primordial source.

Yet, he also sensed the absolute resolve of the Out-of-Domain Chess Player at this moment.

The accumulation of the eternal chess game was too terrifying. This final strike, built upon eons of time and the nourishment of countless universes, was not something the newly awakened, residual light of an Ancestral Seal could easily withstand.

The outcome remained unknown.

"A mantis trying to stop a chariot! Even with the Ancestral Seal at your side, you cannot change the fixed outcome!"

The cold shout of the Out-of-Domain Chess Player echoed across the world. Billions of pitch-black chess blades, carrying the momentum to crush the ages, descended with world-destroying force toward the center of the formation!

Gray light obscured the sky, chess blades extinguished the world, and the entire realm was completely shrouded in an aura of destruction.

Everyone believed that in the next second, Lin Chen would have his origin torn apart, his Ancestral Seal crushed, and he would be utterly extinguished in this eternal endgame.

Yet, at the center of the formation, Lin Chen stood tall. Despite the world-ending chess pressure bearing down upon him, there was not a hint of fear in his eyes.

Having experienced the ultimate tempering of his soul and the rebirth brought by the awakening of the Ancestral Seal, his Dao heart had reached a state of unprecedented clarity.

Once he saw through the essence of the Pseudo-Heaven Chess Game, his mind could no longer be swayed by the momentum of the Chess Dao.

Lin Chen slowly raised his eyes. The faint light of the Ancestral Seal on his chest erupted, no longer dormant or restrained. A dark, ancient radiance shot into the sky, transforming into a pillar of light that connected heaven and earth.

Wherever the pillar passed, all power of the gray Chess Dao dissolved, and every black and white chess blade descending with crushing force shattered into dust!

"You steal the vitality of heaven and earth, create a pseudo-heaven reincarnation, trap all spirits in a chess game, and bind the ages in a cage."

Lin Chen's voice was calm, yet it resounded through the Nine Heavens and Ten Earths, piercing through dimensions and voids to face that supreme player hidden beyond the domain.

"All living beings of the ages are but your chess pieces, your nourishment, your sacrificial dogs. You think that locking away time and controlling reincarnation is the supreme Dao?"

"Your so-called fixed outcome of Myriad Chess is nothing more than a ridiculous, delusional farce in the face of my Fate-Defying Ancestral Seal."

The moment his words fell, Lin Chen pushed out a palm.

There were no earth-shattering visions, no world-destroying roars—merely a plain, unremarkable palm strike, carrying the purest power of the Ancestral Seal to break the cage.

Sshhh—!

The invisible, lightless palm force pierced the void and collided with the gray light curtain of Myriad Chess that shrouded the world.

The next moment, the barrier of the chess game—which had been indestructible for countless years and had withstood the combined efforts of the Heavens and chaos—shattered with a massive crack that spanned billions of celestial vaults!

Where the crack spread, the gray laws failed completely, the eternal Chess Dao dissipated, and the endgame momentum that the Out-of-Domain Chess Player had poured his entire origin into was torn apart by this single, simple palm strike!

Crack, crack, crack—

The gray light curtain across the sky continued to collapse and peel away. The billions of Black and White Jade Discs trembled violently, and from the void beyond the domain came muffled thuds originating from the Chess Player's own source, as if the Dao had been damaged and the foundation cracked!

"Impossible!!"

For the first time, the voice of the Out-of-Domain Chess Player carried genuine shock and disbelief.

Having controlled the chess game for eons and witnessed the vicissitudes of time, he had never imagined that there could be a power in this world capable of directly damaging the source of his chess game and shaking the foundation of his Dao!

"The Ancestral Seal... it truly is the ancestral power that breaks the cage... who exactly are you!!"

The Chess Player's voice was filled with extreme suspicion. The power of the billions of chess games retreated frantically, abandoning the offensive to switch to active defense, seemingly fearful of the fully erupted power of the Ancestral Seal on Lin Chen.

Between heaven and earth, the gray light faded, and the despair that had weighed upon the hearts of all living beings vanished into thin air.

Kallen, Frieza, and the Golden Super Saiyan stood dumbfounded, their taut muscles suddenly relaxing as a wave of extreme shock swept through them.

With his own strength, he broke the Myriad Chess with a single palm!

This was a heaven-defying combat power that completely overturned the understanding of the ages!

Beyond the Nine Heavens, the Seven Supremes trembled, their eyes filled with ecstasy and awe.

The chess game that had been deadlocked for eons had truly been broken!

The Chaos King gazed at the dark pillar of light connecting heaven and earth, his massive body slightly hunched. The hierarchical suppression originating from the primordial source made him feel an urge to submit.

The chess game was a Pseudo-Heaven; the Ancestral Seal was the True Source.

In a confrontation between the false and the true, the True Source suppressing the Pseudo-Heaven was an inevitability of the Heavenly Dao!

Lin Chen stood in the center of the world, the faint light of the Ancestral Seal circling his body. His golden origin of the anti-Dao and the dark ancestral power merged into one; his soul, Dao heart, and origin completed their ultimate transformation at this moment.

He could clearly sense that the Chess Player beyond the domain was now filled with fear, and the reincarnation system of the eternal chess game had begun an irreversible collapse.

As long as he continued to channel the power of the Ancestral Seal, he could pierce the dimensional barrier, strike into the source of the Out-of-Domain chess game, and completely shatter this eternal Pseudo-Heaven reincarnation!

Yet, the very moment he prepared to press his advantage and break the game in one stroke, that ancient, vast whisper—transcending all time—resounded once more in the depths of his consciousness.

This time, it was no longer a simple narration, but a warning delivered with the indifference of one looking down upon the ages.

"The Pseudo-Heaven Chess Game is nothing but ants in a cage, and the players are merely puppets."

"Breaking the cage is not the end; the true Heaven has long since awakened beyond the void of the myriad worlds..."

Hum!

Before the voice could finish, the entire endless void suddenly plunged into total darkness.

The gray aura that had just dissipated vanished completely, replaced by a boundless, deathly silence.

This darkness did not belong to the Heavens, nor to Chaos, and certainly not to the eternal chess game.

In the deepest reaches of that darkness, a pair of indifferent, icy eyes, having looked down upon billions of years, slowly opened.

That was the true Heaven, far surpassing the Out-of-Domain Chess Player and reigning supreme over all laws!

The eternal chess game had reached its finale, and the true Heavenly Dao from outside the cage had finally revealed itself!

The faint glow of the Ancestral Seal circulating around Lin Chen trembled, for the very first time, the moment those eyes opened.