The cultivators who had made it here possessed, at the very least, a certain standard. Before Yu Ci and True Man Guangwei had truly made a move, their qi currents were already washing over one another like tangled threads of rain in the wind, pattering down in droplets that blanketed both the Viewing Cloud Platform and Shuxuan Tower.
Those with sharper senses felt a chill seep into them, goosebumps rising all over their bodies before they knew it.
Through the mutual scouring of their qi currents, the two opponents analyzed the distribution of origin qi in the surrounding void and gauged the "quality" of each other's qi, preparing for the talisman combat to come.
It was not as fierce and icy as a life-or-death battle, with killing intent laid bare, but it possessed a subtle, penetrating quality of its own.
On the Viewing Cloud Platform, some cultivators even instinctively drew in their qi, afraid their true strength and weaknesses would be casually seen through.
Only then did someone think of it: since this was the Star Array Method, taking its meaning from "stars scattered like pieces on a chessboard," they were supposed to play chess in form. But where was the chessboard?
Yu Ci's face remained calm and unruffled. He offered True Man Guangwei another salute across the air, and True Man Guangwei returned it.
Then ripples arose in the void on their own.
On Yu Ci's side, slender threads of light spread out horizontally, nineteen in all.
On True Man Guangwei's side, identical threads of light stretched vertically, likewise nineteen in all.
The light threads crossed and divided the same plane of void into perpendicular lines. The moment they touched, they trembled faintly, then solidified.
As the light threads stirred, profound true intent flowed from the two men and