Before Chess Heaven Hall, dazzling spiritual radiance shone over the entire hall, bathing it in flowing gold and brilliant colors, wondrous beyond measure.
Huge boulders sat like chess pieces across the plaza before the hall.
Ye Xuefan studied them for a long time, but still had no clues. He could find neither the array foundations nor any weak points.
Even the air above the plaza was covered by a flight-restricting array.
Ye Xuefan stood before the hall for more than half a day, considering several approaches, before finally attempting to breach the array.
First, he took out a fourth-stage spirit puppet and sent it toward the area with the fewest boulders, where he believed the gate of life lay.
As the spirit puppet stepped into the plaza, countless boulders suddenly transformed into stone warriors and attacked it.
These stone warriors were like spirit puppets, extremely nimble and terrifyingly fast. Their power was likely no weaker than the fourth stage, and they could even coordinate in pairs or groups of three.
Before long, Ye Xuefan's fourth-stage spirit puppet was blasted out of the plaza. Had he not controlled it to retreat so quickly, it might have suffered severe damage.
Frowning, Ye Xuefan analyzed the arrangement of the chess-piece puppets again and chose another direction for his fourth-stage spirit puppet to charge in. Then he chose an opposite direction and entered himself.
But after several such attempts, Ye Xuefan had no choice but to withdraw from the array.
His face was somewhat flushed, and his left arm had taken a punch from a stone warrior.
The fourth-stage spirit puppet was covered in damage and would likely need repairs before it could be used again.
Each of these stone warriors was like a low-grade fourth-stage magical treasure. One or two within the array