Chess Pins Down the Void Sage

After the three hundred and sixty thousand troops finished shouting, Qu Hange's gigantic figure in the distance suddenly trembled and changed.

At that moment, Qu Hange held a Literary Treasure Chessboard in his left hand. The chess jars on it had vanished, replaced by three hundred and sixty chess pieces constantly shifting above the board like schools of black-and-white fish swimming through the sea—rising, sinking, scattering, gathering—forming faint starlight that descended onto the board.

Around the chessboard hovered a thin, faintly visible layer of pale golden Holy Light. Though it was only a flimsy layer, it gave off the feeling that even if heaven and earth shattered, it would never disperse.

Before Qu Hange stood a seven-stringed qin. His right hand rested above it, his fingers plucking at empty air, yet the strings moved in response.

Third Realm of Zither Way: Sound Beyond the Strings.

Once one cultivated the Zither Way to the Third Realm, one hand could be freed to wield a Literary Treasure. Thus, the Zither Way and Chess Way were the most compatible powers.

To use War Poetry while playing the qin, however, required the Supreme Realm Literary Heart, Dual-Mindedness.

The instant the music began, Fang Yun recognized it. Qu Hange was playing the Guangling Melody, whose protagonist was Nie Zheng, one of the Four Great Assassins. The piece had been adapted from Nie Zheng's tale and was also known as the Nie Zheng Assassinating the Han King Melody.

When ordinary people played the Guangling Melody, they summoned varying numbers of assassin phantoms to carry out assassinations. The higher their realm, the more assassin phantoms they could summon. It far surpassed any single War Poem.

Yet as Qu Hange played, sixty full generals among the three hundred and sixty vanished, along with the thousand soldiers beside each