[The boundary between [Future] and [Past] collapsed once more,]
[Leaving only [the present] standing utterly alone amid the chaos.]
[The culprit was a mysterious chess player who had stepped forth from the end of time.]
[He seemed to have come from that elusive [Future], whose outcome had long since been ordained,]
[Dwelling in a corner beyond "observation," arranging his pieces and making his moves without a single existence noticing!]
[Yet now, he had chosen to stake everything on one desperate throw, openly wielding his Mighty Power and personally entering the game to trade pieces with the other chess players.]
[His Mighty Power had been witnessed with their own eyes by countless Supreme Existences—]
[Cause-Reversal, Effect Before Cause.]
[This was a power that defied all reason, yet its existence was reason enough.]
[What terrified the myriad Heavens even more was something every existence had confirmed:]
[He had come from the [Future]!]
[He interfered with the established past, rewrote irreversible karma, and performed the Concealment of Heaven's secrets.]
[Such conduct had touched the forbidden reverse scale of the Supreme Laws and would inevitably invite the inescapable [Punishment of Karma]!]
[Deep within the void, tribulation clouds churned.]
[In the endless emptiness, billions of layers of divine lightning seemed to be gathering,]
[Their stray shock waves alone enough to blast a [Spirit Transformation Dao Master] into oblivion, destroying both life and Dao.]
[The terror of that Punishment was plain to see!]
[The [karmic law] had locked onto him. This time, he had nowhere left to hide.]
[This would be the deadliest judgment he had ever faced.]
[Yet confronted with this catastrophe that threatened to engulf him, the chess player did not resort again to those Heaven-defying, fate-changing means.]
[He seemed to have abandoned resistance. His gaze pierced layer upon layer of karmic mist and