[The system notification sounded.] [Ding! Congratulations, host. You defeated a Spirit Transformation Dao Master above your realm, earning base experience +3000000 and attribute points ×500000.]
[You knew that the [Incumbent Dao Master] you had killed was not his true body.]
[—Most of him remained hidden within the [Northern Land of Sin].]
[The one you had killed could, at most, count as a portion of him; even his [destruction] authority was incomplete.]
[You stationed "Number Two Other-Self" in [Beyond the World], since he could not return to the [Supreme True Realm] anyway.]
[Supreme True Realm]
[Your "Number One Other-Self" returned to the [Chen Family], but failed to find the [Chen Family Ancestor].]
[Empowered by your doubled [Immortal Venerable] (nascent soul perfection, limit-breaking) [essence], he could truly be called the strongest in the [present].]
[With a single thought, he could survey the entire [Supreme True Realm].]
[Yet he could not find the [Chen Family Ancestor].]
[He could not detect the slightest trace that the ancestor had ever existed!]
[Existence karma, traces in history, even the [River of Time]—none held any record or image of him.]
[The same had happened to the [True Lord Tianyan] of the [Dao Yan Sacred Land] and its [Saint Son], Dao Wudi.]
[And Chen Ming of the [Chen Family], and...]
[Chen Qingyan?!]
[Indeed, you had practically scoured the entire [Supreme True Realm], yet found no trace of him.]
[As though he had never existed.]
[They had all vanished before you, an existence who could now be called an [Immortal Venerable]?!]
[Just as doubt and alarm gripped you, [I Am the Chess Player] activated within your sea of consciousness.]
[Amid a wash of purple light, you recalled that earlier Seven Rings piece of intelligence.]
["In response, the [Supreme Immortal] will Sacrifice the Rook to Save the King,]