"After every living thing had been slaughtered, wind and thunder raged between heaven and earth, and a torrential downpour came crashing down. Everything within ten thousand li became a waterlogged marsh! Yet corpses lay everywhere within that swamp, while bloody water flowed freely! The stench of blood did not fade even after a hundred years, and no one could survive there!" Fu Zhiwen spoke with great flourish. "As for the God Demon Chess, which had flashed into sight only briefly before unleashing such a catastrophe, it vanished without a trace thereafter! Where it went, or exactly which great expert had activated it—no one knew even to this day! Of course, judging from this legend, I believe the God Demon Chess is a supreme weapon. Activating it... requires the lives of thousands upon thousands, perhaps even hundreds of thousands or millions of living beings. Unless one is at the brink of life and death, no one would casually bring it out. That is why... it is so mysterious."
"Good heavens..." Xiao Hua sighed. "Such a supreme weapon... should be ranked first among the Ten Great Artifact Controls, shouldn't it? How could it only rank fifth?"
Fu Zhiwen shook his head. "The God Demon Chess is simply too bloody. Confucian cultivators could never rank it first!"
"Actually..." Xiao Hua smiled again. "This legend is far too exaggerated. In fact... this Xiao thinks it was fabricated! Look, that so-called Eastern Chen Empire... they were wildly exaggerating things. Wouldn't those Confucian cultivator families interfere? Although the Duanmu Family was merely a first-rank Confucian cultivator family, it should not have been difficult for them to step in and deal with the matter, right? Second, that ruler actually cultivated to fourth-grade Yuan force. How long would his lifespan have been? He should have grown sick of