Lin Yi gave up on intervening in the evolution of the royal family.
This Heaven and Earth Chess Game was his last resort to begin with, and he absolutely could not disrupt it without reason.
In fact, ever since he transmigrated to this world, he had been thinking about changing it.
When he awakened his Martial Soul, he considered the question again.
Later, when he had his enlightenment, when he went to the Ice and Fire Yin Yang Well, and when he went to the Ten Thousand Year Mysterious Ice Cavern, he could not help thinking about it each time.
After reflecting and correcting himself again and again, he had arrived at his own way of dealing with the original story.
That was-
Change anything that hindered his growth!
Do not interfere with anything else unrelated to him!
Because this was the last way out he had left himself.
Once he established the timeline, Lin Yi understood that this was an era monopolized by God Kings.
Never mind refusing to become a dog-even if he were willing to be trained, he might not obtain a Godhood.
Naturally, Lin Yi was unwilling to accept that.
Thus, the question of becoming a god remained before him.
He had to become a god!
And there were only two ways to do so: inherit a Godhood or condense one himself.
Lin Yi was working toward the former through his own growth.
In the process, he still had to change any events from the original story that might interfere with his growth.
As the saying went, one had to rely on oneself.
If he could not become strong enough himself, how could he change this world? And how could he possibly become a god on his own terms under the God Kings' monopoly?
Therefore, the answer to whether he should change the original story ultimately had to serve one purpose: ensuring that Lin Yi's own growth remained unaffected.
As long as his growth was not affected and he could tap into his Martial Soul's potential, Lin Yi was unwilling to interfere any further with the story.
It was not that he lacked resolve.
Rather, this was the last way out he had left himself.
There were two paths to godhood.
He displayed his talent to gain a deity's recognition and inherit a Godhood.
It also paved the way for the second path.
If he lacked strength himself, what right did he have to condense a Godhood of his own?
And as the owner of a Chess Martial Soul, what qualified Lin Yi to condense a Godhood?
The answer to that question had come to Lin Yi during his first enlightenment.
It was the Heaven and Earth Chess Game he now possessed!
At that moment, he envisioned heaven and earth and merged his body with them, truly bringing his own chessboard into accord with heaven and earth. The idea of setting up this Heaven and Earth Chess Game was born.
Together with the question he often pondered-whether to change the original story-he gained an understanding in that moment.
The chess game!
The story!
Without a doubt, his advantage in knowing the story would be Lin Yi's greatest asset in this Heaven and Earth Chess Game!
Even without an advantage in the finer details of the story, knowing the general direction of events in the world would be enough to benefit Lin Yi.
Therefore, Lin Yi would not interfere with anything from the original course of events that he could avoid changing.
For the first thirty years, Lin Yi devoted all his attention to his own cultivation.
Stirring up trouble at random would only leave everything in a tangled mess.
The facts proved that Lin Yi had made the right choice.
At just thirty years old, he had reached the limit and gained an understanding of the Spirit Ascension Ritual, advancing all his Soul Rings to the hundred-thousand-year level.
Yet even so, he had failed to gain a deity's recognition or obtain a Godhood suited to him.
He had suspected that his abilities did not match the authorities of the deities, so he devoted himself to cultivating the spatial attribute, confident that he had reached the pinnacle of the Soul Master World in that regard.
He even used his mastery of space to forcefully locate the God of Space's inheritance site.
Yet, never mind a God's Trial to inherit the Godhood, he had not even received a Black Trial!
No, more accurately, there had been no trial at all. The door had been shut in his face!
Thus, the answer to whether he could inherit a Godhood had already become clear.
Lin Yi had no way to become a deity by inheriting a Godhood.
Even so, he was still reluctant to give up and continued searching for a while.
In the end, he even considered looking for damaged Godhoods, such as possible fragments of the Ice God's Godhood in the Far North, or fragments of the Angel God's and Rakshasa God's Godhoods, as well as the God of Thunder's and others.
Finally, Lin Yi even turned his attention to the place where the God of Love had fallen.
Unfortunately, he was destined to have no chance of inheriting a Godhood.
So he could only take the path he had glimpsed through enlightenment.
During his first Deep Meditation, he had gained insight into the future of the Heaven and Earth Chess Game.
This was his fallback.
In his subsequent cultivation, he had always followed this path, using the Heaven and Earth Chess Game to merge with heaven and earth.
But merging with heaven and earth was exceedingly difficult, so he had a second enlightenment, taking heaven and earth into himself.
After that, his cultivation speed increased, and he made up for his body's shortcomings.
This cultivation from heaven and earth to the self even perfected his Heaven and Earth Chess Game method further.
His ten years of searching had not been devoted purely to finding a Godhood; he had also been perfecting this secret method.
He began merging with heaven and earth anew.
He and heaven and earth continually resonated with each other as he attempted to receive some feedback.
At last, he sensed the existence of a child of fortune.
A child of fortune had been born!
And it was time to set up his Heaven and Earth Chess Game!
The story would become its greatest advantage, and he would use it to play a proper game against that God King.
Thus, the Heaven and Earth Chess Game came into being.
The Heavenly Screen's sudden arrival, however, had taken Lin Yi by surprise. But for Lin Yi, its existence brought only benefits and no drawbacks.
If the Heavenly Screen had exposed him, broadcasting images of him directly in the sky above the Peerless Tang Sect era, then Lin Yi would truly have despaired.
Fortunately, the Heavenly Screen had appeared not to expose him, but to project images-though it could also be described as exposing him to the past and future.
While Lin Yi had not been paying attention to the images projected by the Heavenly Screen, the Soul Master Worlds of Douluo I and Douluo Dalu III: The Legend of the Dragon King had come to their senses after watching the Sea God hunt him down.
He had escaped a deity's pursuit!
Without a doubt, this was a true highlight.
Lin Yi came back to life in an unremarkable corner of the continent.
Heaven and earth resonated, black and white Qi intertwined, and Lin Yi's body passed from illusion into reality.
Vigorous life force radiated from within him.
His Soul Power was recovering, his Qi and blood were growing stronger, and his spiritual power was rising!
Without a doubt, this was a complete resurrection, without a single shortcoming.
As he revived, Lin Yi's presence surged against the surrounding heaven and earth, as though giving vent to the anger in his heart.
Reason, however, made him conceal it all.
Heaven and earth became a chess game, sealing off the inside from the outside.
And so, Lin Yi came back to life on the continent without a sound.
Even a god's intervention could not stop him.
And that god had been a God King, no less!
If a remnant of Qian Renxue's soul had remained in the world and learned of all this, she would probably have been comforted and said, "I am not alone on this path."
In Douluo I and Douluo Dalu III: The Legend of the Dragon King, countless Soul Masters could not help sighing as they watched.
No one mocked Lin Yi for being incapable. They only thought him far too unfortunate to have provoked a deity before he had even grown strong.
And that deity had personally struck him down.
After all, even in the Douluo I era, when deities had not yet vanished, the number of times a true deity had intervened could be counted on one's fingers.
The most recent was a legend from a thousand years ago.