Lin Yi walked through heaven and earth, his azure robes fluttering as his figure flickered in and out of sight. He seemed to be taking a leisurely stroll, but in just a few steps, he had crossed thousands of mountains and rivers.
Suddenly, Lin Yi's eyes flickered, and he focused on sensing it again.
"My Heaven and Earth Chess Game has actually been reinforced again."
On Lin Yi's end, the Heaven and Earth Chess Game had not progressed so quickly. More precisely, it had not actually made any progress yet.
It couldn't be helped. Not much time had passed between his decision to lay out the Heaven and Earth Chess Game, the descent of the Heavenly Screen, and now.
Definitely no more than an hour.
In such a short time, even though Lin Yi had prepared in advance, there was no way he could make visible progress in laying out the Heaven and Earth Chess Game.
"This time, I can feel it clearly. The changes in Douluo I and Douluo Dalu III: The Legend of the Dragon King should be different."
Previously, because of Lin Yi's Spirit Ascension Ritual, both Douluo I and Douluo Dalu III: The Legend of the Dragon King had been shaken to their cores. Their reactions had influenced Lin Yi to a certain extent, and he had gained something akin to faith.
That faith actually had little to do with his Heaven and Earth Chess Game.
After all, it was awe directed at the Spirit Ascension Ritual, an inexplicable yearning that had passed through the medium of the Heavenly Screen's projection and affected Lin Yi in reality.
The only reason it had reinforced the Heaven and Earth Chess Game was that the feedback from that faith had advanced Lin Yi's own cultivation. Or rather, it was not that his cultivation had advanced, but that he had received that blessing, which in turn affected the Heaven and Earth Chess Game he had laid out, making it all more stable.
After all, the Heaven and Earth Chess Game was ultimately a game of chess, and a game of chess necessarily had a player. Lin Yi was that player.
Last time, the faith had been directed at the Spirit Ascension Ritual.
This time, Lin Yi had gained a new form of faith. He scratched his head, however, unable to discern a clear logic behind it.
"What did I do to that era this time? How did so much faith appear for me out of thin air?"
Lin Yi even stopped walking, standing motionless in midair.
His attention was completely drawn to the new mass of faith in his Sea of Consciousness.
This faith was far stronger than what he had received last time.
Moreover, the faith he had received last time had been directed at the Spirit Ascension Ritual. Strictly speaking, it had nothing to do with the chess game.
It had simply blessed him, thereby blessing the Heaven and Earth Chess Game.
This time, however, Lin Yi could feel that the faith he had newly acquired seemed to have some connection to the Heaven and Earth Chess Game.
"No, that's not right. It's not connected to this Heaven and Earth Chess Game of mine, but to my Martial Soul!"
"No, no, no. More precisely, it's connected to me laying out a Heaven and Earth Chess Game, not to this particular Heaven and Earth Chess Game."
Lin Yi gazed into the distance, as though he could see two immense worlds, corresponding to the two different points in time of Douluo I and Douluo Dalu III: The Legend of the Dragon King.
In one of those worlds, it seemed he had brought about a change similar to the Heaven and Earth Chess Game at the point in time he currently occupied.
He thought of the idea he had come up with not long ago: to manipulate time and, through the Heavenly Screen's projections, influence the past and future and establish Heaven and Earth Chess Games in both.
At the time, he had thought it too difficult and put it aside for the moment.
He had never expected that, before he had made a single move, the prologue to the Heavenly Screen's projection would have already completed the first step for him!
"It should be Douluo I. After all, the scenes that were just projected showed me searching for one divine inheritance after another."
"Although I can imagine those scenes of me causing a stir in the era of Douluo Dalu III: The Legend of the Dragon King as well, the Divine Realm is already gone by then. Even if people knew where the Godhood Inheritances were and went looking for them, they probably wouldn't gain much."
It was not just because those Godhood Inheritances no longer had the ability to truly pass on their inheritances. More importantly, over the next ten thousand years, those possible inheritance sites might already have been excavated.
So Lin Yi leaned toward believing that he had influenced the era of Douluo I more.
In that barbaric age, when the Soul Master cultivation system had yet to be fully developed, revealing just about anything would have been enough to shock those savages.
And Godhood Inheritances were truly earth-shattering information.
Having made his judgment, Lin Yi also distinguished between the two worlds he sensed.
Where did the Heavenly Screen's power of projection come from? Lin Yi did not know.
Such an incomprehensible method might belong to something like the supreme will of the universe or the Heavenly Dao.
For Douluo I and Douluo Dalu III: The Legend of the Dragon King, the Heavenly Screen merely projected the scenes.
Here in Douluo II, more of the Heavenly Screen's power was concentrated on Lin Yi, allowing him to know which scenes of him were being projected.
The broadcast had not yet reached the live stage. Once it did, Lin Yi might be able to choose whether to start a live broadcast.
So Lin Yi really had only that tiny bit of privilege.
He did not know of the existence of Douluo I and Douluo Dalu III: The Legend of the Dragon King.
The only reason he could sense anything was faith.
He did not know whether the Heavenly Screen itself had left an opening that allowed the three worlds to influence one another.
In any case, because faith had followed the Heavenly Screen to Lin Yi, he could sense the existence of two worlds.
Of course, he did not sense them directly. Rather, he saw two sources in the faith.
It was like seeing two kinds of handwriting on a sheet of paper already covered in writing.
That was all.
Now, Lin Yi had determined which era each kind of handwriting corresponded to.
He had judged the source of this second wave of faith to be Douluo I.
Thus, he had also distinguished between the two parts of the first wave's sources.
"It seems that, apart from this Heaven and Earth Chess Game, I really do need to pay some attention to Douluo I and Douluo Dalu III: The Legend of the Dragon King and try to scheme a little."
The existence of the Heavenly Screen had brought him more possibilities.
"I just don't know how badly the plot of Douluo I has fallen apart."
Lin Yi thought of that question.
For so much faith to have been generated, the plot must have gone off track.
As for how far off track it had gone, Lin Yi had no idea.
There was another point: Lin Yi also wasn't sure which point in the Douluo I era the Heavenly Screen was projecting to.
There were still too many unknowns on his end.
"Still, it doesn't matter. Whatever point in time Douluo I is at, it isn't important."
Lin Yi suddenly let out a cold laugh.
"Just like this Heaven and Earth Chess Game I'm laying out now, if I really do make arrangements in Douluo I and Douluo Dalu III: The Legend of the Dragon King, I'll naturally be playing to win."
How could anyone in Douluo I be certain of victory?
The plot had already changed. Was Tang San still assured of victory? Could he still encounter the Sea God's inheritance?
Would Qian Renxue and Bibi Dong still drag their feet over becoming gods?
Which side could be assured of victory?
Neither side could be assured of victory!
"So in the chess game of Douluo I, I won't take either side."
"In this game, I'm only a witness."
A smile curved Lin Yi's lips.
If he didn't enter the game, he couldn't lose.
In this period of Douluo II, where his true body was, he needed to become a god, play against Tang San, fight for that sliver of hope, and condense his own Godhood. So he had to enter the game.
But who said that, to establish a Heaven and Earth Chess Game in Douluo I, he had to enter the game?