"Seal the Game and Return to Play."
This was Lin Yi's Spiritual Domain.
Once spiritual power broke through to the Spirit Domain Realm, it could take tangible form. In the process, a Spiritual Domain could be formed.
The abilities of a Spiritual Domain were closely tied to the Soul Master's own experiences and cultivation.
Lin Yi's Martial Soul was chess, and he had also studied the domain of space and time. When he broke through to the Spirit Domain Realm, he formed this Spiritual Domain.
Seal the Game and Return to Play produced the effect Lin Yi had just demonstrated: freezing the current point in space-time, returning to the past, changing certain conditions, then letting events unfold anew while returning to the current point in space-time.
In terms of his Martial Soul, it was like sealing a chess game halfway through, then going back to change the outcome.
If the outcome was unpleasant, he would play it again!
Without a doubt, this Spiritual Domain was an outrageous cheat.
Even so, after gaining this Spiritual Domain, Lin Yi had not become overly arrogant.
After all, the Spiritual Domain appeared capable of changing the past and thereby changing the present.
But in reality, changes to the past were also based on the present.
The more he changed, the greater the burden on Lin Yi himself.
This time, Lin Yi had seemed to stroll through a garden, everything falling into place without any sign of an excessive burden. That was entirely because this use of Seal the Game and Return to Play had not involved any powerhouses who were his equals or stronger than him.
Not involving them did not mean there were no such powerhouses within the Spiritual Domain's range. It meant he had not forcibly interfered with the predetermined fates of such powerhouses in the past he changed.
Take Tang San's divine consciousness avatar, for example. Even after Lin Yi traveled to the past, he did not interfere with the course of its fate. The divine consciousness avatar remained sealed, and as time passed, the seal opened and the avatar appeared.
That was its predetermined fate.
So when he returned to the past, Lin Yi did not actively interfere with Tang San's divine consciousness avatar. Instead, he collected Immortal Herbs and heavenly materials and earthly treasures.
At such a time, fate would even help Lin Yi keep the seal on Tang San's divine consciousness avatar stable.
Having returned to the past, Lin Yi seemed to have divine help. As long as he did not actively interfere with the fates of those powerhouses, they would continue doing what they were originally meant to do, following their predetermined fates.
Thus, when Lin Yi returned to the past, Tang San's divine consciousness avatar did not move and remained sealed.
That was because fate concealed Lin Yi's presence.
Concealing Lin Yi's presence and letting him finish harvesting the Immortal Herbs and heavenly materials and earthly treasures was far easier than giving Tang San's divine consciousness avatar autonomy so it could awaken early in response to Lin Yi's appearance. Thus, fate chose to help Lin Yi.
This helped Lin Yi, but it also confined this ability of his.
If he moved the spot where Tang San's divine consciousness avatar was sealed while using Seal the Game and Return to Play, his Spiritual Domain might shatter immediately and return him to reality.
The cost was proportional to the effect.
Lin Yi had been able to accomplish all this because the only things he changed in the past were the locations of the Immortal Herbs and heavenly materials and earthly treasures.
It was equivalent to collecting everything around the Ice and Fire Yin Yang Well at the instant space-time froze.
This was the most basic application, and the one that placed the least burden on Lin Yi.
In fact, Lin Yi had made one other small move: at the final instant before time returned to normal, he had teleported himself away as well!
That move was his true life-preserving technique.
Compared to the previous times Tang San had targeted him, when he had been forced to have his body blown apart and then revive, Lin Yi was no longer what he had once been.
Even without changing any cause and effect in the past, Seal the Game and Return to Play was a bug-level ability when used solely to escape!
Even an ability that could likewise reverse time would have difficulty intercepting and killing him, because he could teleport over an extremely long distance!
He could teleport straight out of the range of the other party's time reversal.
Even if the other party anticipated him and reversed time before he froze it, Lin Yi could still return to a point before the other party's reversal and teleport away!
Of course, that was possible in theory.
In practice, it would depend on execution.
After all, all these moves took time. However brief the intervals were, they offered timing an opponent could seize!
Douluo I.
"Inconceivable!"
Yue Guan stared in amazement. He raised a hand, his fingers forming an orchid gesture as he pointed at the image on the Heavenly Screen, his fingers trembling.
"Reversing time, then returning it to normal."
"He's changing the past!"
"Is this really a power a Soul Master can master?"
The ability Lin Yi had displayed on the Heavenly Screen truly lay beyond people's understanding.
Yue Guan and Gui Mei, whose Martial Soul Fusion Skill could only freeze an area of space, felt as though they were looking at a heavenly book.
Bibi Dong's expression was even graver.
An ability like that had only been used to escape.
Just how great was the gap between a god and a Peerless Douluo?
Thinking of the changes she had undergone under the influence of the Rakshasa God's divine power, Bibi Dong felt an even greater weight in her heart.
As they hurried along, Tang San, his father Tang Hao, and Yu Xiaogang were also stunned to see this.
At that moment, Yu Xiaogang felt a burning pain on his face.
The moment the Heavenly Screen had first appeared, he, Yu Xiaogang, had declared that Lin Yi's Chess Martial Soul was no good at anything.
After Lu Qibin, who was with Flender, questioned him, Flender explained that Yu Xiaogang had been judging ordinary Chess Martial Souls, not the Star Luo Chess Martial Soul with its stellar attribute.
In fact, that was indeed what Yu Xiaogang thought.
Well, not when he first made the comment. After realizing that many Soul Masters with Chess Martial Souls had achieved success in cultivation across the continent, Yu Xiaogang had panicked and hurriedly patched up his statement.
If any Soul Master with a Chess Martial Soul came looking for trouble over his judgment, that was how he would respond.
But what ability had Lin Yi displayed now?
Wasn't this chess?
Seal the Game and Return to Play!
A genuine divine skill connected to chess itself!
Tang Hao's expression was grave at first, then he looked at Tang San.
"Xiao San, even an ability like that poses no threat to the future Sea God-that is, the future you. Even when faced with an avatar you left behind, he had to flee at once. So there's no need to be afraid. What you need to do is build a solid foundation in cultivation and become a god as quickly as possible."
Knowing that Tang San had the potential to become a god, Tang Hao devoted even more attention to raising his son.
But to this day, he still did not know how Tang San was supposed to become the Sea God.
The Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Sect.
Lin Yi's ability was certainly inconceivable.
Yet even that inconceivable ability had to retreat in the face of Tang San's power.
Ning Fengzhi reached the same conclusion.
"Just how powerful must a god be?"
"How did that Tang San become the Sea God?"
Ning Fengzhi pondered the question.
The many earlier developments had led him to give up on approaching Tang San and Tang Hao.
But now he could not help turning his thoughts toward the father and son again.
Of course, he certainly did not intend to help them.
As this thought occurred to Ning Fengzhi, he looked at Gu Rong beside him.
Gu Rong said, "That's not difficult. With the intelligence capabilities of our Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Sect, as long as Tang San isn't hiding in some remote backwater, we'll find him sooner or later. Then we can keep an eye on his every move. Before he obtains the Sea God Inheritance, we'll have every chance to intercept it!"