Once the idea of making a move across time and space surfaced in Lin Yi's mind, he could no longer suppress the madness within him.
After struggling with it for a long time, however, he slowly let out a breath.
Even if he were to try it, now was not the time.
At the very least, he had to wait until the Heaven and Earth Chess Game had fully taken shape and the Heavenly Screen's projection ability had stabilized.
Not much time had passed since the Heavenly Screen appeared.
Even now, the scenes it projected were still of Lin Yi's past cultivation. It had yet to begin a true live broadcast.
Lin Yi was not sure whether the Heavenly Screen was reliable, either.
Although the Heavenly Screen was exceedingly bizarre, projecting his scenes into both the Douluo I and Douluo Dalu III: The Legend of the Dragon King eras, could this bizarre ability endure and continue projecting until the Heaven and Earth Chess Game was complete?
Lin Yi was not sure.
So, for now, it was best to play it safe.
Lin Yi's thoughts could not affect the Heavenly Screen's projection.
The Heavenly Screen continued to play.
The Spirit Ascension Ritual lasted a long time, leaving the Soul Master Worlds of Douluo I and Douluo Dalu III: The Legend of the Dragon King in prolonged shock.
That figure standing high in the sky, looking down upon the earth with seven red Soul Rings at his side, was etched firmly into the hearts of all beings in both eras.
As the shock continued and the image became branded in their minds, the Heavenly Screen's scene finally changed again.
This time, it still was not the acquisition of a Soul Ring.
It seemed to be endless cultivation.
Yes, endless cultivation.
The scene on the Heavenly Screen now showed Lin Yi sitting cross-legged in meditation.
Compared with his previous two epiphanies, Lin Yi's meditation this time was steadier and gentler, seemingly without the slightest abnormality.
This was the simplest, purest meditation.
Everyone was stunned.
Was this another highlight?
What no one knew was that Lin Yi was paying the price for having all Hundred Thousand Year Soul Rings.
Hundred Thousand Year Soul Rings were themselves a different kind of foundation. A Soul Ring's color could not be raised on a whim; doing so required a vast amount of energy.
Lin Yi had raised their essence first, and now he was making up the difference.
This process of making up the difference was also a process of repairing the Chess Martial Soul's lifetime, which he had comprehended in an instant after obtaining his Seventh Soul Ring.
It was extraordinarily significant.
Ordinary people simply could not understand it.
Making up the difference meant a long period of cultivation afterward.
Fortunately, the Heavenly Screen did not show the entire meditation process through which Lin Yi later made up for this shortfall.
This was only the prelude, a series of spectacular scenes meant to catch the eye. A scene that could not cause much of a stir would not last long, either.
After the brief meditation, the Heavenly Screen's scene changed again.
This time, it still was not Soul Hunting.
It was... a flight for his life!
Lin Yi had come under attack from someone unknown and was fleeing without pause.
Streams of light flickered in his eyes, which were like the starry sky. Whenever a light flashed, his body vanished and then appeared somewhere else.
Behind him was a blue-gold figure of light wielding a Golden Trident, tracing golden rings of light one after another.
The golden rings came flying at him, blotting out the sky and covering the earth.
It was an all-encompassing attack.
Yet the next instant, Lin Yi's body vanished completely, and in the next instant, he appeared on the opposite side.
Then the Heavenly Screen's angle shifted, and Lin Yi continued to flee.
"Even a scene of him running away can become a highlight. Just who is attacking Lin Yi?"
Many people in the Soul Master World did not know where the blue-gold figure of light had come from.
Some, however, recognized it.
For example, those on Sea God Island in the Douluo I era.
"Lord Sea God!"
Although the indistinct blue-gold figure was somewhat different from the Sea God they knew, there was no mistaking that bearing, that imposing presence.
High Priestess Bo Saixi's face was filled with shock.
"This Lin Yi actually angered Lord Sea God."
Could he have hunted down a Sea Soul Beast?
As Bo Saixi remembered it, Lord Sea God did not interfere much in the affairs of the Douluo Continent in the lower realm.
Apart from the little patch of ground that was Sea God Island and certain evil Sea Soul Beasts that did not revere him, the Sea God paid no attention to anything else.
Yet the settings for Lin Yi's Soul Hunts, from his Seventh Soul Ring to the many Soul Rings before it, had all been on the continent.
Could he be planning to hunt a Hundred Thousand Year Sea Soul Beast in the deep sea for his Eighth Soul Ring?
No, merely hunting one Hundred Thousand Year Sea Soul Beast should not have been enough to bring the Sea God down in person.
Unless this man had slaughtered Sea Soul Beasts on a massive scale, and ones close to the Sea God at that.
Bo Saixi's gaze grew grave.
What she did not know was that not only had Lin Yi not slaughtered Sea Soul Beasts, he had barely even ventured into the sea.
He had merely been forced to turn the tables and kill two people from the Clear Sky Sect.
One was a young Soul Emperor, and the other a middle-aged Titled Douluo.
As for the cause of the conflict, it was the Ice and Fire Yin Yang Well.
That was right. Tang San had discovered that Lin Yi had trespassed into the Ice and Fire Yin Yang Well and had sent people from the Clear Sky Sect to hunt him down.
But in just a few short years, Lin Yi had grown strong enough to turn the tables and kill a Titled Douluo above his level.
A mere Soul Saint had turned the tables and killed the level 96 sect master of the Clear Sky Sect.
Faced with such strength, Tang San did not hesitate to act personally.
Every sect master of the Clear Sky Sect bore Tang San's mark, and he could strike at any time to kill Lin Yi.
A God King himself had acted to protect his legacy on a lower plane, and no one could stop him.
Even the God of Destruction could not demand that all gods heartlessly abandon every one of their legacies.
The Heavenly Screen's scene continued to play.
Seemingly having anticipated Lin Yi's displacement, the blue-gold figure turned around, thrusting the Sea God Trident in his hand and sending out countless trails of light.
Time seemed to slow.
Countless trident shadows enveloped the place where Lin Yi stood.
Lin Yi sighed and stopped resisting.
His body was pierced through.
But as he died, his body also exploded.
The Heavenly Screen's image flickered, and the blue-gold figure vanished, replaced by another unfamiliar place.
The space suddenly changed.
The surrounding world seemed to turn into a chessboard, with Black and White Energies intertwining.
Lin Yi's phantom slowly walked out of it.
But as he came back to life, all seven blood-red Soul Rings beneath his feet shattered.
"That was a god!"
Bibi Dong's eyes burned as she engraved the blue-gold figure's presence firmly in her mind.
Not far away, Qian Daoliu recognized that familiar presence.
"The Sea God?"
"No wonder merely fleeing could become a highlight. A Soul Saint who can escape a god has reason to be proud," Qian Daoliu murmured to himself.
This god was no ordinary god, either, but the Sea God.
His gaze fixed once more on Lin Yi's figure in the scene, Qian Daoliu noticed Lin Yi's seven shattered blood-red Soul Rings and sighed inwardly.
"With such a Soul Ring Configuration, it's a pity that Lin Yi apparently never found a suitable divine inheritance. Otherwise, with his talent, becoming a god would have been almost inevitable."
Without a god's protection, having provoked the Sea God, it was already no easy feat to survive.
Douluo Dalu III: The Legend of the Dragon King.
Yun Ming frowned as he watched the scene.
"This guy could escape the Sea God's pursuit as a Seven-Ring Soul Sage?"
[Qiangu Dongfeng: So after all that, Lin Yi is an enemy of the Sea God. I thought he was a Shrek predecessor, the way you kept defending him, Yun Ming.]