pjbooks Chapter 337 A Game of Life and Death
Chapter 337 A Game of Life and Death
Chen Yifan absorbed the last bit of energy from the mental storm and felt his mental strength had increased significantly.
The white jade hall on the first floor of the Heart Palace, nourished by this pure energy, became increasingly solid, almost transforming from ethereal to tangible.
He clapped his hands in satisfaction, ready to continue on his way.
Behind him, the shouts of his pursuers and the chaotic alarms from the detectors made him frown impatiently.
"A swarm of flies, they're like persistent ghosts."
He didn't bother to look back and quickened his pace.
After passing through the kilometer-long crystal corridor, the view ahead suddenly opens up.
He arrived at a huge platform that was suspended in the endless void.
This platform was actually a giant chessboard composed of countless black and white spiritual energy cubes.
The chessboard is intricate and stretches as far as the eye can see.
On each block, a three-meter-tall spiritual guardian, clad in armor and wielding a halberd, stands silently.
These guards had empty eyes, yet they exuded a terrifying aura comparable to that of a peak third-tier professional.
In the center of the chessboard, a purple-gold energy ball floats, emanating waves of extremely pure spiritual energy, clearly the reward for clearing this level.
As soon as Chen Yifan stepped onto the edge of the chessboard, a cold thought was imprinted into his mind, explaining the rules of this level to him.
[A life-or-death game of chess, every move a potential kill.]
[How to pass: Possess any chess piece with your spiritual power, follow the rules of the chessboard, and defeat all enemy pieces to reach the center.]
[Warning: One wrong step, and you will enter a killing frenzy, your soul will be instantly annihilated.]
After hearing the rules, Chen Yifan pursed his lips.
It's another one of those convoluted puzzle games.
The ancient pioneer who designed this site was probably a chess fanatic.
Just as he was pondering whether to abide by the rules or break the deadlock with violence, the pursuers behind him finally caught up, panting heavily.
"stop!"
"Don't run!"
Dozens of elite special forces soldiers carrying lamps and cyborgs from the Council of Order surged onto the edge of the chessboard.
When they saw Chen Yifan standing not far away, they immediately raised their weapons.
"Fire!"
Several impatient Order Council cyborgs ignored all rules and charged straight at Chen Yifan, raising the energy cannons on their arms in preparation for a concentrated attack.
However, they have only just taken the second step.
Suddenly, a blood-red light shone from the black squares beneath their feet.
The mental guardian standing on that shelf had his empty eyes instantly filled with red light.
The halberd in its hand became a blur, so fast that it was impossible for the naked eye to catch it.
puff!
The cyborg at the forefront didn't even have time to scream before his hard alloy body was cleaved in two by the halberd as if it were made of paper.
The cut was as smooth as a mirror, without even a spark.
Then, several other unlucky people who stepped on the wrong squares suffered the same fate.
The mental guardians were like the most efficient slaughtering machines, taking down enemies one by one. In the blink of an eye, more than a dozen pieces of metal wreckage emitting black smoke appeared on the edge of the chessboard.
This bloody scene frightened all the pursuers to their feet, who stood rooted to the spot, not daring to move an inch.
"What happened?"
"There's a problem here! Don't wander around!"
Lei Zhen's deputy, a man who looked like a technician, hurriedly took out a sophisticated detector from behind his back and began frantically scanning the entire chessboard, trying to calculate a safe path.
"Don't panic! Give me three minutes! I can crack its operating logic!"
Chen Yifan glanced back at the group of guys who were walking on thin ice and sweating profusely, a sneer of undisguised mockery curling at the corner of his mouth.
Cracking it?
By the time you figure it out, the daylily will be too cold.
He had no intention of playing chess with these stupid guards at all.
Why not do something better with that time?
"Playing with you guys is such a waste of time."
Chen Yifan shook his head, and then, to the astonishment of all the pursuers, he made a move that they would never forget.
He raised his head and looked at the sky above the chessboard, where the external Dao Heart Palace in his sea of consciousness was operating at an unprecedented speed.
The immense spiritual power that had just reached level 50 and had absorbed an entire mental storm was now being mobilized by him without reservation and at full power!
"Buzz!"
A visible energy fluctuation suddenly spread out from him.
The air above his head began to distort and collapse.
A massive amount of spiritual energy was forcibly condensed and compressed, eventually transforming into a gigantic warhammer phantom that blotted out the sky and almost filled the entire void!
This warhammer was so big that the pursuers at the edge of the chessboard could only see its hammerhead, which stretched like a mountain range.
It is engraved with countless mysterious golden patterns, exuding an overbearing pressure that crushes everything and makes no sense.
Before this warhammer, the mental guardians at the peak of the third stage on the chessboard were as insignificant as ants.
Lei Zhen's technical assistant's detector emitted a piercing alarm, the values on the screen went off the charts, and then it exploded into parts with a "bang".
He stared blankly at the giant hammer that was slowly pressing down, his mouth agape, wide enough to fit an egg, but he couldn't utter a single word.
"I'll play your grandpa's chess!"
Chen Yifan let out a triumphant roar, and with all his strength, he swung his right arm downwards!
With his movement, the sky-covering mental power warhammer, accompanied by a terrifying howl that tore through space, slammed down fiercely towards the center of the chessboard!
Boom!
A deafening roar, powerful enough to shatter one's very soul, exploded throughout the void.
The so-called intricate chess game, the so-called rules of life and death, are fragile and vulnerable in the face of this absolute and violent crushing force.
The entire chessboard, along with all the mental guardians on it, was smashed to pieces by this hammer blow!
The black and white spiritual energy cubes disintegrated instantly into the most basic energy particles, just like glass thrown into a shredder.
Those once-arrogant spiritual guardians, along with their armor and halberds, also crashed and shattered at the same time.
In the end, all the fragmented energy gathered together and condensed into an energy ball radiating purple-gold light at the center of the chessboard.
Chen Yifan flashed and appeared next to the energy ball, grabbing it in his hand.
Without the support of the array's energy, the edge of the chessboard beneath his feet, which was not yet completely shattered, began to collapse inch by inch, turning into nothingness.
"Ah! Help!"
"No!"
Those pursuers who were still standing there dumbfounded suddenly lost their footing and, without even having time to react, screamed as they plummeted into the bottomless dark abyss below the chessboard.
Chen Yifan didn't even bother to turn around and look at them.
He weighed the energy ball in his hand and nodded in satisfaction.
He could sense that the ball contained extremely pure spiritual energy, as well as a complete skill imprint.
He crushed the energy ball without hesitation.
hum!
A massive flow of information instantly flooded his mind.
[Godslayer Strike: Concentrates all of one's spiritual power into a single point, transforming it into an invisible thorn that ignores all physical and energy defenses, directly attacking the target's soul essence. Its power is directly proportional to the strength of the user's spiritual power.]
nice one!
This is practically a killer move tailor-made for him!
Chen Yifan was overjoyed and was about to study this new skill carefully.
Suddenly, in the dark void ahead, after the collapse, a pair of enormous eyes, like two blood-red moons, slowly lit up.
A pressure ten times colder and more insane than the aura of the heretic they had encountered in the lobby swept over them.