The four of them had entered deep into the enemy formation, so there was no room for them to dodge. All their paths were locked. Even if they could kill a few, the other chess pieces would instantly kill them.
"Acting shamelessly after losing. How can you be considered the best in the world at chess?" Li Xuan said.
"The world is like a game of chess. The victor is king. As long as you win, you are number one in the world." The elder was already confident of victory, so he didn't immediately take action.
Zhou Wen looked at the elder and asked, "As a human, why can you control the dimensional creatures in a dimensional zone?"
Zhou Wen wasn't worried about his safety. He was just curious how the elder had done it.
"I'm the Chess King. This is a chess dimensional zone. The heavens chose me to be the king here, allowing me to revitalize the way of chess," the elder said fervently.
"What a joke. Is this how you revitalize the way of chess? You rely on cheating to win, yet you call yourself the Chess King. What a joke, "Li Xuan mocked.
"Ignorant people like you know nothing about chess. A win is a win. Die," the elder said as he ordered his chess pieces to attack.
Without any hesitation, Zhou Wen activated the Heaven-Opening Scripture of the Highest Elder and tore through the dimensional zone's taboo. Instantly, he summoned tens of thousands of Musical Note Sprites.
Bam!
The elder's fifteen chess pieces killed a few Musical Note Sprites, but the endless Musical Note Sprites had already occupied the entire space. They blotted out the sky and enveloped the entire chess game.
"No … Impossible … How can you summon so many chess pieces … There are only sixteen chess pieces on each side …" The old man was horrified. The sky was filled with musical note sprites, and each of them was a chess piece. Even a person who didn't know how to play chess could be killed in an instant.
"The rules here are useless against me," Zhou Wen said.
"You are cheating …" the elder shouted with a ferocious expression.
Li Xuan burst out laughing. "You seem to be saying that I am cheating. Who was the one who said that the victor is king?"
"Tell me, why can you control the dimensional creatures here?" Zhou Wen stared at the elder and asked.
However, the elder didn't answer. He suddenly roared and ordered his chess pieces to attack again, but it was useless in Zhou Wen's sea of Musical Note Sprites.
With a thought, all the elder's chess pieces were instantly killed. The elder also charged at a Musical Note Sprite, but Zhou Wen didn't give him a chance to die. He controlled the Musical Note Sprite to keep him alive.
There's something wrong with this elder. Li Xuan also noticed the problem.
"It should be controlled by a dimensional creature." Zhou Wen couldn't see any problems with his naked eye, so he unsummoned his Companion Beasts. Then, he switched to the Supreme Hell King Life Soul and sized up the elder again.
This time, he finally saw the problem. There was a soul-shaped dimensional creature on the elder. It looked like an ancient chess player.
"I'm number one at chess … I'm a chess king …" the elder shouted crazily as he charged at Zhou Wen and company.
"What should we do?" Feng Qiuyan looked at Zhou Wen in a dilemma. He didn't dare kill the enemy with real weapons, but there was clearly something wrong with the elder. He wasn't willing to kill him.
"Let me do it." Zhou Wen walked towards the elder. When the elder rushed in front of him, he waved his hand and slashed out Supreme Hell King Hellfire, burning the soul that possessed the elder to ashes.
With his soul gone, the elder immediately fell to the ground like a deflated ball. The madness in his eyes quickly faded.
Once the soul-shaped dimensional creature died, Zhou Wen and company felt their surroundings return to normal. Without the taboo power restricting their movements, they could walk horizontally and diagonally as they pleased.
"S … Sorry … I … I didn't do it on purpose … I …" The elder regained his senses and said helplessly. He looked like an honest old man, without the madness from before.
"We know it's not your fault. You were controlled by a dimensional creature here. Tell us, what happened here?" Zhou Wen pulled the elder up and asked.
The elder heaved a long sigh of relief when he heard Zhou Wen say that. Then, he roughly explained what had happened.
This place wasn't very famous. In the past, there was a small village in the mountains. The elder was a villager in the village. There was a lack of water and electricity in the mountain village, so there wasn't much entertainment. Therefore, chess became the hobby and entertainment of many villagers.
Later, after the dimensional storms, many villagers were afraid that dimensional zones would appear here, so they moved to large cities.
The elder's grandfather was a nostalgic person. He wasn't willing to leave his hometown. Furthermore, there weren't any dimensional zones nearby back then. Therefore, their family lived in an isolated mountain village, living a life that was aloof from the world.
In the beginning, it wasn't a big deal. As there were no dimensional creatures around, they led a rather peaceful life. However, after more than ten years, after the elder's grandfather died, the surroundings gradually began to change. The elder's father originally planned on taking him to a large city, but he realized that they couldn't leave. This was because a dimensional creature called a Chess Soul had appeared on the nearby roads.
If one wanted to leave this place, they had to play chess with the Chess Soul. If they won, they could pass. If they lost, they would be possessed by the Chess Soul and become like the elder.
After the elder's father lost to the Chess Soul and was controlled by it, his mother didn't dare take him out again. Therefore, the two of them lived in the mountain village. Apart from not being able to leave, there were no other problems.
Later, the elder's mother passed away, and the elder slowly aged. He had been practicing chess all these years, hoping that he could one day rush out.
As he didn't have the courage, he only mustered the courage to play chess with the Chess Souls when he was about to die of old age. The outcome was the same. He was defeated by the Chess Souls and became like this.
"In that case, there's more than one Chess Soul?" Zhou Wen asked.
"In the beginning, there were only a few Chess Souls that sealed the nearby exit. Later, there were more and more Chess Souls, and the range of control increased," the elder said.
"From the looks of it, there should be many Chess Souls ahead. Should we continue forward?" Li Xuan asked.
Zhou Wen looked at the map and said, "Let's continue. I'll lead the way. It shouldn't be a problem."
Although he could choose other routes, Zhou Wen had already taken them. They couldn't bring him benefits, so Zhou Wen decided to continue taking this path.
When the elder heard that they wanted to continue forward, he begged them to take him with them. If he could meet his father, he begged them to save him.
After all, it was just a matter of convenience. Zhou Wen agreed to take him along.
As they walked forward, they realized that there were indeed many crisscrossing rivers here. They were like lines on a chessboard. When they walked to a river in front of them, they realized that a creature had appeared on the other side. However, this time, it wasn't a human, but an ancient chess player in a spirit body state.
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