Yi Yun's palms were covered in cold sweat. It was as if he had fallen into an ice cellar!
What should he do now?
He did not know how long the battle between the fire bird and the pure Yang spirit would last. Regardless of whether it won or lost, he would die a horrible death by staying here!
Escape!
This was Yi Yun's first thought, but where could he escape to?
The burning hell was extremely deep and filled with danger. When Yi Yun came down, he had used the Purple Crystal's vision to avoid all the desolate beasts. He slowly ventured deeper.
And if he were to escape, he would be killed by the fire bird no matter how far he ran if he used the tortoise speed that he used to avoid the desolate beasts.
But if his speed was too fast, he could charge into danger and be killed by other desolate beasts!
Yi Yun's mind raced. He had fallen into the greatest danger he had faced ever since he came to this world!
The fire bird's killing intent was locked onto Yi Yun. Yi Yun decided not to hide, for there was no point in hiding at this moment.
Taking advantage of the battle between the fire bird and the pure Yang spirit, Yi Yun leaped up. Regardless, opening up a distance from the fire bird would give him a chance to react.
"Phew – Phew – Phew –"
Beneath the burning hell, strong winds raged. The battle between the fire bird and the pure Yang spirit became more and more grand. In such a storm, Yi Yun would be reduced to ashes if he was even slightly sucked into it!
He flew up a thousand feet, but his body was still being blown by the storm.
During the process of escaping, Yi Yun was constantly using his energy vision to observe the battle between the fire bird and the pure Yang spirit. He paid attention to every detail. He wanted to see if the fire bird would reveal any flaws, or if it would be killed by the pure Yang spirit.
However, Yi Yun was disappointed that the fire bird seemed to gradually gain the upper hand.
It pecked again and again, as if it was about to swallow the pure Yang spirit.
"Oh? Those light balls … "
In Yi Yun's energy vision, not only did he see the fire bird, he also saw the hundred light balls on the stone wall.
Yi Yun realized that no matter how wantonly the storm was, the hundred light balls remained motionless. There was not even a slight energy fluctuation. They were not affected by the storm at all.
At this moment, Yi Yun's life was hanging by a thread. Originally, he did not have the mood to care about these light spheres, but as his body rose a thousand feet higher and he changed his angle, Yi Yun suddenly realized that the black and red light spheres on the chessboard seemed to be distributed in an irregular manner, but upon careful observation, they were in a picturesque manner. The distance between two light spheres that were adjacent to each other was fixed. If the light spheres were further apart, the distance between them would be an integral multiple of the shortest adjacent distance.
This is …
Yi Yun scanned the area with his perception and found that the number of light spheres was actually not a hundred, but ninety-nine.
Among them, 50 were pure black, while 49 were dark red, no more, no less.
Could it be …
Yi Yun suddenly had an epiphany. Taking advantage of the time when the fire bird was engrossed in devouring the pure Yang spirit, Yi Yun's body constantly rose up. From a higher angle, he could see the light sphere array beneath him.
The 99 light spheres had a panoramic view. Under the contrast of the dark red rocks, their glimmer was deeply imprinted into Yi Yun's irises.
A bolt of lightning flashed in Yi Yun's mind.
He suddenly understood that the array formed by the 99 light spheres was actually … a chess game!
50 black pieces and 49 red pieces. They sat on a square grid, and they intersected with each other in a picturesque manner, in accordance with some sort of inexplicable pattern!
Chess game …
Could this chess game be the secret of Fallen Star Gate?
Yi Yun's heart raced. Maybe if he cracked this chess game, he would be able to pry into the secret of Meteorite Abyss!
He glanced at the fire bird that was fighting the pure Yang spirit, and then at the chess game. Various thoughts flashed through his mind.
Escaping upwards was basically a dead end. If he wasn't caught by the fire bird, he would be killed by the other desolate beasts in a panic.
Then, he might as well risk his life to see if he could crack this chess game!
The chess game in front of him looked like Go. However, although Yi Yun had dabbled in Go, his Go skills were definitely not at the level of cracking this mysterious chess game. Furthermore, it was unknown if this world's Go had the same rules as Yi Yun's previous world's Go.
That was to say, it was impossible for Yi Yun to use his Go skills to crack the chess game. He had no idea what to do next.
"Xiao!"
At this moment, he suddenly heard a shrill cry that resounded through the burning hell. Yi Yun turned his head and saw the fire bird's body burning with reddish-gold flames. It was as if it was undergoing Nirvana. And behind it, the rising flames condensed into a three-legged Golden Crow phantom image!
"Three-legged Golden Crow!"
Yi Yun was shocked. The three-legged Golden Crow was a legendary primordial divine beast.
"Ten Suns of Fusang, Who Controls Pure Yang!"
This was a sentence from the "Tai Ah Sacred Technique"'s summary. The so-called Ten Suns of Fusang meant that there were ten suns rising from the Fusang tree. And in each of these suns, there was a three-legged Golden Crow!
The Golden Crow was the embodiment of the Sun. It was a pure Yang life form. For this fire bird to condense a Golden Crow phantom image, it proved that it had a trace of the ancient Golden Crow's bloodline!
This fire bird was a Golden Crow species!
A Golden Crow species could naturally display its strongest combat power in the burning hell that was formed from pure Yang energy!
Now that it had released its ancestral bloodline, it proved that the Golden Crow species was beginning to go all out!
Yi Yun held his breath. There was less and less time left for him.
After the Golden Crow species went all out, there would be an outcome in a short period of time no matter what.
But could he crack the array in such a short period of time?
Yi Yun adjusted his state of mind and suppressed his flustered feelings. From a height of a few thousand feet, he surveyed the large chessboard.
Calm down … I need to calm down!
Yi Yun calmed his mind. He realized that in his energy vision, the energy contained within the black and red chess pieces were completely different.
The red chess pieces actually represented pure Yang energy. As for the black chess pieces, they contained a dense Yin Qi!
Yin Qi …
Yi Yun's mind raced. In the Meteorite Abyss, although there was pure Yang energy, there was also extreme Yin energy. The ice river and deep pool from before proved this point.
Chu Xiaoran was able to train in the Meteorite Abyss because of this!
When things reached an extreme, they would move in the opposite direction. Pure Yang would give birth to Yin! It was a valley of pure Yang, yet there was also pure Yin, maintaining this balance.
Yi Yun looked at the chessboard beneath him. There was a chaotic and complex energy surging within. The situation of each chess piece was reflected in Yi Yun's mind.
At the moment of life and death, a person would fall into two extremes. Either they would be extremely flustered and out of their wits. Their minds would be on the brink of collapse, causing them to mess up everything.
Or they would be extremely calm, with their minds becoming unprecedentedly clear.
And Yi Yun was the latter.
His mind was so calm that he had abandoned all human emotions.
Even the surrounding environment had disappeared from Yi Yun's mind. The violent storm, the burning burning hell, the intense battle between the pure Yang spirit and the Golden Crow species, Yi Yun had forgotten everything.
In his mind, there were only the 99 chess pieces and the chaotic and complex energy flows.
After controlling the Purple Crystal for so long, Yi Yun had an extraordinary intuition towards energy!
If energy was not restricted, it would flow according to the most fundamental laws. The trajectory of its flow could form the most perfect and harmonious picture in the Universe.
However, in the chessboard in front of him, there was a trace of imperfection in the flow of the 99 energies.
With the Purple Crystal's vision, Yi Yun directly peeped into the chessboard's energy source, causing the imperfection to become clearer!
Yin and Yang imbalance!
A thought flashed in Yi Yun's mind.
99 chess pieces, 50 were extreme Yin and 49 were pure Yang.
Yin flourished while Yang declined!
And in Fallen Star Gate, with its raging burning hell, it had Yang flourishing while Yin declined.
There was a possibility that the chessboard array and Fallen Star Gate would form a perfect balance.
However, it was the lack of energy that prevented the balance from being established …
Yi Yun's mind became clearer. At this moment, even his body had disappeared from his vision.
The 99 chess pieces were connected to Fallen Star Gate. The missing energy was also clearly grasped by Yi Yun!
Yi Yun suddenly understood. With a long roar, the Purple Crystal in his body stirred up a huge energy whirlpool. The surrounding Heaven Earth Yuan Qi gathered towards Yi Yun!
Yi Yun's eyes were like stars. After identifying a direction, his body charged forward!
99 chess pieces, 99 portions of energy. The missing portion was to be filled with his body!
Yi Yun used the Purple Crystal as a guide and with the surging energy, he landed heavily on the chessboard!
At that moment, Yi Yun's body had also become a chess piece.
The 100th chess piece!
Ninety-nine plus one was a hundred.
Nine returns to one!
Nine was the extreme of numbers, and nine nine was the number of supremacy. And when nine nine adds one, it becomes one again. It was like a cycle.
This was a perfect balance!
Yi Yun was the most critical "one".
When Yi Yun injected the missing energy into the chessboard array, the entire array suddenly fell silent.
The ninety-nine balls of light suddenly dimmed.
As the energy flowed, the array dimmed. It was like the calm before the storm.
Yi Yun held his breath as he watched the 99 light spheres slowly merge into the ground.
"Boom!"
The entire rock wall began to tremble. Rocks crumbled as pure Yang spewed out!
A heavy bronze door slowly emerged from the ground, carrying with it an ancient, boundless, and boundless aura.
Yi Yun was deeply shocked by this aura. As he looked at the door, he felt that he was as tiny as an ant in front of the door.
It was on a completely different level!
On the door, there were ancient carvings that formed four divine beasts. They were —
Five-clawed Golden Dragon, Seven-colored Phoenix, Flaming Qilin, Three-legged Golden Crow!
The four divine beasts were paired in pairs. Every rune seemed to contain the laws of Great Dao. It made people feel shocked just by looking at it.
"What is this …"
Yi Yun felt like he was standing in front of a world's door. As long as he pushed open the door, it was as if another world had opened!
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