A hundred miles of blood mist surged and billowed.
Giant black wings stretched across the Void Realm.
Red Toad raised his head, staring blankly at the horizon.
Only the corners of his mouth revealed a hint of horror.
He couldn't help but mutter, "This... how is this possible?!"
Setting aside the soul-shuddering, baleful intent emanating from that central palace for a moment.
Just looking below that ghastly, majestic hall.
There stood clearly only a single stone statue.
A single stone statue.
It corresponded to the Girl in Black Robes having a cultivation of only one Chess Player piece.
Yet this single-piece cultivation had spread a blood-colored mist across a full hundred miles.
As everyone knew.
The moment a central palace manifests, the range of the celestial phenomenon it can influence represents the depth of that person's most fundamental Origin.
For an ordinary single piece, five miles was already decent.
Ten miles was considered the mark of a Prodigy.
Rumor had it that even the direct disciples of the Nine Great Dao Sects or the core scions of Yunmeng Palace only reached a few dozen miles.
A hundred-mile phenomenon...
Forget a single Chess Player piece.
Even if Immortal Lord Guanlan personally summoned his central palace, with his supreme cultivation of six Chess Player pieces and the vast resources accumulated over years backed by the Southern Immortal Palace.
It would likely only reach a mere hundred miles.
In other words.
This girl who had appeared out of nowhere.
With just a single-piece Realm, her foundation was already so exaggerated that it could rival an Immortal Lord?
What kind of world-shaking talent was this?!
Red Toad's arm, gripping the steel fork, couldn't help but tremble.
Now, he was caught in a dilemma, unable to advance or retreat.
The watery momentum he had built up earlier was actually starting to crumble under the pressure of the overwhelming blood mist.
And on the deck below.
Green Toad, who had been stomped into the wooden planks, finally slowly regained consciousness.
His head felt like it was splitting open.
He was extremely infuriated; when had he ever suffered such a humiliating disgrace?
Just as he was about to lash out in a violent rage.
He looked up.
And saw the same scene.
Blood-red baleful aura filling the sky.
Black wings blotting out the light.
That dark red hall, whose pressure far surpassed the Immortal Lord's Water Manor.
All of it crashed into his vision.
Green Toad stared blankly for a moment, his Adam's apple bobbing with difficulty.
Wait...
If you had such a terrifying foundation, you should have said so earlier!
Who would have dared to make things difficult for you...
Could it be that for today's outside Cultivators, it's trendy to play the pig to eat the toad?!
But the most shocked were the two members of the Xu Family, young and old.
Xu Linmiao had long since collapsed to the ground, his eyes vacant, his mouth agape, unable to make a sound.
Elder Xun also stared up blankly at the dark red hall that blotted out the sun.
A wave of lingering fear couldn't help but rise in his heart.
If he had harbored ill intentions earlier and spoken harshly to this Girl in Black Robes of unknown Origin.
Or if he had relied on his cultivation of four Chess Player pieces to forcibly expel her from the ship.
And provoked her.
This overwhelming and terrifying central palace phenomenon would likely have come crashing down right on his head by now...
Jiang Yuechu paid no mind to the thoughts of others.
She merely raised her arm slightly.
With this simple movement.
Below the dark red hall, the only stone statue, tightly enveloped in black mist so its true form couldn't be seen.
Suddenly took a step forward.
It let out a furious roar that shook the waters.
The golden scabbard held in reverse by the stone statue was suddenly thrust forward.
Boom.
Crimson flames erupted without warning, raging through the air.
Pure golden flames instantly and tightly enveloped Red Toad's body in mid-air.
Under the intense pain, Red Toad finally snapped out of his daze.
His massive body rolled frantically in the air, trying to extinguish the unyielding crimson fire.
"Senior, have mercy!"
With a thud, Red Toad knelt in mid-air, kowtowing desperately.
"This humble one was blind and offended your presence, Senior. I beg you to spare my worthless life! Over the years, I've collected many treasures, and I'm willing to offer them all up..."
His shrill wails echoed.
However.
Jiang Yuechu remained expressionless, not a single ripple appearing in her dark eyes.
Under her will, the crimson flames roared and suddenly tightened.
At the same time.
She clenched her right hand into a fist and indifferently smashed it down toward Green Toad on the deck below.
Billowing black mist poured down from the heavens.
Converging in mid-air into a giant arm that blotted out the light.
Carrying the supreme will of Great Black Heaven, it slammed down with a roar.
Bang.
The two demon bodies, under the assault of crimson flames and black mist.
Instantly shattered.
[Killed a Chess Player Realm creature, obtained 499,852 years of Dao Cultivation]
[Killed a Chess Player Realm creature, obtained 476,431 years of Dao Cultivation]
[Spend Dao Cultivation to reshape the demon body?]
"..."
A long series of prompts sounded one after another.
Jiang Yuechu withdrew the celestial phenomena, but her brow slowly furrowed.
Two Chess Player Realm demons, each providing a mere 400,000-plus years of Dao Cultivation.
Compared to the Demon Emperors in her own world, who provided at least a million years, this amount was indeed a bit meager.
But it was easy enough to explain.
Yunmeng Township was a place where myriad laws flourished, and Heaven And Earth Treasures were countless.
Whether for Human Cultivators or demons, the cultivation resources were incomparable to her own broken world.
Being able to reach such a Realm by spending less Lifespan was naturally nothing to be puzzled about.
What truly puzzled her.
Were two other points.
First.
In her broken world, Chess Player Realm experts all hid their central palaces in various places and did not easily show them.
Even if one killed them, as long as the location of the central palace wasn't found, it would be extremely difficult to truly destroy their foundation.
But these demons of Yunmeng Township... were actually so bold in their actions.
Bringing their central palace along just for a fight?
She herself had no place to put it... and with Dao Cultivation as a fallback, it was better to keep it with her.
But what level were these characters... that they dared to imitate her?
Second.
Reshaping the demon body... what did that mean?
After the demons died, not only did it fail to trigger a prompt to record a Cultivation Technique, but it also presented an option she had never seen before.
Could it be that even without the recording prompt, she could spend Dao Cultivation to directly reshape their demon bodies and take them for her own use?
After thinking for a while.
She shook her head and temporarily cast these messy thoughts aside.
She had now entered the Chess Master Realm.
Trying to rely on "Myriad Demon Swallowing Heaven" to raise her Realm further seemed to be of no use now.
A Breakthrough in the Chess Player Realm could only rely on condensing a new dao chess piece.
She wondered if the System could help her solve this major problem.
It was true that Yunmeng Township was vast and rich in resources.
But she couldn't spend every day running around the world looking for an object of dao integration.
Besides.
Just now, when she killed those two Chess Player Realm demons, their demon bodies shattered and their Demon Palaces were completely destroyed.
Yet she hadn't seen even a shadow of an object of dao integration.
Could it be.
That the way Cultivators and demons in this world condensed dao chess pieces was completely different from her own?
It seemed... she would have to spend some time in this fifty-thousand-mile Great Marsh to investigate thoroughly.