Sweeping both worlds: Starting from idealistic martial arts

Chapter 283 Antimemes and Life Return
Outside the ruins of Guiyun Peak, a pillar of crimson fire shot straight into the sky, its distance unknown.

Near that world-destroying pillar of fire, the area within a thousand miles was transformed into a death zone, enveloped by countless gales and thunderstorms.

But within this dead zone, there is still a secluded paradise, undisturbed by the outside world.

'Wow...this is a good game.'

Nestled in the small space formed by the inheritance, Yi Tianxing watched Fang Can place another piece in front of him, and was so happy that he scratched his ears and cheeks, sighing repeatedly.

Yi Tianxing has lived for 869 years.

When he was born, his five-fold transformation could still be seen in various countries, and even at the sixth level, there were only traces of him.

He became deeply fascinated with Go after first seeing it at the age of three.

After winning first place for eight consecutive years in the Great Zhou Mortal Realm Chess League at the age of sixteen, he was noticed by the Chess Pavilion, whose highest rank at the time was only second-level, and officially entered the martial arts circle.

At this point, he saw a much wider world.

Those martial artists, in terms of the height, breadth, and depth of their thinking, completely overwhelmed ordinary people.

He was proud of his Go skills, but on his first day at the sect, he was given a harsh lesson by his senior brothers and sisters, which successfully made him calm down and prepare to learn martial arts.

Martial arts is a catch-all term; you can put anything into it.

As long as you have something you're good at and passionate about, and you integrate that into your martial arts, your training speed will be incredibly fast.

After becoming a martial artist, he used chess to cultivate his spiritual path, practicing both chess and martial arts.

He reached the first stage in just three years, then the second stage at the age of thirty, the third stage at the age of fifty, and at just two hundred years old, he became the first person in the history of the country to enter the Tao through chess, reaching the fourth stage.

Meanwhile, the chess and card game pavilion where he worked also rose in popularity as he started out.

From a place where it could only live within the confines of the Great Zhou Dynasty, it has become a sacred place for the Go world, connecting various countries, and attracting talented Go players to study here every year.

Then came the Great Migration.

Suddenly, an outsider, certified by the previous generation's all-knowing scholar, arrived here.

It was a six-person team, the strongest of whom possessed the power of a fifth-level cultivator. They claimed to be from the Nightmare Space and had come to this world to carry out a mission.

They said they could invite everyone to adventure in a wider world beyond their own borders.

Any martial artist whose strength reaches the fourth level has a chance to be taken away, and they will have a chance to come back later.

This request immediately shook the fourth and fifth ranks of the various kingdoms, since the kingdoms were far too small for those above the fourth rank.

In a maximum of one hour, four turns can traverse the five great kingdoms, roughly equivalent to a small county town.

As for that endless sea, it is said that there are people there, but no one has ever seen them.

Now that there is a person from outside the realm, almost all martial artists above the fourth level have accepted the invitation.

After leaving, in order to ensure that the lineage of the various kingdoms would not be interrupted, they left a fifth-level ritual artifact for the Brahma Sound Temple after taking away their respective ritual artifacts.

After all, these Buddhist practitioners are trustworthy; if they were in the hands of other forces, they might just establish a dictatorship.

Yi Tianxing also received an invitation at the time, but he declined because he was no longer used to fighting and killing.

With the departure of martial artists at the fourth level and above, the entire martial arts world immediately fell into a state of decline.

A group of juniors, whose highest level was only three, were holding several fourth-level sacrificial artifacts left by their ancestor, unaware of what was going on. Ironically, he suddenly became the strongest in the world.

But life will find a way.

After decades of silence, one new person after another rose up like comets, and various upheavals ensued.

In just a few hundred years, twenty or thirty fourth-level martial artists, no weaker than their predecessors, have emerged in the martial arts world.

Returning to the present, Yi Tianxing has put aside the so-called life and death, staring at the chessboard in front of him with a fanatical expression.

How long has it been? Since the Great Migration of Martial Artists, how long has it been since we've encountered a worthy opponent?

Fang Can's chess moves were like an avalanche, initially unpredictable and ever-changing, like flying snowflakes, captivating the player.

But by the time they realized what was happening, they were already deeply involved, watching helplessly as the overwhelming force swept in from the snow-capped peaks.

The feeling Fang Can gave him at this moment was even more terrifying than the game he had the honor of playing against a six-turn opponent hundreds of years ago!
Unfathomable!!!

Yi Tianxing slowly raised his head and gazed at the calm-looking young man inside Ji Donglai's body through the live stream.

A sense of inevitable defeat gripped his heart. He felt as if an indescribable being was looking down at him with an indifferent expression from some unknown height behind Fang Can.

Moreover, he felt that the game was far from reaching its peak.

This was less a life-or-death game and more like Fang Can giving him pointers.

Fang Can's chess skills depend on how well he performs; the stronger he is, the stronger his opponent will be.

Since things have come to this, let's play chess!

Yi Tianxing had already composed himself, his gaze fixed intently on the game of chess, completely absorbed in it.

At this moment, life and death were irrelevant; he only wanted to wholeheartedly enjoy the joy of Go. He wanted to do everything in his power to bring out Fang Can's full potential.

As he pondered these thoughts, Yi Tianxing's already aged appearance began to deteriorate at a visible rate. His once lustrous flesh began to dry up, and his hair turned from jet black to gray.

"This is... a return of life!"

The disciples of the Chess Pavilion who watched this scene through the live stream stared wide-eyed, their eyes filled with disbelief.

The so-called "Return of Life" is a secret method of Go.

By sacrificing everything to enhance the brain's computing power, this practice can lead to either a shortened lifespan or, in severe cases, death from old age.

At this moment, after Yi Tianxing used "Life Return", his computing power, which had not increased for hundreds of years and was in the mature stage of the fourth transformation, began to grow rapidly. Conversely, his flesh and blood began to melt and be absorbed by his brain little by little.

Eyes, hair, keratin, skin, heart...

All bodily tissues except the brain are being constantly drained of life and are being entirely supplied to the brain.

As his computing power increased dramatically, he gradually saw through the moves in the game before him.

'Damn it, this guy's hopeless. He's a complete waste.'

During the battle with Ji Donglai, Xiang Hongtu coldly watched Yi Tianxing's continuous decline and roughly understood his current situation.

As Bai Xiaosheng continued his live stream, he gained a fairly comprehensive understanding of the information regarding Fang Can's side.

First is Ji Donglai, who has the ability to enhance his body and teleport by spending money.

If we persist and deplete the opponent's savings, or wait for other fourth-rank martial artists from Chu to come to our aid, the situation will be reversed.

Then there's Fang Can, who possesses the ability of luck and is even stronger in chess than Yi Tianxing, who is at the fourth level, but he always hides in Ji Donglai's space and doesn't come out.

If only I had used the Unknown Reverse Flow to kill Ji Donglai when he appeared at Guiyun Peak, I wouldn't be in such a passive position now.

There's also an ability user who can suppress those below the fourth rank, an ability user who can enhance other ability users, and an ability user who can mimic other ability users...

'It's all troublesome.' Xiang Hongtu felt slightly irritated.

Because Fang Can kept teleporting and attacking him, forcing him to use the Unknown Reverse Flow to dodge and retaliate.

He can only move a distance of 0.3 seconds at a time, which is far less than the space that Ji Donglai, who is said to have supernatural powers, can teleport. He can't even escape.

Although his "Ignorance Reversal" has no cooldown, it cannot be used indefinitely; it requires constant consumption of mental energy.

Even with his current top-tier cultivation technique, the Yin-Yang Sacred Embryo, combined with the peak of the fourth stage, resulting in double the mental reserves and double the recovery effect, he still has a significant advantage.

In addition, each reversal of time adds 0.3 seconds to the recovery time of the mind image. At the current intensity of the battle, hundreds or thousands of reversals of ignorance can be cast in a second.

For every second that passes, he recovers 300 seconds of rest time, but this is only enough for him to activate the flow of real time for 10 minutes, or about 15000 times of the Unknown Reversal.

'Can I empty Ji Donglai's coffers in 10 minutes?' Xiang Hongtu pondered to himself.

The answer is no. Even if Xiang Hongtu uses the Unknown Reverse Current attack on Ji Donglai multiple times within a second, Ji Donglai will only suffer the maximum damage from the attack.

In other words, Ji Donglai's deduction per second is only 2000 billion, plus the 1000 billion consumed to increase power, and apart from that, each teleportation costs almost nothing.

Ten minutes is 600 seconds, and the GDP of 180 trillion is less than one-fifteenth of Ji Donglai's 3000 trillion GDP reserves.

This is without even considering the enhancements to the Rotten King and the God.

As Fang Can looked at this guy who kept flashing across the time scale, a question arose in his mind: Doesn't this guy get tired?

From Fang Can's perspective, this guy kept flashing through time, as if he would never get tired.

Considering the opponent's abilities, the King of Willpower couldn't help but speculate: "This guy has the ability to reverse time, so he probably removed the cooldown and mana cost, right?"

These words made Fang Can frown, feeling that his opponent was surprisingly tenacious, and then he remembered a time-related joke on the Internet.

You ask me about mana consumption? What mana would I consume if I reversed time?

You're asking me about CDs? I've traveled back in time, where would I get CDs?

But Fang Can immediately rejected the idea, because his intuition told him that it was unrealistic; how could a fourth-tier character be so overpowered?

But if we keep dragging this out, the longer it goes on, the worse it will be. In eight minutes, a fourth-tier reinforcement might come to our aid.

Should we increase funding? Fang Can immediately rejected the idea.

The difference between the peak of the fourth and fifth rank is ten thousand times. The attack consumes too much energy. To break through Chixiao's golden body, at least half of the GDP reserves would be depleted. What would happen in the subsequent battle?
In a flash, Fang Can suddenly looked at Lan Huo Wang and asked with concern, "Are you ready to fight the meme?"

"OK, the three-second delay is ready, and we can enter anti-meme mode at any time," the King of Rotten Things laughed.

“Alright, you’ll come with me next.” Fang Can nodded, his gaze falling on Yan Chuqing, who was in the Endless Sea in the live stream: “Let’s take down this second easiest one first.”

As Fang Can's thoughts transmitted the message, three fourth-level warriors were now standing in front of a third-level shaman in the Great Chu.

"Quickly use spatial teleportation to send me to Emperor Chu." A fourth-tier cultivator with an explosive temper grabbed a third-tier cultivator by the neck and threatened him in an unfriendly tone.

"No...it's no use." The third-ranked cultivator hurriedly explained, "The Chu Emperor's place has been placed under a magic-suppressing domain by an ability user, so teleportation for those below the fourth rank can't reach there at all."

(End of this chapter)