I made the entire cultivation world cry

Chapter 312 Starry Sky Chess Game (Seeking Monthly Tickets)
In the bamboo-fenced courtyard of Youxian Ferry, the demons surrounded Jiang Yi, craning their necks to look at the chessboard on the stone table. Yaoling Sword also hovered curiously above their heads, its tip pointing down and swaying left and right, looking for an angle to peek.

"Eek?" Hong Li pressed her paw.

Sigh! Hua Gu shook her head.

*Slap!* Zhen Shan reached out, only to be struck by Duan Jin.

After Jiang Yi finished looking at the recording stones brought back by the demons, as well as the records and analysis of the Heart-Piercing Mirror, he placed the two black and white chess pieces that Hua Gu had obtained on the old and mottled stone chessboard.

"This thing is called the Starry Sky Chess Game. There's a large one below the Forbidden Area of ​​the Military Supervisory Platform, which has been maintaining the normal operation of all the puppets in the entire Forbidden Area."

Jiang Yi slowly explained to the demons.

Speaking of which, Tianxing is really a good thing. Xiao Tianyin took a whole piece of Tianxing and put it in the Sword Nourishing Gourd to make it the core of the Ten Thousand Swords Returning to the Source Formation. The large chessboard under the Jianbing Platform and the small chessboard in her hand are also made of Tianxing.

The chess pieces are made primarily of meteorite iron extracted from the celestial bodies, supplemented with special runes and mechanisms. These chess pieces can transform into something similar to a 'signal receiver,' and the chessboard is the 'signal tower.'

Whether it's day or night, there are stars in the sky, and the power of the stars envelops the earth, ensuring that the signal will not be interrupted.

By placing this small chess piece into the core of a normal puppet soldier, one can arrange and control the puppet soldiers within a hundred-mile radius using the chessboard.

If the puppet soldier is damaged, the chess piece will return on its own.

There are 181 black pieces and 180 white pieces, which can control a total of 361 puppets.

Black plays a defensive stance, while White plays an offensive stance.

The puppets enhanced by Black's pieces will have improved defensive capabilities, making them suitable for controlling defensive and support puppets.

White's puppets are enhanced in attack power, making them suitable for controlling offensive and self-destructing puppets.

Jiang Yi handed the chessboard and pieces to Duan Jin, saying, "Duan Jin, you and Zhu Xin Jian will mainly study this next. I will have Yao Ling Jian help to carve some Tianxing fragments down, and Zhen Shan, you will forge the Tianxing meteorite iron."

"As long as we have enough chess pieces, we can have a puppet army! By the way, the ores that Zhenshan got are the auxiliary materials needed to forge the chess pieces, and the red copper refined gold that Huagu collected in the rat's nest is enough to make hundreds of puppets. The forging of miniature puppets like chess pieces is very difficult, Duanjin, you... please bear with me."

Jiang Yi glanced at the Heart-Piercing Mirror lying face down on the table.

Duan Jin's scalp tightened. She agreed to the matter, thinking that if she was scolded, so be it. It wouldn't hurt her. As long as she could improve her puppet-making skills, she was willing to be scolded.

"Hongli, don't just sit idle. Use the pure fire of the candle moth on your body to refine more disposable magical artifacts that can explode. Later, have Duanjin make them into a swarm of self-destructing bees. When the demonic tide comes, bang!"

Hongli's eyes lit up as she imagined the scene Jiang Yi had described.

Refine! Refine it now!
When others see how powerful the disposable magic artifacts it makes are, they will definitely want to buy them from it, and it can make back the ten mid-grade spirit stones it lost!
Since Hongli took over the family's finances, Jiang Yi discovered that this little fox had quite a business mind. She used to be mischievous but now she was focused on making money and enjoyed the thrill of giving other demons spirit stones.

Jiang Yi handed over the rat and spider puppets that Hua Gu had obtained in the rat hole to Duan Jin. The huge remains of the Dragon Spine Centipede were still placed at the entrance of the puppet workshop next to the Sword Washing Pool.

She didn't care what secrets these puppets held, as Duan Jin would figure them out.

"Alright, everyone get back to work. Those who need to do their work, do your work; those who need to curse, curse; those who need to split mountains, split mountains. Hua Gu, you keep an eye on them. I'm going to study this Thousand-Mechanism Box."

Jiang Yi took the wooden stump back to her Songfeng Pavilion, where Hua Gu had already moved in her usual things.

Leaning back on the soft couch in the Songfeng Pavilion's sleeping quarters, Jiang Yi fiddled with it for a while and discovered that it was a super complicated version of the Luban lock. As long as the pattern was found, it wouldn't be difficult to solve.

"found it!"

After Jiang Yi pushed an irregular wooden strip off the stump, the entire box was peeled open layer by layer in her hands, eventually revealing several old and yellowed papers inside.

The text consists of words and pictures, but it is not a legacy of the Heavenly Crafts Sect. Instead, it is a log written by a low-level disciple of the Heavenly Crafts Sect.

……

[Diary of a Disciple of the Heavenly Crafts Sect, Part 1]

The north was in great chaos, with mountains collapsing and rivers drying up.

I heard that the Nine Emperors fought against the Turtle-Snake Demon Beast in the North Sea, and the aftershocks shattered the earth's veins for thousands of miles.

The elders of the sect urgently summoned us, ordering us to quickly construct the "Star Shifting Array" in preparation for the sect's southward relocation. Although my Qi cultivation was still very low, I was selected as one of the array builders.

Yet, I am filled with unease. When the formation is completed, will it truly allow us ants to migrate south together?

……

[Diary of a Disciple of the Heavenly Crafts Sect, Part Two]

Blindfolded with black silk, they entered the underground cave through a maze of twists and turns.

Unable to see the sun, moon, heaven, and earth, they toil all day long.

As night fell, the old craftsman beside him whispered, "I've heard that once the formation is complete, only elders and true disciples can enter the formation..."

I pretended not to hear it, but the sound of water seeping from the cracks in the rock and the sound of chiseling mingled together, just like the urgent sound of a water clock.

I cannot sit idly by and wait for death. I must find out where this formation is located and how to activate it. Once the formation is completed, even if we are sent back to the Heavenly Craftsmen, I will be able to find this place on my own.

……

[Diary of a Disciple of the Heavenly Crafts Sect, Part 3]

(Scattered ink marks interspersed with runes and some incomprehensible words and pictures)
Zhen (3) and Xun (5), Qian (☰) wheel reverses.
The key to victory lies in breaking through the central point of the game.

Peach Blossom Fragrance

The sound of waves

……

[Diary of a Disciple of the Heavenly Crafts Sect, Part Four]

(The paper is yellowed and the handwriting is trembling)

The formation is complete!
But the Heavenly Craftsmen are gone!

After a massive earthquake, I crawled out of the cave and found myself with no sun or moon overhead, only cracks in the void like a giant spider web, and the earth constantly breaking apart and collapsing.

The puppet soldiers are carrying meteorite iron and red copper gold to build a high platform in the void, not even sparing the things in our craftsmen's houses.

(The last line of text was blurred by bloodstains)

The power of the earth has been exhausted; the teleportation array is nothing but an inanimate object.

All that is left for us is death.

……

The few pages conveyed a profound sense of helplessness and despair. In addition to the four pages of diary entries, there were some messy drawings, most of which seemed to have been scribbled in despair. A few were maps, with possible locations of teleportation arrays circled and then crossed out one by one.

The ancient northern lands have been shattered, and the remaining areas have evolved into the nine great secret realms.

The terrain of Beixuan today is vastly different from that of the northern lands, so this teleportation array has probably been destroyed in the void long ago.

"Even if there's only a one in ten thousand chance..."

Jiang Yi tapped his temples in thought, deciding to combine these images with the murals left by Xiao Tianyin outside, as well as the current map of Beixuan, and have the Zhuxin Mirror analyze them together to see if the teleportation array might still be somewhere in Beixuan.

In ancient times, the spiritual energy of heaven and earth was abundant, allowing the construction of large-scale teleportation arrays spanning the entire sea area. In present-day Beixuan, the most powerful teleportation arrays are those connecting various cities.

After a day of rest, Mo Family Fortress assigned Jiang Yi and the others some tasks. Chu Qianji divided them into small teams of two and sent them to travel between the Jianbingtai Secret Realm and the area around Mo Family Fortress.

After seven days of busy work, the war supplies for Mo Family Fortress and the giant war puppet to be sent to Yunzhan Pass were finally ready. Together with ten members of Cangling Sect, they officially set off for Yunzhan Pass to garrison.

During this time, battle reports came from the front lines. The demonic tide was surging forward, and the Golden Core cultivators dispatched by the nine immortal sects had already set up the first line of defense deep in the North Sea.

(End of this chapter)