Five hundred years of stacked Q, this one Q, unique and unparalleled throughout eternity!

Luo Tian sensed a familiar scent, and in an instant, the image of Hunyuanzi, who was repairing the World Rift in the Star World, flashed through his mind.

"This is... a hidden universe within a sleeve!"

Luo Tian's pupils contracted slightly.

He had seen Hunyuanzi's hidden power in his sleeve, and the supreme divine power that easily subdued Aatrox was indeed incredibly powerful.

However, compared to the supernatural power that integrates the entire world into a Taoist temple, Hunyuanzi's ability to conceal his inner universe in his sleeve is nothing more than a child's farce, and cannot be compared at all.

More accurately, this cannot be called the same supernatural power at all.

Hunyuanzi's "Hidden Universe in the Sleeve" is at best a clumsy imitation.

Before Luo Tian could take a closer look, the vermilion gate of the unremarkable Taoist temple was slowly pushed open, and a Taoist boy dressed in white feather robes, who looked to be about eleven or twelve years old, slowly walked out.

His gaze fell on Luo Tian, ​​and the young Daoist bowed respectfully, saying:

"The master invites you in for a chat!"

Luo Tian glanced at the boy in front of him. The boy looked young, but his cultivation level was astounding, reaching the Golden Immortal realm. His cultivation level was even far higher than that of the demonic dragon Ao Xing and the Supreme Being of the Nine Heavens Palace that Luo Tian had seen before.

With such cultivation level, it's impossible to tell the child's age just by looking at his appearance.

"What's your name?" Luo Tian asked casually.

"Your Majesty, the boy's name is Mingyue."

Seemingly aware of Luo Tian's background, Mingyue displayed an extremely respectful, even humble, attitude, showing none of the arrogance expected of a disciple of Zhen Yuanzi.

"Mingyue?" Luo Tian raised an eyebrow, recalling that Qingfeng and Mingyue were the two closest disciples of Zhen Yuanzi.

These two had been following Zhen Yuanzi before the creation of the Xuanhuang Great World. In "Journey to the West", they were easily subdued by Zhen Yuanzi because they underestimated a certain monkey.

Of course, these are not the point.

Luo Tian was most interested in Qingfeng, another Daoist disciple sitting under Zhen Yuanzi.

The arrogant Supreme of the Nine Heavens Palace had previously claimed to be a disciple of the Qingfeng lineage and had even tried to threaten Luo Tian by revealing his identity as a disciple of the Wuzhuang Temple, making Luo Tian hesitant to act.

"interesting."

With a smile playing on his lips, Luo Tian didn't care whether Zhen Yuanzi had any ulterior motives in sending Mingyue to borrow him, and strode directly toward the seemingly ordinary little Taoist temple in front of him.

Stepping through the vermilion gate, there was no celestial aura rushing towards me, nor did the magnificent palaces and pavilions appear after the scene changed; it was still just an ordinary Taoist temple to outsiders.

Of course, this "ordinary" is only relative.

Having grown accustomed to the magnificent celestial palaces built atop a blessed mountain in the Jade Emperor Pavilion, the Wuzhuang Temple, with its mere dozen or so rooms and courtyards, is indeed nothing special.

In the courtyard, many disciples dressed in gray Taoist robes were either sweeping the ground or discussing the contents of the Taoist canon with each other in their hands.

When these disciples see Mingyue, they all bow to her and address her as Ancestor Mingyue.

Mingyue, who had been unusually humble in front of Luo Tian, ​​now wore a kind smile and nodded in response to the other disciples.

Along the way, Luo Tian could sense that the cultivation levels of most of these disciples were not as outstanding as he had imagined.

Most of them were Earth Immortals or Celestial Immortals, with Golden Immortals being only a very small number. Including Qingfeng and Mingyue, there were only about seven or eight of them, which puzzled Luo Tian.

Given that the Xuanhuang Great World can cultivate a Golden Immortal every 30,000 years, the Wuzhuang Temple, which has existed since the birth of the Xuanhuang Great World, should not only have a few Golden Immortals.

However, Luo Tian did not speak, but followed Mingyue's guidance to the largest courtyard near the main hall.

Upon reaching the door, Mingyue stopped and respectfully addressed Luo Tian:

"My master only invited Your Excellency and this fellow Daoist. I cannot enter without being summoned. Please forgive me, Your Excellency!"

Mingyue's words and actions were proper, and even Luo Tian, ​​who came with the intention of causing trouble, couldn't see anything wrong with her. He could only nod and lead Yin Changsheng into the courtyard.

This courtyard is much larger than the others, mainly because a huge ginseng fruit stands in the center of the courtyard.

The ancient fruit trees reach for the sky, their lush canopies covering almost half of the Taoist temple. The ginseng fruits on them, resembling infants, are crystal clear and exude a divine aura.

Although the ginseng fruit tree did not exhibit the magnificent aura of supporting the heavens and earth that it had before, its extraordinary nature was still immediately apparent.

Beneath the fruit tree, a Taoist priest dressed in a bright yellow robe sat before a chessboard, his appearance strikingly similar to that of Zhen Yuanzi, whom Luo Tian had previously seen.

Zhen Yuanzi gently stroked his long beard with a whisk in his left hand, but his body did not display the majestic and transcendent aura of someone who had attained the Taiyi Dao Fruit.

At this moment, He simply looked at Luo Tian, ​​who had stepped into the courtyard, with a smile on His face:

"Your Excellency has arrived at my door; I have failed to greet you properly. I hope Your Excellency will forgive me!"

Zhen Yuanzi's demeanor suggested that he was unaware that Luo Tian had come to collect a debt, and that he was facing a long-lost friend.

With a smile on his face, Luo Tian walked to the chessboard under the ginseng fruit tree. The black and white chess pieces were scattered across the board, almost taking up most of it.

Although Luo Tian's understanding of Go was limited to basic moves, brilliant moves, and occasionally watching a certain Jiebao's live stream, he could still see that Zhen Yuanzi's white stones had forced the black stones into a desperate situation.

Seeing this, Zhen Yuanzi slowly spoke with a meaningful expression:

"If Your Excellency is interested, how about we play a game of chess?"

Luo Tian immediately replied, "Okay!"

As soon as he finished speaking, his right fist, bearing the brunt of the soul-sucking blow, slammed into the chessboard without hesitation.

In an instant, the world changed. The original courtyard transformed into a boundless starry sky, and the black and white pieces scattered across the chessboard became giant stars hanging high in the sky.

As Luo Tian's punch landed, the entire starry sky seemed to distort, and a terrifying will of death engulfed everything like a tsunami.

Those enormous stars exploded, the destructive power crushing these stars, which were connected by many causal relationships, into a series of magnificent supernova explosions that bloomed in the starry sky.

The chess pieces on the board were violently overturned and thrown to the ground, completely disrupting the original layout in an instant.

In the shattered starry sky, only a few scattered stars remained intact, and the cause and effect, the traces of time, all vanished into nothingness.

Luo Tian stared directly at the renowned Zhenyuan Daxian before him, who sat cross-legged in the boundless starry sky, and spoke calmly:

"The endgame is ultimately someone else's game. How about we play another game?"

Chapter 316 Zhen Yuanzi's Plan! 5000

Zhen Yuanzi still had a smile on his face, but the smile looked somewhat stiff.

In fact, at the level of great divine power, normally even if there are conflicts between the two parties, they will usually reach a reconciliation after exchanging some benefits.

Great divine power is immortal and indestructible, almost eternal, so there's no need for ordinary people to fight to the death over trivial conflicts of interest.

When Luo Tian came knocking on his door, Zhen Yuanzi was prepared.

His initiative in sending Mingyue instead of Qingfeng to invite Luo Tian was a gesture of goodwill towards Luo Tian.

The game of chess that is currently unfolding is not as simple as it appears on the surface.

The game, named "Starry Sky," is a supreme method created by the Dao Ancestor who set up the chess pieces across the heavens in the origin myth.

Those seemingly ordinary black and white pieces are connected to the stars in the sky, and each star is the convergence of countless beings and destinies.

The placement of a piece can easily influence the fate of billions of lives; a single thought can alter the course of history and shape the future.

Zhen Yuanzi set up this scheme by making an exchange of benefits.

The black pieces represent the Xuanhuang Great World, while the white pieces represent the Star World controlled by Luo Tian.

In the grand scheme of things, the Star World is undoubtedly at a significant disadvantage compared to the Great Thousand World, which is at the pinnacle of all realms.

However, Zhen Yuanzi gave Luo Tian the opportunity to make a move, which meant that Luo Tian had gained the initiative.

If he so desires, a single move can create countless causes and effects in the Star World, allowing him to seize countless benefits from the Xuanhuang Great World.

Under normal circumstances, after Luo Tian makes a move, Zhen Yuanzi, who sets up the scheme, will not make any more moves.

Because He himself held an absolute advantage, this move was a benefit given to Luo Tian. If He continued to make moves, Luo Tian would be trapped in a predicament again.

If the two sides cannot reach a consensus on the division of benefits, they will use the game of chess as a wager, with the winner taking all and the loser losing everything.

This is a game for great beings, and a consensus reached among many great ones.

Zhen Yuanzi was quite confident about his concessions.

Whether Luo Tian chooses to make a move or not is within his plan.

Even Luo Tian's victory in this game of Starry Sky with a mere white piece in the endgame, transforming into a snake swallowing an elephant, was within Zhen Yuanzi's consideration.

This possibility is extremely small, but not entirely impossible, since something so great cannot be judged by ordinary standards.

Even so, Zhen Yuanzi would only willingly relinquish most of the benefits of the Xuanhuang Great World.

After all, there are risks in doing anything. If Luo Tianzhen can win the game, what's wrong with giving up this game?

But despite all his calculations, Zhen Yuanzi never expected that Luo Tian, ​​this old dog who only knew about experience, had absolutely no idea about the intricate network of events or the complex web of cause and effect.

When Luo Tian saw his white pieces being pushed into a corner by the black pieces on the chessboard, he instinctively thought that Zhen Yuanzi, that old scoundrel, was playing dirty tricks, so he simply smashed the entire chessboard with a punch.

Those massive stars, each connected by countless causes and effects, exploded, and the countless causal threads of the entire Xuanhuang Great World lost control under Luo Tian's punch.

Even a great being like Zhen Yuanzi would need tens of thousands of years to possibly regain control of the causal relationships among trillions of beings in the Xuanhuang Great World.

What changes will occur in the Xuanhuang Great World, which has fallen out of control, within these ten thousand years? Even Zhen Yuanzi could not predict.

As for Luo Tian, ​​since he smashed the chessboard without even sitting down, the white pieces on the board had no connection to the Star World at all.

Even though Luo Tian smashed all the chess pieces on the board, the causal relationship of the Star World remained completely intact.

This means that only Zhen Yuanzi lost this "game".

The smile on Zhen Yuanzi's face slowly faded, and his gaze turned colder.

The cultivation accumulated over countless years, coupled with Luo Tian's methods, prevented this great immortal from turning against him. He simply spoke indifferently:

"I kindly invited you to play chess, but you simply overturned the chessboard and destroyed the game. Is this how you treat guests?"

His tone was flat and calm, yet his words were like a thunderclap in the vast starry sky.

The stars trembled, and between heaven and earth, it seemed as if a terrifying, savage beast roared angrily. Countless fierce gazes from the darkness traversed time and space and fell upon this place.

Behind Luo Tian, ​​even Yin Changsheng, who was usually fearless and could even muster the courage to face the White Bone Bodhisattva, couldn't help but tremble.

As a being born from the Xuanhuang Great World, no matter how timid or carefree she may be, she can still feel awe from the depths of her soul when facing the great being who created the Xuanhuang Great World.

This has nothing to do with strength or realm; it's like how ordinary people revere the sky and nature—it stems from the most primal instinct.

However, this might frighten Yin Changsheng, but it wouldn't frighten Luo Tian, ​​who had just killed a great god.

A cold smile curled at the corner of his lips, and Luo Tian said in a calm voice:

"The Way of Being a Guest?"