Lingxu, Sword Coffin, Blind Swordsman

Li Guanqi sat cross-legged atop the mountain peak, the surrounding area transformed into a forbidden zone of thunder!

No one dared to approach within a thousand feet.

Looking at the chessboard before him, Li Guanqi narrowed his eyes, a sharp glint flashing within.

Suddenly!

Li Guanqi extended his middle finger and pressed down hard on the white piece suspended in mid-air!

Bang!

The chess piece landed, and Li Guanqi entered the game with his own being!

A cold smile hung on Li Guanqi's lips as he slowly raised his head.

At that moment, countless thunderbolts transformed into a phantom figure.

The figure was a full ten feet tall, its massive body exuding an inexplicable sense of oppression.

This phantom was entirely an imaginary enemy conjured by Li Guanqi based on the current situation.

But just then, Li Guanqi suddenly lowered his head to look at the chessboard before him, instantly breaking out in a cold sweat!!

He had long since developed the habit of treating everything he experienced as a chess game, sealing it within his sea of consciousness.

At this moment, as the chessboard expanded, the phantom remnants of past chess games began to appear on the board!!

Dense chess pieces instantly occupied the entire chessboard!!

Li Guanqi clenched his teeth, the friction creating a chilling cracking sound.

His sea of consciousness roared as the chessboard's size doubled once more!

But as soon as the chessboard appeared, dense chess pieces emerged again!!

Li Guanqi's throat twitched slightly as a second imaginary enemy phantom appeared before him!!

Because one of the chessboards had a style of chess pieces that was incompatible with any chess game to date.

Li Guanqi's eyes shook, bloodshot veins climbing into his pupils as he murmured in a low voice.

"Two... only two..."

Boom!!!!

The earth shook and the mountains trembled, sending down rolling rocks as violent thunder seemed ready to pierce the void and leap forth.

Peng Luo punched Li Guanqi in the face, roaring, "Stop!!! You'll go mad if this continues!!"

The range of the chessboard had unknowingly covered a hundred feet!

There were tens of thousands of dense chess pieces, and the chess games here were no longer just the things Li Guanqi had experienced.

Even the chess game phantoms he usually deduced in his mind had appeared.

If Peng Luo let Li Guanqi continue, Li Guanqi would completely exhaust all his divine sense to deduce a bizarre chess game...

A... completely nonexistent chess game.

A... never-ending chess game that would completely trap Li Guanqi's mind within!!

At that moment, Peng Luo suddenly regretted awakening Li Guanqi.

Poof!!

After a full three breaths, Li Guanqi opened his mouth and spat out a mouthful of fresh blood!!

Li Guanqi lay quietly on the mountain peak, his face as pale as paper, the surrounding thunder pool instantly dissipating.

Only a large mountain, charred black by lightning, remained, emitting wisps of smoke.

Gu Li worriedly wanted to step forward, but was stopped by the woman beside him.

Looking at the woman's back, Gu Li frowned and said, "Why are you stopping me?"

Meng Wanshu turned around, took Gu Li's hand, and walked towards the Gu family's main hall, softly saying.

"At this time, he just wants to be alone."

Gu Li turned and left with some doubt, Meng Wanshu took a deep look at the mountain peak.

She whispered in her heart, "You certainly don't want anyone to see such a disheveled and helpless side of you..."

Li Guanqi bled from all seven orifices, lying on the mountain peak staring at the starry sky above.

The dark night sky seemed to be getting closer and closer to him, wanting to devour his entire being into the endless darkness.

A deep sense of powerlessness washed over him.

He didn't know when it started, but he felt that his life had suddenly become uncontrollable.

As if... countless large hands were trying to manipulate his fate in the dark.

"Heh..."

Li Guanqi laughed, his thoughts wandering, as if he had returned to that gentle and breezy afternoon.

At that time, he was lying next to the sword coffin, having lost too much blood from cutting his wrist.

And the sword spirit stood proudly on the sword coffin, looking down at him with an air of arrogance.

It seemed that from that moment on, he had embarked on an extraordinary path of cultivation.

Li Guanqi tore open his robe, revealing blood纹.

Only the last two纹 of the Great Sumeru Nine Palaces Immortal Execution纹 remained, and he always felt that when the blood纹 sealing him disappeared, he would know something.

After putting on his clothes, Li Guanqi took a deep breath and conjured the chessboard again.

He grabbed Peng Luo and threw her aside, this time the chessboard only had one hundred and ninety vertical and horizontal lines!

But even such a chessboard was a full ten times the size of an ordinary chessboard.

This time, the chess pieces on the chessboard only represented the current situation, and were not disturbed by the previous events.

Li Guanqi licked the blood from the corner of his mouth, the taste of blood filling his mouth.

Li Guanqi made his move, frantically deducing everything that might happen next in his mind.

An invisible hand suddenly made a move!

Li Guanqi's expression remained the same, as if he had expected it.

He raised his hand and made his move almost without any pause.

Snap!

Another black piece landed, and Li Guanqi made his move again!

Snap!

Snap snap snap!!

The crisp sound of the pieces landing was incessant, and the hands of Li Guanqi and the phantom holding the pieces were almost blurred.

Snap!!

Li Guanqi's hand holding the piece froze in mid-air, hesitating for only a moment.

Li Guanqi raised his hand and overturned the chessboard, and the aura reappeared, showing the previous chess game again!

Snap snap snap snap!!!

Under the dark night, Li Guanqi, dressed in white, played chess against the phantom for an entire night.

Peng Luo watched all night from the side, and by the time morning came, Peng Luo's eyes were filled with shock.

It never occurred to her that Li Guanqi's comprehension was so high!!

In just one night, Li Guanqi, who had been retreating steadily in the opponent's hands, had gained the ability to fight back.

Li Guanqi's left hand had always had six chess pieces that had never been placed.

Gradually, Li Guanqi had to use the chess pieces in his left hand. Any one of these six chess pieces would instantly reverse the situation for Li Guanqi's side by a large margin!

Xiang Huai Zhi, Nangong Xuandu, and You Ming seemed to have received some instructions and left the Gu family early the next morning.

After Gu Changsheng saw them off, Ye Xuan also left one after another.

In the end, only Meng Jiangchu remained in the Gu family.

Until the third day, the organization still had no news.

No one contacted Li Guanqi.

Li Guanqi continued to play chess with the imaginary enemy for three days and three nights!

The final game of chess.

The chessboard with one hundred and ninety vertical and horizontal lines was now densely covered with black and white pieces.

One hundred and ninety vertical and horizontal lines, with three thousand six hundred and ten landing points!

Before Peng Luo could see clearly, Li Guanqi had already put away the chessboard with a wave of his hand.

Li Guanqi's face was full of confidence, and he regained his former brilliance.

This time, he no longer had the previous anxiety.

He hadn't felt this inexplicable sense of security for a long time.

Inside the sword coffin, the sword spirit drew a strand of red silk from between her eyebrows, hesitated for a moment, and raised her hand to cut it off!!

Finally, she glanced at the Red Lotus and actually integrated the red silk into the Red Lotus Sword.

The Red Lotus hummed, as if in confusion...

There was a hint of indifference between the sword spirit's eyebrows.

Her whole temperament was more in line with the arrogance in her eyes that despised all living beings when Li Guanqi first saw her.

Closing her eyes to cultivate, the sword spirit at this moment gave the Red Lotus a feeling that was both strange and that it should be so.