"Ya Zi, your opportunity has arrived..."

Zhou Xuan said.

...

The seven-colored lotus became a cloud at the horizon, drifting leisurely, yet moving at the speed of light, reaching the horizon in an instant, and in the next moment, it flew out of the Void World, appearing at Gangfeng Cave, and like a shadowless, formless entity, it exited the cave,

Throughout the entire process, even with the nine incense sticks worth of cultivation, Mo Ya Monk did not see it,

He only sensed extremely rich and fragrant Buddha energy,

This Buddha energy was evidently of the same essence as that of their Buddha Country, but in terms of purity, it had a more profound Buddhist Void meaning than the energy of the Buddha Country.

"Mr. Zhou, what did you find out from the mirror?"

Mo Ya Monk saw Zhou Xuan willingly walk out from the Flower Sea.

In the Flower Sea World, everything was already in disarray, the Mountain and River Map shattered, the Peach Blossom Ancestor Tree withered, and the Tree Clan people, led by Peng Sheng, revealed their life tattoos to encircle Mo Ya Monk with Zhou Lingyi, Yuan Buyu, and Lord Jiu.

They now clearly understood that gathering so many people to attack Mo Ya Monk with full force would lead to no outcome.

Mo Ya Monk, with the Holy Buddha Chessboard in hand, was too powerful, nearly invincible, and the Mountain and River Map of the nine incense sticks never even reached the eighteenth heaven... whereas the chessboard had a total of thirty-three heavens...

The Mountain and River Map couldn't even reveal Mo Ya Monk's true trump card; what could they accomplish together?

Yet even if it was futile, they were determined to fight to the death.

"Tree, it's been tough on you, take your clansmen away from the Flower Sea."

Zhou Xuan picked up a few peach blossoms from the ground that had not yet withered and gently placed them on the branches of the Peach Blossom Ancestor Tree.

With these few peach blossoms, the Ancestor Tree regained a bit of strength, and its branches wrapped around thousands of clansmen in the Flower Sea, then reappeared at another corner of Gangfeng Cave.

The Flower Sea, which was bustling just a moment ago, now only had Zhou Xuan, Zhou Lingyi, Yuan Buyu, and Lord Jiu left.

"Mo Ya Monk, you want to play a game of chess with me, then let's play a game."

Zhou Xuan said loudly.

"What a spirit."

Mo Ya Monk had repeatedly defeated the experts of Mingjiang Prefecture and Ping Shui Prefecture, and had triumphed over the Mountain and River Map with overwhelming prowess, so his mood was extremely good. Now that Zhou Xuan wanted to play chess, his mood brightened even more.

"Playing chess with Mr. Zhou is a solemn affair, naturally we must eliminate some unnecessary disturbances."

Mo Ya Monk stood up, letting his sleeves drape down, and absorbed all the black and white pieces from the chessboard and the chess box into his wide sleeves.

"Your sister Zhou Lingyi, Lord Jiu of Ping Shui Prefecture, the old storytelling master Yuan Buyu, all are outstanding figures of Jing Country's Incense Fire Divine Dao, but the three of them are not enough to disturb our game, yet the Ancient Tree Golden Bell of Mingjiang Prefecture?

If it rings continuously, it might annoy me."

At this point,

Mo Ya Monk suddenly looked up and shouted towards the Heavenly Dome above, "My chess game has appeared, I'll help you one last time, break the Ancient Tree Golden Bell."

Wind swelled within his sleeves, hundreds of black and white pieces shattered, turning into tens of thousands of chess piece dust, then spreading out like a large fog, mighty and overwhelming, floating towards the God Traveling Department of Mingjiang Prefecture.

The God Traveling Department was where the Ancient Tree Golden Bell hung.

The chess pieces crushed into dust floated away, Zhou Xuan asked, "Without chess pieces, how do we play chess?"

"Mundane chess pieces, how can they be worthy of the Young Master? I will use flesh and blood as chess pieces to play with you."

Mo Ya Monk suddenly shook his neck, breaking off the fleshly appendages around it, each appendage wriggling and crawling onto the chessboard, curling up to resemble chess pieces.

Some of the fleshly appendages, stained with blood, served as black pieces; some, white as paper, naturally served as white pieces.

After becoming chess pieces, the appendages obediently rolled into the chess box. Mo Ya Monk made a "please" gesture and said, "Please, Sir, join the game. If you win this game, I will lead the Seeking Wave Monk to retreat far into the galaxy, never to cause trouble here again. But if I win by chance, naturally, I will annihilate Mingjiang Prefecture, but... I won't kill a single person from Ping Shui Prefecture."

"Don't pretend to be merciful. Not killing anyone from Ping Shui Prefecture must come with conditions. Tell me, what are the conditions?"

"As long as the Young Master cooperates, after death, the soul does not leave the body, becoming the Eternal Bridge between my Buddha Country and Jing Country."

This was Mo Ya Monk's plan.

Avenging the murdered monks of the Buddha Country Baoshan Temple by coming to Mingjiang Prefecture was naturally Seeking Wave Monk's focus,

but more importantly, it was Zhou Xuan's physical body and powerful consciousness.

"The plan of the Eternal Bridge, I've already interrogated from the Dharma Images of the Three-headed Stone Buddha."

"They ultimately betrayed the Buddha Country."

"I agree to your conditions, but my cultivation and yours are too disparate, making it a losing game. I need an assistant."

"Only one?"

Mo Ya Monk asked.

"Only one."

"Then please, Mr. Zhou, proceed as you wish."

Mo Ya Monk sat cross-legged in front of the chessboard, quietly waiting.

Zhou Xuan, with his hands behind his back, looked towards the sky and said, "Wait a moment, my assistant should be arriving soon."

...

For the common people of Mingjiang Prefecture, today was a heated day. Even though it was deep into autumn, the temperature inexplicably rose.

On East Market Street, people took off their long clothes and put on summer's cool clothes, yet still sweated profusely.

"Why are there two suns in the sky?"

Someone shouted, and the people on the street looked up to indeed see two fierce suns in the sky, one being the normal gentle sun, the other a deep red, surrounded by bewitching flames.

Inside Zhou Family's Jingyi Shop,

Yun Ziliang and Zhao Wuya anxiously awaited Zhou Xuan's return. Hearing the shouts from the street, Zhao Wuya, curious, walked outside, and when he took a clear look, he hurried back into the shop, shouting, "Master Ancestor, there really are two suns in the sky."

"Nonsense."

Yun Ziliang cursed out of nowhere and then, carrying a teapot, walked onto the street. When he saw clearly, he said, "That doesn't look like a sun, it looks like... a... magic artifact..."

"Worship Xianhuo to understand the truth, find enlightenment in the supreme Dao within the blazing flames."

"The god pities the world, sending down the Zoroastrian Fire Order to burn away worldly greed, lust, and hatred."

"Seeing the Zoroastrian Fire Order is like seeing the Heavenly God of Xianhuo."

Several frenzied shouts came from that deep red sun.

"That's not a sun, that's the Zoroastrian Fire Order, people from the Fire Sect are here."

Yun Ziliang, for a moment, overwhelmed by anger, smashed the teapot in his hand onto the ground. Seeing a long-time enemy stirred his fury.

"Master Ancestor, what do we do? Do we fight them?"

"Fight who? We are no match."

Although Yun Ziliang was very angry, due to his cultivation not being what it once was to face the Fire Sect head-on, he indeed lacked the corresponding strength.

The Zoroastrian Fire Order, appearing as the sun, grew increasingly larger—not because it was expanding, but because it was getting closer to Mingjiang Prefecture,

In no time, the Zoroastrian Fire Order was only a few hundred feet from Mingjiang Prefecture. If it truly descended, its vast presence and scorching heat waves could burn dozens of streets within Mingjiang Prefecture.

"Dong! Dong! Dong!"

The Ancient Tree Golden Bell rang long again, its wish power turning into an invisible Qi shield to block the enormous Zoroastrian Fire Order,

Bang!

Finally, the Qi shield collided with the Xianhuo Order, which was forcibly stopped, but at the moment of collision, the Zoroastrian Fire Order cracked in several places, those fragments turning into falling meteors, breaking through the invisible Qi shield, flying in all directions across various streets of Mingjiang Prefecture.

Among them, seven fiery meteors flew towards East Market Street, and one of them landed in front of Sister Cui's food stall, instantly setting a customer alight,

"He's burning! Quickly, save him!"

"Water, water!"

The food stall erupted into chaos,

Sister Cui saw what was happening, quickly grabbed a bucket of water, and poured it onto the person, but the Xianhuo was so bizarre, reacting with water like oil, the flames suddenly surged, long tongues of fire leaping out, setting the food stall ablaze as well.

"Hua Zi, Hua Zi, run quickly."

Sister Cui was frightened by the flames, froze for a second, then turned and rushed into the shop to call Hua Zi to escape.

The inextinguishable fire spread rapidly, engulfing East Market Street in a sea of flames in just two or three minutes...

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