Chapter 715
Luck 1, Human Bloodline.
"Hey little bourgeois, come on, play chess with me~"
A gentle force pulled Xu Chen to a chessboard without warning.
Xu Chen was familiar with the Great Dao Chess, but the Great Dao Chess in front of him was more complex and mysterious than the ones he had played before. Even with his deductive abilities, he could not calculate the full extent of this Great Dao Chess.
"Senior, why are you so sure that I can play chess?" Xu Chen asked, voicing his doubts.
"The one who ate you has extremely high standards. He wouldn't even look at someone who isn't one of the top in the Star Sea Domain."
"Now that you've reached the Invincible Saint Venerable realm, even if you don't know how to play chess, you can grasp its mysteries after learning one or two games."
"I vaguely remember that three hundred billion years ago, I met him when he was a master of chess."
"That game of chess lasted for tens of millions of years; it was truly exhilarating."
"Unfortunately, that little talent was too high. It didn't take long for him to break through to the Great Dao, and he was swallowed by that person."
Zun Hai spoke with a hint of regret, leaving Xu Chen speechless and feeling a pang of sorrow for his ex.
Those who can advance to the Great Dao are all exceptionally talented individuals in the entire Star Sea Region. Each of them has shone brightly since birth, dominating their respective Star Sea Region.
Yet this very existence was used as provisions by the top experts on the Great Dao.
"I am playing chess with you, senior. Could you please enlighten me?"
Xu Chen wanted to learn more about the powerful figure behind him who was on the path to greatness.
"If you want to know, that's fine with me."
"But in the game of Grand Chess, if you want to beat me, you must at least draw before I will answer your question."
"This junior will do his utmost."
With a gentle wave of his hand, Zun Hai transformed this grand hall into a chaotic world.
This chaotic world is the chessboard of the Great Dao Chess.
"Let me give you one game to familiarize yourself with, and then we'll begin."
"At the beginning of all things, Yin and Yang are formed; one can transform Yin and Yang with a reach of one's hand."
A giant hand appeared, and a chess piece made of the power of the Great Dao of Yang fell into the chaos.
“I move first, which is Yang. Your next move must be Yin, and it must be in a subtle balance with my Yang principle. Otherwise, you will lose,” Zunhai explained.
"Senior, I understand."
A chess piece imbued with the power of the Great Dao fell from the chaos, instantly merging with the Great Dao of Yang to maintain balance.
The powers of Yin and Yang merged, and chaos was first created.
The clear ascends and the turbid descends, opening up a small world.
Seeing this small world, Zun Hai smiled slightly and placed his piece again.
In an instant, thunder roared in this small world, and endless lightning raged.
Come on~
Xu Chen's divine sense swept over the lightning, and almost without hesitation, he placed a water-based chess piece.
Thunder roars in the sky, and the seabed appears.
Thunder and water intertwine, giving birth to a trace of the Dao of life.
"That's interesting~"
Another chess piece was placed, and the endless waters below the small world gave birth to numerous lives.
Then another chess piece was placed, and with the help of these life paths, the Wood Path was born on the seabed.
This little world is becoming more and more perfect.
"Not bad, it seems you have some prior knowledge in this area."
"Now, I'm going to step up my efforts!"
As a chess piece of the Cycle of Reincarnation was placed, Xu Chen followed the Cycle of Time and fell into the Cycle of Reincarnation, transforming into a long river of time in this small world.
As the chess piece of the Great Dao of Destruction was placed, Xu Chen replaced it with the chess piece of the Great Dao of Soul.
The two sides exchanged a total of 1,400 blows in this small world. In the end, due to Xu Chen's momentary carelessness, the overall situation could not be maintained, causing the entire small world to collapse.
"You managed to go over a thousand moves against me in the first game, not bad." Zun Hai's lips curled up slightly, revealing his inner pleasure.
"You may ask one question."
Upon hearing this, Xu Chen was overjoyed.
"What will happen if I keep delaying my advancement to the Great Dao?"
Since they still had a long time to spend together, Xu Chen asked the questions he was most concerned about first.
"There won't be any results, but with your talent and the Dao essence you've accumulated, even without cultivation, your Dao realm will gradually increase, though this will take an extremely long time."
"The person behind you has no shortage of time. He has countless women like you who are not wealthy enough to support."
As Zun Hai spoke, he glanced at Xu Chen with regret.
"So I ultimately couldn't escape the fate of being eaten." After a moment of silence, Xu Chen spoke.
Zun Hai simply nodded slightly and began the next game of the Great Dao Chess.
As time went on, the two became increasingly compatible, and Xu Chen's questions received precise answers.
Through these questions, Xu Chen gradually gained a clear understanding of the powerful figure behind him on the Great Dao.
The powerful figure behind him, a master of the Great Dao, was among the top five in the entire Star Sea Domain. Moreover, he was incredibly ruthless and domineering, suppressing nearly one-third of the Star Sea Domain's borders.
There are hundreds of people with his kind of resources in almost every era.
“Your idea is correct. With your current foundation in the Great Dao, combined with your understanding of the Great Dao throughout your life, you can fight against ordinary experts above the Great Dao.”
"If you want to avoid your clan falling into difficulties after your death, then cultivate less and manage your own race more, and try to produce a powerful expert above the Great Dao before you advance."
“I feel a connection with you. If your clan can produce a powerful expert on the Great Dao besides you in the future, bring him to me. Perhaps then I can have another chess partner.”
Xu Chen felt a little strange listening to Zun Hai's words.
Although we've played chess and chatted together over the years, we've developed some friendship.
But this level of friendship is not enough to justify this powerful figure on the Great Dao saying such a thing.
"Don't look at me like that. To become a powerful figure on the path to the Great Dao, one must either be protected by the will of the Star Sea Domain or possess some profound secrets."
“You must have had great opportunities and great karma, otherwise you wouldn’t have gotten this far.”
"I have a hobby of making friends. As long as their temperament and personality are in line with my nature, even if they are mortals, I will treat them as equals."
"The friends I've made along the way are scattered all over the Star Sea Region." "Ever since you appeared at the border I guard, I've felt that you're a good chess partner for me. Although you're that guy's resources, it will be a long time before you advance to the Great Dao. In the meantime, you can play chess with me more often."
"But when you are close to me, that feeling of making friends comes back to me."
"Unfortunately, the person behind you is too ruthless and too domineering. Even if I join forces with the strong people I know to fight against him, we still can't protect you," Zun Hai said with a sigh.
These words cleared up Xu Chen's doubts, and he couldn't help but sigh that none of those who could become powerful figures on the path to the Great Dao were simple.
Even the weakest of the Primordial Ones had to devise countless plans and schemes over endless epochs before finally advancing to the Great Dao.
"I am deeply grateful for your words, senior."
"Although my fate is already sealed, I still wish to struggle a bit. I wonder if you could tell me what the scene is like outside the Star Sea Domain?" Xu Chen asked.
"Outside the Star Sea Domain, even the strongest beings on the Great Dao can only survive for ten thousand years at most, whether it's me or the one behind you."
"Although he is called a powerful figure above the Great Dao, his foundation is still in the Star Sea Domain."
"Once you leave the Star Sea Domain, the Great Dao of the Outer Domain is not prominent, and all kinds of demons dance in the air. No matter how strong your own origin is, there will always be a day when it is exhausted. If you want to go and explore, I will not stop you, but the price will probably be that your entire clan will be wiped out by that person at will."
"Are there any similar star-sea-like regions in the outer realms?"
Xu Chen and Zun Hai talked and played chess at the same time.
“In the past, some powerful figures on the Great Dao went out to explore, but they all returned after a few hundred years. First, it was due to the restrictions of the Star Sea Domain’s will, and second, it was because they couldn’t withstand the consumption of their origin.”
"But before I became a powerful figure on the Great Dao, a powerful figure from another realm came to the Star Sea Domain."
"However, as soon as he entered, he was besieged by the powerful figures of the Star Sea Domain and was eventually severely injured and sealed by the will of the Star Sea Domain."
"The one behind you is one of the powerful figures who besieged us back then. As for whether they obtained the coordinates of the alien realm from it, we don't know," Zun Hai said casually, staring at the chessboard.
"It seems so. Thank you for your explanation, senior."
"Focus on the game and don't be distracted."
Millions of years have passed in the blink of an eye. Xu Chen stayed here, playing chess with Zun Hai, until Zun Hai finally got rid of his chess addiction.
"We've been playing chess together for thousands of years, so we're evenly matched. Your chess style is too grand, but my own level of understanding can't keep up."
"When you reach the peak of the Invincible Saint Venerable Realm and are about to break through to the Great Dao, come and play chess with me more often. I believe that by then, your chess skills will have reached their peak."
"Go back and manage your race well. Try to cultivate a powerful expert above the Great Dao before you become resources."
After the last game of chess was finished, a large number of alien demons broke into the border, so Zun Hai let Xu Chen leave.
After returning to the main human realm, Xu Chen first met with the various powerful figures of the human race.
However, after looking at it, Xu Chen concluded that, based solely on the power of fate, he could assert that these people had no connection with the Great Dao.
Xu Chen then handed over the selection to Da Xu.
Inside the Daxi Sect, Xu Chen led Yang Ling'er and Su Yueyao on a stroll through a seven-colored garden.
"My husband is getting more and more amazing. He can even play chess with a master on the Great Dao." Yang Ling'er and Su Yueyao looked at Xu Chen with admiration.
"I haven't always been this good~"
Looking at the colorful garden, Xu Chen inexplicably thought of Xie Xuan, which in turn reminded him of the Primordial God Clan's clan-protecting artifact, and a sudden inspiration struck him.
The projection of countless rivers stretched across the Great Stream Sect's main realm, radiating unparalleled Dao essence.
Once these Dao essences accumulate to a certain degree, they will transform into the rain of the Great Dao.
Raindrops of various colors gathered in the clouds, turning into a fine drizzle that fell on the colorful garden where Xu Chen was.
“As soon as my husband was about to arrive, a rainbow rained down here, showing that the Heavenly Dao of the human race is also discerning,” Su Yueyao said with a smile.
This sentence instantly gave Xu Chen some inspiration.
“Come with me to the Great Xu Cave. Your words have given me inspiration.”
Xu Chen led the two women into the void and arrived at the Great Xu Cave.
At this moment, Da Xu was refining a unique innate treasure to be used by the human race to select the most outstanding geniuses.
"I have some new ideas. Could we refine a top-tier innate treasure of the Qi Luck and load it into the Qi Luck of the Human Race, thereby giving birth to more geniuses among the human race?"
"With so many talented individuals, there will always be one who can break through fate and have the opportunity to advance to the Great Dao realm," Xu Chen said excitedly.
"That's true, but there's only one low-grade innate treasure embryo in the path of destiny. This kind of innate treasure embryo is even harder to find than the one in the path of time. Over the years, you and I have only found this one." Da Xu's words poured cold water on Xu Chen.
"That's not a problem. I'll go check on the gods." Xu Chen said, then sent a message to Xie Xuan.
Not long after, a message came back.
Xie Xuan replied in the message that innate treasures of the Qi Luck path are extremely rare, even more precious than treasures of the Time path in their clan, and are generally not sold to outsiders.
The message concluded by saying that if he wanted, he could help him find a low-grade innate treasure with a single strand of Qi Luck, but the cost would be greater than that of buying a high-grade innate treasure.
"If the Primordial Gods are like this, then other gods must be the same."
Xu Chen sighed as he read the message.
"To refine a top-tier innate treasure of the Qi Luck Dao, you need at least one high-grade, four mid-grade, and ten low-grade embryos."
"Such treasures are extremely rare. If you want to collect them slowly, who knows when it will take. Since you want more geniuses to emerge from the human race, why not try to optimize the human bloodline?"
"The divine pill formulas controlled by the two Xus, combined with your mastery of the Dao of Life, can make the next generation of humankind even more talented and reach a higher level," suggested the eldest Xu.
"That's one way. You and the two Xus can discuss it and come up with a formula to improve the bloodline of the human race."
“I will deduce one step that can enhance the supernatural powers of the human race’s own bloodline.”
"As for that low-grade Qi Luck innate treasure embryo, you should also refine it a bit and load it into the human race's Great Dao Qi Luck." Xu Chen decided to take a three-pronged approach.
"That's easy to say."
Three million years later, a divine power of the human race suddenly appeared, stipulating that every human must cultivate it, and only after cultivating to a certain level can they give birth to offspring.
Along with this supernatural power, there is also a celestial-grade elixir called the Divine Child Pill, which assists in the cultivation of this supernatural power.
This supernatural power and elixir only lasted for a million years before their effects began to become apparent. During these million years, countless geniuses and prodigies were born among the human race.
Some people have a lamp of vital energy lit within them from birth.
The earliest human prodigies to emerge, the strongest of whom has already advanced to the peak of the Great Venerable Realm and is about to break through to the Saint Venerable Realm.
However, Xu Chen was not too satisfied with this, because what he wanted was a prodigy who could break through and become a powerful figure above the Great Dao.
"This matter cannot be rushed, let's take it slowly." Xu Chen said, his mind entering the Holy White Space.
Over the years, Xu Chen has developed a habit similar to Qian Ming's: to always have multiple backup plans.
Xu Chen now intends to search among these supernatural abilities for spatial portals to other realms. (End of Chapter)