Chapter 400: Chapter 367 Yang Zixiu

“Did you sense anything unusual?” Lin Qianxuan asked Spirit Annihilation.

“Boss, what are you talking about?” Spirit Annihilation responded with some confusion.

The abilities of the Dao Fruit are often silent and unnoticeable.

Their conceptual nature cannot be measured.

Even though Spirit Annihilation possesses such abilities, it is regarded as an artifact that has become a Dao Fruit’s vessel and doesn’t have the ability to actively control the Dao Fruit.

Only a sword-wielder can utilize the Dao Fruit.

Lin Qianxuan didn’t question Spirit Annihilation any further but instead swung his sword toward the void.

With one strike, he tested many things.

It could not defeat concepts or illusory objects.

Inanimate objects were also outside the scope because there was no existence of winning or losing.

The range of judgment was limited to what he could observe.

“Then what about winning or losing within the rules?”

Lin Qianxuan pondered thoughtfully.

Then Lin Qianxuan, carrying a chessboard, went to the West Yan State he governed.

He casually found a person in a mortal kingdom and played a game of chess with him.

However, Lin Qianxuan used a chess staff transformed by Spirit Annihilation to move the pieces.

After winning, Lin Qianxuan acquired all the attributes of that mortal.

The attributes here were limited to those Lin Qianxuan could perceive.

Such as lifespan, wisdom, root bone, strength, charm…

Overall, the increase wasn’t negligible.

More importantly, it proved one thing.

There was no need for Spirit Annihilation to fight; it could still satisfy the usage conditions.

As long as he won within the game rules.

This opened up many possibilities for playing techniques.

Lin Qianxuan touched his chin, deep in thought.

In the following period, Lin Qianxuan began to heavily promote a luck-based game.

He developed a life battle simulation chess game called [Battle of Destiny].

It was about randomly controlling a piece that was born in a random location within the True Yang Emperor Realm, and then cultivating and developing until defeating the opponent.

The internal elements were rich; Lin Qianxuan included most of the scenes in the True Yang Emperor Realm, with many opportunities and even many cultivation techniques and divine powers which genuinely existed.

Different decisions would lead to different changes. Because the elements were rich and highly random, the game was very playable.

Even a mighty King Realm expert might not necessarily defeat an ordinary person.

With good luck, a perfect start could lead to a direct victory.

After the test, Lin Qianxuan first found Xu Hong for testing.

After activating the array plate, the two descended into the array’s virtual world like gods.

Then three choice cards refreshed in front of them, representing the initial pieces.

The initial pieces all had the same strength, normal humans, but with different focuses.

Some pieces had strong root bones, some had greater combat power, some were relatively wise, and some had high fortune.

Different pieces, different starting points, different development strategies, and the subsequent encounters would differ.

Lin Qianxuan wielded his sword and selected a card; he chose a piece named “Qin Annan,” which belonged to the high fortune type.

On the other side, Xu Hong chose a piece named “Chen Hong,” with stronger root bones.

Lin Qianxuan’s side, due to the fortune factor, allowed Qin Annan to have a good start with sect resources; Lin Qianxuan let him actively participate in various activities, exploring treasures and visiting secret realms as much as possible.

Xu Hong’s side chose a steady approach, focusing on proper cultivation.

Midway through the game, when Chen Hong was still in seclusion grinding his way through the Fourth Realm, Lin Qianxuan had Qin Annan cross two realms and, with Celestial Realm cultivation, perform a dimensional suppression and defeat him.

Xu Hong frowned and said, “How do you have such good luck? When you fell into a trial cliff, you had the luck to pick Treasures of Heaven and Earth, and even when mistakenly practicing a cultivation technique, you could comprehend a new Divine Power, advancing your cultivation further, and when your sect was destroyed, not only did you survive, but you also escaped with most of the sect’s resources, and then…”

This was the result of the “Qin Annan” piece’s performance under Lin Qianxuan’s control on the chessboard.

Lin Qianxuan laughed silently and said, “Xu fellow Daoist, just practice more if you are weak.”

“I’m not convinced, let’s have another match!” Xu Hong said.

Lin Qianxuan smirked, feeling the inexplicable increase in his cultivation and various attributes with amusement.

He had just acquired a [World’s Favorite] milestone blessing, and playing luck games with him, there was no way he would lose.

After playing dozens of games, several decades passed, and Xu Hong didn’t win a single match.

No matter what character Lin Qianxuan played, or how terrible the starting point was, he always managed to smash through the board with his overwhelming luck and take down the piece Xu Hong controlled.

Xu Hong even suspected at one point that Lin Qianxuan was rigging the game.

But even when Lin Qianxuan switched characters with Xu Hong at a significant advantage, Lin Qianxuan still won.

The reason was that the milestone’s luck bonus was just too high.

[World’s Favorite: Your luck attribute is twice the current world’s highest lucky person. (Note: In this world, no one is luckier than you.)]

Lin Qianxuan didn’t know who the luckiest existence in this world was, but he now had a very intuitive feel for his luck level.

Things didn’t exactly fall into place just by thinking, but in this world, as long as he believed something good for him could happen, it would definitely happen.

Playing chess with Xu Hong no longer provided much improvement, so Lin Qianxuan sought new opponents for chess matches.

Soon, he found a King Realm Peak Realm Master, and without much persuasion, invited him to play together.

After one game, Lin Qianxuan directly became King Realm Peak.

In the second game, Lin Qianxuan made a breakthrough.

He became one of the few Celestial Venerable level existences within the entire Emperor Realm.

This is the Dao Fruit.

The possibilities it holds are immeasurable.

Just as Lin Qianxuan was about to find a Celestial Venerable to play a game, a figure descended upon his residence.

It was an elegant young man dressed in white-gold trimmed clothes, with a Dao pattern like a great sun in the center of his forehead.

“True Yang Great Emperor!”

Lin Qianxuan was slightly surprised, not understanding why he had come.

“We pursued it for so long, but never thought the Primordial Dao Fruit would ultimately come to you,” True Yang Great Emperor said wistfully.

Lin Qianxuan raised an eyebrow, has it been discovered already?

Is he here to snatch the Dao Fruit?

“Since it chose you, it proves you are more suited for it.” True Yang Great Emperor shook his head and said, “I didn’t come to seize it but to play a game of chess with you.”

Almost at the moment True Yang Great Emperor finished speaking, the surrounding environment changed.

In front of Lin Qianxuan and True Yang Great Emperor, three cards representing the initial chess pieces appeared.

At this moment, Lin Qianxuan’s expression was quite subtle; he never expected that the True Yang Great Emperor would choose to play a game of “Fate Battle” with him.

“Let’s begin.” True Yang Great Emperor said with a smile.

“Of course.” Lin Qianxuan nodded.

Then each made their choice of pieces.

For Lin Qianxuan, his opening identity was not a human, but a wild beast in the mountains.

Being human has its advantages, and being a beast has its own.

He quickly found the location of the treasures and exotic fruits in the mountains and forests, his cultivation rapidly increased, his bloodline was strengthened, he further expanded his territory, subjugated the exotic beast king, obtaining the treasures it contributed…

On the other hand, True Yang Great Emperor started as a common human.

No status blessing, just an ordinary family background.

The advantage was that he had a fairly good overall attribute.

Proceeding step by step through cultivation, then because his talent was good enough, he was recruited into a sect, where he practiced arduously, until an event and setbacks occurred, rapidly growing within…

Then, Lin Qianxuan operated on two lines.

He spent a turn to initiate the second chess piece: a sword Dao cultivation prodigy of the human race.

In “Fate Battle,” the operation of a turn heavily influences the game, so spending a turn to activate new pieces tests both strategy and luck.

Lin Qianxuan did this because he realized the growth speed of his first piece surprisingly couldn’t match True Yang Great Emperor’s steady pace.

True Yang Great Emperor must be cheating.

But Lin Qianxuan couldn’t find evidence of the other’s cheating.

He could only initiate another piece.

Soon, the piece operated by True Yang Great Emperor had enough cultivation to begin searching for his destined rival.

Lin Qianxuan’s first piece struggled briefly, delivering a heavy blow to True Yang Great Emperor’s piece, barely buying two turns of growth time for the second piece.

But after two turns, True Yang Great Emperor’s piece lived out a second lifetime, its wounds healed, its realm stronger, it even understood a divine power reversing life and death, chasing Lin Qianxuan everywhere. Though relying on luck, he could barely survive, but it was almost certainly a lost cause.

True Yang Great Emperor smiled.

The time-space in his eyes was completely different from Lin Qianxuan’s view.

Upon entering the Daluo Emperor Realm, he consolidated all possibilities.

Thus, even occurrences with a one in billions chance, he could transform into a certainty by manipulating time-space.

Lin Qianxuan’s luck may be exceptional, but he had already mastered the so-called Fate, standing invincible from the start.

“You reverted to an earlier save, didn’t you?” Lin Qianxuan suddenly realized something and said with a grim face.

“Revert to an earlier save?” True Yang Great Emperor considered and said, “You could say that, but your game rules don’t seem to forbid this.”

Lin Qianxuan was speechless; he couldn’t deal with such off-the-board tactics and could only continue to struggle.

Then his second piece died, but fortunately before its death, he initiated the third piece… then the third died too, but there was still the fourth piece, the fifth piece…

“Why is that?” True Yang Great Emperor asked curiously, “I can’t find the possibility for a complete kill.”

“Because it doesn’t exist.” Lin Qianxuan said, “As the chessboard evolves, possibilities keep increasing; there’s never an absolute outcome.”

Of course, more importantly, Lin Qianxuan’s luck ensured he always encountered that extremely rare, miraculous chance for survival.

Until Lin Qianxuan reached his ninth piece, which upon creation, the entire Illusion Realm began to shake.

A “Heavenly Luck Event” was triggered.

According to the rules, meeting many conditions, theoretically, even after a billion years of play, you’d never trigger such an event, but it was triggered.

A Dao Fruit descended upon the newly born piece.

From his birth, he stood at the winning endpoint.

True Yang Great Emperor fell silent.

He could choose to “revert to an earlier save” to negate this result, but this only negates the game result, yet in reality, this outcome couldn’t be denied.

Even though he consolidated his possibilities, in the boundless chaos, chance was still essential.

Five turns later, True Yang Great Emperor saw his defeat at the hands of that newly born prodigy; he didn’t change anything further and calmly accepted this outcome.

“Looks like I lose.” True Yang Great Emperor said with a smile.

Lin Qianxuan had been prepared for him to cheat and seize the Dao Fruit, but he didn’t expect True Yang Great Emperor to take it so lightly.

In the next instant, Lin Qianxuan felt his own time-space information disturbed by the Dao Fruit, and in a flash, he too leaped into the Daluo Realm.

The endless timelines were consolidated, a realm he once experienced, and now upon return, he gained new insights.

With a wave of his hand, the Illusion Realm dissipated, Lin Qianxuan bowed to True Yang Great Emperor and said, “Fang Xuan thanks the senior for your help!”

“Look for me at the heights of that view,” True Yang Great Emperor smiled and then said, “Moreover, I am not called True Yang, that’s my Dao name, my common name is Yang Zixiu.”

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