He has been reincarnated through countless worlds, adorned with billions of mythological terms!

Yunling swallowed.

"You're... just kidding, right..."

After realizing what had happened, Yunling felt a chill run down her spine.

Yunling squatted on the floor of the side hall, clutching her hair with both hands, her little face scrunched up.

No, are you sure this thing is on the same level as her?

The Heavenly Dao Sand Table is her biggest secret, her greatest trump card that has allowed her to survive until now.

But that snap of his fingers and that "come again next time" clearly showed that he knew her.

"He found out...he must have found out..."

Yunling muttered to herself, clutching her head and spinning around in the side hall, her bun almost falling apart from her efforts.

After spinning around several times, she suddenly stopped and took a deep breath.

wrong.

calm.

She squatted down, placed the sand table back on her lap, and tried to get her mind working.

If Yun Yi really discovers the existence of the Heavenly Dao Sand Table, what will he do?

Given that guy's personality, if he felt this thing was a threat, he would just smash it to pieces with one punch.

If he doesn't feel threatened, he'll pretend he doesn't know.

He said, "Come again next time."

What does this tell us?

This means he knew she was using some means to foresee the future, but he neither pointed it out nor asked for it.

He simply told her that he knew.

That's it.

Yunling remained silent for a while, then suddenly let out a long sigh and slumped to the ground like a deflated balloon.

"Alright."

She surrendered.

Since we can't hide it anymore, we might as well stop hiding it.

Anyway, she didn't plan to hide in front of Yun Yi for too long. She just thought she could get by day by day and take it easy.

But now that they've openly told her, "I know what you're doing," it's pointless.

Yunling scratched her head again, put away the sand table, stood up, and patted her robe.

Forget it.

I'll stop trying to take advantage of the situation from now on; I guess I need to get serious.

She pushed open the door of the side hall and went out.

……

Meanwhile, in Yunyi's study.

He leaned back in his chair, a chessboard on the desk in front of him.

There are only a handful of white pieces on the chessboard.

One of them, right in the center, stood alone, completely surrounded by a dense array of black stones.

From any perspective, it's a dead end; there's no way out and no way to prolong the situation.

Yun Yi watched for a while and murmured.

Is it a life-or-death calamity?

It seems we shouldn't underestimate those with authority over matters related to fate.

But at that moment, the game changed.

As soon as a white piece landed on the edge of the board, a circle of black pieces around it was instantly cleared out, revealing a small empty space.

But that's all.

That vacant lot was nice, but it couldn't change the overall situation.

Black's pieces continue to dominate, while White's pieces remain in a precarious situation.

During the time she was there, a second white piece appeared on the chessboard.

He glanced up at the side hall, a slight smile playing on his lips.

really.

A means of seeing the future.

System? Treasure? Or innate divine power?

Yun Yi thought for a moment and then shook his head.

No matter what it is, as long as there's no intention to stab someone in the back, he's too lazy to investigate further.

After all, everyone has their own secrets, and he couldn't be bothered to investigate.

He doesn't need to know the answer; he only needs to know which side the other party is on.

He lowered his head again, his gaze falling on the chessboard.

Looking at that white piece that was surrounded and trapped.

Judging from the current situation, as long as he still protects the Zhu family, this game is a dead end.

With the three major families, the five privileged individuals lurking in the shadows, and the old monsters in the upper echelons of the empire whose fates are uncertain, even if he used all the laws he had comprehended in the previous world at the age of six, he still couldn't withstand it.

Ultimately, his level of understanding was still too low.

Unless they abandon the Zhu family.

But he couldn't give up.

He could abandon the Zhu family at any time; he didn't care about the elders, the disciples, or the resources and territories they held.

But Mom can't.

The woman who visited him every few months for the past six years, the woman who always brought gifts and always called him "son".

She mistook someone for someone else.

But so what?

Yun Yi reached out, picked up the white chess piece that had been surrounded and trapped from the board, spun it in his palm, and then put it back in its original position.

"Since it won't work this time..."

He spoke softly, as if addressing someone.

"Then let's do it next time."

He pushed the chessboard aside, leaned back in his chair, and looked out the window.

"I hope you can let me play a few more times."

……

the next day.

Just as dawn was breaking, Zhu Heng was awakened by a series of urgent knocks on the door.

He put on his coat and opened the door. A messenger disciple stood outside, his face pale, clutching a stack of communication jade slips in his hand.

"Elder Heng, something has happened."

Zhu Heng's heart skipped a beat.

"What's wrong now?"

"Starting this morning, dozens of small families have sent people to various strongholds of our Zhu family to provoke us. The methods are varied. Some are deliberately looking for trouble, some are coming to demand an explanation, and some are directly assaulting and injuring our outpost members."

The messenger's voice trembled.

"Moreover, these families... made their moves almost simultaneously."

Zhu Heng's face immediately darkened.

He took the jade slip and flipped through it one by one, his expression growing increasingly grim with each page.

He knew every one of these small families.

The Zhou family, the Cao family, the Shen family, the Zhao family, the Sun family... they are all small fry who rely on the wings of the three major families. They usually don't even dare to fart. How dare they come to provoke us all at the same time today?

Where did they get the guts?

There is only one answer.

The three major families are backing them up.

Zhu Heng's hands were trembling, whether from anger or fear, it was hard to tell.

He hurried to the council hall, where the other elders had already arrived, their faces ashen, and the communication jade slips in front of them piled up like a small mountain.

"They're insane! They're all insane!"

"Didn't they see what happened to the Luo family? How dare they do this?"

"How dare they? Of course, they have someone backing them up!"

"What are these three families trying to do? Are they testing our bottom line?"

"In my opinion, they just want to see if we dare to turn against so many companies at the same time!"

The dozen or so elders were arguing loudly, each one trying to outdo the other.

Zhu Heng sat in the corner, rubbing his temples, and waited until they had stopped arguing before slowly speaking.

"The question now is, how do we deal with this?"

The council chamber fell silent.

Everyone looked at him.

Zhu Heng sighed.

"Everyone should still remember the head of the family's orders."

"Whoever dares to test us, we will declare war on them."

The dozen or so elders looked at each other in bewilderment.

After a long while, Zhu Changfeng finally spoke in a deep voice.

"Then declare it."

His voice carried a hint of ruthlessness.

"They've already pushed their luck against us. If we don't fight back, people will just think the Zhu family is easy to bully."

"One today, ten tomorrow, a hundred the day after, it never ends."

"Attack! Attack them all!"

So the order was passed on.

Dozens of families simultaneously received the Zhu family's declaration of war.

The ancestral home of the Zhou family.

Zhou Xuantong held the jade slip declaring war, looked at it three times, and suddenly smiled.

"Has the Zhu family gone mad?"

He slammed the jade slip on the table and looked around.

"They dare to declare war on dozens of us at the same time? What do they have to fight with? Just that Changli Tianzhou?"

The head of the Cao family also laughed.

"It's just a bluff."

"The three major families said that if the Zhu family dares to make a move, they will immediately intervene if we test them."

"No matter how powerful the Zhu family is, would they dare to offend the Bai, Wu, and Long families at the same time?"

The old patriarch of the Shen family stroked his beard, looking completely at ease.

"We have joined forces with dozens of families, nearly a hundred demigod ancestors, and thousands of ninth-tier experts."

"Do you think the Zhu family would dare to wage war against us all at once? Absolutely not! Who are they trying to scare?"

The crowd laughed.

Some people have already started calculating how many mineral veins and how much territory they will seize from the Zhu family once they give in.

But just then, the sky suddenly darkened.

Dark clouds obscured the sun.

It was as if the entire sky was being pressed down by some enormous thing, creating a darkness.