Wizard's Journey

Chapter 1924 Immortal Realm (Part 8)

"Uncle-Master, we'd like to go check out the herb garden first!"

For Nie Yun and Xiao Lian at this stage, the immortal herbs and medicines in the sect's medicine garden in the fragments of the Immortal Realm world, which had been neglected for several eras and contained amazing medicinal power, were the most attractive treasures for them.

Seeing that Green was about to go forward and examine the dead old tree, the two could no longer contain their excitement and spoke to Green.

"Hehe, you two little guys, although they are miraculous elixirs, if you rely on these external forces for a long time, your foundation will be unstable. It would be better to be down-to-earth and pursue the path of a wizard step by step."

As the first-ring True Spirit Wizard Silvana spoke, the old wizard with crow's feet blinked twice and looked in another direction.

"That should be the central area of ​​the sect's grand formation. I'm quite interested in this formation."

Seeing that everyone had their own goals, Green didn't want to impose any restrictions. After all, the greatest joy of adventure lies in the unknown, so he could only nod and say, "Alright, let's split up and go our separate ways. This sect isn't very big, we'll contact each other later."

After agreeing, the group flew off towards their respective destinations with a whoosh.

Looking down from the sky at the dilapidated white jade buildings scattered under the great formation of the Bitao Sect, as well as the general distribution of the sect's area, Green imagined the survival and development of this sect hidden beneath the river in the Immortal Realm, and its desire to survive when it finally encountered misfortune in the Immortal Realm. He was filled with worries.

On his shoulder, Xiao Ba looked up at Green's destination: a giant tree that resembled a brownish-gray giant, floating in mid-air. Like a rootless duckweed, the giant tree spread out hundreds of branches of various sizes, protecting the chessboard in the center. It seemed to be some kind of core, or at least something that this sect had tried its best to preserve during its final struggle.

call out!

Green arrived in front of the tree giant, while the masked man followed behind him, looking timid and hesitant.

With a "thud," Green landed on one of the Data Giant's branch arms. It should have landed silently, but due to the residual influence of the rules on the Tree Giant's body, Green experienced a slight collision of rules upon contact.

Standing on one of the tree giant's arms, Green finally saw everything on the sand table clearly.

"Hey, Grimmon, do you think this might be some kind of dimensional truth or profound mystery that the Sages have been researching?"

Upon seeing the sand table, Xiao Ba couldn't help but ask this question instinctively, and Green also thought of the same thing in an instant.

This chessboard is oval-shaped, with its interior composed of a grid of immortal runes, resembling a chain of rules explored by wizards. However, within the immortal realm civilization, it is a complex and intricate network of principles, yet it seems to contain certain patterns, much like the grand formations of sects. Even though the immortals have all disappeared, it continues to operate.

The chessboard itself is a complex interplay of principles, yet it is divided into two parts: the surface and the inner layer.

The surface layer consists of chess pieces on a chessboard, seemingly representing a battle between an attacking and a defending side, namely a bat and a snake. Undoubtedly, unless the bat flies out of the chessboard, the snake possesses unparalleled suppressive power, which the bat cannot contend with, and is in a proactive position.

sizzle...

The giant snake flicked its tongue, its enormous body occupying many squares of the chessboard.

Compared to snakes, bats are on the defensive.

Between the snake and the bat, there are many other pieces that fall between the two, including all sorts of exotic monsters and immortal children, all standing on the chessboard grid.

What appears to be a game of chess where the bat is destined to lose takes an unexpected turn due to changes within the chessboard's inner layers. This seems to be the essence of the dimensional power researched by the Bitao Sect.

Beneath the chessboard, countless ants crawled, billions upon billions, densely packed, endless, with almost no gaps between them. If they were single ants, neither bats nor giant snakes would care, but the sheer number of ants made both players on the chessboard feel as if they were walking on thin ice; if they fell, the outcome was predictable.

However, although these ants possess a numerical advantage that makes them difficult for bats and snakes to contend with, they also have some cognitive deficiencies. They only have a sense of four directions: front, back, left, and right. In other words, they are two-dimensional beings, as the wizards call them. Until they learn how to venture into higher dimensions like the card players, they can only exist on the surface of the chessboard and be looked down upon by snakes and bats.

Among billions upon billions of ants, mutations are inevitable.

Because of the overcrowding, some ants, in a one in a billion chance, gained a flash of intelligence while crawling on other ants. They became aware of high and low beyond front, back, seat, and rear, thus giving birth to three-dimensional intelligence, and attempted to break through the inner layer of the chessboard to reach the surface world of bats and snakes.

After observing in silence for a long time, Green finally spoke.

"If the ant swarm comes up, the one most afraid is the giant snake, because it has no ability to escape the chessboard. Once the giant snake is distracted by the ant swarm, the bat becomes safe. At the same time, because the bat has the ability to escape the giant snake and fly out of the chessboard, it is even more eager for the ant swarm. An extremely delicate balance is formed among the three."

As he spoke, Green's tricolored eyes flashed, and after a pause, he continued, "Hmm, bats should represent the Immortal Realm, and snakes should represent the Heavenly Dao. Does this mean that the immortals once attempted to harness the power of lower dimensions to break through the constraints of the existing dimensions?"

To grasp the profound mysteries of this chessboard in such a short time is something only a king like Green, standing at the pinnacle of endless world civilizations, could achieve with unparalleled knowledge and wisdom.

"Hey hehe, what do you think of this chessboard?"

Xiao Ba asked.

With a sigh beneath the surface of truth, Grimm slowly shook his head and said, "I don't know. Compared to these immortals, am I not also an explorer? However, since this chessboard still retains some power, we might as well go in and experience it!"

With that, Green took to the air, carrying Little Eight and Painted Skin towards the chessboard.

The tree giant beneath my feet must have died around the same time as the immortals. The difference is that the immortals, along with their various means of resistance, have been erased and disappeared by the mysterious power of the higher dimensions, while the remains of the tree giant have survived for a considerable period of time. It is being slowly digested by the endless world, along with this vast fragment of the immortal realm.

As for the rules left on the remains of this tree giant, they should be the condensed will of the immortals of the Azure Wave Sect, attempting to forge eternity. However, the so-called eternity is only relative to the beings of this dimension. There is no such thing as true eternity in the world.

(End of this chapter)