CHAPTER 736: CHAPTER 321: THE CHESSBOARD WORLD

However, even with the capability of sitting eight and looking to nine, Zhou Xuan stood no chance against the Mo Ya Monk who had already stepped into the Flower Sea World. When rescuing his master, the blade that stretched across the Mo Ya Monk’s fingertip was so lightly touched, it almost shattered.

Sitting eight and looking to nine with nine incense sticks, on paper only differ by a line, yet are worlds apart.

"When in doubt, you may ask Kong Ming."

The siblings shared the same thoughts, what Zhou Xuan thought at this moment, Zhou Lingyi also thought of.

"Brother, you rest first, focus and go seek the Kongming Mirror. I’ll deal with this Mo Ya Monk first."

Zhou Lingyi extended her right hand, tidying the collar for Zhou Xuan, just as she did when Zhou Xuan first went on stage to tell stories at Ping Shui Prefecture.

She seemed to have a peculiar persistence with collars.

"Brother, grandfather taught me when I was young how to judge if a customer picking a show is a noble guest, he said, just look at the collar,

if the collar is sweat-soaked, it’ll itch the neck, if it’s wrinkled, one’s spirit will falter, if it’s slightly dirty, the nobility of the whole outfit decreases by more than half,

Noble guests have their clothes made with collars that are neither too soft nor too hard, and they pay attention to keeping them neat and clean daily. It lends an innate flair, remember grandfather’s words in the future, never let your collar get dirty."

When Zhou Lingyi spoke these words, her tone had already become resolute, Zhou Xuan could even hear a sense of farewell.

"Sister, I still have the Mountain and River Map, and sixteen more..."

"You still have me."

As soon as Zhou Lingyi finished speaking, delicate hands with snow-white skin revealed flowing floral imprints, purple, red, blue, they bloomed and wilted, withering only to bloom again,

until the flowers bloomed eight times, all of Zhou Xuan’s incense fire was absorbed by Zhou Lingyi.

She decisively turned around, walking from the center of the Flower Sea World towards the Mo Ya Monk.

"Having returned to Ping Shui Prefecture for too long, I almost forgot, I learned my skills in Mingjiang Prefecture. The first time I became a Night Patrol God, I served as the Night Patrol God of Mingjiang. Though I’m from Ping Shui Prefecture, I should fight for Mingjiang Prefecture."

Zhou Lingyi’s plain light blue cloth shoes, each gentle step was accompanied by the withering of flower stamens. Her heart pointed toward the light, yet the Other Shore Flower Curse was originally a witchcraft of the Netherworld. The mysterious flair of the witch was its core.

Seeing Zhou Lingyi in motion, Lord Jiu and Yuan Buyu also lifted their paper banners and carried folded fans, beating the drum for Zhou Lingyi...

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The Boat Monk tried to sail towards the Flower Sea, but the Lady of the Red Coffin, moving through the water domain like a dragon in the depths, despite having the strength of eight incense sticks, danced with the coffin in water, conjuring up wind.

Where the red coffin passed, Lord Jian’s Divine Arrows were secretly mixed in.

The methods of the Divine Arrow Hall’s eight incense sticks were known as the "God-Slaying Arrow". To the Boat Monk’s eyes, perhaps it wasn’t much, but that Divine Arrow, he dared not underestimate.

"The Buddha Country has thirty-three heavens, the twelfth heaven is called Ming River King Heaven. The Ming River King governs the Nether River. The river’s length is unknown, its width is unmeasured, on one bank is new life, on the other is old death. This little monk sails between the Nether River, ferrying the dead from old death to new life,

this river water contains life and death, Lady of the Coffin, Divine Arrow, take caution."

The Boat Monk threw out his bamboo stick, cutting into the Netherworld River’s domain, rolling the towering muddy waves into the sky.

The new life power in the muddy waves surged towards Guan Niang and Lord Jian, while the old death power it contained corroded the arrows and coffin piercing the muddy waves, so they dared not approach the Boat Monk.

Neither side could advance nor retreat,

Lord Jian, with his keen eyesight, spoke to the Lady of the Red Coffin: "Guan Niang, the two of us can hold back the Boat Monk. His nine incense sticks are unstable, at the incense fire level, but hasn’t completed the nine incense sticks promotion ceremony."

"Not a true nine incense sticks, then his wish to sail into the Flower Sea World is just daydreaming."

Faced with the water domain, Guan Niang was no easier to deal with than Lord Jian.

"Nine Transformations of the Golden Body..."

The Boat Monk’s old sorrows were stirred by Lord Jian’s words — he had long cultivated the Buddha Country’s nine transformations of the golden body, but was stuck at the promotion ceremony for years.

"New life, old death...I have pondered for years, yet still cannot grasp."

The Boat Monk was held in place,

The situation for the Treasure Tree Heavenly King was not much different. Using the Shell Leaf Tree, he resisted Music Master, Painter, and King Xishan alone, already feeling the strain,

yet the Sixteen Yin Hall sang a mournful song, activating the ancient altar. The blood-stained cracks in the stone slabs and moss flowed with the curse power of ancient Witch Clan, causing the Treasure Tree Heavenly King some disorientation, seeing countless Witch ancestors singing and dancing before him. The singing was exuberant, the dance was like mountain spirits,

he inexplicably felt suffocated, continuously slaughtering the ancestors, people fell like grass being cut, blood spattering, dyeing the world red, but the singing grew more lively, the dance more erratic, and the bizarre scene created a strange pressure that forced the Treasure Tree Heavenly King’s courage to shrink,

an unseen spiritual prison, he was trapped at the altar, unable to transcend.

Zhiming Monk was sealed within the Fox Clan’s Divine Bone by King Xishan,

The Boat Monk and the Treasure Tree Heavenly King were both stalemated, though not on the verge of defeat, they lacked the strength to enter the Flower Sea World and join the Mo Ya Monk to overpower and kill Zhou Xuan.

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The Flower Sea World alone had only the Mo Ya Monk entering.

The Flower Sea World was a personal small world created by Zhou Lingyi, where no laws existed. Ordinary cultivators who mistakenly entered could not even burn their incense fire.