Chapter 327

Within the white jade chessboard, Zhou Tiege, manifesting through a projection, raised a hand to signal Hao Ren and Zhou Tieyi to step back. Once the two had moved to a safe distance, the space within the chessboard began to tremble. A trickling sound, like water dripping in a subterranean cavern, grew rapidly into the roar of a rushing torrent. Zhou Tieyi could clearly feel a fissure being forcibly torn into the space of the white jade chessboard. Centered around the Yellow Springs of Life and Death, murky, turbid water gushed in—a force so potent that even the Rank Three white jade chessboard could not contain it. The spectral, murky water of the Yellow Springs swirled violently, engulfing a fifty-tael Artificial Ink Stone. Once the stone was submerged, the colossal silhouette of a serpent appeared behind Zhou Tiege. Within its yellow, slit pupils, black and white intertwined like an Ouroboros. A dead, solemn silence, heavier than any abyss, emanated from the serpent, swallowing everything—even the turbulent Yellow Springs slowed to a crawl. Moments later, the waters dried up, and silence reclaimed the space, leaving behind only the "dead" Ink Stone.