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The aura of a supreme grandmaster was released. The elderly man straightened his back, his yellow hair fluttering in the wind, and his pair of muddy eyes turning sharp.

Tian Ji looked straight into Li Dao's eyes and asked, "Sword Emperor, you are already the highest under the heavens. This old man knows that he is no match for you, so why are you looking for this old man?"

Li Dao wasn't affected by Heavencraft Zi's aura as he restrained the smile on his face and replied seriously, "I want to know the purpose of the chess game's Sacred Sword Founder and Ying Shuntian arranging their life-and-death game. Are they still alive?"

Tian Zi didn't say anything. He looked at Li Dao for a long time, then asked with a serious tone, "Do you really want to know?"

Li Dao could not deny it. He was indeed curious about what was hidden behind the Life and Death Chess.

"It's best if you don't know about this. Knowing about this is a kind of responsibility that concerns all the people in this world, and the Sword Ancestor and I have carried this responsibility for hundreds of years." Tian Tuo's tone was solemn, his voice filled with vicissitudes of life. He was an old man who had lived for over five hundred years.

Li Dao scoffed and disdainfully said, "Heavencraft, are you treating me as a three year old kid and making jokes for me? Can a chess game really affect the lives of the people in this world?"

Heavencraft Zi seemed to have anticipated Li Dao's reaction as he slowly said, "Sword Emperor, you shouldn't be in such a hurry to come to a conclusion. Listen to this old man narrate a story."

Li Dao hugged his longsword to his chest and nodded. He also wanted to know some secrets that were hundreds of years old.

Heavencraft Zi raised his head and looked at the sky. His tone was unhurried as he traveled through space and time.

"The Heaven's Secrets Sect is the world's number one sect, every single sect leader is called Tian Ji Zi, while this old man is the heaven's will sect's 25th generation, known as Tian Ji 25.

Since it was the Gate of Heavenly Secrets, of course he had to understand some of the secrets of the ancient era.

Do you know that in the ancient times, demons and monsters danced side by side in the sky and earth, causing the human race to be weakened?

In this world, there were two swords. Whenever a calamity befell, one would be the Heart Sword and the other the Demon Sword.

Back then, when the human Sage Emperor obtained the Heart Sword, the Dark Moon Empire's Demon Lord obtained the Demon Sword. Since then, humans and demons have fought for thousands of years.

Magical demons were different from humans. They were born with powerful bodies and were difficult to kill. Some had high intelligence, no different from ordinary people, and some only had the intelligence of children.

Humans were generally weak, and many of the most powerful human warriors fought against the demons. Blood dyed the sky as they fought with all their might. The Sage Emperor did not hesitate to burn his life, and with the help of the human leaders, he sealed the Demon Lord and the demons into the void.

For example, the Fire Phoenix that you had killed on the Sword Mountain was an ancient demon.

Fortunately, powerful demons were all killed and sealed. Humankind was able to rest and recover in peace.

However, something had happened five hundred years ago. The Devil Lord of the Yin Moon Empire had used an unknown method to send the great general, Ying Shuntian, out of his seal and into the world. Since then, the world had been thrown into chaos.

Ying Shuntian came to this world and slaughtered everything in his path. He laid down a grand formation and built a life and death chess city, hoping to combine the Heartsword Demon Sword and the soul of the human race as sacrifices to break open the seal, allowing the fiendish demons to return to this world.

As a Heaven's Mandate at that time, the Sword Saint stepped forward to engage Ying Shuntian in battle, bearing the burden of the human race.

It was unknown how many people were sacrificed in that battle. In the end, the Archer God Clan's Clan Chief joined forces with the Sword Ancestor to defeat Ying Shuntian. They gave up their physical bodies and suppressed him at the bottom of Mirror Reflection Lake.

Before being sealed, Ying Shuntian had placed a curse on everyone. The soul of the Life and Death Chess would not disperse, and after five hundred years, the devils would dance chaotically, and he would return in five hundred years. Now five hundred years had passed.

I was the witness to that battle, and the only survivor. Do you understand? "

As Heavencraft Zi spoke, his face was reminiscent of his previous life, and his voice was filled with valor.

Li Dao was speechless. He had originally thought that the Life and Death Chess was a five hundred year long battle between the Saint Sword Founder and Ying Shuntian. He hadn't thought that there would be such a terrifying background story within the game.

The level of this world was truly high. If not for the fact that the ancient Sage Emperor had sealed the demons in the sky, this world would probably be on par with a few lower leveled Immortal World cultivators. Thinking back to the original novel, Yan Zang Feng had used the Lingshuang Sword to save the two girls who had almost died. It seemed that he had severely underestimated Lingshuang Sword.

Why was he still so calm? Shouldn't he be so shocked that he couldn't even close his mouth and pat his chest, promising to stop Ying Shuntian's scheme?