Everlasting Immortal Firmament - Chapter 126

Chapter 126 - Playing Weiqi at the Ding Long Clan

Along the way, more and more people followed Gu Hai.

Gu Hai didn't pay much attention to them, nor did he hide his tracks. In fact, he didn't need to hide his tracks. On the contrary, proceeding openly was by far the safest. He was the Ascendant Hall Water Throne Master. The forces on the righteous side would not dare to make a move on him, and with his notorious prestige, the underground forces would think twice before making a move on him.

After a short while, Gu Hai paused, for he had arrived at the Ding Long Clan.

At this moment, there were clouds circling around the Ding Long Clan, and countless cultivators gathered in front of it.

Vaguely, one could notice a giant island floating in the sky. The huge island was in tapered shape, with a flat top and pointed bottom. It looked incomparably marvelous.

The floating island had square-shaped clouds swimming around it. Surprisingly, each and every square-shaped cloud had a weiqi game upon it.

The weiqi games were spread out everywhere, moving slowly all over the Ding Long Clan.

In the distance, he could see a cultivator sitting on the ground. There was a cloud weiqi board before him. The cultivator was slowly placing a piece.

On another side, as another cultivator extended his hand in a grabbing motion, the cloud weiqi board surprisingly split into two. No, it should be that the exact copy of that endgame had fallen before him. The man was also studying the endgame on that cloud's weiqi board at the same time.

"Weiqi board?" Gu Hai said, perplexed.

"Throne Master Gu, this is the endgame array laid out by the Ding Long Clan. They have promised that as long as anyone solves an endgame, he or she will be rewarded with ten high-grade spirit stones!" a nearby cultivator told Gu Hai.

"Oh?" An intrigued look appeared on Gu Hai's face.

"These endgames are pretty good. There are three thousand endgames, and five hundred of them have already been solved. At first, only a hundred endgames were solved after one month, until the three Weiqi Kings of the Thousand Islands Seas appeared. After that, these endgames were solved much more quickly!" that cultivator explained.

Suddenly, a hum rose from the distance; apparently, an endgame had been solved. In the next moment, that cloud weiqi board abruptly collapsed, scattering into clouds that rose into the air towards the floating island. In a flash, the floating island blurred for a moment.

At the same time, the other weiqi board similarly vanished into nothing, giving the impression that as long as it had been solved, its existence was no longer significant.

At this time, a man dressed in yellow robes quickly walked out of the grand array that the clouds were lingering all across.

"Throne Master Gu, look, that's a Ding Long Clan disciple!" the man next to Gu Hai explained.

The Ding Long Clan's disciple took out ten high-grade spirit stones and handed them to the man who had solved the endgame respectfully.

At the sight of this, eyes of all the cultivators in the vicinity turned red with greed and envy. Ten high-grade spirit stones were equal to a hundred thousand low-grade spirit stones. Such a sum was exceedingly high!

"Why do they want us to solve the weiqi game?" Gu Hai asked, furrowing his brow.

"I have no idea, it started about a month and a half back! All the powerful weiqi experts were invited inside the Ding Long Clan, perhaps they know!" the nearby man answered, shaking his head.

"Oh? You mean that the Three Weiqi Kings you spoke of have also gone in?" Gu Hai asked, puzzled.

"Yes, the Three Weiqi Kings are all Nascent Soul experts of the Thousand Islands Seas. Each of them has made a name for themselves with their weiqi skills. If anyone wants to be invited into the Ding Long Clan, all they have to do is solve an endgame. The more games one can solve, the more readily they will be invited in!" the man standing next to Gu Hai answered, shaking his head.

"Throne Master Gu, you have displayed your towering weiqi skills in the Xiantian Endgame World, why don't you give it a try? If you can win even one game, you can gain ten high-grade spirit stones at least!" that man said in anticipation.

"Yes, Mister Gu, you can also give it a try! We have been studying these endgames for a long time, but we still can't solve them!"

Gu Hai furrowed his brow.

Suddenly, the man who had been speaking jumped up into the sky towards the weiqi boards circling around the Ding Long Clan and reached out to a weiqi board in a grabbing motion.

That cloud weiqi board divide into two, one of which was still swimming in the air, while its copy was pulled down. In the blink of an eye, the copied cloud weiqi board had arrived before Gu Hai.

"Mister Gu, would you like to try?" that man asked respectfully.

Gu Hai took a glance at the weiqi board, then turned his eyes to the Ding Long Clan. A complex look immediately appeared on his face.

Gu Hai reckoned that Ding Rui must be inside. He knew that the scheme of offering a reward wasn't as ordinary as it looked. It was filled with a sense of urgent crisis. However, with the advancement of his strength, Gu Hai was also intrigued by the Nine-Five Island's dragon vein.

As the saying goes, one should act according to their own capability. When Gu Hai was weak, he didn't have any chance to participate in this matter. But now, perhaps he could understand the situation.