Chapter 1095 - 450: Replacing Heaven with Earth

Chapter 1095: Chapter 450: Replacing Heaven with Earth

Wu Chang looked in the direction of the voice and saw the initial speaker, a youth wearing a black robe with a stern face, holding a judge’s pen.

The youth had deep brown pupils, and his gaze was piercing, as if it could see into someone’s heart, but his eyes also carried an indescribable mischievousness, making it hard to distinguish whether he was good or evil.

Upon hearing the Megrez Immortal Mansion Master suggest changing to the Earth Sacrifice, the youth furrowed his brows and said:

"The Earth Sacrifice Ceremony is newly established, the Seven Stars Grand Array and the Twelve Earthly Branches sub-array eyes are partially unprepared, starting the sacrifice now, isn’t that a bit hasty?"

The Megrez Immortal Mansion Master looked at the youth and slowly said:

"Yuheng, at this point, we have no choice but to place our hopes of success in the hands of the heavens and see if fortune is on our side."

The youth called Yuheng shook his head slightly and said:

"This time, the Celestial Gate is in the hands of the Demon Race, and yet you trust fate?"

Megrez laughed and said: "Of course, my luck has always been good."

Seeing Megrez’s determination, Yuheng said no more and agreed: "I’ll arrange manpower preparations shortly."

Among them, strategizing was always led by Megrez; they trusted Megrez’s judgment.

Yuheng looked toward the ominous horizon in the distance and said:

"Megrez, the Demon Race appeared strangely and could block the Celestial Gate so quickly, I suspect they’ve been hiding within the gate for a long time."

Megrez said: "Based on the results of Boss’s investigation, that’s almost certainly the case."

Yuheng said: "Since they’ve been hiding for so long, why only reveal themselves now, could it be..."

Yuheng thought of something, displaying the expression of playing on his phone during class and suddenly realizing the teacher was behind him, he said uncertainly:

"Do you think their appearance is related to our previous preparations for the Earth Sacrifice?"

Megrez replied relaxedly: "Of course it is."

Yuheng clenched his fist tighter, furrowing his brows further, he asked in confusion:

"Our operations have been exceedingly covert, never exposed, so how could those guys have any awareness?"

Megrez turned to Yuheng and said: "Because I leaked it."

"Oh, I see. Hmm?!" Yuheng first nodded, but quickly reacted, glaring angrily at Megrez.

Megrez showed an apologetic smile and said: "It was a decision made between me and Boss, we didn’t inform you all."

"Substituting Earth for Heaven couldn’t be concealed for long, since it couldn’t be hidden, why not leak it in a way we prefer to test the counterpart’s actions."

"As long as they become anxious, they’ll act accordingly; the more anxious they are, the bigger their moves, and the more flaws they reveal, giving us the chance to find a victory."

Yuheng said somewhat helplessly: "They say I’m the most impulsive, too confident in my actions, but as I see it, Boss and you are even more impulsive in your bones."

"Such a big matter, keeping it from us, aren’t you afraid Kaiyang will find out and beat you up first?"

Megrez sighed and said: "I have no other options either, the strength in our hands is too little, to achieve victory from weakness requires surprising tactics."

The scene before Wu Chang began to distort, his consciousness returned to the Megrez Immortal Mansion, the information recorded in the Book of Literary Fortune ended here.

Returning to reality, he looked at the Wordless Book in his hand and couldn’t help but mutter.

How befitting of Wenquxing, the intelligence recorded in the Megrez Immortal Mansion is far more explosive than that in Kaiyang Immortal Mansion.

The five tests in the Megrez Immortal Mansion, combined with the intelligence he saw moments ago, the events that once happened in the Dungeon Plane, began to faintly display before him.

The core of the events, and the origin of all, are those four words mentioned by the Megrez Immortal Mansion Master: Substituting Earth for Heaven.

Previously, he found the fifth test in the Megrez Immortal Mansion perplexing, thinking it was merely a means to test comprehensive ability.

Looking back now, the chess metaphor in the fifth test was actually depicting the substitution of Earth for Heaven.

In the opening, the white pieces centered around Tianyuan, enclosing the central region. Tianyuan actually refers to the Celestial Gate.

The Megrez Immortal Mansion Master’s clone holding the white pieces, had a cultivation realm higher by one stage than the testee holding the black pieces; regarding Megrez’s words, their strength was weak, unable to overpower the enemy occupying the Celestial Gate head-on.

In the chess game, although it seemed like the black pieces breached the central region to counterattack, the reality in the analysis by the All-Knowing Crystal was that unless the player holding black pieces was Wu Chang, able to use value to compensate for the disparity in cultivation realm strength.

Otherwise, any attempt to forcibly break through the central region would undoubtedly result in defeat.

According to the test creator’s mindset, only attempting to enclose a larger space in the corners would be the correct solution for victory in the chess game.

Using the corners to surpass the central region symbolizes substituting Earth for Heaven, using the sacrificial Earth to replace the original Heaven Sacrifice.

Simply enclosing the corners cannot achieve a breakthrough, one must provoke the white pieces’ arrangements in the center, causing them to withdraw and enlarge the black pieces’ space.

Simultaneously exposing flaws, forcing the white pieces to rush into the corners, instigating a chaotic battle, and using victory in the chaos to secure the corner region firmly, will allow a reversal, with the black pieces defeating the white pieces by half a stone.

This correlates with Megrez deliberately revealing the Earth Sacrifice Ceremony, forcing the Demon Race to appear, causing the Demon Race to expand their forces beyond the Immortal Mansion Gate, attacking other areas in the Dungeon Plane.

Based on Yuheng’s words, the Seven Stars prepared to substitute Earth for Heaven earlier than the Demon Race appeared.

If the time they are ready to substitute Earth for Heaven matches the start of the chess game in the fifth test, it indicates that before trying to substitute Earth for Heaven, they had already detected anomalies in the Celestial Gate or the Heaven Sacrifice Ceremony.