Ji Ningshuang once said, "Godfather likes Chinese chess."
"His life is like a chessboard."
"Everyone is a chess piece in his eyes."
"Whenever a chess piece has value, Godfather will make good use of it."
"Once it loses its value, Godfather will abandon it without hesitation."
"Whether it is the chariot that charges into battle, or the guard that protects the general and the kingdom, without exception."
Therefore, the implication behind Godfather's words was: Qin Ming, this chess piece, was already useless.
It was time to abandon him.
And just at this moment...
Swish! Swish! Swish! Swish!
As the few remaining Genesis and Divine Nation Guild players guarding Godfather were killed, Wang Junjie, Han Ruoxi, Dragon Soul Aoshi, Ironblood Ruthless, Gao Han, and the others, they each led players from the five major guilds, Chaotic World, Blood Dance, Dragon Soul, Ironblood, and Golden Age, and charged in from the outskirts.
In an instant, they surrounded Godfather, Ji Ningshuang, Liu Kai, and Chen Feng.
Gao Han: "What a pity. You lost this game of chess."
Ironblood Ruthless: "More than ninety percent of Genesis and Divine Kingdom have been killed or injured. Brother, the tide has turned against you!"
Dragon Soul Aoshi: "Targeting Rulebound? You were wrong from the very first move of this game."
Wang Junjie: "Dickhead! Hurry up, wash your hands and go to bed!"
Han Ruoxi: "Young Master Wang, that phrase is 'surrender without resistance'…"
Wang Junjie: "Hehe! Don't they mean the same thing! Otherwise, how would my wife understand what I'm trying to say?"
Han Ruoxi: "Hmph! Who's your wife~"
Everyone: "? I feel like something's wrong, but it also seems like there really isn't anything wrong…"
Just when Liu Kai, Chen Feng, and Ji Ningshuang, who were tightly gripping their weapons and guarding Godfather, all felt immense pressure, believing that they had indeed lost this round and could no longer turn the situation around, only Godfather was not the slightest bit flustered.
Instead, he remained calm and composed.
Beneath the fully enclosed black heavy-metal helmet, his eyes were filled with sharpness.
"You've gotten one thing wrong: this is my chessboard."
"Everything is under my control. I cannot lose."
"You still lost this round."
Wang Junjie sneered, "Come on! Buddy, let me see how you're going to win!"
As he spoke, Wang Junjie looked toward Qin Ming, "Brother Nether!"
"Release the Ghost King!"
"Bite him!"
"Kill."
Following Qin Ming's mental command.
Whoosh!
In the distance, Ghost King Soul Manipulator · Zade came roaring toward Godfather, wrapped in a powerful aura of darkness capable of destroying heaven and earth.
BOOM! BOOM! BOOM! BOOM!
Along the way, the Genesis and Divine Kingdom Guild players swept up by this terrifying dark power had no ability to resist whatsoever, and were crushed into white light one after another.
The extreme deterrent power of a level 100 Ghost King enveloped the entire battlefield.
Every player present felt a chill run down their backs.
And just as Soul Manipulator · Zade entered attack range, the S-rank Divine Artifact Soul Devourer in its hand surged with waves of dark magical energy, locking onto Godfather and preparing to launch a fatal attack.
Godfather suddenly held up a blood-red Gu jar in his hand.
Buzz!
Just as the Gu jar flashed with a burst of blood light, Soul Manipulator · Zade suddenly seemed to have lost control.
Clatter!
As Soul Devourer moved, the spell that had originally been gathering toward Godfather suddenly smashed down toward the players of the five major guilds below.
Boom!
A dark beam of light shot straight from the top of Soul Devourer toward the crowd on the ground, triggering a large-scale shadow explosion.
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In an instant, countless white lights shot into the sky from among the crowd.
"Fuck me!"
Seeing this scene, Wang Junjie was horrified.
He looked at Qin Ming beside him and said incredulously, "How the fuck are you more fickle than a woman?"
"One moment you're helping this side, and the next you're helping that side!"
"Which side are you fucking on anyway?!"
Qin Ming's expression turned stern, "I'm not controlling it."
"It's out of control!"
"Out of control?", Everyone around them was shocked.
"Wasn't it obeying your commands?"
"Why would it lose control?"
Just as everyone was baffled, Ning Fei, who had been observing carefully, spotted the blood-red Gu jar in Godfather's hand at a glance.
He immediately reacted, "It's Heavenly Gu!"
Ning Fei said: "There's an SS-rank talent player on the Sun Nation server. His SS-rank talent is a functional-type talent called Burning Heaven Art. Its effect is to obtain Talent Points by completing hidden quests, hidden dungeons, hidden secret realms, and various other hidden opportunities."
"Whenever the Talent Points reach 100%, he can activate the talent once and obtain an SS-rank Angel Race treasure map. Completing the treasure map quest allows him to obtain an SS-rank Angel Race Divine Artifact!"
Hearing this, Qin Feng thoughtfully said, "Why does this feel a little familiar… Wait! Isn't this the same as Divine Nation Guild President Ming Yuexin's talent, Dragon-Seeking Art?"
"I remember Ming Yuexin even used that talent to get Brother Mo an SS-rank Dragon Race Divine Artifact!"
"More or less, except one is from the Dragon Race and the other is from the Angel Race."
Ning Fei continued: "Three days ago, this player from the Sun Nation server used his SS-rank talent, Burning Heaven Art, to obtain an SS-rank Angel Race Divine Artifact. Later, a Dragon Nation player paid 500 million to purchase it!"
At this moment, Ironblood Ruthless agreed: "Yeah, I heard about this too. It even reached number one on the Divine Oracle World forum's hot search rankings. I remember it caused quite a stir at the time!"
"The name of that SS-rank Divine Artifact seemed to be… Heavenly Gu!"
Ning Fei continued staring at the Gu jar in Godfather's hand and said: "Looks like the person who spent 500 million three days ago to purchase that SS-rank Angel Race Divine Artifact, Heavenly Gu, from the Sun Nation, was him, Godfather!"
Immediately, everyone's eyes focused on Godfather, all filled with disbelief.
"Bro! Five hundred million to buy a game item? That's fucking insane!"
"Who exactly is this Godfather? How is he so rich?!"
"Those things aren't important."
Ning Fei said: "What's important is that the Divine Artifact skill of this SS-rank Angel Race Divine Artifact, Heavenly Gu, is Gu manipulation."
"Gu insects are divided into two types: living Gu and Death Gu."
"In Divine Oracle, living Gu can be placed on living beings."
"Death Gu can be placed on dead bodies, allowing them to regain new life."
"Once either type of Gu has been successfully placed, the ultimate effect is that the person afflicted by the Gu can be made to obey the commands of the person who placed it!"
"Obviously, the Ghost King was afflicted with Gu by Godfather through the SS-rank Divine Artifact Heavenly Gu!"
At the same time, high in the air.
As the king of the Ghost Race and a being with its own consciousness, Soul Manipulator · Zade was obviously intelligent.
It immediately reacted.
"It's an Angel Race artifact! Heavenly Gu!"
"Damn human! When did you place the Gu on this king?! This king had absolutely no idea!"
Seeing that even Soul Manipulator · Zade itself had no idea.
Ning Fei could not help feeling somewhat surprised and said: "When Heavenly Gu places living Gu on a living being, it takes 12 hours to complete the implantation. During the process, the other party can easily notice it, and can also easily remove the living Gu on their own."
"If even the Ghost King itself doesn't know when it was afflicted with Gu, then the Gu most likely came from…"
Soul Manipulator · Zade seemed to have belatedly realized it as well.
Together with Ning Fei, it looked toward the object embedded at the top of Soul Devourer in its own hand, Soul Refining Orb!