Da Xuan Martial Saint

Chapter 1351: Chapter 654: Abyss Beasts Attack

Da Xuan World.

Somewhere at a mountain peak, amidst the cloud and mist shrouded gallery.

Chen Mu and Xu Hongyu sat opposite each other, a chessboard placed on the stone table between them. The entwined pieces on it wove a pattern, hinting at the mysteries of causality, each piece seemingly alive.

In truth, this chessboard was a living entity, its essence a small void world. Each piece placed upon it was a nascent innate living being. Though they were life, their born purpose was merely to entangle and fight each other, for their essence contained only life, not ’All Spirits.’

Given Xu Hongyu’s level of Realm, it was naturally difficult for her to compete with Chen Mu. However, Chen Mu always let her place several pieces first, allowing her to handle the game to some extent.

Chen Mu often played against people like Chen Yao and Chen Yue before. The chess game contained profound mysteries of life and causality, and playing against him allowed many insights. Chen Yao and Chen Yue both comprehended the mysteries of life and causality from it.

Compared to them, Xu Hongyu’s comprehension fell short. After all, it was Chen Mu who forcibly elevated her life level to the God Realm, rather than her breaking through by her own merit. Hence, understanding any Great Dao was extremely difficult and obscure. Even though she had spent more time with Chen Mu than anyone else, including Chen Yue and Chen Yao, she still hadn’t fully comprehended the mysteries of life and causality.

"That Yue’er and Yao’er could find a Double Vein Star Fate Stone shows their great luck. Speaking of which, Yue’er has already found several valuable rare objects in a short time, hasn’t she?"

Xu Hongyu placed a piece on the chessboard, which immediately transformed into an innate living being, roaring and thundering as it charged towards the battlefield.

Chen Mu pondered: "Calling it great luck would be an exaggeration. As for other rare objects, they might be fine, but the Double Vein Star Fate Stone isn’t something they can claim as their own, not even for a Sixth Layer Heaven Peak True God."

"Indeed, that’s true."

Xu Hongyu nodded slightly; she knew of the earlier events. Without Chen Mu, even if Chen Yao’s power had reached the Sixth Layer Heaven Limit, she couldn’t have protected a rare object from a Divine Monarch’s grasp.

In the vast universe, strength is always fundamental. Without strength, no opportunity, no matter how great, can be seized.

After some thought, Chen Mu placed a piece as well, but his gaze was elsewhere, contemplating: "Recently, there seems to be something off with the Boundless Star River."

"Oh?"

Xu Hongyu was slightly surprised.

Though she had never left the Da Xuan World, her understanding of the Boundless Star River wasn’t shallow. Knowing it as a relatively stable Secret Realm, safer than the Void River, she fully agreed with Chen Mu arranging for Chen Yue, Chen Yao, and others to train there. Over several epochs, Chen Yue, Chen Yao, and others’ growth was indeed remarkable.

Chen Mu sipped a cup of Spiritual Tea, muttering: "The Boundless Star River, considered a stable Secret Realm, does have its share of resources, but the output shouldn’t normally be this frequent."

At first glance, Chen Yue and others acquiring numerous resources recently appeared as sheer luck. But Chen Mu disagreed. Residing in the Boundless Star River, he could vaguely sense some anomalies.

"You mean the Boundless Star River has had an increase in resource output lately?"

Xu Hongyu mused: "Isn’t that a good thing?"

Chen Mu shook his head slightly, answering: "Perhaps it’s a good thing, but there could be other possibilities..."

Ordinarily, Divine Monarchs rarely frequented the Boundless Star River. However, seemingly due to the increase in resources, Divine Monarchs began to appear more often. The one he recently drove away was merely one of them.

In truth, in the recent period, Chen Mu sensed far more than a couple dozen Divine Monarchs, mostly Seventh Layer Heaven. Some passed by at close proximity without even noticing him.

The strongest one he’d ever encountered was from several epochs ago, suspected to be an Eighth Layer Heaven Peak or higher Divine Monarch Overlord. At the time, he was rather apprehensive and chose to retreat, and since then, he hadn’t crossed paths with the other.

If it were now, he wouldn’t be as cautious. Or rather, in the current Sky Extreme Space, the only person capable of causing him hesitation is the Master of Tianji of the Nine Layer Heavens.

"Other possibilities?"

Xu Hongyu, hearing Chen Mu’s words, was slightly puzzled.

Not concealing anything, Chen Mu explained briefly: "Just like the tide, rising and falling, and a world from birth to destruction, all exists within a form of reincarnation. If you view this Boundless Star River as a world, when do you think this world would start producing abundant resources frequently?"

Even though Xu Hongyu’s level wasn’t high, her existence in the God Realm allowed her to grasp the hint, surprising her slightly: "You mean, the Boundless Star River is nearing its ’end’?"

A world may perish, a space domain may be destroyed, and the special Secret Realms between space domains will naturally not be eternally unchanging.

Old Secret Realms crumble and vanish, new ones emerge again. On a small scale, it is quite rare, but when viewed within the boundless universe, it becomes countless.