Everlasting Immortal Firmament Chapter 161 - Gu Hai's Plan

Chapter 161 - Gu Hai's Plan

From atop the rubble, the pale Meng Tai tumbled to the ground, watching the distant Gu Hai who was calmly closing on Li Haoran!

A bitter look showed up in Meng Tai's eyes. Watching others climb the wall which he simply couldn't, and far too calmly at that, would inevitably give birth to a feeling of bleakness.

"Even someone as strong as Li Haoran is afraid of Gu Hai's weiqi skills?... Huh? That's not right!?" There was a sudden change in Meng Tai's expression, he seemed to have been struck with a thought.

"Although no one has the faintest idea as to how Gu Hai became a player, when all is said and done, he is just the player of transparent pieces. He can only control transparent pieces, but Li Haoran has white and black pieces in his grasp!

"In the beginning, Fu Xue also had transparent pieces in his grasp. He too was in possession of a golden piece, he too had a defensive barrier, but in the end, he could not defeat me and that Old Bastard!

"Fu Xue's golden piece could only defend, he couldn't launch an attack!

"Transparent pieces are imaginary. Only the white and black pieces are real. Imaginary pieces are unable to attack, at most they can only defend!

"All Gu Hai can do is defend! Then, what is he going to use to fight Li Haoran?

"Gu Hai isn't Li Haoran's opponent, for sure!

"But how can Gu Hai advance so calmly?"

Meng Tai sank into a trance-like state. In the beginning, Meng Tai and Wei Yang had completely routed Fu Xue, who was in possession of the golden piece corresponding to the transparent pieces. And now, Gu Hai was in the same situation, how could he win?

However, if Gu Hai was not sure of his win, why was he walking so calmly towards Li Haoran?

These questions kept haunting Meng Tai.

On the other side, Li Haoran was looking at Gu Hai with a despondent look on his face. Li Haoran was at loose ends at this moment. Had they been in the outside world, a hundred Gu Hai would not have been his opponent if they contested in pure strength. But in here, they were competing in weiqi!

How were Gu Hai's weiqi skills? In the Xiantian Endgame World, he suppressed a hundred thousand cultivators...

In the Golden Tong and the Ding Long Clan, he displayed the terrifying might of the 29x29 Heaven and Earth Weiqi Game.

And now, this Weiqi of Death! Although it could not be called a weiqi game, per se, it did evolve from the 29x29 Heaven and Earth Weiqi Game.

With my understanding of weiqi, can I be a match of Gu Hai?

Gu Hai also has the defensive barrier! My attack is useless against him! He is also a player!

Now, I will be forced to play a game with Gu Hai at last!?

Although Li Haoran may have been proud, he still knew that it was impossible to be a match for Gu Hai when it came to a game of weiqi. At this moment, watching Gu Hai coming at him step by step, so calmly, Li Haoran was at his wit's end.

"Commander, Long Wanqing and Grandmaster Liunian are escaping!" a Divine Battalion soldier suddenly cried out.

"Hmm?" Li Haoran's brow twitched momentarily as he looked into the distance.

Hearing the shout, the fleeing Long Wanqing's face turned stiff.

"Commander Li, you haven't thrown the towel right at the beginning already, have you? You aren't going to use a woman to threaten me, right?" Gu Ha suddenly started laughing mockingly.

Despite having caught sight of everyone fleeing into the distance, Li Haoran wasn't goaded by Gu Hai at all. On the contrary, a sliver of a sneer appeared on his face as he said, "Hahaha, so what if I am? What are you gonna do about it?"

Hearing Li Haoran's reply, the calm smile on Gu Hai's face turned stiff.

The next moment, right before Gu Hai's eyes, Li Haoran waved his hand. Long Wanqing's fleeing team of five people was subjected to a powerful pull. In the blink of an eye, they were pulled over in front of Li Haoran.

"Li Haoran, if you dare to cause any harm to Hall Lord, my Lord would not let you go!" one of the subordinates roared out.

"Li Haoran, I was really blind! A vile character such as you is a villain, through and through!" Long Wanqing stated, abandoning all hope.

Grandmaster Liunian had suffered grievous injuries. When he was subjected to that terrifying pull, he had no strength to resist. All he could do was asked for Gu Hai's forgiveness with a frown. "Throne Master Gu, I have implicated you!"

An ashen-faced Gu Hai turned his face to Li Haoran.

"Ha, hahaha, hahaha!" Looking at Gu Hai's expression, Li Haoran suddenly broke into laughter.

He could feel that he finally held the initiative. Finally, he had the thing which he could use to control Gu Hai!

"Li Haoran, even before you and I started fighting, you are using the old and a weak woman to threaten me. Divine Battalion commander, you sure are very skillful!" scoffed Gu Hai.

Li Haoran's face turned ashen. However, seeing that Gu Hai didn't dare move, he didn't care about Gu Hai's derisive comments.

"I don't need you to tell me how skillful I am. If I can solve something easily, why should I make it complex? Gu Hai, you don't want Long Wanqing and the others to die, do you?" Li Haoran stated, a cold smile on his lips.

Gu Hai kept on staring at Li Haoran with a despondent look on his face.

"Although I have said that I won't kill Long Wanqing, that's not necessarily true. If push comes to shove, I will have no choice. Then there is also Grandmaster Liunian and those three servants, hahaha! Gu Hai, do you want them to die?" Li Haoran sneered.

"Gu Hai, I am sorry, I implicated you!" Long Wanqing's face was laced with shame and uneasiness, watching Gu Hai.

In the beginning, Gu Hai had put her in an invincible position. She was a player. She could pinch anyone as she wished, but she handed such a good position over by herself. She had no one to blame but herself!

Not only had she miserably lost an already won game, but she also could not even protect herself anymore. More importantly, she had taken down Gu Hai along with herself.

Long Wanqing was feeling incomparably ashamed and uneasy.

Gu Hai didn't even look at Long Wanqing, but rather he kept on staring at Li Haoran.

"Doesn't matter how you look at it, they are my weiqi pieces. If I want them to live, they will live. If I want them dead, they are dead. Gu Hai, now, you only have one choice to save them!" Li Haoran stated in an emotionless manner.

"Oh?" Gu Hai replied, as a furrow crept up on his brow.

"Hand me your golden piece! I promise that I will let Long Wanqing and the others go. In addition, I won't pursue you, I will let you go out of the array!" Li Haoran proposed in a heavy voice.

"Hand you my golden piece!?" Gu Hai's face immediately sank.

"No, Mister Gu, you can't! If you hand him your golden piece, we are all finished!" many cultivators immediately cried out in shock and horror.

"Mister Gu, you can't hand him your golden piece. He will go back on his word. He won't let you go!"

"Mister Gu, even if Li Haoran lets you leave the array, he could still hunt you down outside!"

"Li Haoran is a villain. Don't let him fool you! Mister Gu, don't give it to him!"...

All the cultivators in the vicinity immediately started shouting.

Gu Hai was everyone's hope. Once Gu Hai handed over his golden piece, Gu Hai was good as finished, and with him, so was everyone else!

Gu Hai's brow momentarily twitched.

"Hand me your golden piece!" Li Haoran shouted aloud, glaring at Gu Hai with wide eyes.

In response, Gu Hai just remained silent.

"Gu Hai, you can't, you can't give it to him!" Long Wanqing shouted as she broke into tears. She didn't want to drag Gu Hai into her troubles.

"Hmph, if you don't give it to me, I will suck them dry!" Li Haoran shouted aloud.

The powerful suction force assailed the five, forcefully extracting their energy.

"Ahhh~!" "Ahhh~!" "Ahhh~!"...The five started screaming in pain.

Li Haoran, on the other hand, was glaring at Gu Hai, a cut-throat look on his face.

Out of the three golden pieces, I have already gotten the two. Once I have Gu Hai's piece, I can pinch Gu Hai easily.

Outside the Weiqi of Death, everything that Li Haoran did was projected outside. Everyone was in an uproar.

"Young Master, what is my Lord going to do now? Is my Lord really going to hand over the last opportunity?"

"Li Haoran, this scoundrel!"...

Everyone was anxious.

Gu Qin too had an unsightly look on his face. His fist was clenched as he looked at the entrance of weiqi board, where stood Gu Hai's phantom, with the golden piece of the weiqi board pinched between his fingers. That golden piece was originally Gu Hai's weiqi piece clone, the transparent weiqi piece. When Gu Hai had massacred all the demonized humans, he completely broke every other transparent piece, and his weiqi piece clone had turned golden.

Gu Hai was currently holding this very golden piece, looking across at Li Haoran.

Inside the weiqi world...

"Stop, I will give you my golden piece!" A despondent look came over Gu Hai's face.

Li Haoran, who was standing across him, stopped drawing out their lives. A bright gleam appeared in his eyes.

"Li Haoran, I will give you my golden piece, but I hope that you keep your promise, or, I swear I will not rest until you are stopped, even if it results in both sides perishing!" Gu Hai stated, an ugly look on his face.

"No, Mister Gu, you can't!" many cultivators all around cried out, shocked and terrified at his decision.

"Fuck off!" Li Haoran waved his hand.

BOOM! Tens of thousands of cultivators in all directions were pushed away like marionettes.

"I will do what I say, throw it over!" Li Haoran said with a ruthless smile on his lips.

Gu Hai, holding the golden piece in his hand, sank into silence for a good while.

"No, Gu Hai, you can't!" Long Wanqing shouted, crying.

"Hurry up!" Li Haoran's eyes widened angrily.

"Catch!" Gu Hai threw the golden piece, struggling.

That golden piece flew towards Li Haoran.

Li Haoran's face immediately gleamed with joy as he stretched his hand out, sucking the golden piece towards him.

The next moment, the golden piece was in his palm.

"Hahaha, three golden pieces, I have all three golden pieces, hahaha!" Li Haoran shouted as he broke into laughter.

"No!" Long Wanqing gave out a hopeless cry.

Not just Long Wanqing, the countless other cultivators who were sent flying into the distance cried out in despair, "Noo...!"

Hopelessness was clearly written on the faces of many cultivators. With Gu Hai giving up the final sliver of an opportunity, everyone was doomed. Someone as despicable as Li Haoran would not let everyone go, for sure!

Indeed, the moment all three golden pieces were with him, Li Haoran, holding all three golden pieces in one palm, swiped at Gu Hai with his other hand at once.

"Gu Hai, you are truly naive! Now that you don't have the defensive barrier, you can go to Hell, hahaha!" Li Haoran shouted aloud.

For this palm attack, Li Haoran mobilized everyone's power. Tens of thousands of palm auras suddenly rumbled towards Gu Hai. The palm auras, filled with a destructive force, blotted out the sky, making almost everyone abandon all hope.

"Noo~, Li Haoran, you scoundrel!" Long Wanqing screamed in despair.

"Noo~!" Countless other cultivators in the distance also wailed in sorrow. Once Gu Hai was dead, they too were doomed!

"No, no, Li Haoran has fallen into a trap! Gu Hai is playing a big game. He is using the people as weiqi pieces! What a terrifying scheme! Li Haoran has walked into a trap!" In the distant rubble, Meng Tai's expression suddenly changed as a shocked look appeared on his face.

In the next moment, the overwhelming palm auras rushed straight towards Gu Hai. Under the destructive palm auras, all the mountain peaks were razed to the ground.

However, Gu Hai had disappeared into thin air!

The moment the palm auras struck him, his figure disappeared into thin air.

"Huh?" Li Haoran's face warped in shock.

"Where is he?" the team of Divine Battalion disciples cried out in shock.

Grandmaster Liunian, Long Wanqing, and the others, all had a change in expression. What was going on? How did Gu Hai vanish like a puff of smoke? Where had he gone?

The despairing cultivators in the distant were also taken aback.

"Where is he? Where is Gu Hai?"

"How did he suddenly disappear?"...

Confusion was clearly present on everyone's face.

Only Meng Tai turned his head at once, looking at the other hand of Li Haoran. The hand that was holding the three golden pieces!

"Break!" a loud shout rose from Li Haoran's left hand, followed by a blast.

BOOM! Li Haoran's left-hand immediately exploded. Just after the explosion, the three weiqi pieces flew out at once. Li Haoran's left hand was covered in blood, horribly mutilated. A swirling mass of black qi had covered his left arm. Inside the black qi were countless small skulls, wreaking havoc!

"What!?" Li Haoran's expression changed for the worse.

Outside...

Gu Qin's face also lit up with joy. "I understand, I understand! When Father threw his golden piece, what he threw was himself! Li Haoran couldn't break Father's defensive barrier, so neither could Father break his! So, Father used a plan to lure Li Haoran into willingly opening his own defensive barrier, allowing Father to enter inside!"

"What? Young Master, what do you mean?" one of the men asked, confused.

"It's the golden piece! Originally, the golden piece was the symbol of a player; however, the third piece had already been destroyed by Wei Yang! That piece of Father is his weiqi piece clone. Although it has the same attributes as that of a player, it's different from the earlier golden pieces that were just symbols. Father's golden piece represents Father himself!

“Once the golden piece entered Li Haoran's defensive barrier, it was equivalent to Father entering it as well! Furthermore, Li Haoran pulled it inside all by himself! Hahaha, standing there was just a phantom congealed by the golden piece, that's all! It was just an illusionary image!" Gu Qin shouted excitedly.

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