This is a blank garden. Pure white houses, pure white ground, pure white furnishings, even white rockery, white trees, and white fountains. Everything is pure white—that color without color almost makes the space non-existent.In the courtyard behind the heavy gate of the deep palace, there is no east, west, north, or even heaven and earth. The Liuhe universe is just a flat white paper here.The crystal hourglass is placed on the side of the chessboard, but the white sand used for timing inside seems to be controlled by some magical power, and it cannot flow a single bit. In this strange space, it seems that even time has been frozen.

If it weren't for the thin flute sound coming from his ears, he could hardly be sure whether he was sitting in a real place.In the emptiness, only the song "Xuan" is real, and it came from somewhere outside the courtyard, cutting his eardrums, heart and lungs.Sitting in front of the chessboard, he watched the chess pieces "grow" out of the blank chessboard, densely filling the chessboard, entangled and attacking each other, and suddenly felt a little dazed: How long have you been here?ten years?twenty years? Every day, every day, always in this place where there is almost no time and space, accompany the opponent to play a game of chess that can never be won.

"Tap", with a soft sound, the slender fingers stretched out and struck on the white jade chessboard.On the grid where the fingers tapped, an illusory chess piece suddenly appeared, approaching his throne, making his main chess piece nowhere to escape. "I lost again," he smiled helplessly, his voice echoed in the empty courtyard, he stood up and bowed respectfully, "God, can we call it a day?" "Da", there was no answer, the slender hand tapped on the white jade chessboard again - all the illusory chess pieces disappeared in an instant, and then a new white chess piece appeared in the middle of the chessboard.

He just bent down and covered the opponent's body with a white blanket. Seeing such behavior, he could only sigh helplessly, and sat down in front of the chessboard again.The iron armor knocked against the high-backed chair carved in white marble, making a sharp sound.Somewhere outside the courtyard, the song "Xuan" by the flute flute was still faintly heard, and that kind of music made him uneasy again. Bi Ling... Bi Ling.It's been so long, are you still playing this song outside the heavy door? "Tap", the little fingers tapped heavily on the edge of the chessboard again, reminding him to pay attention to concentrate——

"If you win, you can get out from here." Although he didn't know how many years he had been here, he still kept that original promise firmly in his heart. However, how is it possible to win?How could a person win against...God? The phantom power was condensed on his fingers, he took a step back aimlessly, and knocked out a new chess piece on the white jade chessboard—for so many years of playing against the gods every day, although his chess skills have not improved, but the phantom power of this hand is condensed. Form has been practiced to the limit.He completely disregarded the strength of the opponent who had already driven straight in, and desperately pushed towards the opponent's throne.

"..." Such a self-defeating move made the person on the opposite side of the chessboard ponder for the first time, the little fingers stopped moving, and subconsciously tapped on the edge of the chessboard.The sparse knocking sounds had a strange rhythm in the empty courtyard, as if there was some kind of shocking power. After a long time, the slender fingers lifted up and tapped out a new chess piece.However, he didn't even think about it, he just pushed his pawn one step closer to the opponent's throne. If the opponent's king is eaten within seven steps, it is a victory.

This kind of chess called "Xuanji" is said to have been created by the people of Youguo, and its original source is an ancient myth.After the gods opened up the chaos, dissatisfied that there was only the ocean under the sky, they dropped seven stars from the sky, and seven countries were born on the earth according to the arrangement of the Big Dipper. Each country has land of different colors—— It is the Jun, Cang, Xuan, You, Bing, Yang, and Zhu kingdoms on the current Yunhuang Continent. Of course, since the Ice Kingdom relied on the power of God's hand to dominate the cloud and wasteland three hundred years ago, the other six countries have ceased to exist.There are only survivors of the Six Nations who are regarded as pariahs, and people from the Ice Country who are aloof.The Yunhuang, which was once composed of seven-colored soil, is completely unified by the same color—that is the color of iron and steel.

"Tap!" At the moment when he was in a trance again, his slender hands tapped on the chessboard more forcefully, reminding him to concentrate.That pale hand was his left hand, only half his size, like a white plum blossom that just bloomed, even the blood veins under the skin were colorless, delicate and childish. When his gaze focused on the white jade chessboard again, he suddenly found that his throne had been occupied by the opponent again. "It only took three steps this time..." He smiled softly, stood up again indifferently, put the soft snow fox fur on the other's small body, and couldn't help but bend down and hug her, "It's already You came out and played five games of chess, you should go back and rest—otherwise the elders will be worried."

Sitting opposite the chessboard was a girl who was only eleven or twelve years old, with a pale face, pale hair, and pale expression, exactly the same paleness as this courtyard.A gorgeous white cloak covered her small body, and under the cloak she had no expression on her face, nor did she speak—until the tall man in military uniform leaned over to hug her, she frowned slightly, stretched out and took her The left hand of the chess piece rests on the armor on the opponent's chest, expressing its opposition. There is no strength in the child's push, but the tall man in military uniform dared not push her any further. He put her small body back on the seat carved from warm jade, and sighed: "Why, do you have to keep going?" Is it?"

"Hmm..." The pale child raised his face and looked at him with a blank expression.He suddenly couldn't help shivering—in fact, he had seen it for many years, and he should have gotten used to it by now, but every time he saw those eyes, he still couldn't help but feel palpitations. This pale child has a pair of completely black eyes. There are no whites, no pupils, and under the pale eyelashes, those eyes are pitch black, with no focus at all, let alone brilliance, like a bottomless abyss.For so many years, he has been with this strange child day and night, but he has hardly seen the slightest fluctuation in her eyes.Moreover, countless years have passed by, but this face has not changed at all - it has always maintained the appearance of a girl, and has not grown up at all.Even, together with him who accompanied him, he never grew old.

A god is a god, one hand can transform all things, freeze time and space, and the changes of time have no effect on her at all.What the ice country people enshrined in this way is indeed enough to rule the entire Yunhuang Continent... The moment their eyes met, he was suddenly in a trance, as if he was falling into some bottomless abyss.Strange... Such a feeling rushed to his heart like an electric shock when he saw God for the first time.When he was besieged by soldiers from the Ice Country and fell in blood outside the gate of the Ninth Palace, he looked up and saw the pure black eyes of the God's Hand in the deep palace. The You Countryman who would rather die than surrender for a moment lowered his proud head—withdrawing his wings, After grinding away his sharpness, the once invincible swordsman became a bodyguard, and accompanied Shen Yao for so many years. "Huai Ren." Suddenly, the child actually spoke, calling his name in a thin voice, "Sword." The first time I heard my name being called out of her mouth, I suddenly felt a strange feeling - but only he could understand the child's strange way of speaking: that strange child was about to play that strange game again.Subconsciously pressing the sword on his waist, he took a step back, knelt down on one knee, and replied respectfully as usual: "Huai Ren dare not draw the sword in front of God." "Huai Ren." Under the gorgeous white cloak, the child looked at him with dark eyes, called his name again, slowly raised his right hand that had been hidden in the cloak when he was playing chess, and raised it flat, "Sword .” When the pale right hand was lifted from the cloak, it seemed to be stabbed by a strong light, and he subconsciously turned his head and did not dare to look directly - when the pale right hand was pulled out of the cloak, it seemed that there was a magical force floating, everything Suddenly there is color: the house shows the texture of wood, the rockery also has the texture of stone, the flowers in the courtyard are colorful, the trees are bright green, and the sand in the hourglass begins to fall. Counting the passage of time... In the empty and pale space, everything seemed to come alive. hand of God!That is the power above the common people, known as the right hand of God. Legend has it that the gods used their right hand to create Yunhuang, and if the prototype created was not satisfactory, they would destroy it with their left hand—the right hand transformed all things, and the left hand can destroy everything that should not exist.After creating the cloudless world, the gods exhausted all their power and fell heavily to the ground—where the gods fell, a lake stretching for thousands of hectares appeared, which is today's Mirror Lake. A pair of twins were born from the body of the god, who respectively inherited the two powers of the god: creation and destruction.The pair of twin brothers and sisters began to dominate the formed world and maintain the balance of various forces in the universe. One continued to create and maintain all things, and the other was responsible for destroying things that were not suitable for existence—that is, the right hand of God and the magic hand. left hand. The pair of strange twin brothers and sisters have supreme power and have always been the masters of the cloudy land.Their powers maintain a delicate balance, ebb and flow with each other, like the sun and the moon. Until three hundred years ago, with the unprecedented prosperity of Yunhuang Land, the corruption of people's hearts also began to intensify, and the power of the God of Destruction increased accordingly. My brother quickly grew up and became an evil god who could destroy everything.As each other ebbs and flows, the younger sister's creative power begins to wane, and her body shrinks to the state of a baby.The elder brother imprisoned his younger sister on the deserted mountain at the end of the west, and then began to destroy everything recklessly. There was an imbalance of power, and a large-scale war broke out among the Yunhuang Seven Kingdoms.The war to break the vanity dream lasted for a hundred years, countless people died, and Yunhuang began to show signs of depression. Then a hero named Yufeng appeared in the Ice Kingdom. He went to the empty mountain alone, broke the seal, rescued the God of Creation from imprisonment, and defeated the God of Destruction with the support of the right hand of God, and destroyed him forever. Sealed in the empty mountain.Since then, Yunhuang has entered a new era of life.The right hand of God shows boundless power, transforms and multiplies all things, repairs the cracks in the world, and allows all the inhabitants of the earth to recuperate. With the help of the God's Hand, the Ice Country has since then become the most powerful country among the Seven Kingdoms, and has gradually annexed the other six countries. It has been 300 years since it dominated Yunhuang.The hero who led the people of the world to seal the God of Destruction became a wise king who unified the cloud and the barren world.After becoming the emperor, the first thing Yufeng did was to build a Litian Palace with nine layers of high walls in the capital, and welcome the Creator God from the empty mountain, and respectfully enshrine it in the Litian Palace.And Emperor Yufeng also lived in this Litian Palace, which was isolated from everything, and never left a step in his lifetime. For unknown reasons, Emperor Yufeng, who lived alone in Litian Palace, never married.After his death, civil strife broke out because the royal family had no heirs, and the powerful and nobles fought with each other to seize the throne.That civil strife lasted for three years, and a scene of depression reappeared in the prosperous Yunhuang. Finally, the oracle appeared—the people all over the world had the same dream overnight: In Litian Palace, a beautiful jade-like right hand slowly raised on the lotus jade seat, and made a "stop" gesture out of thin air . Concerned about the overriding power of the God's right hand in Litian Palace, the nobles of the Ice Kingdom made a compromise after fierce disputes: according to their status in the country, six elders were elected to form the Senate to rule the continent.For the next three hundred years, the citizens of the Ice Country became the proudest and noblest people in Yunhuang, treating all the people of the other defeated subjects as slaves—completely forgetting that they also fought side by side during the years when the God of Destruction ruled the mainland. The right hand of God became a legend again and disappeared in this world. No one on the Yunhuang Continent has seen the God of Creation again, but the survivors of the other six countries believe that the right hand of the god has been protecting the people of the Ice Kingdom, so that this iron-blooded rule lasted for three hundred years, and the wailing of countless pariahs from the country could not be heard. Up to the sky to listen. Emperor Yufeng...Emperor Yufeng.That name flashed through Huai Ren's mind thousands of times, every time he thought of this name passed down from mouth to mouth, there was a sharp pain in his head, which made him unable to think about it any longer. The little hand lifted up from the cloak and stretched out towards him. Although no divine power was used, the entire blank courtyard began to undergo strange changes—that was the power of the divine hand to transform all things. In this forbidden area heavily protected by the Six Elders, there lives the God of Creation who still maintains the face of a child. "That's as God wishes." Huai Ren stepped forward and pressed that cold little hand on his forehead, touched it lightly, stepped back and drew his sword to stand up.His sword was silver and white, with a streak of lightning on the spine.The sword light cut through this stagnant space like lightning, flying vertically and horizontally - Huai Ren was once the most outstanding swordsman in You Country, and now he is also a hero admired by countless survivors, such skills explain the origin of his reputation. The pale child quietly looked at the sword-wielding man in military uniform, with no expression in his dark eyes.At the most urgent point of the dance, she slowly stretched out her hand, her ten fingers were pale and slender like flower petals. Huairen's sword suddenly fell like a shock, slashing across the girl's body, from shoulder to waist, mercilessly passing by, blood gushing out like a fountain, making a hissing sound. "Ah!" As if exulting, the pale child let out a cry of surprise, and continued to stretch out his hand, begging to continue. The sharp sword slashed towards her sharply, accurately and fiercely, split her body with a single sword, and cut the girl's small body apart.The sound of the flute outside the courtyard wall continued, but with some panic and haste, the song "Market" was blown to pieces, and accompanied by the sword lights in the courtyard, the girl was cut to pieces. "Ah, ah." However, when a sword pierced into the body, the child's dark eyes shone with a rare brilliance, and a cry of joy came out from his mouth that had been silent for many years. Shot it, as if asking for more. "Crack", a sword slashed, cut off the pair of small hands, and withered like withered petals. Huairen staggered back after a sudden slash, leaned on the ground with his sword, looked at the blurred pile of flesh and blood on the ground, and couldn't stop panting.It wasn't physical exhaustion, but a kind of exhaustion—he was the only one who could swing a sword in front of the Creator God and ask the whole cloud, right?However, what kind of frightening and desperate thing is that. "Ah..." Satisfied, the dark child's eyes sparkled, and he let out a low sigh.The severed right hand fell to the ground, suddenly jumped up, returned to the blood-dripping body, and quickly joined. Then, like falling flowers returning to branches, those fragmented bodies automatically pieced together piece by piece, slowly returning to their human shape, and the blood that dripped on the ground rebounded drop by drop, and returned to the cavity—even the body of that attack The white cloak that was cut to pieces by the sword energy seemed to be sewn together by invisible needles and threads, piece by piece without any trace. The game is finally over—I don't know how many times such a strange game has been played in the years of accompanying the gods. "Can you go back and rest?" Huai Ren closed his eyes exhaustedly, resisting the strong feeling of vomiting in his heart, and said to the child who had just recovered, "If you don't go back, the elders will blame me." Just taking back the last drop of blood, the pale child who was put together nodded silently, and hid his hands back in the cloak. As soon as her hands were hidden under the cloak, all color disappeared—the courtyard remained blank.White houses, white ground, white furniture, even white rockery, white trees, white fountains... White paper is generally lifeless. Huairen bent down, covered the child's petite body with snow fox fur, and hugged her. It's so light, it's as weightless as a feather - a god who can create the whole world with one hand, is so light that people can hold it with one hand?At the moment when the child's icy hands climbed onto his neck, Huai Ren was suddenly in a trance again.It seems that the destructive injury just brought indescribable pleasure, the child's dark eyes still had joy, and he hugged Huairen's neck tightly, pressing his cold face against the armor on his chest, feeling a little dazed Suddenly, the child spat out two words: "Brother..." He who picked up the child was suddenly shocked, knowing what kind of killing, darkness and blood behind those two words. Three hundred years ago, with the power of all the countries in Yunhuang and the right hand of God, it was only then that the killing god who destroyed everything was sealed into the empty mountain, and in exchange for the peace that Yunhuang has had so far—however, as the creator god, she actually Missing the god of destruction? Holding the little child in his arms hesitantly, the moment he turned around, the corners of his eyes twitched—— The sound of the flute outside the wall stopped, and the already fragmented "Xuan" was completely broken!The smell of blood floated thickly in the air, and the cold and sharp sound of sword clashing echoed outside the door. This is the Litian Palace of the Ice Kingdom, and it is also the most heavily guarded place on the entire Yunhuang Continent. In order to protect the God of Creation from any external interference, the Senates of all ages invested a lot of manpower and material resources here, and almost built this palace into a place as solid as a fortress. But who... actually broke into this forbidden area, and killed him all the way to the door? Before he could enter the corridor, the gate of Baiyu collapsed and shattered into countless pieces. Accompanied by Suiyu, who appeared at the door was an assassin in black. He must have gone through countless battles to get here. His whole body was covered in blood, and he opened the last barrier with a single sword, panting violently.His eyes were shining brightly, looking at this top secret place, he gasped and shouted, "Chuangshishen! I want to see Chuangshishen... I want to see Chuangshishen!"