Chapter 1179 - The World is a Chess Game

Chapter 1179: The World is a Chess Game
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Only six days had passed. Of the nine islands, seven of them had been destroyed. Tens of thousands of cities had collapsed, and over four billion civilians perished.
The army flattened every city that they entered. They stole all the treasures and beauties for themselves. Day and night, they raped the local beauties. After the army conquered six islands, only three million people remained alive!
Wu Ni and the others started to round up people at the beginning, intending to discipline them. However, when they reported these things to their superiors, they were given orders just to punish them. They had no choice but to punish the people they caught with hundreds of strokes of the cane. To the Heaven Monarch, these were nothing more than scratches on their skin. After just a couple of hours, they recovered from their punishment.
Later on, Wu Clan, Ling Qijian, and the others decided to give up. There was simply no way of disciplining the army. These armies were not made up of the armies from just a few clans. They were made up of all the formidable artists from various clans, big and small, all around the continent. There was just no one way of disciplining them. Once they saw some among them stealing treasures and raping beauties, the rest would follow suit.
Of course, there was a bigger reason behind their lack of self-control—the feud between the Sin Island and East Imperial Continent. The people of the East Imperial Continent had been brainwashed from a young age to believe that everyone from Sin Island was an evil and ferocious demon. The people of Sin Island became the arch-enemies of those from the East Imperial Continent—they were seen as the bane of humans’ existence. For this reason, the enforcement teams deployed by the Nine Thearch Clans became laxer in their work. Since their higher-ups were keeping quiet, there was no reason for them to do anything about it.
The new enforcement team arrived!
This time, they were for real. Whoever dared to kill, steal, and rape in the cities were punished with death without any further argument. After the team killed several thousand arrogant and obstinate soldiers who could not seem to control themselves, the East Imperial Continent’s army became much more disciplined. Since they had also vented most of their frustrations by killing many people in recent times, they were able to calm themselves down significantly as well.
Of course, the alliance army continued to show no mercy to the remaining army of Sin Island. Whoever dared to go against them perished. None of them were taken back alive. The huge army continued to make their way through the islands. Within two weeks, the entire Sin Island had been turned over. More than twenty million people were dead!
The North Thearch waited for the people to enter God Bestow City and for the Battle Thearch to crush the statute of the Great Emperor Nangong to pieces before he gave orders for the army to take a break and prepare themselves. They were to invade the Endless Deep Sea in one month.
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News of the Sin Island’s utter destruction spread throughout the East Imperial Continent and throughout the Stellarsky Domain. The people of the East Imperial Continent celebrated like there would be no tomorrow! Many people were running all around the streets, rejoicing out loud. Apart from those from the Yi Clan, the elders from the remaining Nine Thearch Clans led entire cities in celebration of their victory.
At the same time, many clans began to grieve in silence for the billions of soldiers who had passed away. Yet, no one cared about the many more soldiers and billions of civilians from Sin Island who perished. To the people of the East Imperial Continent, civilians were merely civilians. The people of Sin Island were not even considered humans to them.
The continent became quite peaceful. There were no more battles. The people in the continent were all the more certain that the real mastermind behind this entire fiasco was Ao Lu. What else could explain why the chaos stopped the moment they began to attack the Endless Deep Sea? It was obvious that Ao Lu had already scattered all the demon sovereigns around.
Countless cities in the continent began to discuss the entire battle. Many of them felt frustrated and angry. They were waiting for more reports on the battle, waiting for the Endless Deep Sea to be completely destroyed and for their heroes to come home!

Ai… we’re all of the same roots. Why are we so eager to annihilate one another?

On the Buddha Mountain, Yi Chan stood alone, dressed in white. She silently burned paper money, not just for the soldiers who perished in battle, but for the billions of civilians who died on Sin Island.
At that moment, Yi Chan’s worldview was very different from the way it was before. Interacting with Situ Yixiao, Huangfu Taotian, Situ Yinian, and the others completely turned her mindset around.
The people on Sin Island were not demons; neither were they evil and violent people. They were humans as well, just of a different camp. Other than that, the people of Sin Island were exactly the same as those of the East Imperial Continent. They felt joy, sadness, anger, and happiness. There were evil ones and kind ones among them. Countless people were so weak that their strength was comparable to chickens.

The entire continent is drunk with victory. They don’t know that this is the real beginning of a calamity.

Yi Chan threw the remaining paper money into the fire pit and turned to face the east. There was a beautiful smile on her face. At that moment, she was struck by a thought. It was a thought that terrified even herself.
That thought was that the mastermind was not Ao Lu.
This thought did not come out of nowhere. It was based on the evidence thus far. There was a motive for every single plan. One could figure out that motive by looking at who stood to gain at the end of the day. The person who stood to gain would most likely be the mastermind behind it all.
It was obvious that Ao Lu and the Endless Deep Sea stood to gain nothing from this entire fiasco. Instead, the moment the war began, Ao Lu was at risk of dying. If that happened, all the demons of the Endless Deep Sea would be annihilated for sure.
Of course, it was also possible that Ao Lu had miscalculated. It could be that he was indeed the one who caused the mess among humans but did not expect that this would be the outcome. Or perhaps he did have a back-up plan to destroy the humans’ alliance army. However, for some strange reason, Yi Chan felt very strongly that this was not the case.
She believed wholeheartedly in the Mystic Thearch!
The Mystic Thearch was the strongest and most powerful human in the whole of history. He was also the wisest person—no one could compare to him at all!
If he could predict that the Mystic Divine Palace would appear even seventy thousand years ago and that there would be a calamity that would befall upon humans, why would he have let Ao Lu out of the palace? He could not have been letting Ao Lu out on purpose so that the latter would cause trouble among the humans, could he?
The Mystic Thearch would not have done that for sure. That was why Yi Chan was so sure that Ao Lu was not the mastermind. There was a scarier person behind all of this. At this point, Yi Chan felt a chill run down her spine.
If there really was such a person, he was far too scary. He played all the big family clans and huge characters in the palm of his very hand. The Nine Thearch Clans, Ao Lu, Jiang Yi, and the Sin Island all became but pawns on his chessboard. The entire Stellarsky Domain was like his chessboard. Yet, he himself remained hidden, playing this game of chess in a relaxed manner. As he sat there devising countless schemes, billions of people burned up in flames.

Huhu, I could just be thinking too much. If this person is not a demon, then he can only be a human! So many other humans have died already. This would not benefit him. Even if he gains control of the entire world, how would it benefit him to be in charge of a destroyed world?

Yi Chan heaved a long sigh and forced herself not to think anymore. She was beginning to feel like she was overthinking. How can there be someone that scary in this world? How can someone be that powerful?
The most important thing was his motive. Unless this person was crazy and wanted to destroy the whole Stellarsky Domain, there would be no reason he would be this sadistic.

It’s been more than four months!

Yi Chan’s divine senses scanned the whole of the Buddha Thearch City. She turned to the west, her beautiful face falling. The Yi Clan sent a few Demigods out to the Black Sea, but none of them had sent any news back yet. The Buddha Thearch and Buddha Emperor could really be dead by now.
Jiang Yi had been caught for more than four months now. According to the Demigods of his clan, the Mystic Divine Palace would run out of energy in about a month or so. When that time came, the Mystic Divine Palace would be completely destroyed. Jiang Yi and the others would be reduced to dust as well.

Destroy, destroy them all…

Yi Chan closed her eyes and sighed. She turned and went back to her own building. There, she changed into a green dress and faced the wall. She sat down cross-legged in the ultimate ‘zen’ position. There was no hint of emotion on her face as she knocked steadily on her wooden fish. It was almost as if she was prepared to become a nun and lead a basic life until death.