189: Chapter 189 White Piece

The Wordless White Chess Piece cracked open.

As soon as that man's voice sounded from within, the entire chess pavilion fell silent for a moment.

"Jiang Feng."

"Do not take me."

"Once you take me, you will see why Liu Cuilan was chosen."

Li Yan's expression darkened instantly.

"Bringing up Auntie again?"

Dragon Girl held the lunchbox, her eyes wide.

"Bad chess piece."

Zero Seven stared at that white chess piece, her voice taut.

"Mr. Jiang, be careful."

"Pangu Zero is no ordinary remnant soul."

"He might be the first Pangu raised by the Inverted Chessboard, and also the first failed breaker of the game."

Jiang Feng looked at the white chess piece.

"Failed, yet you still advise me?"

There was silence inside the white chess piece for a while.

The man said in a low voice, "Because I took it."

"And then, I saw things I should not have seen."

As the words fell.

Around the chess pavilion, the ninety-nine rule walls that Jiang Feng had just plundered and shattered began to gather their residual light once again.

This time, it was no longer a condition for taking the chess piece.

Instead, it was scene after scene of old memories.

A delivery room, older than the First Blue Star.

A young boy sat on the cold ground, a white chess piece embedded in his chest.

Beside him stood a woman wearing a coarse cloth apron.

The woman's face could not be seen clearly.

But in her hand, she also held a red peace buckle.

Zero Seven's pupils constricted.

"That is not Liu Cuilan."

"But the aura is very similar."

The man inside the white chess piece spoke.

"The Inverted Chessboard has tried many mother anchors."

"The powerful ones didn't work."

"The high-dimensional ones didn't work."

"Those with too much divinity didn't work either."

"In the end, they discovered that the most stable anchor was never a god."

"It is a Mortal mother."

Li Yan cursed on the spot.

"Beasts."

Jiang Feng did not speak.

He only looked at the woman in the scene.

The woman hung the peace buckle around the boy's neck and said only one sentence.

"Don't be afraid, let's go home."

The next second.

The chessboard descended.

The woman was erased.

When the boy looked up again, his eyes were already empty.

The voice inside the white chess piece continued to sound.

"I am that boy."

"Pangu Zero."

"I am also the first person the Inverted Chessboard confirmed that a Mortal mother's wish could suppress a pangu godhead."

Jiang Feng's gaze grew colder.

"So they chose Liu Cuilan?"

"No."

Pangu Zero said, "They did not choose her."

"They originally chose another proxy mother anchor."

"But Liu Cuilan squeezed that thing out."

Inside the chess pavilion, white light exploded.

New scenes emerged.

Eighteen years ago.

Old Dongjiang Peoples Hospital.

Outside the delivery room, Jiang Jianguo was pacing back and forth, sweating profusely from anxiety.

Inside the delivery room.

Liu Cuilan was covered in sweat from the pain, yet she guarded her abdomen tightly.

Behind her, a blue shadow with an indistinct face was reaching out to press against the infant's forehead.

The blue shadow wanted to write a serial number.

It wanted to register the newborn child as an object first.

But just as that hand was about to descend, Liu Cuilan suddenly opened her eyes.

Her face was pale from pain, yet she forcefully spat out a curse.

"Get lost!"

That sound had no magic power.

No Divine Ability.

And no high-dimensional rules.

It was just two words shouted by a woman about to give birth, in her most painful moment, with her last bit of strength.

Yet, it was these two words that caused the blue shadow's hand to be repelled by half an inch.

And it was exactly that half-inch.

The baby's cry rang out.

Jiang Feng was born.

Li Yan watched, stunned.

"Auntie was that fierce back then?"

Zhang Changlin's voice was low.

"It wasn't strength."

"It was that she refused to acknowledge it."

"From the very beginning, she never acknowledged that System of ownership."

Dragon Girl nodded seriously.

"Grandma has always been amazing."

Pangu Zero said softly, "Liu Cuilan was not chosen."

"She snatched you back."

"She snatched you back from the hands of the proxy mother anchor."

Jiang Feng raised his hand.

The white chess piece vibrated.

A System prompt popped up.

[Detected: Pangu Zero White Chess Piece.]

[Function: Records the reason for the first generation Pangu's failure to break the game; carries the authority of the Inverted Chessboard's wordless chess position.]

[Hidden Information: The source of Mortal mother anchor screening.]

[Can be plundered.]

Pangu Zero's voice became a bit urgent.

"Jiang Feng."

"If you take me, you will inherit the Zero chess position."

"The Inverted Chessboard will designate you as the new Pangu Zero."

"Venerable Xuan, Venerable Ming, and The Name Writer will all lock onto you in advance."

Jiang Feng said indifferently, "Are they not locking onto me now?"

Pangu Zero paused.

Li Yan grinned.

"That answer is too realistic."

Jiang Feng gripped the white chess piece with his fingers.

"You failed because you were alone."

"I am different."

Pangu Zero asked, "How are you different?"

Jiang Feng glanced at the lunchbox in Dragon Girl's arms.

"My food is still hot."

Li Yan almost couldn't hold it together.

"This reason sounds absurd."

"But it's so solid that it's impossible to refute."

Over the communication channel, Liu Cuilan's voice came through.

"Xiao Feng, don't argue with people for too long."

"The pork ribs will have a fishy smell if they get cold."

Jiang Feng nodded.

"Right away."

Pangu Zero fell silent.

After a moment, he chuckled softly.

It was as if he had finally heard a piece of human speech he hadn't heard in a long time.

"So that's how it is."

"No wonder you were able to make it this far."

"The Inverted Chessboard thinks a mother is a lock."

"You treat her as home."

The cracks on the white chess piece grew larger and larger.

Pangu Zero said, "Take it."

"But don't just take me."

"Take the chess position on me as well."

"I don't want to sit here anymore, watching them place world after world onto the chessboard."

Jiang Feng said, "Fine."

He closed his fingers.

"Plunder."

[Secret Art: Pangu Plunder activated.]

[Zero-er synchronized and triggered.]

[Erasing the ownership restrictions of the Wordless White Chess Piece.]

[Plundering the remnant soul pollution of Pangu Zero.]

[Plundering the authority of the Inverted Chessboard's Zero chess position.]

Boom!

The entire chess pavilion exploded.

The Wordless White Chess Piece split in two from the middle.

A man's phantom walked out from the chess piece.

He was wearing an old school uniform, his chest was empty, and his face was thirty percent similar to Jiang Feng's.

Only his eyes looked very tired.

He looked at Jiang Feng.

"Tell her for me."

Jiang Feng asked, "Who?"

Pangu Zero smiled.

"The person who gave me the peace buckle."

"If she can still be found."

"Tell her, I later..."

"Was not afraid."

As the words fell.

He turned into white light and merged into Jiang Feng's palm.

The System prompts jumped frantically.

[Plunder successful.]

[Obtained All Attributes: 3000 ganges sand.]

[Current Base Six-Dimensional Attributes: 19000 ganges sand (1.9 asamkhya).]

[Obtained Special Authority: Zero Chess Refusal.]

[Effect: The host can refuse to be assigned identities, chess positions, or chess names by the chessboard. Any piece placement registration lower than the host's status is rendered invalid.]

[Obtained Key Clue: Mortal mother anchor screening records.]

[The second stage of the fourteenth transition trial has begun.]

[Current Class Advancement Resolution: Pangu Sovereign · Name-Guarding God Lord 55%.]

Outside the periphery of the chessboard, large areas of black and white squares began to collapse.

Those phantoms of worlds trapped within the chess pieces lit up one after another.

Some worlds emitted the sound of bells.

Some worlds lit up with flames.

Some worlds were nothing but ruins, yet faint names still floated up.

Xiao Zhenjiang's communication sounded directly.

"Jiang Feng!"

"The feedback from Blue Star is coming again!"

The technician's voice also cut in, trembling with excitement.

"Commander!"

"The Name-Guarding class branch has stabilized!"

"New class directions added: Home-Guards, City-Defense Army, World-Namers!"

"Thirty percent of Huaxia's professionals have completed their second Awakening!"

Li Yan's eyes lit up.

"Good heavens."

"Snatching one chess piece leads to a nationwide class change?"

Zhang Changlin looked at Jiang Feng.

"This isn't a normal level-up."

"This is Blue Star growing its own bones."

Jiang Feng looked at his palm.

The white chess piece had turned into a colorless one.

It no longer had "Pangu Zero" written on it.

Only two words remained.

[Chess Refusal]

Zero Seven had just let out a sigh of relief, but quickly tensed up again.

"Mr. Jiang, the Mortal mother anchor screening records haven't been opened yet."

"They might contain Auntie Liu's complete file."

Jiang Feng raised his hand.

The colorless chess piece lit up.

A scroll of gray-white records unfolded in mid-air.

[Mortal Mother Anchor Screening Master Record.]

[Target Conditions: Mortal, low desire, strong sense of belonging, repeated confirmation of strong nurturing.]

[jiachen 17 Blue Star Candidate: Liu Cuilan.]

[Original Plan: Implant proxy mother anchor, reclaim Pangu variable after eighteen years.]

[Anomaly: Liu Cuilan refused the proxy overlay.]

[Reason for Anomaly: Unknown.]

[Note: This Mortal does not understand high-dimensional ownership, yet continuously refers to the target as "son".]

Li Yan finished reading, and his temper flared up instantly.

"They're actually feeling aggrieved?"

"Does not understand high-dimensional ownership?"

"Does a mother need to understand you?"

Dragon Girl's small face was serious.

"Grandma knows how to cook, she understands better than them."

Jiang Feng stared at the last line.

The records continued to emerge.

[Supplement: Liu Cuilan once proactively gifted a peace buckle on the night the target had a high fever at age three.]

[This wish caused the target's home-return anchor to be abnormally strengthened.]

[Recommendation: All subsequent Pangu variables are prohibited from contacting real Mortal mothers.]

Over in the living room.

Liu Cuilan heard this sentence and sneered.

"They even summarized their experience?"

Jiang Jianguo said in a muffled voice, "Next time we see them, we'll summarize some stick techniques for them."

Jiang Feng raised his hand, copied this record, and tossed it to Xiao Zhenjiang.

"Archive it."

"From now on, all birth, Awakening, and growth records of children on Blue Star will only go through the local Blue Star System."

Xiao Zhenjiang's voice was steady.

"Understood."

"Huaxia will remember this debt."

Jiang Feng looked up, toward the depths of the Inverted Chessboard.

The seats of Venerable Xuan and Venerable Ming were still empty.

But behind the two seats, light had already lit up.

A mysterious black.

A dark red.

The next second.

The entire Inverted Chessboard shook.

A black chess piece landed in front of Jiang Feng.

A line of text appeared on the chess piece.

[To be opened by Venerable Xuan personally.]

Immediately after.

A dark red chess piece landed.

[Venerable Ming arrives in person.]

Zero Seven's face turned deathly pale.

"It's not a projection."

"They are going to force their true consciousness over!"

Li Yan clenched his fists.

"Finally couldn't sit still?"

Jiang Feng did not look at those two chess pieces.

He opened the lunchbox.

The pork ribs were still steaming.

He picked up a piece and took a bite.

Dragon Girl swallowed her saliva.

"Master, is it good?"

Jiang Feng nodded.

"It's alright."

Li Yan: "..."

At a time like this, you're still giving reviews.

Both Sovereign seats lit up at the same time.

Venerable Xuan's voice fell first.

"Jiang Feng, hand over the Chess Refusal."

Venerable Ming's voice followed immediately after.

"Hand over Liu Cuilan."

Jiang Feng put the bone back on the lunchbox lid and looked up.

"Both of you."

"You sure know how to order."

He raised his hand and grabbed the two fallen Sovereign chess pieces.

The System prompts flashed scarlet.

[Warning: Touching Venerable Xuan's True Intent Chess Piece.]

[Warning: Touching Venerable Ming's True Intent Chess Piece.]

[Can be plundered.]

Jiang Feng smiled.

"What a coincidence."

"I can do that too."