Chapter 1744 – The Price of Winning

　　”Caran is not the first casualty in this chessboard, Michael, Zuo Qing, they are all!

　　Although Michael’s battle power can bring great benefit to this chess game right now, but after you become a Blazing Angel, the role you can play in the future is far greater than Him …… So Michael must die, and the complete Laws of the Blazing Angel, must also fall into your hands.

　　And Zuo Qing’s role in this chess game is minimal, as a gardener, his mission has been accomplished, and the abandonment of this piece can bring us more resources and draw the most perfect conclusion to his life!

　　It is also because of the sacrifice of the two of them that we were able to advance this chess game to this point, isn’t it?”

　　As Monk Predestination’s words fell, in Lin Qiye’s mind, the back of the six-winged angel who had watched over the Earth on the moon for hundreds of years instantly appeared, along with the man who had set the moon ablaze……. Their deaths were actually in Monk Predestination’s plan as well?

　　Lin Qiye’s chest rose and fell violently, and a nameless rage blazed through him.

　　He looked at the face that was identical to his own but did not contain the slightest emotion, an unprecedented loathing rose in his heart as he violently clenched his right fist and slammed it on the Fatal Monk’s face!

　　The Predestined Monk didn’t dodge, even if the punch directly made his cheeks bloody, his eyes were still calm like stagnant water.

　　He looked at the furious Lin Qiye in front of him and faintly spoke.

　　”You know what? You separating the [Established Fruit] and creating my existence was the most correct decision you made in these two thousand years……. Dragged down by your feelings, you couldn’t bear to give up any of your pieces, and it was simply impossible to play to win against the Three Pillar Gods.

　　Without me, the human race will be overthrown at this moment …… Do you believe it or not?”

　　”So, you’ve already made all the plans long ago, you just didn’t tell me?”

　　”Our division of labor was established as early as two thousand years ago, you are responsible for creating the chess pieces, I am responsible for playing the game …… You only asked me to win the game, but did not ask what kind of price it would cost.”

　　Monk Predestination looked into Lin Qiye’s eyes and slowly spoke, “If even humans don’t exist anymore, what’s the need for this game of chess to go on …… These words, you told me.”

　　Lin Qiye looked at the Predestined Monk, opened his mouth to argue, but couldn’t say anything ……

　　”Seven Nights, he’s right.” Jia Lan’s voice came from the side.

　　Lin Qiye’s body shook and he turned his head to look at her, the latter’s eyes were full of seriousness, “Winning this game is the long-cherished wish of all of us …… Michaela, Commander Zuo, and even the Marquis, Gong Yang Wan, they all gave their lives for this.

　　It can’t be because of me that this game of chess, which was so hard to walk out, is completely cut short here.”

　　”No, no way …… Caran, you ……”

　　Lin Qiye only felt that his brain was in chaos, he was trying hard to persuade something when a pair of warm lips once again pressed against his mouth.

　　Looking at Jia Lan who jumped into his arms in front of him, Lin Qiye’s body felt like it had been electrocuted and stiffened in place, a thought surged madly from his mind as he reached out his hands to hold Jia Lan, but the latter lightly retreated a few steps.

　　”Calan! Don’t do anything stupid, in case there’s another way ……”

　　Seeing Jia Lan’s resolute eyes, a drilling pain appeared in Lin Qiye’s heart, he knew what Jia Lan wanted to do and immediately tried to keep her.

　　Two thousand years of waiting for …… him to easily look forward to this day of cultivating the fruit with Jia Lan, but he was asked to watch his beloved being refined into a potion with his own eyes, even if he was clad in the world’s hardest and closest to eternal flesh, his heart was also broken into pieces.

　　But before he could make a move, a black aura flew out from the Sustenance Monk’s sleeve, transforming into a cage and trapping Lin Qiye’s body within it.

　　At the same time, a thread of karma extended from nothingness and wrapped around the surface of the cage, completely severing his connection with the blazing angel doppelganger.

　　Lin Qiye’s pupils trembled slightly as he violently turned his head to look at Monk Predestination:

　　”Predestination! What are you trying to do?!”

　　”I should be the one to ask you this.” The Fatal Monk folded his hands, “I can’t let your whim to cut off the future of this game of chess ……”

　　Since the Predestined Monk had prepared this backhanded move of Calan, he naturally calculated Lin Qiye’s reaction, he was separated from Lin Qiye’s body and possessed all of Lin Qiye’s memories, even if he didn’t need to make any calculations, he was certain that Lin Qiye wouldn’t be able to let Calan go and send him to his death.

　　This cage was what he had prepared for Lin Qiye.

　　”Do you think you can stop me with just this cage?!” Lin Qiye pressed his hands on the surface of the black cage, and surging power tumbled out from his body!

　　”With this cage, naturally you can’t stop you …… But what about her?”

　　Before the words of the predestined monk fell, a jade hand gently affixed itself to the outside of the cage, and a wisp of shimmering light attached itself to the cage, so no matter how hard Lin Qiye tried, he couldn’t shake it in the slightest!

　　[Immortal].

　　Looking at the Garland that was close to the outside of the cage, Lin Qiye froze in place.

　　The mortal iron cage certainly couldn t stop Lin Qiye from saving his beloved, but his beloved …… could.

　　Two lines of tears slid down the corners of Jia Lan’s eyes as she looked at Lin Qiye, who was filled with dismay, and said softly: ”Seven nights, you know what? The few minutes just now have fulfilled all my expectations and wishes for two thousand years.

　　Seeing each other, embracing each other, kissing each other, proposing, and this ring …… I’m really happy, even though there’s no wedding, I should be considered your bride, right?

　　Chubby used to tell me that after the wedding the groom has to listen to the bride, I let you go east, you can not go west, I do not agree with you to go out to fool around, you are not allowed to go, and I do not agree with you to go out to fool around.

　　I won’t stop you from fooling around in the future.

　　But this time, just this time …… you stay here, okay?”

　　Under Jia Lan’s almost pleading tone, tears couldn’t be controlled from Lin Qiye’s eyes, he extended his palm out of the gap in the cage, wanting to pull Jia Lan’s hand, but grasped the empty.

　　Jia Lan wiped away his tears with his sleeve, squeezing out a smile at the corner of his mouth as he backed away:

　　”My life should have ended more than two thousand years ago… It was you who fed me the [Immortality Pill], allowing me to experience this period of happiness and love that shouldn’t have belonged to me…

　　Now, it’s time to get everything back on track ……”

　　As a stream of light turned to cross the sky, Lin Qiye’s eyes suddenly widened as he roared in anger and frantically hammered the cage, the terrifying force of the recoil caused his fists to quickly become drenched in blood, but he couldn’t shake the [Immortality] power above it by a single bit!

　　At the same time, in the sky above Lin Qiye and the others, Si Xiaonan’s figure emerged.

　　She exchanged a glance with the Predestined Monk, then stared blankly at Lin Qiye, who was in a painful frenzy within the cage, her lips pursed slightly, her expression complex and incomparable ……

　　”Is this the move that belongs to me ……”

　　Si Xiaonan glanced at the white chess piece between his palms, took a deep breath, and still transformed into a stream of light, rushing towards the Heavenly Court right along with Jia Lan.