Boom!

Just a punch.

Shi Mingcheng simply unleashed his fist.

The power of this punch instantly climbed to its peak, distorting the space around his fist. The entire Chessboard World showed cracks before the fist smashed down in front of Qian Chou.

Qian Chou casually reached into the void, pulling out a Hundred Treasures Box, a rattle-drum, a wooden hairpin, colorful ribbons... each item was imbued with special power, a dazzling array spread across the sky.

For a moment, the splendor interwove.

It was as if beneath the sky, another universe existed—the universe of Hundred Treasures.

And Shi Mingcheng’s fist had already descended.

No spectacular phenomena unfolded.

Just the simplest and purest boom sound.

Shattering the countless beams of light in the sky!

Qian Chou fell along with them.

He had a sky full of treasures, with myriad wondrous uses, capable of dealing with countless complex situations, yet everything was shattered with a single punch.

He managed to sneak into the final official examination, silently infiltrating the Tiger Platform. The efforts made by Equality Country were certainly extensive. Their infiltration into Xia Territory over the past half year had been remarkably effective.

The series of cases occurring across the South Border in recent days, were partly the actions of Equality Country aiming to execute "fairness," and partly to draw the attention of the Nanxia Governor’s Mansion, leaving them overwhelmed, thus triggering today’s action.

Was the only son of the Magistrate Jiang Yong really worth their effort? It was a trap to lure the strongmen of the South Border Governor’s Mansion, meant to lure out Su Guanying at best.

Unfortunately, they laid the clues, provided traces, set the bait, but the fish didn’t bite. They had set many similar traps, but not one was sprung. Either the people who came didn’t measure up, or the Nanxia Governor’s Mansion simply ignored them.

Today, of course, was a perfect opportunity.

At this moment, a hundred thousand Winter Silence troops were still in Changluo Mansion, making it impossible to redeploy them in a short time. Shi Mingcheng could naturally only display combat power at the True Person Level. A Military Dao master wielding a strong army was stripped of his troops.

Then Zhao Zi bisected the battlefield, isolating the support from Guiyi City. The forces of the Nanxia Governor’s Mansion on the Official Way couldn’t easily join with Su Guanying.

Now wasn’t plotting against either Shi Mingcheng or Su Guanying a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity? 𝒻𝘳𝘦𝘦𝘸ℯ𝒷𝘯𝘰𝑣ℯ𝑙.𝘤𝑜𝘮

Trapping and killing Marquis Wu’an, indicating a gap to lure Su Guanying into the game, was of course a master stroke.

Shi Mingcheng entered the chess game, forcefully breaking the situation, as expected.

Qian Chou, also a True Man of the Age, had been preparing for this moment for a long time.

But Shi Mingcheng’s punch was too heavy, too heavy!

Even without the support of a military formation, he remained terrifyingly strong.

This was a force that approached the extreme.

Qian Chou was blasted back with a single punch.

And Shi Mingcheng, stepping through the air, charged forward with alarming speed.

Zhao Zi, seated at the chessboard’s front, didn’t hesitate, picking up a piece to press down.

Pa!

The piece landed on the chessboard, the sound echoing like it was in a valley.

Suddenly, someone dressed as a fisherman appeared at the high clouds. This man’s face had a short beard, eyes full of vicissitudes, wearing a raincoat, carrying a fish spear on his back, holding a fishing rod. With a casual pull—

The spring waters of the river roiled, an invisible fishing line had already swung Qian Chou aside, pulling him back high into the sky.

At this time, Shi Mingcheng, in mid-air, twisted the air under his feet.

Bang!

A massive explosion of air.

It formed a mushroom-shaped cloud.

But he moved at extreme speed, appearing before the fisherman even before the explosion sound could be heard!

So fast that the fisherman, also a True Man of the Age, couldn’t react.

Such power and speed!

A punch descended right in front of the face!

The fisherman named Li Mao showed a look of horror.

The power of this punch was pushed to the extreme again.

Clearly, before the fist, there was a dense fine net. The net was woven with the power of rules, allowing water, not fish, and momentum, not people, the best for dispersing power.

But where Shi Mingcheng’s fist traveled, this fine net shattered directly.

The power couldn’t be dispersed at all.

The fist continued forward.

The rough knuckles landed on the three-headed fish spear, bending all three sharp prongs!

Dong dong dong!

A rattle-drum suddenly sounded.

Whoosh, the ocean waves surged high.

If anyone said the rattle-drum could really stir the waves.

Such words seemed like a joke.

But the joke had truly happened.

Qian Chou, pulled by a fishing line from Li Mao, was shaking a small rattle-drum in his hand. In an instant, the sky turned into sea, clouds submerged in tides, the ocean waves howled like a hurricane, drowning Shi Mingcheng in an instant!