My SSS-Rank Clone Talent: I Level Up Endlessly! novel Chapter 68

Chapter 68: The three stars of heaven will merge into one!

Chun Ma gradually raised his head to meet the gaze of the man standing before him.

Blue and black pupils clashed, and for a moment, a strange tension hung in the air. The standoff began and ended, just as quickly, with the Heavenly Demon laughing:

"You’re quite a strange one. Most people would cower the moment they met my eyes. But you... you’re different."

"If you wanted me dead, I wouldn’t be able to resist. So why should I cower? If you’re going to kill me, then do it. If not, at least let me keep my dignity."

"Oh?" The Heavenly Demon raised an eyebrow as he looked at Chun Ma. "You have no idea how close you are to falling through the thin ice."

Chun Ma didn’t cower, he respectfully bowed his head:

"I wonder how the Heavenly Demon knew about my situation?"

"It wasn’t hard to find. I have eyes in all places," the heavenly demon’s gaze went towards the chessboard in front of him. "The person you fought was a fallen disciple of the Buddhist sect."

"Fallen disciple?" Chun Ma stood bowing, with his ears perked to not miss a single detail.

"That’s right. That monk is a fallen disciple of the Shaolin Temple, one of the Righteous Faction, and he ran away with a Divine Rebirth Pill of the Shaolin Temple and joined the Shadow Faction. But something unknown happened, which caused him to escape here, to our Demonic Faction, the Heavenly Divine Cult."

"I am curious, Heavenly Demon, if you had eyes everywhere, why were you not able to locate him then?"

Chun Ma immediately asked his question.

"Haha," the Heavenly Demon started to laugh loudly. "Want me to tell you? Come sit over here."

He beckoned forward, to sit opposite to him.

Chun Ma obliged and sat on the cushion with curious eyes as he looked at the chessboard.

Not a single piece had been moved. While he was in black’s position, the Heavenly Demon was in white’s position.

"Do you know what is the most important thing in a fight if all your strength and speed are similar?" the Demon Lord asked while moving a single pawn two steps forward.

"Initiative."

Chun Ma answered in the most straightforward way. "If it is a fight between equal strength, then it would be a matter of initiative. Those who have the initiative can fight and retreat at the same time."

"Wonderfully said." The Demon Lord clapped his hands. "But what if there was another third factor that the two didn’t know about, but was actually controlling the fate of the battle?"

Chun Ma’s finger paused. "Are you saying that you intentionally left him behind?"

The Heavenly Demon shook his head as he pointed towards the sky:

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"Yes, stars are fascinating things." As a modern man, of course, Chun Ma knew about it.

"The stars are changing, and fate is reversing. The three stars of heaven will soon change hands and merge into one."

The Heavenly Demon looked at Chun Ma with a mysterious smile:

"You might be our way to conquer the Central Plains."

"..."

Chun Ma was silent:

"How do you know it is me?"

"Your growth. Although the Shaolin’s Divine Rebirth Pill allows one to be reborn, after you are reborn, you have to start over again with no extra benefits."