"Congratulations, Donghua True Monarch, for returning in triumph," the Fourth Prince and Lord Qingyuan greeted Zhong Shenxiu as they saw him approaching and immediately came forward to congratulate him.
"It was but a trifle," Zhong Shenxiu replied, sitting back down in the chariot of the Dharma yet feeling somewhat melancholic.
Having revealed his strength this time, he thought the outside world might truly regard him as half a person of the Dharma Body Realm, and no longer would anyone question his title of True Monarch.
He could barely say that he stepped out of the chessboard and became half a chess player.
"Alas... just half," he mused. "On this small chessboard of selecting a new emperor, one might make moves, but when considering the grand chessboard of Heaven and Earth, one is still just a piece... Only by attaining Dao and becoming an Immortal can one truly become a chess player..."
