Immortal Ascension Tower - Book 1: Reborn! [CH 1 - 75]

Chapter 75 - Stalemate

"Worker... Was it? There is one last thing before I go..." the boy smiled "I would like to answer your question from before... Is my Sect powerful enough to resist?"

He smirked "Why don't you ask my Reverend stage servant, Lu Fang, where he put the drop of Supreme stage blood I gave him? I might need it later! Or wether the two Ancients have completely recovered their strength?"

"From what you said, Blacky probably isn't rebelling as of now, but I wouldn't count on him too much... Still, I believe he won't try to rebel and might even help us! Goldy should step into the Ageless Realm in a short while... Where exactly does the danger lie?"

Worker's eyes widened in shock and he suddenly thought back to the battle... That was right: Cheng Hao had a drop of Supreme stage blood! He didn't use it though, it had bugged him then...

Now, his pupils shrunk as he understood the reason! It was because... He didn't have it on himself at the time!

Crossing that out, there were still the two Ancients, with one of them having the cultivation of the Reverend stage! The golden dragon, Blindlight, also was incredibly powerful and would be able to help out if he didn't have to hold back the Hellish Nightmare Dragon, Blacky!

That was right, what would a little low level Reverend stage cultivator possibly be able to do? The only thing able to threaten the Mysterious Light-Shadow Sect would be an attack by the Zhao Clan, but that was so far away the Sect would have long since recovered its full strength!

Worker doubted the boy had predicted a situation such as this would unfold, but he noticed that the boy never gave up a chance to add another card up his sleeve!

He had been completely fooled! He wondered what would a certain lady with golden eyes tell him if she were to find out?

Worker immediately turned around waving his sleeve, applying great pressure on the young boy, and yelled "STOP RIGHT THE-"

"Remember your promise, old man! One wish!" The boy ignored the attack as it crashed down on the Golden Tower: it cracked slightly but was able to hold on! Another attack though, and it would mean the end of the existence called Cheng Hao!

Worker's face couldn't help but fall when he saw his attack getting repelled by the illusory tower: he had no way of stopping the child as, if he were to break that tower, Cheng Hao would die immediately! He didn't want that, and the boy knew it! He could not attack!

In a beautiful game called chess, there is a particular situation that could be perfect to describe this situation: in chess, you win if you checkmate your opponent (plus a few other ways that the lazy author doesn't wish to look into right now) but amongst skilled player, the chance of a game ending in a draw is higher than a half!

There are quite a few situations in which checkmate isn't possible or you are forced into a draw:

[Note: Yep, yours truly has indeed done some research on the subject and lost quite some time because of it! Isn't he such a good guy? Love you all ❤️]

Insufficient Material!

There is no way to checkmate against a lone King if one has on the board either: 1) a lone King; 2) a lone King and one Knight; 3) a lone King and one Bishop (One can still lose because the time runs out, but it is I-M-P-O-S-S-I-B-L-E to checkmate in these circumstances, no matter how good you are and how bad your opponent is)

Draw by Repetition!

Both yourself and the opponent find themselves forced into repeating the same exact moves for three times. Either player may point this out and claim a draw.