Master Mingxin didn't seem to hear Xu Xuan's words, pinched the chess pieces, and said lightly: "This game of chess, the senior brother in charge has been playing with the real person for three years, but it has never been closed. The poor monk's chess strength is low, and he is far from the senior brother in charge, how dare he not measure his own strength? It's just that it's about the lives of the world, and I only have the courage to try. ”

The man in white said: "The world is impermanent, why not stop at chess?" Everything is empty, let alone winning or losing? Mingxin master leads Buddhism, wisdom and compassion, when he knows that victory or defeat is not in the chessboard, but in the bottom of his heart. ”

Mingxin said: "In the black and white world, how can you be chaotic and not distinguish between right and wrong? As the saying goes, 'Buddha and demons do not coexist, and good and evil do not coexist', eliminating demons is preaching, and cutting evil is good. After a moment's thought, he slowly dropped the pieces on the chessboard.

The man in white groaned, and the chess pieces in his hand were about to fall a few times, and then he bent his fingers and put them away, his brows were furrowed, and his face became more and more solemn.

Xu Zhengting loves Go and has hired many masters to play in the house. Xu Xuan is smart and competitive, he has been exposed to many famous games since he was a child, and his chess strength has been better than that of ordinary chess players.

The upper left corner of the board is empty, with only white falling astrological positions, and the upper right and lower left corners are all occupied by sunspots, and the fight between the two sides is mainly concentrated in the large area from the lower right corner to the middle abdomen. White and black chess are surrounded and staggered, fighting to slay the dragon, and no matter which side is raised, it will lose the whole game.

He looked at it for a while, and felt that the chess game was extremely familiar, as if he had seen it somewhere, and then counted the chess pieces on both sides, it was Bai Zi who went first, and his heart moved, and he almost exclaimed.

"Encounter with immortals"! What the two played against was the ancient game played by Liu Zhongfu, the first national player of the Great Song Dynasty, who met the immortal grandmother in Lishan.

Liu Zhongfu is recognized as the first national player since the founding of the Great Song Dynasty, and the two dynasties of Zhezong and Huizong dominate the chess world and are unbeatable. Legend has it that when he went to Lishan to play, he met an unknown old woman, who took Baizi first according to the old practice, and played one hundred and twelve hands with her.

Liu Zhongfu was proud by nature, and after this blow, he vomited several liters of blood, almost collapsed, and did not even return to the capital after going down the mountain, so he lived in seclusion in the mountains and forests, and kept silent about the details. Therefore, although this matter is rumored to be miraculous and known to the world, almost no one has ever seen this game, except for Xu Xuan.

Xu Xuan's ability to have this opportunity is all thanks to his father Xu Zhengting.

Xu Zhengting's reputation for good chess is well-known all over the world, and many unfamous or impoverished chess players often visit Xu's mansion, and they live for three years and five years. Xu Zhengting, regardless of their chess ability, received them all with good wine and food, and asked someone to record and draw pictures of the chess games they played one by one, and collect them for fun.

Xu Xuan has been sick since he was a child, trapped at home and bored, in addition to watching plays and listening to music, lackeys fighting cocks, and secretly letting Tie Jiu carry him around the Goolan Washe, it is to watch these chess players play against each other, and as time goes by, he also sprouts a strong interest, and often pulls others to play chess.

Among the chess players, there was only one old man in green clothes and white hair who did not play against anyone, closed himself in the house all day long, playing the same game of chess over and over again, and no matter how Xu Xuan disturbed, he always groaned bitterly and talked to himself.

Xu Xuan was aroused by his curiosity, and often ran to watch him play against himself. The longer I watch it, the more thrilling it becomes.

He watched thousands of chess games, and he had never seen such a treacherous and dangerous game. Every time the old man falls, he seems to be extremely clever, but he has more subtle tricks to dissolve, like a stormy wave, wave after wave. But since the black moves reached one hundred and twelve, the old man could no longer make a move.

After watching it like this for half a year, Xu Xuan benefited a lot from this half of the game, and his chess strength improved by leaps and bounds. Xu Xuan was very proud, and his interest in Go doubled.

But the old man became more and more troubled and irritable day by day, and often wandered back and forth in the house, as if he were about to go mad.

One night, Xu Xuan went to the old man's house to watch chess as usual, and saw him holding the chess pieces and looking at the chessboard blankly, his face was like ashes, and suddenly his fingers trembled, and he dropped the white child on the board, hugged his head and cried, saying that he had been thinking hard for 30 years, but he still couldn't break the game, and even if he died, it was difficult to look away. Crying to the sad place, he took out a jasper chess bowl from his arms, and smashed it to the ground, saying that he couldn't even get off an old woman in the mountains, and what face did he have to leave the holy royal gift?

Xu Xuan listened to him talk upside down for a long time, only to realize that he actually claimed to be Liu Zhongfu, a great power player who had disappeared for decades, and he was shocked and shocked. Look at the smashed jasper chess bowl, the bottom is engraved with the imperial seal of Huizong, it is genuine, except for Liu Zhongfu, who can have it?

Liu Zhongfu cried and scolded himself for a while, jumped up and wanted to smash the chessboard, his eyes just glanced at the chessboard, but his whole body suddenly stiffened, and he stared at it in a daze for a moment, laughing wildly, tears and tears, and even said that the sky was unpredictable. He said that he had been thinking about it for decades, and it was difficult to solve it, and he couldn't imagine that when his heart was like ashes, he accidentally hit and broke this strange situation by mistake.

Xu Xuan turned his head to look at the chess game, and the white son fell on the left blank space, which had nothing to do with the rest of the children, and he couldn't save the trapped mid-belly dragon, why was he so ecstatic? Thinking about it, I don't know what to do.

Liu Zhongfu was in great spirits, and while falling like a fly, playing a game in black and white, he proudly explained the mystery to Xu. After more than a dozen hands, the situation was bright, and Xu Xuan gradually saw the clues.

It turned out that Fang Cai's move, which seemed to be unreliable, abandoned the big dragon, but in fact, with the help of the momentum of the mid-abdomen, echoed the infiltration, not only saved a large piece of white in the lower left, but also relied on the opportunity of "robbery" to chase and intercept, and trapped the black chess in the lower left corner into a dead situation.

As a result, Black seizes the midbelly, but White loses one of the two corners and part of the territory above. Roughly calculated, instead of losing, it won a small victory.

Liu Zhongfu was overjoyed, turned over a few somersaults in the house, and laughed: "Emptiness is existence, existence is emptiness, but I am blinded, trapped by life and death, victory and defeat, but I don't know the world, and I am in nothingness!" With a wave of his hand, he swept the chessboard and pushed the door away.

Xu Xuan stood dumbfounded for a long time, suddenly like a dream, and later found five handwritten chess scriptures in the house, called "Forget the Worries", "Chess Momentum", "Chess Tricks", "Make Micro", "Jingli", and handed them to Xu Zhengting, Xu Zhengting was surprised and delighted, such as a treasure, and then sent people around to pursue Liu Zhongfu, who had long been missing.

This matter has been more than three years ago, and Xu Zhengting has been keeping it a secret in order to avoid complications. During this period, many things happened, and Xu Xuan's interest in chess was gradually replaced by cultivating immortals and learning swords.

Looking at the momentum of the chess game, the two sides have reached one hundred and six moves, and the big dragon in the middle of the belly of White is about to be slaughtered. Xu Xuan was full of curiosity, I don't know where this middle-aged monk and the man in white are sacred? Why did you play the chess game played by Liu Zhongfu and Lishan Immortal in this deep well-like valley lake pavilion?

He is a young man who is free and likes to show off, and asking him to watch chess and be silent is even more uncomfortable than walking at night in brocade. Seeing that the man in white frowned, holding the chess pieces and not falling for a long time, his heart itched like a cat's claw scratching, and he couldn't wait to give some pointers, but thinking that his life was saved by Fahai's master and apprentice, if he helped the man in white in turn, he would be a little ungrateful. After thinking about it, if it weren't for the man in white who gave him the "Ji Ji Dan" in time, he might have died. Favoring one over the other, is it the work of a big husband?

Just thinking about himself, he suddenly heard the wind howling, the eaves bells slammed in all directions, and a sonorous and pleasant pipa music came from outside the valley in the west, dense as silver beads falling on the plate, as urgent as the dangerous shoals of the angry river, which made people feel cold for no reason.

Fahai's face changed slightly, and he couldn't help but turn his head to look.

I don't know when, on the top of the stone peak, which was gilded by the moonlight, it was already covered with clouds, and with the rapid tumbling and advancing of the pipa music, it changed into a magnificent and treacherous shape.

Xu Xuan's heart thumped, and he felt an inexplicable cold fear.

The wind howled, and the glow of the west filled with a swift air, but for a moment, it covered most of the night sky above. The bright moon shuttles, the lake is sparkling, and the faces of everyone in the pavilion are uncertain.

Master Mingxin said lightly: "The overall situation has been decided, and the victory or defeat can be expected, why should a real person be obsessed with a mere son?" Do you really want to go your own way, watching everything lose and the world will be ruined? With a flick of his left finger, he hit the bronze bell in the air.

The bronze bell rang for a long time, and Xu Xuan's brain was like thunder, and the sky was spinning, and he almost fainted.

As the lake shone brightly, dozens of monks sitting on lotus flowers suddenly recited the Diamond Sutra in unison. The chanting became louder and louder, echoing with the sound of the bells, echoing in the ravines like stormy waves, and soon completely overshadowing the sound of the pipa.

Xu Xuan looked up, only to see arcs and arcs of faint golden light flying from Zhong Pavilion upwards, gyroscope-like whirling and rippling, as if a huge invisible light shield enveloped the entire valley in it. Those neon clouds collided with the light wheel, and all of them burst out and scattered, shooting out a dazzling brilliant light, which was incomparably magnificent.

He had never seen such a strange scene, and he was amazed, and vaguely guessed that the clouds and pipa music were mostly related to the Demon Gate, and this middle-aged monk and the seventy-two monks sitting on the lotus must have arranged a formation with sound to resist the strong enemy. The "Sanskrit sound demon subjugation array" mentioned by the man in white should undoubtedly refer to this.

I heard the man in white shake his head and say: "This son is a choice or a trade-off, it is not worth worrying about, but it is a matter of urgency, it is related to the overall life and death, how can you be cautious?" "Two fingers between the white son fell on the plate, and sure enough, it was the one hundred and seventh hand in "Yu Xian Tu".

Mingxin followed Luozi, broke through the "living eye" of the white dragon, and said: "Defend the death, abandon the life, the real chess power is high, don't you know how powerful it is?" That demon is chaotic and harming the people, and he is heinous, not only incompatible with my Buddhism, but also the public enemy of the world, and even the evil people of the demon sect will want to get rid of it quickly. Could it be that a real person is such a son, willing to give up the overall situation? ”

The man in white brushed his beard and groaned, and after thinking for a while, he took away the sunspot that was blocked in the living eye, shook his head and said: "God has the virtue of a good life, and everyone is treated equally." The old man didn't want to protect this demon, but just hoped that he would think about his mistakes and change his ways. Since the master knew the purpose of the Demon Gate's coming, he should know that even if he abandoned his son at the moment, it would be useless. Today's calamity has nothing to do with personal enmity, but with the common people in the world. Since Master Mingkong has passed away, the elders and leaders of the seventy-two temples should be compassionate and survive this catastrophe together. ”

The two went back and forth, and Xu Xuan was confused when he heard it, and he didn't know who the man in white was? Who are the "demons" in their mouths? Listening to the meaning of his words, the outcome of this game seems to be a bet on this "demon...... My heart suddenly jumped, could it be that all the strange things that happened in Emei Mountain today are also related to the "demons" in the mouths of the two people?

Mingxin's eyes flashed with anger, and while flicking his fingers to hit the bell, he dropped a son again, surrounding a large area of white children on the right side, forming a "eating" trend, and said lightly: "It is precisely because of my Buddha's compassion and purifying all sentient beings that I should subdue demons and eliminate demons and return peace to the world." Since the real person is obsessed, the poor monk can only say everything. ”

This one fell, and the middle-bellied white dragon had no way to escape, so the man in white could only continue to fall and glue the broken "eye" shut.

Mingxin fell again, completely blocked the way out of the white dragon, got up with a cane, and said slowly: "If the real person still has the power to return to the sky, the seventy-two temples of Emei are not to blame for the past, but you are the only one." If not, please hand over the demon and let the poor monk make a break with him. ”

The chess game is played here, and it is exactly one hundred and twelve moves that Liu Zhongfu played against Lishan Xianmao. Back then, with Liu Zhongfu's strength, he still vomited blood and admitted defeat, even if this man in white had the power to reach the sky, how could he beat the 30 years of chess in the Great Song Dynasty Hanlin Academy?

The man in white stared down at the chessboard and smiled bitterly.

The monks shouted: "The victory or defeat has been decided, what else is there to shirk?" Hurry up and hand over the demons, otherwise you won't want to get out of this 'Sanskrit Sound Demon Suppression Array' today! ”

"If you hadn't raised tigers, how could Abbot Mingkong be seriously injured and pass away? How could the mountains attract so many demons and evil creatures? The catastrophe in the world is all caused by you! The abbot of Mingxin is compassionate, and only then does he replace the sword with chess, hoping that you will have no end in the sea of suffering, and turn back to the shore. If you are obsessed with it again, you will never recover! ”

Xu Xuan likes to hoe the strong and help the weak since he was a child, and he is uneven, although he still does not know the ins and outs of this matter, but he sees that there are needles hidden in his heart, and he is aggressive, and the monks around him are arrogant and bully, which is really not the work of the monks, and he can't help but be secretly biased towards this gentle and polite man in white. For a while, his blood swelled up, and he blurted out: "Who said that this game of chess was lost?" ”

Although his voice was small, it sounded indescribably harsh, and the surroundings were suddenly silent, and thousands of pairs of eyes gathered on him.

Mingxin said lightly: "Could it be that this little benefactor has any other rejuvenation skills?" Although the tone was as calm as water, when he said the words "rejuvenation hand", his eyebrows were slightly raised, with an indescribable meaning of ridicule.

Xu Xuan's words came out, and he regretted it, and when he heard the words, he couldn't help but be aroused, so he simply said loudly: "I don't dare to be a good hand for rejuvenation, but it is not difficult to turn defeat into victory." If I play white chess on my behalf, I will know who wins and who loses. ”