Touching the jade in his hand, a sneer hung on the corner of Takema Qi's mouth, and said, "You say, who repelled that beast?"

"Tell the Great Elder that it is the junior brother of Fang Junshi, who has disappeared from the Sword Washing Pavilion for ten years. An elder replied respectfully.

"Jun Shi! he finally appeared, how is he doing now?"

Before Takema could speak, Zhu Jin, who was thinking about cracking the chess game, slapped the white chess piece in his hand on the chessboard, and his eyes shone with joy.

"Huh?"

Bamboo Chess glanced at it lightly, and Zhu Jin obediently picked up the white chess that had not yet fallen, and absentmindedly thought about where to land next.

"What do you think?"

Bamboo Qi looked at the three elders below, the smile on his face disappeared, and his majesty naturally revealed, and said, "Do you think it is necessary for my Tianxuan Sect to participate? According to your intentions, there is no need to hide it. ”

The three elders glanced at each other, and Elder Li, who was the leader, said, "The people from Shenlong Yuan are just trying to regain their past honor, with the current situation of the Tianxuan Sect, I don't think we need to participate, just send some of the elders to meet the ceremony." ”

Before Elder Li finished speaking, the temperature in the main hall dropped suddenly, and Zhu Jian Qi said coldly: "Honor? their honor? Do you mean that I, Tianxuanzong, am a shameless villain and have taken away the honor that should belong to them?

"No, no..."

Before Elder Li could explain, Takema Qi waved his sleeves and drove the frightened-looking Elder Li directly out of the Cloud Gate.

Cloud Gate is the mountain gate in front of the cloud platform, that is, the mountain gate of Tianxuanzong. Takema Qi drove Elder Li out of the Cloud Gate, but he didn't hurt him, and the meaning was obvious, that is, let him get out.

"What do you think?"

After driving Elder Li away, Takema Qi looked at the other two elders coldly, and said in a cold voice: "As a cultivator, I forget my own heart, tend to be inflammatory, and I am timid and afraid, and I have lost the face of the Elder Hall and the face of the Tianxuan Sect.

Let you guard the mountain gate, not to let you give up on yourself, but to let you look at those young faces, full of vitality, and stimulate your original fighting spirit, so as to break the shackles and cultivate further.

But you, one by one, are going to die or live, and now because of a few people from the Divine Dragon Yuan, you have begun to retreat. Even if someone from the Shuntian Mansion came from, how could I, Tianxuanzong, ever be afraid!"

"The disciple understood. ”

When the two mountain guards heard this, they all left the bamboo hall in shame, turning into two streamers and disappearing into the night.

"Grandpa, I can't solve this move, I admit defeat. ”

When the two elders left, I don't know if it was because they heard Fang Junshi appear, or because they really couldn't solve the chess game in front of them, Zhu Jin weakly put down the chess pieces in his hand.

"Anyway, it took Grandpa ten years to unravel this move. In just one year, it's not easy for you to get this far. If you can persist until now and admit defeat, you should be considered qualified. ”

Looking at his most beloved grandson, Takenama returned to his kind old man's appearance, and said earnestly: "Child, do you know who left this move?"

"I don't know, but such a boring chess style and weird way of moving, as well as falling into the dead but no way back, if it weren't for grandpa's deliberate pressure step by step, I shouldn't be like this. ”

Zhu Jin thought back to this game of chess that had been played intermittently for a year, and had a vague impression in his mind, but he could not put it together clearly.

"Hehe, that's what I thought back then. ”

Zhu Jian Qi touched his gray long beard, moved his fat body, looked at the outside of the bamboo hall with some wistfulness, and said leisurely: "Remember, it was nine thousand years ago, when I practiced for less than a thousand years, the realm was only in the field of great consummation, and before Zhu Ze, Shouyuan was about to end."

Therefore, I was sent to the cloud platform by the elders of the Uchiyama to guard the mountain gate.

The first time I saw him, he was very young but also very lonely, dragging heavy steps, walking slowly on the ten thousand steps outside the Cloud Gate.

He was not good-looking, holding an emerald green bamboo flute in his hand, his brows were frowned, his hair was disheveled, his clothes were disheveled, and he was full of mud, giving me the impression of a very down-and-out mortal.

At that time, I was patrolling the Great Perfection, even if it was far away, I could still clearly perceive the rich Hongmeng purple qi and strong vitality in his body, so I had a heart of love for talent and wanted to guide him, so I was very enthusiastic to introduce him to Cloud Gate.

For a whole year, he didn't say a word, just sat in a daze in the bamboo forest I planted.

I didn't say much, I gave him food when I needed to eat, I gave him something to drink, and occasionally fiddled with my precious bamboo and chessboard in front of him.

Such days passed for a long time, until one day, maybe my life was over, but I was reluctant to die, so God sent a thousand years of calamity.

You know, generally speaking, the thousand-year-old tribulation is not too terrifying, but this time mine is extremely terrifying, and the heavens have sent down a great dragon tribulation that has not been seen for 10,000 years.

In the purple thunder sea, countless lightning bolts converged, turning into a hundred-zhang lightning giant dragon head, turning many hills and forests around the Yuntai into ashes, and attacking the bamboo hut where I was with earth-shattering might.

I knew that I couldn't resist the Great Dragon Tribulation, so I wanted to send him away at the first opportunity, but he waved his hand, stood up, and walked towards the huge dragon head without fear with his hands behind his back.

I was taken aback and hurried to get in front of him. It was that kind of block that I will never forget for the next 9,000 years.

As I watched the lightning dragon's head rush towards me, I gave up my resistance and closed my eyes and waited for death to come.

At this moment, I was amazed by a powerful vitality, and when I opened my eyes, I was enveloped by a curtain of multicolored light, and the lightning dragon's glittering mouth of thunder was above us, unable to move forward.

For a long time, maybe the time of the catastrophe has passed, and the lightning dragon head that confronted us slowly faded away, and I escaped.

After the dragon's head disappeared, I looked at him behind me with some trembling, and he just held his hands behind his back, and then finally said the first words of the year: 'Old fat man, what is your name?'

Although my realm is not high enough, after all, I have lived for nearly a thousand years, this kind of scene, of course, I know that this young man who is not good-looking is not an ordinary person, so I secretly congratulated myself that I had not offended him before, and then replied to him very respectfully: 'The old fat man's name is Takema Qi, I don't know the predecessors...'

Before I could finish speaking, he snorted coldly, looked at me with slanted eyes, and said, "Senior? I'm too lazy to bother with you, do you like bamboo and chess very much, are you proficient in chess?'

I hurriedly replied: 'I understand a little, I understand a little.' But in the seniors, no, it is not worth mentioning in front of the masters. ’

'Good sycophant. He sneered, then walked towards the bamboo forest with his hands behind his back, and said, "Come and play a game of chess with me, if you can win, your benefits are indispensable." ’

So, we sat in the bamboo forest and started playing that century-old chess game.

In fact, at that time, although with the help of that young man, I was fortunate enough to avoid the terrifying Great Dragon Tribulation, but I clearly knew that my physical condition only left me with ten years of life.

At first, we played very fast, his moves were very random, leaving a thousand retreats with each move, and I could completely block those thousands of retreats with a sweep of my mind.

But to my surprise, every time I blocked what I thought was a thousand possibilities, he could easily drop the thousandth and one possibilities every time.

After we made fifty moves, I landed more and more slowly, and he got more and more bored, and every time he landed a piece, he would go out for a spin, and then after I landed, he would appear and follow the next step at a very fast pace.

In this way, we played on and off for almost a year, either because he was tired of this rhythm, or maybe he had other things to do, and he left me behind, cornered me, and said lightly: 'I'll go out for a walk, and if you can solve this move, we may be able to meet again.' I would like to remind you that you cannot reach the highest level in chess like you, and the biggest change between the chessboards lies in the world!'

With that, he left, and it was ten years away, and no one knew what he had done in those ten years.

And I just stared at the chessboard, the black and white pieces connected to each other, and there were countless variations in it. My mind swept over, and countless lines of black and white chess pieces flashed across the board, dazzling me.

I calculated the direction and possibilities of those lines, and year after year, for eight years, I couldn't fully calculate all the changes.

Even so, the end point of all change is a dead end.

My health is getting worse and worse, and I still have less than two years to live, but I can't solve the chess game in front of me, and when I think of this section, my heart is full of regrets.

Eventually, I retracted my thoughts and sighed with a long sigh intending to learn about the remnants.

Later, I remembered what he said to me when he was leaving—the biggest change between the chessboards is in the human world, and I pondered the meaning of this sentence repeatedly, what is the human world? Is it the world where mortals live?

But since we cultivators are not immortals, we will inevitably die after all, so what is the difference between us and mortals?

Where is the world?!

So, I fell into another bull's horn, and I was very distressed.

A year passed like this, and in the last few months of my life, I thought back on my life, I had been practicing for more than 900 years in a thousand years, and I had rarely left the Tianxuan Sect.

Even if you go down the mountain, you are still carrying a task, you go in a hurry, and you return in a hurry.

In my memory, the ordinary life seems to be only the first ten years by my parents' side, and now that I think about it, they should have turned into bones.

If there was reincarnation, they would have been reincarnated several times, and now that I'm about to die, I'm finally trying to find them.

In this case, what chess game, what world, what does it have to do with me?

So, I took one last look at the chessboard, which had not been touched for ten years, and then looked up at the world to the west of the Tianxuan Mountains, where the sky hung with a little white cloud, which was extremely clear, like washing.

Before I had time to sigh, my heart moved, and I smiled faintly, it turned out that this was the world.

At that moment, the shackles that had imprisoned me for many years were loosened, and I came to the end of the patrol with a green bamboo and two chess pieces, and easily pushed open the gate of Nagisa and stepped into the realm of Nagisa in one fell swoop. ”