On March 11, the beginning of the spring of the Tang Dynasty 386, there was a young man sitting under the old locust tree not far away in front of the Gu Mansion in the city at the foot of Kunlun Mountain.

It was about noon, and a middle-aged Confucian who looked to be in his early forties came from the east, watched the young man squint under the shade of the tree, smiled and took out a chess pier from his back, and placed it right under the locust tree.

The boy glanced at it, then closed his eyes again.

The neighborhood of Gufu is quite quiet in the city, and there are no people in the neighborhood who say that they do any big business, and there are often old people hanging out, and after a while, there is an old man on the chessboard and the middle-aged man he doesn't know before.

"Hand talk about the beauty of the past, sit in seclusion and be good. The difference is divided into two potentials, and the Xuansu leads to two lines. As the middle-aged man smiled and said his own whisper, he left the first son.

"Sir, do you know this poem too?" The old man who was talking to the middle-aged man couldn't help but smile a little more sincere when he heard the poem.

"I heard that His Majesty the Holy Emperor returned from the imperial expedition that year, and played a game of chess with the Emperor Master at the foot of the mountain, and left this "Yongqi" with his spare time, which was made by His Majesty the Holy Emperor, and who in the world does not know?" The middle-aged man's words sounded good, and he didn't sound praised, but in fact, he raised the city at the foot of the mountain with the help of the Holy Emperor and Yasheng, two god-like figures in the eyes of the common people, and had the honor of letting the two of them fall on their feet, and left such a hand-me-down poem.

"Does the gentleman know what the second half of the poem is?" The old man looked extremely kind, but he didn't know why, but there was no one who knew him, men, women, and children, who had gradually grown around him.

"Sacrificing one's life is not a false life, and it doesn't matter if you die. Fang knows that on the side of Xianling, there are a few cold axes. The smile on the middle-aged man's face suddenly disappeared for some reason, and was replaced by a deep solemnity.

"The old man is really interested, I didn't expect that there would be a strong man like you in this small city at the foot of the mountain. The middle-aged man sighed, and his face was a little regretful.

The black and white on the chessboard add up to only hundreds, and each person on both sides is more than 50 hands, but it is these more than 50 hands, and the black son that the middle-aged man took the lead has already blocked most of the way to the white characters, even if he is just a beginner who has just learned the nineteenth way, he can see that there are at most twenty more hands, and the white man will have no way out.

This can only show that the level of the game between the two is very different.

However, the top of the chessboard is not outside the board.

"Actually, I shouldn't take out these nineteen realms, but I should take them out of the Chu River Han Realm. The middle-aged man stood up and bowed to the young man under the tree under the puzzled eyes of the people around him.

"Compared to you, I am really just a pawn who has crossed the river, and I, a pawn, would think that I can use you as a stepping stone to achieve myself so easily...... I beg your pardon!"

Gu Yi opened his eyes and glanced at him, got up and looked at the old man and asked, "It shouldn't be possible for him to make a move at this distance, right?"

The old man rubbed his hands helplessly, just like an ordinary old man treating a very promising but extremely unpleasant junior, and said, "I am your master after all! Although he is the fifth realm, the difference between him and the grandmaster is not a simple two realms. ”

When the people from the City Lord's Mansion arrived, it was as if they had been waiting around for a certain point in time to arrive.

"Now that I'm safe, I'd like to talk to him. Gu Yi looked at the guards of the City Lord's Mansion who pulled away the surrounding spectators, and sat down again.

"That's up to you, as long as you don't forget to promise your uncle anything. The old man sat to the side with a grin, not even glancing at the middle-aged man in the fifth realm.

Gu Yi put his gaze back on the man, "It is rumored that the demon clan can transform after reaching the fifth realm, but the demon qi on the body can only be suppressed with some supreme treasures or extremely rare pills. ”

"Now that you demon clan have found a seemingly excellent opportunity to make a move, you will inevitably send someone who is sure to carry out the assassination of me, in other words, your strength should be as strong as most people recognize. ”

When Gu Yi said this, he turned to look at the old man and asked, "Is there anything that can make him only have the strength of the fourth realm for the time being?"

As if expected, the old man took out a medicine bottle from his bosom and threw it at the middle-aged man.

"This is Bai Liudan, specifically for the monks of the fifth realm of the demon clan, he can probably eliminate half of his strength, but if he swallows them all, he will be able to eliminate almost eighty percent of his strength, and he is now in the middle of the fifth realm, and the two percent left behind should be about the same as the peak of the fourth realm. ”

The old man suddenly smiled when he said this, "Although I told you the news about the Demon Clan's assassination of you last night, and you went to the outside of the Gu Mansion as a target early in the morning, but in fact, whether there is a second person who is secretly making a move at this moment, I am not sure." And most importantly, whether he wants to fight with you like this is the most important premise of your appointment. ”

"He'll agree. With a confident smile on his face, Gu Yi watched the middle-aged man holding the white willow pill swallow solemnly, his eyes were hot.

"If it's just Bai Liudan, he still has the advantage of his physical body, and a demon clan of the Fifth Realm is completely able to fight with cultivators of the same level with his physical body alone. After the old man said this, a trace of breath emanated from his body, and just this wisp of it, dozens of wounds were suddenly cut on the middle-aged man's body.

"That should be fine. The old man smiled, it seemed that the middle-aged man's body was only skin wounds, but each wound was filled with a sword intent, and once it exceeded a certain limit, it would burst out in the whole body.

"Why do you think I'll agree?" The middle-aged man didn't even make a move to tidy up the wounds on his body, he just looked at Gu Yi with a solemn expression.

"Because I've given you a chance to kill me with dignity. And you, who came to kill me, probably wouldn't turn down this kind of opportunity. The moment Gu Yi finished saying this, his body was three feet around, and he stopped abruptly after touching the middle-aged man.

In midair, a chessboard composed of seven sword qi was revealed.

The old man's gaze was filled with admiration for a moment.

"Sword three, star Luo nineteen paths. ”

Gu Yi silently recited this sword move in his heart that he comprehended when he broke through the third realm.

Black and white is very popular in the Tang Dynasty, not to mention that his master and His Majesty the Holy Emperor also had a "Kunlun Three Bureaus" that few outsiders know.

After all, it is better to jump out of the chessboard and be a chess player, but Gu Yi, who now thinks that the chess player he thinks can control is not a person, but his own sword.

The sword qi suspended in mid-air rushed straight towards the middle-aged man in an instant.

The middle-aged man just waved his sleeves when he saw the two sword qi approaching, and the two sword qi dissipated in mid-air.

His face was a little unpleasant, because these were only the two sword qi at the beginning, and there was already a faint resonance with the sword intent in the dozen or so wounds on his body, so that he had to use the only remaining two or three points of spiritual power to suppress it, but when he blocked those two sword qi, there were two more small fractures on his sleeve. At the same time, he looked at Gu Yi, and the solemnity in his eyes that originally occupied most of it turned into fear at this moment!

Fortunately, he was only standing on the edge of this chessboard at the moment and had not been surrounded, otherwise if he stood within those fourteen sword qis, I am afraid that he would have no strength to fight back.

Because the chessboard that straddled the middle of the two of them actually made up for it again after using up the two sword qi, and it became a total of fourteen horizontal and vertical ones.

"This time it's four. Gu Yi looked at the middle-aged man, and the corners of his mouth showed a little pleasure.

This is the first time he has used this move against the enemy, because when he uses this move, it takes a while to prepare, so this limits the time he can use this move must be under his own preparation, and the range limit of this move corresponds to his divine sense, but every other zhang outside the three zhang, the power of this sword qi will be weakened by one point.

But within these three zhangs, it is impossible to say that he is a cultivator of the third realm who is like Gu Yi, even a cultivator at the peak of the third realm of the mortal realm will never be able to compete easily.

Because this sword move, which Gu Yi called "Xingluo Nineteen Paths", is like a chessboard that turns heaven and earth into a chessboard, and the sword qi in his chest outlines nineteen paths with sword intent as chess pieces, and when it is truly complete, it should be a total of thirty-eight horizontal and vertical, rather than only fourteen now.

But it is these fourteen, each of which is equivalent to the full force of an ordinary mid-mortal realm cultivator, and the superposition of the two phases can even threaten the fourth realm, and if the fourteen sword qi are attacked at the same time, the ordinary fourth realm, even if it is a strong person in the middle of the fourth realm, it is impossible to easily block it.

Of course, it is to let the cultivator of the Enlightenment Realm set him the time for this Star Luo Nineteen Dao, and even if he can defeat it, I am afraid that as long as he does not stand in the middle of this sword array, the ordinary Enlightenment Realm will have the ability to escape if he can't beat it.

And now the demon clan man in front of him is at the peak of the fifth realm Chengqian, but the spiritual power in his body was first weakened by seven or eight points of strength through Bai Liudan, and then the old man's sword intent blocked his strongest body as the demon clan, so that he could only use one-tenth of his strength, and under the weakening of the two phases, the last thing that could be volatilized was actually only the middle stage of the fourth realm enlightenment, and even weaker.

And Gu Yi is still only in the early stage of leaving the mortal realm.

In the worldly practice, there are four levels in each realm, the beginning is the beginning, the middle stage is the later stage, and then there is the Great Perfection.

But everyone's physique is different, some people are born with spiritual power that is the first realm of the pupation realm consummation, Gu Yi is such a genius, but he still spent three years to accumulate the spiritual power that reached the limit in the pupa realm and then broke through.

In other words, the three years he spent in the Chrysalis Realm were polishing the purity and thickness of his spiritual power.

Therefore, when he was in the consummation of the rebirth realm, the spiritual power in his body was even comparable to that of a cultivator in the early stage of the Transcendent Realm.

When he was promoted to the Mortal Realm, the strength of the spiritual power in his body could even be said to be unmatched by no one in the same rank.

It was because he had such a thickness of spiritual power that far exceeded that of the same level that he was able to perform such a sword move that might exhaust all the spiritual power in his body in the middle of an ordinary realm in the middle of the mortal realm.

The sword is the bone, the sword qi is the form, and the spiritual power is the foundation.

Without sword intent and sword energy, Xiu Wei would just be a stupid big man wielding a hammer, but he had no strength but no skills. If there is no foundation for cultivation, it is like a child playing with a wooden sword in his hand, and no amount of subtle tricks can threaten an adult with a hammer in his hand.

This time, four of the fourteen sword qi went straight to the demon clan man, only to see that the man was as casual as waving his sleeves just now, his face was full of solemnity, not to mention, his hands were actually put together, because the reason why his sleeves were cut by the two sword qi just now could faintly see that his hands were flushed with blood red.

"No wonder it's just the fifth realm, it turns out to be the Blood Mantis Clan. The old man looked at the faint red light, a glimmer of essence flashed in his eyes, and his hands couldn't help but clench, as if he was preparing to make a move.

Gu Yi also saw the red light in his sleeve, but he didn't hesitate as much as the old man in his heart.

It wasn't until the demon man's whole body was covered with the blood-red luster of his hands in an instant that he felt a huge pressure that made him almost suffocate!

"Not good!" The old man looked at the demon clan man who almost turned into blood and rushed towards Gu Yi, his face showed an expression of chagrin and surprise for the first time, and his figure disappeared in an instant, but the anxiety on his face still did not change, as if he didn't even know if he would have time to save Gu Yi!

At this moment of lightning, the moment he saw the red light close in front of him, his horizontal and vertical chessboard that had been dispersed by the red light suddenly dissipated.

A small vortex suddenly lit up in front of him, or rather, in front of his chest.

In the demon man's originally red eyes, while seeing that small vortex, a bright purple streaked through his eyes and disappeared in the blink of an eye.

But at the moment when the purple light appeared, the demon man's gaze turned from firm to a kind of doubt, puzzled, until he was unparalleled in surprise.