Ji Jiashu was stunned when he heard this, and then nodded, "That's right, it's a chess game, but it's just ......."

But before he could finish speaking, Ji Jiashu's voice was suddenly interrupted by another person beside him, Helan Cheng looked at the girl in front of him in amazement and said, "What? Don't you know? ”

Ying Baoyue's voice didn't seem to be fake, but Helan Cheng couldn't believe it.

You must know that the Beginner Ceremony is held once every three years, and all practitioners are carefully prepared. At the end of the previous session, the Northern Han Pavilion of the Northern Wei Dynasty will begin to select candidates for the next session, and each round is prepared for a long time in advance, and even countermeasures will be prepared in advance for candidates from other countries who will participate.

If there is a cultivator who is expected to reach the top of the family but is not prominent, depending on the situation, he will even be directly eliminated before he or she participates in the Beginner Ceremony.

Of course, this is not a shady thing. Helan said in his heart.

This is nothing more than the normal style of the cultivation world where the law of the jungle eats the jungle.

After all, it's not just the Northern Han Pavilion that does this, but all the families of all countries will do such things to a greater or lesser extent, just to let the children of their own clan reach the top.

One will be successful, and ten thousand bones will wither.

Helan Cheng did not feel pity for those cultivators who were eliminated, and if he was born as a cultivator, if he did not give up his cultivation and wanted to live as a cultivator, he had to accept this law of the jungle.

That's what he was taught from a young age.

For practitioners, wars and fights are never just in the ring.

Danger is always around, and someone may stab you with a sword when you walk down the street.

This is the world of practitioners.

Weakness is the original sin, you can't protect yourself, and you deserve to be eliminated.

If you want to live, you must either become strong yourself, or you can live by relying on the strong before becoming strong.

The Helan family has fallen, and as a grandson, he himself does not have a particularly amazing talent as a cultivator, so the Helan family is now taking the route of dependence.

The words are far away, in short, carefully prepared and all obstacles are removed, this is the true style of the cultivation world towards the beginner ceremony.

The Northern Han Pavilion also relied on such careful preparation in advance to achieve good results in the previous junior ceremonies.

It's just that this year, for the first time, the road to victory in the North Han Pavilion has been hindered.

To be honest, it was the second time, Helan Cheng glanced at Ji Jiashu beside Ying Baoyue, and the last Beihan Pavilion also returned with a feather, but the last one was a special situation.

After all, the top of the list in the last session was the person they couldn't get rid of and couldn't win in the Northern Han Pavilion. But in the end, the Northern Han Pavilion also won Yakui, and it was not a shame to lose to the son of Ji Mo, the master of the Southern Chu State, and the last session passed smoothly.

But no one expected that this year's Northern Wei Dynasty and the Northern Han Pavilion were ready to come, but they encountered such an unexpected opponent.

Of course, this may be an opponent that cultivators on the entire continent did not expect.

Helan Cheng stared at the girl in front of him, the Northern Han Pavilion had investigated so many cultivators who participated in the Beginner Ceremony before, and had also assassinated a lot, but who would have thought that this woman would appear in the sky.

By the way, the only cultivator who survived on the assassination list of the Northern Han Pavilion was none other than Meng Shi, the stepson of the Northern Wei Dynasty.

Helan Chengsi's eyes were slightly cold.

It was also a rather terrifying teenager, and the picture of that skinny boy leading his sister out of a bloody path with a sword is still unforgettable for him.

In the case of the monopoly of the cultivation world by the big clans, it is extremely rare for commoners to be able to stand out in the cultivation world. Like Meng Shi, there are even fewer people who have come to this step.

This required overcoming unimaginably huge difficulties, and although Meng Shi's situation was inseparable from the famous teacher he had met when he was young, even then the young boy himself was quite terrifying.

However, what Meng Shi felt most terrifying about He Lancheng was not his cultivation talent, but his almost stubborn attachment to the purpose of cultivation.

The will and desire that flashed in the eyes of that thin young man when he held the sword was quite terrifying, and to this day, Helan Cheng still couldn't figure out what Meng Shi was so desperately cultivating for.

However, Helan Cheng, who was also a sixth-level cultivator, could somewhat perceive that the thin young man did have a purpose to support him to move forward desperately, and finally became the strongest fire cultivator among the young cultivators today.

At the same time, Meng Shi is even more inexplicable, that is, he is still unwilling to join the Northern Cold Pavilion even if he dies.

What cannot be used by me can only be destroyed.

A commoner was so ignorant that he was still preparing to participate in the next Beginner Ceremony, and the Northern Han Pavilion naturally strangled his master when he disappeared.

After all, Meng Shi was only a civilian, not even an assassination.

But Meng Shi is worthy of being the strongest fire magician in the sixth rank, it was such an assassination, the Northern Wei Dynasty was full of storms, and the image of the Northern Han Pavilion was almost damaged, so he didn't kill this person.

But it's really a pity to kill such a young genius. In the end, the Northern Wei royal family stepped forward and accepted Meng Shi as the stepson of the Northern Wei Dynasty, ending the fight between the Northern Wei people.

Helan Cheng's eyes sank slightly.

So far, Meng Shi has also become more or less a dominant existence in the opposition to the Northern Han Pavilion within the royal family.

But in any case, Meng Shi was a native of the Northern Wei Dynasty, and the achievements he earned belonged to the Northern Wei Dynasty. And as the eldest disciple of the Beihan Pavilion this year, Helan Cheng also has self-knowledge of his own level.

Although there are many people participating in this session of the Northern Cold Pavilion, he is not a perverted existence like Tuoba Xun, this session of the Northern Cold Pavilion is less than the previous one in terms of high-end combat power, and the existence of Meng Shi has somewhat made up for this shortcoming.

No matter what happened, the capital of this year's Elementary Ceremony should belong to the Northern Wei people, and at most two were divided by Southern Chu.

However......

Helan Cheng looked at the young girl in front of him who was a head shorter than him.

This year's primary ceremony has been carried out so far, and the top four of the list have all been taken by the former Qin people. Three of them were all suddenly killed, the biggest dark horse of this year's Beginner Ceremony, the former Qin princess Ying Baoyue.

From the disbelief at the beginning, the family began to wonder if this was a bureau of the former Qin Bu, and it took a full half a month.

If the former Qin King Yinghanri was not the one who didn't seem to be smart, doubts about this might have started a long time ago.

Although there is no evidence to establish such suspicions, winning the top three in a row should be after long-term preparation and planning.

Helan Cheng's eyes widened.

At least yesterday in Qingnao Mountain, she calculated him, and afterwards he felt that she must have been planning for a long time!

Thinking of the joke that the former Qin Duke wanted to take the top spot in Danyang City, Helan Cheng originally regarded it as a joke, but after yesterday, he felt that this joke was full of this woman's conspiracy.

She must have planned the whole plan for the next two games.

That's what he thought.

However, at this time......

Helan Cheng looked at the girl in front of him, "You don't know what the second round is going to be?" ”

"I was about to ask today," Ying Baoyue didn't know that at such an instant, Helan Cheng's heart had turned a hundred times, but he was a little surprised at how the young man in front of him reacted so much.

After all, even if she knew in advance, it was useless, and the Elementary Ceremony was rushing round after round, and even if she knew, she didn't have time to prepare. It's better not to think about it so much, than to think about the next round in the interval after one round, so that the brain is more relaxed.

She looked at Helan Cheng and said truthfully, "I usually finish one game and then prepare for the next one." ”

Helan Cheng didn't know what to say, "What were you doing before the Beginner Ceremony began?!" ”

Before you begin...... Ying Baoyue thought for a while and said, "I'm busy making friends." ”

To be more specific, he was busy being chased and killed on the way to his relatives.

Helan Cheng choked for a moment, the news of Qianqin's peace with Nanchu came out three months ago, "What about before coming to Nanchu?" What about three months ago? ”

She was probably in a coffin at the time...... Ying hugged Yue's heart and said, but she couldn't tell him this if she wanted to, she smiled helplessly and looked at Helan Chengdao, "I don't have that much time." ”

She never had much time.

After speaking, without waiting for Helan Cheng to react, she clenched her left wrist, looked at Ji Jiashu and asked, "If you compete in the second round of chess, how can you compare?" What did you just want to say? ”

To be honest, she had guessed what the second round of the individual battle would be, but she didn't expect it to be this.

After all, the Beginner Ceremony is for cultivating a cultivator's combat ability.

Compared with fighting, killing, and playing, this quiet way of playing chess is more like a literary fight than a martial arts, which at first glance is quite inconsistent with the style of a cultivator's battle and the original intention of the beginner canon.

But it was chosen as a project for a brutally competitive individual battle.

Among them, it must not be simple.

And just as Ying Baoyue guessed, Ji Jiashu's expression suddenly became complicated when he heard her words.

"The format of the game is indeed chess, but it is not an ordinary chess. This round is more like a ...... than a game of chess."

Ji Jiashu looked at Ying Baoyue and took a deep breath and said.

"The Art of War."