"What?" Yuan Lai glanced at him and said strangely: "You won, if you continue, I won't be able to win you." ”

"Nope. Liu Chonghu shook his head firmly, "It's true that I lost." ”

Seeing that Yuan Lai still didn't understand, Liu Chonghu said with some emotion: "This is about cultivation. ”

"Something to do with spiritual practice?"

"It's about spiritual practice. ”

"Tell me?"

Liu Chonghu frowned and said, "I heard that you have been under the sect of Huang Qi for three years, even if you haven't learned the real thing, you should at least know the essence of cultivation." ”

Yuan Lai is quite innocent, he really doesn't know what the original owner of this body has learned on the mountain, and there is no valuable information after searching through his memory.

"If you understand the nature of the practice, then you should understand what I mean and know where I lost. But...... You don't even know that? Liu Chonghu glanced at him with a strange look and shook his head.

"Are you going to Beijing?" he asked suddenly.

Yuan Lai silently acquiesced.

"This year is not the year to open the imperial examination, so you should not go to the imperial examination. So...... You are going to take the Northern Sect. ”

In Liu Chonghu's view, since he is a young man, he should make a career, which can be a career in the military, or a practice. And there is only one sect near the capital, and that is the Northern Sect, which is also one of the two behemoths in the entire Great Enlightenment Cultivator Jianghu.

"It's going to take the test. Yuan Lai didn't intend to hide it, and said frankly.

"I'm also going to take the Northern Sect exam. Liu Chonghu said slowly, "The Northern Sect is very difficult to take the exam, every year there are countless people who worship under the Beizong Mountain Gate, and they are not allowed to enter, I can go to the exam a long time ago, but I have not been there, until now I have passed the weak crown before leaving for the capital." Because I've been accumulating, cultivating myself, studying and playing chess at home, preparing for the future, and you, are you ready?"

“...... I have a sack of the Northern Sect's exam papers in my carriage, is it considered preparation?" Yuan Lai said tentatively.

Liu Chonghu smiled, with a hint of mockery and sarcasm in his smile.

"I've been called a genius since I was a child, but my father always told me that talent just keeps me one step ahead, and that if you want to stay ahead, you have to work hard enough. I studied for many years for the sake of cultivation, cultivated my temperament, took a lot of courses, mastered art skills, worshipped many famous teachers, and accumulated myself, just so that I could accumulate and develop. Just for the entrance assessment of the Northern Sect, I have been preparing for several years, and I have a clear understanding of the questions every year to the thoughts of the examiners, just so that I can get a satisfactory ranking in this assessment. ”

"And you're not prepared for it. You won the chess game just now, I thought you could be my opponent, but now I don't think so, you can't even pass the first level of the exam like this. Liu Chonghu said.

"Moreover," he glanced at Yuan Lai and said, "There is an invisible criterion for entering the Northern Sect, that is, they must reach the first realm, and candidates who have not entered the first realm are not allowed to enter the mountain gate." Have you reached it? I'm afraid you haven't even touched the vitality at all. Dare to take the Northern Sect exam like this, it's really beyond my strength!"

After speaking, Liu Chonghu seemed to look at him with some disappointment, and got up to leave.

Yuan Lai suddenly chuckled and said, "You are quite confident." ”

Liu Chonghu paused: "How can you dare to climb this immeasurable mountain without self-confidence?"

"That's right, but I advise you, self-confidence is a good thing, but overconfidence is annoying. If I don't take the test or not, I won't bother you to care. Yuan Lai sneered.

"Not enterprising. Liu Chonghu's face turned cold, and he said hard.

"Instead of you caring so much about me, it's better to prepare well for your exam, listen to what you mean just now, you have reached the first realm? Yuan looked at him and said leisurely.

"At the very least, it's much better than you. Liu Chonghu snorted coldly, and turned around to leave without talking nonsense.

The conversation here is not loud, and the range of movements is very small, so the sudden change in atmosphere was not felt by the guests at all, only Yuan Li, who had been watching from the side, sensed that something was wrong.

"Liu Gongzi seems to be angry?" Yuan Li looked at the back of the departing Liu Chonghu and asked curiously.

And at this time, where did Yuan Lai have the look he had just now? I saw him leaning lazily on the chair, pulling the black and white chess pieces, and said lightly: "It's okay, he's pretending." ”

"Ahh

"Yes, isn't it just pretending?" Yuan Lai said casually with a smile, he glanced at Liu Chonghu's distant back, and sighed: "That guy is indeed a genius, but he is also a bit of a genius-like stupid hat, Yuan Li, do you know what geniuses like to do the most?"

Yuan Li shook her head honestly, indicating that she didn't know, and at the same time made a listening gesture.

"Geniuses are creatures that like to find opponents and defeat them. They enjoy the thrill of victory, this Liu Chonghu doesn't know how to focus on the young master and me, I saw him at first glance and saw four words from his eyes: 'Seeing the hunting heart', he is treating me as a prey, first approaching and then trying to provoke me, I guess he is looking forward to me slapping the table and telling him to have a good competition in the Beizong exam! This kind of person is neurotic, but his acting skills are too poor and he is not qualified. Yuan Lai said lazily, very sneering.

Yuan Lai is an audience with high-end aesthetics, and non-actor-level acting skills are not eye-catching at all!

"However, some of the words he said were a bit useful, it turned out that the Kaobei Sect still asked to enter the first realm? Why didn't Tu Su say this...... Also, after playing two kinds of chess, why did it become that he lost when I lost? Alas, it seems that I still have to make up for this knowledge of cultivation......"

Yuan Lai muttered to himself, but Lu Zhangcha's face suddenly appeared in his heart, and that person still owed him a personal favor.

......

......

There was nothing to say all night, and the next day Liu Chonghu and his party got up early in the morning and left first, while Yuan Lai slept until he woke up naturally before Shi Shiran got up.

After eating, the group was ready to leave, but just as they were about to leave, Yuan Lai stopped the groom.

Because he saw a strange scene from the back window of the carriage.

On the way from Shencheng to the inn, a man in a cloak dragged a horse and was approaching the inn step by step.

He is not leading the horse, but dragging it.

Because the horse was already lying on the ground, and the man was pulling the reins and dragging the horse to crush the small grass and wild orchids on the road, under the sun and the blue sky, he pulled the horse that fell to the ground and came leisurely, attracting Yuan Lai's attention.

"That's a lot of strength...... he exclaimed.

The horse is hundreds of pounds, this man is not burly, his figure is like a scholar who reads, he can't see any strength, but he drags the horse but walks fast, and it is very easy, it seems that he is not dragging hundreds of pounds of meat to walk, but leading a yellow dog.

"Shopkeeper, I picked up a horse nearby, I heard you are here?"

The man asked, his tone mild-mannered.

Yuan Lai's eyes lit up......!

The man lowered the reins and removed the hat from his head, revealing a handsome, fair face.

"Palm tea?"