As everyone knows, there are three sects and four saints in Yanguan Town, Liangzhou, who sit in the town to guard the door, for 10,000 years, the three religions will rotate the town guards every few Jiazi, although the length of time in each family is uncertain, but after 10,000 years of precipitation, each family has dozens of saints who have served in this place.

But most people in the world don't know that the town guard saints of Yanguan Town are never four, but actually five! And in fact, although the saints of the Quartet who belong to the three sects and families all wear the word "town guard", they are more responsible for the janitor of the town, plus the foot of each town guarding a large array, the real fifth person array master has never actually appeared in front of people, but has only taken that bronze bell as his home, hanging on the old locust tree at the east entrance of the town for nearly 10,000 years.

Tonight, when the situation changed suddenly, this pinnacle of existence, who was called "the bell senior hanging on the tree" by the little girl in red, walked out of the house for the first time in 10,000 years and settled on the earth and stone ground under the old locust tree!

Nearly 10,000 years have not been down-to-earth, so Rao is one of the four heavenly books, at this moment he can't help but have a lot of feelings, the long river of time has never stopped, struggling with countless people on the mountain and down the mountain, everyone wants to practice higher, the farther away, look up only to see the moon in the sky, silver boots cover the ground like empty smell, probably there will not be a few people just because their feet can step on the ground, they feel safe in their hearts, right?

The poor young man who was already standing under the old locust tree turned his head sharply when he heard the sound, and what he saw was a young man dressed in a dark green robe, with a tall figure and silver hair like jade, but his face seemed to be only about thirty years old.

When he was summoned into a white space where he didn't even exist in the self, although he hadn't seen this deity, but listening to the dry and hoarse voice, the young man thought that this senior was likely to be the kind of old image with a rickety and drooping old age, or maybe it might be like the head of the Northern Spirit Temple, Lu Daochang, who looked a lot older... But I didn't expect him to be like this.

But in any case, this was not the time to be surprised, so the young man was only stunned, so he hurriedly bent down and bowed with his fists in salute: "I've seen... Zhong seniors. ”

As a result, as soon as these words came out, the scene was quiet, and then I heard the senior's strange tone, and he seemed to smile: "Who told you that my surname is Zhong?" ”

This question came a little abruptly, and the young man was a little stunned, although he didn't dare to say it, but his eyes couldn't help but reveal questions, you are a bell, shouldn't you be called a senior bell?

"I live in Zhongli and my surname is Zhong, so if you live in an adobe house, should you be surnamed Tu?"

The senior could understand the young man's doubts, so after asking him with this sentence, he smiled and gave his own explanation, "It's true that I am a book from heaven, but who said that the book of heaven must be a bell?" You see that I am this bronze bell, just because I have been living in the bell, lonely and lonely for thousands of years, and I feel that the four walls of my house seem too pitiful, so I will have nothing to do to write on the clock wall to pass the time, and you can see that the words have changed, just because I write too much when I am bored, so they line up by themselves, take turns to come out to let off steam. ”

"That..."The young man was a little embarrassed, since he didn't have the surname Zhong, how should he call it?

"In fact, as a book from heaven, I originally had no name or surname, but many years ago, in the endless flow of time, I had served three people successively, so many people in later generations have named me with the surnames or country names of those three saints, the first two are called Lianshan and Guizang, and the third is the founding name of Zhou, so you can call me any of them."

Listening to this explanation, Chu Yuanxiao scratched the back of his head a little confused, he still didn't even recognize the thousand-character text, let alone know who the Lianshan clan and the Guizang clan were, and who the sage who founded the country was Zhou... However, since any of the three can be used, the young man did not make a choice directly, and naturally saluted the senior with his fists: "I have seen Lianshan senior." ”

The white-haired and green-robed Lianshan senior nodded with a smile, and didn't dwell too much on the matter, he directly turned his head to look in the direction of the Wufang Pavilion, and then said to the young man: "I told you before that some people have been staring at this place for many years, and after today, they finally can't help but stretch out their paws, so according to the agreement between you and me before, you need to go to the Wufang Pavilion with me, and as a chess player, you will play a game of chess with someone." ”

On the stone table in the Wufang Pavilion in the town, there is a pair of wooden chess all year round, and everyone in the town who understands some chess theory has basically sat at the stone table as a chess player, but they have never had today's battle, it can only be regarded as an ordinary game, but this does not include the young Chu Yuanxiao in front of him, firstly, no one will teach him to learn this, and secondly, because even if he learns the theory of chess, probably no one will want to play against him.

Therefore, when he heard Lianshan's seniors say that he wanted him to play chess with others as a chess player, the young man was a little embarrassed, "Seniors, juniors... Can't play chess. ”

The predecessor Lianshan is not surprised by this, since this boy was carried back to the town when he was a baby, he has been in that bronze bell for many years, so how did this teenager grow step by step, what did he learn, what he didn't learn... He may know better than the boy himself, so listening to the young man's explanation of the period Ai Ai, he just smiled again and said: "It doesn't matter whether you can play chess or not, today's game of chess is not the usual way to play, where each chess piece should go, I will tell you, you just need to put it in the position where it should be." ”

This is not difficult, the young man's heart is a little at ease, although he has not learned to play chess, but occasionally he will take a look at the Wufang Pavilion from a distance, and he will always see that there will be a group of people around the stone table many times, shouting and drinking with each other, arguing loudly about how to move the next move, how to lay out the current situation and how to fall, and so on, it is very lively, as if every chess viewer will know the direction of the situation better than the chess player, and it seems that the chess power is higher and more powerful than the real opponent, and often a game of chess is played to the end, It will evolve into a chessboard where victory or defeat is only secondary, and arguing about who is wrong and who is right will be the biggest success or failure.

However, Lianshan's predecessor said so, but the young man still didn't understand some questions too much, "Senior, why do you have to play chess with that person, isn't it more direct and safer for you to be the chess player?" ”

Lian Shan didn't answer the young man's question directly, but raised his feet and walked out slowly from the shade of the old locust tree, and then looked up at the dark night sky in the sky where there was not a single star, and said lightly: "First, because today happens to be the solar term spring equinox, it should have been the day when the town was ready to close, if it wasn't for the accident in front of us, we would have sent the strangers who visited this time and the teenagers they were going to take away from the town." ”

As he spoke, he turned his head and looked at the young man again, and continued: "Second, because since the other party is prepared today, it will definitely not be just the person standing outside the town at this moment, as the main formation of this big array, I will need to do a lot, if I personally sit in that cage-like pavilion and play chess with others, I will not have another opportunity to take care of the side things, and to deal with the four janitors who are in the big array, so I need you to suffer that prison on my behalf, All you need to do is play chess according to the message I gave you before I finish the outside work, so that I can drag the person playing against you in the gazebo until the moment I turn back to save the game, and even if I lose the game, I can put something back where he should be! ”

Listening to Lian Shan's explanation silently, the young man not only did not relax, but felt that the pressure on his shoulders suddenly became heavier and heavier.

He had heard a little bit about the fact that there was a certain murderous thing under Yanguan Town, and on the day Mr. Cui accepted him to get started, in addition to giving him a copy of "Thousand Character Text", he also had a simple explanation for this matter.

At this moment, the situation is obvious, because the Wufang Pavilion has the saying of "Middle Five Poles", and it is also the center of the Nine Palaces Bagua Diagram arranged in the town, so in terms of the entire Yanguan Great Array, the Wufang Pavilion is where the eye of the formation is, and if the thing under the big array wants to break the formation, someone must win the game of the Chu River and Han Boundary from the outside, and then break the seal, and then be able to escape from the thing underground.

The one who can take on this important task on the side of the formation, even if he is not the leader, is by no means easy to match, but the side defending the formation will actually send a young man like Chu Yuanxiao, who has no half-inch cultivation in his body, does not recognize all the big characters, does not have any knowledge of the rivers and lakes, and does not even know how to play chess, to deal with the opponent's formation-breaking offensive... This choice even made the boy himself feel a little ridiculous, and it is no wonder that Mr. Cui said that after he sent the letter back to Middle-earth, many people on the side of the Confucian Temple expressed strong dissatisfaction with this matter, and even proposed to ask the Holy Master to clean up the portal.

For the young man's contemplation, Lian Shan was just silent, watching his series of expressions change, and he didn't say a word for a long time, until the young man came back to his senses, the white-haired and green-robed spirit of the heavenly book who didn't know how long he had lived did he hook his lips and smile, and said: "Don't be presumptuous, I told you when I met you for the first time, today's situation is not your choice, in fact, you chose me, and the little Taoist priest surnamed Lu also told you, 'The Great Dao is fifty, Tianyan is forty-nine, How do you know that the 'one' won't be you? ”

That's right, but the young man still feels in his heart that if he dares to take on such a big errand that concerns the world just by relying on such a statement, then he shouldn't be called overwhelmed, he should be called a dog!

Lian Shan saw that the more the young man knew, the heavier his heart became, he couldn't help but feel a little helpless, but also more appreciation, as the spirit of the book of heaven, he himself can pass through all things in the world, before and after knowing, so in the bronze bell in the past 10,000 years, he has also deduced and observed countless amazing and brilliant so-called geniuses and Tianjiao in the world, some people have never retreated all the way to the heights, always pay attention to the right, everything can be the first, and many things to the end, but also by these luck and hard work of the pride of the sky, Fought out a good ending that belongs to them, but this does not represent everything in the world, as long as the matter is near, it must be said that "do not give in", because it is precisely the ancestor of the Confucian family who said these four words, and also said the four words "gentleman three fears", and the first of these three fears is to fear the destiny of heaven.

However, the current situation is indeed that the young man cannot retreat, so Lian Shan appreciated it, but also made some calculations in his heart, and finally compromised with the young man: "Since you are really worried, then let's take a compromise method, I will leave a small part of the divine consciousness into your sea of consciousness, in this way, the game in the Wufang Pavilion will be controlled by you and me, the chess game will be presided over by the half of my mastery, and you will be responsible for the contingency matter, you and I will work together to drag that person, what do you think?" ”

At this moment, although Chu Yuanxiao was still a little unconfident, but with this Lianshan senior in his mind, he was somewhat relieved, as for some of the immortal methods used in this proposal... It's no wonder.

And he also knew that since this senior had planned to let him enter the Wufang Pavilion from the very beginning, it was hard to say whether his successive excuses would change the result, but it would definitely disrupt some of the layout of this senior, and it might be the best and safest way to have this compromise now.

Lian Shan saw that the young man did not refuse, and finally smiled with satisfaction, this result is actually similar to his initial estimate, if this young man comes up with a chest bang, he will be a little worried, it is this kind of respect and awe that is possible to survive the next tug-of-war, and the reason why he deliberately arranged the previous section of bargaining, one is to give this young man a sufficient psychological preparation, and the other is to make him realize that he must do his best to live up to the trust, otherwise he will lose the whole game with a bad move, Not only can't this salt official array, but even all the creatures in this town have to take their lives!

After the two agreed, Lian Shan took the young man and slowly walked to the vicinity of the Wufang Pavilion, and then he stepped on the spire above the Wufang Pavilion in one step, stood with his hands in his hands, and smiled loudly: "Mr. Moda, since you have traveled thousands of miles to visit Yanguan, why don't you come in and talk about it?" Since you have been preparing for many years and want to break the formation, but now that the matter is approaching, you are standing outside the big formation, I'm afraid you are a bit anticlimactic, right? ”

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Outside Yanguan Town, the white-clothed young man who stood in front of the Golden Pillar Cliff three miles west of the town was holding a jade fracture fan that was as black as ink, as if the Golden Pillar Cliff in front of him could not block his vision, and after saying the words of "stupid tiger", he had been standing in place, smiling and watching a series of changes in the entire town.

From the appearance of the layout of the outer circle and the inner square, to the appearance of the four saints guarding the array in all directions, and then to the appearance of the four spirits, the four-colored pillars of light that rose to the sky around the entire Yanguan Great Array, plus the dazzling golden light that rolled and boiled between the sixty-four hexagrams and three hundred and eighty-six hexagrams in the town, gathered together to illuminate the dark and gloomy night within a radius of ten miles as bright as day, and also illuminated the white-clothed people standing under the cliff stones clearly and delicately!

However, the handsome man in white who was indistinguishable from male and female just kept standing in place, as if he was watching a big show, with a smile on the corner of his lips, and without any hindrance, he just let the whole big array run until it reached its peak!

It wasn't until the moment when the real big array in the center of the town invited him that he smiled slightly, slowly raised his legs and walked, and when he stepped out, his figure appeared in the air without a track, and his eyes could easily cross the cliff rock that was more than a thousand feet high, and at a glance he saw the white-haired young man in dark green robe at the top of the pavilion in the center of the town.

It was also at this time that the handsome white-clothed man known as Mr. Mo Da finally said the second sentence after arriving in the town: "After all, this Yanguan Town is a Taoist altar personally placed by several top people in the world, and you Mr. Zhou is personally in charge. But since Mr. Zhou is full of sincerity, there must always be a chance to prepare a little courtesy! ”

After that, without waiting for others to reply, the man in white gently raised his left hand, and pressed his thumb and index finger in one place to snap his fingers!

This crisp sound, like the inspiring rumbling war drum on the battlefield where the two armies are facing each other, although there is only one sound, it echoes endlessly in a radius of ten miles of heaven and earth, like a hollow valley, the farther the sound spreads, the more the drum sounds, and the thousands of creatures in the town who fell into ignorance because of the operation of the big array, although their eyes are empty, but in the echo of this drum, it is like the soul is about to be torn away, all of them show a painful face!

The next moment, from the distant horizon in all directions of Yanguan Town, no less than twenty dazzling golden lights like bright stars suddenly lit up, and as soon as they appeared, they converged towards the town at a very fast speed, and they arrived in front of them in the blink of an eye, and these golden lights that suddenly appeared were nothing else, without exception, all of them were the pinnacle martial artists who had been sanctified by the flesh!

When the battle was completed, the young man in white at the head hooked his lips and smiled, seriously straightened his clothes, and then saluted the total five defenders, and said with a loud smile: "Xudu Mo Qianqiu, planning for many years, today to break the formation, please give me advice!" ”

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