After resting on the stone steps of the mountain, the young man in green shirt and the girl in white climbed the back mountain together.

I saw the two of them, above the inverted waterfall, in the pavilion.

Yuan Tiancheng, the deputy mountain master of Buye Mountain, played against a sword immortal in white in the pavilion.

Li Zijin recognized the identity of the other person at a glance, took a step forward, and said in surprise: "Senior Ye?!"

The white-clothed sword immortal, holding a white son in his hand, looked at the young swordsman in green shirt with a smile, nodded and said, "I haven't seen you for a few days, and the swordsmanship has entered the realm again, and the kid can." ”

Yuan Tiancheng also smiled and beckoned to Li Zijin, and after letting him enter the pavilion, he stood next to the two.

The young man was naturally disrespectful, walked to the door of the gazebo, and each saluted to the two seniors who were both in age and realm, and then stepped into the gazebo, not standing on the side that blocked the view of the two seniors, but standing in the direction of entering the pavilion from the climbing stone steps.

The young man was silent, watching the chess without saying a word, silently looking at the two people in the pavilion, each holding black and white chess pieces, on the nineteen vertical and horizontal chessboards, vertical and horizontal, killing all directions.

When it comes to playing chess, Li Zijin is not even a beginner, and he didn't get in, so when he was young, he watched the young master Li Huairen play a few games of chess with the master, Li Jianyi, the county guard of Taiping County.

Of course, for some basic introductory chess theories, such as qi, eye, eating, abandoning children, longevity, and double mention, the teenager still has heard of it, after all, it is difficult to "know nothing".

Behind Li Zijin, the koi girl who was born with a charm hid behind the boy, saw two people, and didn't dare to go forward with him and enter the pavilion.

just kept the distance that Li Zijin always stayed within her sight, and the girl herself stood very obediently on the side, quietly looking at the three people in the pavilion.

The two seniors who played in the pavilion, one was Yuan Tiancheng, the deputy mountain master of the Nightless Mountain, and the other was on the Kunpeng ferry, in the Pavilion of Listening to the Wind, I happened to see the young man "practicing swords after being drunk", and Ye Shixue, who had practiced swords with the young man.

Li Zijin still vaguely remembered that this Ye Shixue senior, said that he came from a famous sword sect called the Blowing Snow Sword Sect, and when he came to this Sleepless Mountain, after hearing that he had asked about the sword shop, the young man also fantasized about whether he would meet the disciples of the Blowing Snow Sword Sect.

I never thought that whether it was in the noisy and bustling city that never sleeps, or the upside-down waterfall Wenjiantai where sword cultivators gathered, or the quieter and sparsely populated near the small jade building. Li Zijin hadn't seen or heard anyone mention anything about the Snow Blowing Sword Sect.

So in Li Zijin's eyes, Ye Shixue, as well as his Snow Blowing Sword Sect, are covered with a layer of mystery.

I didn't expect that I would bring the girl in white to find Lord Yuan Mountain today, and I would actually be able to meet Senior Ye here.

Li Zijin couldn't help but sigh with emotion, it's really a place where you don't meet in life.

Yuan Tiancheng dropped a son, ate a few white seeds in the corner of Ye Shixue's chessboard, went down to the city first, and said casually: "It's Brother Ye, I said that I wanted to see you, so I asked the maid Birui to show you the way." I didn't expect you and Brother Ye to be old acquaintances?"

The beautiful maid of the Sleepless Mountain, successively under the Kunpeng ferry, at the Sleepless Mountain Ferry, the Jade Building, and the Sleepless Mountain Square, successively picked up Li Zijin several times, and just now on the side of the upside-down waterfall, outside the Partridge Peak teleportation array, she pointed the way for Li Zijin.

Speaking of which, the young man and the beautiful maid of the Sleepless Mountain have had a lot of meetings in just a few days, and they have never known her name, and at this time they were mentioned by the lord of Yuan Mountain, and it turned out that the maid was named Birui.

Ye Shixue nodded and smiled, and landed a white piece on the other corner of the chessboard, ate Yuan Tiancheng's three sunspots, and then said: "A few days ago, Yujian passed by the Kunpeng ferry, and happened to see Li Zijin drinking and practicing swordsmanship in the pavilion, so he took a few more looks on the side, and never thought that at a young age, he could already create his own swordsmanship, which was really surprising, I chatted with him a few words, the sword is a good sword, and the person is also a good person, and his temper is a rare junior for me." ”

The sentence "rare", in fact, is already Ye Shixue, the great sword immortal from the Blowing Snow Sword Sect, has a very high evaluation.

Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon in the world, there are countless young talents, and there are very few juniors who can afford Ye Shixue's sentence "rare".

Li Zijin smiled and asked, "Why did Senior Ye come to Sleepless Mountain?"

Li Zijin didn't think that he had such a big face, and as soon as he took a sword and asked the head of the sword, he asked Ye Shixue to come to congratulate him immediately.

Ye Shixue and Yuan Tiancheng glanced at each other, and felt that it was okay to tell the young man now, so he said: "There is a demon cave in Taoyao Prefecture, a few days ago, many demons ran out of the demon cave, in order to harm the people of a state, it just so happened that several of my teachers and nephews were training over there, and sent a message back to the Blowing Snow Sword Sect with a flying sword for help, I saw that the flying sword was very familiar in the clouds, so I followed, and took a closer look, sure enough, it was the flying sword of the Blowing Snow Sword Sect, so I stopped the flying sword, and when I learned about it, I hurried over. ”

Li Zijin is no stranger to the matter of flying sword transmission, although he has never tried it, but a few months ago, when the young man was still in Wuding Mountain, he had heard his mentor Xie Yufeng tell the story about his little brother, Chen Siyuan.

Among them, it is mentioned that Chen Siyuan, as well as a group of Wudingshan disciples, went to Daxuan Capital sixteen years ago to kill demons near the Sword Pavilion, during this period, that Chen Siyuan's predecessor used the flying sword to transmit messages and communicate with Xie Yufeng through the Flying Sword Hall.

Therefore, Li Zijin knew that the speed of those messenger flying swords was extremely fast, and it was difficult for ordinary sword immortals, even ordinary immortal ferries, to catch up with the speed of messenger flying swords.

And since Ye Shixue was able to say lightly that he himself caught up with the Flying Sword of the Snow Blowing Sword Sect's Messenger Flying Sword, then it confirmed the high realm of this Ye senior.

Li Zijin nodded and said: "I see, the Daxuan Dynasty of Cang Gengzhou, where the younger generation is located, rarely heard of demons, how did this Taoyao Prefecture come out of a demon cave?"

Yuan Tiancheng smiled and shook his head, he didn't break the mystery, just rolled up his sleeve with one hand, and added a sunspot to a position on the chessboard that seemed to be self-abandoned.

Ye Shixue was stunned at first when she saw this move, and then said with a smile: "Li Zijin, can you master chess?"

The boy shook his head, "I don't understand." ”

Ye Shixue picked up a white child, hovered in the air, unable to fall for a long time, while his mind was in a hurry, looking for a way to deal with it, he patiently explained to the young man: "The people on the mountain, and the people under the mountain, on weekdays, just like me and Yuan Shanzhu, play against each other, with the country and the mountains as the chessboard, the princes and generals as the chess pieces, and the land of the two countries as the border, and the next game of mountains and rivers chess. ”

Li Zijin didn't know what to do, he just nodded slightly, and didn't say much.

The white-clothed sword immortal said again: "If you have seen the picture scroll of the mountains and rivers of Fuyao Kyushu, and the mountains and rivers of the continents of each state, you will know that not every state of the mountain immortal sect and the mountain dynasty can get along in harmony. The Cang Gengzhou where you are is is the most peaceful state in the Kyushu in the world, the forces on the mountain and under the mountain, so in Cang Gengzhou, the people who play against each other are not on the mountain and under the mountain, but people and demons. ”

It's like an initiation, instantly waking up a teenager.

Li Zijin remembered that in Wuding City, Yan Kingdom, a gold cave, the woman in Tsing Yi who pretended to be Su Hu showed the young man the division of power in this world with a map of the mountains and rivers of the Daxuan Dynasty and a picture scroll of the world in Kyushu.

Combined with Xie Yufeng's dictation, the letters that Chen Siyuan sent him, and the few words of Ye Shixue today, the young man already had a faint guess in his heart, but he was still not sure, he looked solemn and waited for the following.

That Ye Shixue refused to fall for a long time, Yuan Tiancheng was not impatient, did not urge, did not turn his head to look at the scene, nor did he look at the young man, but from beginning to end, his eyes have been wandering on the chessboard between the two, as if he was already "helping Ye Shixue and choosing a drop point".

Playing chess is like fighting a war, knowing oneself and knowing one's opponent is the only way to survive a hundred battles.

A truly skilled chess player will not be short-sighted enough to only look at the current step or two steps, but will inevitably take a long-term view when he falls, know how to judge the situation, know how to layout, and be more able to "fall for the opponent", analyze the opponent's ideas, so as to change his own backhand, adjust his tactics according to the opponent's layout.

Right now, this deputy mountain master of the Sleepless Mountain is taking advantage of Ye Shixue's indecisive time, and when the opponent is thinking, he is also thinking about the next step, or rather, the next step, or even later, how to go and how to choose.

After a long time, Ye Shixue finally fell, it was a strange move that did not follow the usual path, it seemed to be unreasonable, but in fact, it cut off Yuan Tiancheng's "expected" back hand.

Yuan Tiancheng played a dangerous chess game and lived to die, but Ye Shixue made a strange move and was unprepared.

After this hand, the two opponents smiled knowingly.

This white-clothed Ye Jianxian turned his head to look at Li Zijin and said, "Can you figure it out?"

The young swordsman in the green shirt, whose brain is never slow, can understand it at one point, nodded at this time, but he didn't dare to say too much, but in a conservative tone that was close to speculation, he said tentatively: "What the seniors mean is that the reason why the younger generation can't hear the news of the demons in Canggeng Prefecture is because of a Canggeng Prefecture, because the Immortal Sect on the mountain has close ties with the secular dynasty and gets along harmoniously, so they can work together, support each other, and join forces to fight the demons with the forces up and down the mountain." The people who play against them are the people of the mountain and the people of the mountain, and they play against the demons. And the rest of Kyushu, because the mountains and mountains, people's hearts are not aligned, it is a game between the mountains and the mountains, so in the matter of slaying demons and demons, each has room to spare, and they are not willing to make a move, but always guard against the same kind, so they can't completely exterminate the demons?"

Teenagers can think so. Ye Shixue and Yuan Tiancheng can't nod and say yes.

The scene fell silent for a moment.

But sometimes, when there is no answer, there is an answer.

At this moment, the Snow Blowing Sword sent Ye Shixue, and Yuan Tiancheng, the deputy mountain master of Buye Mountain, gave the same answer.

This kind of answer is called default.