At that moment, Yizi slowly opened his eyes and stared at Yan Sidao on the other side expressionlessly, a pair of gray-white pupils flickering in the reflection of the firelight. After a while, a sneer of disdain appeared on the corner of his mouth, and he said in an ethereal and ethereal voice: "Since I can remember, I have lived on the top of a barren mountain for many years, and all I see all day long is the mountains and rivers, the clouds, the sky, the sun, the moon and the stars; In addition, there are several stone houses with books, and a lonely old man......"

When Yan Sidao heard this, he immediately smiled and said: "The ghost valley is not a valley, but it is at the top of the mountain, and it is small at a glance, so it is worthy of the status of a master who has dominated the world in the past dynasties, which is really desirable." As for the lonely old man in the mouth of the Taoist chief, he is naturally the 'Guiguzi' old man in the world, but the Taoist chief calls the respected teacher like this, could it be that what Mr. Qingtian's six incarnations said that day is true, and the Taoist really failed to rank on the Guigu Gate Wall, but it is true but nameless?"

Deichiko ignored his inquiry, and said to himself: "...... It is to accompany me all day long, there are only a few stone houses in the collection of all kinds of books, including the six arts, Zhuzi, military books, mathematics, square skills, poetry six categories, of which the six arts, Zhuzi is the 'Tao', military books, mathematics, square skills, poetry is the 'art'. At first, I read the Six Arts and Zhuzi in order to seek enlightenment of the 'Dao', but in the end, I found that all the bullshit did not make sense, and it was a contradictory self-justification, in a word, it was the four words of 'standard goodness and foolishness', so as to please the rulers of the past dynasties, and according to their doctrine, the people under their rule turned into docile fools like cattle and sheep, so as to control their bodies and minds, and wasted two years of my time in vain. So since then, I have abandoned the 'Dao' and attacked the 'Dao', and entered the 'Dao' with 'Shu', so as to become my own 'Dao'. ”

Yan Sidao couldn't help laughing, and praised loudly: "Well said! I have always boasted of being a 'traitor to the Tao,' but I never imagined that the Taoist chief would be superior to me, and that he would be 'without the scriptures and without the Tao'! It only took the Taoist chief two years to understand this truth, and he was really a great talent, but in comparison, I spent 24 years, and I was really embarrassed. ”

I only heard Yizi continue: "In the next four years, I read all the military books, mathematics, square techniques, and poems in the stone room, first studied extensively, then intensively studied, then presented evidence, and finally broke the theory, and fought with the author of the book all day long, fighting wits and hearts, which can be described as fun. In retrospect, it was not that I was a good book, but that I was on the top of a barren mountain at that time, and the old man lived in a simple place, often not saying a word for several days, so that I could only enjoy it and kill my time. It wasn't until one day, when the old man's eldest apprentice suddenly visited and broke the perennial silence in the mountains, that I finally found the true pleasure and even understood the true meaning of life. ”

When Deichiko said this, he couldn't help but pause slightly, and a trace of excitement clearly appeared in his eyes. Yan Sidao knew that he had already said the key point, but this time he didn't answer, just refilled a pot of dry tobacco and listened attentively. Then he said: "It is said that the old man's eldest apprentice visited at that time, and he had a problem to ask the old man for advice, but it happened to be the old man's retreat, and I don't know when he could see it, so his eldest apprentice came to me and invited me to talk with him for a few games. You must know that when I was seven years old, I learned chess by myself, and by the age of nine, I was able to calculate the winners and losers of chess. Unexpectedly, the two sides sat down and entered the game, and the black and white children fell in turn, and after thirty steps, I realized that the situation was not as I thought......"

At this point, Yan Sidao recalled the "three-legged" game in the prison village, couldn't help but smile slightly, and said with a dry smoke: "The so-called victory and defeat between the Taoist chief is actually just the two sons of 'skill'. Moreover, Mr. Yi's eldest disciple is undoubtedly the successor of the 'Sheng' of the Guigu lineage, and he is also the senior brother of the Taoist, and his high chess power can be seen. The Taoist used the skills he learned from the book to play against him, and it was normal for him to lose one or two games. ”

Who knew that Yizi ignored it and said to himself: "...... As the saying goes, chess is dead, people are alive, although the chess power of the old man and the big apprentice is far less than that of the national players of the past dynasties, but the strategy and scheming of the game are not possessed by those chess game endgames, and the fall is not in my calculations. By the time I figured it out, the two sides had gone down to forty-eight steps, and for me it was almost a foregone conclusion. Then I adjusted my strategy and gradually adapted to the situation of playing against the living people, and finally ended the game on the evening of the fourth day, defeating him by half a goal. ”

Yan Sidao didn't expect that the final result was the first time to play against someone to win, and he couldn't help but be a little stunned. Immediately after that, he faintly guessed what was going to happen next, and his face suddenly changed slightly. Sure enough, the excitement in De Yizi's eyes became more and more intense, and his tone was also raised, and he said proudly: "So I finally understand a truth, that is, no matter how profound and subtle the words in the book are, they are just dead things after all." Compared with those dead people who leave books to pass on to the world, competing with the living in front of you is the greatest joy of life!"

After that, Deyizi quickened his speech, and said in a loud voice: "Saying that the old man's eldest apprentice lost half of me, he was shocked, but he was inevitably not convinced, but it was exactly what I wanted." So I continued to fight against him, from Go fighting to chess, from poetry to articles, from strategy and discussion to the art of war, from Taoist fighting to formation, both sides ate when they were hungry, drank water when they were thirsty, and settled down when they were sleepy, and fought for 136 consecutive days in one breath, with a total of 379 games of various sizes. In the end, the old man's eldest apprentice did not win a game, and they were all defeated by me, and he was so anxious that all his black hair turned white and fell off one after another. In the end, he ruthlessly used the Guigu Peerless 'Xuanwei Death Technique', wanting to destroy my divine consciousness, but I attacked my heart and broke the technique, so that the divine power devoured himself, and he was about to be destroyed. However, at this moment, an old man who had not been seen for several months suddenly appeared and asked me to stop and spare the life of his eldest apprentice. ”

Hearing this, Yan Sidao was already horrified in his heart, and when he paused for a while, he couldn't help but sigh: "I have heard for a long time that there are only two disciples in the Guigu lineage, one is called 'life' and the other is called 'death', which is already both friend and foe, or mutual restraint, Su Qin and Zhang Yi in the past, and Sun Bin and Pang Juan in the future, it seems that it is true." ”

But he heard Yizi's tone cold, and continued: "Although the old man showed up to dissuade me, I was playing at the time, so I ignored it, but the old man only said one sentence, so I really stopped and let his eldest apprentice go. Do you know what the old man said at that time?"

Unexpectedly, he suddenly asked, and before he had time to think about it, he had already asked and answered himself, and replied lightly: "The old man said to me: 'He is not worthy of being your opponent, so I will play with you.'" ’”

As soon as these words came out, Yan Sidao suddenly gasped, even though there was a cluster of burning flames in front of him, he couldn't detect the slightest heat, but there was an inexplicable gloom that came from the opposite one, which made him shiver involuntarily. I could only hear that Ichiko's tone changed back to the previous ethereal and ethereal, as if telling someone else's story, and then stared at the fire in front of him and said: "So in the next few days, the old man will personally play with me, and this game will be seven years, nine months and eighteen days, a total of 4,873 games...... Well, at last the old man picked up a large pile of firewood, sat down in it, and told me to light it. ”

As the words of Deichiko fell, the two people on the hill were silent at the same time, except for the night wind blowing through the woods, mixed with the crackling sound of the flames burning. After a long time, Yan Sidao stuffed the long-idle dry tobacco stick into his mouth, and when he inhaled it, he found that a pot of dry tobacco had already burned out, so he had to find out the tobacco again and fill it. But listening to the other side, Deichiko asked lightly: "So what I mean, do you understand?"

Yan Sidao took a deep breath of the newly installed dry cigarette and said with a forced smile: "I naturally understand what the Taoist chief meant, but it's just ...... It's just that there are sun, moon and stars, and there are eight desolations and seas below, and there are thousands of fun in this world? It's better for you and me to take a step back, first fulfill the promise made with Mr. Aota, and quell the rebellion in front of me, and then I will find another game to ensure that you can have a ......good time."

Without waiting for him to finish speaking, he already sighed, shook his head and said, "It seems that you still don't understand!" As he spoke, he took a deep breath, and the gray and white pupils in his eyes looked directly at the words on the other side, and said sharply: "What bullshit and wolf, what kind of court Heng Wang, are all stupid things like pigs and dogs, and they are not even as good as those books in the Guigu Stone Room! What I want to play with is not these dead things, but living people, living people who are qualified to be my opponents!" There are only three in the world, one is dead and only the corpse in the box remains, the other has not yet been born, and you are the only one left!"

As he spoke, Huo Ran got up and said loudly: "What is playing with the countries of the four seas in the palm of his hand, what is 'the sky is a chessboard and the stars are the sons, and the earth is the pipa road and the strings', it is absolutely absurd and superficial! Only children are bored enough to manipulate a few groups of ants to fight and kill, and they are still having fun! Even if the ants in this world are completely dead, what does it have to do with me? Since I want to play, of course I have to play with people; and fighting with people is the real fun!"