In the five-sided pavilion, the Ghost Marquis of Fengdu and the young man from the small town sat on opposite sides of each other across a stone table. The Chu River and the Han border each occupied half of the country.
Chu Yuanxiao was a little embarrassed at this time. Strictly speaking, it was the first time for him to enter this pavilion today. In the past thirteen years, he had always been an unwelcome alien in this small town. The saying that "lone star, fate can defeat relatives" has never disappeared for a while.
Although his home is at the east entrance of the town, he does not have the dignity to blend in with the crowd. Wufang Pavilion is the most crowded place in the town, so he basically has no chance to get close to this stone table, and naturally it is more There is no chance to learn even one and a half moves in the so-called chess game.
Looking at the embarrassed expression on the young man's face, Mo Qianqiu in white just smiled slightly and was not in a hurry to get entangled with him about the chess game. Instead, he changed the topic and started chatting with the young man, "As far as I know, you, Chu Yuanxiao, were in the past In the past few years, your life in this small town below you has been unsatisfactory. You have been lonely since you were a child, and you have not seen many kind faces along the way. In fact, most people have spoken unscrupulously and cursed you. You have a bad attitude. You are as humble as a dog in front of others, but you are naturally superior in front of you. But today you still have to embarrass yourself and sit at this stone table, risking your life to fight with me, just to save this person. Is it really worth saving the lives of the evil people who are in trouble with you?"
Seeing that the young man was silent, Mo Qianqiu was not in a hurry and continued to smile: "The Zhu family in the small town was born rich with fine clothes and good food, but he didn't even say hello. He broke the contract and took over your yard without any scruples for the sake of his own family's future. , they still want to dig up your ancestral graves; for the sake of their son's bright future, the couple at Hanji Restaurant did not hesitate to work with outsiders to cut off your road, and even after seizing your opportunity, they still blamed you. They lost half of their family fortune and caused her son to suffer as well; and Zhao Jicheng from Zhennan, who had not dealt with you since childhood, although he did have his difficulties, he took out his anger on you. The only good person who has never had any trouble with him is that although the eldest daughter of the Liu family has never ridiculed him, she still has a playboy brother named Liu Qinghui, and you have really never had any trouble with him. He is the only person who is angry and refuses to settle accounts with his enemies, but he is the only one who can't let go of a good man who can be called a single seedling."
Having said this, the old god, the Ghost Marquis of Fengdu, slowly raised his hand and moved a chess piece on the chessboard, shooting eight to five.
Then he looked at the swollen-looking young man across from him with a smile, and said with a smile: "These are just the ones I named, but in fact you know better in your heart. There are many such and even more extreme ones. For you, this town is Almost all of them are evil people!”
"The shopkeeper Fan who smiles all the year round in the sea of clouds in the west of Zhenxi is willing to do business with you because the things you send there are always more than enough for him to make a profit. However, when he thinks that the little fat man from the Zhu family is suitable, When he was an apprentice, he never considered what kind of dirty things the Zhu family had done..."
"Even Mr. Cui, who you became a disciple of, maybe it was because you were shown mercy by Feng Xuelou, and because you were valued by the Heavenly Book, and there were some other causes and effects that made him think you were a human being. It’s God’s destiny to accept you into his sect…”
"The founder of their Confucian sect once said something that I think is very reasonable. It's called 'Repay evil with kindness, how to repay kindness? Repay resentment with straightness, repay kindness with kindness'. Today you are scratching your head and risking your life to save others. Don’t you feel awkward? Don’t you feel that you are repaying kindness with evil? Don’t you feel in your heart that you are actually risking your life to save a group of enemies?”
The man in white didn't seem to be in a hurry to get a big victory in every inch of the chessboard, so that an ancient being suppressed under the formation could escape and escape. Instead, he started chatting with everyone as if they were gossiping. The poor young man in shabby clothes sitting opposite him recounted countless sad things about the past ten years. His tone was as calm as an old friend, and as sincere as the spring breeze. After he finished speaking what he wanted to say, he did not force anyone to interrupt him and just kept quiet. Waiting for the young man who was playing chess with him to come to the final conclusion.
The poor boy opposite him fell into deep thought from the moment the man in white uttered the words "I have been lonely since childhood." When I heard the following words word for word, I felt as if the man in white had been talking to him since Chu Yuanxiao. From the moment he was picked up by that old drunkard back to the town, he has been by his side, using his vision to watch the countless mornings and dusk in the town where chickens and dogs come and go, just like a close friend, and just like what he is thinking. The omniscient inner dragon.
When Mo Qianqiu finished speaking and then began to wait quietly for his answer, the young man still did not look up in a hurry. Countless events in the past years began to light up in the heart lake one after another, as if he were sitting in this pavilion. After that, his memory, which was already very good, became even better, and the memories that were originally somewhat vague began to appear like the events before him, every detail was clear and audible.
After a long time, the young man, who seemed to have suddenly woken up from a big dream, raised his head for the first time and looked at the man in white opposite him. The first words he spoke seemed to have nothing to do with the question the man asked. "Someone once told me that from the moment I was born, a group of people have been watching me and trying to take my life away! I could never imagine before that the other party would Who are they? But after I had the honor to meet Mr. Mo Da today, I also have a question to ask, is that group of people related to you?"
Mo Qianqiu in white didn't get the answer to his question. Instead, he was suddenly asked by the young man. He raised his eyebrows in surprise, but the answer he gave was still very direct, and he didn't seem to mean to hide it at all, "If I just simply You may not necessarily believe the answer that it’s not us. So why don’t I give you one more simple analysis? Do you think it makes sense? The purpose of our group has always been obvious and clear from the very beginning. The only thing is to break this big formation, rescue an old friend who was trapped under it, and return to Fengdu. From this, all the subsequent layouts and all the chess moves actually revolve around this matter itself. The reason for the plan was to steal the hammer of the bronze bell, and the reason for the sale of Jinzhu Yashan Stone by the Liu family that you had participated in..."
"This game of chess has come to this day. It seems that I have a slight advantage at the moment. However, although this game can have the exquisite situation it has today, it does not mean that in the early stages of the game, the layout of operations such as work, tetsuji, and murderous intent will be perfect. It's very simple and easy. In fact, it requires carefulness and trembling. Every opportunity to make a move is hard-won. It is not an exaggeration to lose everything in one step. After all, the three religions are not easy to deal with. The saints who are here are here. It is by no means general, otherwise it would not be the case that today's Jiuzhou in the world is still in the hands of Linyuan Academy, and our Motian clan is still nestled on some isolated islands in the endless sea, barren. Birds in this land don’t poop, and if you want to eat poop, you can’t get a warm one.”
After talking about his dilemma in such an unabashed way, Mo Qianqiu looked at the young man and smiled lightly, and continued: "I am just telling you that I never do useless things when playing chess. In my opinion, if it weren't for some Those who have acted unreasonably against you before, you will probably be like other small town creatures at this time, staying in your own courtyard in a daze, waiting for the final result of this game to come to light, otherwise everyone is ignorant and helpless. I feel that my body is dead, or how I will live my life when I wake up tomorrow morning, but I know nothing about the danger at this moment. Instead of facing me like this, I have to put in more effort to be with you again. A tug-of-war... So deliberately targeting you is a useless move that is harmful and useless to me. Taking one more step will do more harm than good, not to mention having to go through so many steps. Is it possible that I am still afraid of myself? Is it too easy to win?”
When the young man Chu Yuanxiao heard the answer from the person opposite, he opened his mouth but seemed not to know how to answer, so he frowned and thought for a long time, and said with uncertainty: "But a large part of those things, from the results From a practical point of view, it has contributed to the formation of today’s situation.”
Hearing this, Mo Qianqiu laughed and couldn't help laughing. He looked at the young man and said, "It is indeed helpful, but have you ever thought about another question? Since the other party hopes to take your life through the hands of others, then you don't You know how to play chess and have no cultivation skills, but you are sitting here face to face with me at this moment betting your life. Is this the best situation that can kill you? Isn’t this what they are striving for? Under the guise of other people’s chess games, you can make a living for yourself Tetsuji, the mastermind opposite who both watches and plays chess, is indeed not an ordinary person. I sometimes think that if I have the opportunity to talk to him face to face, it would be a good idea. A beautiful thing!"
After finishing speaking, seeing that the young man did not speak, the man in white smiled again as if he was very patient: "Are there any other questions? Although the soldiers outside the pavilion are in danger at the moment, fortunately, the people on the doorpost of the pavilion This couplet has some special effects, so there is still time between you and me, so there is no rush. If you have any questions, feel free to ask them, and I can help you answer them."
After hearing this, the young man thought for a moment, then shook his head, "There are no other questions."
Although on the one hand, he felt that Mr. Mo Da was a little strange and too patient for a villain, on the other hand, he also felt that his answers might not be fully believed, even if some of what he said did make sense. It sounded logical and self-consistent, but he still felt that there was something strange about it that he couldn't explain.
When Mo Qianqiu in white saw that the young man had stopped talking and asked no more questions, he smiled and reminded me, "Since you don't have any questions for me anymore, shouldn't it be up to you to answer my questions next?"
The young man who was asked the same question for the third time just remained silent for a moment, then grinned at the man in white and said, "Mr. Mo Da, although I don't quite understand why you have to ask me to do it." I have to give this answer, but in fact this is not a difficult question for me to answer. I agree with most of what you said before, and I also think what you said makes sense! I will come and sit here today. Before coming here, I had actually discussed it with Senior Lianshan, and he would control half of my consciousness to control the chess game. I probably only needed to do some side things to assist in coping, but I didn't expect that the situation would suddenly turn into In this way, it is really difficult for me to face this alone now, and if I am lucky enough to win a little bit, I will indeed be saving some people I don't like very much..."
Halfway through the words, the young man turned his head and glanced at the closed bookstore on the northeast corner outside Wufang Pavilion. Then he turned his head and looked at Mo Qianqiu with a smile and said, "Someone once told me that in our salt Guanzhen owes every favor, and will definitely repay a bigger favor in the future. You said that there are many people in this town who should be evil in my eyes. This is indeed true, but it is also not true. Complete, because one thing I once discovered is that every bad thing I encounter is often accompanied by a good thing."
Mo Qianqiu raised his eyebrows and smiled when he heard this, "I would like to hear the details."
"Back then, in the mountain valley 20 miles outside Liangzhou City, more than 30 people who were traveling with me died unexpectedly, but that old man who was an alcoholic with a bad temper and loved to drink showed up."
"The year when the old drunkard was seriously injured and died for no apparent reason, I was supposed to starve to death under that old locust tree, but instead I met that guy who always had a bad look on his face, but was willing to save money just to eat evenly every day. I had an old watchman who only had a coin. Later, the old watchman passed away, and as a result, an old monkey lived in that hut."
"Fengxuelou accepted someone else's request to take my life. As a result, after a few words with the red lotus sacrificial wine, the weird-tempered man not only did not kill me, but instead told me a lot of Jianghu affairs, and also allowed me to kill him by chance. I know that Old Monkey is not just the sloppy watchman I have known for so many years."
"Shui Xiuhu couldn't get along with me, and he teamed up with the Zhu family to make things difficult for me. As a result, I met a friend named Li Yuyao, and I also hooked up with the storyteller Mr. Lu who I had always admired but had no chance to talk to. Got the word."
"When Shui Yun was robbed and put on the road to death, I met a friend named Jiang Chenyu, received a piece of money, and became a teacher of Mr. Cui. I used to be envious but had no chance to study, but now I still have this in my heart. I am writing a "Thousand-Character Essay", and although I still haven't had time to recognize all the thousand characters, at least I no longer don't even know how to write my own surname."
At this point, the young man smiled but said solemnly: "You said that Shopkeeper Fan and Mr. Cui have their own plans. Although I can't definitely guarantee that they don't have the ideas you mentioned, I think this matter may be Important, but actually not too important, because at least at this moment, whenever I think about these people, I feel very happy! You said that I am gambling to save the evil people, but what I want to say is, if I lose If I win, I will definitely not survive, but if I am lucky enough to win, I will be able to save almost all the people who are most important to me. This deal is actually not a loss at all."
As soon as the young man finished saying these words, he saw the man in white across from him suddenly looked a little strange, but he didn't say much.
However, before the young man could react, the couplet on the pillar at the door of Wufang Pavilion, together with the banner with the four words "Five Directions Revealing the Truth" engraved on the top of the door, suddenly glowed with golden light. The whole pavilion was enveloped, and the young man surnamed Chu had no time to be surprised. In an instant, it was like a god came to the world, and Tao Yun was added to him. The slowly flowing golden aura, and the originally black and white pupils were directly transformed into a pair of golden pupils at this moment!
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The moment before, since the young man in white clothes and Mo Qianqiu entered the Wufang Pavilion together, the top of the five-cornered pavilion looked like the peony-red "Red Lotus Ribbon" in the hand of the Fengxue Tower Red Lotus Sacrificial Winemaker. Like a paper umbrella, it instantly covered all the movements and changes in the pavilion, covering up the secrets and blocking people's sight, but it was worse than that!
As for the four saints sitting in the four directions of the town, while they were cooperating with the four spirits behind them to defend against the group of golden warriors who broke the formation, they were all distractedly watching the movement at the Wufang Pavilion in the center of the town, although they were all worried in their hearts. It was vaguely uneasy, but because it was difficult to see what was going on between the two people who were covered up, and the battles with the golden-bodied warriors on all sides couldn't stop, everyone was helpless.
The couplet at the entrance of Wufang Pavilion originally came from the combined efforts of the three religions, the four characters on the horizontal line came from Buddhism, and the vertical couplets above and below were from the Taoist lineage. The person who wrote this couplet on the plaque was a calligrapher of the generation who was both Confucian and Taoist!
The three first-grade mountain gates each exerted their full strength to bless this pavilion, thus creating the unique function of this pavilion. It is not only the location of the formation eye, but also has been influenced by the spiritual energy of the Yanguan Formation for thousands of years. It has become A heaven-defying magic weapon that can temporarily stop the flow of water in a certain section of the long river of time. At this moment, the flow rate of time is very different from that outside. Therefore, the two of them talked a lot between each other before the two hostile parties outside fought. Less than two rounds.
When Chu Yuanxiao suddenly changed his posture and description, the first thing to change was naturally the couplet at the entrance of the pavilion, which then continued to extend outward from the Wufang Pavilion, covering the entire Yanguan Formation! It also made the four saints who were always paying attention to the happenings here feel at ease. The leader of the formation was trapped in the mountains, but Dao Dao was not alone, and there were still people who came after him!
At this moment, the poor young man, because of Baiyi Mo Qianqiu's aggressive words of inquiry, was recognized by the spirit of the formation by some combination of circumstances, and the most abundant earth element aura in the center of the five elements was imbued on him. I For the formation, the formation is for me, exactly as Shu Lianshan said before that day, it was like a divine man lifted up his pen and wrote half of the word "一" that "people escape one". In a short period of time, he almost replaced the leader of the formation. Lianshan, who holds an extremely high position as a salt official, became a god in one step, reaching the sky!
Although this can only be regarded as a temporary takeover, at this moment, the young Chu Yuanxiao is the God within a ten-mile radius of the town. All the arrangements of the large formations within the radius, the flow of spiritual energy from heaven and earth, the situation of the four-spirit battle formation, and the situation outside the formation The vigorous attacks of the warriors were as close as hand in the eyes of the young man, and all the thirty-six endless chess moves that had been played on the chessboard in the pavilion in the past ten thousand years were like entries in an account book, without leaving a single note. Exactly!
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Chu Yuanxiao, who was describing the sudden change, raised his arm and gently clenched his fist. He felt the earthy aura and the aura of heaven and earth that filled his body, and then closed his eyes and looked through the small town stored in a corner of the divine sea. When the welcome came to Bibibi, the possession of the array spirit made him no longer just the poor young man who once criticized himself for being kind to others and just wanted to live a stable life. He opened his eyes and raised his head and moved the chessboard pieces casually, and the knight entered eight into seven.
Then he looked at the man in white opposite the stone table and grinned. His eyes were indifferent and his voice was indifferent, "I was lucky enough to get an advantage in a desperate situation. I suddenly became enlightened, and there was a bright future. Please forgive me, fellow Taoist!"
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