The night was getting dark, and in the guest room of Song Feng Tower, Tang Ping and others were at the table, carefully looking at the chess book that Qian Chao had won from playing chess.
The name of this chess book is quite good. The four words in the title of the old-looking cover are full and round:
"Stars Catalog." 》
However, after opening the book and flipping through a few pages, Tang Ping and others discovered that it was just a chess book, not some profound secrets of practice as the four of them thought. Lu Pingchuan couldn't even recognize a few words. Reading the densely packed small characters inside gave me a headache at first, and I lost interest. Tang Ping still didn't believe that this was just a chess score, so she flipped through it carefully for a while. Until the end, almost every page had a chess game drawn on it. Each chess game was different. The black and white pieces on the hand-painted chess board were crisscrossed, exactly. It was a fierce battle. She looked at the whole book carefully. The annotations in the book were also handwritten. Someone had written all over the pages in small regular script. The font looked the same as the "Illustrated Catalog of Stars" on the cover page. "The strokes of the four words are very similar. It seems that this chess score was handwritten and not printed by that bookstore.
Maybe it was written by the Mr. Zhuang mentioned by Qian Chao, Tang Ping thought, but why did Mr. Qian regard this kind of thing as a treasure?
"Hey, Mr. Qian, isn't this book just a chess record?" Tang Ping asked in confusion.
"Otherwise, what do you think this could be?" Qian Chao asked with a smile.
"There must be something weird. I don't believe you are so tired just for a book of chess. Please tell me the secret inside." Tang Ping urged.
Qian Chao smiled, took the book, looked at the page that Tang Ping turned to, then pointed to the chess game on it and said:
"Can you tell anything?"
Several companions came over and stared at the chess game. Among the five, except Qian Chao, Tang Ping was the most proficient in chess. His chess ability was only lower than Qian Chao. Among the remaining three, Li Jian was proficient in chess, but His chess skills are not good. As for Yanxuan, he can only play chess. Lu Pingchuan knows nothing about chess, so when Tang Ping stared at the chess game on the page for a while, he still couldn't figure out the clues. , the other three naturally couldn't see anything.
"Say it quickly, stop showing off!" Tang Ping said dissatisfied.
Qian Chao smiled and took out a talisman from himself and placed it next to the chess score. He pointed at a shape composed of several connected white stones in the chess game, and then clicked on a curve on his talisman. The winding runes said:
"Look, are the connected white pieces on the chess game similar to the rune on my talisman?"
After the four people compared it back and forth, they nodded to indicate that they were indeed similar.
"That's right. Look at this chess game. Don't look at it according to the rules of chess. Just look at the shapes they are connected to each other. Whether it is black or white, anything with the same color and connected together is the rune. , and the five most basic runes of 'metal, wood, water, fire, and earth' are used throughout the article."
"You mean..."
Tang Ping pondered and stared at the chess game. After Qian Chao said this, she did see it. However, the five runes that frequently appeared in the chess game were of different sizes. Some of the same runes were six or seven. One chess piece was placed, and some had dozens or even more chess pieces, so she didn't notice it when she started looking at it. Although she didn't know anything about runes, she vaguely caught it from Qian Chao's words. The key point was that he asked again:
"This entire chess game has gone beyond the scope of chess skills. The two sides can no longer regard the chess game as a black and white stone fighting against each other. Instead, they rely on the principle of five elements to create or defeat each other, and the winner is finally decided?"
"Well, actually when I played chess with Mr. Zhuang, there were both rules, and it was a little more complicated. Of course, the final game was decided not by counting the pieces, but by looking at the runes in the chess game. Whichever side has the advantage will win."
"So the third game of chess was played for more than two hours?" Yanxuan asked.
"Well, after all, if I lose, I will have to stay there and work for others for a month. That doesn't matter, but it will be difficult to see Mr. Zhuang again in the future, and I may even never see him again," he said When he was here, Qian Chao's eyes were bright, and he seemed to have guessed something. "And the benefits of winning are great. Although there is only this book, it looks like a chess record, but in fact it is the basis for getting started with the study of runes. To me, this is...a treasure!"
Although Qian Chao has now obtained some high-level runes through adventures with four partners, and has mastered and integrated those runes, which can be used in weapon refining, talisman making, and formations, but learning Any knowledge must start with laying the foundation. As for the study of runes, it is natural to start with the most basic and basic five-element runes. When he got the "Illustration of Stars", he had a rough look at it and understood that this was the classic book used to lay the foundation. Although the whole book only talked about five runes, there were endless changes based on these five runes. , the evolution is infinitely wonderful, so he regards it as a treasure.
"No wonder you are so tired. Then you got this book. Did Mr. Zhuang say anything else?" Tang Ping asked again. What she was thinking about was whether the money trend could continue with Mr. Zhuang in the future. There is no point in learning something if you only learn it once.
"Well, Mr. Zhuang will go out to visit friends next, but we have agreed to play chess together next month."
"Oh, that's good." After hearing this, Tang Ping finally felt relieved.
…
While he was talking, there was a knock on the door. Qian Chao put away the chess book and his own talismans, and Tang Ping walked over and opened the door.
Standing at the door was Mr. Liu with a happy face.
After entering the door, Mr. Liu first bowed respectfully to several people and said:
"Guys, thank you very much Mr. Han for that matter."
Tang Ping said:
"Mr. Liu, we actually didn't help with that matter. It was a senior fellow apprentice from the sect, Song, who rescued Han Tian and Miss Ning. By the way, it also solved your problem and has nothing to do with us."
"Miss Tang is being humble. You can't say that. Mr. Han met with me before he left and told me about the life-saving grace he had given to both of them. This matter, hey, to be honest, although Mr. Han and I are not He is not a best friend, but he worked together to deal with the Wen family. Later, he was in an embarrassing situation because the Han family wanted to form an alliance with the Lin family. To be honest, we were also under pressure from our respective families, but we didn't I wanted to force him, and secondly I didn’t want to do anything to Miss Ning, so I turned to the five for help. I always thought that it would be best to resolve the matter between the Han family and the Lin family without bloodshed, and now it is considered the best ending. Mr. Han is also very pitiful, but he finally got his wish. It is always a good thing to be with Miss Ning in the Song family in the future, and what we, the small Xuanzhou family, are worried about will not happen again. This is what we want need."
With that said, Mr. Liu took out a thick letter from his body and handed it to Qian Chao.
"This letter was given to me by Young Master Han before he left, asking me to forward it to Mr. Qian. He expected that he would never return to the Five Spirits Sect in the future, so he wrote down some confidential matters. It may be useful to Mr. Qian, but I don’t know.”
Qian Chao thanked him, and after taking it, he realized that the letter was really thick, and the pages in the envelope were probably full.
"There is one more thing," Mr. Liu said again, "Speaking of it, our work here has been completed. However, our respective families, that is, the small aristocratic family alliance in Xuanzhou feel that there will always be trouble with us in the Wuling Sect. The good news is that at least they are well-informed, so they don’t plan to withdraw us. I will continue to host here. I think we might be able to cooperate with each other on some things in the future, so in the future we will If you have anything you want to inquire about or if it’s not convenient for you to go out and do it, you can still give me orders.”
Tang Ping asked:
"I understand Mr. Liu's good intentions, but what good will this do to you? After all, the five of us are just young monks with low cultivation levels."
"Haha, Miss Tang is joking. Although I don't have much experience, I am confident that I still have some discernment in judging people. Let's put it more bluntly. Although the five of you are still pure gold now, you will definitely shine in the future. Instead of making friends with these characters in the future, it is better to become friends with five of them now. As for what we can do, haha, a small aristocratic family also has the benefits of a small aristocratic family. At least in this world of cultivation, a small aristocratic family knows better how to survive. , the information naturally needs to be more well-informed, otherwise it would have been annexed or destroyed by others. Well, what we can do for the five of you now is to inquire about some information, but as I said before, for many things, we It will be better to know where to inquire and whom to approach. Even if there are five foundation builders in the future, it will naturally be beneficial to be more informed."
Tang Ping asked again:
"Then what are we going to do for you?"
"If we need anything in the future, the five of you will help us if you can."
Tang Ping looked at Qian Chao, then at Li Jian, Yanxuan and Lu Pingchuan in turn. Seeing that they all had no objections, she said:
"One last thing, what you ask for in the future cannot be anything evil..."
"Don't worry, Miss Tang. As a small aristocratic family, all we want is to protect ourselves and continue our family's inheritance. How can we have the energy to do evil?"
"Well, if that's the case, then we promise you."
"Thank you."
"By the way, Mr. Liu, I always call you Mr. Liu, but I still don't know your real name?"
"I am the second son of the Liu family in Xuanzhou, Liu Feng."
Qian Chao remembered something and asked:
"One more thing, Mr. Liu, you said before that the Tian family sent people into the Wuling Sect to do harm to me, but until now, we haven't met Tie Qiu and Zhang Wuniang?"
"Haha, Mr. Qian, you showed off your great power during the great tide in Hanquan Valley. Do you think those people still have the courage to attack you? But until now, we have never seen those people escape from the Five Spirit Sect. I want to come Well... Haha, it must be the Tian family who has a backup plan. No matter whether those people can hurt Mr. Qian or not, they will never come out of the Wuling Sect again. Well, it's a coincidence that Yin Kuang is in your sect today. I also came to the town. I guess it was Mr. Qian who attracted the attention in the cold spring valley. He had to come to discuss with the Tian family in Ruixuan Town. Well, maybe those people in Tieqiu were Yin Kuang. Get rid of it.”
After hearing this, Qian Chao nodded.
After Liu Feng left, Qian Chao suddenly asked Tang Ping:
"In the beginning, you wanted to help them resolve the matter between Ning Han and Lin Jian. What were your plans?"
Tang Ping replied:
"What else can we do to solve this problem? It's similar to what Senior Brother Song Zhen did. Although my Senior Sister Ruoyun's family is not very powerful, it is far more remote. I have already told it to my Senior Sister, and she has agreed. I am preparing to spend some time together." I sent Ning Han out, but Senior Brother Song took them all away first. Well, my plan did not include Han Tian. Even now, I still feel a little uncomfortable when I think of Han Tian. My plan is that if they want to meet again in the future, they will have to wait until Han Tian establishes the foundation, and I have no intention of splitting them up."
…
In Ruixuan Town at night, a figure walked out of a lighted room in a large mansion. It was Yin Kuang.
There was only one young man sitting in the lighted room.
Wearing a yellow robe and having an ordinary appearance, he pretended to others in Ruixuan Town that his surname was Li, that he was a descendant of a small aristocratic family, and that he ran a medium-sized property, but in fact he was a member of the Tian family of Qi State. , named Tian Shuangjin.
As early as when Qian Chao participated in the first election hosted by Tang Bonian many years ago, the Tian family sent people to observe the ceremony. The monk who came to the Qian Mansion to observe the ceremony was named Tian Shuangzhi, and Tian Shuangjin was the same clan brother of Tian Shuangzhi. , dispatched by the Tian family, has been responsible for collecting information in Ruixuan Town and then passing it back to the Tian family. In addition, this person also handles some secret matters.
Yin Kuang had been talking in front of him for a long time, from when the sky was getting dark to now when the night was getting dark, and he told Tian Shuangjin in detail what happened on the day of the spring tide in Hanquan Valley.
Yin Kuang did not add fuel to the fire, let alone add any extraneous details. He knew that this Tian Shuangjin was born shrewd, and it would be easy to see through tricks played in front of this person. In fact, Yin Kuang did not need to play any tricks. On the day of the tide in Hanquan Valley, what he did What he saw and heard was enough to put Tian Shuangjin in disbelief.
What did Qian Chao do that day in Hanquan Valley? How did Yin Kuang see it? How were Tie Qiu and Zhang Wuniang captured by Wen Liang's people first? What did Zhang Wuniang say? How were they executed? Yin Kuang told Tian Shuangjin exactly what Wen Liang said when he came down.
After finishing speaking, Tian Shuangjin pondered for a while before saying:
"Go back. Remember to come again next month. I can't make the decision now. I have to send someone to explain the matter clearly to my family. Then I will listen to the decisions of the elders in the family. You will have it next month. News.”
"yes."
Then Yin Kuang left.
Tian Shuangjin could guess that Yin Kuang had murderous intentions towards Qian Chao. After all, Qian Shoulin of the Qian family was made unable to practice by him. If Qian Chao succeeded in practicing in the future and knew what happened back then, he would definitely not Will let him go. Tian Shuangjin smiled slightly when he thought of this. Not only was Yin Kuang unable to tolerate the tide of money, but the Tian family was even more so. This boy must not be allowed to continue practicing in the Wuling Sect, otherwise it would be a big trouble for the Tian family in the future. (Author's words: What are the Tian family's plans and why they have been suppressing the Qian family? I forgive the author for keeping it secret for the time being. For the five Qian Chao people, this Tian family is a heroic-level five-person dungeon that they will definitely experience after building a foundation. Wait for the dungeon. The mystery will be revealed when you penetrate it.)
After gathering his thoughts, Tian Shuangjin took out a pen and paper and started writing a letter, carefully recording what Yin Kuang said on the paper. As he said, whether he cooperated with Wen Liang, or whether the Tian family continued to deal with Qian Chao, All these decisions must be made after consulting the Tian family. After all, the Tian family has failed to deal with Qian Chao alone this time.
But there is one thing Tian Shuangjin is clear about, and that is:
Qian Chao must die!
