The two of them turned back to look at Xi'e who was approaching quickly.
"The Jade Spring Spiritual Mirror can't see through the past at all." Xi'e said directly without giving in, "Rather than a spiritual mirror, it's more appropriate to call it a demon mirror."
"Demon mirror?" Li Su's heart skipped a beat, and the rabbit in his arms couldn't help but blink, its ears drooping slightly.
"Demon mirror? For monsters?" Yue Kui was surprised.
Xi'e nodded slightly, "In short, there is no need for you to leave."
Yue Kuilian looked at Li Su.
Tu Xiaochan also raised his head and looked at Li Su eagerly.
Li Su frowned and shook his head, "I have made up my mind to leave, and I won't change it anymore."
Tu Xiaochan secretly breathed a sigh of relief.
Yue Kui bit his lip.
"At this time, you'd better calm down first." Xi'e frowned and said, "There is no longer any obstacle between you and the Golden Scale Sect. Don't miss the great opportunity that originally belonged to you because of a temporary dispute. .”
"It's not a fight of will." Li Su shook his head, looked at Xi'e, and said seriously, "When you came after me this time, you should have gone to Yuquan Mountain first and informed Head Zhao that I gave up the assessment.
There is already a gap between me and the Golden Scale Sect. If I change my mind and choose to join the Golden Scale Sect, then this gap will only get bigger and bigger. "
Seeing that Xi'e wanted to refute, Li Su interrupted directly and continued: "If you don't understand, I can give you a simple example.
You are the innkeeper. If the waiter in the inn asks you to process money, you are not willing at first, and then he wants to resign and leave.
At this time, you find that the inn is short of manpower and cannot do without him for the time being, so you choose to retain him and give him extra wages.
Tell me, if he chooses to stay, what will you think in the future? "
"The waiters in my inn are doing very well." Xi'e said angrily, "The wages are five to six times higher than in other places."
"What if the situation I mentioned actually happened?" Li Su looked at Xi'e, "A big shot like you has a lot of arrogance, and it is basically impossible to retain him.
If he is retained, it can only be because of the situation. When the situation changes, he will never be retained again. "
Xi'e frowned and said in a low voice: "You underestimate Zhao Yuding's capabilities, not to mention that recruiting disciples and recruiting workers are completely different things."
"You said that I underestimated Master Zhao's ability, which means you also think that if I join the Golden Scale Sect under such circumstances, there will be a gap between me and the Golden Scale Sect." Li Su said softly, "Zhang Zhao The door is naturally very large, otherwise you wouldn't be here.
However, my stomach is not big, so I have chosen to give up the assessment. If I go back again, I will feel very embarrassed. "
"You're still having a fight of spirits." Xi'e complained.
"Really?" Li Su smiled and nodded, "It's a battle of spirits. After all, I'm still a young man, and boyish spirits are normal."
"Think about Jiang Zuo." Xi'e advised, "Jiang Zuo has trained you for ten years just to make you a disciple of the Golden Scale Sect. If you give up because of a moment of anger, are you worthy of Jiang Zuo?"
"The small goal I set for myself, to defeat Wu Jian, is to clear Lao Zuo's name." Li Su said.
"If you don't join the Golden Scale Sect, how can you defeat Wu Jian?" Xi'e sneered.
Li Su smiled, and the smile was bright, "If you say that, then I will never join the Golden Scale Sect. I want to prove to you:
Even if I don't join the Golden Scale Sect, I can still defeat Wu Jian. "
Xi'e: "???"
"Li Su..." At this time, Yuekui couldn't help shouting.
Li Su shrugged and gently rubbed the rabbit in his arms, "In short, the Golden Scale Sect and I are destined to have no fate. I have made up my mind and will not change it again."
With that said, he looked at Yuekui and said warmly: "Let's go."
Yuekui glanced at Xi'e.
Xi'e stared at Li Su coldly.
"A melon that is forced is not sweet." Li Su couldn't help but persuade Xi'e.
In fact, he was a little confused and didn't understand why this woman wanted him to join the Golden Scale Sect so much.
If Yue Kui kept urging him to stay, he would actually understand.
But what is this woman doing?
"The twisted melon is indeed not sweet, but if you are very thirsty, you can still take a few bites." A playful and ethereal voice suddenly sounded in the ears of the three of them.
Zhao Yuding stepped in the air, his clothes fluttering, like an old immortal with immortal demeanor, coming from far to near in an instant.
Yue Kui's eyes lit up again.
Xi'e breathed a sigh of relief.
Tu Xiaochan drooped her rabbit ears again, a bit of helplessness and anxiety flashed in her eyes.
Li Su looked at Zhao Yuding who seemed to appear suddenly, glanced at Zhao Yuding's empty left sleeve, and frowned slightly.
He remembered that Yuekui once said that when Lao Zuo rebelled against the Jinlin Sect, he cut off Zhao Yuding's arm.
"Master Zhao?" Li Su called tentatively.
Zhao Yuding nodded slightly, brushed his beard with his right hand, looked at Li Su with his eyes, and praised: "He is indeed a genius of a generation."
"Thank you, Master Zhao, for your kindness." Li Su said softly, "However, this junior is destined to have no fate with the Golden Scale Sect, and I will disappoint Master Zhao."
"Can you play chess?" Zhao Yuding asked with a smile.
Li Su paused, nodded and said, "I know a little bit."
This is not a modest statement.
Back then, after he learned to play chess, he played a total of nine games with Lao Zuo before Lao Zuo gave up. When they played chess again, the two of them played either chess or backgammon.
"Then let's play a game of chess." Zhao Yuding said with a smile, "If you can beat me, you can choose to continue taking the assessment, or you can choose to leave directly. Neither Senior Sister Xi'e nor I will stop you.
If you lose, it’s not that you leave, it’s that I, the Golden Scale Sect, don’t want you. "
Li Su raised her eyebrows slightly, glanced at Yuokui and Xi'e, and nodded, "Okay."
He knew that since Zhao Yuding was chasing him in person, this game of chess still had to be played.
Zhao Yuding waved his sleeves, and two round stools and a stone plate emerged and fell to the ground.
"Please." Zhao Yuding invited Li Su to take a seat.
"Master Zhao, please come first." Li Su said politely, and then he and Zhao Yuding sat on the stone benches on both sides of the stone plate.
"A true gentleman watches chess without speaking." Zhao Yuding's left sleeve fluttered slightly, and wisps of true energy emitted, filling the air around him and Li Su, gradually forming a circular protective shield of true energy.
Yue Kui frowned slightly and found that he could only see Li Su, Zhao Yuding and Shi Pan, but could not sense the auras of Li Su and Zhao Yuding.
"Don't worry, this is an assessment." Xi'e said softly.
"Assessment..." Yue Kui was startled, then relaxed.
Both sides of the stone plate.
Zhao Yuding was in the dark, and without being polite to Li Su, he just made the move first.
Li Su took out a white piece from the chess tube and put it into the stone plate.
He played very casually and had little chess ability, so he was destined to be unable to win. The reason why he accompanied Zhao Yuding in this game was purely for the sake of Lao Zuo and Yuekui.
As for winning or losing on the chessboard, it doesn't matter.
After making more than ten moves in a row, Zhao Yuding frowned and glanced at Li Su opposite him, "Are you not good at making moves, or are you not playing well?"
Li Su blinked and said, "Back then, Lao Zuo taught me how to play chess. After he taught me, I played nine games of chess with him, and he was no longer willing to play chess with me."
Zhao Yuding was startled and complained: "Jiang Zuo's chess skills are bad enough. Even he is not willing to play with you. It seems that your chess skills are really average."
"I am disappointed with Master Zhao." Li Su said with a smile.
"What? Are you not angry when I say that your chess skills are poor?" Zhao Yuding raised his eyebrows slightly, "I heard that if others say that you are poor at painting, you will get angry with them?"
Li Su's expression remained normal and he said: "This is a rumor. My painter is even inferior to the painting saint Pei Xuanzi. Who would say he is bad?"
"Really?" Zhao Yuding looked at Li Su, "Your shameless energy is very similar to when I was young."
"Uh..." A strange look flashed in Li Su's eyes, "Master Zhao is joking."
"Do you know why the first level of the assessment is to verify your identity?" Zhao Yuding asked.
Li Su paused and shook his head.
Zhao Yuding said: "The first test questions were asked by my disciples, in order to make the prince condescend, to make the monks humiliate the Buddha, to make the Taoist priests defy heaven, and to make the children of aristocratic families lose face."
"I don't understand." Li Su said directly.
"You don't need to understand anymore." Zhao Yuding chuckled, "You gave up a very interesting thing."
"Maybe." Li Su was noncommittal.
"You have a very strong body." Zhao Yuding said, "I felt your vitality as soon as you came to Yuquan Mountain."
Li Su said: "Master Zhao is so complimentary."
"Has Jiang Zuo ever told you the origin of the name of the Golden Scale Sect?" Zhao Yuding asked.
Li Su shook his head.
Zhao Yuding suddenly asked: "What are golden scales?"
"Fish?" Li Su thought for a while and answered tentatively.
"During the battle at Taihu Lake, you said something to Wu Fengyun: Golden scales are just things in the pond. They turn into dragons when encountering wind and clouds." Zhao Yuding looked at Li Su, "This sentence can be said to be a measure for my golden scales." Tailor-made.”
"Dragon?" Li Su couldn't calm down.
"In the inheritance of my Golden Scale Sect, the first half of your sentence is right, but the second half is wrong." Zhao Yuding smiled and said, "Golden Scale is a dragon, so why should it encounter the wind and cloud?"
"What about the second part of the sentence?"
"Isn't the golden scale a thing in the pool? It's not like the ninth level of the Book of Heaven."
