Unbelievable.
If he had not seen it with his own eyes, with the shadow of the moon beside him, Master Diando would not have believed that there was a fourth person here and now, and that he had been following them all the way, and they had not even noticed it!
Practitioners at the same level can never do it!
Who is this female cultivator
Sitting behind the chessboard, next to Liuqin, there was a rare dull look on the face of Diando Zhenren.
However, Fu Jiansheng, who was standing aside, frowned even more tightly.
His eyes fell on Jianchou.
Through the hazy mist illuminated by the moonlight, he could clearly see the other person's figure. It could be said that they had never met before, but this cold and indifferent demeanor made a light bulb flash in his mind, and he suddenly understood.
It turned out to be the female cultivator who was under the city wall before.
She was standing here at the moment, not hiding her true cultivation level at all, so that little bit of meager immortal power became extremely obvious.
And not long ago, when Fu Jiansheng scanned with his spiritual sense, he also discovered such a person.
But at that time, the female cultivator did not look like this.
Fu Jiansheng felt relieved, and his slightly frowned brows gradually relaxed. He had no ill will towards anyone, and since Yueying invited the female cultivator to sit down, he naturally had no objection.
Just as he lowered his eyebrows, another detail popped up.
Weird!
It’s better not to think about it, but once you think about it, it really makes you break out in a cold sweat!
Not to mention how strange this female cultivator's cultivation was, she was clearly still under the city wall before, and when they left, Li Xieyang had already blocked the entire Haotian Star Region! Even a Saint Immortal couldn't break through the blockade without being noticed, so how could she appear here with them
Fu Jiansheng and Diandao Zhenren didn't know what happened under the city wall. If they knew, they would not only find it weird, but they would probably be so frightened that they would break out in cold sweats when they saw Jianchou at this moment!
The calmest one was Yueying.
When the man flew down from the mountain under the moon, he was seen wearing all white. When he stood quietly on the mountain at this moment, one discovered that this all white was woven with snow-white swan feathers.
If Fu Jiansheng is a return to nature, then he is elegant and outstanding.
His facial features also gave people a dreamlike feeling. At first glance, they seemed to be real, with a faint purple light in his dark pupils. But when I looked away, I forgot everything. I only remembered the vagueness of nothing being accurate, as if I was walking in a thick fog and drank three or five kilograms of good wine. The only thing I could remember clearly was the mole on the tip of his right eyebrow.
Jianchou had followed Fu Jiansheng and Diandao Zhenren all the way here, and knew that they were coming to visit a friend named "Yueying", but he did not expect that he would be discovered immediately.
After looking at the three of them for a moment, she did not hide her purpose.
He just bowed slightly and said, "I just heard you two Taoist friends mention the 'Desolate Land' under the city wall on the south bank of the river. I was quite interested in it, so I took the liberty to follow you. I hope you can forgive me."
Desolate area
It would have been better if he hadn't said this. Once he said it, there was a look of surprise and suspicion in the eyes of Master Diando: You know, Fu Jiansheng didn't let the people under the city wall hear what he said, but this female cultivator heard it clearly!
It turns out that there is someone really powerful sitting down there!
Is it because he has not been concerned with worldly affairs for a long time that he didn't know that such a powerful figure had emerged in Shangxu
Zhenren Diando couldn't help but turn his gaze to Fu Jiansheng.
Fu Jiansheng probably understood what he meant and just shook his head slightly.
Although Shangxu is vast, the monks there are quite capable. Even if a powerful monk doesn't care about worldly affairs, he will not be unknown. Whenever he is mentioned, there will be some people who remember him.
What's more, Fu Jiansheng is a saint.
In his impression, Shangxu had never had such a powerful female cultivator. It seemed as if she had just appeared.
Yueying smiled and said, "My name is Yueying, and I am an idler from the Shangxu Immortal Realm. These two are my friends I made hundreds of years ago. The one holding the zither is called Diandao Zhenren, and the one without the sword is called Fujiansheng."
This is announcing one's family background.
Since Jianchou had come here and showed up after Yueying had revealed his identity, he did not intend to hide his whereabouts any longer and simply said frankly, "I am Jianchou, from the Yuanshi Realm."
See sorrow!
It turned out to be the female cultivator on the Ten Death Order!
The news was so serious that it completely overturned their original cognition in an instant!
The matter of the Ten Death Orders caused a lot of uproar a few years ago because of Yashan's clear order and intervention. Both Diandao Zhenren and Fu Jiansheng were aware of it.
But no one has ever doubted the authenticity of the Ten Death Orders.
In other words, after reading the Ten Death Orders, no one would think that the female cultivator to be killed by these Ten Death Orders would be a powerful being with terrifying cultivation base!
After all, she had just ascended.
However, at this moment, this seemingly low-level female cultivator stood in front of them, followed them all the way without anyone noticing, and then frankly told them where she came from and her name...
Not worried at all.
But on second thought, they are all saints, and this so-called Ten Death Order has no appeal to them at all. There is no harm in her admitting that she is Jianchou.
Several people had their own guesses in their hearts, but they also felt that there was something extraordinary about this female cultivator. She showed up in a swagger and had previously sat under the city wall with a group of people who wanted to kill her. Both her courage and strength made people feel impressed.
It's just drinking and chatting, I don't mind having one more person.
They then invited Jianchou to sit together on the lonely boat. Diando Zhenren sat at the bow, facing Yueying, while Jianchou and Fu Jiansheng sat on both sides, also facing each other. On her left was Diando Zhenren, and on her right was Yueying.
Yueying was the leader. She first moved the wine jar that was pressing on the chessboard away, raised her finger and divided the chessboard into four pieces along the diagonal line, and said, "Meeting is fate. There are four of us today, so why don't we play a game of chess for four people?"
The chessboard was dark black, and the lines were very smooth.
Jianchou took a look and had no objection, but turned his eyes to the two chess baskets, but did not see any chess pieces, so he asked, "What are the pieces?"
The moonlight smiled.
He lowered his eyes, as if thinking for a moment, and then said, "This is simple."
After saying that, he raised his sleeves and hand and actually wiped towards the night sky!
Crash!
In the deep night sky, the stars were connected into lines and formed rivers, but at this moment, they all fell down like meteors and fell into the chess basket.
In a short while, it was full.
Looking up at the sky again, a corner of the brilliant galaxy had dimmed, and there was not a single star in sight.
"Haha, the sky is the chessboard and the stars are the chess pieces! How wonderful!"
The Master Diando's eyes lit up when he saw it, and he couldn't help but clap his hands in praise, but in the end he couldn't help feeling a little regretful.
"It's a pity that the Taoist priest plays the Liuqin, not the Pipa!"
After saying that, he picked up a star between his fingers, looked at it for a while, and then pressed it on a corner of the chessboard. He asked Jianchou, "There are strange people in the Yuanshi Realm. In the early years, there was a Green Leaf Patriarch, and now there is another Daoist Fellow Jianchou. It is really puzzling. The matter of Pangu Wilderness is considered a secret in Daluo Heaven, and no one below the Saint Immortal has heard of it. Daoist Fellow Jianchou is interested in it, which makes me a little curious."
At this time, Fu Jiansheng also picked up a star and placed it on the chessboard.
After hearing what Master Diando said, he raised his head and looked at Jianchou who was sitting opposite him.
His eyes were full of generosity, but also very measured.
In any case, it doesn't make people feel presumptuous.
Jianchou raised his eyes to look at him, then glanced at the position where he had placed the chess piece, and then replied to Master Diando: "I have seen some records left over from ancient times in the Yuanshi Realm in my early years, and I have only heard about them."
"fart!"
Master Diando sneered without any politeness. He didn't believe the answer given by Jianchou at all. He just snorted and curled his lips.
The third move was Yueying's. He picked up the chess piece and laughed. He sighed, "I haven't seen you for many years. I haven't heard your bad habits for a while. I thought you had changed your personality. I didn't expect that it's hard to change your nature. In my opinion, you should not be called 'The Inverted Man', but 'The Farting Man', which is more appropriate."
"fart!"
Master Diando sneered coldly, not even giving Yueying any face.
He ignored his teasing and returned his gaze to Jianchou, but did not continue to pursue the previous answer. He only said: "Since you know Pangu Desolate Domain, you should naturally know how it was formed. Desolate Ancient Times was the era of gods, and ancient times were the era of coexistence of humans and gods. However, the war led to the eternal night, and Pangu the Great fell asleep forever in this long night. After the long night, hundreds of races rose up, and Shangxu was established, and then it came to the era when our cultivators reached the top of this world. You call it 'ancient times'. Now is the present and ancient times. Although Pangu the Great has fallen, he is the ancestor of the human race and the top of cultivators. His body is so huge that it is difficult to find the edge. It has only turned into mountains and rivers, and floated on the edge of the universe in the form of a giant. But four hundred years ago, several immortals found its traces and prepared to join forces with Daluotian, Zizaitian, and Feixietian to open the Desolate Domain. Calculating the time, it should be forty-four years later."
Pangu's body is the so-called "wild land".
It floats in the universe, influenced by the power of the stars in the universe, so it has a fixed trajectory, rotating once every 60,000 years and approaching the Shangxu Immortal Realm once.
The most recent one was forty-four years later.
The answer given by Diandao Zhenren was not much different from what Jianchou had known and calculated before. There were already enough things recorded in the Nine-Curved River Map, so this news, which might shock all the saints, did not show much surprise on her face.
She was curious not only about the wasteland, but also about opening the wasteland.
Yueying had already made her move. She reached into the chess basket for the fourth time, picked up a piece, and put it down casually, saying, "Then who can enter this desolate area by then?"
"Bullshit." Diando Zhenren cursed again and shook his head. "Who is Pangu, the great lord who created the world? The pressure from the desert area when it approaches Shangxu alone can cause the immortal world to be shaken. If we are not careful, it will collapse. Although cultivators like me have ascended to heaven and are called 'immortals', it is very difficult for us to enter the desert area by ourselves. So unless you are as powerful as the immortals, you have to rely on the Changye Jian to avoid the danger of your soul being destroyed."
Chang Ye Jian is something with a history.
In ancient times, humans fought a great war with gods, which led to an eternal night. The stars lost their light and countless monks of the human race died in the cold darkness.
Pangu then made the Changye Tablet.
Originally, there were three volumes, which were made from the light of the stars that had not yet fallen, and could illuminate the world and protect the human race. At the end of the long night, Pangu finally fell in the last battle. Two of the original three volumes of the Long Night disappeared, and only the third volume fell into the depths of the universe.
Tens of thousands of years later, when Shangxu was established, Emperor Baihe accidentally found the fragments.
So it was broken down into thirty-seven pieces.
The tablet contains the ancient power of Pangu, and cultivators holding it can enter the wilderness without being rejected.
"So, apart from the Immortal Lord, only thirty-seven people can enter the Desolate Territory after forty-four years. For an idle person like me, who doesn't even attend meetings, it's certainly not my turn to go to the Desolate Territory."
Of course, more importantly, he didn't want to go either.
There was a kind of drunken aura on the body of Diando Zhenren. He took a star and knocked it on the chessboard, and asked Jianchou, "Do you want to go to the wilderness?"
Jianchou replied truthfully: "Somewhat interested."
Fu Jiansheng and Yueying looked at her at the same time.
Diando Zhenren chuckled and said, "That's easy. Among the four of us, you can see this kid and Old Yueying. They have already received the Changye Scroll a month ago. You can challenge them to a duel now. Go up to the duel arena and fight to see who is better. If they lose, they will give you the scroll!"
In the Shangxu Immortal Realm, the cultivators were all too powerful. And the grudges between people were often not easy to resolve, so there was a fighting arena.
Whenever there is a battle between monks and gentlemen, they will swear to fight and a fighting platform will rise.
A Dharma platform is a world of its own.
No matter how fiercely the cultivators fight on the fighting stage, it will not cause too much damage to the Shangxu Immortal Realm.
For example, the Green Leaf Ancestor defeated the Bixi Immortal King on the fighting stage.
Although Jianchou didn't know what the fighting arena was all about, he could guess about 70% of it. Then, looking at Fu Jiansheng and Yueying, some thoughts flashed through his mind.
But of course she wouldn't just do that.
This inverted real person just met her by chance, but he answered her questions and solved her doubts, which was a great help to her. How could she take advantage of him and not know what was good for her
So she smiled, pretending not to have heard what Master Diando said, and only said something that seemed completely irrelevant, saying: "Master Diando's name is very appropriate."
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When Master Diandao placed his piece on the chessboard, a look of satisfaction finally emerged on his face. However, when he lowered his eyes to look at the board, a look of boredom appeared on his face.
He stretched out his hand and tapped the chessboard.
Dan Yan said: "Look at the chess we are playing. There is no black or white in the chess pieces. You can play only because you remember where you put your pieces. It can be seen that there is no black or white in this world. It is just the mediocre people who make trouble for themselves. I only take black as white and white as black. The mediocre and the wonderful are all vulgar people, and the good and the bad are all dead. People say that I live upside down, but I think they are the ones who are upside down!"
When Jianchou thought about it carefully, he felt that these words had a kind of loneliness, as if "the whole world is drunk but I am the only one sober", and he forgot what to say for a moment.
The young man carrying a sword has a gentle face, but remains calm.
Yueying raised her hand and pointed at him, saying with a smile: "So you see, Daoist Jianchou, people who are confused like people who are confused. This sword-carrying man is called 'Sword-carrying Man', but he doesn't carry a sword, and he is the top swordsman in Shangxu. Is it interesting if the sword-carrying man doesn't carry a sword?"
A man who carries a sword on his back should not carry it on his back.
Jianchou couldn't help but look up at the opposite side.
The cloth-clothed youth was somewhat shy. He was not annoyed by Yueying's teasing, but corrected him, "He is not a sword cultivator, but a swordsman."
Yueying shook her head and said nothing.
Fu Jiansheng then looked at Jianchou, his pair of black jade-like eyes condensed with the cold green of distant mountains, and like warm jade emitting smoke, he asked in an unusually direct manner: "Daoist Jianchou also uses a sword?"
There is a strange connection between people who wield swords.
Although he had never seen Jianchou's sword, he always felt that she was a person who used a sword.
Jianchou was amazed at his sharpness and did not deny it. He said, "Use a sword too."
But as soon as he said this, he thought of Qu Zhengfeng, who also used a sword.
Although she had not seen Fu Jiansheng's sword, she always felt that her sword and his sword were not the same kind of sword.
So she smiled faintly, pondered for a moment and said, "It's just that swords are different, and people who use swords are also different. You are the guest, and I am the host."
You are the guest and I am the host.
Swordsman, sword master!
Just these six words were like a flash of sword cutting across the moonless lake, stirring up huge waves in the previously calm and deep waters!
At first glance, it sounds a bit overbearing.
But Fu Jiansheng was stunned for only a moment before he understood what Jianchou meant: a swordsman regards the sword as himself, loves the sword as his life, and what is important to him is the "sword"; a sword master regards me as the sword, all swords belong to me, and what is important to him is "me".
There is no difference between the host and the guest, they just have different ways.
The boy didn't drink any alcohol, but he felt a little tipsy.
He let the cool breeze blow past his ears, but felt a slight warmth in his heart.
There was a moment of silence on the lonely boat on the lake.
Yueying suddenly looked up at the night sky in the distance, his pupils shrank slightly, and he turned back and asked, "The names of the three of us all have their origins. I just heard that fellow Daoist named himself 'Jianchou', which reminded me of a Buddhist verse, which says 'There is a Buddha in my heart, and I am worried about the Buddha's spirit platform.' Do you know the correct explanation?"
“This is the original interpretation.”
Jianchou did not deny the origin of his name.
Master Diando heard that she had something else to hide, and asked, "The original interpretation is like this, so there must be another interpretation?"
Jianchou then smiled and said, "There are different solutions for when you are ignorant and different solutions for when you are enlightened. There is a saying that goes 'the ignorant have nothing to fear'. Jianchou has been practicing hard in the Primordial Realm for four hundred years and has realized a new solution. For things and people in the world, those who have vision and knowledge will have worries, while those who have no vision and knowledge will have no worries. The more you see and the more knowledge you have, the more worries you will have. The more you see and the more knowledge you have, the more worries you will have. Wherever you see, you will have worries, so it is called 'Jianchou'. I wonder how this solution works?"
"Great solution!"
When Master Diando heard this, he couldn't help but clap his hands and sigh.
Fu Jiansheng frowned and thought about it, and felt a strange sense of bitterness.
Yueying originally thought that the word "Jianchou" was very strange, but she didn't expect that she interpreted it in this way, and it actually revealed some of the ultimate Zen meaning of worrying about the world and being able to understand the world.
He pronounced these two words three times and then burst into laughter.
He directly picked up the jar of wine that had been placed aside and said, "What a wonderful and insightful explanation! I should treat you as my confidant and drink three cups!"
"But you prepared a wine jar, but not a wine cup."
In fact, Master Diando had been craving for that wine for a long time, but when he sat here just now, he only saw the wine jar but not the wine glass, so he started to make fun of it.
"I'm afraid you don't want to treat us to a drink?"
They were all saints standing at the top of Shangxu. How could a few wine cups be a problem for Yueying? He raised his hand to take the wine cup, but at this moment, a light and shadow shook on the lake!
It’s the night sky reflected in the lake!
Dozens of rays of light rushed towards this world and fell onto the lake in an instant!
Yueying, Diandao Zhenren and Fu Jiansheng all frowned at this moment, obviously displeased with the appearance of this group of uninvited guests.
Only sorrow remains unmoved.
She first placed the star she was holding between her fingers on the chessboard, then took the ray of sky in her hand, stood up and said, "Here comes the one who is going to kill me. On this night with this moon, how can we have wine without a cup? Just a few cups, please sit for a moment while I fetch you a cup, and I'll be back soon."