In the end, it was still Li Jingsong who was stubborn and decided to give Li Changqing a hard lesson to avenge the grudge from that night when Li Changqing intruded into the Mountain Ancient Land.
Li Jingsong believed that by watching from the side for most of the day, he had beco familiar with the rules and felt that he could defeat Li Changqing with his own Go experience.
And thus, he was roundly defeated by Li Changqing for nine consecutive gas.
By now, Li Jingsong’s hand, which held the chess piece, was trembling with anger, and the whole person was sowhat ntally dazed.
Even Li Changqing felt a bit sorry for him.
He wanted to persuade Li Jingsong to stop playing, but Li Jingsong wouldn’t listen. Today, he was determined to knock Li Changqing off the pedestal.
"Alright, we need to prepare now." Lord Zhou said to Li Hengsheng.
"Okay."
Li Hengsheng nodded.
As the sky grew increasingly gloomy, the clouds followed, obscuring the moonlight, burdening people’s hearts as if a great mountain pressed down.
The battles of recent days had fostered an unspoken understanding among the disciples of various sects.
But there were exceptions.
For instance, Lu Shiran of Guanglan Palace.
These days, no one had seen how Lu Shiran fought, because when each day’s battles began, Lu Shiran had already charged into the forbidden zone, entering deeper into the Heaven-Flipping Ghost City.
There, the Ghost Race was more nurous, and there were also unknown dangers.
Yet precisely because of this, Lu Shiran’s rit points kept increasing, making others envious.
During this period, two disciples with Postnatal Peak cultivation also tried to imitate Lu Shiran by rushing in to earn more rits.
But the result was that one of them died in the deep region.
And although the other one escaped, he was seriously injured.
So no one dared to explore the deep area anymore, feeling it was better to play it safe.
"I’m done playing."
Li Changqing was sowhat tired of it, throwing the chess pieces to the side. While playing chess was indeed amusing, constantly bullying an amateur didn’t make much sense.
Opposite him, Li Jingsong was already sweating profusely, trembling from losing, his eyes bloodshot, glaring at Li Changqing and saying, "What? Are you scared?"
Li Changqing: "???"
What am I scared of?
Am I afraid you’ll drop dead on my chessboard?
"You’re not daring to continue playing with ?" Li Jingsong said with a face more unpleasant than crying.
"You must know you’re about to lose to , right?"
"If you have the guts, keep playing, running away midway is no skill. But if you admit defeat now and say you’re a rookie, I might let you off the hook."
Hearing Li Jingsong’s words, Li Changqing was speechless: "Li Jingsong, you’re the most stubborn person I’ve ever t. I guess even a land immortal’s sword couldn’t pierce your mouth, right?"
"If your teeth were extracted to make a weapon, I’m afraid the top of the Divine Weapon List would fall from its pedestal, wouldn’t it?"
"Stop the nonsense, let’s play another ga. I’m about to win, and I want to show you my strength!" Li Jingsong angrily said to Li Changqing.
"Who gave you the illusion that you’re going to beat ?" Li Changqing couldn’t figure it out.
"Let’s have another go." Li Jingsong was bent on continuing against Li Changqing.
"Just playing like this is dull." Li Changqing couldn’t help but say, "How about we have a wager?"
"Bet?" Li Jingsong was stunned, "Bet what?"
"I’ll bet you with a Painting Treasure." Li Changqing said, "I guarantee you won’t lose out; it’s a nice Painting Treasure. If you win, my Painting Treasure will be yours. But if you lose, your Silk River Map goes to ."
"Not playing anymore!"
Hearing Li Changqing wanted his Silk River Map, Li Jingsong imdiately pushed the chess pieces away, refusing to play. That item was his lifeblood; how could he just lose it to soone?
Finally rid of the troubleso Li Jingsong, Li Changqing turned around and saw Xue Qianbai sitting on a stone platform, looking into the distance, contemplating sothing unknown.
Li Changqing leaped to Xue Qianbai’s side and asked, "What are you thinking?"
"Thinking about this trial." Xue Qianbai said blandly.
"What about this trial?" Li Changqing asked, "Everything’s going smoothly."
"It’s precisely because it’s too smooth."
Xue Qianbai’s gaze sharpened slightly, "Today is already the fourth day. The situation is really unusual. The strongest Ghost Race we’ve encountered is just at the Innate Realm, which is unusual. According to previous records, by now there should at least be several Innate Perfection or even Grandmaster realm ones appearing."
"But so far, not a single strong one has shown up."
Xue Qianbai’s words resonated with Li Changqing: "Yes, that’s why it’s so boring; we can only watch without taking action."
"I’m suddenly curious, what would happen if we took action?"
Li Changqing was quite curious about this question. They’d always been warned that the rule is not to act against those below the Innate, but no one had ever explained what exactly would happen if they did act against below-Innate Ghost Race mbers.
So Li Changqing wanted to ask Xue Qianbai.
"Punishnt."
Xue Qianbai gazed at Li Changqing’s face and said, "Punishnt by the rules."
"Rules."
Li Changqing pondered what Xue Qianbai said about these rules and curiously said, "When I ca in, I heard Zhang Yuan explain this so-called rule to , but so far, I still can’t explain whether this rule was established by the Heavenly Dao or influenced by Buddhist verses."
"It’s unknown." Even Xue Qianbai shook his head to indicate he didn’t know.
"Then if we’re punished, what kind of punishnt will it be?" Li Changqing wanted to hear how terrifying it could be.
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