Shen Luo looked at Lang Pu with a helpless expression.
"Since you're not a human, I can let you go as long as you don't interfere." The tiger said.
Hearing this, Lang Pu took a few steps back as if to show his sincerity.
"Let's see what other tricks you have this time." The tiger slowly walked towards Shen Luo with a fierce look in its eyes.
Shen Luo stared at the tiger, holding the half-moon bracelet in his hand and slowly retreated.
"Roar …"
The tiger suddenly roared and leaped forward, pouncing towards Shen Luo.
Lang Pu, who was beside it, had a cunning look in his eyes and moved at the same time.
The black gold trident in the crab's pincers suddenly spun rapidly, and the tip of the trident lit up with a blue light. It turned into a blurry cone, and with an incomparably sharp momentum, it stabbed into the stomach of the heaven devouring tiger.
Just as the sharp tip of the trident was about to pierce the tiger's body, a strong wind suddenly blew.
The tiger's long tail made a sizzling sound, wrapped in a layer of blue electricity, and suddenly whipped horizontally.
Seeing this, Lang Pu suddenly withdrew the black gold trident in his pincer and turned the tip of the trident to the ground, while the other pincer caught the tiger's tail.
With a strange "clang", the ground split open, and a small half of the trident pierced into it. Lang Pu's right pincer just happened to catch the tiger's tail.
In an instant, a strong current passed through the armor and into Lang Pu's body.
The crab armor on Lang Pu's body lit up with a layer of blue light, caging the layer of electric current. He barely held on, but was still beaten until smoke rose from his body and he screamed again and again.
"Little Shen, this guy won't fall for it. I'll hold it back, you hurry and run." Lang Pu shouted.
"Fellow Lang Pu, don't force yourself." Shen Luo frowned, knowing that he couldn't hesitate. He hurriedly used the Psychic Technique again, leaving a whirlpool beside Lang Pu and turned to run.
"At least you have a conscience." Lang Pu sighed inwardly.
The Heaven Devouring Tiger leaped forward, wanting to chase after them, but Lang Pu held it firmly, unable to break free.
It was so angry that it opened its bloody mouth again. Wisps of electricity twined around its throat, and a solid ball of blue electric light condensed.
Seeing that the ball of light was about to shoot out, Lang Pu's whole body glowed brightly. The crab pincer in his right arm seemed to have expanded as he pulled it down with all his might.
The Heaven Devouring Tiger lost its balance, causing the ball of light to lose its aim and fly away.
"Boom!" a loud sound rang out!
The blue lightning ball didn't hit Shen Luo, but it landed beside him, and the blast of the explosion immediately surged.
Shen Luo's body tilted, and he was sent flying out of the dense forest.
His entire body was in unbearable pain, and blood seeped out from the corner of his mouth. However, he still struggled to get up and continued to run towards the mountain peak.
After a brief sound of fighting behind him, only the roar of the Heaven Devouring Tiger could be heard.
Shen Luo didn't have time to check on Lang Pu's condition. After running for a few hundred feet, he found that there was no road ahead, only a cliff more than a hundred feet high.
He then remembered that Ying Luo had mentioned before that below the waist of Mount Fangcun, there were many forks and branches, and there seemed to be only one way to continue to the top of the mountain.
Shen Luo didn't hesitate, and immediately used his hands and feet to grab the protruding rocks and cracks on the mountain wall and climb up.
As soon as he reached the top of the cliff, he found that near the edge of the cliff, there was a seventy to eighty feet high plum tree. The trunk was dry and black, and the leaves were all withered. It didn't seem to have much vitality.
Shen Luo didn't want to stay, so he hurriedly glanced at it and walked past the tree, wanting to continue on his way.
But at this moment, his eyes suddenly caught a glimpse of a three-foot-high square stone platform under the plum tree. There were nineteen vertical and horizontal lines carved on it, and there were black and white chess pieces placed on it. It was a Go game.
His mind moved, and he couldn't help but remember the story of the woodcutter that Ying Luo had told him before, and he couldn't help but stare at the chessboard.
However, he didn't see the strange scene of the battle between black and white soldiers that the woodcutter had seen.
Although Shen Luo wasn't interested in the way of Go, he had read some Go manuals such as the Four Word Manual and the Xuanxuan Collection. He knew some Go routines, but he didn't have a deep understanding.
He could see that the black pieces on the chessboard had the advantage, and they had already blocked the white pieces, leaving only one breath.
Shen Luo's gaze shifted slightly, and he saw two small lines of words engraved on the right side of the chessboard, which read:
"Mountain after mountain and river after doubt, there is no road, but there is light at the end of the tunnel."
"Is there a mystery on this chessboard?" His mind moved, and he quickly looked back and forth on the chessboard a few more times.
With one look, he found that the white pieces' last breath was just an illusion. Once a piece was placed there, the white pieces would be surrounded again in less than ten moves. At that time, even their last breath would be gone.
"If I place it here, it would seem like a suicidal move. However, if I place it here, I can win a new world … Yes, it's here!" Shen Luo muttered as he looked at the bottom right corner of the chessboard.
A trace of joy flashed in his eyes, and he was about to raise his hand to the chessboard to pick up a chess piece, but he found that the stone platform was empty. There were no chess pieces at all.
"Alas … It seems that I thought too much." Shen Luo patted his forehead, straightened up, and was about to leave.
At this time, a tiger's roar suddenly sounded from the forest, and a huge figure rushed out from behind a mountain rock in front of him, landed on the cliff, and stared at Shen Luo covetously.
"Let's see how you escape this time!" The Heaven Devouring Tiger roared.
Shen Luo regretted it. If he had known this would happen, he would not have wasted his time here.
Just as he was thinking about how to escape, he suddenly caught a glimpse of the steep cliff on his right side, which was also engraved with crisscrossed lines. On the lines, hollow circles were used as white pieces and solid circles were used as black pieces. It was engraved with the same pattern as on the chessboard.
On the top of the chessboard, there were the words "Life is like a chessboard" carved in ancient seal.
Shen Luo saw these words at a glance, and suddenly there seemed to be a soft cry in his heart, and he suddenly understood.
Life is like a chessboard, and the human body is like a chess piece. Since there is no chess piece to be placed, then one must place oneself.
The Heaven Devouring Tiger saw him staring at the cliff in a daze, and although it was puzzled, it still rushed toward him.
Seeing this, Shen Luo made up his mind and jumped straight to the bottom right corner of the chessboard, where the vertical and horizontal lines intersected, and slammed into it.
"Bang!" There was a muffled sound, and Shen Luo suddenly felt a sharp pain in his shoulder.
The cliff was really a cliff, where was the way out?
Just when Shen Luo thought that he had guessed wrong, the chessboard on the cliff suddenly lit up, and the black and white chess pieces on it were like stars, shining brightly and dimly.
Then, on the chessboard that no one was holding, the shadows of chess pieces appeared on its own. Like shooting stars, they streaked across the chessboard and gathered around Shen Luo from all over the chessboard.
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