This Chess Soul looked much more elegant than the one that possessed the elder. Furthermore, the Essence Energy fluctuations on its body were stronger.
He sat by the riverbank with a stone chessboard and Chinese chess in front of him. Upon seeing Zhou Wen and company walk over, the Chess Soul said faintly, "If you want to go up Mt. Chinese Chess, you have to pass through me first."
"We aren't going up Mt. Chinese Chess. We're just passing by," Li Xuan said.
"If you want to go up Mt. Chinese Chess, you have to pass through me first." However, the Chess Soul repeated this sentence mechanically as though it only knew how to say this. It was like an extremely unintelligent robot.
"Grandpa Chen, what's Mt. Chinese Chess?" Zhou Wen asked the elder beside him.
"I've never been to Mt. Chinese Chess, but I heard from an elder when I was young that there's a Mt. Chinese Chess in the nearby mountains. Legend has it that an ancient general once fought an immortal by the river. In the end, the immortal was defeated by the general and ascended in anger. He didn't even want the immortal's chessboard and chess pieces. Therefore, the chessboard and chess pieces turned into Mt. Chinese Chess," the elder said after some thought.
"From the looks of it, it's because Mt. Chinese Chess has become a dimensional zone that the nearby area has undergone an anomaly. These Chess Souls are only protecting Mt. Chinese Chess," Zhou Wen said after some thought.
Li Xuan narrowed his eyes and said, "They're guarding here to prevent people from going to Mt. Chinese Chess. Does that mean that there's a treasure on Mt. Chinese Chess?"
"Even if there's a treasure, it has nothing to do with us. With our chess skills, I'm afraid we won't be able to go up the mountain." Zhou Wen didn't know how to play chess, nor was he interested in the things on Chess Mountain.
"All the treasures in the world belong to the fated. We encountered them today. If we don't take them, we might be struck by lightning." Li Xuan was very interested.
"Then we have to have the ability to win the game. Don't tell me you plan on making me fight my way up? If there's a Mythical Chess Soul, my strength might not be effective. " Zhou Wen was telling the truth. Supreme Hell King had Epic strength after all. Who knew if it would be effective against a Mythical Chess Soul?
Furthermore, Mt. Chinese Chess was odd. Perhaps there would be some special taboos. When the time came, Zhou Wen wouldn't be able to do anything else. If he broke the taboos, he wouldn't be able to use Negative Karma Fire. If he wanted to use Negative Karma Fire but couldn't break the taboos, that would be troublesome.
"There's no need for you to fight. Watch me. I'll let these Chess Souls know how powerful I, Chess Sage Li, am." It was unknown what was wrong with Li Xuan as he confidently walked across the river.
After Li Xuan crossed the river, he saw the space on the other side of the river turn somewhat odd. It was as though an ancient power had descended and enveloped the space on the other side of the river.
Li Xuan calmly sat opposite the Chess Soul and really began playing with it.
"Is Guild Leader very good at chess?" Feng Qiuyan asked curiously.
"Anyway, I've never seen him play," Zhou Wen said as he spread out his hands.
Li Xuan casually sat opposite the Chess Soul as though he didn't think much of it. As he played chess with the Chess Soul, he played with his phone.
Zhou Wen stared at his phone screen and immediately knew why Li Xuan was so confident. This fellow had actually used his phone to open a master-level game.
He followed the Chess Soul's path and played chess with the master-level computer on his phone. Then, he used the master-level strategy to deal with the Chess Soul.
The facts proved that even a dimensional creature like the Chess Soul wasn't as smart as a computer. Li Xuan actually won against the Chess Soul.
After a while, the Chess Soul had nowhere to go and fell into a deadlock.
Bam!
The Chess Soul's body exploded and a dimensional crystal dropped. Unfortunately, it was only a stat crystal.
"President's chess skills are really impressive. If I had known earlier, I would have gotten President to take action. There's no need to sacrifice so many Companion Beasts like you, Coach." Due to the distance, Feng Qiuyan couldn't see what was on Li Xuan's phone screen. He thought that Li Xuan's chess skills were extremely impressive as he praised.
Li Xuan walked back with the stat crystal in hand. He said smugly, "How about it? Now you know that your title of Chess Sage Li isn't for nothing, right?"
"President, you are really multi-talented," Feng Qiuyan praised.
"Old Zhou, are you convinced?" Li Xuan asked Zhou Wen again.
"I think it's more appropriate to call him Master Li," Zhou Wen said.
Li Xuan laughed. "As expected, I still can't hide it from you. However, can't you pretend not to know and let me be smug for a while?"
"What's going on?" Feng Qiuyan asked in puzzlement.
Li Xuan showed the phone to Feng Qiuyan. Feng Qiuyan immediately understood, but he still praised, "President, you are really smart. You actually thought of this move."
"Of course. When I was born, a fortune-teller said that there was a halo above my head …" Li Xuan was even more smug.
The few of them continued on their way. Every time they encountered a Chess Soul, Li Xuan would use his phone to fight it. Every time, he would be able to defeat the Chess Souls and drop several dimensional crystals.
Zhou Wen used his phone to look at the stats of the dimensional crystals. He roughly knew that these Chess Souls were Legendary or Epic. They weren't very strong.
However, as long as they entered the Chess Soul's range, the Chinese Chess dimensional zone would activate. Unless one defeated them in chess, they couldn't be killed.
Only someone like Zhou Wen, who had special attributes, could kill a Chess Soul when they weren't in a match.
Li Xuan won consecutive battles as the few of them slowly passed through the mountainous area. However, along the way, they didn't see the elder's father. The Chess Souls they encountered weren't possessed.
They didn't encounter his father even when they arrived at the mountain village the elder mentioned.
"Grandpa Chen, from the looks of it, your father is probably no longer around. What plans do you have? We can send you to a nearby city, "Li Xuan asked the elder when they were resting in the mountain village.
"I'm already at this age. There's no point in going out. I'll stay in this mountain village," the elder said after some thought.
"By the way, Grandpa Chen, where's the Mt. Chinese Chess you mentioned?" Li Xuan asked again.
"It's over there. Just follow this mountain path and you will see it. That Mt. Chinese Chess is very special. It's squarish and can be recognized at a glance." The elder pointed the way.
After Zhou Wen and company bade the elder farewell, they continued on their way. On the way, they encountered a few more Chess Souls, but they were no match for the computer. They were defeated by Li Xuan.
"Is that Mt. Chinese Chess?" Li Xuan said as he pointed ahead.
Zhou Wen and Feng Qiuyan looked over and saw a very strange hill in front of them. Just as the elder had said, it was squarish and resembled a chessboard.
What was even stranger was that there were sounds of fighting coming from the mountain. It seemed like there was an army fighting on Mount Chinese Chess, and the sky and earth were darkening.
However, when Zhou Wen used Truth Listener to observe the mountaintop of Mt. Chinese Chess, he didn't discover any troops. There was only a black-robed Chess Soul sitting in front of the chessboard at the mountaintop.
Above the chessboard, there was a strange cocoon floating in the air.
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