Edited by NZRose

  Lin Shu took a step to the side, away from the cousin who was touching his nose.

  Do not scratch my nose.

  The cousin seemed to chuckle and ignored him.

  The two continued to go forward. After passing more than 100 jade steps, there was an endless peach forest in front of them.

  There were no four seasons in the mountain, and the peach trees were also extraordinary. At this time, they were blooming all over the mountains and fields, as bright as clouds.

  According to the records, this was the so-called “Exquisite Fairyland”.

  Originally, the test of Huandang Mountain was perfect. It did not only test the cultivation, but also tests the state of mind. It can determine the excellence of the disciple. But before arriving at the Floating Immortal Palace, they have to go through such a level like this.

  According to legend, this Exquisite Fairyland was not something from the mountain, but was specially built by someone who lived in the mountain thousands of years ago out of extreme boredom to make things difficult for the later generations.

  Walking into the peach forest in the Exquisite Fairyland, there was a game of chess in the peach forest.

  This game of chess was called “Peach Forest Game”, some people call it “Exquisite Game”, and there was a term in the art of chess, which calls the ingenious concept of the chess game “Zhenlong”, therefore, more people were willing to call it “Zhenlong Chess Game”.

  In the Commission list on the first floor of the treasure house of the Academy, there was the task to “Unravel the Zhenlong Chess Game”. The commission was highly paid. This Commission was still hanging on the wall today, which indicates that no one has solved the “Zhenlong Chess Game” completely.

  Many obscure sentences were used in ancient books to describe the solution of the Zhenlong Chess Game. It was not easy to repeat. Lin Shu thought that, in terms of human language, this was a mathematical problem.

  There were many solutions to a mathematical problem, among which there was an optimal solution.

  The rule of the Zhenlong Chess Game was that as long as a solution was found, you will pass, no matter good or bad.

  When disciples see this rule, their first idea was that you must always be perfect, and naturally, you must try to be the best.

  But the truth was very cruel. When they really stand in front of the Zhenlong Chess Game, they will find in despair that it was the limit to be able to solve it, let alone whether they were doing well.

  The two went through the peach blossom forest.

  In front of a huge stone wall, in the deeper part of the peach forest, three people have already stood. Which was exactly what Lingxiao said before getting out of the maze, the three who walked out of the maze before Lin Shu. They were all staring at the stone wall, their eyes were still, their bodies motionless, like sculptures.

  Lingxiao said: “Let’s go in together.”

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  Lin Shu nodded, moved his gaze to the smooth stone wall, and looked at it with concentration.

  The moment his gaze touched the stone wall, the sky started to spin, and then Lin Shu was already in a void.

  Lingxiao immediately appeared beside him, and those three people were also in the void.

  There was a huge stone platform in front of everyone. There were countless black, white, gray, gold, red, and blue light spots floating on the stone platform. Some light spots were connected by thin silver lines, while others were not.

  With the entry of Lin Shu and Lingxiao, the same stone stage appeared before them. -

  This was the so-called “Zhenlong Chess Game”.

  The chess game of the fairy family was naturally different from that of mortals. This sentence was not to say that they were higher or lower, but that they were quite different in principle.

  There were nineteen chess games in the mortal world, with black and white as the chess pieces. The three-foot game was like a battlefield. There were thousands of changes and layouts between the moves. It can be seen that the master’s strategy was in his mind. Among the scholars, the most popular game style was the most prosperous among the Confucian and Taoist Institutions in the Academy. Apart from the two things of debating and dragging the Shangling Academy to fight after the failure of the debate, the most favorite was to use chess pieces to “talk by hand”. The Eldest Martial Sister Xie Zishe was also a famous chess player in the world.

  The Zhenlong Chess Game, however, was a three-dimensional chess game.

  In the chess game, those light spots of various colors were called “Exquisite Beads”. There were a total of 1,800 on the entire board.

  Each kind of Exquisite Bead has a certain and extremely complex spiritual power flow direction. These spiritual currents flow alternately inside the Exquisite Bead and then extend out. If the spiritual currents of different Exquisite Beads can be connected, there will be a silver thread between them, which means that the two Exquisite Beads have been connected.

  —The way to solve the Zhenlong Chess Game was to connect all these 1800 different types of exquisite beads together, so that the spiritual currents communicate with each other and circulate endlessly.

  This was a test of sensitivity to the flow of spiritual force, and it was also an intellectual problem.

  In the words of Xiandao, this barrier tests your comprehension.

  Your understanding of the spiritual force, your control of the spiritual power, your overall arrangement of the direction of the overall spiritual force, and even your style of achievement method and your path will be displayed in the final combination result–if you can combine them.

  If this was really created by one person, it was really admirable, and he was really looking for trouble.

  Lin Shu felt awkward.

  He was really not good at this kind of thing.

  The most important thing for my Master to cultivate swords was the sword aura and the sword intent. A sword breaks all laws, it does not make a big fuss about spiritual power. However, spiritual force in the modern world was scarce, so there was not much spiritual power to make a fuss about

  If his owner was here, he can just ask her to help him with the problem, but this temporary owner was also okay.

  He looked at Lingxiao.

  Lingxiao: “Can you do it?”

  Lin Shu was about to say ‘I’m not very good.”, but Lin Shu suddenly saw a white shadow on their side.

  A disciple of the Sword Pavillion came without a noise, they didn’t even notice when he appeared.

  The Sword Pavilion disciple was concentrating on the combination of Exquisite Beads. On the stone platform in front of him, half of them were connected by a silver thread, forming an extremely complicated and mysterious vein.

  No way.

  He was also a disciple of the Sword Pavillion who cultivates the sword. He was so well organized that he decided that he could not go so far as to ask for help from the temporary owner.

  Lin Shu said, “Yes.”

  “Zhenlong’s chess game is changing endlessly. After today, the state of you and me will definitely improve,” Lingxiao said to him, looking at the various light spots in front of him, “You are in the Shangling Academy, naturally you are familiar with the Shangling Dreamscape.”

  Lin Shu: “Yeah.”

  “The source of the spiritual power of the Shangling Dreamscape relies on the array, but the various peculiarities in it cannot be achieved by the formation.”

  Lin Shu: “Yeah.”

  The existence of Shangling Dreamscape was almost unimaginable. It was not like something that a simple array can do.

  “Decades ago, the Meng family in Linyu had a son, and his talents and comprehension were extremely high.” Lingxiao said faintly, “He once went to the Huandang Mountain and played the Zhenlong Chess Game for five years in the Exquisite Fairyland. He made 108 kinds of game solutions and explained that the principles of the movement of heaven and earth are all in the Zhenlong Chess Game. The prototype of Shangling Dreamscape is his handwriting after he came out of the mountain.”

  Lin Shu: Wow.

  If he only said that the Zhenlong Chess Game was powerful, he wouldn’t feel much about it, but if a person actually created the Shangling Dreamscape after comprehending the Zhenlong Chess Game, the mystery of the chess game would be very intuitive.

  Lin Shu said: “Has he ascended?”

  I am afraid such a legendary person has already ascended.

  Lingxiao said, “No.”

  Lin Shu was slightly surprised.

  “Fifteen years ago, in the battle of Changyang, the great wizard of the Northern Xia Dynasty arrived in person, and the army came late. He…… guarded the lonely city at night and died of thousands of arrows through his heart.”

  The two were speechless for a moment.

  Lin Shu suddenly remembered Mr. Meng, who was always smiling gently.

  ———

  TL’s Mini Theatre:

  Zaki: *nosebleeds after translating* Rose help me!!!!

  Rose: Maths? Chess? *faints*

  Zaki: ehhhh???