Chapter 163
With a loud rustling sound, the chess pieces on the table were blown away by a gust of wind. Biting cold winds suddenly emerged from the locust tree, surrounding the entire courtyard and sealing it into an enclosed space.
"snort!"
A tall and thin shadow emerged from the locust tree, staring at Cheng Hui fiercely, as if he was going to devour him in the next second.
Cheng Hui: ...
Cheng Hui was also unhappy. What did that mean? He flipped the table after losing?
"What do you mean? This..." He looked up and down at the shadow. The shadow was an old man in a linen robe, with a thin face and sharp eyes. He looked like an old man who was very difficult to deal with.
"Uncle! Seeing that you are old, I will call you uncle first. What do you mean, uncle? Just play chess. Losing is not a big deal. Turning over the table is too much, right? Can't you afford to play?" Cheng Hui was not afraid of the old man at all. The shadow gave him the feeling that it was just a human appearance. Inside... it was just so-so.
Jindan cultivators are so confident!
With his current physical strength, a hit from an ordinary foundation-building cultivator would be like a tickle to him.
The thin old man was clearly enraged. He slapped the stone table, turning it into powder. "How dare you say that? What the hell was that you were playing? Is that Go?"
Cheng Hui scratched his ear, looking nonchalant. "I don't know how to play Go. I play Gobang. Besides, I didn't know you were playing Gobang. I thought it was my Qingyang playing Gobang with me. We've always played Gobang." He glanced at Lin Qingyang, who nodded in agreement. "That's right."
After saying that, he frowned and looked at the old man with dissatisfaction: "Who are you? Why did you suddenly appear in our yard?"
The old man was speechless and looked a little annoyed. "I have never heard of Gobang. You are playing it randomly."
"Just because you haven't heard of it doesn't mean it doesn't exist. Besides, uncle, how long have you been here? Have you come across anything new? Are you aware of some new ways to play in the mortal world?"
The old man had nothing to say.
When it comes to innovation, the underworld is really inefficient. There are only old ghosts who have been dead for who knows how many years. The chess book in his hand has been around for thousands of years. It is not impossible that the world of the living has come up with some new tricks.
The old man was speechless, which made Cheng Hui speechless as well.
No, uncle, you're speechless now? Where's that sinister aura you exuded when you first appeared? You're just too easy to fool, aren't you?
Cheng Hui winked at Lin Qingyang and said, "See, with my level, I can solve the problem with just my mouth."
Lin Qingyang's mouth twitched. He didn't expect that there was such a character hidden in this courtyard... and he was actually quite reasonable.
In comparison, it feels like the bloody days I lived in the past were fake!
For a moment, the courtyard fell into silence. The old man seemed to want to say something but was too embarrassed to speak.
Especially since he had just overturned the chessboard. If Cheng Hui was playing tricks, it would be fine for him to overturn the chessboard, at least it was excusable. But if what the other party said was true, then he could not afford to lose the game of chess.
He looked down at the stone table that he had smashed into pieces, and suddenly felt a little distressed.
This is carved out of fine obsidian. I have played chess on it many times. It was smashed to pieces in anger just now. Now I feel a little regretful when I look at it.
Cheng Hui was too embarrassed to continue bullying such an old man who looked so easy to fool, so he took out a large piece of ore from his storage ring, and used his finger as a knife, and slashed it a few times until it became the shape of a stone table.
He carved a new chessboard on the tabletop and picked up all the black and white chess pieces that had fallen to the ground.
"Hey, old man, don't get angry so easily in the future. Even if you are angry, don't smash things. Look, you are the one who suffers."
The old man looked at the brand new stone table and chessboard, feeling speechless. He coughed dryly and said, "Well, my friend, what kind of chess were you playing just now? How come I've never seen it before?"
Cheng Hui generously shared with him how to play Gobang and played two games with him.
The old man became very interested after playing only two games. He pulled Cheng Hui and refused to let him leave, saying that he wanted to fight with him until dawn.
Cheng Hui: ...No, is the addiction so strong?
"Uncle, don't you like playing Go?" he asked.
"Hey, isn't that because I've only learned Go?" The old man stared at the chessboard and answered nonchalantly.
Cheng Hui's mouth twitched, and he placed another piece on the chessboard.
"Hey! No, no, how can you get down here?"
"Why can't I get off here? I have four links here."
"No, I made a mistake just now. I need to change places."
"This is too much. You can even regret your move." Cheng Hui refused to accept it.
The two of them started arguing, leaving Lin Qingyang speechless. "Are you two just kids? You're actually arguing over regretting a move?"
I thought this old ghost would be difficult to deal with and wanted to kill him in advance. What a fool I am.
Lin Qingyang thought expressionlessly, then turned around and decided to go to sleep.
Let these two people who are still addicted to food do what they can to deal with it.
This went on all night long. Perhaps it was because he was too excited after having just learned Gobang, or perhaps it was because he had finally met an opponent who was on par with him, but the old ghost played with Cheng Hui for the entire night.
Cheng Hui was not really that interested in Gobang, but this old man was very good at talking and he used stories from the past in this courtyard to tempt him.
As long as he can ensure his own safety, Cheng Hui is still very curious and is very curious about this kind of mysterious story.
The old man told him stories while playing chess with him. By the end of the night, the whole story was told to him.
Early in the morning, when Lin Qingyang opened the door, he saw Cheng Hui had just finished a game of chess with the old man. He dropped the chess pieces and ran towards him.
"Qingyang Qingyang, there may be good things under this courtyard!" he said excitedly.
Lin Qingyang:?
Lin Qingyang cooked while listening to Cheng Hui's story, and finally he understood what he meant.
It turned out that the old ghost who was addicted to playing chess was the incarnation of a locust tree. However, his incarnation was rather unlucky because the one who enlightened him was a powerful ghost cultivator. Therefore, he, who was originally a living tree, could not transform for a long time because of practicing the ghost cultivator's skills.
Fortunately, even if he could not transform, he still had consciousness, and because he looked like an ordinary locust tree, it was not easy to attract other people's attention, so he settled down in Luowu City.
But he didn't expect it to be such a coincidence that the owner of a courtyard had opened a secret room in the basement of the courtyard and hid some treasures.
If it was just a treasure room, it would not have attracted too many people's covetousness. However, when he was digging the secret room, he triggered some kind of mechanism, and discovered a huge underground palace underneath the secret room.
The owner of the secret room was just a small ghost cultivator who had not even reached the foundation-building stage. As soon as he saw the scale of the underground palace, he knew that he would die if he went in, and there would be no chance of survival. However, he was reluctant to give up the good things in the underground palace, so he sealed the secret room and decided to come back to explore it when he was stronger.
About twenty years after that person left, he returned with the cultivation level of the Golden Core Stage and entered the underground palace. However, a few days later, he escaped from the underground palace with serious injuries.
At that time, Old Huai was barely able to transform and tried to enter the underground palace, but not long after he entered, he was forced out by the ubiquitous skeletons in the palace.
Given the danger of the underground palace, I'm afraid only cultivators in the Nascent Soul stage can go down and return safely.
After the owner of the secret room was injured in the underground palace, he disappeared for a long time. When he came back, he was still at the Nascent Soul stage.
Old Huai watched him enter the underground palace for the third time, but unfortunately this time, he never came out, which made Old Huai completely give up the idea of entering the underground palace.
Even a Nascent Soul cultivator died in there, he didn't want to take the risk again.
Later, the man and woman also came here to look for the underground palace, but they had no definite information and did not dare to alarm the neighbors around them, so they could only search slowly.
From their conversation, Elder Huai heard that it seemed that the owner of the secret room told the news of the underground palace to one of his disciples after drinking, and that the disciple was rescued by this man and woman after being in danger. Before he died, he told them the news as compensation.
The man and woman took a long time to find the place. They made some preparations in ecstasy and went in.
The result... everyone knows it. Those two never appeared again.
Although people from the City Lord's Mansion came here to investigate, those in charge of the investigation were not very serious. In addition, Old Huai did not want to be discovered and made some disguises, so they came to the conclusion that it was a personal vendetta.
After Cheng Hui finished speaking, Lin Qingyang showed a thoughtful expression.
"Do you want to go in and take a look?" he asked Cheng Hui.
Cheng Hui shook his head.
Lin Qingyang was a little surprised. He thought Cheng Hui was so excited because he wanted to enter the underground palace to explore.
He had originally intended to remind Cheng Hui that Mr. Huai's description of the matter in such detail might be an attempt to lure them into a trap, but he didn't expect that Cheng Hui had no such idea at all.
"What do you mean?" he asked.
Cheng Hui said with a smile, "Although we can't risk entering the underground palace, we can sell the information about it! Such an underground palace is full of dangers, but also potentially full of opportunities. There must be people who are interested! We can make a profit by selling the information directly. It's much safer than taking the risk ourselves."
Lin Qingyang was stunned.
Yes, although places like underground palaces are dangerous, they definitely hide great benefits. Information like this is naturally very valuable.
The reason why he didn't expect it was because he had never thought that this could be done this way. Generally speaking, when people find a treasure land like the underground palace, most people have to hide it. Even if they are temporarily weak, they will be like the owner of the secret room and wait until they are stronger before exploring again. Who has ever seen someone like Cheng Hui who wants to sell the news directly?
But on second thought, this method is indeed much more cost-effective than exploring it on your own.
What's more, this underground palace is obviously very dangerous. If you go there by yourself, you might die in it. How can it be more profitable to exchange information for a large amount of spirit stones!
Lin Qingyang couldn't help laughing. He guessed that Mr. Huai definitely didn't expect Cheng Hui to do such a thing. If he knew, he would definitely regret it.
Don't say that Huai Lao has no interest in the underground palace, it's just that he lacks strength. He told Cheng Hui the news just to encourage them to take the risk.
"Okay, then who are you going to sell this information to?" Lin Qingyang asked.
"Is there any need to ask? Of course it will be auctioned, and the highest bidder wins!" Cheng Hui said with a smile.
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