Light bullets flew in all directions, spraying like fireworks, and ice cones broke through the air. Fortunately, there was a buffer of more than a thousand meters. The masked emperor swayed left and right, and dodged the ice cones as if he had predicted the future, and continued to rush forward at high speed.
Wherever the Masked Emperor passed, the flames emitted from both sides burned deep marks on the ice and snow. If it were not for the assistance of the flames on both sides, he would have slipped on the ice and snow long ago.
When the Ice Tiger saw that the ice cone missed, it roared, and its body, with a series of phantoms, caught up in an instant.
At the same time, a tide of icy light gushed out, and it was about to drown Li Xiu and the Masked Emperor.
Everything was within Li Xiu's calculations. At the moment when the ice light was about to catch up with him, he suddenly jumped up, took back the masked emperor while in the air, and his figure disappeared in the air.
The icy light surged like a torrent, condensing into an "ice dragon" hundreds of meters long in the snowfield.
Binghu watched Li Xiu disappear with a hint of doubt in his eyes, but it was only for a moment. He immediately sprayed out icy breath towards the air where Li Xiu disappeared, condensing an ice bridge in the air, but did not find anything.
The ice tiger kept spraying icy breath into the air without stopping. Ice bridges hundreds of meters long extended in different directions, but it still found nothing.
Bang!
The sound of a whip attracted the Ice Tiger. It saw a Black Death Demon waving a light whip a thousand meters away. The Ice Tiger, which was already burning with anger, immediately rushed over and sprayed out ice cones to stab the Black Death Demon.
The Black Death Demon turned around and ran, but because the distance was far enough and Li Xiu was secretly controlling it, the Black Death Demon managed to dodge the ice cone using the Angel Wings technique.
Seeing this, the Ice Tiger became even more furious and pounced forward, instantly pounced on the Black Death Demon and tore the Black Death Demon into pieces.
Just when the Black Death Demon was torn to pieces, a whip sound was heard in the distance. The enraged Ice Tiger pounced on it again without hesitation.
The Ice Tiger, having been teased to the point of losing its mind, pounced on the ice field like a phantom, killing one Black Death Demon after another. In a short moment, it had rushed out thirty or forty miles, and was still madly attacking the Black Death Demons that appeared further away.
When the ice tiger was led out sixty or seventy miles, Li Xiu saw that the time was ripe and immediately sent out the signal agreed upon with Li Qingyi.
The Fire Lotus Sword soared into the sky, flew in another direction, and flashed in the air.
Binghu also sensed the flash of the Fire Lotus Sword at that moment. He stopped and looked suspiciously in the direction where the Fire Lotus Sword disappeared, then looked at the Black Death Demon who was waving a light whip in a provocative manner in the distance ahead.
The next second, the Ice Tiger made its choice and pounced on the Black Death Demon.
Li Xiu, who was hiding in the snow, breathed a sigh of relief when he saw this. If Binghu came back to find the Fire Lotus Sword now, Li Qingyi would have less time to absorb the flames.
Fortunately, Binghu did not choose to come back in the end, and was still led away by the Black Death Demon's younger brother.
Just now he seemed to be jumping into the air, but in fact, after he jumped and disappeared, his body had already changed direction and fell sideways into the snow.
Li Qingyi discovered the signal and rushed to the ice platform without hesitation. He sprinted at full speed to the front of the light flame and placed the unbreakable ice shield on it.
As soon as the indestructible ice shield was put up, the Ice Tiger, which had already rushed out seventy or eighty miles, seemed to have sensed it. It actually left the Black Death Demon brother waving the light whip in front of it and turned around to rush back to the ice platform.
The speed of the Ice Tiger was too fast. Li Xiu estimated while hiding in the snow pile that it would take the Ice Tiger less than ten seconds to rush back for a distance of seventy or eighty miles. Li Qingyi might not have enough time.
Li Xiu's mind moved, and he ran wildly in another direction, summoning the forbidden gun at the same time, and fired wildly in the direction of the ice tiger.
This time Li Xiu did not dare to hold back. The red and blue spirits of the Evil Spirit Card flew out together and possessed Li Xiu's body, causing red and blue overlapping magic light to appear on Li Xiu's body.
The Seven-Flower Blood Vine also wrapped around Li Xiu, making Li Xiu feel his body was filled with surging power.
The light energy of the three cast spirits merged into one, making Li Xiu's light energy almost comparable to that of the third form of the cast spirit. When he burst out with all his strength, his speed was as fast as a flash of lightning.
Li Xiu was fast, but the ice tiger was not slow either. After seeing the light bullets, it stopped rushing towards the ice platform. It exhaled icy breath, freezing all the light bullets in the air. Its body, with a trail of icy phantoms, chased towards Li Xiu, quickly closing the distance between them.
When Li Xiu saw the ice tiger rushing towards him, he kept calculating the distance between them and dodged one ice cone after another, but he was not in a hurry to become invisible.
Although the Divine Light of Truth is strong, it also has a certain range. As long as you control the distance well, there will be no danger.
However, the speed of the ice tiger was too fast. In just one or two seconds, Li Xiu felt that he was about to enter the danger zone.
"This is all I can do. Whether you can succeed or not depends on your luck." Li Xiu's fourth soul casting was directly activated. His figure became invisible and disappeared, and his speed soared again.
The light of the red and blue dual casting spirits and the seven-flowered blood vine disappeared along with Li Xiu, almost driving the Ice Tiger crazy.
It pounced forward like mad, spraying icy breath wildly in all directions, but found nothing. In its anger, the Ice Tiger radiated a strange light from its body. The light seemed to be a huge transparent ice shell in a spiral shape, a bit like a snail shell, covering an area of nearly a thousand meters in the light of the strange giant star.
Unfortunately, it still didn't find any trace of Li Xiu. In anger, it spewed out icy light to vent its anger, then turned around and rushed towards the ice platform again.
Li Qingyi over there was almost done by then, and the ninth light symbol appeared on the unbreakable ice shield.
Seeing the light of the ice tiger coming rapidly from afar, Li Qingyi no longer hesitated and blew out his own longevity lamp next to him and left the Nine Dragons Mysterious Ice Land.
Not long after Li Qingyi disappeared, the surging icy breath submerged the ice platform, but nothing could be retained.
The ice tiger roared angrily, and the sound of the roar shook the ice field. It vented its anger near the ice platform and slapped it with its hand. Large cracks like deep trenches appeared on the ice field.
Li Xiu looked at the mad Ice Tiger from a distance and knew that if he really had to fight the Ice Tiger head-on, he would most likely be in trouble.
The reason why he was able to kill Jiaotu before was because Jiaotu was imprisoned by jade chains and could not fully exert his own strength.
Now Li Xiu no longer had the intention to kill the ice tiger. He silently waited for the ice tiger to finish venting its anger. As long as it left the ice platform or fell asleep again, Li Xiu would disappear and blow out his longevity lamp.
Li Qingyi returned to the Nine Dragons Mysterious Ice Gate and stood there staring at the gate, feeling somewhat uneasy in her heart.
More than an hour later, when Li Qingyi was becoming more and more annoyed, she saw a flash of light in front of the door and Li Xiu appeared there.
"My heart is not in good condition. Can you please not be so stimulating next time?" Li Qingyi looked at Li Xiu, as if she had a lot to say. Seeing that he had no injuries on his body, she only said this in the end.
"Okay." Li Xiu nodded with a smile.
"I'm glad you're okay. I'll go back first. Wait for me for a day. After I'm promoted to Soul Forging, I'll go to the City of Light with you." Li Qingyi didn't say much and turned around and left.
Li Xiu returned to Yard No. 7. Yard No. 7 was rather deserted these days. Those who were guarding the Trial Gate opened the Trial Gate, and those who were going to the City of Light went to the City of Light. Only Li Ming'er and Lao Bai were still in Yard No. 7.
When Li Xiu returned to Yard No. 7, Lao Bai was playing chess in the yard.
"How do you play chess? Why are you playing alone?" Li Xiu asked curiously when he saw Lao Bai playing chess alone without even an opponent.
"I'm playing chess with myself." Lao Bai stared at the chessboard, as if thinking about what to do next.
"You are playing chess with yourself, and both sides' pieces are controlled by you. There is no suspense at all. What's the fun in that?" Li Xiu said.
"How can there be no suspense?" Lao Bai put down a chess piece, looked at the chessboard and said, "The human mind is a very strange thing. Under different circumstances, the mind will change differently. Are you sure you really understand yourself?"
After hearing what Lao Bai said, Li Xiu could not help but remain silent.
As he made his move, Lao Bai said, "The rich have their own way of living and dealing with people, and the poor have their own way of living and dealing with people. When you have everything, it's easy to sacrifice a little bit in exchange for victory, but when you have nothing, even if you have to pay a dollar, it's like cutting your flesh. Today you like something and think it may be everything to you, but tomorrow you don't like it anymore, and that thing may be worthless. People's minds are changing all the time, and the most unpredictable thing in this world is the human heart. I play chess with myself, I am at this time, I was at that time, and I am not the me at that time. The me at that time may not understand the me at this time, so how can there be no suspense?"
"What if the heart is the same?" Li Xiu stared at Lao Bai and asked.
"Then it's either a devil or a saint." Lao Bai said as he dropped the last chess piece in his hand.
Li Xiu didn't need to count, just a glance and he figured out it was a draw.
"If there was suspense, if there was a difference, why did it end in a draw?"
"Because I can't find the me of that time." Lao Bai sighed and picked up all the black and white chess pieces on the chessboard.
"Are you interested in playing the next game with me?" After clearing the chess pieces, Lao Bai looked at Li Xiu and smiled.
"You can't beat me." Li Xiu said.
"Chess is like life. How do you know you won't lose before your life even begins?" said Lao Bai.
"There are unknown rules in life, but there are none on the chessboard. As long as I know the rules, I will not lose." Li Xiu does not like playing chess, because for him, there is no suspense or unknown in playing chess, which cannot excite him.
Li Xiu is very curious and likes to explore the unknown. Sometimes he even wants to do something adventurous, because only in this way can he feel that he is living like a human being.
Lao Bai was slightly stunned. What Li Xiu said was really arrogant. He had played chess with someone who was known as a chess master before, and even the chess master did not dare to make such arrogant remarks.
Lao Bai stared at Li Xiu for a long time, then suddenly smiled and said, "If you win, I'll give you something fun."
"No." Li Xiu still refused, because he already knew the result. He had no interest in repeating something he already knew the result of.
Li Xiu's refusal made Lao Bai want to play a round with him even more. He hesitated for a moment and said, "If you lose, you give me something."
"What do you want?" Li Xiu became interested after hearing what Lao Bai said. He wanted to know what Lao Bai wanted.
"You can tell me after you win," said Lao Bai.
"You can't win." Li Xiu shook his head again: "Why don't you tell me what you want?"
Lao Bai said nothing, just placed a chess piece on the board and made a gesture of invitation.
Seeing that Lao Bai had done this, Li Xiu had no choice but to walk over and sit down across the chess table. He picked up a chess piece and put it down, as if he didn't think at all.
"When I was still on earth, I played chess with the chess master." Seeing how Li Xiu dealt with it, Lao Bai did not continue playing chess. He looked at Li Xiu and said slowly.
"What's the result?" Li Xiu asked.
"There are wins and losses." Lao Bai smiled and said, "But when I lose, I only lose one or two pieces, while when a chess master loses, it's an avalanche."
Seeing that Li Xiu still seemed to have no interest, Lao Bai took out a book from his arms and placed it on the table. The book looked very new, but the binding technique was very old, and it was actually bound with thread.
"These are some things I made recently. There are some things in them that might interest you. If you win, just take a look. If you lose, I want to ask for something." Lao Bai said.
"You don't have to be like this. Since I've made the decision, I will do my best and won't be perfunctory with you." Li Xiu knew what Lao Bai was thinking.
"Don't you want to know what I want now?" Lao Bai looked at Li Xiu with interest.
"I asked you just now because I wanted to help you. I don't ask now because you can't win." Li Xiu said.
"Your arrogance is very similar to mine when I was young." Lao Bai smiled and said nothing more, dropping the chess piece in his hand.
Li Xiu picked up a chess piece and put it down without thinking.
Lao Bai smiled slightly. After he said so much, Li Xiu still didn't seem to take it seriously. He planned to teach Li Xiu a lesson.
Lao Bai was thinking while playing chess, but Li Xiu was still playing very quickly without thinking. Often, as soon as Lao Bai's chess piece was placed, Li Xiu's chess piece would follow.
At the beginning, Lao Bai thought that Li Xiu did not take the chess game seriously, but as the game went on, Lao Bai realized something was wrong.
Li Xiu's chess moves were definitely not made casually, but were obviously carefully planned.
But if it was a carefully planned move, how could it be possible to do it so quickly, as if there was no need to think at all?
"Could it be that he is familiar with all the chess records in the world and has seen this game before? That's impossible. Even if he knows millions of chess records by heart, it's impossible for all the variations to be exactly the same as one certain record..." Lao Bai felt it was more and more strange, but he didn't take it to heart.
Li Xiu's playing style obviously focuses on layout, and he is also good at it.
"Then let's see whose plan is better." Lao Bai concentrated on thinking, without any other thoughts in his mind.
As time went on, Lao Bai played chess more and more slowly, while Li Xiu played at the same speed, and he would play after Lao Bai finished his move.
Chess games were not difficult for him as his spiritual awareness was so strong and his computing ability had reached an abnormal level. He once played against a super intelligent computer and won in the end.
It is really difficult to lose when playing chess with humans.
The more Lao Bai played, the more he felt something was wrong. At the end, his forehead was covered with fine beads of sweat and his eyes were fixed on the chessboard.
"Draw!" Lao Bai slowly raised his head and looked at Li Xiu. He felt that the result of this game would be a draw, but in fact he had already lost.
After the middle game, Lao Bai realized that this game had been controlled by Li Xiu. It was not him who played the game to draw, but Li Xiu who chose to draw.
Only then did Lao Bai finally realize that what Li Xiu said before was not arrogant. Being able to play chess to such a level, he was indeed qualified to say those words.
"Are you the reincarnation of the chess god?" Lao Bai said with a wry smile.
"I think the metaphor of intelligent brain reincarnation is more appropriate." Li Xiu said with a smile.
"What is an intelligent brain?" Lao Bai asked puzzledly.
Li Xiu then remembered that Lao Bai had been trapped on Changsheng Island for thousands of years. He had no idea what a computer was, let alone an intelligent brain.
"It is an instrument with strong computing power." said Li Xiu.
Lao Bai suddenly realized: "No wonder I always feel weird when playing chess with you. You really don't have any spirit in your chess. You just keep calculating. I see."
After that, Lao Bai smiled bitterly and said, "With such strong computing ability, you don't need any aura. However, I have never seen or heard of such computing ability before."
"Old Bai, just tell me what you need. I will not let you down within my ability," said Li Xiu.
"I need you to read this book." Lao Bai pushed the book in front of Li Xiu, then walked away and returned to the house in a leisurely manner.
"So that's it." Li Xiu suddenly realized that Lao Bai was just looking for an excuse to give him the book.
After returning to the house, Lao Bai closed the door and wiped the cold sweat from his forehead: "What kind of monster is this? And you still ask me what I want? I originally wanted to defeat you and take you as my apprentice. How can I ask you to do that now?"
Li Xiu naturally didn't know what Lao Bai was thinking. He picked up the book and started flipping through it. He was very interested in knowing what Lao Bai wanted to show him.
Li Xiu flipped through a few pages and his eyes suddenly widened. He felt a heat in his nose, as if something was about to flow out, and he couldn't help but cover his nose with his hand.
"This Old Bai is really young at heart. He actually hand-painted something like this..." Li Xiu covered his nose and couldn't help turning a few pages back.
The drawing in this book actually shows a scantily clad woman. Although it is not colored and only outlined with simple lines, her expression and posture are very seductive. Li Xiu can only say that Lao Bai has captured the key charm.
"I can't believe that the usually sanctimonious Old Bai is actually a master of painting. It's a pity that he doesn't use this skill to draw some indescribable comics." Li Xiu sighed as he read the book. When he turned to the back, he found that there seemed to be something wrong with the woman drawn in the book.