Xuanxia

Chapter 465 Playing chess?

Looking at the two stones in front and behind, Yuanjie looked extremely helpless.

The other monks were all confused as well... They might have wanted to reprimand Fu Qingzhou for being sneaky, but Yuan Zhen had already given the explanation first.

What's more, what Fu Qingzhou said at the beginning was a competition of "cultivation", and he didn't say a competition of physical strength!

The rules are what you agree to yourself.

"Amitabha……"

After a while, Yuan Jie put his hands together and bowed to Fu Qingzhou: "Donor, you win."

"Well, of course I won." Fu Qingzhou smiled: "So, can I move on?"

"……please."

Yuanjie sighed softly and made way to the side.

Fu Qingzhou and Yuan Zhen smiled at each other, strode past this powerful eighth-level warrior who had no place to use his strength, and walked forward.

"Master is waiting for you at the Pure Thoughts Cloud Platform now."

Yuan Zhen said softly, "The Pure Thoughts Cloud Platform is located behind the Great Hall and on top of the Cloud Panning Tower. To get there, you need to pass through five major halls and four large courtyards. I'm sure that along the way, there will be fellow disciples of the Yuan generation who will come to stop you."

Fu Qingzhou was shocked. "Five great halls and four large courtyards? Does Huijue have so many disciples?"

"There aren't really nine levels."

Yuan Zhen smiled and pointed to the hall not far away and said, "After passing through the long road of asking Buddha, we have arrived in front of the Heavenly King Hall. From now on, there is one courtyard and one hall, and we should only need to pass four more levels."

Fu Qingzhou couldn't help but say, "No, Master Huikong... couldn't he also send a few disciples to help me stop Huijue's disciples?"

"Haha, Mr. Fu, I have told you so."

Yuan Zhen said somewhat embarrassedly: "There are two forces in Jinchan Temple now. On Master's side, there are only Master... and me."

"Wait a minute." Fu Qingzhou narrowed his eyes: "Master Huikong, you are the only disciple?"

"It is also."

Yuan Zhen said softly, "Master Huijue is the chief lecturer in charge of teaching the sutras in the temple. Therefore, almost all the disciples with the surname Yuan and below in the temple are disciples of Master Huijue."

"The Jinchan Temple has always had strict rules. To prevent favoritism and abuse of power, the head monk can only accept one disciple in his lifetime to pass on his knowledge. The first disciple is the last disciple."

Fu Qingzhou understood.

The chief monk in charge of discipline is responsible for rewards and punishments in the temple. If he has a large number of disciples under him, there will inevitably be some close to him and some distant to him. In this way, when it comes to rewards and punishments, it is very likely that unfairness will be done.

Now, according to the rules of Jinchan Temple, Huikong is almost a loner in the temple except for his only disciple Yuanzhen... In the eyes of all the monks, he is lofty and mysterious.

Perhaps it is because of this that Huijue can do so many things quietly.

As they were talking, the two of them had walked through the Hall of Heavenly Kings and arrived at the second hall - the Hall of Thousand Buddhas.

Fu Qingzhou had some impression of this hall.

When he first entered Huixin's memory, he had seen this palace...

However, he did not have time to appreciate the temple scenery, as there were already monks waiting in the center of the courtyard ahead.

“This yard is quite wide.”

Fu Qingzhou looked at the monk from a distance and asked in a low voice, "Can't we go around it?"

Yuan Zhen laughed: "That is Brother Yuan Guan. Although he is not good at cultivation and is still only at the fifth level of spiritual enlightenment at the age of over fifty, he is usually responsible for all affairs inside and outside the Thousand Buddha Hall. Every flower and grass here is taken care of by him..."

Before he could finish, the smoker's click of the tongue sounded in Fu Qingzhou's mind.

"Don't even think about taking a detour. You can't get around it."

"Although there are no traps here, there are Buddhist seals everywhere. Those seals are all connected to the monk's soul. If he wants, I'm afraid the whole hall will stand up and slap you..."

Fu Qingzhou was surprised: "A fifth realm, is this so powerful?" "The fifth realm is not important, what is important is that he has probably spent his entire life integrating himself into this palace." The smoker smiled and said: "Isn't your uncle only in the sixth realm? Who dares to say that he is not powerful?"

Fu Qingzhou was slightly startled and dared not show any contempt anymore.

On this side, Yuan Zhen also finished his words: "...It is almost impossible to bypass it. Let's see how to convince Brother Yuan Guan."

The two men walked forward - Yuanguan was a monk who looked quite old, perhaps in his fifties or sixties, with grey eyebrows and ugly spots all over his face. He was hunched over, looking even older than a seventy-year-old man.

Seeing the two approaching, he smiled kindly and saluted with his palms together: "Donor Fu, Junior Brother Yuanzhen."

"Brother Yuanguan."

Yuan Zhen also bowed and asked, "What do you want me to do in order for you to let the two of us go?"

"Haha, you know I'm not good at cultivation, brother." Yuan Guan laughed hoarsely, "If we fight, I can't beat you... How about this, the only thing I'm good at is chess, if you beat me in chess, you can go over."

Fu Qingzhou said "Oh?"

But when Yuan Zhen heard this, his face changed!
"Brother, you..." He said in a hoarse voice: "Can you change one?"

"Forget it, let's just play chess."

Yuan Guan smiled and said, "I also know how you won the round ring. In terms of cleverness, I, Senior Brother, can never compare to Master Fu. Let's play chess, play chess."

After saying this, he turned around and walked into the hall, as if to get the chessboard and chess sets.

Fu Qingzhou saw that Yuan Zhen looked unhappy and asked curiously, "What's wrong? Is he good at chess?"

Yuan Zhen coughed lightly and said, "Do you know the two national players Yu Chengxiang and Xing Shibin?"

"National player? Never heard of it."

Fu Qingzhou shook his head: "What's wrong?"

"Do you know about Xiushui Country?" Yuan Zhen asked again.

Fu Qingzhou scratched his head: "I seem to have heard of it, a small country in the East China Sea?"

"good."

Yuan Zhen said softly, "More than ten years ago, Dayan and Xiushui had some conflicts. This was nothing. With the strength of Dayan's navy, Xiushui could be easily conquered within a month. But... there was a small accident at that time. Han Zhen, the general of the Lindong navy at that time, was drunk and led his troops out to sea to fish alone... and was caught by the people of Xiushui."

"I won't go into the details of the whole story. You just need to know that the people of Xiushui love chess very much. From the emperor and officials to farmers and fishermen, everyone is a chess fan."

"In order to resolve this matter, two national players, Yu Chengxiang and Xing Shibin, came to Xiushui in person to compete with more than ten of the most prestigious national players in Xiushui."

Fu Qingzhou wasn't very interested in what happened more than a decade ago, but after hearing this, he still asked, "So, they won? They settled the matter?"

"good."

Yuan Zhen nodded: "The two national masters fought fiercely and won a great victory by overwhelming all the chess masters in Xiushui with absolute advantage."

Fu Qingzhou scratched his head: "So... your Senior Brother Yuanguan is one of these two national players?"

"No."

Yuan Zhen said bitterly, "Brother Yuan Guan... is the chess master of two national players, Yu Chengxiang and Xing Shibin. He is known as the chess saint and is the best chess player in the world today."

Fu Qingzhou's eyes gradually widened.

While they were talking, Yuanguan had already walked out of the hall again.

He was still hunched over, with a chessboard tucked under one arm and two baskets of chess pieces in the other hand, and he walked out with a smile on his face.

"bring it on?"

Yuan Guan came to the stone table and set up the chessboard and chess basket: "One game to decide the winner?"

(End of this chapter)