The Buddha is actually me

Chapter 695: Perfect Mysterious Skill, New Chess Player
There is something wrong with Yuding Xuan Gong!
When he thought of the strange red-haired curse, Zhang Jiuyang actually felt his skin itchy, as if ants were crawling on it. He didn't know if it was an illusion.

However, when he looked inside himself, he could not see any evil spirit at all. The pure Yang magic power was so pure and upright that it was impossible to imagine that there was some kind of terrible curse hidden in it.

"Gui Gu was cursed. Before he was completely reduced to a puppet, he modified the Nine Immortals Diagram in the Jade Ding Palace to prevent his future disciples from following in his footsteps."

Zhang Jiuyang suddenly realized that the Jade Ding Xuan Gong was actually tampered by their Guigu Patriarch himself. No wonder it was so undetectable.

In this case, wouldn't the Jade Ding Xuan Gong modified by Senior Brother Miao Shenke be a dead end again?

Zhang Jiuyang felt a little scared when he thought about the fact that he had already completed seven pictures. If anyone knew that there was a problem with the fundamental technique he was practicing, it would be difficult for them to remain calm.

The head of Taiping Temple seemed to have sensed his worry, and smiled faintly, saying, "Don't worry, this has been resolved. Otherwise, I would have forced you to be my disciple and asked you to practice a different technique."

He had proposed to take Zhang Jiuyang as his disciple twice, but was rejected both times.

"Gui Gu's cultivation is very advanced and he has already entered the ninth realm. Even though he was attacked by the curse power, he managed to hold on for a hundred years. During this time, he did not give up, but tried to modify the problem of the technique and find a way to crack it."

“In the end, he succeeded, but he also failed.”

The Taiping Temple Master shook his head and said, "Gui Gu found the problem in the Jade Ding Xuan Gong and modified it to perfection, but unfortunately, his own curse power was too strong and he was powerless to save the situation."

"Later, he found me and gave me the flawless Jade Ding Mysterious Art, hoping that I could find a good successor for him in the future to make up for the mistakes he made all those years ago."

The flawless Jade Ding Xuan Gong?
Zhang Jiuyang's heart moved. The Jade Ding Mysterious Art he was practicing now was what his senior brother Miao Shen Ke had learned. Only the first eight pictures, and the ninth picture was still the original.

He is now in the seventh realm. If he cannot correct the problem soon, it will probably become more serious as he practices further.

"Senior, can I take a look at that Jade Ding Xuan Gong?"

Zhang Jiuyang said without hesitation that his foundation was now established and it would be a big taboo to rashly change his cultivation method. Other cultivation methods such as the Five Thunders Heavenly Heart Orthodox Method could only be auxiliary.

The Taiping Monastery Master smiled and said, "Didn't you get it a long time ago?"

Zhang Jiuyang was stunned for a moment, then something occurred to him and he took something out of the purple gold gourd.

It was a scripture called "Taiping Jing".

When he had just achieved the golden elixir and was preparing to recite the sutra, the abbot of Taiping Temple sent him the "Taiping Sutra" as a gift.

At that time, Zhang Jiuyang thought that the other party still wanted to accept him as a disciple, but now it seems...

The pure yang power in his body poured into the book like a rolling river, and the holy infant on the purple lotus platform suddenly opened its eyes, and some kind of thunder and lightning were everywhere.

The next moment, the originally ordinary "Taiping Jing" suddenly burst into brilliant golden light, and the words on it began to swim like tadpoles, and finally arranged and reorganized, turning into brand new content.

More pictures emerged.

The holy fetus is nurtured, the baby appears, the five qi converge, and the yang spirit is born...

Even the ninth picture that his senior brother Miao Shenke had been unable to comprehend for hundreds of years and the many tricks of the Nine Cauldrons Refining Heart Picture were presented to Zhang Jiuyang one by one.

It was mostly the same as the technique he practiced himself, with only some minor differences.

With Zhang Jiuyang's current attainments, he couldn't figure out the purpose of these subtle changes.

He carefully put this technique away, and then was silent for a moment, and suddenly asked: "Did the Saint of Strategy...really lose?"

Has the game with the gods ever been completed?

Zhang Jiuyang originally thought that the Sage of Strategy had lost, but when he looked at the Master of Taiping Temple in front of him and thought of the "Taiping Jing" just now, he felt that it was not that simple.

The game of chess is still going on!
"You are indeed very smart. If Master were still alive, he would probably like you very much."

The abbot of Taiping Temple looked at him with a hint of admiration in his eyes.

"This game of chess has been going on for 6,300 years, but it is still not over and the winner is still undecided."

"Master told me something before he passed away." "What did he say?"

"He who does not plan for eternity is not qualified to plan for the present."

Seeing Zhang Jiuyang in deep thought, the Taiping Monastery Master continued, "In this game, I am also a chess piece of Master, a chess piece... that was deliberately hidden."

After a pause, he seemed to recall some distant but unforgettable memory, and a trace of longing and admiration appeared in his eyes.

"Back then, I was a mute child on the street. My parents died in a natural disaster. My master adopted me. He liked to play chess, and I liked to watch chess. My master said that a gentleman is one who watches chess without saying a word, so he named me Li Guanqi."

The past is long gone, thousands of years ago.

But when he talked about his childhood, the vicissitudes in Taiping Temple's eyes seemed to disappear in an instant, and a smile appeared on his face unconsciously.

"Master never let me be exposed to the world. Before the war, he told me that this battle was a fatal one, with more danger than good. But he still wanted to fight, just to take advantage of the situation and have a chance of winning."

Snapped!
Emperor Taizu pondered over the chessboard for a long time, and suddenly his eyes lit up, as if he had thought of a brilliant idea.

He dropped a piece heavily and said with a smile: "Haha, Li Guanqi, it turns out you can be careless too!"

The man fell down, seized the opponent's weakness like lightning, and tore open the opponent's corner defense like a sharp sword.

However, Li Guanqi ignored it and, not surprisingly, made his move elsewhere.

The emperor continued to move his pieces happily. The two of them exchanged moves, and soon they had eaten many white pieces and had a great advantage in the corner.

However, when he turned around and took a look, he gasped.

Although the corner has an advantage, the situation is already over.

Li Guanqi focuses on the entire chess game and does not care about the gains and losses of a city or a place. Even the flaws are to lure the enemy deeper.

"As the Thirteen Chapters of Chess Classics says, discarding is like a worn-out shoe, gaining is like a fortress. I discarded twenty pieces at the corners in exchange for three outer lines of encirclement, which is exactly the game of throwing bones to feed the tiger."

Those who raise tigers must hide a dragon-slaying sword.

Snapped!
As Tianyuan's piece fell, the outcome was decided.

Zhang Jiuyang seemed to be thinking about something. This move also had the meaning of "If you want to take something, you must give it to it" in the Taoist scriptures.

"My master forged an immortal coffin for me. I can sleep forever in it. He told me to wake up every five hundred years and look for his reincarnation. If I can't find it within nine years, I will continue to sleep."

"Just like that, I woke up and fell asleep, fell asleep and woke up again, and finally, more than 600 years ago, I met Tian Yuan, also known as Zhuge Qixing."

"Therefore, he is both my disciple and my master."

A hint of enlightenment arose in Zhang Jiuyang's mind.

This is just like Zhongli Quan and Lu Zu among the Eight Immortals. Legend has it that Lu Zu is the reincarnation of Emperor Donghua, and Zhongli Quan is the apprentice of Emperor Donghua. Later, he enlightened Lu Dongbin and became his master.

"So what's next? Did the Sage say what to do?"

"Master Zhuge is dead now. Is this also part of the plan?"

Zhang Jiuyang continued to ask.

"do not know."

"do not know?"

Li Guanqi shook his head and smiled bitterly: "I am just a chess piece. It is your turn to make the next move."

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(End of this chapter)