Chapter 35: The Guests Have Arrived

"Heaven as the chessboard, stars as pieces; who dares to play."

What a big mouth!

In the water, two points of golden light remained undying in Li Xiang's eyes.

He did not expect to encounter such an encounter at the bottom of the water.

Since it is an encounter, it means high reward and low risk.

This made Li Xiang feel a slight stir in his heart.

His luck, which was at a trash level, could actually encounter one after another.

It must be said that Shihe Village is worthy of being a novice village holy land!

It is truly full of encounters everywhere!

Looking up at the cave, Li Xiang nodded gently.

"If one does not take what Heaven bestows, one will suffer the consequences; how can one hesitate when an encounter is delivered to one's face?"

"Do it!"

It was just that he had been in the water for a while, and his physical strength had been consumed quite a bit.

If he carried this large box, it might be a bit troublesome.

After hesitating for a moment, Li Xiang reached out and tapped the wooden box lightly.

The next moment, the entire wooden box disappeared into thin air.

A new item appeared in the equipment bar: 【Ancient Primitive Chest (Unidentified)】

"Sure enough!"

"This thing can be put into the backpack!"

After putting the box away, Li Xiang looked at the cave in front of him again.

Time had left its mark on this Immortal Abode.

The stone beasts in front of the door had weathered to the point where their shapes could not be seen, leaving only two round gray stones standing in front of the door.

The gate of the Immortal Abode had long since disappeared; looking inside, it was pitch black and chaotic, like the wide-open mouth of a giant beast.

This box must have been washed out from the depths of the abode by the water flow.

The entire Immortal Abode could not see its original appearance, only the couplet in front of the door remained as new.

A line of couplets using Heaven and Earth as a chessboard looked as if it had just been carved, which was very strange.

"Since it is an encounter, it means there is basically no danger."

"What's more, this is an opportunity in the novice village, so it should be even simpler."

With the boost of high attributes, he could stay underwater for a full two sticks of incense.

Now that he had just entered the water, he could still hold on for a while.

In the water, Li Xiang shook his body and swam slowly toward the depths of the cave.

But just after swimming a short distance forward, he felt an undercurrent rushing out from within, pushing him far away.

It seemed to be resisting Li Xiang's entry.

"A threshold for base attributes?"

Li Xiang shook his body lightly and continued to swim forward.

Just now he felt a very strong water flow wanting to push him away.

Roughly calculating, the strength of this force far exceeded the undercurrents outside the cave, requiring at least 200 points of Root Bone attribute to resist.

200 points of Root Bone?

Is this a test standard that can appear in a novice village?

Understood, this should be a test of the 【Luck】 attribute again.

Those without great luck cannot enter.

It was just that Li Xiang forcefully broke it with his physical attributes.

Wait, speaking of luck, he now had 150 points of Luck, so why was it still not enough?

Could it be that Fo Men luck doesn't count as luck?

Not wanting to think randomly, Li Xiang continued to swim forward.

It seemed that after passing that undercurrent, there were no obstacles ahead.

The water channel was very deep, and there were many water plants inside, so Li Xiang swam forward with some difficulty.

But just after entering, strange things happened.

Vaguely, he seemed to hear bursts of laughter and human speech coming from the depths.

"Heaven against ancient, earth against today; the universe reflects the ancient and modern."

"Old Immortal, look at my couplet, how is it?"

"Nonsense, not a bit of progress!"

"Hah! What's the point of being regular and flat? Isn't it enough if the flavor is there? Why be so particular?"

Listening to the voices, it seemed to be an old man and a young boy, playing chess and chatting about the couplet in front of the door.

"Hah! Young man who doesn't understand etiquette, you will eventually eat a big..."

The old man hadn't finished speaking, but his voice suddenly became urgent.

"Little beast! Stop carving words in front of my door!"

In the water, Li Xiang frowned.

This cave abode is so strange!

It is clearly a water area, where did these voices come from?

The further he swam forward, the more he felt a sense of weirdness.

It was clearly a pitch-black underwater cave with no one there.

Even if he used his Confucian divine ability to look, he only saw a deep cave with only water plants.

But he clearly heard people chatting in his ears, and even heard the sound of chess pieces falling on the chessboard.

Extremely strange!

Looking back, a cold sweat broke out on his body.

The way he came from had already disappeared!

Replacing it was an ancient, grand gate engraved with divine patterns.

This is the gate of the cave abode!

It was now closed, blocking his way.

Click!

Before he could think carefully, the sound of a chess piece falling rang out again.

"You fellow, you are truly not a human son, without a bit of chess etiquette."

"Playing chess is playing chess, why destroy my front mansion for no reason."

The old man's voice seemed a bit angry, and the chess piece was almost smashed onto the chessboard.

"Isn't it because you think the couplet I matched doesn't sound good? Then I found someone to match one for you, aren't you happy?"

The old man was puzzled.

"Found someone?"

"You used divine ability to hit my gate into chaos, reversing the ancient and future; the gate is in the past, the beast is in the future, and it will take me a lot of effort to clean it up later. You call this helping me?"

"Asking for a beating!"

"Hey, you old guy, why are you so unreasonable!"

The young boy's voice rang out, joyful with a hint of playfulness.

"The guests are almost here, don't make me lose face."

Guests?

Ancient and future?

Is this talking about me?

Li Xiang's heart shook.

Because he suddenly saw a more strange scene.

Water.

Disappeared!

He had only blinked, and everything in front of him had changed.

The deep cave full of water plants had turned into a desolate courtyard scattered in the mountains.

A bright moon hung high above his head.

Close eyes, open.

The bright moon was replaced by a bright sun.

In just a few breaths, everything in front of him became bizarre and indescribable.

The sun rose in the west and set in the east.

The bright moon was clear, first round then waning.

Time, was flowing backward!

From time to time, the sounds of chess pieces falling and the old and young chatting came to his ears.

The two talked about everything, very comfortable.

Li Xiang stood in the Immortal Abode, quietly feeling the changes in time.

Time was flowing backward toward the past, seas changing into mulberry fields, mountains and rivers shifting.

In time, he saw gods patrolling the sky, and also saw the Demon Emperor bleeding in all directions.

There were giant beasts, immortals and demons, and a mighty human army going against the sky.

As time flowed backward, everything became strange.

Time, chess game.

Li Xiang suddenly remembered a myth he heard when he was a child.

It is rumored that a woodcutter went up the mountain to cut wood and saw two old men playing chess; he watched the chess for a quarter of an hour, the sun and moon rotated, and when he came back to his senses, the axe in his hand had turned into rotten wood.

When he returned home, he heard that five hundred years had passed.

Seas changing into mulberry fields, things are different.

Looking at today, he seemed to have encountered something even more outrageous.

How far back is this time reversal going?

Back to the ancient times? Primordial times?

Or an even more distant era...

Is this a??? -level encounter?

After a long time, when Li Xiang opened his eyes.

The Immortal Abode in front of him had completely changed its appearance.

Clouds and mist as the dome, colorful phoenixes as birds, in front of him was an ancient stone chessboard, on which black and white pieces were fighting.

On the left, an old man whose face could not be seen clearly was holding a black piece, thinking about where to place it.

On the other side, a naughty boy of about ten years old was smiling and looking up at Li Xiang.

"Look."

"The guests have arrived."

There is one more chapter, still writing, will post it when finished, wait a moment!

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