Chapter 39: Sharing the Fruit

Half an hour later.

Yang Jian looked at the chess game that was completely beyond saving.

He looked at Li Xiang with the eyes of someone looking at a monster.

What kind of monster is this?

Does he not need to think when playing chess?

He had to ponder hard to place a piece.

But it was almost right behind him.

He could hear a click, and a black piece fell.

If Li Xiang was just playing randomly, that would be fine.

But every one of his pieces hit the vital point directly, killing his formation into pieces.

This! This is too terrifying!

When he played against his teacher Yuding Zhenren, he had never felt such terrifying suppression.

It was as if every step, every move he made, was completely seen through by the other party.

How is this possible?!

He is just a mortal!

"Fellow Daoist, you have conceded!"

Li Xiang looked at Yang Jian with a smile.

At this moment, on the chessboard, the black pieces had occupied an absolute advantage.

Even if Yang Jian tried his best, fighting in chaos, he could still fight with Li Xiang in a local area.

But the general trend on the field was gone!

If they continued to play, counting the pieces at the end, Li Xiang would be the absolute winner.

Yang Jian looked up at Li Xiang with a complex expression.

After a long time, he sighed and grabbed a few white pieces at random and threw them on the chessboard.

This game, Li Xiang won.

"No regrets in chess, victory and defeat are decided!"

"Black pieces, win!"

Seeing Yang Jian abandon the pieces, the boy walked over and announced the victory or defeat softly.

Immediately, the boy took out the tray and handed the two volumes of heavenly books and six pellets of divine thunder to Li Xiang.

He was the winner, so the stakes were naturally handed to Li Xiang.

Li Xiang looked at them and reached out to tap lightly on the divine thunder.

He won the chess game, so the ownership of these divine thunders had been re-established.

He should be able to put these divine thunders into the backpack system.

The next moment, several divine thunders disappeared into thin air.

Looking at the backpack, sure enough, a new prop occupied a grid.

【Divine Grade Sixth Grade: Nine Heavens Divine Thunder x6】

【Attribute: Refined by the great divine ability user Yang Jian, who collected the Nine Heavens Divine Thunder under the sky of the Primordial Continent; used for fighting enemies on weekdays by firing with a slingshot; because the Nine Heavens Divine Thunder often appears in the form of a heavenly tribulation, it carries the attribute of Heavenly Might when attacking.】

【Heavenly Might: Attack power against demons x1.5, attack power against those with karmic fire x2.0; when used to attack creatures about to undergo tribulation, there is a 15% probability of triggering the heavenly tribulation for them in advance!】

【Evaluation: This is a rare treasure, which can be fired in the form of pellets or thrown by hand; this prop attribute is extremely powerful, killing everything below the Venerable Realm!】

"Divine grade prop? Higher than Heaven grade?"

"Interesting."

After putting these divine thunders away, Li Xiang looked at the chess game on the stone table and the two boxes of chess pieces.

This thing could help him block the suppression of the Heavenly Dao.

Li Xiang frowned; he really wanted to take this item.

No one could refuse the feeling of seeing through the Dao at a glance.

Whispering silently, Li Xiang asked the system.

"Can you put this chessboard into the backpack?"

"System!"

The next moment, a familiar voice rang out.

The system was as humanized as ever.

【Ding!】

【You are attempting to collect the??? -level item Heaven and Earth Chessboard!】

【Warning! Forcibly collecting other people's items will attract the hostility of the owner!】

【Attached: Your realm is far lower than the owner of the item; after calculation, your success probability is 0.000000001%】

【Please act with caution!】

"Ah this..."

"Then pretend I didn't ask."

Li Xiang stood up from the stone chair.

Instantly, a feeling of his soul being emptied emerged.

His head felt heavy, no longer as empty and clear as before.

Looking around, everything returned to just appearances.

The Dao he could see through at a glance just now could no longer be found.

Sure enough, the suppression of the Heavenly Dao was still there.

Li Xiang didn't struggle, after all, there were better things waiting for him to try later.

Turning to get up, he picked up the two volumes of heavenly books on the tray and handed them to Yang Jian.

"Fellow Daoist, meeting today is fate."

"I give these two volumes of heavenly books to you, hoping to form a good relationship, and perhaps we will meet again in the future."

Yang Jian was originally worrying, but seeing the heavenly books handed over by Li Xiang, his brows slowly relaxed.

He could feel that these two volumes of heavenly books had a causal connection with him in the dark.

If he could obtain them, they might have great use in the future!

It was just that for some reason, seeing "Life's Long Regret, Water Flows Long East", Yang Jian always felt a strange palpitation.

Yang Jian smiled and bowed to Li Xiang.

"Many thanks, Fellow Daoist!"

He didn't decline, took the heavenly books, thanked Li Xiang, and was full of awe in his eyes.

Li Xiang asked about some stories in the other party's world.

Just now the system prompted that Yang Jian came from the Primordial Great World, and he really wanted to know if the legendary Saints really existed.

Yang Jian knew everything and told him everything.

In his world, the spiritual Qi of heaven and earth was abundant, with six Saints suppressing everything above, and the Heavenly Palace and Underworld governing the mountains and rivers below.

Now that the Conferring of the Gods Great Calamity had just passed, the order of the six paths had been reset, and the laws were strict.

Just when the two were chatting, the chess game between Wu Zetian and Kongming also finally ended.

No surprise, it was Kongming who won with the white pieces.

The emperor and the strategist playing chess, the result was naturally self-evident.

Both chess games had ended, so the boy stood out again.

"The Daoshu said, if you masters have finished playing chess, you can taste the spirit fruits prepared by the master."

"Playing chess later will consume a lot of energy; if you don't eat some spirit fruits, you might run out of strength."

As he said, two boys were seen holding a fruit basket and walking over.

There were not many or few fruits in it, exactly four, which were two different kinds of fruits.

"This is?"

"Flat Peach and Ginseng Fruit!"

Yang Jian gave a huh.

Li Xiang looked over.

In the fruit basket, two large, reddish Flat Peaches made people drool, and there was faint rosy light circling on the fruits, overall like jade carvings, not like ordinary objects.

Looking again, beside the Flat Peach, there were two white fruits, shaped like humans, with faces that were neither sad nor happy like children, and the whole fruit was very exquisite, with an overpowering fragrance; he thought it must be the Ginseng Fruit.

"The Daoshu said, no need to be formal; since you have entered this temple, you are guests."

"Don't worry about getting involved in causality; if you can dampen that person's spirit later, the temple owner has other rewards."

The boy smiled and offered the fruit basket.

Two Flat Peaches, two Ginseng Fruits, both were legendary spirit fruits.

Good fellow, what a big hand.

But thinking of what he saw and heard today, which was already outrageous to the extreme, Li Xiang didn't care anymore.

Seeing that everyone was just watching and not eating the fruit, the boy knew the thoughts of the four, so he got up to share the fruit for the four.

Only to see the boy reach out, a point of immortal light flashed, wrapping the fruits and falling in front of the four respectively.

Li Xiang saw a Ginseng Fruit fly in front of him, and the rich fragrance made his index finger move.

【Ding! You successfully obtained Divine Grade First Grade Spirit Fruit: Ginseng Fruit x1】

【Attribute: This thing falls once every ten thousand years; it belongs to Zhenyuanzi of the Five Villages Temple; eating it can obtain 48,000 years of life, shed the mortal body, and transform into an Immortal Spirit Body.】

It is worth mentioning that Li Xiang saw Kongming also get a Ginseng Fruit.

Unconsciously, he thought of a picture.

Kongming returned to the original Three Kingdoms world, enjoyed 48,000 years of life, and used the Immortal Spirit Body to prove the Dao and ascend in the mortal world.

What kind of person is Kongming? If he could avoid the problem of life span, then in the future...

Dare not imagine.

He thought there would be a legendary picture of the three-time revival of the Ji Han, and the Great Han would become a Heavenly Mandate Divine Dynasty!

Collecting his stray thoughts, Li Xiang took out the fruit and took a light bite.

The next moment, the entire fruit turned into light, melting into his abdomen along his lips and teeth, and an indescribable fragrance lingered between his teeth.

【Ding! You ate the Ginseng Fruit, your attributes have changed significantly!】

【Ding! Your Root Bone attribute +500!】

【Ding! Your Comprehension attribute +1000!】

【Ding! Your life span has increased significantly!】

【Ding! Your constitution has transformed from a mortal body to an Immortal Spirit Body!】

【Immortal Spirit Body: Your understanding of the Heavenly Dao has been significantly deepened, your intake of spiritual Qi of heaven and earth has been significantly strengthened, your use of methods and techniques has been significantly improved, your spiritual root attribute has changed from none to all-attribute spiritual root, your use of fire-type divine abilities has been significantly improved, your use of water-type...】

Dense system prompts rang in his mind, but Li Xiang didn't care about these at all.

He just felt a strange fragrance flowing through his whole body, making his soul a bit infatuated.

After a long time, he slowly came back to his senses.

Looking up, there was no one around, and he seemed to have changed his position.

Only a boy was waiting for him here.

"Little master, are you awake?"

"Where are they?"

Li Xiang shook his head; he felt very comfortable.

Of course, not as comfortable as the feeling of transcending everything when playing chess just now.

"Back to little master, you were a mortal body; it took a long time to transform your constitution after eating this spirit fruit for the first time, and others have already gone to watch the temple owner play chess."

"Seeing that you couldn't wake up for a long time, I brought you here; the spiritual Qi here is more abundant, allowing you to wake up earlier, so as not to miss the game later."

Looking around, Li Xiang saw that this seemed to be a side courtyard in the Immortal Abode, with a huge spirit plant located here, full of various spirit fruits.

Flat Peaches, Ginseng Fruits, and even some fruits Li Xiang had never seen before.

It was hard to imagine that a spirit plant could bear so many different spirit fruits, which opened his eyes.

As the boy said, the spiritual Qi here was more abundant, and his Immortal Spirit Body had also finished transforming.

He could clearly feel that his affinity with the spiritual Qi of heaven and earth had become much stronger.

"Master, please follow me; the temple owner and the others are still playing chess in the mansion."

Li Xiang nodded and followed the boy out.

Before long, he returned to the place where he started.

The two stone tables and stone chairs prepared for them earlier had been put away.

Only the old immortal was playing chess with the naughty boy, while Kongming, Wu Zetian, and Yang Jian were standing aside watching from afar, not daring to disturb.

It was just that the expressions of these three seemed very strange, looking at the chessboard as if they were in a daze.

Like Li Xiang's enlightenment state just now.

Huh?

Does the chess game have other mysteries?

Li Xiang stood still and looked up.

In an instant, his expression also froze.

He saw the old immortal pick a white piece from the chess box and place it lightly on the chessboard.

A vast great world was born in an instant.

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