the enlightener says

"If you die because of this hammer, how about I beat you to death in front of your grave." Gao Yishui rolled his eyes and said.

Cai Yan suddenly covered her mouth, but she still showed a bit of a sinister smile: "Is this going to die for love? It turns out that you guys like this kind of tune..."

"Bah!" Qin Ke and Gao Yishui spoke in unison in a rare way.

But then, Gao Yishui cleared his throat, and said in a slightly serious tone: "The ancient holy king had a picture of autumn hunting, which has been passed down to this day. After the emperor of the Ji Dynasty abdicated, this thing was kept in the treasury of the Mo family. I haven’t seen the real one, but I was lucky enough to see a copy once.”

"It's just a hunting picture. Is there anything precious about it?" Qin Ke asked.

Gao Yishui shook his head: "It's not as simple as you think. Let's not say that this is the authentic work left by the holy king, just the content depicted in this autumn hunting picture is worthy of praise for thousands of years."

"At that time, the holy king pacified the floods, and the world was initially settled, but monsters and beasts often appeared in the wild places, harassing the people, and often causing troubles. So after the holy king ascended the throne, he led the nine most important generals under his command to lead the army. The imperial capital, sweeping the barbaric wilderness, killing all the way to the extreme north, beheading more than [-] monsters, this is how the prosperity and peace of the future will be established."

"I've heard this story." Abu nodded and said, "It is said that in the era of the Holy King, monsters were a disaster, far from the monsters of today, only dormant in the mountains and forests that are inaccessible. The autumn hunting of the Holy King , Almost wiped out all the monsters and beasts in the world, and even the cubs were wiped out. Because of this, many ancient monsters and beasts have disappeared from the world, and we can only know a thing or two from ancient books. Since then, the human race has reclaimed wasteland and planted food everywhere. , has since become the master of this vast land.”

Gao Yishui's eyes glowed with yearning: "That's right. A man standing between heaven and earth, can calm floods, sweep wild lands, until he has established such a great achievement, and after ten thousand years, he can still be admired by everyone. It's really fascinating."

Fascinated?Qin Ke didn't think so, he only smelled a strong smell of blood in Gao Yishui and Abu's narration.Although he also knew that these were all unavoidable, but if it were him, he might not be able to deal with those cubs ruthlessly.

Of course, he didn't think about establishing any achievements, but now it seems that this is something that makes him feel gratified.

"You continue to talk." Qin Ke saw Gao Yishui patronizing and fascinated, and shouted.

Gao Yishui withdrew his thoughts, smiled, and said: "We stand outside the formation, and we can't see the whole picture of this stone formation, but I just carefully arranged it in my mind, there are these giants one foot tall They stand out from the crowd, and their weapons are different... Thinking about it this way, the giant with the hammer behind you should be 'General Lian'."

Gao Yishui talked eloquently, and said: "The nine generals under the command of the Holy King back then, only four of them still have their names. They are Lian, Xiang, Ying, and Zhang. Now they have four surnames."

"Four surnames?" Qin Ke was slightly taken aback, "Doesn't that mean that those who have these four surnames must be the descendants of those four generals? Could it be... that Xiang Chu of the Tang Kingdom is also?"

"That's how to put it clearly. In the final analysis, surnames have been passed down for thousands of years. It is not surprising that there are any changes. For example, this General Zhang was known as the wise general among the nine generals, so the kings of later generations often like to call this Surnames are bestowed on some meritorious advisors to show respect and rewards, and for this alone, there will be many more people with the surname Zhang."

Gao Yishui said with a smile: "What's more, those high-ranking officials, wealthy families, and even ordinary people, for the sake of face, would often invent an ancestor named Zhang, wouldn't they?"

Cai Yan laughed softly: "I remember when you said that. There was a dynasty 2000 years ago. The emperor who conquered the great country came from a humble background. The ancestor became the direct descendant of General Lian. Every time my father talked about this, he always criticized him for not being as courageous as the founding emperor of the previous dynasty. .”

"Forget it, let's not talk about this, I don't care who Xiang Chu's ancestors are, even if his ancestors are really General Xiang, so what? It happened ten thousand years ago, and his ancestors have already rotted into the mud. Now even the bones I can't find it either."

Gao Yishui stretched his waist, and said: "Those shorter iron stone men should be soldiers under the command of the nine generals. And these stone beasts have different shapes, and they should refer to the various beasts killed by the holy king Qiushou. Big monster. The stone leopard behind you has an obtuse horn on the top of its head, and its rear tail is scattered like five tails, it is probably 'stern', and that..."

Following the direction Gao Yishui pointed, Qin Ke saw a stone beast with a head like a vulture eagle, but with antlers on its head, and its four hooves on the ground.

"This should be called a Gu Eagle. It is said that this thing sounds like a baby crying, but it can eat people."

Looking at Gu Diao's deep eyes, Qin Ke always felt that it was looking at him, maybe he was still thinking about whether he was delicious, so he got a little hairy for a while, and immediately looked away.

Gao Yishui identified a few more stone beasts, and guessed their names from their appearances. However, these ancient monsters have long since disappeared. Say no more.

"So?" Qin Ke heard so many words, but still didn't understand the point, "So how do we break the formation?"

"This is not an array, what are you talking about?" Gao Yishui shook his head, and before Qin Ke asked again, he said slowly: "This is a game of chess, a big game of chess. The people and beasts in it are all chess pieces. Now you Kill a person, and you become one of the pawns on the chessboard."

"Chess pieces?" Qin Ke's pupils dilated, and he felt a bad premonition, "What do you mean?"

Gao Yishui tilted his head and smiled cunningly: "In chess, it is natural to win or lose. You have already chosen the human side, and then, naturally, you must win this game on the human side."

"When did I choose it? It came at me with a knife. I can't defend myself?" Qin Ke shouted, "Then you know this is a game of chess now, tell me what to do win!"

Gao Yishui lowered his head and thought for a moment, raised the corners of his mouth, clapped his palms together, and said, "No wonder the rule of the loser is that you can bring three followers with you when entering the battle. From this point of view, it means..."

Chapter 4 The Chess Pieces and Those Who Hold the Pieces

Gao Yishui walked into the stone formation with ease, and walked among the giants and beasts of different shapes, but did not cause any changes in the stone formation at all.

Even the giant called "General Lian" was indifferent to Gao Yishui who was passing by with a smile on his face, and all the robot humans and beasts fell into a dead silence, motionless.

When Gao Yishui walked up to a slightly shorter giant in the formation, he slowly stretched out his hand from his sleeve. Suddenly, there was a sharp whistling sound in the air. In the blink of an eye, Qin Ke shot a small Then the sword quickly came out of his sleeve, turned around in mid-air, and plunged into the chest of the little giant.

After seeing it many times, Qin Ke also gradually understood how rare the flying sword of a spiritual practitioner is.

I don't know how many blacksmiths may not be able to forge such a flying sword in their entire lives.It is said that forging this special flying sword for spiritual practice not only relies on the blacksmith's superb craftsmanship, but also tests the blacksmith's years of practice.A flying sword forged from this must have gone through thousands of tempers, and its edge is compelling.

Soon, Liu Yejian jumped out from behind the little giant, hit a beautiful sword flower, and flew all the way back to his palm.

The body of the little giant who was pierced through the chest trembled violently, and the teeth of several gears in the body also made a piercing sound of breaking at this moment. Become a pile of useless iron stones.

"Abu, go and take the place of that halberd soldier." Gao Yishui jumped to the side of the little giant with a vigorous step, and shouted at Abu.

Abu didn't doubt that he was there, and immediately walked into the stone formation. Although he didn't carry a halberd this time, his energy and blood cultivation was not weaker than Qin Ke's. Then he slammed into a little giant holding a halberd with his ox-like body, and slammed it into a towering boulder. The parts, gears, and stones outside his body were all shattered. Boom, boom, fell to the ground.

It's just that Abu's eyes were still looking up and down at the little giant. After waiting for a while, he jumped down suddenly, stepped forward to grab the halberd with both hands, took off the halberd that the little giant was holding tightly, and waved it on the spot. Twice, nodded: "Although it is a little longer, it is barely usable."

Qin Ke was dumbfounded: "Can it still be like this?"

As he said that, he also tried to walk to the side of the little giant he had destroyed before, and looked at the long knife that fell on the ground. Unfortunately, Qin Ke was discouraged by the length of the knife, and the weight was even more unacceptable to him, so Shaking his head helplessly, he picked up the long knife and put it down again.

"Okay! Three chess pieces have entered the board." Gao Yishui laughed and said, "It's time for this chess game to begin."

Qin Ke and Abu stood quietly looking at him, inexplicably feeling that at this time his eyes seemed to burst out with a rare brilliance, as hot as the sun, but not scorching. A scent of confidence.

only……

After waiting for a while, until Qin Ke's feet were slightly sore, nothing happened in the whole stone formation. Time seemed to stand still, and everything was frozen at the moment before Gao Yishui laughed.

"Cough cough cough..." The smile on Gao Yishui's face gradually froze, he coughed a few times, scratched his head and said, "I'm sorry, maybe...the posture is not right."

He muttered to his toes in a low voice: "Isn't that what you said?"

He thought for a while, raised his head and said loudly: "Let's play chess!"

"Sesame Chess!"

"Start!"

"start!"

"Who goes first?"

"Should I still have to guess first?"

"Crooked, crooked, is there—someone—!"

Qin Ke and Abu looked at each other, completely unaware of what he was going crazy.

The two looked embarrassed, seeing that Gao Yishui had already made all kinds of strange postures on the spot, chanting many messy slogans in his mouth, like a wild priest pretending to be crazy and jumping around in a sacrificial ceremony, but the stone formation still remained motionless , their surroundings are still silent.

The ferocious beast was still staring at it within its limited range.

All the giants, or iron and stone institutions, held weapons and stood solemnly, like terracotta figurines in the emperor's tomb.

It was this kind of silence that inexplicably made Gao Yishui feel that they were sending out waves of invisible ridicule.

"Damn it!"

Gao Yishui finally calmed down, raised his hand and smashed his willow leaf sword to the ground with a "bang".

I also feel sorry for that small sword, which was obviously forged by craftsmen with countless efforts. In the eyes of those spiritual practitioners, it is too late to be a treasure, so they are not willing to throw it like this.

Now, in Gao Yishui's place, it has become a cheap item that can be used to vent emotions at will. The little willow-leaf sword rolled on the ground a few times, and shrank to the feet of a machine-man soldier aggrievedly.

Gao Yishui yelled at the inside of the underground palace: "Since it's a chess game and all the chess pieces are on the board, why are you still so staring? Could it be that I want you to go all the way into the underground palace?"

Of course, Gao Yishui is just talking fast. If he really wants to kill all the way in, there is no guarantee that these mechanism beasts will not attack them. From the perspective of numbers alone, even if the three of them join hands, it is difficult to destroy all the mechanism beasts. , breaking through all the way in, not to mention who knows, these organ people will not also block it?

Just talking about the majesty and power of that "General Lian" just now, he was already very close to the realm of the little master, and it would take a lot of effort to defeat him.

In the stone formation, there are a total of nine generals.

Qin Ke frowned and was about to say something, but when Gao Yishui finished the first sentence and wanted to continue with his hips crossed, the whole stone formation suddenly shook.

The gears on all the robot humans and beasts started to run slowly under this shock. The occlusion of the gears and the collision of the gears made a continuous "click" sound, which was loud, clear, and powerful.

As if inspired, all the mechanism beasts raised their heads like living creatures, and looked in front of them one after another. They had been staring at Qin Ke before, but now they lost interest in Qin Ke and shook their bodies. , the majesty of the king of beasts is fully displayed, ferocious and terrifying.

Its limbs were scraping the ground, its entire back tightened inch by inch, and even a deep roar came out from its big mouth, like the prelude to a tiger or leopard slaughtering.

Qin Ke has no doubts, it will pounce at any time, and use his sharp claws and fangs to tear apart the body of the organ man in front of him, but it has a bit of restraint, as if it is restrained by an invisible force. Lived it so he didn't do it.

On the opposite side of it, the organ man was also majestic, and the sharpness of the spear in his hand disappeared in a flash. As his knees slowly sank, the tip of the spear drooped to the height of his chest, pointing directly at the hideous head.

It's obviously a dead thing, but his simple movements and solemn expression are more murderous than a real person.

Gao Yishui didn't show any fear on his face when he saw the stone formation overflowing with evil spirits. Instead, he smiled in surprise like a child: "Hey, is it possible that you have to curse people to start this game of chess?"

"If I were you, I wouldn't be in the mood to say such things." Cai Yan's tired voice came from outside the stone formation, "You only got all the chess pieces together, but you forgot the most important thing in chess, you How do I start?"

"The most important thing?" Gao Yishui's heart moved, he turned his head suddenly, and saw that the floor tiles in front of Cai Yan had somehow become higher, as if a stone table had bloomed from the ground, and on the stone table, a Only the iron box about two feet square stood firmly, and the iron box was also made by mixing stones, but the stones inside seemed to be naturally formed, not at all obtrusive.

Gao Yishui squinted his eyes, he couldn't see very clearly, but he could vaguely recognize some small shadows inlaid between those stones - isn't this just the organ man and organ beast in the stone formation?

It's just that on the iron box, these organ people and organ beasts have been shrunk too much, making them look exquisite and petite, but they lack a sense of military killing.

"So that's it." Gao Yishui clapped his hands, "Why did I forget that the most important thing in chess is not the chess pieces, but the chess players. You can still play chess if you lack a chess piece, but if you don't have a chess player, what should you do?" Who will hold the son?"

It was also nonsense that Gao Yishui thought that cursing could open the chess game. The mechanism to open the chess game was found by Cai Yan, who had never spoken.

The organ that opens the chess game is extremely heavy. Although Cai Yan is not the kind of weak official lady, but a general who can ride a horse and lift a knife, she has no cultivation, so it took a lot of effort to lift the handle of the organ just now. Less energy.

But at this moment, she was staring at the whole game of chess, lost in thought for a long time.

The chess game that Gongshuba set up is quite different from all the chess games she has seen before. The chessboard seems to be based on innate gossip, and humans and beasts are mixed with each other, but now she has nothing to rely on. Where should she start? , and how to control the chess pieces, she was at a loss.

I am afraid that no matter how skilled the rider is, he will be blinded when he encounters such a chess game that does not know the rules.

"What should I do?" Cai Yan yelled loudly at Qin Ke.

"You can figure it out!" Gao Yishui also shouted back, "Anyway, you know as much about this as I do."

Cai Yan stomped her feet, but knew that she couldn't mess up her position at this moment, so she suppressed a slightly uneasy heart, she quietly stared at the scattered chess pieces of Mech Man and Mechanism Beast, finally gritted her teeth, and lightly Gently push one of them with your hand.

Confrontation in Chapter 4 and Three

When Cai Yan's hand was still on the "chess piece", there was already a deafening sound from the stone formation, as if every boulder in the stone formation roared at the same time!

"General Lian" finally took a step forward at this moment, and as his pair of strong and powerful legs slowly stepped forward, each step was a shock, and under the heavy blows of the giant hammer in his hand, The ferocious face that was still baring its teeth just now has been shattered into scraps of rubble all over the place.

"Oh oh oh!" Qin Ke opened his mouth wide and called out.

Gao Yishui also shouted in surprise: "Beautiful! This hammer is unparalleled in the world. I dare say it is the most beautiful hammer I have ever seen!"

But outside the stone formation, Cai Yan felt that she had completely lost control of the entire chess game. No matter how hard she pushed, the nearly three-inch-high chess piece refused to move forward. Mechanism, killed it.

She knew that this meant that she had completed a round, and the next step was naturally her opponent's time to make a move.

Who is her opponent?Gongshu like?Or is it the consciousness of the organs themselves that seem to not exist, somewhere in the dark?

"Gada Gada..." The only answer to her question was the gnashing of gears, and right in front of Cai Yan's eyes, the chess pieces moved slowly along a predetermined trajectory.

The movement of the chess piece was stiff, but it carried a sense of power, and when it reached its destination, the situation it showed was far deeper than the feelings of everyone present.

At this moment, the ancient ferocious beast casted by a mixture of steel and hard stone finally opened its minions, and fell on an organ man holding a long knife in a face-to-face meeting. Between a few breaths, it's over.

Gears and refined iron shells were scattered everywhere, and the violent sound made Qin Ke feel a little palpitating.

The organ beast stepped on the remains of the organ man, raised its head high, howling as if alive.

There was a sudden cracking sound in front of Cai Yan, and amidst Cai Yan's slight exclamation, the chess piece that had shrunk countless times suddenly burst open. Although the momentum was not large, it seemed equally tragic.

But before Cai Yan had time to push the chess piece again, the chess piece representing another mechanical beast on the iron box chessboard moved again.

"How could it be..." Cai Yan opened her eyes wide and covered her lips with one hand, but soon realized something, and screamed: "Ah Ke, I'm coming for you!"

"Ah?" Qin Ke was taken aback for a moment, and the body of a mechanism beast in front of him was "clicking", and it rushed over in an instant.

This is a hedgehog covered with thorns. Under the pointed head, there are exposed front teeth like sharp arrows. Although Qin Ke has seen many such things in the mountains, most of them are timid and weak animals. , the spikes all over can only protect itself from predators.

But in the stone formation, the hedgehog's body is half a person's height, and each of the spikes on its body is as sharp as an iron rod, which made Qin Ke immediately picture himself being pierced by iron rods all over his body, The scene of hanging on the hedgehog in the end is extremely miserable.

He shivered, but the blood poured into his legs without hesitation. As he took a step forward, he passed the dagger in his hand, slashing right at the big hedgehog's grinning mouth.

Although the dagger in his hand was not as sharp as the Bodhisattva sword, it wasn't too weak. After hearing the clank, the hedgehog's two sharp front teeth were chopped off and fell down.

Seeing such a situation, Qin Ke also knew that the opportunity must not be missed, so he took a big step forward again, bent like a smart cat, and jumped under the hedgehog.

Fortunately, although this hedgehog is big, its structure is still the same as the hedgehog he saw in the mountains. Its abdomen is smooth without a single spike. With his foot, the hedgehog's organs all began to collapse.

Qin Ke crawled out from under the hedgehog. Seeing the hedgehog fell on his back, he quickly lost all movement. He was at ease, but he was also very puzzled.

"What's going on? Why did the two mechanism beasts move?" Qin Ke asked Cai Yan.

"It's not two! It's three.!" At this moment, Gao Yishui suddenly turned pale and interjected, "Look!"

Qin Ke looked in the direction Gao Yishui was pointing at, and saw a different scene again. It was also a trap beast and a trap man, but this time the ending was that the two hugged each other tightly like a married couple. together.

The spear pierced through the chest of the machine beast, but the machine man's body was also severely damaged due to the tearing of the minions, and it was probably impossible to move any more.