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"Old man, what do you think is more important?" Li Ye could not make up his mind at the moment. He refused to let go of the chess piece in his hand. After he could not hold it in any longer, he slowly spoke to the old man.

"Is mental cultivation important? It's not important, right? " The old man turned his head and ignored Li Ye.

Li Ye rolled his eyes at the old man and slowly said, "Didn't you say that mental cultivation is important?"

"That's your heart, not mine." The old man grabbed a handful of chess pieces and slowly put them down. He closed his eyes to enjoy the sound of the chess pieces falling.

"My heart …"

Li Ye was silent for a long time. He did not understand the meaning of the old man's words.

"Your heart is more important than mine." The old man sighed and said to himself, "I'm just an old man at the end of his days, there's no point in trying. You, on the other hand, are still young. Your heart is still of great use."

Li Ye looked up at the warm sun above his head and closed his eyes in silence for a long time.

"Don't touch my chess, I can hear you." Li Ye closed his eyes to feel the reactions around him, but when he heard the sound of the chess piece, he also frowned and cursed in a low voice.

After hearing Li Ye's voice, the chess player was shocked. He was so scared that he dropped his chess piece onto the chessboard and it continued to jingle non-stop.

Li Ye opened his eyes wide and stared at the old man in front of him.

Old Liang's face did not redden at all. It was as if the person playing the game was not him, but the trembling chess piece on the chessboard exposed his shameless behavior without a doubt.

"Old man, the reason you're telling me all these is for a change in chess!" Li Ye seemed to have understood everything this old man had done. He stared at the old man with his eyes wide open. This old scoundrel was blabbering about this matter.

"Don't wrongly accuse me, your chess piece is here." The old man had a stern expression on his face as he pointed at the shaking chess piece, completely refusing to acknowledge his previous actions.

"…" Li Ye could do nothing about such shamelessness. He could not do this, nor could he do that. He could only face it in silence.

In fact, Li Ye was quite happy in his heart. After all, he had finally met someone even worse than himself, someone who could only win after being beaten by Gongsun Lingling and Huyan He.

Furthermore, the chess piece the old man just changed made Li Ye even more happy. It was rare for him to encounter such a stinky chess basket, and he wouldn't even know how to change chess. He only needed to change some good chess pieces for himself.

Li Ye did take advantage of this opportunity. Black chess fell down and devoured the old man's white chess piece. Now, he was only one step away from victory.

The old man in front of Li Ye was not nervous at all. On the contrary, he watched Li Ye's pieces falling with a smile, seemingly not angry at his loss at all.

Right now, the chess game had already reached its final step. Li Ye's chess piece had already become a major force, forcing the old man's white piece into a corner. As long as the old man's path was blocked, the old man's white piece could be completely swallowed up.

The final step was the simplest.

One of them was at the bottom of the old man's white stone. Although it could slowly and steadily swallow the old man's white stone, it would make him lose a lot of black stone. The other one was a piece that would not cause Li Ye any harm.

But was this game of chess really that simple?

Li Ye thought so, but the two spectators didn't think so.

The old man looked at the place where Li Ye fell to the ground. He narrowed his eyes and muttered to himself, "What I have cultivated is a heart of reluctance …"

"Don't think about it, I won't let you change your chess piece at a time like this!" Li Ye stared at the old man with eyes full of caution, thinking that Old Liang was going to repeat the same trick.

Old Liang faintly smiled and muttered to himself, "How could I not be willing to part with you? Your heart is not good!"

After the old man finished speaking, under Li Ye's astonished gaze, he slowly put away Li Ye's chess pieces. Under Li Ye's dazed gaze, the old man pointed at the chess board and slowly said, "Old man, I'm not moving recklessly. Take a look at the chessboard."

Li Ye looked closely and his pupils constricted. He was shocked by the scene of the chessboard.

The old man was small and thin, with a huge white fish. A huge white fish was suspended from the hook in the old man's hand. Judging from the look of the board, the old man had won the battle and dragged the white fish out of the water.

"Kid, you didn't think of this, right? The board that was originally going to win immediately lost. " The old man smiled. He didn't forget to mock Li Ye at this moment.

Li Ye rolled his eyes at the old man. He was unwilling to give up until the very last moment, so he insisted on bringing the white fish back into the water.

But his struggle would only cause the hook in the White Fish's mouth to sink deeper and deeper, causing more wounds to appear.

Now that the chessboard situation had been reversed, the one who had lost his power was the previous triumphant Li Ye.

Just as Li Ye was about to lose the game, the old man took a piece of red cloth and covered up the board. He said to Li Ye slowly, "This game of chess can live, but the current you cannot comprehend it. When you comprehend it, you will play with me."

Right now, Li Ye was like a gambler who had lost all hope. Even though he knew that he had completely lost, he was still unwilling to give up the last sliver of hope.

"Li Ye, you're worried …" The old man sighed and directly pointed at Li Ye's life. He continued, "You took a moment to cultivate your ruthlessness towards your enemy and your reluctance to part with yourself, but that heart of yours has made it impossible for you to break through this chessboard. When you can bear to give up on it, you might be able to undo this chessboard."

"You know me? Then you … "You still dare to?" Hearing his real name, Li Ye's mind suddenly became a mess. The old man didn't listen to a word he had just said. He just lowered his head and talked to himself.

The old man rolled his eyes at Li Ye and disdainfully said, "Who do you think you are? Your head can't even compare to a single hair of mine!"

The old man's words stopped Li Ye in his tracks. He stared blankly at the old man, not knowing what to say or ask.

"I've been waiting for you for a long time. From the moment you boarded the carriage, I've been waiting for you." After the old man sighed, he slowly said, "The reason why I put up this board is to see what heart you have. I also want to see if you are worthy of this thing!"