I Have A Seal Of Two Realms

"What the hell?!"

Lu Zheng was startled, his eyes narrowed, and he almost let go of his grip on the mountain wall, causing him to fall down.

He tightened his hands and grasped the cliff again. Lu Zheng blinked and sensed carefully. Except for the mountain wind with the smell of moisture and grass at the turn of spring and summer, he felt no other breath.

But the words he just said clearly echoed in his mind, he is a master! Extremely deep spiritual cultivation!

Lu Zheng's eyes flashed. He came six or seven times, but the other party never made a sound. Only this time he spoke when the water was not full. This made Lu Zheng lose at least half of his vigilance.

In that case...go check it out!

So Lu Zheng did not retreat but advanced, climbing up again while saying loudly, "Thank you so much, senior!"

I continued to climb up the cliff and soon reached a small platform. This platform was only halfway up the mountain. There were still rocks and cliffs for dozens of feet up and down, but the vegetation in front of the platform seemed to have been cleared. After a while, a cave was exposed against the mountain wall.

This is it!

Another cave!

Lu Zheng first bowed at the entrance of the cave, and then stepped in. Although his speed was not slow, he was actually on guard mentally, and the blood in his body was running smoothly, so he protected himself tightly.

The cave passage sloped downwards, and was not deep at all. It only took two turns and came to a wide cave space.

The space of this cave is not large, only tens of feet in diameter. There are dozens of gaps above the cave that connect to the outside of the mountain. Sunlight shines in from the gaps and shines into the cave. The sunlight is diffusely scattered and illuminates the surrounding space. There are many colors. The green stalactites caught Lu Zheng's eyes.

What attracted Lu Zheng's most attention was, of course, not the environment inside the cave and the stalactite springs accumulated in various stalactite recesses, but the place on the inner side of the cave where the slanting sunlight happened to shine.

An old man in brown robes, with a pale face and black beard and black hair, sat in front of a two-foot-square stone slab. He kept staring at the stone slab until Lu Zheng entered the cave, then he raised his head stiffly and glanced at him.

Looking at each other, Lu Zheng felt that the other person's eyes were as dark as abyss, and the light was flowing, as if there was a universe hidden inside.

He is a master!

"Lu Zheng, a layman from the outer sect of Baiyun Temple, has met the senior!" Lu Zheng bowed and said.

"Well." The old man looked a little dazed, as if he was thinking about other things. After waiting for a moment, he gestured to Lu Zheng to point to the stalactite spring in the cave, "Go and fill it."

"Yes, thank you, senior!" Lu Zheng bowed again before walking towards the center of the cave.

In the cave, there are inverted bamboo shoot-shaped stalactites above, and drops of turquoise spring water. Drop by drop, they gather from the tips of these stalactites and then drip down.

Below, in the low-lying areas on the ground, small pieces of depressions have gathered, filled with these stalactite springs. These stone springs are green in color, clear and translucent, and have a fragrance that fills your nose. They are of better quality than the spring water I received at the foot of the cliff. Better.

Lu Zheng took out the other two empty bottles, put them in the puddle, and filled two more bottles.

During the process of filling the water, the old man seemed to have come to his senses and said with some surprise, "All the laymen from the outer sect have achieved this level. Is Baiyun Temple so powerful now?"

Lu Zheng smiled shyly, "Senior is laughing!"

"Yeah." Maybe Lu Zheng's cultivation level was not enough to shock the old man, so the old man nodded and said nothing. He just watched Lu Zheng fill two bottles of water and put them back on the bamboo basket behind him. In the basket, he asked again, "Can you play chess?"

Lu Zheng turned around and saw that the two-foot stone slab in front of the old man was a carved chessboard filled with black and white pieces. It looked like the end game of Go.

"I know a little bit," Lu Zheng said.

"Come and see." The old man said.

"Yes." Lu Zheng nodded, came to the old man's side, and looked down.

This is a two-foot-square stone slab with thirty-eight grooves carved horizontally and vertically. At the intersection of the grooves, there are stone chess pieces. Although they look half and half black, Lu Zheng can tell at a glance that black has the advantage. It's so huge that it has almost surrounded and killed all the white pieces.

"Be careful." the old man reminded.

"Be careful?" Lu Zheng blinked, and when he looked at the chessboard again, he felt his eyes blurred.

In an instant, the black chess filled his eyes and turned into a dark universe, wrapping himself in it, making him unaware of the years and the surroundings. Then the white chess was like a knife, and the knife struck at him. His soul only felt a chill, as if Imminent death.

Good guy!

The spiritual platform was guarded tightly, and the "Nine Heavens Golden Que Cave True Soul Formation Method" was running rapidly. Lu Zheng felt that the spiritual platform was clear and bright, his eyes lit up, and he returned to the stone chessboard again.

"Huh?" The old man glanced at Lu Zheng again, "You have a good mental state."

Lu Zheng shed a drop of cold sweat on his temples, and felt his spirit become heavy. When he looked at the chessboard again, nothing seemed out of the ordinary, "What a weird chess game."

"I have been thinking about the endgame set up by an old friend for thirty years." The old man said calmly, "It contains some of my insights. You can break free so quickly, not bad, not bad."

After thinking about it for thirty years...I'm afraid...

Lu Zheng smacked his lips, and then looked at the chess game again. He stood for a long time and concentrated on the deduction. He changed several moves and repeated dozens of steps, but still the result was that White would lose.

"White can definitely win?" Lu Zheng asked with a frown. With his current chess skills, he still didn't see the chance of white's victory. He doubted whether white could really win.

"We will definitely win." The old man nodded and glanced at Lu Zheng in surprise, "How many steps have you deduced?"

Lu Zheng's eyes flashed and he said honestly, "There are four trends, each with twelve or three steps."

"Oh?" The old man's eyes lit up, and he stretched out his hand towards Lu Zheng, motioning for him to sit down, "Let's give it a try."

"You're showing off your ugliness." Lu Zheng bowed, sat down cross-legged opposite the old man, picked up a white seed in his hand, pondered for a moment, and placed it on one of the positions.

"Not bad." The old man nodded and responded to Yizi.

The two of them played against each other at a very fast speed. They played seven rounds in a row. Obviously, these were all in the virtual deduction of the two before, so they responded very quickly.

Until the eighth stone, Lu Zheng obviously slowed down because the old man's response was not part of his deduction.

Until the fourteenth move, the old man also slowed down because Lu Zheng's response was somewhat beyond his expectations.

but……

Even though Lu Zheng struggled hard, the black stone's first move advantage was still very strong. Under the premise that the old man himself was also amazing in chess, Lu Zheng surrendered on the nineteenth move.

"Okay!" The old man's eyes were bright, and he was surprised and happy. "Do you have three other ideas?"

Seeing Lu Zheng nod, the old man stretched out his hand and flicked the chessboard. The black and white stones returned to their respective nests, and the slate chessboard returned to its original endgame appearance. "Come again."

Lu Zheng took a deep breath, then picked up a white stone, pondered for a moment, silently deduced it, and finally placed it gently on another position.