As soon as he finished speaking, Liang Yan had already spread his legs and walked towards the entrance of the woods.

Where he couldn't see, Mu Ying lightly tapped her foot, seemingly complaining, but in the end she quickly followed.

The two of them walked along the forest path for half a cup of tea, when they suddenly saw that the road ahead gradually opened up, revealing a large open space.

There is a mountain villa on the open space. Outside the villa, a gurgling stream and flowers are blooming. The scenery is very beautiful.

But Liang Yan didn't look at the villa.

Because there are countless criss-crossing scratches in the open space outside the villa. At first glance, it seems to be a giant Go board. However, upon closer inspection, I find that it has nothing to do with Go.

The criss-crossing scratches divided the open space into countless squares, with hundreds of puppets of different sizes and colors standing inside the squares.

There is a stone pillar at each end of the clearing, which is about seven feet high and exceeds the nearby woods. An old man is sitting on one of the stone pillars.

The old man has white clothes and white hair, and a kind face. He is Mu Chunhua, the patriarch of the Shiling tribe.

"I've met the old patriarch!"

Liang Yan stopped in front of the open space and bowed to Mu Chunhua.

"You don't have to be polite, little friend."

Mu Chunhua glanced over, looked up and down for a moment, then smiled slightly and said: "My little friend, you are indeed extraordinary. No wonder Yi Yin fell in love with you at first sight!"

"The old patriarch is so complimentary." Liang Yan's expression remained unchanged and he just responded lightly.

"Last time we had a quick meeting, because I was busy with something, so I didn't have time to talk in detail. Today, my little friend came to visit, which really made me happy. I wonder if my little friend knows how to play chess and can we talk about a game?"

"Playing chess?" Liang Yan raised his eyebrows and glanced at the open space around him.

He does know how to play chess, but there is no chessboard here and there are no chess pieces around. How should he play?

Mu Chunhua saw the doubts in his heart, stroked his beard, and said with a smile: "Little friend, please go to the 'Beacon Tower'!"

"Beacon Tower?"

Liang Yan was stunned for a moment, with a trace of doubt in his eyes.

When he followed Mu Chunhua's gaze, he realized that the so-called "beacon tower" was the two stone pillars standing on the edge of the open space.

Mu Chunhua was already sitting on one of the stone pillars, so the remaining one was naturally reserved for him.

"Mu Chunhua, what kind of medicine is sold in the gourd?"

Liang Yan cursed and secretly observed the stone pillar, but found nothing suspicious.

"He is the leader of the clan, and my 'Five Colored Soil' still needs to be in his hands. Since he wants to play chess, I will play a game with him."

Thinking of this, Liang Yan did not refuse, nodded and said: "Since Patriarch Mu kindly invites you, then Liang will show his shame."

As soon as he finished speaking, he tapped his toes lightly on the ground, and his body flew up like a feather, landing right on the stone pillar.

"Chief Mu, since we are playing chess, why don't we see the chessboard and the chess pieces?" Liang Yan asked with a puzzled look on his face.

After hearing this, Mu Chunhua smiled slightly: "My little friend, I don't know, the chessboard and chess pieces are right under our feet."

"oh?"

Liang Yan raised his eyebrows and looked down from above.

I saw that the entire open space was divided into thousands of squares by criss-crossing scratches, and there were about a hundred puppets distributed among these squares.

There are seven puppet colors: red, orange, yellow, green, cyan, indigo, and purple. The puppets of each color are concentrated in an open space.

For example, the blue puppet occupies the open space upstream of the creek, the yellow puppet occupies a high soil slope, and the cyan puppet occupies a green grassland.

"What Mu Lao means is that this open space is the chessboard, and these puppets are the chess pieces?"

"Yes, this is the 'chess of national destruction'!"

"Chess to destroy the country?" Liang Yan's eyes narrowed slightly, with a thoughtful look on his face.

Just listen to Mu Chunhua's voice and continue: "The seven colors of chess pieces represent the seven countries competing in the Central Plains. They are about to start a fight. In the end, only one country can unify the world."

"What Chief Mu means is that we each control a country and then play chess?" Liang Yan asked.

"No! We don't belong to any country. We are the ones behind the scenes."

As Mu Chunhua spoke, he waved his sleeves, and two rays of light shot out from his sleeves and fell outside the chessboard.

Liang Yan looked at it carefully and saw two identical puppets, except that there were two different red letters carved on the chests of the puppets, one of which was "vertical" and the other was "horizontal".

"These two chess pieces represent you and me. We can travel among the seven kingdoms, stir up the wind and clouds, and control the situation vertically and horizontally! Whoever can support one country and eventually destroy the other six countries will be the winner."

Thanks to: An Changsi Rong for the reward!
Chapter completed!