Demoness, where are you Fleeing to?
Chapter 247 - 212: You should also try mine (5300 words per - ) _2

Chapter 247: Chapter 212: You should also try mine (5300 words per Chapter) _2

Before Wang could finish, Li Xuan laughed and replied, "Brother Wang, you take me as a cultivator!"

If it was merely for the measly three thousand taels of patterned silver, he would rather spend his time with a soft-hearted maiden instead of this so-called heavenly ladder.

"Very well!"

At this moment, guided by Wang Jing, a chess child has hung a brand new white flag, with a chess diagram painted on it, on a wooden pole next to him.

Wang Jing himself, however, pulls out a small pot of wine and a deep-red chessboard.

"What are these?" Li Xuan looked at them in surprise, sensing something extraordinary about the wine and the chessboard.

"The wine is called ’Evil Heart Wine’, and the board is the ’Loyal-hearted Plate’," Wang Jing explained, "The former is unique to our school of Confucianism—it intensifies all the evil thoughts in a man’s heart. But if you can get through that, it strengthens the body and enhances the Shenpo. However, it’s mostly used to refine and purify our Confucian Great Rectitude.

This chessboard, on the other hand, was left behind by the great general Yue Wumu. Anyone who harbors evil thoughts won’t even be able to place their pieces on it. Brother, you must first drink a bottle of Evil Heart Wine, then, on the Loyal-hearted Plate, break the third challenge I set."

With a flick of his sleeve, dozens of chess pieces were instantly placed on the board, "This is a life and death problem that I’ve been pondering for a long time. No one has been able to break it so far. I invite you to give it a try."

At the mention of the ’Evil Heart Wine,’ Li Xuan’s eyebrows raised slightly. It was indeed unique to Confucianism, but it had been phased out for many years.

That was because, although the ’Evil Heart Wine’ could help refine Great Rectitude, it was a method of suicide. Many people ruined themselves before they could successfully refine their rectitude.

So this was about using the ’Evil Heart Wine’ to amplify evil thoughts, then placing pieces on the Loyal-hearted Plate where no evil thoughts can exist?

Compared with Wang Jing’s question, this was the most difficult part.

Nevertheless, Li Xuan calmed his mind and looked at the life and death question raised by Wang Jing. Interestingly, it turned out to be something he had seen before.

He looked at Wang again, wondering if this life and death question was Wang’s own creation? If so, he truly deserved to be called a Chess Master.

Just as Li Xuan was about to reach out for the wine pot, a hand from the side beat him to it.

"May I go first?"

It was Song Zian. He had somehow already solved the two puzzles in front of him.

Wang Jing was also taken aback. He then looked at the two chessboards in front of Song Zian. "Well, you could, but pardon me for being direct, your solution is not optimal. In terms of chess ability, Brother Song, you may fall short of our Colonel by a significant amount. Also, this level is extremely difficult—"

"Enough babbling! Whether the solution is optimal or not is not for you to decide!"

Song Zian smirked, took the wine pot, and drained it in one gulp.

Only a moment later, his face turned beet red. He stared at the chess pieces on the Loyal-hearted Plate and then laughed coldly, "Interesting, it’s a triple threat."

He immediately picked up a white chess piece and proceeded to place it on the Loyal-hearted Plate. But in the blink of an eye, he was taken aback—his piece had been unexpectedly bounced off, flying a long way off.

Song Zian frowned, seemingly unwilling to give up, and repeatedly attempted to place the chess pieces onto the board. However, no matter how hard he tried, all his pieces were continually bounced back.

"It seems that Brother Song’s state of mind still lacks refinement in terms of purity and cleanness."

Wang Jing chuckled and slid a normal chessboard toward Song Zian, "Brother Song, you can use this board to attempt the problem."

Song Zian’s face turned cold, but he still humphed and placed a chess piece on the board Wang Jing had pushed toward him.

If even he couldn’t place a piece on the Loyal-hearted Plate, then how could Li Xuan—whom his younger aunt, Mrs. Le, deemed to be an uneducated and dissipated man—do so!

Below the stage, Yue Qianqian’s delicate brows frowned slightly, "The question is already so difficult; why must they also drink the Evil Heart Wine? Given the difficulty of this third question, who in the world could solve it?"

In the past, she had seen people severally affected after drinking Evil Heart Wine, revealing their worst behavior.

Upon hearing her words, Xuanchenzi’s lips twitched into an amused smile, "If the challenge wasn’t tough, my friends and I wouldn’t have offered the Zhixuan Elixir as a prize for this round."

The key was the wine. He imagined that, given Li Xuan’s sordid character, the moment the Evil Heart Wine went down, he would surely make a fool of himself.

Even the younger talents of Confucianism might not be able to suppress the effects of the ’Evil Heart Wine’.

Xue Yunrou cast a cool glance at Xuanchenzi. She felt that her senior brother seemed like a different person now, becoming more and more unlikeable.

When she used to study with her uncle at the Rensheng Palace in Beijing, Brother Xuanchen wasn’t like this.

She then turned her gaze back to Li Xuan on the stage. After some contemplation, she decided not to interfere.

The life and death situation that was hung on the flag by the chess child was a challenging one—it was not a triple threat as Song had mentioned, but a quintuple threat!

The so-called quintuple threat was a situation where, among the five groups of pieces on the board, one was destined to be lost in the subsequent steps. Only the correct move could break the deadlock.

Xue Yunrou originally hoped to quickly find a solution, and then help Li Xuan cheat by passing the solution to him in a secret language.

But so far, she had no leads and was unsure whether Xuan had figured it out.

However, she had complete confidence in Li Xuan’s character.

How could anyone who could reach the top floor of the Wenxin House fall for the Evil Heart Wine?

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