Sovereign to Immortality

Chapter 200 – Chess

The one who spoke was the other person who was previously chatting with Shi Jingxuan. However, Yang Junshan did not pay attention to him and instead turned to Shi Jingxuan who was beside him and asked: “Who is this?”

On the surface, Shi Jingxuan looked a little awkward, but he did not directly introduce the person who spoke. Instead, he introduced the person who had been secretly testing Yang Junshan and said: “This is the eldest grandson of Xiong Family, the direct disciple of Heaven-Shaken Sect, Xiong Mantao’s son, Xiong Xiying!”

Yang Junshan only nodded his head slightly, the man seemed extremely reserved, but he had a clear view of the man with the high and mighty gaze, so Yang Junshan could not be bothered with him and turned to look at the man who had just spoken.

Shi Jingxuan was also happy to see that Yang Junshan did not put this yamen in his eyes, so he quickly pointed to the person who had just provoked him, and introduced him: “This is the most outstanding array master of the Xiong Family, Xiong Xizhe, and also the most outstanding junior among the array masters of the entire Mengyu County.”

However, Yang Junshan’s expression remained the same the whole time, and only cupped his hands in salute: “I have heard about you for a long time!”

Xiong Xizhe, when he heard this name, even though Yang Junshan’s expression did not change, his heart surged with monstrous waves. In his previous life, after Heaven-Shaken Sect was annihilated, this person used formations to ambush him, cooperating with Xiong Family’s clan head and his original legacy disciple Xiong Mantao who had advanced to realms of life at the time, to gang up on Mengyu County to kill Spiritual Master Chen Ji.

It could be said that if Xiong Xizhe had not used a formation to block Spiritual Master Chen Ji’s path of escape, he would have been able to retreat safely even if he was not a match for the two Spiritual Masters, Xiong Chang Feng and his son.

In his previous life, Xiong Xizhe could indeed be said to be the most outstanding young genius among the array masters of Mengyu County.

“No need to be so hypocritical,” Xiong Xizhe laughed coldly without restraint. “You are a villager, and I am a formation master who just left the Xiong Family. I have never seen anyone before, so what’s there to ‘respect’ about.

Yang Junshan passed the box in his hand to Shi Jingxuan, and laughed: “You’re right, but I have never heard of Brother Xiong’s name before.”

Just as Yang Junshan was speaking, Shi Jingxuan, who had received the box from Yang Junshan, unhesitatingly opened it in front of everyone.

Opening other people’s gifts in front of the crowd was actually an extremely impolite action. That Xiong Xizhe had just said Yang Junshan’s “small gift”, and thus Shi Jingxuan opened it right here.

But when he clearly saw the item inside the box, Shi Jingxuan’s expression changed, following that, he revealed an overjoyed expression, and smiled as if he was offering a treasure to Xiong Xizhe: “Brother Xi Zhe, this is the middle grade spirit material, Three Spirit Wood.”

With that, he nodded towards Yang Junshan, “Brother Yang, thank you.”

Shi Jingxuan practiced a wood attribute cultivation technique, and these Three Spirit Trees were the commonly used materials to refine wood type tools, thus, the price of this item was extremely high among wood type spirit materials, but it was only a banquet for the advanced martial arts realm. To be able to release it so easily, this was truly a heavy congratulatory gift.

Xiong Xizhe obviously did not expect that a son of a Village Head from the countryside would be willing to use spirit materials as a congratulatory gift. Thinking back to what he had just said, it was like he had slapped himself in the face.

At this time, Xiong Xiying, who was at the side, noticed and said: “Although the Three Spirit Wood is not ordinary, I am afraid that you will not be able to use it from now on!”

Hearing that, Shi Jingxuan was startled, but then he laughed: “That’s true!”

After speaking, he glanced at the gift box in his hands and waved his hand, passing it over to the butler. He casually tossed the box over, as though he didn’t care at all.

Yang Junshan laughed, he could tell that the three of them had a tacit understanding to work together to embarrass him, and no matter what he did, he would not be able to avoid the ridicule from the three of them. Thus, he apologized and walked towards the other Martial Realm Cultivator s in the hall.

Then, Xiong Xiying turned and gave Xiong Xizhe a look. Xiong Xizhe’s face suddenly turned red, he turned and said: “Don’t leave, I heard you understand formations too?”

The Martial Realm Cultivator s in the hall had obviously noticed the few people arguing at the door, and were no longer chatting happily, but looking over. Yang Junshan observed the few people and realized that none of them had any intention of stopping him, and even the hidden meaning in their eyes was rather complex, so he knew that these people were most likely just looking at them from the sidelines.

Yang Junshan slightly turned around and laughed: “I don’t really understand, I’m just a little involved.”

had already calmed down by this time and only said: “The formation you have set up is enough to trap peak martial arts realm cultivators, and it is also extremely famous amongst the array masters of Mengyu County. Although I have only just finished my apprenticeship, I am confident that my attainments in formations are not inferior to yours, so I wish to exchange pointers with you.

This time, even Shi Jingxuan felt a little awkward. Seeing the unconvinced look on his face, Yang Junshan could not help but find it funny, it seems like this man was truly as he had said, he did not know much about the human world after just leaving the sect, and had instantly dropped his status from the “most outstanding” array master to a challenger.

Yang Junshan looked at Shi Jingxuan who was beside him in amusement, and said: “Today is Brother Shi’s martial arts realm banquet, how can you and I steal from you?”

Shi Jingxuan immediately replied: “I don’t mind, I don’t mind!”

Xiong Xizhe stretched out his neck like a cockroach and said: “Don’t tell me you don’t dare?”

The challenger’s position became even more willing to sit, and Yang Junshan could see that Xiong Xizhe was truly a different person, he was instigated by someone to come and provoke him, but Xiong Xiying stood at the side and did not say a word.

However, the unfamiliar cultivator sitting in the hall felt that he should say something now. He coughed and said, “Xi Zhe, don’t be rude!”

Xiong Xizhe’s face flushed red once again. Although he did not dare say anything, he did not know whether to retreat or retreat as he stood there.

Unexpectedly, at this time, Xiong Xiying said with a smile: “Fifth Uncle, it’s just that Brother Zhe is obsessed with arrays, and just wants to spar with Brother Yang. I expect that Senior Brother Yang and Brother Yang will not blame him.”

Yang Junshan only smiled as he watched the several people perform. Shi Jingxuan had already said hurriedly: “Of course I won’t blame them, since Brother Xiong wants to spar, as long as Brother Yang agrees, I’ll immediately begin preparing for it.”

At this time, Xiong Xiying finally looked towards Yang Junshan and said: “I just wonder if Brother Yang is alright now.”

At this time, Shi Jingxuan also had a difficult expression on his face as he said: “Brother Yang, look … …”

Without waiting for Yang Junshan to speak, Shi Nansheng, who was at the side, could no longer bear to watch any longer, and said: “Jingxuan, there are still guests at the front hall. You should go and have some fun first, wait for the banquet to end for this sparring formation!”

Unexpectedly, Shi Jingxuan did not give face to his uncle at all, and directly said: “The front hall has its own steward, it is only a few mortal cultivators to the left and right, there is no need for me to personally take care of it, and furthermore, even we might not get the chance to watch a competition between two array masters for a few years, I am already a little impatient, I do not even have the mood to care about these mortals!”

Shi Nansheng’s face flashed with anger, when he heard Xiong Xiying clapping her hands and laughing: “Exactly so, even I can’t wait, I wonder who is stronger between Brother Zhe and Brother Yang.”

Shi Jingxuan waved his hand, and a servant immediately brought a square table forward. This square table was five feet long and wide, it was obviously prepared beforehand, but Yang Junshan was surprised to see that the array formation had different methods of sparring, but if it was only on the square table, could it be …

“Brother Yang, as an array master, if the inheritance is orderly, then you should know about Chess, I wonder if Brother Yang has ever seen a real Chess before, if not, then Brother Xi Zhe will be able to broaden his horizons!”

Shi Jingxuan always revealed ridicule in his words, whether intentionally or not.

Yang Junshan secretly thought that as expected, he naturally knew about the Chess, and even though the Chess was rarely seen among the formation masters, there was not a single formation master that did not know about the Chess. Although Shi Jingxuan had ridiculed the bumpkin Yang Junshan for being inexperienced, he still waited for the two of them to exchange pointers, and was not worried that Yang Junshan would not know how to use the Chess at all.

Chess was not only used as a sparring tool by array masters, it was alsype of magical equipment, a type of array disc that could be used against enemies at any time. It was also a type of array master’s most direct tool to study array formations and deduce array diagrams.

After Shi Jingxuan set up the square table, Xiong Xizhe looked at Yang Junshan. Seeing that he was really calm, and obviously knew of Chess, Xiong Xizhe flipped his palm, and a palm-sized board appeared in his hand.

Xiong Xizhe took out the small chess board from his hands, opened his mouth and blew towards the chess board, causing the Chess board to transform inthree feet square chess board, and landed on the square table.

Yang Junshan looked at the Chess Disc. The Chess Disc was different from the ordinary round chessboard, the worst of them even had 21 lines on it. Right now, Xiong Xizhe’s round board was a low grade magic tool with 21 lines on it.

Soon after, another two jade bowls appeared in Xiong Xizhe’s hands, each of them were filled with black and white chess pieces, all of these pieces were meticulously crafted using spirit jade, and the value of each piece was not inferior to three Jade Coins s. These two bowls amount total of more than four hundred chess pieces, and their value was more than a thousand Jade Coins s, which made one gasp in shock.

Xiong Xizhe looked at Yang Junshan, and saw that he was carefully inspecting his own Chess plate, thus he said: “No array master would go down there without him, but I expected you to sehess for the first time too, so according to usual, you should go first!”

Yang Junshan received the white jade bowl that Xiong Xizhe passed to him, and said: “Alright!”