Nightfall

Chapter 294: How about Playing Chess, Chatting and Having A Bowl of Noodles?

Translator: Transn Editor: Transn

Master Yan Se went to the table, shook his head at the old man, and sighed. Then he turned around to see Chen Pipi, who was as timid as a quail with his head lowered, shaking his head and sighing again. He asked, ”How has the abbey dean been recently?”

Hearing this, Chen Pipi looked up and wondered, ”You know Iʼve been in the Academy all these years, how would I know if he is good or not?”

Yan Se slightly stroked his sparse beard and stared at him, impatiently saying, ”Now that you do not know, we canʼt chat about the old days. Since you have escaped from the Abbey, do I need to save your face?”

Chen Pipi became increasingly puzzled, touching the back of his head and answering, ”Of course not.”

Master Yan Se growled, ”Then why not offer me a seat? Why stand here like a dull goose?”

Chen Pipi hastily got up and gave the seat to him, and then humbly stood aside. It was not until now that he realized that this old Taoist would actually play chess with the Great Divine Priest of Light, so he could not help but be surprised and feel helpless, thinking to himself, ”Who knows what you damn old guys are thinking about? Who would expect that ʼpleaseʼ from the Great Divine Priest of Light meant that he was actually inviting you to play chess.”

But Master Yan Se didnʼt care at all about what he was thinking. He just slightly stroked his taoist robe and sat down. He glanced at the chessboard and found the black chess was on the upper hand, so he felt pleased and glanced praisingly at Chen Pipi.

The old man on the opposite side of the chessboard smiled and stretched out his right hand, indicating for Yan Se to play his turn.

Master Yen Se put down a chess piece and patted his mouth, saying, ”How have you been doing recently?”

Holding a white piece in his hand, the old man replied softly, ”Every year when you returned to the Peach Mountain, you would go to You Prison to see me and naturally inquire how I was doing there. As of recently, I have been really good.”

Master Yen Se stared at the criss-crossed pieces on the chessboard. After a moment of silence, he suddenly said, ”Even if you are not satisfied with your life in the Peach Mountain, why must you come to Changʼan?”

The old man answered with a smile, ”That day, your Younger Brother also asked me this question.”

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Although one of them did not wear a taoist robe, they were indeed two old Taoists beside the chessboard, the most excellent Taoists of Haotian Taoism in the recent years, who were both qualified to be crowned with eternal glory.

Although Chen Pipi had been a Grand Cultivator at the Knowing Destiny State, whose status could make him unparalleled in this earthy world, facing the two old Taoists, he had no choice but to behave like a young student, who honestly delivered tea and dared not speak.

Master Yan Se drunk his cup of tea, and licked off some tea from his front teeth. He frowned, displeased with the extremely bad-tasting tea. So he raised his head and said, ”Back then, the abbey dean always thought you were the strongest one in the Peach Mountain, even stronger than the hierarch. How about now? ”

The old man recalled that Taoist in indigo, and answered with a slight smile, ”In front of the abbey dean, who dares to call himself the strongest.”

Holding a black piece, Master Yan pointed to the lane outside the Old Brush Pen Shop and said, ”Even if you are more powerful than the abbey dean, so what? Here is Changʼan City. Here is my big tactical array. You canʼt defeat me. ”

The old man nodded. A figure at his level would definitely know that Changʼan City was the legendary God-stunning Array. As the controller of the Array, Yan Se was undefeatable so long as he was in Changʼan.

”I still hold the view of the day.”

The old man smiled at the opposite side of the chessboard and said, ”I am just a lingering-out old Taoist, and it will be a big waste to use a big tactical array like Changʼan City on me. Presumably, you also think so.”

Master Yan Se sighed and said, ”The word ʼlingering-outʼ is quite exact. We are both old and about to return to Haotian. Of course, it will be fine for us to enjoy ourselves in the earthly world for a bit longer. If you didnʼt come, I could live longer, and you too could have more time in this world.”