Lao Liu slowly walked forward, "Pan Shan Ying dares to use divination to deduce the origin of the blood chess piece, which shows that he doesn't take the other party seriously. Why do you only ask Pan Shan Ying for divination, and not ask Pan Shan Ying to take action?"

"The Nine Palaces Formation of Zuo Shan Hu actually corresponds to Yunlin Mountain. He can use the Nine Palaces Formation to block the entrance of Yunlin Mountain, doesn't he have the ability to advance step by step and force his way into the Ninth Mountain?"

"Don't forget, Zuo Shan Hu is best at defense. Do you really think 'Thousands of troops don't touch Zuo Shan Hu' is just an exaggeration?"

"But... but..." Jiang Jiuyuan argued, "Back then, the Thief Sect had already offered a large sum of money to hire the Four Great Beams!"

Lao Liu smiled and said, "The Four Great Beams are not ordinary bandits, let alone people who are easily tempted by money. If they like someone, they won't take a penny, as long as the other party says a word, they will raise their knives and charge into danger."

"If they don't like someone, even if you offer them a mountain of gold, they won't take the job, and they might even take the opportunity to mock you."

"It seems that someone who made the Four Great Beams lose face must have come forward to mediate back then, so they ceased hostilities with the Thief Sect, but they didn't forget to ridicule the Thief Sect."

As Lao Liu spoke, he had already walked to the half room in the middle of the eight and a half rooms.

According to normal standards, a house without beams and without a roof is called a half room.

However, the half room in the middle of the Nine Palaces Formation seems to have been split in half sideways from the middle, taking away the front half with the door and windows, leaving only the back half with complete beams and tiles.

Lao Liu walked to the middle of the half room and stood still, "Your people are all here, right? There are still a few experts."

"From now on, you let the people of the Thief Immortal Sect guard the eight rooms, which will soon be attacked by ghosts and monsters. No matter how many people die, you must not let the eight rooms become haunted houses. I have a chance to win this game, can you do it?"

Jiang Jiuyuan didn't say anything, just turned his head to look at the eight rooms.

Lao Liu chuckled, "The people of the Thief Sect didn't die in vain. The price you paid for not believing the Four Great Beams back then is probably going to be replayed once."

Jiang Jiuyuan gritted his teeth and said, "Sir, it's not that I don't believe you. It's just that this matter is of great importance, so I have to be cautious."

Double-crossing is commonplace in the Thief Sect.

Grave robbers don't dare to trust their partners guarding against the wind above the tomb.

Burglars don't dare to trust their accomplices who are providing cover.

All thieves are afraid to gamble that their accomplices will keep their mouths shut after being caught, and not betray them in exchange for a chance to live.

Therefore, the suspicion of the people in the Thief Sect is almost a hereditary trait. Those who have not accepted this kind of inheritance will not live to the day when their names are known throughout the Thief Sect.

Lao Liu smiled faintly, took a step forward, and stepped on the ground.

As Lao Liu's foot sank, a stone table with a cast iron chessboard slowly rose from the ground.

Jiang Jiuyuan was immediately stunned, "This... this is the chessboard left by Zuo Shan Hu?"

"The chessboard has been there for a long time. Zuo Shan Hu built a shed on it. If you had believed in Zuo Shan Hu back then, you would have soon discovered the stone table and chessboard underneath. It's a pity that you never intended to complete the half room."

As Lao Liu spoke, he sat down in front of the stone table, placed the chess pieces he brought on the table, faced the direction of Yunlin Mountain, and gently tapped the chessboard with his fan.

The iron chessboard made a sound like bronze and aluminum under Lao Liu's tapping.

Immediately afterwards, this metallic roar spread into the mountains one after another, lasting for a long time.

Lao Liu looked into the mountains, his bright eyes seemed to penetrate space, spanning hundreds of miles, reaching the depths of the Ninth Mountain shrouded in clouds and mist, where the forest surged like the sea, and he made eye contact with some unknown existence.

Lao Liu waved his folding fan, smiling at the ghosts and gods.

Jiang Jiuyuan was startled back several steps by the power of the ghosts and gods suddenly coming from the depths of Yunlin, "Sir... is... is there something looking at me? That's not a person... he's too scary..."

Lin Zhao said in a deep voice, "He's not looking at you, he's looking at Lao Liu, you just felt his peripheral vision! If you're afraid, come behind me!"

Only then did Jiang Jiuyuan realize that Lin Zhao's body had unleashed an invisible power at some point, which was competing with the peripheral vision of the ghosts and gods.

Lao Liu slightly closed his folding fan in his left hand, and pointed to the chessboard with his right hand, "Please!"

Lao Liu's word "Please" was not loud, but it echoed repeatedly. After the aftersound of the last word "Please" disappeared, a patch of black and white light spots appeared on the chessboard.

This game of chess is a gambit!

Lao Liu didn't look closely at the chess game, but shook his fan and said, "Ninth Miss, can you hear what sound is in the mountains?"

"What?" As Jiang Jiuyuan listened, he suddenly heard a loud noise from the mountain, like a stone being blasted apart, and the sound of ghosts crying seemed to be mixed in the explosion.

"Blasting... blasting tombs!" Jiang Jiuyuan's ears trembled non-stop, and his face became paler and paler.

Lao Liu smiled, "Nine Mountains, Eighteen Villages, one thousand eight hundred tombs! It seems that the Thief Sect has never figured out the truth of Yunlin Mountain! But Zuan Shan Bao saw the trick."

"Yunlin Mountain is a game of chess, and the tombs on the mountain are scattered chess pieces. Even if there are really one thousand eight hundred tombs, most of them are fake, and only three hundred and sixty-one tombs have real ghosts."

"Ninth Miss, I'll ask you again, can you guard the eight rooms?"