Only My Way

Three days later.

Just as dawn was breaking.

Upon the icy, snow-covered Jade Night Snow Mountain.

Ling Wuyuan sat cross-legged in his courtyard, his gaze calm as he silently watched the snow-white fish swimming within the frigid pond, moving freely in the water that could instantly shatter the bones of an ordinary person.

At this moment, he wasn't thinking about anything, just quietly spacing out.

His mind, which usually liked to multitask, was completely blank.

Although it seemed pointless, like a waste of his time.

But he felt that occasionally spacing out was actually a good thing.

Just consider it a vacation for his brain.

Anyway.

When emptying his mind, perhaps because his brain was on vacation, he often felt his heart would be calm to the extreme, like a pool of stagnant water.

It was a strange feeling as if he were a void, already integrated with everything around him.

It was as if he had become part of the entire space, or as if he had become invisible air.

In short.

It was a feeling as peaceful as a plant, without joy or sorrow, without any distracting thoughts…

He didn't know how much time had passed.

With the approach of footsteps.

Ling Wuyuan's mind, like a calm lake suddenly rippling, was revived from its silent state.

In his originally silent brain, thousands of thoughts began to burst forth, turning into countless fleeting distractions, and after countless collisions, some of them would be transformed into various clear ideas and thoughts.

"Hey~"

"Big Brother Ling, my Eldest Sister and I have come to play with you~"

That was an enthusiastic greeting.

Before even pushing open the door.

Yan Xiujin's childish voice had already reached Ling Wuyuan's ears.

The next moment.

In a gesture that showed no restraint.

Yan Xiujin casually pushed open the door to Ling Wuyuan's courtyard.

For her, entering and leaving Ling Wuyuan's residence was as natural as entering and leaving her own.

In short.

She was just a little imp who didn't even understand what the separation of men and women was all about.

And this was an unavoidable problem when information was difficult to circulate and basic physiological knowledge was not popularized.

In this world.

Although there were many people who started families and careers at the age of twelve or thirteen.

Many people still didn't understand the difference between men and women even when they started families and careers…

They started families and careers, but didn't understand what it meant, just taking it one step at a time.

And thanks to the special environment of the Snow Moon Cloud Heaven Pavilion.

The relevant knowledge that Yan Xiujin could receive could only be described as very little…

Who would popularize that stuff for her?

Her master?

It seems unlikely?

Probably couldn't bear to lose face.

The maids in the sect?

Seems even more impossible.

Probably didn't have the guts.

If it were Ling Wuyuan's previous world.

A little imp like Yan Xiujin.

Due to the development of the internet, she would be able to know at least the general information…

After Yan Xiujin pushed the door open.

Xi Xianlan, who was also quite familiar, quickly followed behind her.

With just one glance.

She spotted Ling Wuyuan sitting cross-legged on the ground.

Looking at the snowflakes slowly falling from the sky, and then at the snow in the courtyard, she asked curiously:

"Are you cultivating?"

Hearing her question.

Ling Wuyuan truthfully replied:

"That's not it."

"I'm just sitting quietly, emptying my mind."

Hearing this.

Xi Xianlan asked, a little puzzled:

"…What's the point of that?"

"Is it a type of meditation?"

"Can it temper your mind?"

She suspected that Ling Wuyuan was secretly working hard.

But Ling Wuyuan's truth immediately denied her guess.

"To be honest, it doesn't seem to have any meaning."

"I just simply like this state."

After hearing Ling Wuyuan say that his behavior had no special meaning, Xi Xianlan could only pout a little disappointedly:

"Okay."

"I thought you were meditating silently to cultivate your mind, but it turns out you were just spacing out…"

However, she quickly ignored the relevant question and proposed with anticipation:

"Let's continue playing chess!!"

"Ever since I lost the last game, I've been thinking hard about it…"

"I don't believe you can win me this time…"

Causing Yan Xiujin to immediately say a little dissatisfied:

"What?

"Didn't we say we were coming to find him to go shopping together?"

"What chess are we playing!!"

She felt that she had been tricked by her Eldest Sister.

Xi Xianlan could only scratch her head and say:

"What are you afraid of…"

"Anyway, it's still early, let's just play one game, just one game…"

Her chess addiction was acting up!

"At worst, I'll treat you to snacks later."

Hearing that there were snacks to eat.

Yan Xiujin's expression immediately changed from cloudy to sunny, and she puffed out her chest with satisfaction, replying:

"Okay~"

"Just one game, okay!"

"Definitely, definitely~"

Getting Yan Xiujin's consent.

Xi Xianlan immediately took out the chessboard she had prepared from her spatial ring.

Then, without caring about her image, she sat down in front of Ling Wuyuan.

It was a game with rules similar to Go from Ling Wuyuan's previous life, but the actual rules were many times more complex than Go.

Take the chessboard, for example.

That thing had a three-dimensional special hollow structure, divided into several layers.

This directly led to the overall chess path being full of various complex and unpredictable variables.

Ordinary people, if their brains weren't too bright, often couldn't even understand the chessboard, and the thousands of chess grids alone could make them dizzy.

In fact.

Even in this world.

Only cultivators liked to play this kind of chess.

Only cultivators could easily capture the thousands of landing points on the chessboard, and then deduce the variables that each landing point could cause.

Moreover, as the number of layers and rules of the three-dimensional chessboard changed.

The complexity of this chess and the difficulty of playing it would increase accordingly by multiples.

At this moment.

After playing the first piece first.

Xi Xianlan directly raised her eyebrows, and said to Ling Wuyuan with a somewhat cheap expression:

"I have a piece of news that's not good or bad, do you want to hear it?"

She wanted to disrupt Ling Wuyuan's chess thinking through language interference.

Before, she had been miserably abused by Ling Wuyuan!!

Now.

Even if she believed that her chess skills had improved after self-reflection.

She still wanted to add a little more bargaining chip for her victory.

"…"

Looking at the other party's somewhat cheap expression, after a moment of silence, Ling Wuyuan could only ask with some helplessness:

"What news, tell me about it."

Then, he heard Xi Xianlan's cheap reply:

"You're on the Sight and Sound News~"

"Huh! ?"

Hearing this, not only Ling Wuyuan was puzzled, but even Yan Xiujin was puzzled.