ask the mirror

Chapter '0 Gambler

The night came again, and the Lichen Sect's mountain gate was located ten thousand feet above the sky, with little dust, so the light of the stars and the moon was exceptionally clear, especially when the night was getting darker, the night sky was like a jade-encrusted sky. Black silk, extending to infinity, is intoxicating.

There was still an hour before the scheduled time, Yu Ci came to Touching Heaven Peak first, and stepped on the ground first.Although he still doesn't know why Zhang Yan took the initiative to gamble with him regardless of his face, but the matter has come to this point, he still understands the truth of knowing yourself and the enemy, and winning a hundred battles. If your cultivation is at a disadvantage, the early preparations are becoming more and more important.

Unlike the hustle and bustle during the day, there were not many people on Touching Sky Peak at night.Occasionally, there are a few of them who are here to watch the excitement of gambling.

The news that Zhang Yanshe shamelessly waged a fight with an outsider disciple who came to the mountain gate to practice, after two days of fermentation, it had already spread throughout the mountain gate, but it was far from the so-called "empty alley" to join in the fun.

Generally speaking, monks from the Mountain Gate, especially monks from the Demonstration Department, lead a very regular life.Except for those who have been in seclusion for a long time, people study the essence of the method and exercise their actual combat ability during the day, and at night they calmly adjust their breath, absorb spiritual energy, and increase their cultivation base.

So whenever it is late at night, Wanfa Abode is completely silent. Perhaps gambling itself is very curious, but people who are dedicated to practice know that it is not easy to practice, and most of them are still able to suppress their little curiosity. Stick to your homework plan.

Zhang Yan should have this consideration in setting the time at night.

After going back and forth a few times on the cliff near the agreed place, Yu Ci roughly 'felt' the terrain.Of course, there is no limit to the scope of the battlefield for gambling, and every corner of Touching Heaven Peak can become a battlefield, but Yu Ci doesn't think he can fight Zhang Yan to that extent, and he has no plans to do so.

"The odds are not great..."

Both Li You and Mengwei, including Hong Qianqiu who just met him, told him very frankly that Zhang Yan may not be the cardinal who was appointed at the age of 42, single-handedly entered the Northern Wilderness, and returned the head of a sect master. "Piercing the sun and flying the rainbow", but, his foundation of decades is still there, and he has been wasting for many years, and he has not completely destroyed that person's outstanding swordsmanship. , Yu Ci's odds of winning are almost zero.

However, is it Yu Ci's style to admit defeat before a real battle?

In fact, Yu Ci already had a vague idea in his mind, but due to the lack of the most intuitive understanding of Zhang Yan, it was difficult to implement it for the time being. Maybe, he really had to wait until the gambling fight started before he could make a decision.

After several vertical leaps on the cliff, Yu Ci wanted to look in another direction, but after running for a few miles, something caught in his sight: it was the intersection of the moonlight and the shadow of the cliff, a person half-body hanging in the air , half lying and half sitting on a protruding stone beam, the entire upper body is hidden in the shadows, only the dangling legs, swinging back and forth boredly.

Just as Yu Ci was about to go around, his heart suddenly moved, he turned his body slightly, borrowed an angle, and vaguely saw the man's face: "Senior brother Zhang?"

Hearing the greeting, the man stood up in surprise and looked this way.The two looked at each other, and were speechless for a moment: How could the opponents who gambled tonight meet here and now?

Yu Ci only met Zhang Yan once, but he was very impressed with him.

Zhang Yan gives people a clear feeling that he is "sloppy".There are many unkempt monks, Hong Qianqiu is an example.But Zhang Yan is obviously different. When Yu Ci and him saw each other, he was wearing a black Taoist robe, which seemed to have never been changed in the past. The front was torn open, and the inner clothes were also in a mess .The man also had an unshaven face.Similarly, on Hong Qianqiu's side, he was rough and heroic. To him, words like "downcast" and "decadent" seemed to be specially prepared for him.

The reason for this feeling, Yu Ci thinks, may be because this Senior Brother Zhang looks more delicate, with fair skin and an unhealthy dark blue.Moreover, this senior brother's eyes are too gloomy, and the eye sockets are deeply sunken, giving people the impression that he is half dead.

"Hello, Senior Brother Zhang."

Yu Ci's mind was stable, and she saluted like a ritual.On the contrary, Zhang Yan was obviously a little distracted, and he nodded for a moment before responding:

"Oh, Junior Brother Yu is here."

"Brother Zhang came quite early, shall we start now?"

"Let's do it as agreed." Zhang Yan lay down in the shadow of the cliff again, talking lazily.

Zhang Yan's voice was also very special, there didn't seem to be any spirit in his words, like the voice of a seriously ill person.Yu Ci frowned when he heard that, especially when he thought that this person in front of him was his opponent in the next bet, he felt even more upset.

Is this Zhang Yan's attitude towards gambling?

Yu Ci grinned, it's not that he can't accept defeat, but if he loses at the hands of such a person, he would feel aggrieved even thinking about it.He stood still, staring at Zhang Yan's half-hidden face in the shadows, recalling the news he got from Li You and others in his mind.

Back then, Zhang Yan was also a man of the mountain.At the age of 42, he climbed to the realm of returning alchemy. Although he cannot be said to be the top-notch aptitude, he is also an eye-catching rising star in the mountain gate. The previous battle in the Northern Wilderness was his famous work.But for some reason, when his future was boundless, he suddenly became addicted to gambling, addicted to it, unable to extricate himself, the precepts he violated because of gambling made him spend two-thirds of his days facing the wall thinking about his past throughout the year.

But the more he was like this, the more he got worse. Over the past few decades, he hadn't made any progress in his cultivation, and the vigor and vigor that he had in the past when he advanced to Dan was also completely lost in this long game.

It was such a person who came to the door for no reason and took the initiative to gamble with him... The thoughts in Yu Ci's mind suddenly became clearer, he thought about it for a while, and then walked over.

"I'll sit down for a while too." Yu Ci laughed and moaned beside Zhang Yan, finding a place to shelter, the distance between the two was only four or five feet.

Zhang Yan was a little strange, and raised his eyes to look at this quite different little junior.In fact, Yu Ci's name is already relatively famous, even a guy like him who is addicted to gambling, has heard this name occasionally in his ears.

He knew that such a 25-year-old young man had done several remarkable things.The reshuffle of the forces in Cliff City, the collapse of the blood monk Tu Ling's conspiracy, and the shadow of this young man are all thereafter.To do so is even more than what he did back then.And the temperament is quite good, no wonder there are so many people to take care of her when she just started, the good popularity is very enviable.

Well, these things have nothing to do with him anymore, as long as he is willing to admit defeat, he will do what that person wants... At this time, Yu Ci spoke to him: "Senior Brother Zhang."

"Ok?"

"There is one thing that I have always wanted to ask you. I wonder if Senior Brother Zhang can clear up the 'confusion' for me?"

"What's the matter, let's talk after the gambling. Now we should recharge our batteries..." Zhang Yan said in a casual tone, and closed his eyes again, as if these few words used up all the strength in his body.

However, Yu Ci didn't retreat out of the difficulties, and continued to ask: "I have heard about senior brother's preferences. To put it bluntly, I think that with your temperament, senior brother, you have the ability to gamble with others and fight with swords." During the time in the garden, senior brother can find someone to gamble thousands or eight hundred times, why bother with this idea?"

These words were actually quite rude, but Zhang Yan was very self-aware, and he didn't get angry. He laughed twice: "Money is tight, what can I do?"

"Huh? Brother, do you want to win the brand and exchange it for gambling money?"

Yu Ci did remember that the gambler in front of him once set a very remarkable record - the Shanmen had issued a special decree: cut off the welfare supply of all the cultivation resources of Zhang Yan, such as pills, magic tools, cultivation venues, etc. , all will not be provided again, so as not to let him take the magic weapon of the elixir and bet it out to gamble.

It is said that such a means of targeting 'sex' is the first time since the founding of the sect, and it is not impossible to say that it is unprecedented.With this order, Zhang Yan was 'forced' to a dead end. If he wanted to survive in the mountain gate, he had to earn and fight on his own to have expenses. If he was still addicted to gambling, he must have suffered.

But that's it, this guy still hasn't quit gambling.Now, he just lives by the news of some meritorious deeds in Tongde Hall, and the meritorious deeds and rewards he received are all quickly squandered.No one in his class was willing to gamble with him, so he ran all the way to Beihuang, lost all his wealth, and then ran back to continue looking for work.

Gambling addiction to such a degree, I am afraid that since the founding of the Lichen sect, it is the No. 1 unprecedented.

Generally speaking, people think that the elders of the sect have run out of patience with Zhang Yan when it comes to the edict above, but Yu Ci feels that rather than saying that the elders of the sect do not like him, it is better to say that they still have feelings for him. Fantasizing, hoping that through this trick, he would be 'forced' to give up his gambling addiction and return to the right path.

But now it seems that this method, this thought, is all in vain.

Yu Ci is not a sentimental person, and when a big battle is imminent, he will not lament those "what a pity".On the contrary, the vague thoughts in his mind suddenly became clear.

He smiled suddenly, staring at Zhang Yan's face, his eyes shining like stars:

"Senior Brother Zhang may not know, but in fact, I also like to gamble."