Chapter 43: Children Play the World in a Sand Table, Female Teacher Probes the Truth Through the Wall

The door creaked open.

It was Yunxiao who opened the door, still wearing a plain cloth apron.

She held a rolling pin dusted with flour, looking as gentle and graceful as a lady in a painting from the Jiangnan water towns.

But when she saw the small figure outside, and the blood-soaked cloth in his hand, the smile on her face instantly froze.

The stench of blood was so strong that even from several paces away, it made the Primordial Spirit of an Immortal like her tremble slightly.

"Chen Yuan?"

Before she could ask, Bixiao and Qiong Xiao also rushed over at the sound.

When they saw the blood-written letter, Bixiao, the most hot-tempered of them, saw her expression change, and the air around her seemed to drop several degrees.

"Something happened?"

Chen Yuan did not answer.

His black and white eyes were exceptionally calm, and he only looked at the three of them once.

Then he bypassed them and walked straight into the courtyard.

The panic and noise in the courtyard seemed to have nothing to do with him. The despair of the knight Wang Fu.

The panic of the servants in the mansion seemed to be nothing but background noise outside this chess game.

He walked to the open space in the courtyard, which was originally used for planting flowers and plants.

He squatted down, carefully placed the blood-written letter aside, and then stretched out his small hands.

He began to use mud, stones, and dead branches to build something on the ground.

His movements were not fast, but every one of them was terrifyingly precise.

Wang Fu struggled to be helped up, and seeing this scene, the last fire of hope in his eyes was extinguished.

It was over.

The General's last hope actually fell into the hands of a five-year-old child, and this child... was playing with mud?

"Big Sister, what is he..." Qiong Xiao couldn't understand, her face full of worry and confusion.

Yunxiao's gaze, however, was locked onto Chen Yuan's hands.

A miniature sand table was rapidly taking shape in those small hands.

A winding Yellow River, a blocked diversion canal, seven piles of stones of different sizes.

They were accurately distributed on the farmland that the diversion canal was about to pass through, like seven malignant tumors. And between the construction site and the county seat, several dead branches lay across, representing the cut-off supply lines.

The entire deadlock of Qingyuan County was clearly replicated by him using the simplest Materials.

Bixiao gasped.

This was not playing with mud; this was clearly simulating a battlefield! He hadn't even been to Qingyuan County.

Just relying on the six-character blood letter, he had restored the predicament thousands of miles away to this extent!

Yunxiao put down the rolling pin in her hand and slowly walked to the stone table in the courtyard, where the jade chessboard they had moved yesterday was placed.

She sat down, brushing her sleeves, and picked up a white piece from the chess box.

"How to break this game?"

She was asking about the sand table on the ground.

Chen Yuan did not look up, but just pointed at the chessboard.

The meaning was clear.

Words were unnecessary; the truth would be revealed on the chessboard.

Yunxiao sighed in her heart, feeling both pity and shock. This was his Dao; all things could be chess.

She placed the white piece gently in a corner of the chessboard, occupying a 'small eye', a gentle and defensive opening.

Chen Yuan took a look, stood up from the mud, and walked to the other side of the stone table.

His small body needed to half-stand to barely reach the chessboard.

He picked up a black piece without any hesitation.

"Clack!"

With a crisp sound, the black piece landed in the very center of the chessboard—Tianyuan!

Domineering, sharp, treating all four directions as nothing, opening the game to control the center and swallow the world!

Yunxiao's pupils shrank suddenly.

This move was exactly like Gu Ziyuan, who had shaken the Saint with the Zhou Tian Xing Dou Chess Array on Jinao Island back then!

Wang Fu, who was standing nearby, was completely stunned.

A scout covered in blood, three neighbor women who were too beautiful to be Mortals.

And a five-year-old child, surrounding a game of chess, deciding the life and death of tens of thousands of people?

This scene was too bizarre.

"Clack!" "Clack!" "Clack!"

The sound of the chess pieces falling was crisp and rapid.

Yunxiao's chess style was like her person, gentle and tenacious, proceeding step by step, trying to trap the black pieces with momentum and find a peaceful solution.

But Chen Yuan's chess had no childishness, not even the warmth that human nature should have.

Every move of his was the most direct, most effective, and bloodiest exchange.

Sacrificing pieces, slaughtering Dragons, fighting to the death!

On the chessboard, there were golden spears and iron horses, and the Killing Intent soared to the sky.

Bixiao and Qiong Xiao stood on the side, completely unable to understand the direction of the chess game, but they could clearly feel the terrifying Killing Intent rushing towards them.

That was not the Divine Ability of Immortals fighting, but a pure calculation and crushing from the level of wisdom.

Finally, at the thirty-sixth move.

Chen Yuan's black piece pointed into the belly of the white Dragon's territory at an unimaginable angle.

One piece fell, and the whole board came alive, while the big Dragon that Yunxiao had managed for a long time was instantly left with only one breath, becoming a dead game.

Fatal blow!

Yunxiao's hand holding the white piece stopped in mid-air, unable to fall for a long time.

She lost.

She lost cleanly and neatly, without any suspense.

She, a former Grand Unity Golden Immortal, in terms of pure Way of Chess wisdom.

Was actually defeated by a five-year-old Mortal child who had sealed all his cultivation and memories.

Just then, Chen Yuan's tender voice sounded in the courtyard for the first time.

He did not look at the chessboard, but stretched out his small finger and pointed to the seven piles of stones in the sand table on the ground, which represented the seven great noble families.

"Before a sick tree, one must use strong medicine."

His voice was very light, very flat, without a trace of emotion.

"Doesn't Father have the tiger tally given by the King?"

"Only by killing the chicken can one warn the monkey."

Boom!

These twelve words, like a thunderbolt from the Nine Heavens, fiercely struck the heart of everyone in the courtyard.

Wang Fu trembled all over, only feeling a chill rushing from the soles of his feet to his crown.

He looked at the child in front of him, who was carved from pink jade, his eyes full of shock and fear.

Kill the chicken to warn the monkey?

A five-year-old child could actually say these four words without changing his expression?

The Three Xiao Fairies were even more shocked.

They seemed to see that familiar shadow overlapping with this small body.

He was still him.

That decisiveness deeply hidden in his bones, even if washed by Reincarnation and covered by the Mortal World, had not been worn away in the slightest!

Is this really about reshaping the Dao Heart?

In Yunxiao's heart, for the first time, she had a trace of hesitation about Revered Master's arrangement.

Chen Yuan ignored everyone's shock. He turned his head and looked at Wang Fu, who was already stunned.

He continued to spit out six words in that calm, waveless tone.

"Cut off their food, surround their land."

Wang Fu shuddered and asked subconsciously: "And then?"

Chen Yuan's gaze fell on the largest stone in the middle of the seven piles.

"The culprit, execute immediately."

Four more words.

Every word was like a knife, accurately dissecting the deadlock of Qingyuan County, revealing the bloodiest and most effective core for breaking the game.

Wang Fu's breathing instantly became heavy. The despair and confusion in his eyes were swept away, replaced by a fanatical, almost worshipful light.

He understood!

The General carried the King's order and held the tiger tally; he naturally had the power to execute first and report later!

What inciting the people, what cutting off the Dragon veins, were all empty! Just use thunderous means.

Execute the leading Qian Family, and the remaining six noble families would be nothing but clay chickens and pottery dogs!

At that time, open the granary to distribute food, appease the people, and the overall situation would be settled!

So ruthless! So poisonous! So accurate!

"Thump!"

Wang Fu could no longer support himself. His knees softened, and he knelt heavily in front of Chen Yuan, kowtowing.

"Young Master... a Divine Being! Wang Fu, I will go to deliver the order now!"

He scrambled up, not even bothering to salute, turned around, and rushed out of the courtyard like a madman, turning over onto his horse.

Carrying the twelve-word mantra that could make Qingyuan County flow with blood, he disappeared at the end of the long street.

In the courtyard, silence returned.

Chen Yuan silently collected the black pieces on the chessboard into the chess box one by one.

It was as if the person who had just stirred up the wind and clouds and decided the life and death of ten thousand people was not him.

Yunxiao looked at his lonely side profile, her heart filled with mixed feelings.

She knew that this game of chess was not over yet.

...

The next day, at the hour of Mao.

Chaoge, the main hall of the palace.

The officials stood solemnly, King Wendin sat high on the throne, his face gloomy.

Vice-Chancellor Fei Lian held a Jade Slip and walked out from the ranks, a hint of indescribable complacency on his face.

He bowed and saluted, his voice spreading throughout the main hall.

"Your Majesty, I have a memorial."

"I impeach the Governor of Water Control, General Chen Lie, for failing to control the water, inciting civil unrest, and shaking the foundation of the country!"

"I request Your Majesty to take back his tiger tally, escort him back to the capital, and execute him according to the law!"