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In the tree house, which is more than one meter tall, there is a slightly small and bent rattan bed.

Le Jinxi was suddenly awakened and subconsciously wanted to get up, but the rattan bed that could not bear the weight collapsed and he fell on his back.

Soon, he walked out of the tree house with questions.

What caught my eye was an ancient towering tree that reached the sky. Around the tree, there were trees several feet thick, not very tall. Tree houses of different sizes were built on the treetops and trunks.

Just like the tree house where he was lying behind him, it was rebuilt inside a large tree with its trunk hollowed out. It is centrally located with an excellent view.

But the tree is still lush and leafy, without any sign of malnutrition.

Le Jinxi was very curious about how it survived.

The ground was covered with flowers and grass. From time to time, people with branches and leaves wrapped around their heads would come and go between the tree houses.

The scene before him made Le Jinxi wonder if he had traveled through time again!

He walked down the tree house along the wooden stairs and out of the shade of the trees. He couldn't help but stop and look at the sun in the sky. It always felt unreal.

"Get out of the way! You're blocking my sun!" A childish voice interrupted his thoughts.

Le Jinxi looked around, where is there anyone?

"I'm talking to you! Move away!"

Following the sound, Le Jinxi's eyes fell on a half-broken tree branch that was stuck in the ground, and hesitantly asked, "Are you talking?"

"Oh! Are you annoying? I told you to get out of here!" The tree branch swayed twice and pushed out from the ground, revealing a little head. The big green eyes stared at Le Jinxi impatiently.

"Xiao Xi! Don't be rude. He is a guest. Bring him over to see me."

An old voice came from the void, as if it came from a towering tree in the distance.

"Okay!" Xiaoxi nodded her head and answered crisply. She stretched out her two little hands from the ground, pushed hard, and jumped out of the ground.

Looking at the ground again, it was flat and smooth, with no trace of breaking through the earth.

"Let's go! Come with me to see the ancestor," Xiaoxi strode in front, and Le Jinxi hurriedly followed.

"What is this place? Who is the ancestor you are talking about?" Le Jinxi pulled Xiaoxi's arm, trying to get close to her.

Xiao Xi shrank back subconsciously and said dissatisfiedly: "Are you annoying? The ancestor is the ancestor!"

After a pause, she remembered something and continued, "You broke my bed, remember to compensate me for a new one."

No wonder, Le Jinxi was still wondering why the bed was so small.

"Pay, pay, pay!" Le Jinxi quickly agreed.

Coming to the towering tree, Xiao Xi walked forward and knocked on the tree twice, then saw the tree trunk crack open and a door opened by itself.

"Go in! The ancestors are waiting for you!" Xiao Xi said and was about to leave. After taking a few steps, she suddenly stopped and said, "Go in and follow the wooden stairs. Don't look around."

Le Jinxi glanced at her and stepped in.

The space inside is very large, with a bookshelf in the middle that seems to be carved out of a wooden pillar several meters thick, and its height cannot be seen at a glance.

Attached to the wall is a wooden ladder that spirals upward. As far as the eye can see, there is no end to it, and no idea how many times it rotates.

"There's no elevator either," Le Jinxi suddenly didn't want to see any ancestor anymore!

"Oh! I'm here now!" He stomped his foot and walked up the wooden steps.

After walking for most of the way, he found that there was no sound of footsteps when he stepped on the wooden steps. He inexplicably became interested in the wood used to make the steps.

Le Jinxi kept walking without stopping. Thoughts kept coming to his mind, and some fragments flashed through his mind.

He didn't know how long he had been walking, but he just felt a little dizzy and swollen.

"coming!"

An old voice came into his ears, and Le Jinxi suddenly woke up. The discomfort in his head disappeared, and he felt refreshed again.

Not far in front of him, an old man wearing a wooden crown and a long robe, with white hair and beard, was looking at him.

Is this the ancestor? Le Jinxi greeted him symbolically: "Hello!"

"Come and sit!"

The old ancestor sat on the ground and his eyes returned to the table in front of him.

Hearing this, Le Jinxi walked forward and discovered that there was a chessboard engraved on the table.

On the chessboard, black and white pieces were scattered all over the place, like a game endgame.

"He doesn't want me to play Go with him, does he?" Le Jinxi was a little surprised. He only knew a little about Go, so how could he dare to be presumptuous in such an occasion.

"Hello, old sir," Le Jinxi bowed slightly in accordance with the traditional virtues of respecting the elderly and loving the young.

The old ancestor seemed a little surprised. No one had called him that for thousands of years!

He laughed and said, "Haha! I am older than the ancestor of ten thousand years ago. You can just follow my descendants and call me ancestor!"

While he was talking, Le Jinxi had already walked in front of the ancestor. From what he said, he seemed to be of some importance.

Le Jinxi bowed his head and said, "Greetings, ancestor!"

"Alright! No need to be polite, take a seat!" The old man motioned for him to sit down, and pointed at the chessboard and said, "I have played this game of chess for seven hundred years, just to wait for the right person."

As he spoke, the old man pushed the wooden box containing the white pieces in front of Le Jinxi and asked, "Would you like to try it?"

Le Jinxi waved his hands quickly: "Don't worry! I, a lousy chess player, won't embarrass myself in front of you!"

“Just follow your heart, don’t think too much.”

Now that we've come to this point, it would be inappropriate to refuse any further! Le Jinxi gritted his teeth and said, "Then I'll show off my ugliness!"

Raising his hand to pick up the pieces, Le Jinxi looked at the few empty spaces left on the chessboard and hesitated! Then, he remembered what his ancestors had said, and followed his heart.

"That's fine!" He dropped the white piece casually.

There seemed to be ripples on the chessboard, and then, Le Jinxi's eyes blurred, and the surrounding scenery suddenly changed!

The blue sky and white clouds, the two men sat upright in the clouds, in front of them was still the table with the unfinished game of chess on it.

Beneath the clouds was a huge battlefield, with thousands of troops from both sides, fighting fiercely.

Le Jinxi was just thinking about turning the White Army from offense to defense, and then he saw a place for the chess piece appear on the chessboard.

He placed the white piece in his hand on it, and the white troops on the battlefield quickly gathered together and switched from offense to defense.

Le Jinxi seemed to understand! This was not a game of chess, but a command of a battle.

Next it was the ancestor's turn to make a move. He just picked up the piece and made the move without thinking.

A strong wind suddenly arose on the battlefield, sweeping across the Black Army's position and attacking the White Army's position.

Seeing that the situation was not good, Le Jinxi was thinking about something in his mind. When he saw the placement point on the chessboard, he hurriedly placed a piece.

The White Army followed his will and split into hundreds of small teams, each holding a shield that intersected and overlapped. The fortress formed by hundreds of battle shields stretched out a battle line of several kilometers.

The strong wind swept through, tearing a hole in the army formation and marching straight in. It overturned dozens of battle shield fortresses and swept the scattered people and shields into the sky.

A black piece slowly flew out of the wooden box and landed directly on the chessboard.

The Black Army changed its formation, with the center army forming a path, and two thousand heavily-armored cavalrymen galloping out, charging straight into the center of the White Army.

On the left and right sides, three thousand light cavalry rushed out and surrounded the two sides of the White Army.

Le Jinxi's gaze fell on the chessboard. Although his chess skills were average, he could see everything in the military formation clearly and there was obviously something wrong.