C31 (1/2)

Wei Liao was not mistaken, the two people he found, the child and this young man, had inherited the legacy of the art of deception. However, Wei Liao did something very dishonest, he did not let Han Xin and Chen Ping know of each other's existence.

The origin of the art of deception was too early, and there were traces of it being spread around even before Spring and Autumn. On the other hand, the disciples of the art of deception never showed themselves as disciples of the art of deception, but instead relied on other theories to become grand masters.

The world was filled with good yang and evil, the art of deception was a sect that followed the way of the void, and its position was far inferior to the theories of the hundreds of families at that time. Chen Ping quickly understood this point from the knowledge that Wei Liao taught him.

Wei Liao had told him before that everyone in the world believed that the balance of Yin and Yang blended together, so this logic was wrong. Outside of the Ninth Heaven, it was even wider. Even the sun was only a firefly; the void and the cold were the true paths. There were ten levels below, and the abyss was below. The endless darkness was vast.

Chen Ping immediately understood that what governed this world was darkness and cold. It was just that no one saw this truth. He would rather believe in the insignificant light right now.

This was the reason why the theories of the art of deception were never accepted by other scholars.

Chen Ping was talented and knowledgeable. Wei Liao had taught him ”Conspiracy, Transfiguration, Shapeshift, Surprise, and the Way of the Gods and Demons”. These few Pure Yin techniques were a conspiracy.

Chen Ping had used his entire life's knowledge to understand and learn this, and had even thought that he could completely master the art of conspiracy. However, he had never expected that Wei Liao would only teach him half of it.

The other half was named ”Heaven and Earth Wind, Thunder, Water, Fire, Stone, Bamboo, Beast, Cloud, and Rain, Spirit Demons”, and the 19th Dao theory. They were plotting for the sect, Wei Liao had purposely concealed the method of plotting, because before teaching Chen Ping, he had already passed the plotting to the Korean clansman who was playing chess by the river.

The art of deception's methods of plotting were applicable to military strategies. And the deduction of Chinese military strategy is based on a game. A game between scholars.

— A game of chess.

In ancient times, tribal wars were chaotic, and the armies of the lords never stopped. In order to calm down the conflict, the Great Sage had invented a game of chess. He used seven different games as the world, while he used black and white as the weapons. He planned to turn the war into a game of chess. This was the thought of the Great Yao Empire. It was to reconcile the conflicts between the tribal leaders. However, this method did not achieve Big Dipper's goal. The tribes continued to be at war and did not put the war on the board.

Danzhu, Dazhu's son, could not control the battle between the leaders of the tribes. He could only flee with the help of a chess game. Then he disappeared, but Danchu passed on the chess game to his descendants.

Time flowed on in a vicissitudes of life. In the world of the Nine Prefectures, the chess game had also evolved into nine pillars. The Spring and Autumn War Kingdom's dukes had been split, and Danzhu's chess game had also been slowly developed by the dukes and generals into thirteen. In the late Warring States period, the number of chess players had once again increased to seventeen, depending on the trend of the world. At the time, thirteen chess games were in the mainstream, and seventeen chess games were already popular among experts.

Countless experts and successors of Danzhu's theory had become aides hidden behind the general's back. They were using this simple and unsophisticated game to deduce the direction of the war and plot. Chess was passed around in Danzhu's hands. This game, which was supposed to solve the problem of war, became an adjunct to war, a demonstration of military strategy. It was the complete opposite of Big Yao's original intention.

And Han Xin, a child, was able to play chess seventeen times by the river. No matter what, Wei Liao would not let this successor go. Furthermore, he taught Han Xin to advance on the seventeen dao, and added two gods and two ghosts. Han Xin still needed time. When the Under Heaven Clan's leader appeared, Han Xin's military strategy would be able to assist the leader and rule the world.

This was the promise between Wei Liao and Wei Liao, to find the chess piece that laid down the prefectural empire. As for the other person, Lee Si, he was still struggling in the Qin Empire. was a grandmaster of the law family, and the purpose of the law family was to govern the country, so it could not be passed on to the common people. This was the reason why Lee Si did not leave Xianyang, but Wei Zhe and Wei Liao were able to find their successors and bring them into the world.

In the year of Qin II, Lee Si's worries had finally come to fruition. Chen Li and Da Ze Country had risen to prominence and had established themselves as the kings. The Qin Empire began to crumble. The state system of the county was shaken by the uprising of the peasants.

In the year of Qin Er, Lee Si had been captured by Zhao Gao and had been cut down at the middle of the city in Xianyang. The country's first county-level empire had thus perished. The descendants of the nobles of the Warring States, one by one, began their activities, recruiting soldiers and horses, hoping to return to the feudal system and continue the traditional ancestral system of the Zhou Dynasty.

It was time for Wei Liao's successor, Chen Ping Zhang Liang to appear on stage. But they still had a long way to go, and this was because Wei Liao had misjudged the situation.

This situation stems from an oracle:

”Even though there are three clans in Chu, Qin Bishu is dead.”