"That's good. Senior Ji Liu Zi, I'll trouble you to accompany me to Nanyang in a few days." After hearing Ji Liu Zi's words, Chen Fan felt relieved. He cupped his hands towards Ji Liu Zi and said.
After saying this to Ji Liu Zi, Chen Fan placed his white piece and ended the remnant game.
At this moment, Ji Liu Zi looked down at the chessboard, smiled helplessly, and said, "Junior Chen, your chess skills are indeed superb. I concede defeat!"
The game was over, and it was time to discuss important matters.
An hour later, Chen Fan left Ji Liu Zi's residence.
However, he did not go home. Instead, he went directly to a rather secluded room as instructed by the person on the phone earlier.
There, in the large, empty room, only a table, a chair, a screen, and a camera were placed in the center.
Seeing the simple furnishings in the room, Chen Fan sneered dismissively.
Then, he strode to the center of the room, sat on the chair, and fixed his disdainful gaze on the screen and camera in front of him.
The camera blinked with a small red light, indicating that it was operating stably.
Thus, Chen Fan said,
"It's me, I'm here."
As soon as Chen Fan's voice fell, the screen, which had been completely dark, suddenly lit up.
Immediately after, a familiar face, sneering repeatedly, appeared before Chen Fan.
As soon as the person on the screen appeared, he stroked the stubble on his chin and, with a displeased expression, asked Chen Fan, who was on the other side of the camera,
"Chen Tian Jiao, what have you decided?"
Seeing the other party's confrontational expression, Chen Fan really didn't want to bother with him, and that's exactly what he did.
After hearing the person on the other side of the camera's question, Chen Fan simply sneered coldly and remained silent.
The other party seemed to have expected this outcome.
Therefore, he didn't care whether Chen Fan answered or not and continued to speak on his own, "If you don't come, I won't be polite when Tian Fu Ya Ju auctions the Golden Divine Tree!"
Hearing this, Chen Fan could no longer ignore him.
So, Chen Fan sneered coldly and said to the camera, "Ye Yun Chen, you don't need to waste my time with these pointless words."
That's right, the person Chen Fan was video-calling at the moment,
And the person who had contacted him by phone before he went to find Ji Liu Zi, was Ye Yun Chen.
Ye Yun Chen was currently in Nanyang, meticulously crafting a nearly perfect trap for Chen Fan!
Therefore, Ye Yun Chen's words were filled with an extreme tone.
His purpose in doing so was naturally to provoke Chen Fan into willingly walking into his trap!
And the reason Chen Fan had remained silent and sneered from the beginning.
Was because, as soon as Ye Yun Chen contacted him, Chen Fan had already realized that this was nothing more than a trap!
However, Chen Fan had no choice but to fall into this trap at this moment.
Because Ye Yun Chen had used his trump card this time!
"You and I both know that the Golden Divine Tree at this auction is merely bait. The tree can be yours, but what lies behind the tree must be mine." Chen Fan said coldly, looking at Ye Yun Chen's arrogant smile on the screen.
He got straight to the point, without any pretense, and spoke directly to Ye Yun Chen.
In fact, this time Ye Yun Chen had invited Chen Fan to Nanyang to attend an auction.
This was because, in recent times, the martial arts world in Nanyang had discovered a rare and precious treasure of heaven and earth – the Golden Divine Tree!
For ordinary people, apart from its ornamental value, the Golden Divine Tree was of no use.
However, for cultivators in the martial arts world, it was a supreme treasure!
Because, by consuming even a single leaf or branch of the Golden Divine Tree, one's cultivation could be increased exponentially!
This temptation was simply too great for cultivators in the martial arts world!
At this moment, cultivators from all over the world were rushing to Nanyang, preparing to acquire the Golden Divine Tree at the auction!
From this, one could see the significance of Chen Fan's statement of being uninterested in the Golden Divine Tree in the current martial arts world!
Of course, the reason Chen Fan looked down on the Golden Divine Tree was naturally because of the "thing behind the Golden Divine Tree" he mentioned!
And that thing behind it was precisely the leverage Ye Yun Chen was using to threaten Chen Fan!
Therefore, at this moment, Ye Yun Chen, who was far away in Nanyang, felt a surge of relief and laughed heartily upon hearing Chen Fan's words.
"Haha! Good! As expected of you! Straightforward!"
The reason Ye Yun Chen burst into laughter at this moment was because his objective had been achieved!
That is, to make Chen Fan come to Nanyang!
For Ye Yun Chen at this moment, as long as Chen Fan came to Nanyang, he was confident enough to have Chen Fan torn to shreds before his eyes!
However, after laughing, Ye Yun Chen looked at Chen Fan's expression, which was a mixture of a smile and a sneer, full of disdain and contempt, and his heart began to waver.
After all, in Ye Yun Chen's opinion, Chen Fan was one of the rare intelligent people in the world.
Therefore, he felt that Chen Fan must have already realized that the Golden Divine Tree auction was a trap set for him!
But... why did he agree so quickly?
And why... did he put on such an expression?
Chen Fan's demeanor at this moment made Ye Yun Chen's heart flutter uneasily.
Looking at Chen Fan's expression, who had fallen into whose trap?
It was just an expression across a screen.
Chen Fan had already made Ye Yun Chen doubt himself.
But Ye Yun Chen was no ordinary person.
Within a few seconds, Ye Yun Chen had made a judgment about Chen Fan's current behavior.
He felt that Chen Fan must be terrified to death at this moment!
This demeanor was definitely a pretense!
Hmph!
He's already facing death, and he's still pretending to be tough with me?
Just wait!
Watch me expose your true colors with one sentence!
Ye Yun Chen thought to himself, stroked the stubble on his chin, and spoke to Chen Fan again.
"Chen Tian Jiao, I'll tell you the truth. The Golden Divine Tree will be mine, and the Dragon Pattern Luo Pan fragment behind it will also be mine!"
It had to be said that when Ye Yun Chen uttered the words "Dragon Pattern Luo Pan fragment," Chen Fan's always calm face showed a flicker of expression!
"Alright, let's compete then." Then, Chen Fan's tone was slightly surprised, yet filled with provocation, as he said to Ye Yun Chen on the screen.