Chương 205: Chapter 19 Recommendation

"After all, he's just a young man."

"People chase fame and fortune, but not as elegantly as us two."

Two young temple acolytes chuckled as they conversed.

Having walked away, Li Hao overheard their words and turned back, grabbed a few chess pieces from the Chess Box, tossed them onto five spots on the board, hummed lightly, and strode away.

"Brazen youth, you..."

The acolyte playing with the white pieces was furious and just about to scold when the young man had already walked far away. Angrily retracting his gaze and about to clean up the disrupted chess pieces, he saw his friend across the table staring blankly at the board.

He felt a surprise in his heart, looked down, and instantly realized that his previous trouble had been reversed—the placement of the five pieces opened up a new territory for him.

Most crucially, with one piece less, it would all appear as scattered placements, undetectable.

"This..."

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