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    Liu Ji was the Liu Boyan who had been mentioned countless times by others in the future, standing shoulder to shoulder with Zhuge Liang in the Three Kingdoms period. Actually, Luo Chuanzhong, the author of "Romance of the Three Kingdoms", was one of Chen Yougui''s hanger-ons. He had deviated a lot from the official history of "Records of the Three Kingdoms", and a large part of the deviations were due to the fact that he had witnessed the battle between Chen Yougui, Zhu Yuanzhang and Zhang Shicheng. Furthermore, he had played these events into a story and written it into a novel.


    Zhuge Liang''s original plan and the source of some of his achievements were actually Uncle Liu, but it was very possible that he was Xi Yingzhen. Because Luo Tong Zhong and Xi Yingzhen were closer to each other, after all.


    Now tell me why Xi Yingzhen and Liu Bo Wen were at loggerheads with each other.


    The reason was simple. Both of them were rare Warlock experts at the time, so of course they had to fight one another.


    Liu Bowen taught himself from a young age, following the teachings of Chen Tuan and Zhou Dunyi of the Song Dynasty, as well as Zhu Xi of the later stage. Liu Bowen was a very intelligent person, who had mastered the essence of Taoism and Confucianism, and had become a Warlock Greatmaster. Moreover, Xi Yingzhen''s identity and master were unknown, and there were very few records of him in the history books. Instead, it was Xi Yingzhen''s master — the art of deception.


    At that time, the two of them had their own masters. Other than fighting each other, there was another reason, and that was because they both wanted a book called < The Sand of the Ganges >.


    The book "The Sand of the Ganges" actually had a history. It had existed since ancient Greece, and it was clearly written by Archimedes. The book had not been translated into China and had been circulating in Europe and Central Asia. It was not a very famous theory, and it was very marginalized and almost ignored by the rest of Archimedes achievements.


    But during the Yuan Dynasty, when the Mongol army occupied Central and Eastern Europe, many of the Central Asian colored people came to the Central Plains, and the handwritten copies of the booklet were passed around to the people.


    The official did not care about the booklet at all, as it was completely useless to the social environment of the time.


    Now let''s talk about what "The Sand of the Ganges" actually said.


    In ancient times, mathematics was not really developed. One of the problems was how to display a large number of people. In Chinese, for example, the word "three" and "numbers" is used to describe the huge number of numbers, that is to say, the large number, and then the concept of the trillions of such numbers was invented, but the higher number, the trillions, trillions, trillions, were also written down, but they could not be used for calculation.


    The ancient West was the same problem. But "The Sand of the Ganges" suggests a relatively precise way of expressing large numbers.


    Nowadays, society didn''t think much of it, but in ancient times, it was a very difficult thing to do.


    Moreover, < Sand of the Ganges > was not just a mathematical topic. It advocated the concept of being able to calculate all the sand in the world.


    This had something to do with mysticism, so in the late Yuan Dynasty, this book attracted the attention of many Chinese warlocks, because Chinese Taoism had a systematic knowledge of arithmetic and applied it to magic.


    At that time, Xi Yingzhen and Liu Bo Wen looked forward to the manual of < Sand of the Ganges >, but it had fallen into Xi Yingzhen''s hands. It was a pity that Xi Yingzhen couldn''t find the right arithmetic from this book, and could improve his own techniques. On the contrary, because of this matter, he suffered a blow from Uncle Liu.


    However, Xi Yingzhen had a disciple called Yao Guangxiao, who was also the number one contributor to the battle. When Chen You Liang was defeated and lost his life to Zhu Yuanzhang, Xi Yingzhen also did not know his whereabouts.


    But it could be confirmed that the < < Sand of the Ganges > > book was definitely in Dao Yan''s hands. Because dozens of years later, Dao Yan had added the strongest arithmetic to the art of deception. Now, everyone knew, this arithmetic was the Sand Counting!


    This was why Shen Dexu was so shocked by the Sand Counting. According to the internal records of the Daoist Sect, Dao Yan, who had mastered the Sand Counting back then, had great abilities. Other things could be discussed later on, but in the chaotic army, he could tell how many soldiers there were with a single glance. At that time, the numerous Warlocks had all verified in front of Dao Yan that Dao Yan truly had an extraordinary Inherent Skill.


    Dao Yan didn''t need any equipment to be able to see how many leaves a tree had, how many salt grains were in a jar, and even how accurately he could control the quantity of military rations to two.


    Someone who had this kind of ability would become the strategist of Emperor Yongle, and since Zhu Yunwen no longer had any usable warlocks by his side, it would be strange if Zhu Di couldn''t win against Zhu Yunwen since Uncle Liu had already died a long time ago.


    This was the art of deception''s arithmetic — — The origin of the Sand Counting. However, after Dao Yan, no one in the art of deception was able to learn Sand Counting.


    When Wang Kunpeng told Shen Dexu that someone was able to become a Sand Counting and was brothers with Wang Kunpeng, Shen Dexu didn''t dare believe his own ears. However, those words were spoken by Wang Kunpeng, and it was definitely not Wang Kunpeng who was bragging.


    "Can I visit that man?" Shen Dexu cautiously asked Wang Kunpeng.


    Wang Kunpeng pointed at Huang Kun and said: "It''s not difficult to see that person, but to invite that person out, it really must be someone from the Huang Family."


    Huang Kun spread out his hands, indicating that he did not understand.


    "That person is no longer willing to participate in anything related to the Taoism Sect Sect." Wang Kunpeng said, "But our art of deception and Huang Family have an agreement, that is, for the descendants of our art of deception, we must accept a disciple with Huang Family."


    "Dao Elder Wang," Huang Kun asked hesitantly, "Are you talking about me?"


    Wang Kunpeng laughed and continued to speak: "So I won''t take you as my disciple, give him the chance to do so."


    "But what''s the use?" Shen Dexu asked curiously.


    "Huang Kun became his disciple," Wang Kunpeng said as he looked at Huang Kun. "No matter what happened to Huang Kun, he would help him with all his might, because …"


    "Because of what?" Huang Kun and Shen Dexu couldn''t help but ask.


    "Because, he wants to pass down his ability," Wang Kunpeng said calmly. "Then, he can stay out of this matter."


    Shen Dexu sighed, "It''s really strange for someone with such great ability to not wish to accomplish anything."


    "Yet, there is such a strange person," Wang Kunpeng helplessly said, "What can you do with him?"


    Huang Kun felt very uncomfortable in his heart, because he discovered that, as a chess piece, he was playing around with his elders. But he couldn''t help but ask, "What should I do?"


    "This has to do with you." Wang Kunpeng looked at Huang Kun, "The person you were talking about was the same as the person I was talking about. He had attracted some things from a young age that he couldn''t see, but at that time, your Grandfather Huang Soongbai was an expert at exorcism, so he was protected under a young age. Now that your grandfather is dead, those things have risked their lives to find you. "


    "For example, those Water Ghost s," Huang Kun suddenly remembered, "You said that there were two more."