From Joy of Life, the Tian Gang is reversed

Chapter 226 Breaking Two Armors in One Round

Tai'an City

Liyang Palace
Chengyuan Hall

A low table was placed in the center of the main hall.

Zhao Xun and Huang Longshi sat facing each other, with Emperor Liyang sitting between them, and a large crowd surrounding them.

Huang Longshi, a chess master from the Spring and Autumn Period, is playing against Zhao Xun, the heir apparent of the Prince of Jing'an. The game has reached the middle stage.

The chessboard was covered with countless chess pieces, and Huang Longshi's fingertips unconsciously rubbed the edge of the rhinoceros horn chess jar.

The young man opposite him, with a slight smile on his lips, held a white chess piece and tapped the edge of the chessboard lightly out of boredom.

"Aren't you going to make your move yet? It's just one move, do you really need to think about it for so long?"

Huang Longshi felt inexplicably irritated. He stared at the chessboard, pondered for a long time, and finally placed his black piece.

Fifth of five, the head of the town!
"Ha—!" Zhao Xun's lips curled into a sneer, "The Town God Head, is that all...?"

Without almost a second thought, he placed the white stone in his hand on the center position, thinking, "Using such an old opening move? It's outdated!"

The surrounding spectators erupted in uproar.

Here are emperors, princes, princes of vassal states, and heirs of powerful families. Except for a very few, everyone has received a good education and has studied chess. Although their chess skills may not be very high, they still understand the basic principles and patterns. The white piece is placed directly on the center position. What kind of move is this?
In fact, it wasn't just this one move; from the very beginning of the game, Zhao Xun's moves were incomprehensible to them, completely incomprehensible.

The opening move of placing a piece at the 3-3 point is completely inexplicable; this guy is obviously an amateur!
Before the middle game, everyone concluded that this was someone who knew absolutely nothing about chess making random moves.

But as the game progressed to the middle stage, everyone was stunned. Despite making seemingly random moves, he managed to hold his own against Huang Longshi, a top-ranked player from the Spring and Autumn Period, until the middle stage. Instead of losing, he gradually gained the upper hand.

This is ridiculous!
Now, another piece has captured the center point. What is this all about?

Huang Longshi frowned, racking his brains. With his hundreds of years of experience playing chess, he couldn't figure out the significance of Zhao Xun's move. But deep down, he felt that this move was extremely important, so important that he sensed danger.

what is it?

"Are you too old? Your mind isn't working properly anymore. Next time we play chess, we'll have to time it."

Zhao Xun spewed out trash talk, using every possible sarcastic remark.

"Hmph, you think a novice can kill a master with a flurry of punches?!"

Huang Longshi was no pushover. He might not understand the game, but as the game progressed to the middle stage, he knew very well that he couldn't let his opponent lead him by the nose. What he had to do was follow his own strategy and move towards victory step by step, just as he had been doing for the past few hundred years.

The black pieces gently fall onto the board, and on the board, the black dragon raises its head and roars.

"Truly, those are old-fashioned methods!"

Looking at the large black dragon on the chessboard, Zhao Xun laughed and placed his white piece without hesitation, like a ghost, on the third and fourth lines.

As soon as this word was written, the chessboard instantly became clear.

"when……!"

Huang Longshi's eyes widened instantly.

Among the onlookers, several chess experts also changed their expressions. The clear situation on the chessboard made it clear to them at once.

Huang Longshi's black dragon had just raised its head in the center when it was immediately seized by three white stones.

Even more surprisingly, after a few seemingly innocuous moves, the initial moves, which were initially incomprehensible, simultaneously sparked ko fights on three corners, turning the board into a tempestuous arena.

The game suddenly became incredibly intense.

The game continued, but Huang Longshi's moves became increasingly conservative.

In move 156, White makes a sharp move at what seems like an unrelated point, number 6 to 12. Huang Longshi's face suddenly turned pale, and his body visibly trembled.

At that moment, the expression of this chess master from the Spring and Autumn period was momentarily dazed.

This move awakened all the hidden moves he had previously laid out with white pieces. The black pieces on the board melted away completely, like snowflakes encountering boiling water.

The elaborate trap he had set up, which he thought was ingenious, turned into a noose that led to his own suicide.

Have you ever been bitten by a dog?
Huang Longshi has never been bitten by a dog.

But now, he feels like he's been bitten by a dog.

To put it simply, it's like a boxer who has trained for over a decade, is invincible in the ring, and has won over a dozen championship belts. But when he steps into the ring for the last time, the organizers bring in a vicious dog—a rabid one at that. As soon as he enters the ring, the dog pounces on him and starts biting. Under the dog's onslaught, all the fighting skills and experience he's learned over the past decade become useless. The dog bites him here and there, leaving him covered in wounds!
Just like the situation on the chessboard before us.

The tide has turned!
"You flatter me!" Zhao Xun looked up at Huang Longshi and said leisurely, "Huang Shuangjia!"

Huang Longshi's hand trembled slightly, and the entire chessboard reappeared in his mind. Only then did he realize with horror that Zhao Xun's seemingly random moves actually contained deep calculations, and that he had been walking step by step into the numerical maze he had set up.

The 3-3 formation is actually a fixed pattern!
No, that's not the point. The point is, is his computing power really that strong?

If that's the case, what he lost today wasn't just his own chess title; actually, he was trying to tell himself that his deductive reasoning and calculation abilities were no less than his own!
What he really needs to do is shed his reputation as a fortune teller!

Bang! !

The next moment, the sandalwood chessboard and the black and white chess pieces all turned into dust.

Huang Longshi raised his head, stared at Zhao Xun, and after a long while, said, "Good, good, good, good indeed. The new generation replaces the old, and Huang Longshi has learned a lot."

Having said that, he stood up, cupped his hands in greeting to Zhao Xun, and turned away without even saying goodbye to His Majesty the Emperor.

"That's so rude!!"

Zhao Xun looked up at Zhao Li and Nan Huaiyu, "Has he always been like this?!"

"He didn't kill you on the spot, which is already quite magnanimous. It's only because Huang Longshi has a firm Dao heart that this happened. If it were anyone else..." Nan Huaiyu looked at Zhao Xun, thinking about the trash talk he had just said, and sighed helplessly, "Your Highness, one should be kind."

“I think the most important thing in life is sincerity. I’ll only be thirteen in six months. You old folks can wait until fifty years later to use your hypocritical tricks.” Zhao Xun looked at Nan Huaiyu and said, “Your Excellency, let me give you a piece of advice: If the spring breeze has a heart to cherish the flowers, even old age is not inferior to youth.”

"Ha ha ha ha ha ha ha!"

Zhao Dun, standing to the side, burst into laughter. "Well said! One should be sincere. Well said! If the spring breeze has a heart to cherish the flowers, one can remain youthful even in old age. Well said!"

"Thank you for the compliment, Your Majesty."

At this moment, Zhao Xun was also beaming with joy, because he could clearly feel that with the victory in the game, his fortune had undergone a tremendous change. The change was so dramatic that even Nan Huaiyu, who had been watching him closely, and Zhao Xun himself, who had come prepared, found it unbelievable.

Many, too many!
He only won one game against Huang Longshi, so how could he have so much luck? Moreover, what is that golden aura mixed in with his luck?
Don't tell me that's good karma!
Is playing one game of chess considered doing good deeds?
Little Meng Tianzun, you are so generous!

Or perhaps, this Huang Longshi…

He went through Huang Longshi's actions in his mind, and then, recalling what Jiang Zhiwei had told him and the process of his projection into this world, he vaguely understood something.

"As expected, Little Celestial Venerable Meng, even after becoming a Celestial Venerable, you are still a mortal! You still have your little thoughts and temper!"

Thinking about this made him even happier.

What followed was a grand feast.

Originally, this was a trap, but Zhao Xun and Huang Longshi's actions before the banquet completely dispelled the tense atmosphere and turned it into a joyful one. As the protagonist who forced a show of bravado at the beginning, Zhao Xun naturally received special attention from the disciples of various families.

Fortunately, this body was not Li Chengqian's, so there was no alcohol allergy and he was a good drinker. Even so, in the end, he was still drunk and carried out of the palace by Yu Xuanji.

However, the events that occurred in Chengyuan Hall that night spread extremely quickly, causing a great uproar in the imperial court and the martial arts world.

(End of this chapter)