The Way of the Blind Girl Chess Saint

In fact, as the number of days for professional exams increases, the time players spend playing chess will gradually decrease, because they will gradually realize that four hours is meaningless.

"Should I wait for Sakuraba-nee... or go see Xiaoxi alone?" Luo Zhuyu walked out of the competition venue, her long light green hair swaying. She wasn't the first to finish her match.

Hmm? Her light green pupils contracted slightly as a girl with long brown hair walked towards her. The girl's cold face looked slightly gloomy, and her long brown hair was styled into a small brown braid that slid down her cheek.

Her pupils were deep black, and the girl wore a pure black Taoist robe, which looked more like a boy's style than a woman's robe. There was a red cinnabar mark on her white forehead.

Their steps faltered as Luo Zhuyu's light green pupils suddenly met the dark, drooping pupils of the brown-haired girl.

The girl with long brown hair looked slightly older than Luo Zhuyu, probably around 13 or 14 years old.

“Luo Zhuyu… my old rival, it’s been a long time…” The brown-haired girl’s voice was slightly hoarse, and her dark, drooping pupils made Luo Zhuyu feel a little uneasy.

“Ma Gongling…” Luo Zhuyu’s light green pupils contracted slightly. The red mark between her eyebrows was slightly dazzling. When she was face to face with her, she always felt like she was being pointed at by a sharp weapon.

Makoto Rei, an amateur 5-dan player from Aratsuki City, is 14 years old.

"Get out of the way, you pig!" Just as the two were staring at each other, a strange female voice came from behind Ma Gongling. A pretty girl with a low orange ponytail walked out of the game room, brushing past the brown-haired girl's shoulder.

Is it time for a break?

Luo Zhuyu glanced at the game room. Many players were already getting up to leave. She decided to sit here and wait for Sister Sakuraba... although there were a few people she didn't want to see.

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Watching the orange-haired girl with a low ponytail walk past her with cold indifference, Ma Gongling flicked her long brown hair, gave her a disdainful glare, and muttered, "Shang Gongying, don't get too cocky."

Ignoring Ma Gongling, Shang Gongying tossed her long orange hair and quickly walked away, looking as if she had something urgent to attend to.

"…………" Luo Zhuyu glanced at the orange-haired girl with a slightly puzzled look. What was she going to do so fast?

"She must have gone to grab a toilet; she might have even soiled her pants halfway there."

A hoarse voice came from Luo Zhuyu's ear, and she was immediately startled. She saw Ma Gongling standing in front of her with a gloomy expression.

Luo Zhuyu tilted her light green hair slightly, puzzled. Since she wasn't a chess player from Huangyue City, she wasn't familiar with the relationship between the two of them.

However... she had personally experienced Ma Gongling's chess skills in the provincial competition, when she had just been promoted to amateur third dan.

As for Shang Gongying, she is said to be able to suppress Ma Gongling... the strongest amateur chess player in Huangyue City.

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Huh? They actually dared to cut off the outside? Ji Yingting frowned slightly, her green crescent-shaped eyebrows furrowing. She hadn't seen such a response to the outsider's fixed stance in a long time.

This feeling was similar to the opponents she encountered when she first achieved an amateur rank in online Go—both casual and free.

No… Although her opponent moved in this way, her expression gave me an extremely cold, mechanical feeling. She had definitely studied it thoroughly; it was a mechanized memory.

Seeing Lin Yue make her move without the slightest hesitation, Ji Yingting gently tossed her long, light green hair.

"Do you... know how to look outside?" Ji Yingting asked softly, her cherry-like mouth slightly open, a hint of curiosity in her heart.

"Well, in the two years I've been learning Go, I've studied almost all the basic opening patterns and looked through all the ancient game manuals. Go is essentially a sport of rote memorization... isn't it?"

Lin Yue responded casually in a low voice. Such trivial matters were perfectly normal for a genius like her.

“You have a real talent for Go…” Ji Yingting paused for a moment before speaking softly. Her voice was gentle, like a light breeze, which made Lin Yue pause slightly.

Do I have a natural talent for playing Go?

That's right... all my Go teachers said that, but playing Go was just a tool to help me get into better schools... But for some reason, Lin Yue's heart trembled slightly because of Ji Yingting's words.

"Yes, everyone says I have a talent for Go... but,"

"No!"

"Huh?" Lin Yue's words were interrupted. She looked at the stunningly beautiful girl with her long, light green hair swaying gently, somewhat puzzled.

“No, I’m different from everyone else…” Ji Yingting said solemnly, flicking her long, bluish-green hair and narrowing her pale purple starry eyes.

"When I say you have talent, it's different from when others say you have talent!"

"What I say is different from what others say!"

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"Yes, what's different?" Confused by Ji Yingting's words, Lin Yue asked somewhat helplessly. Her right hand, which was about to place a black chess piece, suddenly stopped in mid-air.

"call"

With a gentle breath of cool air, Ji Yingting slowly extended her slender, jade-like hand, holding a white chess piece, from her water lily-colored sleeve.

"I'll show you right away... exactly where the difference is!!"

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Chapter 168: Lifetime

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A thin ring of bluish-green smoke slowly escaped from the corner of Ji Yingting's mouth; meditating on the chess moves had gradually become a habit for her.

Although she didn't use any chess positions... Ji Yingting felt that she had grasped the wonderful feeling of chess positions that stimulated the depths of her soul.

For example, many people playing CS:GO don't use a knife at all, but they still like to switch back and forth between a knife and a gun while walking, [and then they happen to run into someone and get killed].

A bluish-green mist drifted around Ji Yingting, her long bluish-green hair was blown by the warm wind, and a hazy bluish-green mist gradually wrapped around her water lily-colored sleeves.

Holding a white chess piece in his right hand, it emitted a burst of brilliant turquoise light and landed with a soft thud in the center of the chessboard. The turquoise spiral clouds immediately dispersed.

*Snap*... Ji Yingting gently tapped the timer on her right, then placed her slender, fair hand on the knee of her water lily-colored Taoist robe.

"It's lunch break time," the female referee with long, light green hair said, glancing at the clock on the wall.

"Hoo..." After taking a light breath, Ji Yingting stood up from the sofa, pulling on her water lily-colored Taoist robe. She then casually closed the lid on the chess box to her right.

"Impossible! How could she be so strong! A 25-point deficit is impossible to recover in the final stages!"

This is completely different from the feeling of facing a teacher with a professional ranking!! Her Go skills are like a monster!! What... does she mean by showing me a game like this? How long has she been learning Go?

Her short black hair was already soaked with sweat... As the stunningly beautiful girl with long, light green hair slowly stood up, Lin Yue's expression turned slightly desperate.

Blinking her pale purple starry eyes, Ji Yingting stood up from the sofa, pulling on the hem of her water lily-colored Taoist robe. Her long, bluish-green hair cascaded down her snow-white neck like a beautiful waterfall.

Lin Yue's treatment of the outer corners of the eyes is very interesting...

Interesting... but that's all... the difference in skill between the two lies in their minds.

Ji Yingting gently tucked the ends of her light green hair, which had fallen to her ears, behind her small green head, and turned to leave.

"Wait! Hold on a minute!" Wiping the sweat from her short black hair, Lin Yue suddenly called out to Ji Yingting, as most of the other chess players had already left.

Turning her head with her long, bluish-green hair tossing, Ji Yingting's expression showed no confusion. She smiled gently, her pale purple starry eyes narrowing. "So now... do you know what's different?"

"How long have you been learning Go?"

Lin Yue clenched her fists, her expression struggling fiercely before finally calming down. "Hoo!"

After letting out a long sigh, Lin Yue asked Ji Yingting, panting. Under the aftershocks of Ji Yingting's chess moves, she had endured immense pressure and despair to barely maintain the game until the end.

Lin Yue... She is a genius who can quickly master skills in any field... Except for Go, which is slightly more difficult, it took her two years of study to finally enter the realm of professional fifth dan.

Having only studied Go for two years, Lin Yue, a professional 5-dan player, was already considered a super genius in the amateur Go world. Her dark eyes looked at Ji Yingting with some resentment.

"Her Go skills are so strong, she must be an extremely talented player, right? How long has she been studying Go?" Lin Yue wondered, looking up at Ji Yingting's long, light green hair.

"........."

Her expression gradually calmed down. Ji Yingting tilted her head slightly, letting her bluish-green hair slide down from one side of her cheek and hang down to her chest. Her pale purple starry eyes widened slightly.

"lifetime……"

Whoosh! A violent gust of cold wind blew in from outside the window, whipping up Ji Yingting's long, bluish-green hair and her short, black hair. Even the sound Ji Yingting had just uttered vanished with the storm.

"…………?" Lin Yue's pupils dilated slightly. She just said she had studied Go her whole life? Didn't she know that she wanted to ask about her Go talent?

“To learn Go for a lifetime, I’m not talking about the past, but the future,” Ji Yingting said calmly, brushing the green strands of hair that had fallen to her ears behind her head.

"How long I studied Go... how quickly I became so skilled... these things are completely unimportant. My life is about learning Go, without dwelling on the past or the future. This is my life."

Lin Yue stared blankly into Ji Yingting's pale purple starry eyes with her black pupils. She saw a lot in her pupils. For her... perhaps Go was her life.

Becoming a star singer or something like that... perhaps she never even thought about it, because Go is the most suitable game for her; she has a talent for playing Go.

No... it's not that she's suitable, it's that she likes Go!

For the first time in her mind, Lin Yue changed the word she used in her imagination; it wasn't "suitable," but rather "liked"...

To be honest, I don't particularly like playing Go... I just felt that I had a talent for Go, which is why I took the professional exam... Lin Yue slowly opened her black eyes, and a tear slid down her cheek.

Looking at Ji Yingting's long, bluish-green hair, Lin Yue once again recalled the way Ji Yingting looked when she played chess.

“You… are different from others,” Lin Yue said softly after a long silence, a long-lost smile gradually appearing on her lips.

With a clatter, Lin Yue quietly lowered her head and collected the black chess pieces from the board. Under Ji Yingting's puzzled gaze... her expression gradually relaxed.

Oh? Ji Yingting frowned slightly, her light green eyebrows furrowing. Had she admitted defeat?

"Well... I'm leaving. Go and record the victories."

As Lin Yue passed by Ji Yingting, she gently patted Ji Yingting's back with her small hand and said casually.

Cherry blossoms fluttered like snowflakes, fireflies accompanied them... Snowflakes outside the window slowly drifted down onto Ji Yingting's long, green hair, covering it with a thin layer of frost.

Although Ji Yingting's vision was completely dark, the spot where Lin Yue stood seemed to emit tiny specks of starlight. Ji Yingting stared wide-eyed in slight surprise.

"Thank you... Perhaps after the professional exam, I will never play Go again, but I also want to be like you... different from others!"

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Chapter 169: The Weeping Flower Goddess Xi

Cherry blossoms fluttered like snowflakes, fireflies accompanied them... Snowflakes outside the window slowly drifted down onto Ji Yingting's long, green hair, covering it with a thin layer of frost.