The Way of the Blind Girl Chess Saint

The sleeves of her black kimono fluttered slightly, and the black-haired girl with her hair in the kimono held a black chess piece between her right hands and placed it tremblingly on the chessboard with a soft thud... Takame.

After placing the chess piece, Quan Shihui's black pupils gently looked at Ji Yingting. There wasn't even any white in her eyes or eyeballs... just a hazy black mass.

Of course... because of his limited contact with humans, Ji Yingting didn't notice anything unusual about her. He was just slightly uneasy by Quan Shihui's black pupils, which had no whites or eyeballs, and he spat out a mouthful of saliva.

Although this little girl is very cute... her face is a bit too scary, like a beautiful female ghost from a horror novel!

Ji Yingting pondered, her long, light green hair swaying. She had read quite a few horror novels before, and today she had finally found a point of reference. She couldn't help but observe for a while longer the little girl with black hair and a hee-cut hairstyle sitting opposite her on the starry chessboard.

Her name is Quan Shihui, right? ...It feels like she's more like a doll than a female ghost.

The beautiful black-haired girl opposite him seemed to have stopped looking at him... Her black pupils stared blankly at the chessboard in front of her, her two slender hands gently resting on her black kimono knees.

Wearing blue cloth boots, her fair, bare legs curled up on the sofa. Ji Yingting quickly focused her light purple starry eyes on the chessboard. Her slender right hand held a white chess piece and gently placed it on the opposite corner of the black chess piece, outside the eye.

"Oh," came a dull sound from her small mouth. Quan Shihui glanced at Ji Yingting with a hint of curiosity.

Thud... The slender arm, wrapped in a black kimono, trembled slightly as it placed the second chess piece.

After retracting her arm, Ji Yingting opened her eyes and looked over. Her next move was still a high-scoring move, with two parallel high-scoring moves.

Two high-level experts? Are they the type who excel at the cosmic style?

Since that's the case, I'll place two pieces outside the corner... Ji Yingting's white piece landed in the last corner outside the corner.

Of course, these two outward-facing eyes are not on parallel grids, but rather form a slightly less common binocular outward-facing layout with one facing outward and the other inward.

Unlike high points, which clearly indicate an intention to seize a high position, if a player makes two outward or two inward moves outside the designated area, they are generally considered to be a poor player.

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Chapter 198: Scorpion's Shot [Revised, please refresh the page to read]

With a soft thud, Ji Yingting gently retracted her water lily-colored sleeves and laid them flat on her skirt. Now it was her turn to place her piece.

Ah... is it my turn to make a move?

Quan Shihui thought blankly, her right hand mechanically picking up a black chess piece from the chess box, stiffly raising her right hand.

Ji Yingting waited quietly, but soon after, when the black-haired girl with the black herringbone cut placed the black chess piece in her hand, Ji Yingting's pale purple starry eyes were slightly stunned.

What is Black trying to do...? Is it trying to suppress the opponent's position?

What is her intention? I have never seen a game start like this, treating the outside world's moves like this before... Ji Yingting raised her light green crescent-shaped eyebrows, and gently moved her light green head closer to the starry chessboard in front of her to make sure that she was not seeing things. Her long light green hair fell down unintentionally, covering her pale purple starry eyes.

Ji Yingting brushed her soft, light green hair back to its original position, her expression still showing some confusion.

The position outside the small checkpoint is located outside the small checkpoint, and its coordinates on the board are 5,3 or 3,5.

The position 5,5 is above 5,3 on Ji Yingting's side, creating a space above the opponent's head. In Go, this move is called "zhen" and also has the meaning of suppression.

A "town" is a move where one player places a piece in the center of the board, one square away from the center of the board (also called a "jump"). A "town" is an important tactic to block the opponent's expansion towards the center, attack their weak points, and reduce their influence.

Although it looks very special at first glance... after careful consideration, it doesn't seem to have much power.

Ji Yingting rubbed her light green hair and tilted her head slightly. After blinking her pale purple starry eyes, she calmly placed the white chess piece on the small checkpoint with a soft thud.

I've already restored this corner's shape to a worry-free corner... Attack it anytime.

"..." Just as Ji Yingting was watching her opponent, Quan Shihui's fair and delicate hand suddenly retracted into the sleeve of his black kimono. His beautiful face stared at the chessboard without saying a word, his expression very wooden.

"………………What's wrong? Why are you taking so long to think at a time like this?" Ji Yingting frowned her light green crescent-shaped eyebrows, and she also hugged her two water lily-colored sleeves to her chest as if she were thinking, and then gently narrowed her light purple eyes.

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Pat, pat, pat, pat.

The number of chess pieces on the board gradually increased.

Her long brown hair draped gently over the back of her gilded Taoist robe. Ma Gongling's gray pupils contracted slightly, and her right hand, which was about to place a chess piece, suddenly stopped in mid-air.

"What's wrong... you seem to be having a hard time?" Luo Qiu'er tilted her snow-white, waist-length hair slightly. Some transparent water droplets were wrapped around her snow-white hair, and the blue water droplets had almost solidified.

Waterfalls, now transformed into a vast ocean, plunged three thousand feet, relentlessly crashing against the already shattered, hard rock in her heart. Her slender, fair right fingers remained entangled in the water.

"Her ability to survive a real battle at the corner... is that even possible? If she manages to survive... I'll be at a huge disadvantage."

Ignoring Luo Qiu'er's provocation, Ma Gongling slowly lowered his right hand, which was raised in mid-air, and glanced at Luo Qiu'er with a slightly serious expression.

No... the chess positions here are far too complex; a normal person simply cannot calculate them in depth.

Ma Gongling reached out her right hand and lifted her brown bangs, combing all the long brown hair that hung in front of her forehead behind her back. Her drooping gray eyebrows were full of death, and her fair forehead, stained with a bit of red gauze, was exposed to Luo Qiu'er's eyes.

"You are the strongest opponent I have encountered so far in this professional exam... So, are you ready to fight me?"

Brown hair gently fell behind Ma Gongling... Under Luo Qiu'er's slightly surprised gaze, Ma Gongling's drooping gray eyebrows suddenly twitched a few times, and the two gray drooping eyebrows turned into an upward shape in an instant.

With her striking, arched eyebrows and light red eye makeup, Ma Gongling's face seemed to transform in an instant, her gray pupils staring coldly at Luo Qiu'er.

"My chess strategy was born out of the need for real-world life-and-death struggles on the board. Sigh."

Whoosh... The starry chessboard appeared before the two of them in an instant. Luo Qiu'er's icy blue pupils suddenly contracted, and the icy blue water in her hand gradually formed a blue water curtain barrier.

A hoarse sigh came from the red cinnabar between her brows. Behind her, on the Taoist robe that was a mixture of gold and black, there was a magnificent golden longbow pattern. The pattern gradually... faded away.

A wooden longbow instantly appeared in Ma Gongling's fair hands, its white bowstring and wooden handle looking quite ordinary.

"........."

The melody of the strings gradually amplified, and Ma Gongling used both hands to draw back the ordinary wooden longbow.

Boom!!! In that instant, golden lightning transformed into candlelight, and countless stars descended in an instant. Golden lightning and purple fire exploded with thunder... Amidst the roars and fury of the gods and the enormous, demonic roar, countless stars gradually hovered over this seemingly ordinary wooden longbow.

The purple flames on the bowstring spread little by little, and the dazzling light made Luo Qiu'er close her ice-blue eyes tightly. A few tears even accidentally spilled out, and she hurriedly covered her blue eyes with her two small hands.

The brush dances like spring thunder and lightning, Yama slices gold and immortals cut jade; the bold strokes of the brush tear the brocade of the heavens, giant trees fly like silk threads and ants fall.

The original ordinary wooden bow and arrow were transformed into a magnificent golden bow and arrow in an instant.

Boom!! Another deafening explosion of flames erupted, and a purple wing of fire unfurled beside the magnificent bow. The image of the thunderclap transformed into the figure of a golden centaur, a golden centaur with long purple wing of fire on its back.

Ma Gongling drew the bowstring to a full moon shape with both hands, her gray pupils were completely dyed gold, and the cinnabar between her brows pointed the arrow at Luo Qiu'er like a standard mirror.

Her striking gray eyebrows, once sharp and spirited, were now brushed against the corners of her eyes by the hurricane. She gently opened her small mouth and sighed softly in a voice no longer hoarse. "Chess Move - Scorpion Shot."

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Chapter 199: Complete Liberation - A Shocking Event

Ma Gongling drew the bowstring to a full moon shape with both hands, her gray pupils were completely dyed gold, and the cinnabar between her brows pointed the arrow at Luo Qiu'er like a standard mirror.

Her striking gray eyebrows, once sharp and spirited, were now brushed against the corners of her eyes by the hurricane. She gently opened her small mouth and sighed softly in a voice no longer hoarse. "Chess Move - Scorpion Shot."

If you look at her between the eyebrows with a magnifying glass, you'll find that the small red dot is actually a scorpion-shaped pattern.

In the night sky, among the constellations of the zodiac, Sagittarius's arrow points directly at Scorpio.

The bow and arrow, with its purple fiery wings unfurled, pierced the starry sky in an instant. The bow and arrow in her hand transformed into a purple streak of light and shot towards Luo Qiu'er. The golden lightning that kept exploding around the bow and arrow transformed into a human-horse formation, charging aggressively across the starry chessboard.

"How could anyone possibly stop such a powerful move!" Luo Qiu'er's icy blue eyes widened as she could only watch helplessly as Ma Gongling's right hand descended from above the chessboard.

Is my game... doomed?

With a snap, Ma Gongling's long brown hair swung wildly, and his right hand landed in a very strange spot on the chessboard, accompanied by the sound of an arrow being released.

"We've found... your weakness."

The bow and arrow grew larger and larger in her eyes, a strand of snow-white hair fell from her eyelids, and Luo Qiu'er slowly closed her blue eyes.

She... could already foresee the arrow piercing her body. Is there really no way out for my chess piece?

A strange sound suddenly rang out from her heart, the sound of something accidentally breaking.

……

Her left hand, entwined with snow-white hair, gently touched her heart through her snow-white Taoist robe... Although she was on the verge of giving up, Luo Qiu'er still did not put down the white chess piece in her right hand.

Has the heart broken? No, it's still beating perfectly, which means the heart of the game hasn't been destroyed.

So, what exactly was that thing that just broke?

Her snow-white hair gradually became smooth, and Luo Qiu'er gently opened her pair of icy blue eyes that were covered with a layer of water...

It turns out, what shattered was my chess position.

Within her soul... a golden arrow, crackling with golden lightning and purple flames, shot into a broken, dilapidated rock.

Actually... it's more like the stone just appeared out of nowhere and blocked the arrow.

Crack, crack, crack, crack—tiny specks of stone kept falling from the rocks, like a landslide, carried away by the waterfall cascading down from the sky…

Snap, crack... The stone, which had withstood countless drops of water, streams, rivers, and waterfalls, and countless impacts and baptisms without suffering any real damage, was shattered by an arrow.

Crack! With a final, deafening roar, the massive rock exploded like a dynamite, sending countless fragments hurtling outwards.

Her snow-white hair transformed into blue water, and a beautiful figure quietly immersed in the river.

Inside the stone... was actually Luo Qiu'er, whose entire body was made of water, and her expression was full of tranquility.

At the moment the stone exploded, time and space seemed to stand still... The air was filled with the sound of flying stones and countless water droplets mixed in with them, and... Luo Qiu'er's heartbeat.

"call……"

With a sigh from Luo Qiu'er, the stillness of time and space vanished, and the stones and water continued to shoot outwards.

Without the obstruction of this huge rock, the water that had accumulated over time rushed into the downstream area of ​​the boulder like a madman, ... and Luo Qiu'er's soul instantly became a vast ocean.

The stones disappeared, replaced by fragments of rock that had perfectly blended into the sea… full of powerful resilience.

The water was formed from the continuous flow of Luo Qiu'er's long hair. Soon after, a black tortoise shell floated up from the waterfall, replacing the original boulder to receive the impact of the now-vast ocean.

That was Luo Qiu'er's chess heart, which had become even stronger after destruction and rebirth... It was indestructible.

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As the golden arrow drew near, Luo Qiu'er suddenly opened her icy blue eyes. Her snow-white hair was tinged with blue, and it swung wildly behind her like a waterfall.

Is my piece... dead?

No, there's still hope! There's still one last chance to survive!