The Way of the Blind Girl Chess Saint

Huh? Suddenly, a small green ahoge (cowlick) popped out from Ji Yingting's green head, twitched a few times, and her consciousness... completely entered another space.

"Lunch break is over. Please return to your seats." The referee, with long pink hair, glanced at the game schedule and said calmly. Shang Jiujiu had already returned, and Ma Gongling and the others could only helplessly return to their seats.

"Hmph, as expected, your mental strength hasn't recovered yet. I've won!!" Shang Jiujiu patted Ji Yingting's timer with delight.

If she doesn't get up, her time will gradually run out until she loses the game.

In the vast grassland, a stunningly beautiful girl with long, turquoise hair lay gently on the grass.

A deep blue Taoist robe was gently draped on the ground, and pale purple starry eyes gazed softly at the sky. Who am I... and where am I from?

The stunningly beautiful girl sat up from the grass, her expression filled with confusion.

"Sakuraba, what are you thinking about?"

Just then, a beautiful girl with long orange-colored Hime-style hair gently stood behind her, and a slender hand stroked Ji Yingting's light green Hime-style hair, smoothing the strands of hair little by little.

"Hmm, I suddenly have a strange feeling," Ji Yingting said, rubbing her small, bluish-green head.

"How does it feel?"

The girl with the orange-haired princess hairstyle tilted her long orange hair curiously.

"It feels...unreal."

Ji Yingting's long, light green Hime-style hair fluttered gently, and light green butterflies surrounded her body.

With her pale purple starry eyes gazing at the blue sky dotted with clouds, Ji Yingting continued.

We love to dream because... the beauty of dreams seems more real than the mundane present, so we yearn for dreams, we like to stay in our dreams.

As she listened to Ji Yingting's words, the girl with the orange-haired princess hairstyle gradually became calm.

"Sakuraba, stop talking, you're overthinking it... Come on, let's go play with Neko, she's really bored right now."

A girl with orange-haired, her hair styled in a princess style interrupted Ji Yingting's next words, pointing to a white cat grazing nearby.

"Hey, have you ever thought that the place we're in right now might actually be a dream?"

"Sakuraba! Stop talking!! Please!" the girl with long orange herringbone hair shouted. She desperately tried to come up and grab Ji Sakuraba's hand, but... her body passed right through Ji Sakuraba's dark blue Taoist robe.

Huh!? Her orange eyes widened suddenly!

Her long, light green, hee-cut hair fell at an angle, and her pale purple starry eyes, which seemed to see through everything, stared at the sky and at things beyond the sky.

Ji Yingting said in a low voice without any expression.

This seemingly vast sky... is actually a false prison.

Compared to the endless and vast starry sky... the sky is insignificant.

Chapter 260: Hibernation, Emerging from the Cocoon

“Sakuraba…”

During the game, Ji Yingting remained asleep, her head resting on her soft, light green hair, completely unaware of anything.

Her time was slipping away, little by little...

Soon, half an hour passed, and Ma Gongling won his game.

After tidying up the chess pieces, she knelt down beside the chessboard where Shang Jiujiu and Ji Yingting were playing. She swallowed anxiously, silently thinking, "Wake up soon, Yingting!"

However, she wasn't the only one; many players had already arrived near the game...

They are all looking forward to the emergence of the first and only player with a perfect record in this professional competition.

"Ji Yingting, what exactly is going on with her?"

Several chess players stared at her in confusion, while out of their sight, a thin layer of icy blue ice gently covered her body, and the icy blue mask was like ancient patterns painted on her beautiful face.

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"Sakuraba! Please stop!! Please, stop!"

This seemingly vast sky... is actually a false prison.

Compared to the endless and vast starry sky... the sky is insignificant.

A cascade of long, light green hair fell gently down her back like a waterfall... A strand of light green ribbon appeared on her forehead, drifting away with the breeze.

Ji Yingting pushed herself up from the grassland with her hands, and slightly opened her pale purple starry eyes.

"Zhuangzi dreamt he was a butterfly, a mirage, a reflection in a mirror, the moon in the water... What is reality, and what is a dream?"

"Sakuraba...don't say any more!"

A beautiful girl with orange-toned herringbone hair walked over gently, but her palm once again passed right through Ji Yingting!

It's as if... between the two of them, only one person is truly present!

"Do you see? Who can really tell the difference between illusion and reality?"

Ji Yingting gently raised her slender arm and touched her beautiful face. She could easily touch her face, and she felt that... her existence was real.

Even if the content of my dreams is boundless darkness, even if I can't see anything in them... I'm still willing to yearn for them. Because, compared to false beauty, I'd rather accept a reality full of regrets, because there... it's real.

"You're wrong... What do you know? This is reality!!" A few tears fell from the orange-haired girl's eyes as she said sadly.

"Okay, then tell me, what's your name? And who am I?"

A pair of pale purple star-like eyes stared coldly at the orange-haired girl as Ji Yingting gently tossed her long, light green hair and turned her back.

"I... you are Ji Yingting! You are the Yingting I know best!" the orange-haired girl said urgently.

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Just as the orange-haired girl uttered those words, the two of them froze simultaneously. A pair of light green crescent-shaped eyebrows gently relaxed, and in the next instant, endless icy mist enveloped Ji Yingting's entire body, her long light green hair wildly swaying towards the sky.

In an instant, an icy blue cat paw gently pointed between the eyebrows of the girl with the orange-haired princess hairstyle, and Ji Yingting said loudly.

"You're right!! I am Ji Yingting!!"

The icy mist tinged Ji Yingting's long, bluish-green hair with a layer of ice as she pointed at the orange-haired girl.

Sometime later, the white kitten that had been munching on grass nearby also disappeared.

Actually, it had stopped paying attention to Ji Yingting in its dreams a long time ago.

She only has the shape of a cat's soul, and she continues to eat grass every day, forever maintaining this mechanical movement.

Because... familiar words lingered in her mind before she died.

"Kitty, hurry up and eat some grass! Why aren't you eating grass?"

She was simply following orders when she ate grass.

"I am Ji Yingting, and all I need is to play chess! Whether it's a dream or reality doesn't matter!!"

Crack! The moment Ji Yingting shouted those words, the sound of shattering glass suddenly rang out.

In the sky! Countless clouds vanished with a roar, shattered by a beam of icy blue light. The sky was violently torn apart, and a frantic, ear-piercing sound filled the air as a familiar aura descended from the heavens.

A long, slender cat hand covered in ice-blue armor tore the sky apart bit by bit. The countless fragments of the sky made the orange eyes of the girl with orange hair widen suddenly. That was the current form of the white kitten.

Her long, blue-green hair fluttered gently behind her, and Ji Yingting's blue-green eyes gradually narrowed.

boom!!!

The next moment, the enormous, icy blue arm finally tore the sky into pieces, and a huge, icy blue cat paw fell from the sky, as if to welcome Ji Yingting... Accompanied by countless broken white clouds descending from the sky, it gently hung down at the edge of the grassland.

Of course, from their current angle, the two of them couldn't see exactly how tall the creature was.

Goodbye, I'm sorry.

Ji Yingting said calmly, her blue-green eyes gazing up at the endless starry sky, when a giant ice-blue shield appeared before her.

Her silver cloth boots rustled on the grass, and in the starry sky... an ice-blue cat was smiling at her.

Soon, she stood in the palm of an ice-blue cat, and the enormous object carried her toward the starry sky.

"Sakuraba...don't go!"

Two slender, jade-like hands caressed her face as the stunningly beautiful girl with orange, her hair styled in a princess cut, began to weep softly.

Don't go! Why are you leaving?! ?? Sakuraba, you don't understand anything!!!

Waaaaaah... cough cough.

Seeing Ji Yingting leave this familiar space, tears streamed down the orange-haired girl's face, and she gently wiped her moist eyes with her orange sleeves.

Gradually, tears streamed down her cheeks and slid onto the grassland; she made no attempt to hide her sorrow.

"Sakuraba...you...can't you understand me...? I'm real too, I'm clearly real too."

Kneeling in the already dilapidated space, the environment here is still collapsing bit by bit; the grass, the trees, the sky, everything is gone.

Exhausted from crying, the orange-haired girl slowly shook her head, and her figure gradually dissipated into the air.

For her... what Ji Yingting called falsehood was reality, and what Ji Yingting called reality might have become a dream.

The two... are ultimately different.

Crash!

The illusory scene shattered abruptly, and a jet of icy blue water gushed from the ends of Ji Yingting's blue-green hair, covering everything around her. The icy blue cat-claw shield once again covered her body.

"Sakuraba!!!"

"Ji Yingting!!"

At the same time, Ma Gongling's gray eyes widened suddenly. Just when Ji Yingting had about ten minutes left before the timeout, her body suddenly underwent an abnormal change.

Huh!? Shang Jiujiu frowned suddenly. Ji Yingting had opened her eyes at some point.

Her long, light green hair gradually rose, and Ji Yingting raised her head again.

A pair of blue-green eyes seemed to pierce through everything, through her body, through her soul, and into Shang Jiujiu's mind.

"Yes, I am Ji Yingting. I am currently playing chess at... the competition venue of the Professional Chess Academy."

"I know exactly who I am... I'm in reality, not dreaming."

A soft voice echoed around her; perhaps she would never have that dream again.