The Way of the Blind Girl Chess Saint

Seven years ago, she was not the head of the Ji family, nor was she the chess master of the moon; she was just a professional chess player for the Ji family.

"Sakuraba, are you feeding the cat grass again?"

Looking at the little girl squatting on the grass, holding a cat in her hands, Ji Xuehuang slightly prostrated herself.

The beautiful girl with long, icy blue hair affectionately patted the little girl's green head.

Her name is Ji Yingting, she is her younger sister's daughter, and she is blind.

Chapter 401: The Secret of the Ji Family's Chess Strategy

The beautiful girl with long, icy blue hair affectionately patted the little girl's green head.

Her name is Ji Yingting, she is her younger sister's daughter, and she is blind.

“Sakuraba…” The stunningly beautiful girl with long, ice-blue hair gently called her name.

"Auntie...aren't you going to the chess academy?"

Sakuraba turned her head strangely, her lifeless pale purple starry eyes wide open, but to outsiders they still appeared as squinty eyes.

She was only seven years old that year...

"Sakuraba, are you concerned about the Go Association?"

Ji Xuehuang countered, saying that she was only a girl in her early twenties at the time, even though her daughter was about the same age as Ji Yingting.

"I... don't really care." With her long, light green, Hime-style hair falling between her brows, Ji Yingting turned her body slightly.

"Star position"

"……Um?"

"Sakuraba, can't you see? The star position is a point on the chessboard," Ji Xuehuang said softly, extending a slender finger towards the void.

“…The chessboard?” Sakuraba shook her head; all she could see was darkness.

She didn't even know if it was black; she was completely unable to grasp the concept of things, or even the concept of human beings themselves.

"Meow!" The cat, which was eating grass, suddenly meowed.

Of course, Ji Yingting knew that cats meow, unlike humans.

However... humans have their own unique characteristics. Although they are not cats, they can still meow, bark, be lazy like pigs, and get angry like rabbits.

Humans can learn.

Even if Ji Yingting couldn't see anything, she could still learn Go.

Her pale purple star-like eyes opened slightly, and in that instant, Xiao Ji Yingting seemed to see a fleeting glimmer of light, like a comet. Her beauty was indescribable, a beauty she had never seen before.

Purple, gold, white, black, starry sky... a mix of shooting stars fell from the black night sky, illuminating the entire expanse of stars.

"This... is the star position."

Star position...

Vast and magnificent, eternally beautiful.

Ji Xuehuang moved her slender arm downwards; she was teaching Ji Yingting to play blindfold chess.

boom!!

In the next instant, the crimson ocean stained the entire starry sky, and the pupils, filled with murderous intent, opened a crack, like a sharp blade.

"This... is called small eyes."

A furious fighting spirit, a heavy sword without an edge, a small eye biased towards combat.

pat!

Another piece was placed, and a white triangular barrier seemed to appear in the center of the starry sky—that was the three-three.

The endless star-studded city wall rises, horns blaring, a testament to Gao Mu's power.

Finally... what Ji Yingting saw was a greenish-blue mist, and that was the first time she understood what green meant.

Her hair was green, but she didn't understand that green was such a color.

The grassland is filled with hazy mist, and the blooming trees are like a fairyland... That's what I see.

Beautiful star position, blood-stained small eyes, defensive three-three, magnificent high eyes, and... eyes that transcend the mundane.

Ji Xuehuang, of course, knows Ji Yingting.

“Sakuraba, you’re even more interesting than before…”

"Auntie, you are the one."

At the banquet, a girl with light green pigtails spoke calmly.

"Hmm... if you can really come up here, maybe we can try your suggestion."

Ji Xuehuang narrowed her cold, icy blue eyes and said in a low voice.

"Sister Xuehuang...do you know this girl?" Ji Shihu was slightly surprised, and Ji Zitong immediately shut her mouth.

"Up" refers to making Ji Yingting the challenger for the title of Go Saint, and "Try it" means to test Ji Yingting's ability to give her a one-stone handicap.

With a soft sigh, Ji Yingting narrowed her eyes.

Becoming a challenger to the title of Chess Saint? That's no easy feat... Although Ji Xuehuang firmly holds the position of Chess Saint, there are countless challengers.

For example, the dean of the Full Moon Chess Academy, a professional 9-dan player, the nuclear explosion girl, Feng Kuangyu.

She lost to Ji Xuehuang 1-3 in the previous Chess Saint Tournament, and remains a challenger for the Chess Saint title this year.

Ji Xuehuang once said to that woman, "If you weren't so obsessed with the title of Go Saint, you might have won one or two titles by now, right? Titles like 10-dan, Tengen Go Saint... do you look down on them?"

"I don't want any titles or anything like that; I just want to challenge you."

This is what Feng Kuangyu said at the time... She was originally a woman who considered herself extraordinary.

With her left hand fiddling with her light green ponytail, Ji Yingting took small sips of the juice on the table.

She... isn't in a hurry.

This October, there will be preliminary rounds for the Throne Title Battle, and her first major goal is to secure a spot in those rounds.

As for the Chess Saint, to be honest, Ji Yingting doesn't have an absolute chance of winning against players like Feng Kuangyu and Ji Xuehuang, and he doesn't really like that title.

It needs to be improved further, to become even stronger.

........

The banquet was still going on, but Ji Xingquan called Ji Yingting out of the hall.

"Where are we going?" Ji Yingting asked curiously. Where was she staying tonight?

"The Frost Crown and the Moon Palace are the Jade Rabbit's prison. I suspect... your blindness might be due to the chess game."

Ji Xingquan led Ji Yingting into the basement of the house, talking as they walked.

Hmm...? Ji Yingting was slightly taken aback, her pale purple eyes narrowing slightly.

"Of course, I'm not referring to your usual chess formation, but rather your second formation, which is the Ji family's 'Ice Crown'."

"You know, right? The true forms of this chessboard are all different rabbit races, and yours must be no exception."

"Can there be two true forms of a chess position? Even if they are twin chess positions?" Ji Yingting frowned.

"How could that be... There can only ever be one true form of a chess position. Many players in the Ji family possess twin chess positions, but their true forms must all belong to the Ji family."

"..."

"The strong devour the weak, and the defeated disappear from their true form... turning from a living thing into an inanimate object. In the records of the Ji family's history, no chess player's other chess form has ever been able to defeat the Ji family's rabbit. After your rabbit true form awakens, your eyes may be restored."

"Restore the eyes...and the cat will disappear?" Ji Yingting was a little stunned.

"Next... I will take you to see the origin of the game's dynamics. As for what we will see, I don't know. I won't force you to awaken the true form of your game's dynamics, because you... also have a lot of feelings for your game's dynamics, right?"

A slight sadness appeared in Ji Xingquan's pale purple starry eyes. All the chess players in the Ji family who possessed the true form of chess strategy had made this difficult decision.

They know about this, which is why many players choose not to awaken their true chess form.

Although the original strategic moves will not disappear, they will lose their soul... becoming nothing more than tools.

Chapter 402: The Moon-Devouring Demon Rabbit

The origin of the Ji family's chess strategy...

Ji Yingting's expression was somewhat complicated; regaining her eyesight was something she had never imagined.

The air around them was rather cold, as the two had entered the underground of the Ji family compound, a frozen ice palace.

The surrounding freezing air seemed to freeze the heavens and the earth, and the ice-blue walls were engraved with many rabbit patterns, giving it a slightly abstract and grotesque feel.

Because the patterns on those rabbits were all those of a standing, muscular humanoid rabbit.

A blue rabbit, its entire body shrouded in icy clouds, radiating endless chill.

His body flowed like ink, and his pupils resembled those of a black rabbit in a deep, dark green abyss.

It is pure white, and its huge drooping ears cover the jade rabbit's forehead like bangs.

With two drooping ears like two slender swords, this pink lop-eared rabbit is as beautiful as a fairy.

A sandy-yellow Dodge dwarf rabbit with its ears standing tall and its muscles bulging.

There was another rabbit whose entire body was filled with an aura of death, its gray ears resembling black clouds—a gray lop-eared rabbit.

Behind them... there were many, many more rabbits of different kinds, all bound by ice-blue chains. Of course... Ji Yingting couldn't see this magnificent yet slightly eerie wall.

Both Ji Xingquan and Ji Yingting emanated a faint blue light... protecting their consciousness and their souls.

Without the bloodline of the Ji family, any outsider who enters this place without permission would likely have their soul frozen and become a vegetable.

Following Ji Xingquan into the center of the palace, Ji Yingting slightly narrowed her pale purple star-like eyes, seemingly lost in thought.

Will the cat really disappear after awakening the true form of the Ice Crown's chess move?