The Way of the Blind Girl Chess Saint

"You brat who can't even learn how to hold a Go board properly, get home and keep recording your game records!!!"

"Crush her," Qin Hanyue said coldly, pointing at the white-haired girl.

Boom!! Mountains and oceans collapsed in a massive, overwhelming collapse, swept across the land carried by the fox tail.

Their family's devotion to Go is something no one is allowed to criticize, and no one... can withstand the power of all the game records from the past thousands of years.

Thud, the black piece landed on the side of the board.

Qin Hanyue's body contains the complete chess manual, and she knows the optimal solution for the Great Avalanche. She made the chessboard so complicated with a fixed pattern in order to suppress Luo Qiu'er's room for maneuver in chess.

"Submit, you insignificant chess player..."

"Sorry, it seems you don't quite know who I am~"

The cold voice startled Qin Hanyue slightly. The next moment, Luo Qiu'er's white chess piece swept across the board and precisely placed on the black piece.

"There is no optimal solution in Go. The game records of the past are useless. You should have understood this the moment humans defeated artificial intelligence, right? Or... did computers already exist in her era, so there was no need for you to record game records?"

Luo Qiu'er's voice was very soft, her light blue eyebrows looked as if they were on fire, and the way they were covered in shimmering light made them look even more like they were covered in water... Drops of water slid down from her eyes and dripped onto the chessboard.

Qin Hanyue's eyes narrowed rapidly. How could this be...? This chess position!!!

"I'm sorry... but I could deduce all of your game records in a second."

A beam of light blue light shot straight into the sky from the tip of Luo Qiu'er's long white hair, like a tsunami.

At the same time, the watery radiance tinged her eyebrows and pupils, and invisible ripples slowly expanded outwards, enveloping Luo Qiu'er's entire body in a layer of spiraling water mist.

The ribbons of water enveloped her, the ripples of which resembled a long, white wave. Her pupils turned a pure blue, and her white eyebrows, too, were the color of the ocean, obscuring the flowing water.

Giant waves obscure a hundred miles, while narcissus descends upon the land.

The first chess position recognized by the world... the chess position liberated by Luo Shuihuan in order to defeat artificial intelligence.

Luo Qiu'er's voice was very gentle, like snowflakes falling from the sky, as she spoke softly.

【Chess Strategy - Narcissus Mode】

Qin Hanyue seemed to freeze time. The chess scores she had used before turned into water and appeared in front of Luo Qiu'er, reassembling into brand new chess scores.

"I see……"

After Luo Qiu'er finished her analysis, the Water Flow Chess Manual disappeared, and under Qin Hanyue's strange gaze, they continued to play chess.

A beautiful, pure, fairy-like chess formation.

No match for her... completely outmatched, Qin Hanyue's hands trembled slightly.

After the massive avalanche, Black's position crumbled completely, and the game record she had been working on was instantly overturned by Luo Qiu'er...

Even the descendants of the Qin family were powerless against Luo Qiu'er, the senior disciple of the semi-professional dojo.

Looking at this incredibly cute girl with her long, snow-white curly hair, really... is there anyone who can beat her? Beat her calculation and deductive abilities?

Is it because my skill level isn't high enough?

After hesitating for a long time, Qin Hanyue gritted her teeth and whispered, "I admit defeat."

"…………"

Upon hearing this extremely helpless sigh, the surrounding chess players all looked up.

Qin Hanyue lost...

She had clearly beaten Shi Shishi, yet she lost to Luo Qiu'er so quickly.

Even Qin Hanyue couldn't last twenty minutes against Luo Qiu'er, the senior sister of the semi-professional dojo!? The speed at which this match ended once again refreshed everyone's understanding of Luo Qiu'er.

"Qiu'er, Qiu'er really won... won so quickly, so dramatically!" The silver-haired girl, Shi Shishi, looked up in shock, seeing Luo Qiu'er's gentle eyes, but her heart was filled with bitterness.

Thank you for fighting for this opportunity for me.

It's all my fault for being so weak... that's why you did this.

After playing against Qin Hanyue, Shi Shishi understood very well that if Qin Hanyue couldn't beat an opponent, she couldn't beat either.

The opponents that Qin Hanyue can defeat, she may not be able to defeat.

In this situation, his hopes of becoming a professional Go player are extremely slim, unless he makes Qin Hanyue lose to an opponent he shouldn't lose to, crushing Qin Hanyue in twenty minutes, completely disrupting her winning rhythm...

but……

I cannot say sorry now, nor do I deserve to say thank you.

I want to win, I want to become a professional Go player, even someone like me!!!

Even the faintest glimmer of light would be something they would do everything in their power to protect.

Boom! The black pieces landed heavily on the board, and Shi Shishi quickly ended this round of play.

In this way... she and Qin Hanyue are evenly matched, with six wins and one loss.

Shi Shishi certainly couldn't expect to become a professional chess player this way, since she had never played against Luo Qiu'er before.

She knew... no matter how much Luo Qiu'er wanted to win, she couldn't possibly admit defeat, and she wouldn't allow such a thing to happen in the professional exam room.

Qiu'er, you must win every game and become a professional Go player. You deserve a bigger stage.

But I'm different. Apart from those two, if I lose even one more game, my professional career will be over...

"Whoo~"

Taking a deep breath, Luo Qiu'er gently stood up. Last year's six-game losing streak was just the beginning, and this year's seven-game winning streak is also just the beginning.

Having defeated Qin Hanyue, and the opponent whom Shi Shishi wanted to defeat, Luo Qiu'er's mind returned to her own.

That's right...

She came here to become a professional Go player after achieving complete success.

Who would have thought that the first opponent she defeated in last year's professional exam was Ma Gongling? But... Ma Gongling's chess skills have now far exceeded her expectations, and it's not just Luo Qiu'er who is undergoing a transformation.

With her dark, viscous eyes and icy, ruthless demeanor, the girl exuded an aura that kept strangers at bay. Quan Shihui, his face ashen, placed the chess pieces.

She was described as having a deathly pale face, but that was only because her face was devoid of any life. She placed the chess pieces stiffly and weakly onto the board one by one. Her long black hair was braided into a three-slashed flat-hemmed style, and the girl with retro makeup looked even more listless than last year.

"Mom said I can come home for lunch if I'm hungry."

"Let me think... I'll sew Mom into a doll and gag her so she won't have to hear that noise. That would be wonderful, so wonderful!"

The gentle yet deathly voice sent a chill down the spine of her opponent. The girl was extremely beautiful, but her dark eyes were like those of a puppet.

The utter annihilation of the dragon, including the pale, sickly-looking hands with black manicured nails, caused the opponent's mentality to crumble, and he trembled as he conceded defeat.

The situation in Group B became clearer after the seventh inning...

Luo Qiu'er, seven consecutive wins.

Quan Shihui, seven consecutive wins.

............

In contrast, in Group A, the difference in skill level is so great that it's still unclear who is stronger between the players with seven consecutive wins and those with six wins and one loss.

Ma Gongling, Xin Yufei, Bai Yongye, and Bai Chang'an.

Lü Binghu lost to Ma Gongling, and Lin Qianyu lost to Xin Yufei.

Of course, despite the large number of players in the top tier, in reality, only two players truly surpass everyone else in skill.

Chapter 514: Strange Personalities

Because the final round of the Chess Saint Tournament was postponed by a month, the preliminary list for the new round of the seven major title matches has not yet been released.

While the candidates were playing Go, Ji Yingting flipped through the latest issue of Go World Monthly. Recently, apart from the Go Saint Tournament, there haven't been many competitions, and there have been far fewer reports about Go players. However, the sales of Go-related books have increased significantly.

[New Celebrity: Luo Jiangxing]

The veteran player Luo Zhanye was utterly no match for her; the game wasn't even recorded in the newspapers.

"Next year, there will be two top-tier league matches, the second edition of the Xianghua Cup and the Qixing Cup. The chess scene on Moon Chess is becoming increasingly mainstream, and everyone will participate in competitions more frequently. In the past, professional players would take a break for about a year after participating in each major top-tier league match."

The Seven Star Cup is sponsored by a company that specializes in building spaceships, while the Xianghua Cup sounds like it's sponsored by a cosmetics company... But then again, most chess players probably aren't after the prizes, right?

At this time, Ji Yingting was unaware of how many female chess players had registered for the Xianghua Cup, since the top eight players could participate in the trial of the latest cosmetics...

Suddenly, a murmur arose from below the chessboard. Ji Yingting looked up, annoyed, and saw many people who had finished their games gathered around a chess table. "Those who have finished, get out of here. No talking while watching!"

"Referee, it looks like we've lost a piece here..."

"Hey?"

Could a player accidentally drop a piece during a professional exam? Ji Yingting was very curious upon hearing this and walked towards the crowd, waving her small fan.

The player with the black pieces was a petite girl with long white hair, Bai Yongye... Her opponent was a girl with ordinary looks and unremarkable record, who had braided pigtails. Both of them had very complicated expressions.

Bai Yongye's black stones landed in a meaningless place. This was in the middle game. No matter how much advantage you had in the early game, once you give your opponent two moves in a row, even the biggest advantage will turn into a huge disadvantage in an instant, a disadvantage that is hard to recover from.

"Let's continue playing," Ji Yingting said softly. Rules are rules; once a piece is placed on the board, once your finger leaves it, you can never pick it up again...

"Um"

He nodded softly, his gaze returning to the chessboard. A few drops of cold sweat slid down Bai Yongye's forehead. Was it because he had witnessed Ma Gongling and Lü Binghu's game yesterday?

Seeing that Lü Binghu, whose chess skills were equal to his own, was so easily defeated by that woman was a huge blow to Bai Yongye. He was so nervous during the game that his hands were sweaty and he even dropped a piece.

But the disadvantage had not yet turned into a defeat. Bai Yongye took a deep breath and stared at his opponent with a grim expression.

The girl with the braided pigtails took the black stones off the board one by one, and in an instant... she lost thirty points! Her previous lead of more than twenty points vanished, and she was now trailing by nearly ten points.

"It's alright, I'll make you pay for everything," Bai Yongye thought to herself, picking up a black chess piece with a hint of anger.

Losing a piece was her own fault... but seeing her opponent's gloating expression really annoyed her. 4 wins and 3 losses—someone who's no longer a professional player shouldn't be trying to annoy others!

With a thud, the black piece landed on the side of the board. She intended to use the endgame to gradually destroy, crush, and thoroughly crush her opponent.

"And you, it will only be like waking from a nightmare... when everything will feel empty, hehehe~"

With a cold laugh, an evil aura permeated Bai Yongye's entire body.

For a moment, even Ji Yingting's eyes narrowed slightly.

This guy...