The Way of the Blind Girl Chess Saint

Ye Xiaomi and Wang Shuangshuang were playing chess in a normal way. The woman with long black hair and a pretty face looked up and glanced at the little girl with purple bob haircut opposite her.

Wang Shuangshuang, a professional 2-dan Go player in her twenties, even knows that she may not achieve anything more, but being a professional Go player is a job in itself.

As long as she maintains a 50/50 record in the lower-level group of the hand-match tournament, she can earn a stable income, and local amateur chess academies will be eager to invite her to give lectures.

After all... the number of professional Go players is still far too small compared to the number of amateur Go enthusiasts.

Moreover... Wang Shuangshuang herself enjoys playing Go, and this relaxed mindset has actually led to her gradually improving results in recent hand-to-hand matches.

If she could win a few more matches... maybe she'd have a chance to reach professional rank 3. She saw hope.

Wang Shuangshuang glanced at Ye Xiaomi's deep purple pupils. "This little girl is really unlucky to have met me in such good form... I'll take the victory in this game," Wang Shuangshuang thought, her dark eyes wide open.

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With her left hand gently toying with her purple scorpion whip, Ye Xiaomi calmly placed a black chess piece down with a soft thud.

Sakuraba should be watching my game from the side... Is she on my left or right? Ye Xiaomi pondered quietly, her slender hands resting flat on her bare, fair thighs.

Although she always plays friendly matches against Sakuraba, she always loses miserably...

And then they told me to go all out... I already did my best, you're just too strong, okay?

With a slight hint of helplessness, Ye Xiaomi raised her purple eyebrows and slowly picked up a black chess piece with her right hand. Her deep purple pupils gradually deepened, and the game had entered the middle stage.

If Sakuraba is going to watch the match, then we should win, right? Besides, if I don't reach 2nd dan this season, the teacher will be angry. Ye Xiaomi's deep purple scorpion head gradually fell apart.

Strands of deep purple hair were blown about by the breeze. Ye Xiaomi's long, deep purple hair was completely scattered behind her, fluttering like beautiful purple cherry blossoms. Ji Yingting's pale purple starry eyes sparkled with an unusual light.

Wang Shuangshuang had clearly noticed Ye Xiaomi's appearance as well, and her expression gradually became somewhat wary. Professional chess players with strategic moves are always a headache...

However, she has won against several professional players with strong moves in recent matches, so she should have no problem this time as well.

“Come on,” Wang Shuangshuang said calmly. She was ready to face Ye Xiaomi’s chess moves… but she still misjudged one thing.

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The famous dojo in Mingyue City, Crescent Province.

This is a Go academy founded by the previous generation's celebrity, An Chen. Eight years ago, in the celebrity title match, An Chen lost to a professional Go player with a strong position.

In that match, his opponent was the current head of the Luo family, a contemporary celebrity on the moon... Luo Zhanye.

That match was a huge blow to him... An Chen, who is now an old man, believes that only players with a strong strategic position can reach the pinnacle of the chess world.

After that... An Chen began his search for a Go disciple with a strong playing style.

An Chen believed that only professional Go players with powerful... exaggerated moves had a chance of becoming his disciples.

A few years ago, among his many disciples, there was a beautiful girl with purple hair and a bob haircut.

The little girl with purple hair and a bob haircut joined the Meijin Go Academy's seminar when she was only an amateur ninth-dan player. At the time, the Go players in the seminar were wondering what An Chen was thinking, how could he let a little girl join a seminar for professional Go players.

An Chen once gave a week-long lecture at an amateur chess academy in Mingyue City, and at that time... the behavior of a little girl attracted him.

With her purple, scorpion-braided hair, the little girl was just under ten years old at the time. She was just an ordinary little girl sent by her parents to an amateur chess academy to learn a hobby.

She was somewhat lazy and complacent, no... it's hard to describe her as merely somewhat lazy.

Sometimes... her laziness and complacency can be shocking. For example, she once wet her pants while playing chess because she didn't want to go to the toilet.

She possessed a special aura, the same aura that An Chen sensed as the chessboard.

He wasn't quite sure at the time, since the concept of chess wasn't as widespread a few years ago as it is now.

Soon after, the little girl's chess strategy was born... even though her own daughter, An Haimi, also possessed a very strong chess strategy.

However, An Chen favored her even more than his own daughter, An Hai Mi! Because... the power of her chess moves was unprecedented.

Five years later, on the day she became a professional Go player... An Chen believed that a professional Go player with the most powerful and terrifying Go skills in the world had been born.

An Chen's pursuit of chess strategies had reached a morbid level... However, fortunately... he successfully cultivated a monster.

Her long purple hair danced wildly, and a strange purple flame appeared in Ye Xiaomi's purple eyes. Her long hair was as beautiful as scattered cherry blossoms, gradually obscuring her vision.

The starry sky turned completely black, without a single starlight, and the location of the spatial chessboard was completely shrouded in black.

"What...is this?" Wang Yu's cherry-like mouth opened in disbelief. Although she had heard of the concept of chess positions, she was just a little girl who had recently been promoted to amateur fourth dan and had never seen a chess position before.

Moreover... this might be the most powerful chess situation she had ever witnessed in her entire life...

Her long purple hair danced wildly, and the air around Ye Xiaomi began to tremble irregularly.

Sitting cross-legged, Ye Xiaomi's deep purple eyes glanced intently at Wang Shuangshuang sitting opposite her. Wang Shuangshuang frowned; she had clearly also noticed something was amiss.

The sheer awe Ye Xiaomi evoked in her chess moves was profound... on a completely different level than anything Wang Shuangshuang had faced in previous encounters with such moves!

With a slight parting of her lips, Ye Xiaomi softly uttered: 【Chess Strategy - Immovable King】

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Chapter 149: The Strongest Strategy

Sitting quietly under the starry sky, Xin Yufei and Fei Qiluo watched the two playing chess in silence.

"She looks just like Sakuraba-nee!!" Ever since Xin Yufei first saw Ji Hongying, she has been speechless with surprise.

She recalled her memories of the provincial competition; Ji Hongying seemed to have served as a referee there.

Her fiery red, hee-cut bangs covered her arched, fiery red eyebrows, and her two large, fiery red eyes stared intently at the chessboard. Compared to Ji Yingting, who liked to squint, she appeared more energetic.

"She is Sakura's younger sister, named Ji Hongying," Fei Qiluo introduced to Xin Yufei. In fact, she had known Ji Sakura for much longer than Ji Hongying, since she had been Ji Hongying's teacher for a period of time.

"She looks so much like Sakuraba-nee... She's so cute. So Sakuraba-nee is a twin," Xin Yufei murmured to herself.

Hikari smiled faintly and shook her head. "But let's not tell Sakuraba about this. Let's just watch the game."

"Hmm," Xin Yufei continued to observe Ji Hongying's face, but no matter how she looked at it, it seemed like a carbon copy of Sakuraba-nee! She really wondered how good Ji Hongying's chess skills were...

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On the other side, Wang Shuangshuang suddenly widened her black pupils. All she could see was Ye Xiaomi's long, messy purple hair dancing wildly in the sky. Her hands, which were kneeling in the starry sky, suddenly rose slightly.

"Draw your sword," Ye Xiaomi said softly. In the starry sky, an enormous purple stone statue sat behind her, and she gradually drew a two-meter-long purplish-black Miao sword from her waist.

The purple smiling stone statue is shaped like a Buddha, holding a huge long sword that spans the entire Milky Way in its hands. The huge long sword, emitting a strange purple aura, stands upright above Wang Shuangshuang's head, and a chilling aura rises from her whole body.

“Since becoming a professional Go player, I’ve rarely used the board position…” “Let me show you,” Sakuraba Ye Xiaomi muttered to herself, holding the black hilt of her Miao sword, her pale purple pupils turning into vortexes.

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"This...this is the chess position...it's amazing!" Wang Yu stared wide-eyed in shock. In the chessboard space, even spectators could clearly see the players' positions.

"Wow..." Ji Yingting opened her pale purple pupils slightly and opened her cherry-like mouth in surprise. A small ahoge (cowlick) stood up slightly in her long, light green hair. What an impressive chess move.

The stars in the universe trembled. Ye Xiaomi gently raised her purple Miao sword, and the stone statue spanning the entire galaxy also suddenly raised its enormous cleaver.

His purple eyebrows twitched slightly, and he instantly swung his Miao sword.

"Submit, One Ton, Beheaded!"

Ye Xiaomi said softly, and a purple ring suddenly spread out from the hilt of the knife. Wang Shuangshuang's head was suddenly pressed down by gravity, and her right hand, which was holding the white chess piece, could hardly be lifted.

The intense gravity pressed down on Wang Shuangshuang's body, and purple rings descended one after another, causing her long black hair to fall loose.

Damn it... Wang Shuangshuang stared helplessly at Ye Xiaomi, feeling trapped by this heavy pressure. Even raising her right hand, which was holding the chess piece, became an ordeal.

"Despair, Two Tons of Bone Crusher!" Holding a purple Miao sword, Ye Xiaomi relentlessly swung it horizontally. In an instant, the purple stone statue also raised its huge long sword and cleaved out a storm.

Boom! The double ring descended, and a violent hurricane suddenly lifted Wang Shuangshuang's drooping head, the huge blade energy almost blowing her away.

As the starry sky trembled, Ye Xiaomi gently touched a corner of the chessboard with her purple longsword, and a black chess piece immediately appeared there.

As for Wang Shuangshuang...

Under such blatant interference, Ji Yingting simply did not believe that any chess player could still give their all in a game.

Ye Xiaomi blinked her deep purple pupils and gently stroked the Miao sword, saying, "It's been a long time since I've used chess... It feels pretty good. I didn't feel any fatigue at all using the 2nd dan move directly."

"2-dan? This kind of powerful position isn't considered a complete liberation...?"

In the process of becoming a professional Go player, Wang Shuangshuang has played against countless players with different game positions, but this is the first time she has ever witnessed such terrifying power of game position interference.

The purple stone statue's greatsword fell on her head, and the sword energy that crisscrossed the starry sky continued to suppress her body. Wang Shuangshuang frowned and barely managed to place a chess piece, but her forehead was already covered in sweat.

Her right hand slammed down, with a soft thud... but the sound of the piece being placed was so faint as to be barely audible. Her confidence had been somewhat shattered by Ye Xiaomi's skillful play.

Is the difference between a professional Go player with a strong position and one without... really that big...? Wang Shuangshuang gritted her teeth. In that instant, she understood what An Chen had felt.

Fortunately, no matter what kind of chess move it is, it is ultimately a blow to the soul. Even the bizarre chess move of the Luo family, "Gun Dance Reincarnation", can only imprison the opponent's soul without weakening the player's chess power.

Chess position is something that can evolve and grow infinitely; even Ye Xiaomi's chess position has not yet fully evolved into its complete form.

Sitting quietly to the side, she rubbed her long, light green hair that fell across her cheeks and gently exhaled a puff of mist from her cherry-like lips.

Looking at the enormous stone statue spanning the starry sky, Ji Yingting was quite curious about which of their chess moves was more powerful, hers or Ye Xiaomi's.

Hmm... at least in terms of size, the fully liberated Frost Forgive Cat wouldn't be smaller than that stone statue, but the purple Miao knife in Ye Xiaomi's hand made Ji Yingting feel a little uneasy.

A hint of green gradually crept into Ye Xiaomi's pale purple starry eyes, and her powerful chess skills stirred a long-lost competitive spirit in Ji Yingting.

Her turquoise hair was lifted by the storm, but Ji Yingting was also quite clear that, in terms of the power of the chess pieces alone... even if Qingmao Devoured the Moon and merged with the Frost Crown, he might not be able to defeat Ye Xiaomi's Immovable King.

In fact, if Ji Hongying hadn't helped in the final round of the provincial competition, even Ji Bingyuan's Guanghan Jade Rabbit might not have been able to defeat Hanbing Qingmao Tunyue, since Hanbing Qingmao always looks a bit clumsy.

However, the most important point is that Ji Yingting's chess style has only been established for a short time, while Ye Xiaomi probably went through several years of cultivation to create such a powerful chess style.

Chapter 150: The True Form of the Chess Formation

Beep beep beep beep beep. Ji Yingting sat on a chair, her long, light green hair wrapped around the bus railing, to rest. Ye Xiaomi, sitting next to her, quietly looked out the window.

The bus was moving very fast, and Ye Xiaomi could only see a blurry, pixelated scene flashing past her eyes.

The match between Ye Xiaomi and Wang Shuangshuang has ended... Ye Xiaomi won by a huge margin of 10.5 points, which was her first hand match of the season.

"Hey... Xiaomi, what's with the knife you were holding when you used that move? It shouldn't be an ordinary move, right?"

Ji Yingting narrowed her pale purple starry eyes and asked, unable to suppress her curiosity.

More than the enormous stone statue, Ji Yingting was actually more concerned about the knife in Ye Xiaomi's hand; that knife was different from ordinary chess pieces...