Comprehensive Martial Arts: Relying on Pili Martial Arts to Achieve Dimensionality Reduction Attack

Chapter 312: Strange Chess Story
Lu Ping was stunned by Wang Jiexin's sudden approach.

"Ah this..."

Before he could utter a word, Wang Jixin continued speaking enthusiastically.

"I am Wang Jixin, the 'chess master' in Wanhua Valley."

"Everyone who learns chess here is my disciple. If you are interested, you can learn chess from me in the future."

"Don't worry, I won't charge you any money."

"Come on, come over here with me. After having a cup of tea, we will officially start learning!"

Wang Jixin spoke one sentence after another, leaving no room for Lu Ping to interrupt.

Without even saying anything, he took Lu Ping's hand and walked straight to his "stage", intending to complete the "apprenticeship ceremony" with a cup of tea, and then officially start learning chess.

Fortunately, at the last moment, Lu Ping realized in time what the other party meant by "have a cup of tea" and quickly pulled his hand back.

"Sir, you misunderstood. I am not here to learn chess."

"is it?"

Wang Jixin stopped, blinked, and stared at Lu Ping's face for a few seconds. After making sure that he was not lying, he realized that he had indeed misunderstood and burst into laughter.

"Sorry, sorry, it seems that I misunderstood."

"Well... it's okay if you don't want to become my disciple, but it's always good for young people to learn more skills when they are traveling around the world."

"At worst, we can make friends through chess, which is also a great joy in the world!"

"By the way, I almost forgot to ask you, have you ever learned chess before?"

Without waiting for Lu Ping to answer, he continued, "It doesn't matter if you haven't learned it before. Most of the disciples in the valley started from scratch. I can also teach you from the very basics!"

This Wang Jixin is really a chess fanatic, and doesn't care about anything other than playing chess...

Lu Ping secretly evaluated in his heart, but he did not hate the other party's behavior. Instead, he found it interesting and for a moment he wanted to chat with him for a while.

"I did learn a little chess before."

Wang Jixin's eyes lit up: "Oh? Did you learn it by yourself, little brother, or did you learn it from a famous teacher?"

Lu Ping shook his head and said, "I just watched a chess player named Gao play two games in the town of my hometown before, and then I just thought about it casually afterwards."

"If you really want to count... I guess I'm self-taught."

The chess games in Dongwulin are relatively monotonous, with Go being the mainstream, followed by various chess games derived from black and white chess pieces, such as Gobang and Reversi.

There is no chess, checkers, or international chess, let alone shogi, military chess, or beast chess.

"The surname is Gao..."

Wang Jixin muttered to himself for a few times, then frowned and stroked his beard and asked, "I don't know what that person's name is? If he's a well-known figure in the chess world, maybe I know him!"

Lu Ping chuckled and said, "I only vaguely remember that the man seemed to be called Gao Ji. In order to play chess, he gave himself a stage name of 'Ao Ying', which means 'the eagle soars into the sky, proud of the world'."

"Gao Ji? Ao Ying??"

Wang Jixin pondered for a while, and finally shook his head: "It seems that I have never heard of this name..."

Lu Ping smiled again and said, "That man is not a very good chess player."

"One year, the town held a 'Chess King Competition'. The chess player played 18 games in a row with others, but in the end he lost more than he won, winning only two out of the 18 games."

"It's normal that you haven't heard of such chess skills!"

Wang Jixin nodded silently and said, "If that's the case, I probably don't know him."

He indulged in chess all his life. When he was young, he traveled around the world looking for people to play chess and gamble on chess. Although he had a lot of experience, he had never experienced or even heard of such an anecdote in the world.

After thinking about it, he suddenly sighed and said, "This man must have been extremely disappointed after such a great performance. I wonder what happened to him later?"

Lu Ping replied: "I heard that he is still playing chess and trying to improve."

Upon hearing this, Wang Jixin was shocked and stood in awe.

"After such a tragic defeat, an ordinary person would have lost his faith and never played chess again. However, this person was able to remain unmoved by the defeat. He must be as obsessed with chess as I am!"

"With a chess friend like this, I really wish I could have a drink with him and play a game of chess with him!"

Lu Ping continued, "Don't be impatient, sir. The story is not over yet. Let me continue."

"Little brother, please speak."

"Although that person continued to play chess after suffering a crushing defeat, his talent was limited after all, and he could not make a breakthrough. In addition, he was troubled by his livelihood, so he had no choice but to find another job and only regarded playing chess as a pastime in his spare time."

Wang Jixin was startled, but thinking that not everyone in the world is like him and not worried about their livelihood, he couldn't help but feel disappointed: "If that's the case, there's nothing I can do. I wonder what other industry the other party has invested in?"

"That man became a storyteller." Lu Ping said, "Although his chess skills were average, he had great eloquence. After he changed his profession to become a storyteller, he could always make his audience laugh. Since then, his business has flourished and he has become a well-known figure in ten counties and eight towns."

"Later, when I returned to my hometown, I unexpectedly heard that the man had established a private school to teach chess to the children in the town."

Wang Jixin remained silent.

After a while, he just looked up to the sky and sighed heavily.

"I never thought that there would be such chess friends and such strange things in the world..."

The conversation between the two and Lu Ping's story had already attracted the disciples who were learning chess around them.

At first, when the disciples heard about the "crushing defeat" of their chess friend mentioned by Lu Ping, and then thought about how they had also remained in the "Guide" stage for many years and had never been promoted to become Shangxian disciples, they all felt the same and were sad.

But when I heard later that the man had changed his career, had a successful career, and could occasionally play chess for entertainment, my original empathy instantly turned into envy and sorrow.

It turns out that the other person and myself are different after all.

They just didn't find the right direction, and I'm really a wimp.

Seeing the depressing atmosphere around him, Lu Ping could only find another topic: "Speaking of which, I have been to Nanping Mountain. There is also a chess formation on the Duiyi Peak that is similar to this place..."

"Little brother has actually been there?!"

Wang Jixin perked up, stroked his beard and laughed: "That chess formation was also set up by me, what do you think, young man?"

"Very impressive! It took me a lot of effort to get through!"

"Young man, you can break the formation, you are just as amazing!"

Wang Jixin seemed to have thought of something after he finished speaking, and suddenly paused, "Wait! Since you can break the formation, you must be a good chess player. Why are you so modest just now?"

"Uh... because I didn't just break, I destroyed!"

Lu Ping smiled awkwardly: "In terms of martial arts, I am still somewhat confident; in terms of chess, my chess skills are actually not much better than a beginner."

Wang Jixin was surprised when he heard this. He raised his voice a few degrees and asked in disbelief, "Young man, are you saying that you destroyed my chess formation by force?"

Lu Ping nodded: "I'm sorry, I really had no choice but to do this in order to get through."

There are people in the world who become famous at a young age.

The young people who have become famous in the martial arts world today include the Sword Saint who won the second place in the first Famous Sword Competition at the age of sixteen, and Fang Qian who participated in the East China Sea Overlord Competition at the age of sixteen and won the top prize.

But in the past hundred years, there has only been one sword master and one Fang Qian in the world.

Others such as Cangjian Villa's 'Heart Sword' Ye Ying, Tiance Mansion's 'Heavenly Spear' Yang Ning, or even earlier 'Jingxuzi' Xie Yunliu and others, although they were also rare martial arts geniuses, they were all at least twenty years old when they became famous, and their talents were far inferior to the previous two.

Looking at the flat road ahead, Wang Jixin couldn't help but think to himself:

The chess formation on the Duiyi Peak of Nanping Mountain was set up by me by combining the essence of chess and the natural craftsmanship taught by Monk Yixing. It is extremely complex and dangerous. Even the Valley Master himself may not be able to destroy it by force. This young man looks to be only sixteen or seventeen years old. Can he really do it?

Judging from his expression, he doesn't seem to be lying. If he can really do it, then this person's talent and strength are probably not inferior to Fang Qian and the Sword Saint of the past.

Thinking of this, Wang Jixin couldn't help but have some tentative thoughts about Lu Ping.

So he shook his head, snorted coldly and said provocatively: "At your age, how could you forcibly destroy the formation I set up? I don't believe it!"

"Oh, forget it if you don't believe me."

Lu Ping did not fall into the trap. He never liked to prove himself.

Wang Jixin was stunned: This development is not right, why doesn't this guy fall into the trap? Obviously, I have used this trick against other people before, and it always works...

With his eyes rolling, Wang Jixin came up with an idea. He pointed at the large chessboard in front of him and said, "There is also a chess formation here. I set it up after gaining new insights in recent years. It is more sophisticated and dangerous than the chess formation on the Duiyi Peak."

"If you can destroy it by force, I will believe what you say."

Lu Ping shook his head: "Senior Wang, you don't have to believe it."

"No, no, no..."

At this time, Wang Jixin started shouting like a naughty child, pulling Lu Ping's arm and refusing to let him go.

"If what you said is false, then I must expose your lies and not let you become famous by stepping on my face;"

"If what you said is true, doesn't it mean that my chess formation can't even trap an underage child? Then I will get back this debt!"

So you want me to break through no matter what, right?

Lu Ping was speechless upon seeing this.

"I've been in the martial arts world for a while, but you're the first one who begs me to slap you in the face..."

(End of this chapter)