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

Chapter 532 The Secret to Winning

When the second round of chess was decided, an hour had already passed.

When Lu Ping returned to the venue, he found that about 70% of the people had left, and several chess players had disappeared. Only Wang Yuyan and Cheng Ying were still playing.

In addition, Duan Yu is still here, and he is talking to Wang Xiaoshi at this moment.

Lu Ping walked up to him and naturally started a conversation: "Duan Yu, long time no see, did you win the game just now?"

Duan Yu turned around and showed a smile that was uglier than crying: "I won."

"Since you've won, why are you still looking so miserable?"

"Because I found that I seemed to have messed up."

“…What’s going on?”

"Lu Ping, you should know the current rumors in the martial arts world and the increasingly tense situation between the two Song dynasties, right?"

"Of course I know. Most of the people who came to Leigushan these days came for this."

Duan Yu nodded and continued, "Actually, before I left this time, my uncle told me one thing, which was to let me represent Dali and show a gesture of 'friendly relations with the two Song dynasties' in the martial arts world."

Just as he had guessed before, the main purpose of Duan Yu and Qiu Chuji appearing in Leigushan was to show the people of Jianghu that "Dali and Southern Song are currently in a friendly relationship."

But that's all, there won't be any more attitudes. After all, according to Dali's international situation, they shouldn't "take sides".

"I guessed it. You did a good job, didn't you? I saw you and Qiu Chuji were having a lot of fun playing chess..."

"That's the problem!"

Duan Yu said with a sad face: "I only played chess with the people sent by the Southern Song Dynasty, but not with the people sent by the Northern Song Dynasty. In this way, in the eyes of outsiders, Dali supports the Southern Song Dynasty."

Lu Ping finally understood.

"Then why don't you go with the people sent by the Northern Song Dynasty court?"

"Because they didn't send anyone!"

"..."

Lu Ping didn't know what to say for a moment.

"What else can I say? Blame it on themselves for not thinking things through!"

The Southern Song Dynasty court knew that they had to send out Qiu Chuji, but the Northern Song Dynasty court not only sent out Zhuge Zhengwo and Yuan Shisanxian, but they were even reluctant to let go of Su Mengzhen, whom they had just recruited.

Now that I'm being excluded, I can't blame anyone.

"Okay, let's not talk about this anymore. Where are the other players? Are they going to the third level?"

Wang Xiaoshi shook his head and said, "No, they left directly after finishing the second level of the competition and did not continue to go up."

Qiu Chuji, Tang Shiwu, Di Feijing and others did not come here to play chess sincerely. Now that their purpose of coming to Leigushan has been achieved, there is of course no need to go forward and visit Su Xinghe who is guarding the third pass.

Yes, the third level of the chess club is to play chess with Su Xinghe himself, but unfortunately, until now, not even one person has stepped up.

Lu Ping suddenly felt that Su Xinghe was a little pitiful.

The entire Leigushan Mountain from the foot to the middle of the mountain was bustling with activity, just like the New Year; only the top of the mountain where Su Xinghe was was deserted...

It's what he deserves. Who made him so troublesome?
Soon, Wang Yuyan defeated Cheng Ying with a record of two wins and one loss.

The group continued to move upwards together, and after a few turns, they finally came to an open area.

There are pine trees, bamboos and three wooden houses in the field in front of me. Under a big tree in front of the wooden houses, there is a stone table and two stone chairs. A short, thin and shriveled old man is sitting there, seemingly resting with his eyes closed, or dozing off.

There was an unfinished chess game on the stone table, and next to it was a wooden sign with a poem written on it: No human voices can be heard, but from time to time one can hear the movement of pieces falling.

"I think this person must be 'Mr. Smart' Su Xinghe."

Duan Yu was overjoyed when he saw this. He put aside the international issues of "Dali and the Two Song Dynasties" that he had just been worried about and walked forward quickly.

"Junior Duan Yu, nice to meet Mr. Su."

Su Xinghe opened his eyes and said nothing. He just smiled and nodded at Duan Yu, as if relieved of a heavy burden, and extended his hand to invite him to sit down.

Lu Ping felt that his smile was not fake, but came from the heart, and it was probably because he finally saw someone reach the third level, so he smiled so happily... Duan Yu knew Su Xinghe's nickname of "deaf and dumb", so he was not surprised. However, he did not sit down directly, but turned to look at Wang Yuyan: "Sister Yuyan, how about you come first?"

As an older brother, it is only natural for me to give way to my younger sister.

Wang Yuyan shook her head: "No need, you go first."

Duan Yu heard this and thought that if he tried it out first, maybe Wang Yuyan would see the chess game more clearly, so he stopped refusing and said, "Okay, I'll go first."

After he finished speaking, he sat down and began to think.

The two men played very slowly, and they had to think for a long time before making each move. After two quarters of an hour, they had only made about ten moves.

But the chess game in front of him seemed to have reached a dead end.

Lu Ping stood aside, carefully examining his long-famous "Zhenlong Chess Game".

Although he had studied in Wanhua for a few years, at that time he mostly studied magic, formations, and martial arts, and only had a brief knowledge of chess, so his chess skills were not very high.

Now, after only calculating the next twenty moves or so, I felt that the follow-up was complicated and difficult to continue. The territories of the black and white chess pieces were all intertwined, and one move would affect the whole body. So I simply gave up and stopped thinking about it.

'Zhenlong' is not the name of this game of chess, but the name of this type of chess.

Zhenlong chess is not a formation obtained by a normal game between two people, but is deliberately set up to be difficult. Therefore, it is extremely difficult to predict whether there will be a good outcome or a bad outcome.

An ordinary game of Zhenlong chess has at least a dozen pieces, and at most forty or fifty pieces. However, the game of Zhenlong chess in front of him has more than two hundred pieces, so it is dozens of times more difficult than an ordinary game of Zhenlong chess.

In the original novel, although Xu Zhu was blessed with incredible fortune and happened to be able to "survive from death", he knew nothing about Go. In the end, it was only with the help of Duan Yanqing who secretly sent a message to him that he successfully cracked the game.

About half an hour later, Duan Yu finally gave up and admitted defeat. Both sides withdrew their chess pieces and started over.

Wang Yuyan then stepped forward and took a seat.

She had a quick mind, and Duan Yu had played chess once before, so she had already memorized the chess situation in her mind. Therefore, as soon as she made her move, she and Su Xinghe launched a fierce and quick attack that was completely different from the one just now.

Lu Ping looked around and felt that something was missing. After a long while, he finally realized that Ding Chunqiu was missing.

The reason why Murong Fu, Duan Yanqing and others in the original novel suffered mental breakdowns, became obsessed, and even had suicidal impulses while playing chess was not because there were hidden tricks in the game itself, but because Ding Chunqiu was there to bewitch people with his evil skills.

But now that Ding Chunqiu is not here to disrupt the situation, Su Xinghe still maintains his character of "Mr. Deaf and Mute", and the chess game is just an ordinary chess game.

As time passed, the game came to an end.

At this moment, Wang Yuyan thought for a long time, and when she opened her eyes again, her eyes were sharp. Then she pointed her hand and dropped the chess piece in her hand into a white chess piece that was surrounded by black chess pieces.

A white chess piece commits suicide and gives away dozens of pieces.

Such an absurd act actually led to a turnaround in an originally fatal situation!

Seeing this scene, everyone present was surprised and happy, and Su Xinghe's eyes lit up, and he almost shouted out the word "admiration".

Lu Ping secretly cast his gaze on Wang Yuyan.

She had not told the other party before that the key move in this game of Zhenlong chess was a 'suicidal' move, which meant that this move was something she came up with herself!
This girl is really intelligent and blessed!

Although Wang Xiaoshi was not good at chess, he could see that this change was extremely strange. He pulled Lu Ping over and asked, "Lu Ping, how can you gain a new life by killing yourself?"

Lu Ping's face was full of earnestness, and he began to talk nonsense: "The principle is to use your dead chess pieces to burst the opponent's chess box!"

"I once saw a rule in chess that requires a player to put the piece into his own chess cover after taking it. If he fails to do so, he loses two points each time. If he fails again, he will be directly judged as the loser. So all you need to do is keep sending your pieces to their deaths and burst your opponent's chess cover, and then you will win."

"This is what we mean by 'Victory in a chess game is not necessarily on the chessboard, sometimes it is also outside the chessboard'!"

Wang Xiaoshi was stunned when he heard this. Duan Yu, who was listening attentively, and Wang Yuyan and Su Xinghe, who were enjoying themselves, were also dumbfounded. They stopped what they were doing and looked at Lu Ping strangely.

Especially Su Xinghe, whose old face was blue, black and red, as if he was constipated. After a long while, he suddenly said, "There is no such rule here!"

A sudden cold shout broke the silence, and because the person who spoke was a "mute", everyone was startled.

Duan Yu was the first to react, and asked in surprise: "Old sir... So you are neither deaf nor dumb?"

Lu Ping patted Duan Yu on the shoulder and said, "He was probably angry about the rule I just mentioned and suddenly became able to speak. Don't be too surprised."

(End of this chapter)