The Jinglong Chess, which had not yet been fully revealed in front of the heroic n, made its first appearance in front of Jiang Dali, a man completely ignorant of chess.
Yet it was such a man, who had not yet broken the chess ga, who stumbled upon a sudden enlightennt under the impact of the situation, gaining new insights into his own Martial Arts.
It was through chess that he understood life and Martial Arts.
Among thousands of paths and various forms of Martial Arts, all ultimately converge back to their essence, Returning to Nature.
Inside the Chess Room, the fragrance of wine filled the air.
Bang! Sounds of impact intermittently resounded.
The beams of the room trembled, and dust fell in torrents.
The four legs of the chess table were nailed into the ground like iron nails, the surface even showing signs of cracking.
Four white chess pieces were deeply embedded into the stone table.
At the spots where the first two pieces were embedded, cracks spread all around the stone.
However, at the spots where the last two pieces were embedded, it was as if the pieces had been pressed into mud, with no cracks around, each more natural than the last.
Jiang Dali drank wine in big gulps, playing chess in a bold and unrestrained manner.
To him, playing chess seed like throwing punches.
He sat there, his muscles always tensed, and beads of sweat stead by alcohol rolled over his sturdy body like that of a calf. At any mont he would pick up a chess piece and strike it out, as if the chessboard was the enemy and the chess pieces were his weapons.
No matter if it was against chess partners like Thank-you Butler Wu or Finding Sword Xu Jun.
Jiang Dali played chess as if he was throwing punches.
No need to care about chess techniques or strategies, just grab a piece and strike it out in his strong style, and if it looked good, it was a success.
At this mont, his fierce aura was beginning to converge.
His Nine Yang Marrying Robe Divine Skill at the fifth realm had naturally, in the mont of sudden enlightennt, broken through to the sixth realm, outstanding among his peers.
He was just one step away from the Great Success Realm.
This was not only due to the rapid growth in understanding of Martial Arts brought about by sudden enlightennt but also due to his accumulated potential being unleashed.
Like separating the wheat from the chaff, he refined and absorbed the Inner Strength he had devoured earlier using the Absorption Star Technique, making his Inner Power Realm brim over and smoothly complete the breakthrough.
Besides this, Jiang Dali’s understanding of the various Martial Arts he had learned in terms of punches, palms, fingers, and claws also changed during these days of real combat practicing and personal enlightennt.
These Martial Arts gradually felt like they were rging into one.
During these days, while combating Dongfang Bubai, he learned to condense his Inner Qi and in his bold openness and closeness of fists and feet, he sought ticulous execution, making every part of his body a potential weapon.
In frequent combat, he learned to integrate the energy transmission and palm force concentration techniques of the Dragon Subduing Twenty-Eight Palm and the striking techniques of the Giant Spirit Divine Palm.
anwhile, he combined these with the sharp and swift eight moves of the Thunder and Lightning Palm from the Madman’s Secret Manual Fragnt, forging even faster palm strikes.
One could say, Jiang Dali’s practice of Martial Arts was not simply following the path of predecessors but constantly integrating his own ideas.
He aid to develop a path of Martial Arts suitable for himself based on what his predecessors had done, removing the non-essential and keeping the essence.
This path was not smooth.
Even quite confused and bumpy, never having a clear and ford system.
However, these previous confused efforts were not fruitless and had accumulated enough foundation and experience for him.
And these foundations and experiences, in the mont of sudden enlightennt in front of the Jinglong Chess, were quickly integrated.
Sparks collided in Jiang Dali’s mind, then converged together, giving birth to a path uniquely his own, a personal hallmark!
Great strength creates miracles!
Bang!
The fifth chess piece suddenly landed!
The four legs of the chess table severely trembled, and it suddenly shrank, now touching Jiang Dali’s knees.
The stone surface of the chessboard was covered in cracks, with black and white pieces entangled.
If there was soone proficient in chess, they could see that the situation still overwhelmingly favored the black pieces, like a big dragon devouring a tiger. The white pieces were rely struggling in vain.
But even in a struggle,
Jiang Dali’s few random placents, ignorant and wildly played, had strangely blazed a path from the initial dead end, briefly allowing the white pieces to struggle fiercely for a mont before they were utterly defeated.
Yet even so, it seed that Jiang Dali’s loss was just a move or two away.
Su Xinghe felt his nerves were even tenser than a cow tendon on a cotton bow.
The saying goes, a wild punch can kill a good master.
That was exactly his feeling now.
Although Jiang Dali knew nothing about chess, these ignorant wild placents had turned out to be unexpectedly brilliant, a stroke of genius.
Chess is like life, full of unpredictable changes.
Until the final mont, no one knows what changes the next step will bring.
At this mont, the carefree Jiang Dali was filled with uncertainties, and Su Xinghe, unable to predict how Jiang Dali would play next, was extrely solemn.
Fortunately, the black pieces had gained an absolute advantage, the white pieces had no way out, and the overall situation was settled.
Su Xinghe made another move.
Instantly, in his perception, the entire chess situation seed to turn the black pieces into a mighty dragon, fiercely stepping on the struggling tiger-like white pieces below its claws, and tearing it apart, rcilessly and completely cutting off all of the white pieces paths of retreat.
Big Dragon Devours the Tiger!
The outco had been decided!
The white pieces no longer had any chance of turning the ga around.
Su Xinghe looked toward Jiang Dali, a smile erging on his age-wrinkled cheeks that resembled orange peels, just about to speak with an "Ah."
However, Jiang Dali instead burst into laughter with a loud "Haha," his laughter filled with joy and relief, which greatly surprised Su Xinghe and left him utterly confused.
At that mont, while still laughing, Jiang Dali abruptly grabbed a piece and fiercely placed it down, his technique resembling Buddha picking a flower, Vajra smashing a stele, a fairy pointing the way, a divine dragon erging from the water.
With a bang!
The entire chessboard table trembled hugely and suddenly shattered into pieces under the explosive Qi Force, turning into flying sand and rocks, with nurous chess pieces scattering on the ground.
What Big Dragon, what Wounded Tiger, what black and white pieces, what Jinglong Chess...
All of these collapsed and dissipated with Jiang Dali’s laughter, leaving Su Xinghe stunned. Soon, a surge of anger rose in his face, and he shouted "Ah" furiously.
"The sky is round like a canopy, the earth square like a chessboard!"
Jiang Dali laughed heartily, "The Jinglong Chess, indeed, is just a trinket. In my eyes, it ultimately can’t escape the changes of the chessboard; the black and white pieces are still just pieces, unable to escape the confines of the board.
Since that’s the case...
Why not break free from the ga, why be a re chess piece?
Why be trapped within this chess layout?"
At this, Jiang Dali felt even more heroic ambitions stirring within him.
He didn’t understand these changes in chess strategy!
But he saw his life’s path very clearly.
At this mont, he was like a chess piece stuck within the vast chessboard of the Mixed Martial Arts World. If he were truly content to remain a small piece, he would forever be unable to escape the bondage of the chessboard, forever struggling within it, unable to achieve his desires.
Only with perpetual vigilance and detachnt in mindset could he possess the spirit of seeing "the sky round like a canopy, the earth square like a chessboard," and only then could he break free from the ga in the future, return to simplicity, and achieve miracles!
"Why be a chess piece? Why be trapped in the chess layout?"
Su Xinghe suddenly froze, looking at the scattered chess pieces and the shattered chess table around him.
At this mont, the pieces had indeed escaped the chessboard.
And what chess layout could still be spoken of at this mont?
At this thought, recalling how in his earlier life he harbored high aspirations but both his master was treacherously attacked and he himself was forced to feign ignorance, wasn’t his fate just as tragic as that of a chess piece?
Unable to escape from love and hate, blind to resentnt and parting, his whole life seed like that of a piece struggling on the chessboard.
How could he be as liberated and unrestrained as this heroic man now, daring to smash the ga?
Shivering all over, Su Xinghe sighed deeply, no longer pretending to be ignorant in front of Jiang Dali. Shaking his head with a wry smile, he recited, "The White Bull often dwells in the white clouds, a person heartless like the bull itself. The moon pierces the white clouds; its shadow pale, letting the white cloud and bright moon roam from west to east.
It seems I was too caught up... In today’s ga, Master Jiang, although you did not follow the usual tactics and destroyed the ga, you have also achieved a victory in another sense.
Chess is like life!
In the realm of life, I am still inferior to you! That’s also a step behind in chess, your approach seems random, but it actually captured the victory."
By the end, Su Xinghe’s expression turned sorrowful as he shook his head, "Unfortunately... unfortunately... unfortunately..."
"What’s unfortunate?"
Jiang Dali stopped laughing and looked at Su Xinghe.
Su Xinghe sighed, "It’s unfortunate that the ga is broken. A person who breaks the ga like you, possessing great courage, determination, and resolve, although extrely valuable over the centuries, also often symbolizes great terror and is not the kind of person my master is seeking!"
"Oh?"
Jiang Dali nodded in understanding, knowing that such a bizarre thod of breaking the ga, although recognized by the other party as a success, was not precisely the most suitable candidate Wuya Zi had originally imagined, not obtaining the transmission of Wuya Zi’s legacy was also to be expected.
He looked at the collapsed chess table on the ground, yet felt no regret, casually laughing as he drank the last sip of liquid from the jar, saying, "My main purpose in coming here was to cure Dongfang.
To be able to play a Jinglong Chess ga that none in the Martial World has ever seen, that’s also a great fortune.
Moreover, today’s ga has not only enhanced my own martial arts but also solidified my mindset, so I don’t see anything regrettable.
The sky and the earth are vast, I walk my own path, the path I take, is ant to create miracles through great strength!"
Jiang Dali brimd with confidence, raising his arm and clenching his fist firmly, his arm bulging with strong, rigid muscles like reinforced steel.
He had his own path, and now that path had beco even more resolute.
Even the interface displayed new change prompts, extrely pleasing.
Su Xinghe regained his composure and praised, "Master Jiang, you indeed are a remarkable person! I also have an item to give you as a return gift for the shock and enlightennt you brought today! Please, follow ."
Su Xinghe stood up.
"Oh?"
Jiang Dali was quite surprised, guessing in his heart, and imdiately stood up and followed him.
At the sa ti, he quietly divided his attention to check the new prompts that appeared in the interface due to the great enlightennt and the collision of martial arts inspirations...
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(Today’s update is nearly twelve thousand words, I request monthly and recomndation tickets! I’ll see if I can update more before dawn, I’m pushing!)
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