Summoning the Peak of the Three Kingdoms

Chapter 2965: Life and Death Chess Game is Broken and Chaos Begins

Chapter 2962: Life and Death Chess Game is Broken and Chaos Begins

"It's interesting."

Even though Zhang Liang was used to big scenes, he couldn't help but marvel at this scene. It was obvious that he was intrigued by Yan Qianling's "hidden secrets", but he did want to play a game with Yan Qianling to see the quality of this Ming chess master.

But when Zhang Liang and his grandmaster guards approached, they were dumbfounded, because this was not a Go board at all, but a chess board.

"Um, this..."

Zhang Liang suddenly didn't know what to say. A great chess master of the Ming Dynasty didn't play Go but played chess? How ridiculous! Was there no one left in the chess world of the Ming Dynasty? Or did Yan Qianling become a chess master by playing chess?

Zhang Liang lost interest instantly. It wasn't that he didn't know how to play chess, but he felt that there was no point in winning. However, Yan Qianling didn't seem to notice. She sat down and motioned Zhang Liang to sit down as well.

Although Zhang Liang didn't want to play chess, he sat down after thinking about it. But as soon as he sat down, he found that he and Yan Qianling were flying, and the surrounding environment changed. The sky and the earth turned black and white. Only he and Yan Qianling were left, and the chessboard in front of them was magnified countless times.

"This is?"

Zhang Liang was immediately surprised, but Yan Qianling explained: "This is a game of life and death. It was created by a great master named Ying Shuntian based on the Taoist spiritual secret method of 'Heaven and Earth Lost Color'. I was fortunate enough to play a game with him. After I won, I spent several years to learn this move.

The chess of life and death determines life and death. Sir Zhang, if you lose, you will leave your life here."

Playing chess can determine life and death?

Even though Zhang Liang was extremely intelligent, he had not expected to encounter such an outrageous thing. However, with the powerful mental strength of a grandmaster, it was not impossible for him to do this.

"It's really hard to guard against."

Zhang Liang couldn't help but sigh in his heart. He guessed that Zhu Di would assassinate him at all costs, but he never thought that he would do it by playing chess. However, he did not panic because of this. Instead, he asked calmly:

"Senior Yan, you used the chess of life and death to deal with Liang, aren't you afraid of retaliation from Daqin?

If Ruoliang remembers correctly, your Yan family has a large family. Even if you can rely on your cultivation to escape the pursuit, can your children and grandchildren escape?

Even if your children and grandchildren can escape, they will probably become the rats crossing the street in the future, living in fear all day long. What's the point of this?"

Zhang Liang was not a talkative person, but this time he wanted to persuade Yan Qianling to stop, because Yan Qianling was a good person from any angle, and he didn't want such a good person to end up dead and his family destroyed just because of a momentary thought.

But Yan Qianling was forced to do it, and he really thought that as long as he acted covertly enough, the Qin Dynasty would not suspect him of Zhang Liang's death, so it was impossible for him to stop just because of Zhang Liang's threat.

"Zhang Liang, even someone as smart as you didn't anticipate the chess of life and death, how could the Qin Dynasty know that your death was related to me?"

After hearing what Yan Qianling said, Zhang Liang was stunned. The test was obviously beyond his expectations. He thought Yan Qianling dared to do this for other reasons, but he never expected that he was betting that the Qin Dynasty would not associate it with him?

Zhang Liang was completely speechless, and even suspected that Yan Qianling, the chess master, had become one by sword. After all, how could someone who could become a chess master of a country be so naive? At such an old age, he was simply living a dog's life.

Summer insects cannot talk about ice, and Zhang Liang was too lazy to waste time talking to Yan Qianling. After all, it was difficult to persuade a damned person with kind words. With Yan Qianling's cognition and stubbornness, he deserved the suffering that the Yan family was going to endure.

"Senior Yan, what if Liang wins?"

"..."

Yan Qianling didn't expect Zhang Liang to be so calm. After all, such a powerful figure would all cherish his life. Why did he act like he didn't care about life and death at all?

"If you win, you can get out."

"Then let's get started."

Seeing Zhang Liang impatient, Yan Qianling didn't know what to say. She took the red card and made the first move without saying a word.

Zhang Liang thought that the opponent, as a chess master, would let a junior like him move first. He didn't expect that he was so unsportsmanlike and took the initiative without saying a word. He had no choice but to set up his horse to defend himself.

Yan Qianling's title of chess master naturally did not come from playing chess. Even if the Ming Dynasty chess world was losing talent, it would not select a chess master based on playing chess. After all, if this were to get out, it would be laughable.

The reason why Yan Qianling did not play Go with Zhang Liang but played chess was because his old rival Ying Shuntian liked to play chess, and the 'chess of life and death' he created was also based on chess. However, he had not yet practiced this move to the level of innovation, so it could only be used in chess and not in Go.

Although the game he was playing was not Go, even if it was chess, Yan Qianling was confident that he could defeat Zhang Liang. After all, his title of "Go Saint and Sword Master" was not boasted.

The chess master comes in front and the sword master comes behind, which is enough to illustrate his attainments in chess.

But the confident Yan Qianling soon stopped laughing, because even though he had the first move, even though he could calculate the next twenty moves in his mind before making a move, he was still put in danger by Zhang Liang.

The game of life and death played by Zhang Liang and Yan Qianling was carried out in their spiritual world. Although the outside world also saw the two playing chess, the strange thing was that neither of them moved, but the chess pieces on the chessboard moved out of thin air.

"Hiss, Zhang Liang can actually move objects through the air. He is indeed Zhang Jiao's younger brother. He is really good at hiding his abilities."

All the leaders present who saw this scene gasped, obviously misunderstanding that Zhang Liang was hiding his strength.

"Who says it's not true? If you want to be able to move objects through the air, besides becoming a grandmaster and controlling them with mental power, you have to practice the secret art of controlling objects."

Madam Jin Ling glanced at everyone, smiled charmingly, and asked, "What do you think will happen to Lord Zhang Liang?"

"He must have practiced a special secret technique to control objects." Sea Shark Palace Master Bai Ting said in a deep voice.

"That's right, it's not easy to become a grandmaster, not to mention that Zhang Liang is a scholar." Chi Lianyan echoed.

Zhang Liang's guard, the Grandmaster, felt bad when he saw this. After all, she knew Zhang Liang's strengths too well. Although Zhang Liang knew some martial arts, he definitely did not have the ability to move objects through the air, so all this could only have been done by Yan Qianling.

Realizing that something was wrong, the Grand Master of Guards rushed forward to check, but Zhang Liang's physical features were normal, except that his spirit had some kind of connection with Yan Qianling, but this was obviously not a good thing.

"No, I was fooled."

The Grand Master of Guards gnashed her teeth in anger. Although she could use her mental power to forcibly disconnect the connection, or directly attack Yan Qianling's body, she was afraid that it would severely damage Zhang Liang's spirit. Mental power is a field that only Grand Masters can initially touch. Once an ordinary person's spirit is damaged, he will be depressed for several months at the least, or even become a fool directly due to dementia.

Faced with this tricky situation, the Grand Master of Guards didn't know what to do. Unable to move Zhang Liang or Yan Qianling, he could only wait for the game to be decided.

Two sticks of incense later, under the watchful eyes of a group of sect leaders, the game of life and death was finally decided.

"How is this possible? I actually lost, and lost to a junior..."

Yan Qianling obviously couldn't accept losing the game, and looked distraught and devastated.

Zhang Liang, who had broken free from the mental restraints of the game of 'Life and Death', saw that everything around him had returned to normal. He also knew that he had won the game of Life and Death, but his face showed a look of unsatisfied feeling.

Just now in the spiritual world of the game of life and death, he commanded the chess piece as high as the city wall to play against Yan Qianling. The feeling of the earth-shattering collapse of the sky when one piece fell was truly spectacular and gorgeous, making people linger and fascinated.

If possible, Zhang Liang would like to try out a game of life and death on the Go version, but seeing Yan Qianling's half-dead look, he knew that this was obviously not possible in the short term.

It was actually inevitable that Yan Qianling would lose to Zhang Liang. Although the chess world of the Ming Dynasty was not devoid of talent, there was still a huge gap in overall level compared to the severely inward-looking chess world of the Qin Dynasty.

Yan Qianling, the number one player in Ming country, might not even be ranked in the top 15 in Daqin, while Zhang Liang's chess skills are among the top 5 in Daqin, so it is naturally impossible for him to beat Zhang Liang, whether in Go or chess.

"How could I, a great chess master of Ming, be inferior to an ordinary chess player of Qin?"

After Zhang Liang explained everything to the Grand Master of Guards, he was surprised to see Yan Qianling was still disappointed. He thought to himself: It's just a loss in a game of chess, what's the big deal?

What Zhang Liang didn't know was that in addition to the art of chess, the game of life and death also involves martial arts.

Yan Qianling integrated the art of chess into his martial arts. To him, the art of chess is the art of martial arts, and the process of playing chess is also the practice of his martial arts.

Zhang Liang's martial arts level was too low, and he could not experience that realm at all, so he defeated Yan Qianling purely in the way of chess, which was tantamount to denying Yan Qianling's martial arts, and that was why it dealt such a great blow to him.

"How can this be……"

Just as Yan Qianling was mumbling to herself in an emo tone, a powerful voice came from a distance and echoed throughout the hall.

"How is it impossible? You are a lousy chess player, so you can only bully Ying Shuntian."

The voice of the person who came was filled with magical power. People with strong hearing naturally had no reaction, but people with second-rate or lower strength all felt dizzy and even had difficulty standing still.

Seeing this, Bai Zhantang quickly used his internal energy to resist, and then covered the ears of Li Dazui who was about to faint, and asked uncertainly: "Is this the Shaolin lion roar?"

"No, it's the Demon Sect's Heavenly Demonic Eight Sounds."

Madam Jin Ling on the side said with a complicated expression. It was obvious that she already knew who the visitor was. It was her old lover, the head of the Blood Refining Hall, the black-hearted old man.

Both the Black-hearted Old Man and Madam Jinling come from "Zhu Xian", but the Blood Refining Hall founded by the Black-hearted Old Man later declined, while the Hehuan Sect founded by Madam Jinling became one of the four major sects of the Demon Cult.

Although both of them are top fighters in "Zhu Xian", it is obvious that the Black-hearted Old Man has a stronger foundation, so after he was born, he was in the early stage of the Grand Master, while Madam Jinling was only in the late stage of the Grand Master.

After Yan Qianling, the black-hearted old man came again. It was obvious that he was also coming for Zhang Liang, which made Madam Jinling feel a little conflicted.

In terms of friendship, she would definitely stand on the side of the black-hearted old man, but if she took action, the Hehuan Sect would surely be destroyed by the Qin Dynasty.

The black-hearted old man hasn't arrived yet, but with just one sentence, he has knocked down all the second-rate and below people. He is really quite impressive, but it is obvious that there are more people coming to kill Zhang Liang.

As soon as the black-hearted old man arrived, a tall, handsome, white-haired swordsman wearing a big turtle followed.

The white-haired swordsman had a long sword on his back and two swords on his waist, one of which was a Japanese sword and the other was a Han sword. It was obvious that he was not a Han Chinese, but a master recruited by Zhu Ming in Yingzhou.

"Who is this person?"

Li Dazui asked in confusion, and Bai Zhantang was naturally confused. Not to mention this him, he didn't even know the black-hearted old man. Madam Jinling on the side explained: "The great master of Japanese swordsmanship, Douya, drifted to the Central Plains after the fall of Japan. His strength is unfathomable."

Toga, from "Inuyasha", is the father of the protagonist Inuyasha, Toga King. He protects the entire western country of Japan by himself. He is also known as Inu no Taisho and is the ceiling of combat power in Inuyasha's world.

After looking at the two people who appeared beside Yan Qianling, Zhang Liang quietly hid behind the Grand Master Guard and said coldly: "Zhu Di really went to great lengths to kill me. He even sent out three Grand Masters."

The black-hearted old man sneered: "Haha, don't talk nonsense, we are not Zhu Ming's people, and we are not here to kill you this time, but we want to invite General Ren Gong to a place to have a good rest."

On the surface, these three people are not really Zhu Ming's men. Yan Qianling is an opposition scholar in Qingnan, the black-hearted old man belongs to the Demon Sect, and Dou Ya is a ronin from Japan.

However, this is more than enough to illustrate how deeply Zhu Ming hid himself and how much Zhu Di feared Zhang Liang, to the point that he could even dispatch three great masters who did not belong to the Ming Dynasty to kill him. He would not stop until Zhang Liang was killed.

Zhang Liang knew that he couldn't accuse Zhu Di of assassination, so he didn't bother to argue with the black-hearted old man, because there was no way to make a clear statement. Before Zhu Di used these three people, he was on guard against the Qin Dynasty taking advantage of the situation. So he directly said to the Grand Master of Guards: "Senior, I leave it to you."

"Do not worry."

The guarding grandmaster gave a guarantee and asked his men to protect Zhang Liang as he left. After all, if four grandmasters started a war, the aftermath alone would be more than Zhang Liang could withstand.

"Haha, you only have one, and we have three..."

The black-hearted old man hadn't finished speaking, but then he was so shocked that he couldn't speak.

The guarding grandmaster took off his black robe, and his three thousand silver hairs fluttered down, revealing an old but beautiful face. It was Ying Xuanyi, who was at the peak of the grandmaster level.

(End of this chapter)