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To become a truly formidable chess player, one must at least possess a chessboard to be able to play effectively.

After all, once you have a chessboard, you can find other players to play against.

You can also deduce the moves on the chessboard yourself to gain a deeper understanding of the game.

But what the fox-tailed girl didn't expect was...

Chen Ye didn't even have a chessboard!

Judging from his posture, it seems that this is the first time he has ever seen how to play this kind of chess piece. He has only played it for a short while and has already reached this level of skill!
At this moment, the fox-tailed girl finally realized that Chen Ye's talent was likely more powerful than she had imagined. However, at this crucial moment, the chess pieces were no longer for playing chess, but for actual combat.

However, to move a chess piece, one must use mental energy to infuse it.

The fox-tailed girl was a little doubtful whether Chen Ye would actually perform the summoning, or if he just wanted to buy a chessboard on the spot.
In this situation, every piece becomes extremely crucial, as it is used to suppress the blood gate.

If Chen Ye doesn't summon it...

Selling this chessboard might result in a loss of our fighting forces, which, in the eyes of the fox-tailed girl, was a somewhat risky deal.

But considering how easy-going Chen Ye is, even if the other party buys the chessboard, if they don't know how to summon the pieces, they might be able to persuade him to use these pieces temporarily to deal with the large wave of red zombies that have appeared, and then consider the rest later. That's not entirely impossible.

After a moment's hesitation, the fox-tailed girl finally took out a chessboard from her pouch, handed it to Chen Ye, and instructed him:

"These are some of the few chessboards left in our chess academy. If we want more chessboards, we have to find that Shrek craftsman and have them forged. The forging price for each chessboard is 3,500 silver coins, which is very expensive. Each chess piece has its own characteristics and can be used to summon them."

"The stronger the spirituality and mental power, the larger the size of the chess piece will be. There is almost no upper limit to this. After all, the design of these chess pieces is based on the abilities I acquired after I climbed the leaderboard and obtained special items."

"Therefore, each chessboard is extremely precious. Those in the know understand that it costs at least ten thousand silver coins to buy one. And we don't have many chessboards left in our warehouse. Not every chess player can own a chessboard, not even inner disciples."

Chen Ye nodded: "I understand, these chess pieces are very valuable, but I'm thinking of exchanging them to help you resolve the current crisis first."

Chen Ye did not intend to use the suona in this place because it was too fast to kill.

Each time you kill a red zombie, you get corresponding strategy points. Although the amount is not much, my ranking on the leaderboard had been stagnant until a few numbers would occasionally spike.

However, if you kill red-skinned zombies in this place, your strategy points will definitely skyrocket, and you will also reveal your ability to use the suona (a traditional Chinese wind instrument).

With so many people watching, this whole thing is bound to arouse suspicion.

Furthermore, don't underestimate players' calculation abilities. If the number of red zombies they kill is too close to the number of the top player on the leaderboard, they will immediately become suspicious.

However, if these pieces are used to help everyone present to protect themselves, then the speed of killing won't be that fast, and such a slight fluctuation in the numbers won't arouse any suspicion at all.

Even if it arouses suspicion, even if they know that the person standing here is the legendary number one, they will only know the name. They will not be able to answer or explain what characteristics or abilities the person has.

"I agree to the deal." The fox-tailed girl nodded, and finally took out a chessboard from her pouch and handed it to Chen Ye.

At the same time, he accepted the 10,000 silver coins that Chen Ye had packed in his spatial ring. As for the spatial ring, he considered it a bonus.

The fox-tailed girl never expected Chen Ye to be so generous, even giving her a spatial ring as a gift. You should know that this thing is quite valuable. Just this ring, even though the internal space is not much, you can't get it for less than a thousand silver coins.

But Chen Ye had conquered too many dungeons and killed many high-level enemies, especially the Joker...

At the midnight ball, many high-ranking clowns possessed spatial rings and dozens, even thousands, of silver coins. After killing so many clowns and clearing so many dungeons, they simply couldn't spend all their silver coins.

therefore.

Chen Ye is now almost indifferent to material desires and money, so giving him this small gift is nothing to him.

At this moment, Chen Ye received the chessboard, and the entire chessboard seemed incredibly heavy.

This is a folding, heavy chessboard containing numerous chess pieces. There are over a hundred pieces in total, and each piece appears quite heavy.

Therefore, this chessboard not only feels substantial in your hand, but it is also quite heavy.

Chess players at Longhu Chess Academy usually keep their chessboards at home. When they come to the academy to play chess, they use the chessboards provided there and rarely use their own.

After all, the chess players at Longhu Chess Academy aren't as well-off as one might imagine; most of them don't have spatial rings, let alone their own chessboards.

Only a dozen or so inner court disciples have their own chessboards, and a few of them can summon them.

Therefore, among those present, only Elder Li Chi-nian and his group of elders knew how to use chess pieces to summon enemies and how to apply them in actual combat.

in……

The one who did the best was, of course, the head of Longhu Chess Academy!

The fox-tailed girl's strength was originally developed based on her specific characteristics; she essentially built this gang single-handedly.

After making the deal with Chen Ye...

The fox-tailed girl summoned several more vanguard soldiers, who charged into the red-skinned zombies' territory and began their slaughter.

at this time.

The Blood Gate emitted another burst of crimson ripples, which spread outwards, their power appearing extremely terrifying.

A vast expanse of blood and light spread everywhere, leaving behind a scene of devastation.

But the vanguard soldiers summoned by the fox-tailed girl quickly rushed forward, using the summoned chess pieces and wielding long spears to pin the red-skinned zombie to the spot.

With the addition of chess pieces to the battlefield, these red-skinned zombies were briefly suppressed.

Moreover, the chess pieces summoned by the fox-tailed girl were incredibly huge, standing over ten meters tall. Each piece resembled a general guarding a territory, far surpassing anything Li Chinian and his group could match.

"As expected of the sect leader, he can actually summon chess pieces to kill enemies. We've only heard of such abilities, we never imagined they were real!"

The chess players, seated atop the guardian beast, watched the battle unfold with awe and wonder.

After all, the battle on the field was extremely intense. Various fireballs flew around and kept hitting the red zombies, causing a huge wave of flames to erupt and sweep in all directions.

The flames continued to burn the blood below...

Within her own domain, the fox-tailed girl's chess pieces were practically immortal. At this moment, her eyes were red; the domain she had painstakingly created had been utterly destroyed by the Blood Gate, and her mood was utterly devastated. Meanwhile, Chen Ye focused his mind entirely on the chessboard.

The Book of Summoning's unique feature is the ability to form contracts with these chess pieces.

Once the contract is completed, Chen Ye can summon these chess pieces.

next second.

He summoned several cavalrymen, who appeared on the field.

at this time.

Several cavalrymen, each tens of meters tall, riding magnificent horses, appeared suddenly in this area, resembling Odin!
The spears in their hands emitted faint sparks like electricity, and their bodies were crackling with lightning, making them look extremely fierce!
When these cavalrymen appeared...

Everyone present was completely dumbfounded!

"My God, look! Are those gods?"

"They're not gods at all, but rather the chess pieces we summoned, and they look exactly like our own chess pieces!"

"Why are they so tall? These chess pieces look terrifying. Did the sect leader summon them?"

"It must have been summoned by the sect leader. I never imagined that the sect leader's strength had reached such a terrifying level!"

"Yeah, any one of these pieces could easily beat the top players on the leaderboard, right?"

Seeing such magnificent chess pieces appear on the field and be summoned, no chess player could help but feel deeply awestruck.

After all, these chess pieces are just too huge!
It's not like a normal chess player could summon chess pieces like that.

The fox-tailed girl overheard the discussion around her and was a little dumbfounded.

What kind of chess piece?
I didn't summon these things at all, so where did they come from?
There is definitely a limit to how many pieces can be summoned.

The fox-tailed girl has yet to reach the limit of her summoning power.

But the moment he saw these chess pieces, he could completely understand that these chess pieces had definitely reached the limit of summoning, and were also the ultimate that he could reach!

Each piece possesses strength approaching that of a sixth-tier unit; this kind of summoning is truly terrifying!

"Who exactly performed the summoning?"

The fox-tailed girl looked around, her gaze finally settling on Chen Ye. Her mouth agape slightly as she suddenly realized why he had asked her for the chess pieces…

This summoning ability is absolutely amazing!
That's not a summoning ability that a normal person could possibly possess!
at this time.

The fox-tailed girl suddenly realized that Chen Ye was definitely a monster!

Monster among monsters!

If Chen Ye didn't possess such strength, he certainly wouldn't have any interest in buying chess pieces.

But now the fox-tailed girl is quite interested in Chen Ye.

It's hard to imagine how the opponent managed to summon such terrifying pieces.
It's really hard to understand...

Why does Chen Ye possess such terrifying strength?

Furthermore, to perform a summoning, you must have traits related to [summoning]!
Not only is the opponent's skill in Go amazing, but I never expected that his skill in summoning would also be so high.

The fox-tailed girl is certain...

Chen Ye must possess some special [summoning] characteristic. Otherwise, he couldn't possibly summon the chess pieces at their peak state so easily. No matter how strong his mental power, spirituality, or chess skills are, he shouldn't be able to reach such a terrifying stage.
In fact, Chen Ye felt that this summons had not yet reached its limit.

After all, if it truly reaches its limit, the size of the chess piece, including its various characteristics, will undergo a transformation!

Every single piece can become a god-tier general at the sixth rank!

This also greatly surprised Chen Ye.

I never expected that the fox-tailed girl's chess piece would have such high potential. If it weren't for her rank being limited to the fifth level, she would become even more powerful if she reached the sixth level.

The reason Chen Ye was able to summon like this was because his rank was no longer a regular fifth rank, but a sixth rank... even higher than most sixth rank ranks, which is why he could summon at full capacity in one go!
But this isn't the absolute best, since Chen Ye doesn't have the characteristics of a chess piece.

It's impossible to perform at 100%.

now.

The chess piece summoned by Chen Ye stood like a god, wielding a huge spear and slashing directly at a large group of red-skinned zombies.

With the swing of the spear, a large number of these red-skinned zombies died instantly.

At the same time, the flames bursting from the spear tip transformed into the scorching heat of the sun, directly engulfing a large wave of blood on the ground.

The scene was so horrifying that it defies description.

The fox-tailed girl was stunned by what she saw:

"My goodness, are these still the chess pieces I know? They're clearly gods descended to earth!"

When the other chess players in the chess academy saw that such a massive number of chess pieces had eliminated so many red zombies with such overwhelming force, they couldn't help but feel a surge of excitement.

"Has the sect leader's strength really reached this level?"

"Wow, I never knew chess could be played to such a high level! I'm definitely going to play chess more seriously from now on!"

"That's right... It's true that you have to play chess. When you reach the level of the sect leader, you'll have such great strength!"

Hearing the discussions around her, the fox-tailed girl couldn't help but smile wryly and quickly explained, "This really wasn't something I created! It was summoned by that expert... that expert whose name I don't know."

Upon hearing this answer, all the chess players present were dumbfounded. (End of Chapter)