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

Chapter 314 Wanhua disciples must know: Victory in chess is not only on the chessboard

In Go, there is a saying called "giving the first move", which means that at the beginning of the game, one side lets the other side make the first few moves. However, in this world, there has never been a situation in which giving the other side the first move in the middle of the game.

But right before our eyes, this kind of thing is actually happening!

In the chess formation, as Lu Ping stopped, the chess game in the air underwent new changes.

The white pieces no longer appeared, but the black pieces showed no signs of stopping. Instead, they moved faster and faster, and the ink gas around them became more and more, and even condensed into words.

“I knew it wouldn’t be that simple!”

"Speaking of which, this gathering of ink energy to form a formation reminds me of the Xingling Sword Encirclement..."

Xingling Jianwei is a swordsmanship genius of the Taoist Xianwu Sword Sect. It was created by Tian Zhidao when he was eight years old. It is a formation that combines sword, technique and calligraphy into one.

However, the black energy attack in front of him was much weaker than the Xingling Sword Encirclement.

Once the sword circle is deployed, it will become an ink formation. Within an area, the air and the ground under the feet will all become ink characters. The person who opens the formation only needs to stand in place and control it, and can attack, defend and control. It is quite exquisite.

Seeing the ink condensing into words that were coming heavily, Lu Ping did not delay any longer. He raised his hand, and his internal force transformed into several streams of energy, which broke through the air and attacked the ink words in front of him.

"Box Sword Curtain Lantern!"

Accompanied by several low explosions, the ink characters were blown away one after another by the energy released by Lu Ping. Even the chessboard placed in the air disappeared without a trace under the attack of one of the energy energies.

Then, the chess formation seemed to have crashed and stopped working, and there was no more sound of chess pieces falling in the air.

Lu Ping looked around and made sure that the surroundings were no longer changing before he walked out of the chess formation.

"This...he really broke the formation?!"

"No, it should be said that it was forcibly destroyed..."

"Is his martial arts really that strong?!"

Amid the shocked voices of Wanhua disciples, Lu Ping walked towards Wang Jixin and said, "Mr. Wang, how is this going?"

Wang Jixin's beard twitched: "Now... I really believe that you have the ability to break the formation by force."

"But when I saw you breaking the formation just now, you seemed to be holding back?"

Lu Ping smiled softly, raised his thumb and praised: "Sir, you have a good eye!"

“Don’t praise…don’t praise…”

Wang Jixin waved his hand and said with a smile: "It is not easy for ordinary people to break the formation by force. You can stop at the right time and stop the operation of the formation without damaging the origin of the formation, so that it can recover later. It is even more rare!"

"But I've said before that if you can forcibly destroy the chess formation, I can just set up a stronger one with Mr. Yan, so there's really no need to do this."

Lu Ping shook his head and said, "This chess formation is used to train Wanhua disciples, and it was set up by the two gentlemen with great effort. How can I destroy it at will? Of course, I have to stop when I am done."

When Wang Jixin heard this, he felt more favorable towards Lu Ping.

But then, he stroked his beard and laughed, "Although you have good intentions, you are really worrying too much!"

As he spoke, Wang Jixin pointed at the chess formation and said, "This chess formation is intended to train Wanhua disciples in chess, calligraphy, and martial arts, so when it was set up, three ways to crack it were designed corresponding to these three directions."

"Oh?" Lu Ping blinked, "I'd like to hear more about it!"

Wang Jixin explained: "The first way is to break the formation normally, play against the 'artificial intelligence' in the formation, crack its moves, and find a way out."

"If you can do this, it means your chess skills are up to standard."

Lu Ping nodded when he heard this.

This solution coincides with what I just thought.

Wang Jixin continued, "The first way to crack the game can be done by anyone who is proficient in chess. However, the second way to crack the game is specially designed for Wanhua disciples."

"What do you mean?" Lu Ping asked.

"Because this formation can sense the 'Flowering' mental method!"

Wandering among flowers is the entry point to the Valley of Flowers.

All Wanhua disciples use pens as weapons. When they perform moves with the "Flowering" mental method, as their internal force is exerted, it looks like they are splashing ink.

Wang Jixin explained: "When the disciples perform moves in the formation, their internal energy will automatically transform into black energy under the effect of the formation. If they can then connect it with the black energy in the formation and provide certain guidance, they can change the chessboard and break the formation."

"If you can do this, it means that your calligraphy skills have reached a certain level."

Lu Ping suddenly realized: "So that's it..."

"Then this method is really designed specifically for the disciples of Wanhua Valley. After all, I was also using my Qi to perform moves in the formation just now, but I didn't transform the Mo Qi." "It's really amazing to arrange a method to crack it based on the unique characteristics of a certain martial art!"

Lu Ping had heard a lot about this method, but this was the first time he saw it with his own eyes.

"As for the last method, it is to use force to break the formation directly, just like what the young hero did just now."

In fact, this rough way of breaking the formation is not in line with the Wanhua Valley, which advocates elegance, and it is difficult for ordinary Wanhua disciples to do it.

However, taking into account the fact that there were all kinds of people in the valley, Wang Jixin and Yan Zhenqing also made corresponding considerations when setting up the formation, leaving a backup plan that could be automatically repaired even if it was forcibly destroyed.

Of course, there is a limit to this destruction.

The limited destruction that Lu Ping just did is completely within the range of the chess formation's automatic repair ability.

After listening to Wang Jixin’s explanation, Lu Ping’s heart was slightly moved.

"It is fate that I encountered this chess formation today. How about I add some ingredients to it and increase the difficulty of the formation?"

Now that you are here, you have to leave something behind.

Anyway, after increasing the difficulty of the chess formation, the ones who will suffer are the Wanhua disciples who will enter the formation for training in the future.

"What do you think, young man?"

Wang Jixin has been obsessed with chess all his life. When he heard that Lu Ping intended to increase the difficulty of his chess formation, he became curious.

"I think that using chess moves to map the actions of those who enter the formation is too old-fashioned!"

"We can change the way the chess formation is mapped and have multiple chess records appear at the same time to disrupt the reasoning of those who enter the formation."

In today's chess formation, the moves of the chess pieces will be determined by the movements of the players involved.

For example, if you move three steps to the left, the way it is presented in the chess record is to place three white pieces in a row to the left, so it is very easy to find the pattern.

But if there is more than one chess record each time, and the first one is to place three white pieces on the left side of the chessboard, the second one is to place three white pieces on the chessboard, and the third one is to go up or down...

Then the player entering the game will have to rethink the rules of its presentation and re-plan the course of action to crack the game.

"In addition, I also have some knowledge of magic, so I can try to condense the ink into a formation. The details are as follows..."

Lu Ping planned to change the Mo Qi into a formation similar to the Xingling Sword Formation.

After listening to Lu Ping's idea, Wang Jixin seemed to be thinking about something.

"Changing the mapping method of the chess record can indeed greatly increase the complexity of the chess formation, but if the ink energy is changed into a trap formation, the disciples will be restricted in their movements. How can we break the formation?"

"In this case, wouldn't it defeat the purpose of the assessment?"

Being restricted in movement is like standing still. You can only allow the chess pieces to continue to fall and the ink energy to grow wildly, until you are defeated in the end.

Lu Ping shook his head and said with a few clicks of his tongue: "Mr. Wang has been indulging in chess all his life, don't you understand one thing?"

"What's the point?"

“Sometimes, the victory or defeat of a chess game is not only determined on the chessboard, but also outside the chessboard!”

"If we don't realize this in advance, the Wanhua disciples will suffer a great loss when they enter the martial arts world in the future!"

Wang Jixin suddenly understood what he said, and immediately shook Lu Ping's hand excitedly: "Young man...young man, what you said makes sense!"

What does it mean that 'the victory of the chess game lies outside the chessboard'?
It is nothing more than means such as "smashing", "boiling", "cheating" and "luring", which have been fully described by predecessors.

Thinking back, Wang Jixin was tricked into coming to Wanhua Valley because he lost to Dongfang Yuxuan outside the chessboard.

Just do it.

Since he had agreed to Lu Ping's proposal, Wang Jixin immediately took him to find Yan Zhenqing who was giving a lecture not far away.

When the two arrived at the calligraphy class, Yan Zhenqing was correcting his students' dictation homework.

Unlike the others among the Seven Saints of Ten Thousand Flowers, Yan Zhenqing was not only a man of the world, but also an official in the imperial court, so the number of times he could come to the Valley of Ten Thousand Flowers and the time he could come were very limited.

This time, Lu Ping happened to run into it.

Wang Jixin brought Lu Ping to Yan Zhenqing and mentioned to him the changes to the new chess formation. Yan Zhenqing was very impressed and immediately agreed. He also hoped that Lu Ping could incorporate his calligraphy into the process of performing the chess tricks.

Lu Ping had no objection to this.

Therefore, the matter of improving the chess formation was decided during the discussion among the three of them.

(End of this chapter)