667: Play chess

"Aren't you tired of standing there staring at me?"

Opposite Arhat Jiang Long, a young man in a white robe, appearing quite elegant and scholarly, stood there, staring intently at Arhat Jiang Long as if he could find flowers blooming on his face.

When Arhat Jiang Long said this, the young man smiled slightly and said, "I don't like violence, nor am I good at fighting. Why don't we sit down and play a game of chess?"

Dragon Subduing Arhat shook his head helplessly and said, "You've caught me off guard... Although I, a monk, know a little about chess, I am not proficient at it. It would be embarrassing if I lost!"

"Heh, then just give it your all..."

The person opposite him waved his large sleeve, and Dragon Subduing Arhat felt his vision blur for a moment as a chessboard of unknown material appeared at their feet.

"Hmm, are you trying to use the outcome of a chess game to decide our victory or defeat?"

Dragon Subduing Arhat frowned slightly.

"Wrong, that's not it at all!"

The person opposite shook his head and said, "It is by the outcome of the chess game... that life and death are determined!"

Hum!

A strange force brushed past him, only to vanish in an instant. Dragon Subduing Arhat initially thought it was his imagination, but he soon realized that he seemed to have entered a strange space.

The birds in the sky, the fish in the water, and the branches and leaves swaying in the wind had all lost their ability to move, as if they had been frozen by some strange force!

"Let me introduce myself. My name is Lingjing. I am the least skilled at fighting among the Seven Demon Generals, but I am also the strongest."

The man sat cross-legged, and two containers suddenly appeared on the chessboard. He said in a deep voice, "Black goes first. Make your choice!"

Dragon Subduing Arhat said somewhat distressingly, "Determining life and death by chess skills... Heh, this kind of competition is truly novel... Hmm, are you freezing time here? So, your Law is the Law of Time?"

"You could say that. I refined a fragment of the creation jade plate I found into this chessboard. Until the game ends, this Domain of frozen time will not disappear, until one of us concedes, or..."

Lingjing pointed, and a huge incense burner suddenly appeared suspended in mid-air, with a stick of incense in its center.

"...or until the incense burns out, and the winner is decided by counting the pieces! Only the winner... will have a chance to walk out alive!"

Lingjing said in a deep voice, "Don't think about forcibly breaking my Domain. Unless you have reached the Realm of the Saint, it is impossible to break the state of frozen time and return to reality!"

Arhat Jiang Long sat opposite him and said helplessly, "Then you choose first, just leave the rest for me!"

Lingjing frowned slightly, "Are you really not good at chess?"

"Just average, I play occasionally!"

Arhat Jiang Long laughed.

"Fine... then, this one is for you..."

Lingjing pushed the container on his left to Arhat Jiang Long, but when he opened his own container, he couldn't help but frown slightly.

"Oh, Black goes first. It seems I am the one to make the first move!"

Arhat Jiang Long saw the white pieces in his container and clapped his hands in amusement. He picked up a black piece from his container and placed it on the Tengen point...

"Playing the first move like this? Is this guy a real master, or is he just bluffing?"

Lingjing frowned slightly, but he followed up by making his move. The two held Go pieces, playing without taking back moves, and in one breath, they had already fought for ten or twenty rounds.

Neither winning nor losing, they couldn't figure out each other's style, especially Lingjing, who had already considered Arhat Jiang Long a true master of Go in his heart.

"This is 'pretend to be a pig to eat the tiger'. It seems I was wrong to choose Go to decide the outcome; I should have chosen another game..."

Lingjing thought to himself.

It turned out that the chessboard in his hand was not just a chessboard. He had refined a fragment of the creation jade plate into it, allowing it to imitate all competitive game boards currently in the world. Moreover, this Magic Treasure could be closely integrated with his Law of Time to create a completely frozen Domain. Only the winner would have a chance to walk out of this Domain, while the loser would be assimilated by the frozen time and ultimately die.

And if one were to attack within his frozen Domain, that attack would be returned to the attacker in its entirety without reservation. Some people had once refused to accept this and fought him here, only to be completely killed by their own powerful attacks.

This was also one of the reasons why he was particularly confident in competing with Arhat Jiang Long in Go, because no matter how strong the opponent was, as long as they had not truly reached the Realm of the Saint, it was impossible to escape the rules of the game.

"Heh, you've never lost before, right!"

Picking up a black piece, Arhat Jiang Long suddenly laughed, "Otherwise, you wouldn't have had the chance to unleash such a Law on me!"

"Heh, what are you trying to say? Trying to say I cheated? Or suspecting it's unfair?"

Lingjing said with a hint of mockery, "I may not have other skills, but I have this bit of integrity. I have never disdained to cheat, because only by defeating an opponent fairly can I demonstrate my gaming ability... If I really wanted to play unfairly, I could completely conjure up a modern game console to battle you... You probably haven't even seen one before!"

"The game consoles you mentioned... are they the FC, PS4, or XBOX360? Or the later Switch NS?" Arhat Jiang Long curled his lips and laughed, "You don't need to worry about me not understanding, because I play them often recently!"

Lingjing asked in utter confusion, "You... how do you know about these?"

"Your heart is in chaos!"

Dragon Subduing Arhat narrowed his eyes and said, "Look at your own playing style..."

Lingjing suddenly looked down, only to realize that because of his excitement, the white piece in his hand had already been placed in an impossible spot... cutting off his own liberties!

"Hmm..."

Calming his mind, Lingjing looked at Dragon Subduing Arhat and said, "You did that on purpose?"

"Actually, no, I was just answering your question!"

Dragon Subduing Arhat laughed, "As for why I have come into contact with these things... Well, there is a panda in our team..."

Lingjing couldn't help but say in a deep voice, "Are you talking about the panda Po beside the New Saint?"

"That's right... He brought back quite a few good things from the Original Universe... Oh, and the son of that New Saint, he also has quite a few good things in his hands. I still can't put down those high-tech gadgets even now!"

Dragon Subduing Arhat laughed, "You could say it opened the door to a new world for me!"

The two continued to play chess, and Lingjing reopened the battlefield in the corners, thinking to himself, "This Dragon Subduing Arhat is truly a master in this regard. He said those things just to disrupt my state of mind. I cannot lose, I will not lose..."

"You must be thinking that I said all this to deliberately provoke you... Heh, actually, I have absolutely no need to do that!"

Dragon Subduing Arhat laughed, "Do you know why?"