Magic 071

  The game was replayed, and although Zhang Jing was more careful this time, calculating more meticulously, he still ended up losing by a single move, with Old Master Liu checkmating him with a knight and two pawns.

  "Little Zhang, how's that? Come on, let's play another round, this time I'll give you a car!" Old Liu was even more pleased, if he had a tail, it would probably be wagging halfway to the sky.

  Glaring at Old Man Liu, who was beaming with pride like a child, Zhang Jin squeezed out two words from between his teeth, "No need." Then, as he moved the chess pieces with his hand, his line of sight suddenly expanded and entered a state as if he were in a trance. Nobody noticed that during these few seconds, an object resembling a book had flashed into Zhang Jin's hand under the small table.

  "I'll just waste some skill points and see how arrogant you are!" Zhang Jin thought viciously to himself.

  In "Jade Dynasty", in addition to internal skills, lightness skills and martial arts, there are some mysterious skills. These mysterious skills either have a significant auxiliary effect on combat capabilities or are necessary conditions for completing certain plots.

  For example, 'Xiang Shuai' Chu Liuxiang's 'Skin Breathing Technique' can extend the time underwater indefinitely, absolutely the first BUG in water battles.

  For example, Zhou Botong's "Mutual Exchange of Left and Right" can allow one person to use two kinds of martial arts at the same time. Especially if it is two complementary martial arts, it can even double your combat power. One person uses "Yu Nu Su Xin Jian", one person uses "Liang Yi Jian", one person uses "Fan Liang Yi Dao Fa"...

  For example, the "Ghost King" Wu Ruowu's 《Ghost King Xiang Shu》 can detect other people's friendliness towards oneself and see through others' disguises, detecting their actual strength...

  Qin, Qi, Shu and Hua are four of the hundreds of special skills in "Wulin Three Kingdoms". These four special skills not only complete some plot conditions but also bring damage bonuses to some martial arts.

  The extraordinary skill "Qin" or it should be called "Music" or "Sound", because this extraordinary skill contains not only the guqin, but also the sheng, flute, guqin and zheng. Learning the extraordinary skill "Qin" is a necessary prerequisite for learning several martial arts. For example, Huang Yaoshi's "Bihai Chao Sheng Qu"; Huang Zhonggong's "Seven Strings Invisible Sword"; Xie Xuan's "Jiusheng Dingyin Jian"...

  The extraordinary skill of "Chess", is also a necessary prerequisite for learning several martial arts. For example, the "Yi Jian Technique" of the "Goryeo Master" Fu Zai Lin; or completing the task of the "Qian Bian Wan Jie" Mu Sang Taoist to learn the "Shen Xing Bai Bian".

  The Book of Oddities, learning Zhang Cuishan's "Heavenly Dragon Slaying Skill"…

  Mysterious Art: Painting, a necessary skill for entering the demonic gate of 'Huajian Sect'.

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  Zhang Jin, in order to save face on the chessboard, gritted his teeth and spent skill points to learn the extraordinary skill of "Chess". Fortunately, although the four major extraordinary skills of qin, qi, shu, and hua were not insignificant in the game, they did not require a high number of skill points to learn. The difficulty of learning these skills in the game lay not in the huge consumption of skill points, but in finding a master.

  Due to these few oddities, there are really too few masters who can teach players high-level or even full-level skills. For example, NPCs who can learn the full-level "Qin" skill include only a handful of people such as Huang Yao Shi, Shang Xiu Fang, Lian Xiu Xiu, and Shi Qing Xuan. Even if you apprentice under Mei Zhuang's master Huang Zhong Gong, a music enthusiast, you can at most learn the 7th level "Qin Skill".

  Only a few people including Fu Qiaolin, Huang Yaoshi, Lu Miaozi and Wu Hua can learn the full-level "Qi" skill...

  Moreover, NPCs that can teach top-level skills like "Qin Qi Shu Hua" are either nomadic and randomly appear in some corner of the game world, or they are high-level bosses that require a series of complex tasks to be completed before they will accept you as an apprentice. Furthermore, the player's affinity with the NPC must reach a very high level before they will impart their knowledge. Therefore, acquiring several special skills in the game is quite difficult.

  Of course, these difficulties are nothing to Zhang Jin now, just like the "Rotten Ke God Machine" that has just appeared and disappeared in his hands. This top-level chess book that can learn chess skills up to level 10 is available in the modified system store for one copper plate per copy.

  Spent a copper coin to buy a chess manual, and spent over a thousand skill points to learn the tenth-level chess art of Zhang Jin. Suddenly, his mind was filled with countless chess manuals, and his stiff thinking on the chessboard seemed to become flexible and agile. Every move Liu Laoye made, he could think of dozens of countermeasures, all of which were ingenious; it was as if he had suddenly installed a pair of wise eyes, and he could see through Liu Laoye's intentions one by one.

  Thus, Zhang Jin's game with Old Man Liu underwent a sudden and dramatic change.

  Liu Lao Ye Zi's not-so-bad chess skills have now become full of loopholes in the eyes of Zhang Jin, a tenth-level chess player. The carefully laid traps by Liu Lao Ye Zi were also easily seen through one by one by Zhang Jin.

  The troops marched on the right path, but their strength was not enough; The troops took a strange route, and were all detected; Both the strange and the normal could not overcome, and Liu Lao's outcome can be imagined. What kind of one-sided slaughter is this? What kind of neat chopping of vegetables is this? What kind of smooth sweeping away of withered branches is this?...

  Just ten minutes into the third game, Zhang Jin used three pawns to cross the river and two horses to fly together, instantly killing off Old Man Liu. Having vented his anger, Zhang Jin temporarily forgot the pain of using up his skill points, and a smile similar to Old Man Liu's from ten minutes ago appeared on his face as he retorted with the same words, "How about it, old man? Want another game? This time I'll let you have a chariot."

  A debt in June is indeed repaid quickly.

  "Come again!" This time, it was Old Man Liu's turn to have a toothache.

  It was another ten or so minutes later that Old Liu had no choice but to concede defeat once again. His forehead was dripping with sweat, it was unclear whether it was from the intensity of the game or the heat of the weather.

  "Come again!" Old Master Liu's eyes had already begun to redden.

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  Two hours later, Zhang Jin's low stool was replaced by a recliner. The tense mood that required careful consideration of every step also changed to lying on the recliner, drinking tea, smoking and browsing the internet while waiting for Liu Lao to make his move before taking another step.

  Finally, Old Man Liu carefully took a step back after a long deliberation, but when he saw Zhang Jin's swift response to that move, Old Man Liu once again put back the chess piece Zhang had just moved, "Not counted, not counted! Take it back, take it back!" The anxious-to-lose Old Man Liu no longer cared about his demeanor.

  For Liu's old master's nonsense, Zhang Jin still had that calm and unruffled expression, not arguing with him, his eyelids didn't even lift as he continued staring at the computer screen, saying in a light and airy tone: "Oh, suit yourself!"

  That look of being above the crowd, that calm and collected air of having already won, that majestic pose of a wolf that seems to have reached the realm of "overlooking all mountains" makes people who see it want to pounce on it and take a bite, just to satisfy their itching teeth. Arrogant, nakedly arrogant!

  Another ten or so minutes passed, and this game of chess finally came to an end. Even with Old Man Liu regretting his moves and desperately trying to salvage the situation, he still couldn't escape the fate of losing for the seventh time that afternoon.

  "My mind is a bit muddled, I'll make my next move after I clear my head!" Having been lightly and elegantly checkmated by Zhang Jin, Liu Lao Da Ye finally temporarily gave up his intention to continue suffering on the chessboard.

  "Suit yourself!" Zhang Jin still had that insipid and arrogant attitude. Liu Lao Yezi's stomach was even more suffocated, and he couldn't help but say angrily: "Don't be smug, didn't you also lose to me two rounds today?"

  "Oh, you're talking about the first two rounds? Those are yours!" Zhang Jin, still staring at the screen, casually retorted with a tone that could kill.

  Zhang Jin's words were even more infuriating, but to Liu Lao's ears, they sounded completely credible. Leaving aside the first two games that he had won himself, Zhang Jin's chess skills in the subsequent games were truly terrifying and dealt a severe blow to the old man's confidence. He didn't know that there was a system called "Wulin Three Kingdoms" that could turn an instant loser at Chinese chess into a grandmaster.

  Although being blocked by Zhang Jin's words, Liu Lao Ye Zi had already come up with a childish idea and was not willing to admit defeat easily. After panting for a few breaths, he thought of an idea: "Today's Go game is yours, but tomorrow I'll have someone send over a Weiqi set, and we'll play Weiqi." After careful consideration, he realized that with Zhang Jin's terrifying chess skills, it seemed hopeless to win back in Go. Therefore, Liu Lao Ye Zi shifted his hopes to finding an opportunity to regain the upper hand in Weiqi, which he was more skilled at.