Chess Saint's Legacy

Murong Yue's face was pale, but a joyful smile bloomed on it. "Thank you for your guidance, Senior Xu!"

If it weren't for Xu Yan playing chess with her, allowing the Great Dao to baptize her, she felt it would have taken at least another year or so to break through to the Spiritual Roaming Realm.

Xu Yan was taken aback. "Miss, do you have a masochistic tendency?"

This time, when he played chess with Murong Yue, he hadn't held back at all. Instead, he had gone all out, leaving Murong Yue completely unable to resist.

Could such a brutal match still bring pleasure to the one being beaten?

"Senior Xu is joking. How could I possibly have such a preference?" Murong Yue felt that Xu Yan might have misunderstood her and replied.

She had heard that some cultivators had strange quirks, but she definitely didn't. She was a proper, upright cultivator.

BOOM!

Just then, a dazzling radiance appeared from the foot of Tianren Mountain outside Tianren City, shooting straight into the sky.

Everyone in the Tianren Mountain area could clearly see the beam of light. Everyone had a premonition that something extraordinary was about to emerge.

"Senior Xu, this sudden beam of light might be related to a special situation. I need to head back now." Murong Yue stared at the beam of light for several seconds before saying to Xu Yan.

This situation strongly resembled a treasure emerging. She needed to go back and inform the Murong Family.

"Please, go ahead, Miss."

Xu Yan couldn't be happier for Murong Yue to leave quickly. Why would he try to stop her?

Murong Yue left swiftly, as if afraid the treasure would be snatched up by someone else.

Xu Yan stood outside his shop, gazing at the beam of light. "I wonder what it is, to have such a grand display."

Treasures emerging would indeed cause anomalies; he had heard of such things. But whether it was a treasure or not, he didn't care. It had nothing to do with him anyway.

With cultivators around, no treasure would ever fall into the hands of a mere Mortal like him.

"That is the place where the Chess Saint entered Nirvana,"

The Golden Emperor Ant, perched on Xu Yan's shoulder, suddenly spoke.

The Chess Saint was his disciple. He had always been very obedient to his words back then, doing whatever he was told.

It was a pity that the Chess Saint had ultimately perished...

That was the Chess Saint's Nirvana site, and within it lay the Chess Saint's inheritance.

Visions flashed through the Golden Emperor Ant's mind.

The Chess Saint was a good child.

Perhaps he would stay in Tianren City for a long time, partly because of the Chess Saint.

This place was the Chess Saint's hometown.

It was also where the Chess Saint entered Nirvana.

"Chess Saint? Sounds pretty impressive," Xu Yan remarked upon hearing this.

Just hearing the name "Chess Saint" suggested a master of chess. He wondered how he compared to himself.

"Master, aren't you going to take a look?" the Golden Emperor Ant asked.

In reality, it was the ant itself that wanted to see who would obtain the Chess Saint's inheritance.

"Would it be inappropriate for me to get involved in something like this?" Xu Yan mused.

He was just a Mortal. What if some cultivator took a disliking to him and swatted him dead with a single palm?

The Golden Emperor Ant replied, "Master, it's alright. Just take a distant look, and know the final outcome."

After so many years, the Chess Saint's inheritance cave dwelling had opened, stirring his long-dormant heart.

"Alright, let's see what kind of treasure is emerging. I've never seen such a grand spectacle before." Xu Yan agreed.

He himself was very curious to see it, and with the Golden Emperor Ant's persuasion, he decided to investigate.

Xu Yan brought Su Jiuer and the Golden Emperor Ant along and set off from the What Are You Looking At Small Shop.

Along the way, people flocked towards the foot of Tianren Mountain. Not just cultivators, but even more so, the Mortals of Tianren City.

These Mortals were there to watch the excitement. Wherever there was excitement, crowds would surely gather.

At the foot of Tianren Mountain, three Evil Cultivators from the Evil God Palace were dumbfounded.

It was one thing for the cave dwelling to erupt in a ten-thousand-foot radiance, but it had also produced a chessboard formed by the Spiritual Power of a formation.

When the inheritance began to open, the formation was activated. This formation was a game of chess.

If they could win, they could break the formation and enter the cave dwelling. If they couldn't break it, the formation would persist, and the cave dwelling would be enveloped by the formation's power, forming a barrier.

"Hall Master Mu, what do we do? This game of chess is simply impossible to win!" the Fat Helmsman shouted desperately at Hall Master Mu after losing to the formation for the umpteenth time.

The three of them had tried several times already. They couldn't even last ten moves, let alone break the formation.

Hall Master Mu's face was grim. He said in a deep voice, "Those above only said that the Chess Saint's inheritance cave dwelling was here and about to emerge. They didn't say it would cause such a commotion, nor did they mention a formation based on the Way of Chess."

He was particularly irritable now. He had originally planned to use the Black Blood Pill to divert the Tianren Sect's attention to Tianren City, so they wouldn't interfere with their acquisition of the Chess Saint's inheritance.

The Chess Saint's legacy directly released a beam of light. Now, the entire Tianren Mountain area, and perhaps even farther, must know. Their plan, which wasted so many Black Blood Pills, has also become useless.

What gave him a bigger headache was that this Way of Chess formation was impossible to break. Trying to win a game against the Chess Saint? How could that be possible?

Even if it was just a formation set up by the Chess Saint, its power would likely be less than a tenth of the Chess Saint's true strength, but it was still not something cultivators like them could break.

The thin Hall Master couldn't help but speak, "Hall Master Mu, why don't we retreat first? It shouldn't be long before people from the Tianren Sect and other forces arrive."

They weren't afraid of the Tianren Sect, but if the Tianren Sect joined forces with other powerful factions, the three of them wouldn't be able to stop them.

"Let's go. We'll hide in the shadows. If someone breaks the formation, we'll seize the opportunity to snatch the Chess Saint's legacy item!"

Hall Master Mu had no other options and could only make a strategic retreat.

Whoosh!

Not long after Hall Master Mu and the fat and thin Hall Masters left, Qin Tian arrived.

Looking at the cave dwelling emitting endless radiance, Qin Tian exclaimed in surprise, "Could this be the legacy of the legendary Chess Saint?"

He certainly knew that a great figure, known as the Chess Saint, who possessed unparalleled talent in the Way of Chess, had lived in this area a long time ago.

"Grandpa, let's go in and take a look," Qin Yudie said, eager to try.

The surrounding areas of Tianren Mountain had all heard the legends of the Chess Saint, as he was the pride of their region, the hometown of a truly monumental figure.

Qin Tian nodded and walked towards the cave dwelling with Qin Yudie.

However, when they were less than ten meters away from the cave dwelling, the formation's light appeared, and a chessboard materialized before their eyes.

On the side of the chessboard closest to the cave dwelling, there was a semi-illusory figure.

Clearly, they needed to defeat this figure, conjured by the formation, to break it.

"Is the Chess Saint's legacy trial playing chess?" Qin Tian asked with great interest.

It was only natural for the Chess Saint's legacy to have a trial, after all, the Chess Saint certainly wouldn't want his legacy to fall into the hands of some lucky individual with no real ability.

Qin Yudie stepped forward, full of confidence, and said, "Let me try first!"