Crow and Egret

The flying sword on the membrane and the leap on the membrane are actually the same thing. It is to use the membrane surface to rise and fall in dimensions for displacement. In any case, it is to combine the body with the sword. Li Fan's black hole Dao body is much more powerful than the flying sword. In addition, there is the suddenness of the membrane surface teleportation. As long as the position is calculated accurately and the black hole is thrown there, it will be over. It can directly suck people to death. Even the Blood God Child cannot escape. That's what Li Fan said.

Of course, this move also requires a casting time. Currently, Li Fan's Tai Sha Star Core gravity range is only three inches inside the human chest cavity, so the accuracy of the target's location is quite high. If that Blood God Child keeps moving around, it won't be so easy to catch him.

Therefore, it is best to use this technique when you have the assistance of Divine Sense, can visually estimate the distance, and when the opponent is not moving. In this way, the speed of the 'sword strike' depends entirely on the speed of mental calculation.

Just like this time, using the body of the Tai Su Wei Chen Dao Body as a decoy to attract the enemy's attention, and then secretly projecting the Tai Sha Star Core to kill people invisibly. Even cultivators in the Enlightenment Stage Realm who are unprepared will suffer losses, and those in the Transformation Stage can be killed instantly.

Of course, even without this move, Li Fan could still easily defeat a Nascent Divine Transformation. All his current moves are designed and planned with Chen Jinu as the hypothetical enemy. Li Fan knows very well that the next time his opponent appears in front of him, he will definitely be ready to pierce the star core with his sword.

In a fight, he would probably only have one chance to turn the tables. If he couldn't hit the opponent, or if he could hit them but still couldn't destroy them, he would lose. So now he is studying a bunch of Daoist techniques and trying to improve many tricks, but he only kept the ones that he estimated could cause devastating damage to a sword immortal of Chen Jinu's level. Otherwise, they are just trash.

Li Fan has high hopes for this new technique, the flying sword on the membrane, or rather, the flying hole on the membrane.

If Chen Jinu seizes the initiative and transforms into Profound Heaven Sword Intent to strike with his sword, as long as he cannot instantly pierce Chen Jinu's Tai Sha Star Core, Li Fan can jump and shift the Star Core, projecting it onto Chen Jinu's sword intent to destroy its core in turn.

To achieve this seemingly simple leap, the most demanding requirement is computing power.

Not knowing when the system upgrade would be completed, Li Fan could only devote himself to studying mathematics, frantically practicing problems, solving them whenever he saw someone, and seizing every opportunity to practice until he became proficient.

"Hmm... this is a superior Daoist technique from Mount Song."

Originally intending to just pass by, Li Fan wasn't in a hurry to leave since the Divine Cult's protector had come to his death. With his right hand, he calculated and observed the Xuanmen's Snow Mountain Formation, while his left hand pointed and gestured. He controlled the Blood God Child like a sword, circling the Blood Sea Sword Formation surrounding the mountain like a crimson meteor. He then shattered and devoured the blood body fragment left behind by the protector who had been controlling the formation, and absorbed all the essence blood on the ground, refining it for his own use. With a wave of his hand, he took away the other party's Blood Sea Sword Formation.

Although the Xuanmen (Daoist sects) often say that there are no powerful Cultivation Method, only powerful cultivators, it must be admitted that the methods and supernatural powers of the Blood Talisman God Sect are truly exceptional, and can be said to be the most superior methods.

For example, the Blood Sea Sword Formation, refined to attack mountains, will not dissipate even if its master is killed. Moreover, the remaining divine blood can be taken away by the followers using the Blood Register method and refined and used by the Blood God Child Great Law. In this way, the primordial spirit can be reincarnated and the theology can be passed down. No wonder the divine Daoist Tradition is so difficult to eradicate.

In this way, he obtained the divine knowledge left behind by the protector, making the Blood God Child's clone much more refined. While it flew back and hovered around the sword finger held vertically in Li Fan's left hand, Li Fan's right hand also completed the calculation, seeing through the Qi flow node of the Songshan Ice Mountain defensive formation and the key to breaking the formation.

Having figured it out anyway, and with a "let's give it a try" attitude, Li Fan casually pointed three times, commanding the Blood God Child to break the formation.

The Xuanmen cultivators inside the ice mountain were shocked to see the blood array attacking the mountain suddenly broken. Before they could even catch their breath, a red line shot out, piercing the Dark Underworld Ice Mountain Array three times like a needle.

In an instant! Ice explodes and avalanches occur! Mountains crumble and the earth shatters! Huge icebergs break apart! Solid ice shatters and snow collapses! The mountain formation is utterly destroyed!

Caught off guard, the cultivators within the formation instinctively tried to salvage the situation. However, when such a grand formation collapses, how could human strength possibly stop it? Rashly attempting to resist with one's own energy was akin to trying to withstand an avalanche. Instantly, those within the formation were backlashed by the violent and out-of-control Dao energy. Those who were lucky enough to have 30-50% of their meridians destroyed, their shinbones shattered, and spit out blood were merely spared. Those who were unlucky were directly struck by the Dark Nether Dao Breath, their entire bodies turning into ice sculptures, and they perished on the spot!

The core magic treasure couldn't withstand the sudden surge of array power. It let out a miserable cry from the darkness, and with a soft crack, the bottle shattered, leaving countless spiderweb-like cracks. It was directly and severely injured and sealed!

The others who were resting in the formation could only desperately try to escape. They couldn't care less about the seriously injured people in the formation around them. They were all focused on their own survival. However, many Dao Breath were exhausted and unable to escape from the collapsed snow mountain. They were directly buried by the solid ice and snow!

From Li Fan's perspective, he had just given it a try, and he hadn't expected the snow mountain formation to be so fragile. In just three strikes, it collapsed with a 'bang!' and a 'crash!', burying the valley in a blanket of white snow.

"..."

Li Fan did some more calculations and found that there were one or two cultivators who had survived this calamity, but they had no connection with him. So he shrugged and left.

Everyone's out cultivating immortality now; even those at the Nascent Soul Stage are over a thousand years old. They'll have to face their own tribulations.

Then Li Fan did some calculations, chose the nearest storyline, and flew straight to the next mountain.

Here are two old men playing chess in the mountains. Playing chess in such a desolate and windy place is certainly not something normal people would do. Judging from their appearance, one is a Daoist priest in green robes and the other is a sorcerer in red robes. They are both at the Transformation Stage, so they are probably old enemies from the Xuan Sect God Sect having a magical duel.

Li Fan also sensed that the two of them had set up a barrier formation to prevent others from disturbing them. However, since he could practice his arithmetic skills, he couldn't miss the opportunity. So he casually calculated a way to break the formation. Instead of forcibly breaking the formation, he simply used his escape light to enter the formation and flew all the way to the edge of the chessboard to take a look.

The two were playing a game called "Wu Lu," a very popular game among cultivators. The black pieces resembled crows, and the white pieces resembled herons. The black and white pieces were interspersed with crows and herons, and it was actually a type of Go. The rules of the game were similar to those in Li Fan's previous world, with only some minor differences. For example, white usually moves first, and there are different calculation methods and rules for counting points, placing stones, and finishing the game.

Of course, Li Fan had only learned about it briefly. At his current beginner level in the Five Arts, he was far from capable of playing this game. Only mathematicians who had reached a very high level in mathematics would use the crow to fight against other cultivators. Moreover, to be honest, most cultivators only used arithmetic as a tool to assist in their cultivation, and it was quite difficult to find someone who was evenly matched and could not be defeated within three moves to fight alongside them.

Therefore, there are very few people skilled in chess who are confident enough to engage in such a duel, and even fewer who happen to have an opponent who accepts the challenge. As a result, it is indeed rare to encounter two people in the wild PvP who do not fight to the death but instead sit down on the roadside and start a game. However, once it happens, and both sides are evenly matched, a game can last for hundreds or even thousands of years.

Of course, regardless of life or death, those who have reached the level of a calculator in the Five Arts of the Mysterious Sect also like to use this chess game or that chess game to compete and show off their skills. But those who dare to say that they are proficient in the Black and White Chess and often make strategic moves are mostly people who are at least Grandmasters of Arithmetic. It is even said that when the Mysterious Sect holds gatherings to compete for the Xuan Girl Heavenly Book and to compete for the title of Grandmaster of Arithmetic, the Black and White Chess game is usually used to decide the winner.

When it really comes down to this kind of chess battle, it's not just a simple game of chess anymore. Besides intelligence and strategy, it also requires a contest of skill and cultivation between the two sides.

Because this is a game of Go for cultivators, there are some special rules. For example, each piece is 'Qi', and the piece you place must have enough 'Qi' to be qualified to be placed on the board. Moreover, with each move you make, you can simultaneously fight with your opponent's primordial spirit. As long as you don't physically overturn the board and chop off someone's hand, it's not considered a foul. It can be said that you have to compete in terms of mental cultivation, making it an extremely dangerous contest.

After a game like this, when the winner is determined and the game ends, in addition to the pre-agreed winning and losing conditions, the Winner also receives the "Qi" contained in the captured pieces. So, in a fierce battle, hundreds of years of cultivation might be lost in a single game. If the opponent is ruthless, the player might be killed right after the game when their cultivation is exhausted.

There are even chess games where life is the sole purpose of gambling, with each move representing a lifespan; losing means instant death. This is especially true for Divine Transformation stuck at the peak of their Perfected Realm tribulation and with little time left. They might even wager their lives on a game of chess with another player. The Winner gets a few hundred more years of lifespan to try and win, while the loser loses all their cultivation, lifespan, and magical treasures, essentially ending up on a rooftop to enjoy the view, only to be reborn as a hero eighteen years later.

Sometimes, when the old masters of the Xuanmen (Daoist sects) foresee their impending tribulation but are too lazy to leave seclusion to undergo it, they simply invite their fellow disciples to a "Tribulation of the Black Crow," a small competition to avoid severe damage. This is considered a classic way to overcome a life-threatening tribulation.

The most skilled person in this field at Ink Bamboo Mountain is naturally the abbot. There is a rumor that when the abbot Li Country's number one diviner, and when he was penniless, he used the resources to rebuild Lou Guan, and many of the materials for alchemy were won by gambling with others. If it weren't for his special skill, Ink Bamboo Mountain might not exist in the world anymore.

The Sword Ancestor of Xuantian Hall is definitely a master here. Of course, he probably doesn't like playing this game because he's slow and unpleasant. But if they really played chess, he probably wouldn't lose. After all, the Beichen Sword Sect also has many Heavenly Star Sword Formations, which can only be set up by specifically studying the Zhou Tian Star Array based on the chess game. It's simply unacceptable that the sect leader can't even play chess.

Li Fan was familiar with the teaching methods of the Five Arts of the Xuanmen. Playing chess can be said to be a comprehensive contest between two cultivators, and the Winner can win decisively without resorting to bloodshed or tearing each other apart. In the Xuanmen, it can be said to be the most respected form of combat. Naturally, he could not miss this rare opportunity to watch the game. He did not cause any trouble when he entered the changing formation, but simply landed on the side and watched quietly.

Since he knew the rules, the two old gods glanced at him and then ignored him, continuing to play chess seriously.

While observing the game, Li Fan calculated the development of the game's direction, put himself in the other player's shoes to figure out how to respond, and deduced their strengths and weaknesses based on their playing styles and algorithms.

Although Li Fan wasn't a mathematical genius, thanks to his photographic memory and extensive practice of solving countless problems, Li Fan arithmetic skills had already improved significantly, even without the system's cheat code.

I started with the Four Elements Calculation Classic, built a foundation with the <Ten Books of Arithmetic> given by Yao Xuanzhou, and now my main course is the ancestral textbook Eighteen Flying Stars Calculation, which combines Lou Guan's arithmetic and astrology.

With Li Fan's current level, he'd have virtually no chance of passing the arithmetic exam at the Xuanmen sect; he'd be lucky to get 50 out of 100. But after studying the book "Heavenly Union Calculation" he got from Wangwu Mountain, he was no longer completely unable to understand the questions! Although he still couldn't solve them even if he understood them, it was still a huge improvement!

Therefore, Li Fan, now observing the game from the sidelines, was able to discern the underlying story from the methods the two divine lords used to calculate and strategize.

The protector of the Divine Sect simply clasped his hands together, lowered his brows and eyes, and a divine light flowed between his brows and eyes, with flashes of golden light. It was obvious that he was using the Divine Sect's <Inch of Heart Calculation>. Li Fan had specifically consulted Xuan Tian about this algorithm. It was a mental calculation algorithm and was also bound to the Divine Sect's Yuan Shen Mystic Technique. It was specially used to train the mind and Yuan Shen. Its characteristic was that it did not rely much on props or counting sticks and could be calculated very quickly in the mind.

The other Daoist priest went a bit further, using a counting rod compass and a method for arranging the counting rods. Li Fan glanced at it and could tell that it was probably from the Tianyu Jade Gate lineage, using the method of seeking dragons and observing feng shui. This school was also an ancient sect of the Xuanmen, whose ancestors mainly practiced feng shui. Lou Guan also used to tell fortunes and read faces, and his <Eighteen Flying Stars Calculation> had similar techniques, so he could recognize it.

This way, both sides would have a better understanding. Although Li Fan wouldn't dare to offer any pointers or break the game himself, he could tell that the Divine Cult's protector was likely to win this round again.

It's obvious that the Inch of Heart Calculation is more profound and faster. Moreover, the Divine Sect is also skilled in the method of the primordial spirit, which can interfere with the opponent's calculations after each move.

Moreover, the Xuanmen Divine Lord who was playing chess seemed to already be injured. Now, his calculations and deductions were becoming slower and slower. When he made a move, he had to concentrate on resisting the attacks of the Yuan Shen technique. Sometimes, he would hold the chess piece for a long time, not because he was hesitant about how to play, but because even though he had calculated it, he couldn't put the piece down.

As the outcome of the game became increasingly clear, the Daoist priest in blue robes from the Xuanmen sect suddenly spoke up.

"This fellow Daoist has entered this predicament; we must be destined to meet. I have a beneficial opportunity here that I would like to offer to you."

The cultist monks chuckled loudly.

"Pingyangzi, you're so old, yet you have no class at all. Are you afraid I won't let you reincarnate, or are you just a sore loser who doesn't want me to benefit anymore? You've resorted to such underhanded tactics; it's utterly tasteless."

The Daoist priest in green Pingyangzi, shook his head and said, "Chijin Godly Monarch has misunderstood. I am not one to break my word or accept defeat. I just foresaw that this fellow Daoist is destined to be with my Heming Mountain lineage. I still have some secret techniques that I have not yet passed on to my disciples. I would like to ask him to pass on a message when he meets his fellow disciples in the future."

Fellow Daoist, come closer, and I will tell you the location of the secret."

Upon hearing this, the Chijin Godly Monarch laughed and teleported away, saying, "I also think this fellow Daoist has a connection with my sect. How about you pass on a message to the Sect Leader for me, and I'll share some of my secret treasures with you?"

The two faced each other and laughed heartily for a while.

Li Fan chuckled, "Fellow Daoist, you've mistaken me. I'm from Emei, and have no connection whatsoever with Heming Mountain."

The Chijin Godly Monarch immediately fell silent.

Pingyangzi was also shocked, "You, from Emei, don't even know about Heming Mountain?"

Li Fan shrugged. "There are so many big and small sects in the Xuanmen, it's normal not to have heard of them. Are you guys that famous?"

Pingyangzi was speechless. "But our two mountains are less than three hundred li apart, and we attend every Peach Banquet..."

Li Fan: "... Oh, oh, now that you mention it, I remember! What a coincidence, fellow Daoist! Alas, I've been in seclusion for so long that I've forgotten! If you were also from Nine Great Xuan Sects, I would have remembered you. Please don't take offense."

Pingyangzi glanced at him sideways with a suspicious look.

Even the Chijin Godly Monarch couldn't hold back any longer and chimed in, "Isn't Heming Mountain considered a branch of Qingcheng Mountain? Weren't the previous generations always among the Nine Great Xuan Sects? You don't even know that? Are you really an Emei disciple?"

Li Fan, "..."

Then Pingyangzi and Chijin Godly Monarch exchanged a glance, and for a moment they stopped playing chess and started calculating wildly with their fingers as they looked at Li Fan.

"Ugh... Ah! So many of us were killed!"

"Oh... wait! It's not a person at all!"

Li Fan sighed, then pinched his hand, "Flying sword on the membrane!"