School Beauty's Personal Crazy Young Master

Chapter 654: Chapter 730: Concentration Fruit Tree

On the chessboard, the pieces of both black and white seemed completely chaotic at first glance, yet beneath the surface lay a heaven-shocking Killing Array.

Not only was Chen Nan strategizing, but the elder was doing the same.

After two games, each had come to understand the other’s style of play, and the elder was also laying a trap specifically designed to counter Chen Nan.

In this game, at the outset, both players were still, neither showing the slightest hint of aggression.

When the game reached the halfway point, the elder’s killing intent gradually started to show, his Killing Array slowly taking shape, initiating an attack on Chen Nan.

Chen Nan remained as immovable as a mountain, focused solely on defense, without the slightest intention of aggression.

By the time two-thirds of the game had passed, the elder’s Killing Aura was sky-high, attacking with wide opening and closing moves, every piece played ringing with strength, posing a lethal threat to Chen Nan’s pieces.

At a glance, Chen Nan appeared completely at a disadvantage, the entire board seemingly under the control of the elder’s black pieces.

However, Chen Nan was not in a hurry.

After staring at the board in silence for a while, he looked up at the elder and said, ”I’m going to counterattack now, Senior, be careful.”

The elder responded with a light smile and made a welcoming gesture, signaling Chen Nan to proceed without reservation.

”Dang...”

With a light sound, Chen Nan placed his piece.

Suddenly, the situation on the board changed drastically, as Chen Nan’s previously deadlocked position suddenly burst with life.

The elder’s eyebrows knitted tightly, his eyes fixated on the board, showing an expression of disbelief. After a long while, he picked up a piece and continued to attack.

By this time, the foundation of Chen Nan’s Killing Array had been set. As he placed down a piece, another Killing Array was triggered, causing the elder to appear somewhat distressed. After Chen Nan continued with five consecutive moves, the elder’s expression drastically changed.

One after another, the hidden Killing Arrays were triggered by Chen Nan, and the situation on the board had become evenly matched, with neither side having a clear advantage.

”Young Brother Chen, you need to be cautious as well!”

As the elder spoke, he played another piece, activating his hidden trap, reversing the situation once again, with the elder gaining the upper hand.

Observing the board, Chen Nan’s face remained as calm as a gentle breeze and soft clouds. He picked up a piece and placed it down calmly.

Instantly, it was as if a fierce Killing Aura swept across the entire board, and Chen Nan’s pieces, in that moment, seemed to transform into an army of thousands, like an Asura army with its killing intent soaring to the heavens.

All of the Killing Arrays he had set up were triggered in an instant.

Like a nuclear bomb explosion, the intense Killing Aura enveloped all directions, and the tide of the board had completely turned in favor of Chen Nan.

The elder stared blankly at the board, his face full of amazement.

He simply couldn’t believe what was happening before his eyes. Chen Nan’s trap was too well concealed, and he didn’t realize until he had lost that there were no more moves for him to make.

Unmoving as a mountain, but when it moved, it was lethal.

Such a formidable opponent was something the elder had never encountered before.

It took a while for the elder to recover from his astonishment. He then looked at Chen Nan and asked, ”Could it be, is this the legendary Yin Yang Eight Diagrams?”

”Senior has good insight.”

Chen Nan nodded in acknowledgment.

He had learned the Yin Yang Eight Diagrams from Xuan Tianji.

In the game of chess, this was a fatal trap with sixty-four variations, each as naturally perfect as the last, combining offense and defense in a way that was impossible to guard against. When used to its fullest extent, it was unbreakable by anyone.

In the history of chess, it had been heralded as one of the three great Ultimate Kills.

However, such traps are typically used in the endgame. To deceive one’s opponent as Chen Nan had, waiting until the end to counterattack, required in-depth chess skills and a strong control over the game.

Under the heavens, very few could employ the Yin Yang Eight Diagrams to such an extent.

The elder, although well-versed in many Killing Arrays, admitted that he couldn’t use them as freely as Chen Nan, keeping them hidden in the game until the last moment to deliver a fatal blow to his opponent.

”So many young heroes on Huaxia Land, you are the only one who has earned my admiration,” he said.

”Senior flatters me, I am overwhelmed by your praise,” Chen Nan replied.

”I know that you are pressed for time, so I won’t hold you up any longer. In the future, we’ll have a chance for a proper contest,” the elder said cheerfully, despite having lost the game. He pointed to the side and continued, ”Just keep walking this way, and you’ll enter the Fifth Level challenge.”

Chen Nan thanked him and turned to walk to the right.

The Black Feathered Chicken followed closely and couldn’t help but remark, ”I didn’t expect you to be so skilled in Go.”

”Nonsense, who do you think your master Chen is?”

Chen Nan swelled with pride, casting a contemptuous look at the Black Feathered Chicken before strutting away.

”It’s just a damn game of chess, what are you so smug about!” the Black Feathered Chicken muttered under its breath, flapping its wings as it followed.

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Following the direction indicated by the elder, Chen Nan continued forward.

As the sky gradually darkened, no other souls appeared ahead, prompting the Black Feathered Chicken to express its doubts, ”Kid, that old man didn’t deceive us, did he?”

Chen Nan shook his head firmly, ”Certainly not.”

”How can you trust him so much?” the chicken scorned.

”You can tell a person’s character from their style of play,” Chen Nan responded coolly.

”That sounds unreliable...”

The Black Feathered Chicken tapped its head with a wing, muttering skeptically, but Chen Nan didn’t wait and had already gone about ten meters ahead.

Under the moonlight, a man and a chicken strode through the forest.

By close to midnight, Chen Nan himself wasn’t sure how far they had traveled, even suspecting they had walked beyond the boundary of the mountain where the Famous Medicine Mountain Villa was located. However, at this moment, a garden appeared in front of them.

Walls encircled the garden on all sides, with only a large gate at the front, atop which four stone-carved characters read: Ningshen Orchard.

The gate was wide open, with no one to be seen inside.

The Black Feathered Chicken exclaimed excitedly, ”Kid, we’ve made it, we’ve made it!”

”Weren’t there supposed to be a Fifth Level test?”

As Chen Nan walked over, he also felt something was off.

”Why bother about that, we’re here, that’s all that matters,” the Black Feathered Chicken said enthusiastically, flapping its wings. ”Maybe we inadvertently bypassed the Fifth Level challenge on the way here, let’s just go in and pick the Concentration Fruits!”

”You have a point!”

Chen Nan nodded and made his way toward the Medicine Garden.

”Is anyone there?”

When he reached the entrance to the Medicine Garden, Chen Nan called out, but there was no answer from inside.

The Black Feathered Chicken seemed even more anxious than Chen Nan, shouting, ”Who cares if there’s anyone, just hurry up and go pick the fruit.”

Chen Nan ran inside.

However, the garden was empty, overgrown with weeds everywhere.

After searching for a while, Chen Nan finally spotted three trees about one meter tall, surrounded by thickets of grass. If one wasn’t looking carefully, they’d be difficult to find.

A jolt of excitement shot through him – the Concentration Fruit Trees!