I Don't Want to Get Hurt, So I'll Max Out My Defense Chapter 1238

Chapter 1238: Chapter 1239: Divine Hand Chapter 1238: Chapter 1239: Divine Hand “Kid, got any tricks up your sleeve?”

Ergouzi asked.

“Just watch.”

Li Xiaobai, brimming with confidence thanks to the little yellow chicken, thought of a sure-win strategy and strode into the Heavenly Secrets Tower, taking a seat before the chessboard and desk.

“Elder, we meet again, no rush, right?”

“How about a little chat first?”

Li Xiaobai said cheerfully, casually grabbed a handful of white chess pieces from his basket, and tossed them out the window.

But in the next second, the missing white pieces in the basket restored themselves to their original state.

Obviously, this little cleverness was pointless, which was also within Li Xiaobai's expectations.

A line of small characters condensed on the desk: “Let's begin!”

“Don't rush, elder. You set up this chess game just to find a true master to spar with, right?”

“Now the real master is sitting right before you, why hurry? This junior needs to mull over the emotions of making a move. How about you chat with me, and I'll let you lose clearly in a while!”

Li Xiaobai said with a chuckle.

Another line of small characters formed on the desk: “Speak!”

“Who is the owner of this great tomb?”

Li Xiaobai's eyes lit up as he immediately asked, acknowledging that the Heavenly Secrets Tower has a conscious presence, more than just a heartless chess-playing machine.

There was no change on the chessboard; the will remained silent, clearly having no intention of answering.

Li Xiaobai asked again: “Then you must know about the crystal in the big tomb, which seals an old man inside, right? Truth be told, I have a friend who looks exactly like him. Do you know what's going on?”

The chessboard was still silent, showing no intention to answer Li Xiaobai's question.

Li Xiaobai pondered, casually picked up his own basket of chess pieces, and started to play with it with interest.

“Then elder, these past days you must have seen the man who looks exactly like the old man in the crystal, right?”

“How is he now, has he encountered any danger?”

Li Xiaobai continued to inquire.

This time, there was a change on the chess desk, the answer was still succinct, two words: “No.”

Xiao Lao Di was just trapped, with no danger to his life, but it was clear from the chessboard's response that the Heavenly Secrets Tower within the great underground tomb had the ability to see everything, even the events inside the Bronze Great Hall, a power not to be underestimated.

“How did he get trapped, and how can the demon rescue him?”

Li Xiaobai played with a black piece in his hand, and slowly asked.

The chessboard fell into silence again, no response. He switched to a few different questions and got no reaction from the chessboard, as if that one previous answer was all that the opponent was willing to give.

After figuring out the attitude of the chessboard, Li Xiaobai didn't ask any more, raised his basket of pieces and said, “Since elder is unwilling to talk more, shall we get straight to it?”

The characters on the chessboard twisted and materialized.

“Please!”

“This round I'm playing the black pieces, I go first, right?”

“Yes!”

“Well, since that's the case, then I'll be grateful, elder, you've lost!”

Li Xiaobai slapped his hand on the desk, and with a snap, the whole chessboard was instantly filled with black pieces, leaving no room for white pieces to be played.

While he was asking questions, his hands were certainly not idle. It wasn't a simple fiddling with chess pieces; he had stuck all the chess pieces in the Go basket together into a neat block, perfectly enough to cover the whole Go board.

Originally, the pieces in the Go basket could only fill half the board, but Heavenly Secrets Tower had a rule that autonomously replenished pieces in the Go basket, which he exploited to directly fill up the board.

The Go board table remained silent, without a response for several seconds, as if it too was shocked by Li Xiaobai's tactic.

“Senior, does this move, 'Divine Hand,' catch your eye?”

“May I proceed?”

Li Xiaobai said with a smile, no matter the process, in the end, on the board, there were more black pieces than white – he had won.

A few breaths later, the Go board formed a line of small words: “You won!”

“My respects.”

Li Xiaobai stood up, signaling Ergouzi to step up to the second floor.

“Woof!”

“Kid, Lord Buddha has got a whole new level of respect for you now, your brain's really sharp!”

Ergouzi, with a goofy smile, hadn't expected to break the game so easily. It seemed that reaching the third floor wouldn't be a difficult task at all!

“Too kind of you.”

The second floor was structured like the first, with a table, a chair, a Go board, and two Go baskets, waiting for a destined player.

“Senior, here I am!”

Li Xiaobai went up and, without a word, began to knead and stick together the pieces from the Go basket, so fast that it made Ergouzi gape in amazement.

This round, Li Xiaobai played the white pieces, and the opponent moved first.

The Go board was very proper, playing its piece on a corner star point, waiting for Li Xiaobai's next move.

“Slap!”

Old trick, Li Xiaobai slapped a white block onto the board, and in an instant, the board was left with only one black piece, the rest a blanket of white.

“Master, I've won again.”

“Everyone in Heavenly Secrets Tower, don't your levels communicate? Winning so easily makes me feel guilty.”

Li Xiaobai cheerfully went up to the third floor. The first and second floors were child's play; the games were too rigid. If you seriously competed against someone, it would be a silent and fierce battle, as the players would slaughter each other until heaven and earth darkened. Perhaps even like Chess Saint who once elevated the gameplay to a direct battle of Go doctrines, a slight misstep could shatter both theory and foundation.

But if you tried a different method, you could progress effortlessly.

One man and one dog gleefully went up to the third floor. After they left, both the table and the Go baskets on the first and second floors vanished after a phase of dematerialization, removing the chess pieces to prevent Li Xiaobai's cheating method as their final act of defiance.

Third floor.

This was a rooftop with a Go board set up, the same one on which Chess Saint had lost his game.

“Kid, if we keep winning like this, we'll soon be able to enter the real tomb!”

Ergouzi was excited.

“The third floor is different from the two below, the old method won't work, need to think of something new.”

Li Xiaobai sat pondering. There were two Go baskets on the board as before, the one by his side was white, indicating that after he played black last time, the order of play had changed.

“The key is the center point; let's block off this bit first, block it off and you can't win.”

Li Xiaobai muttered to himself, his wrist turning to condense Hellfire into a small shovel, beginning to dig into the board. Hellfire could burn anything, but it was ultimately too low-level to devour a Magic Treasure like the Go board – it would take eons. After chiseling for a moment, the board was only blackened a bit, and even that singe quickly restored itself.

“Dug-out method is a no-go, how did Xiao Lao Di manage to get through this?”

At that moment, a row of small characters formed on the Go board: “Start after three breaths.”

Li Xiaobai nodded, grabbed the dead yellow chick in his arms and blocked the central point with it, and said indifferently, “Alright, shall we begin?”

Chapter end

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