I Have a Compass for Opportunity

In this game, Liou Yuan pondered for a long time, as the difficulty of each game inexplicably increases.

The difficulty of this third game is at least three times that of the second.

Between the black and white formations, there lies a hidden large array, where the white pieces must resolve the black’s attack predicament while ensuring they are not destroyed by the concealed formation.

"This game somewhat resembles the array-breaking method I learned from the ’Five Elements Birth and Destruction Array Derivation.’"

Liou Yuan watched intently.

The ’Five Elements Birth and Destruction Array Derivation’ not only includes methods for array synergy but also methods for breaking arrays.

It involves raising an array on the side that needs to break an array, attacking with an array, and breaking with an array.

Liou Yuan mainly focused on the synergy methods, barely touching the array-breaking methods.

Fortunately, his array skills are considerable, and he can apply what he’s learning on the spot just in time.

Knowledge of the Five Elements Birth and Destruction Array Derivation flashed through his mind rapidly, and in what was merely the time for a cup of tea to brew, he understood it.

Zheng Lifeng and the surrounding cultivators with a grasp of arrays held their breath, eyes wide as they watched the chess game and the contemplative Liou Yuan standing at the table.

The first game, everyone could understand to some extent.

By the second game, even Zheng Lifeng found his mind swelling, and others were utterly lost.

As for the third game, it seemed like a celestial script to everyone present.

Only Liou Yuan understood, grasping a white piece in his fingers, hesitating to place it.

Seeing this, the cultivators began speculating about his identity.

Apart from the Qingxiao Sect disciples, how could the loose cultivators of Qingbao County know that Liou Yuan was the array master who restored the Qingxiao Sect’s Star Shining Celestial Array?

"Ha!" After another cup of tea’s worth of time, Liou Yuan suddenly smiled, confidently placing the white piece onto the board.

He found a glimmer of hope in the crevice between the black array and the hidden large array.

Before the smile could spread across his face.

"Tap!" The man sitting opposite him nonchalantly placed a piece, blocking Liou Yuan’s path forward once again.

The board seemed to come alive with the man’s brilliant move, and the black side of the board erupted with deep, dark energy.

Liou Yuan furrowed his brows, and after yet another moment.

Holding another white piece, he placed it down.

Tap! This time, the brilliance of the white piece overshadowed the black, and the hidden arrangement that both sides had hinted at collapsed under this move.

The man across the table smiled, a rare expression.

He gave Liou Yuan a deep look, indicating for him to start the fourth game.

The fourth game’s turn, even Liou Yuan struggled to see clearly.

The black and white pieces each formed an array, with another hidden array beneath each side — a total of four arrays, all concealed within the two-foot-wide board.

Any move from either side would invoke the response of all four arrays, pulling a single thread that sets the entire body in motion.

"This is a tough one!" Liou Yuan rubbed his forehead, self-assured that few could rival his array mastery below the Foundation Establishment level.

But looking at this board made his head spin.

Upon closer inspection, it seemed like four great arrays were rising from the board before Liou Yuan’s eyes, occupying the east, south, west, and north.

The swirling array aura in the board seemed heavy upon Liou Yuan’s chest, making him slightly breathless.

No one else could sense the pressure Liou Yuan felt, they only saw his face suddenly turn pale.

Bu Moying, being obsessed with the Alchemy Dao, had no knowledge of arrays.

He only saw Liou Yuan break the third game effortlessly, which filled his heart with confidence that Liou Yuan could break the fourth game too.

But Liou Yuan’s expression told him something was amiss, prompting him to ask Zheng Lifeng, "Junior Brother, do you think Mr. Liou can break this fourth game?"

Zheng Lifeng barely understood the second game, the third was beyond his array knowledge.

As for the fourth game, just one glance made everything go dark for him, muttering continuously, "Hard, too hard!"

"Even a Foundation Establishment Array Master couldn’t break this game."

"If a Foundation Establishment Array Master couldn’t break it, then is this game unsolvable?" Bu Moying frowned, his gaze flitting past Liou Yuan to the man across the table.

The latter picked up the teapot again, drinking alone, strangely without any tea fragrance but instead with a peculiar, subtly sweet scent.

At this juncture, Bu Moying too began to suspect the man’s identity.

"I wonder which Foundation Establishment Array Master is passing through Qingbao County."

Time slowly passed as Liou Yuan was completely absorbed in the board, his senses disconnected from the outside world.

When he opened his eyes, all he could see were the four array illusions gradually rising from the board.

These four arrays became increasingly familiar to Liou Yuan.

They resembled the four Peak Qi Cultivation Arrays from the ’Five Elements Birth and Destruction Array Derivation.’

Golden Essence Breaking Mountain Array, Cold River Illusionary Water Array, Spirit Wood Profound Void Array, Flowing Fire Falling Flame Array.

Yet subtle differences were present.

But what’s certain is that these four arrays’ power does not fall short of the Peak Qi Cultivation Arrays in the Five Elements Birth and Destruction Array Derivation.

The arrays interlink and give birth to one another.

The method they employ is none other than the birth and synergy taught in ’Five Elements Birth and Destruction Array Derivation.’

The array similar to the Flowing Fire Falling Flame Array, when combined with the other three, reached the power of a Foundation Establishment array.

"Could this senior be from the same sect as the senior Han Zhenzi?"

For the first time, Liou Yuan saw the synergy method from ’Five Elements Birth and Destruction Array Derivation’ applied by another array master besides himself.

And it ’coincidentally’ happened to be ’encountered’ by himself.

Clearly, this person came specifically for him.