"Nangong Yifan, you probably haven't truly grasped the chess manual Strangest Arts Defeat Armies."
"The initial mastery of Strangest Arts Defeat Armies is about deploying formations. That's actually just a decoy — those formations are completely useless, far inferior even to the formations found in other chess manuals."
"That's why so many people are misled by the initial mastery, mistakenly believing Strangest Arts Defeat Armies is a useless manual, never realizing that it's simply the method by which Strangest Arts Defeat Armies discourages people from even trying."
"It's the intermediate mastery that truly begins to carry the essence of the Strangest Arts Defeat Armies manual — the ability to use chess power to control supreme treasures, making the world's supreme treasures serve you."
"You really are different from the average person. Your attainment in chess power is remarkable, because you discovered the intermediate mastery."
"But that is only the intermediate mastery of Strangest Arts Defeat Armies, not the ultimate mastery."
"The ultimate mastery of Strangest Arts Defeat Armies is to harness all the chess power in heaven and earth for yourself."
"I know that the manual you've been studying also has means of breaking the rules and controlling chess power."
"That's why you can do things others cannot — within this chess formation, you wield absolute dominance."
"But I can tell you clearly: every technique you've mastered, I've already mastered, and what I've mastered far surpasses yours."
"That's precisely why Strangest Arts Defeat Armies is the most difficult chess manual, while the one you've been studying is merely of intermediate level," Chu Feng said.
"So the ultimate mastery of Strangest Arts Defeat Armies is also about controlling chess power — and not just any chess power, but all the chess power in heaven and earth?"
"Does that mean this Chu Feng's chess power is even greater than Nangong Yifan's?"
After hearing Chu Feng's words, the juniors of the Myriad Heavens Starfield were shaken.
In that moment, those who had been brimming with confidence began to feel afraid.
They feared losing, feared failure — more than anyone else.
Those who fail often do not fear failure, because they've grown accustomed to it.
But those who have never known defeat cannot accept it. Should they fail, they would feel it was a stain on their entire life — something that would prevent them from ever holding their heads up again, something that would make their life no longer perfect.
And so, right now, the juniors of the Myriad Heavens Starfield were truly terrified. They feared that their legend of invincibility would be buried by Chu Feng.
"Cut the crap. What you cultivate is a heretical path — what I cultivate is the true orthodox of chess power."
"Right now, I'll show you what true chess power is really capable of."
With those words, Nangong Yifan pressed his palms together.
Rumble—
The heavens and earth began to tremble violently. The ground cracked apart, and even the void itself started to shatter.
At this moment, people could clearly see visible chess power erupting from Nangong Yifan's body like a volcanic explosion, rocketing straight into the sky.
Before long, that chess power actually took the form of a colossal dragon.
The dragon was enormous, stretching tens of thousands of meters in length.
"So powerful — truly too powerful."
Watching that dragon soar through heaven and earth, everyone's hairs stood on end, and their bodies trembled with excitement.
Consider this: within the chess formation, simply projecting chess power outward was already considered a formidable technique.
Yet here was Nangong Yifan, condensing such a tremendous dragon of chess power.
Compared to Nangong Yifan, their own chess power was nothing more than a creek beside the ocean.
"This… this… this is your chess power?"
Suddenly, Chu Feng's voice rang out — but when it did, the arrogance from before was gone, replaced entirely by fear across his face.
People could even see Chu Feng's legs going weak. He was so terrified that he couldn't even stand steadily.
"Chu Feng, now you've felt it — the true power of chess power?" Seeing Chu Feng's face full of terror, Nangong Yifan grew ever more smug. A smile even crept onto the corner of his lips without him realizing it.
"I've felt it. Your chess power truly is extraordinary — you've probably absorbed a tenth of this world's chess power." Even Chu Feng's voice trembled as he spoke.
"Haha, I never thought Chu Feng would see a day like this! Where's that arrogant attitude from before? Didn't he say this world was his home turf? Didn't he claim to have mastered the ultimate mastery of Strangest Arts Defeat Armies? So why is his voice shaking now?"
"I'll be honest — this Chu Feng actually has some skill. But what can he do when his opponent is Nangong Yifan? It's like a hungry wolf running into a fierce tiger. No matter how strong he is, he has no choice but to accept his fate."