Chapter 607 Innocent Heart
The existence of the scholar is the last line of defense to protect the general. The red player cannot predict who will play this role, so he dare not act rashly.

After all, their goal is to ‘avoid the enemy’s sharp edge and go straight for the leader’. If they waste their combat power for two soldiers at this time, then the previous arrangements will be in vain.

The red chess piece can only slow down the pace of its soldiers and adjust its formation.

Of course, the black chess piece would not miss this opportunity. Taking advantage of the enemy’s temporary pause in the offensive, the black chess piece divided its troops into two groups, one group returned to defend while the other group moved two chariots in parallel, launching a fierce counterattack against the red chess piece.

As the saying goes: The ultimate secret of military strategy is the tactic of changing positions.

Since the red chess wants to avoid direct confrontation with the chariot, horse and cannon and directly attack the black general, the black chess can also use the same method to directly attack the red general. All this is because –

Black has absolute confidence in the strength of their main general!
The red chess piece temporarily suspends its offensive, and the black chess piece takes the opportunity to counterattack.

It was not until this time that the main combat power of the black chess pieces finally revealed their true colors.

The one riding the two carriages in the front is Su Mengzhen, the owner of Jinfengxiyu Tower.

After seeing Bai Choufei defeat Zhu Shunshui, everyone had high expectations for the next performance of Su Mengzhen, the “host of the building”.

And Su Mengzhen did not disappoint everyone’s expectations. He easily took down a “Red Phase” with one move.

This ‘Red Prime Minister’ was none other than Mo Gong, the eldest of the Seven Sons of Mohism.

Unlike Su Mengzhen who had long been famous in the underworld, the other person who served as the ‘black car’ was not well-known, and not many people present recognized him.

It was not until he introduced himself that everyone had a rough understanding of this strange and powerful man.

“Sima’s grave?”

Looking at the man who was fighting with his opponent in the field, Lu Ping frowned and recalled the story about this man –

Sima Huangfen, whose real name was Sima Ping.

At the beginning, Sima Ping was a nerd.

He was born into a scholarly family, but his childish innocence was taken away from him. He led a regimented life every day, and as a result, he lived like a walking corpse for decades, numb and insensitive.

He is really as his name suggests, plain as water.

Until one day, the Sima family was migrating and encountered robbers. Sima Ping, who witnessed his family being killed, was not afraid, but felt an unprecedented excitement and happiness.

No one knew whether Sima Ping had become insane due to excessive depression or was so frightened that he developed evil in his heart.

But on that day, his crazy act of chopping off his parents’ heads with his own hands scared the robbers so much that they turned around and ran away.

From then on, Sima Ping became addicted to the thrill of “killing” and “being killed”, and by chance, he learned martial arts from a master of boxing.

After completing his training, Sima Ping officially embarked on the path of a murderer.

Unfortunately, after killing for a long time, Sima Ping felt confused and numb again. At this time, he met the mastermind behind the thirteen culprits. After being fooled by the other party, he finally found his “life pursuit”.

From then on, “Sima Ping” disappeared, and there appeared a new person in the world, “Sima Huangfen”, who was constantly looking for death.

“This Sima Huangfen…I remember he was the leader of the Thirteen Murderers, right?”

The Thirteen Evil Men, or the ‘Thirteen Ringleaders’, are the group of people who had been attacking the Southern Song chess warriors some time ago.

After several of them joined forces to attack Guo’s mansion, they were killed by Guan Qi in a nearby deserted temple. Since then, there has been no news about this group of people.

Lu Pingyuan thought they were lying in wait, but now it seems that is not the case.

Instead of hiding, they openly joined the Northern Song camp and became their chess warriors.

“Could it be that the truth of the matter is not that complicated? Is it really as those people in the martial arts world speculate that the murderer who attacked the Southern Song Dynasty chess warriors is from the Northern Song Dynasty court?”

While Lu Ping was hesitating, the chess game finally entered the battle of Sima Huangfen.

Sima Huangfen’s strength is definitely not bad, he is at least as strong as the Four Famous Detectives. Especially his self-created martial arts “Three Styles of Horizontal Death”, which is a rare boxing style in the world.

The three types of sudden death are called: small rest, great liberation, and ultimate happiness.

As the name suggests, this was created by Sima Huangfen based on his own understanding of “death”.

In fact, although Sima Huangfen likes to kill and be killed, he is not a completely tyrannical madman, but a “thinker” with unique insights into “life and death”.

This may be because he has been a scholar since childhood. With strong internal strength and superb boxing skills, Sima Huangfen’s strength is almost comparable to Xiao Feng, Zhu Shunshui and others.

Even though he cannot be compared with Jiumozhi who has mastered the Six Meridians Divine Sword, but if he faces a warrior of Guo Jing’s level, with his ‘fearlessness of death’ spirit, there is a great chance that he will win in the end.

Fortunately, Sima Huangfen’s opponent was not Guo Jing, but Guo Jing’s “elder brother”, a man with equally strong inner strength, superb boxing skills, and extraordinary thinking.

‘Old Naughty Boy’ Zhou Botong!
“Is it the old naughty boy Zhou Botong? Why is he here?!”

The appearance of Zhou Botong not only surprised all the people present, but even Lu Ping couldn’t help but become interested.

“Well… never mind. Since Wang Chongyang and Lin Chaoying, two ‘dead men’, have already appeared, it doesn’t seem strange that Zhou Botong would appear again.”

In “The Return of the Condor Heroes”, Zhou Botong is a man who has been wandering around the world for many years.

Moreover, he was playful and active by nature, and liked to study martial arts and join in the fun. It was understandable that he rushed over after receiving the news of such a big event as the “Two Song Chess Tournament” being held at Wangbei Chaonan Peak.

……

In Leigushan Mountain, the black chariots faced off against the red officials, evolving into a splendid fist fight.

As soon as the battle started, Sima Huangfen and Zhou Botong showed off their abilities.

After several attempts, Sima Huangfen launched a move: “The second strike of the Three Forms of Death: Great Liberation!!”

In the ‘Great Liberation’ move, the punch was violent and brutal, yet it also contained a strange sense of freedom and elegance. Such an extreme contrast was perfectly blended into one, which immediately stunned Zhou Botong.

A brief distraction, and the punch is already arriving.

Zhou Botong dodged in a hurry, but when he turned around, his face was not afraid but happy, full of curiosity.

“Brutal and carefree, violent and elegant, these are two incompatible fist styles. How did you fuse them together? Tell me, please.”

This scene not only stunned the martial artists watching the fight on the Hunyuan Stage, but even Sima Huangfen, who had always known that he was different from ordinary people, could not help but frown.

“You crazy old Taoist, do you know that we are rivals now? You actually want me to pass on my martial arts to you?!”

Zhou Botong chuckled and said, “Isn’t the purpose of creating martial arts to be learned by others? If you created this boxing technique but don’t pass it on, then why did you create it?”

Sima Huangfen was stunned for a moment. He felt that there was some truth in Zhou Botong’s words and was speechless for a moment.

Seeing Sima Huangfen stop attacking and standing there in a daze, Zhou Botong thought that his opponent was persuaded by him, but he was reluctant to give away the martial arts he had worked so hard to create to others for nothing.

An idea suddenly occurred to him, and he clapped his hands and shouted, “I understand. You must think it’s unfair to teach me martial arts for nothing!”

“How about this, you teach me your ‘Three Styles of Death’, and I’ll teach you my ‘Empty Illumination Fist’, and we can exchange martial arts and improve each other, okay?”

“Speaking of which, you only have three martial arts skills, but my Kongming Fist has seventy-two moves. Not only did you not suffer any loss, you actually got a huge advantage…”

Zhou Botong kept talking nonstop. Sima Huangfen was annoyed by him and shouted loudly, punching again: “You old Taoist, you talk too much nonsense! You can talk about it only after you can survive in my hands!”

“Hahaha… Then I’ll take that as your agreement. Look at my 72-Move Kongming Fist!!”

The fists exchanged, showing each other’s might.

Although the three styles of death are extremely domineering, Zhou Botong’s Kongming Fist is extremely yin and soft. It is best at using the empty to attack the real, and using the insufficient to defeat the sufficient. Its fist strength is soft but tough.

Therefore, every time the two fists hit each other, Sima Huangfen always felt that his own strength was like a drop in the ocean, with no effect at all.

After only a few dozen moves, he was beaten badly by Zhou Botong.

Although Sima Huangfen has a strange personality, his talent and ability are rare in the world.

In the comics, even Iron Hand, who has mastered the magical skill of “consistency”, can’t gain much advantage against him.

However, Zhou Botong’s strength is several levels higher than Sima Huangfen.

Regardless of the talents of both parties, in terms of foundation alone, Zhou Botong is at least thirty years ahead of Sima Huangfen;
In terms of martial arts, Quanzhen Heart Method, Nine Yin Scriptures, and Kongming Fist are all evolved from authentic Taoist traditions, and are countless times more advanced than the “Three Styles of Sudden Death” created by Sima Huangfen with his weird ideas.

However, what really made Zhou Botong “crush” Sima Huangfen at this moment was neither his internal strength nor his martial arts moves, but his character, the most precious and purest heart in him –

Innocent heart!

(End of this chapter)