<h4>Chapter 1012: Chapter 1012: Death Space! Breaching the Situation (Second Update)</h4><h4></h4>


    "This chess game..." Zhuge Xuanqing murmured in a voice that was lost and disheartened.


    At this moment, Gong Changyue also noticed the hints and couldn’t help but open his mouth slightly, speaking with utter despair, "Mr. Xue..."


    Simultaneously, there was an uproar throughout the venue.


    Because as long as one’s strength reached the level of a nine-dan master, it was clear that Xue An’s position had already reached an impasse, a desperate situation with no way out.


    Not only were his chess pieces almost entirely gone, but there was also no longer any momentum in the game.


    "Hehe, what did I say? How could a green boy like him possibly solve this endgame!" Gu’E sneered viciously.


    Yuan Zhentian also revealed a hint of a smile, "That’s right, from the start, I could tell he would never win because his move to break the game was mediocre. In history, there has been more than one strong yer who tried to use this method to break the endgame, and all of them failed!"


    Only Dai Yuexing did not speak; instead, she looked at the young man standing before the light screen, feeling a sigh of admiration in her heart.


    It seems the Chess Sage is indeed one step ahead!


    At the same time, the voice of Tian Zhao, the Chess Sage, came again.


    "Mr. Xue, do you have anything else to say now?"


    The Tian Zhao chess masters were all delighted upon hearing this, while all the foreign chess masters bowed their heads in despair.


    Despite their reluctance, with the situation as it was, they could only choose to ept it helplessly.


    But just when everyone thought Xue An had lost,


    Xue An suddenly shook his head and chuckled, "You talk as if I’ve already lost. Do you really think that I can’t break this endgame?"


    "Hehe!" Tian Zhao, the Chess Sage sneered coldly, "Anyone can boast, but to keep up this pretense at this point, what else is that but stubbornness?"


    "Admit defeat and step down, and I might spare you. Otherwise, prepare to meet your end!"


    The entire venue fell into solemn silence.


    Zhuge Xuanqing’s eyes revealed a somber light before she stepped forward and said, "Mr. Xue, let’s just drop it!"


    Her words reminded the Gong siblings, who also stepped forward to say,


    "Mr. Xue, don’t worry about temporary gains and losses! Just let it be!"


    "Yes! Losing to the greatest endgame in history isn’t humiliating!"


    Many other foreign chess masters also started trying to persuade him.


    Just then, Xue An, who had been silent with his head bowed, suddenly began tough, starting quietly but growing louder and louder.


    Eventually, Xue An burst into uproariousughter.


    Everyone was filled with bewilderment.


    "What’s going on? Why is heughing?"


    "Could it be that he’s been driven mad by the pressure?"


    Tian Zhao, the Chess Sage, couldn’t help but ask coldly, "Mr. Xue, what are youughing at?"


    Xue An’sughter subsided and then he said dismissively, "It’s nothing, I just find it amusing that you’re treating a broken chess game like a treasure!"


    "You..." Tian Zhao, the Chess Sage, was furious.


    Xue An waved his hand, revealing a pair of pearly white fangs in a chilling smile, "Fine! You said that no one could break this endgame, well today, I will let you understand just howughable the strength you believe in truly is in my eyes!"


    With those words, Xue An’s Divine Sense spread out fiercely, and the speed at which the chess pieces on the endgame were extrapted elerated by more than tenfold in an instant.


    All spectators were shocked.


    "With such a calction speed, the slightest mistake could lead to the destruction of the game and the death of the yer!" someone eximed in shock.


    And many others just looked dumbfounded at the chess game disyed on the light screen.


    They didn’t believe Xue An had any chance to turn the game around, for on the chessboard, the pieces belonging to Xue An were few and far between.


    Under such circumstances, even an Immortal would struggle to change the oue of certain defeat.


    But just then, the game abruptly came to a halt, and to the astonishment of the onlookers, only a single piece belonging to Xue An remained on the board.


    This solitary piece, fighting a lone battle, stood in the central pce, confronting an enemy army that had nearly upied the entire board.


    "Hahahaha, Xue An, is this the breakthrough you spoke of? Truly..." After a silence, Tian Zhao, the chess sage, burst intoughter first.


    But at that moment, Xue An smiled faintly, "Yes, this... is my breakthrough!"


    With that said, Xue An ced a piece down.


    The piecended in a position that no one else could have imagined.


    "This position..." The whole assembly of chess masters was astonished, for they could not fathom the significance of making a move there.


    It was then that Xue An softly said, "The so-called chess yer, wins not only with straightforward attacks but also with odd and unexpected moves, and this piece... is a ’deadly space’."


    Zhuge Xuanqing, who had appeared baffled, suddenly shook intensely and eximed in a lost voice, "I see now!"


    No one cared about what she understood because everyone was dumbfounded, staring at the chess game disyed on the light screen.


    A miraculous scene was unfolding before everyone’s eyes.


    Where the game board’s situation had seemed unavoidably lost, after Xue An’s move, a shocking turnaround began to take ce.


    Around Xue An’s piece, the previously dense and dark enemy pieces began to turn white, one by one.


    It was as if something was diffusing, and in the blink of an eye, all the ck pieces on the board had turned to white.


    The entire ce fell silent.


    Everyone was dumbstruck.


    No one had ever imagined that the endgame could be broken in such a manner.


    Zhuge Xuanqing, with a nk expression, murmured lightly to herself, "Deadly space..."


    Then she could not stop trembling, her eyes filled with excitement and thrill.


    For Xue An’s words were like opening a great door for her, revealing a brand new world.


    At this moment, Tian Zhao, the chess sage, seemed to have recovered from his shock and roared incredulously, "How is this possible? How can such a situation arise in the Way of Chess?"


    Xue An said calmly, "Why would it be impossible? The so-called ’deadly space’ is to mislead externally, to let my side know of it and to convey it to the enemy. You have not seen it because your experience is shallow! And yet you dare call yourself a chess sage?"


    "Impossible... I refuse to believe it!" Tian Zhao, the chess sage, continued to roar in anger.


    Xue An smiled coldly, "When the timees, heaven and earth lend their strength alike, how could someone like youprehend such a principle?"


    Having said that, Xue An extended his hand and gently touched the light screen.


    Crack!


    A barely perceptible crisp sound followed, and a fine crack appeared where Xue An’s fingertip had touched.


    The cracks spread like a spider web.


    After a series of brittle sounds like shattering porcin, the light screen let out a mournful cry and then shattered with a thunderous crash.


    With that,


    the formidable game that had challenged countless heroes through the ages was broken open by Xue An.


    The entire venue was solemn.


    Gu’E and Yuan Zhentian, who had looked down on Xue An with disdain just moments before, were now gaping, their throats making ’gege’ sounds as if they couldn’t believe what they had just witnessed.


    Meanwhile, Dai Yuexing stared at Xue An, her eyes brimming with excitement.


    Xue An stood with his hands behind his back, nced at the summit of the Remnant Chess Peak, and said indifferently, "Warm-up is over, I hope whates next won’t disappoint me too much!"


    Having said that, Xue An stepped out among the stunned crowd and headed straight for the summit.