The Chariot Reversed Part 1

The "Chariot" card flew out, and another black sphinx leaped out, along with the warrior holding a spear-shaped scepter. He didn't ride his own chariot, but landed on one knee in a handsome manner.

The warrior's golden hair was dazzling. He wore a laurel crown and had deep features. His whole body exuded an unstoppable confidence, but when he spoke, it was in a Sichuan accent just like the sphinx: "Mah legs are numb." He stood up and patted his legs.

Tan Xiao: "..."

This place of origin was really too obvious. It was printed domestically, right? It was indeed half domestic goods.

"Ah Jin, put on your mask!" Tan Xiao took a moment to call out to Ah Jin. His eyesight was good, and he saw that the card that flew out had an explanation. The Chariot, upright, represented victory, willpower, and competition.

The Chariot card also represented Ares, the god of war in Greek mythology. It could be understood that the opponent should have a strong desire to win and real strength. Tan Xiao had never experienced this kind of situation, but he became alert.

The golden-haired warrior had a black sphinx and a white sphinx by his side, representing compassion and severity respectively, both restrained by the warrior. Because they became spirits together, the connection between them was even stronger. It was no exaggeration to say they were three-in-one. The warrior raised an eyebrow: "How do wey fight?"

The black sphinx turned its head and said angrily: "Don't waste words with them. Wait until she... can't even run away. I'll just bite this boy doll's feet, and then you..."

It looked at Chen Yinghe.

Chen Yinghe shrank back.

Indeed, the fighting spirit was very strong. Tan Xiao was already prepared.

Hearing this, Kong Xuan also had the same thought: He relied on his innate magic weapon, fighting blitzkrieg battles, mainly using magic weapons to bully people, directly wiping people away during fights to quickly end the battle. But recently he also thought, if he fought so fast, wouldn't Tan Xiao not see his posture clearly? Should he use more fists in the future?

But the white sphinx disagreed. "You're being too reckless. Listen to me, we should have a battle of wits, not force. Kid, I heard that senior year of high school is the peak of a person's lifetime knowledge. Do you dare to have a knowledge contest with me? Limited to three questions. If I lose, I'll surrender. If you lose, let us pass."

- The sphinx also symbolized wisdom and knowledge.

Hearing this, Tan Xiao's readied hand seal loosened. "Try asking."

Kong Xuan, who had already taken a fighting stance: "..."

The white sphinx pouted its bright, thick lips. "Let n and k be positive integers, and n be an odd number. Given that the positive divisors of 2n not exceeding k..."

Chen Yinghe crouched down holding her head.

Ah! This was even more terrifying than fighting! She was just an art student who minded her own business!

Tan Xiao took out the yellow charm paper from his bag to use as scratch paper. Seeing the dim light here, he said to Kong Xuan, "Turn on the light!"

Kong Xuan: "..."

In an instant, the classroom became as bright as day.

Tan Xiao quickly wrote out the proof using cinnabar ink. When he was done, he showed it to the white sphinx. Because it was written in cursive, people might think it was some kind of talisman at first glance.

The white sphinx could distinguish it and nodded: "Correct."

Ah Jin muttered: "This is a deformed way of fighting..."

Tan Xiao didn't care about that. He even said to Kong Xuan: "The next question is for you to practice."

Kong Xuan's face darkened, but thinking of his goal, he gritted his teeth and said: "Okay! I will definitely answer it!"

"Next question." The white sphinx also looked at its companion. The three of them were one, each asking one question.

The black sphinx was not as merciful as its companion. Its eyes rolled around and it said: "Please... prove the Goldbach conjecture."

Everyone: "..."

Kong Xuan kicked the black sphinx in the face expressionlessly and said concisely: "Get lost!"

With Kong Xuan's kick, the false superficial peace was officially broken. The black sphinx jumped onto an office desk, opened its mouth and roared, declaring war.

It suddenly pounced towards Tan Xiao. Tan Xiao dodged, and the black sphinx landed in front of Kong Xuan. It didn't pick and choose, circling around him half a turn. Kong Xuan thought for a moment, reached out, and plucked a calamus leaf hanging on the door from a distance. Its shape was like a sword. Kong Xuan's fingers turned, and it truly transformed into a thin long sword.

Kong Xuan spun the sword and raised an eyebrow slightly.

Tan Xiao: "...?"

What move was that? Anyway, he let him be. Tan Xiao looked at the golden-haired warrior holding the spear-shaped scepter. The other party smiled brightly and charged towards Tan Xiao at an extremely fast speed with both hands holding the scepter, each step seeming to clang against the ground.

Tan Xiao made a hand seal. "Five-colored divine light converges, suppressing the calamities of yin!"

The golden-haired warrior's movements stopped in place, maintaining a running posture. He moved his body, as if firmly restrained in place. He let out an "eh?" sound, then began to struggle hard, growling from his throat.

Tan Xiao was about to say it was useless, but he saw the square pattern drawn on the golden-haired warrior's chest armor light up. He was actually slowly changing his own movements, and finally stretched out his body, breaking the restraint!

It was the first time Tan Xiao had seen a newborn monster ignore the restraining technique. Even Xiong Hui hadn't done it.

Chen Yinghe said from the side: "That pattern is the earth element, representing willpower!"

She couldn't help much, but seeing Tan Xiao look a little surprised, she provided some relevant information to see if it could offer any ideas.

Tan Xiao was pensive. This was probably also one of the other party's innate skills, just like Ah Jin's illusions - and because of that, Ah Jin also had no room to play. With such willpower, it was very difficult to drag him into an illusion. Now Ah Jin had nothing to do and was staring at the equally idle white sphinx.

The golden-haired warrior was restrained for a moment, but instead of finding the opponent frightening, it stimulated his competitive spirit even more. He raised the scepter and stabbed at Tan Xiao. As the Chariot, his speed was terrifyingly fast, and it carried an extremely strong sense of power.

Tan Xiao stepped the Yu steps, his soft waist twisting, seeming to dodge the scepter attack slowly but actually quickly, like the beginning of the Chu shaman dance. Although silent, it was as if a drumstick struck a drum surface, making people's hearts resonate with it.

Even Chen Yinghe, seeing it, felt like her heart was being squeezed. Seeing Tan Xiao's waist-bending and stepping movements, her breathing unconsciously quickened, and a strong feeling surged.

The golden-haired warrior didn't know the meaning of Tan Xiao's movements, but instinctively felt they were not simple. He had to catch him as soon as possible. He turned around and pounced again.

But when Tan Xiao chopped down with his finger technique, the small golden knife struck the golden-haired warrior's armor. Even though the youth's figure was clearly much smaller than his own, when the boy's light and nimble fingers pointed over, he actually retreated several steps and fell to the ground, feeling a bit of pain and frowning.

The golden-haired warrior didn't know that Tan Xiao was also quite amazed in his heart. Normally after receiving this blow, one wouldn't just be frowning.

Tan Xiao thought for a moment and felt it might be because tarot cards themselves are a kind of mystical divination tool with an extremely large fan base. Therefore, as the spirits of these cards, they are also quite extraordinary.

Ah Jin also saw it and shouted, "Spirit Master, catch them and make them squat at the entrance of 404 as stone lions and security guards!"

The golden-haired warrior heard this and became furious, "You wait, wait until I beat you to death."

For him, being pressed down and beaten by a seemingly weak young student was also a very humiliating thing.

The golden-haired warrior let out a long roar, as if he had gone berserk. His competitiveness reached an extreme at this moment. He leaped up a meter high, eyes wide open, holding his scepter with both hands, wanting to chop down with this ferocious strike.

Tan Xiao's gaze swept over the black and white sphinxes. From their colors, they were like the black and white of yin and yang. The golden-haired warrior restraining these diametrically opposed creatures, wasn't it also forming a kind of yin-yang balance?

Recalling the card explanations he had seen before, the upright Chariot represents victory and competition. However, if the balance is broken, going from one extreme to the other...

Tan Xiao nimbly sidestepped, took out the Taiyin slingshot, raised his hand and quickly shot the golden-haired warrior's most heavily armored chest.

The golden-haired warrior was hit as if by a huge force. He turned in mid-air, fell to the ground and rolled over, meeting Tan Xiao's eyes upside down.

Tan Xiao looked down at him, "The reversed Chariot represents failure and recklessness."

What, I'm reversed? The golden-haired warrior's heart trembled. He kicked his legs a couple times but was stepped on by Tan Xiao, and then the slingshot was also pointed at his neck.

"..." The golden-haired warrior was stunned and no longer moved.

In fact, having left the card, he didn't need to care about upright or reversed positions. But in that moment just now, because he was shaken by Tan Xiao's intimidation after being shot down, that was true recklessness, destroying his own capability.

Once brought down, wasn't his vital point aimed at by Tan Xiao's bow?

......

After dealing with the golden-haired warrior, Tan Xiao looked at Kong Xuan, but found that Kong Xuan, who usually fights quickly and decisively, was actually still entangled with the black sphinx.

At this time, his sword followed his body, thrusting like a flying phoenix, extremely beautiful.

Handsome is handsome, but how to say it, in Tan Xiao's view, besides radio calisthenics, when had Kong Xuan ever fought for so long.

Fortunately, Kong Xuan saw that Tan Xiao had subdued the golden-haired warrior and noticed him. After a sword move, he very suavely sheathed his sword and made a hand seal. The black sphinx was wrapped up by its own turban and couldn't tear it off no matter what, rolling on the ground.

The black sphinx couldn't understand. It had clearly fought Kong Xuan to a draw just now! Why did the enemy's combat power suddenly increase?

Tan Xiao looked at the remaining white sphinx. It hesitated for a moment, "Or else, you can ask me three questions?"

"Come over here!" Tan Xiao herded it over to squat beside the black sphinx. He first took a photo to record, then picked up the card that had turned blank.