Supremely Talented Tyrant

"What?" Giggs was dumbstruck, not quite grasping the meaning behind Hao Jian's words.

"Your apprentice is confident he can defeat our Huaxia chess players within ten turns, so let me say the same thing now, within ten turns, your defeat is certain!" Hao Jian said gravely.

Giggs's face turned cold, "And if you can't do it?"

"Then I'll kneel down and lick your leather shoes!" Hao Jian replied with a chuckle.

"Fine, then get ready to lick shoes!" Giggs huffed angrily.@@novelbin@@

"Hold on, it's a bit dull if only I'm placing a bet, don't you think? If you lose, what will your penalty be?" Hao Jian asked, arching an eyebrow.

Seeing Hao Jian like this, Che Xiaoxiao knew this bad guy was up to his old tricks again.

Upon hearing this, Giggs hesitated for a moment, as Benjamin had just been forced to kneel because he agreed to a wager with Hao Jian, so seeing Hao Jian repeat the tactic made him wary.

"What, you're scared? Your guts are even smaller than your apprentice's!" Hao Jian laughed heartily, taunting deliberately.

The students from both schools watching also cast disdainful glances at Giggs.

"A bet is a bet, who's afraid of who? Tell me, how do you want to bet!" Giggs declared, eyes blazing, clearly provoked. He simply couldn't believe he could lose to someone as insignificant as Wu Ming.

"If you lose, you'll run naked around the Chinese Medicine Hospital three times, how about that?" Hao Jian suggested.

"No problem!" Giggs agreed abruptly, and just five minutes later, paid the price for his promptness.

He looked at Hao Jian with an expression of shock, "A ten-move siege? You're 'Kaso'?"

"Kaso? What's that?" Che Xiaoxiao asked a middle-aged chess player nearby.

The chess player watched Hao Jian with an excited expression, "Kaso is the current Chess King. He was the one who defeated Giggs and won the championship with his signature ten-move siege. This strategy is unsolvable by anyone else, and only he knows how to execute it!"

"But if he is the 'Kaso' you're speaking of, then why don't you recognize him?" Che Xiaoxiao asked curiously. If Hao Jian really was the person they described, they should have recognized him right from the start.

"You don't understand, Kaso always wore a mask when he played against Giggs, and he disappeared after winning the championship. No one knows what he looks like. If it wasn't for his use of the ten-move siege today, probably nobody would realize he's the former world champion!"

The chess player said fervently, Kaso was like a god to them. The ten-move siege meant defeating the opponent within ten turns, and no matter who it was, they couldn't last ten turns against Kaso.

Jiang Yutong and the others were stunned by the chess player's explanation, because none of them had expected the ever-jocular Hao Jian to be so formidable, let alone a former world champion.

Especially for students like Che Xiaoxiao who were Hao Jian's disciples; they were the most astounded, as they discovered that their teacher was truly all-capable.

"You're actually a Huaxia person?" Giggs stared at Hao Jian, dumbfounded. As soon as Hao Jian's familiar chess arrangement reappeared, his face had turned ashen.

If there was anyone Giggs hated the most, it was undoubtedly Kaso, for it was Kaso who had knocked him from his throne. Before Kaso's arrival, he had been the world champion three times in a row, but Kaso's rise had relegated him to second best in the world.

Now that he knew Hao Jian was Kaso, how could Giggs not hate him?

However, Giggs had always thought Hao Jian was European, since Kaso is a name only Europeans would have. Moreover, he believed a country like Huaxia, where people only played their own chess, couldn't possibly produce a master in international chess.

But all these notions were completely overturned after Hao Jian's display of the ten-move siege.

"Adopting an English name precludes being Huaxia now, does it?" Hao Jian stood up with a cold sneer, his gaze indifferent as he scrutinized Giggs, "It's been many years, and I thought your chess skills would've improved. But to my surprise, it's still the same. You still lose to a game I played three years ago."

Hao Jian was disappointed, Giggs still didn't know how to counter a three-year-old strategy, so how could he break the new strategies Hao Jian had devised in the past three years?

Under Hao Jian's words, Giggs froze on the spot. After hearing what Hao Jian said, he was no longer angry.

Perhaps it would be more accurate to say that he didn't even have the mood to be angry anymore, now he only felt pitiful.

Indeed, if he couldn't even break a three-year-old game, what chance did he have against Hao Jian?

Hao Jian looked at Giggs coldly, his face showing neither sadness nor joy, "You're no longer worthy of being my opponent."

Giggs shook all over, clenching his fists tightly. Surrounding him was nothing but an overwhelming sense of shame.

Silence, a deathly silence!

Everyone was stunned by how strong Hao Jian was, having defeated a world-class Chess King with a move from three years ago, which naturally included Benjamin. No one knew better than Benjamin the strength of Giggs. With his current level of chess technique, he would undoubtedly be defeated by Giggs within ten rounds.

But Giggs couldn't last ten rounds against Hao Jian. Benjamin finally realized that Hao Jian had been toying with him all along. He could have ended the match earlier, but he didn't. Instead, he let himself believe there was a glimmer of hope, only to cruelly thrust him from Heaven to Hell when he began to harbor such naive thoughts!

Benjamin was filled with hatred! Hao Jian's action was an intangible trampling on his dignity, grinding what he prided most into dust!

Now, seeing Giggs being scolded by Hao Jian as if he were disciplining a son, everyone's heart felt uneasy, and the reporters frantically pressed their shutters, fearing they might miss this legendary moment.

Two world number ones clashing again—if this story were to be made into news, it would undoubtedly create a sensational impact!

Hao Jian slowly withdrew his gaze and turned to leave, no longer interested in demanding Giggs to fulfill his promise. Giggs knew, because from that moment on, Hao Jian no longer considered him a rival—he wasn't worthy! Whether he kept his promise didn't matter to Hao Jian anymore!

"Wait!" Giggs suddenly shouted.

Hao Jian turned his head, puzzled, looking at Giggs.

"Thump."

At that moment, something completely unexpected happened; Giggs knelt down before Hao Jian.

"What are you doing?" Hao Jian asked, frowning.

"Take me as your disciple!" Giggs said loudly, his eyes burning with intensity as he looked at Hao Jian.

At these words, the crowd was in an uproar!

Giggs was kneeling to Hao Jian to perform the ritual of becoming a disciple? He actually did something so humiliating? Had he forgotten that he was once a world champion? Where was the dignity of a world champion?

They didn't know that after hearing what Hao Jian had said, the so-called dignity of the champion in Giggs had long vanished! Your adventure continues at My Virtual Library Empire

Giggs didn't care what others thought of him; all that mattered was how Hao Jian saw him!

The corner of Hao Jian's eye twitched; he too was surprised by Giggs's action and asked, "Give me a reason!"

"I want to defeat you!" Giggs's gaze was firm; he had lost to Hao Jian three years ago and had always believed Hao Jian's victory was due to luck, which left him feeling unconvinced. Only after losing to Hao Jian again did he finally realize the immense gap between them. Now, he was ready to discard all his pride and arrogance and no longer cling to his past title as a champion.

"Become your disciple and then use what you teach me to defeat you?" Hao Jian laughed.

"Yes, because I know that if I rely on myself, I will never win against you in this lifetime." Giggs spoke confidently. Compared to Hao Jian, he was insignificant.

"How do you know for sure that I would agree?" Hao Jian continued with a smile.

This time, Giggs laughed, confidently saying, "Because I know you're not someone who can stand being alone in your excellence. Now that you are invincible, without a true opponent, where's the fun in that? And the only person in the world who is most qualified to be your opponent is me!"

Hao Jian gave Giggs a deep look and, after a long pause, finally said, "From today on, you are my disciple, Hao Jian!"

Everyone was shocked—Hao Jian really took Giggs as his disciple?

"Quick, take the photo! The former world number one becomes the disciple of the current world number one, this is a historic moment!" The reporters were madly snapping photos.

"Thank you, Master!" Giggs bowed deeply to Hao Jian, his face full of excitement.

Hao Jian waved his hand nonchalantly, then walked over to Du Yuelin and the others, smiling as he said, "Mission accomplished!"

"Excellent, I knew you wouldn't let me down!" Du Yuelin laughed heartily, overjoyed to the point of being unable to contain his glee. This time, not only had Hao Jian redeemed the reputation of the Chinese Medicine Hospital, but he had also dealt a blow to the morale of those foreign scholars, making the Chinese Medicine Hospital the talk of the country.

"Teacher Hao Jian, not bad at all, you're surprisingly deep and unassuming. I never heard you mention that you're the world's number one chess player before," a beautiful female teacher said cheerily.

"You don't understand, Teacher Hao Jian is being modest," another teacher chimed in supportively.

And those teachers and students looked at Hao Jian as if he were a deity. Even the dean of Harvard University, Giggs, became his disciple. What did this mean? It meant that Harvard University was not as good as their Chinese Medicine Hospital!

Hao Jian was only a teacher at the Chinese Medicine Hospital, but Giggs was the dean of a world-renowned institution like Harvard University. For such a dean to become the disciple of Hao Jian was akin to an indirect admission that Harvard University was inferior in some respect to the Chinese Medicine Hospital, to the extent that they had to humbly seek guidance.

As part of the Chinese Medicine Hospital, how could they not be thrilled?