"Let's play a game of Go."
Jun Yu suddenly said.
"Ah?"
Su Zimo felt stunned for a moment. Then, he shook his head and said, "I don't know how to play Go, nor have I played it with anyone before."
Xiao Chen had only come into contact with Go when he was a student. However, he was not interested in it and did not study it.
After he started cultivating, he did not spend any time on it.
"Do you know the rules?" Jun Yu asked again.
"I only know a little," Su Zimo answered.
He felt somewhat confused, not knowing why Jun Yu suddenly wanted to play Go with him.
Su Zimo did not know that Jun Yu felt even more confused.
Back then, after Fairy Linglong gave her the nine Go puzzles, she said that if there was a chance, she could show the Nine Exquisite Go puzzles to Su Zimo.
Fairy Linglong also said that if there was anything she did not understand, the two of them could discuss it.
Jun Yu originally thought that since Fairy Linglong said that, Su Zimo would definitely be proficient in the Go Dao. Unexpectedly, Su Zimo only knew a little about the Go Dao. He had never played it before.
"That's somewhat strange."
Jun Yu frowned slightly.
No matter what, since it was Fairy Linglong's request, she did not think too much about it and said, "I'll teach you."
Since she wanted to show the Exquisite Go puzzles to Su Zimo, she had to at least teach him the rules of Go.
It was not difficult to learn the basics of Go. Jun Yu casually explained a few things, and with Su Zimo's talent, he grasped it in less than ten minutes.
Jun Yu placed the Star Chessboard behind her between the two. Then, she waved her sleeves, and white Go stones fell from the Go board. The black and white Go stones each occupied half of the board, forming a Go puzzle.
"This is the first game of the Exquisite Go puzzle. You are the black Go stone. How are you going to solve the game?"
Jun Yu originally planned to play a few games with Su Zimo. However, when she saw that he only knew a little about Go, she lost interest.
After she explained the rules to Su Zimo, she directly laid out the Exquisite Go puzzle for Su Zimo to study and figure it out.
Regardless of whether or not Su Zimo could decipher it, she had to complete Fairy Linglong's task.
Su Zimo looked at the chessboard in front of him and fell into deep thought.
Rather than saying that this was the end game, it would be better to say that this was a checkmate!
The black pieces that he was holding were being suppressed everywhere on the chessboard. They were being chased and intercepted by the white pieces. The cycle went on and on. He was already in a dead end with no chance of survival!
Su Zimo pinched the black piece between his fingers and stared at the Star Chessboard for a long time, but he didn't place his piece.
Because no matter how he calculated, he couldn't find a way to break it.
No matter where the black piece landed, it was a dead end!
The art of chess was ever-changing and unpredictable. Every move would lead to countless subsequent changes. This required an extremely high level of mental strength.
An hour passed, and he sat there motionlessly. The more he calculated, the more chaotic his mind became. His chest was stuffy, his mind was vexed, and his head was splitting!
Su Zimo quickly closed his eyes and gradually calmed his mind, panting slightly.
When Jun Yu saw this scene, she was not surprised at all and only smiled faintly.
The art of chess was easy to learn but difficult to master.
The game of chess contained many profound and profound Daoist techniques.
Origin gave birth to yin and yang, yin and yang gave birth to the four divisions and the four divisions gave birth to the eight trigrams. The heavens were round and the earth was round. The 360 heavenly cycles and everything else could be reflected in this two feet square chessboard.
The chessboard was the heavens, the heavens and the universe. It was all-encompassing and could tolerate anything!
Su Zimo had just learned how to play chess – how could he decipher such an intricate Exquisite Chessboard?
The Nine Exquisite Chess Games became more and more complicated as they progressed.
She had cultivated the art of chess for many years and the only person she had lost to was Fairy Ling Long.
Even with her understanding of the art of chess, she took an entire day to decipher the first Exquisite Chessboard back then.
Right then, Su Zimo's breathing calmed down.
However, he did not open his eyes. Holding the black piece between two fingers, he suddenly placed it on a spot on the Star Chessboard.
Thereafter, Su Zimo opened his eyes and looked at the Exquisite Chessboard before him. He heaved a sigh of relief and smiled.
"Eh?"
Opposite him, Jun Yu could not help but exclaim softly in shock when she saw how Su Zimo placed his piece.
That was because that move was the key to decipher the first Exquisite Chessboard!
That move seemed to have killed a portion of his black pieces. However, a large amount of life force was opened up after that move – it was a strange move that sought survival in the midst of death!
"How is that possible?"
Jun Yu frowned slightly and instinctively thought that Su Zimo had merely stumbled upon it by accident.
Jun Yu did not say anything else and continued playing with a white piece.
However, after Su Zimo 'committed suicide' with his black pieces, the situation changed instead. The heavens were vast and the earth was vast. Fishes could leap and birds could soar freely. He was no longer restrained and killed for a chance of survival.
Given Su Zimo's talent, it did not take long for him to kill his way out of the encirclement and form a confrontation with the white pieces, deciphering the Exquisite Chessboard perfectly!
Jun Yu knew that there was no point in continuing the game and retracted her black and white pieces.
Jun Yu looked at Su Zimo in surprise and said, "Fellow Daoist Su, you have great talent and comprehension in the Dao of chess. It's truly rare."
Even though that was the case, she was still extremely suspicious of Su Zimo in her heart.
She thought that Su Zimo's move earlier on was just a fluke.
She would have to spend an entire day to decipher the game.
How was that possible for a beginner like Su Zimo to take more than an hour?
In reality, under normal circumstances, Su Zimo would not be able to decipher the Exquisite Chessboard even if he racked his brains and exhausted his mind.
However, the moment he closed his eyes and calmed his mind, a thought flashed through his mind and a black-robed woman appeared. She wielded a horsetail whisk and used a strange footwork.
That black-robed woman was the phantom that Wu Dao's main body saw during his tenth tribulation.
At that moment, a strange feeling arose in Su Zimo's heart.
It was as though the black-robed woman was placed on a starry chessboard and transformed into a black piece in his hands. She was trapped in a dead end and was being hunted down from all directions.
However, the black-robed woman was not flustered and took a shocking step forward, breaking out of the situation instantly!
Pursuing that feeling, Su Zimo placed his black piece.
The spot where he placed his piece was where the black-robed woman took her first step!
Thereafter, Su Zimo opened his eyes and looked over. The situation of the Exquisite Chessboard had already changed and the black pieces were fighting for a chance of survival!
Su Zimo was excited as he recalled the Exquisite Chessboard earlier on and compared it to the footwork of the black-robed woman. Gradually, a hint of enlightenment flashed through his mind as though he had gained something.
In reality, the footwork of the black-robed woman was the Nine Palaces Subtle Steps.
However, Su Zimo had only seen the form and process of the black-robed woman executing the footwork – it was almost impossible for him to truly comprehend it.
But now, Fairy Ling Long had integrated the Nine Palaces Subtle Steps into the Exquisite Chessboard.
Although it seemed like she was deciphering the chessboard, she was actually making use of the chessboard to impart Dao techniques!
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