Sir Bi closed his eyes and said leisurely, "At that time, I thought I'd win for sure, but I dared not be presumptuous. How about four wins out of seven?"
"The person opposite me smiled and said, 'You're the Chess Saint of this generation. You've been unparalleled in Tianxuan for the past few years and have your own unique skills. However, I've been playing this game for more than a thousand years … The outcome of the game is still up in the air. Let's go with five wins out of nine. Since there's nothing else to do, we can kill some time."
"I nodded in agreement and even planned to win four out of nine games and let my opponent win one more to save face."
"However, what I didn't expect was that not only did each of the nine games take longer than usual, but each of the nine games took longer than the last. The first game took a day and a night, and I finally won by half a point."
"Through this game, I knew that my opponent was no weaker than me. In fact, he was a chess expert who was even stronger than me. Therefore, I was much more cautious after that. As for the opponent, he must have underestimated me in the first game and lost, so he became more cautious in the second game. In fact, in general, we didn't bring out our best in the first game. I guess we held back a lot! "
"The second game went on for seven days. In the end, I lost to my opponent by a single point. But even though I lost this game, I didn't feel depressed. Instead, I felt satisfied. This was a confrontation between high-level Go players. Although it took a long time and I was inevitably exhausted, I was only physically tired and not mentally tired. Although I lost, my fighting spirit didn't diminish at all. I even felt that my Go skills had improved. "
"After the second game, I rested for three days before starting the third game … When it came to the ninth game, which was the deciding game, both of us gave it our all. Basically, every move we made was an exhausting effort. Each move required the opponent to think for at least a few days. By the end of the ninth game, a year had passed since the start of the first game! "
A year!
The other three people were speechless.
He had only played nine rounds of chess for an entire year. He had never heard of such a thing before. It was completely unheard of!
"After the ninth game, the person on the other side was very happy. He said that my chess skills were indeed worthy of my reputation, outstanding and extraordinary. Then, he asked me to take a look at the game and handed me a booklet. "
Sir Bi patted the Go record in his hand and chuckled with an indescribable feeling. "I believe all of you must have connected the dots. Yes, this is it! I remember very clearly that one of the pages of the book was missing a corner, and under that corner, in the same position as the first game, was a Tribulation Material. "
As he said this, he flipped to the title page and looked at the upper right corner of the diagram. Sure enough, it was a series of tribulations. Both sides wanted to raise their pieces, and both sides were only one step away from killing the other and achieving a complete victory.
And the position of this missing corner just so happened to be a black chess piece, which was placed there securely.
"This Calamity Material will determine the outcome of this game. It is also the only important Calamity Material in the entire game."
Sir Bi said, "When he handed me this Go record, he said, 'I've had this Go record for many years, but I've never been able to decipher it. I don't even know how to play the first game. Your Go skill is superb and you're already a top-notch player. You're qualified to play this game. Come, come, let's study it and see if we can make a breakthrough. "
"That was my experience when I first saw this incomplete record."
Sir Bi sucked in a deep breath and exhaled slowly. Unable to contain the agitation in his heart, he inhaled again and exhaled slowly.
The other three people were already stunned.
"But this Go record … Doesn't this mean … that there's a secret behind it …" one of them said hesitantly.
"That's right, there's a secret behind it. Perhaps, it's a lucky strike in another sense!"
Sir Bi said, "That day, Yun Yang came to the crown prince's residence and said that he was here to look for me to solve the famous Go game. I didn't pay much attention to it at first. After all, it's been too long since a famous Go game caught my attention. However, when he laid out the game here, I recognized it immediately. This was the final game that I'd encountered back then. Looking at his subsequent seven moves, I was even more certain that this wasn't just the game back then … it was the game that I'd disassembled with the reclusive expert."
"Back then … we'd disassembled it for three months, but we still couldn't solve it."
"Back then, I couldn't disassemble the final game and left in regret. Instead, I disassembled my life into the Four Seasons Tower. I didn't expect that I still couldn't solve it today. "
"If it were only the final game, I wouldn't have been so rash. However, I saw the original Go record book again in the crown prince's residence!"
Sir Bi said, "This reality prompted me to make a plan right away – to kill Yun Yang on that very day!"
"What I didn't expect was that not only did my flawless ambush fail to kill Yun Yang, but I also lost all sixteen of my guards. Fang Yun was the only one who managed to escape. What surprised me the most about this outcome was that Yun Yang didn't kill all sixteen of them. Forget it, the world is unpredictable, there are always accidents. However, the second target, this Go record, was snatched back. This can't be explained as an accident! "
"Even then, I knew that the end of my life had come!"
Sir Bi sighed softly.
From the beginning to the end, he did not mention who won and who lost the nine Go games.
The person behind him said with a frown, "Boss, if you really wanted to kill Yun Yang, why didn't you do it yourself? Let's take a step back and let the three of us do it! Even if Yun Yang was exceptionally capable, how could he have escaped from the three of us? "
Sir Bi chuckled humorlessly. "Man proposes, but God disposes. It's because God's will is unpredictable. If it's unpredictable, it'll exceed our expectations and we'll lose the entire game. This is probably what they mean by fate. My success and failure in this life of mine are based on propriety. As for my failure, it's because I'm too propriety! "
"When I saw the Go record being snatched back, I knew that I was wrong. The people I sent were wrong. However, it was already too late to change. "
"Back then, I thought that I'd seen it clearly. Yun Yang was a young talent, the cream of the crop. His cultivation base was already at the pinnacle of the ninth heaven realm. It could be said that he was the cream of the crop, the cream of the crop. However, sending Fang Yun alone was already too much. It was like killing a chicken with a butcher's knife. Furthermore, with the help of fifteen people … With such a lineup, even if there were ten Yun Yangs, they should have been able to kill him in one go. There wouldn't be any accidents. "
"Yet, I didn't manage to kill him. How could it not be God's will? Heaven's will, heaven's will. Could it be that God did it on purpose? "
"This was the biggest mistake of my life. This mistake caused the entire game to be lost. Indeed, a single wrong word caused the entire game to be lost!"
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