60: Chapter 60 A terrible chess player beats the Holy Son!

On the stone table, a Go board carved from ordinary bluestone sat quietly.

Su Changge casually grabbed a handful of black pieces from the stone jar next to him, then tilted his chin, signaling Ji Wushuang to take the white pieces for himself.

"Shall I go first?" Su Changge offered politely.

"Please."

Ji Wushuang uttered the cold word, his gaze sharp. His Divine Soul power was already highly concentrated, preparing to engage in a world-shaking battle of divine intent within the square-inch battlefield of the Go board.

Su Changge shrugged.

He picked up a black piece and, without even looking at the board's layout, directly slapped it down onto the very center based on pure feeling.

Clack!

With a crisp sound, the black piece landed on the "Tianyuan" position.

He was actually a terrible player; he had almost forgotten the basic rules of Go.

He only vaguely remembered that starting at Tianyuan seemed to make one look like they knew what they were doing and were very formidable.

However, the moment that piece landed...

Ji Wushuang's pupils suddenly shrank to the size of needle tips.

In his vision, what Su Changge had placed down wasn't a game piece at all!

[Ding! Detection: Host is currently engaged in a Go match. The special effect [Heaven and Earth Chessboard] has been automatically activated! Cost: 1000 emotion points per minute.]

Buzz—

The scene before Ji Wushuang's eyes exploded.

In his perception, that small stone Go board extended and expanded infinitely, eventually transforming into a vast Universe composed of mountains, rivers, seas, the sun, the moon, and the stars!

And that black piece Su Changge had just placed...

It was a divine pillar supporting the heavens!

It pierced through the nine heavens, carrying a creative might as it crashed down, accurately and unerringly pinning down the exact center of this world!

One piece to suppress the central palace!

One piece to stabilize the world!

What a lawless, disdainful style of play!

"What terrifying chess intent..."

Ji Wushuang's Divine Soul shook violently. He felt that he wasn't facing a Go player, but a creator god who held the life and death of this world in his hands!

He didn't dare be even slightly negligent, immediately focusing his entire mind and pouring his life's understanding of the Heavenly Dao into his fingertips.

He picked up a white piece.

After a long period of deduction and contemplation, he carefully placed the white piece in a corner of the board.

This move of his triggered the flow of Feng Shui between heaven and earth, intending to start from the corners and work step by step to slowly encroach upon the opponent's peerlessly domineering central palace momentum.

However, Su Changge didn't understand it at all.

He only felt that this kid played really slowly.

So dawdling.

Getting a bit annoyed with waiting, he picked up another black piece and found a spot that looked pleasing to the eye.

Clack!

Another piece landed.

In the eyes of any Go master, this move was completely without technique—a useless move full of openings.

But in Ji Wushuang's eyes, it was a completely different, terrifying scene.

He saw that as Su Changge's piece landed, the trace of world momentum he had painstakingly triggered was actually, by an even more violent and unreasonable force...

Forcibly severed right through the middle!

Like a river rushing for ten thousand miles being smashed in half by a divine mountain flying in from beyond the heavens!

Pffft!

Ji Wushuang's Dao Heart shuddered violently along with the severed world momentum. A metallic sweetness rose in his throat, and he nearly spat out blood on the spot.

"Sev... Severing the heavenly secrets?!"

He looked up in horror at Su Changge, his eyes filled with nothing but thick, unshakeable terror and disbelief.

How was this playing Go!

This was deducing the Heavenly Dao and manipulating Karma!

Every move of the opponent's seemed laughably casual, but in reality, it was a masterpiece of simplicity, Return to Simplicity!

It didn't follow any logic of Go at all, yet every move slammed into the vital points of his Divine Soul, making him so suppressed he wanted to vomit blood!

The game continued in an extremely eerie atmosphere.

Su Changge played very fast.

Clack.

Clack.

Clack.

He just wanted to quickly finish this inexplicable game so this brain-damaged young punk would get lost and stop delaying his sleep.

Ji Wushuang, however, played slower and slower, with increasing difficulty.

With every piece he placed, he felt like he was making an enemy of the entire world, struggling against a pitiless fate.

Beads of sweat rolled down from his temples, his face was as pale as paper, and the hand holding the game piece trembled uncontrollably.

In this game, he saw his own destiny.

He saw the cultivation wall he had struggled to pierce through for many years.

He even saw... the eternal rise and fall of the Yaoguang Holy Land, the sinking and floating of eras!

This game had already turned into the ultimate judgment of his Dao Heart!

Su Changge looked at the kid opposite him, drenched in sweat and pale-faced, and felt even more puzzled.

"It's just a damn game of Go, is it really necessary?"

"So young, yet so physically weak?"

He shook his head and decided not to waste any more time with him.

He picked up the last black piece from the jar. Looking at the board he had played into a mess with almost no room left, he found a random gap and stuffed it in.

Clack!

"Alright, I'm done playing. I win," Su Changge announced casually.

He had no idea who won or lost; he just didn't want to play anymore.

Yet it was precisely this random concluding piece...

That became the final straw that crushed the entire world in Ji Wushuang's eyes.

He saw that as that black piece landed, the Qi of all the black pieces on the board... at this moment, all connected!

A giant net covering the sky, composed of Laws and killing intent, suddenly took shape and instantly constricted!

His white piece Dragon, which had been struggling to survive in a desperate situation, along with his last shred of hope, was strangled clean!

Divine Soul extinguished, not a single trace of life left!

Checkmate!

This was the Hand of God, surpassing understanding and imagination!

"Waaaaah—!!!"

Ji Wushuang could no longer hold on. He opened his mouth and spat out a spray of blood, the bright red blood splattering across the entire Go board.

His entire aura plummeted rapidly like a kite with a broken string, all his spirit and energy seemingly drained dry by this single game.

But at the very moment his Dao Heart was about to collapse and shatter...

A brand new realization sprouted from the ruins of destruction!

His Divine Eye of Breaking Illusions, which had dimmed due to the backlash, actually broke through and established themselves anew under this extreme stimulation, erupting with brilliant golden light, showing signs of transformation and ascension!

The Bottleneck that had troubled him for several years...

Was broken!

However, there wasn't a hint of joy from the Breakthrough on Ji Wushuang's face.

He slowly stood up from the stone stool.

Then, under the wide-eyed stares of everyone in the Taixuan Sect, his knees buckled.

Thud!

He knelt heavily on the ground.

He buried his head, and the pride belonging to the Yaoguang Holy Son, deep into the dust.

His voice was hoarse and broken, yet it carried a reverence and submission from the deepest part of his Soul.

"Junior... Ji Wushuang..."

"Has lost."

"I am... utterly defeated!"