Blackness surrounded Yeung Tin Hun as he stepped into the straw hut.
“Hey, is anybody there?” Yeung Tin Hun shouted, and instantly the room was lit up slightly.
Pfft…
A candle was lit up.
Pfft pfft pfft pfft…
Many other candles were lit up like a domino effect. In the spacious room, only a small space in the middle was occupied.
A man sat cross-legged on the cushion upright with a Go board placed in front of him on the ground. Opposite him was an empty cushion with a bowl of Go stones next to it.
“Please take a seat.” The person waved his hands and got Yeung Tin Hun to take a seat.
“Acting mysterious to confuse me,” Yeung Tin Hun complained softly and sat on the cushion as told, subconsciously checking the Go board out.
The man inside was a youthful-looking man with a pair of bright eyes that seemed to contain an entire galaxy, capturing Yeung Tin Hun’s attention strongly. It was not an exaggeration to say that he looked like a statue, considering his sharp features. All of the above characteristics gave him a unique look.“Persist three moves in this difficult game of Go and you’ll pass,” the person spoke. His voice was slightly hoarse as if he rarely spoke, but this resulted in his voice being uniquely metallic and like an invisible whirlpool that constantly pulled people’s attention in.
“I do not know how to play Go.” Yeung Tin Hun shook his head honestly. He was so interested in cultivation that he did not have other hobbies.
“Life is like a game of Go.” The man flashed Yeung Tin Hun a gentle smile. “We can be unfamiliar with a game of Go, but never survival, right?
“Please start.” The man waved his hand.
Yeung Tin Hun walked out of the straw hut in a daze.
Some participants felt lament while some others expected the outcome; Yeung Tin Hun was second on the Blue Skies Rank, so it made sense for him to pass this stage. On the other hand, the participants who felt lament did so because they were hoping for him to fail this stage so as to have one less monstrous competitor.
“Devilish! This is the work of the devil!” He returned to Man Yee Ho, complaining.
Being Man Yee Ho, he obviously would not reply, while the nearby Chui Yim scooted close immediately. “What’s wrong? What’s devilish?”
“You’ll know when you try it yourself.” Yeung Tin Hun stopped when he saw him. Up to now, there was quite a number that entered the straw hut, and amongst them were about ten that never exited after doing so, obviously being eliminated. “Stingy.” Chui Yim clicked his tongue and went in.
The candles lit up similarly as he shut the door behind him. Unlike Yeung Tin Hun, the knowledgeable Chui Yim immediately identified the seated young man. Every disciple of Cloud Palace had many scrolls written about them.
Wong Kei – the current fourth teacher of Cloud Palace.
It was about sixty years ago that Wong Kei achieved fame. He did not have any background nor powerful organization supporting him. He was just an ordinary disciple from the Great Book Academy, and he was even known as an oddball who only focused on Go rather than cultivation.
At the age of sixteen, he was already a genius in Go that nobody, not even powerful Go players who challenged him, could beat in the South. Therefore, there was nobody that challenged him as time passed with the excuse of “not wanting to bully a kid” for the elderly while those of his generation looked down on and excluded him for focusing on Go instead of cultivation.
But Wong Kei wasn’t bothered as he continued to isolate himself to research the world of Go that greatly interested him.
The most interesting part of Wong Kei’s story was how he became a Cloud Palace disciple. He did not have the means to take part in the enrollment, but the day before the event, when he left the academy to grab some food as usual, he came across a man and a youngster setting up a stall for passersby to solve an unsolvable game of Go for them next to a beef noodle stall.
Wong Kei was interested and went ahead to discuss the game with the elderly man. However, their discussion turned into a dispute and even nearly broke out into a fight when they touched the most important part.
“How dare you quarrel with me!? Come challenge me tomorrow if you dare!”
Due to his addiction to Go, Wong Kei naturally accepted the dare bravely, and the youngster standing next to the elder gave him the location and timing.
The next day, Wong Kei turned up only to realise that he was not the only person who got invited. Other familiar faces from the Great Book Academy were there too, and then he knew that he had come to the Cloud Palace enrollment and learnt that the youngster he saw yesterday was Sung Tsz Hin, the first teacher of that generation.
Wong Kei’s route to becoming the fourth teacher was not simple, and there were still many who were unhappy with the results. This led to many stepping forward to challenge him when he left Cloud Palace to tour the world a decade after becoming the fourth teacher. The results of the fights were unknown, but Wong Kei returned to Cloud Palace safely.
Everyone that challenged him mentioned nothing about the experience.
It was important to note that they didn’t just challenge him to a game of Go; these people harbored malicious intentions.
So, could the fourth teacher be more than just powerful in Go? Nobody knew.
Chui Yim was curious about the myterious man in front of him.
“Please take a seat.” Wong Kei waved his hands and got Chui Yim to take a seat.
“Persist three moves in this difficult game of Go and you’ll pass.”
“I do not know how to play Go.”
“Life is like a game of Go. We can be unfamiliar with a game of Go, but never survival, right?”
This conversation between Wong Kei and Chui Yim was almost the same as the one with Yeung Tin Hun. Chui Yim indeed knew nothing about the mystical study of Go, and Wong Kei was also stating his point of view peacefully.
Wong Kei was an expert in Go, and to him, Go was just like the world.
He viewed the world as a Go board, and everybody in this world was just a piece in this game.
Many didn’t know how to play Go, but how many in the world didn’t know how to be a human?
“Please make your move.” Wong Kei waved his hands and had Chui Yim look at the game. Chui Yim took a look and realised he was white while Wong Kei was black.
White was obviously in such a difficult state that even Chui Yim who wasn’t a good Go player could tell.
The left, right, and middle of the board were blocked by black pieces, cutting off all possible help from the other pieces and invading white’s space. There were even blank spaces left behind by where the white pieces were eaten up by the black!
Three moves? In this state, forget about three moves, it might be tough to last even one!
Chui Yim was completely focused.
The Go game in front of him started to look distorted, and the game turned into reality in an instant!
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