Blackness surrounded Yeung Tin Hun as he stepped into the straw hut.509Please respect copyright.PENANAAA3cMCTySQ
“Hey, is anybody there?” Yeung Tin Hun shouted, and instantly the room was lit up slightly.509Please respect copyright.PENANAHfCpvBfEiA
Pfft…509Please respect copyright.PENANA96Z4FgDjmZ
A candle was lit up.509Please respect copyright.PENANAcmj3jCo0kW
Pfft pfft pfft pfft…509Please respect copyright.PENANAttLbdlJUxO
Many other candles were lit up like a domino effect. In the spacious room, only a small space in the middle was occupied.509Please respect copyright.PENANApuwL8yf4xu
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.509Please respect copyright.PENANA6ZP4Kbxa6g
“Please take a seat.” The person waved his hands and got Yeung Tin Hun to take a seat.509Please respect copyright.PENANAa6urdz7G09
“Acting mysterious to confuse me,” Yeung Tin Hun complained softly and sat on the cushion as told, subconsciously checking the Go board out.509Please respect copyright.PENANAZ8LBhLIvOm
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.509Please respect copyright.PENANAi4Qu9wuORu
“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.509Please respect copyright.PENANAHcrA3INguq
“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.509Please respect copyright.PENANA0fKHvp1w6m
“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?509Please respect copyright.PENANAQT80ijoaIl
“Please start.” The man waved his hand.
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Yeung Tin Hun walked out of the straw hut in a daze.509Please respect copyright.PENANAdyLSYeyU67
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?”509Please respect copyright.PENANAqWKxEgFK54
“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.509Please respect copyright.PENANArqtDj35e96
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.509Please respect copyright.PENANAEdeZhV42we
Wong Kei – the current fourth teacher of Cloud Palace.509Please respect copyright.PENANAOqRNa5WHJj
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.509Please respect copyright.PENANAHSZZQkWAME
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.509Please respect copyright.PENANAcw4MDIS5FW
But Wong Kei wasn't bothered as he continued to isolate himself to research the world of Go that greatly interested him.509Please respect copyright.PENANAzEUqci4GUk
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.509Please respect copyright.PENANAKbsTl2RpXW
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!”509Please respect copyright.PENANAI0JkOM118A
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.509Please respect copyright.PENANA5k010pSRbz
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.509Please respect copyright.PENANA9Rz43vWJLZ
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.509Please respect copyright.PENANAaW1XBJwiOP
Everyone that challenged him mentioned nothing about the experience.509Please respect copyright.PENANApagoMMxDUo
It was important to note that they didn't just challenge him to a game of Go; these people harbored malicious intentions.509Please respect copyright.PENANAheccx09DcD
So, could the fourth teacher be more than just powerful in Go? Nobody knew.
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Chui Yim was curious about the myterious man in front of him.509Please respect copyright.PENANADN9ZxUH2Gv
“Please take a seat.” Wong Kei waved his hands and got Chui Yim to take a seat.509Please respect copyright.PENANAwwxnOVbq6M
“Persist three moves in this difficult game of Go and you'll pass.”509Please respect copyright.PENANAAlHoAm4JXk
“I do not know how to play Go.”509Please respect copyright.PENANAMdfbhK1gta
“Life is like a game of Go. We can be unfamiliar with a game of Go, but never survival, right?”509Please respect copyright.PENANADlIq99Sjxe
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.509Please respect copyright.PENANAQzGlwhh6Ts
Wong Kei was an expert in Go, and to him, Go was just like the world.509Please respect copyright.PENANAjpy93zx35k
He viewed the world as a Go board, and everybody in this world was just a piece in this game.509Please respect copyright.PENANAnIL7UoVY2g
Many didn’t know how to play Go, but how many in the world didn’t know how to be a human?509Please respect copyright.PENANATdRvGVdU4X
“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.509Please respect copyright.PENANAK7hrjHh5Vt
White was obviously in such a difficult state that even Chui Yim who wasn't a good Go player could tell.509Please respect copyright.PENANA5U9yjynf20
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!509Please respect copyright.PENANACmWgUWZiqS
Three moves? In this state, forget about three moves, it might be tough to last even one!509Please respect copyright.PENANAMLvmRNNloB
Chui Yim was completely focused.509Please respect copyright.PENANAZ2bcY7qVst
The Go game in front of him started to look distorted, and the game turned into reality in an instant!
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