The Way of the Blind Girl Chess Saint

The little girl glanced at the green crescent moon on Ji Yingting's brow, then lowered her head to ponder the life-or-death problem in front of her, "Little Pig's Mouth," her brows furrowed.

*Thud!*

Just then, a thunderous roar drew everyone's attention. The little girl with scorpion braids sitting opposite Ji Yingting stared blankly for a few seconds.

"Wow!!! Waaaaaah!"

The little girl was so frightened by the loud sound of the stone being placed that she burst into tears, large tears streaming down her dress in a small stream.

A little boy with white hair and a crew cut, wearing a baseball cap and twirling it, sat down on the table. Just now, his arm reached over the little girl's head and dropped a chess piece.

"Hahaha, is this the only easy question? Are you guys from Minghai Ji Middle School's Go club? Interesting! I didn't know such a run-down school had a Go club!!"

"But... don't put out such simple questions! Give me something harder, hahahahaha!!!" Liu Chongxi laughed wildly.

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PS: By the way, I miscalculated the word count before. I probably won't be updating twice a day until next Friday. There might be one or two days without double updates.

Chapter 64: Unending Cherry Blossoms

A little boy with white hair and a crew cut, wearing a baseball cap and twirling it, sat down on the table. Just now, his arm reached over the little girl's head and dropped a chess piece.

"Hahaha, is this the only easy question? Are you guys from Minghai Ji Middle School's Go club? Interesting! I didn't know such a run-down school had a Go club!!"

"But... don't put out such simple questions! Give me something harder, hahahahaha!!!" Liu Chongxi laughed wildly.

"Who are you? Are you here to be a freshman at Minghai Ji?" Wang Xi frowned as she looked at the white-haired boy who was laughing loudly. She quickly picked up the little girl with the scorpion whip hairstyle and put her aside to comfort her.

"Want an even harder life-or-death problem? Let me set it up."

Wang Jun, who was sitting idly to the side, looked up at Liu Chongxi, stood up and walked to the vicinity of the chessboard.

pat, pat...

A few dozen seconds later, Wang Jun replaced the original life-and-death problem with a new one.

"You only have one chance," Wang Jun said calmly.

"Hmph," Liu Chongxi said no more. He twirled his hat in his hand and looked down at the life-and-death problem.

【Continuous Cherry Blossoms】

Ji Yingting pondered to herself, and she quickly recognized the problem as a life-or-death puzzle.

The Treatise on the Creation of Yang in Go is universally recognized as the most classic work on life-and-death problems in Go. It can also be said to be the watershed between amateur and professional Go players, and it contains extremely difficult life-and-death problems.

This question is from the Treatise on the Development of Yang.

Even professional Go players find it difficult to solve the life-and-death problems in the "Theory of Go Development" on the first try... Ji Yingting had studied this complete collection of life-and-death problems in depth when she was preparing for her professional Go exam in her previous life.

The "Treatise on the Development of Go" also has another name: "The Unending Cherry Blossom." Cherry blossoms are the most beloved flower of the people of the Sakura Federation, and in Go, they symbolize the essence of strategy.

The phrase "continuous cherry blossoms" is a metaphor for the endless stream of brilliant and skillful writers in the book. It is a fitting and poetic name.

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"Hey, how long are you going to take?" Wang Jun urged calmly a few minutes later.

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Liu Chongxi was clearly stumped by this life-and-death problem. He lowered his head, a few drops of cold sweat trickling down his cheeks, because... he never usually did life-and-death problems.

The idea of ​​asking them to come up with more difficult questions was just a pretentious act, and Liu Chongxi grew increasingly impatient.

Crash!

Suddenly, he swung his arm, and dozens of black and white chess pieces were swept to the ground with a clatter, the chaotic sound immediately attracting many tourists nearby.

"Hmph, what's a life-and-death problem? Will it improve your chess skills? You'd be better off playing a game of chess."

Liu Chongxi said somewhat unhappily, "These weaklings actually dare to mock me because of a mere life-or-death question."

"What are you doing? Looking for a beating?"

Several male students from the Go club angrily surrounded them, but Wang Xi stopped them.

"Don't hit him, he's just a primary school student, don't bother with a child."

If violence were to occur on graduation day, the reputation of Minghaiji Middle School would be severely damaged.

Liu Chongxi showed no fear whatsoever. He crossed his legs and sat down in the chair opposite Ji Yingting. "What's wrong? You guys are too scared to play? Hahaha, anyone can just place two pieces! Because I'm a professional Go player!"

"What, a professional Go player?"

Everyone was stunned. This boy, who was clearly still in elementary school, actually claimed to be a professional Go player? He must be joking.

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"Ah! I remember now! He's that Yoo Jung-hee from the capital!! I've seen his picture online, he's just a little kid with white hair and a buzz cut!!"

Wang Xi exclaimed loudly, "I didn't expect him to appear at Minghai Ji Middle School. Does he want to enroll?"

The angry expressions on Lin Hao, Zhao Xiao, and the others' faces instantly turned to shock. With a satisfied look on his face, he slowly asked, "Liu Chongxi, that supernova?"

"Is he really a professional?" As soon as she finished speaking, a greenish-blue ahoge (cowlick) stuck up on Ji Yingting's head, and her interest was piqued again.

"You're going to place two chess pieces? You said it yourself..."

At the same time, upon hearing the words "professional chess player," Wang Jun's gray pupils lit up. He reached out to grab the chess box, but suddenly froze.

No matter how hard she tried, she couldn't lift the chess box. Ji Yingting secretly held the bottom of the chess box with her two slender hands.

"Let me play this game; I'm sure I can beat him."

"No, Sakuraba-senpai, if I give him a two-stone handicap, he definitely won't be a match for me. Let me play this game."

"Let me play... This is a matter for the Minghai Princess Go Club."

"I'll do it..."

The two men simultaneously increased the pressure on their right hands holding the chess box, and soon, to the astonishment of the crowd, they brazenly began to snatch the chess box.

"Hmph, hurry up and decide. It doesn't matter who comes to you weaklings," Liu Chongxi said with a hint of anger at their behavior.

"Cousin, where did you go? I've been looking for you for ages!" Just then, a calm voice interrupted everyone's thoughts.

Wang Jun slightly raised his head, his pupils suddenly narrowed, and he released the chess box from his hands, which were struggling with Ji Yingting.

When the figure saw Wang Jun, he was slightly stunned, and his sea-blue pupils suddenly contracted.

A handsome young man, about the same height as Wang Jun (less than 1.6 meters), with sky-blue pear-shaped curly hair, appeared before everyone.

Jiang Gu...

Looking at the handsome blue-haired boy in front of him, Wang Jun silently thought to himself, "The vice president of Beaver Middle School, an amateur fourth dan, who once led Beaver Middle School to advance to the regional competition again when the team captain Lian Hezhou gave up Go."

Although they lost in the first round of the provincial junior high school league this year, they still managed to retain Beaver Middle School's status as the city's champion for four consecutive years.

"Ok?"

Upon hearing the voice of the newcomer, Liu Chongxi's grayish-white pupils secretly darted around, and a wicked smile appeared on his lips.

"Hahaha, cousin, you've come at the perfect time! How about we play a two-player Go game? We have two weaklings hesitating over who should go first."

Two-player Go? That sounds interesting.

Ji Yingting's light green eyebrows twitched a few times, and the chess box she was holding tightly loosened. Her two large, light green breasts trembled slightly.

"So, do you agree?" Liu Chongxi asked. Although his cousin might not be qualified to be a professional Go player, he still had the strength of an amateur fifth dan.

"Two-player Go? You mean 2v2, where each player makes one move and neither can discuss the moves?" Jiang Gu frowned. He didn't know what had happened and that he had run into the captain of Bailu Middle School here.

"What's going on? Is that the Go club over there? What happened?" Many tourists walked over.

A passerby who had been watching the scene explained to the others, "A professional Go player came to the Go club to challenge us. They even said they wanted to play two-player Go."

Amidst the commotion and cheers of many, countless people gathered around.

Wang Jun nodded. "I have no objection to two-player Go."

Upon hearing Wang Jun's reply, Liu Chongxi twirled his hat and burst into a few wild laughs.

"Hahahaha, if you lose, just disband your Go club!! Weren't you so defiant just now?"

"What did you say?" Wang Xi frowned sharply. How could he possibly agree to something like this? This kid is a professional Go player. Even if Sakuraba has professional-level skills, he doesn't know if he can win...

Hehehehe

At the same moment, Ji Yingting also gently covered her mouth and laughed, her light green willow eyebrows obscuring her eyes.

She reacted before Wang Xi could speak.

Under everyone's gaze, she extended her slender, fair right arm from her light green Taoist robe, rubbing her beautiful, bluish-green hair as she spoke.

"If you lose, you'll have to kneel on the ground and bark like a dog 300 times...?"

Chapter 65: Corner of No Worries

"Learn to bark like a dog 300 times? If you're capable of that, go ahead and try."

Even though Ji Yingting was incredibly beautiful, elementary school students are still developing physically and their aesthetic sense is not yet fully mature, so Liu Chongxi didn't have much affection for Ji Yingting.

He took the white chess box with a cold smile.

After guessing, Jiang Gu and Liu Chongxi played white, while Ji Yingting and Wang Jun played black.

"You go first, Senior Ji Yingting," Wang Jun said in a very modest tone, having already decided on a two-player Go game.

"Okay," Ji Yingting nodded, tossing her long, light green hair. She gently picked up a black chess piece.

pat...

Outside the eyes.

Hmm? Wang Jun, Jiang Gu, and Liu Chongxi all frowned in unison. Players who like to make moves outside the eye as their first move are relatively rare, even in the professional Go world.

“However… I remember that when she played against me on the first night of the training camp, her first move was also a move outside the eye, but… I know very little about moves outside the eye,” Wang Jun pondered quietly.