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  As the only "6 star points" chess player, the god who once obtained 60 successive victories, his star was the brightest.

  However, even so, he didn't know if he could obtain more than 60 successive victories this time.

  Because playing Star Go would drain his spiritual strength. When entering the last phase, he would have to play with the chess players who weren't inferior to him, thus the consuming of his spiritual strength, he would be unable to replenish it at that time.

  It was a real harsh battlefield of wisdom. Even to him, it was almost impossible to obtain 100 successive victories.

  In fact, he knew that his 60 successive victories last time was because of luck. The Ruby Dragon Orfina's Go Strength was just half-and-half with him. He defeated Orfina after she obtained 50 successive victories, and she defeated him after he obtained 60 successive victories.

  The gap between "5 star points" and "6 star points" wasn't wide. If he wasted too much energy when playing with Orfina, it would even be possible to be defeated by "4 star points" chess players.

  Everything was possible on the Starry Sky Chessboard, even Norn couldn't avoid failure if he didn't give his whole attention to any of his opponents.

  He was the strongest chess player, because his record was stable. He had more than 50% chance to defeat any of the "5 star points" chess players. Although Orfina wasn't inferior to him, she liked to take risks when playing, so her record was unstable.

  When Norn was observing other people, other people were also observing the opponents around themselves.

  Theoretically, if you didn't quit, you could play as many turns as you wanted here. Therefore, everyone on the Starry Sky Chessboard would meet each other more than once.

  Most of them already became acquaintances, only several new faces appeared this time.

  "The God of Wisdom" was Norn's code name, "Ruby Princess" was Orfina's code name. She was called the smartest dragon in the Dragon God's Domain, and her true body was a star.

  Apart from them two, there were several "4 star points" chess players, such as "Black Mage", "Maple Teeth", and "Duck Rome". They also defeated "The God of Wisdom" and "Ruby Princess" several times.

  Compared to them, the new chess players had zero star points now, so most of them didn't pay too much attention to these newbies.

  This time, there were four new chess players.

  "Maha Mystery" - apparently, it was an eastern style code name, this was a new chess player from the Sky Tower.

  "Hero of Might" - this was a mysterious chess player from the Dragon Tower.

  "Cyber Elf Alpha" - nobody heard this code name before. Maybe it was a legend ranked elf.

  "A Cloud in the Sky" - it really was a strange code name. Nobody knew who this new chess player was.

  At this time, nobody would know what a storm these newbies would roll up.

  Everyone looked at the two strongest chess players, Norn and Orfina, and expected an earth shattering competition between them.

  "Ok, I will use this code name." Yun Xi was satisfied with the code name he just chose.

  "A Cloud in the Sky" meant that he wanted to be as free as the cloud in the sky.

  Chapter 396: Maha Mystery

  "What a gorgeous chessboard!"

  Yun Xi looked at the huge chessboard and immediately fell in love with it.

  It was the most complicated, most mysterious and most beautiful thing he had ever seen. In the continuously rotating nebula, there were endless star maps.

  Just looking at the chessboard, Yun Xi felt as if he was looking at the history of stars.

  "This thing..." Mei'er supported her arms, observing the mysterious chessboard.

  As a star spirit, she instinctively felt something from the chessboard.

  It was familiar and strange.

  It was close and distant.

  It looked as if a web that mixed up all the star maps in the past, at present and in the future together.

  The ranking of the Starry Sky Chessboard... isn't inferior to the Sky Tower itself!

  As the stars on the chessboard started to twinkle and shine, they dropped onto the huge star map one by one.

  Each star stood for a chess player.

  Amongst all of the stars, the stars of Norn and Orfina were the brightest.

  Unknowingly, only Yun Xi hadn't entered the chessboard.

  "All right, let's go!" Yun Xi and Mei'er flew to the infinite lights of stars.

  The battle had just begun!

  In the Sky Tower, Dragon Tower and God Tower, one legend ranked being after another cast their eyes onto the light ball stood for the Starry Sky Chessboard. They couldn't join this competition, but they could see the record of the chess players the Starry Sky Chessboard published.

  As the highest crystallization of wisdom in the endless god domain world, the winner of this game would become the focus of attention by everyone.

  In the recent 1000 years, the God Tower was dominant, Norn the God of Wisdom made a great contribution to it.

  Because he won repeatedly on the Starry Sky Chessboard, a lot of sophists were born in the Western God's Domain, which contributed a great amount of achieving points for the God Tower.

  Therefore, almost all god's domains started to learn Star Go in the recent 1000 years, and they had explored many new strategies of Star Go.

  It would be doomed to be an era that all stars were shining.

  Yun Xi looked at the monk who had three eyes, six arms and bright lights all over his body. He was shocked.

  "Maha Mystery", he was Yun Xi's first opponent. They both were newbies.

  But in Yun Xi's eyes, he was really an eminent monk!

  "Oh, benefactor, you are predestined with Buddha!" The monk's six arms held a vase, a pearl, a vajra, a wand, a sword and a Buddhist sutra. He saluted to Yun Xi.

  "Namo Amita Buddha!"

  He was the strongest secret weapon of buddhism, Sacred Monk Maha!

  Yun Xi gawked. He never saw such a monk whose body was covered with golden lights! Is he a living Buddha?

  Because of the rule of the Starry Sky Chessboard, the monk's face was covered by starlights, however, his golden, gorgeous kasaya and talismans still made Yun Xi feel ashamed of his own unseemliness.

  He must be an enlightenment monk!

  Even if he said "In fact, I'm the nirmanakaya of Bodhisattva, I come here to convert you to Buddhism." Yun Xi would believe his words.

  Of course, Yun Xi never planned to believe in Buddha and convert to Buddhism.

  He still dreamed of a better future after he got rid of his ex-girlfriends' hunting and married the girl he liked!

  At least, he still thought that this dream would come true someday now.

  Yun Xi's strength was no match for the enlightenment monk's dharma body, fortunately, they were on the Starry Sky Chessboard, they only needed to break a lance using the chess pieces.

  There were two golden hourglasses between both of them, which looked similar to Casina's Sand of Time.

  When the game started, first, they needed to determine who was on the offensive (by guessing if the number of chess pieces were odd or even), after that, they could think before the sands in the hourglass ran out in their turn. Apart from that, their true faces would be covered by starlights, but they could use avatars to show their identities.

  "Odd." Yun Xi said.

  "Even." Maha Mystery said.

  The number of the chess pieces was odd. Yun Xi was on the offensive. He could put his chess piece first.

  He took a deep breath.

  Take it easy, it doesn't matter! This is just a simple game, otherwise, Teacher Casina wouldn't be so sure that I could obtain 100 successive victories! Even though he looks like an enlightenment monk, it doesn't mean that his Star Go strength is strong!

  Yes, it must be the truth!

  When the sequence of moving the chess pieces was determined, a vast star map appeared in front of them. The star map was far more complicated than the star map of t
he Nine Chess Pieces Go!

  "Amitabha!" When the star map appeared, the Sacred Monk Maha closed his eyes. His body turned into three incarnations, looking at the mysterious star map together!

  His first incarnation picked a flower, put it in his hand and smiled.

  His second incarnation sat on a lotus with a sad look.

  His third incarnation laughed heartily with a big belly and red face.

  His first incarnation was Manjusri Bodhisattva.

  His second incarnation was Ksitigarbha Bodhisattva.

  His third incarnation was Buddha Maitreya.

  His Buddha dharma "Maha Mystery" could let him borrow the powers of Buddhas and Bodhisattvas.

  At this time, the Sacred Monk Maha borrowed the powers of the Bodhisattvas and Buddha, trying to figure out the secret of the star map using their theurgy.

  "Pa!" Yun Xi didn't know what the Sacred Monk Maha was doing at all. He just picked up a chess piece and put it into the slot in the center of the chessboard, where was called "tengen"!

  Chapter 397: First Victory!

  "Tengen?"

  Looking at the chess piece, Maha's three incarnations pondered together.

  Chess pieces could be placed everywhere on the chessboard. "tengen" was the most stable place in the entire star map.

  Putting the first chess piece here was meaningless, because the nature of tengen would barely change in the game, which meant that it was equal to give up one's first move advantage.

  Yun Xi just gave up his "sente"!

  "Kakari." Manjusri Bodhisattva pointed to the corner of the chessboard.

  "Top left corner." Ksitigarbha Bodhisattva pointed to the corner on the left.

  "The right corner is also fine." Maitreya Buddha laughed loud. Apparently, he thought that his victory was already in the bag.

  The young boy was apparently a newbie, because he didn't even know that no one could put the chess piece in the center of the chessboard at the beginning. He had lost the upper hand!

  After thinking a minute, the Sacred Monk Maha picked up a red chess piece and put it into the slot in the left corner of the star map, where Ksitigarbha Bodhisattva pointed at.

  It wasn't his best choice, however, he wanted to test Yun Xi's style of playing Star Go by this.

  His Buddha dharma "Maha Mystery" recorded the styles of all the chess players he had observed.

  All chess players had their own style when playing Star Go. Norn the God of Wisdom's style was stable; Orfina the Ruby Dragon's style was wild; some people were good at making traps in the game, if they couldn't be at the upper hand, they would already lose half; some people were good at counterattack, if they were on the offensive, they would be at a loss about what to do; some people's state was unstable, they could be invincible when they were in a good state, but would also be dashed to the ground when they were in a bad state.

  The Starry Sky Chessboard was the battlefield of wisdom. The Sacred Monk Maha was a secret weapon the Buddhism had prepared a thousand years for this day.

  Everyone could use all magics, theurgy, and equipment on the chessboard. Just like the real world, winner obtains everything.

  Looking at the sacred monk, Yun Xi showed an expression of "I know you will put the chess piece there!". He put the second chess piece in the slot where was in the opposite direction of Maha's chess piece on the chessboard.

  Oh, he likes to counterattack? Maha was lost in thought again. When half of the sands had dropped to the bottom of the hourglass, he moved again.

  Even if your defense is strong, it wouldn't be meaningless to face my stronger attack!

  "Attack!" Manjusri Bodhisattva nodded.

  "You should attack." Ksitigarbha Bodhisattva put his palms together devoutly.

  "You must attack!" Maitreya Buddha laughed.

  Therefore, Maha started his fierce attack. After ten rounds, half of the area on the chessboard had been occupied by Maha's chess pieces. He had even eaten three of Yun Xi's chess pieces.

  "Ok, it's over." Yun Xi looked at the chessboard and began to draw the net in.

  "Pa!"

  "Pa!"

  "Pa!"

  Ten rounds later, Maha still attacked fiercely, and Yun Xi started to link up his chess pieces on the chessboard.

  The 11th round, Yun Xi's chess pieces suddenly emitted green lights.

  Seven chess pieces formed a completed "Sanctuary of Wind", which he also used in the Nine Chess Pieces Go.

  "Amitabha!" Looking at the chessboard, Maha was shocked.

  Originally, his chess pieces had dominated the chessboard, but when Yun Xi put down a chess piece, a "ko" formed and the situation was totally reversed.

  What happened? When did he make the mistake that caused this happening?

  "Not here." Manjusri Bodhisattva loosened his fingers.

  "Not there." Ksitigarbha Bodhisattva shook his head.

  "Not here, not there!" Maitreya Buddha patted his stomach and laughed bitterly.

  Maha froze. His hand raised highly but couldn't put the chess piece down.

  He didn't expect that the situation suddenly became so bad to him! They hadn't even played 50 rounds!

  No, there is still hope!

  "Well, is the monk thinking that he can still save the situation?" Mei'er sat on Yun Xi's shoulder, kicking his hair with a naughty look.

  "Hmm, I think he is gonna lose, but... maybe there are some changes I don't find." Looking at the star map, Yun Xi didn't find any problem.

  "Amitabha! Maha means infinite! If someone has to take the tough stuff, let me do it!" Maha chanted with a religious look. His six arms raised the six talismans together.

  The vase, pearl, vajra, wand, sword and Buddhist sutra emitted bright lights together. One picture of Mandala after another appeared behind him.

  "No! No!" Manjusri Bodhisattva lowered his head.

  "Stop! Stop!" Ksitigarbha Bodhisattva looked at him with compassion.

  "You are done! You are done!" Maitreya Buddha shook his stomach.

  These pictures of Mandala was Maha's treasures, they were disposable goods he borrowed from a predecessor of Buddhism. Each of the picture could temporarily increase a part of his computing power.

  He obstinately thought that he still stood a chance to save the situation!

  As the secret weapon of Buddhism, the monk who could create the Buddha dharma "Maha Mystery", he couldn't be defeated in the first game! Moreover, his opponent was just a newbie!

  "Buddha is compassionate!" He shouted. After that, his eyes became clear as if he just obtained a great awakening.

  In the 100th round, Yun Xi put down the 100th chess piece, which announced the victory of his first battle.

  "Oh, benefactor, fate has brought us together, you are predestined to join Buddhism!" Although he had been defeated, the Sacred Monk Maha didn't look dejected. He raised all the treasures in his six hands and smiled at Yun Xi.

  "If you want to join Buddhism, just go to the Temple of Manjusri in the west of the Kunlun God's Domain!"

  Chapter 398: The Secret of Tengen

  "Well, as expected, Star Go is pretty easy!" This was Yun Xi's feeling about his first game.

  "The monk made a lot of mistakes!" As a star spirit, Mei'er easily found over ten mistakes the Sacred Monk Maha made.

  In fact, Maha's line of thinking wasn't wrong, but from his second round, the natures of the chess pieces he put down had very few differences with the areas on the star map.

  No, he didn't make everything wrong, it was just a very subtle, inconspicuous mistake. The nature of the area his chess pieces occupied were changing, he shouldn't launch any fierce attack in this situation.

  Star Go was different from Go, although a few of the rules of the two games were similar, however, the chessboard of Star Go was a changing star map. The chess pieces on the star map would effect the star map and the star map would affect the chess pieces too.

  Maha's biggest mistake was that he thought that Yun Xi was a newbie, so he le
t down his guard and launched an imprudent attack.

  Even if his opponent was a "4 star points" chess piece, his opponent would be careful about his attack. Apart from Orfina who would definitely strike back immediately, other people would stand firmly and fight steadily in the face of his attack.

  However, Yun Xi's style was different from any other chess player. In his eyes, Maha's fierce attack was equal to bringing about his own destruction!

  When Yun Xi's chess pieces formed the first "ko", he had dominated the chessboard. Even in theory, Maha didn't have any chance to win, that was the reason his three incarnations sighed together.

  No, it wasn't because Maha was weak. He created the Buddha dharma "Maha Mystery" and obtained the pictures of Mandala, his computing power was actually in the top three list.

  Unfortunately, his opponent was Yun Xi, the "newbie" who didn't need to calculate and only played chess on his feelings.

  At the same time, on another star map.

  The top ten chess player last time, the wise man whose code name was "Duck Rome" stared at his remaining chess pieces in fear.

  What happened? Am I defeated? How could it be true?

  Is she really a newbie?

  Her strong computing power and terrible sense of pressure... he never saw anyone like her before!

  Maybe even Norn the God of Wisdom couldn't win against her when it came to computing power!

  Her computing power was far stronger than any human, no, even gods were no match for her. She forced him to the corner within 30 rounds, how weird her Star Go style was!

  "I concede!" Duck Rome threw down his remaining chess pieces.

  It couldn't be called a "competition", the gap between them was so wide that he couldn't keep playing with her.

  He had a feeling that she would really become a "dark horse" of this term of Star Go Competition.

  Her computing power and deductive ability were even stronger than any god he had seen. He couldn't imagine "what" he was facing.

  "Cyber Elf Alpha", looking at her code name, he sighed for the countless mysteries in the world of Star Go again.