967 Heaven as Chessboard, Stars as Chess Pieces (2/2)

But the thing he desired the most was still the highest honor and repute from the art of chess—to challenge Hua Wu Cuo and defeat Hua Wu Cuo! This was the highest ambition and ideal he had been chasing after since young!

Between these two things, there was no place for them to be compared together!

Everyone present was a talent, some in literature and poetry. Even those judges were all furrowing their brows and mumbling to themselves. This was a first line of a couplet that had come from the Chess Saint! And the open heartedness hidden in the meaning of this line made those who were listening feel deeply moved!

Heaven as the chessboard, stars as chess pieces. Who is able to play it?

The first line of a couplet like this, so absolute in its words. Who could be capable of matching it?

Qi Wan Jie's mind began to wander, completely engrossed in his thoughts. Unknowingly, a thin layer of sweat had formed on his forehead and his complexion began to turn pale. Amongst all those present here, there was no doubt that he was the one most bothered by this!

Because this half of a couplet had come from Hua Wu Cuo!

Just at this moment, he only heard Mo Jun Ye sighly regrettably. ”It's a pity… Brother Wu Cuo has come up with this first line for me, but even until now, I still haven't been able to think of the next line that follows… Ai…” This sigh sounded full of disappointment.

Qi Wan Jie's jolted to his senses. He couldn't suppress a smirk that was appearing on his face. If you're capable of matching it, then will I still be able to shine? If only you can't come up with it, yet I just managed to, then it'll prove that I'm stronger than you! It'll prove that I'm on the same level as Hua Wu Cuo and stand above you…

Hua Wu Cuo, the Chess Saint—how the rest of the world knows him as. I refuse to accept it! The absolute line that you've come up with, I will match it no matter what! Just like your reputation of the supreme Chess Saint! One day, sooner or later, it will become mine! It'll belong to I, Qi Wan Jie!

Qi Wan Jie was squeezing all his brain juice thinking of how to come up with a line that matched this first line of the couplet…

Just when his brain was about to turn into knots from his thinking, he suddenly heard a pa sound from in front of him. Mo Jun Ye asked. ”Brother Qi, when are you planning to make me wait until? When will this game of chess begin?”

Qi Wan Jie opened his eyes in a daze, only realizing that he was sitting before a chessboard, and the prodigy with the Free and Natural Physique was seated opposite him, looking at him with a sharp look in his eyes.

He was holding onto a bunch of chess pieces in his hands, clearly waiting for Qi Wan Jie to start…

”Do what?” Qi Wan Jie asked in a daze. He had not completely snapped out of the thoughts of the couplet yet.

”Determine who to go first ah… Don't tell me you don't even know this?” Jun Mo Xie was cackling away inwardly. Looks like this fellow's mind has wandered off already…

”Who goes first?… Oh, yes yes, who gets to go first.” Qi Wan Jie subconsciously picked up a chess piece from the container and place it on the chessboard.

Jun Mo Xie opened up his hand, and the chess pieces scattered onto the chessboard. ”One pair, two pair, three pairs… Just nice; there are six, looks like I've set up the game. Brother Qi, I've gone easy already…”

”Oh…” Qi Wan Jie was still deep in his thoughts. Heaven as the chessboard, stars as chess pieces. Who is able to play it? Who is able to play it? A line that was impossible to be matched, so how could a correct second line be produced? And what sort item would be able to match the beauty of the heavens and stars? The stars are the chess pieces; the heaven is the board. How was it to be rhymed?

Another pa sound rang out, and when he looked over, there was one more black piece on the chessboard, landing on the top right star point.

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Qi Wan Jie suddenly regained a moment of clarity in his mind, and without any hesitation, he matched a piece at the bottom left corner.

Pa! Another black chess piece landed on the top left star point!

”What sort of beginning is this?” Qi Wan Jie had become famous through chess, but he had never met with such an odd way of opening a game. This position was a little far to be said to be keeping to the corner… calling it surrounding the center, it's not quite… if it's occupying the sides… it still doesn't make sense…

In the art of chess, there was a saying of 'the corners are gold, the sides are silver, and the center is grass; yet the opponent's current tactics at placing his pieces was beyond all of Qi Wan Jie's prior knowledge and comprehension.

What he didn't know was that it was the one thing he had never seen it before. But placing the pieces at the star points was the best method that had been invented after hundreds of years for watching from the corners, aiming for the sides and dominating the center!