The pieces placed upon the Heaven and Earth Chessboard were laid down by the Black and White Twins for a single battle.
An ordinary Go board had nineteen lines running in each direction, making three hundred and sixty-one points, with one hundred and eighty-one black stones and one hundred and eighty white stones.
In theory, there could be three hundred and sixty-one battles, enough to fill the entire board.
But the Heaven and Earth Chessboard had thirty-six lines running in each direction, making a total of one thousand two hundred and ninety-six points.
With the three hundred martial artists eliminated earlier, elimination battles had occurred two hundred and ninety times. The non-elimination battles outnumbered the elimination battles several times over! Added together, they came to a total of eight hundred and three battles...
Yet even after all eight hundred and three battles were over, the situation on the Heaven and Earth Chessboard still had not become clear!
This situation had never appeared in the previous Yan Era.
In the previous Yan Era, the mysterious Maiden's self-play had settled the outcome early on. After only seven hundred and twenty-six battles, the White Stones had already gained an irreversible advantage.
The clearer the situation on the Heaven and Earth Chessboard, the easier it was to calculate...
With the black and white stones still in complete chaos, the mysterious Maiden had activated the round-robin system.
In fact, the Heavenly Venerates who had analyzed the situation on the chessboard earlier had already been quite puzzled.
Only five battles remained among these ten people, with one person receiving a bye. Then, among the six people, three more stones could be placed.
Although there were many decisive moves left on the chessboard, the remaining number of moves was insufficient to fill the Heaven and Earth Chessboard...