Black and White Chess, Go

As it turns out, the gap between ordinary people and cultivators is indeed huge. Xiao Huan and Lin Yuanxi played ten rounds in a row, with the final score being 0:10.

"One more round! I'm sure I'll win next round!" Xiao Huan exclaimed, her eyes bloodshot.

"I'm not coming anymore, you're too bad!" Lin Yuanxi shook her head. I do want to win, but I hope it's a close and satisfying victory!

It's no fun beating up a terrible chess player.

Lin Yuanxi looked at Yang Ning: "Shall we play again? I've completely figured out the rules now, I'm sure I'll beat you this time!"

"Next time, come again next time. Didn't I say there are many ways to play this game? I'll teach you two more ways," Yang Ning said.

"There are other ways to play?" Lin Yuanxi's eyes lit up. She felt that the previous Gomoku was already quite fun!

"Hmm, this game is called Black and White Chess!" This is something Yang Ning played on his Little Tyrant learning machine when he was in school.

"At the start, place four pieces in the center, two white and two black. Then, if a piece is surrounded by pieces of different colors in a line, you can capture it!" Yang Ning demonstrated, then said, "Try it!"

The rules of Black and White Chess are equally simple, and the two players felt they understood them after only a few moves.

Lin Yuanxi thought even further ahead. If a piece on one line is about to be captured, wouldn't the pieces at the four corners never be able to be surrounded? In other words, occupying the four corners guarantees victory?

So, while Xiao Huan was still happily eating chess pieces, Lin Yuanxi had already quietly laid out her pieces in the four corners.

It was too late by the time Xiao Huan realized something was wrong and there were a few pieces she just couldn't finish!

The victory in Black and White Chess is extremely terrifying because one side can capture all of the other side's pieces, leaving only one color on the board at the end!

Now, only white pieces remain on the chessboard!

This is only the first game!

"Waaah, you're bullying me!" Xiao Huan burst into tears.

Lin Yuanxi helplessly spread her hands. "Sorry, this is my first time doing this too, I don't know how to drain the water!"

"Waaah!" Xiao Huan cried even louder.

Yang Ning was speechless, but he had to admit that Lin Yuanxi's learning and calculation abilities were very strong. No wonder she was at least at the Qi Refining Fifth Level at the age of 21!

"Next, I'll teach you Go!" Yang Ning said. "This is an advanced version of Black and White Chess. You can't just connect stones in a line and try to capture them; you have to completely enclose them!"

Xiao Huan immediately stopped crying and returned to the chessboard.

She felt she had been careless in the Black and White Chess; perhaps she could have even won in Go!

Little did people know that Go tests one's calculation ability and strategic planning skills even more.

In the first game, after only fifteen minutes, Xiao Huan was at a loss for where to place her chess piece.

There's no room left for any black pieces on the entire board!

"I was careless, let's try again!" Xiao Huan sobbed, clenching her fists. This time, she was determined to win!

In the second set, after ten minutes, Xiao Huan looked completely bewildered.

In the third game, after only a dozen or so moves, Xiao Huan was already having a headache and resigned, saying, "I'm not playing anymore, I give up!"

I've already lost four or five seeds in just over ten steps, what chance do I have left?!

"Are you satisfied with this gift?" Yang Ning asked.

"Yes, both Go and Gomoku are a lot of fun!" Lin Yuanxi smiled, her smile captivating.

As for Black and White Chess, you win by capturing a corner, so it's not very fun.

However, it's still very effective at dominating weaker opponents.

"As long as it's fun!" Yang Ning laughed. "However, chess is just for entertainment, so don't get too obsessed with it, or it will interfere with your cultivation, which would be putting the cart before the horse!"

"Mmm!" Lin Yuanxi nodded emphatically, then thought that there was no Go in this world, and he was afraid that I would be bored, so he actually invented such a fun thing!

Was his attitude towards me merely one of gratitude?

Thinking of this, Lin Yuanxi blushed, but quickly composed herself and asked softly, "Young Master Yang?"

"Just call me Yang Ning, or Brother Yang, Brother Ning, that's what everyone calls me!" Yang Ning said. "Calling me 'Young Master' or something like that is too formal!"

It's just too awkward.

"So distant? Does he want to get closer to me?" Lin Yuanxi blinked and asked, "But aren't you younger than me?"

"For us cultivators, a difference of a few years isn't a big deal. For example, one year and ten years are nine years apart, which means we're from two different generations. But who would think that 101 and 109 are from two different generations? What about 1001 and 1009?" Yang Ning Brother Yang, but that won't do, it sounds a bit like a folk dance. Ning Ge'er, Ning Ge'er, calling him Yang Ning sounds better with the second tone, but calling him Brother Ning Ge'er sounds better with the fourth tone, so let's go with the fourth tone Brother Ning Ge'er."

Yang Ning was struggling with how to pronounce his name, while Lin Yuanxi was agonizing over whether 101 and 109 were from the same generation.

Yang Ning felt that Lin Yuanxi Qi Refining Fifth Level, came from the Lin Family, and had an older brother at the Golden Core Stage. If the two were to fall in love, wouldn't it be Yang Ning was climbing the social ladder?

But he didn't know that Lin Yuanxi was also feeling inferior.

He's so talented, but I can't write any poetry or prose. Will he look down on me?

He's only 12, and I'm already 21. Will he think I'm too old?

He dreams of becoming a great Artifact Forging Master, but I took it upon myself to use my Divine Ability to make him a regular disciple. Will he blame me?

Now, every word Yang Ning said was interpreted by her as a powerful response.

I don't know if he likes me too, but at least he doesn't dislike me!

"Then I'll call you Brother Ning!" Lin Yuanxi said softly.

She knew that Ning Rong and Su Bai both Brother Yang, so she needed to have a unique way of addressing him.

Her call made Yang Ning's bones tremble, and he nodded hastily.

I originally wanted to say that it is customary over there to add the character "zi" to the name.

For example, Brother Ning can also be called Ning Zi Ge, but as soon as a girl calls him that, he forgets everything else.

"Brother Ning!" Lin Yuanxi read it aloud, smiled gently, and said, "Then just call me Yuanxi, and don't call me 'Miss' anymore."

"Okay!" Yang Ning nodded.

"Brother Ning, have you written any new lyrics lately?" Lin Yuanxi asked.

"A new song, a cup of wine; the weather of last year, the old pavilion; when will the setting sun return?"

"The flowers fall helplessly, the swallows return seemingly familiar, and I wander alone on the fragrant path of the small garden."

Yang Ning shook his head. "No, I've been busy building cars for the past three months. By the way, do you want to try out the car? Oh, you're already at the Qi Refining Stage, you can fly, so you probably don't need a car!"

He's speaking eloquently and fluently, yet he says he hasn't composed poetry?

But

"A car?" Lin Yuanxi blinked. "What kind of car?"

"It's not very spacious here, shall we go outside and take a look?" Yang Ning said.

"It's alright!" Lin Yuanxi waved her hand, and the bamboo building instantly transformed into a different world.

Yang Ning looked up and found himself in a vast, open field.

Moreover, he was very familiar with this wilderness; the grass varieties here were the same as those on the grasslands along the border of the Yue Kingdom!

Turning to look at Lin Yuanxi, Yuanxi was just smiling, offering no explanation.

She seems to really like herself; even her hobbies are centered around her poetry.

Yang Ning sighed, then took out the car.

"What a beautiful car!" Lin Yuanxi exclaimed.

Her assessment is far from objective, after all, she would live in a bamboo house because of a poem called "The Lou Shi Ming Abode".

And then there are the maple leaves covering the mountains, perhaps inspired by the line, "Stopping the carriage to admire the maple forest at dusk, the frosted leaves are redder than the flowers of February."

Since it's a car made by Yang Ning, she'll say it's beautiful no matter how bad it is.

Collection prices have stopped rising.

This book is probably G again.

Writing novels is really hard!