[You merely played on, composed and calm.]
[The black stones held the lower board, their great dragon formation complete. Slaying the dragon seemed the only way out.]
[Deep within black's formation, you gently placed a stone.]
[Xie Xuan sneered. Was this not "a lone army plunging deep," far from the white stones behind it, "with no road ahead and no way home"?]
[A lone tree could not hold up the sky!]
[Su Yun could not understand the move either. Why place a stone there now?]
[A perilous move?]
[The woman smiled dismissively. "If this is your hidden move, it's far too rash. Once that stone falls, it will be the cause of your defeat."]
[The black stones below held the high ground like troops on a mountain, hunting down and hemming in the white stones.]
[That lone stone hung exposed, barely able to defend itself.]
[Su Yun grew anxious. The white stone seemed to serve no purpose, and you had wasted a move on it.]
[The woman seized the opening. Her white stones on both sides swelled and joined into one, their momentum like a rainbow.]
[Watching from the side, Xie Xuan thought black's arrangement resembled the stars of the night sky reflected upside down in a mirror of water.]
[At each point where a stone had fallen, starlight glimmered, slowly turning around the "Heavenly Origin."]
[Xie Xuan felt dizzy and shaken. This was the style of play he had pursued so long: chess that nearly touched the Way.]
[But the white stones told another story.]
[Though your formation was tight, it seemed to lack a pillar capable of holding up the sky.]
[Amid the disorder, the white stone deep in black's formation looked especially out of place.]
[In the blink of an eye, the white stones were surrounded, their