Future Matters

As the game evolved, the living beings within had long since broken free of the initial settings Yu Chen and Dan Zhu had laid down. Stimulated by the Dao principles and laws bestowed by the two, they gave birth to their own illusory spirituality and emotions.

They developed judgments of their own. Many times, even Yu Chen and Dan Zhu, who held the stones, could no longer freely control the pieces upon the board.

As the divine systems grew more complete, the myriad spirits of humanity ultimately underwent an earth-shaking transformation. Upon discovering one another, the myriad spirits of the two sides began a long war.

By this point, under each other's interference, Dan Zhu and Yu Chen had also lost their complete control over the individuals below. More often, they influenced the changes in the game's finer details by affecting the deities within the board or the overall environment.

Yet what puzzled Dan Zhu was that Yu Chen had never deliberately strengthened any particular race within the game. He watched as humanity grew ever more prosperous and the territory under human rule steadily expanded.

Pinching a stone between his fingers, Dan Zhu asked curiously, "Yu Chen, I truly cannot make heads or tails of this game of yours!"

"I recall that one of the authorities under Your Majesty's command is Go, is it not? If even Your Majesty cannot understand it, then I can be a little proud of myself." Yu Chen answered with a smile, dropping the stone in his hand.

At this point, humanity had already occupied more than half the land within the game. Most of the remaining living beings had hidden away in the mountains, forests, and oceans.

And when Yu Chen's stone fell, humanity, already in an overwhelming position, experienced another explosive surge of