Coffee Gu

Long Xuan's inspiration surged like a spring. He first wrote down the more perfect Go rules from his previous life, then quickly added beneath them:

New Board-Game Gu: a total of three hundred and sixty-one pieces. Play against geniuses; victory allows one to share in the genius's luck, fate, destiny...

Long Xuan crossed things out and revised them until progress finally appeared on the Gu Recipe. Only then did he set down his pen with a satisfied smile.

Compared to the original Board-Game Gu, his new version possessed heaven-defying abilities such as sharing fate and sharing luck.

Of course, it was not as though defeating a genius would grant him all of that genius's luck. The luck the new Board-Game Gu could share was not even one-tenth of the genius's, and the same was true of fate.

But he had far too many pieces. Under his new Go rules, he had three hundred and sixty-one pieces, allowing him to share a small portion of the luck of three hundred and sixty-one geniuses.

If all those people's luck were stacked together, just how terrifying would the resulting luck be? The thought alone made Long Xuan's heart pound wildly and his breathing quicken.

There were limitations, however, and they were basically the same as those of the original Board-Game Gu.

The Board-Game Gu's ability only worked on the weak, not the strong. That meant he could not challenge a Peak Gu King to a game and take a shortcut.

He could only act as a talent scout, using his discerning eyes to search the world for geniuses who had yet to mature. And those geniuses could not be short-lived ghosts; their odds of survival had to be extremely high.

Otherwise, if a genius died too early, he would waste one piece. Only