"The last game... Master, what is the so-called last game like?" After a moment of silence, Xingluo finally couldn't help asking softly. Duan Liuming on the opposite side seemed to have guessed that Xingluo would be unable to help it, but the old guy thought for a while, but smiled bitterly and said, "I don't know either!"

"You... don't know? Don't you know what coax you?"

"Hey! Can I blame me? All the chess players who have participated in the last game have disappeared from this world!" Seeing Xing Luo still looking at him with contempt, Duan Liuming couldn't help but explain in a hurry: "Do you think that the last game can be played by anyone? In the past two thousand years since the prosperity of the Five Color Chess, there are probably only a handful of people who have truly entered the last game. Among them, the closest last game should have happened three hundred years ago. One of the two sides of the game is the producer and first owner of the Five Treasures Zhenluozi in your hand - Zhenluozi. His opponent is the most outstanding female chess player in the history of chess, and Yu Huiying, who is also his master!"

"So amazing? Since it's such a grand event that only happened once every hundreds of years, it should have nothing to do with you, old guy, right?" Xing Luo said so, and quickly got up and almost avoided a wooden clog that Duan Liuming threw. Seeing that his master did not get up to chase him, Xing Luo chuckled calmly: "Since there is a precedent for the last game, why do you say you don't know? It's not that game, it was done without others, right?"

"You're really right!" Seeing Xing Luo's disbelief on his face, Duan Liuming explained jokingly: "Although the chess player who can enter the last game is almost no longer moved by things outside his body, I heard that in order to achieve the most harmonious resonance, before the game, Zhen Luozi and his master did not tell the world. Instead, they were afraid that someone would know that they were hiding in the mountains and secretly played that game that no one knew. Of course, not all the last game was played without a third party, but for the bystanders: the last game is of no meaning at all!"

"Why do you say that?"

"When the game enters the state of the last game, the spiritual consciousness of both sides will enter an alien space similar to the ghost realm. From the viewer's perspective, their chess game is still, but for both sides, they are fighting the most intense confrontation in the alien space. What makes the world even more incredible is that all the chess players who have experienced the last game in history will disappear from our world after the game is over! This is why the game in that mode is called the last game, because that game is the last game they left in the world - the last game!"

"Vanished? Where did they go? Are they dead?"

"No! Every chess player who has reached the last game is actually equal to the semi-immortal realm. Although they have not completely escaped from the cycle of reincarnation, they are not so easy to be killed." Seeing Xing Luo frowning at him while thinking, Duan Liuming nodded, and then continued: "According to the speculations of some scholars and teachers in history, those chess players who have experienced the last game may have jumped from our time and space to another time and space through that game. To put it simply, it is - breaking the void!"

"Ascending in the sun? It's not that exaggerating!"

"Theoretically, it's just that the realm is different!" Seeing that Xingluo was still looking at him with doubts, Duan Liuming couldn't help but narrate: "In the world, it is not only by practicing Taoism and understanding Zen, can we escape the sea of ​​suffering and reach the other side of our ideal. Any method, anything, as long as we study a certain level, is called Tao. Whether it is playing chess, farming, reading, or killing cattle, wherever the Tao reaches, the different paths will be the same, and all the laws will return to the roots! But compared with other methods, our chess Tao needs one more condition in the process of pursuing the ultimate."

"opponent?"

"Not bad! Five-color chess has never been a game for one person. As the saying goes, 'Wine is a thousand cups, and chess is difficult for a hundred years to meet an opponent'. This is why there has never been a shortage of chess masters in the history of the empire, but only a few people are enough to reach the state of the last game - it can be encountered, but it is hard to find!" Duan Liuming said this, and Xingluo suddenly realized and said anxiously: "So when you saw that person, you had the idea of ​​'Those who are not gods, you do it by humans!', and you plan to artificially cultivate an opponent who can fight against you?"

"Well! Alas... I was nearly forty years old when I was a teacher. But at that time, it was the time when I was most energetic and most fierce. At that time, I only knew to challenge masters and keep improving, and wanted to make up for the emptiness in my heart. After I knew the existence of the last game, I had been looking for an opponent who could fight against me, but it was a pity... Ten years! I searched for a full ten years! Ten years I walked through the spring snow in the south of the Yangtze River,

After walking through the willow catkins in the northern border, from the coast to the west to the desert, I almost searched the entire empire, but I couldn't find a suitable candidate!" After saying this, Duan Liuming smiled slightly with a little nostalgic memory: "It was at that time that I saw him in a small town in the southwest. At that time, he was only eight or nine years old. Although he became a wanderer who competed for food with wild dogs, his eyes were surprisingly bright. At that time, I knew: he was the person I had been looking for for ten years!"

"After this, Master, have you taken him back to Tianzhao Temple?"

"Well! His progress was faster than I expected. In order to achieve my expected goal as soon as possible, one day, I told him on a whim: 'The highest level of chess is to take people as the son!'. To this day, I still regret the words that day! But no matter how much I regret it, it is useless. The child actually regarded my stupid words back then as a good word. After that, he began to plan and apply the tricks on chess in daily dealing with people."

"What happened later? What happened later?"

"Later? Haha... The child was only in his teens at the beginning. You were probably younger than you now, but it made all the chess players in Tianzhao Temple feel helpless! Because no one knows what he was planning to do! No one knows who he regarded as a pawn! No one knows what he planned to use those pawns to do! In the end, there was nothing he could do, so I had to remove him from the list and send him out of Tianzhao Temple!"

"What!? This...but he is not..."

"Yes! After sending him away, Tianzhao Temple was stable for five years. But five years later, he came back! Just when everyone, including me, was about to forget him, he came back!" After a pause, Duan Liuming sighed softly with a confusing eyes: "But at this time, even I can't see through him!"
Chapter completed!