I'm Really Going to Become an Immortal
Chapter 170 - 140: Can’t You Hide Your Intentions?

Chapter 170: Chapter 140: Can’t You Hide Your Intentions?

After deciding to have some fun playing Go today, Chen Yun excitedly logged onto Go Network.

After going online, he didn’t look at anything else but changed his name right away.

"I’m a newbie" wasn’t very interesting.

Earlier today, while typing with Telekinesis and watching short videos simultaneously, he was bombarded by Go videos due to big data recommendations because of his chess playing.

Most of them were abstract videos of Zhan Ying.

In recent years, the influence of Go in the country was no longer what it used to be. Looking back to the 1980s, Mr. Nie, who consecutively defeated top Japanese players, was a national idol and a hero of the era. But now, it seemed very hard for Go-related topics to break out of their niche.

However, Zhan Ying, a professional chess player with many titles such as [Honorary Owner of Women’s Weiqi 2-16, Eight-Year Amateur Go Player, Weiqi Guanyin of Sending Pieces, Lower-ranked Horse Specialist, Knight Sweeping through the Forums of ’Water Flooding Golden Mountain,’ Gatekeeper of Professional Chess Players, Eight-Ding King, Mona Lisa Hawk],

managed to make Go go mainstream with just one abstract move,

injecting more vitality into the Go community, which was famously difficult for beginners.

So today, Chen Yun tried to change his nondescript name to "Hand of Eagle," but due to a naming conflict, he ended up with "Up you go, Hand of Eagle!!!".

After changing his name, Chen Yun started today’s game and battle with the AI.

Since he had understood the basic rules of Go,

he only encountered minor setbacks in the first few rounds against AI, and then it was smooth sailing.

His speed of understanding Go was much faster than the rate at which he upgraded to the next level AI.

So don’t be fooled by the fact that he had only unlocked Level 6 AI and hadn’t even unlocked the Level 9 AI representing professionals; his real strength was far from that low.

The strength of Level 6 AI clearly couldn’t hold him back for long.

After one game, he decisively started matching up with real people, aiming to continue leveling up the AI.

The condition to upgrade to the next level remained simple: just win three consecutive games against real players.

Chen Yun didn’t know if it was because he had changed his name, or because he was rapidly getting stronger, or maybe the matching system on Go Network was just trash.

He was supposed to be matched with stronger opponents, but it felt to him as if they were just getting weaker.

The first two opponents were complete novices, who did not hide their intentions at all – both attack and defense were blatantly out in the open.

After thinking for a moment, Chen Yun understood.

It wasn’t the fault of others being weak; it was purely that he had progressed too quickly and was far beyond the level he should have been at in this segment.

He should quickly climb the ranks.

With that thought,

Chen Yun’s pace of playing Go sped up even more, as if he didn’t need to think at all.

He was eager to finish the game with the third person so he could challenge Level 7 AI and then quickly go up against Level 10 AI.

This third person had some skill, much more so than the previous two, but not by much.

Essentially, they still stood exposed before him, trying to hide intentions, but it looked so naïve that he could see right through it.

Chen Yun felt that if he continued playing against these real people, he would be filled with junk information.

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At 8:30 on the morning of April 6th, Qi Dongxu woke up feeling something was off.

After losing at Go last night,

he couldn’t stop thinking about it.

Not because he was sore about losing, but because there was something strange about last night’s game.

In his dream, he replayed the two games he had lost.

Then, he had a suspicion.

Maybe he wasn’t just beaten by a pro messing around with a secondary account,

but was used as a stepping stone by a talent who was improving at an absurd rate.

He didn’t think it was an illusion; the style of that player was indeed a bit odd.

So as soon as he woke up, he went on Go Network and followed "I’m a newbie" based on the game records,

ignoring that the nickname had been changed to "Up you go, Hand of Eagle!!!" Qi Dongxu started to look at the player’s past game records.

And the more he looked at the past records, the more astonishing they seemed.

A lot of the moves "Hand of Eagle" had made in past games were flawed in the long run and could be considered blunders.

But under some insanely expensive calculations, they were forcefully salvaged. After that, similar mistakes were not seen again.

You couldn’t spot the same error twice in his game records.

It was like facing Saint Seiya – the same moves were ineffective against him.

It looked like someone who hadn’t been in contact with Go for long was rapidly improving through a strong mind and constant trial and error.

After a moment of silence,

Qi Dongxu excitedly took screenshots of these records and shared them in his Go group chat,

claiming to have discovered an unprecedentedly talented young player.

But the responses in the group

were all question marks and eyerolls.

["Are you sure you’re not just bad? I saw you making several blunders in your first game against him."]

One of the stronger Amateur Fifth Rank players in the group, who could briefly peruse the game records, couldn’t help but tease.

This tease immediately sparked a chorus of agreement.

Strong Amateur Fifth Rank players generally weren’t far behind Professional First Rank players; they could occasionally win a game against Professional First Rank players and were considered very strong amateurs who had won many provincial and national amateur Go competition awards.