by Fat Bread
The Starry Sky Chessboard: Book 6 of Starchild Escapes Arranged Marriage
Written by Fat Bread
Translated by WuWang
Edited by Luiswu
© 2018 by Zenith Novels
All rights reserved. Published 2018
Originally published as 群星之子逃婚录 in Chinese by ciweimao
This book is a work of fiction. Names, characters, places, and incidents are the product of the author’s imagination or are used fictitiously. Any resemblance to actual events, locales, or persons, living or dead, is coincidental.
Table of Contents
Copyright Page
Chapter 393: The Tutorial of Starry Sky Chessboard
Chapter 394: The Easy-to-understand Star Go
Chapter 395: 47 Chess Players
Chapter 396: Maha Mystery
Chapter 397: First Victory!
Chapter 398: The Secret of Tengen
Chapter 399: The Disaster of Sky and Earth
Chapter 400: The Same Tengen
Chapter 401: Clutch Goal
Chapter 402: Terrible Alpha
Chapter 403: It's Impossible!
Chapter 404: 1+1
Chapter 405: Identity Is Exposed?
Chapter 406: Different Tengen
Chapter 407: Orfina's Feeling
Chapter 408: The Golden Red Light
Chapter 409: Sun Bird
Chapter 410: The Thread of Fate
Chapter 411: Alpha's Doubt
Chapter 412: The Truth of Norn
Chapter 413: The Prediction of the God of Wisdom
Chapter 414: Successive Victories
Chapter 415: Tengen Again!
Chapter 416: Mimic Go
Chapter 417: The Fate that was Captured
Chapter 418: The Fateful Three Chess Pieces
Chapter 419: The Inevitable Conclusion
Chapter 420: The Familiar Prophecy
Chapter 421: Approaching
Chapter 422: Code Name Cloud
Chapter 423: Wow, Golden Legendary!
Chapter 424: The Final Fantasy of the Mechanus God's Domain
Chapter 425: God Crystal
Chapter 426: Opening
Chapter 427 God Match (1)
Chapter 428: God Match(2)
Chapter 429: God Match (3)
Chapter 430: God Match (4)
Chapter 431: God Match (5)
Chapter 432: God Match (6)
Chapter 433: God Match (7)
Chapter 434: God Match (8)
Chapter 435: God Match (9)
Chapter 436: God Match (10)
Chapter 437: God Match (11)
Chapter 438: God Match (12)
Chapter 439: Alpha Has Gone Crazy (1)
Chapter 440: Alpha Has Gone Crazy (2)
Chapter 441: Alpha Has Gone Crazy (3)
Chapter 442: Administrator Alpha
Chapter 443: Descend With the True Body
Chapter 444: Alpha's Counterattack
Chapter 445: Starburst
Chapter 446: The Final Counterattack
Chapter 447: Whispers of the Abyss
Chapter 448: White
Chapter 449: Palpitation
Chapter 450: Alpha's Active Attack Policy
Chapter 451: Alpha's Active Attack Policy (2)
Chapter 452: The Shock of Starburst
Chapter 453: New Era
Chapter 454: Benefactor, You are Preordained to Join Buddhism!
Chapter 455: The Furious Princess
Chapter 456: The Princess of the Abyss
Chapter 457: Invincible
Chapter 458: 100 Victories in A Row
Chapter 459: Soul Jade
Chapter 460: The Master of Star Go
Chapter 461: The Azure God Sword Dancer
Chapter 462: Return
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Chapter 393: The Tutorial of Starry Sky Chessboard
The appearance of the Starry Sky Chessboard was random. This time, it only opened in the Sky Tower, the God Tower and the Dragon Tower.
Rarely, people swarmed toward it in the three towers. They strived to step onto the stair from different star altars.
The rule of the Starry Sky Chessboard was to play a game called "Star Go", which was recognized as the highest crystallization of wisdom in the endless god domain world.
Its prototype was an old game called "Go", which was a game played with black and white pieces on a board of 361 crosses. However, "Star Go" was far more complicated than "Go", its chess pieces were "stars", and the players needed to play in the chessboard which would change continuously.
It referred to the knowledge of astronomy, geography and divination. Arguably, it was so complicated that even gods couldn't predict the result.
It was a game that only belonged to the wisest legend ranked beings in the universe, mortals wouldn't even be able to understand the rules of the Star Go.
In the mystery world of the Starry Sky Chessboard, "power" was meaningless, because only the people who could calculate quickly and understand the rules of stars had the opportunity to win this game.
"Stars" were the chess pieces and "star map" was the chessboard. From the first day this game was invented, there weren't any chessboards that were the same.
The star map would change continuously, even the appearing of the changes was such that no one expected. This was the mystery of the Starry Sky Chessboard.
Even if a person wasn't eager for the reward after achieving 100 successive victories, to play chess here was already a great opportunity for improving oneself. Therefore, every time the Starry Sky Chessboard appeared, people would strive to enter into it like a flock of ducks.
However, the Starry Sky Chessboard didn't open to everyone. Only the smartest people could step on the stair leading to this mystery world, and this was just the beginning.
Before formally starting the game, there was still a hard test to pass.
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"The grading game? It’s used to test the player’s Star Go strength and explain the basic rules of Star Go?"
Looking at the huge chessboard in front of him, Yun Xi was annoyed.
Oh, I never heard about Star Go before, how can I achieve 100 successive victories?
Maybe the Star Go is very easy, and I will meet a lot of rookies, as long as I can understand the rules, I can win 100 times easily?
Is Teacher Casina a master-hand of Star Go? If so, it explains why she was so confident that I can win the final reward, the Soul Jade.
Yes, that must be the truth! After all, Teacher Casina is the sixth Sky Sword, it isn't surprising to know that she is good at the Star Go!
Yun Xi quickly accepted the explanation and started to learn the rules of Star Go.
Of course, if he was in the mystery world called "Battle God's Championship Contest", he would find that he had been armed with golden, sparkling legend ranked weapons to the teeth.
Most people would be scared to death and lose 90% of their combat power after seeing Casina's projection in the mystery world called "Battle God's Championship Contest".
After all, Casina was the absolute overlord of the Battle God's Championship Contest.
Because she had won so many times, the rewards she had obtained were already innumerable, after wearing the equipment she had, her defense power and attack power would be ten times stronger than anyone.
Even if it was a legend ranked being who wasn't inferior to Casina in the real world, after seeing her equipment in the "Battle God's Championship Contest", they would immediat
ely turn away and concede.
If Yun Xi was in the "Battle God's Championship Contest", to achieve 100 successive victories would be as easy as traveling to the nearby town.
Of course, since he had entered the mystery world of "Starry Sky Chessboard", he wouldn't be able to know it now.
He had started to learn the rules of the Star Go with confidence.
"Um-hum, oh, it's pretty easy!" Yun Xi read the rules of the Star Go.
The players just needed to put chess pieces on the chessboard called "star map", occupying the territory on the star map, the one who obtained the absolute advantage on the star map would be the winner.
The rules were similar to the mortal's game, "Go", but the chess pieces were different.
Each of the chess piece of the Star Go had their own nature. Some of them were fire type, just like the planet full of lava in the real world; some of them were water type, just like the ice-covered planet in the real world.
The nature of the chess piece stood for different planets in the real world.
Similarly, the chessboard called "star map" was the same. It was the simulation of the real starry sky.
Before the game started, both sides of the players wouldn't know what the star map was and what kinds of chess pieces they would obtain. It was a great challenge to their computing power and understanding about the rules of the stars.
Now, in front of Yun Xi, it was the most basic star map, a simulation of a very small galaxy with nine slots.
In the box beside of his hand, there were 18 chess pieces waiting for his picking.
"Nine Chess Pieces Go" was the basic of the Star Go, it was used to test the handfeel of the player.
Theoretically, all the 18 chess pieces could be put into the 9 slots, but the natures of the chess pieces and the natures of the slots were different.
Based on the slots the chess pieces were put in, the power the chess pieces could release would be various.
Chapter 394: The Easy-to-understand Star Go
Put the right chess piece into the right slot of the star map was the basic rule of Star Go.
Just like the real starry sky, the star map would change as time went by.
Putting the "stars" into the star map was the biggest change.
If the player put a fire-type chess piece into the slot that was also fire-type, the fire element in this area of the star map would become stronger.
On the contrary, if the player put an ice-type chess piece into the fire-type slot, it would reduce the fire element in this area.
The rules of Star Go was to put the right chess pieces into the right slots to gain advantages, "eat" the opponent's chess pieces or break the opponent's layout.
The star map would affect the nature of the chess pieces, and the chess pieces would change the star map too. The infinite changes on the star map would be the battlefield of the smartest people in the endless god's domains.
Even though the "Nine Chess Pieces Go" was just the most basic Star Go that was used to test the player's ability, to most people in the world, it was already an extremely difficult barrier.
It seemingly only needed to put 9 of the 18 chess pieces into the right slots, however, because the star map would change automatically as time went by, it was hard to predict the effect of the chess pieces in each slot. It was a test of the player's understanding about the natures and orbits of stars, which was called the basic sense about Star Go.
The battle would start when putting down the first chess piece. To most sophists who came to the Starry Sky Chessboard, they could figure out thousands of permutations from the several limitations.
The stronger the star map became after filling up the slots, the higher score the player would obtain. Only the people who achieved great scores could really enter the Starry Sky Chessboard, playing with the smartest people all over the god's domains.
To the people who had obtained the "star point", even just "1 star point", this test was just a simple warm-up exercise.
Unfortunately, Casina hadn't come to this mystery world yet, to be precise, Casina only came to a mystery world in the Sky Tower, the Battle God's Championship Contest.
Naturally, Casina had no record in this world, which meant that she was a "0 star point" newbie, and Yun Xi had to learn the rules of Star Go from the beginning.
Of course, Yun Xi hadn't known any of this now.
"Oh, it looks pretty easy! No wonder that Teacher Casina thought that I can achieve 100 successive victories easily!" Yun Xi picked a transparent, green chess piece, putting it into the first slot of the chessboard.
"Yes, it's super easy to you, master." Mei'er smiled sitting on Yun Xi's shoulder.
Yun Xi didn't know the reason, but he naturally thought that it was right to put the green chess piece into the first slot.
In his mind, it would be strange if he didn't put it into the slot, because it was an integral part of that starry sky from the beginning.
After putting down the first chess pieces, he quickly picked up the second chess piece and the third chess piece. Invisible waves spread around from the chessboard, connecting the three green chess pieces together.
The "starry sky" on the chessboard was the holy land that was blessed by "wind", the three chess pieces were the three state formation in this star field.
After Yun Xi put down the three chess pieces, a circulation formed amongst the three "stars", the outline of the "Sanctuary of Wind" appeared.
If describing it using the terms of Star Go, a "ko" just formed, which meant that Yun Xi had controlled this star field on the star map, he could "eat" all the other chess pieces in this area.
When the first "ko" formed, the chessboard emitted soft green lights.
The appearance of the "Sanctuary of Wind" had proved that Yun Xi was qualified to play with other chess players, so he passed the test.
"Have I passed the test?" Yun Xi felt that Star Go was really easy! At least, it was easier and more interesting than the boring mathematics practice.
Oh, it would be better if mathematics was as simple as Star Go!
"Puff!"
The old Shaman of the Western God's Domain spat blood on the chessboard.
"Oh, no! I calculated wrong!"
He had learned the rules of Star Go over hundreds of years. In order to take part in the regulation game of Star Go, he had drunk dozens of Elixirs of Wisdom, and used all the support magics he knew. At least, he was sure that his computing power had reached the legend rank today, but he still failed the entrance test.
He wasn't the only person who failed the entrance test, the "Nine Chess Pieces Go".
"Why? No! My computation wasn't wrong! It's the world! The rule of this world is wrong!"
The 17th master of the Yi Sword Sect, Taoist Priest Qing Feng cried. After putting down 8 chess pieces into the slots, he found that he went into a dead end. He couldn't accept the result!
"No, I don't believe it! Why was my computation wrong?"
He spat out blood.
John, the hero ranked Holy Knight, the top one wise general of the Western God's Domain held his forehead. He just calculated till he felt dizzy, and finally, all the chess pieces exploded because he put them into the wrong slots, which meant that he failed the test!
The Starry Sky Chessboard not only tested the players' wisdom and computing power, but also tested their understanding about the rules of stars. Even if one was at the legend rank, it was useless when referring to playing Star Go.
This was the reason why only very few people could pass the test and become formal chess players. Most of the time, only 20 or 30 people could play the Star Go on the Starry Sky Chessboard.
Each of them was the wise man above all wise men, the people understood the rules of stars very well. They really were the real legends of wisdom in the endless god domain world!
(I translated the terms of Star Go by using the terms of the game of Go)
Chapter 395: 47 Chess Players
"Ding!" As
the last grain of sand dropped to the bottom of the sandglass, the entire entrance test was over.
There were hundreds of people who could set foot onto the stairs in the Sky Tower, God Tower and Dragon Tower, arguably, they were the real elites and wise men in the endless god's domains.
Some of them were knights, who never conceded on the battlefield.
Some of them were monks, who penanced, trying to understand the rules of the world.
Some of them were sages who built tall magic towers.
There were even real gods, dragons, and mysterious living beings.
Undoubtedly, it was a celebration of the highest wisdom in the endless god domain world, it was a stage that only appeared once in a thousand years.
Finally, when the entrance test finished, there were only 47 people who were formally allowed to enter the Starry Sky Chessboard.
"The entrance test has finished, you have passed the test. Please choose your code name." A huge chessboard appeared in front of Yun Xi.
One star after another started to appear on the chessboard.
Every star meant a chess player who would join the game.
It was the battlefield of wisdom, even gods would be excited on this stage of glory.
Almost all the 47 people were legend ranked living beings.
Only a few of them were hero ranked living beings. They could pass the entrance test of the "Nine Chess Pieces Go", which meant that they had very special abilities or bloodlines that could let them obtain legend ranked computing power.
"47 people? Oh, this means that several new 'star points' will be born!"
Norn, the God of Wisdom habitually calculated the standard of the chess players.
Every time, the Starry Sky Chessboard would appear in the seven towers randomly, so the number of the chess players would change every time. This time, there were 47 chess players. In Norn's memory, the chess players this time were the most.
Because of Norn, the God of Wisdom, the entire Western God's Domain was fanatical to Star Go, he himself was the recognized strongest chess player, the only "6 star points" in the seven towers.
"As expected, the Ruby Dragon of the Dragon Tower also comes this time." He looked at the bright star in the north.
In the Starry Sky Chessboard, the higher "star points" one had obtained, the brighter one's star would become.