Go: Is the portable old man the nine-time champion?

Chapter 147 Seeking Only the Pinnacle
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"Flowers Are Not Flowers, Moonlit Night": You don't know about the newcomer who beat Miao Jun and made it to the finals of this year's Rookie King competition? What a fake chess fan.

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One sword thrusts: I'm still only at the beginner level, I feel like I'm just lucky.

Hua Fei Hua Yue Ye replied to Yi Jian Ci Ci Ci: Idiot!
The courtyard is bathed in sunlight: China has more and more rising stars! Thumbs up.

Pure Nine Lotus Lantern: Boom! Shin Junmin came to China to participate in the qualifiers and still lost, and to a little kid at that. Aren't you ashamed?

Novice angler: Filial piety! I even lost to Shen Guhong in the Asian Cup main tournament before, I'm going to get a phobia of Chinese kids.

Corner Kiss Pig: LOL! Shin Junmin has become a stepping stone for newcomers [sweating profusely~]
Jiang Shan Que: Urgent! Let's have a rational discussion: Can Yi Zheng be grouped with the other three musketeers and collectively called the Four Heavenly Kings?
Naihe Xiaowangchuan: Classic! I feel that everyone is overestimating some players too much right now. Winning just one game doesn't mean they have a future.

As for why the Six-Character Mantra spread in this world, we have to mention that some unknown alt account directed a human robotic arm to confront someone.

Yi Zheng knew that such a post had been bumped up. There was nothing he could do; even if Yi Zheng didn't want to browse these forums, Old Ke would still make him do it whenever he had nothing else to do.

Yi Zheng wasn't really interested in most of the posts, which were mostly junk content, but he still had to read them with Ke Lao.

The explanation that Mr. Ke could give is that this is called "sharing history," because how can one read history by oneself? If you don't share it with others, you lose at least half the enjoyment.

However, Yi Zheng probably never imagined that this post would be repeatedly unearthed by netizens throughout his professional esports career.

Yi Zheng is very happy now, because after several days of competition, he has successfully passed the Asian Cup qualifiers and secured a spot in the main tournament.

However, the Asian Cup is held every two years, and its main tournament will not be held until next year.

This also gave Yi Zheng more time to prepare. After all, if he went up now, he would really be cannon fodder. Delaying it for a year might allow him to be cannon fodder who survives a little longer.

Even more encouraging is that both of Silla's top players participating in the preliminaries, Shin Junmin and Won Seong-min, suffered defeats. Shin Junmin lost to Yi Zheng in the first round, while Won Seong-min lost to a veteran Chinese player in the final round.

In a way, Silla's attempt to steal a chicken ended up losing its rice instead, and Shin Junmin felt like slapping himself a few more times when he thought about how he had volunteered.

However, they themselves did not expect that two top players would actually stumble in the qualifiers, and that they would both stumble.

Yi Zheng didn't hide his happy smile, because he was currently being interviewed by the local media in Lin'an.

"Yi Zheng, 1-dan, it's a pleasure to interview you, and congratulations on entering the Asian Cup. Many Go fans have also sent their congratulations to you through social media platforms."

The reporter who came to interview Yi Zheng was a relatively young woman. Yi Zheng smiled and nodded when he heard what she said: "Thank you, and thank you everyone for your support."

"What everyone is most concerned about is your match against Shin Junmin 9-dan in the first round, because before the match, it was hard for everyone to imagine that you could defeat him."

After all, 1-dan and 9-dan are the lowest and highest ranks in professional Go, but you have a precedent of defeating a 9-dan player from Japan. What are your feelings about this game? What do you think was the secret to your victory?

Yi Zheng pondered for a moment: "Well, in essence, it was because the opponent underestimated me. There is still a considerable gap in strength between me and the opponent, which is an undeniable objective fact."

For most of the game, the opponent was on the defensive. Around move 95, Brother Yun, who was watching from the sidelines, left. At that point, most people probably thought it would be difficult to win, and the opponent probably thought so too.

However, the opponent's next move did change the direction of the game. My initial goal was to provoke Shin Junmin 9-dan into fighting me, and as I expected, he still got carried away by my provocations.

In the middle of the game, it was actually quite difficult to find the opponent's weakness. I was very satisfied with some of the moves and felt that I had turned the tide and that the game should be at least 50/50. However, I made a mistake in judging the value of the ko fight and the opponent gained the upper hand again.

However, I still tried to steer the situation to its most chaotic point, because Shin Junmin was running out of time. I felt that he couldn't figure out the kill on the right side, and as I expected, he made the blunder in the end.

He probably couldn't accept the fact that he had been overturned twice. If he had been able to calm down, he would have been quite careful. But then Shen Junmin started making a series of mistakes. Under multiple pressures, he lost control of the situation.

In essence, it was because the opponent underestimated me; he didn't expect me to fight so fiercely later on.

Actually, the final victory was the culmination of two comebacks. The first comeback took away all of my opponent's time, and the second one complicated the situation to the extreme, ultimately securing the win. A slight mistake could have made it impossible to win; it was truly hard-won.

The female reporter didn't expect Yi Zheng to say so much, and couldn't help but nod: "I feel you're being a bit modest. You definitely won because of your strength."

We've looked at your win rate since you were promoted, and it's quite impressive. Furthermore, it seems the second division league is already considering nominating you for Best Newcomer this year.

"It's still a long way off. The results in the national competitions weren't very good, and there are some matches in the second division where we should have done better."

Yi Zheng smiled and shook his head. He had participated in a lot of competitions, basically signing up for every kind of competition, but he hadn't won a single championship yet.

Otherwise, they would have already scraped together the money for a down payment to buy a big villa, which would have given Mr. Ke a good jolt.

Anyone else would be furious if they heard this. You're just an amateur from a major tournament, a newly promoted first dan last year, and you want to win the national championship? I'll eat my hat!
"There are many opinions that you are very strong. This year you even defeated Miao Jun to enter the finals of the Rookie King competition. Many people have already put you on the same level as the Three Musketeers and called you one of the Four Heavenly Kings. What are your thoughts on this?"

Upon hearing this question, Yi Zheng shook his head: "I don't have any thoughts. The Four Heavenly Kings always feel like cannon fodder or extras. Let's stick with the Three Musketeers."

Actually, I don't really like being grouped with others, because I feel that I am unique.

If there were any title, I would hope it would be "Peerless".

My ideal is... to be unparalleled in the world... to be unparalleled in the world, it really sounds so alluring..."

(End of this chapter)