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

Chapter 149 The Heavenly Demon That Should Never Have Existed From the Beginning

"Sometimes I worry that if someone comes to your house for the first time and doesn't have anyone to show them the way, they might get lost."

After following Kuroki Ryuji around their house for a while, Yi Zheng couldn't help but make a comment.

Isn't Tokyo supposed to be ridiculously expensive? Every inch of land is worth its weight in gold. How did Ryuji Kuroki's family manage to own such a huge house? Does that even make sense?
You're saying it existed hundreds of years ago? It's their ancestral home, so it's fine.

"How could that be? This house is so small. It wouldn't take more than a few minutes to walk around it. How could we possibly get lost?"

Kuroki Ryuji didn't pay attention to these words and even felt strange. "How big is this?" he said. "Our ancestral home in the countryside is much bigger. There's also a forest over there that belongs to our family. It's really easy to get lost in that place."

I actually got lost in the woods once when I was a child, and I was terrified.

Yi Zheng suddenly realized that the Hei Mu family were indeed landlords, in the physical sense.

"..."

I'm too tired to talk. Maybe I should just let your brother fend for himself.

Damn it!

After going around in circles, Yi Zheng and Kuroki Ryuji finally arrived at the door of the research lab they had visited before.

Just as Kuroki Ryuji was about to knock, the door suddenly opened, and a long-haired girl dressed in a high school uniform, who looked to be around eighteen years old, walked out carrying a plate and sighing slightly.

There were a few rice balls on the plate, but Yi Zheng felt that their shape was a bit strange, and they didn't look appetizing.

Old Ke exclaimed in slight surprise, "A beautiful Japanese girl! A JK (high school girl) girl at that! What a damn rich person!"

"Sister? How is she?"

Hearing Kuroki Ryuji's words, the girl sighed helplessly: "I only ate one rice ball, and I don't have any better ideas. This can't go on like this."

Although he had heard and seen it countless times, Mr. Ke still felt very strange seeing two Japanese people talking in Chinese. What kind of anti-Japanese war drama is this?

At this moment, Kuroki Ryuji remembered that Yi Zheng and his sister seemed to have never met, so he introduced them to each other: "Oh right, this is Yi Zheng, a first-dan player, and this is my sister, Kuroki Shiyo."

"Nice to meet you."

"Hello."

Yi Zheng felt something was off because Kuroki Shiyo's movements always felt very classical, and the combination with the Japanese-style architecture around her should have been harmonious, but the problem was that this girl was wearing a JK uniform.

It feels strange, like I've seen this scene somewhere before.

"If there's nothing else, I'll be going now. I need to think about what to make that my brother can eat. This is really giving me a headache."

Kuroki Shino nodded slightly, bid farewell to the two, and left.

Kuroki Ryuji led Yi Zheng into the room. Yi Zheng remembered that the last time he came in, the room was extremely clean. Even Ke Lao complained that if some marketing accounts from their countries came and saw it, they would have to write an article about the "craftsmanship" of Japanese Go, saying, "If you can't sweep a room, how can you sweep the world?"

But now, the room is scattered with all sorts of chess manuals with writing and drawing, making the whole room look extremely messy.

Kuroki Teruto, looking somewhat haggard, held the Go pieces and kept creating various new variations on the board.

In his excitement, Teruto Kuroki even slammed the Go piece in his hand onto the ground, startling everyone.

Compared to the dignified and masterful Kuroki Teruto of the past, this time he seems like a master who has gone mad. Dark circles under his eyes, a stubble around his mouth, and muttering incomprehensible gibberish—it's truly Kuroki gone insane.

"elder brother."

Kuroki Ryuji cautiously called out, afraid that if his voice was even slightly louder, it would cause even more distress to his already haggard brother.

Hearing the voice, Kuroki Teruto slowly looked up. In his vision, the figure in front of him was even somewhat double. After confirming that it was his younger brother, Kuroki Teruto waved his hand and said, "I've already eaten. Don't worry about me. You do your own thing. I can handle my own problems."

"No, Yi Zheng is here. Would you like to see him?"

"No need, you guys go out and have fun."

When Kuroki Teruto heard Yi Zheng's name, he didn't react much. Even if he wasn't very bright, he knew why Kuroki Ryuji had called Yi Zheng over. He just waved his hand and told the two children to go out and play by themselves and not disturb him.

In his view, Yi Zheng was not of much help to him.

It was already a stroke of luck that Yi Zheng could create a new change, but to exhaust all the changes of the Heavenly Demon's Great Transformation was beyond human capability.

Even though he knew it was true, Teruto Kuroki was still caught up in it, as if he couldn't get out of it until he accomplished something that no human could possibly do.

To put it bluntly, Teruto Kuroki is currently making things difficult for himself, creating problems for himself entirely.

Kuroki Ryuji was about to say something when he heard this, but Yi Zheng walked over and sat down cross-legged, shaking his head as he looked at the changes Kuroki Teruto had made on the chessboard.

"No matter how much you explore, it's useless. Even if you truly exhaust the changes of the Heavenly Demon Great Transformation, it will all be in vain."

The Great Transformation of the Heavenly Demon should never have existed in the first place.

Upon hearing this, Kuroki Ryuji was stunned. He hadn't expected Yi Zheng to deny the Heavenly Demon Transformation from the very beginning with his first sentence.

What do you mean by saying it shouldn't have existed in the first place? That's a bit too harsh, isn't it?

Upon hearing this, Kuroki Teruto shook his head: "Heh, kid, the changes of the Heavenly Demon Great Transformation are beyond the comprehension of anyone. We can't even fully understand its changes, so what makes us think we can deny it?"

Only by studying it more deeply can one know just how complex the changes of the Heavenly Demon Transformation are; they are simply the sum of all changes in the world.

In Kuroki Teruto's opinion, even AlphaGo couldn't do that.

To fully grasp it, one must understand the changes in all things in the world.

If Ke Lao could hear Kuroki Teruto's inner monologue, he would definitely complain, "You've also gotten caught up in your own inner world, haven't you? Why don't you shout a few lines like 'Innately leading the universe, covering the changes of the universe, transforming myself into king'?"

Yi Zheng, on the other hand, seemed quite indifferent to Kuroki Teruto's question. He even changed his sitting posture to make himself a little more comfortable, as sitting cross-legged was a bit numb.

"Who says we can't deny him just because we can't grasp all his changes? We don't need to control so much, because he was wrong from the beginning."

If it were a different, more complex formula, there would be far too much to explain, and it could even lead to heated debates involving value judgments.

However, the Heavenly Demon Transformation is quite simple.

The reason he was eliminated was not because it was invalid, but because the change should never have existed in the first place.

(End of this chapter)