"Alright, I hope what you're saying is true and you're not lying to me!"
Hearing Lu Yang's words, Lingque King stopped talking and focused on watching Lu Yang continuously place stones on the electronic board.
As Lu Yang had said, he kept feeding stones to Guo Manxue in the beginning, but he fed them sparingly. Although Guo Manxue managed to capture Lu Yang's white stones every time, she could only capture at most five out of ten empty spaces, and as few as two at one point.
"Hmph, you're just trying to stall for time. Even if you can't last ten minutes, I don't believe you can last half an hour?"
"At this rate, you'll be completely wiped out within half an hour!"
"By then, you'll have lost. Let's see what face your Cheng family has to compare with our country, and what face you, Cheng Wanyun, have to remain in Yan Jing!"
Guo Manxue said disdainfully.
"Saintess Manxue is truly amazing, worthy of being a Go master with nine dan. Her moves are ruthless from the start. Even a grandmaster would have to put in considerable effort to win against Saintess Manxue!"
"Indeed, Saintess Manxue's Go skills are unprecedented and unparalleled. At only twenty-five years old, she is already this outstanding. She will definitely be the number one Go player in Hua Nation in the future, with no one able to surpass her!"
"What grandmaster? I think Saintess Manxue is already at the level of a grandmaster. It's just that she's too young, and Hua Nation is too modest to award her the title. With Saintess Manxue's current skills, she could already compete with any grandmaster!"
"..."
In Guo Manxue's livestream room, countless people began to praise her extravagantly.
Guo Manxue found this praise very pleasing to the eye.
In contrast, only Lingque King and the young girl beside her were watching Lu Yang. Both of them were frowning because they saw no hope of victory in the game. Instead, their hands held fewer and fewer stones, and their hearts sank deeper and deeper.
"Mr. Lu, do you even know how to play Go? If this continues, you'll lose!"
The woman beside Lingque King could no longer hold back and looked at Lu Yang, saying.
"If I lose, I'll cut off my head and use it as a chamber pot!"
Lu Yang replied without looking back.
"You..."
"As if I'd want your head!"
The woman's cheeks puffed up instantly from Lu Yang's remark.
"What if I win?"
Lu Yang turned his head and continued to ask the woman.
"If you win, I... I'll marry you!"
The woman, also angered, spoke her mind directly and impulsively.
As soon as she said this, not only Lu Yang but also Lingque King beside her looked at her maidservant with disbelief.
"That... forget it, I'm not interested in you!"
Lu Yang directly refused.
"Even if you were interested in me, you wouldn't win. I could tell from the start that you're just trying to show off in front of our lady. But do you know, if we lose this game, our Cheng family will lose face and be suppressed by the Guo family in Yan Jing!"
The woman continued to shout.
"Linghua, stop talking!"
Lingque King directly interrupted the woman.
"Lu Yang, don't feel any pressure. As long as you can last ten minutes, even if you lose, it won't be too embarrassing. If I were to play, I probably wouldn't be able to last ten minutes!"
Lingque King looked at Lu Yang and said.
"Don't worry, I'll bring glory to your Cheng family this time!"
Lu Yang smiled slightly, ignored the two of them, and once again focused intently on the chessboard, placing another stone.
Ten minutes passed. Lu Yang had lost thirty-two stones to Guo Manxue, while Guo Manxue had not lost a single black stone. The current situation in the game was leaning towards Guo Manxue. If this continued, Lu Yang would lose in less than ten minutes.
At this moment, the entire livestream room was once again filled with cheers from Guo Manxue's supporters.
"Hahaha, Lingque King is going to lose. Although Lingque King is very powerful in martial arts, her Go skills are truly terrible. I bet I play better than her. If it were me, I could also win against her easily!"
"Exactly, in our hearts, there is only Saintess of Go, Guo Manxue. We don't like a woman who fights and kills, waving swords and spears. Where is her femininity? For someone like this to be on par with our Saintess of Go, she truly doesn't deserve it. Get rid of her name quickly!"
"Saintess Manxue, hurry up and defeat Lingque King! We want to see Lingque King's embarrassed look as she is driven out of Yan Jing!"
"..."
These supporters were ardent fans of Guo Manxue, and their words were very unreasonable. Some even began to mock Lingque King.
"Hmph, what Lingque King? In my eyes, she will always be that unimpressive Shen Yiman. It's a peaceful era now, and Go can represent a country's soft power. She and her Lingque Guards have done nothing all these years, yet they still receive a large amount of funding from the country, which is a complete waste of national resources!"
"I look down on this kind of person, which is why I'm using my methods to defeat her. I want to show her how strong I am. Even if her entire Cheng family combined, they are no match for me!"
"This time, we must make Cheng Wanyun roll out of Yan Jing. Yan Jing is not a place for her, Cheng Wanyun, to stay. If you want to serve the country with all your heart, go guard the frontier. Don't stay in Yan Jing; this is not your place!" xxs1
Guo Manxue spoke fiercely to the people in the livestream room.
Hearing Guo Manxue's words, the entire livestream room exploded again. Most people supported Guo Manxue, while only a small minority opposed Guo Manxue and supported Lingque King.
However, these few people were quickly silenced and could no longer speak.
At this moment, on Lu Yang's computer, Lu Yang could clearly feel Guo Manxue becoming complacent. This was because she no longer cared about the direction of Lu Yang's white stones and had no intention of observing them closely. In her fixed mindset, it was Lingque King, Cheng Wanyun, who was playing the game, and Cheng Wanyun's skill level was too low. She was probably just a beginner. How could such a person have any formidable means or ideas? She was just forcing herself to play. As long as she captured the white stones in Cheng Wanyun's hand, she would achieve a great victory.
Meanwhile, Lu Yang was laying many traps step by step, waiting for Guo Manxue to fall into them.
When they had played for twenty-five minutes, Lu Yang had lost forty-six white stones. Guo Manxue suddenly realized something was wrong. At this rate, the white stones in Cheng Wanyun's hand should have been almost entirely captured by her. However, there were only forty-six, which was very few, and she herself had lost fifteen stones to the opponent.