(To supplement the plot for those who skipped most of the plot in this volume)
After the Wu Yue Cup ended, Rui Zhao continued on his career journey.
At the same time, seeing the huge influence Rui Zhao had on the Wuyue Cup, South Korea decided to host the second Lakeside Cup World Go Women’s Championship. Due to the tight overall preparation time this year, it was finally decided to co-organize with the Nongshim Cup. During the Nongshim Cup, the Lakeside Cup competition will be held every morning, and Rui Zhao was designated to participate.
After the Lakeside Cup is decided to be held, South Korea will also hold relevant qualifiers for the Lakeside Cup accordingly. Dongjiang women’s team’s three foreign aids, South Korea’s Xu Nanying, also competed with South Korea’s Lakeside because of the two rounds of the women’s siege. Cup qualifier conflict, unable to play in the women's siege. This gave Zouyang the opportunity to take advantage of the situation and use the [Emergency Relief Clause] to add Rui Zhao to the team midway. After some manipulations, Rui Zhao successfully entered the Dongjiang Women's Team, and was recognized by Wu Yueyun, the chess master and second player in the original team. He replaced Wu Yueyun and started playing second player immediately after joining the team.
On the other side, Lei Qiqi learned the truth after losing the holy war. Although rationally he could understand that Rui Zhao had done nothing wrong, emotionally it was difficult for him to fully accept Shang Chaotian's behavior of still giving Rui Zhao a lot of care after the chess holy war.
After unsuccessfully protesting to Shang Chaotian, his mental ups and downs prevented him from using flow again, and his competitive state declined significantly. He lost successively in the national championship and the siege, and because he had been unable to use "flow", he was expelled. Teacher Shang Chaotian and senior brother Cai Shuang mistakenly thought that they were deliberately upset, and their psychological pressure further increased. They lost to Chu Jun in the Tongge Cup and were on the verge of emotional collapse.
When Shang Chaotian discovered that the student's situation seemed to be really wrong, Lei Qi had already exploded under heavy pressure. He unilaterally severed the teacher-student relationship with Shang Chaotian and refused Shang Chaotian's attempt to repair it. All the intentions of the relationship are to seek respite and temporarily stabilize the mentality. However, the psychological impact of this incident made it still impossible for him to use "flow".
After this incident, Lei Qi tried hard to cheer up in order to reassure his parents and get back into shape. But the fact that the teacher who watched him grow up was more devoted to Rui Zhao than he was made him always worried and affected his state. In the end, with the encouragement of Kuai Liang, a nine-dan chess player, he made up his mind to perform better than Rui Zhao and use impeccable facts to help him completely get out of the chess holy war incident.
At this time, Rui Zhao has achieved a series of achievements: the new first-stage championship, reaching the Pinghu Quick Chess Championship, breaking the record for the fastest promotion to the second stage. Feeling the pressure, Lei Qi is determined to win the first stage at the same time. He "competed" with Rui Zhao in the Nongshim Cup and Lakeside Cup competitions held.
Ke Ruizhao's performance in the Lakeside Cup Arena was extremely amazing, almost crushing him!
She has continuously defeated Xu Nanying, Uesaka Rei, An Huilin, Sanada Asa, Park Fumi, Shokura Haruna, Zheng Caixi and other outstanding female chess players from Japan and South Korea, and achieved the second longest seven-game winning streak in the history of women's arena competitions! The media from the three countries almost recognized her as "the number one woman in the future"!
Facing such an extremely dazzling result, Lei Qi, who was never willing to lose to the opponent, could be said to be forced into a desperate situation.
In order not to lose to Rui Zhao, Lei Qi, who had lost his flow, also devoted almost all his energy and determination to destroy the powerful enemies that appeared in front of him one by one. , embarrassed but tenaciously also achieved seven consecutive victories in the Nongshim Cup!
Under the amazing performance of the two pioneers of China, in the last game of the arena competition, only the main players of the men's and women's teams of Korea and Japan were left! The "5 vs. 1 vs. 1" numerical advantage almost helped China secure two championships in the arena!
After seven consecutive victories, in the last match of the second stage of the group stage, Rui Zhao faced off against the Japanese leader and female streamer Honinbo Natsukawa Aoi. Lei Qi will face the world's number one player Liu Shixian.
Facing the menacing Chinese Pioneer, Xia Chuankui thought that he might not be able to defeat the opponent. In order to avoid the shameful outcome of the team swallowing eggs and being eliminated, the Japanese Chess Academy mobilized urgently and allocated a large amount of manpower to collect data from Rui Zhao's previous live broadcast videos. They sorted and analyzed the weaknesses that Rui Zhao was not good at facing complex officials. Based on this He formulated the strategy of "having the courage to fight and disrupt the situation in the middle game, and ultimately relying on officials to win", and achieved success.
In the end, Rui Zhao was one goal ahead, but was reversed by Xia Chuankui in the official stage, and was eliminated. Faced with such an opportunity, Lei Qi extremely hoped to defeat Liu Shixian, the first person in the world and the King of Nongxin, to prove that he was stronger than Rui Zhao. With a strong desire to win, Lei Qi played a very high-level game of chess, but Liu Shixian played flawlessly and finally defeated Lei Qi, avoiding the embarrassment of losing the entire team and being eliminated in shame.
After the second stage of the group competition, Rui Zhao returned to China and defeated Yang Manjing head-on in the final round of the Women's League, helping the Dongjiang team win the Women's League. At the same time, she took advantage of Liu Yuhong's mistakes and successfully defeated her opponent in the Bay Area Masters Competition, winning her first domestic women's competition championship. At the same time, we are moving towards the goal of winning the Rookie King.
After the Spring Festival, the competition for the Rookie King Competition begins, and the third stage of the Nongshim Cup and the Lakeside Cup also begins in Dongjiang.
But when Rui Zhao pushed all the way to the finals in the Rookie King Tournament, something unexpected happened in the arena on the other side.
In the Lakeside Cup, although Ice Queen Kim You-eun is still unbeatable, with continuous battles, she finally showed the end of her strength.
In the Nongxin Cup, Liu Shixian, the number one player in the world, was like a city that would never fall. He faced the Japanese general and the four top Chinese players all by himself, and he seemed to be overwhelming. One person is in charge, and ten thousand people can't stop it. There is no hint of exhaustion.
Finally, February 23, 2024, Rui Zhao’s nineteenth birthday.
In the last game of the Lakeside Cup, the Ice Queen, who had been competing for four days and had been challenged by many female masters, was finally overwhelmed and exhausted. The Chinese women's team won the women's arena championship again after five years!
In the second game of the Rookie King final, Rui Zhao suddenly exerted his strength and slayed the dragon in one fell swoop, winning the Rookie King with a total score of 2-0. Queen Zhao was crowned for the second time on her birthday and was promoted to the sixth dan at the same time!
It is a pity that these two extremely valuable champions have been reduced to subtitles today.
There can only be one headline on the front page of the Go news today:
The world's number one Liu Shixian faced the world's six masters, fought back with all his strength, and changed his fate against the odds. Since the end of the second stage After a complete victory over Lei Qi ended the opponent's seven-game winning streak, in the third stage, he defeated five Huaying masters including Shindo Hiroaki, Dai Ran, Tang Guansheng, Sun Yi, and Xiong Siyi, completing the unprecedented six-game winning streak of the Nongshim Cup. win. The battle set countless records and was unanimously called the "Miracle on the Dongjiang River" by the domestic media in South Korea.
However, after completing such a feat, everything went as usual for the young master of the Liu family, without any sense of excitement. Just waiting for the final award ceremony, he slyly said to Lei Qi:
Rui Zhao and him...are the same type of person. (End of this chapter)