In the year 3200, civilization has suffered a break, and the legacy of Go has been lost. Ancient game records are revered as holy scripture, while every modern and contemporary Go player has been erased from history. In this era, humanity’s only top-tier talent is “Go Spirit Summoning”: awakening the remnant soul of an ancient Go player and allowing it to possess you. The strength of your Go Spirit directly determines your fate.
At Lingyun High School’s Awakening Ceremony, everyone else was blessed with an ancient Go Spirit. Only Liu Mu summoned a figure no one recognized: wearing a hoodie with his hands in his pockets, he opened with, “A lineup that only scrapes by with a same-color set? Clinging to rigid joseki just to survive? This Go game is way too boring.”
The detector spat out garbled characters. The whole school burst into laughter, and the instructor declared his pact worthless.
Only Liu Mu recognized him: Ke Jie, the one and only “Heavenly Emperor” in nearly a thousand years of human Go history, erased from the history books by a thousand-year break.
Even more absurdly, after retiring at the peak of his Go career, this Go deity’s greatest hobby was getting hooked on Teamfight Tactics. Now he would use the strategic thinking of a battle royale player to teach Liu Mu how to play Go all over again.
The ancient Go Spirits you revere as gods are nothing but rotten wood, clinging to incomplete joseki.
The “worthless pact” you laugh at carries the ultimate answer of the entire modern Go tradition.
You don’t know Ke Jie? That’s fine.
He’ll make you recognize him again with a Teamfight Tactics-style dimensional beatdown.
The world studies ancient games, clings to broken traditions, and gets trapped by rigid joseki. But with Ke Jie at my side, I’ll use strategic thinking to break free of a thousand years of shackles. From today on, a battle royale player will once again take the Go world, severed from its past for a thousand years, to the summit.
