Chapter 1303: Unparalleled Good Luck

"How about that? Is my mahjong skill excellent? I maximized the returns directly."

Luo Quan pointed at the large Yakuman on the screen, curling her lips at Bai Xingwei with smug satisfaction: "How can a Small Three Dragons compare to a Big Three Dragons? With this Yakuman secured, I can easily advance by just winning a few more Simple Hand hands later."

"How much does this have to do with your skill?" Bai Xingwei was both unconvinced and envious. "Starting with a Small Three Dragons two-away hand, then drawing almost no useless tiles, and winning by self-draw in under ten turns—there aren't many Dao-entering mahjong players who have your kind of luck."

As mentioned before, everything in the Universe can enter the Dao. Although mahjong is a new thing, a few months have been enough for a batch of experts who have cultivated it to the Dao-entering realm to emerge.

However, since it is just starting, the realms of mahjong players are not as detailed as other professions, totaling only four.

From low to high, they are: Peeking at the Threshold, Peeking at the Leopard through a Tube, Rising Waves at the Peak, and Supreme Unparalleled.

As long as one possesses the talent for entering the Dao, one is at least a player at the Rising Waves at the Peak level.

Players at this level can stir up "tile waves" while playing mahjong to strengthen their luck and achieve the effect of winning with higher-scoring hands.

In fact, it is equivalent to a luck valve with a switch they can control themselves.

Most people's luck is sometimes good and sometimes bad; only a very small number of people are always lucky or always unlucky.

Players who reach the Rising Waves at the Peak level possess the ability to manipulate their own luck.

Even in the Universe where experts are everywhere, this is a very formidable ability.

And above this, the Supreme Unparalleled level possesses even stronger luck capable of defying heaven and changing fate.

Currently, there are only four such top-tier players, who also occupy the top four spots on the Mahjong God app's leaderboard, viewed by countless mahjong fans as god-like figures.

However, it is said that above the Supreme Unparalleled realm, there is another realm called the Ghost God Realm.

It is said that the luck of players in this realm is unfathomable, and their mahjong skills are unrivaled. Once you sit at a table with them, it is absolutely impossible to win in the end.

According to the rule that one can harvest the losers' luck after winning at mahjong, the final winner of this Mahjong God Championship will likely leap into the Ghost God realm after gathering the luck of all the losers.

However, in Seeing Wen Xia's view, the first player in the Universe to enter the Ghost God realm had actually already appeared, and that was the Luo Quan before her eyes.

Bai Xingwei hadn't even seen this style of playing mahjong by "burning one's lifespan" more than a few times, even among those Supreme-level players.

It is true that tile waves can bring good luck, but it doesn't mean you can get good luck immediately just by stirring them up. It requires a developmental process: the player stirs the tile waves—waits for the waves to rise—rides the waves—and luck surges.

No one can win with all sorts of heaven-defying hands right from the start, unless they are a monster who has made a deal with the Goddess of Luck.

Luo Quan is clearly such a monster. Her luck doesn't require her to actively stir waves; it belongs to a passive skill that always exists, and she can reach the peak as soon as she starts.

As for the side effects...

Bai Xingwei glanced at Luo Quan's starting hand in the second round; it was clearly not as exaggerated as the first round.

However, making a Simple Hand wasn't missing many tiles, and she would likely be ready to win in just a few turns.

With such a huge lead, Luo Quan didn't need to win any big hands; winning a few small hands would be enough to advance steadily.

After all, a small win is still a win; no matter how small the mosquito, it's still meat.

So, for the next few hands, Luo Quan didn't consider big hands at all; she just won whatever she could win quickly.

After three consecutive Simple Hands, the East 4th round ended, and Luo Quan's score had already exceeded 60,000 points.

Unless someone could win a double Yakuman heaven-sent hand in the remaining four rounds, such as a Pure Nine Gates or Thirteen Orphans, it was almost impossible to catch up to Luo Quan.

Although everything is possible at the mahjong table, luck clearly wasn't on the side of Luo Quan's opponents.

A half-game consists of eight rounds, four in the East and four in the South. In the end, the eight rounds of this match weren't even finished; in the South 2nd round, Luo Quan won by self-drawing a Full Flush, directly wiping out the score of the player to her right and ending the game early.

"Awesome, Luo Bao! That was almost a Earth-win Full Flush Yakuman heaven-sent hand." Seeing Wen Xia was a bit jealous of Luo Quan's luck at first, but now only envy and admiration remained.

A Heaven-win is when the dealer wins as soon as the starting hand is drawn, while an Earth-win is when a non-dealer wins before the first four tiles of the game are played.

Luo Quan was very close to an Earth-win Full Flush; one can imagine how outrageous her luck was.

Of course, in the eyes of the other three players, Luo Quan just had relatively good luck; it was nothing more than winning a Big Three Dragons at the start and a Full Flush at the end.

But only Bai Xingwei knew how light and effortless Luo Quan's wins were.

And this was her routine operation; she had to know that when she played against Luo Quan before, she had performed Heaven-wins and Earth-wins several times.

When others win, they calculate the score; when Luo Quan wins, she calculates the time. A game of mahjong, including the time to draw and organize tiles, averages less than half a minute; a half-game is estimated to be finished in five minutes.

If it were someone else, and they encountered a player who took a long time to think, they probably wouldn't have finished one game yet.

This is the terrifying part of Luo Quan.

And now, the terrifying Luo Quan has successfully advanced to the offline match and will face three new unlucky souls in eight hours.

Seeing Wen Xia felt that Luo Quan didn't have a Heaven-win this time, likely because it was an online match and she couldn't harvest luck from a distance.

Once they are offline and everyone is face-to-face, Luo Quan's true ability will likely be revealed. Hopefully, those three unlucky souls won't have their Dao hearts shattered by Luo Quan.

As for Luo Quan, she was completely immersed in the joy of advancing at this moment.

Although she had long expected to win easily, she was very happy regardless of whether it was easy or not as long as she won the match. As the saying goes, don't look down on small wins.

It's just that the final harvest, besides advancing, was almost non-existent.

The system said that participating in the Mahjong God Championship could harvest luck, but after the first round, her luck didn't seem to have changed at all.

It's unclear whether it's because online mahjong can't harvest it, or if she has to finish the finals to start harvesting.

If it's the latter, then wanting to get it done will likely be a matter for at least a month later, and she doesn't know if she can spare the time to participate during this period.

After the match, Luo Quan finally remembered to share the news of her participation with her fans in the Universe.

These guys are guarding her social media accounts every day, clamoring for her to share more updates and do more live streams.

In fact, they just want to witness the growth process of Ningning together with her.

Luo Quan has always been a person who likes to share, and she is still very happy that her fans are so concerned about her daughter's situation.

If it were after the birth, she definitely wouldn't let her daughter appear in public frequently, but now, since they can only see her belly anyway, there doesn't seem to be any harm in live streaming for a while longer.

So, after finishing the match, Luo Quan simply didn't sleep and directly opened a live stream.

"Damn, why is Luo Bao live streaming suddenly in the middle of the night?"

"Why not sleep late at night? Staying up late is bad for your health."

"It's precisely because staying up late is bad for your health that Luo Bao simply chose not to sleep."

"Grass, god-tier logic."

"You're a pregnant woman, so don't do this. Young people do have the capital to squander, but you still have to consider your own situation."

"Luo Bao is only in her early twenties; in the Universe, she's still in the stage of blooming, so her body couldn't be better."

"So young? I thought Luo Bao was at least fifty or sixty."

"That's too old. In a Tier 2 civilization, that's already the age of having one foot in the coffin."

"It's fortunate that Luo Bao came to the Universe; otherwise, her life would only be a mere hundred years. It would be a real pity if she passed away just like that."

"So the Heavenly Father guided her to the Universe, made her a Holy Mother, and gave her a long lifespan. How generous and merciful that is!"

"That's enough. Everything is the credit of your Heavenly Father, right? This is clearly the result of Luo Quan's own efforts."

"Indeed, don't attribute all the credit to the Heavenly Father. It doesn't make a difference."

"You dare to be disrespectful to the Heavenly Father? You're going to have trouble later!"

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The barrage would always start arguing in various ways. Luo Quan watched for a while and then interrupted with a wry smile: "Everyone, don't incite conflict or argue. There's no need to argue over such a small matter.

Besides, aren't you curious about the reason why I'm live streaming in the middle of the night?"

The fans answered immediately:

"Of course it's because you missed me, right? Do you even need to ask? Wifey is really naughty."

"Damn, you kid seem to want to be the foster father of the Holy Son."

"You think quite beautifully, but you have to ask my Unparalleled Iron Fist if it agrees first."

"Actually, it's fine for me to be the wife of the Holy Son. The gender doesn't have to be so rigid. That way, Luo Bao would be my mother-in-law."

"This one is even more heavy-duty."

"Everyone is off-topic, right? We haven't even asked why Luo Bao is live streaming so late."

"Yeah, why is Luo Bao live streaming so late?"

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After some banter, Luo Quan finally had the opportunity to announce: "I participated in the Mahjong God Championship, just finished the preliminary round, and successfully advanced to the offline match."

As Luo Quan spoke, she posted the match she had just played.

It was fine before she said it, but once she did, the barrage exploded:

"What, Luo Bao actually participated in this competition?!"

"Good, good, good. That way, I might be able to sit at the same table as Luo Quan tomorrow."

"I remember this game was brought over from Earth by Luo Bao, right? Speaking of which, how is Luo Bao's mahjong skill? I don't seem to have seen her play much before."

"Strong and invincible level. I feel it's at least the Rising Waves at the Peak level, or even Supreme!"

"Is it that exaggerated? But I don't seem to have seen her name on the Mahjong God leaderboard."

"That's because she's too powerful and feels that playing mahjong is boring, so she's too lazy to play ranked matches. When 'Universe Girls' was popular before, she showed her mahjong skills a little bit, and it was simply strong to the point of being invincible."

"Is it that outrageous? Then what school does Luo Bao belong to?"

"It should be Imperial Unparalleled, and it's the top three Imperial Unparalleled in the Universe."

"Damn, this evaluation is a bit high."

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The so-called schools are actually the three ways of playing mahjong, called Imperial Unparalleled, Iron Cannonball, and Causality Law.

Imperial Unparalleled, in plain language, is heaven-defying strong luck. It is easier to stir up tile waves and obtain powerful tile luck than any other player, thus making it easier to win with big hands.

Players with this talent hardly need any technique. Once luck comes, it can be said that gods block and kill gods, and Buddhas block and kill Buddhas.

And Iron Cannonball, also called Scientific Mahjong, is like playing against others with AlphaGo in Go. It emphasizes bringing tile efficiency to the extreme. Every discard, pong, chow, and kong is the optimal solution, using incredibly powerful calculation ability to make oneself close to invincible.

As for Causality Law, this belongs to the rarest kind of talent. Players who possess it can see through the tile mountain and understand the trend of the entire game, which is to play by intuition, knowing which tiles to play and which not to play.

These three schools have their own advantages and disadvantages and restraints. Among them, Imperial Unparalleled is the most unreasonable, Causality Law is the most talent-dependent, and Iron Cannonball has the highest floor, but to reach the ceiling, one must have a brain comparable to a robot.

And such a genius is probably even rarer than players with the other two talents.

And Luo Quan, who treats Heaven-wins and Earth-wins like meals, still belongs to the Imperial Unparalleled school that relies on luck.

But only Bai Xingwei knows that Luo Quan is not an Imperial Unparalleled at all.

Imperial Unparalleled requires a certain amount of preparation time to ride the tile waves, while Luo Quan doesn't need this foreplay at all. It feels like she gets whatever she wants.

This is probably not something that can be explained by simple good luck. It is estimated that she is somewhat blessed by the Goddess of Luck.

That is, if the Goddess of Luck hadn't passed away, otherwise, with her luck, she could at least become a Holy Mother.

"Actually able to win a Big Three Dragons, Luo Bao's luck is okay."

"I'm happy for a long time even if I win a Small Three Dragons, and Luo Quan can actually make a Big Three Dragons, and it's in a competition."

"Haha, Luo Bao can actually be greedier and make a Big Three Dragons plus Four Concealed Pongs."

"No need. In the God's perspective, Luo Bao's opponent has already realized that something is wrong and is preparing to interrupt Luo Bao's big hand with a Simple Hand, but it's still a step too late."

"I can only say that Luo Bao's luck is too top-tier. Starting with a Small Three Dragons two-away hand, even my grandma could win with this kind of hand."

"It's just a preliminary round, and it's online. The offline match is the stage where experts truly perform. By then, Rising Waves at the Peak will be as common as dogs, and the entire venue will likely be covered by monstrous tile waves."

"Whoever says this probably hasn't seen the video of Luo Quan playing mahjong in 'Universe Girls'. That's what you call tile waves!"

"If that video is true, I would like to call her the number one Imperial Unparalleled player."

"It's just a few Heaven-wins, nothing to be surprised about."

"Heaven-win? Is it true or not!"

"Luo Bao, you say it yourself."

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