The young master is gone, so that's okay. The Li family has been looking for him for several years, but no one has been found alive or dead. Later, I heard that the young master and his guards were all dead, including his father. The cause of death was unknown...
The head of the Li family was very kind to Zhou Yang. Seeing that he was very talented, he sent him to the Ziyuan Sect for training when he was eleven years old, and his uncle Zhong Pengfei was responsible for teaching him.
He didn't have many friends in Ziyuan Sect. The brothers were at odds with each other and were either scheming or jealous. Only the older brother Tiehu looked after him. In their spare time, he and Tiehu often went to Li's house to play with their childhood friends Li Tong and Li Xing'er. In addition to missing his parents, his childhood was also very happy.
A few years ago, the Li family offended a disciple of a sect, and the family was brutally purged. Some cultivators in the family were killed, and some were sold as slaves. Only the old, weak, women and children were left. This is what a good cultivating family is like. It was destroyed, and the whereabouts of Li Tong and Li Xinger were also unknown.
At that time, Zhou Yang also begged Uncle Zhong to save the Li family, but even the Ziyuan Sect couldn't afford to offend the sect, so how could an outer sect deacon take care of it.
Although Zhou Yang was young when he entered the clan, he had already made a blood oath at that time that he would find out the real culprit who killed his father and the Li family in this life, and cut him into pieces in order to avenge him.
Thinking of his parents at this time, Zhou Yang couldn't help but touch the jade pendant under his neck. His heart hurt and he could no longer enter meditation.
After another five days, the arm was no better, the leg had recovered a lot, and the damaged meridians were being repaired quickly.
Several times, there was a loud sound outside the tree hole, which must be the sound of a giant monster passing by, which scared him so much that he dared not speak out. Fortunately, the monsters didn't notice this place, so it was peaceful for a few days.
After there was no sound outside, and after a while, he started to light a fire and barbecue. He didn't notice it the first few times he ate wolf meat, but in recent days, he felt more and more that the smell of wolf meat was too strong and it was really unpalatable.
The mountain spring in the cave is very good. It is cool and sweet. Drinking it will make your whole body feel comfortable. This time he planned to rinse the wolf meat with water, maybe the smell would be lighter.
Zhou Yang placed some pieces of wolf meat on a rock dripping from a mountain spring, lit it with a torch, and looked up on the cave wall to find a place to fix the torch. Inadvertently, he discovered some vague shapes on the rock wall directly in front of him.
Upon closer inspection, these figures seemed familiar, like a chessboard with dozens of chess pieces already placed on it. Zhou Yang took a step back while holding the torch, and swept the torch left and right. His eyes lit up, and it turned out to be Black and White! Not only that, there is a chess jar under the rock wall, which contains sunspots.
The head of the Li family in Tu Yan City is both a cultivator and a good chess player. His chess skills are second to none in Tu Yan City and are unparalleled. Influenced by the head of the Li family, Zhou Yang was very familiar with Go when he was a child, and he was also very good at playing Go, and he was extremely talented in this way.
He started playing chess at the age of three, could play chess with adults at the age of five, and was defeated by ordinary players at the age of seven. At the age of ten, the head of the Li family could not win against him. Later he joined the Ziyuan Sect. His uncle Zhong Pengfei was also a good chess player, and his skills were still superior to those of the Li Family Master. He was invincible in both Tu Yan and Anping.
Zhou Yang became a disciple of Zhong Pengfei. In addition to receiving his guidance in practice, he also learned a thing or two about playing skills and jointly understood some ancient miracles. Therefore, his playing skills also improved by leaps and bounds, and he had few opponents.
At the age of thirteen, Zhou Yang and Uncle Zhong were already able to draw. When he was fourteen years old, Zhou Yang could give Master Zhong a son. In this case, Master Zhong could at best draw with him. There was once a loose cultivator who wandered here and had three games with Zhou Yang, losing two and winning one. After that, he was continuously praised and regarded as a genius.
It's a pity that Zhou Yang's training speed is far from the best in chess. For this reason, Zhong Pengfei once strictly ordered Zhou Yang to abandon chess and focus on training. Zhou Yang also followed his uncle's advice. It is helpless that a small outer disciple has very few rules and it is difficult to earn spiritual stones. If it were not for the help from his uncle, his cultivation speed would be even slower than it is now.
In fact, there are not many people who are good at chess in the world of chess, because playing chess takes too much time and energy. Any practitioner who does not cherish his time and devote himself to practice. Talking about chess is regarded as a boring thing to relieve boredom after dinner. Time is wasted on this.
However, Zhou Yang has developed a habit. When there are no spiritual stones available and there is no progress in his practice, apart from going up the mountain to collect some spiritual herbs and elixirs and hunting some low-level monsters, Zhou Yang will continue to study the way of chess for the rest of the time. .
Although Yidao cannot help him practice, it is of great help to his state of mind. Compared with his peers, Zhou Yang is much more mature and has a much tougher mind.
Now that Zhou Yang saw the black and white pieces on the cave wall, he became interested and watched them intently.
After burning a stick of incense, he frowned and fell into deep thought.
It seems that this game is extremely difficult to break.
There is a chess endgame on the rock wall. Black takes the lead, but is at a disadvantage. This endgame is to teach future generations how to turn defeat into victory and defeat white. Although Zhou Yang came up with dozens of moves, the result was the same no matter what, and Black would definitely lose.
None of the various chess records he studied were similar to the endgame on the rock wall. Although he had countless formulas and variations in his mind, he was at a loss to start.
Zhou Yang has been studying this method for more than ten years. The more difficult the situation is, the more he has to figure it out. He is not willing to surrender.
He closed his eyes and meditated for a full hour. After countless changes were rejected by him, a passage from the Thirteen Classics of Chess suddenly flashed in his mind: "If you are a chess player, if you have many threads, your power will be divided, and if your power is divided, it will be difficult to save." . When playing chess, do not force it. If you force it, the opponent will be strong and we will be weak. If you are weak, it is easy to attack, but if you are strong, it is difficult to break. It is advisable to make temporary changes and do not stick to one. "The Biography" says: Advance when you see what is possible, and retreat when you see the difficulty."
The meaning of this passage is that there are too many clues, there is no unified coordination to play chess, the pieces are scattered and have no connection with each other, so it is not easy to rescue. When there is no chance, don't attack easily, otherwise the opponent's pieces will be stable and our defense will be unstable. You should learn to be flexible on the spot and don't stubbornly seek to gain offense.
If you can't attack, you can only adapt. He has thought of countless ordinary workarounds, but none of them work. He must change his existing thinking and transcend the original formula to have a chance of survival.
Judging from the current endgame, only attacking means failure, and only retreating from the code will obviously not have enough black stones in the end, and it will still be a defeat. The chess game is like a war situation. The war situation changes rapidly and does not stick to the fixed formula. Therefore, you must adapt on the spot. Only by seeking changes can you win.
How to adapt it specifically depends on the understanding and chess ability of the person playing chess.
Thinking of something else, an idea flashed in Zhou Yang's mind, he opened his eyes suddenly, reached into the chess jar without hesitation, grabbed a sunspot, and dropped it on the wall.
As soon as his black stone fell, a white stone came out of nowhere and landed on the chessboard. This was exactly the move to deal with the black stone. Zhou Yang didn't care about the origin of Bai Zi, he pondered for a moment, held the Zi again, and Bai Zi also fell. In this way, you come and I live, and Zhou Yang started fighting with the invisible opponent.
At first they could still fight each other, but as time went by, it became more and more difficult for him. He had to think about each step for a long time, and unknowingly he was sweating on his forehead.
This is the gap in the realm of chess.
There are nine levels of chess players, from high to low, one is in trance. We will take photos on the second day. The third is to be specific. The fourth is Tongyou. The fifth is to use wisdom. The sixth day is Xiaoqiao. The seventh is fighting power. The eighth one is Ruo Fool. The ninth day is Shou Zhuo.
These nine levels are also the nine realms of chess players. Each one is more profound and unpredictable than the last. The first level of trance is the highest state.
With Zhou Yang's strength, he barely entered the fifth-grade Yongzhi realm. A wise man knows. Rao Sanxian who entered the realm of gods and failed to penetrate the secluded world has to use wisdom to achieve success in battle. In this state, a chess player who has entered the Divine Realm can be given away three pieces, while in the Tongyou Realm, he can be given away two pieces. Therefore, if you have not reached the Tongyou Realm, you can only use your wits when playing against Yi.
Some chess players are good at attacking, some are good at defending, and some are good at grinding, but no matter which type, there will be strengths and weaknesses, and you can win by knowing the weaknesses.
When you reach the state of using your wisdom, you can maximize your strengths and avoid weaknesses, and you can be both offensive and defensive, leaving people with no opportunities to find. Of course, there are four realms beyond the use of wisdom, not to mention trance and illumination. Even against a chess player in the realm of Tongyou, Zhou Yang has no chance of winning despite his best efforts.
However, what he didn't know was that as he continued to fall, the top of the rock wall was slowly undergoing wonderful changes.
While thinking, the torch burned out and went out. Zhou Yang had to wake up from his meditation and recreate the torch to ignite it.
But it's not a problem to always hold it in your hand, and the surface of the rock wall is relatively smooth, and there is no suitable place to place a torch. So he looked up, trying to find a support point to place the torch.
The rock wall near the top of the cave was uneven and full of pits. Zhou Yang raised the fire higher, but what caught his eyes were no longer pits, but words. He carefully identified it and found that it was indeed writing, and it was ancient writing!
Fortunately, Zhou Yang had studied ancient Chinese under Uncle Zhong and could recognize it. The words facing him were "Enter the Cauldron and the Four Dragons' Fire."
what does this mean? What is the Four Dragons' Fire?
He felt a little excited in his heart. Could it be that this is a technique passed down from ancient times?
With an anxious mood, he looked up again. From the rock wall above to the top of the cave, there were words all over it, densely covering half of the cave.
Although Zhou Yang didn't recognize some of the ancient characters, he understood the general meaning. He felt ecstatic in his heart. This was not an ancient skill, but a method of practicing alchemy! Ancient alchemy skills!
Zhou Yang temporarily put aside the chess game and did not look up again. Instead, he returned to the tree hole, put the torch in place, and poked his head out of the hole to take a look. After making sure that there was no danger, he climbed out of the hole and walked in the woods. He found a lot of dead trees, bark, dead grass, etc. and threw them into the tree hole and started making torches.
Soon after, he put dozens of prepared torches aside, picked up one, rubbed it against the fat part of the wolf meat, lit it with fire, then returned to the cave impatiently, and stood holding a torch. He looked up from the rocks and watched.
After searching for a long time, I finally found the beginning. The inscription in the cave is called "Essentials of Alchemy". It is unknown which era of alchemy master left it, but this master should also be a master of chess, and the end game must be his masterpiece.
The more Zhou Yang watched, the more excited he became, and the more he watched, the more frightened he became. However, as I looked at it, the ancient characters suddenly disappeared!
