Chapter 3 Playing against the Invisible Chess Player
The young master is gone, so it's worth it. The Li family has been looking for several years, but no one is alive or dead. Later, I heard that the young master and the guards were dead, including his father, and the cause of death was unknown......
The head of the Li family was not bad to Zhou Yang, and seeing that he was very talented, he sent him to Ziyuan Sect to practice at the age of eleven, and his uncle Zhong Pengfei was responsible for teaching.
He didn't have many friends in Ziyuan Sect, and the senior brothers were not in harmony with each other, either intrigue or jealousy, only the older Tiehu senior brother took better care of him. In his spare time, he and Tiehu often go to Li's house to play with their childhood friends Li Tong and Li Xing'er.
A few years ago, the Li family offended a disciple of the Great Gate Sect, and the clan was tragically purged, some of the cultivators in the family were killed, some were sold into slavery, and only the old and weak women and children were left, and a good cultivation family was ruined in this way, and Li Tong and Li Xing'er were also missing.
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 Great Gate Sect, which was managed by an outer deacon.
Although Zhou Yang was young when he entered the sect, he had already made a blood oath at that time, and in this life, he must find out the real culprit who killed his father and the Li family, and cut him with a thousand knives to avenge his deep revenge.
Thinking of his parents at this time, Zhou Yang couldn't help but touch the jade pendant under his neck, his heart ached, and he couldn't settle down anymore.
It's been another five days, my arm is not getting better, my leg has recovered a lot, and the damaged meridians are being repaired quickly.
A few times, the sound outside the tree cave shook the sky, it should be the sound of a giant monster passing by, and he was so frightened that he didn't dare to come out. Fortunately, the demon beast didn't notice here, and it was safe for a few days.
When there was no sound outside, and after a while, he began to make a fire to roast meat, and he didn't feel it when he ate wolf meat for the first few times, but in recent days he has felt more and more that the wolf meat tastes too great, and it is really not delicious.
The mountain spring in the cave is very good, cool and sweet, and it is comfortable to drink it. This time he was going to rinse the wolf meat with water, maybe the smell would be lighter.
Zhou Yang put a few pieces of wolf meat on the rocks with mountain springs dripping, made a torch and lit it, and looked up on the cave wall to find the location of the fixed torch. Inadvertently, he noticed some faint patterns on the rock wall directly in front of him.
On closer inspection, these figures are somewhat familiar, like a chessboard, on which dozens of chess pieces have fallen. Zhou Yang took a step back with the torch and swept the torch left and right, his eyes lit up, and sure enough, it was black and white! Not only that, there was also a chess jar under the rock wall, which contained sunspots.
The head of the Li family in Tu Yan City is not only a cultivator, but also a good gamer, and his game skills are second to none in Tu Yan City, and there is no one like him. Influenced by the head of the Li family, Zhou Yang was exposed to it when he was a child, and he was also very good at playing Go, and he was extremely talented in this way.
He started at the age of three, was able to play against adults at the age of five, and lost every ordinary chess player at the age of seven. At the age of ten, the head of the Li family could not win against him. After entering the Ziyuan Sect, his uncle Zhong Pengfei is also a good player, and his skills are still above the Li family master, and he is invincible in Tuyan and Anping.
Zhou Yang worshiped Zhong Pengfei's door, in addition to being instructed by him in cultivation, he would also point out one or two in his game skills, and jointly comprehend some ancient strange scores, so his game skills are also improving by leaps and bounds, and there are few opponents.
At the age of thirteen, Zhou Yang and Uncle Zhong were already able to tie. At the age of fourteen, Zhou Yang could let Uncle Zhong have a son, and in this case, Uncle Zhong could draw with the battle at most. There was once a scattered cultivator who traveled here, talked with Zhou Yang for three games, two losses and one win, and then was surprised again and again, and was regarded as a genius.
It's a pity that Zhou Yang's cultivation speed is far from being extremely chess, for this reason, Zhong Pengfei once strictly ordered Zhou Yang to abandon the game and focus on cultivation, and Zhou Yang also followed his uncle's advice. Helplessly, a small outer disciple, the rules are pitiful, and the spirit stones are too difficult to earn, if it weren't for the help of the uncle, the cultivation speed would be slower than now.
In fact, there are not too many people who are good at playing games in the cultivation world, because the game is too laborious and extremely draining, which cultivator does not cherish his time as his life and devote himself to cultivation, and the game talk is regarded as a boring thing to relieve boredom after tea and dinner, and he will never waste time on it.
However, Zhou Yang had already developed a habit, when there were no spirit stones available and there was no progress in cultivation, in addition to going up the mountain to pick some spirit herbs and elixirs and hunting some low-level demon beasts, Zhou Yang continued to study the Tao of the game the rest of the time.
Although Yi Dao could not help him cultivate, it was of great help to his state of mind, compared to his peers, Zhou Yang was much more mature and his mind was much tougher.
Now Zhou Yang saw that there were black and white children on the cave wall, and he was also interested, so he watched it intently.
After a pillar of incense, his brow furrowed and he fell into deep thought.
It seems that this game is extremely difficult to break.
On the rock wall is a chess endgame, black first, but at a disadvantage. This endgame is a test of how future generations can turn defeat into victory and defeat white. Although Zhou Yang came up with dozens of moves, the result was the same anyway, and the black chess was lost.
None of the games he had studied were anything like the endgame on the rock wall, and despite the countless patterns and variations in his mind, he was at a loss to start.
Zhou Yang has studied this way for more than ten years, and the more difficult the situation, the more he has to figure it out, and he is willing to admit defeat.
After closing his eyes and pondering for a full hour, after countless changes were denied by him, a passage from the Thirteen Classics of Chess suddenly flashed in his mind: "If you are a gamer, if you have too many things, you will be divided, and if you are divided, you will be difficult to save." Don't force the chess, forcing will make him real and I will be false. Fiction is easy to attack, but reality is difficult to break. Temporary workarounds, it is advisable not to stick to one. "Biography" said: Advance when you see it, and retreat when you know the difficulties. ”
The meaning of this passage is that there are too many clues, there is no unified and coordinated moves, and the forces are scattered and have no connection with each other, so it is not easy to rescue. When you don't have a chance, don't attack easily, otherwise it will lead to the opponent's strength being stable and our defense being unstable. Learn to be flexible on the spot, and don't be stubborn and blindly seek offense.
You can't attack, you can only be flexible. He has thought of countless ways to work, but none of them will work, and he must change his existing thinking and transcend the original stereotype in order to have a glimmer of life.
Judging from the current endgame, only attacking means failure, and only retreating from the defense is obviously not enough in the end, and it is still a defeat. The chess game is like a battle game, the battle situation is changing rapidly, and it is not confined to the fixed formula, so it is necessary to be flexible on the spot, and only by seeking change can it be possible to win.
How to adapt it depends on the understanding and chess power of the opponent.
Thinking of this, Zhou Yang had a flash of inspiration in his mind, opened his eyes violently, and without hesitation, he reached into the chess jar and grabbed a sunspot and landed on the wall.
As soon as his sunspot fell, a white piece from nowhere also fell on the chessboard, which was the way to deal with the sunspot. Zhou Yang didn't care about the origin of Bai Zi, he pondered for a while, the holding son fell again, and Bai Zi also fell, so you come to live with me, Zhou Yang fought with the invisible opponent.
At first, they could fight each other, but as time went by, he felt more and more strained, and he had to think for a long time every step, and before he knew it, his forehead was already sweating.
This is the gap in the realm of chess.
There are nine grades of the gamer, from high to low. The second is to take photos. Third, it is said to be specific. Fourth, it is said to be quiet. Fifth, use wisdom. Sixth, it is said to be small. Seven is called fighting power. Eight is foolish. Nine said to be clumsy.
These nine qualities are also the nine realms of the player, one is more esoteric and unfathomable than the other, and one product is the highest realm.
With Zhou Yang's strength, he barely entered the realm of five products with wisdom. Wise, knowing. Entering the realm of gods, Rao Sanxian failed to pass through the secluded, and the battle used wisdom to achieve its merits. This realm is to be able to enter the god realm chess players to let three sons, and through the ghost realm is to be let two sons, so if you don't reach the secret realm, you can only use wisdom when you are against Yi.
Some chess players are good at attacking, some are good at defending, and some are good at grinding, but no matter what, there will be long and short, and if you grasp its shortcomings, you can win.
To achieve the realm of wisdom, you can use your strengths and avoid weaknesses, both offensive and defensive, and make people indifferent. Of course, there are four realms above the use of wisdom, not to mention entering the gods and knowing the light, that is, against the chess players in the realm of the upper channel, Zhou Yang has no chance of winning even if he tries his best.
What he didn't know, however, was that as the rocks continued to fall, the top of the rock wall was slowly undergoing strange changes.
As I thought, the torch burned out and went out. Zhou Yang had to wake up from his contemplation and remake the torch to ignite.
But it is not a problem to hold it in your hand all the time, and the surface of the rock wall is relatively smooth, and there is no suitable place to place the torch. So he looked upwards to find a support point for the torches.
The rock wall near the top of the cave was uneven and pitted, and Zhou Yang raised the fire up again, but what caught his eyes was no longer potholes, but like words. He carefully recognized that it was indeed a text, and it was an ancient script!
Fortunately, Zhou Yang has studied ancient Chinese with Uncle Zhong, and he can also recognize it, and the words facing him are "Enter the fire of the four dragons." ”
What does this mean, and what is the fire of the four dragons?
He was a little excited in his heart, could it be that this was a practice handed down from ancient times!
With apprehension, he looked up again, and from the rock wall above to the top of the cave, there were all words, densely covering half of the cave.
Although there are some ancient words that Zhou Yang didn't recognize, but the general idea was to understand it, and he felt a burst of ecstasy in his heart, this is not an ancient exercise, but the art of practicing Dan!
Zhou Yang put aside the game for the time being, and did not look up again, but returned to the tree hole, put the torch away, poked his head out at the entrance of the cave to take a look, and was sure that there was no danger, and then crawled out of the hole, found a large number of dead tree skills, bark, and dead grass in the woods and threw them into the tree hole, and began to make torches.
Soon after, he put aside dozens of prepared torches, picked up one and rubbed it on the fat part of the wolf's meat, lit it with the fire, and then returned to the cave impatiently, and stood on the rocks with the torches and looked up.
After searching for a long time, I finally found the beginning. The name engraved in the cave is "Danshu Tips", I don't know which era of the Dan master left, but this master should also be a master of Yidao, and the endgame 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, looking at it, the ancient characters suddenly disappeared!