The young master is gone, so that's okay. The Li family has been searching for several years, but no one is alive or dead. Later, I heard that the young master and his bodyguard were all dead, including his father, and 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 the 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 large 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 how a good cultivating family is.

It was destroyed, and the whereabouts of Li Tong and Li Xinger were also missing.

At that time, Zhou Yang also begged Uncle Zhong to save the Li family, but even the Ziyuan Sect could not afford to offend the sect, so how could an outer deacon take charge of it.

Although Zhou Yang was young when he entered the clan, he had already sworn a blood oath that he would find out the real culprit who killed his father and maimed the Li family in this life, and cut him into pieces with a thousand knives 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, my arms were in good condition, my legs 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 have been the sound of a giant monster passing by, which scared him so much that he dared not speak out. Fortunately, the monster didn't notice it, so he was safe 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 was very good, it was cool and sweet, and drinking it made the 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 patterns on the rock wall directly in front of him.

After taking a closer look, these graphics are somewhat familiar, like a chessboard with dozens of chess pieces falling 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 pieces! Not only that, there was also a chess jar under the rock wall, which contained black pieces.

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 the game of 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, and could play chess with adults at the age of five. At the age of seven, ordinary chess players would lose. When he was ten years old, 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. He searched for Tu Yan everywhere and was invincible in both Anping and Pingcheng.

Zhou Yang became a disciple of Zhong Pengfei. In addition to receiving his guidance in practice, he also received some advice on playing skills and jointly studied some ancient chess records. Therefore, his playing skills also improved by leaps and bounds, and he had few opponents.

At the age of thirteen, Zhou Yang and Master Zhong were already able to draw. At the age of fourteen, Zhou Yang could give Master Zhong a son. In this case, Master Zhong could draw with him at most.

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 praised repeatedly and was regarded as a genius.

It's a pity that Zhou Yang's training speed is far from being the best in chess. For this reason, Zhong Pengfei once strictly ordered Zhou Yang to abandon chess and focus on training, and Zhou Yang also followed his uncle's advice.

Unfortunately, a small outer sect disciple has very few rules and it is difficult to earn spiritual stones. If his uncle hadn't helped him, his cultivation speed would have been 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 cultivator 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 cultivation, 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.

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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 started watching them attentively.

After burning a stick of incense, he frowned and fell into deep thought.

It seems that this game is extremely difficult to break.

On the rock wall is a chess endgame, with Black taking the lead but 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:

"When playing chess, if there are too many threads, the potential will be divided, and if the potential is divided, it will be difficult to save. Don't force the chess, because forcing will make the other party strong and you weak. If you are weak, it is easy to attack, but if you are strong, it is difficult to break. Make temporary changes and do not stick to one. "Biography"

"It says: Advance when you see what is possible; retreat when you see difficulties."

The meaning of this passage is that there are too many clues, there is no unified coordination of chess, and the pieces are scattered and not connected with each other, so it is not easy to rescue. When there is no chance, do not attack easily, otherwise the opponent's pieces will be stable and our defense will be unstable.

Unstable. You should learn to be flexible on the spot, and don't be stubborn and blindly seek to attack.

If he can't attack, he has to work around it. He has thought of countless ordinary methods, but none of them work. He must change his current thinking and go beyond 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.

A chess game is like a battle. The battle situation changes rapidly and does not stick to fixed formulas. 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 player.

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 difference in the realm of chess.

There are nine levels of chess players, from high to low, the first is immersion, the second is understanding, the third is concrete, the fourth is secluded, the fifth is wisdom, the sixth is subtle, the seventh is fighting power, the eighth is foolish, and the ninth is defense.

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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 realm of using wisdom. A wise man knows it. The three first who entered the realm of gods were unable to penetrate the secluded world, so they used wisdom in battle to achieve their results.

In this realm, a chess player who has entered the realm of gods can give up three pieces to a chess player, while in the realm of Tongyou, a chess player can give away two pieces. Therefore, if you have not reached the realm of Tongyou, 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.

Reaching the state of using wisdom, you can exploit your strengths and avoid weaknesses, be both offensive and defensive, and make people unable to find opportunities. Of course, there are four realms beyond using wisdom. Not to mention being in a state of trance and knowing how to illuminate, it is against a chess player in the realm of Tongyou. Zhou Yang tried his best

There is no chance of winning.

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 remade the torch to ignite it.

But it was not a problem to always hold it in his hand, and the surface of the rock wall was relatively smooth, so there was no suitable place to place the 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 quite clearly. 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 and saw that 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 technique, but an ancient alchemy technique! An ancient alchemy technique!

Zhou Yang temporarily put the game aside 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.

Find a large amount of dead trees, bark, dead grass, etc. and throw them into the tree hole to start 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 the torch.

He looked up from the rocks and watched.

After searching for a long time, I finally found the beginning of the chapter. 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 endgame must be his masterpiece.

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Chapter completed!