The Path Toward Heaven

There was silence on Qipan Mountain.

After Tong Yan said this, no one spoke.

Yes, being respectable, bearing, those are important, but the most important thing is the result.

Tong Yan opened her eyes, turned to look at Jing Jiu and said, It's not that I haven't lost before. When I first learned chess, I lost seventeen games in a row to my wife, but... I don't want to lose to you.

Hearing this sentence, others didn't feel much, thinking that what Tong Yan was talking about was a battle for the limelight between geniuses. Xiang Wanshu was a little surprised. He knew that senior brother had a cold and arrogant personality. Even senior brother Luo Huainan didn't like him and didn't want to get close to him. But in terms of chess, senior brother was a very personable person. No matter who the opponent was, as long as there was subtlety, he would never hesitate to praise him.

Why did the senior brother say such things after losing to Jing Jiu today?

After today, do you still think chess is just a game?

Tong Yan stared into Jing Jiu's eyes and asked.

The chess piece falls, the thunder explodes, and the heaven and the earth respond. How can such a chess game be just a game?

Jing Jiu thought for a while and said, Yes, I still think this is a game.

Tong Yan's eyes widened, and bloodshot eyes were faintly visible.

This is the essence, not derogatory, because the game itself may also be meaningful.

Jing Jiu said: Going through the process, ushering in the result, different paths, different ways of walking, maybe our life and the existence of the world are all games.

Everything is a game?

Tong Yan stared into his eyes and said, Then have you ever worked hard in your life?

Jing Jiu didn't speak.

Not to mention in this life, even in his previous life, he didn't have to fight for any reason.

You are ruthless to the world and everything, and keep a distance indifferently. That's why I don't like you and don't want to lose to you.

Tong Yan said in a deep voice: But I am different, I am willing to give everything for many things.

Such as black and white world.

Jing Jiu looked at him quietly, waiting for the next article.

Chess is my way.

The previous game of chess, I thought it was close to perfection, but I still lost...and I lost to a person like you who doesn't like chess and has no feelings for chess.

I don't understand why people like you can go to this level. If there is a way on the chessboard, why would it allow such a thing to happen?

How does this make me and the people outside the pavilion think?

It's not fair.

It would make everything moot.

Tong Yan's eyes were a little sad.

Jing Jiu was silent for a while, and said, The world has never been fair. How much you and I love this world doesn't mean anything to the world.

——We are human beings who are good at comforting ourselves with beautiful words and definitions, and the world is like this.

Zhao Layue thought of the words he had said after leaving the old plum garden that night, and suddenly felt a little cold.

The people outside the pavilion also seemed to feel the chill after the rain. There was no sound, and the atmosphere was inexplicably low.

No, I don't believe...

Tong Yan murmured: Everything should be meaningful, and it must be meaningful.

He couldn't accept what Jing Jiu said.

He has studied the Dao of chess in depth since he was a child, and under the guidance of the teachers of the Zhongzhou School, he gradually entered the depths, and what he cultivated was to enter the Dao with chess.

Black and white are divided into black and white on the chessboard, and the changes of yin and yang seem mysterious and unpredictable, but in fact there are laws.

He just wanted to find that pattern.

This is his lifelong pursuit.

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There is a way to everything, but there are many unspeakable ways.

Jing Jiu said: For example, in my opinion, even piano, chess, calligraphy and painting cannot be close to the avenue, because it is too simple.

Hearing this, the crowd was in an uproar.

It is universally recognized that Go is the most complicated and profound game, who dares to say it is simple?

People wanted to refute a few words, but suddenly remembered the previous chess game, and fell silent again.

Only Jing Jiu said that Go is simple, and no one is qualified to refute him.

Unless you can beat him on the chessboard.

I haven't played chess before, but I have played similar games. After playing chess with you today, I feel that the two have something in common.

After saying this, Jing Jiu tapped the table.

The chessboard was shaken and jumped up slightly.

Hundreds of chess pieces flew up from the chessboard and urn, hovering quietly in the air.

The black and white chess pieces are arranged in a chaotic manner, intersecting vertically and horizontally, and many columns are vertical, forming a three-dimensional chess game.

This picture is amazing, but it is not too difficult for ascetics to do.

Many people were stunned, wondering what Jing Jiu was doing with such a weird thing.

Some people have already thought of what he meant, shocked and speechless, wondering if they can still play like this?

Que Niang stared blankly at the chess pieces in the air, feeling powerless.

He Zhan frowned, thinking that there were still not enough chess pieces. If there were nineteen lines in all three columns, how complicated would this chess game be?

Tong Yan looked at the cage-like thing made up of black and white chess pieces in front of her, and was silent for a long time before saying, This is not something that can be done by manpower.

Jing Jiu said: It's really difficult, and I can't do it now, but cultivating the Tao means doing things that cannot be done by humans.

Tong Yan said: This will be very tiring, just like you should be very tired now.

Jing Jiu said, Yes, I haven't been as tired as I am today for many years.

He said it very seriously.

Tong Yan said: I won't be comforted by this sentence, I'm just worried that if you continue to play chess, you may lose. I don't like people who win me and then lose to others.

Jing Jiu said, Don't worry, because I'm really tired, so I'm not going to continue.

Hearing this, Tong Yan was a little puzzled, and the people outside the pavilion were even more surprised.

You have already defeated Tong Yan, who else will be your opponent on Qipanshan today? Even if it was because the previous game was too mentally exhausting, it would be nice to take a break, but who would have the nerve to force you to end immediately in front of so many people?

Jing Jiu said, This chess game between you and me started from Haizhou.

Tong Yan understood what he meant, and so did everyone present.

Hearing these words, both Zhao Layue and Xiang Wanshu recalled the scene at that time.

At the Four Seas Banquet, Jing Jiu won the first place in chess, but it attracted a lot of criticism.

Xiang Wanshu said with a smile that if he played chess like Jing Jiu, he would be beaten by his senior brother, but Zhao Layue overheard him, and thus the conversation continued.

Yes, I want to tell him that playing chess is not such a simple matter.

Believe me, for him, playing chess is the easiest thing in the world.

Really? I hope to have a chance to learn about it later.

You can't, let your senior brother come.

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Then there was the sentence that Jing Jiu said at the Qingshan sword test meeting.

I made an appointment with the Zhongzhou faction to play chess with Tong Yan at Meihui next year.

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From the beginning to the end, I never said that I want to win the Meihui chess game. I just want to play chess with you.

Now, the game is over.

Jing Jiu walked out of the pavilion and led Zhao Layue down the mountain.

The chess pieces in the air fell like rain.

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(First of all, let me talk about the main point. I also said that I don’t know anything about Go. I just like to watch game news and unofficial gossip. That’s why I can only write in this way, which happens to be my favorite way of writing. When I wrote about Jing Jiu playing chess last year, many readers called Alpha Dog. Yes, that’s basically what I meant. I wanted to write about that feeling. Thinking of Sangsang, I have to say that the current Jing Jiu is definitely far inferior to Sangsang. He is at most a modified human computer, and Sangsang is an omniscient existence. At least in her world, I love her. Finally, I did have a bit of vibrato poisoning in the past two months, but it’s really beautiful...)