Although the powerful people on Kunxuan Continent focus mainly on martial arts practice, it does not mean that they have no other pastimes besides practice.
After all, only some people regard practice as the whole meaning of life. Moreover, among these people, some people will eventually choose to give up after years of practice but still unable to make a breakthrough.
In addition, each sect force must have people who handle many external affairs. After these people gave up the thought of reaching the top, most of them fell in love with chess, calligraphy, painting, or poetry.
Song and dance.
And it is said that some people let go of their attachments and became obsessed with playing music, chess, calligraphy and painting. Later, when they occasionally had enlightenment, they broke through the shackles that they had not been able to break through before.
In the eyes of most people, the so-called music, chess, calligraphy and painting can only be regarded as a low-end trick. At best, it can relieve the mood or be an alternative to boring practice.
Before he met Huan Kong, Zuo Feng had the same idea, so even if there were intersections in his life, he would take the initiative to avoid them. In his opinion, since it has nothing to do with practice, it is just playing with things to lose one's ambition, and he should take the initiative to stay away.
But after getting to know Huan Kong, Zuo Feng finally gained a new understanding of qin, chess, calligraphy and painting. What qin art understands is music, and a few special martial arts use music as weapons to disturb people's minds or hurt people's internal organs.
Strong people can even understand the rules of music.
As for the art of calligraphy and painting, Zuo Feng had already understood it when Master Huan Kong mentioned painters. The super aristocratic families in the Xuanwu Empire used the art of calligraphy and painting to practice and were able to derive martial arts and martial arts from it.
When Zuo Feng faced the seventh son of the Xuanwu Painting family, he suffered some losses, so when Master Huan Kong mentioned it, Zuo Feng quickly understood that calligraphy and painting were not easy.
In Huan Kong's introduction, the most important thing for him was chess skills. Zuo Feng didn't pay much attention to it at first. He just felt that playing chess would be helpful to people's thinking, and nothing else.
However, Huan Kong told Zuo Feng a truth: chess skills and rune formations are similar to each other.
Originally, Zuo Feng didn't see the connection between the two. He didn't know whether Huan Kong was trying to teach Zuo Feng, or to enable him to understand more deeply, so he didn't tell him the answer directly, but just asked him every day.
Set aside a period of time for the two of them to sit and talk.
Huan Kong did not explain, but Zuo Feng understood his master's character, so he did not ask questions deliberately, but tried his best to immerse himself in the daily game.
Every day is not long. He only talks about one game and then ends it. The time is also very casual. He will not review the game after the game. After playing the chess, Huan Kong gets up and leaves, leaving Zuo Feng to clean up the chessboard and reflect on the confrontation between the two sides.
Bureau.
At first, Zuo Feng cared about the rules of chess. He had to think carefully about every move he made. After he completely mastered the rules of chess, he became immersed in Master Huan Kong's many strategies.
Just like this, another period of time passed, and Zuo Feng found that he couldn't find any patterns in the numbers. Often he seemed to have grasped some patterns, and Huan Kong's numbers would immediately change.
After such a period of time, Zuo Feng suddenly discovered one day that he had been bound from the beginning to the present. It was just that he was bound by the rules of playing chess at first, and later by the numbers shown by Huan Kong. To put it bluntly,
He is always in a state of self-restraint.
It was only after that realization that Zuo Feng truly gained a new understanding of playing chess. And the chessboard in front of him seemed to be constantly expanding and extending, as if it wanted to include everything in the world.
Since that time, playing chess has also transformed from a low-level path in Zuo Feng's mind to one of the most profound and unpredictable arts among the four arts of chess, calligraphy and painting.
The change in mentality also began to gradually affect Zuo Feng's research on playing chess. Especially when he played against Huan Kong again, his whole person was in a state of complete immersion and relaxation, and all the previous "restraints" disappeared.
It has long since been rid of him.
Although the two had played countless games before, Zuo Feng thought that his chess skills had improved greatly. However, when he asked his master, Huan Kong always gave him a faint smile and told him that he had not yet started.
If it had been anyone else, Zuo Feng might have thought this was a naked humiliation, but facing his unsmiling master, it was a direct blow to him.
In fact, at that time, Zuo Feng was still a little dissatisfied in his heart. He felt that if his master did not want to deliberately attack him and make him guard against arrogance and impetuosity, then his master simply failed to see through his true level.
No matter what Zuo Feng thinks in his heart, he will never go against Master Huan Kong's arrangements, nor will he have any thoughts of conflict. The relationship between them has surpassed that of ordinary master and apprentice. Without the influence of sect or family, the two of them
The relationship between them is not only simple, but also extremely deep.
Even if Zuo Feng feels a little bit unconvinced, he will still play chess with his master seriously. He will think carefully about every move he makes and even understand it carefully.
When Huan Kong truly let go of the rules and the constraints of chess routes, playing chess in his eyes was no longer just a game, but more like a powerful being creating a world.
Zuo Feng never had such a realization at first. He cared more about winning and losing. It was not until he put aside the rules and chess routes that he also let go of winning and losing. It was at that moment that he understood why the master had said that he had not yet started.
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Most of the time, truths do not exist in isolation. As the saying goes, "One thing makes sense, all things are in harmony." There will always be inextricable connections between everything in the world.
Zuo Feng has known since he was a child that if you simply do something, it is actually very simple, but if you want to do it well, or even do it to the extreme, the difficulties are unimaginable.
Even if it is a small thing, it is very difficult to do it well. On the other hand, if you go through many difficulties to complete something, even if you cannot do it to the extreme, you can at least do it slightly better.
Then there are two keys here, one is "doing things" and the other is "difficulties". They are two conditions that cannot be avoided if you want to achieve a better goal.
These two conditions can be said to be opposed to each other, but on the other hand, they have a common goal and seem to be a whole.
The truth lies here. Zuo Feng, who has experienced many things, can understand it roughly, but he has never thought about it in detail. There are just some things he must do, and in order to do them well, he must not only have the determination to face difficulties
, and also be able to face difficulties with the calmest attitude.
It wasn't until Zuo Feng actually played chess and crossed the threshold mentioned by Master Huan Kong that he finally had a clearer understanding of this principle.
When I played chess with Master before, I always regarded Master as my opponent. All my thoughts were to target Master and defeat the opponent.
After crossing the threshold, Huan Kong saw the vast "chessboard" and the falling chess pieces. He wanted to use the chess pieces to create a world on the chessboard, and the other chess pieces were the ones he encountered when creating the world.
resistance.
You cannot give up because of difficulties, let alone deal with them instead, thereby neglecting your ultimate goal.
It was also after this realization that Zuo Feng discovered that the original game of chess actually had a huge improvement effect on his rune formation.
The rune formation together is actually creating. If the space where people live, such as Kunxuan Continent, is regarded as a chessboard, then the process of constructing the formation is actually like creating a small piece of one's own on the chessboard.
world.
Zuo Feng, who was playing chess with his master, seemed to be facing a world with extremely harsh rules. It was extremely difficult to create even a small piece of the world.
After Zuo Feng no longer regarded his master Huan Kong as his opponent, when he went to build a formation, he focused more on creating his own world on the chessboard, even if it was just a small piece, as long as it could be preserved in the end.
, and he was satisfied.
Fengcheng warriors who don't know why, when they watch the game between the two, they will feel that the chess skills of their city leader Zuo Feng have dropped too seriously. When the level was at its best before, the two sides were only seven or eight pieces behind. As a result, Zuo Feng now sees that it is Zuo Feng.
The wind pieces are almost cleared on the chessboard.
What everyone didn't understand was that that game made Huan Kong feel so good that he even kept slapping his knees with his hands in excitement.
After that game, although Zuo Feng still lost completely, his cheeks turned red with excitement and he knelt on the ground respectfully and kowtowed to his master.
The two masters and apprentices continued the habit of playing chess, but in the eyes of everyone, Zuo Feng became more and more confident in playing chess from that time on, and people often couldn't figure out his chess moves and skills.
But he is making great progress every day.
It was not until later that Blizzard and Zhentian watched the game between Zuo Feng and Huan Kong, both of whom looked extremely shocked. Even shortly after watching, both of them had some new insights in their cultivation.
You must know how difficult it is for strong players like Blizzard and Zhentian to improve their realm, especially since they need a new understanding of the rules to improve. After watching chess, their realm has improved. It is obvious that they have improved from
During the game, I gained a new understanding of the rules.
The habit of playing chess was not temporarily given up until they entered the far north ice field. After all, in such a dangerous environment, they had to deal with all kinds of dangers anytime and anywhere, and they could not find a chance to sit down quietly and talk about a game.
At this time, seeing the thin lines of formation forces crisscrossing in the sky, Huan Kong not only had to analyze the changes in various formations, but also sense any subtle fluctuations in the formations at all times.
The more he is in a state of high concentration, the more Huan Kong's thinking becomes trapped. Unlike Zuo Feng, as a bystander, he not only has a broad vision, but also an open way of thinking.
While Huan Kong was stuck on the rune formation itself, Zuo Feng had felt an indescribable sense of familiarity before, until the fine lines of the formation's power changed, and the two-colored light spots flickered endlessly in his field of vision.
In Zuo Feng's mind, at this moment, black and white chess pieces appeared unconsciously.