Call of the Other World: Rebuilding the Glory of Zhenbei

Chapter 16 Zhuge Kongming, Discussing the Dao through Chess

"Woo!"

An eagle with golden wings and black eyes flapped its wings, flew over the earth, and circled down.

It passed through the heavy towers and slowly landed on a dark red tall tower. While combing its feathers, it looked down at the city below with its black gemstone-like eyes.

This is a very spectacular city. The height of the city wall alone is dozens of meters. The wide city wall is covered with traces of time. Black steel arrow platforms with a metallic luster are located on the city wall. Several teams of soldiers wearing uniform pure black armor patrol back and forth on the city wall with spears in their hands.

As the gateway city of Youzhou Road, its prosperity is higher than that of other county cities. And because it is governed by King Zhenbei, it is not as dilapidated as other places. Although it cannot be compared with the prosperous times, the people are prosperous, young and old, and live happily.

The Zhenbei Palace was built during the reign of Emperor Wu of Xia, and was continuously heightened and thickened by several Zhenbei kings, making it more and more majestic and tall. Sitting in the Youzhou Road, it is like a giant beast from ancient times, overlooking the world.

The backyard of Zhenbei Palace.

The flowers, plants and trees in the palace change every day, and now they are lush and full of leaves, and full of flowers.

Spring is in full swing and full of vitality.

There is a pavilion in the Zhenbei Palace, with a stone table and two stone benches. On the table, black and white chess pieces are crisscrossed, and the black and white dragons are roaring and strangling, which is quite intense.

Yao invented Go, and Danzhu was good at it.

Black and white correspond to each other, the heavenly origins correspond to each other, and the collisions of qi are harmonious.

On the chessboard, there appeared a beautiful world of black and white.

A teenager of about sixteen or seventeen and a man in a white robe, about twenty-five, sat opposite each other on a stool. Both of them held chess pieces in their hands, one holding white and the other holding black.

The young man holding the white chess piece looked young, with a hint of immaturity evident between his brows.

The medium-length black hair just touched the shoulders, and there were a few strands of purple hair on the forehead and temples, mixed in with the black hair, adding a sense of evil.

It was Han Shenxing, the prince of Zhenbei.

The man in white robe opposite him was eight feet tall, his scholar's robe fluttering in the wind, he had a beautiful appearance, wisps of black hair hanging down from his temples, a feather fan and a scarf, his brows were full of heroic spirit, his eyes were bright and clear, shining, and emitting a strange light, like a banished immortal.

That’s right, this person is Zhuge Liang.

Han Shenxing plays white and Zhuge Liang plays black.

Next to the two of them, a stove was warming a glass of wine. It was the Xifeng wine from Youzhou Road in Zhenbei Prefecture. The wine was warmed over a low fire, and mist was lingering.

Xifeng new wine and a small red clay stove.

Can you drink a cup of snow when you come here late?

It is the most leisurely and elegant poem. Also because of this poem, the Xifeng Liquor from the north of the town has been sought after by scholars all over the world who like to pretend to be cultured, and the supply is in short supply.

But I saw it on the chessboard.

"Darkness."

Han Shenxing was not polite at all. He used the first chess piece to point directly at the heart of the black tiger, causing the white dragon's claw to rush forward, as if to eat up a large area in front of the tiger's body.

"Chen Xiao!"

Zhuge Liang did not think twice and picked up a black chess piece with his right hand, placed it in front of the dragon claw, and stretched out the tiger claw to fight, instead of avoiding to give up the good situation in front of him.

Han Shenxing frowned as he looked at the chessboard. Zhuge Liang's moves were unusually steady and his chess skills were exceptionally profound.

Han Shenxing was holding the chess piece and swaying, and inadvertently glanced at the carvings on the corner of the chessboard. He immediately understood what was going on, and after placing a move, he looked at Zhuge Liang with a broad smile, motioning for Zhuge Liang to continue.

Seeing that Han Shenxing had broken the game, Zhuge Liang did not hold back and continued to threaten with the black chess piece flying to the lower right corner of the white chess piece.

Zhuge Liang laid an ambush and planned the plan;

Han Shenxing was confident of his chess prowess and refused to give in.

The white and black chess pieces are each divided into two parts, and a dragon and a tiger are coiled and tumbling along the edge and rushing to the left.

Although the White Dragon is powerful, the Black Tiger is not to be outdone. Victory or defeat is just a matter of thought. The final outcome will be defeat anyway, so why not give it a try?
"Smoke!"

"That year!"

"Flowers fall!" "Flowers follow!"

By the middle of the game, every move Han Shenxing made was quite difficult, and the ranges of black and white were roughly clear.

The black tiger and the white dragon each occupy half of the territory, and the decisive battle is about to come.

But Han Shenxing's expression became more and more solemn. In contrast, Zhuge Liang was holding a feather fan, looking calm and composed.

The two sides are about to start a thrilling fight.

On the chessboard, the situation is turbulent and the fighting is endless.

On the chessboard, the fight between the white dragon and the black tiger was extremely fierce. If there were someone with great supernatural powers here, he would be able to see carefully that the two phantoms of the white dragon and the black tiger evolved from the chess game between the two people, were fighting frantically above their heads.

The white dragon wagged its tail and the black tiger dug out its heart; neither of them gave in and both were fighting to the last hurdle.

All of a sudden, white pieces were annihilated in large numbers, as if a hidden dragon suddenly rushed out of the abyss, tearing apart all enemies and roaring at the world!

On the side, a black dragon that was originally dying and seemed to be completely swallowed by the white pieces at any time suddenly showed its infinite power and destroyed a large number of white pieces.

There is also a complementary and interdependent relationship between offense and defense.

As Sun Tzu's Art of War says: "The situation in war is nothing more than the strange and the normal. The changes of the strange and the normal are endless. The strange and the normal give rise to each other, like an endless cycle. Who can exhaust them?"

"Kong Ming, I am your boss after all, so why don't you give me some leniency? Be careful or I will deduct your salary!"

Han Shenxing was handsome and extraordinary. He stared at the black chess piece picked up by Zhuge Liang, who looked elegant and easy-going, with a resentful look on his face.

"Snapped!"

When this piece was placed, the situation on the chessboard changed drastically.

With one move, the situation changes drastically.

Seeing that he was about to lose again, Han Shenxing messed up the chessboard and said angrily, "No more, no more. I can't win at all."

Han Shenxing looked at the chessboard in front of him in astonishment, with a helpless expression. In his previous life, he was obsessed with chess and had studied many chess manuals, so he had quite a lot of experience.

But compared with Zhuge Kongming in front of him?
Han Shenxing knew that he was asking for trouble...

Afterwards, Han Shenxing could not help but sigh: "Kong Ming's chess skills are far-reaching. This prince is willing to admit that he is inferior to him!"

Zhuge Liang chuckled and collected the chess. He not only practiced the art of law, Taoism, and vertical and horizontal skills in Xiaoshengxian Manor, but also studied many chess manuals with the big men in the sect, which made him not proud.
At this moment, Zhuge Liang saw the black and white chessboard interlaced, and asked Han Shenxing: "Your Highness, do you know the art of chess?"

Han Shenxing pondered for a while and said, "The way of chess is like two armies facing each other. Every step is dangerous. If you make a mistake, the whole game will be lost."

Zhuge Liang picked up a chess piece and said to Han Shenxing, "Your Highness, would you like to hear my explanation?"

Zhuge Liang pointed to the chessboard and said calmly: "The way of chess is the combination of the way of heaven and the way of man."

In the ancient times, the earth was a vast wilderness.

So the god Yu established the well-field system, dividing the arable land into infinite squares that could be expanded in ninety-nine steps.

The ditches are crisscrossed and the houses are dotted on them, making it look like a chessboard on earth.

Later, there were sages who observed the sky in the middle of the night and felt the twinkling stars in the sky and the crisscrossing channels on the earth. They were fascinated and had strange ideas. They remotely sensed the stars in the sky and the longitude and latitude on the earth, and regarded them as a magnificent pattern.

The mind becomes skill, and the warp and weft are interwoven on a piece of wood. Stones are placed at the intersections and played. This is the beginning of the art of chess.

Later, with conquests, wars, sieges and grabbing of territories, the life and death of the world became more and more intense, and the art of chess also had rules of life and death, conquests, sieges and competitions for victory. Over time, the art of chess was established.

This is the principle that the way of chess is given birth to from the interaction between the way of man and the way of heaven.

All things in the world are surrounded by each other. The people are surrounded by officials, the officials are surrounded by the emperor, the emperor is surrounded by the country, the country is surrounded by the world, the world is surrounded by the universe, the universe is surrounded by creation, and creation is ultimately surrounded by all living beings.

This is the way of chess, and it is also the way of heaven and man.

Therefore, the name of chess is "wei", which is in line with the law of heaven and earth."

After Zhuge Liang finished speaking, Han Shenxing thought for a moment and said, "Kongming is a man of great talent, and what he said makes sense."

(End of this chapter)