Having cultivated myself into an immortal, all I want to do is raise female disciples.

Emperor Wen lived a free and unrestrained life, never letting external things change his inner self, and always appeared in the eyes of the world as an ethereal immortal.

No matter how time changes, no matter how circumstances turn, he will always be Emperor Wen.

A person who truly embodies the meaning of "free and easy".

As Yu Bai Niao played this gentle melody, a figure that wasn't particularly tall appeared in her mind.

The figure walked towards the sky with a sword in hand, even though there was a bottomless abyss beneath his feet and a blood-red sky above him, he still walked very ordinary.

The unmoved man walks step by step between heaven and earth.

Time moves on, back to the present.

The girl slowly put down the zither, loosened the strings at her fingertips, and opened her hazy eyes.

There was no applause around.

Nothing at all.

It was Feng Tanghuan who truly broke this silence.

He gazed at the jade bird with eyes full of admiration.

Feng Tanghuan straightened up and bowed to Yu Bai Niao: "I have lost this duel of musical skills."

48. Next game

"This...this is how we won?"

Ye Yuchan stared dumbfounded at Feng Tanghuan, who had conceded defeat in the arena. "Could it be that this young master is actually a good person and deliberately conceded defeat to let Bai Niao win?"

"...What are you saying? Yu Bai Niao is definitely better." Yun Ping rolled her eyes at her and casually stuffed a handful of peanuts into her mouth.

Yunping felt strange listening to someone else play his piece so earnestly.

"But no matter how I listen, that Young Master Feng plays it better. It really gets me excited."

"What about the song that Hundred Birds Girl played?"

"I don't know." Ye Yuchan tilted her head and thought for a moment, finally coming to a conclusion: "Anyway, I don't feel much. It sounds weird, and I can't really describe my feelings."

"It would be strange if you could feel anything."

Ye Yuchan glanced at Yun Ping disdainfully and blurted out without thinking, "You talk as if you can understand me."

As soon as she said those words, she realized she might have said something wrong.

Yunping grinned and pointed at himself, staring at her without saying a word.

……

Damn it, I forgot about that.

Sitting next to me right now is Emperor Wen, who five hundred years ago brought the four arts to their peak and directly used this thing to prove his Dao.

If he can't understand it, then nobody in the world can.

"Alright, let me tell you, if you want to understand this piece, you need to be on the same wavelength as us. Your thinking is completely different from mine."

What is my style?

Yunping grabbed Ye Yuchan's hand and glanced at the black jade bracelet on her wrist. "A realistic money-grubber style, huh?"

"roll!"

……

On the other hand, there were quite a few people who were just as bewildered as Ye Yuchan.

Although we live in a great era of art and culture, most people are musical failures who can't even become first-class musicians; they are practically complete laymen.

As the saying goes, the layman sees the spectacle, while the expert sees the details.

From the perspective of an uninformed audience, Feng Tanghuan should have won this duel of musical skills, so why did Feng Tanghuan admit defeat?

Could it be... that there's something fishy going on?

Perhaps noticing the puzzled looks from those around her, Feng Tanghuan stepped forward immediately.

"Everyone, please calm down. In this duel of musical skills, Junior Sister Bai Niao is indeed the better one."

"This piece, 'Free and Unfettered,' was created in the later years of Emperor Wen's reign and is an epitome of Emperor Wen Xuan Lei's life. The difficulty of this piece is far more than it sounds. The hand techniques, zither techniques, and even the insights involved are extremely difficult. It is a challenge to play it completely. As for the connotations it contains, although I am not a master of the zither, I can tell that Junior Sister Bai Niao's understanding of this piece has surpassed that of ordinary people. Therefore, I have lost this match."

After speaking, he sat down.

Applause rang out again, but this time it was for Feng Tanghuan.

Even Yun Ping had to change his opinion of Feng Tanghuan. The kid wasn't bad at heart, he just wanted to learn his ways too much.

Is Emperor Wen's approach something a normal person could learn?

On the other side, Feng Tangwen's expression didn't change much. In his opinion, it was perfectly normal for Feng Tanghuan to lose the first match.

But the next three games...

Humph.

"Therefore, in the first duel of musical skills, Bai Niao Le Lian has emerged victorious."

"I've made a fool of myself," Yu Bai Niao said with a slight smile.

"Now, let's begin the second round of the competition."

After Feng Tang finished speaking, he flipped his hand, and a beam of light shot out from his storage ring, shooting straight into the sky.

In less than half a second, it transformed into a shooting star and fell between Yu Bai Niao and Feng Tang Huan.

That is……

A perfectly square chessboard appeared in the center of everyone's view.

The 19x19 format, a chessboard embodying endless ideas...

"A chess duel."

A truly crucial showdown.

If he wins, it will be a draw, because Yu Bai Niao has almost never touched the two arts of calligraphy and painting.

But if you lose... then the outcome of this battle of wits is basically decided.

If I win, everything will be fine. I won't get the million-dollar prize, but at least I won't lose my life.

If she loses, she will become Feng Tanghuan's exclusive lover. The Feng family is not a place you can come and go as you please.

It's fair to say that the previous musical duel was completely unimportant; the only important thing was the one right now...

Yes, the outcome is determined by those tiny chess pieces.

You could even say...

It was destined to be the life of the Jade Bird.

“Junior Sister Bai Niao…” Feng Tanghuan, holding the white jade pendant, gave Bai Niao a wink.

On the chessboard, it's almost impossible for him to throw the game.

If it were calligraphy, he could use the excuse that his hand was shaking; the same applies to painting.

But Yu Bai Niao is a complete novice. Even if he holds back a little and makes a few excuses... he still can't lose.

Looking back now, the only solution is for Yu Bai Niao to withdraw from this literary contest.

Ke Yu Bai Niao understood his gaze, but did not respond. Instead, she took out a black piece on her own.

It was placed on the chessboard.

"Senior Brother Feng, please."

49. Playing chess online

The moment the chessboard appeared, the scene of black and white clashing against each other came into Ye Yuchan's view.

"Go?!"

"Here, this thing is called the Dao Discussion Chess." Yun Ping looked at Ye Yuchan curiously, "You never played it before in Tianbei Valley?"

"No." Ye Yuchan shook her head, recalling her experience in Tianbei Valley, she seemed a little uneasy, "I had heard of chess before, and I thought it was something high-end, but it turns out it's just Go."

"That's not quite right. There's a lot to learn about Go, and some of the rules are different from those in the other world. If you really played it, even Go experts from that world might not be able to understand it."

Upon hearing this, Ye Yuchan pouted, clearly not believing Yunping's words.

"Is it really that mysterious...?"

"Hey, you don't believe what your teacher says? How about we play a round together and see?"

"No, no, no!" Upon hearing that she was going to play chess with Yun Ping, Ye Yuchan quickly shifted her position while still holding the fruit bowl. "I'm not playing with you. Don't you even know who you are? If I'm going to play with you, I might as well just admit defeat!"

—This is only natural.

You're asking a naive kid to play chess with a cunning old fox who's been scheming for years?

Moreover, the other party is recognized by the three great heavens as the most artistic monster. Isn't this courting death?

On the other side, the two had already exchanged about fifty blows.

Feng Tanghuan's chess skills are around 4 dan, while Yu Bainiao's are around 3 dan. Their skill levels are exactly the opposite of their zither skills.

In terms of musical skills, Yu Bai Niao is far superior to Feng Tang Huan, while in terms of chess skills, Feng Tang Huan is far superior to Yu Bai Niao.

After fifty moves, both men seemed to have laid out their positions and began to clash.

But beneath the surface of apparent evenness, a fierce undercurrent is brewing.

"The young girl is about to be tricked."

When the number of steps reached seventy, Yunping suddenly blurted out this sentence.

This startled Ye Yuchan, who quickly moved closer.

But no matter how she looked at it, she couldn't figure it out... She had done some research on Go, and theoretically, she could play a little bit.

But no matter how she looked at the situation, she couldn't figure out what was going on.