On March 21st, the Dingchen Assessment of this year kicked off at the Quanyu Hall of Tianzhao Temple.

Because there are as many as fourteen chess kids taking the exam, Xu Qingyue divided the fourteen into two groups of seven people, and conducted the assessment in the morning and afternoon. During this period, the chess kids were not prohibited from watching the assessment of others. Therefore, almost all chess kids gathered in Quanyu Hall, hoping to guess the gap between themselves and the other party from the assessment of others. The reason why it is almost because the two youngest children of the 14 people, Xingluo and Tang Xiaowan, ran away after Xu Qingyue finished the group.

Last night, when Xingluo sent Tang Xiaowan back to the latter's residence, Hua Lingqiu was already waiting at the door with a gloomy face. This made Xingluo dare not walk forward, so he had to agree with Tang Xiaowan to take her to visit other places in Tianzhao Temple today. Because Xingluo, Tang Xiaowan, and even Hua Lingqiu were all divided into the second group for the afternoon assessment, as soon as Xu Qingyue finished speaking, these two children who had already become familiar with each other ran out of Quanyu Hall and wandered around the huge Tianzhao Temple.

That morning, Xingluo took Tang Xiaowan to visit Hezhan Pavilion, Xushi Pavilion and other places. Every time he went, Xingluo would explain some allusions and interesting stories to Tang Xiaowan. After all, in this thousand-year-old Tianzhao Temple, even an inconspicuous stone may be a priceless antique. Of course, the most famous antique in Tianzhao Temple is the big bell hanging in front of the Shidian Lu Palace - Huang Lu!

"Is this the 'Huang Zhong Dalu'?" Tang Xiaowan looked up at the quaint bronze bell hanging high, and couldn't help but be amazed with joy. Looking at the Huang Lu Zhong, who had gone through the vicissitudes of life, still me, the young Xinglu was old-fashioned and sighed: "Well! This is the Huang Zhong Dalu that passed down from the Great Zhou Dynasty more than two thousand years ago. Whenever I saw this big bell, I couldn't help but remember the scene of the Great Zhou Dynasty in the past, singing the Huang Zhong, dancing the Yunmen to worship the gods.'! It's a pity that there were no ancients in front of me, no visitors behind me..."

"Don't you have to be so sentimental, right?" Tang Xiaowan, who had no idea that Xingluo was extremely lonely because she had no opponent, said this, and asked repeatedly: "What's next? Where will we go next?"

"Oh hehe... it's already noon, are you two boys still hungry?" Only Duan Liuming, the temple minister of Tianzhao Temple, could laugh so evilly in the whole Tianzhao Temple. As soon as he saw Duan Liuming standing on the steps beside the arch of the Lunar Palace, waved to him, Xingluo hurriedly pulled Tang Xiaowan and bowed: "My temple minister, this... this is..." Just when Xingluo didn't know how to introduce Tang Xiaowan, Duan Liuming had already bowed to Princess Shang Wan of the current dynasty: "Are you here too? You won't run out secretly again, right?"

"Where is it? Grandpa Duan is talking nonsense again!" As he spoke, under Xingluo's confused gaze, Tang Xiaowan had already jumped to Duan Liuming and grabbed the latter's gray beard and warned softly: "For your old beard, Xiaowan advises you to be careful when speaking!" "Oh Yoyo... be gentle! be gentle!" After digging out the few baby beards from Tang Xiaowan's little hand, Duan Liuming greeted Xingluo angrily: "What are you still standing stupidly? If you want to eat, come in quickly!"

But it turns out that the one who taught Tang Xiaowan that he was Duan Liuming.

Although Duan Liuming was just enlightening Tang Xiaowan with a perfunctory attitude at first, gradually, Duan Liuming discovered that Tang Xiaowan's progress was faster than some chess kids in Tianzhao Temple. This made Duan Liuming re-examine Tang Xiaowan. In addition, he had the emperor's destiny, so Duan Liuming began to teach Tang Xiaowan carefully. After more than three years of teaching, Tang Xiaowan's strength is no worse than that of ordinary Dingchen chess players.

After entering the Lunju Palace, Xingluo saw a sumptuous lunch in the side room. Even though Xingluo was slow, he couldn't help but point to the table of food and asked suspiciously: "Mr. Temple Master, did you know we would come? But even so, you don't have to waste it like this, right?" Although Xingluo had to come to Duan Liuming for a meal every now and then, he had never seen Duan Liuming enjoy any delicacies. Duan Liuming couldn't help but feel his face stagnated. After pulling a chair, he couldn't think of anything good to say. He simply stared at his eyes and cursed: "Today is my birthday, no, you guy... you have to eat, how can you come from so much nonsense!"

Duan Liuming's words made Xingluo look aggrieved, and Tang Xiaowan finally held back her smile.

Now the old and the young man didn't say much, and quietly enjoyed the sumptuous lunch that was rare in Tianzhao Temple. It was not until the sun began to tilt at noon that Duan Liuming smiled and said, "You two, in terms of strength, it should be no difficulty to advance. Xiaowan, your mind and wisdom are both good, but your concentration is slightly insufficient. If you can pass these first three levels smoothly, the way to advance will be much smoother. As for Xingluo, you kid... Alas! Everything depends on luck! It's getting late, you go to Quanyu Hall."

"Yes!" After answering respectfully, Xingluo and Tang Xiaowan bowed to Duan Liuming again, then turned around and left the Lunju Palace. Seeing the two children moving away hand in hand, the temple minister of Tianzhao Temple pondered for a long time, and then sighed softly for no reason: "The name of chess! Why does this child have no name of chess? Holy Spirit Water Mirror, Holy Spirit Water Mirror, this time, are you still going to make a joke with the old man?"

No one can answer Duan Liuming's question, because the Holy Spirit Water Mirror has always only manifested itself without revealing its voice. The entire Lunar Palace fell silent after Duan Liuming's sigh. At the same time, the Quanyu Hall was very lively.

The mental strength test tests the chess player's ability to control the chess piece and the control power of the five elements condensed on the five-color chess pieces. Although the five-color chess does not stipulate that the chess player must use his mind to control the chess piece, generally when the chess game is in a deep mental state when the middle game is held, in order not to break this state similar to meditation and enlightenment, the chess player often does not rashly use his fingers to play chess, but directly uses his mind to control the direction of the chess piece.

There are about three commonly used types of mental strength tests: dividing chess, controlling pieces and positioning. The so-called dividing chess pieces are re-differentiated mixed five-color chess pieces; the so-called controlling pieces are tested to test the number of pieces that the chess player can control at the same time; the so-called positioning means requiring the chess player to volley a specific color of chess pieces in a specific position. The chess boy who is taking the test can independently choose which method to use to evaluate.

After Tang Xiaowan chose the positioning assessment, Xing Luo chose the same assessment method without thinking. As for others, they also chose the assessment method that is beneficial to them. For example, Hua Lingqiu chose the chess she is good at.

After the selection was completed, the seven chess boys conducted the test according to the pre-arranged test number. The fastest player in the chess was Hua Lingqiu. She separated the 180 chess pieces mixed together into five equal colors in just half a stick of incense. As for the one with the most controls, the eighteen chess pieces were controlled to perform graceful circular motions in the air at the same time. When the examiner put the nineteenth chess piece in the air, the eighteen chess pieces were bombarded and dropped on the chessboard.

After that, only Xingluo and Tang Xiaowan were left - two chess kids who also chose to evaluate and position.
Chapter completed!