002 The Gap Between Geniuses
According to the title of "Thirteen Chess Sutra", Tianzhao Temple has viewed the thirteen buildings in it, namely the Lunar Palace, the Quanyu Hall, the Hezhan Pavilion, the Xushi Pavilion, the Zizhizhai, the Seiju Tower, the Duqing Residence, the Xizhengxuan, the Dongwei Hall, the name of the Shuxixi Pavilion, the Mingge Tower, and the Mishuyuan. Among them, the Lunar Palace is exclusively for the personal use of the highest position of the Tianzhao Temple, the other twelve places are open to all chess players.
Besides, in the Lunju Palace, Liu Hanfeng was sitting quietly waiting for the host of Lunju Palace, the contemporary Tianzhao Temple, the ninth-level god Zhao chessman with the titles "Dragon Head" and "Tianyuan", and Duan Liuming, who is also recognized as the number one chess track in the Dongzhou Continent. Liu Hanfeng, who was sitting firmly on the chair, seemed to casually turn his eyes around the windowsill and project into the courtyard full of gardenias. Although the cold wind outside was bitter, it could not match Liu Hanfeng's anger at this time. Suddenly, he felt a faint air flow from outside the room. At that moment, Liu Hanfeng sorted out his mood, and then stood up respectfully, opened the door, and saluted an old man with white hair and beard outside the door: "It happened suddenly, Hanfeng came to see the temple master without reservation, which was really abrupt!"
The old man was naturally Duan Liuming, the temple minister of Tianzhao Temple. The reason why Liu Hanfeng said this was not because he pretended to be polite, but everyone in Tianzhao Temple knew that Duan Liuming had been studying chess in the palace on weekdays. If ordinary people want to meet this old temple minister with a high status, they had to queue up three months ago. Therefore, even as Liu Hanfeng, the acting temple minister, he sued him first as soon as he met.
"Haha... Hanfeng, you don't have to be so polite. If it weren't for you and Qingyue, Pingxi and the others who helped me take care of the affairs of all and big in the chess yard, I wouldn't be so leisurely, old man!" As he said that, Duan Liuming had already smiled and pulled Liu Hanfeng back to his seat.
The other two people in Duan Liuming's speech were Xu Qingyue and Du Pingxi, who were in line with Liu Hanfeng. In fact, it was not only Duan Liuming, but almost all the Tianzhao Temple ministers in history were focused on understanding the ultimate chess and had no time to take charge of the civil affairs of Tianzhao Temple. Therefore, the so-called acting minister was born. In the past hundred years, the Tianzhao Temple ministers had almost become an honorary title, while all the affairs of Tianzhao Temple were decided by the three temple ministers.
But at this time, Liu Hanfeng knew very well: Duan Liuming, who had never been concerned about the world, showed unusual determination. Seeing Duan Liuming pouring two cups of good tea with his own hands, Liu Hanfeng sorted out what he was about to say in his heart, then he asked straight to the point: "About him - Xingluo, Master Temple Master, what do you think?"
"Xingluo? What's wrong with Xingluo?" Duan Liuming had already picked up the teacup, but Liu Hanfeng's words made him put down the teacup again and asked in surprise: "He is in trouble again? This child! He is so old that he is not a young man, why is there no characterization all day long?"
"Is this what Hanfeng meant! These days, Xingluo has been in the Hezhan Pavilion, where chess players have been fighting. He either watched other chess players fight or pulled other chess players to ask for chess..." As soon as Liu Hanfeng said this, Duan Liuming was already shaking his white beard and laughing: "Haha... Isn't that good? Diligent and studious, shouldn't we chess players do this?"
"But Xingluo is just a chess boy who doesn't even have a chess name!" After realizing that his voice was a little louder, Liu Hanfeng took a deep breath and continued: "He Zhan Pavilion is open to all chess players. As Xingluo chess boy, he is not worthy of going there at all! His self-righteous behavior will not only distract other chess players against each other, but also a blatant blasphemy to our Tianzhao Temple rules!"
"Blasphemy? It's not that serious!" After a pause, Duan Liuming reached out and tapped the cup lid and said in detail: "If I remember correctly, the title of the first-class chess player is Dingchen, which means that everything outside the body should be like a slight dust of determination, not in my body, or insult my heart. If a child's mood is affected by the walking of a child, a talent of that level is not worthy of being called a chess player at all! Cold wind, if you have anything to say, just say it."
"Yes!" After his face turned slightly red, Liu Hanfeng stood up and replied respectfully: "Today, the third-level chess player Nalan Rongye proposed to me to resign from his title of fighting chess player. Because he felt that the existence of Xingluo was a gap that he could not cross; he had always loved chess, and he began to doubt his past beliefs; a genius who entered Tianzhao Temple within four years actually did not advance but retreat in the past year. The day before yesterday, he lost to Xingluo, and Xingluo seemed to say something bad afterwards..."
"Is that true? If Xingluo's children would kill all the chess boards, I still believe it; but if he mocked the other party after winning the chess, I don't believe it." After interrupting Liu Hanfeng's words, Duan Liuming faced Liu Hanfeng's eyes and asked with a smile: "So what? Because Xingluo is an obstacle that Nalan Rongye cannot overcome, so for the sake of Nalan Rongye's future, should Xingluo be eliminated? So is it because old man, I am an obstacle that all you chess players cannot overcome, so I must also... "
"Is this what Hanfeng meant!" Seeing that Duan Liuming was still laughing and playing in his words, Liu Hanfeng quickly put away all the tricks and got to the point: "Although Rongye was taught by Hanfeng, Hanfeng was definitely not for Rongye alone. People have the same heart and the same reason. Hanfeng is just afraid that if Xingluo continues to make trouble for him, many new players who have advanced to advance will be troubled. I am afraid that they will lose confidence in the chess like Rongye."
"Faith is never something that others can give or deprive it!" With a correct expression, Duan Liuming said as if nothing had happened: "Faith, progress, thought, concentration, and wisdom are the five wisdoms that my chess master must implement. If a chess player does not have firm beliefs and does not know why he wants to pick up the chess piece in his hand, he will not be ambitious, and naturally he will not have any thoughts, concentration, and wisdom."
"But that child Rongye is indeed a genius who is rare in a century! He was forced out of Tianzhao Temple by a boy who doesn't even have a chess name. Hanfeng was not convinced!" After hearing what Duan Liuming said, Liu Hanfeng said so vigorously. He didn't expect that as soon as he finished his angry words, Duan Liuming smiled thoughtfully: "Is there no difference between genius and genius? If Nalan Rongye is a genius who is rare in a century, then Xingluo is undoubtedly a thousand years... No! He is a unique existence--that has never been before, and there will never be any more in the future!"
"Then, I - Liu Hanfeng, a seventh-level Jingwei Chessman, ask to fight him!"
"Hanfeng, do you know what you are saying?" Liu Hanfeng's words and expression made Duan Liuming stunned. Then the temple minister of Tianzhao Temple was full of displeasure and blamed: "Although Tianzhao Temple does not stipulate that chess players are not allowed to challenge more than one, how is it appropriate to challenge a nine-year-old child as you are a seventh-level Jingwei chess player and an agent temple minister?
"It is natural for him to be a chess boy to enter and exit the Hezhan Pavilion, which can only be entered and exited by chess boys. Can't I challenge him?" Staring at Duan Liuming's old eyes, Liu Hanfeng paused in a word: "As for the identity of the acting temple minister, if he wins me, I will resign as the acting temple minister by myself - even a chess boy cannot win, Hanfeng dares to be any acting temple minister anymore! But if he loses, he will not be able to enter and exit the Hezhan Pavilion in the future - unless one day he is qualified as a chess boy! Master, isn't Hanfeng's request an excessive?"
After watching Liu Hanfeng for a long time, Duan Liuming put down the teacup and gently spit out a word: "Okay!"
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Chapter completed!