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Fengyan Valley is green with pines and cypresses, and the sunlight leaking on the chessboard also becomes clear and remote.

The wind blows in the forest, and the pines burst like waves rising and falling.

The sound of pines, springs and stones, and the crisp sound of falling sons, one after another.

Although the chess viewing platform protruding from the mountainside is wide, Song Qianji and Ji Chen came late and could only squeeze into the corner.

People around listened to Song Qianji's words such as "Next time" and "I will meet a little bit" and so on, they couldn't help squinting and showing contempt on their faces——

Two laymen, it's not good to go somewhere to cool off, so they come here to join in the fun.

Ji Chen stretched his neck, looked down, and struck up a conversation with the person next to him:

"Fellow Daoist, why is there only one game of chess in the valley at this time? Please explain."

The fight in the game was at a critical juncture, the man didn't want to talk to him at first, but seeing that he was dressed luxuriously but had a polite attitude, and his appearance was dignified but his expression was sincere, so he couldn't help but patiently replied:

"The chess test and the martial arts test start at the same time. The top ten in the chess test have been set. Each game will be played in turn this morning, so that the eliminated contestants can watch the battle. Those who can make it into the top ten in the chess test are all chess geniuses selected from a million. They Between games, every game is very valuable for reference, it would be a pity to miss it.”

Ji Chen excitedly said: "According to this progress, could it be possible to decide the leader of the chess test tonight?"

"Of course! The one who is playing chess in the valley at this time is one of the candidates for the leader, Ziyun Guan Yao An!"

"So that's the case, thank you fellow daoist for your enlightenment."

Ji Chen turned to Song Qianji: "Brother Song, we are really lucky, just in time for Yao An's game, he is very famous!"

"Oh." Song Qianji responded, looked intently for a moment, and asked suddenly, "Is he black or white?"

The people next to him were speechless: "Of course it's the one in purple and holding black. You don't even recognize Senior Brother Yao from the Ziyun Temple, so you still come to watch the chess test?"

Song Qianji smiled and said, "The most important thing is to participate."

"Yes, we were just passing by." Ji Chen smiled apologetically, and asked curiously, "I don't know who is the expert who is opposite Senior Brother Yao An?"

The two people in the valley played chess on the boulder.

One is holding black, dressed in a mountain stalk purple Taoist robe, dignified and cross-legged, Luozi's hands are very steady, and he looks quite young and mature.

The other person is holding white, wearing coarse linen clothes, scratching his ears and cheeks.He squatted down for a while, stood up for a while, as if he couldn't find a comfortable position, and felt uncomfortable all over.

Thirty feet away from them, there was a deacon holding a pen to record the changes of the chess game, and a doctor was sitting beside a stretcher.

There are also disciples of the Law Enforcement Hall who guard with knives to deal with emergencies.

"That man came from a small sect, and the sect was about to die out. He only signed up for the prizes of the Dengwen Yahui. Who would have thought that he would rise up and make it into the top ten all the way. I don't know how many disciples from famous families were beheaded by him." The onlookers exclaimed.

Ji Chen said in admiration: "Sure enough, I am an expert, please tell me your name!"

Another person rushed to answer: "His name is Li Ergou, his master's family has declined, and he has no dao name. But in order to show respect for his chess attainments, we call him 'Brother Li Cigou'."

"Second Dog?" Ji Chen blinked blankly, and murmured, "Isn't that still Second Dog?"

Song Qianji couldn't help laughing: "This fellow dog is about to win."

Ji Chen said in shock: "But he looks very anxious and flustered!"

"Hey, calm down, layman, don't mislead your son." Someone glared at Song Qianji and said dissatisfiedly, "At this moment, it is obvious that Senior Brother Yao An has the upper hand!"

Song Qianji just smiled and had no intention of arguing.

Another person said: "That's right, "The Thirteen Chapters of the Chess Classic" says, 'The edges are not as good as the corners, and the corners are not as good as the belly'. Brother Yao An is stronger in the hinterland. His chess style is sophisticated and steady, and he plays steadily all the way. Relying on strange tricks, he has repeatedly won narrowly, but this time when he meets a strong enemy, he can only go so far...Look, he asked for a 'long test'!"

There was an uproar on the chess viewing platform.

Li Ergou raised his hand to signal the deacon on the sidelines to start the timer, jumped off the boulder, ran to the spring, washed his face with water, raised his neck, and gulped down two handfuls.

Others are exhausted in the long test, closing their eyes and calculating, but this person went to wash his face and drink water in the long test.

Yao An's face became extremely ugly, as if Li Ergou had poured a basin of cold spring water.

The disciples of Ziyun Temple felt the same way, they all didn't like Li Ergou:

"Senior brother Yao is so pitiful, he actually played against this kind of rustic and rude people. How can the word 'Ya' exist in Wen Wen Yahui?"

"Don't panic, when Senior Brother Yao wins, we don't have to see him again."

Ji Chen just stared at the chessboard: "It's amazing."

Song Qianji said: "If you like it, you might as well learn it."

"I played it twice, but I was scolded for being stupid." Ji Chen smiled bitterly: "I don't even know how to learn talismans, how can I learn such a difficult thing."

"Who said that?" Song Qianji's heart moved slightly.

Ji Chen didn't hesitate, grinned and said, "My meridians have been weak since I was a child, and I can't use a sword. The elders in the clan told me that my only possible way out is to draw talismans. If I can't draw talismans, I can't do anything else!"

Song Qianji didn't speak anymore, and only said via voice transmission: "If you are Li Ergou, which step will you take after the long exam?"

Ji Chen was taken aback, not knowing why he transmitted the voice: "How dare I go? I'll just stand here."

"Why not try it." Song Qianji smiled.

After thinking about it, Ji Chen reluctantly answered via voice transmission: "'Ping' is on the [-]th Road?"

Song Qianji said: "You play 'Ping Sanjiu', Yao An' enters '[-]', and one more step can eat your three sons."

Ji Chen looked slightly embarrassed, stared at the chessboard for a moment, then nodded suddenly: "Brother Song is right! Then I'll go to the third and sixth roads?"

Song Qianji still shook his head: "Think again."

Ji Chen reported ten moves in a row. If it was a real fight, he would have regretted the move ten times.

He felt that he had become a headless fly, holding the white pieces and rushing on the chessboard, rushing from left to right, but the iron walls around him were impenetrable.

After finally catching a glimmer of light from the sky, Song Qianji erected a high wall in front of his way of life.

Ji Chen was sweating coldly on his forehead.

Song Qianji: "Don't you think that Li Ergou is a doomed situation, and just wants to escape. What if he goes down to the 'upper' position?"

Ji Chen frowned and calculated quickly.

Just at this time, the sideline deacon knocked on the stone, indicating that the time for the long exam was up.

Li Ergou jumped onto the boulder, picked up the white piece with two fingers, and landed it without looking at the board——

Go to forty-two.

Ji Chen slammed on the railing, and suddenly shouted: "Okay!"

He forgot to transmit the sound, and the people around him glared and blamed him for yelling.

Ji Chen was unmoved, his eyes sparkled.

Song Qianji said: "Do you understand Li Ergou's chess strategy now? His style of play seems to be full of flaws, but it is a trick to lure the enemy. One more move, and he will turn around."

"Brother Song is really a god!" Ji Chen tightly grasped his arm, felt that he was impolite and let go, and said via voice transmission, "Li Ergou really can win!"

"No." Song Qianji smiled, "Now let's assume you are Yao An."

As the chess game changed, the atmosphere on the chess viewing platform gradually became heavy, and there were breath sounds from time to time.

Li Ergou seemed to be a different person, Bai Zi pressed on every step of the way, and his tricks saw blood.

After a cup of tea, Yao An vomited blood and fell into a coma. The doctor helped him up and gave him medicine.Li Ergou jumped off the boulder and walked away.

Ziyun's audience exclaimed, and hurriedly rushed down the chess viewing platform: "Senior Brother Yao An!"

Ji Chen looked dazed.

On the real chessboard, Li Ergou beat Yao An.

In the chess game between the two of them, under the guidance of Song Qianji, he used Yao An's sunspots to beat Li Ergou.

Wouldn't Song Qianji be sure to win them both?

Ji Chen opened his mouth, excited and shocked: "Brother Song has such a unique skill, why didn't you apply for a chess test?"

"It's just a trail. Sometimes I don't bother to count."

"Why did Brother Song teach me?!"

Song Qianji said, "It happens to be fine."

Beating children during Chinese New Year, no, teaching children under the sun, idle is also idle.

Ji Chen was speechless.

Song Qianji looked at the sky from a distance: "I'll go to the piano test first, you might as well stay here. While the hand feels good, play two more rounds."

The setting sun melts gold, and the mountains are covered with clouds.It was too long, too procrastinating.

"See you by fate." Song Qianji turned around.

Ji Chen subconsciously stretched out his hand to pull him: "Wait!"

A sleeve slipped between the fingers.

Ziyun Guan disciples rushed down the stone steps in groups, Song Qianji's back disappeared into the crowd and disappeared.

Ji Chen was stunned, the more he thought about it, the more he collapsed.

Originally, I thought that I had made friends who like birds of a feather flock together, but they were not the same as myself.

Song Qianji said, "Participation is the most important thing in life", and he replied, "The harder you work, the worse you will be."

It is a rare experience for two wastes not to hate each other.

And I am richer than Song Qianji, and I can help him...

The chessboard on the stone is cleared, and the players of the next game are ready to play.

Suddenly smoke and dust rose, and more than [-] people rushed into the valley, menacingly.

Everyone on the chess viewing platform didn't know what they meant, and there were many discussions.

Ji Chen is also well-informed, so he took a closer look:

The ten deacons of Huawei Sect, the ten examiners of the calligraphy and painting test, and some people he didn't recognize, they should be strong men from Qingya Academy, because the dean was at the end.

Ji Chen was shocked and wished he could run away.

Could it be that the scribbling paper I wrote was really seen by the book sage?

The old man was angry and asked you to arrest me yourself?

Someone shouted: "Is Ji Chen from the Ji Family of Baifeng County here?"

Ji Chen showed despair.

Brother Song, you left too early, why did you let me bear it alone?

The deacons of Huawei Sect rushed to the chess viewing platform first.

"You really made it easy for us to find. Ji Xiaoxian, congratulations!"

Ji Chen was at a loss: "Where does the joy come from?"

The deacon who had just invigilated the exam was full of smiles, and said loudly, "Your calligraphy and painting test paper was appointed as the leader by the calligrapher! You are the first leader of this year's Dengwen Yahui, come with us to the celebration banquet!"

Everyone on the chess viewing platform was in awe, thinking that this layman who doesn't know how to play chess looks ignorant, but who knows that he is actually the leader of the painting and calligraphy test.

If I had known earlier, I really shouldn't have stared at him just now.

I don't know who took the lead in applauding, the congratulations flowed towards Ji Chen like a tide.

"In the past, I only heard that the young master of the Ji family in Baifeng County is a waste, far inferior to those in the side branch. It turned out to be a misinformation!"

"Of course it's a rumor! We're lucky to be the ones who talked to the leader of the calligraphy and painting test."

In the valley, the chess test contestants also smiled and applauded.

In the sky and on the ground, the whole world revolves around Ji Chen.

"Whose paper?" He stared wide-eyed, as if his head had been hit by a heavy hammer, and muttered: "This is not true, it's impossible!"

"You are humble, you wrote the word egg, no, it should be called "egg post" now, it is so wonderful, it deserves it!"

Egg post?

Ji Chen's legs softened, and he held on to the railing, barely falling off the platform and falling into the valley:

"I didn't write it!"

Daozu, what kind of friend did I make?

Everyone stepped forward one after another, scrambling to help him.

Dean Qingya walked out from behind the crowd, smiling meaningfully: "Only on paper, regardless of the source, you are the leader of the calligraphy and painting test. Come with us."

***

The waterfall flew straight down, and the water roared.

From time to time, the sound of a piano sounded, overwhelming the sound of water.

As the setting sun slanted, several small buildings by the pool were covered with a brilliant golden light.

The later the piano test schedule, the more people listened to the piano, and most of them came for Miaoyan.

The news that Miao Yan will play the piano after the piano test has been spread throughout Huawei Sect.

People surrounded the water pool, from the poolside station to the hillside, waiting for the fairy Meng Zhi, known as "Xiao Miao Yan", to appear on the stage first.

At this point the crowd was whispering and the deacon was running around.

"Fairy Meng Zhi hasn't played yet? Who knows where Fairy Meng Zhi has gone?"

"Someone saw her go to the bamboo building where Fairy Miaoyan is."

In the bamboo building, Mengzhi bowed her knees to Miaoyan and said, "Hi, Senior Sister."

Miao Yan smiled: "What's the matter?"

Miao Yan has seen too many young, beautiful and talented Yinxiu.

The person in front of him is just an ordinary one.

There was nothing in her heart.

Mengzhi said worriedly: "After halfway through this song, I always have two notes that I can't play well, so I dare to ask Miss Teacher."

Her master is an idle elder in Xianyin Sect, so she didn't come to Dengwen Yahui this time.

There is no one to ask her if she is puzzled, so she has to ask Miaoyan.

In recent years, she has been in the limelight, and I don't know when she won the title of "Xiao Miaoyan".

She was happy in her heart, but every time she met Miao Yan, she still felt ashamed as if she was seeing a goddess in the sky.

Miao Yan sat upright, listened to her playing two beats, and nodded slightly: "Not bad. The white jade is slightly flawed."

Meng Zhi's face turned red, and she couldn't help but raise the corners of her mouth, as if she had received great encouragement.

"As the saying goes, 'Qin has nine virtues, strange, ancient, moist, penetrating, fragrant, clear, uniform, and quiet'." Miao Yanxu touched her fingertips and plucked two notes, "You just aren't quiet enough."

Meng Zhi was startled slightly.

Miao Yan said indifferently: "If your mind is impetuous, the sound of the piano will not be quiet. It is a good thing to want to win, but when you press the strings, you have to forget about winning or losing. When you are quiet in the music, your breath is too tense, and the sound of the piano will be stagnant."

"Thank you, Senior Sister!" Meng Zhi saluted respectfully.

"Go ahead and play well." Miao Yan said, "I wish you the first prize."

Although it is the leader who is not remembered.

If someone came to ask her for advice, Miao Yan always treated her equally and never kept any secrets.

Therefore, most of the young disciples in Xianyin Sect respect her sincerely and protect her reputation spontaneously.

Wang Shu thought it was a way for his apprentice to win people's hearts, and never stopped him.

Others think this is the kindness and nobility of Miaoyan.

But I don't know that this is just Miao Yan's self-confidence——

"Even if I teach you, you still can't play as well as me."

She has listened to most of the piano exams, and already feels a little lonely.

Even if she never tires of listening to the tunes she wrote, she is almost tired of listening to them.

She wants to hear a new piece of music now.

But where did the new song come from in the realm of comprehension?

***

After all the calls came out.

Fairy Mengzhi embraced the famous piano and walked to the edge of the pool step by step.

The crowd has since parted on both sides.

She was wearing a red dress, embroidered with hundreds of flowers, shining brightly.When the big skirt is spread out, it is like a hundred flowers blooming together.

The sound of the piano sounded, melodious and crisp, just in line with the sound of running water.

Everyone suddenly felt a gust of spring breeze blowing towards them.

The dissatisfaction and worries while waiting disappeared, and I felt an indescribable sense of comfort.

The ripples of the pool water gradually change, with the qin player as the center, oscillating endlessly.

When it was getting better and better, the sound of the piano suddenly changed, like a clear and clear phoenix, falling from the sky.

There were rustling sounds from all around.

The crowd was astonished.

I saw sparrows and crows flying on the branches, cuckoos and larks flying in the forest, wild geese and cranes flying in the clouds.

Numerous birds flocked here, with colorful feathers, flying all over the sky.

They hovered around the female nun playing the piano, and they chirped for a long time.

The sound of the piano was suddenly high-spirited and exciting, and all the birds sang together, and the sound echoed her.

When the song is over, the bird flies away.

Meng Zhi got up, and Bai Hua restrained herself.

There was silence in the arena, only the sound of water and waterfalls remained.

It was difficult for everyone to return to their senses for a long time. They only felt that their eyes were clear and their fatigue disappeared.

In the pavilion in the center of the pool.

Wang Shuzan said: "However, building a foundation and cultivating the foundation, but attracting the vision of a hundred birds facing the phoenix, is really a talent."

She changed the subject, and said to a female nun with a cold expression beside her, "It's a pity that she has already worshiped the master."

Xianyinmen's beauty-preserving technique is unparalleled in the world, and Wangshu's face is in full bloom.As for her senior sister, Fairy Jiangyun, whose cultivation level is on par with hers, but her youth is gone, and her hair is three thousand gray.

Jiang Yun moved the corner of his mouth and pulled a smile: "It's okay, the matter of accepting apprentices has its own destiny."

In addition to the two of them, there are four or five other music cultivators in the pavilion, all of whom are masters of Qin Dao.

But all stand.

Starting from the piano test, standing until dusk and sunset.

Only one person is sitting.

At this time, the man's thin lips parted slightly, and he said four words lightly:

"It plays well."

When Wang Shu heard this, he suddenly felt a warning sign.

She turned her head and looked at the top floor of the bamboo building by the pool, her gaze was stern.

Miao Yan stood by the railing, nodded to her master, but sighed in her heart.

Mengzhi has performed exceptionally well today, playing her highest level, no matter whether she is named or not, she should have no regrets.

Miao Yan thought so, and lightly told the maid: "Go and invite my qin."

As for the next one, it's just a nameless person, unfortunately after Meng Zhi, it is estimated that it will end soon.

The maid held a violin case with both hands.

Miaoyan opened.

The five-color radiance burst out, making her flawless face even more radiant.

As expected by Miaoyan, when the next contestant came on stage, everyone was still immersed in the singing of birds, wishing to invite Fairy Mengzhi to come back and continue playing.

Looking at that person again, I felt that she appeared at an extremely inopportune time, too fast and too abrupt.

The man was slim and slender, wearing a plain white dress and a hedge on his head.

"Excuse me, please." She walked steadily, her white gauze barely moved, and she couldn't see her face.

Everyone looked at her impatiently.

But she didn't take a seat and looked around, not knowing what she was looking for or who she was looking for.

The deacon on the sidelines urged expressionlessly: "San Lu Lu Ba, He Qingqing of Qingya Academy."