The Way of the Blind Girl Chess Saint

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"Oh, have the people from the 10-dan Go Academy already arrived?"

In a small room, the group sat quietly. A beautiful young woman with long, dark blue hair reached out to tidy her hair as she asked a question.

She wore a dark blue Taoist robe with wave-like patterns, exuding a cold and aloof aura. Her two deep blue pupils were as deep as the ocean.

"Why don't you come with me to see the guests? That Niu Xiaochai you've all been so interested in is here too."

An Haimi said calmly, and the people behind her stood up as well.

"Oh? Niu Xiaochai is here too? I'd really like to see... whether this woman, known as the Supernova of New Moon Province, truly possesses the chess skills to back it up."

A petite and adorable girl with orange pigtails jumped up from her seat. Her orange pigtails were styled into wispy bangs that slightly obscured her golden eyes.

“Supernova Niu Xiaochai? I’m more interested in that 10th Dan’s son. Their family’s ‘Echo’ move is said to have power comparable to the position of a chess player,” a young man with gray, spiky hair said casually.

The gray-haired, spiky-haired youth had slightly droopy gray eyes. He wore a white casual shirt, and his droopy eyes made him look somewhat fierce.

"A move as strategic as a chess move? Senior brother, are you kidding me? Does such a person even exist?"

A cute girl with purple hair and a bob haircut asked in confusion. A long, straight purple braid hung down to one side of her face.

Actually, she had no relation to Qi Yue... It's just that on the moon, purple hair styled into a bob was fashionable, just like black people wearing braids. Purple hair was the best color for a bob.

"Junior sister, you only became a professional Go player last year, so it's normal that many professional Go players don't recognize you," the gray-haired, spiky-haired youth said calmly.

The purple-haired girl could only purse her lips helplessly and stand up with the others. Her purple hair fell down, slightly obscuring her pale purple pupils.

She wore a light purple, thin cheongsam, and her petite figure looked slightly thin. White short socks covered her slender feet.

Beneath the purple skirt, two slender, bare, fair thighs were concealed by the short cheongsam hem. The cold wind blowing the skirt revealed two slender thighs with a sickly whiteness, and she exuded a delicate beauty.

She's a very beautiful and delicate girl... That's what many people think when they first see her.

Sitting for so long is getting tiring... I'll just find someone my age to play chess with... Ye Xiaomi thought to herself, fiddling with her purple hair and little braids.

"If I accidentally lose... the teacher will probably be angry, right? So I'd better try my best to win!"

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Disciples of a famous person's seminar.

An Haimi, professional 7th dan, 22 years old.

Lee Tae, professional 4th dan, 19 years old.

Golden Orange Witch, Professional Rank 3, 18 years old.

Ye Xiaomi, professional first dan, 15 years old.

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Luo Zhuyu, amateur 5th dan. 12 years old.

Hana Shin-sui, amateur 5-dan. 12 years old.

An Ruotong, amateur 5th dan. 12 years old.

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Disciple of the Ten-Stage Seminar.

Hikari Kira, Professional 7th Dan. 23 years old.

Lin Beng, professional 5th dan, 19 years old.

Niu Xiaochai, Professional 4th Dan. 17 years old.

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Ji Yingting, amateur 5th dan. 15 years old.

Xin Yufei, amateur 4th dan. 13 years old.

Chapter 141: Ye Xiaomi

"Oh, shall we begin now?"

With slightly vacant pupils, the girl with long, dark blue hair scratched her forehead and asked a question. She slowly sat down at the corner of a chessboard table.

“Okay, I’ll sit down with you, Haimi…” Fei Qiluo nodded and slowly sat down opposite the blue-haired girl.

The two young men exchanged a glance and then sat down together. How to put it? Finding a male opponent to play chess with in front of so many women seemed to ease the awkward atmosphere.

"Little Niu Xiaochai, please sit here." The petite girl with orange hair in pigtails sat down casually, her eyes smiling as she stared at Little Niu Xiaochai.

"Um, you must be Sister Golden Orange Witch, right? Want to guess first?" Niu Xiaochai nodded, swaying her long, flaxen curly hair, and sat down opposite her.

The orange-haired girl with pigtails nodded and said, "Guess first... Okay, I'll guess. I'll guess an even number."

After she finished speaking, she casually picked up the black chess box from the chessboard.

A few seconds later, she heard a loud noise coming from the chessboard. Niu Xiaochai poured all the chess pieces out of the chess box, leaving not a single one.

"What...what are you doing?" Golden Orange Witch asked, slightly surprised.

"Ah! I'm sorry, it's just a personal habit... You don't need to worry about it," Niu Xiaochai explained with an awkward laugh. She moved two white chess pieces with two fingers to separate them, and it took her half a minute to count them.

If it's an even number, then I'll be the white piece... I'm lucky. Niu Xiaochai squinted her eyes and happily collected all the white pieces, then placed them on her right.

"Um..." Ye Xiaomi listlessly fiddled with her light purple braids, then asked in confusion, "Which of you two wants to play chess? I'm Ye Xiaomi, a professional first dan player."

Hmm? Upon hearing this name, Niu Xiaochai and Xin Yufei both frowned.

Ji Yingting, tossing her long, light green hair, suddenly sat down opposite her.

"Oh... a girl I don't know?" Ye Xiaomi said lazily, tilting her light purple bob in confusion. "If it's just for amateurs, why not play chess with Xiaoyu and the others? They're really good."

After she finished speaking, Ye Xiaomi turned to look at Luo Zhuyu's position, where she saw the three of them still bullying Xin Yufei by pulling her long black hair.

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“Sakura, be careful. Ye Xiaomi was the top scorer in last year’s New Moon Province vocational assessment…” Niu Xiaochai gently nudged Ji Sakura’s arm and said.

"Oh, oh," Ji Yingting nodded blankly, shaking her long, light green hair. She was still surprised that Ye Xiaomi's head shape was somewhat similar to Qi Yue's.

With her hair styled in a light purple bob and a scorpion whip on her back, along with a light purple short skirt and Taoist robe, Ye Xiaomi knelt on a chair with her two slender jade legs. She exuded a delicate aura, and her light purple eyes gazed at Ji Yingting with a slightly dim look.

She's a professional first dan... Although she's only a professional first dan, this is one of the few opportunities I'll have to play against a professional Go player... Ji Yingting's light purple eyes narrowed slightly with a serious expression.

Just as Ji Yingting was observing Ye Xiaomi, she was also looking at Ji Yingting with her pupils half-open. Her dark green hair was styled in a Hime-style cut, with thick, dark green bangs covering her eyebrows, and she wore a light green Taoist robe with a lotus-colored skirt.

"Although she's a beautiful woman... it's really pointless for her to play against someone who isn't a professional chess player," Ye Xiaomi said helplessly, shaking her head as she brandished her purple scorpion whip.

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"Big sister, big sister, do you want to play chess too?" Xin Yufei kept her eyes tightly closed, her long black hair was being casually pulled and tugged by the three little girls, and her dark pupils were almost squeezed into a narrow shape.

"Play chess? Play with me? But my chess skills aren't very high." Xin Yufei tossed her long, black bun hair in surprise and gently sat down opposite the chessboard in the corner of the chess room.

Hua Shenxi smiled and tossed her long, pink, pear-shaped hair, saying, "Let's play a quick game, big sister!! How about a ten-second quick game? That way, the three of us can all play a game against you very quickly!!"

"Ten...ten-second rapid chess!?" Xin Yufei opened her cherry-like mouth in shock. She was the kind of chess player who played relatively slowly. Xin Yufei, who would hesitate for dozens of seconds for a normal move, had never even imagined what ten-second rapid chess was.

A game of chess in ten seconds... that seems quite interesting.

Xin Yufei nodded hesitantly, but it seemed like there wasn't even time to think in ten-second blitz chess... After all, even after the timer ran out, there was a thirty-second countdown for each move.

Ten seconds... It seems the time to think is quite limited. Xin Yufei slowly picked up the black chess box and prepared to guess who would go first.

“Then I’ll go first. By the way, big sister, you have to be careful. In ten-second chess, there’s almost no time to think… So you have to rely on your intuition when playing chess… chess sense, not calculation ability,” Hua Shenxi said, adjusting the timer. She set both players’ time to ten seconds.

"Chess sense? Come to think of it, I rarely rely on intuition when playing chess..." With her long black bun hair blowing in the warm air from the radiator, Xin Yufei gently closed her eyes and began to think.

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Thud... Ye Xiaomi held a black chess piece and slowly placed it in the upper right corner of the chessboard, at the star point.

Thud... Ji Yingting also placed the white chess piece into the star position in the lower left corner of the chessboard.

"You're Ji Yingting, who recently won all her matches in the provincial competition and was promoted to the fifth dan, right? It seems that Xiaoyu and Xiaoxi also lost to you." After staring at Ji Yingting's green hair for a while, Ye Xiaomi suddenly seemed to remember something and shook her light purple scorpion whip.

"Mmm," Ji Yingting nodded.

"Yeah……"

Ye Xiaomi fell silent once again. With her right hand, she placed a black chess piece onto the board with a thud, forming a double star.

With a snap, without much thought, Ji Yingting's slender right hand also placed a white chess piece into the last small point position, a double star-to-star small point.

"By the way... I said, are you confident you can pass the professional assessment?" Ye Xiaomi said lazily, holding the chess box. Anyway, it was a friendly match, so chatting wouldn't hurt.

"Professional assessment? If I win all the tests, there shouldn't be any problems, right..." Ji Yingting blinked her pale purple starry eyes with a slightly blank expression.

Chapter 142: Honinbo Shusaku and AlphaGo

"By the way... I said, are you confident you can pass the professional assessment?" Ye Xiaomi said lazily, holding the chess box. Anyway, it was a friendly match, so chatting wouldn't hurt.

"Professional assessment? If I win all the tests, there shouldn't be any problems, right..." Ji Yingting blinked her pale purple starry eyes with a slightly blank expression.

Although many amateur players with near-professional level will appear in the professional assessment, Ji Yingting believes that as long as he is serious, his probability of winning all games should be over 90%.

If only I wouldn't suddenly get my period during the competition... Ji Yingting gently raised her light green eyebrows.

"Winning every time..." Ye Xiaomi repeated calmly, resting her chin on her slender arm as she said lightly, "If the goal is to win every time... then your opponent in the first round of the Tiger Girl competition will be me. This is a very important competition."

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"The Tiger Girl Competition? What are the rewards for this competition?" Ji Yingting asked, rubbing the ends of her light green hair. She seemed to have heard the name of this competition more than once. Senior Niu Xiaochai and the others had also mentioned it. It seemed to have been shortly after the professional assessment ended.

Ye Xiaomi shook her head, brandishing her pale purple scorpion whip, and said, "There's no reward, but this competition determines the next Supernova of Crescent Moon Province... I wish I could win... I could earn so much money and gain so much fame, I'm so envious."

Making money? ... Ji Yingting was suddenly stunned. Wanting to make money... that's not a bad thing.

Speaking of which... this girl named Ye Xiaomi is a rather innocent girl.

"Hehe, then good luck," Ji Yingting said with a smile, pursing her lips.

"Actually... what I said just now was a lie," Ye Xiaomi said calmly after a few seconds of silence. Her right hand quietly placed a black chess piece on the board, making a small knight's move to the corner.