Teaching a jade puppet to play chess was an extremely patience-testing task, especially since this puppet would crash when encountering a difficult problem and would take quite a while to recover.
Xu Yan, however, was full of enthusiasm and not the least bit impatient; he taught with great attention to detail.
A game of chess had yet to start, and Xiao Jie still hadn't fully learned the rules and methods of playing chess when Ming Yu returned.
Through teaching Xiao Jie to play, Xu Yan found that jade puppets encountered significantly more difficulty and more frequent cognitive stalling when learning entirely new and unfamiliar knowledge.
However, when it came to knowledge about battle, the puppets were quick to respond and less likely to experience such stalling.
"Playing chess?"
Ming Yu was delighted and directly took Xiao Jie's place, asking Xu Yan to teach her to play chess.