After returning to Annan, Xu Yishan told the story he heard from his teacher to another teacher, and he is also the only "Holy Venerable" he can come into contact with at present.

He just reported the story without any comment.

A ground level, no matter what position and angle he comes from, to evaluate a saint or even a supreme is arrogant, and he doesn't know what to say.

Xu Yishan would never let his master have this impression of him, just like he was with the teacher, after hearing this story, he only felt waves in his heart, but there was not a word in his mouth.

At this time, from beginning to end, he only solemnly wrote this story on a piece of paper, without adding a sentence such as "what does the master think", but in fact, he really wanted to hear what the master as a saint had to say about this ancient saint

didn't disappoint him, Shizun really replied.

Very short four words.

"Inner Saint and Outer King".

It's short, but it's not simple.

Not only is it not simple, the moment he saw or felt these four words in a "dream", Xu Yishan immediately woke up as if he was struck by a thunderbolt.

And when he came to his senses, in the garden, he sat in a chair in a daze, in a daze.

Inner saint, outer king.

First there is the inside, then there is the outside.

At this moment, Xu Yishan even thought of the sentence in the road of Qingyun, "And the world's reputation is not persuaded, and the world is not frustrated, and the distinction between inside and outside, and the realm of honor and disgrace is already over." ”

It's a distinction between inside and outside!

Then he thought of the words that made him a little inexplicable but inexplicably shocked, "The supreme man has no self, the god has no merit, and the saint has no name." ”

The saint is nameless.

A saint is nameless, but he might as well be holy.

for it is determined to be inside and out.

It is already holy inside, but it has not been "holy", it has not been "to", it has not been "god", and it has infected the world outward.

If there is an infestation, it is a "foreign king".

Just like his master, his saint has no objection, and his respect is undoubtedly discussed, but before that, he had never heard of it, that is, at this time, Annan did not know, Nanzhou did not know, the empire did not know, and the world did not know.

"Saint, nameless. ”

But the nameless did not make his "saint" any dimming, on the contrary, at this moment, Xu Yishan felt only full of shock in his heart.

Soon after, the shock turned into a sea of mountains and seas.

Because the master passed on a set of exercises to him, and at the end of this exercise, there is a sentence that seems to be the purpose of this set of exercises, "The sound of the great sound, the elephant is invisible, the great success is lacking, and the great ingenuity is clumsy." ”

After a long period of contemplation and silence, Xu Yishan explained some things to the housekeeper Xue Shouyi, and also invited his junior brother Xu Tonghui to say goodbye to the wine, and then retreated.

This retreat will be held until the teacher calls.

Subsequently, in the green mountains and green waters, a ground step was attributed to "nameless".

The mountain spring is murmuring, the stream is murmuring, the flowers are blooming and the birds are singing, and in the ordinary thatched hut, the dust and ash are gradually covering the front of the door.

Time is like mountain spring water, day and night flow without stopping. Everywhere in the noble and lowly virtuous and foolish, let others know themselves or not.

One year, two years, three years......

Xu Yishan couldn't meditate, and the Lanshui Sect, which had a cultivator in the Refining Realm, faintly became the center and center of gravity of other sect forces.

But Nanping Xiu is also only meditating at home.

In the eyes of the people in Annan, Nanpingxiu must go to Nanzhou or other places to develop, after all, whether it is Nanzhou or the imperial capital, there are heavenly steps, and Nanpingxiu was really summoned by the heavenly monarch in Nanzhou not long ago, and it seems natural to go to Nanzhou.

No matter how you say it, Annan is also a barren land, so barren that it doesn't seem to be enough to support the cultivation and development of a Refining Realm cultivator.

But to the surprise of all of them, a year has passed, two years have passed, and three years have passed, but Nan Pingxiu still stays in Annan.

That's right, the Nanping Sect Master needs to meditate for a period of time to stabilize his cultivation.

The crowd thought of this, and then they got their own explanation.

This kind of steady cultivation can be long or short, it may be a few years, it may be long, it is not impossible to practice for decades or even hundreds of years! Just like their county guard, Xu Yishan, didn't he also "meditate" in Annan for a hundred years?

In the eyes of everyone, the hundred years that Xu Yishan has been in Annam is basically a hundred years of meditation.

In the corners that are not known to these steps, Xiao Xiu'er has also grown from four or five years old to seven or eight years old, but her appearance is finally a little better than before, from two or three years old to four or five years old.

It's about the same size as when it was in the Star Tower.

But it's just the size.

If you really want to talk about it, this "Heavenly Rank Little Monk", his god-like temperament, has a faint indescribable meaning, quiet as a mountain, moving like a river and sea.

Her eyes flickered, and few people dared to look at her.

Because all those who look at each other seem to be completely seen at a glance, and there is no privacy or secret to hide.

These people, including Gan Congshi, including Shi Shao, the current sect leader of the Lanshui Sect, and Nanping Xiu, well, Nanping Xiu can be regarded as half.

These people are also the people that Xiao Xiu'er comes into contact with on a daily basis.

In the past few years, Xiao Xiu'er has grown up slowly but rapidly, and truly knows what cultivation is.

A monk who is actually already a Heavenly Rank to learn the introduction to cultivation and the principles of cultivation is naturally overwhelming, a thousand miles a day, not to mention, she has an experience that can already be called a very rich guide.

So in fact, Xiao Xiu'er's growth progress is so fast that it can really be described by the words "incredible".

Among the few people she came into contact with, she didn't care about being willing to follow, but the two people of Lanshui Sect, her aunt, and Aunt Shao, who also often took care of her when she was a child, she would give advice, because of their practice, she could see through at a glance, where the advantages were and where the disadvantages were.

But in fact, what she sees is basically shortcomings.

At first, Xiao Xiu'er didn't say anything, but seeing Aunt and Aunt Shao clumsily repeating those mistakes day after day, and working hard to cultivate those methods full of shortcomings, Xiao Xiu'er really couldn't help it.

She asked her brother.

Then I came back and started pointing.

There weren't many points out, and she just pointed out one of the many shortcomings of the two.

And then, when this shortcoming was made up by the two, she followed up and pointed out another shortcoming......

And so on.

Nanping Xiu's cultivation, in this process, unknowingly, crossed the refining realm, and stepped towards the third and last realm of the ground level, the "True Realm".

And Shi Shao, the current sect leader of the Lanshui Sect, what outsiders see is that her face has gradually become younger, from fifty or sixty years old, to forty or fifty years old, and then to thirty or forty years old, until one day, although this sect master does not look like a girl, she is already just a girl's sister.

Another cultivator in the Refining Realm and a master of the Refining Realm!

Annan's many steps are really envious and jealous, but at most they are just jealous.

They all knew that Shi Shao and Nan Ping Xiu had a good relationship, but they really didn't know that the relationship could be so good before, so good that Nan Ping Xiu could make a move, so that Shi Shao would also follow her into the refining realm.

And what can a group of ground steps, except for looking at it and salivating?

In the world of practice, everything speaks with practice.

Facing a cultivator of the Refining Realm, facing a cultivator of the Refining Realm who seemed to have the attention and favor of the Heavenly Monarch, they had nothing to say except to watch, let alone any inappropriate actions.

Of course, this also has a lot to do with the style of the Lanshui Sect, for example, Nanping Xiu, long before the Refining Realm, has always lived in a simple place, not to mention outside the sect, even within the sect, she has entrusted Shi Shao to take care of many things.

In the entire Lanshui Sect, there are no more than five people who are qualified to enter her courtyard.

Therefore, after she entered the Refining Realm, she continued to live in seclusion as always, and there was not much criticism inside and outside the sect, especially outside the sect.

People have always been like this, what do you have to say?

Saying that people didn't pay special attention to guide you and let you progress with your practice?

Isn't that nonsense?

Fortunately, in Annan, in addition to Xu Yishan, who can't climb high, and in addition to Lanshuizong, who is also starting to climb high, they still have one person who can contact and climb.

No, it's two.

Gan Congshi, as well as Xu Tonghui.