Cultivating "from the heart" is not a safe thing.

On more than one occasion, Pan Long lost his mind when he was cultivating, feeling that he had transcended the outside world and wanted to merge with heaven and earth.

If it weren't for Bi Lingkong always watching carefully, he didn't dare to relax at all, and immediately woke him up as soon as he found that he had a tendency to lose his spirit, I was afraid that he would have already lost himself and become a part of the whole world.

This situation is called materialization, and it is something that we Confucians try to avoid. Bi Lingkong explained to him, "On the contrary, it is the Dao Gate, which can take advantage of this state to a certain extent. ”

"Integrating into the world means losing oneself, and it can almost be regarded as dead, can this state still have a good effect?" Pan Long asked curiously.

"There is a way in the Daomen, called 'All things and me, no right and wrong', and the core idea of this way is to grasp the common ground between all things, regardless of each other. Xiaozhuang can be my Bi Wu, Bi Wu can also be Li Lao, and Li Lao can also be Zhao Dabastard...... Anyway, all sentient beings are born from the Tao, and they will eventually return to the Tao, and from the perspective of the Tao, there is actually no difference between all things. ”

“...... What's the benefit?"

"I don't know very well about the benefits of cultivation, after all, I am not a disciple of the Dao Sect. Bi Lingkong said, "But I am very familiar with the benefits of supernatural spells. The most famous supernatural power of the Daomen, 'Change Ruyi', evolved from this path. ”

"Seventy-two changes?" Pan Long immediately thought of Sun Wukong.

"Almost, that's it anyway. Bi Lingkong nodded.

"Does the Confucian sect have the art of change?" Pan Long asked.

Bi Lingkong shook his head and said, "My Confucian sect pays attention to being upright, how can I play with a makeover?"

Pan Long was stunned and was about to praise two sentences, but she said, "But the art of change is one of our monsters, of course I can do it." Back then, Ah Ci and many other people learned this from me. It's so interesting to change back and forth, even if they are criticized by the master, everyone goes in and out of their left ear and out of their right ear. ”

Pan Long laughed dumbly, he didn't expect the sages of Confucianism to be so interesting.

"You want to learn the art of change? This requires a relatively high foundation, and you may not be able to learn it now. Bi Lingkong said, "With your current situation, you can probably only learn to become a man and a woman, become old and young, and become beautiful and ugly." As for changing birds into fish, winds and clouds, mountains and rivers, sun, moon and stars...... Those require very advanced cultivation. Even if it is me, I can only become a mountain and a river, or become a star in the sky, and if you let me become the sun and moon, I can't do it for the time being. ”

She sighed: "The art of change seems to be just a playful game, but in the bones it is a confirmation of one's own cultivation. No matter how deep the cultivation is, it can become something that is so different from itself that it can't be mixed with any water. ”

Pan Long naturally wanted to learn the art of change, but Bi Lingkong said that he couldn't learn it now.

"When you cultivate 'from the heart' to the realm of Xiaocheng, you can avoid the disaster of materialization, and then you can learn the art of change. Learning now, it is easy to lead to not being able to distinguish between things, and even mistaking one's own existence, thinking of oneself as a cat and a dog is fine, if it is regarded as a tree or a stone, it will be miserable!"

So Pan Long concentrated on learning to "do what he wanted", and spent at least fifteen or sixteen hours a day sitting in the woods, striving to extract his true self from the chaos and chaos, and to be able to return to himself smoothly.

Once you practice, it's months.

This kind of cultivation is quite boring, but he finds it very interesting.

It's a wonderful feeling to see the world from the perspective of your true self. When the true self looks at all things, it will erase all the concealments and point to the essence of all things. Although there is nothing special in the woods, it seems to be the same at first glance, but in the eyes of the true self, everything is shining with a subtle light, and that light is the embodiment of their essence.

After he had achieved some results in his cultivation, Bi Lingkong took him to the town again, and asked him to try to escape from his true self and observe society with his true self in the middle of the town, in a crowded place.

I don't know if I don't see it, and I'm shocked when I see it. When Pan Long observed the crowd from the perspective of his true self, he saw that there was a lot of turbidity in the crowd, most of the pedestrians who came and went were full of bad luck, and many of them were even haunted by black gas, looking unlucky.

He was taken aback, and looked at the storefronts of the shops, only to see that most of them were also gloomy. And the most unfortunate is the yamen in the town, which is not only dark and black, but also full of tragic blood, which is like a scene in a horror movie.

"This ...... What's going on?" he asked, surprised.

Bi Lingkong sighed: "What else can it be? The mansion is about to collapse, and the Great Xia Dynasty is almost over." ”

Although she said that her enemy hit the street, there was no joy on her face, but a little worried: "Under the nest, how can there be eggs? Maybe it will be another Warring States turmoil, and I don't know how many years it will take to fight before we can once again unify the world...... How many pedestrians on this street, all these shops, big and small, will survive to that time?"

She shook her head and said very gloomily: "Wen Er once wrote a poem saying 'Xing, the people suffer, and when they die, the people suffer', Zhao Da criticized that 'Xing is always better than death, and it is better to be a peaceful dog than a troubled world', and then Wen Er asked 'Would you rather live as a dog or die as a person', Zhao Da was speechless. I also thought that Wen Er made sense at the time, but looking back now, in fact, for Dousheng Xiaomin, it may be happier to live as a dog than to die as a human being, right?"

Pan Long didn't know what to say, so he could only be silent.

Bi Lingkong sighed for a long time, his expression was solemn, and he said: "But even so, it is natural for me that I will work hard to be an enemy of the Great Xia Dynasty and avenge the Confucianism. Even if a lot of people will die, even if they want to harm the innocent people, it is because the Great Xia Dynasty itself refuses to atone for its sins, and the fault lies with it, not me!"

Pan Long nodded: "If you let the villain go because it will harm the common people, it will only make the latecomers do the same." Therefore, no matter what the cost, the evil must be eliminated, only in this way can the latecomers be deterred, just like the bandits taking hostages, and they must not compromise with them, even if it will affect the hostages, the bandits must be caught!"

"Well, although you are not very old, you are not bad at knowledge. Bi Lingkong said with satisfaction, "In this world, right and wrong, good and evil are far more important than life and death. Therefore, a gentleman has to sacrifice his life for righteousness, and he has no sacrifice to survive. Because only 'righteousness' can guide sentient beings in the right direction, and the destruction and erasure of 'righteousness' is the greatest evil in the world!"

For the next period of time, Pan Long practiced "doing what he wants" in the town, and it was several months, and it was gradually about to enter the summer, so that he could finally learn something, and he could quickly show his "true self", and he could take it back smoothly after the display, so as not to fall into materialization.

"At this point, it's pretty much it. Bi Lingkong said, "The next thing is to accumulate slowly, and when you have accumulated enough, you can learn other follow-up things." ”

Pan Long nodded and asked, "Are you leaving?"

"Yes, I am a free guest in this world, and my body is like duckweed sending red dust. Over the years, I've rarely stayed in the same place for more than a month. This time I stayed here for so long, just to teach you something. Now that you've learned almost, of course I'm going to leave and return to my old free life. ”

Pan Long hesitated for a moment and asked, "When can I see you again?"

"Who knows?" Bi Lingkong smiled, "Maybe three or five days, maybe three or five months, maybe three or five years, maybe decades...... Maybe"

"It doesn't matter if it's decades. Pan Long interrupted her, "Maybe I'll learn quickly, and I'll learn what I want in a few years, and then I'll have to ask you to learn more Confucian powers." ”

Bi Lingkong smiled slightly: "Okay, if there is really such a day, I will be very happy." ”

As she spoke, she leaped into the form of a bird with red feathers, spread her wings, and soon flew away.

Pan Long stood in place, watching her drift away, stopping for a long time.

It wasn't until she was too far away to be seen that he turned and walked to the other side.

There is still a long way to go, and there is still a lot to do. As long as everyone is well, there will naturally be a day when the rivers and lakes will meet again in the future.

But...... Until then, he'll have to do something.

Otherwise, everyone will see you again, and you will still be a nobody, won't you lose the face of the "Yiwu heirs"?

"Yiwu heirs...... Sounds like a second-tier dealer in the small commodity business......" Pan Long muttered under his breath, but he couldn't help but laugh.

"Next...... Where are you going?"

After thinking about it for a long time, Pan Long's heart suddenly moved.

"Calculate the time, if you go to Tongtianjiang now, maybe you can catch up with the treasure hunt?"

Ren Fengtao of the Giant Whale Gang once talked to him about that there was a treasure on the Tongtian River, and that treasure might be opened every day of the summer solstice. And the jade pendant he got from his grandfather is likely to be related to this treasure.

"I remember when I left home, my grandfather once said that I would use 'treasure hunting' as an excuse. The casual joke at that time may be a hint of fate in the dark, right?"

He thought about it so and made up his mind.

Although the pigeons have been allowed to be in the wind for a long time, it takes two or three years to prepare for such a big event as treasure hunting, and it is a matter of course no matter how you look at it.

In the past few years, I have learned a lot, and when we meet again, I will definitely surprise Ren Fengtao's fat man.

Even if there is any accident in the process of treasure hunting, or what traps are encountered, or even who has a conspiracy, with their current skills, they can deal with it.

So he found a hotel with good conditions, rested well, changed his clothes, dressed like a rich boy, hired a carriage, and headed for Yizhou in the north.

He is now located in the east of Yunzhou, from Yunzhou to Yizhou, it takes thirty or forty days to travel by carriage, mainly because there are mountains and rivers in many places, and it is necessary to make a detour.

Pan Long sat in a carriage for two days before discovering this situation.

He was quite speechless, and he was very dissatisfied with the traffic conditions in the Kyushu world.

When he went to the next town and paid off the money for the hired car, he simply changed back into the costume of "Lone Swordsman Ah Fei", determined his current location according to the map, and went directly to the direction of Yizhou over the mountains and mountains.

It took Pan Long four or five hours to climb a high mountain, and then run Xuan Gong on the top of the high mountain and leap into it.

Man in the air, undressed as a paraglider, like a giant bat, gliding all the way north. When the height dropped, he slapped his palm downwards and used the power of the palm wind to make himself rise again.

Taking the air route like this, I finally avoided the winding roads of Yunzhou, and it only took five or six days to arrive at the border of Yunzhou, and I saw the Wuzhi Mountain shaped like a human hand.

But this time, he didn't mean to take the mountain road, and with a few palms in succession, he let himself fly higher and higher, higher than the clouds, above the mountain peaks, among the clouds, all the way to the north.

He didn't fly long before he suddenly saw a gust of wind coming towards him, and the wind was black and steaming, and it was not a good way to come at first glance.

Pan Long hurriedly descended, circled twice, and landed on the ground. But he saw that it was a big bird with three one-claws, glaring at him viciously in the wind and black air.

When the bird saw him landing, it did not rush to attack, but circled around him, making a high-pitched, hoarse cry that sounded like ill-intention.

Pan Long smiled, pulled out the Broken Enemy Knife, and the true qi was running, and the knife body lit up with golden swords.

The big bird looked at him viciously, and after watching him for a long time, he screamed, turned and flew away.

Pan Long laughed, put away his knife, and walked away.

"I remember that in Zhongnan Mountain, in the face of a similar fierce bird, Ah Feng and I were so frightened that we didn't even dare to sleep. But today, the bird looked even more vicious than the last one, but in the end it ran away on its own. ”

Recalling the past, Pan Long couldn't help but feel a little emotional.

"In life, you still have to rely on your fists to speak. Strength is the foundation of life!"

As he spoke, calculating the distance, he didn't bother to climb to the top of the mountain to glide again, and went directly over the mountains and mountains towards the north.

What was once a rugged hillside for him is now almost as smooth as it gets. He walked among the mountains, leaping like a fly, and even the nimbleest monkey could not compare with him.

Steep cliffs can be climbed gently and skillfully, dense woods can jump directly on the canopy of large trees, and rushing rivers can be jumped over in one fell swoop.

For him today, there is almost no "natural risk" in the world.

Probably, only those towering peaks and cliffs are a little troublesome......

Pan Long sighed while hurrying away, in a happy mood.

In just two days, he passed through the steep mountains in the north of Yunzhou and the south of Yizhou, and saw the Tongtian River winding eastward from the south of Yizhou, like a giant dragon lying on the ground.