Zheng Fang looked at the tombstone, which was engraved with the three characters "Liao Yourong", and the name was engraved underneath: 1862-1944.

Principal Huang said softly: "If the person who goes out of our school is sacrificed outside, no matter where his body is buried, we will erect a monument for him here. ”

"When people get older, they like to remember. Principal Huang looked at Liao Yourong's tombstone and said with a complicated expression: "I remember to this day, that winter, there was a lot of snow on Jinxiu Mountain, and our Tsing Yi Temple was on the Hengyun Peak of Jinxiu Mountain, and the heavy snow collapsed half of the side rooms in the Taoist temple, and my uncle had to lead me to sleep in his room, and the origin of his name was told to me that night." ”

"It's very strange, Uncle Shi told me a lot of things that night, but all I remember is this, with honor, with honor, hehe, I didn't understand what it meant at the time. Principal Huang smiled.

"My master led our senior brothers to Taizu, it was my uncle who pulled the line, the master was originally dedicated to cultivation, and he didn't want to pay attention to the things under the mountain, at that time, the short soldiers were arrogant in China, but Xichuan has not been affected yet, and my master is not like my uncle, who thinks about the world, so my uncle persuaded him to go down the mountain several times, but he refused, thinking that what he said about the mountain is nonsense. When he went down the mountain, what should the Patriarch Hall do? What should dozens of people from the Tsing Yi Temple do?

Principal Huang had a strong look of memory in his eyes, and then said: "I remember one day when my uncle went back to the mountain and had a big quarrel with my master, my uncle asked Master, what are you cultivating and what are you cultivating for? Master immediately replied with confidence, he practiced first to seek the Great Dao and prove immortality, and secondly, to be able to glorify the ancestors and become the leader of the Dao Realm. Then Uncle Shi said, even if you have attained immortality, but you are the only one left in this world, what's the point? Even if you carry forward the Tsing Yi Concept, but only you are left in the Dao Realm in the world, what is the taste?"

Principal Huang smiled and looked at Zheng Fang, who was listening attentively, and said: "My master naturally doesn't believe in my uncle's set, only that he is alarmist, for thousands of years, human beings have been killing and killing, when did they kill them? Wildfires can't be burned, and spring breezes blow and regenerate, this is the fate of the human world." My uncle begged my master to go down the mountain and go with him on an earthly trip, and he promised that as long as my master and him went to the next mountain, if he still wanted to stay on the mountain after returning to the mountain, he would not persuade him again. ”

"Xu was annoyed enough by my uncle, and the old man finally agreed to go down the mountain with his uncle, and the two of them made a contract seriously, I remember, after the contract was decided, my uncle smiled, as if he would win. As a result, the master went for more than half a year, and when he came back, he really sealed the ancestral hall, dismissed the brothers who did not want to leave his hometown, and only took a few of us who were willing to follow him, and went to Tong'an together. ”

Principal Huang looked at Zheng Fang: "I've always been curious, what made Master change his original intention, close the ancestral hall, which was regarded as his life, and go down the mountain to fight and kill." But I was still too young to ask Master directly. Until...... It wasn't until the night when my uncle died and Master and I kept a vigil for him that Master told me the reason in detail. ”

"My master said that he actually never believed in his uncle's words, but in the past, his master was a person on the mountain with the mentality of being a high mountain, and when he looked at the mountain, he had a kind of detachment that cared about his vicissitudes of life, but after walking around the world, this kind of detachment was gone, and after he came down the mountain, he couldn't help but think of the sentence that his uncle had asked him, what was the purpose of cultivation? Master told me that the most powerful sentence that my uncle said to him was actually only this question. ”

Principal Huang looked at Zheng Fang meaningfully: "This question, a hundred cultivators will have a hundred answers, as long as you can convince yourself, all the answers are correct, cultivation is a personal matter, no one can answer for you, no master, no parents, no Taoists, only ask yourself in your own heart, and the answer you find is the one who is really correct." ”

As Principal Huang spoke, he seemed to feel that the dead branches and leaves in his hand were in the way, so he took out a small cloth bag from his pocket and stuffed the branches and leaves in his hand. He continued, "Master told me that night that he had come down the mountain because he had suddenly become a little confused about this question. Master told me that he didn't think the two answers he had used to answer Uncle Shi were wrong, but in fact, since my Master sat down, Master has been taking these two goals as his cultivation motivation, and he has persisted for many years, and these two goals are so big that he can ignore everything else. But when the master came down the mountain, he suddenly found that everything that happened in the world made these two goals smaller, so small that he could no longer ignore some things that were in front of him. ”

"Master said that if a child dies of illness or starvation, he can accept it, and if he dies of a flood or a rockfall, he can accept it, and even if he is killed by robbers, he will still turn a blind eye. But if that child, not because of that, but because he cried a little louder, just because he was a weak child, just because he didn't do anything to hurt the pond fish, he was killed alive, he couldn't accept it. And this tragedy does not happen to one child, but to thousands of children, not to one family, but to thousands of families. ”

"Master asked himself, no matter how unkind heaven and earth are, it is just a dog with all things, but what if a person can't even do it? Couldn't he, as a practitioner, do something to make all this change? He has the ability to take away those sharp knives that stab children, shouldn't he take them? Master finally said to me that he wants all the people he sees in the world to be truly human beings, not to be dogs that can't even live on their own, or even insects that are not as good as dogs. ”

As for the original two goals, the master did not give up, he only said that he could wait until the Haiyan River cleared, and then it was not too late to restart the ancestral hall. ”

Principal Huang looked at Zheng Fang: "My master answered what his cultivation was for, so he went down the mountain. My master asked me again that night, "Mingjue, what are you cultivating for?" When I was young, I replied to him that he was an old man, because Master wanted me to cultivate. Hehe, I am an orphan, if it weren't for the fact that the master saw that I had some qualifications and led me into the Tsing Yi Temple, I don't know which winter I would have starved to death. So at that time, the world was big, and the master was the biggest, so what the master said, he naturally had to listen. ”

Master listened to my words, laughed, shook his head and said to me, Mingjue, you haven't really started asking yourself this question. I was very puzzled when I heard it, I obviously asked, why would Master say that I didn't ask?"

Principal Huang raised his head and looked into the distance, as if Master was looking at him from afar in that direction. He stared at it for a long time before he continued: "You know what? we didn't want to fight with the strange ghosts at first, my master went down the mountain to deal with the dwarf soldiers at first, but then something happened that made the master pay attention to the spirit world. ”

"I remember that the first person to find the clue should be a village called Zhou Lizhuang, the guerrillas had sent the news on the first day, and the next day the dwarf soldiers would come to sweep it, but the strange thing is that no one in the village retreated the next day, and the result is naturally conceivable, the whole village of nearly 100 people, young and old, were all killed by the dwarf soldiers. ”

"The Zhoulizhuang tragedy was one of the many tragedies that occurred in Hebei at that time, and the number of deaths was not the few, but it was not the most. Naturally, the army was very indignant, and some people wrote blood letters to take revenge on the dwarf soldiers, but my master, who had just been transferred to work in the Hebei Border, still felt that something was wrong, and he asked the team investigating the tragedy, since the village received the news, why didn't anyone retreat?"

"When everyone died, the team couldn't find any evidence, so they could only say that there were many elderly people in the village who were reluctant to leave their homes. This statement must be untenable, although there is indeed a situation where the old people are reluctant to leave home when the dwarf soldiers sweep, but it is only a very small number, and the ferocity of the dwarf soldiers, the villagers are no strangers, and they generally let young people and women and dolls escape, but in Zhoulizhuang, this situation was not found at all. ”

"My master investigated the scene of the Zhou Lizhuang tragedy in detail, and he was surprised to find the existence of the boundary gate and the traces of the shadow wall. The Shadowless Wall is the same as the Ecstasy Set of the Underworld, it is a kind of ghost hitting the wall, the kind that makes people turn around and can't find a way out, and then my master came to the conclusion that the victims of Zhou Lizhuang almost all carried luggage with them when they died and did not have any soul remaining, they were actually preparing to retreat, but they were trapped in the village by the spirit world ghosts until the arrival of the dwarf soldiers. ”

"My master's investigation results were naturally not believed at the top at that time, and my master didn't tell the ordinary people, after all, it didn't work and would cause panic. But then there was the 824 incident. ”

"The 824 incident was a bit of a big fuss at that time because it involved my junior brother and brother, and it was a fratricidal incident that happened within the army. Because the day of the incident was August 24, it was later called the 824 incident. ”

"That day, my junior brother Minghui and five other soldiers went on a mission together, the mission had to pass through an enemy-occupied area, which was a bit dangerous, they set off after breakfast in the morning, but at noon, Minghui ran back alone with bare hands, he said to the master, they met the spirit officer on the road, he was very excited at first, thinking about introducing the spirit officer to the master, but the spirit officer suddenly became difficult, and cast illusion spells on a comrade-in-arms, the comrade-in-arms raised his gun and shot at the people around him, Minghui was frightened, but he did not forget that he was a cultivator, so he launched an attack on the spirit officer, but he was not the opponent of the spirit officer, but because the spirit officer wanted to control the person who suffered the illusion magic, not very free, so he escaped by chance. ”

"The 824 incident caused an uproar in Jibian, and my master naturally believed in his junior brother, but he was the only one who believed it. ”