Chapter 325: How hard are these four words?

Luo Weiran jumped to Wan Xingchen and whispered a few words, Wan Xingchen nodded and slowly walked towards Xiao Yijiu. He rummaged through his arms, took out a small porcelain vase and handed it to Xiao Yijiu: "Do you remember this?" ”

Xiao Yijiu frowned slightly, reached out and took the porcelain vase, opened it and sniffed it.

"Very familiar ......"

He shook his head: "What is this?" ”

"Little Jindan"

Wan Xingchen sighed: "I haven't refined much over the years, I thought I would give it to the four of you, but you didn't want it when I gave it to you, you said that you would never use this thing in your life." At that time, you were more conceited than Qing Zheng, but Qing Zheng took his share...... I've always kept these little golden pills for you, and if you go west, you won't be able to use them. ”

"Westbound?"

Xiao Yijiu asked, "Why should I go west?" ”

Wan Xingchen was stunned, and after thinking of Luo Weiran's reminder just now, he glanced at Xiao Yijiu with some annoyance: "My brain is seriously damaged, ......"

He sighed and said, "I know that even if I am your master, it is not right to arrange the direction of your life. Although I can say with a very righteous excuse that tens of thousands of people died because of your ambition, I have a reason for you to go west to forgive your sins. But it's obviously hypocritical...... No one can arrange the life and death of others, but now I have to do it. 19...... When I first saw you, I changed your name. I said that even if a person has only one point of talent, as long as he has nine points of hard work, then he is perfect. ”

"Actually, you're the kind of person who has nine points of talent...... Although I saw your paranoia a long time ago, I never intervened, because I didn't want to arrange other people's lives, everyone has their own opinions and choices, and what path you choose will have what consequences. Today I'm going to break my promise......"

He took off a piece of jade pendant from his belt and reached out to smooth out the pattern on the jade pendant. The jade pendant became smooth and flat, and a layer of powder fell down his hand. He used his fingers to write four words on the jade pendant, and then hung the jade pendant around Xiao Yijiu's neck.

Xiao Yijiu did not resist or stop from beginning to end, but quietly looked at the old man in front of him.

Wan Xingchen beckoned and asked Luo Weiran to get a set of clothes.

He dressed Xiao Yijiu with his own hands: "If you forget what you are going to do, just look at this jade pendant." Of course, maybe you will forget about the existence of the jade pendant. Leave it to fate...... If you forget anything and don't get out of the Great Sui, then I'll look for you again. ”

Xiao Yijiu took out the jade pendant from his clothes and looked at it, and muttered out four words: "Go west to destroy the Buddha"

He asked, "Why?" ”

Wan Xingchen looked at him and said, "Don't you want to be the one closest to the sky, the Buddha Sect is known as the guardian of the heavenly firmament." They watch over the gate that connects the heavens to the earth, so if you want to get close to the heavens, you have to go to them. ”

"Good"

Xiao Yijiu nodded, turned around and walked a few steps before suddenly turning around and asking, "Who are you?" Why do I feel familiar with you? ”

Wan Xingchen waved his hand: "Let's go, what does it matter who I am?" ”

Xiao Yijiu snorted and continued to walk forward. He took a few steps out as if he had forgotten something, and then he felt four words swirling in his head.

Go west to destroy the Buddha

These four words were sent into his mind by Wan Xingchen with his mental power, and if it weren't for him, others would not have been able to do this. Xiao Yijiu looked down and saw the jade pendant on his chest, and then continued to walk forward. After walking twenty or thirty steps, he stopped again, paused for a while, and then saw the jade pendant again, and then continued to walk.

"I can't imagine that I have to deceive people at such an old age, and I am still deceiving my own disciples...... Regardless of whether or not Yijiu really went west and killed many people, this sin is for me to carry after all. I just hope that God will not punish me by charging my lifespan, the older people are, the more greedy they are. Moreover...... I still have a few things to do. ”

Wan Xingchen said with a sigh.

At this time, a general in iron armor came from a distance, pointed at Wan Xingchen with a long lance in his hand and said, "Who are you?" Why let the prisoner go! Your Majesty has no will to pardon this person, but you let him go, this is disrespectful! ”

Wan Xingchen glanced at him lightly, and suddenly smiled: "Isn't it disrespectful to resist the decree?" This kind of thing...... It's not the first time I've done it. ”

This forbidden army general obviously didn't know who Wan Xingchen was, and most of the forbidden army generals were from noble families and were already arrogant, and when he heard Wan Xingchen say such a thing, he immediately became furious, and he turned to Luo Weiran with a long lance and said angrily: "Commander Luo, are you people in the Inner Guard Department so presumptuous?" If you don't care, don't blame me for speaking out in front of Your Majesty! ”

If it was placed before the status of the Ouchi guards had not fallen, how could a forbidden army general dare to speak to Luo Weiran like this?

Luo Weiran looked at him and asked word by word: "Do you guess if I kill you, will Your Majesty kill me to fight for your life?" ”

The general of the forbidden army was stunned, and his face obviously changed: "You ......"

"Roll"

Luo Weiran snorted, and then waved his hand casually. A sword qi shot out, slicing through the war horse where the general was sitting in an instant. The horse's head fell to the ground with a thud, and the general subconsciously jumped up but suddenly found that several air pockets on his body were sealed by sword qi, and he screamed and fell to the ground fiercely.

"Luo Weiran!"

The man got up in a frenzy and tried to grab his lance, only to find that it was broken.

At this time, Su Buxing swept over from a distance: "Your Majesty's will, let Xiao Yijiu leave!" ”

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Luo Weiran supported Wan Xingchen and walked slowly in the direction of Dongnuan Pavilion, while the eunuch Su Buxing followed respectfully. In front of this old man, Su Buxing knew that he didn't have any capital to be proud of.

"Azure...... Do you know why your cultivation hasn't improved at all over the years? ”

Wan Xingchen asked softly as he walked: "Although the cultivation when you came down the mountain was not strong compared to now, it was more pure. More than ten years ago, Qingzheng broke through that barrier and came to a point where even I had to be amazed. More than ten years later, Yijiu also broke through that barrier, although he himself became incomplete, but he still took that step after all. In another ten years, maybe Qingniu will also come to this point, but have you thought about what your cultivation will be like in ten years? ”

Luo Weiran was silent for a while and then replied in a somewhat sad tone: "It's better than now." ”

Wan Xingchen nodded: "You're right, in more than ten years, you may not even be as good as now." ”

"Do you know why?"

He asked.

Luo Weiran hesitated for a moment and glanced at Su Buxing, who was following behind.

"That's why it'......"

Wan Xingchen smiled helplessly: "Since you put on this official uniform, you have become timid and backward. You have to think about too many things, where do you have the mind to focus on your practice? The intrigue and power struggle in the court used to be what you hated the most, but now you are deeply involved in it...... Qingzheng comes from the intrigue but can transcend it, but you are outside it, but now you can't extricate yourself. If you have spent half of your time cultivating in the past ten years, how can you not even be able to block the 191st blow? If he hadn't looked down on you, you would have died before I came. ”

"What the master taught me."

Luo Weiran lowered his head.

"It's not a lesson for you."

Wan Xingchen said: "I accepted the four of you, plus a few words from Zhou Banchuan, and there are barely four and a half apprentices in the second half of my life, have you ever seen who I reprimanded and taught whom?" I've just opened the door to practice, and it's your own business to go so far in your practice. The things in this door, Qing Zheng has seen through eight points, and Yijiu is crazy but has also seen through five points, and you are so talented that you haven't seen through a single point so far. ”

"In vain...... The disciples have indeed become troubled by gains and losses. ”

Luo Weiran sighed.

"Because you're getting obsessed with these things."

Wan Xingchen smiled and said, "Power, status...... These things bind your hands and feet, and they bind your heart. ”

He paused for a moment and asked, "If you understand when you understand, go to the library of the Yanwu Academy." It's such a big building, and there are so many books in it that I can't organize it now. Originally, I saw that a little guy could be a helper, but he was destined to fall deeper than you. But he's born to be that kind of person, you're not. ”

Su Buxing's body trembled slightly when he heard this, and a trace of fear flashed in his eyes.

"I've lived in Chang'an City for more than a hundred years."

Wan Xingchen said indifferently: "I have seen the emperors of the past dynasties, and I have also seen too many messy people. The emperors have changed from generation to generation, and I have watched the people of the Yang family gradually make the entire Central Plains stable and peaceful. So I'm glad that since Emperor Taizong, I don't interfere in the affairs of the imperial court anymore, because I know that the people of the Yang family are capable of doing a good job. But if someone forgets I'm alive, I don't mind walking around. ”

In an instant, the clothes on Su Buxing's body were soaked with sweat.

He hung his head, not daring to look at the old man's trembling back.

He suddenly found that he had an extra knife in his heart, but the handle of the knife was in someone else's hand.

"When Emperor Taizu met me......"

Wan Xingchen smiled and said, "I kowtowed three times, and wanted to worship me as a teacher." I didn't say yes because his mind was in the world and not in his cultivation. So he kowtowed three more times, wanting to beg me to protect the descendants of the Yang family. I said yes...... I have remembered this sentence for more than 100 years, but should the Yang family forget it themselves? ”

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East Warm Pavilion

The Emperor respectfully handed over a cup of hot tea, then took two steps back and stood to the side, like a child who had just entered the school, full of fear and respect for his husband.

Wan Xingchen didn't drink that cup of tea, nor did he speak.

The emperor didn't dare to speak, and he didn't even dare to look at Wan Xingchen's face.

I don't know how long it took, Wan Xingchen slowly breathed a sigh of relief and said in a calm tone: "I will die sooner or later, no one in this world can live forever." You don't have to test me with Luo Weiran, I promised Emperor Taizu what I did and have been doing it. If I want to influence your Yang family, there is no need to wait until now for more than a hundred years. Xiao Yijiu is my apprentice, that's right, the cultivation he showed in rebellion makes you frightened, and I know it. I understand better what you're worried about, what you're afraid of. You are a person who can become an emperor through the ages, but it is precisely because of your special reason that you are becoming more and more paranoid, and paranoia is not wrong, it is the direction that is wrong. ”

He looked at the emperor and said, "I said that I would not arrange other people's lives. I watched this empire from birth to rise, not wanting to see it collapse before I died. You're a smart guy and you should know what I mean. You keep Xiao Yijiu and don't kill it, you use a eunuch to squeeze out Luo Weiran, I naturally understand what you want to do, emperor...... Do you know how sad it is for a person to be without someone in this life who can be fully trusted? ”

After saying this, Wan Xingchen slowly stood up.

"I'm going back, so I won't delay you in dealing with the court."

The emperor bowed his head, his face pale.

Wan Xingchen paused when he walked to the door, and after looking back at the emperor, he said with some sadness: "Can you do everything?" Even God can't arrange for his own afterlife. Even if you could, what were you going to do with your only son into a man who would just sit on the dragon chair and do nothing? An emperor who has nothing to do...... Just watch the sun rise and then set. No matter how long or short life is, in fact, the most successful thing is not to arrange everything, but to be yourself. ”

"How difficult are these four words?"