Chapter 31: One Teacher, One Apprentice, One Inn (II)
(Today's big change, a chapter of nearly 7,000 words, this chapter and the previous chapter, you can see it as a special article~)
Chensha's days are no longer drifting, it is still Lianqing, a paradise somewhere, and the first floor of the world has fallen in this place for ten years.
Ten years can change a lot of things. For example, a nine-year-old becomes a nineteen-year-old. said that it was a child because Chen Hui was already very powerful. can be isolated from the world for ten years, although the heart is more calm and mature, more stable, but there are still many things that can not be seen through, this river and lake are shallow for him, but he is only a drop in the sea for this river and lake.
When I first entered the rivers and lakes, I often had no doubts about the biggest questions about the rivers and lakes, just blindly looking forward to them. But Chenhui is different.
He didn't care, although he was already in the rivers and lakes when he worshiped under the Chensha Gate, he just asked very lightly: "Master, what are the rivers and lakes like?" ”
This question was asked by Chen Hui when he first started.
Chensha said: "When your parents were killed, did you hate them? ”
Although Chenhui's performance in the face of death at that time shocked Chensha, Chenhui still wanted revenge.
He nodded: "Hate." ”
Chensha asked again: "Are you happy to be my apprentice?" ”
Although his master is very lazy in teaching things, I have to say that the master is a very powerful master, and he is really happy.
Chen Hui then nodded: "Happy." ”
Chensha said, "As you say, there are good things and bad things in life. But dying is another sorrow, the rivers and lakes are full of such happiness and hatred, and they are also full of such sorrow. If you set aside those boring histories, you will find that if you want to talk about rivers and lakes, it is just a nonsense, and it is better to live before you die. ”
Chen Hui said: "It seems to be very painful. ”
Chensha didn't speak. The rivers and lakes are not beautiful.
Chen Hui said: "But I think there is another choice. ”
"Huh?"
"Encounter as many good things as possible before inevitable death comes."
Chensha snorted, but did not refute. He doesn't care what kind of rivers and lakes belong to his apprentices.
At the age of ten, Chen Hui began to learn to communicate with the Rapid Sky Strategy.
Communication between man and beast is difficult to say, but it is also very simple, because without words, only the mind is left to understand. There is no hard requirement for humans, but some intelligence is required for beasts.
The Sky Ce is very smart, an ancient beast, some say it is a combination of a unicorn and a horse. These, naturally, are not the point. The point is that maybe it really wants to confirm that the next master of the first floor in the world will be very good, originally it took Chensha three years and seven months to achieve a tacit understanding with a strange beast like Jiukong Ce, but it only took less than three months for his apprentice.
For two months, Chen Hui didn't say a word, but just delivered food and cleaned it to Jikong Ce every day. Although these two things have nothing to do with cultivation, they have made Chen Hui's cultivation somewhat refined, because the first floor of the world is already very large, and this strange beast is bigger than the building, so whether it is to bring food to it or clean it, it requires an unusually large amount of work. Chen Hui would occasionally sit next to it in a daze. A man and a beast just sat quietly and looked at the sky. Two months later, he spoke, and then let out a cheerful whistle, and in this way there was friendship between man and beast.
Chensha asked Chenhui what method he used to tame the empty strategy. Chen Hui said: "Master, you also said that you have tamed the Rapid Sky Strategy, so it already knows about many languages, gestures, and instructions, and I just need to let it understand that I am its next master and will be very good to it." ”
The proud Chensha did not disdain the apprentice's approach this time, but laughed.
The rest of the time is to learn to control the air strategy, originally Chen Sha thought that this should be very fast, but Chen returned to learn not quickly. So the year passed like this, and until the end of the year, Chen Hui still didn't know how to control the empty strategy.
Chensha reprimanded: "You don't have to care. ”
Chen Hui said: "People can't fly too high, otherwise they won't be able to see the ground." ”
Chensha said, "Excuses. ”
Chen replied: "What the master taught me. ”
For this matter, Chensha was very angry, the master used more than three years to tame the air strategy, but the apprentice only took less than a month, but the master took three days to control the air strategy to fly, but the apprentice did not learn well for a year, which made Chensha very shocked.
At the age of eleven, Chen Hui began to come into contact with the first floor of the world, which was once built to protect a very important person. There is no fixed place in the world that is safe, so this building was built by the hands of the gods and craftsmen. Because the owner of the building is the first in the world, the craftsman who built the building is the first in the world, and the person who wants to protect the building is the first loyalty in the world, so this building is called the first floor in the world. However, in addition to being able to withstand blows and move, this building does not have any other trap formations or the like, and it was the number one master in the world who protected the people in the building at the beginning.
However, the people in the building still died, died of intrigue and trickery, and died of the calculations of the temple and the Tang Dynasty. There is no one to protect on the first floor of the world, and it seems that it is a little impossible to adapt to this river and lake, because from now on, the first four words in the world will no longer make heroes and heroes fearful, and the rest is only desire.
The owner of the building is old, even if he is the first in the world, he will decay in the face of the years. So the building became even more inviting. The first floor of the world was once placed in Liankong City for a long time, because it took a lot of skills and methods to start the first floor of the world, but with the old death of the first owner of the first floor of the world, they all disappeared.
As a result, Liankong City has become a place where the heroes compete for the first place in the world. Every day, people from various sects will come to fight for this building, and the blood in front of the door is like a river, and the inside of the door is cold and lonely, extremely bloody.
The first floor of the world is like a mute spectator, watching countless people fighting, looking at the most primitive appearance of this river and lake.
Until Chensha appeared.
He didn't care how the first floor of the world was started, he took an ancient beast, and after defeating the heroes of the rivers and lakes with an overwhelming advantage, he actually dragged this building to the sky, ending the martial arts dispute.
Chensha's strength is still better than the previous master of the first floor of the world, and the first floor of the world is more erratic from now on, so after the boiling desire cools, people gradually stop fighting the doctrine of the first floor of the world.
Chensha is very proficient in many things in his life, in fact, if he wants to crack it, I believe it will not be long before the secret of the first floor of the world will be solved, and it is rumored that the previous master left a lot of wealth in it. But Chensha disdained it. But for his apprentice, he is happy to let him crack the building.
The first floor of the world is divided into two floors, the first floor is very empty, and the second floor has more rooms, including a secret room. The secret room is filled with all kinds of symbols, and there are many numbers. In the past two years, Chen Hui spent time in the secret room after delivering food and cleaning to Jikong Ce every day.
I forgot exactly what day it was. I just remember that it was an ordinary day, the weather was a little gloomy, and it seemed that nothing would happen as before. But suddenly there was a loud noise. It was like a dragon roaring and a tiger roaring from the building. Then the smoke filled the sky, and the loud roar and the sound of the gears turning continued, and after a while, the sound gradually stopped shaking the eardrums, became stable, and the smoke and dust finally settled.
On that day, at the bottom of the first floor of the world, there were sixteen more wheels. Even outside Lianqing Mountain, which can't be called a road, it still walks steadily. Watching Chen Hui start the first floor in the world, Chen Sha admired the world's first master craftsman a little. But he was even more shocked by Chen Hui's qualifications, because no matter how short time he spent solving the secrets of this building, he should have been, after all, astronomy and geography, Qimen arithmetic he knew everything.
But his apprentice doesn't know anything, so the past two years of exploration, maybe every day for Chen Hui, there is a qualitative leap in self-learning.
Chensha finally snorted disdainfully, although the smile on the corner of his mouth couldn't be suppressed.
In the next few years, Chen Hui was learning everything, and Chen Sha was also very diligent. The incident on the first floor of the world made Chensha understand one thing, he already felt that the little boy back then was amazing, how great was it? The fact that he can be accepted as an apprentice is proof of this. However, he found that he still underestimated the child. After finishing the first floor of the world, he saw Chen Hui with calm joy on his face, but there was no trace of pride, just like he was accepted as an apprentice by himself back then, and his parents were killed by bandits. He was happy and sad, but he was so calm and calm, Chen Hui seemed to be an old hunter who had lived for decades. This is not easy, so much so that Chensha admires it a little.
This child will surely live well, and wait for as many good things as possible in his life, because his mind is calm like water. It's just that he was a child back then, and he didn't have any chance to live in the face of bandits, because he was too weak, even if he was much stronger now, but if he went to the depths of the rivers and lakes, there would be more powerful people, they were not bandits, but they were more bandits than bandits. Therefore, he wanted to let Chen Hui live, so he began to teach his apprentices seriously and unreservedly.
There have been seven sword saints in the Sikong Sword Pavilion, and although the seven are from the same sect, they are seven completely different sword techniques. Because Sikong Sword Pavilion has always only taught sword intent, and this kind of thing is very mysterious, if it is written on paper, the same meaning is seen by different people, and it is different, so there are more and more swordsmanship in Sikong Sword Pavilion, but each one is a peerless swordsmanship.
Chensha's swordsmanship is called wind sand. Back then, he was from a humble background, but with a proud bone, he was favored by the head of the Sikong Sword Pavilion, and no one would have thought that when he was only five years old, he was bullied by his peers, but at the age of six, he was already listed as a first-class master in the rivers and lakes. I never thought that this son of a poor family would win the glory of Sikong Sword Saint at the age of thirteen. This is the highest glory of the Sikong Sword Pavilion.
Chensha's life was very successful, at least in kendo, in the various skills he learned. But he still followed the method of his master, the master of the Sikong Sword Pavilion. Teach sword intent.
The wind and sand walk is the normal state in the world, and there is no reason at all, but when the wind and sand stop, it is another realm. What is the highest meaning of kendo or martial arts? Some people's answer is like a storm of dust, it is to destroy, or to kill. However, if this question is answered by Chensha, it is the wind and the sand stop, and it is control.
The Sikong Sword Intent that he comprehended was different from others, so when Chen Hui comprehended it, he didn't care what it looked like. Because although there are many kinds of swordsmanship in Sikong Sword Pavilion, the reason why each peerless sword technique can be peerless is because it follows the original intention.
Chen Hui didn't tell the master what he thought of the sword intent, he just learned the most basic sword techniques in the world, practiced the simplest moves countless times, and learned other things every day in the past few years. is different from a genius like Chen Sha, although Chen Hui learns quickly, he can only be said to be outstanding. But Chensha didn't care. Because vaguely, he had already felt that Chen Hui seemed to have embarked on two completely different paths from him.
It is said that the highest state in martial arts is to return to the basics, but if the true purity is the destination, why should you return after deviating from it? Chenhui seems to have always been very simple. This made Chensha very satisfied. Teach yourself to be the first in the world, and then you don't need to be complacent, because you are the first in the world. But if you teach someone who is completely different from yourself but can still be the first in the world, then you can be proud.
The days in the valley were very simple, so simple that Chensha felt a little dreamy, although this kind of day seemed to be possible for him to live at any time, but it seemed that only after meeting that apprentice did he have an inexplicable interest.
As mentioned earlier, the years have smoothed out his dreams of rivers and lakes, but flat things often have sharp edges. Isn't a sword when it's sheathed? Because the rivers and lakes seem to have given him everything they can give, the dream of the rivers and lakes is not smoothed, but all of them have been realized.
It's just that. For Chensha, if this is the deepest part of the rivers and lakes, and only one person can experience it alone, it will be too boring. In the future, if his own apprentice will go through this kind of experience, it will be even more boring.
The apprentice is a calm apprentice, but it's actually funny. He didn't want interesting apprentices to live a boring life. So he felt that the rivers and lakes he was in were not deep enough.
What are rivers and lakes like? Chen asked him this question back. He replied simply.
But what is the deepest part of the rivers and lakes? He also wanted to know.
When Chen Hui was nineteen years old, Chen Sha decided to let Chen go back to the rivers and lakes to experience a year, and he himself also heard that there was a traitor in Sikong Sword Pavilion and needed him to go back to quell the chaos.
It is said that the leader of the rebellion established himself as the first in the world, the head of the Seven Sword Saints, and named him to kill Chensha. Chensha didn't know why the fairy-like master was captured, but he knew that he might really have met his opponent this time. He couldn't help but be a little happy.
Because people's loneliness is often not that they can't realize their dreams, but that this Jianghu can't give you something worthy of your dreams, or rather, an opponent.
So Chen Sha left, taking his first floor in the world, to defend his first place in the world, he didn't say anything to Chen Hui about Sikong Sword Pavilion, because that place was already too much higher than the martial arts factions. Chen Hui began to wander the rivers and lakes this year, but he was extremely depressed. He always felt that the first floor in the world was too high, flying in the sky, no wonder everyone looked up, some people didn't like to look up, so they wanted to destroy this building. He was a little worried about his master.
There are also many buildings on the ground, although this building is also full of the smell of rivers and lakes, but the blood is outside the building, and the use of this building is not to make people look up or challenge, but to let people rest. The world is so big that even a hundred times more people can't fill it. So there are a lot of places, there are a lot of people who need such a building. The kind-hearted Chenhui met the kind-hearted boss and had a full meal despite not having a penny. So Chen Hui felt that the rivers and lakes were not bad, and the inn was a good place.
The first floor of the world originally gave Chen the feeling of returning to the inn, and the master took him in, and in the land of Lianqing, he did not worry about eating and drinking, and there was no quarrel with the world. Chen thought back that the first floor of the world, if it was a moving inn, it would be very good.
Some people enter the rivers and lakes as swordsmen, some people enter the rivers and lakes as scholars, some people are doctors, and some people are fast catchers. Some people are temple nobles, and some people are famous queens. There are very few things about the innkeeper, because that is the expectation of the businessman, and it doesn't seem to belong to this river. But if you want to come to the rivers and lakes, there is an inn among the most essential elements. But most of the time, the people who drink in the inn are the protagonists. The shopkeeper and the second child are both supporting roles, but the rivers and lakes are so dangerous, wouldn't it be good to be a supporting role in watching the world and greeting guests with calculations. Chen Hui's thought let Chen Hui know what he was going to do in the future, although he felt that it was unlikely that he would be able to convince his master to treat the first floor of the world in a way that he thought was a waste.
In the year of Chen Hui, he did not make any name in the rivers and lakes, because he and Chen Sha were two completely different personalities. But it's not that he's doing nothing, because he knows a lot of things.
It's been a long year, longer than all the usual years combined. Jianghu is indeed the same as the master said, at least for others, life is better than trying to live before death. In this year, the Wanzang tribe and the Tieli Kingdom seemed to have reached a reunification and wanted to invade the Central Plains. Even the mysterious Nanban Secret Realm began to recruit troops.
This year, the leader of the martial arts alliance was assassinated, and in order to compete for this position, the nine major sects fought openly and secretly to stir up the bloody storm in the rivers and lakes.
This year, on the other side of the dark sea, it is rumored that a peerless swordsman from a foreign country wants to level the rivers and lakes with a sword.
It's just that Chen Hui doesn't care much, or he doesn't care.
Because it's winter, because the building hasn't flown back yet. Chen Hui felt a little lonely, he was twenty years old, and he found that he was not as good as he was when he was nine years old. He remembered what Master had said, "Maybe it's a truth that only children can understand." ”
He misses his master. So he went back to the valley and waited alone.
Life is a bittersweet process, and there are good things and bad things. The snow froze the crops, but it returned a good year. It's like the bandits back then let themselves meet their masters.
Chenhui has always had expectations for life.
Therefore, he has always been very calm, but when winter has just passed, when he saw the empty first floor of the world coming back, he was finally no longer calm.
On that day, his eyes were a little gloomy, panting, and he looked tired. Chen Hui felt faintly uneasy, and asked towards the building, "Where is the master?" ”
The building was empty, and there was a long hiss. The hiss was incomparably sad, shaking down the dew on the petals of the morning flowers, and the remnants of snow on the branches.
So Chen Hui walked into the first floor of the world, walked through every room, and walked countless times.
He actually saw a letter in the secret room, but he didn't want to open it. He wanted Chensha to tell him personally.
Master, master, if this is a prank, please end it immediately.
The master did not appear.
After a long time, the sun was already a little flooding, and Chen Hui sat on the rock, holding the letter in his hand, and did not open it. The world in my eyes becomes blurred. It was as if a stone had fallen into a cold pool, rippling. He bowed his head meekly, looking listless.
One man, one beast and one empty building, as if it was so still.
As the sunset drew to a close, Chen Hui began to read the letter.
"I would have said that if you saw me returning, then there would be no need to remember what is behind the letter, but I found that if I did, I would not have shown it to you with pride. So in vain. If you see this letter, I probably won't be able to get it back.
The rivers and lakes are very deep, I thought I was already in the deepest part, but I found that I only saw the deepest part. The depth here is not martial arts cultivation. I remember that the master of Sikong Pavilion, that is, my master, said that the deepest part of the rivers and lakes is a mirror, and if it is far away, this mirror will reflect all living beings, and the deeper you go, the more you will find that you are in the mirror more and more clearly, and when you reach the deepest part, the rivers and lakes will only be left with yourself.
But I don't think that's deep enough! So I broke the mirror. I saw something deeper.
You may not understand what the teacher said, but it doesn't matter, if you see this letter, at least it confirms a certain result. I've been thinking that if I teach you to be the second in the world, and one day I die of old age, you will become the first in the world, wouldn't it be very boring. Fortunately, God has made me no longer the number one in the world. You also have a long journey ahead.
Many people think that being the first in the world is dangerous and meaningless, such as you. But the second, third, fourth, and fifth in the world are really safe, and it makes more sense for people to live, of course, to live in the best way. But you are still far from being the first in the world, this river and lake is deeper than I thought, but if it were you, you would definitely be able to live and encounter good things.
As for me, I'm sorry, but I can only accompany you here. Don't think about revenge, even if you're strong enough. You are the most gifted person I have ever met, and I will definitely not admit it when I am alive, but when you see this letter, it means that I am dead, so I will be generous once, I am curious, what can you become of the rivers and lakes with such a non-urgent temperament, and I also want to know what kind of choice you will make after you go to the deepest depths.
As for people, they will always die, and I have met enough good things, and when you die in the future, tell me the good things that happened to you in the ground. ”
Tears fell on the paper, and Chen muttered to himself, the biggest good thing I have encountered in this life is to meet a master like you.
Fate is impermanent, so there is also this possibility, the crops are eaten by pests before waiting for a good harvest in a good year, and the bandits have already raised their knives before they have time to look at the sky. This is another tragedy.
Finally, the twenty-year-old boy could not calm down and cried loudly. The sky was also wailing, and the whole valley seemed a little sad.
But life still has to go on, just like the year my parents died. He buried his parents and still had to chop wood and hunt every day. The Great Wall can't cry, even if it does. Although Chen Hui is really sad this time, he still has to work hard to live every day.
In this way, I spent the twentieth year of my life a little sad and lonely.
On a summer morning. He suddenly opened his eyes. Then he got up and walked out of the first floor of the world. Twenty-one years old, that is, twelve years later, summer
He looked at the sky, and also looked at the words on the first floor of the world. I watched it for a long time.
Then he shook his head and said:
"Master, I'm sorry, even if you die, I still can't agree with what you said."
After speaking, he made a few strokes with his fingers in the air, and the first floor of the world became the last floor of the world in his fingers.
Then he said: "When you flew too high, although I couldn't go to the deepest part of the rivers and lakes, I always knew that high places are different from low places. My feet will only be at peace when they stand on the ground. ”
As he said this, he leaped onto the back of the swift sky and untied the thick reins and chains.
Then he lay on the back of the sky and looked at the cloudless sky, and said: "You have been tired all these years, and I am going to go to the rivers and lakes, although in the gentlest and most unconventional way." But I don't want to have you carrying this building on your back anymore. From today, you are free. ”
Swift Sky Ce let out a long hiss, looking extremely reluctant.
Chen Hui smiled and said, "When one day, like my master, can take you around the world without any scruples, I will go to you." But not now, I don't want to lose friends again. ”
Swift Sky Ce didn't make a sound.
"Remember to find a place with mountains, rivers and food, wait for me, I will definitely come back to you."
After saying this, Chen Hui jumped down and looked at the Sky Strategy, the Ancient Beast had the spirituality of the Ancient Beast, the Sky Ce seemed to feel Chen Hui's determination, his eyes were full of reluctance, but he still got up and flew out of this valley.
Chen looked back at the first floor of the world, which had been changed to the last floor of the world, and found that the more he looked at it, the more pleasing it was to the eye, the year before, he really wanted to open an inn in the rivers and lakes, and this inn could appear anywhere. As long as someone needs it. He is a kind man, and if there is any way to meet as many good things as possible in life, then it is to do more good things.
He began renovating the building to make it look as much like an inn as possible. It took a long time, and during this time, Chen Hui found that the last building of the world was still not enough to meet his wishes, so he simply removed the plaque. Those signboards that made the people of the rivers and lakes crazy in the world were thrown by him casually in a corner of the Lianqing Mountains and Forests.
He rehung a plaque.
Named: The Last Floor Inn.