Ye Changsheng just stood and held the book, watching it with relish and immersing himself in it.

If a month ago, Ye Changsheng couldn't appreciate the realm represented by this book at all, and naturally he couldn't appreciate the fun of this book.

However, in the past month, he has experienced more battles than all his previous years combined, which can be described as timely.

While reading and remembering, an hour passed, and the contents of a booklet were completely copied in his memory.

At dusk, smoke rises from every house, and the whole village is shrouded in light blue smoke.

Jing Muzi went and returned, followed by more than a dozen villagers, and walked into the hall in a mighty manner.

They have shed the brown garments they wore for their daytime work, and have instead put on clean and wide robes, which look full of antiquity.

Jing Muzi smiled and introduced everyone to Ye Changsheng one by one.

The first four people to be accepted were the actual manager of the village, the owner of the storehouse, who managed the farming tools and the sword, the landowner, who managed the farmland, the herdsman, who managed fishing, hunting and grazing, and the sword owner, who was responsible for the safety of the village.

These four old men have a unified name to the outside world, the four elders of Yishui Hall.

The next people are the elders who are in charge of the specific affairs of the village, the two old masters who teach the children to read, the priests who are in charge of the village festivals, the village doctor who treats the villagers, the account office who is in charge of financial management, and the procurement of materials,...... , blah blah blah.

Among these people, the youngest is also in his thirties, Ye Changsheng did not dare to slack off, and made a junior salute one by one.

After taking a seat, the special dinner began.

The dishes are very rich, although they are all ordinary mountain and river fresh, but there are also large tables, hot and cold platters, a total of 49 dishes.

To Ye Changsheng's surprise, these ordinary dishes were so delicious!

Over the years, Ye Changsheng has eaten a lot of good things, especially when he traveled to various countries, he has eaten a lot of delicious foods from various countries, and he has also participated in some of the top banquets of the royal family.

However, the deliciousness he had tasted before was all overshadowed by the meal on the table in front of him.

The fruit wine made in the village is also very delicious, and after drinking it, the whole body is warm and indescribably comfortable, as if you have eaten a panacea.

Ye Changsheng couldn't help but marvel in his heart, in the eyes of outsiders, the people in the village lived a poor life, but they didn't know that even if it was a poor life, they did everything to the extreme within their ability.

After everyone had eaten and drunk enough, the wine and food were withdrawn, and the formal meeting began.

Ye Changsheng looked very relaxed, drinking a large bowl of tea, and at the same time asked about the situation in Jiantang during this time, one by one.

He said it very carefully, and everyone listened very carefully, and the four elders couldn't help but nod, obviously what Ye Changsheng said was the same as what they had learned.

But even though they had already learned a lot, they still felt extremely amazed when they heard Ye Changsheng's narration.

In the past two years, Wenjiantang has expanded rapidly, but it is also extremely solid, and it has become a behemoth.

Especially Ye Changsheng himself, his attainments in sword forging continued to improve, and he was already the youngest sword forging master in the Glory Federation, which was something that the people of Yi Shui Tang had not expected before.

Ye Changsheng is so young and has endless potential, and Wenjiantang is walking so steadily, the cooperation between Yishuitang and Wenjiantang in the future will only be deeper, and everyone is very optimistic about this.

"That's the general situation, do you guys have anything else to ask?" Ye Changsheng finished speaking, and nodded slightly.

Everyone exchanged heads and whispered for a moment, Jing Muzi looked at Ye Changsheng and asked with a smile, "Ye Gongzi, do you have anything to ask?"

Of course, Ye Changsheng had something to ask, and there were too many.

Meeting Jing Muzi's gaze, Ye Changsheng smiled bitterly, he had too many questions to ask, and he didn't know where to start for a while.

After thinking for a while, Ye Changsheng asked, "Seniors, juniors, may I ask, what is the sword cultivator of Yishui Hall pursuing in his heart?"

The people in the village are a group of people who have no desires and no desires, and Changsheng prefers to see these people as a group of hermits in a paradise rather than sword cultivators.

Perhaps deep down in Changsheng's heart, the life of the sword cultivator and the life of the villagers seemed to be unable to merge at all, or even opposed.

Jing Muzi was surprised for a moment, and said with a smile: "Ye Gongzi, what all sword cultivators want in their hearts is actually the same, it only lies in one word, true." ”

True?

"Yes, really," Jing Muzi said slowly, "The great principles of the world can actually be summed up in one word. ”

Buddhism emphasizes that the four major are empty, and silence and nirvana lie in the word "emptiness".

Taoism emphasizes the need to revitalize in nothing, to swim in the land of nothing, lies in the word "nothing".

Confucian disciples have a big mind to cultivate Qi Zhiping, and the root of it lies in the word "benevolence".

And the pursuit of a sword cultivator is a "true" word.

"It's like the people in this village, living ordinarily, dying ordinarily, every life has the most real texture. We have the earth under our feet, the blue sky above our heads, and we accompany all things in the world, experiencing birth, old age, sickness and death. We plough in spring and summer, harvest in autumn and hide in winter, every moment of our life is real, or in other words, we are pursuing the truth of every moment. ”

The incomparably plain words fell on Ye Changsheng's ears, but they were extremely shocking.

How many people in this world pursue the Great Dao, how many people hold its method, and then how many people can condense what they are pursuing into one word, condense it into a simple word?

Just one word has penetrated the complicated appearance of the world, beyond language and words, and even beyond the heart, to the essence.

Truth-seeking, it's that simple.

Whether it is a villager or a sword cultivator, they are all seeking truth.

The villagers here, these sword cultivators, have found their own meaning in their search for truth, so everything else on the outside is superfluous to them.

Glory, wealth, power, everything that people desperately want to acquire, these are superfluous, at least not necessary, for them.

If it is not necessary, it will naturally not be enthusiastic, and if it is not enthusiastic, it will live calmly and truthfully.

Their truth is not so much a pattern of behavior and thinking as a texture of the real existence of life.

Therefore, whether it is a villager or a sword cultivator, what they are pursuing is this kind of texture of life.

This is probably what Jing Muzi's predecessors said about "true"!

Ye Changsheng smiled bitterly in his heart, he remembered that over the years, he had constantly changed his roles and climbed up, which of them were what he really wanted, and at what moment was he real?

No wonder, the master of Wenshan Academy gave him the five words "see the mountain is not a mountain", to tell him a simple truth: pure.