Chapter Twenty-Seven: The Martial Arts of Mortals
The reason why this green cow is different is that it does nothing but bask in the sun on the hillside every day, neither graze nor walk, and cannot play with other cows.
As soon as the sun set, the green cow swayed away, although it walked very slowly, but Zige just couldn't catch up with it anyway, Mo Yuan is not too big, but after rummaging through the entire Mo Yuan, you don't want to find this green cow after sunset.
"This is a very mysterious and characterful cow", Zige came to such a conclusion after observing for many days.
Now, it's time to make a move.
In the afternoon, the sun was just right, and the green cow was lazily lying in the grass to bask in the sun as always, and Zige tiptoed to the front of the green cow, but fortunately, it did not wake it up.
But how do you speak? Zige held his cheeks and was worried.
"Little brat, you're blocking my rays. β
"Oh, I'm sorry, I didn't mean to. β
Zige subconsciously apologized, took two steps back, and then, suddenly stopped, looking at the green cow in front of him in disbelief.
"Why, haven't you ever seen a talking cow?
"Abyss...... Master Yuan...... Cattle...... Cattle...... The cow spoke!"
"What a fuss! Rare and strange! Lonely and unheard! Shallow knowledge!"
"Master Yuan...... Cattle...... Cows can also speak idioms!"
Qingniu stood up, a pair of lantern-sized bull's eyes showed a humanized dissatisfaction, glared at Zige, and said: "What's wrong with the cow can speak? What's wrong with the cow can speak? Which avenue of heaven and earth stipulates that cows can't talk? Little fart child, don't you know that there are many kinds of cows? This cow is the only one in heaven and earth who respects the four seas and eight wildernesses and listens to my orders for three thousand worlds! If you want to talk about the history of this cow, you have to ...... it from a distant distance."
"Stop, stop! Brother Niu, Uncle Niu, God Niu, I was wrong, I was really wrong, I shouldn't disturb your sleep, you continue, I'll go first." Zige "The cow is full of faces", turned around and left.
"Stop! Ben Niu let you go? You little fart, do you know how to respect the old and love the young, do you know how to respect the old and love the old, do you know how to ...... Forget it, Ben Niu has been trapped in this ghost place for too long, and he can't help himself. Say, little brat, what are you looking for?"
Finally got down to business, Zige wiped the non-existent sweat on his head and smiled bitterly.
"Brother Niu, I heard that you have a book here, I want to borrow it, is it okay?"
"Oh, that's it. You said it earlier, wouldn't it be nice if you said no? You told me and I'll give it to you! You don't say how do I know what you want? I only know what you want when you say it! But it's another thing if you say I don't give it to you, right? However, Ben Niu has always been kind-hearted, as long as you say it, of course Ben Niu will give it to you, if you don't say it, Ben Niu ......."
Zige hid his face, turned around, and left.
"Eh, don't go, kid! Do you know how to respect others...... No, it's to respect other cows! You still go, you go one step further and try! Okay, okay, this cow is afraid of you, can't I give it to you?"
The voice fell, no more sound, the whole world was quiet, Zige looked back, a simple and unpretentious book was lying quietly on the grass, walked over and picked it up-
Tao Te Ching.
"The Tao is very good, the name is very good, the name is famous, the name is not very famous. The beginning of the nameless heaven and earth, the mother of all things. Therefore, there is always none, and I want to see its wonder, and I always have, I want to see it. These two have the same name and different names, and they are the same as the mysteries, the mysteries and the mysteries, and the doors of all the wonders. β
"Everyone in the world knows that beauty is beautiful and evil, and everyone knows that what is good is good and what is not good. Therefore, there is no mutual birth, difficulty and ease are mutually compatible, the length is dwarfed, the high and the low are inclined to each other, the sound is harmonious, and the front and back are with each other. β
"The way of heaven is like a bow, the way of heaven is more than enough to make up for the deficiency, but the way of man is not, the loss is not enough to give more than enough. Who can have more than enough to serve the world? β
"Heaven and earth are unkind, and all things are used as dogs......"
The words are beautiful, deafening.
Every word seems to have a power beyond the reach of heaven and earth.
Every sentence seems to carry the unspeakable origin of the avenue.
"I see, I heard someone explain some of the contents of this book to me......" The sub-singer held the "Tao Te Ching", frowned slightly, recalled some past events, and muttered to himself, "Three years old...... Xinwu Pavilion ...... Listen to the ......"
He opened his eyes, and his gaze was like a torch.
"Xinwu Pavilion! is the true meaning of martial arts that I listened to in Xinwu Pavilion when I was three years old!"
He remembered.
However, Zige is now very sure that such words cannot and should not appear in the Jiwu Continent at all, because these words cannot be born in the Jiwu Continent.
What makes Zige even more sure of his conjecture is that these words only talk about heaven and earth, and they never mention the word "martial arts", which is a phenomenon that should never appear in the extremely martial arts continent where martial arts are prosperous!
And another evidence also proves Zige's guess, that is, "The Book of Mountains" and "The Book of the Sea", they are not products of this world, because the various things mentioned in them are not at all in the cognition of the popular martial artists in the Jiwu Continent!
Zige thought of a lot, all kinds of speculations made his brain ache, and he was only six years old, and he vaguely felt that this world seemed to be a huge chessboard, and everyone, including his mysterious Master Yuan, might just be one of the chess pieces, or even an outcast!
Who are the two sides in the game?
What is their purpose?
What do the winners get?
How will the loser get out?
What about me?
What role do I play in this?
My head hurts, it's about to crack, it's about to explode, it's about to burst!
"Ahh
Zige looked up to the sky and roared, and for a moment, his hands drooped, his head down, panting heavily, like a drowning man who had just climbed ashore, and his clothes were soaked with sweat, like a drowning man who had just been fished out of the water.
......
"He's only six years old, will it be too fast?"
"You and I should be glad that he was smart enough to think through it so quickly, otherwise, he would not be qualified to take this path. β
The voice in the dark was hidden, and the heavens and the earth did not notice it, and two words once sounded in this world.
......
In the days that followed, Zige didn't think about what happened that day. It also has to be prefixed, "deliberately".
"I'm a wasted person who doesn't even have Wu Yuan's power, even if I know all the secrets, what can I do?" Zige said to the little fox.
But it is undeniable that that incident has become a thorn in Zige's heart, and it cannot be forgotten unless the memory is erased.
Later, Zige concentrated on using various methods, such as temptation, threat, or heart-to-heart, to turn every animal in Moyuan into a book and read it. These books are titled "Huainanzi", "The Book of Rites", "Analects", "The Mean", etc., all of which are the words of sages that have never existed in the Jiwu Continent.
Wandering in the sea of books, Zige didn't notice that the anger and hatred in his heart seemed to be ice and snow in the warm sun, gradually melting. It wasn't until the penultimate animal in Mo Yuan turned into a book, and after being read and remembered by Zige, Zige turned his gaze to the last animal-
Little fox.
Zige showed a lewd smile, grabbed the little fox, and said, "Hehe, little fox, do you still obediently turn it into a book?"
The little fox looked at Zige innocently with a veiled face, and his little eyes looked innocently, as if to say, "Who am I? Where am I? What am I doing?"
"Huh?" Zige frowned, the little fox has been by his side since he fell to Mo Yuan and woke up, one person and one fox have been together for so long, it is not too much to say that they have a heart-to-heart connection, at least they can understand each other's meaning, the appearance of the little fox shows that "I don't know anything".
Zige raised the little fox with both hands, swayed from side to side, up and down, and said, "Little fox, are you really just a little fox?
The little fox, who was shaken and dazed, "chirped" in dissatisfaction, jumped on Zige's shoulder, and raised his little paw as if to say, "Mozige, are you a fool? You are the book! Believe it or not, I scratch you!"
After confirming that the little fox was really a little fox, Zige scratched the back of his head embarrassedly, stuck out his tongue, and gently stroked the little fox's hair, which was one of the little fox's favorite things, the other thing was to jump on Zige's shoulder and let Zige take it for a walk and play, and the other thing was to be held in Zige's arms at night and fall asleep peacefully.
"Not bad, not bad. An old voice appeared behind Zige, Zige turned around, and the figure of the white-haired old man named himself "Mo Yuan" gradually emerged, looking at Zige happily.
"Master Yuan!" Zige said in surprise, and immediately remembered something, and when he bent down, he was about to kneel, and said in his mouth, "Apprentice to meet the master." β
Respecting teachers is morality.
Mo Yuan raised his hand, held Zige, and said, "You and I, master and apprentice, don't need so many vulgar courtesies. β
"Yes, Master Yuan. Zige was already free and easy, just like a child, and suddenly said naughtily.
The master and apprentice walked under the banyan tree and sat cross-legged.
"I ask you, do you know how long it has been?"
Zige was stunned for a moment, and the first question after Mo Yuan put away as an apprentice was the same.
"I don't know. β
I was in a coma, so I didn't know, and now I don't know.
"How do you feel?" Mo Yuan asked.
"It should be...... A year, ......," Zige replied uncertainly.
Mo Yuan shook his head and said with a smile: "It's been three years. β
When Zige heard this, he opened his mouth wide and spoke for a while before he spoke: "Three years, Master Yuan, has it really been three years?"
"In other words, am I nine years old now?" Zige silently added in his heart.
"Heheβthis shows that you are really studying hard, and when you concentrate all your attention on one thing, time will be lost before you know it. Those so-called strong people, once they retreat, for a hundred years and thousands of years, are just a snap of a finger. However, I have to remind you of the time. It may be a good thing for you to remember the time. Mo Yuan said meaningfully.
Zige didn't understand, but nodded anyway.
"I can feel the anger in your heart, remember, don't let hatred take control of your heart. Now, you can try to feel your martial arts skills again. β
Hearing this, Zige was overjoyed, but he suppressed the ecstasy in his heart, closed his eyes, and mobilized every bit of spiritual power, wanting to feel the long-lost power.
A quarter of an hour, half an hour, an hour......
Zige opened his eyes, he still couldn't feel any trace of Wu Yuan power, but he didn't show the same discouraged and panicked as he did three years ago. In the past three years, the true meaning of the text has made him slowly learn to "not be happy with things, not sad with himself".
This is not to say that he has lost his emotions as a human being, but that his mind is slowly maturing and he is no longer like an ignorant child, panicking and crying because of difficulties.
He's growing up.
"Master Yuan......" Zige didn't continue.
"Still failed?" Mo Yuan sighed.
"Or, Master Yuan, did you already know that I was going to fail?" Zige keenly grasped the message in Mo Yuan's words.
He's smart, too smart to be like a nine-year-old.
Mo Yuan shook his head and said, "I'm just guessing, I'm not sure. β
"Master Yuan, what should I do then?" Zige asked.
Mo Yuan looked at Zige, Zige couldn't understand Mo Yuan's eyes, because that look was as clear as the water in the Mirror Lake.
After a long time, Mo Yuan spoke-
"Have you heard of the Mortal Martial Arts?"