Shuyu took the two nurses away, leaving only Shuli and the old man in Tsing Yi standing on the shore of the lake, the lake behind them was like a mirror, and the full moon was like a plate.

The old man in Tsing Yi turned his head to look at Shuli, who was also secretly looking at him, making contact with the old man's gaze, and looking up at Mingyue with a little embarrassment.

The old man in Tsing Yi smiled and said to Shuli, "Do you want to go to the library to have a look?"

Shuli's heart moved, his eyes still didn't look at him, but he nodded silently.

The old man in Tsing Yi turned around and walked towards the library pavilion, and Shuli hurriedly followed.

I saw the old man in Tsing Yi walking to the edge of the Dharma Protector Array, raising his hand and waving it lightly, a doorway suddenly appeared in front of him, as if it had been carved out of the air, with a hollow middle and a faint silver light on the edge. Shuli touched it very curiously when he walked over, and the edge of the hole was moist and smooth, and it was cool and silky.

"Isn't it interesting?" the old man in Tsing Yi turned to look at him in front, "There is still a sense of familiarity, right?"

Shuli nodded and said, "I seem to have seen this kind of white glowing rune somewhere. ”

The old man in Tsing Yi stroked his beard and said, "You should be familiar with it." Looking at your martial arts realm, you should be the leader in this generation, and generally the juniors of your age will not be able to resist any attack of the Tianyi Divine Beast. Although you were seriously injured just now, you still resisted its attack, and now although you forcibly suppressed the injury, you can walk freely, and your skills are not comparable to ordinary juniors.

"From this, it can be inferred that you should have a high status in the family, at least, be able to enter and exit the Tianqiao Pavilion. And this Dharma Protector Array is also from Tianqiao Pavilion, and it is in the same vein as the Xuanzhu, one of the treasures of the Zhen Clan. Then he turned and walked forward.

Shuli suddenly realized, chased forward, and asked, "Master, I don't know if it's right to call it that, my father just called you Elder, I'm afraid it's not right." ”

The old man in Tsing Yi laughed: "It's okay, the old man was born in the vein of the book family guarding the library pavilion, and he can't even help himself in life, and his name is already the least important thing." ”

Shuli continued: "Master, in the past few days, many strange things have happened to me, and I really can't figure it out, so I came out to relax tonight, but I didn't expect to bump into this place by mistake, I was very disturbed, and I felt deeply guilty. I wonder if you can answer some of your disciples' questions? I would appreciate it if you could give your disciples some advice. ”

The old man in Tsing Yi turned around and stopped, looked at him, stopped at his bald head, and said, "Well, I can see that you are in a strange situation. Since you call me a master, then this guidance is unavoidable. However, I may not be able to answer your doubts, so let's go to the Fujing Pavilion next to the Library Pavilion and sit down before we talk. ”

Shuli followed the old man to the Fujing Pavilion of His Excellency, this pavilion hangs on the lake, by the shore, there are wooden plank bridges at both ends of the winding passage, the pavilion has a double layer, the eaves hook angle, carved beam grain wood, very exquisite. The most strange thing is to come to the second floor of the pavilion, look out the window towards the lake, the full moon and the lake are like mirrors, looking out from this window, whether it is the bright moon or the moon in the water, it seems that you can reach out and touch, and the construction of this place can be described as ingenuity.

The old man in Tsing Yi sat on the seat facing the window at the round wooden table in the pavilion, and the scholar stood aside. The footsteps moved, Shuli looked over, and a little scholar with clear eyebrows came from nowhere, brought a set of tea sets, put it on the table and left silently.

"Sit down and have some tea. The old man in Tsing Yi said.

"The juniors don't dare. Shuli hurriedly said.

"The ancients once said, seventy do what you want, don't exceed the rules, I'm almost 200 years old, don't abide by these rules, sit down. The old man skillfully arranged the tea set.

"Master, I've been restless lately, what happened in the past few days is like a bizarre dream, it's not real, but it's really difficult to get rid of in reality, and the disciple is quite depressed. Shuli sat down and spoke.

"Oh, so tell me about your experience first. The old man in Tsing Yi said.

Shuli sorted out his thoughts and told the old man in Tsing Yi about everything from the execution of the "Qu Ge Order" to meeting Monk Ran, to accidentally stabbing his junior brother to death, to returning to the family, fading the green silk on his head, and being accused by everyone of betraying the family, etc., to the old man in Tsing Yi, hoping that he could guide him to a way out in the future.

The old man in Tsing Yi listened quietly, washed out a cup of fragrant tea and put it in front of himself and Shuli, held a small and delicate teacup in his hand, sniffed the fragrance of tea, and thought slowly.

After a while, the old man in Tsing Yi put down the cup, looked at the book, and said: "Born in a scholar's family, you should have been familiar with the Four Books and Five Classics since childhood, but have you ever understood the history of the calligrapher?"

Shuli was stunned for a moment and shook his head.

The old man in Tsing Yi lowered his head and stroked the teacup lightly, and continued: "The scholar family has a history of nearly a thousand years, and for a family, it can be described as a blessing. But thousands of years ago, when the ancestors of the scholars came here, the mountains were vast and desolate, and Qifeng City at the foot of the mountain was just a dilapidated village. Speaking of which, the calligrapher also had the most glorious period, and the ancestor of the calligrapher was originally an important minister of the Dawu Imperial Court, and was inextricably linked with the Holy Academy.

"For more than 1,000 years, the emperors of the Dawu Dynasty have changed, like the ebb and flow of the tide, like the rising and falling of the moon. Dawu State out of the imperial court, there are many dependent sects, Solomon, the Holy Academy, the North and South Sects of Buddhism, and the Taoist Taiqing Sect, all of which are famous sects with a thousand-year-old foundation in Dawu State, which hinder each other, even if there is mutual damage and consumption, there are still many talents, and they are reused by the dynasty.

However, since an accident thousands of years ago, the ancestors of the scholars were disheartened because they were tired of the court battles, and moved their families, intending to return to seclusion here, concentrate on education, cultivate scholarly children, and pass on the torch. It wasn't until an ancestor of the calligrapher flew to the sky to pick up the stars that the fame of the Mountain of No Return spread in the Great Wu Kingdom. ”

Shuli listened very attentively, because the family and the family academy had never explained the history of the family in such detail, and at most they only talked a little about the glorious spectacle of the sanctification of the ancestors, and felt the same glory, and the rest of the silence seemed to have something difficult to say.

The old man in Tsing Yi made another cup of tea, took a sip, and motioned for Shuli to taste it too. Shuli picked up the teacup, which was already slightly cold, but after tasting it, the light tea fragrance was refreshing.

The old man in Tsing Yi continued to ask, "Then do you know the origin of the Heaven and Earth Sacred Heart Formula?"

Shuli raised her glass and continued to shake her head.

The old man in Tsing Yi took another sip of tea and said: "The Sacred Heart of Heaven and Earth was originally one of the exercises brought back by the ancestors of the calligrapher from the Holy Academy, which is very in line with the transmission of the children of the calligrapher. Kid, this kind of merit that has affected the history of the cultivation world of the Great Martial Kingdom is indeed enough to make us proud.

"However, there is not only this one kind of exercises that the calligrapher brought back from the Holy Academy, but there are several kinds of exercises that can be compared to the Sacred Heart Formula in the library cabinet at the back, and at the same time, the number of exercises outside the collection and sorting out by the calligrapher for thousands of years is also very huge, which is why our library needs a separate line to guard, because what is hidden in the library is the foundation of our calligrapher.

"As for the other exercises, we are only learned and practiced by this side branch alone, and the ordinary disciples of the calligrapher only practice the Heaven and Earth Sacred Heart Determination. The reason for this is that on the one hand, the inheritance of the relics of the Library Pavilion is that on the one hand, the stones of other mountains can be used to attack jade, and the strengths of other exercises can be excavated to make up for the shortcomings of the Sacred Heart, so that the Heaven and Earth Sacred Heart will be more perfect and play a greater role.

"But because of this, there is a great risk, so this line of guarding the library must choose to be obscure and only concentrate on practice. The family is looking forward to the emergence of a genius in our vein, and another star-picking saint. But even if we are well-informed and knowledgeable, have more advantages than the rest of the family, have profound exercises, and have a longer lifespan, we still can't break through the holy realm and fly to the sky to pick up stars. It's fate, don't force it!"

Speaking of this, the old man in Tsing Yi shook his head helplessly.

Shuli also fell silent, so that he never thought that the calligrapher still had these deeply hidden secrets, and the calligrapher seemed to have an intricate past with the outside world.

The old man in Tsing Yi looked at the full moon on the lake in front of the window for a while, came back to his senses, and continued to ask: "You said that you have often had the opportunity to go out to the mountains to carry out missions in recent years, so have you understood the outside world enough?"

Shuli replied: "The younger generation is just carrying out the tasks of the family, and they dare not slack off in the slightest, and they will go up the mountain to return after the execution, and they don't know much about the world." ”

The old man in Tsing Yi said: "The world? The ancestors of the calligraphers retreated here because they were tired of fighting, and they wanted to devote themselves to education and inherit the fragrance of books, but they did not expect that the development of the family in the past thousand years had already exceeded the expectations of the ancestors, and it was also out of their preset track.

"The scholar population is at its peak, and there are many people with many ideas, so some people began to go down the mountain and built the dilapidated village under the mountain into Qifeng City with a population of hundreds of thousands, cultivating manpower and building a city protection army. The calligrapher developed rapidly at the foot of the mountain, and after just a few hundred years, it occupied a monopoly in the powerful field of Yunzhou, and became an important force standing with the Xuanyin faction and the Southern Sect.

"If you are powerful, you will fight with each other, if you fight, you will shed blood, if you fight, you will have conspiracy and conspiracy, and if you have conspiracy, you will kill a few people, and you will kill a thousand people. The secular calligrapher got rid of the cumbersome mundane world of the imperial court and fell headlong into the secular power of Yunzhou. Who's good?"

The old man in Tsing Yi couldn't argue with the questioning, and he couldn't even think deeply about how much blood would be stained and how many souls would be created in the hands of the predecessors and disciples of the calligrapher in the past thousand years if it was for the sake of power struggle.

The old man in Tsing Yi continued: "But, child, it's not good to be vulgar. Even if the calligrapher is bent on retreating, but the multiplication of the population is the way of heaven, and if the population is large, it needs more resources, and if you can't control the resources, it will eventually become extinct. Not only scholars, but also thousands of sects in the Dawu Kingdom, including Solomon, the Holy Academy, the Nanzong Temple, the Beizong Temple, the Taiqing Gate and other thousand-year-old giant sects, all fought each other and rioted endlessly for the sake of survival. ”

"Isn't there a way for everyone to live together peacefully?" Shuli asked.

The old man in Tsing Yi smiled helplessly: "Maybe there is, but at least not now." ”

He thought for a moment and said: "What makes the old man quite comforting is that for thousands of years, there have been people who have been committed to how to quell wars and even disputes, such as some Buddhas in Buddhism and some heavenly masters in Taoism. Buddhism leads people to goodness, Taoism is natural, and Confucianism rebuilds etiquette. There are people in this world, even though they come from different sects, have different beliefs, and practice different exercises, but they have the same goal. In the eyes of Buddhism and Buddhist monks, it is to purify all sentient beings, and in the eyes of Confucianism, it is to help the world. ”

"So, what is the difference between the path of Confucianism, Buddhism, and Taoism?" asked Shuli, who had never thought deeply about these questions, and who would like to take this opportunity tonight to ask them what is going on.

"Confucianism, Buddhism and Taoism have the same origin, and they are differentiated at the beginning of chaos, and the latecomers comprehend the method, create exercises, and use the aura of heaven and earth as the carrier to cultivate themselves, draw strength, and even achieve no death and life, no reincarnation. Heaven and earth are chaotic, dividing the aura of heaven and earth, so countless people absorb the aura of heaven and earth to cultivate, and gradually divide into many categories, mainly three types: Confucianism's Haoran righteousness, Buddhism's Buddha power aura, Taoism's yin and yang qi or true qi. With this as the mainstream, it has divided into thousands of sects of all sizes in the Great Martial Kingdom, and the deviation of the cultivation concept between the sects has led to long-term chaos. Throughout history, it is really putting the cart before the horse. ”

Shuli's heart was agitated, Confucianism, Buddhism and Taoism, in the past in his heart was just a vague concept, but now it is much clearer, they jointly use the aura of heaven and earth to cultivate the magic power, but because of the disagreement in the cultivation concept, they are fighting each other, and the world is far more complicated than he imagined.

He was silent, but the old man in Tsing Yi was not in a hurry, and gently sipped the tea.

After a while, Shuli raised his head and said to the old man in Tsing Yi: "Master, in the past, I also wanted to practice hard to wait for the heavens, but now with my personal experience, combined with the answers of the master, I understand the complexity of the world, and it is difficult to be at peace in my heart.

"Master, I think that only when I am like those predecessors who are committed to quelling disputes, taking the world as my own responsibility, helping the world, and saving the people of Dawn from the midst of strife, can I feel the meaning of this life, and maybe I will return to my inner peace and be able to make a breakthrough in my cultivation!"

The old man in Tsing Yi smiled with satisfaction and said, "Child, the old man has stuck to this deep mountain, wasted a hundred years of time, and he can't find a path to cultivation, and to this day, he still has achieved nothing. Supporting the world has always been the most noble but also the most distant dream in the hearts of Confucian disciples. However, the old man wants to remind you that it is easy to have great ambitions, but it is really difficult to overcome obstacles, and there is a long way to go if you want to promote justice and help the world. Although you have been influenced by the Buddha's path, it is up to you how you follow the path. ”

"So what do I do next?"

"Accept yourself and talk to the world. ”