In the southern suburbs of the imperial capital, in a manor.

"I say goodbye to three paths, don't open three doors, one is the first to fight the sky and the earth, the second is the first to dance with long sleeves, and the first is the first to have three potential insights, where do you want to enter, which door do you choose?"

A fourteen or fifteen-year-old boy held a thin booklet, read this sentence gently, then raised his head and said to the old man sitting on the stone table opposite: "Teacher, what do you mean by being good at dancing with long sleeves?"

"Your father's kind of person is called Long-sleeved and good at dancing. The old man said with a smile.

"Oh. When the young man heard this, his brows furrowed, and his face showed a very disapproving look, and then he said puzzledly: "Teacher, do we magicians also have any long-sleeved good dancing skills?"

"For me, no. For you, no, either. For your father, there is. The old man said slowly.

These words were obviously beyond the comprehension of a teenager, and the teenager said respectfully, "Please ask the teacher for advice." ”

"Look at this little tree. The old man pointed to a large tree that several people were hugging not far from the two people in the courtyard, and then at the root of the big tree, seven or eight feet away from the big tree, a small sapling was extending from the root.

"For a little sapling like this, we don't have to do anything, just let it grow to its heart's content. The old man paused, and then said, "But when it grows a little taller and stronger, we can't let it go." Because of its stem, many oblique branches will grow. ”

"Some of the oblique branches can be kept, but some of the oblique branches must be removed. Otherwise, the tree will grow crooked and grow bad. Then, even if we wanted to clean up the stray branches, we couldn't. ”

"Because, they and the trunk can no longer distinguish who is bigger and who is smaller, who is the main and who is secondary. ”

"Does the teacher mean that the progress of meditation and the exercise of spells should be prioritized as early as possible?" said the boy.

The old man probably didn't mean that, but he didn't rebuke the young man. Instead, he nodded and said, "How do you understand the relationship between meditation and spells?"

"If, according to what you just said, meditation should be the backbone, and the exercise of various spells is those oblique branches?"

"That's not right!" As soon as he finished saying that, the young man immediately corrected himself: "Meditation should be...... Tree roots, choose only one of the four spells, as the trunk, and the others. Be prepared to give up?"

"You're right. One step on four roads, never two steps on one road, come far. The old man said, "Therefore, the most important thing for a cultivator is to treat himself as a cripple, and not to have so much thought and energy to take many, many paths, and only stare at one." Go down, and you're good to go. ”

"In this world. The road that a cripple can walk is generally farther than the path that a normal person can walk. ”

"Over the years, all the mages I've met have willingly been lame. ”

"On the contrary, those who do not want to be lame. It's been going round and round. When, their leg was broken, and when. They can break out of that circle. ”

Empire, Southern Xinjiang.

It was a strange building, the whole of the building, made of huge bluestone, and from the outside, this small, narrow building looked like a long arrow stuck upside down on the flat ground, reaching out to the sky.

Under the evening light of the setting sun, the cyan arrow-shaped building looks extremely hard and cold.

Inside the building, an old man in a gray robe stood by the window.

Many faces, young, young, strong, old, mild, cold, numb, hideous, flashed in their consciousness.

Here, it is not so much a frontier as a training camp for the children of the major families of the empire, but those who have not been trained in Guò will never be able to leave here.

Every family that is famous in the empire, and its outstanding sons of every generation, have to go through it once.

It is no longer clear from which generation this rule came into existence, and even the old man does not know it, but he only knows that such rules have existed for a long, long time on the entire continent.

There are also families who reject such rules.

However, judging from the actual situation, it is difficult for the family ruler who has not survived here to lead the family smoothly.

A lot of them, there will be problems of one kind or another in the middle.

So slowly, such a seemingly cruel rule became a matter of course for all major families.

However, the cruelty has not faded a little from this assumption of granted.

"My lord, I believe that I can go back!"

It was a young man as powerful as a sword, and even his eyebrows were drawn like a sword. And for a long time before, he also performed very well.

It's just that, later, it seems that because of too many fights, it is getting more and more crazy.

When a person falls in love with fighting and does not stop risking his life, he may have won ninety-nine times in a hundred battles, but if he misses only once, it may be at that time, and there will be no future.

There are a lot of such people.

Moreover, they were all brilliant men, especially among the outstanding members of the families.

"The road of war and heaven and battlefield can be rampant. However, the body is a sword and a sword, and it will end in self-destruction for a long time. Sure enough!" the old man sighed deeply.

There is only a game of life and death without a winner or loser, and even if it is full of advantages, it cannot continue forever.

If you can't see this clearly, the end is almost doomed.

It's just that how many outstanding people can put aside their pride? It is pride, let them be outstanding, and it is also pride, let them believe in themselves excessively when they have not been destroyed.

In this regard, the old man sighed again.

"My lord, are you allowed to form your own team here?"

It was a teenager who stood in front of him and could keep smiling, although the smile was a little reluctant, but it was already very commendable.

The old man clearly remembered that he did not say anything at that time.

Of course, not taking a position is itself a statement.

So the young man who was born in a certain family in the imperial capital, with his background and means, easily gathered a large group of people around him. On the battlefield, even if no one blocked the knife for him, many dangers were still blocked early.

The boy became more and more convinced of the correctness of this approach.

After a few years, his methods became more and more mature, but his cultivation was imperceptibly lagging behind his group of "brothers".

As the battlefield progressed, a sudden battle came.

Then, the boy, whom many of his "brothers" called "the boss," never returned.

"The road of long-sleeved good dancing can be leveraged. However, if you don't do it yourself, you will not be able to catch it. Even if you are proud, you will be disappointed in the end. The old man sighed again.

For thousands of years, who has ever heard that a sheep with mature means can always be safe and sound in the habitat of wolves?

When the wolf is not hungry, it may be possible to befriend him or even take care of him. But when the wolves themselves are miserable, the sheep are their spare food.

Those who have been borrowing strength will one day have to pay the price for that borrowing strength.

"The road to insight into the general trend can be subtle. However, there is no eye for the world, and it is rare to have the ability to reincarnate. Being in the WTO can be supplemented by others, but there is no way to be upright. The fame is all over the world, and there is a catastrophe. ”

"Isn't this what I said?"

"It's ridiculous that I haven't seen through it for so many years. I thought I had seen through the staggered ups and downs of the forces, but I didn't see that even those forces that had been repeatedly frustrated were on the road to having pride. ”

"And people like me will never be qualified to be proud. ”

"There will be no frustration on the road, in fact, there will always be frustration. ”

"Because of frustration and pride, Ben is on the same path. By the time I refused to be disappointed, I had already embarked on a different path, another path that would never be proud. ”

"Ridiculous!"

"Ridiculous!"

"Heaven and earth have evolved to the present, and I don't know how many years have passed. If there is a perfect way, where will it be your turn to do it?

"Fang Tian Xiaoyou, if I can be promoted to ** from this, you should be worshiped by me in another year!"

Continent, somewhere secret.

It was an almost glazed sky, with large expanses of snow falling from the sky.

Standing on the ground, the high and low mountains are winding and horizontal, stretching for thousands of miles, but all the ground and mountains are covered with thick snow, and the depths of the snow are even thicker ice.

From time to time, a bitter wind swept through this world, wrapped in snowflakes, turning into pieces of sharp flying knives.

Of course, along with this process, there is also a terrifying roar.

is such an environment, in this world, but there is a middle-aged man with his hands behind his back, walking unhurriedly under the snow.

All the wind and snow, all around him, pass guò without any hindrance.

It's as if you're just walking around here.

"There is a mixture of things, and they are born from nature. Lonely, independent and unchanging, Zhou Xing without dying, can be the mother of the world. I don't know its name, the strong word is called the way, and the strong name is big. The big is gone, the past is far away, and the far is reversed. Therefore, the Tao is great, the sky is great, the earth is great, and the people are also great. There are four major domains, and people live in one of them. Man is the law of the earth, the earth is the law of the sky, the heaven is the law, and the Tao is the nature. ”

The middle-aged man's mouth was chanting.

It's just that his chanting is very weird, his pronunciation is almost word by word, and between the pronunciations, the interval between words, some are very short, some are very long, so long that the word is finished, for a long time, there is no next word.

Coupled with his inexplicable tone that is not very easy to describe, it sounds, it doesn't seem like a person's chanting, more like a ......

It's more like the sound of wind and snow in this world.

He recited this passage many times in and out of fits, and the middle-aged man's attention focused on the end of the passage, "Man is the law of the earth, the earth is the law of the sky, the heaven is the law, and the Tao is the ...... Nature. ”

After a long pause, there was a low question: "Naturally?"

Arriving here, the middle-aged man stopped and looked up at the sky.

"What is nature?"

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