Along the huge steps carved out of the mountains, the crowd slowly walked up.

As he was marching, Fang Tian unexpectedly remembered a passage from the ancient Chinese books of his previous life, "The nationalized people of the West Pole come, enter the water and fire, penetrate the golden stones, reverse the mountains and rivers, move the city, take advantage of the void and do not fall, touch the real without being embarrassed, ever-changing, and cannot be exhausted." ”

"Into the water and fire, through the golden stone", he can't do it now, but it is already imaginable. Far or not far from the path of magic, there is such an endowment. As long as he keeps going, one day, he can do it.

"Anti-mountains and rivers, moving cities", but it is already in the palm of his hand, already under his feet, although his "anti-mountains and rivers" is only small, even ultra-small. However, how could such power be imagined by him when he first came to this world?

"Take advantage of the void and not fall", which is also already behind him. If he wants, at this time, he can take the castle of ice and snow in the sky, and travel all over the continent. Of course, it is necessary to come down from time to time to rest, and it is far from reaching the realm of "traveling in the North Sea and the South China Sea", but between the two, it is only the difference in levels.

Before you know it, you've come this far.

It's only eight months, less than a year in this life.

Ten years from now, what will it look like?

Thinking of this, a faint longing rose in Fang Tian's heart. It's not to overpower the world, nor to overpower sentient beings, but it's just that, as you move forward step by step, the road under your feet is getting wider and wider, the world in your heart is getting bigger and bigger, and the world in your eyes is getting wider and wider.

The body is healthy, the spirit is condensed, the mind is enlightened, and on the whole, the whole person is "sublimated".

That's a feeling called "freedom."

Unconsciously, it can even be said that in a blink of an eye, the nine steps have been exhausted, and what is displayed in front of everyone's eyes is a large square.

Just over the ninth step. When you step into the square. Facing the huge square, a few people unconsciously turned around and looked at the way they came, and then, turning again, looking at the end of the square.

Eighty-one steps, surrounded by squares. The interval is nine segments.

These nine paragraphs, it goes without saying, should correspond to the first to ninth levels of the magician's apprenticeship stage. But between each level, why make such a square?

The thirteen people in the field, except for Fang Tian, had their own guesses in their hearts. And obviously, they couldn't pass up this opportunity that might contain something.

So someone asked.

"Your Highness, is this square for rest?" spoke Carter, an eighth-level magician and one of the former "Eight Friends of the Maple Forest".

The previous nine steps, although not comparable to the staircase steps in the previous life, were only half a meter high. It is up to about two meters wide. Walking through such nine steps, except for those who have reached a certain level in their previous lives, or patients and the like. Obviously, there is no need to "rest".

So, the meaning of Carter's words was obvious, what he asked was not the rest after walking the steps, but the rest after being promoted to the first level in the cultivation of magic.

This kind of "rest" between levels involves not only from a first-level magic apprentice to a second-level magic apprentice, nor only from a ninth-level magic apprentice to a mage, and the same applies after the mage, for example, from a new mage to a junior mage.

Therefore, after Carter asked, not only Orson and Ryan, the two lowest-ranking people in the field, were staring, but also new mages such as Andy Eric were also looking forward to Fang Tian's answer, and it could even be said that their expectations were greater than those of Ivan, Carter, Orson and others.

The atmosphere in the field, at this time, is quiet and subtle.

Fang Tian smiled, and then said to Carter: "Well, if you are weak, it is appropriate to rest here at this time." After resting, you can look back to your heart's content, and the scenery behind you is all in sight at this time. At the same time, it is natural to think that in that high place, in that higher place, the scenery should be better. And if you are a strong person, come here, this wide square is not a place for a stroll. ”

"How do you reconcile your heart, honorable elder?" asked Andy with a smile and a half-truth.

"I've heard two things say it. One is that the mind is so clear, but the heart is disturbed, the heart is quiet, and the desire is involved. Therefore, if you can always send their desires, your heart will be quiet, and if you can always clear your heart, your mind will be clear. ”

"This is the so-called 'Purifying Mind Method'. ”

As soon as Fang Tian's words came out, the thirteen breaths in the field all froze, and in an instant, the breaths of several more people turned heavy.

"It is said that in ancient times, this method was very popular, and many cultivators, even great cultivators, sought secluded wilderness, entered deep mountains, lived on isolated islands, and lost the world. Fang Tian began to brag again, anyway, it was "reported" and "ancient", absolutely right belongs to the kind of death without proof, you can brag as much as you want, "This school can be called 'breaking love and desperation', and later, some people even put forward the slogan of 'preserving heavenly principles and destroying people's desires'." ”

"In short, everything whose purpose is 'purity', whether it is a matter of depth, basic moderation, or complete abstinence, can be classified into this category. ”

Speaking of this, looking left and right at the people with different expressions, Fang Tian continued:

"This genre was very influential at first. But gradually, some people began to raise questions, and most of them were people who had cultivated in this way but had not gained much in the end, and felt that the gains outweighed the losses, so some people said angrily, 'Is it just to cultivate ourselves into a wooden or stone man?'

So they turned, either hesitantly or decisively, and went in the opposite direction, in the opposite direction of the 'Desire Clearing' that had preceded them. ”

"They indulge their desires, as much as they can, without end, and they think that only in this indulgence can they truly see their hearts and minds when they are truly confronted with themselves, with their own beauty and ugliness, and with their own humility and loftiness. - If you don't indulge, how do you know what you need and want, how do you know what you really are?"

"This is the so-called 'Indulgence and Clarity of Mind'. ”

"'Sending desires to clear the heart' and 'indulging in the mind', two methods and two directions, seem to make sense. ”

Fang Tian said this and stopped.

The crowd waited for a while, either stunned or contemplative, and before they could wait for the following, they knew that they had already finished speaking.

"Your Highness, what is your choice?" asked Xiyan with hope and puzzlement.

Judging from digging a well underground and meditating and cultivating in the well, Fang Tian's choice should be an obvious "Sending Desires to Clear the Heart", but from the perspective of serving as the City Lord, it is not the way of "Sending Desires to Clear the Heart" at all, but closer to "Indulging in Desires and Clearing the Heart".

So the crowd was confused.

These two diametrically opposed directions are destined to be only one of them, just as it is impossible for a person to go both south and north at the same time.

It doesn't make sense.

"Left or right, neither of these directions is for me. Fang Tian said with a smile.

"Your Highness, this is what you said before in the 'Nine Heavens and Ten Earths Destroying the Great True Law of Destroying Delusion and Destroying Demons', 'The left line is madness, and the right line is also delusional. There is no other direction for cultivation, and the avenue is in the center?'" Mu Luo frowned tightly and said slowly.

Why frown, in fact, is very simple.

That is two paths, either left or right, and there is no zài in the middle. Either 'indulgence' or 'indulgence', it is impossible to indulge in lust today, indulge in lust tomorrow, and return to indulgence tomorrow.

To do that, you have to be insane, and you can't even do it as a normal person, let alone as a cultivator.

"You should also be able to think of it, it doesn't matter about the center. Beyond these two directions, there is no third direction. Fang Tian said lightly.

His answer did not surprise Mu Luo and the others, but after hearing his words, everyone was confused. - Since neither direction is his choice, but at this time it is clear that there is no third direction, then-

What exactly is his choice?

If it was Fang Tian's previous life, in this case, most of them would think of a story called spear and shield, the spear is indestructible, and the shield cannot be broken, so what is the result when the contradictions collide?

Outcome...... The result can only be no result.

Therefore, in the midst of everyone's frustration or confusion or madness, Fang Tian just pointed to the front of the square, and then pointed to the buildings far above, and said to everyone with a smile: "Everyone go up again, when you reach that peak, how about the scenery?"

When they took another step, everyone lost the excitement just now, and they were so depressed that they were going to die.

The lights don't light up.

In the previous cultivation of everyone in the audience, there was originally no concept of direction, but at this time, this concept was picked out by Fang Tian, so for them, from mages such as Andy Muluo to magic apprentices such as Aosen Lane, they naturally all understood that their previous cultivation was walking in these two directions more or less.

However, Fang Tian said again, he didn't take either direction.

In other words, that is, both directions are incorrect?

Whether this is the case or not, this feeling of stopping abruptly at the most critical time is really terrible.

"Hehe, I'll ask you a question. If the sky is ten thousand high, and now there is a man on the earth who builds steps, and each step is counted at the height of one number, and one step is built on the first day, two on the second day, three on the third day, and so on, then in the first few days, this person will be able to spread the steps to the top of the sky?"

"If these eighty-one steps are exhausted, and someone can tell me that I am the first few days, then I will tell you my direction. ”

Fang Tian said with a slight smile.

"Your Highness, the old man's legs and feet are inconvenient, can he rest for a while anytime and anywhere?" After listening to Fang Tian's question, after being silent for a long time, the old man Eric asked.

"Whether they believe it or not, I don't believe it anyway. Fang Tian replied like this. (To be continued.) )