The sky was already dark, and Ye Xiao couldn't see the scene in the medicine garden clearly, but the breeze blew through the dark incense, which was pleasant. It's a pity that the person who played the flute didn't show up, Ye Xiao left from the window, sat cross-legged and continued to cultivate.

Danxin Garden is the only herb garden in the White Tiger Academy, which cultivates a variety of exotic flowers and herbs for the use of the Dan masters in the academy, and the person in charge of taking care of the Danxin Garden is one of Mu Chengshu's three personal disciples, Mu Shuixin, who is known as the 'Dream Man'. The "man in the painting" gentleman Jean, the "man in the dream" Mu Shuixin, and the "man in the clouds" Mo Qingmad are the three legendary figures of the White Tiger Academy, and they are deeply loved by everyone.

Mu Shuixin put down the jade flute in his hand, and stared at a purple bud in front of him with a pair of bright eyes, which had twelve green and slender leaves, guarding the bud in the center.

"The Twelve Nights Moonflower is finally about to bloom, and it's not in vain that I have spent so long taking care of it. Mu Shuixin muttered to himself. The Twelve Night Moon Flower, also known as the bosom friend flower, must be heard for a long time to have the possibility of blooming. Calming down her excitement, she looked out of the window in the bamboo hut, but saw a candle lit on the Tingyu Tower not far away.

"Is there a newcomer living in Tingyu Building?" Mu Shuixin frowned, this Tingyu Building has been empty for more than two years since he moved out. "I hope Chu Qinglan doesn't go too far. Mu Shui's heart was full of worries about the people in the rain building.

Early the next morning, Ye Xiao found Miao Xiaohan, and the two stepped into the place where this year's newcomers took classes - Mingxin Hall.

The Mingxin Hall is very large, and there is no problem in accommodating one hundred and eighty people, and at this moment, all the newcomers, including Chu Hongchen, have basically arrived. Everyone's faces were filled with excitement, and some people gathered together to discuss.

"What do you think the first lesson will teach us?" asked one curiously.

"Who can guess what Mr. thinks, the path of cultivation is the most likely, only when one's own realm is improved, can one learn other things and draw inferences from one another, unimpeded. Now I am at the peak of the realm of all things, and I am only one step away from the gossip realm. Another replied.

"Among the eighty of us, the highest cultivation should be Chu Qinglan, he is already in the early stage of the Four Elephant Realm, and the lowest is the one named Miao Xiaohan, who is only in the Qi refining stage, and I don't know how he was admitted, but the difference in strength between these two people is so huge, but they are in the same class, what will Mr. teach?"

These words were inadvertently heard by Ye Xiao and Miao Xiaohan, Miao Xiaohan lowered his head embarrassedly, the eighty people present except him were already above the realm of all things, and there were also a lot of gossip realms.

Ye Xiao patted him on the shoulder, "Don't be discouraged, you are the youngest, and you didn't get many resources before, now that you are taught in the White Tiger Academy, your progress will definitely not be slow." ”

These people didn't know that their classes were not taught by Mr., but Ye Xiao and Miao Xiaohan were mentally prepared in advance. Ye Xiao looked around, in addition to the eighty tables and chairs in the Mingxin Hall, there were more than a dozen calligraphy and paintings hanging around.

"If you learn without thinking, you will be reckless, and if you don't think about it, you will die?" Ye Xiao looked at the familiar words on the calligraphy and paintings around him, as if he had returned to the school on the earth. Not only Ye Xiao, but even Chu Hongchen, Ye Hua, Mu Feifei and others all focused on the surrounding calligraphy and paintings, and what attracted the most attention was an ink painting.

The ink painting is extremely simple, there is a bamboo house in the green water and green mountains, and a man in Tsing Yi stands in front of the bamboo house.

"Look... Look, the person in that painting is moving!" someone stared at it for a long time, and finally noticed something strange. Everyone's eyes were drawn to his shout.

Everyone saw that the man in Tsing Yi in the ink painting was getting bigger and bigger, and it was getting clearer and clearer. In the astonished eyes of everyone, a man in green clothes walked out of the painting and stood in front of everyone.

He looked at everyone's blank eyes and chuckled, "It's just a little trick, don't be so surprised." ”

Ye Xiao saw that the man was dressed in green clothes with a crown of hair, his appearance was extremely handsome, and his temperament was extraordinary, as if he was an immortal in the dust.

"You... Are you the senior brother 'the man in the painting' gentleman?" Chu Hongchen naturally heard Chu Qinglan mention the person in front of him, even Chu Qinglan was full of praise and sincere admiration.

Junzi Rang nodded, "Seeing that your appearance is somewhat similar to Qinglan, it should be his younger brother Chu Hongchen, who does not occupy the quota of the escort, and is also quite backbone to be admitted to the White Tiger Academy with his own ability," Junzi Rang praised.

"Senior Brother Xie's praise is just luck, and the exam questions are what I am good at in order to get away with it. Chu Hongchen said modestly.

Junzi Rang is not from the Barbarian Realm, so he is naturally not bound by the White Tiger City, he is the son of the Jun family of the Immortal Spirit Realm, and he did not hesitate to break with the family in order to follow Mu Chengshu, and rushed to the Barbarian Realm to accompany Mu Chengshu. As Mu Chengshu's eldest disciple, others only know that his cultivation is the pinnacle of the Liangyi Realm, but his strength is unfathomable.

"Senior brother's painting is a kind of formation, right?" Ye Xiao asked, pointing to the ink painting.

Junzi Jean looked at Ye Xiao and smiled, "That's right, but it's not as simple as you think, this is a combination of the way of calligraphy and painting and the way of formation, if you work hard enough, you can do this in the future." ”

"Is it Senior Brother who is teaching us today?" Miao Xiaohan asked timidly, with his eyes wide open.

Jun Zirang nodded again, "Not just today, I am responsible for the first stage of teaching. ”

When everyone heard this, many people were disappointed, they were admitted to the White Tiger Academy in the hope of getting Mu Chengshu's guidance, if they were just a master at the peak of the Liangyi Realm, they would not be in their family.

"The first stage, Senior Brother Yun, what does this mean?" Ye Xiao didn't care about everyone's reactions, even the Yun Zirang in front of him had a lot of things worth learning from him.

Junzi Rang had already expected the reaction of everyone present, "Don't sigh first, what I taught you have learned is not in vain." And you don't have the opportunity to get personal guidance from the gentleman. As this junior asked, there are three stages of learning in the White Tiger Academy. The first stage is taught by me, teaching some basic knowledge, through the first stage of assessment, you can enter the second stage of learning, at this time you can ask Mr. for consultation when you encounter problems, and through the second stage of assessment, you will enter the third stage, at this time Mr. will personally guide you to practice or Dan Dao, formation and other learning. ”

When everyone heard this, they relaxed, "I'm afraid the assessment of these stages is not simple." Someone asked again.

"That's right. The gentleman let him stand with his hands in his hands and continued to explain: "There are two ways to graduate from the White Tiger Academy, one is to stay for three years and graduate automatically, and the other is to pass the third stage of the assessment. The first stage of the assessment is in Linlang Pavilion, and the pass rate is not low, but if you don't work hard, it is not impossible to pass three years. There are three opportunities to apply for the assessment every year, a total of nine times in three years, if you have not passed the first stage after nine assessments, it means that you have achieved nothing in the White Tiger Academy in the past three years. All of you here are elite disciples of the Western Domain, and I hope this kind of thing doesn't happen to you. ”

Everyone's faces became serious when they heard this, if they couldn't even pass the first stage of the assessment with nine chances in three years, it would be too embarrassing.

"As for the second stage of the assessment, it is arranged by the master according to their own characteristics, and the pass rate is very average, but the disciples who successfully pass will definitely make a difference in the future. Junzi Rang continued, "As for the third stage, it is too far away from you, but I can tell you in advance that there are only three people who have passed the third stage assessment in the past ten years, including me. ”

Everyone gasped, the White Tiger Academy recruits elites from the Western Domain every year, and even so, only three people have passed the third stage assessment in the past ten years, and its difficulty can be imagined.

"These are all afterwords, and what you learned in the first stage is nothing more than eight words. The gentleman paused.

"Are you here? Everyone including Ye Xiao raised their spirits, what was learned in this first stage, who could not be curious.

Junzi Rang said unhurriedly, "These eight words are 'Gewu', 'Enlightenment', 'Righteousness' and 'Sincerity'."

"What do you mean? "The culture of the Barbarian Realm is weak, and the study of Confucianism is not widely spread, so everyone is naturally puzzled, but Ye Xiao knows. He once asked Mu Chengshu if what he wanted to learn was self-cultivation, Qi family, ruling the country and leveling the world, and Mu Chengshu gave a negative answer. But isn't it true that sincerity and sincerity are the means and methods leading to self-cultivation, Qi family, ruling the country and leveling the world?

"Don't underestimate these eight words, these eight words contain the two great powers of Confucianism, 'the eye of things' and 'the heart of not being delusional', the main reason why the three of us can pass the third stage of the assessment, is that we have cultivated these two Confucian powers. So you know how important the first phase of learning is, right?"

Everyone is not stupid, and immediately correct their learning attitude, it is a supernatural study involving Confucianism in the fairy world, how can they not care.

"So what needs to be taught to you now is 'Gewu', and who of you knows what Gewu means?" Yunzirang asked with a smile on his face.

Speaking of the knowledge of things, Ye Xiao remembered an allusion, the Ming Dynasty thinker Wang Mingyang first heard the study of "learning from things", so he read Zhu Xi's works all over and learned that "things have the surface and the inside are coarse, and every grass and tree has the truth", so he practiced it himself, decided to be poor in the bamboo, and explored what the avenue of life in the bamboo contains, but he sat on the bamboo for seven days and seven nights, and the bamboo for seven days, not only did he understand what the truth was, but people fell ill because of it. After that, he was no longer stuck to the old learning, and only then did he create Yangming Xinxue in the future, and realized the truth of the unity of knowledge and action.

However, the Three Realms are different from the earth, and the Taoist ancestors divided the realm of cultivation into several levels, one of which is the realm of all things. What is the connection between the principle of 'Gewu' and the realm of all things, and what is the difference between Taoism and Confucianism's perception of this heaven and earth? These questions once again haunted Ye Xiao's mind.