Chapter 1 Zen Taoism

In the summer when Daye is in full bloom. When the current students of the Autumn Dao Academy on the misty mountain entered the mountain. The senior brothers and sisters who were either talking cheerfully at the mountain gate of Buzhou Mountain, or smiling lightly to welcome the new students, did not get their wish to see the arrival of the two new students who had been talking about it in the academy as early as this year.

And the fate of Shanglin City changed because of them. It was an eventful time, and the messengers of the Xituo Temple were furious at the desecration of the Holy Maiden in Daye, which caused Daye to encounter pressure from many external forces and borders. The official Wunian in the imperial history collaborated with the enemy and treason, which also made the Great Ye Kingdom the target of rumors in the United Empire for a while, and the impact was bad.

These are the worst of times. But at the same time, it is also the best of times.

Da Ye has never been like this for a moment, feeling firmly sitting on his own rivers and mountains. That Da Ye lacks ability, but the unparalleled virtue of the Son of Dezhao, has never felt so steady and stable for a moment, although the national strength is not too good, but everything is leveled, the great disaster is cut off, and the people's hearts are at peace. There is still hope.

On the smoky Buzhou Mountain, the freshmen of the Autumn Road Academy completed the entrance ceremony. There was a woman in a blue shirt standing quietly beside the mountain gate, looking at the mountain gate that was gradually fading away under the ban, her eyes were bright and faintly flickering, and she didn't know what she was thinking. Many people will look at that mountain gate at this time, some because they miss their hometown, and some because they miss their families, so with the cultivation of their hometown and the expectations of their families, they embark on the higher cultivation path of the Autumn Dao Academy and climb to a higher level of cultivation. But there are few people who have received as much attention as the woman in the academy.

"He is Dong Sima's granddaughter, Dong Xuan, the daughter of today's Daye Shang Shulang?

"Hmph, no matter how high your status is, when you enter the Autumn Dao Academy, that is, no matter what kind of status you have before, you have only one identity, and that is the students in the academy. You must follow the rules of the hospital and practice well. Strive to embark on a higher path of cultivation, and even have the opportunity to go to the Imperial Academy to experience it."

"Yes, yes, the senior brother is in charge of the precepts of our three hospitals, and he is naturally close to the water, so he can have more contact with the little junior sister. It's just that I don't know if she can be assigned to our third courtyard, if she goes to the first courtyard, such a beauty, maybe Senior Brother Wang will do it, or the chic and suave Zhang Zeming in the second courtyard is also a strong competitor. In the past few years, there are fewer and fewer beautiful junior sisters, and even if there are, they will soon be famous, should we remind her, fire prevention, anti-theft and anti-senior brother?"

Dong Xuan, who didn't notice the conversation of several white-clothed senior brothers in the woods, noticed that there was someone behind her, turned her head, and was slightly stunned, it was Liu Qian and Xue Ran, who were admitted to the academy in the Qichun Marquis Mansion this year, who were in a complicated mood at the moment, and what she didn't want to see the most.

Xue Ran smiled and said, "I've just seen you standing here for a long time, and I saw that Lord Sima and Master Shangshu personally sent you into the mountain, I don't think you should have just entered the mountain and started to miss your family." Or are you thinking about that person?"

Dong Xuan turned her head and looked at Xue Ran with some embarrassment, not understanding whether this sentence was sarcastic or implied mockery.

Liu Qian next to him felt a little overwhelmed by Dong Xuan's gaze. In the past, when Liu Qian was rated as the most talented person among the descendants of the Qi family in the Hou Mansion, he also admired Dong Xuan, who was very close to the Hou Mansion. It's a pity that I can only look at the blue shadow from afar, so I will be angry that Yang Ze wanted to eat swan meat at that time.

Dong Xuan and Xue Ran looked at each other, although there seemed to be a smell of electric light between their absolutely quiet gazes. But no one avoided their eyes first, Dong Xuan suddenly laughed, nodded and said, "Indeed, I was really thinking about him just now, but I was just thinking, although I don't know why he made so much progress in a short period of time, but when he came back from the realm of the earth and the sea, I might have far surpassed him at that time" After she finished speaking, she walked towards the mountain road, turned around again, and said, "I hope he doesn't disappoint too much." ”

I saw the blue shadow walking on the mountain road. Xue Ran was stunned, then shook his head and smiled, "What a stubborn girl." ”

The edict from Da Ye ordered the clipper to quickly intercept the two ships escorting Yang Ze in the Da Ye Sea Border. read out the countless shocks and changes of Da Ye in a short period of time after Yang Ze left.

When he was announced to be exiled, he was then called to the upper study, where he met Gu Liangji, the teacher of the Great Ye State, and Zhang Ping, the fat-looking dean of the Privy Council, and even the Emperor of Dezhao finally entrusted him to do something.

And the last secret discussion was the fact of the assassination of Shangguan Yan this time. Only then did Yang Ze know that it turned out that King Daye was not completely ignorant of some of the things that happened below. The best person in the world to deceive may be such a leader, but the worst to deceive may also be such a leader.

After identifying the problem of Shangguan Wunian as early as possible, the Emperor of Dezhao Tianzi has been secretly monitoring and guarding. The Privy Council has two of the most developed intelligence networks in the whole of Daye. However, all the clues of Shangguan Wunian's evidence of collaborating with the enemy and treason were hidden by the other party extremely secretly, including the disappearance of some key figures, some sensational processes of events, and so on. The enemy's cutting-edge spies sent back the news that some important and secret documents from the enemy's key documents department had been sent to Daye, but there was no trace of them. Even if some key documents and important records can be found to have been intercepted by the Imperial History, although he knows that those documents that secretly play a key role in determining the surname are the only ones that the Emperor of Heaven cannot detect. Also helpless.

The Privy Council's investigation was at an impasse for a time.

Because even if he knew that the clues were broken in the Imperial History Mansion, it was impossible for the Emperor of Dezhao to openly tear his face and break into the investigation. Not to mention that the breaking of those prohibitions in the government is enough to alert the people in the government, and if it is forcibly investigated, Shangguan Wunian and his son can also destroy those secret agreements by activating the prohibition at the most urgent time. Let Dezhao Tianzi find out the truth, but fall into a quagmire-like situation.

Things took a turn when Shangguan Wunian went to the upper echelons of the United Empire, and Yang Ze appeared in the high-level vision of Daye.

Shangguan Wunian went to the United Empire, and Shangguan Yan, who was not shrewd under his old son, was respected in the Imperial History Mansion. If Shangguan Yan can be eliminated at this time, the other party will lose the brain of command and strain. It was logical for the Privy Council to enter the Imperial History Mansion in the name of investigating the assassination of the thief.

Therefore, letting Yang Ze make a move is to prevent the assassination from failing, and the actions from the Privy Council will be known by the other party and alerted, or given the handle, in the context of the imperial history and the United Empire, this kind of action is extremely unfavorable to the Emperor of Dezhao.

And Yang Ze has been sent away at this time, and his personal revenge will not involve the Qichun Marquis Mansion. The period of his exile was enough for the Emperor of Dezhao to mediate.

Therefore, in order to avoid being manipulated, the Privy Council of the Kingdom would not participate in the assassination, but it provided Yang Ze with the greatest convenience before that. Including providing the whereabouts of the assassination target, and cleverly leaving Gyeonggi Wei and Lin Yinwei during that time, the short gap in the handover of Lin Yinwei was convenient for Yang Ze to leave quickly after defeat.

On the day of the successful assassination, MI7 of the Privy Council successfully took advantage of the civil strife in the Imperial History Mansion to enter. The national teacher Gu Liangji quickly broke those prohibitions with his mysterious occult arts. I found the evidence of the crime under the ban. Under the ironclad evidence, the Shangguan Wunian Group was overturned.

Yang Ze became famous for this matter, and because of this, the Marquis of Qichun Mansion was also crowned the governor of Weiguo. You can imagine how warm the atmosphere is in the Hou Mansion now. In the past, Yang Ze had no feelings for this and was indifferent, but now when he thinks about the excitement in the house, he feels a little warm.

The edict official who sent away Da Ye brought the news that the path to exile that was excellent for him had been halved.

On the calm and waveless ocean, Yang Ze looked at the giant sails of the Red Mansion ship in front of his ship, and said to Master Hanzang, "Shangguan Yan died unjustly. ”

"What's wrong?" Hanzang half opened his eyes and looked at Yang Ze.

"The Shangguan family is actually not a war crime, it's just that it's not very lucky, and I just met me with better shit luck. Yang Ze said, "Shangguan Wunian has hatred for the Son of Heaven for the sake of his daughter, and there is nothing wrong with this. Shangguan Yan's own surname is not brutal, not to mention that she has a bright future and superior qualifications. In the end, he could only get the result of premature death. Many people may not have to die, but they died because of me. ”

Hanzo slowly reasoned and smiled slightly, "The cause and effect of evil are the cycle of heaven." Right and wrong, justice and morality, are the disturbances of the laity. Shangguan Wunian subverted Da Ye and made the lives miserable, or because of you, countless people in Da Ye have lost their heads, and even many people have lost their heads. Which of the two is more moral, and who is more worthy of being a tragic person?"

Yang Ze was stunned, looked at the old monk who was playing with him slowly, and said, "The master is a master who understands the world, and he should understand that morality and right and wrong have never been in the hands of ordinary people, maybe it is just a higher-level existence, a tool used to manage and restrain the words and deeds of people below." Such a tool may be important to this society and civilization, and sometimes it is equally important to dare to break this shackle. For me, what are the morals and norms in this world, what kind of position should I stand on, and whether the overthrow of Dezhao Tianzi can make the people of Daye live a better life is not important, the important thing is that I think the things and beliefs that are important and defended will not allow anyone to threaten and tarnish. ”

Hanzang looked at Yang Ze with a slight appreciation, and muttered, "How is Tao, how is Zen?"

Yang Ze was slightly stunned, and the voice like the morning bell of the evening drum asked and replied to himself, "There is a famous non-avenue, right and wrong are not Zen, and I want to know the yellow leaves and stop crying money." ”

Yang Ze looked at the seagulls flying in the sky and the sea from the deck guardrail, the golden sunlight dyed his pupils mottled and translucent, and nodded seriously, "The master is right." Even if I am a layman, I want to be a very vulgar person. For me, the morality in my heart is the yellow leaf. Even if it's not real gold, it's the truth of my relentless pursuit. ”

"First hook with desire, and then let into the wisdom of the Buddha. Hanzo smiled slightly, "With this desire to seek the Tao, why worry about the avenue." In my opinion, your achievements will be extraordinary. ”

"The master praised. Yang Ze bowed his hand.

Hanzang glanced at him half-open, half-closed, and said, "Since I am happy in my heart, and I am so humble." Know if you're hypocritical. ”

At this time, the sky is full of white seagulls, cloudless, the blue ocean is endless, blowing the sea breeze and basking in the sun, as if you can leave behind the land map that blooms all the flowers.

Far away, the last Kamao Island in the Daye Sea is in sight. Crossing this island, you will really cross the border of Daye.

The people holding the boat were all the elite sailors of the Daye Boat Division, and they were all a little excited when they looked at the island in front of them. A crew member who is proficient in this sea area also introduced to everyone, "Ahead is probably the most border village in Daye, the Kasa Village of Kahata Island"

Yang Ze's small boat entered such a gourd-shaped estuary quickly, Xianyu's small red mansion boat turned into the peninsula and entered the sea, and you could see many sea boats parked in the village port from a distance, and most of these sea boats from the appearance of the style of the attack surname, by no means the style of the boat in the village, everyone was immediately nervous, and when they gradually approached the shore, the eye-catching scene made everyone look at it!

Countless pirates dressed as cultivators of the Kashima Country burned and looted above the village, and the first picture Yang Ze saw was a slender long knife in the hand of a cultivator wearing a hat, cutting a half-arc line, and then sinking into the back of a villager who was still crawling underground. The movements were extremely chic, as if they were practicing knives in ordinary days, and they didn't look at the approaching ships of Yang Ze and the others at all. Yang Ze squeezed his fist, and at this time, all the sailors on the ship changed color and shouted angrily, "It's a cultivator of Shinto Zhai!"

If you look closely, you can see that behind the robes of these monks on the path are the signs of an inverted crescent-shaped arch.

I used to know that the people of the border islands of Daye were suffering from the cultivators who were robbed by Shinto Zhai, and they were miserable, but now I understand how far the other party has gone rampant.

One of them seemed to be the head of all the cultivators, and when he turned his head and saw Yang Ze and the others' ships approaching, the sailors and crew members of Daye on board were all armed, and they were angry and ready to go down to do a big job. He smiled coldly, ran quickly towards the docked ship, and then bounced on the wooden plank of the harbor and flew towards the ship in the air. Just looking at this scene, this cultivator at the head of the cultivator is afraid that he will reach the realm of the six qualities of intention.

The moment the cultivator was about to fly to the hull of the ship, Master Hanzo's sleeve robe waved, and a fierce force poured out, poof! Before the cultivator could pounce on the ship, he was already burned in mid-air by the karmic fire into a wisp of green smoke that toppled towards the hull of the ship.

Many cultivators below who were fighting with the islanders with overwhelming superiority were righteous.

Master Hanzo's body immediately got up from his seat and floated towards the shore of the island, and several Shinto cultivators immediately held their knives, probably not realizing where the cultivator had just gone, and ran towards the location where he landed with an angry shout. Hanzo landed, and a ball of karmic fire swam beside him. The five people who rushed in turned into ashes at the touch of a button!

Yang Ze shook his head on the boat, "These Shinto people are always a little stupid, they don't have the wit to run away when they see the disappearance of the leader, they always have to do something to set off how tall and powerful the protagonist is."

Yang Ze looked at Master Hanzang below, thinking that Da Ye De Zhao Tianzi was really kind, and he had such a strong teacher for himself. It seems that this trip to Earthsea may be really dangerous.

When the ship docked, the sailors and seamen on board were all excited, and they had already received Yang Ze's order to cross the ship and rush towards those Shinto monks who had already been cold.

Yang Ze came to the side of Hanzang, who had recited the scriptures and surpassed the soul of the dead, and was silent for a long time before he raised his head and wondered, "The master entered the Tao of Zen and entered the Tao, is this move not considered a breaking of the killing ring?"

Hanzo raised his eyelids slightly, glanced at Yang Ze, and said, "In the world, greed, anger, hatred, hatred, and jealousy can all enter the Tao. Everything is empty, and everywhere is Zen. This is your first lesson. Killing to stop sin and karma is Zen. ”

After being stunned for a while, Yang Ze looked at Hanzang with an old face and finally said, "You are really very good." ”

(To be continued)