When Hao Song woke up for the first time in the senior ward of the hospital, he only felt a splitting headache and a buzzing in his head, as if there were dozens of flies in it. Barely opened his eyes, but what he saw was a white-clothed Taoist priest, Hao Song exclaimed hoarsely: "Am I dead? Are you Bai Wuchang? Only Mo Yudao, who had a painful face, and Mo Yanling, a little Taoist who was snickering on the side, were left.

A day later, Hao Song, who had lived by infusion, woke up again, although he still had a headache this time, but it was much better, and the pain was probably reduced to the appearance of a severe cold. When he opened his eyes, he saw a Taoist priest in a white robe with Tai Chi gossip embroidered on his back standing at the window, which was a bare maple tree.

Hao Song vaguely remembered that this product seemed to be the last Bai impermanence, and just wanted to say something, only to hear a gentle male voice chanting: "Winter goes to spring, ice and snow do not see summer; Man lives for one lifetime, at most a hundred years. The Tao exists, and it will remain unchanged for eternity!" the man turned his head and smiled gently at Hao Song, and then said, "Since you are cultivating your mind, why don't you ask?"

Hao Song looked at the man with a puzzled face, hesitated for a while, and then said in a hoarse voice: "Ox nose, I'm sorry, what are you talking about? ”

Mo Yudao was speechless, and could only look at Hao Song with gentle eyes. I suddenly understood in my heart what it meant to play the piano to the cow and what it meant to flatter the blind.

Hao Song's cold hair stood up when he was stared at, and he said in his heart: Didn't you run into an old rabbit? This fiery and resentful look always makes people feel as if they have done something bad to him. Weakly, he turned his eyes to the head of the bed, intending to get some water to drink.

Suddenly, I saw a half-armed water dragon composed of clear water float up from the water cup at the head of the bed! This water dragon is about half a meter long, only two fingers wide, the dragon's tail is like a lotus, its dragon scales are clear, the dragon's claws are curled up at its side, and the whole dragon spirals and flies up in a figure-8 path. It looks majestic and lifelike. The only flaw is the ungodliness of the eyes made of pure water. But this was enough to shock Hao Song.

It was still the gentle voice that said: "Just open your mouth and drink, you can't move now." Since I didn't understand it just now, I'll just say it in the vernacular. Now that the cold winter has passed, the warm spring is coming, and for the ice and snow, they cannot see the summer sun. This maple tree has long lost its leaves in autumn, and how can the fallen leaves know what the next spring will look like? Therefore, Zhuangzi said that the early morning fungus will not know what obscurity is, because it will not live for a month, and the cicada that only lives for one season will not know what spring and autumn are. Ordinary people live for a lifetime, and ordinary people are 100 years old at most. And the Great Dao of Heaven and Earth has been around since the Big Bang. Since you have condensed your true mind and are a mind cultivator, why don't you pursue the Great Dao?"

Hao Song always felt a little weird when he looked at the water dragon hovering in front of him, and said in his heart: bull's nose will die if he doesn't pretend to die, and he still plays these tricks with such a simple matter as handing me water, and drinking it like this always feels like swallowing a snake alive. Although the poisonous tongue is still complaining in his heart, he is always faintly cautious, and he opened his mouth hesitantly. The water dragon flew into Hao Song's mouth slowly and smoothly. Hao Song was worried that there would be a feeling of being deeply throated (of course he didn't know what it felt), but he found that the water dragon lost its form as soon as it entered his mouth, turning into a stream of pure boiled water, and he immediately relieved himself. I heard the middle-aged Taoist translating the words he had just heard a little ignorant, and he couldn't help but listen carefully.

Mo Yudao saw Hao Song listening and shouted luck in his heart, if he hadn't used the spirit of the Creation Realm to show his hand, it is estimated that it would not be so easy to shock this kid, and the consequence of pretending to fail is to be struck by lightning, ah no, despised by lightning. Seeing his daughter looking at him with a funny face, he was helpless in his heart: this little girl will not come to help. I thought that it was not bad for a civilian professor to fool people to this point, after all, it was not the big fools of Taoism.

After listening to this, Hao Song tried to think with his dizzy brain, but unfortunately his mental state was too poor and he couldn't grasp the key point for a while, so he had to ask the middle-aged Taoist priest about the origin first.

Mo Yudao said: "Poor Dao Mo Yudao, from the Chinese branch of the Night Watch University, that is, the Malan campus in Lop Nur, Xinjiang, is the holy place of modern Taoism in China. ”

Hao Song didn't want to open his eyes and say nonsense: "Ahh Later, I asked in my heart: I have never heard of this place at all? Is there such a holy place in Taoism? And the Malan campus, one more word is Malan Mountain, be careful that the comics in the happy base camp will sue you for infringement! In addition, Xinjiang Lop Nur is also drunk, that place seems to be a place where birds don't, and the desert is desert, right? The Night Watch University also has a campus there? It really wants to cultivate the rhythm of becoming immortals, and the collective drink the wind and hey

Mo Yudao didn't react to this obvious perfunctory remark, and looked indifferent. Mo Yanling, the little Taoist priest on the side, looked at Hao Song and rubbed his feet again, but he was unhappy. With one hand on his waist, he pointed at Hao Song with the other and said, "You stinky guy, don't pretend to understand! Modern Taoism and Taoism are completely different things! And it's strange that our branch is famous!"

Hao Song looked at the little Lori Taoist priest who jumped out from behind him and was a little surprised, he didn't notice such a person just now. I saw that this Nizi looked like she was eight years old, but her height was short, there was no trace of pink on her face, but her eyebrows were like distant mountains, and there were some faint freckles on her cheeks, which looked very cute. A loose Taoist robe can't see the figure, which has the liveliness of an ordinary young girl, and a quiet and indifferent temperament of Taoism. It's a pity that as soon as she opened her mouth, the indifferent smell disappeared.

Before Hao Song could complain, Mo Yudao frowned and spoke first: "Xiao Ling, what is the most important thing for me and other cultivators?"

Mo Yanling saw his father speak, although there was still annoyance on his face, he still calmed down and replied: "The most important thing is to be peaceful and short-term. ”

"Why?"

"Heaven and earth are unkind, and all things are dogs, and saints are unkind, and people are dogs. The saint comes after his body, and he exists outside his body, so he can become his selfishness. At this time, the female little Taoist priest was already calm, and her tone was indifferent.

Although Hao Song is not good at ancient texts, he has read more novels and knows these sentences, which are from Lao Tzu's Tao Te Ching (should I write Lao Dan?). The original meaning is: Heaven and earth do not have feelings such as kindness, and all things are useless to it, and they are left to fend for themselves. There is no mercy to the saints, and the people are of no importance to him, leaving them to their own devices. The sage is the most noble of the kind, and he can be selfless and achieve his own self by putting himself in a humble position.

Hao Song faintly felt that something was wrong in his heart, the cultivators described by Lao Dan seemed to be not the same path as Su Rui, always giving people an inhuman temperament, and the essence of Taoism Hao Song probably knew that he wanted to live a quiet and leisurely life. After thinking about it carefully, Hao Song was shocked: This is the mentality of a passerby, the ancients knew the true meaning of this behavior so early!

Although Hao Song also gives people the impression that he doesn't want to take care of things, but after coming into contact with Su Rui recently, a lot has changed, at least he can't stay out of Su Rui's affairs at all, and he is a leisurely behind-the-scenes person. When he watched Su Rui resolutely block the Thunder Sparrow, he suddenly understood the responsibility that a man should bear, and vaguely hoped that one day he would be able to stand in front of Su Rui.

But these two guys in front of him don't seem to be so good at soy sauce. Just when Hao Song was full of doubts, he heard Mo Yudao's gentle voice reply: "Although it is a good point, but that is classical Taoist thought, what is the modern Taoist ideal that we have absorbed scientific materialist thought?"

Mo Yanling said with a straight face: "Protect the public with private interests, and protect the way of ten thousand people with the way of one person!

This remark was heart-wrenching, and in line with the philosophy of the Night's Watch. It's just that Hao Song has always had some doubts about the night watchman, because any organization will have the possibility of corruption, especially such an organization that has mastered powerful forces. I just don't know how long the Night's Watch has been around?

Thinking of asking, Hao Song first complimented the modern Taoist, and then asked the question when Mo Yanling was slightly proud. What he didn't expect was that Xiao Lori actually glanced at him in a complicated way, and then turned her gaze to Mo Yudao. Hao Song didn't know why, but also looked over.

I only heard the middle-aged Taoist sigh and said, "Since you have already condensed your true heart, then you are naturally a student of the Night's Watch University, and you have something to tell you." Although modern Taoism has absorbed many advanced and scientific theories, the internal ideological struggle still exists, and classical Taoism and modern Taoism are still debating and arguing with each other. Poor Dao took the little girl to the Marshall headquarters to get rid of these struggles, find a place to study with peace of mind, and also let Xiaoling grow up well. As for the Night Watch, it is generally composed of idealistic moderates and materialist moderates, and was officially founded around the time of the European Renaissance. However, the sages who had a similar idea of the Night's Watch appeared after 1200, and were the first to call the Night's Watch, although they did not call themselves that way. ”

At this point, the Taoist turned his head to look out the window, as if remembering something, with a look of respect in his face, and continued: "The early night watchmen were great idealists and powerful mind cultivators, who, while following the Crusades, discovered in the Arab countries a way to make enlightenment possible for all, and that was science! Then over the next few hundred years, there was a jihad war against the idealistic conservatives, Catholics, and Muslims of the time, and after a great price and a long struggle, they succeeded in forcing the religious forces to abandon their intervention in the world. After that, their descendants led the Renaissance, and from then on, materialist science began to rise under their protection! Human civilization also ushered in a leap forward!" Mo Yudao said this, his face was excited, and his whole body trembled slightly. Mo Yanling on the side also showed a fascinated expression.

Although Hao Song was also a little shocked, he still showed hesitation on his face, and said that the worldview of mind cultivators seemed to be completely different from ordinary people, what kind of big thing was this rhythm, but in fact, there was their shadow behind it? Sure enough, the summer worm is indescribable, and the history that ordinary people know gives people a sense of too grandeur and abruptness, such as the fact that Catholicism has ruled Europe for so many years, and as a result, it suddenly began to decline and split after its most powerful just launched several crusades, in addition to the reason for the defeat, it is also because the sages of the Night's Watch are in the nest? Although they don't believe it on their faces, they faintly feel that things are like this.

At this time, Mo Yudao also recovered from the mood of remembrance, looked at Hao Song's face, and said: "The specific real history will be learned in the history class of the Mind Cultivator at the Night's Watch University, since you have woken up, we will go to the Marshall headquarters as soon as possible." As for the current night watchman, let's not talk about it, otherwise I might have to check the water meter. ”

"History is like a lump of mud that has been fabricated at will according to human needs. History in your eyes is only one side of it at best. ”

-- From the prologue to The History of Mind Cultivators