Chapter 18: The Bard's Riddle (12)
The traces of swordsmanship are only spread in the range of about 30 zhang, and there are traces on every inch of land within it, but the grass and trees on it have not been destroyed at all, and only by peeling off the turf can you see the fine marks on the soil.
Fang Tianmu looked at it for a long time, his body kept spinning, Mu Ziyun came up to ask him about the situation, he pointed in the direction, and replied coldly: "Went there." ”
"Huh? You've seen it for a long time? Bell wondered.
Fang Tianmu nodded, and Mu Ziyun said angrily: "Then you didn't say it earlier, what are you still watching?" ”
Fang Tianmu didn't reply, he was trying to understand the "Wuji" mental method in Qingben's swordsmanship, and everyone walked out in the direction he pointed, where there were many footprints left, people, cars, and horses, probably the footprints of people and horses during this period of time, but Fang Tianmu's eyes could see the difference between Qingben, Qingben's footwork followed the swordsmanship out, that is, he left in a chic manner as soon as he finished the sword dance, and his steps still carried the principles of swordsmanship and mental law, but after more than 20 steps, Qingben's traces disappeared, and it ended very neatly, Fang Tianmu's eyes could no longer find any useful information.
Everyone is also like various gangs and factions, caught in the embarrassment of looking for a person in the vast world, it is too difficult, everyone is generally low-key this time, and there is no need to secretly build their own intelligence network, because all the people who are looking for Qingben, the news is generous and exchanged, Qingben is several times higher than everyone imagined in this era, he has become a myth, people think that he has found the way to become an immortal, and it is possible to get a big opportunity by following him, or be lucky enough to get a few true martial arts of Qingben, That would also qualify him for decades.
A few months later, most of the forces stopped looking for them and gradually returned to normal life, and the "Daoist" family also elected two elites, Zhuang and Zhang, to become the ruling people, and these two also lived up to expectations and became the two "ancestors" under the worship of Bai Laozi by the Taoists of later generations. There are only some fanatical supporters of Bai Laozi who continue to pursue for many years, Mu Ziyun and others can get news from them unconditionally, but almost all of them are useless, they are anxious, Mu Ziyun and his group are also anxious, and they have tried all kinds of methods, even the peerless beauty of the bell has moved out, and rumors have been released, whoever can find Qingben can get the world's first peerless beauty, which has attracted men in the world to set off a wave of enthusiasm to find Bai Laozi, but the result is still a failure.
Everyone had to calm down and carefully recall Qing Ben's life. Although everyone comes from the future, in a sense, they know more about Qingben than the people of this era, and the people of this era think that Qingben is extremely talented since childhood, and he is extremely talented in learning literature and martial arts. But he didn't know that Qing Ben first realized the mental method before he started to travel, and all the masters he worshipped after the age of fifteen were inferior to him in terms of force, and his disguise was not seen through in the end, and he played with everyone in the world, and Qing Ben's true strength, Mu Ziyun and the others knew it more accurately, it was already close to the level in the cultivation era, or it was already there.
As for why later generations know about it but the people of the time don't know the truth, it is probably because Qing Ben's true story was told to the world by himself later, perhaps he left pen and ink, or secretly accepted an apprentice, or traveled to other places, told it to people elsewhere and passed it on.
Two months later, everyone believed that Qing Ben had left this continent and gone to the overseas world, so the next search was meaningless, because it was impossible to find it within the specified time, even if they were allowed to find death, it was more difficult than Mu Ziyun and Huzi trying to find their way home.
Fang Tianmu said his thoughts at this time, he thought that Qing Ben himself, or the clues related to him, must be in this land, and it will not be too outrageous, because since this is a riddle, then there must be a mystery, he thinks that everyone should not be too mysterious to find, it is better to write ordinary and ordinary streets or villages to find it, think about this person's previous travels, they are all disguised as an ordinary appearance, maybe now they are incarnated into which family's little people, who are they playing.
After all, there was a way to find it, and everyone began to focus on the city and the countryside, and all the sects did not try to find Bai Laozi in the city or village, because it was too incompatible with the word "immortal".
Everyone started to look for it from the city and countryside closest to Chongyang Pass, Du Xiaoyue felt that such a big man must have been painted, how many people in the city could be contacted, and in this time when the whole country was looking for Bai Laozi, they would definitely pay more attention, but the village was not necessarily, it was originally a place where fireworks only ate the world, and there would be no more troubles and disputes, so she and Fang Tianmu went to the nearest village first.
What I really didn't expect was that this guy Qingben was very lazy, and he really stayed in a small mountain village closest to Chongyang Pass.
Fang Tianmu found the traces of Qingben very easily, because on the wall of the courtyard of Qingben's house, which was only half a person high, there was a row of blue and white porcelain bowls filled with water, which was exactly the same as the bowl with riddles that everyone saw, Du Xiaoyue came to the wall and sighed, and said, "It's so close, it's delayed us for so long." Then she went back to report the news, and Fang Tianmu explored the way first.
The door of this house was just a fence, very low, and Fang Tianmu stepped over it with a slight jump. The so-called yard is a piece of land, which is full of vegetables, only a dirt road in the middle that is not straight and only three feet wide, as soon as it falls into the courtyard, Fang Tianmu saw that on the small bench in front of the house, there was a cropper man in his thirties sitting on Erlang's legs, very simple, and his body was also the traces left by years of farm work, and this person's appearance was ordinary and could not find any fault.
Before entering the hospital, Fang Tianmu didn't see anyone, and when he stepped over, there were already people sitting in the courtyard, and he put on a posture that he couldn't help but be a farmer. Fang Tianmu knew that he was Qingben, the legendary Bai Laozi.
The two stared at each other for a while, and it was the farmer who opened his mouth first and said, "You are not from the rivers and lakes, you have good eyes, why are you looking for me?" "He is a well-known intellectual star in the literary world, but as a farmer, speaking is the way of a farmer, which is his habit of disguise for many years.
Fang Tianmu was silent for a while, and did not ask him if he was Qingben, nor did he ask him why he was hiding here, but said coldly: "How does the water in the bowl move, how do you do it." ”
"Oh?" The farmer was taken aback, looked at Fang Tianmu suspiciously, and said with a smile, "The water in the bowl is calm, and it doesn't even shake it, how can you say that it moves." ”
"I can see it with my eyes." Fang Tianmu said coldly.
The farmer stared at Fang Tianmu's starry eyes for a while, and said with a smile: "Everything is moving, all the time, but it is too scattered, although there is infinite energy, it will disappear after canceling each other, if you can get a little guidance to make it orderly, then a bowl of water can also resist the power of ten thousand catties." ”
Fang Tianmu couldn't figure it out, and the farmer proudly picked his toes and asked, "You're not a local, I mean, it's not on this land." ”
Seeing Fang Tianmu's astonishment, the farmer said happily: "Although I have only lived to be in my thirties, I know everything that can be called in the rivers and lakes of various countries, and a master like you can almost be the first in the world, I can't know it." ”
"I'm no match for you." Fang Tianmu said coldly, "Not here." ”
"Sure enough, it's not from this land, but I, Qingben, said a big thing that I have never said to the outside world in my life, you are not here, and you are not elsewhere." He finally confessed his identity.
Fang Tianmu found Qing Ben, this is the answer to the riddle, but the riddle itself hides a lot of secrets, Fang Tianmu felt that he was about to leave, and asked: "What order makes the energy of water reach infinity." ”
"The energy of water. No, the energy of anything is unlimited," Qing Ben said with a smile, "Don't think you can see through the energy, in fact, you can just use it, just think of a way to make the already moving energy line up one after another." ”
"How?" Fang Tianmu said urgently.
Qing Ben looked at him with a smile and said, "Want to learn?" Worship me as a teacher? Unexpectedly, Fang Tianmu fell to his knees with a pop, the black knife was held in his hands, and his hands were pressed on the ground, he had never been so convinced of a person, when he saw the changes of the countless streams of water in the bowl for the first time, he was impressed by the mental method that seemed to cover infinite mysteries and truths, although this person was a person from ancient times, let alone a person from the era of cultivation, but let Fang Tianmu truly believe.
Qing Ben frowned slightly, and said suspiciously: "I suddenly want to really accept an apprentice, but you should be leaving... What's going on? ”
Fang Tianmu realized that his figure was disappearing, anxiously he hadn't gotten what he wanted, Qing Ben looked at this scene, maybe he was muttering to himself, and said softly: "Sure enough, there are still many ways to go in the outside world, don't worry, I will recognize you as an apprentice, you and I are really fateful, then one day, we will be able to meet again." ”
Qing Ben looked at Fang Tianmu with a smile, his eyes were meaningful, Fang Tianmu kept frowning, all he thought about was the bowl of water, and Mu Ziyun and the others who were rushing here disappeared halfway in a daze, and after a while, everyone appeared next to the table in Wu Zhen's house, and several people all sighed, they didn't even see Bai Laozi's face, it took so long in vain, asking Fang Tianmu, and he couldn't ask anything, this kid was full of annoyance as soon as he came back, and he didn't say a word for a long time.