Chapter 36: The Way of the Runes

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Su Zhongwen thought for a while and said, "Qi'er, you are talented, I have never worried about your cultivation progress. Pen | fun | pavilion www. biquge。 info I'm only worried about one thing, you are indifferent by nature and have no quarrel with the world, but there are always whimsical ideas and shocking words. If you can survive it, you will certainly be able to achieve supreme feats like Fan Li and Shang Ying, but if you can't hold on, what should you do? You should learn the Confucian golden mean. ”

Su Qi was silent for a moment, and then said, "I understand what my father meant. It's just that there are some things that I always know that I can't do. Under the intertwined roots of the old family, the Yan country has become a pool of stagnant water, if you want to stir up the waves, you must have a character of 'Mu Xiu Yu Lin'. Besides, my life is short, rather than being oblivious to everyone, it is better to give it a go and fight for myself and for Yan Guo. ”

Su Zhongwen sighed lightly, knowing that his son had already made up his mind, and no matter how much persuasion he could, it was useless. As a father, he naturally hopes that his son can enter the prime minister and live a peaceful life, but he was born in a world of great controversy, and it is impossible to protect himself, thinking of this, Su Zhongwen can only nod.

"Believe in you for the Father. In a little more than a month, I will leave for the Shangdang border, and I may have to walk around the DPRK more in the near future, and on the day of parting, I don't know if I will have a chance to meet you. You practice hard, and the burden of magnifying the lintel of my Su family will fall on your shoulders sooner or later. ”

"Please rest assured father, Su Qi will not let you down. ”

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After saying goodbye to his father, Su Qi returned to his room to continue his studies and practice. He did not devote all his energy to his cultivation like other practitioners, but still had a certain amount of time to read and think. Su Qi has always believed that cultivation can make people become immortals and become holy, but if there is no corresponding understanding, all this is just a castle in the air.

On the second and third days, there was nothing to do, and at noon on the fourth day, Su Qi took a carriage to the school palace again. According to the order of rites, calligraphy, military affairs, and country, today's course should be related to calligraphy runes.

Mr. Xi, the teacher of the calligraphy department, is a middle-aged gentleman with an elegant appearance, who is polite and well-behaved. The students all called Mr. Taning.

In this era, the brush has replaced the knife and pen to a certain extent, and the rich people have no longer used the time-consuming and laborious knife and pen to engrave words on the bamboo slips, but used more convenient pen and ink.

Although the brush is just emerging, calligraphy has already developed greatly. It's all because of the cultivators and runes.

Runes existed before the invention of the brush. Rune masters are often also practitioners, and the so-called writing runes do not require pen and ink and rune paper at all, as long as the rune master engraves the rune seal on any object with the true element, the rune will take effect. Some extremely strong rune masters can even write talismans in the air, inducing the vitality of heaven and earth to hurt people, so the calligraphy of this era should not only pursue beauty, but also meet the requirements of rune masters.

In this unique environment, the calligraphy class in the Zhaowu Academy Palace is also full of strong cultivation meaning.

"The so-called calligraphy is something that only rune masters use. For ordinary people, there is no point in practicing calligraphy. The first sentence Mr. Ning said made Su Qi's mouth open in surprise. For him, who had never been exposed to calligraphy and runes, this sentence really subverted his perception of calligraphy in his previous life.

Zhou Chengguo, who was on the side, smiled and said in a low voice: "Mr. Ning is like this, he often speaks amazingly, and his lectures are extremely interesting, and he has a good temper, so he is the most popular among the four gentlemen." ”

Mr. Ning continued: "Calligraphy and runes are actually the same thing. Writing is the tool we use to record information, and calligraphy is the norm of writing. The rune is a tool that carries the true essence and thoughts of the practitioner, so it can also be called the practitioner's writing. ”

As he spoke, Mr. Ning made a few random strokes with his fingers in the air, outlining the word "fire". A small flame instantly rose in the air, but it quickly dissipated.

"Why is it that when I write the word 'fire', there will be fire? Because when I write this character, I release the true element in my body, and the way this character is written transmits a certain information to the true element, so it will produce a burning effect. If I had written the word 'water', there would never have been a fire. This is the meaning of runes. ”

"However, the same 'fire' character is written differently and conveys different messages. The word 'fire' written when you are calm and the word 'fire' written when you are furious have different structures, and the messages they convey are also different, which will affect the effect of the runes to some extent. Therefore, if the rune master wants to maximize the power of the true element, he must write it in the way that the true element can get used to as much as possible. ”

This kind of writing is the calligraphy of the rune master. And these rune masters are often the people who know the best at writing in the world, and their writing style is naturally the most correct way of writing. Over time, ordinary people also used this method to write, and as a result, calligraphy was formed. ”

"That's why I said, calligraphy is something that only rune masters use. Mr. Ning paused and looked around the field.

"Mr. Ning, I have a problem. One student asked, "If, as Mr. said, calligraphy was created because the rune master wrote the rune, then it stands to reason that the rune master's writing method is for the real yuan to see, not for people to see, and it must be different from our normal aesthetics." But actually, we all think that the rune master's words are just beautiful, why is that?"

Mr. Ning nodded: "You are not the first person to have this kind of doubt, probably every rune master has had such a doubt. Later, Mr. Chen Man, the great rune master of the previous dynasty, explained it this way: "Because this is the way of nature." That is to say, the runes and the height are in line with the law of the true element operation and the natural aesthetics of people, this is the way of nature, just like there is spring, summer, autumn and winter, wind, flowers, snow and rain, it is the way of nature, and there is no need to explain it at all. ”

The student pursed his lips, as if he was not satisfied with this answer, but this kind of statement that is somewhat divine in nature must also have some truth, otherwise it will not be recognized by many divine rune masters.

"Next, let's move on to calligraphy, which is the way of runes. Mr. Ning grabbed the cuff of the large sleeve of his right hand with his left hand to make sure that the sleeve of his robe did not get ink on it, and then picked up the brush on the table that was full of thick ink.

"The word we are going to learn today is 'Tao'. ”

Mr. Ning wrote a huge word "Dao" on the thin wooden board on the desk, and then erected the wooden board and showed it to the students in the temple.

"The so-called 'thousands of laws', 'Dao' is the origin, so the word 'Dao' has 10,000 ways to write and can write 10,000 runes. Mr. Ning said.

"However, Mr. Ning and Mr. Chen often say that 'etiquette' is the origin. One student asked timidly.