Seeing Shuyu turn to leave, Shuli didn't think much about it, and walked into this familiar dirt path.

Soon he was passing through a dark, narrow passage like a giant tree, and came to a wide lake.

He saw the library pavilion on the other side of the lake, which was still extended by two green embankments, and there was a pavilion next to the library pavilion, the name of which was vaguely remembered as Fujing Pavilion.

This place is hidden in the midst of majestic mountains, and it is a natural col that hides water.

It was here that he made up his mind to leave the book family, and now that he has returned, it is like a world away.

Shuli walked forward, he remembered that there was a silver light formation enchantment here before, so he carefully walked along the green embankment, and when he reached nearly halfway, he found that this formation enchantment had been withdrawn without knowing when.

When he got closer to the Fujing Pavilion, he saw an old man in Tsing Yi with two people waiting for him, the figure was very familiar, presumably he had withdrawn the magic circle.

So I didn't think much about it, and walked straight to the Fujing Pavilion and came to the second floor.

The scenery here is the most peculiar, when the moon night was like a mirror on two sides, elegant and dreamy, but now it is almost dawn, only the silvery gray lake surface is not shocked.

Shuli saw that a table had been set up on the second floor, and there were two sets of tea sets and a few small plates of snacks on the opposite side of the table.

The old man in Tsing Yi stroked his silver beard and looked at him with a slight smile, there was a dark and thin boy next to the old man, a little scholar, Shuli hurriedly stepped forward and folded his hands to say hello, and performed the Buddha salute.

The old man in Tsing Yi nodded, motioned for him to sit down, Shuli asked the old man in Tsing Yi to sit first, and then sit down, the old man in Tsing Yi smiled and said: "Child, how have you been doing in recent years?"

Shuli said: "I am grateful to the ancestors, the Buddha blesses, and the younger generations are well." ”

The old man smiled: "Back then, you and I talked here. Talking about the way of the world, but also about the way of cultivation. I remember that you went down the mountain to calm the strife and to make peace in the world, and now it has come true?"

Shuli said: "My heart is peaceful, but the world is uneven. ”

The old man shook his head and said with a smile: "The world has never been peaceful one day, the old man will be two hundred years old, in the past two hundred years, how many ups and downs have been witnessed, and what day does not want the world to be peaceful." ”

Shuli said: "Then when I made my grand wish, the master knew that it would be difficult to realize, why did he let me go down the mountain?"

The old man said: "When you were talking, you found your own way, and the old man should encourage you to go and experience the world. Just because these people can't do it doesn't mean you can't do it.

"Hope is eternal, and you are the hope of the future. If everyone has the mind to get by, the world will only get worse and worse. ”

Shuli sighed and said, "What I have experienced and seen is only calamity, and there is far more despair than hope. ”

The old man let out an "oh" and said, "Then tell me, what do you see?"

Shuli thought for a while, and said: "What I see is that the Buddha is at its peak, but thousands of people in the Great Wu Kingdom have suffered from disasters and died of illness at home because of the Buddha's way; I saw that there was hunger on the way, and my heart was sad; I wanted to find a way out, but we were helplessly used by traitors, and set off a monstrous catastrophe, so the Buddha Tao was about to be destroyed.

"As far as the eye can see, there will be thousands of Buddhist monks who will die and disappear, there will be no refuge, the world will be ruined, and the blood of the Great Wu Kingdom will flow like a river. Today, even calligraphers are not immune. ”

The old man stared and said, "Then you have seen hope?"

Shuli was silent for a long time, and said, "The junior has a junior brother, and all the calamities seem to be aimed at him, and all of them are coming at him.

"Every time we almost thought that we were going to be defeated, or even die, he always stood up unexpectedly and carried every catastrophe through it.

"Even if he was seriously injured, even if he was in a demon, even if he was like a hellish Shura, he stiffened his chest and carried it. I think there must be light in his heart. ”

The old man nodded and asserted, "Then you also have light in your heart!"

Shuli looked at the old man suspiciously, the old man's eyes were blazing, and he looked into his eyes and said, "Hope is a spark, as long as you see it, it will ignite yourself." ”

Shuli nodded thoughtfully.

The old man continued: "The old man knows that the world is difficult at the moment, and Confucianism and Taoism are pouring Buddhism, and you are in it, despair and suffering are indispensable, but they are also the nourishment for your growth.

"More than ten years ago, when you came to me for the first time, why did I talk to you about morality? More than ten years later, when you returned to the scholar's house again, why did I tell Shuyu to let him bring you over and talk to you?

"Not for anything else, just because in you, I saw the figure of the ancestor! I saw the spirit of the ancestor who flew to the sky and picked up the stars and became holy!"

When Shuli heard this, his body shook.

The old man continued: "All the disciples of the calligrapher take diligence and thrift, loyalty, benevolence and righteousness as the rules of life, which is the golden rule left by the ancestors of the calligrapher, and it has also become a rigid thinking.

"But you are different, you think about the world, to calm the chaos in the world. This ambition surpassed that of all the descendants of the scholars. And you can really make up your mind, go down the mountain, go out into the world, throw yourself into the empty door, see suffering and despair, and witness hope.

This is enough to show that the ethics and etiquette of the Three Principles and Five Constants, which are most valued by the children of the scholars, are not the most important in your opinion, which is more than the fools in the world.

"The rise and fall of honor and disgrace is only a matter of a moment, but the spirit of saving the common people can go down in history forever!

Shuli was flattered and said, "Master, you have praised it falsely. I am not as good as you think, in the past, in the scholar's family, I was injured and stained with a lot of blood because of the family rules of the scholar's family, and created many obstacles.

"For more than ten years after descending the mountain, I just lived in a remote temple, worrying every day, hoping to find the truth from the Buddhist scriptures, but found nothing.

"Buddhism is empty, but my heart is always filled with all kinds of chaotic thoughts, the regret of staining my hands with blood, the hatred of betraying my family, and the annoyance of finding a way and finding nothing, which finally makes me angry.

"If it weren't for the coincidence that I accompanied my junior brother down the mountain to take refuge, I wouldn't have been able to really see more of the truth. I'm just an extremely ordinary person, and my ancestor thinks of me too well that my younger generation doesn't dare to bear it. ”

The old man shook his head and said, "No, from what you just said, I have become more firm in my previous opinion. You haven't understood yet, this is your way!

"You are bent on finding the path from Buddhism, for liberation, but despair and suffering are the cornerstones of the path. You feel the pain before you feel the pleasure. You have hidden suffering for so many years, and these sufferings have already polished your heart very hard. There's not a moment when you're not growing!"

The old man said, stood up, turned around, looked at the calm lake, and said quietly: "The calligrapher has been prosperous for thousands of years, and at this moment, it should have been extremely prosperous.

"But taking the name from 'Qifeng City' has buried a disaster, and now it is even more necessary to threaten that 'the phoenix will fly', and it is the ambition of the wolf, which is obvious. First, he participated in the battle of Gangwon, and now he wants to participate in the battle of Buddhism and Taoism.

"Now those elders of the scholar family want to take advantage of the gap when they see the opportunity, and they want to restore the glory of their ancestors, but they are just going in the wrong direction!"

The old man became more earnest and more sad and indignant in his words, and continued: "To restore the glory of our ancestors, where is it to follow these evil and crooked paths! The real glory of our ancestors is precisely to save the common people as our own responsibility, and to cleanse the world with majestic and righteous spirit! This is the right way!"

"The survival and extinction of morality is the general trend of heaven and earth, and the survival and extinction of one is not at all something that a single martial emperor can control!

As he spoke, the old man was filled with righteous indignation, and his voice suddenly increased, so that the thunder and lightning flashed under the calm lake, and the rumbling sound was muffled, and the lake water was churning, as if thousands of troops and horses were rushing out of the ground, and he faintly felt that the earth was shaking.

Shuli suddenly felt a pang in his heart, and finally understood that the calligrapher had ignored the thousand-year-old seclusion at this time, and was unwilling to be biased to a corner, and wanted to make a splash.

At that time, Uncle Yu once said that there was a natural great temptation to power and interests, and he had not yet seen it clearly, but at this time, he was suddenly aware of the intention of the calligrapher.

He didn't dare to interfere with the old man's words to vent his anger, and his eyes turned away, but he saw that the black and thin young man's cheeks actually spread out two palm-sized fleshy wings, which trembled with the shaking of the lake.

When he saw Shuli's gaze, he grinned and hissed at him with a mouth full of sharp teeth.

Shuli was startled, and hurriedly guarded, but saw the little scholar laughing next to him, and then looked at the thin black boy, who seemed to be smiling at him just now, but it looked quite strange.

After a long time, the old man calmed down, and the sky gradually became red.

The old man turned to Shuli and said, "Now that you have grown a lot in the chaotic world, what should you do next?"

Shuli retracted his mind and was silent for a long time before he said: "The road, I have already thought clearly, I will never allow the Buddha Tao to be annihilated!

The old man nodded in satisfaction.

But Shuli hesitated for a while, and then said: "It's just that the road has been thought out clearly, and how to go about it is still not clear now." I originally devoted myself to Buddhism, but now I am trapped in the promise to the calligrapher, and I can only do it and see how to change it next. ”

The old man said: "Your Buddhism has a law, and everything has a fixed number. As long as you think clearly about which path you are, as long as you don't deviate from the direction, no matter how you go, it is the right path, no matter how far you go, you don't have to be afraid. ”

Shuli suddenly seemed to have an understanding, suddenly enlightened, folded his hands and bowed down: "Junior, thank you for your guidance!"

The old man stopped his hand, pointed to the thin young man next to him and said, "This time, you led the children of the scholar family to Junzhou, I'm afraid there are still many unsatisfactory things. Nowadays, almost no one can really understand your aspirations and aspirations, and no one will understand you. I'll hand him over to you, if there's anything you can't do it, you can call him to go, he is a star beast that has been cultivated in recent years, a water worm. ”

Shuli was shocked in his heart, no wonder he felt that his aura was vaguely familiar just now, it turned out that he was somewhat similar to Senior Brother Fire Monkey and the pig boy he summoned, as well as the aura on Xiao Fudie's body.

When the thin young man saw Shuli staring at him, he grinned again, and smiled at him with sharp teeth, and Shuli had to smile back awkwardly.

The old man said: "Originally, before he became a cultivator, I thought he was an ordinary divine beast, and he was good at water system supernatural powers, so I named him Tianyi Divine Beast. ”

Shuli was stunned for a moment, and said, "He is the beast at the bottom of the lake that stopped me last time I came?"

Suddenly, he finally understood why his father knew the secrets of those Star Divine Beasts and Danyang Xuan, but he was afraid that he would not be able to get rid of this water worm!

The old man smiled and nodded, paused for a while, and then said: "Our branch, for thousands of years, has been guarding the library pavilion, so the magic powers are a little different, and for thousands of years, we have also created a lot of magic powers, but they are still headed by the Sacred Heart of Heaven and Earth."

"However, we found a fragment of the sword power in the Zangjing Pavilion, the power of the magic power is very amazing, there are only seven moves, unknown name, and these seven moves have no specific moves, only sword intent. ”

The old man's spirit suddenly perked up, and he said in a deep voice: "The old man also gives you this sword path fragment today, to help you overcome thorns and thorns and walk out of your own path! From now on, I hope you can see clearly, honor and disgrace will pass away with the wind, and the mighty will be mighty!"