At that time, Bai Jiu was silent in the trial that the latter said, and he didn't think seriously about that sentence. In hindsight, I felt that it was just a sentence that made a lot of sense but was useless. Only now it seems that this sentence seems to be useful. Stay in the green mountains, then the latter sentence should not be - not afraid of running out of firewood.

To use firewood to make a fire for warmth, it is natural to go to the mountains to chop firewood.

Then at this time, there is only bamboo on the mountain, so it is better to cut some bamboo, which is also very considerable.

Bai Jiu stretched out his hand and pulled out the sword in his arms, and the night sword faced the moonlight, and the sword body shone with a dazzling and sharp luster. This sword is unusual, it is wider than an ordinary sword, shorter than an ordinary sword, and even the tip of the sword is only half of the edge, so it is more convenient to dance, and it is not very smooth to stab, but it is smooth to cut people.

Even the Dharma Body of the Immovable Ming King of Wuwu Temple Qingyuan was shattered under Bai Jiu's sword, not to mention these bamboos?

Bai Jiu smiled and lifted his sword, and then slashed heavily into the forest.

There was a clattering and breaking sound in the bamboo forest, and a large number of green bamboos fell to the ground in response.

..........

On the top of Zhushan Mountain.

Hua Jin looked at the movement at the foot of the mountain, and laughed inexplicably, and the laughter drifted far away with the night breeze, very much like the pride after the success of the plan.

The man in a black smock and a shawl with long hair looked at him expressionlessly.

Hua Jin hurriedly withdrew his smile, and didn't dare to say a word with a timid expression.

Wen Yuan asked, "Who taught him such a crude method?" ”

Hua Jin shook his head seriously, and hurriedly responded: "I must have learned it from the farmer in the mountains, it's too unreasonable." ”

Wen Yuan frowned and said, "Vulgarity is vulgarity, but it is very much like when I was back then. ”

Hua Jin was stunned on the spot after hearing this, and asked in disbelief: "Senior brother was like this back then?" ”

Wen Yuan glanced at him coldly and did not speak.

Hua Jin hurriedly said: "I want to come to a scholar like Senior Brother, how can he be so brainless and chopping around like him." ”

Wen Yuan said: "If it is based on mountaineering, this is not a way. But in terms of methodology, it is indeed a loss of scholarly demeanor. ”

"Senior brother is right, how did you come up back then, senior brother?"

"Naturally, I came up back then."

"I think the senior brother is also a master of strategy, and he came up without much effort."

"Fortunately, that's when the teacher didn't let me use a real knife."

"Huh!?"

...........

Cut down bamboo and climb the mountain, and the first knife on the mountain, followed by the second knife, followed by three knives.......

I don't know how long it took, Bai Jiu dropped a piece of verdant bamboo in his hand, wiped the fine beads of sweat on the top of his head, and sighed heavily.

The eastern sky has been slightly bright, the bamboo mountain is slowly brightened in the morning light, and the rising sun falls in the bamboo forest, and the warmth comes. In the course of one night, a thin layer of water droplets condensed on the bodies of those green bamboos, and at this time, as the warmth rose, those fine water droplets slowly evaporated.

There was a heavy fog in the mountains, and the fog seemed to border the white clouds in the sky, and it swirled around the mountains.

Cutting bamboo, a winding mountain road appeared in front of him, Bai Jiu reached out and patted the remaining bamboo leaves on his clothes, looked at the residual juice on his shoes, and smiled happily. Then he took a gentle step forward, and this step fell on the mountain road in front of him, and he didn't know how many fine stones he stepped on, and one step was the avenue. Then he looked up, and saw that the mountain road in front of him was faintly submerged in the thick fog between the mountainsides, and there was no end in sight, and the direction of the top of the mountain was no longer visible.

In one night, I cut down the bamboo and saw the avenue.

Bai Jiu seemed to feel something, and looked back at the previous path.

I saw that there was still any bamboo forest there, and I couldn't see the road that had been cut out by Bai Jiu. Yes, it's just a flat and straight stone staircase, leading from the bamboo forest path to here.

The clothes were clean, there was no juice on the shoes, only the beads of sweat that had just been wiped off the face were real.

It turns out that there has never been any bamboo forest, and everything is an illusion.

After a long silence, he did not stop too long, nor did he rest, but continued to move forward.

The mountain road is hidden in the thick fog, and in the white clouds of the dense fog, you can't see the wide avenue, and you don't know if it is heading towards the sky.

Bai Jiu walked forward, then walked into the fog, and then the figure dissipated.

In the mist, there are three huge stone archways, and behind the archways are three spacious avenues, all of which go straight to the sky, and it is impossible to see the direction.

He walked under one of the archways, looked up, and found that there were four big characters engraved on the stone tablets, and the benevolent people were not worried.

Bai Jiu thought for a moment, then walked under the second stone plaque, looked up, there were still four big characters, and those who knew were not confused.

Then Bai Jiu came to the last archway, on which four characters were also written, and the brave were not afraid.

"The benevolent are not worried, the knowers are not confused, and the brave are not afraid."

Bai Jiu naturally knew where this sentence came from.

Confucianism has been passed down to this day, although there are still many seowon scattered around the world. For example, the most famous Liyang Mountain Cliff Academy, Dongzhou Wansong Academy, and the Nanhai Bailu Academy, which is relatively well-known in Dayu..... But if we say who is the representative of Confucianism in the whole world today, people will name one place without thinking, and that is Zhushan, the Lingmen Academy.

And the source of these three sentences is Zhushan, which was written by the Confucian sage from Zhushan countless years ago - "Physiognomy Theory".

Because he knows, Bai Jiu naturally understands the meaning of these three sentences, and today's gentleman scholars still regard these three sentences as the expression of the temperament of the way of a gentleman.

But what Bai Jiu didn't understand was what it meant to be placed in this position at this time.

...........

The peak of Bamboo Mountain, in the thick fog.

"Second Senior Brother, which path do you think Bai Jiu will choose?"

"I don't know if it's a brother."

"Guess what, please."

"The benevolent, the knowing, the brave, among them, I was the brave back then, and I am still standing here today. Back then, you chose to be benevolent, and you are not the same, but you are also standing here. ”

"Senior brother means that the three choices are the same, right?"

The man in a black smock with long hair shook his head and said, "There are only two results, standing here, or standing at the bottom of the mountain. ”

The man in flower clothes frowned and said, "Senior brother, this is not what I asked just now. ”

Wen Yuan said: "There are many roads to walk from the bottom of the mountain to the mountain, as long as you go up the mountain, the result is the same. The only thing that is different is the scenery along the way, and the different experiences. ”

Hua Jin said: "The third level of the quadrangle, the figurine is the inner restlessness, we know what Bai Jiu has experienced, but I don't know if he can get out of the heart barrier." ”

Speaking of this, Hua Jin suddenly thought of something.

"With the character of the senior brother, what should be chosen is also a benevolent person or a knowledgeable person."

Wen Yuan was silent for a moment before speaking slowly.

"It's not"

"Huh? Could it be that with the character of the elder brother, it was the brave man who was chosen? ”

"Neither."

"What's that?"

"In fact, when I entered Zhushan, these three archways had just been built, and I heard the senior brother say that there were only three low firewood doors before, and there was no inscription on them."

"How does Senior Brother know?"

"Because the builder of these three archways is the senior brother himself."

"After that, the Quartet has this so-called third level."

.........

Looking at the big characters on the stone plaque, Bai Jiu fell into a short silence.

Which one is the benevolent, the knowing, and the brave?

If you say that a benevolent and righteous person like a gentleman, Bai Jiu thinks that he has never been like that, if he is really benevolent and righteous, how can he get the anger in his heart.

If you say that a brave person like Wanfu Mokai, Bai Jiu knows that although he likes to work hard, he is really reckless if he has courage and no strategy, and he has never wanted to be such a person.

And this last knower, although he has read a lot of books, has many questions about the world that are difficult to answer. For example, he wanted to ask the teacher on Zhushan what his body was. He wanted to know what the connection between the fairy sword and himself was? What he wanted to ask most was the man on the dragon chair, why did all this happen?

After a while, Bai Jiu no longer hesitated, and walked directly into the path behind the "Knowers Are Not Confused" stone plaque.

Since you have to choose, this is the one that you have the most problems.

The mountain road behind the stone plaque rises straight into the dense fog on the mountainside, which is much steeper than the previous mountain road, and is composed of stone steps one by one, and you have to climb back to the peak that is invisible to the naked eye in the clouds, and you don't know how many steps you have to walk.

He suddenly wondered if he had chosen the other two stone tablets, and he didn't know what kind of path would be behind them, and where they would lead.

Thinking curiously, he walked into the clouds and mist, climbed the stairs, and his figure gradually disappeared into the mountainside.

........

There are many people watching this hike down the mountain.

When Bai Jiu walked past the stone plaque halfway up the mountain, Liu Xun, who had been sitting in the shadow of the woods, stood up.

Zhushan has opened the mountain a few times, and the previous time, he also got the opportunity to try the mountain.

It's just that he walked past the stone plaque, but he couldn't walk through the thick clouds.

So when he saw Bai Jiu walking into the fog, he subconsciously clenched his fists.

Zhushan, the holy land of Confucianism today, can reach the top of the people, only those who are really called by the world as demons and outstanding.

As soon as he walked into the clouds and mist on the mountainside, Bai Jiu heard a series of screams from behind him.

The memories of fear that had been hidden deep in his heart all these years suddenly began to revive as the miserable screams suddenly began to revival, and then uncontrollably flooded, instantly occupying his entire body, making his body extremely stiff.

His hand was held by a young man, and he could clearly feel the warmth and clenching of that hand. He bit the tip of his tongue fiercely, broke free from fear with an extremely strong will, and forcibly twisted his body to look back.

Suddenly, the young man's voice sounded in his ears.

"Don't look back."

Bai Jiu looked up at the man and saw an expressionless face, and he suddenly felt a little familiar. At this time, he noticed that he seemed to have become much shorter, just as tall as the man's waist, and there were many tall and straight green trees around him for some reason.

He looked down at his feet, and saw that he was wearing a pair of very small cloth shoes, which were muddy and bloody.

The tall green tree, the miserable scream, it turned out that he was in Qingshanling at this time.