Volume 2, The Journey of the Husband and Gentleman Chapter 52, is Haoran

Bai Jiu now has two swords. A sword is very bright and sharp, but there is one point where the tip of the sword is not polished, and when held in both hands, it looks like a knife without a point.

A sword is of ordinary size, the scabbard and hilt are relatively gorgeous, and the sword body is smooth and traceless, reflecting a deep pool.

Both swords have provenances, and neither is ordinary. Bai Jiu had thought about why the academy didn't reward him with something when he won the first place in the Qianlong Test. Later, he learned through Ouyang Luo that in fact, the academy wanted to give him a sword, but it was given by the imperial court. Besides, he finally went to the treasure house of Dayu, which is called half of the world, what good things are there?

From the first floor, Bai Jiu walked directly to the fourth floor.

At this time, there is no light outside the window, and the library starts before the evening and after the clear sky. Now the sun is gone, the moon is rising, and the door is closed.

The fourth floor of the library building can only be entered by the Divine Void Realm, and there is almost no pressure here, and there are only regulations for the realm. Even when night came, nothing changed. But few people will spend the night here, because the library not only has a formation, but also the presence of an administrator.

The instructor said that the administrator had a bad temper and once accidentally injured a student. Bai Jiu always thought that he was a fierce strong man, but who would have thought that it would be an old woman.

The old woman was wearing a dark coat and holding a bamboo broom in her hand, she leaned over and turned her back to Bai Jiu, and slowly descended from the stairs on the fifth floor.

Under the broom was dust, the stairs swept were clean, nothing was left.

She walked to the fourth floor and turned to see Bai Jiu.

In fact, the old woman is not very old, her hair is slightly white, and there are some traces of age in the corners of her eyes, but her rickety body and dark coat make her look like an old man.

Bai Jiu had seen her, but he didn't expect the administrator to be her.

When he first came to Seifuin, he won the first place in the hospital exam. Because many people didn't know him, he caused some trouble outside the courtyard gate. The young talents led by Zhong Tianming embarrassed him for various reasons. At that time, there were two people who rescued him, one was Ouyang Luo, and the other was the old woman in front of him.

Bai Jiu sat down for a long time, leaned over and said, "I've seen my seniors." ”

The old woman stopped and looked at him, and as if she was not surprised at all, she asked, "The library is closed at night, and students are not allowed to stay, so leave quickly." ”

Bai Jiu was stunned, hesitated, and said: "The seniors have always wanted to thank the juniors for relieving the siege that day, but it's just ............"

"Alright, alright." The old woman waved her hand and motioned for Bai Jiu to stop.

"I know it's you, but the library is not allowed to enter at night, it's the academy's rule."

Bai Jiu was a little embarrassed and asked, "Then how can I get in?" ”

The old woman stretched out two fingers and said, "One, the word of the dean." Second, break into the building. ”

Bai Jiu asked, "What is breaking into the building?" ”

The old woman said, "Let's start with the first floor, and walk up one layer at a time." ”

Bai Jiu asked, "If you can't walk up?" ”

The old woman said, "Then I'll take you to a special room." Wait until dawn. ”

Bai Jiu hesitated for a moment, and then said, "What if you don't leave?" ”

The old woman said expressionlessly: "I have been the administrator until now, and no one has beaten me." ”

Bai Jiu was silent.

The old woman said: "The students who dare to ignore the regulations of the academy are all people who are very confident in their own strength. But at your age and in such a realm, you can't be my opponent at all. ”

Bai Jiu opened his mouth to say something.

The old woman continued: "Isn't it great that the hidden dragon tried first? Is God lacking strong? It's all petty fights. ”

Bai Jiu smiled, not knowing how to answer this question.

The old woman patted her clothes lightly and said, "Let's talk about it after purification, now do you go down by yourself, or will I help you?" ”

Bai Jiu saluted again and said in a low voice, "It's the juniors who are presumptuous." ”

Bai Jiu went downstairs, and the building was quiet again.

The old woman did not stay any longer, but continued with what she was doing, with dust under the broom, from top to bottom, and this was only three layers.

There was a sound of snorting in the building, and the old woman whispered softly.

"The man left by the Bai family? Immortals? Those people in the Purple Shirt Garden are really boring........."

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When I walked downstairs, the door to the library was closed. Bai Jiu stood at the top of the stairs on the first floor, looking at the height in silence.

There was silence all around, and suddenly a candle flame was lit. The light of the fire ran around the walls, down the empty tables and chairs, down the staircase, and then upward.

It's like a bonfire lit in the dead of night, and it's like a sky full of stars.

The library lit up.

A breath fell from the height first, followed by countless streams around it. They landed on Bai Jiu's body, and the infinite weight weighed on his shoulders.

These weights are like waterfalls flying off a steep cliff, which can smash smooth boulders in an instant, and even a secluded pool over time.

However, Bai Jiu's body did not bend, and there were no cracks in the tables and chairs sitting around, not because of the material, but because the weight came from the mind, and it was the dantian qi sea that he beared.

Bai Jiu looked at the corridor, the steps were still normal, but he saw a avenue that went to the sky.

"It's a good feeling."

There is a formation in the library building, which is laid by the former sages of Qingfeng Temple. What started out as an incentive for students who could only read to practice has not changed since then, but it has become a place to store valuables.

The treasures of Qingfeng Temple are all in the library building, including the cultivation exercises that have not been circulated in the rivers and lakes, including the magic weapons collected for countless years.

However, in the hundreds of years since the establishment of Seifuin, there has never been a story of theft in the library, and there are many reasons for this.

You can't take it out during the day, and you can't walk in at night.

Bai Jiu is at the intersection of the first and second floors, and the pressure here can be described as a mountain. His head was very painful, his forehead was covered with beads of sweat, and the flow of true qi in his body was obviously much slower at this time, and his feet were as heavy as a mountain.

If you can't go in, you really can't go in, and the stairs from the first floor to the second floor are only halfway through, and it's already like this, and it's hard to move an inch.

As the former sages said, stress makes people grow. And now it seems that the same is true of spiritual practice.

Very few people will practice with the help of the mental pressure of the library building, because this matter is ridiculous and idiotic. Mental stress can make people's minds ache, slow down the flow of essence qi in the body, and reduce the rotation of the dantian qi sea, but what is the effect of this for cultivation?

Is it just to hone people's minds?

Bai Jiu naturally understands this truth, but what he needs now is this kind of pressure, there is something called bottoming out, and now he is thinking about this.

The divine consciousness contemplated the body, and he came to his own little world.

After returning from the Tang Tomb, resting all the way, Bai Jiu's realm has already recovered, and even more refined. There is already a huge lake on the fertile plain, occupying almost two-thirds of the area. The surrounding mountains are majestic, like a sharp sword soaring into the sky, and the momentum is magnificent.

The divine consciousness blows like a breeze through the valley, blowing out of the valley, wrinkling up, and then climbing up the cliff. After a while, they came to the highest point in the valley.

The plain is surrounded by majestic peaks, and behind the peaks is the vast sea.

The Black Sea has not changed in the slightest from before, it is still calm, you can't see the size, let alone the depth.

Bai Jiu's divine consciousness stayed on the edge of the sea for a long time, as if he was looking at it and sighing with emotion.

In the Tang Tomb, in the face of the still powerful Tang Emperor, he had no choice but to use this black sea, but just a wave made him almost lose his mind and almost lost in this black sea. If he hadn't forcibly awakened with the will of mountains and rivers in the end, then he might have lost his mind now, and who would occupy his body?

Silence is not thinking, but hesitation.

I don't know how long it took, Bai Jiu used his divine sense to send a voice towards the black sea.

"Who are you?"

.........

The landscape painting scroll in Bai Jiu's hand is imminent, and the real painting is in the treasure house of Dayu.

He looked at the picture scroll and the stone wall, and realized the meaning of the Lingmen landscape between life and death in the Tang Tomb.

What is Shanshui Meaning?

Heaven and earth have righteousness, mixed with manifolds, the lower is the river, and the upper is the sun and the stars.

The scholar raises a breath and is named Haoran.

This qi has no shape, but it contains heaven and earth. This qi has no power, but it is more magnificent than its true qi.

Bai Jiu couldn't fully understand, in fact, this is normal, and only Lord Wen Sheng and Mr. Second in the entire Zhushan have attributed Haoran Qi to substance, not even Mr. Big, let alone him.

There are many expressions of the meaning of mountains and rivers, in the Tang Tombs, Hua Jin made a demonstration of the mountains and flowing water, and also said that this is the practice of Lingmen. The entry is this landscape painting, and the starting method is the mountains and flowing water. Master Wensheng does not teach cultivation, but cultivation is in this picture, and how to deduce it in the future depends on personal enlightenment.

Bai Jiu has not officially entered the Lingmen, and he has watched the Huajin demonstration once, although he still does not understand, but he understands some truth.

He thought of a way.

Heyue, Sun and Star, Heaven and Earth, Earth, Fairy World....... Isn't this the way of heaven when many cumbersomeness are grouped together.

What is the Way of Heaven?

The Tao gives birth to all things, the Tao is between all things, and exists in nature in all forms. It is not only the rule of all things, but also the principle of all things, the ultimate of all things, and the inherent law of nature.

The way of heaven is constant, not for the existence of heaven, not for the death of the earth, a person's body and mind, only a way to perceive, this is the way of heaven.

If the way of heaven represents nature, nature includes mountains and rivers.

So, is Lingmen's landscape meaning also part of the Heavenly Dao?

Bai Jiu's mind moved slightly, and his divine consciousness fell from the mountain, turned into a fresh wind, and came to the sky above the Black Sea.

If you are part of the Heavenly Dao, then can I Lingmen Mountain and Water Intention coexist with you?

The wind carries the mountains and rivers and sinks into the Black Sea.