The young Taoist came down the mountain, first distributed the firewood to the people who had agreed before, and then bought some meat and rice noodles, and put them in the basket, and the two little ones crowded into the gap between these meals, and fell asleep, and the young man trampled on the remnants of the sunset, and walked home.

What I heard in my ears was the familiar local voice, and it was said that the parents were short, and there were no big things.

It's also easy and laid-back.

The young Taoist walked all the way, the road in front of him gradually darkened, the place where he lived was a remote part of the whole town, the ground was muddy, people rarely lit oil lamps after dark, such extravagant things, but the young Taoist saw that a light was lit in the distance, as if waiting for himself.

Qi Wufu slowed down and saw his door, a middle-aged man in a simple and simple scribe's robe stood quietly, holding a lamp in his hand, illuminating the left and right, his eyes were gentle, it seemed that he had been waiting for a long time, the door of this courtyard was just empty, but he didn't push the door in, just waited quietly outside.

Qi Wu said confusedly: "Mr. Su." ”

This is not long after he came to Zhongzhou from Jinzhou to the mountains outside this town, to start a lecture, his lectures are so high, can already be called a celebrity, and at that time he was in his early thirties, can be described as a talented person, and therefore, attracted a lot of people to study on this mountain.

For the young Taoist who quietly listened to the lecture back then, he also maintained a tacit attitude.

Su Shengyuan looked at the young Taoist in front of him who had covered his strangeness with the technique of change, and saw that his face did not have the weakness that he had before because of poverty, and saw that his height had already jumped up a section, and he looked like a young man, with a quiet temperament, his eyes were as deep as before, and he smiled and said, "Hmm." ”

"It seems that it's a good thing that you're doing well outside."

The young Taoist pushed open the 'door' and said, "Mr. Su, come in and sit down." He invited Su Shengyuan to enter, still the same as before, he caught the alien insects in the mountain, illuminated the room with their light points, and made tea, Su Shengyuan put the lantern pole he was carrying on the table, and pressed the pole with an iron object to fix the lantern.

Watching the young Taoist life boiling water and boiling tea, Su Shengyuan's tone was gentle, and he was not in a hurry: "For more than a year, where did you go, but you have some insight?" The young Taoist replied, "I have seen many people and many landscapes, and I have indeed gained something, but I feel that I am getting smaller and smaller. ”

Su Shengyuan asked some questions again, and took out a stack of scrolls from his sleeve, all wrapped in oiled paper, gently placed them on the table, touched the scroll with his fingers, and said in a relaxed tone: "You are traveling outside, it is the so-called study tour, hard work every day, you should not have much time to read books and read classics, this is the file of last year's township exam, if you are not confused, you can take a look at it when you are free." ”

"I have written annotations on these files, and you can use them as references."

"It's the exam in the near future, if you want to, I'll report your name and place of origin for you."

Su Shengyuan's voice was gentle.

The young Taoist quieted down, still looked at the gentleman, and replied softly:

"I'm not going to take the exam."

Su Shengyuan's movements froze slightly, and then he looked at the young Taoist in front of him.

There was silence for a moment, except for the crackling sound of the candles burning inside the lantern.

After being quiet for a while, Su Shengyuan saw that his expression was quiet and calm, he didn't say anything, he didn't have any anger or unwillingness, he just smiled a little lonely, and said, "That's it, it's okay like this." ”

"This scholar can't save the world and help the people, it's useless."

"It seems that you have some insight when you go out, but in any case, remember that you still have to read, and if you don't read, you can't understand yourself, you can't know others, I'll take these things first......" He stretched out his hand, picked up these books that he had written with the lamp, and put them away again.

Then he put some silver on the table, raised his hand to stop the young Taoist, and said gently: "You just came back, now the winter has not passed, most of the firewood prepared before the Chinese New Year in people's homes is still a small half, these silver, you use it yourself to spend first, as if you borrowed my ......"

"Live your life."

"Don't forget to read."

He put down the silver, got up, smiled gently, and said:

"It's getting late, and my wife is still waiting for me at home, so she won't stay here."

"No doubt, Mr. will go first......

Su Shengyuan walked out, carrying a lantern, and walked out of this alley step by step, as if he was not very suitable for the road conditions here, he stumbled a little when he walked, the lights swayed, and his back was lonely.

The young Taoist wanted to send it, but he stopped him, so he had to watch him leave, and the lady next door squatted on the side with a bowl of rice.

The rice bowl has the leftover food from the New Year's Festival, the rice is covered with green vegetables, some leftover pieces of meat that are reluctant to throw away, and a chicken, covered with a full one, and said, "Mr. Su really came to you." ”

"Sir, when did he come?"

"He? Probably after knowing that you were coming, he came, and stood here for more than an hour. ”

"Why did you leave so quickly?"

The eldest lady ate a green onion, and then ate by the way, and said: "Speaking of which, when you left without saying a word, the most anxious person in the town was Mr. Su, he was in a hurry, he looked for you for several months, and also found his friend. ”

"I've been looking for you in Zhongzhou for several months, but I haven't found any traces of you, everyone thinks that you will fall into the mountains, or be eaten by a tiger or something, and Mr. Su himself is still waiting for you, at that time he has no energy, always looking at the place where you used to eavesdrop in a daze."

"I thought he was going to talk to you about anything......"

The lady next door was very curious.

The young Taoist held the silver in his hand, but it weighed like a thousand catties, looking at the back of Mr. Su leaving lonely, the young Taoist knew Mr. Su's regret and loss, and also knew that he was a gentleman and did not oppress others, but it was a pity that he could not study anymore after all.

Former Prince Donggong Zhan Shi Su Shengyuan.

Ben is the Lord and the faction.

But because of the Jinzhou incident, he strongly advocated the impeachment of the current emperor, and it was a staunch Conservative Party, believing that a people could not protect the people of the world, and strongly advocating that the iron horse should enter Jinzhou, and even thought that the soldiers and horses should be driven straight into the cracks of the Jinzhou Demon Kingdom, so as to protect the people of the future by crusading against it.

If the enemy strikes me and I do not move, the enemy will become more and more rampant.

It has become the main battle faction to fight and raise its prestige, so that the country can be determined.

Seeking peace by war can also be.

Seeking peace with peace is to put out fires with salary.

In the matter of Jinzhou, the prince changed, the East Palace changed hands, and he was deposed as the descendant of the original prince.

Because his wife is a member of the Cui family.

and avoid death.

Gave a noble Hanlin position.

Disheartened, he didn't want to be that Hanlin, so he resigned and went into seclusion and came to a remote place in Zhongzhou to teach his disciples.

The young Taoist held the silver, and he chose to go on a different path from Mr. Su, so he couldn't respond to Mr. Su, he was quiet for a long time, watching the little light go away, and then he returned to the house, put the silver lightly on the table, and had a plan in his heart.

Su Shengyuan hopes to cultivate disciples, and there are enough young people with ideals and aspirations to reverse this turbid era.

However, the young Taoist felt that if the top was not right, the bottom would inevitably be distorted.

It's just an upside and downside effect.

It's just that I don't know if the woman of the Zhou family has arrived in the capital at this moment, and whether she has handed over his letter to King Qin.

Qi Wufu thought for a long time in his heart, the lights gradually went out, he restrained his emotions, but saw the little peacock and the little medicine spirit hugging each other, snoring and sleeping, carefree, no worries, smiled slightly, carried the lamp made of insects, pushed open the door, walked outside, sat in front of the stone table under the plum tree, and opened the opening.

So the bugs flew into the sky, and the boy opened the letterhead he had brought from the black bear.

With the help of the moonlight, looking at the letterhead of the tiger mountain god, the words are free and wanton, which is the style of that friend.

'Okay?' ’

After I left the mountain, I traveled all over the world, only to know the vastness of the world, amazing, not only sitting in one place and cultivating the Tao can be compared, I thought that hundreds of years of cultivation, I have a great understanding of the heart of the self, but when I traveled outside, I found that communicating with others can stimulate my unperceived self, so I understand more and more about what I am as I am. ’

'I am not the one who is quiet, I am the one who is angry, and I am the one who rejoices when he sees all things. ’

'I am me, the gathering of countless mes in memory, how can I understand when I sit still?' ’

'Therefore when I see the common people, and when I see the heavens and the earth, I can see me'

"In fact, I am in the meeting of the common people and I have the joy and reaction of meeting the common people, I sigh when I see the world and the world, I am all me, just like that, walking the world, occasionally realized, rejoicing, I wrote it on paper, hoping to talk to you one day."

As he wrote this line, the tall man in the black suit sat in the quiet woods, his spear stuck upside down on the ground in the moonlight, next to the child who was saved by him in his battle robe, and the corpse of the famous demon fell around him, and under the moonlight, like a tiger after a hunt, quietly wrote simple and pure words.

There are corpses all around.

And the young Taoist read the letters of his friends under the moonlight, with the help of flying fireflies.

This letterhead does not seem to have been done all at once.

And the text on the back is calm: "However, I originally planned to chat when I can see you one day in the future, but I rescued the daughter of a Tiger Clan general today, and I learned a lot of things from his mouth, which seems to be related to your experience - after the fall of the Tiger Clan Great Sage, the city was also slaughtered, just like Jinzhou." ”

The young Taoist's eyes shrank slightly.

And the handwriting of the Tiger Mountain God is sharp.

"Actually, I've always wondered why some demon clans would eat people and practice."

"But all wild beasts, walking in the mountains, it is rumored in the world that wild beasts hurt people and eat people, but for wild beasts, the human race has too many bones and too hard and not much meat, and has weapons, gathers people to come and go, has strong endurance, can hunt, in fact, it is an extremely high predator."

"Just as a pack of wolves is not in a desperate situation, they will not attack lions, tigers and leopards, even tigers will bypass the bears."

"Most beasts are not hungry to the point of madness, and they will not attack humans, so normal demon clans have no aggression towards humans at all from beginning to end, and some are even afraid of humans, like fearing lions and tigers, and avoid them; And if it is a beast psychic, it will tend to be a spiritual fruit, an elixir, and absorb the essence of heaven and earth to transform itself. ”

"Instead of immersing yourself in the killing."

"And sentient beings die unexpectedly, and resentment escapes, I guess devouring such flesh and blood will harm the cultivation."

"So when it was time in Jinzhou, the demon clan would actually start killing the human race in large numbers, which itself violated the character of the demon clan."

"I have always had this doubt, I once went to the demon city, read the classics, and found that it was difficult to have these records, and then entered the tiger clan, saw the secret dossier, and found out that there were taboo schools of practice in ancient times, and their theory believes that the emotion is the voice of the heart, and the heart is the power of the original god, and the strong emotional changes and grief belong to the agitation of the original god."

"Therefore, there is a breakthrough in the state of mind that stimulates the common people, and the primordial power that is bred by swallowing the despair of the common people."

"This kind of method seemed to be routine 10,000 years ago, according to legend, it is related to the blood river, it is the path of the original ten thousand spirits in the distant years, watching the blood river in the sky and enlightening the way, this group of cultivators of the evil way, was purged by the original demon emperor, and a large number of cultivation methods with this concept as the core were burned to ashes."

"Later, the human race also followed this bloody river sword sect of killing ruthless swordsmanship, and such a method gradually became taboo, and gradually disappeared in this world, but eight thousand years ago, the emperor of the demon clan suddenly fell, and without the suppression of the demon emperor, the great sages of the demon clan were-for-tat with each other, this forbidden technique, even if someone is using it, as long as the race of the great sage of the demon clan is not used as a blood sacrifice, no one cares."

"So, the demon clan that has lost the protection of the Great Sage; and the Terrans, which became its targets. ”

"In this kind of forbidden art, there are countless records of killing the common people, refining the father and killing the children for the bone demons; And this seems to be consistent with what you once told me about the [vegetable market] - if people want to go out, they have to send a person's life into the vegetable market, so in order to survive each other's fighting, using each other, and even killing each other, there are by no means a few, among which the despair and madness are unimaginable. ”

"Stir up the common people, cannibalize each other, in order to seek chaos, and even use the blockade of a state as a furnace."

"I think one of the possibilities is that I am refining some kind of weapon with the help of this despair, grief and indignation."

"Ask for a blood sacrifice to open the front."

"Otherwise, it's the demon cultivator who is cultivating."

"There are only sentient beings in the world, and the joys and sorrows are rich, and the human race is the leader of them."

"There is nothing more desolate than [cannibalism]."

"And the third possibility, and the biggest possibility, I found it in the forbidden texts of the Tiger Clan."

"Among the demon clans, based on this cultivation concept, there is a supreme secret method, which is feared by the demons, which is to [raise the holy womb], in which there must be the sorrow of a desperate situation, the crazy fight of all living beings, and the courage and determination of sentient beings who bloom in a desperate situation, sacrifice, after breaking, and fighting to the death, all belong to this."

"What this method really cares about is not madness in despair."

"But it bursts out under the desolation and despair of this cannibalism, the kind of brilliance that belongs to human nature."

"It is the number of paths that have [changed from evil to good] [yin and yang]."

"Then, with the blood of the common people, the sorrow of all things, and the sigh of heaven and earth, based on the most brilliant bravery and courage among those living beings, devouring foreign objects to achieve self-enlightenment, forcibly stepping into the legendary realm of the [Great Sage], is to take ferocious killing as a soldier, and the road to sanctification with fearless armor, all the same as what happened to you without confusion."

"I'm worried that you have broken through the realm and left Helian Mountain."

"That's why I found a way to let that bear deliver the letter to you quickly."

"It's not too late."

The young Taoist looked at the letterhead quietly, his palms clenched subconsciously, and his heart even felt empty for a while.

The pain and grief of so many people is deliberate......

It is not a temperament, it is not a dignified fight based on hatred between the two races.

Rather, it was deliberate torture and torture.

And those countless people, all the struggles and efforts to survive, the courage and determination of human nature.

It's just part of a vast sadhana.

That's it, that's it.

(End of chapter)