The small courtyard was quiet, and after a long time, the seventh senior sister suddenly let out a sneer, but after the laughter, she didn't speak, but picked out the pine nuts from the handkerchief, recorded the skin and blown the crumbs, sorted it out carefully, and handed it to the third senior sister next to the couch.

The second senior brother frowned slightly, looked at her and asked, "Little junior sister, what are you laughing at?"

The seventh senior sister threw the pine nuts into her lips, chewed them slowly for a while, clapped her hands casually, raised her willow eyebrows slightly, met his gaze without fear, and said: "Second senior brother really can't lie?

After the second senior brother was silent for a moment, he replied slowly: "Liar...... Are people the same thing as lying?"

"I said pull it down. ”

Chen Pipi looked at the seventh senior sister and said angrily: "Who doesn't know the temperament of the second senior brother?" He said that if he can't lie, he won't lie, I asked him for help that night, and what he said was not false, you didn't see how the second senior brother was nervous at that time, and his face was quite calm, but the hard stones under the tree were all pinched into powder by him. ””

Expect the second senior brother to increase Ning Que's confidence? That thief and thief can see through it at a glance!"

The fourth senior brother opened his mouth and said: "The so-called confidence has always gone through Yu Xuanxu, he can't practice Haoran Sword, we should start with specific means." The running curve of the flying sword is very easy to calculate, and although the correlation between air resistance and the speed of the flying sword is more complicated, it is not impossible to calculate, Ning Que is so good at mathematics, it should be easier for him to understand it if he teaches him this. ””

No matter how you calculate, how you teach, and how you do it, there is no way to solve the most fundamental problem of the little junior brother after all.

That is, he only has ten tricks in the snow mountain qi sea, and the heaven and earth vitality that he can control is too weak. If this problem can't be solved, even if the teacher and senior brother go home, it is meaningless to use miraculous means to help the junior brother advance to the realm of knowing fate, because he will be the weakest knowing fate in the world. ”

The second senior brother was silent for a moment, then looked at the fourth senior brother who spoke before and said, "You and the sixth senior brother will get those strange things for him first, and if you can't do it yourself, you must pay more attention to the help of external objects." ”

Senior Brother Jiu suddenly shook his head and said, "I said that it is better to let the junior brother follow me and Ximen to learn to play the flute and play the piano, so that after leaving the academy in the future, I will have a means to make a living." ”

Senior Brother Eleventh smiled slightly, and said with a calm expression: "Junior Brother has often asked me for knowledge of things recently, and in my opinion, let him learn from me, which will help his state of mind." ”

The seventh senior sister grabbed a handful of melon seeds from the windowsill, lowered her head and picked the fullest melon kernels, and said with a slight mockery: "Senior Brother Eleven, follow you to learn these useless things, what should I do if the little junior brother starves to death in the future?"

Senior Brother Eleventh looked at her and explained seriously: "Little Senior Sister, my family is a rich man in the south, and I will inherit a large amount of family business in the future, even if the little junior brother is a wasted person, I will have no problem raising him for the rest of my life." ”

At this time, the meeting to help the little junior brother Ning Que was held, and the topic gradually did not know which direction it took, and everyone in the room was gossiping, giving advice, discussing enthusiastically, debating fiercely, deeply concerned about the little junior brother's future livelihood, and said that they could be responsible for the little junior brother's life.

"Senior brothers and sisters, are you thinking too much?" Chen Pipi looked at the people in the room who were drinking tea and holding a tea party, rubbed the back of his head, and said bitterly: "What kind of person Ning Que is, I know better than all of you, although he is a bit of an idiot in terms of cultivation, he is definitely not a real idiot. Didn't it happen to you, since he entered the back mountain, all of us have been revolving around him? Where do we need to worry so much about a person like this? I dare say that all the people in the world are dead, including all of us in the house, and he will not die, let alone starve to death?"

Hearing this, all the sons on the second floor of the academy were stunned, thinking of the experience of these days, the look on their faces became extremely exciting. Beigong Weiyang rubbed the hole flute lightly, frowned and said: "Speaking of which, when the little junior brother wants to listen to the music, he goes into the forest and pulls the two of us to play a song, and when he doesn't want to listen to it, he resolutely refuses to listen to it, how do I feel that I have become a singer in front of him?"

The fifth senior brother patted his thigh, shook his head and said with emotion: "He said that if he plays chess, he will play chess, obviously as soon as I and the eighth brother entered the middle game, he dared to come and intervene, and he had to let us suppress our temper and point, otherwise he would really dare to throw the chess pieces in front of the little junior brother...... We are just othello teachers who are not in the mainstream of two village chess clubs. ”

The sixth senior brother looked at the thoughtful crowd, and said with a sincere smile: "Ning Que treats me well, although he often has some inexplicable ideas, he often helps me to carry iron and water, which saves me a lot of trouble." ”

The second senior brother looked at the junior brothers who were complaining about the history of blood and tears, and said with a slight raised eyebrows: "Ning Ran is the youngest junior brother, it is natural for you to take care of him as a senior brother, what is there to say about these things?"

Listening to the second senior brother's coin ring, looking at him sternly, everyone in the room was shocked at the same time, and they all bowed their heads, and even the seventh senior sister, who had been expressing Xiàn very casually before, also put the melon seeds back on the windowsill.

"Although I despise Yan Se's mentality in the world, I must admit that as the enshrined in the South Gate of Haotian, he is indeed the world's first-class and even the most powerful rune master, even more powerful than the world imagined. ”

The second senior brother's eyes drooped slightly, he looked at a place in front of him, and after a moment of silence, he continued to say in a deep voice: "Since the junior brother is so talented and only suitable for the path of the Fu Dao, let him learn more from Yan Se in the future." ”

There was silence in the house.

The seventh senior sister raised her head, frowned slightly, and said: "But after all, the junior brother is a person from the second floor of my academy, and now he is regarded as a closed disciple of the teacher, and as a result, all of his cultivation is actually taught by outsiders, where is this like when it is spread out? Even if we are not afraid of gossip in the world, will the teacher and senior brother be disappointed with us people after they come back?"

I don't know if the master took the eldest disciple to return to the academy after his travels, and found that he somehow had a closed disciple who only had the realm of not being confused and had extremely poor cultivation qualifications, and the only ability that this disciple could get his hands on was to look at the Dao methods of the Dry Heaven Dao. Anyway, Ning Que didn't have any disappointment, although Haoran Sword was still practiced like snow covering dog shit, but his mentality had been adjusted very well, and these days, except for studying in the back mountain of the academy, he would travel around Chang'an City with Master Yan Se every few days to approach the Rune Avenue in a relaxed and interesting way, and he lived a very fulfilling life.

In those days of late spring and early summer in the fourteenth year of the Apocalypse, the residents of Chang'an City could often see an old Taoist who was extremely dirty and wandered around with a young man who was dressed plainly but extremely clean.

The old Taoist took the young man through the streets and alleys, to see the old and dilapidated buildings that had been passed down for hundreds of years, to go to various taverns to drink, and occasionally to spend the night at the cheapest open door prostitute, and more often to see the scenery that tourists must see.

When walking through the renovated block of Chunfeng Pavilion, Yan Se was full of emotion and said: "New is new, but the original meaning is lost, but fortunately, there is still this pavilion, do you see that the eaves of the pavilion are beautiful?"

Ning Que walked in the streets and alleys where he had fought all night, looked at the old Spring Breeze Pavilion at the corner of the street, and woke up after hearing the master's words, and looked at the four lines that protruded slightly above the eaves of the pavilion seriously, and asked suspiciously after tasting it for a long time: "I can't tell what beauty there is, I just feel that it looks very coordinated, and the intersection of Uwa is slightly sunken down and then warped, which is very smooth." ””

That's walking the rain line. Master Yan Se pointed to the eaves line and said: "The rain falls on the Uwa, and flows down the superposition of the tiles, and it does not pass through the shape of the rain line, but the shape of the rain line alludes to the trend of rain falling and accumulating, so you will feel smooth." ””

Master, what can the pavilion eaves mean by walking the rain line?" Ning Que asked: "This pavilion should have been repaired many years ago, and those craftsmen couldn't be talismans, could they also understand the laws of heaven and earth vitality?"

What is a law? The law is a certain rule for the operation of things, and those craftsmen who built the Spring Breeze Pavilion may not have mastered the law of the operation of heaven and earth, but the knowledge of building rain eaves for countless generations has been passed down, and there is indeed a certain wisdom hidden in it. ”

Master Yan Se led him towards the pavilion and said, "How will you walk when the rain falls? Why do you walk like this? The craftsmen who built the pavilion don't know, maybe their ancestors only know the answer to the first question, but not the answer to the second question, but what does it matter? The first step for human beings to learn from heaven and earth is always imitation. "If you imitate more, you will be like this eaves, and you will naturally refine the simplest truth, that is, the undulating shape of the line.

Walking to the Spring Breeze Pavilion, Master Yan Se turned around, looked at Ning Que and said: "The first step in cultivating the rune path is to imitate, I let you read the rune classics left by the former sages, I let you carefully understand the subtleties between the heaven and earth vitality, and the construction experience accumulated by the craftsmen over the years is very similar, but they do it subconsciously, and it will take several generations, but you have to take the initiative to master the experience, and the less time the better." ”

After seeing the Wind Pavilion, the master and apprentice left the alley and walked along the gray wall next to the compound into the distance.

Stepping on the slightly protruding bluestone slab road, looking at the gurgling water not far from his feet, Ning Que naturally remembered that rainy night, this ditch was once stained red with blood, and these bluestone slabs were full of mutilated corpses.

Behind the gray wall is the courtyard of Chao Xiaoshu, Ning Que looked up, only to see the green trees in the courtyard, and occasionally a voice came, wondering if Chao Xiaoshu's family still lives here, and where did he go?

As if guessing what he was thinking in his heart, Master Yan Se, who was walking in front of him with his sleeves, smiled slightly and asked, "Towards the small tree to view the Pinghu Lake and enter the fate, this kind of comprehension opportunity is really rare. Even with the talent of Chao Xiaoshu, if he hadn't been forcibly pressed into the dark night mud of Chang'an City by His Majesty for many years, it would have been impossible for him to burst out with such brilliant brilliance at one time. ”

This was the first time that Ning Que knew that Chao Xiaoshu was a great cultivator of the realm of knowing fate, and he thought of the scene of the bloody battle behind the middle-aged man that rainy night, and his eyebrows couldn't help but slowly raised, and there was an indescribable sense of pride and grandeur in his heart.

"You should have seen Chao Xiaoshu's swordsmanship. ”

"Yes, master. ”

"What do you think is so special about the house?"

"Soon, like lightning. ”

Ning Que thought of the flying crooked wooden sword on the shore of the mountain lake behind the academy, and felt very ashamed.

Master Yan Se looked at him with a smile and said, "Is there anything else?"

Ning Que remembered something, but he didn't say it after licking his lips, because although Yan Se was his master on the runic path, it was very likely that that thing was the life-saving ability of pressing the bottom of the box against Xiaoshu, and no one should say this kind of thing.

"I can't see that you're still a righteous person. Master Yan Se glanced at him with some surprise.

Ning Que smiled and replied, "Brother Chao treats me well, and after leaving Chang'an City, he still thinks about my livelihood and leaves me a large sum of silver every month, even if the righteousness is not heavy, the silver is heavy enough." ”

Yan Se laughed and said: "Chao Xiaoshu turned into five with a sword, I don't need you to tell me about this matter, I just want to sue you when those five sword pieces shrouded the streets and alleys around him like meteors, have you ever thought about it, if it is his natal sword, why can he still obey him so much after being divided into five pieces?"

Ning Que really didn't think about this question, and he didn't think about it after the bloody battle last spring, because he didn't know what cultivation was at that time, and the reason why he didn't think about it later was because he didn't think about it at all. At this time, he turned his back on the Chunfeng Pavilion and walked towards the street, and suddenly heard the master's question, and he suddenly fell into deep thought.

Master Yan Se is not one of those teachers who likes to use all kinds of questions to embarrass his students, and then gain a sense of superiority and vanity and sadistic pleasure from them, he glanced at Ning Que's frowning and thoughtful appearance, and explained directly: "Chao Xiaoshu's natal sword is divided into five small swords, and the connection and interaction between these five small swords rely on a kind of formation, and I told you before...... In fact, all formations can be regarded as a kind of transformation talisman...... A kind of large symbol that is more dependent on the material. ”

Then he continued: "The Taoist sword is a talisman, and the Buddhist mudra is also a talisman, and both of these talismans are infinitive. As for the decoration of the general's hundred battle helmets in the morning, although they are mostly fragments, they are also symbols, but this kind of symbols are fixed. ”

Ning Que glanced at him, couldn't help but smile bitterly and said, "Master, I know that you are the most powerful rune master in the world, and I know that every rune master should have the deepest and most sincere feelings and love for the rune from the heart, but ...... If you say this, isn't it true that all the practices in the world can be attributed to the Fu in the end? This statement is really ...... That's what the hell is it?"

Master Yan Se stopped, turned around and asked suspiciously, "What is too much, what is too much?"

After Ning Que hesitated for a moment, he lowered his voice and said, "It's too narcissistic." ”

Master Yan Se laughed, causing the attention of pedestrians in the streets and alleys.

The laughter gradually stopped, he looked at Ning Que and was silent for a moment and said seriously: "The first focus of cultivation lies in daring to think and admit, the long road is long, if you don't believe that you can go to the end, how can you step through the dangerous peaks of those difficult and strange things on the path of cultivation? The better the cultivators, the more confident they are, and the best cultivators must be confident to the extreme exaggerated realm, which is probably what you call narcissism." ”

Ning Que opened his mouth slightly, unable to speak for a long time, wanting to slander the master for saying this sentence is crooked, but after thinking about it carefully, he feels that these words are extremely reasonable, especially when he thinks of the second senior brother of the academy and Chen Pipi, two extremely narcissistic and proud guys.

Leaving the Chunfeng Pavilion, from the east city through Shanmofang, the master and apprentice came to an open avenue, not far away the Yulin Army was patrolling on horses, there were a lot fewer pedestrians on the street, and the environment was quiet on the bank of the Qinghe River. The majestic imperial city not far away is clearly visible to the naked eye, and it seems that even some traces of the wind and rain washed out on the vermilion wall can be seen.

Master Yan Se was completely unaffected by the solemn aura of this place, still wearing his sleeves and old shoes, wandering slowly through the streets, not caring at all about the vigilant and disgusting gazes cast by the knights of the Feather Forest Army.

Ning Que couldn't help but smile and followed behind him, suddenly remembering the part about the armor carving in the previous conversation, and thinking about some introduction to the old man Lu Qingchen during the trip last year, his eyes suddenly brightened, and he hurried a few steps forward to Master Yan Se's side, and said in a very respectful and gentle tone: "Master, I want to ask you for a talisman." ”

Yan Se turned around and asked, "What happened to your family? You saw something unclean, and you were pressed on the bed?"

Ning Que opened his mouth, not knowing how to answer, feeling very weak.

Master Yan Se's triangular eyes narrowed extremely obscenely, and said, "Just kidding." ”

Ning Que sighed and said seriously: "I want to carve a talisman on my knife. ”

After thinking for a moment, Master Yan Se shook his head and said: "Some runes can indeed be used alone without the talisman, such as passing books, such as armor and weapons, this kind of carving means is not uncommon, but after all, it is only the last way, it is not pure enough, and the power is not too great, the so-called own is the best, if it is your personal weapon, it is better for you to leave your own talisman in the future." ”

Ning Hao smiled bitterly and said, "I don't know what year and month I can get what I want." ”

Master Yan Se patted him on the shoulder and said comfortingly: "I firmly believe that your talent in the rune path is just that you haven't been able to see through that window paper yet, and if you slowly comprehend it, you will find that hope is always ahead." ”

"Look over there. ””

What's over there?"

See for yourself. ””

Master, I only saw a lot of trees. ””

What about behind the tree?"

Behind the tree is the sky. ””

That's not what I want you to see!"

Master, you don't have to say that I see hope, do you?"

I can't really say such a sour thing. ””

Actually, in my opinion, it is really inappropriate for you to play the role of a spiritual mentor with the supreme temperament of your game world, which looks like pink and white bones, but prefers to touch two handfuls. ”

"Ning Que. ”

"Yes, master. ”

"If you keep talking, I'll use the grass talisman to make you unable to see things for the rest of your life. ”

There was no hope in front of the master and apprentice, and they could only see a Taoist temple in the green forest at the foot of the imperial city.

Master Yan Se didn't take Ning Que into the South Gate Temple, because the two of them had a private master-apprentice relationship, and Yu Que was a student of the academy after all, and he was too close to Haotian Dao, no matter from which point of view, it was a very inappropriate thing. ”

I'm letting you see the cornices of the South Gate Sightseeing Hall. ”

Because of the previous conversation, Master Yan Se's face was ugly, and his tone was very stiff.

Ning Que raised his eyes as he said, and saw that behind the gray wall and green trees, he could faintly see the eaves of the main hall of the Taoist temple stretching out in the clear blue sky.

"Master, why do you want to look at this cornice? Once again, you can understand the laws that the craftsmen of the past dynasties have subconsciously summed up from the trend of the rain? It is enough to look at the Spring Breeze Pavilion, do you want to look at it forever? We have seen a lot of ancient temples, Taoist temples, old pavilions, small bridges, and flowing water in Chang'an City these days, and if we continue to look at it, I am afraid that Chang'an Mansion will suspect that we are a duo of old and young snitches. ””

Grass Charm ......""

Master, I was wrong. ”

Master Yan Se suppressed the anger in his heart after a long time, pointed to the eaves in the depths of the Taoist temple, and said with a pale face: "This time it is not the cornices that let you see, but the eaves beasts squatting on the eaves.

Ning Que's mind suddenly became serious, and after a moment of silence, he slowly released his mental power, and touched the stone eaves beasts that were half-squatting on the cornices in the air, and the storage of the eaves beasts was fed back into the sea of consciousness woven by the telekinetic power, which seemed very clear, but in the next moment, those eaves beasts seemed to come to life, and he could even see their eyes!

His heartbeat began to increase gradually, his breathing became heavier and heavier, and the eaves beasts in his face became clearer and clearer, and the pressure that came from him became heavier and heavier. directly made his face pale, and his body was extremely stiff.

Master Yan Se stood beside him, watching his reaction and not worrying, but his heart was calm and slightly happy, Ning Que was so sensitive to the reaction of the eaves beast, slightly diluted some of the anger after being teased before.

Ning Que shook his head, got rid of his previous state, raised his hands and rubbed his eyes, looked at Master Yan Se and said, "Master, I feel it, and I understand." ”

Master Yan Se frowned slightly, as if he didn't expect Ning Que to be able to get rid of the pressure of the eaves beast on his own.

Ning Que glanced at the eaves beasts that had become smaller again in the distance, and said, "Master, do you want to tell me that these stone eaves beasts are also talismans, and they are given the power and almost powerful life force by the rune master?"

Master Yan Se said, "Not bad. What I'm even more puzzled about now is why you didn't panic when you first came into contact with the Eaves Beast. ”

Ning Que looked at him, and after a moment of silence, replied honestly, "I have been in contact with the Eaves Beast before. ”

Master Yan Se raised his eyebrows slightly and asked, "When?"

Ning Que said: "Last spring, in the palace. When the carriage passed through the laundry office, I didn't know why, but when I saw the eaves beasts on the eaves of the palace, I suddenly felt that they came to life, and I was very uncomfortable at that time. ”

Master Yan Se was silent for a long time, and suddenly stretched out and touched his head, his eyes full of gentle appreciation.

"Listening to what you say and watching you act, I always feel that your little guy's temperament and state of mind are really not suitable for cultivating runes, and I even think that I was misled by your note paper and read something wrong. ”

As a super-first-class rune master in the world, the old Taoist knew very well that a young man who had never been exposed to cultivation could actually inherently perceive the coercion of the eaves beast, which represented what kind of talent he had in the rune path.

"I hate to be glad that you have once again proven your qualifications and abilities. ”

Ning Que said with a smile: "Mu Fu, the qualification and ability are in the body, and there is no need to prove that it has always existed." ””

You said a lot of nonsense today, and that makes sense. Master Yan Se laughed, and then continued to ask with concern, "Last time in the Imperial City Laundry Bureau, it was the first time you felt the coercion of the eaves beast?"

Ning Que fell into a long silence because of this question.

He remembered that day last spring, he and Sangsang stood on the straight and spacious street with a big black umbrella, standing in the drizzle, and then being crushed into two statues by the Suzaku portrait carved in the middle of the avenue.

After a long time, he raised his head, looked at Master Yan Se and said, "Actually...... Earlier, on Suzaku Street, the stone statue of Suzaku gave me the same feeling, but I don't know what a Suzaku portrait is. ”

Master Yan Se listened to his answer, his eyes narrowed into two slits, and he suddenly said, "Do you want to see that Vermilion Bird again?"

Of course Ning Que didn't want to look at it, it had nothing to do with the fact that the Vermilion Bird carved in the stone had no charm and was a pure fake, he was just extremely resistant to the portrait of the Vermilion Bird on the stone road subconsciously, one might be that he was too frightened by the Suzaku in the middle of the avenue on the spring rainy day last year, or maybe he subconsciously remembered the near-death encounter after fleeing to the street on a sullen summer night last year, in short, the shadow in his heart was too much to add.

However, as an excellent student, he knows very well that every time the teacher asks the student if he wants to do something, he actually just needs to make an attitude of respecting your wishes, and in fact, the teacher will never want to hear any answer from you except for affirmation, so when Master Yan Se spoke, he honestly replied that he wanted to go.

From the foot of the imperial city, the master and apprentice walked all the way south along the wide and straight Vermilion Bird Avenue, as if stepping on a gray-brown ribbon embroidered with green lace, from the head of the giant of Chang'an City to the chest.

Looking at the Suzaku portrait carved on the stone slab in the center of the avenue, Ning Que felt that his mouth was a little dry, and his hands were subconsciously tucked into the cuffs, holding them very tightly, and his body felt a little stiff.

The Suzaku portrait is as solemn and beautiful as ever, the wings are not fully spread, it is when the vibration is not vibrating, the two eyes that are not angry and mighty are carved very well, no matter from which angle, you will feel that it is staring at you. This is a must-see attraction for the people of the Tang Dynasty after coming to Chang'an City, and the eyes of the Suzaku statue are also the wonderful places that all tourists talk about.

Standing in the crowd of people with different clothes and decorations, looking at the portrait of the Vermilion Bird in the middle, perhaps because of the noisy and popular environment around him, the vigilance and fear in Ning Que's heart faded a little.

However, his body was still stiff, and his hands and feet were still cold, because he always felt that these eyes, which had been staring at him indifferently, had nothing to do with the skills of the carvers, and these eyes seemed to tell him, this Suzaku that had gone through thousands of years of wind and rain...... is alive.