Mirror Lake is calm and ethereal.

The man's hand sticks a peach blossom petal and turns it into a chess piece.

"If you want to help the building to fall, the chess pieces have to wait for an opportunity, which can only be seen after many hands are laid out, and many times even only appear at the end of the game, becoming the winner or loser."

"Of course, none of this is a pawn to think about. Before that, it is already the best to manage yourself and the chess game within your ability. ”

The man slowly dropped the chess piece.

In an instant, the chessboard was full of light, and the falling chess pieces were linked to the chess pieces that had fallen before, affecting the other chess pieces, turning the danger into a disaster, and making the white zi, who was already in a predicament, bright.

"The predecessor plays black and white and plays solo chess?" Xu Qing asked.

The man looked at Xu Qing for a long time, he suddenly smiled and nodded in acquiescence.

"It's yours to win or lose, what's the point?"

"I'm not asking for a win or a loser, what's the point?"

The man leaned his back against the peach tree, crossed Erlang's legs, and let loose his bones.

"The lion fights the rabbit with all his strength, I play black and white against myself, and every step is deliberate before falling, how is it meaningless?"

"In the end, winning or losing, it is up to God's will."

The man's calm voice shook Xu Qing's heart.

Xu Qing was slightly stunned, and said seriously: "I have been taught." ”

The man wiped the chessboard in front of him with a flick of his hand, and with a wave of his sleeve, a new chessboard appeared in front of him, and he smiled: "Come, play a game with me." ”

After Xu Qing hesitated slightly, he sat down opposite the man again and began to pick up his hair.

The man took out two jars of wine, threw them to Xu Qingyi, stared at the chessboard and said, "The best peach blossom brew, will you drink the bar?" ”

Xu Qing nodded, picked up the wine jar and took a sip.

"Actually, I'm curious, why do you want to cultivate two ways at the same time, based on Confucianism and Taoism, supplemented by swordsmanship, are you really just ignoring things outside the window and only reading sage books, I don't know the stakes? Not to mention the seventh realm of "asking the heart", just the killing qi of this sword path makes it difficult for you who major in Confucianism and Taoism to operate, right? Hehe, that's the reason why you don't carry a sword with you, right? The man scoffed.

"I don't know what I think, I just think it should be like this, you just think I'm self-inflicted." Xu Qing smiled bitterly.

"With your qualifications, whether it is Confucianism or Kendo, if you only cultivate one of them, you may not have a place among the top few people in the world."

Xu Qing was silent for a moment and said: "Practice, understand the truth, refine the body to obtain divine power, at first it was not from the heart, and I am afraid that it will be involuntary in the future." If you can't do what you want, what can you do? ”

The man took a sip of wine and fell silent.

Xu Qing said to himself, "Confucianism says "do what you want from the heart, don't exceed the rules", I don't think it's right. "Don't exceed the rules", where do the rules come from? And by whom? In this world, does anyone follow the rules? Possessing the cultivation of heaven and at the same time "not exceeding the rules"? I'm afraid there is no more stupid person in the world, right? ”

"Cultivation is nothing more than seeking the Great Dao, asking for immortality, a hundred years of fingers, blinking your eyes and yin, in the end, isn't it still a dry bone in the grave, a pinch of yellow sand? Some people understand this truth early, and they have to be at ease, the sword god a hundred years ago was like this, and the same is true of many Jianghu children with low cultivation, and even some ordinary people......

"They are not wrong, each of them is not wrong, the truth that people do not destroy the heavens and the earth for their own sake is very easy to understand, but not everyone can be like this......"

Xu Qing paused, looked at the man, and said calmly: "This is not a reason for cultivators to wantonly slaughter the powerless people, the group of monks in the western soil should not be like this, the evil cultivators should not be like this, Emperor Qing should not be like this, and the officials and soldiers of Daqing should not be like this......"

"So, when dealing with people who don't follow the rules, the rules seem less important. That's why I have to sharpen a sword in my heart, this sword will be very sharp, sharp enough to break the so-called "rules" at any time, sharp enough to purge people who cross the thunder pool at any time! ”

The man calmly took a sip of wine and said, "So sharp that you are now cultivating to the fullest?" ”

Xu Qing suddenly lost his momentum.

"Mental instability is one thing, and the seventh realm's inquisition is also one of the reasons why your cultivation is exhausted."

"Your idea is very good, but the sword you sharpened doesn't seem to kill people, but you cut yourself?"

The man put away his playful smile and said:

"Xu Qing, let me ask you, what kind of sword are you sharpening!"

Xu Qing was stunned for a moment, and said categorically: "Murder sword!" ”

"Kill whom?"

"Naturally, it is to kill the wicked!"

"What is a wicked man?"

Xu Qing was speechless and did not continue to answer.

"The indiscriminate killing of innocents is the wicked!"

"What is an innocent?"

"This ......"

Xu Qing was silent again.

"Are there innocent people in the world?"

The man asked, and another subordinate fell, Xu Qing hurriedly responded, at a loss.

Looking at Xu Qing's funny appearance, the man smiled: "There are all evils in the world, no matter what you do, there are no good people in the world." ”

Xu Qing also left a son and said: "Those who are disloyal and unfilial, unkind and unrighteous are evil!" ”

"Since ancient times, loyalty and filial piety have been difficult to achieve...... Are these also wicked people? The man dropped slightly.

Dense beads of sweat oozed from Xu Qing's forehead, he threw down two chess pieces, and said weakly: "I lost." ”

"What is a wicked person?"

The man pointed at Xu Qing, and then pointed to the heart of his chest, and said, "You should be sharpening a Confucian sword!" ”

Xu Qingru was struck by lightning and froze in place.

"Kendo is the mainstay, supplemented by Confucianism."

"Hand the sword with Confucianism, and return to the sheath to determine good and evil!"

In an instant, the wind rose.

The peach blossoms fall like rain, slowly condensing together.

As soon as Xu Qing raised his hand, the peach blossoms instantly flew into Xu Qing's hands and condensed into a sword.

A wooden sword.

"Boom!"

Xu Qing held the wooden sword, and the momentum on his body slowly rose up until the fifth realm.

On this day, there was no Confucian Xu Qing, but more sword Xu Qing.

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East China Sea.

Outside the Sage Building.

The little Taoist priest faced the saint's building, as if he had noticed something, "Since you have come and still haven't shown up, when will you stay?" ”

"Yang Zhangjiao, worthy of being a monk who ascends the building, is really extraordinary!"

In the void, a man walked out, holding a bamboo branch in his hand, a piece of grass in his mouth, and his face was full of stubble.

"Is that you? What do you want me to do? The little Taoist priest frowned and asked.

The man spread his hands and said, "Someone made a bet with me on whether I could cut off your wooden sword, and the color is very tempting, so I came." ”

"Yang Zhangjiao, you just cut the wooden sword for me, anyway, it's wooden, don't you ......go back and make another one?"

The man's words came to an abrupt end at this point, his pupils constricted, and he hurriedly jumped away.

"Boom!"

A sword light flashed, and a bottomless pit suddenly appeared in the man's original position.

"It doesn't seem to be negotiable." The man laughed.

Then he didn't see the man make any moves, and the same fierce and incomparable sword qi slashed towards the little Taoist like thunder.

"Sword cultivator Meng Yu, began to ask about the sword, and asked Yang Zhangjiao to give him advice."