Everyone turned around on a small road, and finally came to a small building, Xiao Er, who was basking in the sun at the door, heard footsteps and casually raised his heavy upper eyelids. When he saw one of the people who was clearly dressed as a servant of a large family, he suddenly felt a stir all over his body and stood up from the wooden chair.

The shopkeeper greeted him, and when he was about to speak, the attendant said in a somewhat arrogant tone: "Shopkeeper, hurry up and prepare a first-class private room, and be quick with your hands and feet." ”

"Okay, come with me." Xiao Er said respectfully, led everyone upstairs, and entered a private room on the right hand side at the end of the corridor.

Although this small teahouse is very inconspicuous in appearance, the private room is still quite neat and tidy. When Du Quan walked to the door of the private room, he didn't follow everyone in directly, he frowned and looked around, then pulled Xiao Er over and asked in a low voice, "Why isn't it a private room on the north side?" Let me tell you, these princes seem to be distinguished guests of the Shengde Mansion. Do you know that it is a relative of His Majesty the King! ”

Xiao Er replied a little helplessly: "Brother Du, don't blame us for our poor hospitality, the private rooms by the sea in the north were all chartered by the shippers of the Great Wei today, and there was even the military master of the Great Wei Naval Division." It's not that you don't know, recently, the military masters of Great Wei can't wait to run here every day, if you want a box in the north, you have to inform our shopkeeper in advance. ”

When Du Quan heard this, he had nothing to say, and after throwing down the sentence "Good students entertain the guests who come with me", he went into the private room.

Soon, a pot of strong fragrant tea and a plate of four-color dim sum were served. Shi Cheng took a sip of tea lightly and said with a smile: "The tea leaves of the Southern Wilderness do have a different taste. ”

Seeing Shi Cheng speak, Du Quan hurriedly put down the teacup in his hand, nodded and smiled: "Childe has won the award." ”

Wu Neng looked at Du Quan across the table, and secretly shook his head in his heart, Du Quan gave people the feeling that it was too wooden, and it was too far from the image of the captain who chopped the waves in his heart.

Shi Cheng put down the teacup in his hand, stopped being polite, and said, "Captain Du, Shi won't delay your time much." I'm here today to find out how the maritime business here in the Western Desert Country is done. ”

Du Quan asked, "Is Childe planning to rent our Fengping to transport goods?" It's such a simple thing, in fact, you don't have to deign to run it yourself. ”

"Although the things I want to ship are not much, they are worth a thousand dollars, so I don't feel at ease if I don't come in person. Speaking of which, it was Chairman Huang of the Camel Bell Chamber of Commerce who recommended you to me, and he said that the sailors on the Fengping are all old shipowners, and no matter how important things are, as long as they are handed over to them, they can rest assured. Shi Cheng said with a smile, and inadvertently mentioned the Camel Bell Chamber of Commerce in his words.

"Oh, it turns out that Childe is still a friend of President Huang." Du Quan's originally somewhat tightly knit brows immediately stretched, and he said happily, "President Huang's praise, Du is ashamed, after all, President Huang actually didn't let us transport anything too valuable." But don't worry, Childe, my Fengping is an old ship that has been drifting at sea for fifteen years, and in terms of safety, the entire Dengnan Port who dares to compete with Du does not even have the number of hands. ”

"Isn't it true that the newer the ship, the safer it is at sea?" Wu Neng secretly complained in his heart, but he didn't say anything on the surface, anyway, the statement of transporting the goods was just made up by Shi Cheng temporarily.

Shi Cheng frowned slightly, "Didn't let you transport anything valuable?" Captain Du, don't you want to deceive me, if you haven't let you transport important things, how could President Huang recommend you in front of me? ”

"Huh? No, please don't get me wrong, childe. Du Quan was a little incoherent, "Our Fengping is also a little famous on the dock, please don't doubt this." ”

Shi Cheng didn't see any other expression on his face, he still kept smiling, and continued to praise: "Captain Du doesn't need to be modest, President Huang never exaggerates the facts, and the boatman who can leave such a deep impression on him must have the ability." If you can deliver my goods safely this time, I will not give you less than that. With that, he spread out his right hand.

"I'm obedient, five hundred tongbao, what kind of goods does this have to be." Du Quan thought in his heart, and his hands trembled a little.

"Dare to ask what Childe wants to transport? Can there be a notarization of the patrol yamen? Du Quan asked.

"Of course, there is." Shi Cheng nodded, "As for the goods I want to transport, you have actually transported them for President Huang before. ”

"Shipped for President Huang?" Du Quan thought for a moment, and then suddenly replied, "Childe, what you want to transport won't be steel, wood, or parts, right?" ”

"Almost." Shi Cheng prevaricated for a moment, "But it's not an ordinary part. ”

"I see."

"That's right, Captain Du. I have heard from Chairman Huang about you delivering goods from the Eastern Continent for him, can you tell me what kind of person the merchant who gave you the goods is? I'm going to ask them to keep my goods for the time being, so I'm going to have to find someone with a reliable personality. ”

"It's not that I don't believe President Huang's recommendation, it's just that the stakes are very high, and I still have to inquire about it before I can take it easy."

"It's understandable, it's understandable, you mean Chen Ji Firm, right?" Du Quan didn't think much about it, and said very happily, "That's a famous chamber of commerce in the port area of Lingnan County. ”

……

At this moment, in the Wangcheng Martial Arts Courtyard on the outskirts of the Western Desert Wangcheng, Zhao Ping, who had returned to the Wangcheng for a while, was standing outside a cloister waiting for something.

There was a sound of footsteps, and Zhao Ping raised his head, only to see an apprentice in a strong suit standing in front of him.

The apprentice saluted and said respectfully, "Yu Hou, the master is still teaching, and he ordered me to take you to the side hall to rest first." ”

Zhao Ping smiled and said, "I'll just wait outside the school, so I don't have to bother you, it's actually presumptuous to come here to disturb you on the day of class." ”

Seeing that the junior apprentice in front of him was still a little hesitant, Zhao Ping said again: "You go and do your homework, it just so happens that I also want to hear the senior brother's opinions on martial arts." ”

"Alright then, Lord Yuhou, please come with me."

After passing through the long corridor, the sound of reading became clearer and clearer, and Zhao Ping had an illusion for a while, as if he was not in a martial arts academy now, but came to a private school with the fragrance of books.

However, the road of martial arts is not only about fighting, killing and killing, the word martial arts contains two parts: "martial arts" and "dao". Zhao Ping is also very clear about this.

After passing through a small courtyard, Zhao Ping heard a voice that was extremely familiar to him, and he knew that he had arrived at the place.

"My lord, Master is in this lecture room."

"Okay, you just go and get busy with yours, I'll sit outside for a while."

The apprentice left, and Zhao Ping sat down on a stone bench next to the wooden house, and he looked through the window to see a handsome, slightly weathered middle-aged man, sitting on a futon on the east side, calmly lecturing to a group of freshmen who had just entered the college.

"A monk who steps on the martial arts path is like a passerby walking up a staircase, he has to take one step at a time, and he can only move on to the next step after stepping on one step."

"When I say stepping on martial arts, I don't mean those martial artists who think they are skilled after learning boxing and kicking for a few years and being able to bully and bully ordinary people who have not practiced martial arts. You have to be able to develop true qi in the meridians to be qualified to be called a martial artist, just like several of you. However, the martial artist is only the beginning of the martial arts path, and the next step is to start building a water storage dam after cultivating true qi and refining muscles and bones like craftsmen and materials for preparing for dam building. What is damming? For the monks, it is to open up the dantian. ”

"After successfully opening up the dantian, the true qi in the meridians of the martial artist's whole body will flow into the sea like a hundred rivers and gather in the dantian, and then you can be called a cultivator. Ordinary people and even some cultivators who have just glimpsed the path often confuse the two realms of martial arts and cultivators, and often confuse the two proper terms of cultivators and monks, they think that this is the same thing, but I hope you don't make such low-level mistakes. ”

"After that, as you continue to practice, you will encounter one of the two greatest thresholds on your path – mastery of the Dao will."

"The sages of the Eastern Continent and the Western Continent have such a consensus, the Great Dao is three thousand. The meaning of this sentence is that there are many ways and methods in the world, and they are so complex that they are innumerable. Speaking of this, the middle-aged man opened his eyes and asked kindly, "What is the Tao?" Can any of you give me an example? I don't need you to be too esoteric, just give a specific example. ”

A young man with a firm and sharp gaze stood up and replied, "Master, the sword is the way, resolute and unyielding, cutting everything. ”

"Nice example." The middle-aged man nodded, "Is there anyone else you want to add?" ”

A girl also stood up: "Master, the sword has a sword, the bow has a bow, and every martial art has a different way of being contained in it. ”

"So to speak." The middle-aged man replied, "What else can you think of?" ”

"Master, wind, rain, thunder and lightning, there should also be a Tao in these things, right?" A somewhat stocky boy replied.

"That's right, anything else?"

Seeing that his apprentices couldn't answer, the middle-aged man smiled and said, "Selling goods on the street, cooking food, playing the piano, chess, calligraphy and painting, and juggling the fence." There is also the Tao in them. ”

As soon as these words came out, several students couldn't help but whisper.

"Everything in heaven and earth has its own way, and the Tao is the meridian of heaven and earth, which runs through the operation of the entire world, but it is not only in the martial arts that you are practicing now that there is a Tao."

The middle-aged man didn't explain much, and continued: "Only by mastering the Dao will a cultivator be able to integrate himself into heaven and earth, so as to be reborn and get the opportunity to become a god!" ”

Many of the apprentices' eyes widened, and their eyes were full of yearning.

"Only persistent cultivation and enlightenment can make it possible for a cultivator to realize the Dao, and when a cultivator initially grasps a Dao meaning, he will step into the realm of a half-step grandmaster."

"Half-step Grandmaster, is it a master like Zhu Zhuang Master?" An apprentice asked in a somewhat adoring tone.

The middle-aged man nodded and continued: "When a cultivator is successfully promoted to a half-step grandmaster, his lifespan will grow from an ordinary cultivator for fifty to seventy years, and he can already initially fuse some Dao meanings in one move and one formula. It's just that this kind of Dao meaning is not yet complete, it is just a hazy state. Therefore, for cultivators, they don't actually need to be completely clear about what their Dao intentions are in order to be promoted to a half-step grandmaster.

"However, if your goal is to advance to the Grandmaster, then you must always be clear about the path you want to take in the future. It is indeed easier to advance to a half-step Grandmaster in a daze, after all, there are so many Dao meanings in the world, and in your persistent cultivation, it is indeed possible for you to unintentionally comprehend a Dao intention. However, I must stress to you that it is very difficult to figure out what the hazy Dao Meaning you comprehend is, and if you try to force your way through the Grandmaster with the Hazy Dao Intent, you will only end up going mad. ”

One student tentatively asked, "Master, do we have to choose our own path now?" ”

"Yes, you have to think about what path you want to take at the beginning, and the path that comes out of this way is clear and solid."

"When you completely control a Dao will, you will be a grandmaster, and the grandmaster realm is the starting point of the path to enlightenment and godhood, so the grandmaster realm is also a serious demigod realm!"

"The lifespan of a grandmaster is far beyond that of ordinary cultivators, and when a grandmaster can incarnate into the Dao, then he is a true god! It's a pity that after the battle of the gods, the gods fell, and the aura of heaven and earth was chaotic, and it was difficult for cultivators to be promoted to a half-step grandmaster, let alone become a god. After the Divine War, no one was able to ascend to the throne of God. Speaking of this, the middle-aged man not only sighed with some regret.