Nameless alley in the south of the town, Lingguan in the north.

The blind old Taoist man in an old Taoist robe sat sideways at the stone table in a pavilion in the backyard of the Taoist temple, and he sat on the other side across the stone table, and there was a slightly faint figure, fluttering and shaky, not very real.

The old Taoist held the bamboo pole in both hands, one end of the long bamboo pole was on the ground, and the other end pointed directly to the dome of the pavilion, he closed his eyes and faced the outside of the pavilion, as if he was looking at something, and as if he had not seen anything.

The unreal shadow on the side of Lao Dao also looked like an old man, he smiled and glanced sideways at the other side of the stone table, and said happily: "I heard that the first apprentice of the Mo family came to Yanguan Town, so I specially ran over from Liangzhou to see the excitement!" ”

"What? Didn't come to see you? As the old man spoke, he looked left and right again, and it seemed that there had not been a disciple of the Mo family in this Taoist temple for many years.

"Mr. Chu suffered a great change back then, but the reason has been confusing, and the later Liang worship is also inexplicable, according to the red lotus sacrificial wine, these two should have been killed because of the same thing, and Mr. Qin has been investigating this matter since he arrived." The old Taoist with his eyes closed replied with a solemn face.

The old man with a faint figure rubbed his chin when he heard this, and he was also a little dignified: "This thing is really too bizarre, it stands to reason that the four saints of your three sects and a family are sitting in charge of the salt officials at the same time, both as a guard and as a care for each other, as a result, Lao Chutou was attacked in this side of the world that is obviously his own territory, and even ended up with a dead end, and the other three of you didn't even perceive it at the first time?" And then the old man Liang was the same reason, you all had precautions, but you still didn't catch anyone! ”

He looked at the old Taoist with some strange eyes: "I sometimes even wonder if there is something wrong between the four of you?" ”

The old Taoist smiled, and he didn't hear the old man's joke, and said in an uncertain tone: "We have analyzed, one possibility is that the other party has some kind of superb magic weapon or spirit array that can isolate heaven and earth for a certain period of time, and there is another possibility...... It was the two Taoist friends who had their own intentions. ”

When the old man heard this, his eyes widened slightly uncontrollably, and he said in disbelief: "Are you saying that they are one by two, and they voluntarily seek death?" ”

"Impossible!" The old man was halfway through his words, and then he did not hesitate to deny the latter statement, "I may not know what is going on with that Liang offering, but that old drunkard is a saint of the Mo family, and he still has a heavy responsibility on his shoulders!" Cultivating to the point where you are, I don't think there will be any reason for a dignified Dao realm master to tie himself up and die on his own! ”

"That's why it's weird...... And including the blacksmith Ganquan, the storyteller Lu Chunjue, and the shopkeeper Fan, all of us have used our own methods, and we have used them for many years, but we still haven't been able to find the reason, and this matter is becoming more and more incredible. The old man's face became more and more solemn.

The mountain rain is coming, and the wind is full of buildings.

"If I'm not mistaken, Mr. Qin, the first disciple of Momen, seems to have been dealing with the Confucian side all along, right? How could he be here in person? The old man changed the subject, still rubbing his chin and asked.

Legend has it that Mozi and his first disciple were Confucian disciples many years ago, but later both of them withdrew from Confucianism due to some inconsistencies in their views, and then the master and apprentice duo started their own mountain and established a school to have today's Mo family.

Probably because of those changes back then, Momen was not on good terms with Confucianism many times, the most obvious manifestation was the ancestor of the Mozi family known as Mozi, and his first disciple Qin Guxi, these two in the Momen status is self-explanatory, but never talk to the Confucian disciples in a harmonious manner, and even don't want to meet each other unless necessary! Now I didn't expect that this Mr. Qin would personally visit Yanguan Town, and it seemed that he would take over the duties of the sage and become a neighbor with the one who was here?

"Those who lift big things are not afraid of small grudges." The old Taoist shook his head, "The vision pattern of the two Rumo families is not small, and it is not surprising that Mr. Qin will come here in person." ”

"That'......s right," the old man sighed a little, "To be honest, I really admire you people who come out of the big family, and there is indeed no simple one who can be called a saint." ”

The old Taoist smiled and did not speak.

The old man was also a little silent, he frowned and pondered for a moment, it seemed that the old drunkard they mentioned before made him think of something else, so he looked at the old Taoist and smiled: "Your Yanguan Town is so well-behaved? Are they all strict with themselves and lenient with others? Everyone else is about to put the wooden rafters into your eye sockets, and you can really bear it and not fight back? ”

"There was once a very powerful literati in the Middle Earth Divine Continent who wrote a sentence called 'If it is too rigid and easy to break, the wisdom will hurt'......" The old Taoist naturally understood the old man's meaning, sighed lightly, and said: "That child believes in his own wisdom too much, so there are some things that he must experience as early as possible. ”

The old man on the other side smiled when he heard this, "What you said reminds me inexplicably of when I was young, when I loved to stay in the barracks, I liked to sharpen my knives at the beginning, and strive to be sharp, always thinking that when I was fighting on the battlefield, as long as I held a quick knife, I could kill people with effort and worry, and as long as it was easy to kill, I could kill a few more!" ”

The old man's figure was faint, and when he spoke, his eyes flashed with some kind of long-term remembrance: "But then I stayed for a long time and slowly discovered another thing, the faster the blade is sharpened, the thinner the blade will be, and when fighting against people, the knife is more likely to be notched or curled... Therefore, when it comes to sharpening knives, it is not easy to distinguish between fast and unpleasant, good and bad, and sometimes it is not easy to distinguish. ”

At first glance, this sounds like an eight-character quote that was used to quote before echoing the old Taoist.

Lao Dao listened to the old man quietly, his face was expressionless, and he didn't speak.

The old man didn't care much about Lao Dao's reaction, but he smiled again and continued: "Speaking of sharpening knives, I have always felt that whether the knife is sharpened well or not, not only depends on the level of the sharpener, but also depends on what material the whetstone is. ”

Lao Dao shook his head, and recited a poem as if talking to himself, "It's very hard to get rid of dust, so make a rope tight." ”

The old man smiled, "Why don't you read the last two sentences?" Isn't it more famous? ”

The old man smiled, closed his eyes and looked up at the sky, the spring breeze was blowing, the white clouds were long, and the spring scenery was suitable.

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In the blink of an eye, the night passed again.

In the township school in the northeast of the town, the young man in black who was invited to the township school last night, taking advantage of the Qingyi school's teacher to teach the students, wandered around alone in the courtyard of the township school, which was neither too big nor too small, touching here and there, and loitering.

Last night, the white-haired old man who had arrived in the town a long time ago and was still helped to the township school by Chu Yuanxiao left the township school shortly after dark, and also left the town, and he didn't even want to spend the night, so he left overnight.

Before leaving, the old gentleman glanced coldly at the black-clothed young man Su Sanzai, and then instructed the green-shirted Confucian who was not only the only teacher in the township school but also his student: "Don't go home to collect everyone in the future, those who know say that you are talking about etiquette, and those who don't know think that you are crazy!" ”

Cui Jue, a Confucian scholar in a green shirt, smiled mildly and bowed his hand: "Yes, sir, the student knows." ”

The old man didn't say anything more, glanced at the guy surnamed Su coldly, snorted coldly, and then turned around and disappeared in a flash.

Su Sanzai, who had been full of novelty since he entered the gate of this courtyard, began to wander around in the courtyard, and was chatting around in the huge township school, until the old man left, he slowly paced to the side of the Confucian scholar in green shirts, and said with a smile: "Mr. Zhong is still like this...... Jealousy and hatred? ”

The green-shirted Confucian was a little helpless, looked sideways at the man beside him, and said in a low voice: "Mr. Su, don't provoke, if my husband really makes a move, I can't stop it as a student." ”

Su Sanzai just smiled and didn't care.

Cui Jue didn't dwell too much on the same topic, but changed the topic and said: "Mr. Su came to visit so early, and he took out the first money so quickly, it seems to be the same as the previous agreement...... It doesn't match. ”

"Mr. Cui minds?" Su Sanzai didn't care, glanced at the Confucian scholar beside him, and asked with a smile.

Cui Jue smiled, didn't answer positively, and asked again: "In that case, what does Mr. Su think of the current situation in the town?" ”

What did you mean by that? Well... The temple is a small demon with a big wind, and the water is shallow. Su Sanzai gave such a sentence without hesitation with a sneer, but then he seemed to feel something, turned his head and looked at the somewhat strange expression of the green-shirted Confucian scholar, so he smiled and said: "Oh, I'm sorry, I'm not talking about you, I'm talking about these foreigners like me." ”

After that, he hurriedly wiped a handful of non-existent sweat on his forehead as if he was nervous, and shook it on the ground, and whispered: "It's so dangerous, it's just a little bit worse, and he scolded the saints of the three religions, which really made Lao Tzu walk on thin ice, trembling, and scared to death!" ”

The Tsing Yi teacher standing next to him boasted that his qi cultivation skills were not bad, and he still twitched the corners of his eyes uncontrollably, you might as well shout it directly and generously to be more happy!

I don't know if my husband has gone away?

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At noon, the cottage thatched cottage had a lunch break, and Mr. Cui, the teacher of the school, left the gate of the school after seeing off the students, and did not take the student Chen Ji, who had always followed him, but left alone, not knowing where to go.

Mr. Chen Jijian, the sister-in-law of the head of the Chen family, did not need him to follow, so he did not stay in the school for a long time, and went back to the Chen mansion next door.

As a result, only the young man in black, Su Sanzai, who was dressed in ink and idle, looked like a swinger brother in this huge township school.

Idle, Su Sanzai very familiar with the cabinet turned over the cabinet, found the green shirt scholar treasured for many years has not opened a piece of tea cake, broke off a small piece and put it into the teapot, there is no so-called boiling tea and tea exquisiteness, directly flooded with water and poured a pot of boiling water, so even if he made himself a pot of tea, and then moved two bamboo chairs and a small coffee table in the shade under the bamboo forest in the courtyard of the township school, leisurely, pour himself a drink.

Speaking of which, the fate of this human world is sometimes a very wonderful thing.

In the early years, the young man in black who has been wandering around the rivers and lakes and doing nothing has nothing to do, in fact, there are not many places that he deliberately wants to go, he has always liked a poem called "Green Mountains Everywhere in the World", which is written by a particularly powerful top celebrity, and can be told by others in just seven words, sometimes a good poem does not need to be much more complex and colorful rhetoric, as long as the mind is broad enough, the momentum is enough, and the pen can be natural, with a sentence from another great poet he also likes very much, it is called " All the text is based on meaning, supplemented by gas, and guarded by words and sentences", you see how good this is!

At present, this trip to Yanguan Town, Liangzhou, and also took out the warning money in place of the apprenticeship ceremony, and gave it to the down-and-out young man surnamed Chu at the east entrance of the town, in fact, it is not a random move, in fact, whether it is to do learning, practice or seek the Tao, the matter of accepting apprentices is never a casual and inconsequential matter.

Before coming here, he didn't want to come, when he was wandering outside, although he had heard of the reputation of this place for a long time, but there were some things he actually didn't want to get involved in this hand, but it was a pity that there was a great monk in Buddhism who had a sentence, which was too reasonable, so there was no way, he could only come.

"Fortunately, I have read enough, my heart is strong enough, I have perseverance and great perseverance, otherwise I would have let those great monks snatch me into the Buddhist gate!" While thinking about things, Su Sanzai muttered to himself in a serious tone.

Speaking of which, when he was apprenticing, the meeting gift given to him by Mr. was not as attentive as he is now, his own taciturn and cold face of the gentleman, back then he was not tactful enough, it was really too sloppy, he and he was the first time the two sides met, and as a result, he directly threw over one, so that he was still young at the time and couldn't even move the tome of the classics, which was considered to be his own kneeling and nine knocks, respectfully offering the return gift of the apprenticeship.

"If I think about it this way, I will definitely be a better master than Master." The young man in black lay loosely on the bamboo chair under the shade of the bamboo, took a sip of tea, smiled and was content, and after a while, he put down the teacup and seemed to feel something, turned his head to look at the door of the courtyard of the township school, and then raised his eyebrows.

At the door, a little girl dressed in white, with picturesque eyebrows and big round eyes was standing outside the threshold of the main entrance of the township school, with a sword on her back, the head of the sword was square, the shape was simple, and there was a three-foot long knife hanging on the left side of her waist, which was the border army system of the Chengyun Empire.

The little girl didn't speak, but her delicate eyebrows wrinkled slightly, and she looked coldly at the young man in black lying on the bamboo chair, which seemed to be a little surprised!

Su Sanzai raised his eyebrows and looked at the girl with a smile, raised his hand and raised the teacup in his hand, "Drink tea?" ”

The girl still didn't speak, but abruptly stepped back with her left foot, held the scabbard with her left hand, and pressed her right hand on the hilt! When she raised her eyes again, the girl's eyes were already full of killing intent, and on the long sword in her hand, which had not yet been unsheathed, wisps of sword qi slowly diffused, and the sky and the earth were silent, and the coldness was forested! She looked at the young man sitting on the bamboo chair and asked coldly, "Who are you?" ”

Su Sanzai couldn't help grinning the corners of his mouth when he saw the little girl acting like this, and said with a smile after a "yo he" sound: "Although I don't look as ugly as Cui Jue, and I coincidentally look better than you, you don't have to be so hostile to me because of this, right?" ”

The girl narrowed her starry eyes when she heard this, and the murderous aura around her body was even stronger, she shook her head and said, "You are indeed not Mr. Cui." ”

Su Sanzai looked at this little girl who looked a little stubborn, a little helpless, he raised his hand and rubbed his forehead, then pointed to the four walls of the township school, and said with a smile: "You see, I can lie in this township school courtyard where Cui Jue is sitting so openly, and I can drink tea and bask in the sun so leisurely, the teapot is still filled with tea cakes that his baby has been reluctant to open for many years, do you think I can do this without his consent?" ”

In the town, there are many formations, large formations and small formations, arrays are connected, and Cui Jue, the master of the township school, as one of the four town guards here, is similar to the person in power who holds the power of life and death in the court, even if he is not the emperor, he is definitely qualified to be called one of the three dukes, and the current township school is actually the dojo where he stands, as long as the gentle and elegant scholar is in this place, he is definitely similar to God. Without his permission, it would be impossible for outsiders to enter this courtyard of the small town and township school, let alone be so casual and leisurely, after all, this is a real immortal powerhouse that is related to the foundation of the formation!

The girl lowered her eyes and thought for a while, looked up at the smiling young man, softened her tone, and said calmly: "I'm looking for Mr. Cui." ”

Of course, she wouldn't really think that just because this person looked young, he would only be as young as he seemed on the surface, and there were always many ridiculously old monsters in the cultivation world, all of whom loved to carry a baby face that was carefully groomed into fine skin and tender flesh to swagger through the market, and the demons danced wildly.

"No, it looks like I'm going out to find someone." Su Sanzaizai carefully looked at the little girl who was still standing outside the door, but the hostility had finally eased, and replied casually.

The girl frowned and didn't speak, looking coldly at the black-clothed man lying on the bamboo chair, and the coldness in her eyes was even colder than before.

Su Sanzai couldn't help but sigh when he looked at the girl's movements, "What? Could it be that you still think I sneaked in while he wasn't there? ”

The girl still didn't speak, but the hand that held the hilt of the knife tightened.

Su Sanzai raised his neck with a strange expression, and when he lowered his head again, he had already put on a somewhat evil expression, with his already somewhat feminine temperament, the whole person was even more demonic, and the white teeth were easy to shake people's hearts when he smiled evilly.

I saw him squint slightly, staring coldly at the girl who was holding the hilt of the knife and didn't move down, but the murderous aura around her was getting heavier and heavier, and said with a sly smile: "You want to draw a knife, and you still want to draw a sword?" Hehe! Let's not talk about how this Yanguan Township School, which plays the role of a saint's dojo, will react after you make a move, I alone can easily kill you, do you believe it? ”

As soon as Su Sanzai's words came out, the girl on the opposite side instantly drew her knife without hesitation, and the long sword behind her back followed out of the sheath like a dragon, and she used a lunge under her feet to exert force, without hesitation jumped over the threshold of the village school, and flew to slash at the black-clothed young man who was still half-lying on the bamboo chair, and the eight-sided long sword like a flying sword cruised in the air and poked the back of the black-clothed young man's head! Before and after, the heart is connected!

At this moment, the sword is flourishing, the sword is like a dragon, and the momentum is like thunder, and within a radius of 100 zhang centered on the town and the township, all the animals are silent like a cold cicada, and the dragon chant in the ears resounded through the sky!

Before the girl's blade, Su Sanzai, who was still sitting on the bamboo chair, flashed a trace of surprise in his eyes, but in fact, he didn't see the slightest panic, he just squinted at the beautiful girl who seemed to come with the power of heaven and earth, and then the wrist on the armrest of the bamboo chair waved gently, and the teacup on the small coffee table flew up in the air as if guided and smashed straight on the tip of the girl's knife, as for the incomparable long sword behind him like lightning and flint, he didn't bother to care at all, let it stab over!

The next moment, the teacup was neatly split in two by the sharp long knife! At that moment, the tea in the cup was neatly split in half like the teacup, but not a drop was stained on the long knife! But it was just this little effort that the teacup was broken, and the distance between the girl and the young man seemed to be infinitely stretched in an instant, and the long sword passed through Su Sanzai's head until it reached the girl's body, but the young man in black didn't fall at all, and his well-deserved means were extremely high!

At this moment, as if the long river of time was abruptly stopped, and like the sea of space being twisted into a twist, it seemed that there was suddenly only a narrow corridor between the two that could only accommodate one person.

Say it's not close, it's not far away, it's mysterious!

The girl in white who rushed forward with a knife felt the huge force squeezed around the corridor, and couldn't help frowning slightly, she looked beyond the blade, stared at the man in black who was sitting in the distance, still smiling, and then closed her eyes.

When she opened her eyes again, the girl's eyes were clear and clear, the long knife was sheathed, and she grabbed the hilt of the long sword that was still cruising at her side, changed the flying sword to hold the sword in her hand, and the next moment she did not hesitate to unite the body and sword, and went straight into the road between the two that was twisted like a hollow twist, and went straight to Su Sanzai in an instant!

On the other end of the road, the young man in black with a strange face couldn't help but raise his eyebrows again, good guy, the Xihe Sword Sect has taught a freak girl again? The cultivation is not high, but this sword heart is ...... If it weren't for the fact that she was from a famous family, coupled with the fact that her bones were really young, and her soul body was solid, Su Sanzai probably couldn't help but wonder, did this be an old monster who dared to defy the world's disapproval and use forbidden methods such as reincarnation or seizure?

Seeing that the long sword was about to arrive in front of him again, Su Sanzai couldn't help but move his fingers slightly, and when he was about to make another move, a light cough sounded slowly, interrupting his next move.

Su Sanzai glanced at the figure of the person who came, smiled, and then slowly put down the raised hand, allowing the long sword to stab straight in.

As for the white-clothed girl on the other side, when that cough sounded, the killing intent in her eyes still did not change, and the power of the long sword stabbing was not contained in the slightest, and the murderous aura was still a fatal move regardless of it!

With a slightly helpless sigh, a white palm suddenly appeared in front of the girl's long sword, holding the sword body with two fingers together, guiding the tip of the sword to deflect slightly, and then the pair of slender fingers wiped from the sword body to the tip of the sword, and then wiped the tip of the sword and threw it farther away.

In the process of shaking again and again, the long sword in the original girl's hand was full of overflowing majestic sword qi and flew out of the sword body, causing a large ripple on the outer wall of the corridor like a space distortion, and then slowly disappeared with the slowly calming change of time and space.

After throwing out his fingers, the green-shirted scholar put his hands behind his back, glanced faintly at the young man in black sitting on the chair, and then turned to look at the two stunning women who were standing outside the threshold of the village school again.

Su Sanzai was a little embarrassed by that look, raised his hand and touched the tip of his nose, sat without moving, he seemed to see Cui Jue's palm behind him, and gently clenched it into a fist under the cover of his sleeve, and then slowly loosened and tightened his muscles and bones.

Outside the threshold of the gate of the small town village school, the girl in white who was there before returned to her original position at this time, as if she had not moved at all, but her face was condensed, and she was putting her sword back into its sheath.

Beside her, there stood a stunning woman dressed in white, with a gentle temperament, and the same picturesque eyebrows, but a little more mature than the girl, and a white plain hand was still on the girl's shoulder.

Just now, it was the tacit understanding between this stunning woman and the green-shirted Confucian that not only removed the killing intent on the girl's long sword, but also ensured that the girl was not seriously injured by the backlash and could fall back to the place safely.

The woman in white who appeared first glanced at the little girl's unhappy and cold expression, then smiled faintly, and touched the top of the little girl's hair with some pampering, but then when she raised her head to look at Cui Jue, her face sank again, and she said in a strange manner: "Mr. Cui, it seems that you and your friends are very dissatisfied with our Xihe Sword Sect?" ”

Hearing this, the scholar in the green shirt turned around again, looked at Su Sanzai helplessly, and then turned around and bowed slightly to the woman, and said apologetically: "The stupid child is not sensible, he offended the thirteen girls, and invited the two sword immortals Haihan." ”

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