The road is long, and the mind follows.

Chen and Meng also arrived at the top of the mountain at noon, and saw the mountain gate that hung a plaque in block letters "Sincere Lord Quiet", the mountain gate is not high, and the width of the door is also in Zhangxu, and the mountain stream is made of bluestone, which is simple.

The wooden pillar on the right side of the mountain gate reads "Two Qi and Five Elements, Incarnate All Things." Five distinctions and two realities, two books are one. ”

The wooden pillar on the right side of the mountain gate reads, "It is ten thousand for one, one point for ten thousand." In case each is correct, the size is determined. ”

Inside the mountain gate, there were a few children giggling and playing, and a young man in his twenties stood next to him, looking at those children, and the smile on his face was about to flow out of his eyes.

The young man saw someone coming into the mountain gate, and when the person came to him, he asked in front of him, "Are the two of you Chen Nian and Meng Yao?"

"Yes, how do you know who my two surnames are?"

The young man smiled and said, "It was Mr. Zhou who asked me to wait here to pick up a few new junior sisters and disciples, since you two came first, then we will wait together and there are two more." ”

"Today, with the addition of four more junior brothers and sisters, there are thirty-three people in our school plus these children who have not yet been registered, but the senior brother and the second senior brother have not returned from their study tours in the early years, so there are a total of seven people recorded in our school now. ”

Between the words, the young man raised his head, "It's here, everyone is here, and the little juniors and disciples are back." ”

Wait for the four to come to the eye.

"Are you both idle and mortal?"

The young man among the four stepped forward and saluted: "I am Du Xian, this is the housesister Du Fan, but the predecessor is Mr. Kaoting?"

"Since we've all arrived, let's go and see the teacher together," he said, beckoning everyone to go back.

"By the way, in the future, everyone will call me senior brother as a fellow disciple, let's go, Mr. Zhou is still waiting for us. ”

Everyone went to the school together.

Chen Nian found out on the way that the school in front of him was only a few tile houses, with green bricks and green scales, and there was a huge locust tree in the middle of the clean yard, whose leaves were green and bright.

Approaching the school, there is a small vegetable garden in front of me, and in the vegetable garden, there is a middle-aged man in a green robe and a long robe holding a small hoe and moving grass. Chen Nian took a closer look, it was Mr. Zhou.

Kaoting arrived outside the park and shouted: "Teacher, didn't you say that you want to see a few new brothers and sisters today, don't you go to the ground today, you see that your clothes are dirty again." ”

Mr. Zhou smiled when he heard this

"Okay, it's all here, let's go. ”

After speaking, he walked out of the vegetable garden with a hoe, patted the dust on his body, got up and walked to the school.

Kaoting, who followed closely behind, was full of helplessness, so he had to introduce the composition of the school to the four new juniors and sisters while walking.

"The one facing the door is the De Hall, which is where we reflect, morning and evening classes, behind the De Hall is the school where we practice every day, the one on the left side of the school is the room now, since there are two junior sisters, I can also rest from there early, the one on the right side of the school is a miscellaneous room, put some farm tools and things for the room, behind the school is the school house, you will have to live there in the future. ”

In a few moments, everyone had walked from outside the door to the front of the hall, about eighty steps.

This hall is about two zhang high, five steps wide and nine steps long, and the wooden door is painted with a bronze ring.

As everyone entered it, they were greeted by a statue of a master hanging on the high hall, with a kind face and kind eyes, holding a salute in both hands, and a sword at his waist.

Mr. Zhou, who was still smiling in the field just now, became solemn and serious after entering the Detang, as if he had a breath in his chest, and he said to Kaoting: "Prepare for washing, prepare tribute incense, and spare clothes." ”

Kaoting didn't have the casualness just now, and replied with both hands in a salute, "Ordered." ”

Immediately, there were four little scholars, one holding a plate in both hands, one holding an incense plate, one holding a suit, and one standing with his hands.

Chen Nian, Meng Yao, Du Xian, and Du Fan washed and changed their clothes with the help of the four scholars, and stood quietly in front of the hall waiting.

Mr. Zhou said again: "Kaoting, hold a candle, you and the other four of you will offer incense to the master in turn, Cui Xin, and hold a notebook." ”

Standing on the far left is Du Xian, on the right is Du Fan, Meng Yao, and finally Chen Nian.

The first person to put on the incense took the incense from the scholar's hand, held it in both hands, lit it in front of the examination pavilion, and then inserted the incense burner.

And the person named Cui Xin looked at him directly, his face was expressionless, his words were lifeless, and he said straightly: "Name of hometown." ”

"Disciple, the Hengqing Kingdom is idle in the Heavenly Counties. After finishing speaking, they all bowed to the statue of the Master first, and then bowed to Mr. Zhou.

And Na Cui Xin recorded on the roster, "Hengqing Country Jutian County Du Clan is the eighth place." ”

Then Du Fan, Meng Yao, and Chen Nian followed suit in turn.

Du Fan is ninth, Meng Yao is tenth, and Chen Nian is eleventh.

Finally, under the leadership of Mr. Zhou, the four of them once again offered incense to the statue of the Master, and recited the Analects: "The Tao is governed by government, and all are punished, and the people are free and shameless; ”

After the ceremony, the momentum on Mr. Zhou's body disappeared in an instant, and his face also regained his previous kindness, and said to the four people: "Today, I will add you and other four people to the eleven people, and I will no longer accept disciples in the future, Chen Nian is your little junior brother, I still have two disciples Ming Dao and Yi Chuan before, and the two of them have felt after studying with me for less than three years, and then they have traveled far away to study so far." ”

"In addition to those two, I have five disciples, the third disciple Feng Jie, the fourth disciple Cui Xin, the fifth Wang Ta, the sixth Li Yao, and the seventh noon. Mr. Zhou smiled as he spoke.

"That's not right, Mr. Zhou, what about Senior Brother Kaoting?" This is obviously Senior Brother Kaoting who brought him to the beginning, why is this not a disciple of the master?

Mr. Zhou said with a smile: "Chen Nian, what do you call me, you will call the master in the future, Kaoting is a teacher of teaching, and I am also a mentor and a good friend." I'm going to call him Mr. II in the future. ”

"Kaoting, you take the three of them to the school house to clean up first, and then take them to the room after booking the house, Chen Nian will stay for a while. ”

Kaoting took the three of them and a group of little scholars who followed him to the schoolhouse.

Chen Nian, who was left behind, looked at Mr. Zhou in front of him, he had only seen him for half a month, and he seemed to be able to feel the person in front of him, and there was a kind of peaceful, awe-inspiring and quiet energy in his body.

Mr. Zhou's eyes were like torches staring at Chen Nian, and Chen Nian instantly felt like a newborn baby, with nowhere to hide under this gaze.

"Well, Chen Nian, did you eat any fruit on the way here?" What is the green fruit in his body, no, and how can there be such a vast vitality in his body?

Well, that man was also real, and he passed on the method of mind breath to him.

Chen Nian thought about it, and only knew that he had eaten a green fruit and a bag of lotus root slices at the roadside teahouse. But who gave it to himself? Why can't you remember?

"There is an old monk, a strong man, and a little second in the teahouse, who else? Why can't I remember?"

When Mr. Zhou heard this, his mind moved and his consciousness instantly went to the teahouse that Chen Nian said, but there was no trace of him.

After a while, Mr. Zhou said in his heart, "I have roughly understood the heels of those three people, but how can there be no trace of that breath, it seems that even this breath was deliberately left to me by that person, right?"

"Chen Nian, you go and have lunch with them first, and you will come to sit for the teacher. ”

After the rain has come, where is the trace? Spring is three parts, two parts of dust, and one part of water.

Chen Nian went out and returned late after yesterday, so he was left alone in the school hall when he was divided.

There are a total of nine schools in the school, one for Mr. Zhou, one for Mr. Kaoting, one for the fourth senior brother, one for the sixth senior brother, one for the seventh senior brother, one for Du Xian, one for Meng Yao and Du Fan, and those children have a total of three, leaving Chen Nian with one.

This also made Chen Nian quite happy, he already likes to be quiet, he is alone and peaceful, why not laugh if he is not good.

Sleep early, breathe deeply, wake up early.

Chen Nian, who was living in an unfamiliar environment, did not feel the slightest discomfort last night, only felt that he fell asleep in the depths of the sea of souls, and felt that the sky was about to dawn.

As soon as the hour arrived, Chen Nian had already gotten up and got out of bed and started to wash.

At the moment, Chen Nianpan sat on the bed and closed his eyes, and began to study the 'Heart Sutra' left by Old Man Ji in the depths of his mind.

"The avenue is invisible, giving birth to the world, the avenue is ruthless, running the sun and the moon, the avenue is nameless, and all things are nourished for a long time; I don't know its name, but the strong name is the Tao." ”

"The husband is clear, turbid, still and moving, the sky is clear and turbid, the sky is moving and the earth is quiet..."

At first glance, there is nothing to see, and when I read it by heart, I only feel that the depths of the soul sea are only cool and quiet, and the soul sea is becoming more and more clear.

The sea of ordinary people's souls is already chaotic, invisible to the eyes, inaccessible to the heart, and unreachable to the gods.

This clarity starts from the size of the peach pit, and slowly begins to expand slowly with Chen Nian's observation and thoughts, but this soul sea is boundless, there is no high pole, and what is expanding is only a drop in the ocean.

Slowly, the content on the 'Heart Sutra' gradually formed a large golden character in Chen Nian's Soul Sea and hovered in the center of the Soul Sea.

However, as soon as the golden word "Great Dao" was produced and hovered, Chen Nian, who was sitting cross-legged, was injured by a mysterious power that arose from nowhere.

Chen Nian, whose face was pale and bleeding from the corners of his mouth, also seemed to understand that if he wanted to cultivate quickly, he would not be able to reach it

"Maybe, I watched it too quickly, too much at once, right?"

At the beginning of Maozheng, Chen Nian had just rested until now due to the mysterious power at about two o'clock.

At this time, there was already a glimmer of light outside the window that began to wander the world, sending away the last journey of last night.

Chen Nian washed again, washed off the blood from the corners of his mouth, and then came to the outside of the school.

When I arrived at the courtyard, I found that Mr. Kaoting was already sitting by the pool.

Mr. Kaoting had also noticed that Chen Nian just nodded and continued to close his eyes.

Chen Nian came to the big locust tree in the middle of the school hall and the school building, facing the school, that is, the east, and sat cross-legged on the ground and began to breathe out the purple qi of the early sun.

When you inhale, focus on the dantian, and use your mind to lead the outside of the body when you exhale.

The surrounding Yuan Qi carried the purple qi of the early sun, as if there was a passage leading to Chen Nian, just like the Yuan Qi with the thickness of the bowl mouth continued to pour in from Chen Nian's seven orifices and enter the dantian.

The examination pavilion of the cultivation tuna by the pool was also interrupted by this strange situation, and when he saw the scene produced by Chen Nian Tuna, he was dumbfounded, and those so-called geniuses were nothing more than they could think about it.

When other people's dantian was first opened, it was only three zhang wide and three zhang long and three zhang high, and with the cultivation of others, it slowly accumulated, until this space was filled with the heaven and earth vitality that he had refined, so that he could break through to the next layer, and the dantian space expanded to nine zhang in length, width, and height, and continued to spit and refine, and then broke through, and then expanded to eighty-one zhang in length, width, and height, and so on until the ninth consummation.

However, others can only absorb the thickness of chopsticks, and ordinary people can only break through a layer of bottom within half a year to a year if they have no adventure.

At the beginning of Chen Nian's dantian, there was only a blank barrenness, thousands of miles without seeing the edge, and the Yuan Qi flow with the thickness of the bowl mouth compared with such a vast dantian, I really don't know when I will be able to practice qi to fill this...

The early sun is purple, and every morning there is only the first moment of Mao Zheng to the first moment of Mao Zheng, and this short moment of the day will be impatient for countless cultivators.

In the blink of an eye, the entire round of scorching sun had risen to the top of Yangshan Mountain, and Chen Nian also stopped his mind breath cultivation.