Walk through the Qiping lecture hall and cross the main hall of the welcome guest.

Robben led them directly into the guest house at the back of the academy to rest.

It seems that it was intentional, the place where Ning Baifeng and the others live now is the same place where he and Yuan Zhen lived temporarily.

When passing by a stone in front of the courtyard, he saw the words 'natural righteousness' engraved on it, and Ning Baifeng smiled.

How can there be so many deliberate actions, it is just a matter of course.

After settling down a little, it coincided with the end of the half-night class at the college.

Robben invited Ning Baifeng to go out for a walk.

Beside the forest mountain road, beside the stone table of the pavilion, many students of the academy are reading, chatting, or dancing with swords.

Ning Baifeng sighed: "The scene of the academy is just like back then. ”

Robben said softly: "I don't hear anything outside the window, and I only read the books of the sages." The concept left by the old mountain master has never changed, no matter what happens outside the mountain, the academy is still the same academy. ”

Hearing Luo Ben's words, Ning Baifeng asked, "I don't know where the old mountain master is now?"

This is the biggest doubt since I stepped into the college today.

Now that Robben has been promoted to the mountain master of the academy, where has the old mountain master gone.

"Old mountain lord, take your ...... Martyred. ”

Robben said this, and his voice was very dry.

Ning Baifeng stopped abruptly and looked at the other party in a daze.

The sound of reading and chatting in the distance was still there, but the two of them were speechless.

After a long time, Ning Baifeng said in a deep voice: "Why did this happen?"

Robben looked at the sunset in the forest and said, "Soon after you left the academy, the Daquan Dynasty broke through the Tiger Prison Pass, and the defense line along the Longjiang River was even more defeated. In less than half a year, Daquan's soldiers and horses captured a large area of Daning, and the troops pointed directly at the capital of Daning. ”

Robben sighed and continued to walk forward.

Family affairs, national affairs, world affairs, everything is concerned. The hearts of scholars have never been idle.

Ning Baifeng was a little sad.

He had witnessed the breakthrough of the Daquan Dynasty back then, but he didn't expect it to cause such a result.

Robben continued: "At the critical juncture, my generation of scholars has never been willing to be left behind, and the old mountain lord stepped forward to block several great worshippers of the Daquan Dynasty, in exchange for a respite for the continuation of Daning. ”

Ning Baifeng asked, "But why is it the old mountain master?!"

Robben glanced at him and said, "Many things are actually invisible. At that time, Long Xiang's general Xu Dan was executed for the crime of rebellion, which had already left the Daning army missing an arm. Later, Xu Luyuan was sentenced to death in Binhai, and Xu Gong was killed by Yanxia Zhenjun in search of revenge, and the two ancestors of the Sun family died in your hands. As a result, this directly led to heavy losses for the cultivators of Daning. ”

He paused for a moment and sighed: "When the country has no unscrupulous talents, it is inevitable that the old mountain lord will come forward. ”

Ning Baifeng fell silent and was speechless for a long time.

The old things did not subside because of his departure, and the involvement brought out by him was never broken. Like a pebble thrown into a lake, the ripples will spread far away.

In the Junshui Hebo Temple, Ning Baifeng guessed that it was a game, and now these things are just an extension of that game.

Ning Baifeng asked, "Which of the old mountain lords died in the hands of the Daquan Dynasty?"

Robben frowned slightly, "You want to avenge him?"

Ning Baifeng was silent.

Many times, silence means acquiescence.

Robben frowned and said, "It is righteous that the old mountain lord died for his country!"

Such an answer is frank and open.

But Ning Baifeng couldn't understand this kind of righteousness, in his opinion, the death of the old mountain lord was not just a simple martyrdom.

The old thing, after all, with himself

Relate.

The two walked forward slowly, no more talking.

After a long time, Robben sighed, "Your temperament is the same as it was back then, tenacious and persistent. I really don't know if the seeds planted by the old mountain lord in you are right or wrong. ”

Ning Baifeng suddenly raised his head.

The sword yuan is full of luck, but there is no abnormality, how can there be any signs of seeds.

Luo Ben felt the surging fluctuation of the sword qi beside him, and looked at Ning Baifeng in even more surprise.

In just ten years, there is such a cultivation!

Immediately, Robben smiled bitterly: "Okay, if you want to avenge the old mountain lord, I can't stop it." But before that, do you want to see what the old mountain lord did for you back then?"

Ning Baifeng slowly calmed down and nodded, "Let's talk about it." ”

Robben shook his head slightly, "I can't tell." ”

He took out a book from his sleeve and handed it to Ning Baifeng.

On the cover of the book is a column of small letters.

On paper, it is shallow.

Ning Baifeng stretched out his hand to take the book, slightly puzzled.

Robben said softly, "Open it and take a look." ”

Although he didn't know what this meant, Ning Baifeng still opened the book as he said.

However, there was a wind blowing between the flip books.

The vision in front of you is like a spring breeze blowing a pond of lake water, rippling waves. When the wind and water stop, the outlook will be as usual.

But there are some differences.

The book in his hand has disappeared with the flipping wind.

Ning Baifeng looked at Robben, puzzled.

Robben didn't speak, just stretched out his hand and pointed ahead.

Ning Baifeng looked at it and couldn't take his eyes back.

......

In the small courtyard under the sunset, a teenager was practicing his sword in sweat.

An old man stood at the gate of the courtyard and said with a smile: "It is good for young people to be diligent and studious, but we must also know the truth that it is too much. ”

The young man in the courtyard saluted respectfully, "Bishop Ning Baifeng Xie Shan." ”

The old mountain lord shook his head and smiled: "The heart is not sincere. ”

The boy scratched his head in embarrassment.

Afterwards, the old mountain lord invited the young man to go out for a walk.

On the forest path, the old mountain lord led the young man, chatting while walking.

The old and the young talked happily.

......

Seeing this scene, Ning Baifeng was extremely surprised.

But when he saw the old mountain master, he still saluted solemnly.

However, the two people who came towards them turned a blind eye, directly hit Ning Baifeng, and then passed straight through.

Dreamland?!

Ning Baifeng immediately turned around and looked at the old man and the young man.

"Sword weapon, that is, sword qi. Confucian disciples practice swords, qi first, intention last, and second. Among all the sword cultivators, the Confucian swordsman sword qi is the most powerful, and it is more than pure sword cultivation, just because the Confucian classics have a vast saying, the more books you read, the stronger the haoran qi, so the sword qi is also the strongest. I watch you practice the sword, the intention is first, the momentum is second, and the qi is second. There is nothing wrong with this method, but it is not necessarily easy for you who are just getting started, and perhaps the place where the person who taught you how to practice the sword stood too high caused your situation today. I thought that you might as well add the Confucian method of learning swords when you learn swords, and after you come out of the sword, use the sword as a pen and write in the air. In his spare time, he replaced the sword with a pen and practiced calligraphy. Reading is used to nourish qi, practicing the right to write as a sword, and under the multiple simultaneous actions, there will be gains"

The voice of the old mountain lord's teaching is still the same.

The boy listened attentively.

......

Looking at the two people walking slowly, Robben was very calm and said, "Words can record history. What you see is some of the old things. ”

After saying this, Robben motioned to Ning Baifengyi

Keep up.

The two of them walked slowly behind the old and the young.

......

The old mountain lord is explaining the Confucian gentleman's kendo to the young man next to him.

"Confucian children learn the sword, is from the beginning of reading and practicing words, in order to practice the sword and practice the sword, in order to make the sword more strong, they will work harder to read and practice the words, and in the end, because of the reading and practicing words for a long time, its literary style has already exceeded the realm of learning the sword. Therefore, from ancient times to the present Confucian disciples to learn the sword, never out of the ultimate sword, some people laughed that Confucianism to cultivate the sword, the sword is not ten thousand enemies, the sound of the four seas, and later gave a very interesting name to the Confucian sword art, called the sword and martial arts scholar. ”

The boy listened carefully and did not dare to miss a word.

It's an amazing feeling to look at yourself as you used to be.

As the old mountain lord said that practicing words is practicing swords, it ends with the sentence of the scholar of the sword and martial arts.

The boy seemed to have an understanding.

replied, "I will study hard and be a scholar of the sword and martial arts!"

......

Ning Baifeng, who was following behind, was stunned.

He remembered very well that his answer back then was not like this, but he said, "But I am not a disciple of Confucianism." ”

That's where things change.

The young man went back to the house to rest, and when he had an open and honest conversation with the old Taoist priest, they disliked each other. Then when he decided to stay, he chose to stay in the academy, while Yuanzhen left with the old Taoist priest.

Next, the young man still practiced sword and read every day, and no longer bothered about other things.

The old Taoist priest and Yuan Zhen, who left the academy, were intercepted and killed by the soldier Xu Gong and the two earth immortals of the Sun family in the city.

Yuan Zhen was broken by the Sun Family Immortal and died in the city.

After the old Taoist priest killed Xu Gong, when he saw the dead Yuan Zhen, he went crazy directly, and chased and killed the two earth immortals of the Sun family without any scruples.

The city of Xiangyun Mansion was directly destroyed, and countless people were tragically killed.

Then the old mountain lord who was sitting in the academy had to take action and kill the old Taoist priest who was already crazy.

This is the end of the affairs outside the mountain.

The teenagers who stayed in the academy studied diligently every day and practiced swords non-stop.

As time passed, the boy gradually grew into a young man, with a sword at his waist and a book in his hand.

One day, the young man went down the mountain to participate in the imperial imperial examination, entered the court as an official, married a wife and had children. After entering middle age, he resigned and returned. After the old mountain lord passed away, he took charge of the academy and became the new mountain master.

For the rest of his life, he taught and educated people in the academy until his death.

......

Once again, the horizon folded like a lake.

Everything was gone, except for a book that had been turned to the last page.

A book, after reading another Ning Baifeng's life.

This kind of perception is shocking.

"All the changes actually stem from the three words of insincerity. ”

Robben said softly: "When the old mountain lord invited you to take a walk, he had already taken you into the realm of sincerity, so you would speak out about the murder of the academy students. Then I will explain to you the way of the gentleman's sword, until you sincerely say that I am not a disciple of Confucianism, and then there will be an open and honest conversation with the old Taoist priest. ”

Ning Baifeng closed the book and was speechless for a long time.

Robben continued: "When you entered the academy, the old mountain master had already seen that you were already dishonest to people at that time. If you don't guide it, the end result will be just what you just saw. ”

Ning Baifeng took a deep breath and said, "That's why the old mountain master will teach me the way of the gentleman's sword?"

Robben nodded, "A gentleman is not good at sincerity, and sincerity is nothing else. ”

Ning Baifeng saw this sentence in a Confucian classic.

A gentleman cultivates his heart, and he is not good at sincerity.