In the fifteenth year of the Apocalypse, everything has changed and changed.

As always, the newborn sun, as always, people sit under the locust tree, as always, practice and vomit.

Time is still the same.

Chen Nian has been in the school for a year. According to Mr. Kaoting's order of reading for his disciples, the order of reading is the "University", "Analects", "Mencius", "The Mean", and the Five Classics, which need to be interpreted by themselves.

At this time, Chen Nian and others have already read the book "Mencius" as required. It is necessary to learn from the kings and the people, life and righteousness.

In the past year, Cui Xin has been in retreat by the Houshan stream to enlighten the Tao, and Na You'an has also been meditating and refining at the thatched cottage in the Houshan Mountain, and he just came to visit Mr. Zhou not long ago, and of course, he and Mr. Kaoting spent the night drinking and discussing.

On the fifth day of the fifth month of the lunar calendar, the innate eight trigrams are in the order of the north and south, the south of the heavens and the north of the earth, the upper is the heavenly dry, and the lower is the earth; the south is the dry position of the congenital eight trigrams, and from summer to the fifth day of the fifth month of the fifth month, the seven houses of the dragon run to the south of the middle of the heavens, which is the day when the dragon ascends to heaven corresponds to the ancient hexagram - the fifth line of the Qiangua "flying dragon in the sky".

Therefore, on the fifth day of the fifth lunar month, there will be government organizations to prepare and hold sacrifices in various parts of the region, as well as people's own sacrifices.

Chen Nian is 16 years old this year, and on March 13 after the year, Mr. Zhou personally tied Chen Nian's hair.

According to the customs and conventions on the mainland, when a man reaches the age of 16 and performs the gift of tying his hair with his relatives, elders, and kings, it is recorded in the "Dadai Li Ji Bao Fu": "Tie your hair and go to university, learn great arts, and perform great festivals." ”

A university is a college that is higher and larger than the Enlightenment Hall.

Great artists: rites, music, archery, royalty, calligraphy, mathematics and other ancient six arts. Celebrants: auspicious rites, fierce salutes, military salutes, guest salutes, and Jia.

The big festival: that is, the way of the university, in Mingmingde, in the people, in the perfection. When a man's hair is bundled, he must be virtuous, know the order, and the order of the order, and also the way.

Chen Nian got Mr. Kaoting's guidance after tying his hair: "Chen Nian, now you can practice martial arts and fitness, and it will be of great benefit to you to stay up early in the future." Originally, your third senior brother Cui Xin was the most suitable to be the initiator of your martial arts practice, but he didn't know when he would come out of this retreat, but now that you have reached the age of sixteen, you should not delay the matter of staying in good health, and you can now have the opportunity to ask You'an to practice martial arts and sword practice. Brother You'an is now out of the customs and meditates in the back mountain every day. ”

Chen Nian's face was bitter, "In the past year, I have been to Houshan a total of seven times, and every time I see the sword-wielder with a black face, I am very embarrassed. ”

It turned out that when Chen Nian saw You'an alone for the first time, You'an threw a sword at him and asked him to draw his sword and stand. Chen Nian held the sword and tried, but after three attempts, the sword did not move, only to see Chen Nian's face turn red, and the young man was angry and insisted on trying again.

Chen Nian meditated and scattered his thoughts, and walked through his limbs with the vitality of the dantian. And Chen Nian didn't know that there was a faint red light on the flesh and blood in his body. Chen Nian held the sheath in his left hand and the sword tightly in his right hand, and moved the sword at will.

Na You'an noticed it a little and looked at it with his heart. I only feel that a young man with divine power, this sword is extraordinary, if ordinary people do not reach the realm of steel and iron bones, it is impossible to draw the sword out of the sheath, and then look at this Chen Nian Lian Qi all the way to turn into a realm of qi, and the martial arts have not been involved in the way, except that the blood qi in the body is slightly more than that of normal peers, there is nothing abnormal. Since he can draw his sword out of the sheath, it can only be an innate divine power.

Chen Nian took a lot of effort to draw his sword and stand, and he was breathing heavily, but he saw a look from Na You'an, signaling him to leave, what is depressed, what is speechless.

On the same day, You'an also left Houshan for the first time since the retreat, and went to the school to meet Mr. Zhou and then went to find Kaoting.

Sitting on the bluestone at the gate of the mountain, looking down at the Kaoting under the mountain, seeing the people behind him, his breath was deep and calm, and he didn't feel a little excited.

"I would like to congratulate Brother You'an on entering the country safely, as the saying goes: people are in good spirits when they are happy, and then congratulations to Brother You'an on being refreshed and rejuvenated in the second spring. I saw that although Kaoting's face was full of strange smiles, his eyes were sincere.

Xin You'an didn't care about this, but although he came to Qiwen Hall to practice Qi and martial arts, he broke through the realm one after another, but now he still can't see through the cultivation of Kaoting, and he can only see that the qi and blood in his body are boiling like the rivers and lakes, and his bones are crystal clear like the flawless jade. Looking at it again, I only felt that there was a lot of fog outside Kaoting's body, and its truth could not be seen, and it could only be roughly estimated that the first realm of Kaoting's martial arts should be in the early stage of the white jade true body, and other unknown.

"Kaoting, today for my brother, I took a bold look to know that you are so hidden, and I don't see it a little. ”

Hearing this, Kaoting's eyes rolled upward: "Is there any? How deep is it? Am I that powerful?"

You'an didn't discuss this with him either, lest he play haha again and think of the boy just now. He opened his mouth and asked, "Kaoting, among those disciples that Mr. Zhou accepted last year, there was a young man named Chen Nian, what is his origin, can he have other heels?"

Kaoting's face has not changed, but a few clouds have grown out of nothing in his heart, which is related to Chen Nian... Said tentatively: "Mr. Zhou accepted a closed disciple Chen Nian last year, who is from Chenjiazhuang by the cave lake in Wangyue County, Hengqing Kingdom, and he has no other heels." Brother You'an, have you found anything?"

Kaoting's words made You'an even more puzzled, Kaoting said that he had been to the place he had been to, and it was unremarkable, so he told Kaoting what happened just now: "Just now you asked Chen Nian to come to the back mountain to find me, I saw that his words and deeds were more comfortable, so I tried his heart." I tried him with a sword and asked him to draw his sword out of its sheath, and he was not discouraged after three unsuccessful attempts, so he drew his sword for the fourth time. ”

"Brother You'an, if you don't succeed three times, you will come back for the fourth time, is this courage or self-defeating?"

You An forced a smile and said, "Then what if he draws his sword out of the sheath for the fourth time?"

Kaoting's expression was no longer deliberately perfunctory just now, and he became more and more calm, and said: "Brother You'an, don't frame me, I know that although the sword is not an ancient sword, it is also a powerful product of the military family when a hundred schools of thought contended thousands of years ago, and it is so much that the murderous aura and contaminated blood on the sword have been entangled in the battle with you so far, how can it be possible." ”

With the sword that has followed him for decades, how can he not understand, although he deliberately suppressed the murderous aura of Kanyu just now, the contaminated blood is still there.

"Kaoting, that Chen Nian did pull out Kanyu, I think he must be born with divine power, there must be something you and I don't know. I want to teach him my sword and my kendo, and make him my lineage disciple. ”

Kaoting was stunned and said, "Xin Youan, what do you mean by this?"

"When I arrived at the realm of the True Self, I felt something and planned in advance. "Kaoting, you say, everything in the world is beautiful, but everything is the same?"