Twenty years.

The minor novice became the middle novice.

He was still not a Zen master, he never called himself a Zen master.

He has traveled many ways and met many people.

Sometimes I eat meat when I am hungry.

Sometimes when I'm bored, I will secretly look at the girl.

From time to time, I will also send kindness and choose a name for my newborn child.

It's just that no one wants to pay attention to this bald head with squinting eyes and eating meat.

He would sometimes stare at something in a daze, until he knew he had figured it out.

In fact, he didn't know what he had figured it out, but he felt that he had figured it out.

Like what......

Why are flowers so red?

Why does the sun rise in the east and set in the west?

Why are butterflies flowers?

Why do rabbits eat grass?

Wait a minute......

He figured it all out - that's the rule.

The rules tell them to do it, and they do it.

When something tries to break or change the rules, they perish.

For example, the stele.

But where are the rules?

He went through the world, but he could not find it.

So he looked somewhere.

It may not be considered in the human world anymore.

......

"You're here anyway. The swordsman looked at him with his sword.

It's icy and snowy, in the infinite silver white.

"You seem to know I'm coming?" said Asexual.

"Yes, twenty years ago, I knew it from the moment you came down the mountain. ”

"Who the hell are you?" asked Asexual.

"I—I'm just a swordsman. ”

"Good. ”

"Go back, you shouldn't be here. ”

"I'd like to ask you a few questions, and if you're satisfied with me, I'll leave. ”

"Why?"

"You should say, happy to answer for you. ”

"Why?"

"I'm a weakling, I'm weak, you have to let me do it. ”

"Scoundrel. The swordsman closed his eyes, unwilling to look at him again.

"Scoundrel?hmm, a lot of people say I'm a scoundrel, what is a scoundrel?" asked Asexual.

"If you are like this, you are called a scoundrel. ”

"I'm called asexual, not a scoundrel. ”

"But you behave like a scoundrel, so you might as well be called a scoundrel from now on. ”

Asexual raised his eyebrows, touched his bald head, took a deep breath and said, "You are so good at raising the bar!"

"I'm reasoning with you, and you say I'm raising the bar?"

The swordsman's sword was unsheathed by an inch, and it was this inch that suddenly made the wind and snow worsen, and the air became even colder and sharper.

"You have it, if you put away the sword, it will scare people. ”

"Why are you kneeling?"

"I'm scared, can't I have weak legs?"

"You ...... man"

Asexual got up from the ground and touched his bald head again.

In this icy and snowy place, the bald head is really cold.

But there is also a benefit, that is, it can't accumulate snow, and a little bit of snow will be gone as long as you take a shot.

"I'll just ask a few questions, and I'll leave. "Asexual said.

"Just ask. ”

"Are you human?" asked Asexual.

"Are you looking for death?" the swordsman's sword was unsheathed again, this time by two inches.

The asexual legs were weak, but fortunately this time he had a lot of backbone, and he stood there in a half-squat.

"Yes, yes, no, no, don't draw your sword at every turn, I'm very timid!" he exclaimed.

"Then you ask some questions from normal people, if you can't ask them, I'll give you a sword, and you get out of here early. The swordsman said calmly.

"Do you see the rules?" asked Aexual.

"The rules are there, you can't see them?"

"I can't see, so I ask you if you see it?"

"You can see it, why don't you see it?"

"I want to be detached from it, so I can't see, and when I see it, I can't detach myself. ”

"You can't even look at it, and you can't detach yourself. ”

"So I'm asking you, what are the rules?"

"The rules are there, I can't tell you clearly, why don't you see it yourself?"

"How do I feel like you're lying to me?"

"You can't see the rules, so of course you don't know if what I'm saying is true or not, so you might as well see for yourself. ”

"I don't have that strength. Asexual was helpless and sighed.

"You have, otherwise you wouldn't be able to get here. The swordsman said.

"Do you know how many times I've been beaten along the way? They say I peeked at girls taking a shower, and they say I stole from other people's food!

"Don't you?"

"Uh...... Without mentioning this, the next question. ”

"Don't you have one?" asked the swordsman again.

"Next question!" struggled asexually.

"Have you?"

I was sleeping in the haystack, and the girl took off her clothes and showered in front of me, what should I do? I didn't want to see it, mainly because I accidentally made a noise when I got up, and as soon as she turned around, I saw it, can you accept this explanation?"

"Not really. ”

"Then I saw a shop that bought things that were twice as expensive as others, so I taught him a lesson and secretly took away a bunch of things from him, is it too much?"

"It's excessive. ”

"This is called punishing evil and promoting good!"

"Then why did you get caught?"

"Catch what? I'm running so fast, if I hadn't accidentally opened my shoelaces......"

The swordsman shrugged his shoulders and curled the corners of his mouth.

"You're laughing at me?" the asexual eyebrows twisted together, picking them high.

"I guessed what you'd be like for twenty years, but I didn't expect it to be like this. ”

"Sorry to disappoint you?"

"No, it's quite interesting, if the talks fall apart today, you can leave alive. The swordsman said.

Asexual shrinking of the neck: "Don't say it's so scary." ”

"Still have questions?"

"Yes. ”

"Asked. ”

"Uh-huh......" Asexual pinched the bottom for a long time, then looked up and said, "I can't remember." ”

"Then I'm out of my sword?" the swordsman was polite.

"Eh, don't, wait!" Asexual was anxious, and hurriedly waved his hand, his eyes flying: "There is a problem, there is a problem!"

"Asked. ”

"Who sets the rules?" asked Asexual.

The swordsman was silent, pondered for a while, and said, "The rules already exist there, where is there to make them?"

"Maybe it's not human?"

"Then it has nothing to do with you and me. ”

"You can see, but you don't want to touch it?"

"I don't want to. ”

"Something that no one has ever seen before, once it is discovered at a certain moment, the first reaction of the discoverer is often to touch it. ”

"Yes. ”

"You haven't thought about it?"

"I thought about it, but I didn't dare. ”

Asexual suddenly turned colored, and sighed leisurely: "As I expected!"

"What expected?"

"People who have really seen the rules don't have the courage to break it, not even the courage to touch it. ”

"You don't know how strict it is, how noble it is! It's that this heaven, earth, and the world are all small in front of it!"

Asexual looked at the swordsman, looked into his eyes, and didn't speak for a long time.

The swordsman looked at him as well.

This is the Tianshan Mountains, not a secluded tomb.

But there are perennial winds and snows like knives, and there are also winds like whimpering in the sky.

"If heaven, earth and earth collapse, who else will see the rules here?"

The wind and snow seemed to stand still for a moment, and the wind seemed to choke for a moment.

"Outside the sky, there are rules outside the sky. The swordsman said.

"You've seen it?"

"Nope. ”

"Don't want to meet?"

"I don't want to. ”

"You really don't want to?"

“......”

"Tell me, what exactly are the rules?"

The swordsman drew his sword, and the violent storm became even more violent in an instant, as if it had really turned into a flying knife in the sky, and some of them landed on Shami's body, leaving a trail of blood.

"If you can resist my sword, you will walk alive. He said.

The asexual expression is ugly: "Why are you like this!"

"You'll know if you survive. The swordsman said again.

"What do you mean!" Asexual complexion changed greatly, and he felt the killing intent coming from the sword in the other party's hand, "Damn, the strong man spares my dog's life!"

Shami shouted, turning to run.

The sword, which was colder than the frost and snow of heaven and earth, was already pointed at the back of his heart.

"Ding!" the tip of the sword hit a snowflake, making an audible sound.

Asexual rolled and flew out, and when he got up again, there was a horrible streak of blood in front of him that nearly split him in half.

The swordsman put away his sword, his eyes widened, and he exclaimed, "Your own Fa has come this far!"

The asexual body was shaky, but it still trembled and patted the snow on its body.

Blood spurted from his mouth every time he said a word: "I understand, I see...... In this case, I will kill you. ”

"Let's go. The swordsman took his sword.

"You really don't want to kill me?" Asexual showed a mouthful of bloody teeth and smiled hideously.

"As I said, a sword can't kill you, you can walk alive. ”

In the silver-white world, there is an extra slowly extending red line, which seems to cut the world and divide the silver and white into two sides.