"Do books feel lonely?" asked Huan Yin subconsciously.

The old man didn't answer, but asked Huan Yin: "Do you feel lonely?"

Huan Yin thought for a while: "Occasionally." ”

The old man asked again, "Why are you lonely?"

"It's because no one talks to me. Huan Yin looked at the old man in front of him with a puzzled face, not knowing what he wanted to say.

The old man listened to Huan Yin's words, nodded and smiled: "That's right, language is a way to express your thoughts, you are lonely, not so much because you want to talk to people, but because you suffer from your thoughts stuffed in your brain and not known to outsiders." Are you right?"

Huan Yin's eyes lit up: "The seniors have a deep understanding of life, and the kid has been taught." ”

The old man then asked, "Why did you come to look through these books?"

Huan Yin replied: "Naturally, it is to increase my knowledge. ”

"Well, knowledge is also a kind of human thought. What is recorded in this book is the thoughts of the author, so there are thousands of thoughts here, do you think they will be lonely?" the old man looked at Huan Yin with a smile on his face.

Huan Yin was taken aback, he didn't expect that this old man could say such a profound truth about something that was so simple. However, at this moment, he still had doubts in his heart, so he asked again: "Senior, then if you come here and don't look through these classics, isn't your mind still lonely here?"

The old man shook his head and said, "I have read the classics here countless times, and even many of them are from my own hands. I came here just to accompany them, and where can I help them relieve their loneliness?"

"There are also a lot of ideas left here by the predecessors?" asked Huan Yin.

The old man nodded: "Not a lot." ”

Huan Yin suddenly woke up: "Senior, it's you who are lonely." ”

The old man laughed: "Then can you accompany me, a lonely old man?"

Huan Yin arrived immediately: "Senior, please speak." ”

This time, the old man looked at Huan Yin for a while before asking, "Why do you want to learn to forge a sword?" And so desperately?"

Huan Yin subconsciously thought of his master Duan Yun, who led him to the path of sword casting. Then he thought of Lan Yu again, he came to participate in this instrument selection test for the sake of Hongyan. In the end, he thought of Lan Tongtian again, and he made a bet with Lan Tongtian that he could pass the instrument master selection test this time, in order to prove that his Tao was not wrong.

But in the end. But for some reason, Huan Yin felt that what he thought just now did not represent his desire to learn sword casting, so he could only be ashamed: "Seniors, juniors don't remember why they want to learn sword casting." ”

Who knew that the old man listened to Huan Yin's words, not only did he not frown, but laughed: "Forget the good, forget the good." ”

Huan Yin was puzzled, and asked rhetorically: "Senior, then why do you want to practice the way of sword casting?"

The old man smiled heartily: "I forgot too." ”

Huan Yin didn't expect this seemingly unfathomable old man to give such a shallow answer. And it seems that he is faintly proud of it, and the doubts on his face are even heavier.

"Everyone has their motivation to embark on a certain path, such as forging a sword, maybe at the beginning you are for fame, for relatives and friends, or to prove yourself, but if you always keep these motivations in your heart to practice, then your cultivation will be inseparable from those superficial purposes, and in the end it will be difficult to achieve the great path. On the contrary, there are people. As he practiced more and more, he began to forget why he wanted to cultivate. This kind of person. Putting aside distracting thoughts, it seems that he cultivates without a purpose, but in fact, his purpose is the one he cultivates itself. Cultivating for the sake of cultivation, cultivating for the sake of the Tao, by the time he cultivates, there are no distracting thoughts in his heart. That pure heart that only contains the thought of the Tao is the heart of the Dao, and the path he has attained is the Great Dao. ”

The old man's words were always calm, but his words were heard in Huan Yin's ears. But if there are thousands of thunderbolts exploding at the same time.

Cultivate for the sake of cultivation, cultivate for the sake of the Tao, no distractions, Fang Cheng Dao!

Huan Yin didn't expect that the old man's words contained a truth that he had not heard in the past ten years. Even now he has not fully reflected the full meaning of the old man's words, it seems that the old man's few words need to be understood for a long time.

Huan Yin bowed deeply to the old man, and said solemnly: "The grace of the predecessors, Huan Yin remembers it in his heart!"

From that day on, Huan Yin would go to the eighth floor of the Nine-Storied Pagoda every day, and the old man would wait for Huan Yin there every time.

Huan Yin never asked the old man what his name was, and the old man never mentioned it, so they maintained an indescribable tacit understanding between the old and the young, and they would talk about it for a while on the eighth floor every day. However, this kind of talk can actually be said to be more like the old man is solving his doubts for Huan Yin.

The old man didn't have a fixed number of topics to talk about with Huan Yin every day, maybe today the two of them talked about life, and the next day they talked about cultivating immortals, but on the third day it would become something else. Talking about these topics should not be of much help to Huan Yin, who is about to participate in the selection of an instrumenter, but Huan Yin did not feel the slightest impatience, and even often talked with the old man in the eighth layer for several hours in a row.

Today is the day before the selection of the instrument master, and tomorrow all the participating instrument cultivators will usher in the selection test of the first sword peak instrument master that they have been preparing for many years. So today, all the cultivators are seizing the last time to improve themselves, so that their chances of passing can be a little greater.

However, Huan was still on the way to the Nine-Storied Pagoda at this moment, not to look through the classics, but to meet the old man, and then talk to him for a while - this has become a habit for Huan Yin in the past month, rain or shine.

"Senior, I'm here. Going up to the eighth floor, Huan Yin greeted the old man on the ground cross-legged, like a greeting between old friends.

The old man nodded: "Well, tomorrow you will participate in the selection of the instrument, so today is the last time I am here." ”

Huan Yin was a little surprised: "Senior, can't I see you again in the future?"

The old man looked at Huan Yin and said, "Why be persistent?"

Huan Yin suddenly remembered the word "fate" that he had talked about with the old man, and the old man reminded him that the fate was too ethereal and difficult to figure out, so he should not be attached. If you are persistent, it becomes a fate, you know, the fate is not to be sought.

Huan Yin immediately woke up: "It's the younger generation who is superficial. ”

"Well, I only have two questions for you today, and when you're done, you can leave. The old man nodded.

Huan Yin bowed to the old man: "Senior, please ask." ”

The old man looked at Huan Yin, and his fingers rushed up: "Why don't you go and try it?"

Huan Yin looked in the direction the old man pointed, and he knew that what the old man was asking was why Huan didn't try to break through the last layer of the nine-storied pagoda. Huan Yin thought for a while before he replied: "The younger generation can't get by." ”

"Why can't you get by?" the old man asked again.

"Although the juniors don't know what the assessment of the upper level is, the juniors know that their accumulation is far from enough, even if the juniors know a little about the way of enlightenment, but if the foundation is not solid, where can they build a pavilion in the air?" Huan Yin replied.

"If you don't try, how do you know you can't?"

"The younger generation doesn't break through, not because they are afraid that they can't do it, but because they don't want to be arrogant. Because the juniors know that the last layer is the one layer that belongs to Lan Yanzi, the ancestor of Yijian Peak, and the juniors don't think that their knowledge and attainments can be compared to him. So even if I was lucky enough to get past the ninth layer with the knowledge I had at the moment, I wouldn't be worthy of being on the same level as Lan Yanzi's predecessors. ”

"You don't want a name like Lan Yanzi?" the old man seemed a little surprised.

"The younger generation should be real, not famous. ”

This time, the old man nodded again and again: "A good one should be real, not famous." If the junior disciples of my First Sword Peak are like you, maybe one day my First Sword Peak's sword forging path can really stand alone in the world. As a newcomer, it is really rare for you to be able to not be arrogant, recognize yourself, and constantly pursue pragmatism. ”

This sentence, Huan Yin somehow, actually heard a bit of lamentation from the old man's tone.

The old man paused for a while, then regained his composure and said, "Okay, the second question, what is the sword?"

This ordinary question, Huan Yin, as a sword cultivator and sword forging cultivator, has thought about it countless times, and even he has talked about it with his close colleagues and even elders. However, the answer to this question is different, and these answers seem to be reasonable at first glance, but under the careful taste, I always feel that there are shortcomings. So, in fact, Huan Yin doesn't have a deep understanding of this problem now.

In the end, Huan Yin shook his head and said, "The younger generation is dull and has no deep insight into this issue. ”

The old man glanced at Huan Yin and said: "It seems that the more ordinary and simple the question, the more profound the truth contained in it, you are young and do not have a good understanding of this problem. You and I have a fate, so today the old man will tell you his feelings about this issue, which is fate. ”

As soon as the old man's words came out, Huan Yin somehow suddenly felt that the old man in front of him had been with him for more than a month, in order to ask these two questions today. And the first issue is demand, and the second issue is reward.

Before Huan Yin could think more about this inexplicable feeling, the old man had already continued: "The old man has been casting swords for more than a thousand years in his life, and the sword in my hand is no less than three thousand. In the old man's view, the sword is like snow, if it falls on the branches, it keeps its nature unchanged, but if it is attached to the ground, it will condense into ice, if it falls on the lake and sea, it will turn into clear water, and if it is scorched by the scorching sun, it should turn into mist. Therefore, in fact, the sword has never taken the initiative to change, what the sword is, only because the person who cast the sword is different, and the sword is different. Huan Yin, what kind of sword you forge depends on whether you are a branch, the earth, the lake and the sea, or the scorching sun. ”

After speaking, the old man laughed, and his figure gradually blurred and disappeared in front of Huan Yin's eyes. (To be continued.) )

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