Chapter 115: Lanting Wenhui
Su Ruolan quietly listened to Zhou Cheng talk about Gai Liniang's past.
I don't know why? When she heard the words Gai Liniang, she suddenly felt that there were many more memories in her mind that did not belong to her.
When she looked at the surrounding West Lake, it seemed that this place also gave her a sense of déjà vu.
"Did Zhou Lan often come here with you before, and she also knew the story of you and Gai Liniang?" asked Su Ruolan subconsciously.
Zhou Cheng still had his back to Su Ruolan and did not answer out loud, but nodded, which can be regarded as an answer to Su Ruolan.
"I know you have a knot in your heart after all, and I've figured it out these days, you're not her after all!" Zhou Cheng's voice suddenly sounded, and his body began to turn slowly.
When Zhou Cheng turned around completely and looked at Su Ruolan's eyes, he said seriously: "Be yourself, Su Ruolan." ”
Su Ruolan looked at Zhou Cheng with a complicated expression, she never thought that Zhou Cheng would say such things to her at this time.
In the past two years, Su Ruolan has been trying to accept Zhou Lan's past, and even she sometimes feels that she is Zhou Lan.
However, after a brief change in expression, Su Ruolan calmly met Zhou Cheng's gaze, and asked Zhou Cheng with a serious face: "Are you afraid? Are you afraid that I will really become Zhou Lan?"
The actions of the two of them were a little inexplicable, and Zhou Cheng just looked at Su Ruolan quietly, as if he was still waiting for her to continue.
"You once told me that your body is no longer the original body, but a body called the glazed jade body, the jade body that is clean and leaky, there will be no change, but you have a few more gray hairs in the past year, what's going on?" Su Ruolan continued, her gaze finally falling on Zhou Cheng's sideburns.
Zhou Cheng raised his feet and took a few steps forward, and with the ripples under his feet, he finally stopped five steps away from Su Ruolan.
"You are the wisest woman I have ever met, and I have never hidden anything from you, and I will tell you all of this. Zhou Cheng opened his mouth and said, just as he spoke, the Yuan Shen escaped from his body, the body was still standing in place, and the Yuan Shen was already standing on Su Ruolan's side.
When the Yuan Shen left his body, a burst of light flashed on Zhou Cheng's body, and then a pure glass body stood on the surface of the water.
There is no longer the slightest clothing on the body, like a jade statue carved from glass, this jade statue looks natural, as if it is like this, innate achievement, born like this!
"I have already touched the realm of the Great Luo Golden Immortal, the five elements aura is constantly refining, the last time I returned from the netherworld, I found that there was a trace of demonic nature in my jade body, and this is the so-called heart demon. Zhou Cheng Yuanshen opened his mouth to speak, and his voice sounded beside Su Ruolan.
As Zhou Cheng spoke, changes began to emerge on the glazed jade's body, from the five directions of the limbs and the top of the head, there were five spiritual qi of different colors converging towards the abdomen of the jade body, and the five-colored spiritual energy represented the most basic power of the five elements.
It's just that as the power of the five elements continues to converge, a trace of black gas suddenly appeared on the jade body, and when Zhou Cheng said the word demon, the black gas became more and more condensed, and finally turned into a pitch-black villain with eyes, ears, mouth and nose, which was the same as Zhou Cheng.
This villain is transformed by demonic energy, although there is no monstrous killing intent and violent aura, but people can feel countless negative emotions at first sight.
"This is my inner demon, he was born because of two people, one is Lan'er, and the other is Liniang!" Zhou Cheng continued, letting that inner demon continue to grow in the glazed jade body.
"Actually, they are your demons, but they are no longer there, why don't you get rid of this demons?" Su Ruolan looked at Zhou Cheng's demons carefully, and her thoughts continued to sweep over the demons.
Zhou Cheng's eyes fell on the face of the heart demon, and the heart demon seemed to feel Zhou Cheng's gaze, the delicate and small head was raised, and a pair of dark and deep eyes also looked at Zhou Cheng.
"Why get rid of it? It's me, and if you get rid of him, I'm no longer me. We are a cultivator, but we are at ease in seeking the Dao, so what does it matter if we have a demon in our hearts?" Zhou Cheng suddenly raised a smile on his face, these words seemed to be said to Su Ruolan, and it seemed to be said to the demons in the heart.
The heart demon also seemed to hear Zhou Cheng's words, and grinned at Zhou Cheng, but it looked weird and terrifying.
After Zhou Cheng finished speaking, the spirit moved, and returned to the glazed jade body again, and soon the glazed light disappeared, and the inner demon disappeared, and the Taoist robe that Su Ruolan gave to Zhou Cheng shrouded his body again, and everything returned to the original.
"Since you have seen through the demons in your heart, why are you still afraid that I will become Zhou Lan? afraid that I will become your demons?" Su Ruolan was still puzzled, she believed that Zhou Cheng brought her here, definitely not just to tell her this.
Zhou Cheng looked at Su Ruolan, and his eyes naturally revealed that kind of doting, and then said in a normal tone: "If you can't be yourself, Lan'er is not your demon! I'm not afraid of you, but ......."
"Are you worried about me?" Zhou Cheng's words were not finished, but Su Ruolan immediately took it.
Zhou Cheng nodded and did not deny it.
"I understand, Dao Xin is at ease!" Su Ruolan smiled, as if she really understood.
Zhou Cheng looked at Su Ruolan and smiled slightly, noncommittal to her words.
Then he continued: "The Dao of Da Luo is not only about refining the power of the five elements and condensing the Dao Fruit, but also about the process of subduing the inner demons. But the demon in the heart is oneself, how can one achieve true surrender? Therefore, after Da Luo, it is usually to cut off the two thoughts of good and evil, and then find the true self, and use this method to surpass Da Luo. Buddhism cuts off all desires, strips away the five aggregates and six consciousnesses, and the Daomen has the method of ruthlessness and forgetfulness, which can surpass the way of Daluo. However, there are very few people who have come to Daluo in ancient times, and I am afraid that there are only a few people who really cut off their obsessions and achieve supreme achievements, and I have never understood these things. ”
Su Ruolan listened carefully, and kept thinking about Zhou Cheng's words, she knew that this was Zhou Cheng's understanding of the way of Da Luo and beyond Da Luo, and it was something that countless cultivators dreamed of.
"But you didn't kill your own demons, it seems that you are still nourishing your demons, wouldn't it be difficult to surpass Da Luo in the end?" Su Ruolan quickly thought of some contradictions, she already understood that she couldn't deliberately integrate into Zhou Lan's role, so she didn't call Zhou Cheng Uncle anymore, but directly called her the master.
"Because that method of enlightenment is contrary to the freedom of the Dao heart!" Zhou Cheng gave an explanation that was not an explanation.
The Taoist heart is at ease, this sentence was said to him by Zhou at that time, and later it became his criterion for living in the world, and then he also took this sentence as the core idea of Yuntai View.
If it was before, Zhou Cheng only felt that this sentence could be used as his code of conduct, but as his Taoism and deduction ability became more and more sophisticated, he felt that these four words were unfathomable.
Zhou Cheng has already calculated that these four words did not originally come from Zhou, but should be the mysterious ancestor in Zhou's mouth.
Just these four words made Zhou Cheng, who was already a Taiyi Xuan Immortal, more and more in awe of this ancestor who had never met.
If you can stick to the Dao heart and be at ease, and not surpass Da Luo with the method of forgetting and ruthlessness, then even in the top existence, it is extremely terrifying.
Su Ruolan still couldn't understand the deep meaning of these four words, but she also thought about how she should face her inner demons in the future, and at the same time, she was more curious, what would her inner demons be like?
"I've invited you here, but there's something else I want you to do. Zhou Cheng put away the smile on his face and began to say seriously.
"What do you have to tell the sect?" Su Ruolan didn't expect that what happened just now didn't seem to be the most important thing, and Zhou Cheng recruited himself to Jiangzuo, as if there was something more important.
"Everyone in the world says that the land of Jiangzuo is where the romance is, although the stars in the sky have dissipated, but the talented and beautiful people of Jiangzuo are like a gathering of stars, I plan to hold an unprecedented grand literary meeting throughout the ages, I want you to challenge Jiangzuo's talents with one person, so that the name Su Ruolan will make the stars lose their glory!"
Zhou Cheng said seriously, he actually wanted Su Ruolan to challenge the entire Jiangzuo literati with her own strength.
Su Ruolan didn't know why Zhou Cheng had such a plan, and it seemed that this was the main reason why Zhou Cheng came to Jiankang, but even if she didn't know Zhou Cheng's intentions, Su Ruolan still smiled confidently, and then said: "I'm looking forward to it too!"
"The place of Wenhui will be selected in Shanyin County, Huiji County, and then I will let Huan Wen and Nandou arrange it. Zhou Cheng continued, and even the location had been set.
"Isn't it in Jiankang?" Su Ruolan was a little puzzled in her heart, not knowing why Zhou Cheng chose the location of the Wenhui in a place far away from the national capital Jiankang.
"Because I'm waiting there for an old man. And in my calculations, there is another person in Shanyin County who has a master-apprentice relationship with me. Zhou Cheng never hid anything from Su Ruolan, and directly told the reason.
Su Ruolan's expression changed slightly when she heard this, not because Zhou Cheng said that he was waiting for an old man, but because he said that someone had a master-apprentice relationship with him.
So far, Su Ruolan has not officially apprenticed to Zhou Cheng, and no one knows about Wang Meng's existence, and everyone thinks that Zhou Cheng has never accepted an apprentice.
When Zhou Cheng and Su Ruolan returned to Jiankang, they lived in the Zhou Mansion, and the latter news soon set off a storm in Jiangzuo.
Five days later, Huiji Shanyin Lanting will hold an unprecedented grand literary meeting, which is initiated by the Yuntai Temple in Shuzhong, and the content of the literary meeting is that their young master teaches Su Ruolan, intending to challenge the entire Jiangzuo talent.
Originally, such news had aroused the competitiveness of most literati, coupled with the vigorous efforts of Huan Wen, the general of the expedition to the west, and it was rumored that there was a Yuntai Taoist who changed the world with his magical powers in Lanting, and had reshaped it into a blessed land on earth, and countless people were even more curious for a while.
"Lanting Wenhui? A teenage girl wants to fight the entire Jiangzuo talent! Spread the decree and ask the ministers of the DPRK and China to send the outstanding talents of the family to Lanting. In the Jiankang Palace, after Chu Lianzi heard the news, he made a will as the queen mother.
"Brother An Shi, it seems that we don't need to go to Jiankang, this Lanting Wenhui is next to you and me!" In the Dongshan hut, Wang Xizhi handed a letter to Xie An.
"Sister, what kind of Lanting Wenhui are you really going to?" Xie Jiang walked towards Xie An's house, and Xie Xuan followed closely behind her.
Xie Xuan didn't understand why his sister didn't hesitate to come to her uncle to allow her to go as soon as she heard the name of the Lan Pavilion Wenhui.
"I don't know why, but I feel like there's someone who is very important to me waiting for me, and whether my uncle agrees or not, I'll go. Xie Jiang said without replying, she also felt recently that there was a person who was very important to her, and she was getting closer and closer to her.
"Sister go, I'll go too. Xie Xuan quickly followed Xie Jiang, didn't ask anything more, just said a simple word, and walked to Xie An's house with Xie Jiang.
In this way, under the influence of many people, intentionally or unintentionally, countless literati and scholars flocked to the Shanyin Orchid Pavilion, and the eyes of the world also gathered here.
In the Holy Land of the Five Immortals Sect, the Holy Maiden Qu Yun walked towards the deep valley of the forbidden land again, but this time she held a scroll in her hand.
"Master, Yuntai Zhenren has arrived in Jiankang, and two days later held the Lanting Wenhui in Huiji Shanyin, Su Ruolan wants to challenge the entire Jiangzuo talent with one person, and we finally got the portrait of Yuntai Zhenren. Qu Yun held the scroll and said respectfully to the stone cave at the bottom of the valley.
Just as Qu Yun's words fell, the scroll in her hand flew into the cave with a 'whoosh', and then the hoarse and cold voice of the Five Poison God Monarch came from the cave.
"Got it, we can bring all of our people back. ”
The disciple retired. Qu Yun bowed and did not continue to stay at the bottom of the valley.
Although the master and apprentice only had this few words of communication, Qu Yun was already sure that the real person of Yuntai was the Zhou Cheng that his master had been looking for.
The scroll in the stone cave has been slowly opened, and it is suspended in front of the Five Poison Divine Monarchs, and a young man in a white robe on the scroll is exactly what Zhou Cheng looks like now.
The painting of this scroll is extremely good, the image of Zhou Cheng on it is lifelike, and the Five Poisons Divine Monarch stretched out his white and slender hand, and gently brushed his fingers over the scroll Zhou Cheng's face.
"Lanting Wenhui, what do you want?" A different voice sounded in the stone cave, but it was not the hoarse and cold voice of the Five Poison Divine Monarch, but a clear and tactful, extremely beautiful voice.