Spiritual questioning is never easy.

The most important thing is to be in the state of mind, and not to fall into the half-step pool!

If the seedlings are not right, they must be corrected as soon as possible, otherwise, the tree will grow crooked, and it will be too late to regret it.

It's all the same thing.

Li Mengtang picked up a piece from the many chaotic leaves on the ground, among which there was still green, the veins in the leaves, along a main vein, extended many branch veins, distributed in the leaves, and there was no place to meet. He handed the leaf to the boy: "The things to come, just like the veins in this leaf, you see the direction of these branches, they are not original, nor are they influenced by this art of derivation, but it is the rhizome that makes the final decision, and only the rhizome can determine where they grow and where they extend." ”

Sword Armor nodded at the boy.

"What the predecessors said, does it mean that the mandate of heaven can still be artificial?" Zhou Jiujian asked.

"Isn't it?" Li Mengtang didn't speak, but Liu Yue next to him suddenly said.

Liu Yue's sudden words made the young man a little surprised, he turned sideways slightly, faced her half-faced, and said, "However, I am still very confused. ”

"Why?" it was Li Mengtang who spoke.

Zhou Jiujian thought for a while, seemed to clear his thoughts in his heart, and then said: "What I wonder about is that since the Mandate of Heaven has been destined, although it can be changed by relying on manpower, isn't it possible that we just changed the direction of that minutiae, in fact, we still can't escape that fate in the end?"

"It's like the result of your three hundred and sixty-four deductions?" Li Mengtang looked at him and asked.

Zhou Jiujian nodded honestly.

"Yes, although it is man-made, what is the point of all the efforts we have put in have only changed the process, and the result is still predestined? ”

Li Mengtang listened quietly to what the young man said, and after listening to it, he said slowly: "There are no absolutes in the world, and this sentence has never been empty words. You can't forget that you still have the one who has escaped. ”

"And the last push?" the boy asked.

Liu Yue on the side abruptly picked up the young man's right hand, which made Zhou Jiujian's cheeks red, and he subconsciously wanted to withdraw his hand, but he didn't expect to hold it tightly for the girl, and the bracelet turned by the Phoenix Fairy Sword on the left hand suddenly shrank, causing the young man's wrist to hurt.

It's as if you're fighting for your master......

The boy didn't have a lot of reactions in the current situation, so he could only let the phoenix make a fuss at will, and he looked at the girl a little shyly, not knowing what she suddenly wanted to do.

I saw that Liu Yue spread out Zhou Jiujian's right palm, and then a green onion finger was gently drawn on his palm, but it happened to be nineteen vertical and horizontal lines drawn in the palm, a Go chessboard, and then she nodded outside this "small chessboard", she looked at his eyes, and said seriously: "A small chess game in the world, a big chess game in heaven and earth, a chess piece, if you want to be out of control, the only way is to get out of the chess game." ”

The girl said it seriously, and the boy listened to it seriously.

Using the chess game as an analogy, the reason seems to be very clear again.

Zhou Jiujian suddenly came to his senses and said, "Beyond the chessboard, isn't it to be the chess player yourself?"

Li Mengtang looked at him, smiled but did not speak, the young man turned his head to look at Liu Yue, and she gently let go of his hand.

"Really?"

"What do you say?" the girl asked rhetorically.

Zhou Jiujian had some numbers in his heart.

He suddenly turned his head to look at Sword Armor and said, "Sword Armor senior, is the last unknown that is my variable?"

It seems like a definite answer.

saw Li Mengtang replied ambiguously: "Yes, or no." ”

Such an answer made Zhou Jiujian a little puzzled and didn't know why.

I only heard Li Mengtang continue: "Since it is unknown, then everything can only depend on you, see how you take the road under your feet, whether you follow the steps step by step, and end up with the same ending as the previous three hundred and sixty-four times, or, as Yue'er said, go beyond the chess game and be the chess player." ”

The young man realized: "I understand." ”

Li Mengtang said: "If you understand, what you should do, it depends on yourself, no one can help anyone in this matter." ”

Zhou Jiujian nodded in response: "Yes, senior." ”

"Now the mountains and mountains are not stable, just pointing to our Sword Continent, the demon disaster, the situation is not clear, but there are many forces around the mountain to play chess and fight secretly, and the young man in Zangjian Mountain has become a key point in this. ”

"Hidden Sword Mountain?" Zhou Jiujian had heard of this matter for the first time, and he was more sensitive to the Hidden Sword Mountain.

It happened to happen when the boy entered the cave, and Qingyun Mountain was relatively remote from the world under the mountain, and the news was blocked, and all the outside news had to rely on the sword armor to know, so the boy naturally didn't know about it, so Li Mengtang told the ins and outs of the matter.

The boy was a little speechless when he heard it.

Thinking of Shangtang County, but it happened to be the last place he and Hu Qingluan traveled to before they went to Qingyun Mountain, and they were still amazed at the time, the scenery and customs there were quite chic, and the young man's heart still had a feeling of lingering, but he didn't expect that such a disaster would happen now, and he couldn't help but feel a little sad about it.

"That sword armor senior, do you think this demon scourge can be eliminated earlier, or is there any conspiracy behind this?" Zhou Jiujian asked curiously.

Li Mengtang smiled slightly: "Can you get rid of such a disaster earlier, maybe, let's see how the young man from Hidden Sword Mountain is, as for whether there is someone planning behind this, this matter is not for you to consider." ”

"Yes. ”

"It was also a few days ago, on the side of the West Polar Continent, there was a female sword cultivator who slashed away the Mirage Cave Heaven with a sword, causing many elite juniors of the Daomen to fall, and then fought with the masters of their Daomen who rushed to help, and finally although she was seriously injured, she still managed to escape, and it was a Confucian saint who helped her. The people in that Dao Sect, suffering from this big setback, insisted that the sword cultivator was a person from my Sword Continent, killed and injured their Dao disciples, intending to provoke a dispute between the sword and the Dao, and conspiracy, and what was even funnier was that they actually said that the sword cultivator was an apprentice taught by me. ”

Saying that, Li Mengtang also looked at Liu Yue quite interestingly.

Liu Yue was just listening to what Li Mengtang said quietly at this time, and there was no change in her demeanor.

But the young man was surprised when he heard it: "The apprentice of the seniors, isn't it only Miss Liu!"

Li Mengtang said with a smile: "This matter is naturally ridiculous, their Taoism is nothing more than to divert everyone's attention and point the finger at us completely, so that everyone can ignore the Confucianism who made the move, so as to save people from thinking that the relationship between their Confucianism and Taoism for hundreds of years has broken down, but this approach still can't stand scrutiny, maybe they can't imagine that there will be a Confucian saint in the end." However, now between the two kendo families, because of this matter, it is indeed a tense situation, although the sky is falling, there are us tall people on top, and it is not your turn to mix with the juniors, but you still have to be cautious. ”

After hearing this, both of them nodded.

"However, senior," Zhou Jiujian said again, "we haven't gone down the mountain now, these things still have nothing to do with us, right?"

Li Mengtang waved his hand, looked at the two and said, "It's related." ”

The young man was puzzled: "Is it related?"

"Yes," Li Mengtang looked at the two of them and said, "Because, I want the two of you to go to the south." ”

"Southside?"