Wang Shouren replied to Wang Hua at that time, there were some small skills, he only said "can read", did not say that he would not practice martial arts. Of course, despite this, if Ning Wushu wanted to teach Wang Shouren archery, it was impossible to teach it blatantly at home, so Wang Shouren took Ning Wushu to visit Jinling City under the pretext of going out and came to a deserted hill outside the city.

Ning Wushu herself was still a girl who had just come of age, and she had never taught an apprentice, she stood on the top of the hill and looked at Wang Shouren's expectant gaze, and she didn't know how to speak. After pondering for a long time, Ning Wushu said: "I have been practicing martial arts for more than five years now, and I can have today's achievements, talent, and luck." Bow and arrow, no one has ever taught me, so to be honest, I don't know how to teach you step by step, it's better like this, I'll tell you a story about when I just practiced archery, after that time, my archery skills have improved by leaps and bounds, and I have made great progress, I hope to be able to give you some tips. ”

Wang Shouren nodded and said seriously: "Master, don't be nervous, just say whatever you want in your heart, it's okay." ”

Ning Wushu smiled "poof", the master who was comforted by the apprentice not to be too nervous, it is estimated that there will be no second person in the world. She settled down and said leisurely, "That was my second year of practicing bows and arrows. In the first year, because no one taught me and I hadn't practiced before, I had been laying the foundation, and I could barely shoot the arrow at a long distance, but the arrow was unstable, and I couldn't move, let alone shoot arrows while riding a horse like some generals on the battlefield, and I couldn't even shoot moving objects completely. So I managed to get three wild wolves in the nearby woods......"

"At that time, my martial arts were very weak, let alone a wolf, even if it was three vicious dogs, I had to run when I saw it. At that time, my arrow power was not strong, like the technique of chasing two arrows in a row you performed, I reluctantly practiced it in order to increase the strength of the arrow, but the crosshairs were not good, and in such a situation, if I faced three wild wolves alone, I would probably be torn to pieces. ”

"But I can't force myself, I have a reason why I have to be stronger. So that night I had three wild wolves thrown into the woods after they had been hungry for days, and I told them that no one was allowed to go into the woods unless I gave a distress signal. That night, for the first time, I felt 'enlightened'...... It may be a bit arrogant to say that enlightenment is the way, but the general meaning is about the same. ”

"That night, I was surrounded by those three wild wolves. I couldn't see them, but I could hear the sounds of their running and their hungry roars in the woods, and they kept flashing around me, and I couldn't get rid of them wherever I went. I still remember that feeling was even more terrible than when they pounced on me, like waiting to die, you know you're going to die, but you don't know when. I had less than five arrows left in my quiver, and the string I had broken once and tied it again, but it had only wounded one of the wolves, and if I had not thought of a way, I would have died that night in that little wood. ”

"That's when I suddenly figured it out. Instead of waiting to die in restlessness and fear, it is better to give it a go. Just when I was trying to understand all this, my heart suddenly quieted down, I didn't know what life or death, what wild wolf, I only knew that there were three targets around me, and there were five arrows in my quiver, and I could shoot them. When I took the bow with the arrow, there was nothing outside in my mind, everything seemed to have a track in my eyes, the wind flowing, the grass swaying, and before I could move my left hand, my heart found its goal first. ”

Speaking of this, Ning Wushu's face showed a look of reminiscence and a hint of pride.

"It's all very mysterious, the three wolves, as if they had hit my arrows themselves, and when they died in front of me, I didn't even react. Since then, I have been cultivating Heart Arrows. In vertical and horizontal studies, there is a saying that there is a distinction between 'Tao' and 'art'. In my opinion, archery is just a technique, but heart arrows are a kind of Tao. Before the arrow of the heart, it is the way that I have realized. ”

"The first key to the heart arrow is stillness, absolute meditation. When I pulled the strings full, I asked myself not to allow any distractions in my heart, only to have a goal, and to forget everything except the wind that would affect the direction of the arrow, even if the green mountains collapsed in front of me, it could not stop me from shooting this arrow. The second key to the heart arrow is to extend. In my opinion, the arrow in my hand does not complete its task by shooting it, when I shoot an arrow, my mind will follow it, and when I shoot this arrow, it is anger, sadness, impulse, excitement, these emotions will be attached to the arrow I shoot, it is an extension of my body, it is a part of me, it is no different from my siblings. Only by doing these two things can we achieve the heart to the arrow. ”

Wang Shouren listened attentively, and then asked with some puzzlement: "But Master, don't you mean that what you think in your heart can determine everything? If you train your heart arrows to the extreme, won't you be able to do whatever you want? However, the Confucian sages once said that 'preserving the principles of heaven' is the principle of the world, and the rules of heaven are the ones that determine everything, so how can it be decided by the hearts of the people?"

Ning Wushu smiled and said: "If you want to talk about the Tao, your master and I are really not good, so what is 'Heavenly Reason', I don't know how to refute it, but I know that in ancient times, there were hundreds of schools of thought, and the words of Confucian sages may not be the truth, you see, I have cultivated the heart arrow, and I have indeed achieved something, if it wasn't for this heart arrow, I would have been torn to pieces by the hungry wolf a long time ago." So, just like an elder taught me back then, don't be bound by the sayings of your predecessors, those are just references for you to seek your own path, your own way of life, you have to rely on yourself to find it. Even what I teach you may not be all right, and you will eventually have to understand it yourself. ”

Wang Shouren listened very carefully, sometimes pondering, sometimes nodding, and finally said solemnly: "Master, I, Wang Shouren, have read a lot of books since I was a child, no matter what I learn, I will learn it immediately, I have always thought that I am a genius, but today's conversation with the master is better than ten years of hard study, I understand, the ancients said that the master led the door and practiced by individuals, which was originally what it meant. Master, the elder who taught you back then must have been a very remarkable person, right?"

Ning Wushu pursed his lips, and Yun Feiyu's face with the expression of Lao Tzu's number one in the world at any time appeared in his mind, and he couldn't help but laugh. She said softly: "That's a very talented elder, who can be called a 'sage'. After speaking, he couldn't help laughing, and then, he hurriedly hid this slightly ridiculous smile, and said to Wang Shouren: "I said so much, why don't you come and practice this 'Jing' first?"

Wang Shouren smiled and said, "Master, you don't know this. As an apprentice, I have been learning this 'quietness' since I was a child, and my father taught me this kind of meditation and concentration when I was studying, painting, and calligraphy. ”

"Really?" Ning Wushu narrowed his eyes, snorted, and asked, "Then can you do this?"

When the words fell, Ning Wushu's temperament suddenly changed dramatically, and the expression that was still rich and agile just now disappeared all of a sudden, and became expressionless. She looked directly at Wang Shouren's eyes, as if there was an invisible force, firmly holding Wang Shouren's soul, Wang Shouren was startled, and suddenly found that he couldn't take his eyes off, looking at Ning Wushu's eyes, his heart suddenly calmed down, he was dumbfounded, but he was extremely calm, except for the faint sound of the wind on the hill, everything else seemed to be far away from him. For a while, Wang Shouren only felt extraordinarily comfortable, his mind was extraordinarily calm, and he seemed to have entered a mysterious state.

In the next moment, this feeling faded like a tide, and the troubled world returned. Wang Shouren stared blankly at the grinning Ning Wushu, and stammered and asked, "Master, master, this, this is ......?"

"I used a bit of internal strength just now, so your feelings will be particularly obvious. Ning Wushu said proudly: "Do you know? Mood is contagious, the stronger your own state of mind, the stronger the ability to infect, legend has it that there have been some mysterious masters in the rivers and lakes, their martial arts are ordinary, but the state of mind cultivation is extremely powerful, a look can make people fall into madness." This may seem like an exaggeration, but if you think about it, if you go to Uncle Wang's study, and he is doing official business very seriously and quietly, will you not dare to speak, and even your movements will become smaller? If you go to a very lively place where everyone is joking and laughing, will you get excited along with it?"

Ning Wushu took a step forward, stretched out his finger and pointed at Wang Shouren's heart, and said, "The silence you just said is just a state when you do things by yourself, you forcibly eliminated some distracting thoughts and let yourself focus. But in fact, you are not really focused, just imagine, if the inkstone is overturned on the drawing paper when you are drawing, can you continue to paint? If you are reading a book, a butterfly falls on the book, can you continue to read? Real stillness and concentration require you to be like just now, there are no external objects in your heart, and even the people around you can feel your 'quietness', so that when you are quiet, they will not dare to come out of the atmosphere, this is the state I demand. ”

"Is there no foreign object in my heart?" Wang Shouren was deeply shocked, before today, the martial arts he understood were the brave martial arts that rushed to the crown in anger and were invincible, but he never thought that the master in front of him, who was only two years older than himself, could say something that made him extremely embarrassed, who had been called a genius since he was a child. When I first met, Ning Wushu was just an ordinary-looking lady, and later, Wang Shouren knew that she was a martial arts master, so he was willing to worship her as a teacher, hoping that she could teach her the way of bows and arrows, but in his heart, he still felt that Ning Wushu was also a person of the elder sister's generation.

Who knows, just in the first class, Ning Wushu has said so many principles of the Great Dao and her cultivation experience, and most of these are her own comprehensions! What kind of character is this master she worships? Wang Shouren suddenly felt that what he would learn from Ning Wushu in the future would not just be the use of bows and arrows, nor would it be how profound the martial arts would be, but something much more profound and useful, and she was really fulfilling the task of being a teacher!

At this moment, on this small mountain, Wang Shouren was completely impressed by Ning Wushu, he lowered his head and replied respectfully: "Understood, Master, the apprentice will think about it seriously." ”

Wang Shouren did not know that today's decision would lead to the birth of a true saint and an ancient school one day in the future, many, many years later. And Ning Wushu, who was pivotal in this matter, secretly turned his back at this time, wiped a handful of sweat, let out a long breath, and sighed softly: "It's really not easy to be a master......