Chapter 15: The Human Mind
Early the next morning, Luo Chen got up early, and among the senior brothers and sisters, he was the first to come to the Mingta Cultivation Ground. Luo Chen stood in the middle of the cultivation ground, looked around, and said, "Why is there no one, am I here early?" A cold wind blew, Luo Chen couldn't help but shiver, but he didn't seem to feel the cold, because at this moment, there was a longing for strength in his heart, and this desire made him forget the cold.
Not long after Luo Chen came to the cultivation ground, all the disciples of the Ming Pagoda also came one after another, Wu Han came to Luo Chen's side wearing a beast skin hat, and said playfully: "Why did you come so early today? Master promised to let you cultivate?"
Luo Chen snorted coldly and replied, "Of course, if I don't come here so early, I can beat you in a year? I don't want to be your little junior brother!"
Wu Han pouted, didn't say anything, she hesitated for a moment and then walked towards the armory not far away, and after a while, she saw her walking over with a sharp sword, and said, "Today is the first time you have come to the cultivation ground, the third master will definitely only teach you some of the most basic swordsmanship, you have to choose a handy weapon first, see how about this?"
After the words fell, Wu Han handed over the sword in his hand to Luo Chen. Luo Chen took the sword in his hand and looked at it, although this sword is not heavy, it is very suitable for the current Luo Chen, but it is very sharp, the sword body is more than two feet, it is streamlined, and the hilt is carved with a small totem, and the shape is very strange. Luo Chen played with the sword in his hand, and was very happy in his heart, this was his first sword, and it could be seen that he couldn't put it down.
Luo Chen put his hand on Wu Han's shoulder and said with a smile: "Thank you, I like this sword very much, can we become good friends in the future?"
Wu Han learned Luo Chen's movements and said, "If you like it, we will definitely be good friends, and I will protect you in the Ming Tower in the future, and no one will dare to bully you again!"
Luo Chen smiled disdainfully, and continued: "You come to protect me? I don't want it! When I learn my skills well, who wants you to protect them!"
At this time, Ji Wuli walked over, looked at Luo Chen and Wu Han chatting so happily, and said, "What are you two talking about here? So happy, I don't even know that the three masters are here!"
Hearing Ji Wuli's words, Luo Chen and Wu Han reacted, it turned out that when the two of them were chatting, Old Man Qingjian, Elder Ji Xu, and Elder Yan Zong had already come to the cultivation ground. The cultivation ground was as usual, and all the disciples of the Ming Pagoda waved the swords in their hands one after another, and began today's swordsmanship practice, the only difference was that among these people, there was an ignorant and ignorant teenager.
Luo Chen can be said to be indiscriminate among the disciples of the Ming Tower, he doesn't know anything, and the three elders didn't teach him the most basic swordsmanship as Wu Han said. Luo Chen was very puzzled, quietly left the cultivation ground, and sat alone on the steps next to the cultivation, Wu Han saw this and followed, and said, "What's wrong with you, you look very unhappy!"
Luo Chen took a deep breath and said, "Didn't you say that the third master would teach me the most basic swordsmanship today, it's been almost a morning, and he hasn't taught me a single move and a half, let me practice it!"
Wu Han thought for a moment and continued: "Don't worry, maybe the Third Master is really observing you! He often does this kind of thing, and it was the same when I started learning swordsmanship!"
Luo Chen looked up at Wu Han, as if he had thought of something, stood up suddenly, and said, "Eh, the third master won't teach me, or you will teach me the most basic swordsmanship!"
Wu Han thought for a moment and said, "That's a good idea, then aren't you going to call me Master in the future?"
Luo Chen sat on the steps again, and said with a bitter face: "Then forget it! I don't want to be your apprentice!"
Wu Han pulled Luo Chen up and said, "I'm kidding you, I just want to be your senior sister, I don't want to be your master! Let's go, I'll teach you to practice swords!"
Although Wu Han grew up in Cangming Valley since she was a child, she is still young after all, and what she can teach Luo Chen is only some very basic things, and she is still 108,000 miles away from the real swordsmanship, and the advanced swordsmanship is divided into three realms. Its first realm emphasizes the unity of man and sword, the sword is man, and man is the sword. Its second realm is that there is no sword in the hand, the sword is in the heart, although it is barehanded, it can kill the enemy with sword qi and a hundred steps away. The third realm is that there is no sword in the hand, and there is no sword in the heart, and all living beings in the world are swords. In this vicissitudes of life, only the old man Qingjian has the highest swordsmanship, but his swordsmanship has only reached the first realm, and he is beyond the reach of the latter two realms.
Although Wu Han taught only some basic skills, Luo Chen is very serious about learning every trick and style, when a person does something seriously, time will pass quickly, in a blink of an eye, the sky has darkened, the disciples of the Ming Pagoda on the cultivation ground have dispersed, Ji Wuli and Yuan Wuxue walked to the side of the two of them, and saw that the two were still concentrating on practicing the sword, so Ji Wuli said: "Little junior sister, little junior brother, it's getting late, let's go back, practice again tomorrow!"
The sword in the hands of Luo Chen and Wu Han's colleagues was put back into the sheath, and then Luo Chen asked, "Senior brother, didn't Master agree to let me start cultivating, why didn't you teach me swordsmanship?"
Ji Wuli hesitated for a moment and replied, "This... I don't know very well, if I don't take you to see the master later, you can ask him directly!" Luo Chen nodded slightly, and followed Ji Wuli towards the old man's lodging in the green sword, followed by Wu Han and Yuan Wuxue.
After a while, the four of them came to the old man's lodging. Ji Wuli stood outside the door and knocked lightly, "Master..."
When the words fell, I saw that the door suddenly opened by itself, and the four of them stood outside the door and looked inside, and the old man Qingjian was standing in front of a mural with his hands in his hands, as if he was meditating on something. He didn't turn around, but he had already guessed the identity of the arrival, and said, "Luo Chen, you come in, everyone else should go back first!"
Ji Wuli patted Luo Chen's little head and said, "Master called you, you go in quickly!"
Luo Chen looked at the old man Qingjian in the room, and then walked in, and the moment he just walked into the house, the door automatically closed again. Luo Chen came to the side of the old man Qingjian, followed his gaze to the mural in front of him, and asked, "Master, what are you looking at?"
The old man Qingjian took two steps forward, pointed to a symbol on the mural and said to Luo Chen, "Child, what do you look like here?"
Luo Chen looked at the symbol pointed by the old man Qingjian, and saw that the symbol resembled an eye, but it also looked like some kind of ancient writing. Luo Chen thought for a while, and told the old man Qingjian what he saw, the old man Qingjian smiled after hearing this, and said: "Child, what you see is actually wrong, this is just an inconspicuous leaf in the mural, what you see is what the painter wants you to see, it is what ordinary people see with their eyes, and the essence of things can only be seen with your heart!"
Luo Chen didn't seem to understand what the old man Qingjian was saying, and said, "Master, can the heart also see things?
The old man Qingjian turned around and said, "Child, many times, eyes will deceive us! The same thing, different people look at it from different angles, and the conclusions are different, just like the leaves on this mural, which were painted by the predecessors with their minds, if you look with your eyes, then what you see is an eye or something." ”
Luo Chen continued to ask, "What is an idea?"
The old man Qingjian touched his beard and said: "Mind is the foundation of man, and it is also where the spirit of man lies, it is an invisible thing, and a person with a strong mind can destroy the world and come back from the dead!"
Luo Chen was a little excited, and said, "Master, I want to cultivate my mind, you can teach me quickly!"
The old man Qingjian shook his head and said with a smile: "Ideas are not for the teacher to teach you, you can only rely on yourself to have an epiphany, child, the reason why I didn't teach you swordsmanship today is because of this, you are different from ordinary people, when you start cultivating from your thoughts, if your thoughts become successful, then everything will go well! But you have to remember that ideas are not quick things, you have to be patient!"
Luo Chen thought for a while, and said with a smile: "It turns out that the master doesn't teach me swordsmanship, so how can I cultivate my mind?"
The old man Qingjian turned to the mural on the wall and said, "Child, this mural was painted by the predecessors with their minds, and the mystery is even more unfathomable, so far I haven't comprehended it all, so your mind will start cultivating from here, and when you see the eyes on the mural as leaves, it means that you have begun to have ideas!"
Luo Chen looked at the mural in front of him, thinking how boring this must be, facing a mural every day, as if he had thought about the wall, but thinking of the power of his thoughts, Luo Chen still endured it and made up his mind to start cultivating his thoughts.
I don't know how long it took, Luo Chen had already fallen asleep in front of the mural, the old man Qingjian and the third elder Yan Zong came to the mural, looking at Luo Chen lying on the ground, Yan Zong opened his mouth and said: "Senior brother, although this child is born with immortal bones, it is not easy to cultivate his mind, are you sure you want to do this? Thoughts are also divided into good and evil, I am worried that this child will realize evil thoughts and fall into the devil's path!"
The old man Qingjian shook his head and said: "Senior brother, this is a bad word, although the mind is divided into good and evil, but at the beginning of a person, his nature is good, plus he has not entered the world, and his body and mind are simple, this time is an excellent period for him to cultivate his thoughts, how can he realize evil thoughts and fall into the devil's path!"
Yan Zong nodded slightly, and said, "Senior Brother said yes! Hurry up and send this child back to the house to rest, the ground is cold, don't let him freeze! By the way, Senior Brother, let me come to the vigil tonight, anyway, I have nothing to do, just in case that black fat man from Cangta takes the opportunity to enter!"
The old man Qingjian nodded and said, "That's okay! tonight, it's up to you to keep vigil, and send this kid back to the house!"
Immediately, Yan Zong picked up Luo Chen from the ground and sent him to the room adjacent to the old man of Qingjian to sleep, and after arranging Luo Chen, Yan Zong came to the door alone and sat down quietly!