In the dimly lit basement, several red candles come together to illuminate a small corner.

The long case is full of books, including old bamboo slips, silk scrolls, and paper folds, totaling at least more than 100 volumes.

Shi Zhixuan leaned on the corner of the wall, sitting cross-legged at the end of the low table, and was sitting on the desk to carefully browse a silk, and at the end of the dense fly-headed small seal was signed 'Mu Qingliu's last pen'......

On his left hand side are two ancient and old scrolls, the dark brown texture seems to be made of some unknown precious animal skin, and the edges are embroidered with gold thread, which is supposed to show dignity, but unfortunately it has been worn out and tattered by countless people over the centuries.

However, the great wisdom contained in it is enough to be cherished and cherished, and it is impossible to put it down.

These two scrolls are the two volumes of the [Heavenly Demon Strategy] of the Flower Sect and the core true inheritance of the Heavenly Pavilion in the past dynasties!

The true core of the Huajian School's cultivation of the Mind Method is only in one volume involving the incomplete [Heavenly Demon Strategy] of the vertical and horizontal arts, with the words 'those who are vertical, unite the weak to attack the strong, and the horizontal, the strong to attack the weak. 'is the fundamental theory.

Of course, it is precisely because of the words of this volume [Heavenly Demon Strategy] that the words are subtle and meaningful, but it is also the martial arts and the vertical and horizontal techniques are mixed and ambiguous, and the fragments are only about eight-tenths of the complete, so each reader sees the benevolent and the wise sees the wise, and the things that are comprehended from it are actually different, and it is even normal for some of the ideas to be diametrically opposite.

That being the case, the Huajian School has a rule that when the beginner lineage disciples come into contact with the Huajian Mental Method, they must first refer to the original volume of the Huajian School's [Heavenly Demon Policy], ponder it repeatedly, and after comprehending it, then look at the experience of the ancestors in the sect in cultivating this volume of [Heavenly Demon Policy], in order to learn from it and learn from others.

And because of this. After the succession of martial arts or before death, the successors of the past generations must personally record their experience of participating in this volume of [Heavenly Demon Strategy] for future generations to read.

And the more than 100 books of various kinds on the low table in front of Shi Zhixuan are the cultivation experiences and martial arts notes left by the descendants of the Huajian Sect in the past dynasties. The lesser is only one volume.

Those who have a great opportunity, in addition to the martial arts of the Huajian School itself, have also accidentally passed on the secret skills of other factions, and after in-depth study, they will also be recorded one by one, leaving a lot of books;

There are also great wisdom people, who have not set foot in the secret techniques of other factions, but can use all the volumes of [Heavenly Demon Strategy] of the Flower Sect as the foundation and come out of the machine on their own. The evolution is endless, the achievement of extraordinary magic skills, and the book left on his deathbed may only be one volume, but the essence of martial arts in it is precious and thought-provoking.

And Mu Qingliu, the 'Demon Gate Holy Monarch' who was born in the Huajian faction more than 100 years ago, is the best among them, and he has extended the martial arts of the Huajian faction to the peak, and he feels that there is no longer any progress. It is pinning his hopes on fusing the volume of [Heavenly Demon Strategy] passed down by the Heavenly Pavilion in order to reach a higher level.

Actually, though. The heirs of the flowers are versatile, focusing on the artistic conception and charm, and the pursuit is not the beauty of the surface of things, but its charm and temperament, so that the surface and the inside can be consistent and complement each other.

Among them, the best pursues art into martial arts. It is also regarded as a supreme art that is directly related to people.

For artists, the pursuit of the artistic conception of finding what is in the middle and finding the none, and the artistic conception that is obtained by the clever hand is the best attainment, and the continuous innovation intentionally or unintentionally is commonplace.

And so it has evolved from generation to generation. How could the mainstream martial arts of the Huajian School be included in this volume of Heavenly Demon Strategy? In fact, it had already surpassed and deviated from the original barrier of this volume of [Heavenly Demon Strategy].

For example, the [Twelve Branches of Flowers] stunt created by a master of the Flower School and inherited and constantly modified by successive generations, just look at the name is not the 'Twelve Vertical and Horizontal Paths' but the 'Twelve Branches of the Flowers', you can know that the artistic atmosphere in the mainstream martial arts of the Flower School has faintly overridden the vertical and horizontal thoughts.

Art originates from life and is higher than life, art is born from nature, and faintly beyond nature, so the way of art is really a branch of the 'way of life', and the heart method between flowers and the true qi cultivated are really 'full of vitality'.

The mystery here not only contains the vertical and horizontal techniques, but is not limited by the vertical and horizontal techniques, and it is indeed beyond this volume of [Heavenly Demon Strategy].

Relatively speaking, if the Huajian School is the sect with the greatest innovation and change among the two and six sects of the Demon Gate, then the Yin Sect is the sect with the least changes.

It is only because the Yin Sect inherits the most part of the [Heavenly Demon Strategy] essence, and the thaumaturgical secrets are endless, from shallow to deep, and the most core eighteen-layer [Heavenly Demon Great * Method] is the top magic skill that goes straight to the level of the great grandmaster.

In this way, the Yin Sect can completely eat the old book all the time, as long as it occasionally accepts a disciple with excellent qualifications and practices to the seventeenth level or more of the [Heavenly Demon Great * Method], it can walk sideways on the rivers and lakes!

Without the constant motivation for innovation and research like artists and scientists, the martial arts of the Yin Sect have been authentic for hundreds of years, and they have lived up to the authentic name of the Demon Sect......

On the contrary, the martial arts temperament and style of action are incompatible with the rest of the sects of the Demon Gate, and the heirs prefer the pretentious and elegant and solitary Huajian faction, so they are naturally a little free from the edge of the Demon Gate, quite a bit of taste that is both inside and outside the Demon Gate!

The same is true for the Mending Heaven Pavilion, and even the assassins of the Mending Heaven Pavilion are not only alone, but also have no sight of the light, and their actions have always been unorganized, undisciplined, and the most extreme 'walking alone', which can be said to be more marginal than the Huajian faction, and even less popular with the mainstream of the Demon Gate.

The inheritance of the Heavenly Pavilion originated from the Ranger Assassin, which may be regarded as a lineage of ancient swordsmen.

The history of the Ranger Assassin civilization is also long, during the Spring and Autumn Period and the Warring States Period, the Assassins could operate in the mainstream history, but with the establishment of the Great Unified Empire, the golden age of the Assassins came to an abrupt end.

After the Assassins suddenly degenerated from the upper class of the disciples and even the countrymen to a marginal group ostracized by the mainstream society, and had no choice but to go underground, the Assassins' already unusual psychology became more and more extreme, more and more dark and cold, and became lonely messengers of death.

However, from another point of view, the seemingly redundant assassins can also be regarded as outsiders in the human world, and bystanders can clearly discover the 'cancer' of the human Dao, which is also known as the superfluous of the general trend of the Heavenly Dao.

The way of heaven is to make up for the deficiency when there is more than is lost.

The way to mend the heavens is to respond to the heavens and assassinate this 'tumor' of the earthly way, and many times, this 'tumor' is the emperor himself, at least he is also a hegemon.

This is the essence of the original theory of Mending Heaven Pavilion, which is a higher level than the original 'death of a confidant'.

It's a pity that most of the people who make up the heavens can't follow it properly. Instead, they indulge in selfishness and self-interest, and most of the targets they assassinate are reckless.

Originally, the cultivation system of the Heavenly Pavilion included infiltration, disguise, swordsmanship, light skills, poison arts, language, illusion, lockpicking, and even medical dissection, etc., and it was intended to 'miss a blow and escape thousands of miles'.

It can be described as a messenger of death who walks in the dark, acting in a dark and secretive manner, focusing on the 'way of death'. The method of mending the heavens and cultivating the true qi are really 'dead and gloomy'.

However, back then, Li Shuzhuang, the sect master of the Mending Heaven Pavilion, withdrew from the Demon Gate, and what was returned to Mu Qingliu was only a volume of [Heavenly Demon Strategy] held by the Mending Heaven Pavilion in the past dynasties, which was mainly the righteousness of the way of mending the heavens and the martial arts that fused swordsmanship, light skills, and illusions [Mending Heaven Heart Method], [Phantom Sword Technique], and [Phantom Body Method].

As for the rest of the compulsory courses for assassins, they were really cumbersome and complicated, not just a volume of [Heavenly Demon Strategy] could contain them, and they should also be the many codex records left by the successive generations of the Heavenly Pavilion, but they never fell into the hands of Mu Qingliu.

Of course. In terms of disguise, poison, language, medicine, etc., the versatile artists of the Hanama School considered themselves to be more adept than the Assassins of the Heavenly Pavilion.

I'm afraid this is also the reason why Mu Qingliu only needs the [Heavenly Demon Strategy], the core of the Heavenly Pavilion.

The martial arts notes of the Huajian School only have more than 100 volumes in front of Shi Zhixuan, which may not be much, and can detail the art of vertical and horizontal and many miscellaneous books such as poetry and songs, qin, chess, calligraphy and painting, disguise, language, and medicine and poison......

Shi Zhixuan raised his head, and in the darkness where he saw it, there were rows of dense bookshelves, and the fragrance of the unique secret antiseptic and insect repellent of the Flower School filled the entire spacious space of the basement.

No one dares to underestimate the artist's collecting habits, the so-called mountains of books and the sea of learning. But that's it!

Today, the two traditions of the Flower Room and Mending the Sky, both of which belong to the Demon Gate Lone Wanderer, converge in the body of Shi Zhixuan. According to common sense, he should be more 'lonely' in the Demon Gate.

But in fact, that's what he was going to do......

Once immersed in the depths of the sea of wisdom that complements the flowers and fills the sky, Shi Zhixuan no longer knows the passage of time.

Unconsciously, the sun and the moon alternate, summer goes to autumn, and it is August 15.

"Knock Knock Knock ......"

The morning bell rings. Awaken the endless obsession in the world.

The hall of the Daxiong Treasure of the One Temple, more than 200 monks of the temple are all listed.

Abbot Daoxian turned his back to the three-foot-tall Rulai Jin, clasped his hands together, and announced loudly. "Amitabha, there is a virtuous man who is willing to give up the world, take refuge sincerely, and deserve the novice ordination......

Great Virtue?"

Shi Zhixuan knelt down on the futon, kowtowed, and said, "The disciple is here!"

Dao Xian said solemnly: "One precept is to kill, not to kill all sentient beings." Can you hold it?"

Shi Zhixuan replied: "The disciple is willing to hold this precept!"

Dao Xian said: "The second precept is to steal, and you don't take it for yourself without the permission of the owner. Can you hold it?"

Shi Zhixuan responded: "The disciple is willing to hold!"

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The precepts are relatively simple, with a total of ten precepts: do not kill, do not steal, do not commit adultery, do not lie, do not drink, do not decorate, do not sing, dance, and observe, do not sit on a high bed, do not eat out of time, and do not accumulate gold and silver treasures.

After reciting the precepts, Dao Xian suddenly said: "Dade, you have no master-apprentice relationship with the poor monks, and now the poor monks only receive the ordination for you on behalf of my Buddha, you can temporarily live in the Yiyan Temple to practice Buddhism, but you are not a poor monk."

Do you understand?"

Shi Zhixuan's heart groaned, this script is wrong...... But there was just the right amount of hesitation on his face, and then he said respectfully: "Disciple understands!"

"Very good......" Dao Xian bowed slightly, raised his palm, and his palm contained true qi, slowly rubbing it on Shi Zhixuan's head, and the true qi passed, and the three thousand green silks that were soft and translucent sprinkled one after another.

Shi Zhixuan lowered his head and remained motionless, and muttered secretly in his heart: If I grit my teeth, be ruthless, and truly take refuge, I will destroy the two sects of the Flower Sect and the Heavenly Dao at once, and I will have a name for Buddhism!

Maybe it's still the first hero of Buddhism for hundreds of years - Cihang Jingzhai and Jingnian Zen Monastery have fought against the Demon Gate for hundreds of years, but they haven't destroyed any of the two sects and six sects!

Now that he has only been given the precept of shaving his hair, and there is no rule of burning the ring scar on his bald head, he is secretly relieved that this holy monk has no masochistic tendencies......

In the evening, the abbot Zen room.

Dao Xian and Shi Zhixuan sat cross-legged opposite each other, Dao Xian closed his eyes and kept moving the rosary, without saying a word, Shi Zhixuan's eyebrows and eyes were lowered, and his lips were slightly opened and closed, as if he was silently reciting the Heart Sutra.

After a long while, Dao Xian slowly opened his eyes and said softly: "Dade...... Are you about to cultivate your inner strength?"

Shi Zhixuan said respectfully: "The disciple accidentally obtained a Confucian mental method, and he has been enlightened for a long time, and he is about to start cultivating. ”

Dao Xian took out a Buddhist scripture from his arms and handed it to Shi Zhixuan, "There are many discords between the Confucian mind and my Buddhist Zen method, you can take this Zen body exercise [Dharma Wisdom Heart Sutra]!"

"Thank you Abbot for giving you the Dharma!" Shi Zhixuan took it with both hands with a calm face, and secretly thought: Zen Buddhism can start with the word 'Dharma', even if it is not the top, it is also superior. (To be continued.) )