Chapter 21 How heavy is the destiny of heaven, how light is my life
(PS: Big Chapter 2-in-1)
As Yin Lisheng expected, Su Changan finally compromised.
He really didn't have a choice.
The situation of Tianlanyuan no longer allows this young man to look forward and backward, only one step at a time. As for whether it is hell or heaven ahead, no one can say.
The crowd has gradually dispersed, and this annual 100-courtyard banquet has finally come to an end at this moment.
Su Changan and the little marquis of the Gu family also left not long ago.
Yin Lisheng sent them to the gate of Jinglun Courtyard, and he watched the young man's back in the wind and snow, which was pulled longer and longer by the lights on the street, and became more and more sparse, and finally disappeared.
The smile on his face suddenly retracted, and he stood there with his hands in his hands, and a sigh came out of his mouth.
"It's going to be a tough one. He said.
His eyes were confused, and his thoughts couldn't help but drift into the distance again, towards the academy.
It was his eighth year in Chang'an, and his eighth year of cultivation in Tianlan Academy.
That night, he stood outside the door and hesitated for a long time, and finally knocked on the door of the Tianji Pavilion.
"Li Sheng, come in. The man's voice came from inside the house.
Yin Lisheng, who was only in his early twenties at that time, finally mustered up the courage to step in.
He still remembers the room that night.
At that time, after decades of recuperation, the Great Wei Dynasty was rich and the people were sufficient, and the soldiers were strong.
The Holy Emperor has never been a man who is satisfied with the status quo.
He conquered the barbarians in the west and the demon kingdom in the north.
The border passes have been rewarded with success. The Xiliang and Beidi that were lost in the hands of the Han family were recovered by him bit by bit. And as the main driving force behind this, the status of Tianlanyuan is naturally rising. It was more than ten years of the Holy Emperor and Tianlan Academy's like-mindedness, and it was also the most powerful ten years of Great Wei.
As one of the seven stars of Tianlan, Tianji, this man's room is very ordinary.
It does not appear to be rich, nor is it deliberately frugal.
A pair of chairs made of golden silk nan wood were placed in front of the house, on which was placed an incense burner, lit with unknown sandalwood, and a wisp of green smoke went straight upward, lingering two feet away. On one side of the wall hangs a landscape, the painting style is simple, but it hides the true meaning. On the other side is a low couch with a little tea on it. A man in white sat cross-legged on top of it.
"You're here!" said the man, looking at him, his somewhat pale lips rising and falling. It could be seen that his spirit was not very good, sick, as if he was seriously ill, but the smile on his face did not seem to be fake, and it was not difficult to see that he was very happy to see the young man in front of him.
When the young Yin Lisheng saw him like this, he felt an inexplicable pain in his heart, and he strengthened some determination in his heart.
"Master. He called, then lifted the hem of his robe and sat upright on the other side of the couch.
"Why did you come to me so late? Isn't there something wrong with your cultivation?" The man lifted the teapot in front of him, poured a cup of tea for Yin Lisheng, and handed it to him.
"Nothing. Yin Lisheng shook his head. "It's just that I haven't seen the master for a while, so I came to have a look. ”
"Huh. The man smiled and said apologetically, "I have been entangled in some affairs for the past few days, so I will know about your cultivation in the future." ”
"No problem. Yin Lisheng said. "The disciple has gained a lot from studying Zhou Yi in the past few days. And he made a hang for himself. ”
At that time, a cold wind blew in through the crack in the door of the Tianji Pavilion, lifting the hair on the foreheads of the pair of masters and apprentices sitting on the low couch, and also swaying the candles in the room.
The firelight flickered, illuminating Yin Lisheng's young face flickering.
The man's expression changed, and his warm voice became a little irritable: "How can you divinate for yourself?
Before the man could finish his sentence, he was interrupted by his own disciples.
"Of course you know. Yin Lisheng said. "But didn't the master also calculate a hexagram for himself before he found me?"
"How can this be the same!" The man stood up suddenly, waved his long sleeves in his hand, and stood with his back to Yin Lisheng, obviously really angry.
But Yin Lisheng seemed to have expected the man's reaction a long time ago. Therefore, the expression on his face did not change much, and he continued: "The apprentice naturally remembers the master's teachings, and he also knows the ancestral teachings of the Tianji lineage. ”
But the apprentice remembered that the master once said that the seven stars of Tianlan are different from the stars in the world, and they have been passed down to the world since thousands of years ago. The inheritance of other stars, the star spirit, is the evidence, and when it comes to asking, the stars will respond, and the achievement of the stars will come naturally. And the seven stars are different, the star spirit of the seven stars is the key, and when it comes to asking, can you knock on that door, you need to see understanding. Therefore, the rest of the inherited stars can't go to the sea of stars, but the seven stars can. ”
"And the master once said that the inheritance of the Seven Stars is related to the dawn of life, so the inheritance cannot be broken. ”
"But some people deceived the heavens and forcibly disturbed cause and effect, so that the master could not find the apprentice. Therefore, the master did not hesitate to lose the longevity and make a calculation. ”
"Master, is the apprentice right?"
As he spoke, Yin Lisheng also stood up and looked at the man's back with calm eyes.
And the man's body was also stunned at this moment, he turned his head to look at the young man in front of him, staring at his resolute eyes.
At this time, he realized that the thin young man in Youzhou County had grown like this at some point.
The thick eyebrows are raised, and the eyes are like black jade. It's not very handsome, but it has an indescribable spirituality. It's like him back then.
This is also why, since he saw him in Youzhou, he decided that he was his apprentice.
But he wasn't.
Men know this better than anyone else.
The seven stars of Tianlan, each of which naturally has its own uniqueness.
But only the Dimensity line is very different.
The remaining six veins, or the cultivation of martial arts or Confucianism.
But only Tianji is in one vein, but what is cultivated is cause and effect.
Therefore, they can know cause and effect, and can feel life and death. Their methods are strange and often unpredictable.
But at the same time, they are also trapped by cause and effect. As soon as they forcibly interfere with cause and effect, they will be subject to cause and effect.
This is the case with him now.
Someone he didn't know had done tricks and blinded the heavens without his knowledge. So that he could not find the apprentice he was destined to do. The first vein of the heavenly machine is different from the six veins, and the descendants of each generation are drawn by cause and effect, and if they are not their own, they will not be able to obtain the true meaning of this vein. And without apprentices, the inheritance will naturally be broken.
But the inheritance of the Seven Stars cannot be broken. This is the ancestral teaching, and it is also the principle that every Tianlan person needs to follow.
Therefore, he had to take risks and calculate a fortune for himself. Trying to find the heir who is lost in cause and effect.
And he really counted the person he was looking for, he was fourteen years old, his father died in the thief, he was in the jade water, and his life was according to the stars.
At that time, he was very excited, he finally found his apprentice, and it felt like finding his long-lost relative.
So he went to Youzhou, and he began to wait for his apprentice.
It's not a very pleasant thing.
Because he calculated that his disciples would encounter great disasters in the near future, and their families would be killed by bandits.
But he can't stop it, because cause and effect can't be changed.
This is also the origin of the ancestral training of the Tianji lineage, which cannot measure one's own destiny. Because when a person knows about some doom that is about to happen to him, all those who are in their right mind will think about changing something.
But the Dimensity vein cannot, and forcibly interfering with cause and effect can only bring more serious consequences to people.
So he could only wait, and he could only watch this apprentice's parents being inhumanly harmed.
At that time, it was a troubled time, and Youzhou went to Chang'an far away, so bandits were rampant. Therefore, from time to time, refugees who have been victimized by thieves will be displaced in Yushui City, the state and county of Youzhou.
He waited in Jade Water City, watching every homeless child who came here, looking for his apprentice among them.
And in such troubled times, in line with the age of fourteen, his father died of a thief. There are naturally many children with this proverb, but very few die according to the stars. Or rather, almost nothing.
Because the fate of the stars is dead, this kind of fate is a person who may become a star to put it bluntly. The most prosperous stars in the world of the entire human race are only a hundred.
So he waited for a long time, and saw many families ruined, but he couldn't stop it.
Because every thief he eliminated could be the key person in his life. So he let go of this Youzhou bandit for three years, and finally one day he found a child in the crowd.
A child whose fate shines on the stars.
He excitedly asked about the child's age and age. It's the same guy he's waiting for. He was happy because he had finally found the child. He didn't doubt him, and with this child, he eliminated all the bandits in Youzhou.
He regarded him as a kind of compensation for the inaction of the past few years, although it did not really bring anything to those who died in the banditry, but it could make him feel a little more comforted in his heart.
This is a bit self-deceptive, but when you know your fate, but you can't change it, it's such a sad thing.
But no matter what, he finally found his apprentice, and he finally had a successor in his Tianji lineage.
This made him very happy.
He took the child back to Tenran-in. Teach him to read and write, and teach him to practice the spells of the Tianji lineage.
And this apprentice of his is very smart, very hardworking, and very filial to him.
He was very satisfied with this.
Therefore, in the third year of this child's cultivation, he granted him his inheritance Star Spirit.
Because some major events are about to happen, and some disasters are about to come, he has to lose Shouyuan again and again to calculate and lay out for the future. At this time, Tianlan's responsibility is also Tianji's fate.
And he hopes to watch his apprentices grow up in his lifetime.
But many things changed from the moment he passed on the star spirit to his disciples.
He gradually felt the rebuke from the great power of heaven and earth, which was the backlash of cause and effect, and his body, which was already overwhelmed by repeated calculations, became weaker and weaker day after day under such backlash.
At first, he didn't figure out what caused such a backlash, until one day, he suddenly figured out something. At that moment, he realized that he had found the wrong apprentice.
But his apprentice was good. Hard-working, self-motivated, and know how to be filial to him.
How can a man be ruthless if he is not a plant or a tree? Naturally, he was reluctant to tell his apprentices about this.
So he came up with a very bold idea - to change his life against the sky!
Yin Lisheng is very smart and hardworking. The study of numerology is also quite accomplished, and even the Taibai Dao people of the stargazing platform praise him. With such an apprentice, Tianji felt that there was no reason why he could not become his successor.
So he tried to bear all this backlash alone, and used his powerful cultivation to resist the vast force of cause and effect in this heaven and earth.
But in the end he failed.
His power comes from cause and effect, and he wants to defeat cause and effect. It's like a person who wants to lift himself up with his hands, which is simply impossible.
After countless attempts, he finally understood this.
But he was still unwilling to give up his apprentice.
Because the only way to change this situation is to take back your own inheritance Star Spirit. At this time, Yin Lisheng had been practicing in Tianlan Academy for eight years, and his inheritance star spirit had been integrated with the spiritual power in Yin Lisheng's body, and retracting the inheritance star spirit would mean abolishing Yin Lisheng's cultivation.
Looking at the young man who cultivated day and night, dreaming of inheriting his mantle, Tianji couldn't tell this young man the truth of the matter. Therefore, he chose to bear the backlash of cause and effect alone, and only hoped that this disciple of his would be able to cultivate to the stars one day sooner.
But what he didn't expect was that his apprentice was even smarter than he imagined, and he actually noticed clues when he was studying numerology.
So he stared at the young man in front of him and asked, "What did you count?"
"My life is wrong. Young Yin Lisheng said. "The master once said that your apprentice was fourteen years old, and his father died in the thief, and he died in the jade water, and his life was according to the stars. ”
"When I met my master, I was indeed only fourteen years old, and I was indeed in exile in Yushui City, Youzhou County. As for the fate of the stars, I can't count it yet, but I don't think the master will be mistaken. But there is one thing, the master and I are wrong. ”
"That year I was separated from my parents and in the midst of the bandits, and when the bandits subsided, I waited for a long time in my broken home, and I didn't wait for them to come back to look for me, I thought they were dead. The master also thought they were dead. But I did the math, but I knew that my parents were still alive. I don't know why they didn't come back to look for me in the first place, but they are still alive. ”
Speaking of this, the look on Yin Lisheng's face couldn't help but be a little complicated.
It stands to reason that I thought that my parents were still alive and dead, and I should be very happy. But this also meant that he could not become the apprentice of the man in front of him who he had always admired. The thought of this made his heart feel reluctant, but when he saw the man so weak, his reluctance was soon replaced by a certain firmness.
"The master once said that Tianlan has always been the best for the common people. And Tianji is the most important vein of Tianlan. The descendants of Tianji have always been determined by cause and effect, although I can learn the numerology of Tianji, but without this cause, I will not be able to become a Tianji star until I die, can the master bear to let the Tianji line be cut off?"
"Therefore, please also ask the master. Take back your astral spirits. "He originally thought that losing his eight years of cultivation and being a true disciple of Tianlan Academy would be a very painful thing for him. But inexplicably, when he said this, his heart suddenly became a little lighter.
The firmness in the eyes of the young man in front of him made this star who dominated the world not have a trace of rejection in his heart. But he was still a little hesitant. "But your eight years of penance will come to naught."
"The master also said that I was destined to die according to the stars, since I am destined to become a star, what is the difference between eight years in the morning or eight years in the evening?"
"But," the man wanted to say something more. But the boy took the lead and said again.
"Master, how heavy is the mandate of heaven, how light is my fate! I can't stand this mandate of heaven, and if it is imposed on me, neither Yu Tianlan nor me will benefit at all!"
Man beaten. It was as if he suddenly remembered something, and finally his jaw fell.
Oh, yes.
How heavy is the destiny of heaven, how light is my life.
Tianji lineage, which one did not die under this heavy destiny?
In this case, why should this Dimensity vein be passed on?
If you must pass it on, then find someone who can withstand the destiny of heaven!
The man's usually warm eyes flashed with a sharp light, and a terrible thought came to his mind at that moment.