Hermitage.

In addition to hearing from Lao Wu, Xu Chen had heard about hermitage again.

Xu Chen, who walked out of the church, was slightly lost.

Because he raised the opposite point of view in class, the old teacher was furious and kicked him out of the school, so he couldn't hear anything else about the retreat.

But after thinking about it, he was easily relieved. Because, if he hadn't put forward that point of view, I'm afraid Lao Jiao Xi wouldn't have said it so carefully in order to refute him, everything is a dilemma, maybe this is fate.

Xu Chen did not return to his residence, but walked through the beautiful mountains, thinking about his life experience.

He didn't believe that Lao Wu or his mother would have anything to do with the hermitage of the Demon Sect, or that they were the heirs of the hermitage hall.

However, he knew that Lao Wu had reshaped his meridians, which was the practice of hermitage, and Lao Wu had also told him not to show his cultivation to others at will, if it was not to be seen, why didn't Lao Wu let him be discovered by others? This made him have to think about it.

There was an unexpected clue when he came to the first class of the Dushan Sect, which he couldn't think of, but it was also something he didn't want to accept and believe.

Originally, he thought that hermitage was just another kind of cultivation, but he thought that this might be a crooked path, and he also thought that it might be harmful to himself, but he never thought that hermitage had so many unsightly histories.

Whether that history is true or false, the world has already made a clear judgment.

As I walked, I thought and sighed.

He became more and more convinced that he would definitely find his answer here, but when he thought of this, he had an inexplicable fear, according to the reaction of most people when they heard the Demon Sect, if he was really a descendant of the Demon Sect, or if he had a little connection, wouldn't he be killed by those people first and then quickly?

Thinking of his cultivation at this time, I am afraid that he will not even have a chance to fight back, so he can only be slaughtered by others.

Inadvertently, he had come to a bamboo forest not far from the teaching house. Two days ago, Wan Xuan had also brought him here, and the people of the Dushan Sect called this place "Bamboo Sea".

Except for cultivation, people here don't seem to be much different from ordinary people, and they all like to exaggerate some things at will. Just like here, it was obviously a very small bamboo forest, but they had to call it "Bamboo Sea", which made Xu Chen feel incomprehensible helplessness.

Next to the "Bamboo Sea" is a pond dug by hand, but there is only one fish in the clear pond, which is a noble and beautiful but somewhat lonely golden carp, which swims freely, as if it does not feel lonely because it has no friends or playmates.

Xu Chen watched the golden carp swimming for a long time, and couldn't help but say indignantly, "You are not human after all!"

Who knows, as soon as his words fell, an old voice behind him asked, "Who said it wasn't human?"

Xu Chen was taken aback, hurriedly turned his head, and looked in the direction of the sound.

A white-haired old man was staring at a bamboo tree in a silent daze, seemingly not paying attention to Xu Chen at all, but Xu Chen knew that the person who said that just now must be him, because there was no one else here except the two of them.

The old man was dressed in a white robe, wearing a golden crown on his head, and a jade pendant as white as fat hung around his waist, and the jade pendant was carved with the logo of the Dushan Sect, a pattern similar to the word "half".

Xu Chen stared at the old man for a long time, guessing when the old man appeared behind him, because he was sure that when he came over just now, there was no one here at all.

But the old man seemed to ignore Xu Chen's embarrassment at all, and still stared at the bamboo silently, almost to the point of forgetfulness.

"This, this senior. Was that what you just said?"

Xu Chen bowed politely, he could roughly guess from the old man's clothes that the other party would never be an ordinary person, not a great cultivator but also a person like Jiaoxi.

Hearing Xu Chen's polite inquiry, the old man suddenly turned his head, smiled at Xu Chen, and said, "Yes! That's what I said, isn't that right? You're not the fish, how do you know he's not human?"

Xu Chen also smiled slightly, and said softly: "You have already called it that fish just now, of course it can't be a human anymore!"

"Haha!"

The old man laughed, although his laughter was extremely innocent and hearty, it made Xu Chen a little uncomfortable, it was a kind of laughter of forgiveness and understanding of the ignorance of the juniors, there was no malice, but it made you feel a little embarrassed.

"Senior, am I not right? Can you call it a human?"

Xu Chen's face no longer had the previous smile on his face at this time, he knew the occasional fantasies of those monks or Taoist priests, and he also understood their quibbles. However, if the other party insists on saying that the fish is human, this is not a sophistry, but a clear insult to his own intelligence.

The old man nodded slightly, but it didn't seem to be an affirmation of Xu Chen, but as if he was saying, "In the face of your ignorance, I have to tell you about it." ”

The old man slowly walked to Xu Chen's side, patted Xu Chen's shoulder gently, pointed to the golden carp in the pond, and said softly: "I did call it a fish just now, I just let you know what I mean, so that there will be no obstacles to our communication." But the fish, or the man, that's just a code name, and if people originally called people fish, and fish called people, then you didn't become fish, and didn't fish become people?"

Xu Chen turned around, but he didn't even look at the pond, but shook his head and said, "Senior, you are really good at sophistry!"

"Sophistry?"

The old man shook his head helplessly, as if he was quite disappointed in Xu Chen, and after a while, he looked at the golden carp in the pond and said leisurely: "Boy, when you don't see this fish, it may be a fish to you, or nothing, or even non-existent." But as soon as you see it, even if it's just a glance, it immediately becomes a part of your life, it may not be alone, but in your world it is lonely, it doesn't have any likes or dislikes, it doesn't have beauty or ugliness, but in your eyes, it must have a certain impression, doesn't it?"

The old man paused, patted Xu Chen's shoulder lightly, and said softly: "So, do you dare to say that he is just a fish?"

Xu Chen seemed to understand a little, but he didn't fully understand, he squinted and looked at the old man suspiciously, without the undeniable words just now, but had some interest in the old man's theory.

"Haha!

The old man asked softly.

Xu Chen nodded sincerely, but still didn't speak, because for some reason, he felt that no matter what he said at this time, it seemed that he couldn't fully express what he meant, or it was not accurate.

The old man nodded silently, stroked his beard and said, "Haha! You are as ignorant and stupid as those disciples, but you have one more advantage than them, that is, you are not resting on your laurels, and it is still rare to be able to reflect on whether you are wrong or not!"

In the face of the old man's praise, Xu Chen couldn't be happy, or rather, was the other party really praising himself? Wouldn't he be insulting himself secretly?

The old man seemed to see Xu Chen's thoughts, and muttered, "Of course I'm praising you, this is the real me." However, in your opinion, it is not necessarily, so what you see and feel is not necessarily the real world, or it is certainly not the real world, but is integrated into your world. ”

As he spoke, the old man picked up a stone from the ground at random, shook it in front of Xu Chen, and said, "Do you see this stone?" You can say that it is white, you can feel that it is hard and cold with your hands, and it will make a sound when he hits other objects, this is the stone you know." Right?"

Xu Chen nodded in agreement.

But the old man suddenly changed his words and said, "But if you are blind or deaf, or if you can't touch it at all, is it still the stone you know? Could it be that you are now blind and deaf in some respects, so the stone you know is not his true appearance? Since you dare to question the remarks of the teaching in the teaching house, why don't you dare to question your own understanding?"

Hearing this, Xu Chen couldn't help but be surprised, he couldn't imagine that this old man would know everything that happened in the sect house, and even more so that this old man could tell so many strange statements, and it seemed to be very reasonable.

Just when Xu Chen was confused, the old man gently waved his long sleeves, wiped Xu Chen's body and walked into the distance, and said leisurely as he walked:

"Okay! I'll talk to you about this today, if you talk too much, I'm afraid you'll be confused, I hope you can achieve something in the future, and I hope I didn't see the wrong person. The most fundamental thing in cultivation is the cognition of all things, you can not listen to or believe what you teach, but you can't stop reading, at least you have to know what the other party is wrong. You can skip class, but you can't help but think about it, because you have to know what you're doing wrong."

Xu Chen's whole body trembled, as if he had been empowered, and he suddenly understood that this old man seemed to have come to him on purpose today, and he had no malice at all, but was igniting himself.

He hurriedly saluted in the direction of the old man's back, and said in a loud voice: "Senior, junior still doesn't know your honorable name?"

"My surname is Lin!"

"Surname Lin?"

Xu Chen muttered, and after a while, he finally reacted, "Could it be that he is the senior brother of Master Wanxu? Could it be that this person asked Master Wanxu to hand over that spirit pill to me?"

At this time, the back figure who had been getting farther and farther away actually said another word.

"By the way, there will be a mid-term exam in the sect in a month, although you have been here for a short time, but I don't want you to use this as an excuse to give up!"