In the middle of the night, the moon is shining.

The whole camp was as silent as an empty city, and the crackling of torches was the only movement. The night sentry standing on the post had melted into the flagpole pile, and only the tip of the spear occasionally reflected a cold light. The moon poured down like mercury, and hundreds of military tents were connected end to end, and the law was strict, like a strange beast entrenched in the darkness.

On the top of the highest parade building in the entire barracks, Ji Ruochen sat on the ground with his knees crossed, looking up at the half-curved moon hanging high in the sky in a daze.

A faint figure rose under the moonlight, falling on Ji Ruochen's side like light smoke, and he sat down with his knees hugged. This person is dressed in Taoist clothes, although he was born with a mediocre appearance, but it naturally makes people feel close, it is Yunfeng.

Yun Feng also looked up at the lonely moon in the sky, and asked with a smile, "What's the matter?" ”

Ji Ruochen's heart trembled, the last four words of Yun Feng used an affirmative tone, could it be that his Dao heart was shaken and confused so obviously? In this cold moonlight, in this overflowing and killing army, in front of the Yun Feng Dao Chief, who had been with him since the beginning of his cultivation and took care of him, he suddenly felt that he was not hiding too much.

"Senior brother, I'm ...... I don't know what I have to do. Cultivating the Dao is just for the sake of feathering and ascending? If you keep cultivating, if you can't ascend in this life, then you will turn into reincarnation and start over again in the next life, until you have cultivated the Great Dao. But after the feather ascension, where did you go, and what was in the immortal class? What were the thirty-six heavens? What else was there above the thirty-six heavens? One day you were on the other side of the ascension, should everything start again?"

Although Ji Ruochen was young when he entered the Daomen, his mind was already formed, which was very different from those who had cultivated since childhood. He didn't practice because he admired the immortals, nor did he think that the Dao would no longer have side thoughts. Ji Ruochen's cultivation was purely to save his life at the beginning, covering up the misfortune that fell that day. After the battle of Luoshui, although he couldn't fully know the intentions of the Dezong Zhenren's deep abyssal sea, with his keen wisdom, he also vaguely knew that the matter of impersonating the immortals that he was most afraid of at the beginning was no longer as important as he once thought.

As soon as the burden of his heart fell, he suddenly lost his goal.

Moreover, he learned from the female disciple of the Jinguang Cave Mansion that a month before he went down the mountain, the Jinguang Cave Mansion had received news that he would leave the mountain to practice and go to Luoyang, and he would carry a heavy treasure with him. In this way, the various factions will have time to arrange in advance and rob people on the road. When he first came down the mountain, the people who were sent to reincarnation belonged to several sects, so it can be seen that the news spread very widely. If it weren't for the fact that all factions thought that he had the hope of soaring, and the desire to grab people was more important than the hope of grabbing the treasure, it would not have been the end. And the news of his departure from the mountain was revealed so early, if it wasn't for the traitor in the Daode Sect, it was the news that the real people deliberately released. In other words, he became a decoy.

In fact, Ji Ruochen had already thought about this matter in the past few days, even if it was a bait, even if he knew that the real people in the sect wanted to use him as bait, he would do the same. From the time he entered the Dragon Gate Inn, almost all important decisions were made for him. Cultivating sticks, entering the Dao Gate, practicing spells, and even getting engaged to Gu Qing, in fact, there is nothing for him to decide. There may be only one thing, that is, after the Luoyang catastrophe, he wants to leave the Daode Sect. But even if it was for Gu Qing, he had to return to the Daode Sect. What's more, if you think about it carefully, Daode Zongshi has a great kindness to him, and there is nothing that can't stand him, although it is all because of the word Xian.

This matter has been pressed on my heart for several years, and the heavy pressure is only sent out tonight.

Yun Feng smiled, although Ruochen said it messily, he seemed to know very well what Ruochen wanted to express. He raised his hand and pointed to the sleeping camp under his feet, and said, "Ruochen, look." Most of these sentient beings have worked all their lives, and all they ask for is food and clothing. There are also some people who are always in camp and everywhere, for the sake of fame and fortune. In fact, even if you sit on the world, what can you do? This skin bag is still only three meals and three feet of sleep, and a hundred years later, a pinch of loess. How many of my cultivators are truly willing to stand high on that temple and be worshiped by the four seas?"

Ji Ruochen nodded. His experience as a child, five years of practice, and two worldly walks made him feel the same way. Although the avenue is difficult, every step has a unique hole, and the taste is far better than the flies and dogs in the world, and the intrigue is intrigued.

Yun Feng seemed to sigh, but there was still a kind smile on his face: "But Ruochen, these things that seem meaningless to us are often all about survival for them. We were only lucky enough to enter the Daode Sect to have the opportunity to sigh for this month. Speaking of which, I was as confused as you are today, when I chose to go down the mountain to practice, travel the world, and return to the mountain after eleven years. ”

Ji Ruochen was greatly surprised, and immediately asked, "Then what?" He knew that Yun Feng had walked in the world, and he had always thought that he was handling mundane affairs for his own sect, and he didn't want it to be because of Yun Feng's own cultivation.

Yun Feng smiled: "What's the matter? ”

Ji Ruochen was surprised: "Why is this?"

Yun Feng said: "Although I still don't know what the meaning of this life is, it took me eleven years to learn to let go of this matter first. Since you can't figure it out, then concentrate on cultivating the Tao first, do the task at hand, and maybe one day you will understand. ”

Speaking of this, Yun Feng patted Ji Ruochen's shoulder and said, "When you don't know what to do, just do those things that are definitely right." In any case, there is nothing wrong with monasticism. ”

Ji Ruochen muttered: "Since you can't figure it out, why don't you cultivate the Dao......"

Yun Feng saw him frowning, pursing his lips, and thinking hard, and couldn't help laughing: "In more than two months, it will be your engagement ceremony, although the sect is not ready to make a big event, but it will also invite some Taoist friends to come to watch the ceremony." If your way is weak, it is not very good-looking. Although Gu Qing is as indifferent as a cloud, he doesn't care about these, but who knows what the golden mountains in the clouds and the heavenly sea in the clouds will say. There won't be a breakthrough in two months, but it's better than going to waste. ”

Thinking of the engagement, Ji Ruochen felt a little trance. Is this really the case, Gu Qing, this fairy-like character who couldn't be imagined in his dreams in the past, will really become an immortal from now on?

Yun Feng said again: "Gu Qing is so young, but he has such a Taoist cultivation, it is really incredible. Thinking about it, her lifelong relationship, chance, and retribution are all extraordinary. To be able to get such an immortal couple is both a blessing and a pressure. You can do it yourself......"

Ji Ruochen suddenly remembered something, and asked hesitantly: "Senior brother, Jing Xiao Zhenren fell for the poisonous hands of Qingxu, is it just the end of it?"

Yun Feng sighed and said, "Of course not. It's just that you don't know that there is no such person in the Qingxu Palace. ”

Speaking of this, Yun Feng suddenly sighed and looked to the east. Ji Ruochen followed his gaze, but found nothing.

Yun Feng looked at it from afar for a while before retracting his gaze and frowning, "It seems that I saw a flash of aura killing power there just now...... Well, I think I was wrong. ”

Three days later, Ji Ruochen left eight Daode Sect disciples behind and ordered them to continue to study the way of military service, and he returned to Luoyang with Yunfeng.

At night, Ji Ruochen came to the courtyard where Ji Tianxia lived, but he could hear the sound of the book, and Ji Tianxia was reading at night. Ji Ruochen listened quietly for a while before knocking on the door. Seeing that it was Ji Ruochen, Ji Tianxia put down the scroll in his hand, rolled his eyes, and said, "It turned out to be you, but is there anything wrong?"

Ji Ruochen paced to the table and stared at it, the book was originally a history of the former government and the opposition. There was also a pot of wine on the table, and four side dishes, but dried bamboo shoots, peanuts, fennel beans, and pickled peppers. Ji Tianxia drank at night and read history at the same time, but he had a good time.

Seeing Ji Ruochen looking through the wild history, Ji Tianxia immediately said: "Since I accepted your money and became your staff, I naturally have to do my best." Seize the time to read history books, so that we can learn from history and avoid the mistakes of our predecessors. ”

Ji Ruochen sat down at the table and bowed his hand to Ji Tianxia: "Mr. Ji, I used your strategy that day to tell Li Anchen that Luoyang has the image of an imperial capital, which really made King Shou change his mind." Mr.'s hexagram calculation pedantic celestial man, can actually deduce such a big thing, it really makes Ruochen admire! I just don't know what kind of technique Mr. used, Ziwei Doushu, innate hexagram, or Nandi River diagram?"

Ji Tianxia glared at Ji Ruochen and said, "I only have to offer advice, you only have to use strategies." As for where this policy came from and how it came to be, it is not up to you to know. ”

Ji Ruochen smiled slightly, he already had a plan in his heart, and said immediately: "If Mr. is not stingy to give advice, how about the monthly offering to be promoted to a hundred taels of silver?"

Ji Tianxia was halfway through a glass of wine, when he suddenly heard Ji Ruochen's words, he took a sip of wine and went a fork in the road, and then he choked and coughed, his face was flushed, and his waist was bent, and he held the table with his right hand, so that he did not slip to the ground. Ji Ruochen was startled, hurriedly stepped forward to support Ji Tianxia, and said, "Mr. Ji, it doesn't matter to you, right?"

Ji Tianxia choked and coughed, grabbed Ji Ruochen's sleeve, and finally took a breath, only to shout "One hundred and fifty taels!", and coughed again.

Ji Ruochen smiled and said, "Then two hundred taels!"

With a bang, the heavy pear wood chair fell to the ground, Ji Ruochen was caught off guard, and without holding it, Ji Tianxia slipped from his support and sat down heavily on the ground. Ji Tianxia finally struggled to get up, but he coughed so weakly that he couldn't lift the pear wood chair weighing dozens of pounds. Ji Ruochen picked it up casually, lifted the chair and straightened it, and helped the world to sit down.

Ji Tianxia snorted, dressed up, raised his eyebrows, sat upright, and said: "The sage has words, why bother to say profit, only benevolence and righteousness." I am not coveting this offering, but I see that you are sincere in your pursuit of learning, like the hope of a great drought. In today's world, people's hearts are exaggerated and impetuous, and there are not many students like you who sincerely seek knowledge and accept things, so I have to point you out. ”

Ji Ruochen hurriedly thanked respectfully: "Yes, yes, Mr. Duo Cheng instructed." ”

Ji Tianxia coughed at the moment and said, "I told you a long time ago that today is a peaceful weather on the surface, but in fact it is full of dangers. This dynasty is real on the outside and empty on the inside, and the envoys of all parts of the country have heavy troops, and they are in charge of the civil power, and they can collect wealth and silk, and serve as officials. However, the imperial forbidden army was lax in armament and dissatisfied with its staff. Such a crisis must be seen by those who are interested. Shouwang is not a fool, of course he understands. According to the history books, before the rise and fall of the imperial family, there were many signs of heaven and earth. You see this big trouble in Luoyang, but I haven't seen it for hundreds of years. What is the omen of this catastrophe, those who have a heart must be able to calculate, and they must be calculated well, and those who can't be calculated will also guess nonsense. ”

Ji Ruochen thought so.

Ji Tianxia paused, stared at Ji Ruochen, and said, "You are young and have limited learning, but how can Li An see it? What he can see is only the magic clothes of the disciples of the Daode Sect." Every word you say, in his ears, is the oracle of the real people of the Daode Sect. If you tell him that Luoyang can become the imperial capital, he, the prince who guards Luoyang, will be full of joy, joy and worry, and he will not think carefully about whether you are lying. But then again, the disciples of the Daode Sect actually lied, who would believe it in today's world? Li An himself wanted to answer this omen, so he naturally wanted to knock Emperor Ming off the throne. Zhenwuguan, Yang Guozhong and the others are the henchmen of Emperor Ming, Li An wants to rebel, can he still find them? Of course, you have to rely on you, the leader of the Daode Sect of the righteous path in the world!"

Ji Ruochen was stunned when he heard this, could it be that this world is really just talking nonsense? Or is it so wise? He unconsciously picked up the wild history in his hand and flipped it, and looked down to see that the page of the book was about how the four sides presented all kinds of different phases when Emperor Wen of the previous dynasty opened the country, and it was just a picture of shapes and colors, as the author saw with his own eyes. It's just that there are many absurdities in it, and cultivators like Ji Ruochen know at a glance that they are pure fabrication.

Is this world ready to rely on such a wild history that is at least mostly made up, can he plan for him?

He came over tonight, he wanted to get some words out of Jitianxia and find out some details, who would have thought that he would run into walls everywhere. And no matter how he tries to speak, he looks at his words and looks, which doesn't seem to have the slightest appearance of doing anything in the world.

Ji Ruochen was speechless, but said goodbye.

When he returned to his residence, he bathed in incense and sat cross-legged in meditation to practice the Three Halal Formulas for one night. But he sat for a long time, but he couldn't settle down. After sitting for half an hour and getting nothing, Ji Ruochen simply put on his clothes and looked at the moon through the window. In front of the small building, a sparse sycamore tree stretches out three or two side branches over the courtyard wall, and the highest tip hangs with a half-round missing moon, shrouded in a thin halo of dusk, and there will be a strong wind tomorrow.

Ji Ruochen was thinking wildly, when suddenly a fragment of memory flashed in his mind, remembering that the jade slip that recorded the secret method of the Endless Sea was still in his hand, since he couldn't calm down to cultivate, why not look at what was on this jade slip. The demons have different paths, and the secret method of the Endless Sea is used for the cultivation of the demon clan, and Ji Ruochen does not dare to practice it. It's just that the stones of other mountains can attack jade, and there is no harm in broadening your horizons. What's more, when I reunite with Tsing Yi in the future, I will supervise her to cultivate.

Thinking of Tsing Yi, Ji Ruochen's chest tightened again, and he really didn't know whether to do it or not, and how to tell her about his engagement.

So, what about Yin Yin?

He stopped the thought of releasing a wild horse, and took out the jade slip in a bit of a panic, as if he was afraid that if he thought about it for a few more moments, he would touch a place in his heart that should not be touched.

Ji Ruochen settled down, chanted the mantra taught by Hong Huangwei, and words slowly appeared on the jade slip, flashing back and forth with his heart's desire.

The beginning of the jade slip is a general formula, which is a general recipe for the desolate avenue of heaven and earth, followed by the cultivation of the heart method, and then the use of various Dao elements and the method of defeating the enemy. Ji Ruochen first took a look at the general structure, and knew that there were many cultivation methods that he couldn't use by himself, and even if he could use them, it would be impossible to learn them. The three pure and halal formulas are secretly combined with the supernatural powers of heaven and earth, and they are unfathomable, even if he is exhausted in his life, he can't do it all, how can he have the spare strength to practice other methods? Hong Huangwei said that he could comprehend it himself, and he should be referring to the general tips of this treatise.

"Daoist, the beginning of all things, things are born from the Tao, so it is said that the beginning ......" Seeing this, Ji Ruochen nodded secretly, it seems that what Ziyang Zhenren said is not bad, the avenue is the only one, and the different paths are the same. The starting point of this Endless Sea Secret Method is actually the same as that of the Three Pure Truths.

After the general discussion of the Great Dao, the next thing to talk about is the beginning of all things in heaven and earth, and the structure of this opening chapter is also the same as that of the Three Halal Formulas. However, the scriptures that the two shemales regarded as treasures have since parted ways.

According to the Three Halal Formulas, before there is heaven and earth, all things are empty, there is no heaven and no earth, no yin and no yang, no sun and no moon, no crystal and no light. Only the Taishang Daojun is alone in the void. Later, Taishang Daojun descended from the void and spit out a part of the "Open Heaven Classic", a total of 480,000 volumes, 480,000 words per volume, and each word opened up a hundred miles into the void.

However, in this "On the Dao", it is said that when everything is not completed, it is called chaotic Xuanhuang. Later, in the chaos, one qi was born, and after hundreds of millions of years, it became the three gases of Xuan, Yuan, and Shi, and the three gases became nine gases after hundreds of millions of years. The three qi are the respect of heaven and earth, and the nine qi are the beginning of all things, and since then there have been all things in heaven and earth.

The beginning of heaven and earth, the source of all things, these two canons can be said to be opposite.

The Three Halal Sutras believe that heaven and earth are opened up by the Taishang Daojun, and then the heaven and the earth are divided, all things are born, and human wisdom is opened, all of which are granted by the Taishang Daojun. The Endless Sea Theory says that all things in heaven and earth come from chaos and are born naturally, not by a certain immortal who is above chaos.

Since the opening chapter is fundamentally different, the next two scriptures are naturally going farther and farther, and the cultivation of qi and self-cultivation are already very different. However, the tributary knowledge such as magic weapons and pills is much closer.

Demons have different paths, and the Dao fruits they have cultivated are also different, this Ji Ruochen knows. It's just that he didn't expect that the two races would have such different interpretations of the beginning of heaven and earth.

Of the two texts, one must be wrong.