Fighter of the Destiny

Tianhai Shengxue said earlier that these people in the family were going crazy. He was not referring to the children of princes and princes who made wild remarks at the banquet, but those people's fathers and his own fathers - those people invited the southerners to try to influence Chen Changsheng's views. The Monument of Enlightenment - the Tomb of Heavenly Books is too important for ascetics, and everyone understands the principle of taking one step slowly and taking another step slowly.

But he didn't pay much attention to it. Because during the imperial examination, he had secretly placed a bet on Chen Changsheng through His Highness Luoluo, and also because, although no one knew why Chen Changsheng was valued by the Pope, there must be a reason for this valuing. As long as a guy who can penetrate the secluded world in battle is not eliminated physically, it is almost impossible to eliminate him spiritually. This is Tianhai Shengxue's opinion. However, when he heard King Chen Liu's words and the name Zhou Tong, he realized that he still underestimated the action power of his fathers.

Everyone said that Zhou Tong was a dog raised by the Holy Empress, but he was not an ordinary dog, but the most ferocious dog in history. After the former tribunal of the state religion was taken over by the Qing officials, his power was comparable to that of the Holy Empress. He was said to be monstrous, and he killed many ministers and famous generals. To say who those ministers who still loved the old royal family and the old people in the national religion hated the most, it was not the Holy Queen, but him. for decades.

I don’t know how many strong men tried to assassinate this person at the risk of their own lives, but none of them succeeded, because Zhou Tong was always surrounded by dozens of terrifying iron guards, and because Zhou Tong himself was in the Star Gathering Realm. Logically speaking, a strong practitioner in this realm usually has a clear mind and a calm mind, and his eyes are not in the world, and he will not do those bloody and dirty things such as torture, extorting confessions, killing people, and ransacking homes. But Zhou Tong is a strange person. His interest even said that his life ambition was never in spiritual practice, but in these things.

It is impossible for such a person to be manipulated by the Tianhai family. If he is really waiting outside Tianshu Mausoleum to attack Chen Changsheng, it must be the intention of the Holy Queen. Tianhai Shengxue thought silently, and suddenly felt something was wrong. He thought that with the Holy Empress's free and open demeanor, even if she wanted to take action against Chen Changsheng and the countercurrent represented by Chen Changsheng, she should wait until he left the Zhou Garden. Only after returning.

When he thought of this, he raised his head and saw King Chen Liu frowning slightly. He thought to himself, what exactly do you want to do by deliberately delaying Zhou Tong's action?

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The aftermath of the Great Imperial Examination has not yet dissipated. Many forces in Kyoto are watching the Tomb of Heavenly Books. Countless people are also discussing the matter in inns and restaurants in the streets. They are very curious about what this year’s candidates will do in the Mausoleum of Heavenly Books. performance, especially Chen Changsheng. But no one thought that in the Tomb of Heavenly Books, the disciples of the National Education Academy and the Lishan Sword Sect would live under the same roof for some reasons, and that Chen Changsheng and Gou Hanshi would come together to view the monument. Just as the candidates around Beilu did not expect that after Senior Ji Jin said those words, Chen Changsheng and Gou Hanshi showed no humility to accept the teachings, nor did they admit their mistakes.

Beilu looked a little eerie in the night, and the atmosphere was a bit depressing and tense. The young monks didn't know what to say. The anger on the faces of Zhong Hui and the other two Huaiyuan scholars was getting stronger and stronger. Ji Jin His expression was always as cold as ice. At this moment, Chen Changsheng broke the silence and said something that no one had expected.

He looked at Ji Jin and said, "Senior, you are wrong."

There was an uproar around Beilu. A fifteen-year-old boy actually pointed at a monument attendant who had been viewing the monument in the Mausoleum of Heavenly Books for more than fifteen years. His understanding of the interpretation of the monument was wrong! Even if he is the first place winner in this year's imperial examination, as mentioned before, Tianshu Mausoleum will welcome a first person in the imperial examination every year. How can he compare with Ji Jin here?

What happened next shocked the people watching the monument even more, because after Gou Hanshi was silent for a moment, he also said something to Ji Jin: "Senior, you are indeed wrong."

It was already dark, and although the stars were falling, it was still difficult to see clearly the complicated lines on the monument. Someone had quietly lit an oil lamp on the tree outside the house at some point before, and the dim light mixed with the starlight. , fell on the young faces of Chen Changsheng and Gou Hanshi, calm and firm.

They knew that Ji Jin's previous statement was actually very reasonable. As the saying goes, the common schools of interpreting monuments in the world cannot escape from the three most mainstream and most common schools: taking form, taking meaning, and taking momentum. The authentic method of interpreting the stele, but they read through the Taoist canon and had just read Xun Mei's notes before, which strengthened their confidence in creating a new path.

"In front of the Heavenly Book Monument, there are no certain laws or rules."

Gou Hanshi looked at the young candidates surrounding him and said, "Yes, the routines for unraveling the stele that we can instantly recall are all variations of the three mainstream methods of unraveling the stele, but we must not assume that all the thousands of methods for unraveling the stele have been If our predecessors think this way, how can we surpass our predecessors?”

In the Lishan Sword Sect, he often played the role of master before his fellow disciples, so he said these words naturally.

Listening to these words, Ji Jin's face became more and more gloomy, feeling that this was a tough provocation from the juniors, and said in a cold voice: "The juniors nowadays are indeed getting more and more arrogant, trying to surpass the predecessors at every turn, just like the one who only knows how to draw. Just like A’s lunatic, don’t forget that even if you are as arrogant as him, in the end you will just end up going crazy!”

"Cultivating the Tao only looks at the wise and the foolish, regardless of priority."

Gou Hanshi looked at him and said calmly: "If future generations don't even have the courage to surpass their predecessors, how can they become stronger from generation to generation?"

Ji Jin received a message from his master, and he also despised and hated Chen Changsheng, so he verbally suppressed and humiliated Chen Changsheng twice from early morning to late at night, but he did not expect that Gou Hanshi would come to argue with him. Although Huaiyuan has deep roots in the south, it is not as good as the Lishan Sword Sect, the first sect of the Immortality Sect. He does not want to confront Gou Hanshi, but at this time he is burning with anger and being watched by so many juniors. Where can he go? Still caring about that, he reprimanded sternly: "The way of the heavenly book is among the inscriptions. You have only been in the tomb for two days, so what way do you know? And what principles can you cultivate? You have to go astray?"

Chen Changsheng said: "Thousands of rivers have different scenery, but they all end up in the same sea."

Ji Jin stared into his eyes and said with a cold expression: "I heard that you once opened the secluded place in the imperial examination, which shocked the whole Kyoto. I guess you also claim to be a clear stream, but don't forget that there are many streams watching There was so much water that it dried up in the wilderness within a few days of leaving the mountain. How could you escape such a fate?"

At this point in the argument, the hostility has turned into unabashed targeting and even a curse. The people around Beilu turned pale after hearing the words, and the oil lamp on the branch seemed to have dimmed a bit.

When Chen Changsheng heard this, he couldn't help but shook his head and said: "I heard that my senior was a famous talent in the south back then, and he was willing to go to the Tomb of Heavenly Books to serve as a Taoist for the rest of his life. It's even more admirable. I didn't expect that my senior was such a person. He can't explain it without reason. If you come here to make threats, there is no trace of the style of the past."

He was not mocking each other with Ji Jin, but he really thought so. The look on his face was naturally a bit disappointed, but in the eyes of everyone, it was a deeper mockery of Ji Jin.

Ji Jin was furious when he heard this, pointed at him and shouted: "If you want to be reasonable, I will come to reason with you. From ancient times to the present, among the countless solutions to Zhaoqing Monument, which one deviates from the righteous path of the sea? Who can not take form, Unlocked this monument without taking advantage of others' ideas or influence? Is it Zhou Dufu or His Majesty Taizong? Is it the previous saint or the Pope, or is it someone from Lishan Su or the dean of your Chinese Academy of Education?"

His speaking speed became faster and faster, and when he mentioned those famous figures, they came rushing over like a storm. The last two names were seniors from the sect, Gou Hanshi and Chen Changsheng. Especially when he mentioned the dean of the Chinese Academy of Education at the end, he was even more vaguely referring to it.

There was silence all around the Stele House. Gou Hanshi and Chen Changsheng remained silent. No one knew the details of how these legendary figures mentioned by Ji Jin interpreted the Heavenly Book Stele. According to records from Dao Zang and official court documents, they used The most traditional and orthodox interpretation method, Zhou Dufu interpreted the stele at a glance, and mentioned it when chatting with Taizong afterwards, using a sophisticated method with both form and meaning, but it was still within this scope.

Just when everyone thought that Gou Hanshi and Chen Changsheng were speechless in the face of these ironclad facts, Chen Changsheng spoke again.

The oil lamp hanging on the branch was gently blown by the night wind, and the light kept swaying, reflecting into his eyes as if stars were shining.

"One thousand one hundred and sixty-one years ago, His Majesty Taizong came to Kyoto from Tianliang County to view the monuments. Wei Guogong, who was still a county clerk at the time, followed him to the mausoleum. His Majesty Taizong spent one day looking at three stone monuments. Wei Guogong However, it was not until two months later that he could understand the Zhaoqing Monument. Of course, everyone knew that Wei Guogong did not know how to practice. Logically speaking, it was impossible for him to understand the Tianshu Monument. Therefore, His Majesty Taizong never laughed at him. , but was very surprised how he interpreted the stele, and asked Wei Guogong what he saw on the Zhaoqing stele. Wei Guogong said that he did not see the flow of true energy, traces of spiritual consciousness, nor any sword moves... …”

Chen Changsheng pointed to the silent stone tablet in Beilu, telling a long-ago story that had long been forgotten. Everyone's eyes, including Ji Jin's, followed and fell on the inscription on the stone tablet. They wanted to know what Wei Guogong saw back then. Is there really a possibility other than the three solutions?

"What he saw were straight lines that were forcibly distorted. He saw the pain and helplessness after those once straight lines were forcibly distorted by external forces. He saw the straight power contained in those twists and turns. In his In my eyes, these lines on the Zhaoqing Monument have nothing to do with practice, but are higher than practice. These lines are laws and rules."

There was silence in front of Beilu, with only Chen Changsheng's voice ringing.

"Wei Guogong used this to interpret the Heavenly Book Stele."

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(I will try to write the next chapter at 11:30. Anyway, there will definitely be updates to the three chapters.)