i have a sword fairy

Thanks to living there for a while, Zhao Rong came to Nanci Jingshe with ease after entering from the north gate.

He walked to the concierge of the jingshe, saluted the tall bearded female official whom he had known for a long time, and reported his name.

"I'm Zhao Ziyu, Zhao Lingfei and Zhao Qian'er who came to Qinglianxuan, can you let me know?"

The female officer with high temples was even more unforgettable to Zhao Rong, so she didn't shy away from it, and told him directly:

"The two fairies Zhao of Qinglianxuan went out in the morning and haven't returned yet. The two fairies are the students of Xiaoyao Mansion. At this time, they should still be practicing in Xiaoyao Mansion. They may not come back in the evening."

Zhao Rong looked up at the sun, reckoning it was around six o'clock, not yet noon.

He nodded slightly, smiled warmly at the high-haired female officer and said, "Thank you, Your Excellency."

"Young Master Zhao is being polite."

Zhao Rong thought for a while, and then asked the direction of Xiaoyao Mansion.

After getting the advice, he went looking for it alone.

Zhao Rong politely asked for directions along the way, and after about a quarter of an hour, he arrived in front of a group of buildings built near the water and hidden in the green forest.

In front of the main entrance, there is a piece of [-]-meter bluestone. The front is as smooth as a mirror, with four big characters written vigorously on it.

The road is free and easy.

Zhao Rong turned his head and looked into the gate again.

There are many open-air buildings such as carved beams and painted buildings, terraces and waterside pavilions.

The overall style is simple and elegant.

There is no such thing as the overflowing sword energy and the chilling air that Zhao Rong imagined before.

Rather, it is sparse and ordinary, no different from other places, and even quieter.

Most of the Xiaoyaofu students who came in and out of the gate had a restrained and simple temperament, wearing the white sword uniforms of Xiaoyaofu, with sword patterns embroidered on the cuffs.

Of course, there are also those Fu Sheng who are not easy to mess with at first glance.

Not many, most of them still look normal.

So, it seems that this place where sword cultivators gather is not as powerful and high-profile as imagined. Everyone looks like a sharp-edged and self-respecting arrogance?

Zhao Rong blinked, stepped into the mansion, and went to find his wife.

Not long after, he found that although Xiaoyao Mansion allowed Confucian students of Linlu Academy like him to enter and leave, there were many palaces and pavilions in it, but people outside the mansion were not allowed to enter at will.

Zhao Rong, who was wandering outside, politely stopped some passers-by.

Ask them if they know where Concubine Zhao Ling is practicing.

Except for a small number of students who ignored Zhao Rong and went to Gao Leng Mansion, most of the students in Xiaoyao Mansion shook their heads and said they didn't know, and then opened their eyes slightly, looking at him with some strange eyes.

Zhao Rong expressed his thanks as usual.

Well, it seems that the lady is quite famous in Xiaoyao Mansion...

He thought about it, and wandered around again.

At a certain moment, when Zhao Rong was passing through a bamboo grove, he suddenly saw a solitary pavilion in the middle of the bamboo grove in front of him.

At this time, around the pavilion, there were a group of students from the government gathering in the open air, sitting cross-legged.

The seats are irregular and scattered.

In the pavilion, there seemed to be a figure of a person sitting alone.

Zhao Rong was about to pass by the bamboo forest, his eyes swept casually, and he paused for an instant.

I saw the figures of Qing Jun and Qian'er among them.

They were among the students sitting cross-legged outside the pavilion.

Zhao Rong's footsteps had already stopped, and the next second, just as he was about to make a move, his eyes froze again, and his eyes were attracted by the old figure in civilian clothes in the pavilion.

Zhao Rong narrowed his eyes and raised his eyebrows.

It was actually Tao Yuanran who had met once in Zhongnan Taibai Mountain back then.

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Chapter 324 The Ritual, the Chief of Chaos

Beside the solitary pavilion in the bamboo grove, there seems to be a willful lecture going on.

Inside the pavilion, on the floor tiles with withered and yellow bamboo leaves, an old man wearing a Nanhua scarf and plain white clothes sat cross-legged.

Sitting casually among the dusty leaves, holding a string of wooden flow beads in his hand, rolling them with his right thumb.

Zhao Rong looked from afar.

Tao Yuanran's expression was calm, and he seemed to be speaking in a leisurely manner.

And in the open space around the pavilion, during the well-organized banquet, Concubine Zhao Ling and Qian'er were sitting side by side on tuanpu.

With their backs facing Zhao Rong, their waists were straight, like the tall and straight green bamboos in the forest around them, and like two sharp swords hidden in their sheaths, they were listening carefully to the words of the Taoist gentleman in the pavilion.

Two girls, one tall and one short.

One person made the first set, dignified and deserted.

One is wearing a flying fairy bun, pretty and lovely.

And this pair of eye-catching combinations seems to exude an aura that is hard to ignore.

From Zhao Rong's point of view in the forest behind, most of the prefects around did not approach them with a tacit understanding and kept a certain distance.

The positions of Qingjun and Qian'er were highlighted.

This is also one of the reasons why Zhao Rong spotted them at a glance just now.

At this moment.

Zhao Rong stood in the shade at the edge of the bamboo grove, looking through the leaf gaps at this peaceful and interesting Taoist lecture.

He was dressed in a student's green skirt, which made his figure a little unremarkable.

Zhao Rong took a few steps forward and listened with interest.

"If you are not virtuous, you are virtuous; if you are not virtuous, you are not virtuous."

Tao Yuanran continued with a leisurely tone:

"The highest virtue does nothing without thinking; the highest benevolence does nothing but does not think; the highest righteousness does it and has ideas. The highest courtesy does not respond, and throws it away..."

Zhao Rong listened for a while.

What he didn't expect was that Tao Yuanran was talking about 'doing things and doing nothing' in detail.

Well, although on the surface it is talking about 'morality, benevolence, righteousness and propriety', but the root of it still falls on the difference between the concept of 'Taoist inaction, Confucianism'.

This is a topic on which Confucianism and Taoism differ greatly.

And this topic happened to be the topic of the debate between the two of them in the third clear talk about Confucianism and Taoism in Zhongnan Kingdom.

It's just that at the beginning, as a Confucian scholar, Zhao Rong held the view of "inaction" in the debate topic.

Tao Yuanran, as a gentleman of Taoism, insisted on the viewpoint of "youwei".

And at that time, because it was a nonsensical debate, it was enough to win the opponent on the court and make the opponent speechless, not to persuade the opponent.

Therefore, there are not many elements of reasoning in detail.

More emphasis on quick wit, eloquence and profound knowledge.

And now.

This old man wearing a South Huaguan returned to the true point of view he held in his heart in front of this lonely pavilion in the bamboo forest. He was teaching Taoism to the surrounding Qingjun and other dozens of students in the Taiqing Mansion as a noble Taoist master. Way of doing nothing.

Well, by the way, step on Confucianism again, no, it’s two feet...

"...become virtue after loss of morality, benevolence after loss of virtue, benevolence after benevolence, righteousness after benevolence, propriety after benevolence..."

At this moment, as he gradually heard Tao Yuanran's words clearly.

Zhao Rong pursed his lips lightly.

Tao Yuanran's words just now are easy to understand.

Because people in the world have lost the original pure and good noumenon - "Tao", sages teach people virtue.

People's hearts have changed, and the world has lost the virtue of kindness, so the sages teach people benevolence.

Later, because people in the world have lost even the heart of benevolence, sages teach people righteousness.

Now people's hearts are not old, and the righteousness of the world is gone.

Therefore, the sage teaches propriety in order to revive the Way.

Here, in Tao Yuanran's mouth, who is the sage who enacts the etiquette, or what kind of sage he is.

Well, the answer is already obvious, I almost pointed my nose and scolded...

you scold again?

Tao Yuanran is actually emphasizing the Taoist philosophy of "doing nothing without doing nothing" in a disguised form.

Deny Confucian scholars' positive "promising" behavior.

As we all know, Confucianism advocates 'morality, benevolence, righteousness and propriety'.

But Taoism is not the case. They advocate "Tao" alone.

Tao Yuanran believes that the reason why Confucianism advocates "propriety" today is due to the lack of Tao, virtue, benevolence and righteousness.

Confucian scholars have always been active in 'being active', and as a result, only 'li' is left now.

At this moment, the voice of the old man in the Nanhua scarf came again.

"There is Tao in the world, why bother to ask about etiquette? Husbands and etiquette, loyalty and righteousness are thin and the leader of chaos!"

When "rituals" are talked about every day, loyalty and trustworthiness are few and far between, and chaos is imminent.

Zhao Rong stood still, silent.

Tao Yuanran's meaning was obvious.

It is to say that etiquette itself is the source of troubles that breed turmoil.

It is the failure after failure caused by Confucian scholars' active "promise".

In short, that is, Taoism of "doing nothing" believes that Confucianism of "doing things", by the way, there are hundreds of schools such as Mohism.

Under their active 'promising' efforts.

This world... is going downward.

Well, it is very stable, and there is no tendency to be upward in the world.

Until now, it is in the Ji Shi when rituals and music are collapsing and Wake is thundering.

Looking around, looking at the entire Xuanhuang Realm.

The mountains and the mountains are not peaceful now, and there are undercurrents surging.

There is a tendency to become more and more chaotic...

Well, to put it mildly, it is the eve of the Great Controversy.

To put it bluntly, it means that a world of great chaos is approaching, and I don't know how many lives will be ruined.

And about this point, not only a hundred schools of thought have seen it.

Anyone with a discerning eye can see that it is a widely tacit consensus in the Xuanhuang cultivation world.

After all... It has been ten thousand years since the last time.

It seems that there is an urgent need for someone who is a saint inside and a king outside.

However, no matter what, Zhao Rong felt that Wangquezhou was doing well and felt quite stable.

Maybe because he 'woke up' too late?

Haven't caught up with a more stable and peaceful era?

No, Zhao Rong felt that he woke up just right. He was lucky to be Qingjun's bamboo horse husband, and he was lucky to meet a stupid fox demon who was abducted by bad guys before it had time.