Sword comes

In Longquan town, in an old school that has been abandoned, a young Taoist with a lotus crown on his head sat alone behind a small desk, looking at Qi Jingchun where he had been standing for sixty years, the Taoist remained silent, his fingers subconsciously Gently wipe across the desktop.

After regaining his senses, Lu Chen raised his arm, and then grabbed He Xiaoliang, who had left the Kunchuan Yufeng, and was "fished" out of the surging sea of ​​clouds by him, even if it was a golden core like He Xiaoliang. Qi practitioners feel dizzy and dizzy after a journey of tens of thousands of miles, so they stagger a little before they stand firm.

He Xiaoliang looked solemn, straightened his clothes, concentrated his mind on the lake, took three steps back, and kowtowed to the ground, "Disciple He Xiaoliang, pay homage to Master."

From a jade girl of a Taoist tradition in one continent to a direct disciple of the leader of a Taoist sect, it is tantamount to a carp jumping over a dragon's gate.

Lu Chen nodded, and raised his hand to signal He Xiaoliang to get up, "Get up, under the poor school, you don't need to stick to the etiquette of apprenticeship, as long as you want to. You probably don't believe it now, and after getting along for a long time, when you meet the other five brothers Senior sister, you will understand. Beyond the great way, everything is false."

Lu Chen, who was born in the world of Haoran and grew up in the world of Qingming, has never paid much attention to the secular etiquette of Confucianism, or even the golden rules in his own orthodoxy. In other words, before he ascended, he was such a person who deviated from the world. So he lived a very unrestrained life, and the articles he left behind are also known around the world with the word "Xiaoyao".

Unlike the elder brother who is comprehensive in every aspect, the second elder brother is very measured. Even if he is in front of the master, he is not very polite. For this reason, he was persuaded by the elder brother and even beaten by the second elder brother. Afterwards, Lu Chen still went his own way. Fortunately, the master who occasionally appeared in the Little Lotus Cave didn't mind it.

Lu Chen looked at the slightly cramped young Taoist nun, and said with a smile, "Why, once bitten by a snake for ten years and afraid of well ropes, I always feel that this poor Taoist master is always thinking of setting people up, so every word I say , you have to think carefully and weigh carefully, then you are wrong, too much is too late, no, the reason why you can become the direct heir of Pindao this time is that you have passed three palpable gates in a row. Calculate, make a decisive decision, quickly go back and question your own heart, get rid of the illusion of a match made in heaven, and grasp the truth of the shallowness of the fate. Once you pass this test, you will not die prematurely in Juluzhou, otherwise you will go to the sword cultivator there There are so many places everywhere, only relying on sharp swords and fists to speak, you will eventually encounter big setbacks in the future, once your mood reveals a flaw, because your life is too smooth, it will collapse extremely thoroughly, even poor people don’t need to look for it Your next life is over."

Lu Chen stretched out his finger and pointed at He Xiaoliang, and said with a smile: "You have to know, this time Xie Shi asked Dali for three people, Li Xisheng will not talk about him, Ma Kuxuan is the lucky one chosen by my second senior brother, The old and the young share the same taste. As for whether there are other inside stories, there are rules in the Taoist system, and the three brothers and sisters are not allowed to deduce each other. And you, He Xiaoliang, are selected by the poor, because your Taoism The heart is very similar to Pindao's original practice process, breaking through the confusion and pointing directly at the heart. So it is much simpler than what you imagined as puppet puppet or Taoism in this battle of hundreds of schools in the world. Pindao just found you pleasing to the eye, so he chose you as his disciple."

"You really think those old men in the Confucian Temple won't stare at Pindao's every move. So, this is an upright conspiracy. Can you, He Xiaoliang, gain a firm foothold in Juluzhou in the future and live well to the end? It only depends on your own ability. After the poor Taoist has gone to the Qingming world, he will not deliberately take care of his disciples, and the Confucian saints will not intentionally harm you, and you also have a senior brother who roams in the Shenzhou of the Middle Earth, and in the long sword The senior sisters who have experienced training on the Great Wall, if something really happens, you can ask them for help, since you are now fellows, and if you have a fellowship, you have to give the pindao, who is a master, a sigh of relief."

Speaking of this, Lu Chen smiled and said: "Don't worry, Poverty Dao is not your master in Shengao Sect, and I won't ask you to be a couple of dual cultivators."

He Xiaoliang became that beautiful Taoist nun with a cool temperament again, and everything outside the avenue was outside her body.She asked a question that she had thought about for a long time, "Is there a secret layout of Confucian saints in our Qingming world where Taoism rules everything?"

Lu Chen laughed loudly, "Of course, it's the same everywhere, everyone is very busy. Do you think that Ma Kuxuan, Wei Jin, Song Changjing and others are the most favored sons of heaven?"

Lu Chen smiled happily, "Then you should really visit the Shenzhou of Zhongtu in the future, or Baiyujing in Qingming Tianxia in the future, and you will understand that every mountain is always as high as a mountain."

He Xiaoliang sat behind a desk not far away, twisted her waist, and just stared at Lu Chen. After hearing the words, she frowned slightly, as if she couldn't figure it out.

Lu Chen asked playfully: "You want to ask why the three religions don't just make an appointment and only develop their influence on their own territory, so as to avoid such embarrassment by crowding out the theories of other sects?"

He Xiaoliang nodded, this was exactly what she thought.

Lu Chen said with emotion: "Because today's sites are all the largest ancient battlefields, they are the achievements of the sages who sacrificed their lives. We are also afraid that the world will change in the future. If we choose to stand still, or let the people below Feeling that the avenue is blocked, what kind of end will happen, and today's world is the best proof."

Lu Chen casually pointed to the direction of the fairy grave in the small town, "The mountains and rivers are still the same, but the master who used to be high above has been reduced to a pile of broken limbs in the mud."

He Xiaoliang realized something.

Some things that are too far away are obscure and hard to understand. People who know them are unwilling to talk about them, and they are not written in books. People of later generations are of course at a loss.

There are too many speculations, novelists' contributions, unconstrained literati's writings, pretentious and unsophisticated unofficial histories, countless, year after year, all the mud and sand, I am afraid that even a little bit of the truth will surface occasionally, and it will be ignored. It was quickly submerged in it, and eventually it was regarded as a fallacy.

Lu Chen smiled, "That's far away, let's get back to the topic. Your second hurdle is that Pindao needs to determine whether your trip to Juluzhou will make you attached to the Heavenly Monarch Xie Shi, or let you stand on your own." , to establish a sect. So I deliberately set a trap for you, making you think that you have given up two choices that are both right, and chose the worst decision, making you mistakenly think that you are about to pass by the Dao , I want you to feel remorse in your heart and question your own true heart."

He Xiaoliang said calmly: "Only by relying on the only sliver of clarity left in my mind, I can pass the test."

Lu Chen smiled and said: "Regarding this point, Pindao used it as the finale at the end to explain why you and Chen Pingan got married. First, let's talk about the last pass, which is relatively complicated. It is a series of passes. The word love can be written All kinds of solutions."

"Between men and women, they are the easiest to be tempted, so Pindao has planted a seed of love in the lake of your heart early on. Before you know it, it will take root and sprout when it encounters the rain of opportunity, and it will take root and sprout quickly. , This is a quick way of not being popular, but it works for you, He Xiaoliang, not to mention the method of not being popular, if you use it, it will be as popular as it is."

"The master of the gods with the grace of mentor and apprentice, the amazingly talented peers of the Wei and Jin Dynasties of Fengxue Temple, and the market boy in Niping Lane, you have successfully passed the first two, successfully abide by your heart, and remain unmoved in the slightest." .Only in the last hurdle, because Pindao deliberately made things difficult and helped pave the way and build bridges, you, He Xiaoliang, were caught in a dilemma. If you"

Lu Chen stood up, bent his fingers, tapped the lotus crown symbolizing the status of the head teacher, and continued: "I was confused, my heart was shocked by the word Lu Chen, so I chose to walk on the road opened up by you in Pindao If so, then Pindao will still allow you to establish a sect in Juluzhou, but will definitely not accept you as a disciple."

"Accepting apprentices is so difficult."

Lu Chen restrained his smile, "If you want to become Lu Chen's disciple, you should have the idea that one day, my Taoism will be higher than Lu Chen's, and the road will be longer than Lu Chen's. It’s just writing, what kind of betrayal is just the path walked by the sages, why don’t you try it yourself”

Rao is such a cold-tempered person as He Xiaoliang, and he feels horror and respect in his heart.

She stood up, bowed respectfully to Lu Chen, and said, "I hope that one day, disciple He Xiaoliang will be able to sit at the same table with Master and discuss the Tao."

Lu Chen tutted, "It's a bit difficult."

He Xiaoliang sat down again, and asked: "Master's so-called ending, how does it explain the relationship between the disciple and Chen Pingan? It also has a deep meaning."

Lu Chen nodded and said: "Of course. If you are an ordinary person, you are not He Xiaoliang, he is not Chen Ping'an, then Pindao has worked so hard this month to draw the red line, and he can't see the slightest cleverness. The burden, I hope that one day, young people can pick mountains with their hearts, and the two ends of the red line in the hands of the poor are two people, and they are two clear mirrors, reflecting each other, not just letting Chen Pingan share your fate, I just use Chen Pingan to help you get over the situation."

Lu Chen turned his head and looked in the direction before He Xiaoliang appeared, "Chen Pingan's character, there are thousands of strange people in the world, and the poor have seen thousands of people, it may not be so strange, but it just happens to match your He Xiaoliang's character. , are similar but not the same, and they fit well in the dark, so even when you meet for the first time, the two of you have very different identities, you can still see Yuanqian. In fact, you are not Yuanqian, but you are limited in cultivation. gone."

He Xiaoliang asked softly: "Master, is this another test?"

Lu Chen laughed loudly, "You have already become a disciple of the poor Daoist, what kind of test do you need? If you want to become the direct successor of the Taoist ancestor and sit on an equal footing with Lu Chen, then you will give up."

With clear eyes, He Xiaoliang shook his head and said with a smile, "I don't want to think about it."

Lu Chen smiled and said: "Since you are a master, you should give the new disciple a meeting gift. This gift is not small, and it is a little bit of Tao that you finally got from your master before your master came down."

He Xiaoliang froze for a moment.

Just cut off the "bridge" with Chen Ping'an on the Kun boat, and he became that He Xiaoliang who is blessed and blessed again

Lu Chen seemed to see through the thoughts of the beautiful Taoist nun, he laughed loudly, and slapped his palm on the table, "Pindao will take you on a journey of the long river of time, upstream against the current"

A Lizhu cave, even if the spells are forbidden, it is still impossible to escape the big rules of heaven, such as spring, summer, autumn and winter, birth, old age, sickness and death.

Then under the great supernatural power of teaching Lu Chen.

Winter, autumn, summer and spring, death, illness, old age.

He Xiaoliang, who is still in a school between heaven and earth, but seems to have no connection with heaven and earth for the time being, looks at the bizarre scenes around him going backwards, and the eyes of the beautiful Taoist nun are shining.

That's the way she wants to go

Lu Chen smiled and said, "Follow the poor Taoist priest to a certain place and bring you to meet two people."

The two started to leave, behind them were more and more brand-new schools and the sound of children reading aloud. The elementary school children were literally recited backwards, but it was probably some kind of prohibition, or it could be said that Qi Jingchun had made a deal with Daozu. The faces of the children are clearly visible, and their voices are clear to the ear, but the teacher they are facing no longer exists, as if they have completely disappeared in the long river of time.

All the way through the streets and alleys, He Xiaoliang followed closely behind Taoist Lianhuaguan, for fear that if he made a mistake, he would get lost in it.

Finally, Lu Chen stopped and said to wait for a while, but He Xiaoliang didn't dare to move and stood where he was.

With a wave of Lu Chen's sleeves, the universe turned upside down, everything returned to normal order, and the river of time began to flow downstream.

Afterwards, Lu Chen took her to a stall. He Xiaoliang didn't know why the teacher in charge brought him here. Could it be that the stall was weird? The man is selling candied haws.

Then He Xiaoliang saw a dark and thin child approaching slowly, and stood beside her, quietly looking at the busy business stall, swallowed, and when the business became quieter, the child walked away silently.

Lu Chen snapped his fingers, day and night were fleeting.

The street vendors were doing ordinary business day after day. The child either went to the mountains to collect herbs, or went to the stream to catch fish, or helped the neighbors carry water, and passed by the stall again and again.

Finally, one day, the child who was supposed to go to the mountains to collect herbs for money, even though he had already walked to the entrance of Niping Alley with a basket on his back, but when he thought of the good luck on the previous trip, he picked a few valuable herbs, and the millet jar at home was unprecedented. It was mostly half full, and at least the next ten days would not have to worry about being hungry, so the child looked up at the gloomy sky, as if telling himself that it was going to rain heavily, and even if he went to the mountain, he would probably return halfway.

So the child ran back to the courtyard of the ancestral house, put the basket away, took out a few copper coins from a small pottery pot at the foot of the wall, and then ran quickly down Niping Lane to the stall.

But when the child got closer to the stall, his footsteps became heavier and slower, and he ran slower and slower, so far away, the child stood where he was, with a funny look on his face, He tightly clenched his fists, holding the few extra copper coins.

Finally, the child took a few steps closer, squatted down, and just looked up at those bright red candied haws.

Lu Chen and He Xiaoliang stood beside the child.

Lu Chen smiled and asked: "If you put yourself in the situation, what do you think the child is thinking, is it human nature?"

He Xiaoliang said without hesitation: "I thought it would be great if I could eat candied haws without spending money."

Lu Chen nodded with a smile, "We'll wait and see."

Afterwards, the vendor finished his business, and when he was taking a break, he seemed to accidentally see the kid who passed by his stall again and again but never bought candied haws. Feeling compassion, he stood up, waved to the child with a smile and said, "Come on, I'm going to close the stall and go back. There are still some candied haws left that cannot be sold. If you want to eat, I can give you a bunch, no money"

The man smiled very honestly, no different from a farmer. He pulled out a bunch of candied haws and shook it at the boy, "Take it."

But the child stood up quickly, shook his head with a smile, and ran away just like that.

He Xiaoliang was a little puzzled. If this was Chen Pingan when she was a child, she would not be surprised to make such a choice.

Lu Chen pointed to the man selling candied haws, "This man is a yin and yang family who is not well-known in the secular world in Shenzhou of Zhongtu. A strange person, even the eldest brother can't fully guess what this person is thinking."

He Xiaoliang became more and more confused.

Lu Chen smiled and said: "These are not the key points, what comes next."

Lu Chen stretched out his palm, and slowly wiped it from top to bottom, and a little "Chen Pingan" appeared beside He Xiaoliang.

The child ran over to accept the bunch of free candied haws, bounced back to Niping Lane, very happy, after eating the candied haws, he became addicted, and after a few days, he went to the stall for the second time, I also got a bunch of free candied haws.This poor child who has just gotten used to hardships gradually becomes lazy, and from time to time he thinks of those candied gourds, and when he goes up the mountain to collect herbs, he catches less than usual. Day after day, year after year, the boy has not become a bad person, but In He Xiaoliang's eyes, indeed, he was no longer the straw sandal boy whom Qingniubei met for the first time.

After that, when he returned to the original place, Lu Chen slapped his palm again, and Xiao Pingan appeared again. This time he did not choose to collect candied haws for nothing, but to buy them with money. After that, the child became more and more willing to endure hardship and worked hard to earn Money, but he was tired of eating candied haws, and once fell in love with pastries. When the child grew into a teenager year by year, in He Xiaoliang's eyes, it seemed that this Chen Pingan was not quite right.

As Lu Chen raised his palm again and again, He Xiaoliang saw Chen Pingan one by one, and various life situations with subtle deviations.

At the end, He Xiaoliang fell into deep thought.

Lu Chen smiled, "Go back."

One after the other, they walked towards the school.

This scene at this time is actually very similar to the long river of time that really flows through the world. Back then, Qi Jingchun took the boy to the old locust tree to beg for a locust leaf.

Lu Chen walked forward with his hands behind his back, and asked, "Do you want to understand something?"

He Xiaoliang replied softly: "Only by keeping one's heart can one be alone."

Lu Chen hummed and stopped talking.

He Xiaoliang asked: "Could it be that the disciple has lost his mind, or is he not looking far enough?"

Lu Chen suddenly turned his head and said with a smile: "No, no, it's a good idea. The only fly in the ointment is that you, a disciple, can't be dark under the lights, and you can't see your master's Taoism."

When Lu Chen took He Xiaoliang to see the various states of life, in a certain section of the long river of time, there was a Confucian scholar with slightly frosty temples. Clear, no longer fuzzy, in the "now" of Lu Chen and He Xiaoliang, or in the "year" of Lizhu Dongtian, Qi Jingchun bent down and picked up a chess piece, and said with a smile: "It's not enough."