One Sword Nine Ya

Let's say that after the Fengchan incident that day, the crowd came in a mighty way and left in a hurry.Now that the emperor is dead, there will inevitably be some disputes in the capital.

Because the princes are all young and fledgling, they can't take on great positions for the time being, and there are several princes who are blood brothers of His Majesty, coveting the high dragon chair, and the bloody wind blows all over the palace city for a while.At the beginning, Prime Minister Zuo hurriedly dispatched troops from Tianyuguan, and halfway through the army, he saw nothing strange in the capital, thinking that the monster just had resentment in his heart, and had no wolfish ambitions, so he changed his mind and ordered the army to go back to guard Tiandanxiongguan. .

However, the third prince and the second prince were having a good fight, and they were related by marriage to the leading general. After a letter was sent in the starry night, the old prime minister's order became invalid, and the army still came to the south to support the prince.

It was the night when the army arrived at the capital city, and the momentum was huge. The third prince won the victory. He tried on the dragon robe and sat on the dragon chair that night, and wanted to choose a day to ascend the throne.

The date of enthronement has not yet been determined, and there is another news that seven or eight horses ran to death in a hurry. It came from Tianyuguan, saying that the army of the Yan Party attacked overnight, broke through the Xiongguan, and was marching southward.

The new emperor touched the hot jade seal and issued the first edict, ordering tens of thousands of troops outside the city to go north to meet them.However, although the terrain in the Southern Dynasties was dangerous, they had no strong soldiers. Once they lost Tianyuguan, which was easy to defend and difficult to attack, they would have no power to parry.The sound of surrender all the way where the Yan Ziqi passed.

The new emperor became the king of subjugation.

The country changed hands overnight, and the people in the capital didn't realize it. It wasn't until the former emperor's empress put on a phoenix crown and a red dress, sobbing sadly, and jumped down from the tallest tower in the capital. up.

Unexpectedly, after the heroic and mighty General Yan broke the capital, before he could settle down in the future, he suddenly fell ill and died, leaving behind a young son who had just learned to walk. The reckless Zhan, with a sigh, entrusted his youngest son to the military advisor who had just received his command a few days ago—after today, he would be the imperial advisor.

The military advisor, surnamed Zhuang and named Baihan, is very young. Although his qualifications are still relatively low, he was the first to kill the emperor in the Fengchan Grand Ceremony, and he has shown his talent all the way. Those subordinates are also convinced.

So the young emperor ascended the throne, assisted by the emperor's teacher.

The emperor's teacher holds the imperial pen and the national seal on his behalf.With one hand to build a new dynasty, with the other hand to bring peace to the people, clean up the old mountains and rivers, and once again swagger northward, aiming at the great rivers and mountains of the entire Central Continent.

The sun and the moon are like startled pills, and many days have passed in the blink of an eye.

It means that there is a family at the foot of Dust Mountain.

There is a legend that the mortal family in the Zen realm is the blood of an eminent monk who insisted on returning to vulgarity hundreds of years ago.Leaving aside whether this legend is true or not, it means that the world of dust is not only a Zen realm outside the world, but also a Taoyuan where the folk customs are simple and do not communicate with the outside world.

On the first or fifteenth day of the lunar new year, when the market opens, people from the temple on the mountain will also come down to buy.

"Take it." The stall owner wrapped the things up and handed them over to the visitor. He saw a string of Buddhist beads wrapped around his wrist, and a few little monks in yellow cloth followed him, so he knew that he was from the temple.It's just that the handsome young man in front of him had neither shaved hair nor monk clothes, so he couldn't help saying a few more words: "You look unfamiliar."

The man smiled faintly: "Brother Liaoyi has recently been retreating for meditation, so I'm here instead."

The stall owner couldn't help himself, and seeing this person's amiable description, he asked: "You are also from the first generation? So the masters have begun to accept disciples from lay people?"

He only heard his answer: "It's not a disciple, it's a foreigner."

After a few more gossips, the man said goodbye and walked back to the mountains.

Since the beginning of summer, the vegetation in the mountains has been verdant, and there is no heat at all.

A stone step leads into the deep forest, vines hang on the trees, and birds sing from time to time.

In the distance came the knocking of bells, one after another.

Chen Weichen looked at the looming majestic Buddhist temple on the mountainside, and suddenly thought, there is no sun and moon in the mountain, and he has been here for more than two months.

With a faint expression in his eyes, he still walked up the mountain, entered the gate of the temple, handed over the things to the monk in charge of affairs, and entered the back hall by himself.

The Buddha statue in the hall leans forward, looking down, it is hard to tell whether it is compassion or indifference. There are various patterns painted on the wall.

Standing under the Buddha statue was Master Kong Shan with benevolent eyebrows. When he saw him coming, he gave a slight salute: "Xiaoyou Chen is back."

Chen Weichen returned the salute: "Why is Master looking for me?"

Master Kong Shan didn't speak directly, but just looked him up and down: "My little friend, compared to when he first came, his hostility has disappeared by eight or nine points."

"It's the same for Master," Chen Weichen answered him flatly, "I still remember that when I first came here, Master Hou was outside the mountain gate, and the first sentence he said was 'Evil Obstacle, I finally figured it out', but today I called out 'little friend'."

Master Kongshan stroked his beard: "If you hadn't been obsessed with your obsession, how could you have ended up falling asleep not long after that day, and if you were not careful, you would fall into a deep sleep."

Chen Weichen also stopped talking back to him, and just said politely: "Thank you, master, for taking in and teaching me."

Master Kongshan held the Buddhist beads in his hand, and said: "I came here today, one is to see you enter the country, and the other is to tell you something."

"My cultivation base has been completely recovered a few days ago. According to the method taught by Senior Brother Kongming, when I use the Heart Sutra to contemplate the world of demons, I often feel that demons stumble and cannot make an inch of progress."

"That place is like a quagmire, even you can't solve it..." Master Kongming pondered for a while, and said, "Can you tell me about the situation there?"

"There is no scene there." Chen Weichen said, "It's not like the human world, there is no place, and there is no form. When I was there, it was a chaotic mess. Occasionally, I felt a little bit conscious, but I didn't have any intelligence."

"So the source of the calamity of the heart demon is that the heart demon somehow activated its spiritual wisdom, and then somehow came to the human world." Master Kong Shan thought thoughtfully, "The news came from the disciples outside that the human world has begun. Afflicted by demons, people often go mad and die.”

"Originally when the two places were separated, the demons had nothing to do with people. Now that the demons appear in the human world, people and their demons are originally one, so they will merge without knowing it. If you can't keep your mind, you will lose your mind. Chaos and death in the end."

Master Kongshan shook his head and sighed: "It is born from the heart, or it is destroyed from the heart."

When the master left worriedly, Chen Weichen smiled helplessly, thinking that the old monk was too old to remember things clearly, so he said he told me something, but turned around and forgot.

He didn't pursue it, and knelt down in front of the Buddha as before, plucking the rosary.Sometimes during cultivation, the three spirits of fairy, devil and Buddha are faintly blended and circulated in the body, sometimes just thinking about Buddhist scriptures, gradually my mind becomes empty, and I can't even hear the singing of cicadas outside the temple.

I don't know how long it has been.Just as he was wandering in Taixu, there were two footsteps coming from outside the palace gate, knocking on his heart, which became more and more clear, making the movement of turning the rosary beads back and forth in his hands stagnate.

He still closed his eyes and recited the scriptures in his mind, which is "Empty is empty, nothing is empty; nothing is empty, nothing is nothing; nothing is nothing, and it is always silent. There is nothing silent, How can desire be born."

The visitor stopped behind him, not moving.

He doesn't move either.

In the hall, there was only the sound of light breathing rising and falling.

After an unknown amount of time, one of them came to sit beside him.

Out of the corner of my eye is a red shadow.

"I've thought about it for a long time, but I don't know what happened. No one told me, Ye Jiuya didn't tell me, and you didn't tell me." Lu Hongyan said, "I feel very aggrieved, and I don't know who to tell .”

Chen Weichen was silent for a while, and said, "Why bother to get to the bottom of it."

"If I don't get to the bottom of it, I'll be kept in the dark for the rest of my life. I wanted to avenge my family. I became a fairy and returned to my hometown, only to find that there were only ruins and no clues. I wanted to find my brother, but I found that all sects and sects are hiding in the mountains with their doors closed, and they can’t even inquire about the news. I want to resurrect Lord Yan to repay his kindness. In the end, I don’t even know why he died, and even whether you have anything to do with him , I can’t even ask.” Lu Hongyan smiled: “I’ve accomplished nothing all these years, and I don’t know anything. I just want to cut everything clean with one sword.”

"You go out first, I'll talk to him." Chen Weichen said to her.

Lu Hongyan didn't move, and Chen Weichen said softly to her again: "Be obedient."

She rubbed her eyes hard, stood up, walked out quickly, and slammed the door hard.

After the door rang, the hall was silent again.

Finally it was Ye Jiuya who said, "Why are you leaving?"

"I don't want you anymore." Chen Weichen clenched the prayer beads in his hand, his voice was still calm.

Ye Jiuya was silent for a long time, and said, "You should also leave a letter before leaving."

Chen Weichen's heart ached sharply, his eyes turned black, he took a few slow breaths, and finally he was able to speak: "I don't know where to start, I wasted a few pieces of paper, and finally put down the pen, I don't think you will look for me, It's better to go clean like this."

His voice was very soft, as if the sentence just now that I don't want you is already the limit of what can be said harshly, if it is more harsh, it is already impossible.

But I heard a voice: "I found it."

Then I heard Ye Jiuya continue: "I went to a few places, but I couldn't find you. I think you probably went to the Demon Realm with Xing Qiu. With him, you should be living well, so I didn't look for it again."

Chen Weichen didn't know what to say, but Ye Jiuya abnormally didn't wait for him to respond, and continued: "You didn't have a reason when you came, and naturally you don't need to explain when you leave. I was rude to ask you like that just now."

After another pause, the voice was still cold: "Farewell."

Chen Weichen took a few breaths, turned and left after hearing what the man said.

When the person was far away, he finally got up and hurried to the door to look at his back.

The misty white will disappear after turning a corner.

He was very sad and happy, he felt that he had cut off a piece of something with his own hands, and after today's glance, he was relieved and clean.

But the more he watched the back go away, the more entangled and uncomfortable he felt.

He thought, Ye Jiuya, don't look back, if you turn back, it will be the time when I will never recover.

Thinking this way, I still couldn't help but look at it, and hoped that he would turn back.

——He is still beyond redemption after all.

When the man was about to turn a corner, he seemed to feel something and turned his head, as if he wanted to take another look.

Those eyes were not the usual indifference, but rather a little bewildered.

—— Turning around, he saw Chen Weichen at the main entrance of the main hall by the door, also looking at him.

A face that had not been seen for many days seemed to be much lighter.

He thought, yes, the mountain temple is not as good as the mortal world, such a person who is used to being waited on front and back, and has everything in life is exquisite, came here for two months, I don't know how much he has suffered.

The moment their eyes met, my mind became blank, and I couldn't take the steps to go back anyway.

"Come back," he heard Chen Weichen say to himself, his voice was hoarse, as if he had been wronged: "Come back..."

He was so far away now that he couldn't see his eyes clearly.

Maybe he was crying, Ye Jiuya thought so.

After getting closer, I saw that although the eyes were slightly red, there were no tears in them.

When he walked in front of him, he was suddenly hugged tightly.

"It was my fault. I shouldn't be angry with you. What I said just now was false." He continued: "Ye Jun, it's my fault. I admitted my mistake. Don't be angry."

Ye Jiuya slowly hugged him back, patted his shoulder and said, "Not angry."

"You are obviously angry. When you said goodbye just now, you didn't usually talk like this. I heard it and it hurts." Chen Weichen's body trembled slightly, and there was an anxiety in his heart that had nowhere to go, and he struggled desperately , trying to catch something.

What is it—what is missing, he thought desperately, and finally remembered that if he was a human being, he would be about to cry at this moment.

But he blinked hard a few times, the eye sockets were still dry, nothing so warm came out, only the pain in his heart was real.

"I..." Chen Weichen paused for a long time, still didn't know what to say, he just asked: "Why did you come to point at Chen?"

Ye Jiuya touched his hair with her fingers, and gently stroked it: "Come with Mr. Lanshan, we have something to discuss."

Run your fingertips through the hair to bring out the snow-white color.

"Why did you come to the apse?"

"The villagers at the foot of the mountain are scattered in the market. I heard someone say that Zhichen has a young foreigner. When talking to someone, he smiled slightly. I think it was you."

It was half white.

Chen Weichen let go of him, his eyelashes drooping, as if he didn't dare to face him directly.

"What about you?"

"Huh?" Chen Weichen didn't understand what he meant for a while.

"After you don't want me, why come to point at Chen?"

"I... really don't want you anymore, and I can't want you anymore at that time." Chen Weichen said sullenly: "You don't know how uncomfortable I was at that time, I was scared."

"Also, as you know, when I was in the capital, I often couldn't wake up."

"Ah."

"After the Peach Blossom Banquet, I don't know why, but I can't suppress my demonic energy. It took me more than ten years to hide it. When I can see you, you won't be able to see it. I have to I try my best to press down, but you are always by my side, your sword intent is designed to destroy demons, even if you don't use the sword, there will still be, so I have been hurt by the sword intent, so I often can't wake up."

Ye Jiuya listened quietly.

"Later, getting those things back almost exhausted my cultivation. If I follow you again, I won't be able to wake up again. Immortals only come to Master Kongshan to cultivate Buddhahood if they can accommodate me."

"You should tell me."

Chen Weichen shook his head: "I can't say it, at least I can't say it at that time, I don't know how to face you. What do you want me to say? Say that I am his demon, or that he is alone on the road. I have been walking for many years, without teachers, invincibles or friends, when I first saw you, I fell in love with you, so you got me?"

"Look at me." Ye Jiuya said.

Chen Weichen raised his head: "Yes."

"Since you and him come from the same origin, there is no need to distinguish so clearly."

"You still don't know," Chen Weichen shook his head, with a sad look in his eyes: "You don't know why I am alive, so you say that."