Sword of Coming

At noon, the sun is in the sky.

Chen Pingan put the bamboo pole on the ground, stood up, picked up the wine bottle with his toes, and took a sip of the wine, "Let's talk while we walk."

Lu Chen temporarily stayed in the old man's guest house and took a walk with Chen Ping'an by the stream.

In the eyes of others, they would not find it strange. As the mining officer of Caiyu Mountain, Uncle Bai had always been on good terms with outsiders.

Chen Ping'an said: "It's just an illusion made out of thin air. Why would Master Lu mobilize so many troops and violate the etiquette of the Confucian Temple and sneak into the world without authorization? Unless..."

Lu Chen smiled and answered: "Unless Pindao originally had one of his feelings, and has never taken it back, and has been wandering in Haoran for a long time, since Pindao did not come from Bai Yujing, it does not violate the rules of the Confucian Temple."

Chen Pingan shook his head, "Unless Master Lu wants to immediately reach the fifteenth level to fill the vacancy left after the Master left the Taoism and before the Grand Master returned to Bai Yujing, so as to shock the fourteen states of Qingming, since Haoran and Wilderness are both It can be regarded as a ferry boat traveling through space, and Qing Ming must be the same. There is an ancient saying, "If the king does not cultivate virtue, all the people in the boat will become enemies." As for whether the invincible is truly invincible, Master Lu must be a bystander. He had the answer in his mind. As a result, after deducing, Master Lu found that the possibility of success was reduced without any warning when breaking through the situation. He felt something was wrong. After thinking about it, he thought of me. He did not hesitate to suppress the situation and used secret methods to hide the mystery. Lu Zhang How long can I stay here, a quarter of an hour? Or a stick of incense?"

"Chen Ping'an, you are not a difficult person to guess. You separated your mind, took risks, and wanted to bring the world in your heart closer to the truth. You used your skills to get a shortcut. As a result, outsiders saw through your clone. Ordinary monks would still be hesitant. Think of a way. The compromise method is different for you. There are only two options. One is to wait and see what happens and bet on a false alarm. The other is to decisively blow up a piece of mind and hurt the foundation of the avenue. The two sides will form a deadly feud. Then you informed the sages of the Confucian Temple who were in charge of the sky to close the door and help keep an eye on the barrier between heaven and earth, while calling Mr. Xiao Mo and Miss Xie to block the road. Chen Ping'an, after so many years, you still don't seem to have completely changed this idea of ​​right and wrong. Ideas and ideas.”

Two "fellow Taoists" with a rather complicated relationship met again in a foreign country, but they talked in different ways here.

“What’s the difference between an idea and a train of thought?”

“Ideas can be boundless and limitless, but ideas have an organized context and pathways.”

Chen Pingan nodded, "Does this count as a difference in mind? For example, the same path gradually gave rise to sensibility and rationality."

Lu Chen smiled and said: "Heaven learns to cultivate the mind, and humans learn to cultivate the body. When the body and mind are happy, they are heaven and humans. It may be too general, but I will give a simple example, the tablet of the god of later generations, the ancestor hall on the mountain, and the folk ancestral hall at the foot of the mountain. They are found in the Imperial Ancestral Temple of a country. They are generally used to worship ancestors and ancestors, and to set up a god to die. In the middle of the god, the name of the deceased is written, and in small characters on the side, the name of the worshipper is written, to respect the heaven and ancestors, and to be cautious in the end. In this way, you I feel that if there is a real difference in mind, who is the master and who is the subordinate?"

Chen Ping'an asked doubtfully: "Can it be compared like this?"

"certainly."

Lu Chen said: "No!"

Chen Pingan turned his head. If it weren't for Uncle Bai's body, he would really want to punch him.

Lu Chen said: "Pindao just wants to prove that you guessed wrong. There is no time limit of one quarter of an hour for burning incense. Pindao can stay in the world as long as he wants. The Confucian Temple cannot control Pindao."

Chen Ping'an suddenly said: "Actually, I was wrong from the beginning. Human sensibility and rationality are not actually two separate paths, but they are in the same vein. Sensibility comes first before rationality. No, rationality comes first before sensibility. , the difference between the laws of nature and human desires? Just like what you call the worshipper of the god and the sacrificer... tracing the origin, we can go back to the ancestor of a surname, and further up... it is the body that governs the person, and the heart that governs the person. sky?"

Lu Chen pecked at the rice and nodded vigorously, "Oh, to be able to explain it like this, isn't it like a blind cat caught a dead mouse by a poor Taoist? It's wonderful."

Lu Chen first looked up at the sun, then looked around, shaking his sleeves, "Sure enough, the words are blazing, the words of the great road are as powerful as fire, Shuonan's teachings are spread all over the world, hey, everything is included, and there is no escape."

Chen Pingan sighed: "Master Lu is so awesome, he found my second clone so quickly."

Lu Chen smiled and said, "Since I have nothing to do, I might as well guess the riddles and solve the problems."

With a sigh, Lu Chen turned sideways, walked sideways, and looked at Chen Ping'an's side face, "We know the guests here are old, Yuxuanguo Taoist Wu Di, plus the clone of Luoluo Shanzhulou, this is already three hearts, and then In addition, the 'divine master' of the village school at the foot of the mountain in Yunzhou opened the school for elementary school students. He must not move much and is as motionless as a mountain. It is like the North Pole in the sky. A straight line pulls him in the distance. Could it be that the other clones are divided into seven paths? Well, Pindao finally figured it out. It turned out to be a Big Dipper formation that controls the sky and the earth. Did Shanzhu Chen get the inspiration from Tongyezhou Golden Summit? But in the final analysis, he still learned from Pindao. It was an honor and an honor. I am extremely honored. Since the rise and fall of the sun and moon are used to determine the east and west, and the purple stars are used to distinguish the north and the south, this means that the seven clones of Chen Shanzhu attached to the talisman, except that the mouth of the bucket must always point to the main body of the school, in the treasure Is there a certain limit to the range of activities in Pingzhou? Rong Pindao can guess at the hiding places of the remaining three clones. Dali Yuzhou and the Qingxing Kingdom area south of Dadu. The last one is a little bit difficult. Guess... Anyway, in order to protect the seven hearts from being intercepted by the monks and defeat them one by one, Master Chen really put a lot of thought into it."

With such an formation, Chen Ping'an's originally extremely risky distraction became much more stable. Through the traction of the large formation, it was like setting up a life-sustaining lamp in the "ancestral hall" for the seven minds scattered all over the place.

Unless they are deliberately targeted by the great monks who have foresight, it will be difficult for the Earth Immortals of Aquarius Continent to separate and detain the mind of a clone. If they really have to fight with each other, even if the enemy monks win, they will only be surprised why such a big living thing is happening. Human qigong practitioners don't even have souls. When Chen Ping'an's mind disappears and returns to the "ancestral master hall", revealing his true face as a talisman puppet, those monks will understand that they have provoked someone they shouldn't. Role.

Chen Ping'an said: "Actually, there are two Auxiliary Hidden Stars, who are responsible for supporting from the side, so as to prevent the Earth Immortal from breaking a certain talisman too easily and inducing the whole body to fail. As a result, I have to take back all the talisman clones immediately. "

Lu Chen sighed and said, "No wonder you told Pindao that you had a very good memory and remembered everything you saw in Mud Bottle Alley."

At that time, the boy with straw sandals in Mubo Alley would respectfully call himself Daochang Lu, which is really nostalgic.

From Lu Daochang, Lu Chen, bastard, to today's Headmaster Lu, it's so sad.

Lu Chen is now glad that his trip was not in vain. It was definitely a worthwhile trip. At the moment, Chen Ping'an has entered the mountain to practice and has already reached halfway up the mountain. Lu Chen's so-called halfway up the mountain is different from that of ordinary Qi practitioners. The location where you can see the scenery on the top of the mountain is qualified to be said to be halfway up the mountain. It has nothing to do with the level of the realm. For example, many great monks in the Ascension Realm have never found the opportunity to join the Tao in their lives. In Lu Chen's eyes, they are still that kind of unknown. To the layman on the mountainside.

Now Chen Ping'an has found an extremely broad "sword way" by virtue of the superposition of the natal magical powers of the two flying swords, which is to gather small worlds one after another through many methods including sight, hearing, hearsay, and imagination. If It is said that before returning from the Great Wall of Sword Qi to the vast world, it was just a slightly immature idea. Then when Chen Ping'an started to refine a long river of time through gold and copper coins, especially this return from the outer world, he improved a "moon in the well" The rank of Feijian, Chen Pingan's clones everywhere, the seven "Chen Pingan", everything seen, heard, thought and thought in different areas of Aquarius Continent are all as if they are living in the real world all the time. As the "sword refining" used to sharpen the edge of the sword at the Dragon-Slaying Platform.

This way of practicing swordsmanship was even more eye-opening for Lu Chen.

For example, when Zhike Chen saw Bai Ni, Xiahou Zan and Liang Yuping in the wine shop today, their bodies, looks, eyebrows, voices, intonations, demeanor, and expressions have all been "recorded" by Zhike Chen and have quietly integrated into the main body. Chen Ping'an's world of swordsmanship.

In short, all the characters and landscapes on the road that Chen Ping'an walked are a "character" or "word", so the banquet at Sanhua Beach in Caiyu Mountain seemed to form a "sentence" ".

The more words that make up this sentence, the more dense they are, and the more detailed the content, the closer they are to the "truth" that is opposed to "false appearance."

Just like what Lu Chen asked before, is there time in the world? Is it composed of countless frozen stillnesses that form one? Lu Chen said this, which is equivalent to treating the entire world as a completely static book. When Lu Chen identifies "that one" and he starts to turn the book, the characters and scenes in the book will flow "consciously" and "passively" . Lu Chen's statement is obviously from the same origin as Li Xisheng's idea.

Suddenly forgetting a certain word, and suddenly remembering something, as if I have experienced it before...

Life is so sad. Lu Chen's sorrow for worrying about the world and his crying at the end of the road once made Lu Chen feel sad.

It's like when Chen Pingan was in Tianwai before, on the way back to Haoran with Xiao Mo and Bai Jing Yufeng, Bai Jing threw him a large pile of paper with paintings of ancient scenery. At that time, Chen Pingan felt like a little book, more like Pei Qian in the classroom. Draw a little figure on the corner of the page, with different postures, and quickly turn the page, which is a complete set of actions.

Therefore, when the writer Chen Ping'an picks out "this sentence" separately and puts it into the long river of time in the caged bird, others will feel it is more real when they see it in the future.

If today's banquet is a short sentence, then in the house of Taoist priest Wu Di in Yongning County, the capital of Yuxuan Kingdom, the female ghost Xue Ruyi, the young Zhang Hou, and the flowers and plants in the courtyard, plus going out every day Treating guests to drinks with the subordinate officials in the yamen, chatting on the street, setting up stalls to tell fortunes and reading fortunes... it's just a "long sentence" that stretches out the long river of time to several months.

And Lu Chen's "false image" is the Sect of Ten Thousand Laws, which is like the first... tablet of the God.

But when Chen Pingan was chatting with Li Xisheng, when they talked about Zou Zi, Chen Pingan had an idea in his mind that as an anchor for river positioning, it could not be Lu Chen.

This is Chen Pingan's self-deception, which is similar to his inertial "thinking".

This method of first deceiving oneself, then deceiving others, and then deceiving the sky was naturally learned by Chen Pingan and Cui Chan. Unfortunately, they were not able to learn everything. After all, Chen Pingan learned it all by himself. He had to figure it out by himself, just like an arithmetic problem. , knowing the answers to the test questions, and then going backwards to trace an extremely tedious problem-solving process. At the same time, it was precisely because of this superfluous self-deception that Chen Ping'an had this thought, which was equivalent to his heartfelt words to Lu Chen's name. This made Lu Chen, who was also watching from afar, suddenly realized that something was wrong, and also began to think back. ...It was another frightening event, not even inferior to the impending ambush at the Great Sword Qi Wall. If Lu Chen had never left Qing Ming Tianxia and joined in the fun, he was cut off from the secret of heaven by a big sky and earth. You might miss this clue.

Lu Chen's return to Haoran this time was really not an illegal "smuggling", but was reported to the Li Sheng in advance.

There is really something serious going on. As for meeting Chen Ping'an, it's just a drop-in.

"Rong Pindao did another calculation. On Tomb-Sweeping Day this year, the mouth of Shanzhu Chen's seven-star formation points to... Yongjia Street in the capital of Yuxuan Kingdom?!"

Lu Chen always imitated the way a crab walks, and followed Chen Ping'an's footsteps, asking: "It's just Ma Kuxuan, is it worth your distraction to become a god?"

What Lu Chen calls a god, however, is not a title of righteousness, but a title of ban or mountain.

Chen Ping'an and Ma Kuxuan both knew very well that there was an old debt, and some were collecting debts and others were repaying the debts.

Maybe two, maybe three. If Ma Kuxuan must stop him, it might be three or four.

All will die.

Lu Chen turned around and kicked a stone on the road into the stream. "Logically speaking, even if Ma Kuxuan's parents can become deities of mountains and rivers, and invisibly gain the protection of the Shinto from the Xiyue Mountain Lord's Mansion in Yizhou, so what? Can they be stopped?" Do you want to take revenge?"

"Yes, yes, that's it. It's indeed a bit tricky."

"This couple actually wants to join the ranks of the City Gods and obtain the amulet from the underworld's official ultimatum. This is a fork in the road with the gods of mountains and rivers. Oh, it is more than just an amulet, it is really the most veritable life-saving amulet in the world."

"It's strange how it was done. With the mean character of Ma Kuxuan's parents, even if they want to join this list by doing various good deeds and accumulating moral virtue, Fengdu Hades has had that 'intentional' rule since ancient times. There is an iron rule that no good deeds should be rewarded. Even if people in the human world are proficient in the laws of the underworld, if they want to accumulate merit and take advantage of loopholes, then they are destined to be unable to cross this threshold alone. If they want to serve as a high-ranking city god, pure It’s just wishful thinking.”

Chen Pingan finally said: "Ma Kuxuan is very smart. He has deliberately bypassed the two of them and secretly arranged manpower in the capital of Yuxuan Kingdom. He only forced his parents to do certain things, but deliberately did not explain the reason. , they were not even allowed to ask why, and he used extremely harsh words to warn and even threaten his parents."

"It is better to teach a man to fish than to teach him to fish. Ma Kuxuan does the opposite. It may be a little slow, but it is effective."

Lu Chen smiled and said, "When did Ma Kuxuan start this kind of planning?"

Chen Ping'an said: "It's not too late, and it's definitely not too early. At that time, the Ma family in Xinghua Lane, together with the group of relatives, moved out of the town, directly out of the then Dali Dynasty, and went to the Yuxuan Kingdom on the border of Huashan , At that time, Ma Kuxuan was arrogant and did not think that I was qualified to be his enemy. The reason why he asked his parents to move out of his hometown was probably because he was worried about their fate. He was more like Cai Jinjian and Fu Nanhua. After all, he If you want to practice in Zhenwu Mountain, you cannot stare at Lizhu Cave Sky all the time."

"When I left the Sword Qi Great Wall for the first time and returned to Aquarius Continent, especially when I walked out of Shujian Lake, Ma Kuxuan may have been wary, but the greater proportion was that he deliberately disgusted me and made me focus on revenge. But I have been unable to take revenge for a long time, and I even feel that there is no hope of revenge for the rest of my life. I have to live in hatred and guilt for the rest of my life. When I served as the hidden official of the Sword Qi Great Wall and the news spread to the vast world, Ma Kuxuan began to truly regard me as In order to threaten me, I carefully studied the actions of the Ma family in Yuxuan Kingdom in front of and behind the scenes. It was during those years that the brothers of each house began to take action frequently, and even began to try to pass the imperial examinations of their descendants to obtain royal titles and shine on their family lintel. Then I tried to make someone or a few people get posthumous titles from the imperial court, posthumous titles to the family, and many other measures, and they all started going step by step. The only surprise was that Ma Kuxuan didn't expect that I would catch up with him so quickly."

The last time he visited Zhengyang Mountain in Luolu Mountain, Ma Kuxuan had followed the advice of Yu Shiwu from Zhenwu Mountain. The latter said frankly that if he didn't take action, he would have no chance.

It's a pity that Chen Ping'an almost dismantled the entire Zhengyang Mountain and still didn't give Ma Kuxuan the chance to take action.

Chen Ping'an smiled and said: "When Ma Kuxuan's parents become the City God of Yuxuan Kingdom, I believe the first thing they will deal with is those members of the Ma family who have done many evil things, so that they can secure their golden status. The City God's Temple in the capital Ji Xiaoping, the former chief officer of the Yin and Yang Division, was promoted to the position of civil judge. When the official positions of the Yin and Yang Division and a certain division became vacant, they came to the capital as local prefecture and county city gods to report on their duties, and were promoted according to their merits. Bit."

Lu Chen laughed and said: "As expected of Ma Kuxuan, he has good intentions."

The city gods at all levels in a country are different from the mountain and water gods. Although the Wuyue Mountain Lord has the right to govern both, the real superior of the former is Fengdu Hades. In short, the Wuyue Mountain Lord can directly decide the promotion and even the promotion of the mountain and water gods within the territory. They can take life and death, but they are not qualified to punish the city gods at all levels. They must be handed over to Fengdu to determine the guilt according to the law. That is to say, the Dayueshan Lord's Mansion has some power to convict the city gods at all levels, but has no execution power.

In the officialdom of Shanshui, the City God's Temple is like the censor's desk of a country's imperial court. It has a transcendent status and noble status. It can supervise all officials, but the Ministry of Personnel cannot directly decide the promotion or demotion of a censor.

Of course, Ma Kuxuan was able to accomplish this because the Lizhu Cave Heaven formed its own cycle of heaven. The life, death and sins of the people in the small town in the past were not controlled by the underworlds of the underworld, including Fengdu.

Lu Chen asked: "Is there a way to solve it?"

Chen Pingan nodded and said, "Yes."

"The way you swordsmen are unreasonable once in a while?"

"On the contrary, follow the rules. Not to mention the City God's Temple in the capital of Yuxuan Kingdom, and the Hades in Fengdu can't find any fault. Since there is no fault, we can't protect Ma Kuxuan's parents according to the laws of the underworld. In the end, we can only be fair. When doing things, do not take sides. Otherwise, there will only be endless entanglement, and it will be time to retaliate. Our generation must fully understand the grievances of the previous generation, repay kindness with kindness, and repay with hatred, and do not leave it to the next generation."

Lu Chen said with a smile: "Ma Kuxuan is deliberately planning to lose everything. Isn't he going to be pissed off by you?"

Chen Ping'an said: "He has a strong Taoist heart and will never be angry with him."

Lu Chen was speechless.

Pindao is just joking with you, you don't have to be so serious.

Lu Chen changed the topic to a more flattering topic, "Chen Ping'an, you have really become a knowledgeable guest."

Previously, Lu Chen had suggested to Chen Ping'an that if he had the opportunity, he would be a welcome guest. It would be very interesting.

Chen Ping'an smiled and said: "Follow what is good."

Lu Shenmei sighed, "What you see with your eyes is the world. How precious and fragile a person's memory is."

The sunset is about to set, and the scenery is purple and green, changing in an instant, like a dream.

That's not right, isn't it just noon? Why is the sun setting?

Lu Chen knew something was wrong, so he immediately closed his eyes and opened them again.

How can you often walk by the river without getting your shoes wet? It's miserable.

You, Chen Ping'an, don't miss your old relationship too much. Pindao is the Yuelao who helps you connect with Miss Ning!

By the river, Uncle Bai was sitting by the apricot tree and asked, "How many fish have you caught?"

Chen Pingan, who was squatting, held the fishing rod in his hand and said with a smile: "There are no fish caught yet. There is only one big fish that bites the bait, but even if it takes the bait, it may not be able to walk ashore."

Uncle Bai smiled and said: "You are a Qi practitioner after all, but you can't catch a fish?"

Chen Pingan nodded with a straight face and said, "The fish has become a spirit."

Uncle Bai couldn't help but laugh. The brat was quite good at telling jokes.

In a strange and mysterious realm, Lu Chen and another Lu Chen looked at each other, as if looking into a mirror, so there were countless Lu Chens in the eyes of both parties.