Sword of Coming

Inside a tall building in Chishui City.

Cui Dongshan has started to stand up recently and often paces in the golden thunder pond.

Cui Han, on the other hand, began to close his eyes and concentrate. Occasionally, he would be summoned by Feijian, the highest ranking person, who needed him to personally handle some military, political and state affairs related to the trend of Da Li.

Cui Dongshan stood on the edge of the circle, looking down at the two scrolls. One showed the words and deeds of Gu Can and the maid Xiao Nilu, and the other showed the scene inside the house of Mr. Chen Ping'an, the accountant.

Cui Dongshan began to comment on Gu Can: "Those with hunched bones will die young, those with exposed bones will not be able to survive, those with horizontal bones will have a fierce spirit, and those with bones like gold and stone will have a hard life. Hey, old bastard, what do you think about this little brat Gu Can? If I leave Lizhu Cave and never see Chen Ping'an again, is it possible that I can become the second upper-level fifth-level monk in Aquarius Continent after Beetail Crossing Liu Laocheng on my own?"

Cui Zhang opened his eyes, nodded and said: "It's very possible. In troubled times, Gu Can is like a fish in water."

Cui Dongshan smiled and said: "Old bastard, what do you say now? Although my husband's vitality has been severely damaged and the foundation of the road has been damaged, this dead end is not more fatal after all. Are you more disappointed than my husband? Haha, You tried your best to arrange the four difficulties, but in the end, your husband simply gave in when it came to the third difficulty. Since deep down in his heart, it was still wrong to insist on Gu Can's actions, there was no way he could kill Gu Can with one punch, let alone leave him behind. Gu Can doesn't care, so he has to overcome the hurdle of his heart first, resolutely smash the second life object that he finally refined successfully, and take this opportunity to not only turn your first dilemma into a joke, my husband I was able to cut off and delineate again, and chose a path with the least forks. I temporarily put aside feelings and laws, and did not worry about laws and principles. Instead, I started to trace the origins and think about the ins and outs of this path. , for the first time, my husband began to try to get out of his "wrongless" circle, which is equivalent to breaking down the barrier, no longer being bound by reason, and starting to enter the big world, and there is no place in the world that he can't go to!"

Cui Chan didn't answer the question, "I heard that you have now picked up the arithmetic that we threw aside back then, and started to study the vein barrier?"

Cui Dongshan laughed and said: "A small success is not worth mentioning. It is not worth mentioning. It cannot compare with the great cause you have planned for the ages, old bastard."

Cui Chan sneered and said, "If you want to say it, say it. Why are you holding it back? Do you think I will beg you to talk about the new mysteries that I have learned?"

Cui Dongshan rubbed his hands and said: "Since the old bastard tried to beg me in a different way, then I will... just tell you an interesting thing. I believe you will be curious too. Let me ask you, Cui old bastard, don't you want to know about that upside-down trip? During the trip to the mountains, how did my husband pass the test of becoming his future father-in-law and mother-in-law? I can give you a hint that he has some relationship with Gu Can. "

Cui Chan said calmly: "Back in Luo Po Mountain Bamboo Tower, my grandfather mentioned that Chen Ping'an's biggest danger in Hanging Mountain and Sword Qi Great Wall was that he could break through two realms from the fourth realm in one go and directly reach the sixth realm. The pinnacle of martial arts, Chen Pingan, a deep-seated guy, must have thought of this. Judging from the current signs, Chen Pingan can control and release his fist to such an extent. The situation in Lotus Flower Blessed Land may not be enough, most likely It was during the test where the father-in-law inspected his son-in-law. Well, there was a shop selling Huangliang wine on the other side of Daixuan Mountain. Drinking wine would make you forget your worries. Chen Pingan must have reached the sixth realm at that time. How to do it, and how to return to the original state, there are all kinds of wonders in the world, and there is an ancestor of the Za family over there who has been selling wine for many years, it doesn't matter. Even if Chen Pingan ascends to heaven in one step and becomes an earthly immortal monk, I won't be surprised. So Chen How Ping An passed the test is very simple. Two Taoist monks from the Great Sword Qi Great Wall, Da Jian Xian, pretended to be passers-by and deliberately angered Chen Ping An in the Huangliang Fudi wine shop. Chen Ping An was so excited that he gave up his future in martial arts. Even in the desperate situation, I have to say a few words of justice to the parents of my beloved girl."

Cui Dongshan said with a smile: "You old bastard, you are still very powerful. But be careful what you say in the future. My husband is not a deep man. He wants to increase his wisdom in everything. He is born with a bad temper like the two of us. But one day after another land."

Cui Chan sneered: "I guess everyone on the Sword Qi Great Wall feels that Chen Ping'an is not worthy of Ning Yao."

Cui Dongshan asked doubtfully: "Old bastard, what's the matter with you? Why do you say good things to my husband? Why do you want to surrender and lose half of it? If you think so, it's not impossible. Then let's treat it as a tie? "

Cui Chan thought to himself and said: "At that time, I was willing to give up my martial arts career to get through the hurdle of Daoxuan Mountain. If now he is not willing to stay for Gu Can, how can Chen Ping'an be qualified to reach this situation? Then How many times have we seen smart people who are reluctant to give up today, thinking that they will have more possessions in the future before giving up?"

Cui Dongshan became more and more confused, "Cui Chan, are you saying nice things to my husband again? Are you out of your mind and crazy? Don't be like this, you really have to be out of your mind and crazy. After that big thing is completed, No matter how crazy you are, I will probably put a small rice bowl for you at the door of Luoluoshanzhulou..."

Cui Zhang pointed to the room with the scroll, turned to look at Cui Dongshan, raised the corners of his mouth, and sneered: "What did I tell you before? The fourth difficulty is countless difficulties. Do you know that the fourth difficulty is This is just the beginning. The more Chen Pingan is attentive now, the more he will worry about it in the future. By then, I estimate that you will ask me to surrender and lose half of it, and you will have to worry about whether Chen Pingan has completely gone crazy."

Cui Dongshan no longer pretended to be as relaxed as before. He sat back down and said slowly: "The victory or defeat for a moment depends on strength, and the victory or defeat for eternity depends on reason."

Cui Chan said with a smile: "If this 'moment' is a few decades, or a hundred years, it is an ordinary master's life. What should you do, and what should Chen Ping'an do?"

Cui Dongshan said with a straight face: "You must learn from my husband and know how to be kind to the world, and I, Cui Dongshan, am one of them, so don't be so fucking aggressive here."

Cui Han smiled slightly, "Ruan Xiu and his party are entering the game, and the owner of Gongliu Island, Liu Laocheng, who has almost been forgotten by Shujian Lake, is about to enter the game. Maybe it's better to come early than to come by chance."

Cui Dongshan shook his head, "Don't listen, don't listen, you bastard is chanting sutras."

Cui Zhang said slowly: "This is the price of being reasonable. In Mu Ping Lane, I gave away a loach that was bound to be a Nascent Soul. I lost Qi Jingchun's mountain seal in Jiaolong Valley. I was almost stabbed to death by Du Mao in Old Dragon City." , it seems that your husband has not suffered enough, and the price is not high enough. It doesn't matter, this time he can eat until he dies in Shujian Lake."

Cui Dongshan was still sitting there, wandering around, "If you don't listen to the bastard's chanting, the old bastard's chanting is the most unpleasant."

Cui Yi turned his head and looked at this "young Cui Yi", "If you still have the opportunity to go to Luopo Mountain in the future, remember to be nice to grandpa. If I were grandpa, I would have killed you long ago when I saw your virtue. .”

Cui Dongshan not only shook his butt, but also started to wave his two big snow-white sleeves.

Cui Chan said to himself: "Are you going to force yourself to death on the road to death?"

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When Chen Pingan put down his pen, he suddenly noticed the sun outside.

After thinking about it, he walked out of the house and began to dry the bamboo slips.

Many bamboo slips have characters engraved on both sides. It’s not that there isn’t enough bamboo. After traveling thousands of miles, there is no shortage of bamboo forests along the way.

It's just that if you read more at that time, you will find many truths. Even if they are different contexts of the three religions and hundreds of schools of thought, some of the paired sentences on the same bamboo slip are still somewhat "close" to the context of Confucianism. Different, but still like direct descendants, the three sects are different, like close neighbors, the three sects and other schools of thought are like friends from all walks of life who meet by chance, or distant relatives who have not been in contact with each other for many years?

When Chen Ping'an was drying bamboo slips, he picked up one of them. On the front was a Confucian saying: "Everything has its beginning and end, and everything has its end. If you know the order of things, you will get the shortcut."

The opposite is the Taoist saying: "The great beauty of heaven and earth is not mentioned, the four seasons have clear laws but not discussed, and the principles of all things are not explained."

It's just that this bamboo slip is special. After Chen Pingan read the Buddhist scriptures, he used a carving knife to carve a Buddhist saying in a smaller font on the side of the bamboo slip, "The wonderful principles of the Buddhas are not related to words."

There is a bamboo slip with the words "A gentleman is committed to his foundation, and the foundation is established, and the Tao arises" and the Buddhist sentence "There is no fixed method, the Tathagata can explain it" are engraved on the front and back.

After picking it up, recite it silently and put it down gently.

Chen Ping'an picked up another bamboo slip and read, "The Dharma is equal and there is no superiority or inferiority." "People have north and south, but Buddha nature has no north and south." On the reverse side, it read, "Everyone, noble or low, obeys the Dharma."

Finally, Chen Ping'an picked up a bamboo slip. On the front, it said, "There is no greater sorrow than the death of the heart, and the death of a person is the second best." The reverse side said, "Poverty leads to change, change leads to improvement, and communication leads to longevity."

The autumn air is crisp and the sun is shining brightly.

Chen Ping'an dried all the bamboo slips, squatted in the blank area that seemed to be in the center of the circle, put his hands in his sleeves, and looked around like this.

He kept squatting like this until the sun was shining slantingly on the mountain, and then Chen Ping'an began to collect the bamboo slips one by one and put them into square items.

There are so many principles in books, let’s put them aside.

The truth is in the book, but being a human being is outside the book.

This sentence is a truth that Chen Pingan already knew before the Lizhu Cave Sky was broken and fell, and it was not read from a book, but someone else said it seriously and he listened attentively.

Chen Ping'an had just put away all the bamboo slips when he saw Gu Can coming with Little Loach and waved to him.

Chen Pingan closed the door and walked towards Gu Can, and together they went to the wealthy mansion of Prince Fuqi.

There are two painted hanging portraits of door gods posted on the gate.

Chen Pingan looked at them and murmured in his heart: "It can stop ghosts, but it can't stop people."

Gu Can asked: "What's wrong?"

Then he complained a little, "You have to move to the mountain gate to live there. You can't even be a decent doorkeeper. How shabby."

Chen Pingan smiled and said, "Let's go eat."

When they arrived at the dinner table, they discovered that Gu Can's mother had poured wine for both Chen Pingan and Gu Can.

The little loach is sitting next to Gu Can. It doesn't actually like to eat these things, but it likes to sit here and eat vegetables with the couple, making it more like a human being.

Gu Can actually agreed with her mother not to drink tonight, so she was a little worried, fearing that Chen Pingan would be angry.

But he saw that Chen Pingan had already picked up the wine glass and toasted his aunt with a glass of wine. Not only that, he poured himself another glass, took a sip, and started to pick up the food.

During the meal, most of the women were chatting about trivial and interesting things about Lizhu Cave in the past. Chen Pingan was not silent all the time, and would talk about the excitement of Longquan County today.

It's fun.

After Gu Can finished a glass of wine, he felt that he could drink hundreds of pounds without getting drunk.

Unexpectedly, Chen Ping'an poured cold water on him, "You are still young. Even if you are a Qi practitioner now, Wu Ti wine can also benefit your practice. You should drink less. I'm so happy, so just drink three glasses."

Gu Can made a face and nodded in agreement.

The woman covered her mouth and smiled.

If Chen Pingan could take more care of her son Gu Can in these innocuous matters, she would still be very willing to see it.

Especially after Xiao Nili accidentally said something about the jade plaque "I am good at cultivating Haoran Qi", the woman thought about it alone for half a night and thought it was a good thing. It would at least make Liu Zhimao more afraid. As long as Chen Ping'an could protect himself. The power at least means that it will not drag down her family Gu Can, right? As for the back-and-forth about right and wrong, she was upset when she heard it. She didn't think that Chen Pingan would intentionally harm Gu Can. As long as Chen Pingan didn't do bad things with good intentions, he was not the kind of person who didn't do things lightly or seriously. , she left Chen Ping'an to stay on Qingxia Island.

After eating, Chen Pingan began to walk alone around the lakeside path of Qingxia Island as usual.

Stop and go, without purpose.

Occasionally, I would encounter some monks from Qingxia Island, most of whom were young and low-ranking lower-level Qi practitioners. As for the handymen and maids, they naturally did not dare to leave the various mansions at will.

When they saw Chen Ping'an, they would all call him Mr. Chen, because they didn't know the origins of this young man at all. They only heard that Gu Can personally invited guests to Qingxia Island. Not only that, Gu Can went to the mountain gate every day. Sit in a room for a while and chat with this distinguished guest. This is a rare event when the sun rises in the west.

It's just that when the accountant is more kind to everyone, it makes people confused, and there is a lot less awe in him.

Could it be that he is just a showman? For example, Gu Xiaomotou's fellow countryman from Dali? Or maybe it's the younger generation of that lady's natal family?

Chen Pingan was walking on the quiet road and stopped.

There were two people standing in front of him, Chao Zhe, one of Gu Can's senior brothers, and Lu Caisang, who was able to make Gu Can somewhat favored. He was a handsome young man dressed in white and outsmarting the snow. He was actually nearly thirty years old, but his temperament was different from his skin. They are all still teenagers, and they must have entered the cave realm when they were teenagers, so they have the color of a boy. This shows that the old Nascent Soul monk, one of the few in Shujian Lake, has great foresight in accepting Lu Caisang as a retreat disciple.

Lu Caisang left Chao Zhe who had stopped walking and took a few steps forward with a gloomy face, "Your name is Chen Ping'an? I advise you to stop pointing fingers at Can Can in the future!"

Chen Pingan asked directly: "What else?"

Lu Caisang was slightly stunned and was about to speak.

Chen Ping'an looked past Lu Caisang and looked at Chao Zhe, who considered himself an outsider. He hesitated and said something strange: "Forget it, I won't do it next time."

Chao Zhe wanted to speak but stopped.

Chen Pingan shook his head and said: "No need to explain, I know, I just don't want to hear it."

Lu Caisang looked at the young man with a haggard expression and gloomy eyebrows, and sneered: "What a big tone, is it the courage that Cancan lent you?"

Chen Pingan, who looked like a sick man, stretched out an arm horizontally.

Chao Zhe wanted to retreat based on instinct, but he was unwilling to show his timidity in front of Lu Caisang, an outsider from Qingxia Island, and forced himself to remain calm.

Heaven and earth are silent.

Lu Caisang laughed and said, "What are you doing?"

Chen Pingan frowned and said to himself: "Not coming? You have thought about it."

When words settle.

I saw a golden thread rising from the ground in Gu Can's mansion in an instant. The golden thread continued to stretch, and finally a long sword hovered above the young man's palm.

Even though the flying sword had reached an inch above the man's palm, it remained motionless.

But the long golden line brought out by the flying trajectory of this long sword.

Never retreated.

Lu Caisang narrowed his eyes.

I was shocked.

Chen Pingan asked: "Is it true that according to the rules of Shujian Lake, you two can die?"

Chen Pingan glanced at the slightly trembling semi-immortal sword, and said calmly: "Go back and unsheath it next time. You will be satisfied."

This "Sword Immortal" flashed away, and the golden light that was more than a thousand feet long disappeared.

Lu Caisang still stood where he was, refusing to give in.

Chao Zhe had already given way to the road and stood aside.

Chen Ping'an glanced at Lu Caisang, who had a look of death on his face. His face was still tired but he smiled unexpectedly, "Gu Can should really treat you as a friend."

After saying that, Chen Ping'an actually turned around and walked away, returning to the room.

Lu Caisang, who was a little scared deep down in his heart, turned his head and looked at Chao Zhe who was covered in cold sweat. Lu Caisang still spoke harshly and asked: "Is this guy's head wet?"

Chao Zhe didn't dare to say a word.

You damn Lu Caisang can run back to your master and hide, but once I offend such a humble swordsman and plague god, where can I go?

Chen Pingan returned to the room and lit the lamp on the table.

Local chronicles from all over Shujian Lake were delivered one after another, as well as many genealogies of the ancestral halls of major islands, etc. The reason why Mr. Tianhu was able to deliver them so quickly was very simple. They were all trophies captured from Qingxia Island. And it is the least valuable type. If Chen Pingan hadn't mentioned it, sooner or later it would have been burned as a pile of waste paper. Qingxia Island's current eleven major vassal islands were all personally killed by the pair of masters and apprentices.

They all need to be read one by one, and excerpts and transcripts are also required.

After this, we need to ask more detailed questions, and then it will no longer be a matter of sitting here and writing.

But Chen Ping'an didn't think this was a difficult thing. First of all, he was good at water grinding kung fu, but he just put aside boxing training and did something else. Secondly, if he had just started and found it difficult, he would have given up on it long ago.

Late at night, the full moon was shining brightly in the sky outside the window. Chen Pingan put down his pen, rubbed his wrists and pushed the door open, walking in a circle to relax.

Three letters have been sent to Piyun Mountain in Longquan County, Taiping Mountain in Tongyezhou, and the Fan family in Old Longcheng.

It is estimated that I will not get a reply from Feijian for a while.

Chen Pingan is not in a hurry, and he is not in a hurry.

In the past, he had walked through thousands of mountains and rivers step by step, and the flying swords were much faster.

Chen Ping'an suddenly walked out of the circle, passed the mountain gate of Qingxia Island, and headed for the ferry.

Standing on the shore, he squatted down, picked up a handful of water, washed his face, raised his head, and looked into the distance.

For some reason, at this moment, when Chen Ping'an looked at this Shujian Lake, which was notorious in Aquarius Continent and could be described as a bad street, he remembered a good saying that he had forgotten its origin and was unwilling to delve into it now.

The heroic spirit of heaven and earth remains awe-inspiring for thousands of years.