"Sir, he said before that when Jian Xi met me, it was a blessing after all the hardships." Bai Ze considered,
"I don't know what you mean by this, but sir, have you figured it out? Will there be cause and effect today?"
"I've long passed the age of knowing my destiny, so I know a little bit about it," said the old scholar.
"Sir, what do you think I should do?" Bai Ze said.
"The decision lies entirely with you." the old scholar said,
"In my opinion, just follow your heart. There is no perfect solution to many things in this world. Sometimes the car reaches the front of the mountain, and sometimes the mountains and rivers come back again." Bai Ze thought that this bowl of tea tasted bad, but he didn't expect it to be so bad. .
"Junior understands." Bai Ze said seriously,
"This junior will make his own decision." After saying that, he stood up and said politely to the old man,
"It's getting late. Sir, please take a rest early. I will say goodbye to you, junior."
"Go." The old scholar lowered his eyebrows. When Bai Ze returned to the thatched cottage with his sword in hand, it was already late at night. The autumn wind is bleak and chilly to the bones.
Bai Ze strolled to the kitchen, and sure enough, the thin figure was still kneeling, with his back straight. His clothes were obviously thin and his whole body was cold from the cold, but he was still too stubborn to get up.
Bai Ze sighed and said to the little girl, "Get up."
"If Master doesn't want me, I won't get up." Jian Xi said in a dull voice.
"Jian Xi." Bai Ze walked up to the little girl and said to her,
"If the gentleman in the library is willing to teach you how to read, would you like to go?"
"No." Jian Xi raised her head and looked at Bai Ze,
"What's the use of studying? When you study, don't you still have to suffer if you are bullied? Even if Zeng Bao and others study, they are not necessarily good people. The old gentleman always said that 'hypocrisy comes from nature', I think it is good . Although I don’t quite understand what that means, I understand that human nature is inherently evil.” Bai Ze couldn’t help but feel sad when he heard this.
The good and evil of human nature has always been a topic of endless debate among Confucians. But Jian Xi is not like Bai Ze. Bai Ze has traveled much more, suffered more hardships, and been bullied than Jian Xi.
But after all, he has Xie Xuan, Tao Hongjing, senior brothers and sisters from Siwangfeng, and even Ye Qiu. But Jian Xi had nothing but her mother who depended on each other for life.
Bai Ze can still choose to believe what Master said after fully understanding the ugliness of human nature.
"At the beginning of man's life, his nature is good." But the same thing happened to Jian Xi, but it was completely different. Mrs. Jian couldn't protect her.
Therefore, she had to learn to work in the fields at a very young age, help her neighbors herd cattle, and figure out how to protect herself and even her mother when bullied by the older children.
"I haven't had a father since I was a child. My mother raised me by herself, but she is not in good health, and I feel sorry for her." Jian Xi blinked hard, as if she could hold back her tears.
"But just because I don't have a father, anyone in Zengtou City can bully us. Sometimes I really hate it and want to kill all those who have humiliated my mother, but I don't dare. I kill them , I want to die too, I’m afraid that if I die, there won’t be anyone to take care of my mother until she ends her life.”
"Good and evil will eventually be rewarded." Bai Ze comforted her. The little girl lowered her head and said nothing.
"Jian Xi, do you really don't want to study?" Bai Ze asked her,
"Perhaps one day, when you walk out of the small town, you will suddenly find that the outside world is not as beautiful as you imagined."
"Will it be worse than now?" Jian Xi said softly. Bai Ze was silent, making up his mind and said, "In that case, fine, I promise to be your master." Jian Xi suddenly raised his head and cried with joy. Xu couldn't believe it and asked, "Is it true?"
"Really." Bai Ze said,
"There is just one thing I want to tell you. When I am my apprentice, you must read, write, practice swordsmanship, and ask questions. You must not miss any one thing. I have been reading since I was a child, and I didn't realize it at first. But as I grow older, I feel more and more important that reading is important. Sex." Jian Xi was cheerful, swept away her dejection, and agreed: "Okay, I will remember Master's words!" After that, she kowtowed to Bai Ze.
Bai Ze stopped her and said, "I have never cared about those false etiquettes, so there is no need to kowtow anymore." The little girl said stubbornly, "That's different. The master didn't agree before, but now he has, so he should kowtow to the master." After that, Without waiting for Bai Ze to say anything, he kowtowed to Bai Ze three more times and said happily: "Master is here, please accept my disciple's bow!"
"Get up." Bai Ze smiled and said,
"Let's get to know each other again. My name is Bai Ze. Bai is the flawless white jade, and Ze is the most famous person in the world."
"My name is Jian Xi, simple Jian, the stream of streams." Jian Xi laughed from the bottom of her heart and looked up at Bai Ze infatuatedly.
"Master, am I dreaming?" After saying that, he pinched his arm and it hurt.
"It's getting late, let's go get some sleep." Bai Ze said.
"No, no, no!" Jian Xi said excitedly,
"Master, I'm not sleepy at all. Why don't you teach me how to practice swordsmanship now!" The little girl admired Bai Ze even more when she saw Bai Ze going out with a long sword on his waist.
It seemed that Master knew more than she thought. Bai Ze flicked Jian Xi's forehead with his finger and said with a smile: "There's no need to rush, you are still growing, and you won't grow taller if you stay up late." As soon as these words came out, Jian Xi suddenly became worried and reluctant. He ran to the room to rest.
She thought she would be tossing and turning in bed and unable to fall asleep, but she didn't expect that within a short time, she was already fast asleep.
Mrs. Jian, who had been hiding in the room and eavesdropping, finally felt relieved and quietly returned to the bed. She felt mixed with joy and sorrow. For a moment, she didn't know what she was feeling. She opened her eyes and tossed and turned, unable to fall asleep.
Mrs. Jian knew that her daughter Jian Xi had met a noble person. But she also knew that her days with Jian Xi living together were numbered.
...Bai Ze sat quietly in the yard all night. For more than a month, Bai Ze has been resting his body and not practicing at all.
During my free time while tending cattle, I used Bodhisattva to meditate and read the "Taixu Ancient Sutra". That scripture was obtained by Ning Jing and was stuffed directly into Bai Ze's arms by stealing the sky and exchanging the sun.
When Bai Ze read the scripture, he found it obscure and difficult to understand. But what he read through made Bai Ze horrified.
The "Taixu Ancient Sutra" should be a Taoist mental method, but it divides the method of refining qi into seven realms, which is four more realms than the "Chunyang Zhenjing"!
Even if Xie Xuan's Yuan Ying transforms into a god, the "Chun Yang Zhen Jing" is still three realms less than the "Tai Xu Ancient Sutra".
"Taixu Ancient Sutra" records that there are seven realms of Qi sea, foundation building, golden elixir, Yuan Ying, Shen transformation, Hedao and Mahayana.
Among them, the three realms of Qi Hai, Jin Dan, and Yuanying are consistent with the basic principles of the three heavens in the Chunyang Zhenjing.
But from the sea of qi to the golden elixir, "Taixu Ancient Sutra" has an additional layer of foundation building. Moreover, the "Taixu Ancient Sutra" has a clear mental method for transforming into gods!
As for Hedao and Mahayana after becoming gods, Bai Ze had never heard of them. Bai Zebi's cultivation of Xie Xuan can be regarded as a realm that can be reached in the Seven Realms Legend.
But what about Hedao and Mahayana after becoming gods? The young man in sackcloth thought of the ultimate that the mysterious woman in the Kunlun Secret Realm said. If the "Taixu Ancient Sutra" was not fabricated randomly, then the two realms after becoming a god may very well point to the true immortal!
If so, then
The matter of "rising in the daytime" is most likely not a legend of Kyushu, but a real existence. Bai Ze actually doubted for a moment whether those figures who had amazed an era in the long river of time were dead, or had reached the ascension level and gone to a wider world.
The sword god Huan Wen eight hundred years ago, the Aurora Sword Immortal Xu Jingting of the same era, and the old sword immortal Kong Zhou five hundred years ago.
And the five-hundred-year-old swordsman Kong Zhou and the swordsman Li Muzhi have stood at the pinnacle of Kyushu Kendo for two hundred years. Does this mean that the current Li Muzhi is very close to the [ultimate]?
Or perhaps, he is already in the ultimate. Bai Ze suddenly realized. The "Taixu Ancient Sutra" is far more magical than that. There are also clear records of mental powers and magical powers. Bai Ze took a quick look and found that there were three mental powers and magical powers: Void Realm, Taixu Seal, and Xu Shenhuo.
On the other hand, in the "Chun Yang Zhen Jing", there is only a record of the mental power of Chu Yang Zhenhuo, and it is still unclear and needs to be understood by the practitioner.
Bai Ze thought of Xie Xuan's Taiyi Divine Sword. The Taiyi Divine Sword is the mental power recorded in "Taiyi Ziwei Lu".
But apart from the Taiyi Divine Sword, I have never heard the master talk about other magical powers recorded in "Taiyi Ziwei Lu".
From this point of view, the grade level of "Chunyang Zhenjing" is roughly bounded between the character of earth and the character of sky, and at most it is the mental method of quasi-tian character.
Although "Taiyi Ziwei Lu" does not have a clear method of cultivating gods, there is no doubt that the mental method of sitting firmly in the Taoist Tianzi sequence is possible.
And this "Taixu Ancient Sutra", its sequence, judging from the seventh level of Qi refining and the numerous mental skills and magical powers recorded in it, is at least the Tianzi sequence mental method, and it is the pinnacle among the Taoist Tianzi sequence mental methods!
In the past month, Bai Ze seriously considered whether to switch to the "Taixu Ancient Sutra". But turning to cultivation means that he has to dissipate the true Qi of the sea of suffering. Otherwise, if the two true Qi mix in the body, it is very likely to cause the true Qi to reverse. Even if he goes crazy and becomes possessed, it is considered light, and it is normal to explode directly.
Therefore, until now, Bai Ze has not tried to change his mind. Firstly, he is afraid of the consequences, and secondly, the "Taixu Ancient Sutra" is indeed obscure and difficult to understand. With his ability to comprehend, plus Bodhisattva's visualization, he can only understand the content before the "Golden Elixir Scroll", which involves When Nascent Soul was practicing the Dharma, he felt dizzy and his eyes were about to burst.
Perhaps the origin of this scripture and its benefits can only be understood by meeting Ning Jing again. …
