In recent days, the court meetings in the prefect's palace have been held more frequently than usual, but the court meetings are often shorter.
The courtiers, especially the important officials, traveled back and forth between the palace and their respective government offices again and again, casting an indescribable haze over the entire atmosphere in Li city.
In the prefect's palace, the autumn mood is getting stronger, and the palace waiters and maids are busy everywhere, cleaning or cleaning, and making various preparations for the palace after winter.
In the early morning of this day, there was no court meeting. Luo Chuan finished breathing on the roof of the side hall, jumped down, took the towel from Gao Shixian, wiped his face and hands, and asked, "Has Master Chang entered the palace already?"
Gao Shixian bent down and said, "If you want to return to the Lord, Master Chang entered the palace last night. The old slave arranged to rest in the first room on the east side of the square in the front palace. All the necessities of life are complete, and there are also maids. There's nothing wrong with waiting outside."
Luochuan handed the towel to the young waiter beside Gao Shixian, and then walked towards Qianxue, who was standing alone not far away, "Senior Nanfeng..."
"Tingyulou," Qianxue answered before Luo Chuan finished asking.
Luochuan smiled and walked side by side with Qianxue towards the front palace. As they walked, he asked, "Are you still used to living in the palace?"
Qianxue didn't even look at Luo Chuan, but said coldly, "I'm not used to it."
"I'm not used to it either," Luo Chuan said, shaking his head. "As cultivators, we should eat clouds and drink dew, pass by guests' rooms, swim in the North Sea in the morning, and stay in the blue sky at dusk. We should be as free and comfortable as birds in the sky. Only in this way can we experience this. The road of nature is worthy of this journey between heaven and earth..."
Qianxue smiled, but she also sneered. She glanced sideways at Luo Chuan and said, "You have been following a Cang-faced female Taoist by your side for a long time, and you have developed a different interest in this way of nature?"
Luo Chuan hesitated, then quickly turned his head to the side where there was no one, and then looked back with some surprise, "Everything in this world is not natural. I thought that in the process of cultivation, no matter what path I choose in the end, I still have to return to nature. Isn’t that what you are looking for?”
Gao Shixian raised his head slightly and stepped back. The palace attendants and guards behind him slowed down and distanced themselves from Luo Chuan and Qian Xue.
Qianxue walked forward with her head held high while passing her voice into Luo Chuan's ears, "If, as you said, everything in the world is natural, then Ling Jingzi cultivates the way of nature. Do you want to understand all the things in the world? Isn’t it possible? If that’s the case, wouldn’t it be a dead end?”
Luo Chuan pondered for a while and asked, "So this nature is not that nature, is it a certain law in the nature of heaven and earth?"
Qianxue said "hmm" this time, "Everything in the world follows its own path. Some people observe water and enter the Tao, some look at mountains and realize the Tao, some learn the Tao in the world of mortals, and some gain the Tao under the Bodhi tree, and so on. No one has it. Experience is completely applicable to another person. Everyone needs to find their own opportunity in everything in this world. This opportunity may be a rule as you said, or it may be an instinct like killing. Or it may be the scorching heat of fire, the coldness of ice, etc., etc., when you meet the right opportunity, it seems that anything can be your way. If you don't meet it, nothing will work. This is the most important path of cultivating the Tao. The hard part.”
Luo Chuan frowned when he heard it, as if he understood something, but also seemed not to grasp anything.
Qianxue tilted her head slightly and looked at Luochuan sideways. Seeing his confused expression, she added, "Every sect or force has its own areas of expertise and experience. Looking at many of these experiences, we can know that some paths will It is easier to understand, and it is easier to advance after reaching the upper three realms, such as metal, wood, water, fire, and earth. It is easier to see, touch, and feel things in this world, and some paths, such as the many so-called natural paths, The Tao, and even the more difficult to predict the spring and autumn years, not to mention that there is no way to understand the Tao, it is always an extremely difficult result."
Luo Chuan asked while thinking, "You once said that from the fifth realm to the sixth realm, you need to find a path that suits you. There should be differences in strength and weakness between different paths. Now you say that everyone has With my own opportunities, it seems that there is only one path that suits me. Isn't this just like the limit of talent, many things are destined from birth?"
Qianxue said, "In
In my opinion, many things are destined by birth, but for many people, this is not the case. They feel that they are not looking for their own destined path, but choosing among the thousands of paths between heaven and earth. There is only one, but in fact it just depends on how you view destiny. As for the strength you mentioned, that is another question, and I am afraid that except for a transcendent being like Lu Zu, no one can give you an accurate answer to the question. "
Luo Chuan nodded and asked, "In your opinion, what path should a fire practitioner like me choose?"
This time Qianxue turned her head and glanced at Luochuan with a sarcastic look, "Give up your idea of taking a shortcut," she seemed to have thought of something, and then suppressed her smile and looked away, "Now I'm afraid no one can I’ve shown you the way.”
Luo Chuan was shocked and then stopped talking. The two of them walked to the east side of the square of the front palace in silence. Chang Yufeng, who was wearing a blue robe, was already waiting at the door. When he saw Luo Chuan coming, he bowed and said, "I've met the prefect."
Luo Chuan also returned a junior salute, "There is no need to be polite, Mr. Chang. Luo came here today because he has something to ask." He looked behind Chang Yufeng and said, "Can I come in and talk to you?"
Chang Yufeng glanced at Qianxue next to Luo Chuan, and said with a vacant hand, "You two, please."
The three of them entered the house one by one and saw that the bed was clean and the tables and chairs were neat. It seemed that no one lived here at all, it was just a luxuriously decorated guest room.
Chang Yufeng led the two of them to the table and sat down. Without making any polite gestures such as serving tea, he directly asked, "What do you want to ask, Lord Prefect, but it doesn't hurt to ask."
Qianxue closed the door and set up a soundproof circle with a wave of her hand.
Luo Chuan nodded, but couldn't help but glance at Qian Xue, and after thinking for a long time, he asked, "Master Chang, I heard that eleven years ago, there was a legend in Zhongjing City about a very talented cultivator. , which led Wangchuan to send disciples to look for it, and finally even alerted the old man Lu Zu..." He looked into Chang Yufeng's eyes and asked, "Has the real person ever heard of this?"
"Eleven years ago..." Chang Yufeng pondered for a while and then shook his head, "I have never heard of this. Wangchuan Sword Sect and other sects in Dading Prefecture have a lot of differences in recruiting disciples. The big difference is that other sects mostly select children from the mountains who have good understanding and good understanding or are destined to be disciples. After being screened into the mountain sect, they start teaching from scratch. In this way, the disciples have deep feelings for most of the sects and treat them with great respect. As a family, these sects will go down the mountain specifically for the young people with good cultivation talents. It is not strange for them to even fight. But Wangchuan Sword Sect is different. The master has always accepted disciples regardless of their origins, as long as they can come from the mountain. Step up and choose one of the three thousand disciples who wins the sword duel. He can stay. The last one among the original three thousand will go down the mountain and leave. From now on, he will no longer call himself a disciple of Wangchuan, or In the future, if you improve your cultivation, you can fight back. Therefore, I have been on the mountain for decades, but I have never heard that the master has sent people down the mountain to find children with high cultivation talents. Where did the governor get the news? "
