When the morning dew comes, everything is hazy.
Zhuang Chen packed his bags while everyone was sleeping soundly, and slowly left the Yan Palace before the sun rose.
He was ready to return to Mingjian Villa.
As one of the best young talents in the world, the young master of Mingjian Villa, who became famous at a young age, has always acted with his own personality. He stayed to attend the celebration banquet. In addition to following Liu Piaoxiang's instructions, he also had a very important purpose. The reason was that young man who fought with his life in mind.
In other words, this was one of the reasons why Liu Piaoxiang asked him to stay.
In troubled times, there are many brave men, and everyone is eager to become famous in one battle, but most of these people often pay the price with their lives for their actions. There are very few people who can survive and stand out. Obviously, the young man named Yi Shuihan will One of the best.
"No, that's not right. That kid is definitely not fighting for fame and fortune."
Scenes of bloody battles emerged in his mind, and Zhuang Chen quickly rejected his hasty analogy.
No matter how you look at that kid, it seems that he keeps fighting simply because of the hatred in his heart.
Even if his hands and feet were severed and he was dying, he could still get up. If he didn't have an extremely pure sense of faith, it would be impossible to do this.
Zhuang Chen's eyes became a little misty in the early morning fog, and he put on his floral mask to hide his expression.
He still couldn't convince himself to use any utilitarian vision to define the young man who was moving forward. He observed it all night and found that the boy was an innocent child in every aspect.
Even, there is a clear sense of stupidity.
He stroked the ancient blue sword on his waist. He knew better than anyone else what this sword represented.
The sword of the gentleman, Zhanlu, represents the gentleman's character advocated by the Taoism of Confucius and Mencius. The masters of the Zhanlu sword in the past dynasties are all gentlemen with noble conduct. And this sword is now in the hands of Zhuang Chen, and everyone in the world feels that He is Zhanlu's sword master.
But only Zhuang Chen knew in his heart that he still had a long way to go before becoming the true Zhanlu Sword Master.
The masters of the Zhanlu Sword of all dynasties were first a gentleman, and then equipped with Zhanlu, and were equipped with virtues. However, Zhuang Chen was more likely to be equipped with Zhanlu first, and then he was called a gentleman by the world, and he enjoyed virtues with his sword. , obviously the realm is far behind.
The reason why Liu Piaoxiang awarded Zhan Lu to Zhuang Chen was because she had high hopes for this talented young man who could only be seen once in a century at Famous Sword Villa.
When Liu Piaoxiang was young, he was also a genius. At only twenty years old, he had already entered the realm of the five elements. Later, he determined to carry the Piaoxiang sword and become the sword god of the world. He was suppressed for a long time because of the emergence of Xiaoyi and Juzi. On the one hand, it is difficult to break through the state of mind, and the cultivation level is stuck in the realm of the Five Elements, with difficulty making progress. It was not until Xiaoyi fell that he was finally able to get out of the shackles and step into the rare realm of the Four Symbols.
Zhuang Chen, on the other hand, was seventeen years old when he entered the Five Elements Realm, three years earlier than the current sword god Liu Piaoxiang. This has extremely important inheritance significance for the famous Sword Villa, which has never been in business.
From the day Liu Piaoxiang discovered Zhuang Chen's talent for cultivation, she regarded him as her future successor and trained him. He also carefully paved a path for Zhuang Chen to enter the Four Symbols cultivation.
This path is not the path of a sword god like himself, but the path of a gentleman represented by Zhan Lu.
A gentleman keeps his heart cold, makes great aspirations, and cultivates his words. This is Zhuang Chen's path.
Zhuang Chen has been walking this road for four years without any substantial breakthrough so far.
The road of a gentleman is difficult to walk. It is difficult to say it is difficult, but it is not difficult to say it is not difficult.
It is not difficult because the path chosen by Zhuang Chen does not have a suffocating existence like Xiaoyi suppressing his progress, nor does he have to wait until someone dies to break through the inner demons, but everything has its pros and cons, Liu Piaoxiang He has been suppressed by Xiaoyi for many years, but he also has a clear and specific goal, or in other words, he knows in his heart what the sword god he wants to become should look like, so he can achieve success after Xiaoyi's fall.
The difficulty for Zhuang Chen is that he has no idea what a gentleman should look like and what kind of gentleman he should become.
There are by no means a few sages in the past dynasties who are called gentlemen. Let’s not talk about Confucius and Mencius, nor the four princes of the Warring States period. Even if we talk about the current living people such as Taoyuan Xunqing (Qing is Xun Kuang’s character), Jixia Xuegong Li Zi (Li Chengdao), the Mohist giant Mo Gong, etc. can all be called gentlemen, but each of them is different. Xunqing gave lectures in Taoyuan, and Li Zi wrote and revised books in Jixia Academy to pass on knowledge to future generations. , Mo Gong led the Mo family to do many chivalrous things to save the world. They were all walking the way of gentlemen in their own way.
And what is Zhuang Chen's way of a gentleman?
There is no first in literature, no second in martial arts. To become a sword god is to be the first person in the world to use swords. However, there is no fixed standard for becoming a gentleman.
For this reason, Zhuang Chen has tried various methods, including teaching, writing books, and becoming a vigilante to rob the rich and help the poor. He once felt that the journey of being a vigilante seemed more suitable for him, and he even did so. I have become a good Rogue, but I always feel that something is a little awkward, and it doesn't seem to be a completely suitable path for me.
Therefore, it is difficult for him to make a breakthrough.
He was in pain, and every time he looked at Zhan Lu, he would ask, what is a true gentleman?
When it comes to the state of mind, if a practitioner cannot clarify his or her own mind, he will never be able to reach the realm of the four images.
Such questions have been haunting Zhuang Chen for four years.
And today, in this misty morning, he once again recalled the bloody young man who risked his life to save others, regardless of the cost or fame, but just to have a clear conscience.
According to the teachings of Mingjian Villa, scholars are pioneers and must not be allowed to perish.
So Zhuang Chen himself was also infected by this and began to have no reservations. He felt that, no, he was almost certain that when he put the risk of exhaustion of mana and death behind him, he waved without hesitation. When the ninth strike of the Divine Base was struck from heaven, at that moment, he was a real gentleman, a gentleman worthy of becoming the master of Zhanlu Sword.
Zhuang Chen touched Zhan Lu with his hand, and his face gradually relaxed under the floral scarf. Finally, he found his own way of being a gentleman.
At the same time, the protagonist of the incident, Shui Han, was sleeping soundly. He went upstairs a little late last night to chat with Yan Qing. Shui Han's concept since he was a child is that no matter how late he stays up, he must make up for his sleep the next day. He was sleeping on his back, and he was also lying on his back. Zhong Shao was beside him. The two of them almost occupied a three-person bunk bed, but Xiaotian, who was obviously the largest, had to protect a corner and slept carefully and gracefully.
As for Liuyun and Jueyang, they insisted on grabbing a single bunk and refused to sleep in a shared bunk. They also slept peacefully and peacefully.
She stayed up all night on the first day of the new year, and the god herself did not need sleep. She wrote a letter in detail about what happened in the Yan Kingdom, and sent it back to Taoyuan with Qingyu. After staying in the world for a long time, she not only learned to write letters, but also gradually learned how to write letters. I am used to this unique way of delivering letters in Taoyuan.
The letter was written to Xun Kuang. Her departure from Taoyuan must not be hidden from the owner of the Pure Land Village. Although the goddess was said to have no taboos in her actions, after all, she was still an exchange student, so she still had to do a good job in superficiality.
Then, she slowly took out another letter, placed it on another Qingyu, and then released the other Qingyu in a different direction from the first one.
It seems that this method of delivering letters is not unique to Taoyuan.
On such a night, Richu was not the only one who was awake, the bed in the princess's mansion was also empty.
