Pei Jing pondered the phrase "return to nature" for a long time, but still couldn't figure it out. Now that his master was not in Yunxiao, the only person he could ask was Chen Xu.
After resting for a night at Tianqian Peak, Pei Jing headed straight to Wenqing Peak where Chen Xu was.
There are many peach blossoms planted on Wenqing Peak, and they are in full bloom at this time of year.
When he entered the hall, Chen Xu was just finishing instructing the ten new disciples on the rules.
The ten disciples retreated one after another, and at the entrance of the hall, they ran into Pei Jing who was rushing over.
She is wearing white clothes, carrying a sword, wearing a jade crown and having black hair, and her temperament is as white as frost and snow.
For a moment, everyone was stunned, unable to hide their excitement, and shouted in a high voice: "Senior Brother Pei."
Pei Jing only noticed them after they yelled at him. He nodded and said nothing more.
The ten disciples were so excited that they wanted to say a few more words to the person they admired. However, due to Chen Xu's gloomy gaze behind them, they could only leave in dismay.
Pei Jing's mind was not on them. He said to Chen Xu directly: "Let me ask you something."
Chen Xu was holding a stack of books in his arms, which were all the Yunxiao rules that he had just read to several inner peak disciples. The more he thought about Pei Jing placing Chu Junyu in the outer peak, the angrier he became, so he didn't look happy.
Indifferently: "I don't know!"
Pei Jing understood his temper and asked directly: "What does it mean to return to nature?"
Chen Xu was stunned: "What?"
Pei Jing repeated, "Returning to the Original Nature is an idiom that Master gave me yesterday and asked me to think about it."
Chen Xu said without a word: "The headmaster asked you to understand, what's the point of you looking for me?"
Pei Jing said: "He said that I need to understand my seven emotions and six desires. I thought you know a lot about emotions and desires, so I came to ask you."
Chen Xu exploded: "... ... What do you mean!"
Pei Jing realized that his expression was a bit wrong and quickly corrected himself: "I meant that you have a wide range of knowledge."
Chen Xu finally caught his breath, thought for a moment and frowned, "Did you miss the point?"
Pei Jing shook his head decisively: "Absolutely right, he left behind only these four words. Master said that the first level of Yunxiao Sword Technique is about the common people, which is related to the seven emotions and six desires. I have practiced until now without any inner demons, and I don't think I can get past that level. Now that I have broken through the Nascent Soul stage, I can't rush, so I can only work hard on this."
Chen Xu came up with a bad idea: "Aren't the seven emotions and six desires just about love? Why don't you find a Taoist partner?"
Pei Jing believed that he was up to something, and said in a fake tone: "Don't do that. I'm afraid that if I look for a Taoist partner, it will cause unrest in the cultivation world, and all the female cultivators in the world will fight."
Chen Xu sneered, "Ha." After thinking for a moment, he said, "Even if you ask me, I won't get the answer. Why not ask in the Tiange of the Sutra Library? Maybe there will be someone powerful there who knows the answer."
Pei Jing looked a little strange when he heard this, and said, "Okay, you go with me."
Chen Xu rolled his eyes: "Can't you go by yourself?"
Having said that, he had already put the stack of books in his hand on the table and took out his sword.
Pei Jing walked out with him one after the other and said, "Why would I bring you with me if I could go? The old man in front of the Tibetan didn't let me in, so I had to sneak in behind you."
"What happened to you?"
Pei Jing gestured for a moment and said, "Nothing serious. Doesn't the Tiange stipulate that questions and answers must be answered with spiritual sense? One day after practicing swordsmanship, I had nothing to do, so I stayed in the Tiange for a day and answered all the questions I could. I wrote them down with the pen and ink next to me, but I accidentally knocked over the ink bottle and stained the floor. After I cleaned up, the old man still found me. He was so angry that he chased me halfway up the mountain and threatened to beat me every time he saw me. How could I dare to walk in in front of him now?"
Chen Xu smiled unkindly and commented fairly: "You asked for it."
Pei Jing disagreed: "If you ask me, why do you have to use spiritual sense? Are the pens and ink in the Tiange just for decoration? - Pedantic!"
Chen Xu said, "Leave this to Elder Lou."
Pei Jing said, "Forget it."
The elder of the Sutra Library was well-known in Yunxiao for being stern and serious. He had a gloomy face all day long, and covered himself in a black coat. A glare from him could make evil spirits cry, and his face was almost written with the words "evil spirit". In addition, his cultivation was unfathomable and his qualifications were ancient, so few people in the sect dared to provoke him. Pei Jing was also ordered by his master not to cause trouble here.
He must be crazy to run into the gun.
Hidden a hundred feet high, shaded by the grass and trees. Chen Xu was forced by Pei Jing to greet Elder Lou. He walked over step by step and forced a smile that was uglier than crying. Elder Lou and him stared at each other in silence. Chen Xu had never encountered such an embarrassing scene before. He cursed Pei Jing in his heart, but he still had to do what he promised. He could only say stiffly: "Elder Lou, I want to ask you something."
Elder Lou is not a kind elder. He particularly hates being disturbed. He pressed the pages of the book with his bony hands, looking impatient and almost ready to take action.
Pei Jing seized the opportunity, walked close to the wall, hid his face in the shadow, and while Elder Lou was not paying attention, he ran up quickly.
Seeing this, Chen Xu hurriedly said, "It's nothing, actually. Please be busy, Elder." Even under Elder Lou's frozen gaze, he ran upstairs.
Pei Jing was so happy up there, "Look at you, you're such a wimp."
Chen Xu glared at him fiercely.
Pei Jing pushed him forward and headed straight for Tiange: "Go quickly, don't let him find you."
The top floor of the Tiange is hidden, and only cultivators above the Jindan stage can enter in the entire Yunxiao. Close the door, turn around, and there are thousands of rolls of rice paper hanging down.
The scroll is vast and boundless, floating in all directions, slowly rotating in a certain direction.
When Pei Jing saw the scene inside Tiange for the first time, he was shocked.
The master explained to him that the Tiange was a place for the spiritual communication between cultivators. Every sect and family in the cultivation world had one, which was used to preach and answer questions. Questions and answers were free, and occasionally some hermits would sneak in.
It was not until Pei Jing saw it with his own eyes that he realized, isn't this something similar to Baidu Q&A
Or, according to his understanding, it is more like the ancient Zhihu, except that the answerer will not say "thank you for the invitation".
In the center of the Tiange, there is a table, a desk and a chair, which are elegant and simple. There are paper, ink and pens on the table.
Pei Jing hissed when he saw it, walked over, and picked up the pen: "Why is it still there? I can't write or draw with it, what's the point of keeping it?"
Chen Xu was feeling very nervous. He stood at the window, constantly paying attention to the movements of the elders on the lower floor, and urged them, "Why do you care so much about him? Hurry up and write. Hurry up and leave."
Pei Jing sat on the ground, his robes neatly scattered, holding a pen in his hand. He had fine eyebrows and straight eyes, and wore an elegant hat and black hair. He looked quite refined and elegant among the thousands of poems and books floating in the air, but he spoke casually, and his temperament was gone in an instant: "Why are you in such a hurry? Can he rush up and eat us? It's not easy to come to Tiange once, and you don't learn anything?"
Chen Xu cursed: "You're learning a bunch of shit." But he had been saying one thing and doing another for a long time. After making sure that Elder Lou was too engrossed in reading to take care of them, he still walked to Pei Jing with a sour face.
Pei Jing moved aside to make room for him, then started grinding the ink stick himself.
In the Tiange, the scrolls are rotating one by one.
There were many young disciples in the Golden Core Stage in the major sects. They were all young at heart. In Tiange, a place without the supervision of elders, some seriously asked about the secrets of the alchemy method, but there were more who asked random questions and gossiped. Just like now, what floated in front of them was clearly a question raised by a cultivator out of boredom.
"Guess, who do you think is most likely to win first place in the next Heavenly Test?"
Pei Jing put down his pen, pointed his hand, fixed the scroll, and said with a smile, "It's interesting." Chen Xu frowned and also read it from top to bottom.
There were all kinds of handwriting below the question, one line after another, in a flamboyant style.
Insert and mix the subjects, and show your special abilities.
—I’ll bet a spirit stone on Pei Yuzhi. I saw it with my own eyes during the last test. Pei Yuzhi defeated Feng Jin in just three moves. He is the best in the world. I’m not kidding. Believe me!
The first answer was so aggressive and full of the meaning of provocation. The other sects questioned and laughed.
—Three moves? Are you kidding me? Am I watching the final exam in a dream? Or are you living in a dream
—The one above is Yunxiao's disciple, he is bragging without fear of getting his tongue tangled. It is obvious that Pei Yuzhi was lucky, and he defeated Fengdi by just one move. If you don't understand, just shut up, who knows who will be the first on the Heavenly Ranking next time.
Peacemakers began to emerge.
—What's there to argue about? If you ask me, all the five people who were selected on the Heavenly Ranking last time are possible. I bet on Yingzhou Fusang Fairy. There's no reason. As the only female cultivator, it's enough that she looks good.
The Buddhist disciples who were mixed in with the group of people expressed their opinions.
—No one guessed that I was the Buddhist Master Wusheng? Rumor has it that the master has just broken through the initial lotus realm and his power has increased greatly! It is just around the corner for him to become the number one.
The disciples of Yunxiao then began to talk nonsense.
—I am so ignorant that I wonder if my Senior Brother Pei, who just came out of retreat a few days ago, has already achieved Nascent Soul stage
—I can testify that on the day of the sect selection, Senior Brother Pei came out of the mountain and flew through the clouds on his sword. I was lucky enough to see him from the side. Judging from his complexion and demeanor, he no longer looked like a Jindan cultivator. His aura was close to that of a Yuanying cultivator. Senior Brother Pei was amazing!
When Pei Jing saw this, he laughed out loud: ... ...How come I didn’t know that I had achieved a breakthrough to the Nascent Soul stage
These Yunxiao disciples probably rely on the communication through spiritual consciousness, but since they can't find the real person, they make up stories so brazenly. It's really shameful.
Chen Xu also saw it, he tilted his head to look at him, he could not see any of the so-called "Nascent Soul cultivator" complexion and demeanor in Pei Jing. Judging from the way he was sitting without any manners, he would believe that he was just a rich and idle man in the world.
This question becomes more complicated later on. Some people have great ambitions for this, while others do it just for fun.
—The world of cultivation produces talented people from generation to generation, and you never know when new people with potential will emerge. It is not impossible that the Five Heroes of the Questioning Heaven Test will undergo a major change.
—I agree with the above fellow Taoists. Please remember the name Xu Haoran. Next year he will defeat the old five heroes and become the number one. Don’t ask me why. It’s because of his confidence.
—I, Ye Batian, also want to leave my name on the Heavenly Ranking.
- Stop arguing. I observed the stars last night and calculated with my fingers. Your names are not on the list of stars.
—That's because you are not good at academics.
... ...
—I am Xu Haoran, and I have no confidence in the Heavenly Ranking. You bastard who is using my name to embarrass yourself, don’t let me find you.
Pei Jing laughed out loud.
But even though he laughed, he still paid attention to some news - for example, Ji Wuduan is now able to refine corpses, Wu Sheng has broken through the initial lotus realm, Yu Qinglian had an adventure in the Penglai secret realm, and Feng Jin has awakened some of his ancestral memories.
Among the five heroes in the world, the other four have achieved something in the past few years, but he is the only one stuck at the great perfection of golden elixir, unable to break through even if he dies.
But Pei Jing is still confident that he will still be the first in the next test.
Chen Xu poured cold water on him: "Everyone is making progress, but you are standing still. What can you use to fight them?"
Pei Jing didn't care: "Even if I stay where I am for a hundred years, they won't be able to catch up with me. Back then in Jingtianyuan, I beat four of them by myself, let alone now."
Chen Xu thought of the chaotic years at Jingtianyuan, and his face turned black: "... ... You still have the nerve to mention those things."
Jingtianyuan is where the top masters in the world of cultivation gather.
Thousands of years ago, the ladder collapsed, cutting off the connection with the upper world, and no one has been able to ascend since then. In order to repair the ladder, the great masters of the Spiritualization Stage built the Jingtian Courtyard.
Led by Master Pei Jing's master, the previous head of Yunxiao, it took hundreds of years to use spiritual power to repair the ladder step by step.
It was just that the repair process was too boring, and considering that there would be no successors in the cultivation world after they ascended, the great masters simply took over the outstanding disciples in the sect and gave them guidance, so Jingtian Academy became a place similar to a school.
Among the six people who went to Yunxiao at that time, the one who was most successful in Jingtian Academy was probably Pei Jing.
People don’t know that the five heroes of the world actually knew each other since childhood.
The world would not know that when Pei Jing was a child, he offended all four people. In the past, the first place in the Heavenly Questioning Test was a group favorite. It was rare for someone like Pei Jing to be hated by everyone.
Pei Jing swiped his finger across the air, and soon, the roll of paper floating in the air began to rotate again. The questionnaires left in the Tiange were all those that had not been answered satisfactorily by those who had asked the questions within two years. He looked at a roll of paper, raised his eyebrows, and said softly, "Huh."
The questioner asked very directly.
—"What does it feel like to have a sword soar through the frost-filled peak?"
Pei Jing said, "I answered a lot of questions in Tiange last time, and I remember one of them was this one—and another one exactly the same appeared."
Chen Xu frowned: "... What does he mean by this question?"
Pei Jing tapped the table with his finger and smiled lazily: "I guess what he wants to ask is what it feels like to be the best in the world."
This question is rather empty and pretentious, so the answers below are all ridicules.
—Simple, I’ll tell you in a hundred years.
—Why don’t you go directly to Yunxiao and ask Pei Yuzhi
—It's probably the feeling of one man with one sword slaughtering a mountain, with the snow in the sky as the witness. In terms of strength, I still admire Pei Yuzhi very much. But God is fair, he and I have the same strength and appearance, so no one loses.
The style of the painting immediately went awry.
—So beautiful? A reward of 10 spirit stones is offered for the sect and Taoist name of the Taoist friend above.
—Tsk tsk, Pei Yuzhi is ranked first on the list of handsome men in the cultivation world compiled by my female cultivators. May I ask what your name is, fellow Taoist, so that we can open our eyes.
—Hehe, interesting. Taoyuan Mountain, Fenghua Island, Yingzhou, Yao Qianqian. Daoist friend, please come and play, maybe we can become a Taoist couple. Of course, if you are ugly, don't blame me for not showing mercy.
Pei Jing couldn't help but laugh.
There are mostly female cultivators in the overseas Yingzhou, and they are well-known in the world of cultivation for their fierceness.
He thought of Yu Qinglian. When it comes to being bold and aggressive, she is also one of the best.
However, a group of male cultivators who did not know her true face still treated her as a goddess and licked her.
In Pei Jing's impression, she was just a fat person who couldn't control her mouth and couldn't face reality.
She is even more narcissistic than him. When she was a child, she was fat as a ball, but she claimed to be the most beautiful woman in the world. Pei Jing was deceived by her once. She used dirty tricks and complained to his master, causing him to face the wall and reflect on his mistakes for ten days. How could Pei Jing not get the chance to confront her? He immediately laughed and fell backwards: "Come on, your legs are as thick as my waist. I'm afraid that if I dress up as a woman on a whim, your title of the most beautiful woman will change hands."
Yu Qinglian still remembers this sentence.
He was also convinced.
Chen Xu reacted: "What questions did you answer at that time? They were all about yourself?"
Pei Jing: "Oh, you're so smart. You figured this out."
Chen Xu: "... You are so boring."
Pei Jing took it for granted: "Why would I come to Tiange if I'm not bored?"
Chen Xu became curious: "Then how did you respond?"
"This 'One Sword Smooths Through Frost'? I thought it was funny, so I just said it casually. The meaning was, I don't feel anything, just a little cold. I'm not lying, it's true. I didn't expect it to snow. After killing people, I went out and saw nothing but snow. It was so white that it almost blinded me. I didn't have many clothes on at the time, so it would be strange if I wasn't cold."
Chen Xu: “…”
Pei Jing's ink was almost ground. He picked up the pen he had just put down, dipped his sleeve in the ink, and wrote smoothly.
He said, "I answered that last time, now I'll answer this one as well."
Chen Xu noticed his movements and reminded him, "The Tiange stipulates that writing must be done with divine consciousness. Have you forgotten this again?"
Pei Jing sneered and said, "What kind of rule is that? Other sects all use pens, but Master Lou is too fussy. I think writing with a pen can reflect the elegance and grace of my handwriting."
Chen Xu: "No wonder you were chased and beaten by Elder Lou."
Pei Jing pulled the bottom of the scroll and pulled it down from the air. He held down a corner of the rice paper with one hand and held the pen with the other hand. Under the jade crown, the ink flowed like water, pouring on the table. His profile was handsome and elegant, and he looked quite elegant like a nobleman. He wrote freely and naturally.
Chen Xu came closer and saw the answer he wrote clearly. He couldn't bear to look at it directly: "I guess no one will believe that this is my answer."
Pei Jing said: "That's why people in this world are so ignorant. They can't tell right from wrong, true from false."
Chen Xu: “…”
This extremely bored monk who asked random questions probably never thought that I would personally answer them. Although my answer looks like a fool’s
—Thanks for the invitation. Nothing special, just a little cold in the head. The snow was heavy. I suggest those who imitate me wear more clothes.
... ... .Surprisingly quite considerate.
Chen Xu thought to himself, you are not cold-headed, you are stubborn.
Pei Jing had prepared enough ink and remembered the purpose of this trip. He pulled out a piece of rice paper and wrote his question on it.
Although most of the problems in Tiange are caused by laughter and playfulness, everyone is a Jindan cultivator, and everyone has his or her own Taoism. Different perspectives will lead to different conclusions.
What's more, there are many hermits and masters here who will come in to hang out whenever they have time.
—How to return to nature
After writing, he put down his pen, injected spiritual energy, and lifted the rice paper into the air. Mixed in the air, it rotated with the wind. It was transmitted to the heavenly pavilions of various sects in the world of cultivation, gathering ideas from all sides.
"Wait a few days and come back to see." Pei Jinggang said, and then he glanced at it and was stunned. He blinked in disbelief: "No way, there is a reply so soon?"
All I could see was a layer of grey writing underneath his question.
That person should have written it with his spiritual consciousness, and it appeared bit by bit.
—See how you return to your original nature. If you have encountered inner demons, then fight poison with poison and cure the root cause. If you cannot realize the truth because of lack of experience, then enter the world.
Pei Jing was stunned. He pulled down his paper roll again, picked up a pen, and scribbled: How can I enter the world
That person is still there.
Gray handwriting writes slowly.
—You don’t have to wash away your memories to enter the human world. The secular world exists in the vast universe, and wherever there are people, there is the world of mortals.
Pei Jing was instantly in awe. This person had successfully fooled him. Judging from his posture, he was either a pretentious person who was full of nonsense in the Jindan stage, or he was really a great man who was detached from the world. Pei Jing was more inclined to the latter.
But these words were so confusing that he was confused for a moment.
He wanted to ask more.
A thin line of gray characters appeared again.
—Young man, you still have to understand the world yourself. Don't ask, I can't help you.
All right.
Pei Jing silently put away his pen.
Chen Xu said: "What does he mean?"
Pei Jing frowned: "I don't know. But when he talked about entering the world, I have some clues."
Pei Jing was satisfied with coming to Tiange after getting some thoughts. He stopped sitting and stood up, intending to leave. However, because he was thinking about entering the world, he didn't pay attention and stepped on the rice paper that was so long that it dragged on the ground. The rice paper slid down, and the inkstone on it instantly fell to the ground with a sound. This scene was so familiar - wasn't it exactly the same as the last time he spilled the ink! Even the movements were similar.
Pei Jing secretly thought that he was in trouble.
Chen Xu was also startled.
Pei Jing hurriedly said: "Quick, quick, clean up this place."
But it was too late. Elder Lou was an elder after all. He noticed the sound of the inkstone breaking as soon as his ears moved. It came from the direction of Tiange. Who else but Pei Jing dared to do such a bastard thing under his nose!
He immediately became furious, slammed the book shut, and flew up the stairs in a black robe, shouting, "Pei Yuzhi!"
Shit. Hearing the roar, Pei Jing said to Chen Xu: "I'm going to run away first. Good luck to you."
With his rich experience in escaping, he easily climbed out the window and escaped, and was only a moment away from the building elder who could block the windows and door.
Chen Xu was left alone. He was so angry that he vomited blood. His face was distorted and he pounded the wall and yelled, "Pei Yuzhi, come back here!"
But Pei Yuzhi had already walked away.