The arrangement of the sword test competition was notified by Jiyue herself.
She walked to the door, knocked on the door a few times, and after hearing the answer from the inside, she pushed the door open and entered.
Huaibai is looking at the Mirage Pearl.
The four sat in a row, holding a piece of watermelon in their hands, eating the melon while watching a play.
Seeing Jiyue coming in, Huai Bai patted the seat and handed her a piece of watermelon.
Jiyue was stunned for a moment, then sat down too.
What was broadcast on the Mirage Orb was the Sword Trial Tournament from previous years.
Swords and swords came and went suddenly, and young talents from all walks of life came on stage one after another.
The sky is full of rays of light and sword shadows, like colorful clouds weaving neon, like butterflies wearing flowers, like frost and snow splashing on the sky.
Sheng Ji said repeatedly: "Okay."
There is a smile in Jiyue's eyes, the immortal sect is full of talents, and the prosperity is incomparable. She is also happy to be in the immortal sect. But then, her smile froze—
She sees herself.
Eighty years ago, Jiyue won the Grand Competition. She was young then, and acted a little frivolously.
And it just so happened that there was a trend of exaggeration in Xianmen, and the teenagers happily gave themselves nicknames, and they had to read them out loud when they appeared on stage.
For example, "The next step is to step into the sky", "A mere knife is facing the waves"...
Very sick.
Jiyue was fidgeting and was trying to find a reason to say goodbye and leave when Peiyu suddenly got up and turned off the Mirage Pearl, saying, "Let's see here today."
Jiyue gave her a grateful look.
"Hey," Yu Chisu rubbed his eyes, "Friend Daoist, when did you come?"
Jiyue smiled. These Gushan disciples seem to be doing nothing, but they are working hard behind their backs. It seems that when she goes back, she will have to supervise the cultivation of her juniors and sisters.
"Just came, I just came to inform you about the arrangement of the competition."
Jiyue took out four volumes of jade slips. The jade slip recorded the time and times of this sword test.
"The opponent is determined by lottery, and it will automatically appear on the jade slip after it is decided." Jiyue paused for a while, and looked at Huai Bai with some doubts, "Will Jiang Zhu participate in this competition?"
Huaib smiled and said, "I'm just here to join in the fun."
Ji Yue handed over the jade slip, "There are a lot of people joining in the fun this time."
City Lord Jiang, Palace Master Qianhan, the mage of Fotu... people who shouldn't be here all rushed into the Saint's Villa, making Jiyue feel a little uneasy.
Several people chatted for a while.
Jiyue frowned when talking about the cessation of the Shui clan's struggles over the years. Since the Dragon Clan died out, the Shui Clan has been fighting endlessly and causing frequent internal turmoil. This is actually a good thing for the people of the East China Sea. There will be no more incidents of the massacre of the aquarium in the past. As long as you don't go to the deep sea, you won't encounter any danger.
"But in the past five years, they seem to have reached a settlement," Jiyue sighed, "I don't know why, although the people have not been harmed for the time being, but the future situation is still unknown. Fortunately, the dragon clan is extinct, and a group of mobs will probably not make trouble. What a big deal."
Sunset and setting sun.
Jiyue bid farewell and left, and came to Jianxian Pavilion.
Jianxian Pavilion stands by the sea, washed by the waves every day, like a lonely giant, watching the sea.
She took a deep breath and stepped up to the tall building.
The ninth floor of Jianxian Pavilion is no longer what it used to be.
Inside the building, the great river goes eastward, sparkling with sparkling light, and the peach blossoms on both sides of the river are ten miles away, and the flowers are like crimson clouds.
Jiyue was startled, and understood after a while. The realm of the saint's mind, the Jianxian Pavilion at this time is an illusion created by Yuanfeng with spiritual power.
Yuan Feng stood under the flower tree, his robe was slightly puffed up by the wind.
The flowers fall like snow, and the river is surging.
It was clearly an illusion, but Jiyue smelled a faint fragrance of peach blossoms.
She saluted respectfully, "Master."
Yuan Feng nodded, "This is where I proved my way in the past."
"I'm not an amazingly talented person. When I first entered the Taoist sect, ordinary monks can build a foundation in a few decades, but I worked hard to build a foundation until I was a hundred years old. As for forming a pill, it is even more hopeless in this life." .I was born as a humble person, but I love to think about the great truths between heaven and earth.”
"I think that people in the world suffer a lot. The Buddha saw that all living beings are suffering, and taught people to pin their hopes on the afterlife. However, the afterlife is illusory. How can they pass through the world?"
"Buddhism, in my opinion, is not the way to save the world."
"Gushan cultivates the way of heaven. The heaven and the earth are not benevolent, and treat all things as dogs. The saints are not benevolent, and treat the people as dogs. The heavens and the earth let all things live and die on their own, and the saints let the people live on their own. Everything follows nature."
"But," Yuan Feng smiled wryly, "we were born in the world, do we have to stand still and look on our comrades like this? Do we have to be born in the world, do we have to do nothing for the world? We are born like grass, trees, rocks, and this There is no difference between a flower and a tree in the world."
"I'm not satisfied with that either."
"As for the Qianhan Palace, it is needless to say how to avoid the world. Momen is the same as my Shengrenzhuang, and both have a heart to save the world. It's a pity..."
Yuanfeng sighed softly, "Momen said 'universal love', the idea is good. But in this world, how can there be no closeness and distance, Momen requires that love be equally distributed to everyone, if parents and strangers fall into the Wouldn't it be against human nature to force people to save the stranger first in the water?"
Jiyue nodded, "Exactly."
Yuan Feng said: "At that time, I often thought, what should be the way of Shengrenzhuang and my way in the future?"
Jiyue was also thinking deeply when she heard the words, the way of Shengrenzhuang... She murmured: "Benevolence?"
Yuan Feng smiled, "But the word benevolence is so empty, what is benevolence, and how to achieve benevolence?"
She reached out and plucked off a branch of peach blossom, and walked slowly to the front of the river. The river flowed slowly, and the sunset reflected the river, and the world was vast.
"When I came here, it suddenly became clear."
"People in the world are ignorant, so I will educate the people with benevolence and love, and pass on their etiquette, poetry, and filial piety."
"People's love has closeness and urgency. This is a constant. I will teach people to be filial. If there are people who are not filial, I will treat them with courtesy. If everyone loves their parents, children, and brothers, isn't it possible in this world? Reach the realm that the saints yearn for."
She put the peach blossom into the water and watched it go away with the flowing water.
"The dead are like this, day and night. You have seen everything I have done in the past 800 years. In the seven cities, everyone speaks well, and their lives are rich and stable. The rituals and music are still there, and filial piety is not lost. I save If it doesn’t benefit the people of the world, at least it will benefit one side, but Jiyue, why do I still feel that I’ve done something wrong?”
Jiyue was puzzled, "Was Master ever wrong?"
Yuan Feng looked at the setting sun with his hands behind his back, "Everyone speaks articles and talks a lot, but how many people are dedicated to doing practical things?"
"Three years of filial piety, the promotion of generous burials, how many people are really sad? Under the ritual and music, the hypocrisy is far from what I thought back then."
Her eyes were sad, "Why did I put all my energy into it, but let Shengrenzhuang fall to such an unbearable state?"
"Why is it that the disciples of my Shengrenzhuang are more and more unbearable from generation to generation? The younger generation looks at the past, and there is no one available except you."
"I made an oath here back then that Gushan would practice the ruthless way of heaven, and my Saint Village will practice the way of sentient beings. I want to educate the world, teach them not to believe in ghosts and gods, and not to fear heaven and earth, so that they can firmly believe that man will conquer heaven, and heaven will serve me. As a human being, I would like to make a difference to the world, and I also hope that everyone can make a difference to the world.”
"Humanity is the Tao that I realized back then, and benevolence is the way I envisioned to attain Tao."
"But maybe this matter was wrong from the beginning. In the past eight hundred years, in order to realize the Tao of the past, even I have changed a lot. I was already a heartless person, but it is no wonder that I want to teach people to be kind. will almost fail.”
Under the setting sun, her clothes were stained red, as if soaked in blood. With thin cheeks and dry hair like grass, he stands alone between the sky and the earth.
Looking at this figure from behind, Jiyue felt deep loneliness, "Master's method has not failed, but..." She cupped her hands, "I would like to follow Master and pursue your way together."
Yuan Feng's figure flickered, and a small fox seemed to appear in front of him.
The fox fell down at her feet and said loudly: "I would like to form a bond with you and pursue your way together."
"Why, you are the Nine-Tailed Fox Immortal, and I am just a Foundation Establishment cultivator."
The fox demon said: "If you hear the truth in the morning, you will die in the evening!"
If you hear the Tao in the morning, you can die in the evening.
Yuan Feng sighed sadly, the setting sun shone on her face, making her look gloomy and lonely.
She said: "A sage should look up to the world and be innocent, but now I regret it very much. If I hadn't been so persistent back then, I wouldn't have changed my face now."
…
When Jiyue walked out of Jianxian Pavilion, she couldn't help but turn her head and take a look.
The tower is immersed in the setting sun, and behind it is the endless sea, and the sound of the waves is endless.
Jianxian Pavilion has been standing like this for 800 years, like a saint standing on the river, looking down and watching the world.
The sage is thinking about the great way of heaven and earth, but the disciples of Gushan are drinking tea and gossiping.
The white steam is dense, and the fragrance of tea curls up.
Huai Bai poured four cups of tea, the water was clear. She handed the teacup to Peiyu, "There is still a week to try the sword, don't be nervous, just practice as usual."
Yu Chisu nodded, holding hot tea, "If we enter the top ten, we can enter the Tianhai Secret Realm together." Her eyes lit up, "Hey, Tianhai Secret Realm! I must pay homage to Lu Zu more, so that we can enter Be selected together!"
Huai Bo laughed, "It's better to ask others than to ask yourself, you might as well practice hard by yourself."
Sheng Ji was disappointed: "It's a pity that I haven't got a good sword yet."
Huai Bai comforted: "Sometimes in fate, there must be something eventually. When fate comes, we will meet naturally."
Peiyu held the tea and said nothing.
Huai Bai was a little worried, the apprentice didn't talk much at first, and after arriving in the East China Sea, there were even fewer words, as if he had turned into a piece of wood. She knocked on the table and asked, "Peiyu, what are you thinking?"
Peiyu looked at the tea and shook her head slightly.
Huai Bai was even more worried.
Yu Chisu flipped through the jade slips, "This elder sister is really a kind person, she actually sent it to us herself."
As Jiyue, she naturally doesn't have to do such trivial things, doing it herself is enough to show how much she attaches importance to the people of Gushan.
Yu Chisu smiled and said, "Thanks to Sister Yu."
Sheng Ji said: "It turns out that Shengren Zhuang is not all people with false feelings and hypocrisy."
Peiyu suddenly asked: "Why does Shengren Zhuang pay attention to benevolence and righteousness in everything, but breeds many people with good morals?"
Huai Bai thought for a while, "The upper beam is not straight and the lower beam is crooked." She held her chin, "Actually, what the sage said is correct, and I agree with many of them. But Yuan Feng is not as stalwart as in the story. .Maybe she's not bad at heart, but she just can't be a saint."
"She is in this position, and everything she does seems to be right, but because of her, the effect is greatly reduced. I just can't understand her, but I actually quite agree with her way."
Although she is a Taoist disciple, like Yuan Feng, she has a heart to help the world.
It's just that there are three thousand roads, and individuals have their own paths and opportunities.
The wooden door was knocked lightly.
Someone asked softly, "Is Peiyu there?"
Peiyu stared slightly, looking outside the door—
Sui Han's voice.