Luo Weiran jumped to Wan Xingchen and whispered a few words, Wan Xingchen nodded and walked slowly towards Xiao Yijiu. He rummaged through his arms, found a small porcelain bottle and handed it to Xiao Yijiu: "Do you remember this?"
Xiao Yijiu frowned slightly, reached out to take the porcelain bottle, opened it and smelled it.
"very familiar… "
He shook his head: "What is this?"
"Little Golden Pill."
Wan Xingchen sighed: "I haven't practiced much in these years. I thought I would share it with the four of you. You didn't want it when I gave it to you. You said that you would never use this thing in your life. At that time You are more conceited than Qing Zheng, but Qing Zheng took his share... I have kept these few small golden pills for you, and you may not be able to use them if you travel west."
"Westbound?"
Xiao Yijiu asked, "Why should I go west?"
Wan Xingchen was startled, and after thinking of Luo Weiran's reminder just now, he glanced at Xiao Yijiu angrily: "The brain is seriously damaged..."
He sighed and said: "I know that even if I am your master, it is wrong to arrange your life direction. Although I can use a very righteous excuse to say that because of your ambition, tens of thousands of people died, so I have a reason Let you go west to forgive your sins. But it is obviously hypocritical... No one can arrange the life and death of others, but now I have to do so. Nineteen... When I first saw you, I changed your name. I said a Even if a person has only one point of talent but nine points of hard work, then he is perfect."
"Actually, you are the kind of person with nine-point talent... Although I saw your paranoia a long time ago, I never intervened in it, because I don't want to arrange other people's lives. Everyone has their own opinions. And choices, what kind of path you choose will have what kind of consequences. Today I will break my promise... "
He took off a piece of jade pendant from his belt, and stretched out his hand to smooth out the patterns on the jade pendant. One side of the jade pendant became smooth and flat, and a layer of powder fell down one after another as his hand passed by. He wrote four characters on the jade pendant with his fingers, and then hung the jade pendant around Xiao Yijiu's neck.
Xiao Yijiu did not resist or stop from the beginning to the end, but quietly looked at the dying old man in front of him.
Wan Xingchen beckoned and asked Luo Weiran to fetch a set of clothes.
He dressed Xiao Yijiu with his own hands: "If you forget what you are going to do, just look at this jade pendant. Of course, you may even forget the existence of the jade pendant. Let fate... If you forget everything and don't walk out of Tai Sui, Then I'll go find you again."
Xiao Yijiu took the jade pendant out of his clothes to look at it, and murmured out four words: "Go west to destroy Buddha."
He asked, "Why?"
Wan Xingchen looked at him and said: "Don't you want to be the person closest to the sky? The Buddhist sect is known as the guardian of the sky. They guard the gate connecting the sky and the world, so if you want to get close to the sky, you have to Go find them."
"good."
Xiao Yijiu nodded, turned around and walked a few steps, then suddenly turned around and asked, "Who are you? Why do I feel familiar with you?"
Wan Xingchen waved his hand: "Let's go, what does it matter who I am?"
Xiao Yijiu hummed and continued walking forward. He walked a few steps away as if he had forgotten something, and then he felt four words hovering in his mind.
Go west to destroy Buddha.
These four words were sent into his mind by Wan Xingchen, if it wasn't for him, others would not be able to do this. Xiao Yijiu looked down at the jade pendant on his chest, and then continued to walk forward. After walking for twenty or thirty steps, he stopped again. After a pause, he saw the jade pendant again, and then continued walking.
"I didn't expect to lie to people at such an advanced age, and it was my apprentice who lied... No matter whether Yijiu is really going west or not, he will kill many people, I will bear this crime after all. I just hope God Don't just punish me by taking my lifespan, the older you get, the more greedy you will be. Besides... I still have a few things I haven't done."
Wan Xingchen said with a sigh.
At this time, a general in iron armor came on horseback from a distance, pointed at Wan Xingchen with the long spear in his hand, and said, "Who are you? Why did you let the prisoner go! Your Majesty has no intention to pardon this person. But to let him go is disrespectful!"
Wan Xingchen glanced at him indifferently, and suddenly smiled: "Is it disrespectful to resist the order? It's not the first time I've done this kind of thing."
The general of the Forbidden Army obviously didn't know who Wan Xingchen was, and most of the generals of the Forbidden Army came from relatives and aristocratic families, so they were domineering and flamboyant. He immediately became furious when he heard Wan Xingchen say such words, and he pointed at Luo Weiran with his long spear and said angrily: " Commander, are the people in your Ouchi guards so presumptuous? If you don’t care, don’t blame me for speaking out before Your Majesty!”
How dare a General of the Forbidden Army speak to Luo Weiran like this before his position in the Ouchi guards' office fell
Luo Weiran looked at him and asked word by word: "Do you think if I kill you, will His Majesty kill me to save your life?"
The General of the Forbidden Army was startled, his face obviously changed: "You..."
"roll."
Luo Weiran snorted, then waved his hand casually. A burst of sword energy shot out, cutting open the horse that the general was sitting on in an instant. The horse's head fell to the ground with a plop, and the general jumped up subconsciously, but suddenly found that several air pockets on his body were sealed by sword energy, and he fell to the ground with a strange cry.
"Luo Weiran!"
The man got up in embarrassment, trying to grab his long spear, only to find that the spear had been broken.
At this moment, Su Buwei came over from a distance: "Your Majesty's will, let Xiao Yijiu go!"
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Luo Weiran supported Wan Xingchen and walked slowly in the direction of Dongnang Pavilion, while Bingbi eunuch Su Buwei followed respectfully. In front of this old man, Su Buwei knew that he didn't have any capital to be proud of.
"Wei Ran... Do you know why your cultivation hasn't improved a bit in these years?"
Wan Xingchen asked softly as he walked: "When you came down the mountain, although your cultivation was not as strong as it is now, it was more pure. Qingzheng broke through that layer of barriers more than ten years ago and went to a place where even I had to The point of amazement. Ten years later, Yijiu also broke through that layer of barriers. Although he became incomplete, he still took that step. After ten years, maybe Qingniu will also come to this step, but Have you thought about what your cultivation will be like in ten years' time?"
Luo Weiran was silent for a while and then replied with a sad tone: "It's not as good as now."
Wan Xingchen nodded: "You are right, you may not be as good as you are now after more than ten years."
"Do you know why?"
he asks.
Luo Weiran hesitated for a moment, and glanced at Su Buwei who was following behind.
"That's why..."
Wan Xingchen smiled helplessly and said: "Ever since you put on this official uniform, you have become timid and overwhelmed. You have to think about too many things, so how can you put your mind on cultivation? Struggle was originally what you hated the most, but now you are deeply involved in it... Green struggle can get out of it from the intrigue, but you can't extricate yourself from it. If you spend half of the time in the past ten years to practice , How could it be impossible to stop even one nine one blow? If he didn't look down on you, you would have died before I came."
"Master taught me that."
Luo Weiran lowered his head.
"This is not to teach you."
Wan Xingchen said: "I accepted the four of you, plus I gave Zhou Banchuan a few words of advice. In the rest of my life, there are only four and a half disciples. Have you ever seen me reprimand and teach whom? I just opened a door. The door of practice, how far you have practiced is your own business. Qingzheng saw through eight points of the things in this door, and saw through five points when Yijiu was crazy, and you are so talented that you have not seen a single point. see through."
"Tu'er...Tu'er has really become worried about gains and losses."
Luo Weiran sighed.
"Because you're obsessed with these things."
Wan Xingchen smiled and said: "Power, status...these things bind your hands and feet and also bind your heart."
He paused and asked: "If you ever understand, go to the library of Yanwu Academy. It's such a big building, and there are too many books in it. I'm a little powerless to sort it out now. I just fell in love with a little guy." He can be a helper, but he is destined to fall deeper than you. But he is born with this kind of person, you are not."
When Su Buwei heard these words, his body trembled slightly, and a trace of fear flashed in his eyes.
"I have lived in Chang'an City for more than a hundred years."
Wan Xingchen said calmly: "I have seen the emperors of all dynasties, and I have seen too many messy people. The emperors have changed from generation to generation. I have watched the people of the Yang family gradually make the entire Central Plains stable and peaceful. So I am very happy. Since After Emperor Taizong, I stopped interfering with the affairs of the court because I knew that the members of the Yang family were capable of doing a good job. But if someone forgets that I am still alive, I don’t mind walking around.”
In an instant, Su Buwei's clothes were soaked with sweat.
He lowered his head, not daring to look at the trembling back of the old man.
He suddenly found that there was an extra knife in his heart, but the handle of the knife was held in someone else's hand.
"When Emperor Taizu met me..."
Wan Xingchen said with a smile: "He kowtowed three times and wanted to worship me as his teacher. I didn't agree, because his mind was in the world and not in cultivation. So he kowtowed three more times and wanted to ask me to protect the descendants of the Yang family. I agreed. I've remembered this sentence for more than a hundred years, so the Yang family is going to forget it?"
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Dongnuang Pavilion.
The emperor respectfully handed over a cup of hot tea, then took two steps back and stood to one side, like a child who had just entered school, full of awe and respect for his husband.
Wan Xingchen didn't drink that cup of tea, nor did he speak.
The emperor didn't dare to speak, and didn't even dare to look at Wan Xingchen's face.
I don't know how long it took, Wan Xingchen breathed a sigh of relief and said calmly: "I will die sooner or later, no one in this world can live forever. You don't have to use Luo Weiran to test me, I promised too The Emperor Zu has been doing it all the time. If I want to influence your Yang family, there is no need to wait until now at any time in the past hundred years. Xiao Yijiu is my apprentice. I also know to make you frightened. I understand better what you are worried about and what you are afraid of. You are a person who can become an emperor through the ages, but because of your special reasons, you are becoming more and more paranoid. Paranoia is not wrong, it is wrong It's the direction."
He looked at the emperor and said: "I said, I will not arrange other people's lives. I quietly watched this empire from birth to rise, and I don't want to see it collapse before I die. You are a smart person, you should know What do I mean. You keep Xiao Yijiu from killing, and you use an eunuch to squeeze out Luo Weiran. Of course, I understand what you want to do. Emperor... You know, if a person does not have a person who can be completely trusted in this life , is such a sad thing?"
After saying this, Wan Xingchen stood up slowly.
"I'm going back, so I won't delay your handling of the court affairs."
The emperor bowed his head, his face pale.
Wan Xingchen paused when he reached the door, looked back at the emperor and said sadly: "Can you do everything? Even God can't arrange your own affairs. Even if you can, you plan to let Your only son has become a person who just sits on the dragon chair and has nothing to do? An emperor who has nothing to do... just watch the sun rise and then set. Regardless of the length of life, the most successful thing is not to arrange Don’t do everything, but be yourself.”
"Just these four words, how difficult is it?"