Extra: Xie Gutang’s growth history
Xie Gutang's original name was not Xie Gutang. His surname was Yang, and his name was Shiyu. He was the son of official parents in a small town in the mortal world.
At that time, the demon cultivator was causing turmoil in various places, and the people were living in dire straits. In the place under his father's jurisdiction, he happened to encounter a demon cultivator who was possessed by the demon seed and was going crazy and wanted to massacre the city. His father asked the Sword Sect for help.
At that time, Luo Bufanshang, the leader of the Sword Sect, was still a junior in the Sword Sect, so he had to order him to rescue people. When he arrived at the Yang family, after he rescued everyone, he heard Xie Gutang's mother cry out in pain. : "噙玉? Where's the 噙玉?"
Everyone searched everywhere, and finally Luo Bufan found Xie Gutang in the wardrobe.
When he opened the closet door and saw the child, he saw that the child had a calm look on his face, his whole body was cold and snow was falling, he was holding a sword, and he was quiet and silent, as if he didn't know anything, and he seemed to know everything.
With just one glance, Luo Bufan knew that this child had extraordinary abilities and must be a talented swordsman.
So Luo Bufan asked Xie Gutang's parents what they wanted, and with the support of the Yang family, he took Xie Gutang back to Jianzong.
Returning to the Jian Zong, I tested Xie Gutang's spiritual root, and found out that this was a talent with a level ice spiritual root. The peaks of the Jian Zong came to snatch this child, and Xie Gutang Tang stood on the ground with a calm expression and said nothing.
After fighting for a long time in each peak, suddenly a cold voice came from the always empty elder's seat: "This child," as soon as the voice came out, everyone fell silent, and then the other party didn't bring anything with him. They discussed, "Come to the world of life."
Everyone was shocked. After a long time, someone looked at him, nodded and said, "He is indeed a good candidate for cultivating the Heart Sword."
Since then, this sentence has surrounded Xie Gutang's childhood.
He has not been expressive since he was a child, and he is not very talkative. He seems indifferent to the things around him. He does whatever adults teach him.
All his senses were dull. He didn't feel very happy when someone robbed him of something. He didn't feel sad when his teacher scolded him.
When Jian Zong was eight years old, all the children learned the same mental method. He went to class with everyone, and he always looked cold and indifferent, which made all the children curious. At the beginning of the semester, the children will think that he is a weirdo, and then the teacher will come out to defend him and tell everyone that it is because he will be the direct disciple of Wenxinjian in the future, and that is what Wenxinjian is like.
If the child doesn't understand, the teacher will explain.
The sword sect's mental skills come from the same sect, but their sword skills are completely different.
Duojian is practiced by ordinary disciples, and they only need to follow the ordinary training methods.
As for the Questioning Heart Sword, you need to let go of all distracting thoughts about the world and explore the original meaning of the Tao. There is no self or sentient beings in your heart.
The child understood and asked the teacher: "Does that mean that even if we grow up together, Shiyu will not be friends with us?"
Hearing this, Xie Gutang paused for a moment. The teacher's face froze, and then he laughed: "Practice your sword well, why do you ask so many questions?"
The teacher didn't answer clearly, but the words got out.
Everyone knows that he is an emotionless monster. No matter how much he pays, he will not receive any emotional feedback in the future.
When he was seven years old, he grew up with them. A junior fellow student strayed into the back mountain and was eaten by a monster. When his body was brought back, the school burst into tears.
This junior brother has a good temper and often brings snacks to everyone. He is also one of the few people who is close to Xie Gutang.
Among the children crying, only Xie Gutang sat there. He seemed a little confused. He wanted to do something, but he didn't know what to do.
He also made other people notice that he had a good relationship with the junior fellow student. One of the disciples stood up and shouted loudly: "Xi Yu! Wang Xiao was so good to you. If he is gone, you won't feel anything at all." No ?”
Xie Gutang stared at the disciple blankly, speechless.
A disciple next to him sighed and sobbed as he came to Xie Gutang's rescue: "Yang Ping, you are also embarrassing Xiyu. He is practicing the Heart Questioning Sword. He doesn't understand."
Xie Gutang opened his mouth and tried to defend himself, but no words came out.
From that moment on, no one really had a heart-to-heart with him.
Xie Gutang lived alone in a courtyard. When he got up in the morning, he looked in the mirror. He was very serious and wanted to express himself. He recalled the looks of others, raising the corners of his mouth bit by bit, and bit by bit. Dot frowned.
In fact, they said that was right, he didn’t understand .
He regained his calm expression and walked out the door.
When he was eight years old, he finally met his master for the first time.
At that time, he had not yet practiced the Questioning Heart Sword and could not enter the Realm of Life. He could only stand at the door of the Realm of Life together with the leader and Luo Bufan, staring blankly at the ice field inside the barrier.
He stood for a long time when he saw a man walking barefoot in the wind and snow. His clothes were shabby and his long hair was hanging loose behind him. His expression was exactly the same as his, even colder.
He walked to the barrier and looked down at eight-year-old Xie Gutang.
The two were silent for a long time. After a long time, the leader said, "Cheqing, you should have a good chat with him."
With that said, the leader took Luo Bufan and left, leaving Xie Gutang alone to see the young man.
He looked up at the young man and found that the young man seemed to be more silent than him.
After a long time, he spoke first: "Are you my master?"
"maybe."
The young man spoke, his voice a little jerky, as if he hadn't spoken for a long time.
"What do you mean maybe?"
Xie Gutang didn't understand. The young man looked calm and said, "If you are willing to join my family."
"Can I not come in?"
Xie Gutang realized what he meant and was a little confused. The young man nodded.
"The Heart-Questing Sword comes at a huge price, so you don't have to accept it."
"What price?"
Xie Gutang didn't understand, so the young man stretched out his hand and handed it to him. Xie Gutang was at a loss, and the young man just said: "I will take you to see it."
Xie Gutang held the young man's hand and was pulled into the barrier by him.
As soon as he entered the barrier, he felt countless evil thoughts rushing towards him, and then he realized that the ice field was not ordinary ice and snow at all, but was formed by the monk's sword intention to suppress evil spirits.
He held him in his arms, surrounded by swords of ice and snow. The sword formation left a safe place for him. The young man held him and walked towards him.
"There once was a world that was said to be a place where gods imprisoned demons and beasts."
The young man explained with a cold voice, telling Xie Gutang: "These demons tried every means to escape. One day, they finally opened a crack with another world. They tried to rush out of the crack and plunder this small world. The sword During the Zongli War, the master of the Wenxin Sword used the Wenxin Sword to drive away demons and seal the two realms, and the place where the two realms meet is the realm of love. "
While they were talking, they came to the edge of the cliff, and Xie Gutang felt a heat wave rolling in.
He lowered his head and saw the rolling lava below. In the lava, faces and hands looked like demons from hell, struggling upwards to break out.
It's just that there is an invisible net that seems to cover them, pressing them down.
Above the lava, a golden sword hung in the air. Occasionally, some monsters rushed out of the lava. The golden sword immediately made a sword light, killing these monsters and falling back into the lava.
"The sword master left the Wenxin Sword ' Yuan' to guard this place. From now on, the disciples of Wenxin Sword in the past generations, after their master ascends or dies, will succeed their master's position and become the new generation of guardians of the world of life. By."
"Is this the price?" Xie Gutang felt that this seemed to be nothing.
The young man stared at the golden sword calmly: "You must stay near the abyss, and the world of life is filled with evil energy. Ordinary people cannot resist the erosion of evil energy and cannot enter."
"That is to say," the young man turned to look at Xie Gutang, "If you want to become my disciple, once I leave, you will have to sit here alone for a long time. To , or ascend.”
"You can't have lovers, people you care about, things you can't let go of. And no one is willing to treat you as someone you can't let go of."
Xie Gutang remained calm despite these words that sounded like a curse.
The young man asked: "Are you willing?"
"Eating Wang Xiao," Xie Gutang looked at the lava 东 and felt a little familiar, "Is it them?"
"One of them accidentally escaped and happened to meet a young disciple after it went out."
The young man didn't know why Xie Gutang asked this. To be honest, Xie Gutang was silent for a long time. He raised his head and said calmly: "Okay."
The young man didn't speak, he stared at Xie Gutang.
"I hope you will answer my question when you become an adult. However, Wen Xin Jian requires you to practice it from an early age, and I cannot train too many disciples."
The young man said and put Xie Gutang on the ground.
He raised his hand and gently placed it on Xie Gutang's forehead.
"If one day you regret it, you will do it. Today you promise me for it."
"good."
Xie Gutang spoke calmly, the young man closed his eyes, and a magic seal fell on Xie Gutang's forehead.
"I, Xie Cheqing, belong to the Wenxin Sword lineage. The disciples will take the master's surname and be given the title by the master."
"From now on, you..." Xie Cheqing paused slightly. He turned his head and saw a begonia flower blooming on the pathogen.
It was raised with his own spiritual power by his own hands, and it was the only living creature on this ice sheet.
He stared at the gorgeous crabapple and said softly: "Xie Gutang."
The master and apprentice formed a contract, and he could not stay in the world of life for too long, so he was sent out by Xie Cheqing.
When sending him out of the barrier, Xie Cheqing removed the evil spirit from his body and handed him over to Luo Bufan.
The leader was a little anxious and just asked: "He is a child. How did you bring him to the world of life? If he was eroded by demonic energy..."
"He has to take a look." Xie Cheqing interrupted the leader with a calm voice, "He has to choose his own path."
After saying that, Xie Cheqing turned around and left, returning to the wind and snow.
From then on, Xie Cheqing taught him once a month.
He can no longer enter the realm of sex, Xie Cheqing said, if he enters too much, he will not be able to get out.
So they talked and taught through the barrier.
Over the past two years, Xie Gutang grew up slowly, and the two became familiar with each other. Xie Cheqing seemed to know him very well. One look at him and he knew what he was thinking.
One day, he suddenly said: "If you don't like it, just say it."
Xie Gutang was stunned for a moment, then shook his head: "I won't be unhappy."
"Wenxinjian is not a lover," Xie Cheqing said in a cold voice, "Emotions, anger, sorrows, and joys are always there, but they are just lighter."
After hearing this, Xie Gutang hesitated for a moment and finally said: "I'll play with them."
This was very childish, but after thinking about it for many years, he realized that he was just some companions.
Xie Cheqing nodded, not surprised, and told him: "Then you learn from them. Observe more, learn more, see how they laugh, how they cry, know when to laugh, when to cry, and what to say to make people happy. , What words are annoying, if you know these, you will have a companion.”
Xie Gutang responded, hesitated for a long time, and then asked: "Master, am I a monster?"
After hearing this, Xie Cheqing finally showed some emotion. He sneered: "Monster? No," he said seriously, "You are a genius."
"The pursuit of the Tao by the Questioning Heart Sword is the true Tao." Xie Cheqing turned to look at the ice field and sighed, "It is understanding the rules of the Tao and understanding the operation of all things. And the land is unkind. , regard all things as stupid dogs, neither good nor evil, neither ugly nor beautiful. If you want to find the way, you need to have a clear heart, no single love, no bias, so you can avoid blindness with one leaf. The Tao is similar in that it requires cultivators to ignore love and hatred and not to worry about hatred. But this is never the final goal of our cultivation."
"Then," Xie Gutang was confused, "how can we see the true rules?"
Xie Cheqing remained silent for a long time, then shook his head: "I don't know."
Xie Gutang began to think about this problem, but he was too young and could not understand it.
He just followed Xie Che's words and began to learn to be an ordinary person. He observed them and understood them. Gradually, he became more relaxed and began to integrate into the world.
He has extraordinary talents and an upright man. He has become a reliable senior brother in everyone's heart, a hero of the generation, and a talented swordsman who will succeed his master in the sword sect in the future.
But he also knew that without much knowledge, his fellow disciples would never become friends with him in private.
He was always alone, and his only relative and friend was his master.
But sometimes, even he himself would doubt how much he weighs in the master's mind.
No one has ever cared about him, and no one has ever believed that he would care about anyone.
He walked alone in this place and seemed to be a normal person, but he never got along with others as a normal person.
After hundreds of years, one day, he met two people.
These two people do not belong to this world. He came to them just for a promise at the beginning, but slowly got along with them.
They were so vivid and vivid, like drizzle moistening his life.
They experienced life together, had fun together, and went boating on the lake together. Under the starry sky at night, he finally found someone telling him: "I treat you as a friend."
He was surprised and turned to look at the handsome young man. He specifically reminded him that he was a cultivator of Wenwen Xinjian.
He thought that after hearing these words, the other party would understand that he was special, that he was cold-hearted, and that his efforts were unrequited.
However, Jian Xingzhi didn't care at all and told him seriously: "I don't believe it."
He doesn't believe that a mental method can make people have no love or hatred, nor does he believe that he is hypocritical. This may be because there are few people in this world who have the intention to understand Xie Gutang.
Even though they knew that he was Wen Xinjian, all of them never changed and regarded him as a friend.
So they laughed and cursed, and followed them to embarrass themselves in front of the boss, and he was happy to do so.
It was just that he thought this was all the relationship between them, until Luo Bufan suddenly found him.
"The world of life is broken, and your master is struggling to support it, but he won't be successful for long. He must seal the completely broken body and kill the evil god."
"How to kill?"
"Let's assist Cuilu and let the evil god devour Jian Xingzhi. After Jian Xing's soul merges with the evil god, Lord Mingjing will immediately wake up and use his own soul as a container to control the evil god. We have prepared a century-old sword formation that will immediately Kill him."
Xie Gutang was speechless. He listened to Luo Bufan and told him all the causes and consequences. After a long time, he said hoarsely: "That's why you let me go down the mountain to protect Qin Wanwan."
"Yes," Luo Bufan nodded, "If you didn't go down the mountain at that time, I would have sent someone else there. But after we have been together for a long time, I was afraid that others wouldn't be able to bear it. If you are willing to go, that would be the best."
Xie Gutang lowered his head. At that moment, he felt as if he had returned to the time when he was his junior brother.
In fact, it's not that he doesn't cry, he just doesn't know what to do to express his inner emotions.
He didn't even know what the mood was.
He felt like something was enveloped by a thin film. Under the thin film was the vast ocean and the stormy waves, but he was far away from being able to sense it.
In his mind, there was Jian Xingzhi, Qin Wanwan, the south wind, and the verdant green. In the end, he returned to the age of eight, when he walked into the wind and snow in the world of life for the first time and saw those evil ghosts from hell going up. Climbing, Wang Xiao's white shirt was stained with blood, and the master walked barefoot into the wind and snow.
The Tao has no preference, the Tao has only great love.
So he raised his hand, saluted respectfully, and said hoarsely: "Yes, Master."
According to what the leader said, he helped Cuilu leave Jian Xingzhi alone.
However, when he was about to destroy Jian Xingzhi and give him the survival talisman, he finally couldn't do it. It just cut off the contact with the talisman, then clutched it and turned around to leave.
Perhaps it was from that moment that he felt something slowly cracking.
He watched Qin Wanwan struggle and scream, and questioned Nanfeng. He walked out of the cave, looked at the wind and snow, and saw Qin Wanwan fighting in despair.
He slowly walked into the wind and snow, and he couldn't help but wonder what the Tao was and what the rules were.
There is no Tao, but he is a human being, and people look into the Tao, but after all, humans are not the Tao.
If you are not Taoist, how can you be selfless? Don't save Jian Xingzhi for the sake of Jian Zong and the world. Isn't this partiality for Jian Zong, his master, and the world
People are people, and is . This in itself is the original rule of .
If you look at things from a human perspective, you must first understand that you are a human being.
The moment he realized this, countless questions flooded into his mind. What is a human being and what is the right thing to do? He had never felt so clearly in his life that the Tao was approaching.
He stood in the wind and snow, green and panicked.
They all knew that such an unprepared epiphany might turn them into demons if they didn't advance, but at that moment, he didn't stop.
This was the first time in his life that he had done anything like this to save someone. He vaguely sensed what real emotions were, and all his memories became the basis for his understanding of the world.
At that moment, he realized that he was finally qualified to help Jian Xingzhi and Qin Wanwan break the situation.
He rescued them and returned to the world of life.
Xie Cheqing's spiritual power was overused and his hair was all white. When he saw Xie Gutang walking into the hall, he said in surprise: "Why are you here?"
From Xie Cheqing's words, he finally felt the faint worry.
He looked at Xie Cheqing and smiled: "Master, let's go."
"I haven't had sex yet," Xie Cheqing laughed, "It's not your turn."
Xie Gutang didn't speak. He stretched out his hand and held Xie Cheqing in place.
Xie Cheqing didn't have the slightest ability to resist at all. He froze on the spot, and then became a little frightened: "Gutang, what are you doing!"
"Master, you brought me in at the beginning, now I'm sending you out."
With that said, Xie Gutang carried Xie Cheqing on his back.
It was also windy and snowy, but he didn't feel it was as hard as when he was a boy.
He formed a sword formation for Xie Cheqing and walked out across the ice field with him on his back.
"Master," he said slowly, "I understand now. In fact, when you taught me back then, you really didn't want to ask outsiders, right?"
"Put me down," Xie Cheqing coughed lightly, "I can still defend."
"But you don't dare, because if you ask, you won't be able to get out."
"Xie Gutang!"
"Master." Xie Gutang carried Xie Cheqing to the barrier to dispel the evil spirit and send him out of the barrier.
Outside the barrier, there are his disciples who have already prepared to protect him.
Xie Gutang smiled as he watched Xie Cheqing being picked up by his disciples and put on the sedan chair.
He stood in the snow and looked at Xie Cheqing.
"From now on, I, Xie Gutang, will guard the realm of sexual life."
"I will protect you better than you, because you have been empty-hearted for hundreds of years, while I, a mortal, have worries in my heart."
"I'm not lonely."
Seeing the young man standing with a smile on his face, Xie Cheqing was stunned and said nothing.
Have something in your heart without attachment, use your human body to see the truth, and stand calmly in the world.
He, his disciple, finally obtained his own Heart-Questing Sword.
Have a clear conscience and have a clear conscience.