Chen Changsheng didn't know how to answer, should he tell him that he suddenly lost all interest in cultivation? After thinking about it, he said, "I've already passed through the secluded world, so naturally there's no need to worry too much."
Tang Thirty-Six stared at him and asked, "Very proud?"
Chen Changsheng was slightly startled, and said, "There really isn't one."
Tang Thirty-Six pointed to the woods and said: "I told you on the way, for us ascetics, the Tianshu Mausoleum itself is the most important thing, and it is countless times more important than the Zhou Garden. Only those who can see the ground a few feet in front of them will consider asking questions about the stele in the Mausoleum of Heavenly Books as a condition to break through the seclusion, look at the man Gou Hanshi who has already passed through the seclusion, and he didn't waste any time."
Chen Changsheng looked along his fingers, and saw figures flickering on the mountain path in the green forest, the sound of piercing the sky continued, and the four figures of Lishan Sword Sect were about to disappear.
He turned to look at Tang Thirty-Six and said, "Aren't you still standing here?"
"I think you have some problems today, so I decided to follow you." Tang Thirty-Six said, staring into his eyes.
Chen Changsheng looked at him and said seriously: "The opportunity is rare, don't waste time."
Tang Thirty-Six said: "Anyway, there's still at least a month left, don't worry."
At this moment, a voice sounded behind the two: "You really shouldn't be in a hurry."
The person who came was Su Moyu. This young priest from the Li Palace Affiliated Academy had really bad luck in this year's imperial examination. In the first round of the battle, he met such a strong opponent as Zhexiu. Fortunately, his performance in the literary examination was very good. , and narrowly entered the ranks of the top three.
Looking at him, Tang Thirty-Six asked puzzledly: "Chen Changsheng is not in a hurry because he has mental problems today, but I want to keep an eye on him. Why are you doing this?"
Su Moyu said: "There is a common saying among the people that you can't eat hot tofu in a hurry. How can the Tianshu stele be so easy to understand? The mentality is the most important thing. The more anxious you are, the more likely you will go wrong."
Tang Thirty-Six reminded: "The Zhou Garden will open in a month, and time will not wait for anyone."
Su Moyu said calmly, "I'm not going to Zhou Garden."
Tang Thirty-Six's expression was slightly different, and Chen Changsheng also felt a little strange, who could not be tempted by Zhou Dufu's inheritance
Su Moyu said: "After the imperial examination, I realized that my foundation is a bit weak. Those arrogance back then are ridiculous now, so I plan to spend more time in the Mausoleum of Books."
Chen Changsheng asked: "How long can we stay in Tianshu Mausoleum?"
Su Moyu asked slightly, "Did you not listen to what the stele attendant said just now?"
Chen Changsheng felt a little embarrassed, and replied, "Well, I was thinking about other things earlier."
Tang Thirty-Six felt that his performance was a bit embarrassing, and hurriedly said: "The rules of viewing the stele of Tianshu Mausoleum have never changed over the years. You can stay as long as you want as long as you can come in, but if you want to leave, you want to come in again later. Entering the Mausoleum of Books is not that simple."
Chen Changsheng looked at Su Moyu and asked, "You decided to give up Zhou Garden for Tianshu Mausoleum?"
Su Moyu said: "Although Zhou Garden is good, it is not my hometown."
From time to time, the sound of frightened birds flapping their wings can be heard in the verdant forest.
Tang Thirty-Six said: "Obviously, those other guys don't think so."
"How can Zhou Garden be compared with Tianshu Mausoleum? Even if there is Zhou Dufu's inheritance there, it cannot be more important than these steles in the mountains. The former is a shortcut, and the latter is the right way."
Su Moyu looked at the silent Qingqiu and said with emotion.
Chen Changsheng was silent and did not speak.
Tang Thirty-Six sneered and said: "Where do so many specious reasons come from? The straight line between two points is the closest, so the most righteous way is itself the fastest way."
The right way is a shortcut? Chen Changsheng and Su Moyu were slightly taken aback when they heard the words, but found that they couldn't refute.
"You can." Chen Changsheng looked at him and praised.
"I can't say no to you, I'll go first." Su Moyu shook his head, and walked towards the Mausoleum of Books with his hands behind his back.
"I'm very worried about Su Moyu's future." Looking at the back of the young priest who was about to disappear into the green forest, Tang Thirty-Six raised his eyebrows slightly, and said, "There have been many examples before, including many people now. Trapped in the Mausoleum of Books of Heaven, unable to leave, I hope he won't."
Chen Changsheng was a little surprised, and asked, "Trapped in the Mausoleum of Books?"
"From being unwilling to leave to not daring to leave at all, those people have been watching the stele in the Mausoleum of Books for decades. How is it different from prisoners?"
Tang Thirty-Six said: "Those people don't want to part with the bustling world outside, don't want to swear blood to become stele servants, and are willing to give up the enlightenment brought by the heavenly book and stele. Leaving or staying is a great temptation. Facing these Temptation, how to choose, when to make a choice, is itself a test for everyone in Tianshu Mausoleum."
Chen Changsheng said: "I don't think this choice is so difficult."
"That's because we haven't seen the Heavenly Book yet."
Tang Thirty-Six looked at him and said, "Of course, even if you see it, I believe you have the ability to clearly understand what you want most, just like Gou Hanshi, he must have thought about it in advance, if even this hurdle If you can’t get through, how can you be qualified to continue on the road of repairing.”
Chen Changsheng suddenly thought of something, and asked, "If you can keep reading in the Mausoleum of Books, do you have anything to eat?"
Hearing this, Tang Thirty-Six was quite speechless, thinking that you are not that foodie like Xuanyuan, so he said angrily: "Of course there is food to eat, if you want to see death, you can eat till you die."
Chen Changsheng was a little embarrassed, and said, "Don't be angry, I just think this matter is more important."
Tang Thirty-Six didn't bother to pay attention to him, pointing to the hill full of green trees and said: "There is only one road in the Mausoleum of Books, and those steles are all beside the road. Only after seeing the next floor can you go to the previous one."
Chen Changsheng asked: "How many floors are there in the Mausoleum of Books?"
This question has always puzzled him. Logically speaking, there are many descriptions of the Mausoleum of Heavenly Books in the 3,000 volumes of Daozang, but he has never seen how many floors there are.
"I don't know... Well, to be precise, no one knows how many floors there are in the Mausoleum of Books." Tang Thirty-Six said.
Chen Changsheng was very puzzled when he heard the words, and said: "As far as I know, although it is extremely difficult to climb to the top of Tianshu Mausoleum, some people have done it before. How come they don't know the number of floors?"
Tang Thirty-Six said: "The old master once told me that the day I really enter the Mausoleum of Books, I will know why there are no floors in the Mausoleum of Books."
"Why?" Chen Changsheng was still puzzled.
Tang Thirty-Six stared into his eyes, and said in a deep voice: "First, I'm not a stele attendant, and second, I'm not a tour guide, so can you stop asking me why? Anyway, all you need to know is that those steles are only How many monuments you can understand in the end depends on your own understanding."
Chen Changsheng could feel that he was in a bad mood. He wanted to control himself and stop asking questions, but he couldn't suppress his curiosity, so he asked tentatively, "The last question?"
Tang Thirty-Six took a deep breath and said, "Say."
Chen Changsheng said: "According to the Taoist scriptures, when offering sacrifices to the heavens, the Holy Empress and the Pope will climb to the top of the Mausoleum of Heavenly Books from the legendary divine way. Is that the way you mentioned?"
"No." Tang Thirty-Six said, "Shinto is another path."
"But you just said that there is only one way to the Tianshu Mausoleum."
"That's for those who enter the Mausoleum of the Book of Heaven to observe the stele and realize the Tao."
"If you want to climb to the top, which road is closer? I think it should be Shinto."
"Shinto is the right path at the south foot, not a shortcut to climb the mausoleum. You are not the kind of person who is afraid of danger. You should be very clear that there is no shortcut to Shushan, you can only climb hard."
"But you just told Su Moyu that the right way is a shortcut."
Tang Thirty-Six was silent for a long time, and said: "First of all, I was arguing with him, and secondly, regardless of whether it is the right way or a shortcut, anyway, you can't go directly to the top of the Mausoleum of Books from that way, you don't need to ask me Why, let me tell you directly, because there are guards on that divine path, and no one has ever been able to forcibly ascend the tomb from there."
"Don't be angry." Chen Changsheng was a little embarrassed, and reached out to pat him on the shoulder.
Tang Thirty-Six stared into his eyes and said, "This is the second time, don't want a third time."
Chen Changsheng knew that his emotions were on the verge of breaking out at this time, so he thought it best not to bother him any longer, and said, "I'll just go for a stroll."
At this time, the young candidates who entered the top three of the Great Dynasty Examination had already entered the Tianshu Mausoleum, and their figures disappeared into the green forest, only the two of them remained outside.
Tang Thirty-Six's voice was slightly high, and he asked, "Do you really want to go for a stroll?"
Chen Changsheng nodded, and said as a matter of course: "The scenery in the cemetery is nice, I want to take a walk around."
Tang Thirty-Six looked at him like an idiot, thinking that after going through untold hardships, everyone successfully entered the top three in the imperial examination and got the opportunity to enter the Mausoleum of Heavenly Books to observe the stele and enlighten the Tao. You don't want to go to those steles to meditate and study, Just want to look at the scenery casually? Do you really consider yourself a tourist? Tourists can't enter Tianshu Mausoleum!
Ignoring how surprised and annoyed Tang Thirty-Six was, Chen Changsheng left him where he was, and began to walk around the Tianshu Mausoleum. The Tianshu Mausoleum in early spring was very green, and the garden under the mausoleum was full of flowers and trees, and the scenery was really good. Stop and go, look around with your hands behind your hands, really like a tourist from the countryside.
Because of the cover of lush green trees, it is difficult for people outside the Tianshu Mausoleum to see the scene inside the mausoleum clearly, but the people on the mausoleum can clearly see the outside. Those candidates walking on the mountain path, many people noticed his existence, It was shocking to find that he did not climb the mausoleum, but was visiting outside.
Chen Changsheng did not ascend the mausoleum. It was natural for everyone to be shocked, but the emotions that followed were different. Some candidates think that he is pretending to be indifferent, which is really shameless to the extreme, such as the scholar of Huaiyuan and the junior sister named Ye Xiaolian on the Saintess Peak, while some people think that with his current state and in university The level shown in the court test, Ming Shuling was in front but not in, it is too unselfish, for example, Guan Feibai and Liang Banhu thought so, Gou Hanshi took a sip of the clear water handed over by Qijian, and looked at it. Chen Changsheng, who was sitting in a daze on the stone by the pool looking at the foot of the mountain, had a different idea from most people.
He felt that there was something wrong with Chen Changsheng today, probably because of a mental problem, but he couldn't figure out why it happened. It was only a few days before the match against the court test. In his opinion, Chen Changsheng's perseverance was even a little scary. Why? Nor should there be too many changes in just a few days.
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Tianshu Mausoleum is a green hill with a large area. It is not easy to walk completely along the road under the mausoleum, especially if you stop and go like Chen Changsheng. Looking at the pond, he went to be in a daze, walking all the way thinking about those things that were not there, and walked for two hours before arriving at Lingnan.
Chen Changsheng was looking at the patterns made of five-colored stones on the road, when he suddenly heard the sound of roaring water coming from the air, he looked up subconsciously, and saw a silver waterfall pouring from somewhere in the cliff of the green mountain When it came out, it turned into a white line, fell between the cliffs tens of feet high, scattered and overflowed, and turned into dozens of smaller water lines, passing through the jagged mountains and rocks, and finally fell to the ground.
Looking at this beautiful scene, his first reaction was, the south cliff of Tianshu Mausoleum is really steep, there are not many trees, why can't we see a stone monument? Then his gaze moved downwards along the dozens of streams, and he saw an extremely wide black stone flat in front of the road. There was a shallow canal dug by hand in between. Follow those streams to flow forward.
He walked along the canal, and saw that the water in the canal was extremely clear, and the white stones at the bottom of the canal shone like pearls. Not long after, he came to the south of Tianshu Mausoleum, the sound of the waterfall faded away, and the canals on the stone flat became more dense. He couldn't help but think that if he looked down from the top of Tianshu Mausoleum, these shallow canals would form a What kind of pattern
Then, he saw the legendary Shinto.
It was a straight road, leading directly from Shiping to the top of Tianshu Mausoleum. As Tang Thirty-Six said, if one wants to climb the Mausoleum of Books, this divine way is the shortest way. But this shrine is forbidden for anyone to pass, and only during the ceremony of offering sacrifices to heaven, the Holy Empress and the Pope can walk on it.
There is nothing on the Shinto, not even trees on either side, only cliffs.
Anyone who thinks about the top of the Tianshu Mausoleum at the end of this divine way will probably have a strong desire to go up.
But no one has ever succeeded.
Because at the beginning of Shinto, there is a gazebo among countless shallow canals.
There is a person sitting in the pavilion.
The man was wearing a dilapidated armor, the breastplate was full of rust, the armor covered the whole body, from the head to the hands, no part was exposed.
The man held a dilapidated sword in his hand. There were many gaps on the blade, and the sword touched the ground.
Looking at it from a distance, this man in full armor looks like a statue.
Sometimes, it even makes people doubt whether there is anyone in the armor.
But Chen Changsheng knew that it was a person.
The whole continent knows this man.
This man has been sitting in this gazebo for hundreds of years.
Many people are saying that if he hadn't sat in front of the Mausoleum of Books for hundreds of years, this person might have already entered the wind and rain.
Because hundreds of years ago, he was already the number one general in the mainland.
He is the mausoleum guardian of this generation of Tianshu Mausoleum.