Pei Qian stared at the long golden bridge and recited the teachings of the sages, while Zhu Lian was thinking about something.
The long bridge across the Mi River gradually disappeared. Pei Qian was a little thirsty and lost the energy to study. She wanted to learn boxing and swordsmanship, but it was a pity that Chen Pingan was unwilling to teach her. As for people like Zhu Lian, even if they
She is willing to teach, but Pei Qian is not willing to learn.
Chen Ping'an was still in the mysterious state of sitting and forgetting. What was even more strange was that he found himself floating out, his soul leaving his body and hanging in the air. Looking at himself sitting cross-legged, he felt very weird in his heart. It was different from the previous confrontation with Ding.
The souls of the infant and the eunuch in python clothes were separated and divided into three parts. Some of those who left the body this time were like the legendary Yin gods, the kind that the gentleman Zhong Kui had that night at the inn, but Zhong Kui also cultivated into Yang.
The gods and yin gods, "Chen Ping'an", are now unstable and erratic as the wind in the river embodies the spiritual energy and force, which is far inferior to the conciseness and stability of Zhong Kui's two yin gods and yang gods.
If this "Chen Pingan" is just a toddler, then Zhong Kui is already a strong young man who climbs mountains and wades in rivers as if he were walking on flat ground.
Neither Pei Qian nor Zhu Lian was aware of these strange phenomena.
The two Chen Ping'an's thoughts moved almost at the same time, and a thought came to mind that could not be shaken off. The drifting Chen Ping'an turned his head and glanced at the lower reaches of the buried river, and then Chen Ping'an, who was sitting cross-legged, opened his eyes and said softly:
"I need to practice setting up the sword furnace here. The situation tonight is different and I can't go into details. Pei Qian and Zhu Lian, you may need to help me keep vigil for a few hours."
Zhu Lian nodded and said with a smile: "It's my duty as an old slave."
Pei Qian stamped his feet and lamented, "I should have told you earlier that I should have brought some snacks as a midnight snack."
Chen Ping'an, who had left his body, took a step towards the Buried River. In an instant, he swept out more than ten feet and came directly to the surface of the buried river. Like a piece of wood floating in the "water", Chen Ping'an stopped.
Finally, after adapting to this strange environment of flying high in the void, he would float forward very far with a little tip of his toes. Chen Ping'an leaned forward and dabbled on the water surface of the buried river, as if he was a mountain god flying in the wind, or a pure creature.
The far-reaching realm of Wufu’s eighth realm.
Sleeves fluttering, traveling far away in the wind.
Chen Ping'an didn't know yet at the moment, but by various coincidences, this was the prototype of the Yin Shen of the Qi Practitioner.
Reborn, the spirit and energy are condensed, and there is a body outside the body. He is the Yang God and loves the light.
A thought that clears the spirit, goes out of the darkness and into the underworld, without restraint, it is a Yin god, who likes to wander at night.
Visit the Water Temple at night.
Chen Pingan felt that even just taking a look would be enough, and he would come back as soon as he went.
As for Chen Ping'an by the river, he closed his eyes and performed the Sword Furnace Technique with both hands.
Although one is sitting and the other is wandering, the two are integrated.
What the Yin Shen saw and felt after leaving the body, Chen Ping'an, who closed his eyes while practicing sword furnace staking, saw it clearly and was completely immersed in it.
The great road is mysterious, and the mysterious is mysterious again.
It wasn't until this moment that Chen Pingan finally understood why practitioners would stay away from the human world, devote themselves to cultivating Taoism, climb high and look far away. The scenery in the eyes of these Qi practitioners was already high up in the world.
At this moment, Chen Pingan by the river seemed to be practicing the sword furnace, but in fact he continued to close his eyes and visualize the long bridge in his heart.
Compared with the two times at Lotus Flower Blessed Land, it is much more stable. Although I still feel that I can't walk there and cross the river.
But it should be possible to climb the bridge and watch the river. If it weren't for Zhu Lian beside him, Chen Ping'an would have walked up and tried it.
I had this visualization tonight because I thought about whether a gentleman saves or not save, and also thought about the relationship between saving others and saving oneself.
Taking Pei Qian with him, Chen Pingan just asked her to read and endorse, and did not say any truth that he had figured out. But as long as he looked at Pei Qian's every move, word and deed, like looking at himself in the mirror, Chen Pingan couldn't help but
Able to introspect. Chen Pingan himself often does not feel deeply about many of the contents in books and cannot understand the true meaning. But when Pei Qian is around, Chen Pingan will think more. For example, a gentleman should examine himself three times every day, restrain himself and return to etiquette, and be cautious in independence...
Reading thousands of volumes will lead to enlightenment.
Wonderful.
Pei Qian has already recited the first book by heart. It seems that after today's night tour of the Water Temple, Pei Qian can start reading the second book.
I don’t read too much, I just read a few words into my stomach.
This is not the truth. You can talk to Pei Qian about it, but I guess she will just turn a deaf ear to it.
According to legend, there once was a monk who was not very literate, but he only read one sutra and became a Buddha.
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On the bank of the buried river, there were two people flying like a rainbow, their silhouettes were blurry, they disappeared in a flash, and they hurried downstream.
After they saw the three people by the river, they nodded slightly, which was regarded as saying hello.
Only when they disappeared into the night did Zhu Lian look back.
It turned out that after returning to the inn, the master and the apprentice, who had changed into Taoist robes, only told Yao Zhen that they had something to go out tonight and could return to the inn before dawn.
Yao Zhen will not stop him, in fact he cannot stop him. The two Liu family members stationed at the border are worshippers. Even Yao Zhen, who is the head of the Yao family cavalry family, does not know their backgrounds, the origins of their sects, and Yao Zhen.
He even doubted whether the pair of Taoist masters and disciples were directly obeying the emperor's orders. They not only prevented the Northern Jin monks from assassinating themselves and causing unrest in the border troops, but also monitored the movements of the Yao family's border troops. After all, he also had a minister who had just resigned from the Ministry of Civil Affairs.
's in-laws.
For this reason, Yao Zhen privately asked Yao Jinzhi whether he wanted to deliberately make friends with the two priests. He did not expect them to protect the Yao family who would flourish in Mirage City in the future, and at least take the opportunity to form a good relationship.
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She disagreed, saying that the two of them had special status and must not win over each other without authorization. If the ministers serve the emperor, if the emperor is wise and the ministers are the most intelligent, they should not even think about the emperor's heart. It is useless to think too much, but this is just to say
The Yao family's border ministers, those close to the emperor, are a different matter. Yao Zhen was a little unconvinced. The family's life was hanging by a thread twice. If Chen Ping'an hadn't rescued him twice, he would have been dead long ago, and he might have been imprisoned.
If a person who has secretly collaborated with an enemy country and conspired to usurp the throne still wants to be clean and accommodating, but when he arrives at Mirage City and is surrounded by countless troops, wouldn't it be even more dangerous and unpredictable?
Yao Zhen thought of the county guard disciple who got off his horse and became a civil servant, and felt awkward for a moment. Could it be that, as his granddaughter said, he would have to deal with such little bastards frequently in the future?
Yao Jinzhi said with a smile that on the contrary, after my little aunt married into the capital, our Yao family still thought about cleaning up the family and abiding by the ancestral family laws in everything. It was wrong. When we arrived in Mirage City, the prerequisite for accepting grandpa in the court was
Next, it is right to continue to protect oneself wisely. If the Yao family competes with those powerful nobles and nobles for their strength and skills, the Yao family will never be able to gain a foothold in the capital, but it does not mean that they will do nothing and let others manipulate them.
Yao Jinzhi said a famous Zen saying, "Walking to a waterless place, sit down and watch the clouds rise."
Yao Zhen couldn’t help but sigh.
When Yao Jinzhi was still young, he used his father's mouth to raise objections to his grandfather Yao Zhen about his aunt marrying Li Xiling, who was kneeling outside the Yao family's ancestral hall on a snowy day. Basically, he said that the Yao family had followed the rules that had been followed for hundreds of years.
Once an exception is made to the ancestral rules, the Yao family knows that the true love between the two people can be learned from it, but outsiders don't care about it, Mirage City doesn't care about it, and His Majesty the Emperor doesn't care about it either. Since the ancestral rules of the Yao family are not allowed to marry wealthy people, since it is an exception,
So will the Yao family's border troops, who are loyal to the Liu family, make an exception again?
Without one, there is no two. But with one, two, three, and four will follow one after another. This is common sense.
Grandpa, if I, Yao Jinzhi, were an outsider, I would wonder if Mr. Yao felt too aggrieved to live in a corner.
When the old general heard this, his face was full of anger, but his heart was filled with sadness and anger.
Yao Jinzhi looked calm, handed his grandfather a cup of tea, and said with a smile: "General, drinking alcohol can boost your heroism, but when you get to Mirage City and your grandfather becomes an official, you should drink tea instead."
Yao Zhen took the tea cup angrily and drank it all in one gulp, still drinking.
Yao Jinzhi smiled sweetly.
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The figures of the two Taoists on the riverside were as erratic as two wisps of smoke, far faster than the speed of galloping horses.
This pair of Taoist masters and disciples, the old man was born in a side sect of Taoism, named Jindingguan. Don’t think that the word side sect is not pleasant, in fact it is already very remarkable. The Taoist Dongfu sect other than the sect with the prefix Zong is qualified to be among the side sects.
Not many in one continent.
Jindingguan Taoist priests like to enter the world to cultivate their minds, and their number is small, less than a hundred. Moreover, once they enter the world, they often remain anonymous and do not like to rely on their patrons and ancestors.
The current owner of Jinding Temple is five hundred years old. He is a genuine Nascent Soul Earth Immortal and has a great reputation in the northern part of Tongyezhou.
The old man's common name is Yin Miaofeng, and his Taoist name is Taoist Baozhen, which is taken from the saying "Long-lived and long-sighted, whole-nature Baozhen", and he belongs to the lineage of Jinding Temple masters.
The only direct disciple, Shao Yuanran, was Yin Miaofeng who met the young Shao Yuan by chance after he came down from the mountain to enter the world. It took him a full fourteen years before he decided to become his disciple. During this period, Taoist Baozhen set up three major exams, and Shao Yuanran passed them all. His character and talent were undoubtedly outstanding.
He is a superior person.
Shao Yuanran followed Taoist Baozhen to Jinding Temple, met with the temple owner, and paid homage to the portrait hanging in the ancestral hall. His name was included in the family genealogy, and he officially became a late-generation disciple of Jinding Temple. Finally, he followed his master to Jinding Temple.
In the Daquan Dynasty, the master and the apprentice joined forces to serve the Liu family and were responsible for keeping an eye on the border of southern Xinjiang for ten years.
Even though Shao Yuanran, who looks like a tree in the wind, looks no older than his age, he is actually already in his forties.
Both the master and the disciple are monks in the Longmen realm. Taoist Baozhen thinks that there is no hope for the golden elixir in this life. Shao Yuanran's qualifications are far better than him. At such an age, he has become a Longmen realm above Guanhai. He is really a genius in cultivation. The master of the temple heard that Shao Yuanran was in Daquan.
After the border was breached, he specially sent people down the mountain and gave him a magical weapon from the master's sect. He also promised Shao Yuanran that if he succeeded in reaching the Golden Core realm, he would also receive a treasure that has been passed down for thousands of years, waiting for Shao Yuanran to come back to the mountain to get it as a celebration.
present.
To be continued...