"I say goodbye to three paths, and open three doors. One is the first to fight the sky and the battlefield, the second is the first to dance, and the third is the first to see the situation. Which path do you enter and which door you choose?"
A 14 or 15-year-old boy read the sentence gently in a thin booklet, then raised his head and said to the old man sitting on the stone table opposite: "Teacher, what does it mean to be good at dancing with long sleeves?"
"Your father is called Changshe good at dancing." The old man said with a smile.
"Oh." The young man frowned when he heard this, and looked disapproving on his face, and then he said in confusion: "Teacher, is there any good way to dance with our magicians in their practice?"
"For me, there is no. For you, there is no. For your father, there is no." The old man said slowly.
This statement was obviously beyond the scope of a young man's understanding, and the young man said respectfully: "Please give me advice from the teacher."
"Look at this little tree." The old man pointed at a big tree not far from the two people in the yard, which was hugged by several people, and then at the root of the big tree, seven or eight feet away from the big tree, a small sapling was coming from
The root extends out.
"For such a sapling, we don't need to do anything, just let it grow as much as possible." The old man said, paused, and then said, "But when it grows taller and stronger, it grows a little stronger."
, we can't let it go. Because there will be many oblique branches on its trunk."
"Some oblique branches can be kept, but some oblique branches must be removed. Otherwise, the tree will grow crooked and broken. Then, even if we want to clean up the messy oblique branches,
It can't be cleaned up."
"Because they can no longer tell who is bigger and smaller from the trunk, who is the master and who is the second."
"What the teacher means is that the progress of meditation and the exercise of magic should we distinguish the primary and secondary early?" said the young man.
The old man probably didn't mean this, but he did not criticize the young man's words. Instead, he nodded and said, "How do you understand the relationship between meditation and spells?"
"If it is as Teacher, you just said, meditation should be the main trunk, and the exercise of each spell is the slanting branches?"
"No!" As soon as he finished speaking, the boy immediately corrected himself: "Meditation should be... tree roots? Only one of the four-system spells should be chosen as the main trunk, and the others. Be prepared to give up?"
"You are right to say this. You have taken one step on all four roads, but never taken two steps on one road, so you can come far." The old man said, "So, the most important thing for a practitioner is to treat himself as a cripple.
Don’t have so much thought and energy to walk many roads, just stare at one. Just keep going.”
"In this world, a lame man can walk, generally it is farther than a normal person."
"All the mages I have met have been willingly a cripple over the years."
"On the contrary, those who do not want to be cripples are always turning around. When will their legs be broken, and when will they break out of that kind of circle."
Empire, southern border.
This is a strange building, the whole building is made of huge bluestone, and from the outside, this small and narrow building is like a long arrow inserted upside down on the ground, reaching into the sky.
Under the evening sunset, the blue arrow-shaped building looks extremely hard and cold.
In the building, an old man in gray robe stood by the window.
Many faces, young, young, strong, old, gentle, cold, hard, numb, hideous, flashed through their consciousness.
This place is not so much a battlefield as a training camp for the children of various major families of the empire. However, those who have not passed the training can no longer leave the place.
All the outstanding children of every generation of families who are named in the empire must travel here.
It is hard to tell which generation of this rule came from when, and even the old man didn't know it. He only knew that such rules have existed on the entire continent for a long time.
Some families also reject such rules.
However, from the reality, it is difficult for the family rulers who have not survived here to lead the family smoothly.
Many problems will occur in the middle of the process.
So slowly, such a seemingly cruel rule became a natural for all major families.
However, cruelty does not fade slightly by this natural determination.
"Sir, I believe I can go back!"
He was a young man with a sharp aura as sharp as a sword, and even his eyebrows were tilted like a sword. He performed well for a long time before him.
However, later, it seemed that there were too many battles, and it became more and more crazy.
When a person falls in love with a battle and keeps taking risks, he may win ninety-nine times in a hundred battles, but if he fails once, it may be that time, and there will be no future.
There are many such people.
Moreover, they are all talents, especially outstanding people from various families.
"The road to fighting the sky and the earth can be rampant. However, if you use a sword or a sword, you will end up destroying yourself for a long time. It's true!" The old man sighed deeply.
A game that only has life and death but no victory or defeat cannot continue even if it has a lot of advantages.
If you can't see this clearly, the ending will be almost destined.
But how many outstanding people can let go of their pride? It is pride, which makes them outstanding, and it is also pride, which makes them over-bear themselves without being demoted.
The old man sighed again in response to this.
"Sir, are you allowed to form a team here?"
It was a boy who could keep laughing in front of him. Although the laughter was a bit forced, it was already worthy of praise.
The old man clearly remembered that he had no statement at that time.
Of course, not expressing one's own opinion is a statement.
So the boy from a certain family from Didu easily gathered a large group of people around him with his background and means. Even though no one blocked his knife on the battlefield, many dangers were still blocked early.
It's out there.
So the boy believed more and more that this method was correct.
After a few years, his methods became more and more mature, but his cultivation level was unconsciously behind his group of "brothers".
As the battlefield advances, then a sudden fierce battle comes.
Then, the boy, who was called "boss" by many of his "brothers", never came back.
"You can use your strength to dance on the road of long sleeves. However, if you don't have the strength, you will never be able to meet it. Even if you are proud of yourself, you will inevitably be disappointed by one or two." The old man sighed again.
For thousands of years, who has ever heard that a sheep with mature means can always be in the residence of a wolf pack without any harm?
When the wolf is not hungry, you may be able to have a good relationship with it or even take good care of it. But when the wolf itself is also miserable, the sheep are their spare food.
Those who have been leveraging their strength will one day pay the price for that leveraging their strength.
"The road to insight into the general trend can be in the subtle way. However, if you have the eyes of worldly knowledge, you are rarely able to reincarnate. If you enter the world, you can be a supplement and an assistant, but you cannot be in a righteous position. Even if your reputation is so popular in the world, you will suffer the disaster of being covered by your body."
"Isn't this sentence exactly me?"
"It's ridiculous. Over the years, I have never seen through it. I thought I had seen through the ups and downs of the forces, but I didn't see that even those forces that were repeatedly frustrated were on the road to being proud of it."
"And someone like me will never be qualified to be proud."
"There will not be a path to disappointment, but in fact, I have been disappointed all the time."
"Because of frustration and complacentness, I was on the same road. When I refused to be frustrated, I had already embarked on another road, and the other road that I never had was proud."
"ridiculous!"
"ridiculous!"
"The world has evolved to this day, and I don't know how many years have passed. If there is a perfect path, how will it be your turn to do it? That's the case!"
"My friend Fang Tian, if I can become ** from this, you will be worshipped by me in the next year!"
Mainland, some secret realm.
This is a misty world that is almost vitiligo, with large tracts of snow falling from the sky.
Standing on the ground, the mountains are winding and crisscrossing and stretching thousands of miles. However, all the ground and mountains are covered with thick snow, and the depths of the snow are even more thick.
Ice.
From time to time, a bitter wind swept through this world, wrapping up snowflakes, turning into pieces of fierce flying knives.
Of course, there is also a shocking howling whistling along the way.
It is such an environment. In this world, there is a middle-aged man walking slowly under the snow with his hands on his back.
All the wind and snow, by his side, passed without any obstacles.
It's like walking here is just a phantom.
"If things are mixed, they are born before heaven and earth. They are silent and lonely, and they are not changed, and they are not in danger. They can be the mother of the world. I don't know its name. The word "张张张张张张张张张张张张张张张张张张张张张张张张张张张张张张张张张张张张张张张张张张张张张张张张张张张张张张张张张张张张张张张张张张张�
It is called passing away, passing away is far away, and far away is called rebellion. Therefore, the way is great, the sky is great, the earth is great, and people are also great. There are four elements in the domain, and people live in one of them. People follow the earth, the earth follows the sky, the sky follows the Tao, and the Tao
By nature.”
The middle-aged man chanted in the mouth.
But his chanting was very strange. His pronunciation was almost every word, and the interval between pronunciations and words was very short, and some were very long, until the reciting of this word was completed.
, It took a long time, but there was no next word to be followed.
Coupled with his inexplicable tone that is not easy to describe, it sounds like this doesn’t seem like a person’s chanting, but more like…
It's more like the sound of wind and snow in this world.
He recited this passage intermittently and in this way many times. The middle-aged man focused his attention on the end of this passage, "Man follows the earth, the earth follows the sky, the sky follows the Tao, the Tao follows the Tao...natural."
After a long pause, I had a low question: "Natural?"
When he got here, the middle-aged man stopped and looked up at the sky.