When Long Chen saw the old man, he hurriedly stood up. He was deeply impressed by this old man. The first time Long Chen came to Danyuan, he asked for directions from this old man.
And when he saw the old man for the first time, Long Chen had an intuition that this old man was definitely extraordinary.
When Long Chen was besieged by the law enforcement disciples, Seven-Star Elder He Ziyu arrived. As He Ziyu, after discovering the old man, he would show respect to the old man, which further confirmed Long Chen's guess.
Now that he saw this old man again, Long Chen hurried over and said, "Senior, how about I help you sweep it?"
"No, you have a violent aura now. This broom of mine cannot withstand your strength. It's better for me." The old man said with a slight smile.
"Senior, how long have you been sweeping the floor?" Long Chen asked tentatively.
"How long? I don't remember. After sweeping away the spring, summer, autumn and winter, sweeping away the frost, rain and snow, sweeping away the green hair and white hair, I have already forgotten the years." The old man shook his head.
"Young man, how do you have a good temper?" the old man asked.
Long Chen was stunned. The old man had asked him this question once when he first met the old man, and now he asked him again.
Long Chen didn't know why, so he could only answer honestly: "It's not bad, it's not good, it's not bad either. In other words, it's sometimes good and sometimes bad."
The old man nodded and said: "You see yourself very clearly. In this world, it is easy to see others clearly, but it is very difficult to see yourself clearly.
But you are just the opposite. You see yourself very clearly, but you don't see clearly the things around you."
After the old man finished speaking, he saw a stone platform next to him. He put the broom aside. He seemed a little tired and slowly sat down on the stone platform.
Long Chen hurriedly supported the old man. The old man's senile appearance seemed not to be fake, but his energy and blood were withered, and he had indeed reached the stage of waning years.
"Senior, you are so old, why do you still have to work?" Long Chen also sat down and couldn't help but ask.
"No, this is not work, this is a kind of practice." The old man looked at Long Chen and smiled slightly.
The old man's eyes were turbid, as if he could no longer see, but Long Chen seemed to see a chaos from the turbidity, with something indescribable there.
"Practice? Please forgive my disciple's stupidity, and ask my seniors to give me some pointers." Long Chen said respectfully.
“When you can do simple things repeatedly without getting tired of them and enjoy yourself, you will understand.
When I sweep the floor, I sweep away not only the dead leaves and dust, but also the boredom in my mind and the dust in my heart.
Once you understand the truth, a world is a grain of sand, a universe is a leaf, and within an inch, you can understand the secrets of all the ways in the universe." The old man said.
Long Chen's heart was shocked. The old man's words made him see another way of practice and opened up another perspective of practice.
A grain of sand is a world, a leaf is a universe, and seeing the big from the small is the eternal truth.
No matter how big the world is, it is composed of tiny dust. If dust is compared to a ruler, then the world can be measured.
The world is like this, and so is the way of heaven. The so-called all laws and ways must have their most basic things. As long as you master the most basic things, you can understand all the ways.
The old man's few words opened a new door for Long Chen, and countless fantasies suddenly appeared in his mind, as if a valve in his head had been opened, and the feeling of enlightenment made Long Chen
Chen was ecstatic.
"Understood?" the old man asked.
Long Chen shook his head: "No"
The old man nodded and said: "Very good, your understanding is really good. By the way, people have bad memory when they get old. What did I ask you in the first place?"
"You ask me why I am so impatient. Actually, I am extremely disappointed with the rules of the academy. I feel that the dean is just like a fool..."
When Long Chen said this, he was suddenly startled. He hurriedly looked around and found that there was no one around, so he felt relieved. You must know that if you scold the dean like this, you will be punished if you are discovered.
"Oh, why do you say that?" the old man said with great interest.
"The rules in the academy have so many loopholes and are full of unfairness. Moreover, the people of the Chu family simply regard the academy as their own home..." Long Chen will enter the academy and suffer all kinds of unfair treatment.
Said it once.
When talking about Chu Huairen, Long Chen couldn't help but swore. The two old guys were so fine, which made Long Chen extremely angry.
After listening to Long Chen's complaint, the old man asked: "If you were the dean, what would you do?"
Long Chen said: "I am the dean. Idiots like this have been slapped to death a long time ago. I will close all the loopholes and reduce the unfairness. Although it will not completely disappear, at least it can be relatively fair.
An orderly system will quickly enhance the cohesion and centripetal force of the college, and will allow the college to develop healthier and faster."
"Then what?" the old man asked.
"Then? Then the academy will become more and more powerful?" Long Chen was stunned.
"When prosperity reaches its peak, it will eventually decline. When the academy reaches its maximum strength and cannot break through, it will begin to decline.
You may say that this situation will not happen when you are in power, but you cannot live forever because you have achieved the ultimate. What will you do when no one else takes over?" the old man asked.
"This..." Long Chen was stunned, he really hadn't thought about this problem.
"If you are the patriarch of a family, your family has reached its peak in your generation and is powerful, sweeping away all enemies.
But without you, when the family begins to collapse, the more glorious you are, the faster your family will be destroyed."
Long Chen was stunned for a moment. He had never thought about what the old man said, but he had to admit that what the old man said was true and irrefutable.
"When things reach their extremes, they must turn against each other. This is an eternal truth. Some people rise so high that they will fall when they become powerless.
And some people are more tyrannical and hit the ceiling of the world, not to mention the consequences.
Unless you can break through the ceiling of this world, you can't touch that ceiling.
Things have physics, heaven has its laws, rules are like a cage, everyone is bound and cannot be changed.
In this world, there is a group of special people who just like to hit the ceiling. Even if they die, they will print their blood on the ceiling.
They are a group of fools, but also a group of true braves. They have a loud and domineering name - Descendants of Nine Stars." The old man said to Long Chen.
"What?"
Long Chen was shocked and stood up, looking at the old man in shock: "Senior, you..."