After returning to Annan, Xu Yishan told the story he heard from his teacher to another teacher, the only "Holy Master" he could come into contact with at the moment.
He just reported the story without any comment.
No matter what position or angle a person comes from, it is arrogant and ignorant to evaluate a holy deity or even a supreme being.
Xu Yishan would never let his master have such an impression of him. Just like when he heard this story from his teacher, he only felt a surge of emotion in his heart, but not a single word came out of his mouth.
At this time, from beginning to end, he only solemnly wrote this story on paper without adding a sentence such as "Master, what do you think?" But in fact, he really wanted to hear about the Master who is the Holy Master.
What do you think of this ancient saint?
He was not disappointed, Master really responded.
A very short four words.
"Inner Saint and Outer King".
Short, but not simple.
Not only was it not simple, the moment he saw or felt these four words in his "dream", Xu Yishan woke up immediately as if he was struck by thunder.
After he woke up, he sat on a chair in the garden in a daze.
Inner sage, outer king.
First there is the inside, then there is the outside.
At this moment, Xu Yishan even thought of the sentence in "The Road to Qingyun", "It is enough to praise the world without persuading, to criticize the world without discouragement, to determine the distinction between inside and outside, and to argue between honor and disgrace. That's it."
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Determining the difference between inside and outside
Then he thought of the words that made him a little confused before, but also shocked him inexplicably, "A perfect person has no self, a god has no merit, and a saint has no name."
The saint is nameless.
The saint is nameless but he might as well be called a saint.
Because it depends on the inside and outside.
It has been sanctified internally, but it has not been made "sacred", "supreme", or "divine" to the outside to infect the world.
If there is any infection, it is the "foreign king".
Just like his master, he has no objections from his saints and no objections from his master. But before this, he had never heard of it. At this time, Annan didn't know it, Nanzhou didn't know it, the empire didn't know it, and the world didn't know it.
"Saint, nameless."
But the namelessness did not make his "holy" dim in any way. On the contrary, at this moment, Xu Yishan felt only full of shock in his heart.
And not long after, this shock turned into overwhelming.
Because the master passed down a set of exercises to him, and at the end of this exercise, there is a sentence, which seems to be the purpose of this set of exercises, "The great sound is like a sound, the elephant is invisible, great success is like a lack, and great skill is like a clumsy
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After a long period of contemplation and silence, Xu Yishan told the housekeeper Xue Shouyi some things, and also summoned his junior brother Xu Tonghui to say goodbye to the wine, and then went into seclusion.
This retreat will wait until the teacher calls.
Later, in the green mountains and green waters, a person on the ground level returned to "nameless".
Mountain springs gurgled, streams gurgled, flowers bloomed and birds sang, but in that ordinary thatched house, dust gradually covered the door.
Time is like mountain spring water, flowing day and night without stopping. It penetrates the noble and the humble, the virtuous and the foolish, and everyone knows it or not.
One year, two years, three years
Xu Yishan was unable to practice meditation, and the Lanshui Sect, with its cultivators in the Form Refining Realm, had become the center of attention and focus of other sects.
But Nan Pingxiu also only retreats at home.
From the perspective of Annan's people, Nanpingxiu must go to Nanzhou or other places to develop. After all, whether it is Nanzhou or the imperial capital, there are heavenly levels, and Nanpingxiu really got it not long ago.
After being summoned by the Heavenly Lord of Nanzhou, it seemed natural to go to Nanzhou.
After all, Annan is also a barren land, so barren that it does not seem to be enough to support the practice and development of a body-refining realm cultivator.
But to everyone's surprise, one year passed, two years passed, and three years passed, but Nan Pingxiu still stayed in Annan.
That's right, Nanping Sect Leader needs to meditate for a period of time to stabilize his practice.
Everyone thought about this, and then they got self-explanation.
This stable practice can be long or short. It can be as short as a few years. It can be as long as decades or even hundreds of years. Just like their county governor Xu Yishan, didn't he also "quietly practice" in Annan for a hundred years?
In the eyes of everyone, the hundred years Xu Yishan spent in Annan were basically the hundred years of meditation.
Unknown to these corners, Xiao Xiuer has also grown from four or five years old to seven or eight years old, but her appearance is finally a little better than before. From the appearance of two or three years old, she has become four or five years old.
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It's almost the same size as when we were in Juxing Tower that day.
But it's just size.
If you really want to talk about it, this "little monk of the heavenly level" has a divine form and temperament that is vaguely indescribable. He is as quiet as a mountain and as moving as a river and sea.
With her eyes flashing, few people dared to look at her.
Because everyone who looks at each other seems to be seen completely at a glance, and no privacy or secret can be hidden.
These people include Gan Congshi, Shi Shao, the current leader of Lanshui Sect, and Nan Pingxiu. Well, Nan Pingxiu can be regarded as half of them.
These people are also the people that Xiao Xiuer comes into contact with on a daily basis.
In the past few years, Xiao Xiuer has grown up slowly but rapidly, and truly knows what spiritual practice is.
A monk who is actually already at the heavenly level comes to learn the basics and principles of cultivation. Naturally, he will be able to make great strides with each passing day. What's more, she has a guide who is already quite experienced.
So in fact, Xiao Xiuer's growth rate is so fast that it can really be described as "incredible".
Among the few people she came into contact with, she didn't care about Gan Congshi, but the two people from Lanshui Sect, her aunt, and Aunt Shao who often took care of her when she was a child, she would give advice. Because of their practice, she
You can see clearly at a glance what are the advantages and disadvantages.
But in fact, what she saw were basically shortcomings.
At first, Xiao Xiu'er didn't say anything, but seeing her aunt and Aunt Shao stupidly repeating those mistakes day after day, and working hard to practice those methods that were full of shortcomings, Xiao Xiu'er couldn't help it.
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She asked her brother.
Then I came back and started giving instructions.
She didn't give much pointers. She only pointed out one of the many shortcomings of the two of them.
And then, when this shortcoming was made up for by the two of them, she pointed out another shortcoming.
This keeps moving forward.
During Nan Pingxiu's practice, he unknowingly crossed the realm of refining and moved toward the third and final realm of the earthly realm, the "realm of restoration."
As for the current leader of the Lanshui Sect, Shi Shao, what outsiders see is that her appearance gradually becomes younger, from looking like she is fifty or sixty years old, to looking like she is forty or fifty years old, to looking like she is thirty or forty years old.
Years old, until one day, although the sect leader didn't look like a girl yet, she was just the girl's sister.
Another monk who is in the Form Refining Realm and is a master of the Form Refining Realm.
All the people in Annan looked at it with envy and jealousy, but at most they were just jealous.
They all knew that Shi Shao and Nan Pingxiu had a good relationship, but they really didn't know that the relationship could be so good that Nan Pingxiu could take action and let Shi Shao follow her into the realm of refining.
And what can the people on earth do besides watching and drooling?
In the world of spiritual practice, everything speaks through practice.
Facing a Form Refining Realm monk who seemed to have the attention and favor of the Heavenly Lord, they had nothing to say except watching, and it was impossible for them to do anything inappropriate.
Of course, this also has a lot to do with the traditional style of Lanshui Sect. For example, Nan Pingxiu, long before the Form Refining Realm, has always lived in seclusion. Not to mention outside the sect, even within the sect, she did many things.
Shi Shao was assigned to take care of it.
In the entire Lanshui Sect, there are no more than five people who are qualified to enter her courtyard.
Therefore, there was not much criticism from people inside and outside the sect, especially outside the sect, for her continuing to live in seclusion after entering the realm of refining.
People have always been like this, what can you say?
It’s said that people don’t take special efforts to guide you so that you can follow your practice and progress.
Isn't that nonsense?
Fortunately, in Annan, apart from Xu Yishan, who was unable to climb high, and Lan Shui Sect, who was also beginning to be unable to climb high, they still had one person they could contact and cling to.