Standing in front of the pass of the fourth mountain, Su Ping'an's frozen teeth were chattering. He took out all the clothes he brought with him this time into the mountain from the storage sachet, but this did not bring him the slightest hope.
warmth.
"Oh no, I seriously doubt that no one has been able to break through the Fourth Mountain in the past thousand years. This is not because they were stumped by the test, but because they were simply frozen."
Su Ping'an complained in his heart, and then resisted the urge to turn around and go back. He slowly moved behind the stone monument and looked up. It was completely blank, and there was not even a hint at all.
"Is it like the Third Mountain? You only know the rules after entering the illusion?"
Su Ping'an didn't have time to think about it, and then he started climbing directly.
After all, it was too cold on the mountain road. If he could enter the illusion as soon as possible, it might be a little warmer. As soon as he set foot on the mountain road of the fourth mountain, his eyes immediately blurred, and this time he directly entered the illusion.
among.
Boom...
As soon as he entered the illusion, Su Ping'an was awakened by a thunder above his head.
Looking up and looking around, he found that he had appeared in a simple school.
It is said to be a school, but it is actually a leaky hut. The walls around the hut are incomplete. When the wind blows outside, the house is in a mess. But even so, the dozen or so students in the school are still sitting hard and serious.
I was listening to an old gentleman giving a lecture.
Those students are actually still a group of children, the oldest is only twelve or thirteen years old, and the youngest is only six or seven years old.
Su Ping'an stood in the school, he was like a passerby... No, more accurately, he was like a spectator, like he was watching an immersive movie, using the eyes of a bystander
Watching all this from perspective.
"What kind of test is this?"
After Su Pingan noticed his strange state, he couldn't help but frown slightly.
Then, the scene changed, the sky turned into night, and the environment around him turned into a mud house. The house was low and narrow, giving people a very depressing and cramped feeling.
He walked into the room and saw a simple middle-aged woman mending a piece of clothing under the dim oil lamp. On a small table next to her, a seven or eight-year-old child who had appeared in the classroom during the day was sewing.
Oil Lamp Qian studied his lessons seriously.
The child was thin and small, and looked very frail. A gust of wind could blow him away. His face was also a little yellow, as if it was caused by long-term malnutrition.
But the child's eyes are very pure, clear and energetic, especially the way he reads, serious and determined, and his eyes even radiate light, which is a kind of thirst and yearning for knowledge.
"Is this child the protagonist of this test?"
Su Pingan's eyes fell on the child, and he was lost in thought.
Not long after, the woman finished sewing the clothes, then looked at the sky and found that it was already very late, so she said, "Xiaoshan, go to bed early, I have to go to school tomorrow."
"I know, mother."
The child named "Xiao Shan" agreed, then obediently blew out the oil lamp, and climbed into bed in the dark. Even though he was sleeping, he still held the book he had just read tightly in his hand.
call out……
The scene changed again, this time it seemed that it was a few years later, and the child named Xiaoshan had turned into a boy of thirteen or fourteen years old.
In the school, the teacher seemed to be testing everyone at this moment. He asked a question: "Today, the Xuan Kingdom is experiencing great chaos. There are evil spirits in the south who are constantly killing our Daxuan people; there are barbarians in the north who are trying to invade our Daxuan border.
, seized our land, and also burned, killed, and plundered the people on the border of our country, and committed all kinds of evil. There are other powerful countries around us, and they are eyeing our country. So today’s topic, in this time of chaos, is how should I deal with it?
And how can we become stronger?”
Hearing such a grand topic, the class was silent for a while. Even Su Ping'an frowned when faced with such a question, and he couldn't think of a proper answer for a while.
But at this moment, the young man named Xiaoshan stood up. His eyes were clear and his face was serious. "In times of chaos, Daxuan Kingdom must work hard and strengthen itself. Facing the pressure of other powerful countries, we can
Join forces vertically and horizontally, and work hard to convince other powerful countries to make them realize that in today's world, facing the invasion of demon cultivators and barbarians, our human race can only avoid destruction by uniting as one. They will not fail to understand the truth of death.
When faced with evil spirits and alien races, we have no choice but to fight."
The teacher nodded at the young man's answer, but he was not particularly satisfied, so he groaned and continued: "Although what you said makes sense, you still place your hopes on other countries, treating the symptoms but not the root cause. You
Is there any other answer?!"
Seeing that his answer was rejected, the young man was stumped for a moment. He did not give an answer immediately, but began to think silently.
More than a month passed in the blink of an eye. Besides studying every day, the young man was still thinking about the question raised by his teacher in class.
How can Daxuan become stronger and get rid of the situation of being threatened all the time?!
Later, the young man finally thought of an answer. He found the teacher and replied seriously: "Reading, only reading can make our Daxuan stronger."
"Can you become stronger by studying?" the teacher asked.
The young man nodded with bright eyes, "Yes, I firmly believe that reading can change our destiny in Daxuan."
The husband asked him again why he said that, but the young man did not answer because it was just an idea or a premonition.
But in the following decades, the boy gradually grew up, became a young man, then middle-aged, and finally an old man. He was always reading, and he was always thinking about how to turn knowledge and power into knowledge through reading.
To become a powerful force for the great Xuan Kingdom.
He traveled all over the world and visited countless ancient sages, trying to find the way from their mouths.
Some people told him that with knowledge, he can make powerful weapons to help Daxuan win the war; others said that reading can strengthen one's mind and the power of eloquence will be strengthened, so that he can persuade the surrounding countries to help
Daxuan fights against foreign enemies together.
But 'Little Mountain' was not satisfied. These could only help Daxuan for a while, but they could not completely change Daxuan's fate.
Later, when he was traveling around the world, he suddenly saw someone offering incense and praying to the mountain god one day. Later, he actually attracted the help of a mountain god. The "little mountain" was shocked at the time, so he later became pious.
He went to ask the mountain god for help, hoping that the mountain god could help him solve his doubts.
He asked the mountain god how he could use knowledge to change Daxuan and make the country of Daxuan stronger.
Faced with such a question, the mountain god didn't know how to answer him for a while.
Xiaoshan was not discouraged when he couldn't get an answer, so he changed the question to the mountain god. He asked the mountain god how he obtained his strength.
The mountain god was reluctant to answer his question at first, because the question was relatively private and involved the very nature of the mountain god. However, after Xiao Shan knelt down and prayed devoutly for several years, the mountain god finally gave him an astonishing answer.
It turns out that the mountain god was not a mountain god at first, it was just a monster. It absorbed the evil energy of heaven and earth and suddenly developed spiritual intelligence. Because it was a loose monster, it was ignorant at first and had a relatively simple mind. He did not
Knowing that harming others and devouring blood food can strengthen him, he actually helped many people through his own strength.
Those who had been helped by him thought he was a god from heaven, so they were grateful to him. Later, they even built a mountain temple for him and offered incense every day.
The mountain demon didn't care about incense at first, but as time went by, he suddenly discovered that these incense could actually transform the demonic energy he absorbed from heaven and earth into pure power. This power could not only transform him.
The mountain demon became more powerful and could help him wash away the demon body and transform him into a human being. As a result, the mountain demon turned into a real mountain god over time.
After listening to the story of the mountain demon, 'Xiao Shan' was greatly inspired. Only then did he realize that there is a power between heaven and earth. This power is obtained by demon cultivators as demon Qi. If the human race can obtain this power, it will be...
Wouldn’t it be possible to become stronger?
After having this idea, Xiaoshan immediately started to take action. He even practiced with the mountain god, hoping to use the demon clan's cultivation method to feel this power. But demons and humans are not connected. No matter how hard he tried, he couldn't
I still can't feel the 'demon energy' that the mountain god mentioned.
Later, in order to solve this problem, 'Xiao Shan' spent several more years, but still got nothing. Until he was already very old and was about to live for a few years, he finally learned from the people that offering incense and praying would produce the power of wishes.
I got new inspiration from this move.
"In the final analysis, these wishes are generated by human beings uniting as one and spontaneously and sincerely respecting the mountain gods. So if everyone likes the same thing at the same time, will they also produce wishes?!"
'Xiaoshan' changed his mind about obtaining 'demon energy' and began to focus on the research of 'wishing power'. The first thing he thought of was 'books', because books are the most convenient and easiest to spread.
Let everyone like it.
Then Xiaoshan began to write a book. While writing, he felt the power of wishes and at the same time thought about how to make these wishes become his own strength.
Su Ping'an also witnessed the entire process of 'Xiao Shan' seeking knowledge with his own eyes. When he saw this, his expression was extremely shocked.
Because whether it’s from the story or from the increasingly familiar appearance of ‘Little Mountain’, that ‘Little Mountain’ looks too much like the same person.
That person is... Confucian Sage!
"Could it be that the 'little mountain' is the Confucian sage, and everything shown in this illusion is the life experience of the Confucian sage and the entire process of creating 'Confucianism and Taoism'?!"
Su Ping'an's heart was filled with waves, and he couldn't calm down for a long time.
…
As for the following story, everyone across the continent knows that the Confucian sage spent almost his whole life trying to understand heaven and man. Finally, in his later years, he felt the culture of heaven and earth with the help of his "wishes", and based on this, he successfully opened up a new world.
The method of Confucianism and Taoism.
Later, 'Xiaoshan' changed his name to 'Shu Yazi' because he had been with books almost all his life, and he deeply felt that 'the sea of books has no boundaries' and that learning will never end, he changed his name to 'Shu Yazi', and then he became a saint immediately. Then he destroyed evil spirits.
To pacify the foreign races, determine the fate of the country, and stabilize the world, this created an immortal foundation for the Daxuan Kingdom for thousands of years, and also made immortal contributions to the human race.
Until the Confucian sage emerged, all the illusions around him finally disappeared.
Su Ping'an felt like he was watching a long historical documentary movie, with mixed feelings in his heart. Until it was all over, a line of ink words suddenly floated out of the void, asking him a question.
This question is also very simple, with only one sentence.
"Looking at the current situation of Daxuan Kingdom, how can we become stronger again?"