"Smoke along the beautiful eaves and smoke across the eyes!"
The scholar recited the first line of the couplet. His brows furrowed and his face changed slightly. With his ability, he must have known how extraordinary this couplet was.
"Your Excellency, you can take your time to correct me. How about I give you one day? If it's not enough, how about I give you two days?" Xu Wuzhou said to the scholar.
After saying that, Xu Wuzhou sat down and practiced, waiting for the scholar's answer.
Zhou Si was next to Xu Wuzhou. Although she was not a Taoist with literary skills, she was also very talented in writing. Naturally, she could see the extraordinary nature of this couplet.
Zhou Si thought she was not right, but she didn't know if this scholar could do it.
The scholar sat at the desk, took out a lot of paper, and kept writing and correcting on it with a pen, looking like he was racking his brains.
Time passed little by little, and everything was quiet, except for the sound of the scholar's clattering writing.
At this time, Xu Wuzhou was completely immersed in his own practice. He had not had time to sort out and understand himself after cultivating the divine treasure. With the quietness at this time, he was immersed in his divine treasure, feeling the spiritual treasure.
The changes brought about by Shenzang.
He was familiar with the changes in Nirvana Kendo that were carried by the soul. At this time, Shenzang was no longer just a dantian that gathered power, but had charm and vitality.
Zhongdao Shenzang allowed him to transform. Of course... Zhongdao Shenzang also consumed a lot of liquid, seven to eight hundred thousand taels of liquid.
In addition to the tens of thousands of taels of liquid consumed to help Wan Chong achieve enlightenment, there were only three to four hundred thousand taels of liquid left in the black bowl.
Although it seemed like a lot, it wasn't enough for him to plant Tao again.
With his mind withdrawn from the divine treasure, Xu Wuzhou couldn't help but think of his own Tao. Although he entered the Tao, he did not evolve his own Tao into suitable combat skills.
"How does the Tao of Self evolve into combat skills?"
Xu Wuzhou was immersed in this, and time passed quickly. Hour after hour passed until the sky gradually darkened.
"I can't help it!"
A voice sounded in vain, waking Xu Wuzhou from his practice.
"If you're sorry, then you lose." Xu Wuzhou looked at the scholar and smiled.
The scholar looked at Xu Wuzhou and did not argue. He just said, "Do you have a second line?"
"The fog covers the black house, and there is no fog. Although the artistic conception is lacking, it is still adequate." Xu Wuzhou looked at the scholar and replied.
The scholar thought for a long time, nodded and said: "It is indeed not as good as the artistic conception of the first couplet."
Xu Wuzhou smiled. Naturally, the artistic conception of the first couplet was not as good as that of the first couplet. After all, this is the eternal truth, and this second couplet is already the most correct.
But Xu Wuzhou doesn't need to be perfect, he just wants to give the other party a clue to make him unwilling to give up, so that it will be easier for him to take the next step.
"Although the artistic conception is flawed, I can't match it. This time, I lost." After the scholar finished speaking, he used a pen to cut a wound on his finger, and a drop of blood flowed from it.
The bullet landed in a jade bottle.
"I am willing to admit defeat, and I will give you this drop of blood!"
Xu Wuzhou was startled, never expecting that the other party would admit defeat so simply. In his opinion, the other party had many reasons to find. For example, the right one was flawed, for example, the couplets here and there were only fair, and for example, the couplets were not made by him, etc.
"Your Excellency, are you giving up now?" Xu Wuzhou looked at the scholar and asked.
"If you lose, you lose. Can't you still find excuses to shirk it?" the scholar said.
"A couplet is not enough to prove my talent." Xu Wuzhou said to the scholar.
"No matter what the reason is, if I can't match it, it's because I'm not good at studying. It doesn't matter whether you are really talented or not. What's important is that I can't match it. Even if you copied this couplet from somewhere else, it also means that
I can't match the couplets written by someone in the world. It's not you or him, it's just that people are different, but it doesn't change the result that I can't match them." said the scholar.
A humble gentleman, noble and upright!
Zhou Si and Xu Wuzhou couldn't help but give this evaluation to the scholar.
"In that case, I won't bother you anymore. I hope you can throw the jade bottle to me." Xu Wuzhou stood outside the Taoist temple and said to the scholar.
"You can come in and get it!" the scholar said to Xu Wuzhou.
"Your study is too clean. I have been traveling all the way, but I don't want to pollute the cleanliness of your place. Just leave it to me!" Xu Wuzhou said to the scholar.
"Are you afraid?" The scholar suddenly laughed.
"This place is weird, so it's natural for me to be scared." Xu Wuzhou nodded seriously.
"If I really do something to you, do you think standing outside the door will be useful?" the scholar said to Xu Wuzhou.
Xu Wuzhou nodded and said, "I think the door may be my safe distance."
The scholar smiled and didn't take it seriously. He threw the jade bottle out and said, "The world has indeed changed. Even scholars can't be trusted anymore."
Xu Wuzhou took the jade bottle and said to the scholar: "Thank you, Your Excellency!"
The scholar waved his hand and said, "Since you don't want to come in, please leave."
"Okay! I'll leave now!" Xu Wuzhou turned around and was about to leave.
"Wait! Please help me close the door!" The scholar saw the two people leaving and shouted again.
Looking at the wide open door, if they wanted to close it, they would naturally reach inside the door. Xu Wuzhou and Zhou Si did not look back, they continued to walk out.
The scholar's slightly unhappy voice came from behind: "You opened my door but didn't close it for me. This is a lack of education."
Xu Wuzhou turned to the scholar with a smile and said, "I want to use my lack of quality to set off your nobility. Therefore, in order to set a negative example for the world, I sacrifice myself and become a person without quality.
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The scholar frowned slightly, looked at Zhou Si and said, "Are you from Xuannv Palace?"
Zhou Si's brows jumped, as she didn't expect to see through the other person's true identity at a glance.
"This junior is a disciple of Xuannv Palace!"
"The descendant of this generation of Xuannv Palace?" the other party asked again.
"Yes!" Zhou Si replied.
"Since you are the descendant of Xuannv Palace, why do you join in the same deeds with him? Xuannv Palace has always been a benchmark in the world, with the world in mind. How can you have great kindness in your heart when you are guilty of small things?" The scholar asked with a tone of lecturing and questioning.
"I don't quite understand what you mean!" Zhou Si replied.
But the scholar sighed: "I also have a relationship with your Xuannv Palace, and I should give you some advice... Anyway, it's not my place to say these words of instruction and reproach. You close the door and go."
Zhou Si looked at the scholar sitting upright on the chair. She was silent for a while and said, "I'm sorry! I can't close this door for juniors."
This sentence made the scholar frown even more: "Why?"
"I dare not reach into your house because the door is closed," Zhou Si said.
"Why don't you dare?" the scholar asked doubtfully.
"Because of you!" Zhou Si said again, "I'm going to resign and ask you, senior, to close the door on your own."
After saying that, she and Xu Wuzhou were leaving again.
"Close the door!" A thunderous roar came from the scholar's mouth, with a ferocious voice. The originally elegant and handsome scholar's entire face twisted at this moment, and he roared out these two words.