Chapter 111: The setting sun sets and the mountains are full of purple and green
At noon, the sun is in the sky.
Chen Pingan put the bamboo pole on the ground, stood up, lifted the wine bottle with his toes, took a sip of wine, "Let's talk while we walk."
Lu Chen temporarily stayed in the old man's guest house and took a walk with Chen Ping'an by the stream.
In the eyes of others, they would not find it strange. As the mining officer of Caiyu Mountain, Uncle Bai had always been on good terms with outsiders.
Chen Ping'an said: "It's just an illusion made out of thin air. Why would Master Lu mobilize so many troops, violate the etiquette of the Confucian Temple, and sneak into the world without authorization? Unless..."
Lu Chen smiled and answered: "Unless Pindao originally had one of his feelings and has never taken it back, and has been wandering in Haoran for a long time, since Pindao did not come from Bai Yujing, it does not violate the rules of the Confucian Temple."
Chen Ping'an shook his head, "Unless Master Lu wants to immediately reach the fifteenth realm to fill the vacancy left before Master returns to Bai Yujing after the master has spread his teachings, so as to shock the fourteen states of Qingming, since Haoran and the wilderness are all
It can be regarded as a ferry boat crossing the sky, and Qing Ming must be the same. There is an ancient saying, "If you don't cultivate virtue, all the people in the boat will become enemies." As for whether the invincible is really invincible, Master Lu must be a bystander, and he has no doubts about it.
He had the answer in his mind. As a result, Master Lu made deductions and found that the possibility of success was reduced without any warning when breaking through the situation. He felt something was wrong. After thinking about it, he thought of me. He did not hesitate to suppress the situation and used secret methods to hide the truth. Lu Zhang
How long can I stay here? A quarter of an hour? Or a stick of incense?"
"Chen Ping'an, you are not a hard-to-guess person. You separated your mind, took risks, and wanted to bring the world in your heart closer to the truth. You used your skills to get close to the truth. As a result, your clone was seen through by outsiders. Ordinary monks would still be hesitant. Think of it.
The compromise method is different for you. There are only two options. One is to wait and see what happens and bet on a false alarm. The other is to decisively blow up a piece of mind and hurt the foundation of the avenue. The two sides have formed a deadly feud.
Then you informed the sages of the Confucian Temple who were in charge of the sky to close the door and help keep an eye on the barrier between heaven and earth, while calling Mr. Xiao Mo and Miss Xie to block the road. Chen Ping'an, after so many years, you still don't seem to have completely changed this idea of right and wrong.
Ideas and ideas.”
Two "fellow Taoists" with a rather complicated relationship met again in a foreign country, but they talked in different ways here.
“What is the difference between ideas and train of thought?”
“Ideas can be boundless and limitless, but ideas have an organized context and pathways.”
Chen Pingan nodded, "Does this count as a difference of mind? For example, the same path gradually gave rise to sensibility and rationality."
Lu Chen said with a smile: "Heaven learns to cultivate the mind, and humans learn to cultivate the body. If the body is happy, it is heaven and man. It may be a bit too general, but I will give a simple example, the tablet of the god of later generations, the ancestor hall on the mountain, and the folk ancestral hall at the foot of the mountain.
They are found in the Imperial Ancestral Temple of a country. They are usually used to worship ancestors and ancestors, and to set up a god to commemorate their death. In the center of the god, the name of the deceased is written, and in small characters on the side, the name of the worshipper is written, to respect the heaven and ancestors, and to be cautious in pursuing the future. In this way, you
I feel that if there are really differences in minds, who is the master and who is the subordinate?"
Chen Ping'an asked doubtfully: "Can it be compared like this?"
"certainly."
Lu Chen said: "No!"
Chen Pingan turned his head. If it weren't for Uncle Bai's body, he would have really wanted to punch him.
Lu Chen said: "Pindao just wants to prove that you guessed wrong. There is no time limit of one quarter of an hour for burning incense. Pindao can stay in the world as long as he wants. The Confucian Temple cannot control Pindao."
Chen Ping'an suddenly said: "Actually, I made a mistake at the beginning. Human sensibility and rationality are not actually two separate paths, but are in the same line. Before there is sensibility, there is rationality. No, it is before there is rationality. Then there is sensibility.
, the difference between the laws of nature and human desires? Just like what you call the worshipper and the sacrificer of the god... tracing the origin, you can go back to the ancestor of a surname, and further up... it is the body that governs the person, and the heart that governs the person.
sky?"
Lu Chen pecked at the rice and nodded vigorously, "Oh, to be able to explain it like this, isn't it like a blind cat caught a dead mouse by a poor Taoist? It's wonderful."
Lu Chen first looked up at the sun, then looked around, shaking his sleeves, "Sure enough, the words are blazing, the words of the great road are as powerful as fire, Shuonan's teachings are spread all over the world, hey, everything is included and there is no escape."
Chen Ping'an sighed: "Master Lu is so awesome, he found my second clone so quickly."
Lu Chen smiled and said, "Since I have nothing to do, I might as well guess the riddles and solve the problems."
With a sigh, Lu Chen turned sideways, walked sideways, and looked at Chen Ping'an's side face, "The well-known guests here are old, Yuxuanguo Taoist Wu Di, plus the clone of Luoluo Shanzhulou, this is already three hearts, and then
In addition, the "divine master" of the village school at the foot of the mountain in Yunzhou opened the school for elementary school. He must not move around very much and is as motionless as a mountain. It is like the North Pole in the sky, with a straight line pulling it in the distance. Could it be that the other clones are divided into seven paths?
Well, Pindao finally figured it out. It turned out to be a Big Dipper array that controls the sky and the earth. Did Shanzhu Chen get the inspiration from Tongyezhou Golden Summit? But in the final analysis, he still learned from Pindao, and he was honored and honored.
I am extremely honored. Since the rise and fall of the sun and the moon are used to determine the east and west, and the purple stars are used to distinguish the north and the south, this means that the seven avatars of Chen Shanzhu attached to the talisman must always point at the main body of the school.
Is there a certain limit to the range of activities in Pingzhou? Rong Pindao can guess at the hiding places of the remaining three clones. The last one is in Dali Yuzhou and the Qingxing Kingdom south of Dadu. The last one is a little difficult.
Guess... Anyway, in order to protect the seven hearts from being intercepted by the monks and defeat them one by one, Master Chen really put a lot of thought into them."
With such an formation, Chen Ping'an's originally extremely risky distraction became much more stable. Through the large formation, it was like setting up a life-sustaining lamp for the seven hearts scattered in various places at the same time in the "ancestral hall".
Unless they are deliberately targeted by the great monks who have foresight, it will be difficult for the Aquarius Continent Earth Immortal and his ilk to separate themselves and imprison the mind of a clone. If they really have to fight with each other, even if the enemy monks win, they will only be surprised why such a big thing is happening.
A human qi practitioner doesn't even have a soul. When Chen Ping'an's mind disappears and he returns to the "ancestral hall" and reveals his true face as a talisman puppet, those monks will understand that they have provoked someone they shouldn't have provoked.
Role.
Chen Ping'an said: "Actually, there are two Auxiliary Hidden Stars, who are responsible for supporting from the side, so as to prevent the Earth Immortal from smashing a certain talisman too easily and mobilizing the whole body, resulting in failure. As a result, I have to take back all the talisman clones immediately.
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Lu Chen sighed and said, "No wonder you told Pindao that you had a very good memory and could remember everything you saw in Mud Bottle Alley."
At that time, the boy with straw sandals in Mupin Alley would respectfully call himself Daochang Lu, which is really nostalgic.
From Lu Daochang, Lu Chen, bastard, to today's Headmaster Lu, it's so sad.
Lu Chen is now glad that his trip was not in vain. It was definitely a worthwhile trip. At the moment, Chen Ping'an has entered the mountain to practice and has already reached halfway up the mountain. Lu Chen's so-called halfway up the mountain is different from that of ordinary Qi practitioners.
The location where you can see the scenery on the top of the mountain is qualified to be said to be halfway up the mountain. It has nothing to do with the level of the realm. For example, many great monks in the Ascension Realm have never found the opportunity to join the Tao in their lives. In Lu Chen's eyes, it is still that kind of unknown.
A layman on the mountainside.
Now Chen Ping'an has found an extremely broad "sword way" by virtue of the superposition of the natal magical powers of the two flying swords, which is to gather small worlds one after another through seeing, hearing, hearsay, and imagination.
It is said that before returning from the Great Wall of Sword Qi to Haoran Tianxia, it was just a slightly immature idea. Then when Chen Pingan started to refine a long river of time through gold and copper coins, especially this return from the outer world, he improved a "moon in the well"
The rank of Feijian, Chen Pingan's clones everywhere, the seven "Chen Pingan", everything seen, heard, thought and thought in different areas of Aquarius Continent are all as if they are living in the real world all the time.
As a "sword refining" to sharpen the edge of the sword at the Dragon-Slaying Platform.
This way of practicing swordsmanship made Lu Chen even more eye-opening.
For example, what Zhike Chen saw today at the wine shop: Bai Ni, Xiahou Zan and Liang Yuping. Their bodies, looks, eyebrows, voices, intonations, demeanor, and expressions have all been "recorded" by Zhike Chen and have quietly integrated into the main body.
Chen Ping'an's world of swordsmanship.
In short, all the characters and landscapes on the road that Chen Ping'an walked are a "character" or "word", so the banquet at Sanhua Beach in Caiyu Mountain seems to constitute a "sentence"
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The more words that make up this sentence, the more dense they are, and the more detailed the content, the closer they are to the "truth" that is opposed to "false appearance."
Just like what Lu Chen asked before, is there time in the world? Is it composed of countless frozen stillnesses? Lu Chen said this, which is equivalent to treating the entire world as a completely motionless book. When Lu Chen determines that "
That one", he started to flip through the book, and the characters and scenes in the book would flow "consciously" and "passively". And Lu Chen's statement is obviously of the same origin and different flow from Li Xisheng's idea.
Suddenly forgetting a certain word, and suddenly remembering something, as if I have experienced it before...
Life is so sad in this world. The unfounded worries about the world and the crying at the end of the road have made Lu Chen feel sad in his heart.
It's like when Chen Pingan was in Tianwai before, on the way back to Haoran with Xiao Mo and Bai Jing Yufeng, Bai Jing threw him a large pile of paper with paintings of ancient scenery. At that time, Chen Pingan felt like a little book, more like Pei Qian in the classroom.
Draw a little figure on the corner of the page, with different postures, and quickly turn the page, which is a complete set of actions.
Therefore, when the writer Chen Ping'an picks out "this sentence" separately and puts it into the long river of time in the caged bird, others will feel it is more real when they see it in the future.
If today's banquet is a short sentence, then the Taoist priest Wu Di is in the house in Yongning County, the capital of Yuxuan Kingdom, with the female ghost Xue Ruyi, the young Zhang Hou, and the flowers and plants in the courtyard, plus going out every day
Treating guests to drinks with the subordinate officials in the yamen, chatting on the street, setting up stalls to tell people's fortunes... it's just a "long sentence" that stretches out the long river of time to several months.
And Lu Chen's "false appearance" is the Sect of Ten Thousand Dharmas, which is like the first... tablet of the God.
But when Chen Pingan was chatting with Li Xisheng, when they talked about Zou Zi, Chen Pingan had an idea in his mind that as an anchor for positioning the river, it could not be Lu Chen.
This is Chen Pingan's self-deception, which is similar to his inertial "thinking".
This method of first deceiving oneself, then deceiving others, and then deceiving the sky was naturally learned by Chen Pingan and Cui Chan. Unfortunately, they were not able to learn everything. After all, Chen Pingan learned it all by himself. He had to figure it out by himself, just like an arithmetic problem.
, knowing the answers to the test questions, and then going backwards to trace an extremely tedious problem-solving process. At the same time, it happened to be this kind of superfluous self-deception. Chen Pingan had this idea, which was equivalent to his inner voice and Lu Shen's name, which made people who were also far away at that time
Lu Chen, who was watching from the outside, immediately noticed that something was wrong, and also began to push back... It was another frightening event, not even inferior to the impending ambush at the Great Sword Qi Wall, but if Lu Chen hadn't
After leaving Qing Ming Tianxia, if I didn't join in the excitement and was cut off from the secrets of the world by a big world, I might have missed this clue.
Lu Chen's return to Haoran this time was really not an illegal "smuggling", but was reported to the Li Sheng in advance.
There is really something serious going on. As for meeting Chen Ping'an, it's just a drop-in.
"Rong Pindao did some calculations. On Tomb Sweeping Day this year, the mouth of Shanzhu Chen's seven-star formation points to... Yongjia Street in the capital city of Yuxuan Kingdom?!"
Lu Chen always imitated the way a crab walks, following Chen Ping'an's footsteps and asked: "It's just Ma Kuxuan, is it worth your distraction to become a god?"
What Lu Chen calls a god, however, is not a title of righteousness, but a seal of ban, a title of mountain seal.
Chen Ping'an and Ma Kuxuan both knew very well that there was an old debt, and some were collecting debts and others were repaying the debts.
It might be two, it might be three. If Ma Kuxuan must stop him, it might be three or four.
All will die.
Lu Chen turned around and kicked a stone on the road into the stream. "Logically speaking, even if Ma Kuxuan's parents could become deities of mountains and rivers and gain the protection of the Shinto from the Xiyue Mountain Lord's Mansion in Yizhou, so what? Can they stop it?"
Do you want to take revenge?"
"Yes, yes, that's it. It's indeed a bit tricky."
"This couple actually wants to become one of the city gods and obtain the amulet issued by the underworld. This is a fork in the road with the gods of mountains and rivers. Oh, it is more than just an amulet, it is truly the most veritable life-saving amulet in the world."
"It's strange how it was done. With the mean character of Ma Kuxuan's parents, even if they wanted to rely on various good deeds,
Accumulating yin virtues can make you one of these, but the Fengdu Underworld has had an iron law since ancient times that says, "You will not reward good deeds even if they are good." People in the human world, even if they are proficient in the yin laws of the underworld, want to accumulate merit and take advantage of loopholes, then this is the threshold alone.
, they are destined to be unable to cross the bridge, and it is sheer wishful thinking to want to serve as a high-ranking city god."
Chen Ping'an finally said: "Ma Kuxuan is very smart. He has deliberately bypassed the two of them and secretly arranged manpower in the capital of Yuxuan Kingdom. He only forced his parents to do certain things, but deliberately did not explain the reason.
, they were not even allowed to ask why, and he had warned and even threatened his parents with extremely harsh words."
"It is better to teach a man to fish than to teach him to fish. Ma Kuxuan does the opposite. It may be a little slow, but it is effective."
Lu Chen smiled and said, "When did Ma Kuxuan start this kind of planning?"
Chen Pingan said: "It's not too late, and it's definitely not too early. At that time, the Ma family in Xinghua Lane, together with the group of relatives, moved out of the town, directly out of the Dali Dynasty at that time, and went to Yuxuan Kingdom on the border of Huashan.
, At that time, Ma Kuxuan was arrogant and did not think that I was qualified to be his enemy. The reason why he asked his parents to move out of his hometown was probably because he was worried about their fate. He was more like Cai Jinjian and Fu Nanhua. After all, he
If you want to practice in Zhenwu Mountain, you cannot stare at Lizhu Cave Sky all the time."
"When I left the Sword Qi Great Wall for the first time and returned to Aquarius Continent, especially when I walked out of Shujian Lake, Ma Kuxuan may have been wary, but the greater proportion was that he deliberately disgusted me and wanted me to focus on revenge.
But I have been unable to take revenge for a long time, and I even feel that there is no hope of revenge for the rest of my life. I have to live in hatred and guilt for the rest of my life. When I served as the hidden official of the Sword Qi Great Wall and the news spread to the world, Ma Kuxuan began to truly regard me as
In order to threaten me, I carefully studied what Yuxuanguo Ma's family did in front of and behind the scenes. It was during those years that the brothers of each house began to take action frequently, and even began to try to pass the imperial examinations of their descendants, obtain imperial titles, and shine on the family lintel.
Then I tried to make someone or a few people obtain posthumous titles from the imperial court, posthumous gifts to the family, and many other measures, and they all began to proceed step by step. The only surprise was that Ma Kuxuan did not expect that I would catch up with him so quickly."
The last time he visited Zhengyang Mountain in Luolu Mountain, Ma Kuxuan had followed the advice of Yu Shiwu from Zhenwu Mountain. The latter said frankly that if he didn't take action, he would have no chance.
It's a pity that Chen Ping'an almost dismantled the entire Zhengyang Mountain and still didn't give Ma Kuxuan the chance to take action.
Chen Ping'an smiled and said: "When Ma Kuxuan's parents become the City God of Yuxuan Kingdom, I believe the first thing they will deal with is those members of the Ma family who have done many evil things, so that they can secure their golden status. The City God's Temple in the capital
, the civil judge Gao Sheng was transferred out of the capital of Yuxuan Kingdom. Ji Xiaoping, the former chief officer of the Yin and Yang Division, was promoted to the civil judge. When the official positions of the Yin and Yang Division and a certain division became vacant, the two came to the capital as local prefecture and county city gods to report on their duties, and were promoted according to their merits.
Bit."
Lu Chen laughed and said, "As expected of Ma Kuxuan, he has good intentions."
The city gods at all levels in a country are different from the mountain and water gods. Although the Wuyue Mountain Lord has the right to govern both, the real superior of the former is Fengdu Hades. In short, the Wuyue Mountain Lord can directly decide the promotion and even the promotion of the mountain and water gods within the territory.
They can take life and death, but they are not qualified to punish the city gods at all levels. They must be handed over to Fengdu to determine the guilt according to the law. That is to say, the Dayueshan Lord's Mansion has part of the power to convict the city gods at all levels, but has no execution power.
In the officialdom of Shanshui, the City God's Temple is like the censor's desk of a country's imperial court. It has a transcendent status and noble status. It can supervise all officials, but the Ministry of Personnel cannot directly decide the promotion or demotion of a censor.
Of course, Ma Kuxuan was able to accomplish this because Lizhu Cave formed its own cycle of heaven. The life, death and sins of the people in the small town in the past were not controlled by the underworlds of the underworld, including Fengdu.
Lu Chen asked: "Is there a way to solve it?"
Chen Pingan nodded and said: "Yes."
"How do you swordsmen become unreasonable once in a while?"
"On the contrary, follow the rules. Not to mention the City God's Temple in the capital of Yuxuan Kingdom, and the Hades in Fengdu can't find any fault. Since there is no fault, we can't protect Ma Kuxuan's parents according to the laws of the underworld. In the end, we can only be fair.
When doing things, do not take sides. Otherwise, there will only be endless entanglement, and when will there be retribution? Our generation will have a thorough understanding of the grievances of the previous generation, and we will repay kindness and revenge, and we will not leave it to the next generation."
Lu Chen said with a smile: "Ma Kuxuan is deliberately planning to lose everything. Isn't he going to be pissed off by you?"
Chen Ping'an said: "He has a strong Taoist heart and will never be angry with him."
Lu Chen was speechless.
Pindao is just joking with you, you don't have to be so strict.
Lu Chen changed the topic to a more flattering topic, "Chen Ping'an, you have really become a knowledgeable guest."
Previously, Lu Chen had suggested to Chen Ping'an that if he had the opportunity, he should be a guest who welcomes and sends guests off. It would be very interesting.
Chen Ping'an smiled and said: "Follow what is good."
Lu Shenmei sighed, "What you see with your eyes is the world. How precious and fragile a person's memory is."
The setting sun is about to set, and the scenery is purple and green, changing in an instant like a dream.
That's not right, isn't it just noon? How come the sun is already setting in the west?
Lu Chen knew something was wrong. He immediately closed his eyes and opened them again.
How can you often walk by the river without getting your shoes wet, which is miserable.
You, Chen Ping'an, don't miss your old relationship too much. Pindao is the Yue Lao who helped you to connect with Miss Ning!
By the river, Uncle Bai was sitting by the apricot tree and asked, "How many fish have you caught?"
Chen Pingan, who was squatting with a fishing rod in hand, said with a smile: "There are no fish caught yet. There is only one big fish that bites the bait, but even if it takes the bait, it may not be able to walk ashore."
Uncle Bai smiled and said: "You are a Qi practitioner after all, but you can't catch a fish?"
Chen Pingan nodded with a straight face and said: "The fish has become a spirit."
Uncle Bai couldn't help but laugh. The brat is quite good at telling jokes.
In a strange and mysterious realm, Lu Chen and another Lu Chen looked at each other, as if looking into a mirror, so there were countless Lu Chens in the eyes of both parties.