Being confused is a way to escape pain. Holding your head and crying and saying that you have forgotten everything may make you feel better. But for people like Cui Yigeng, their golden bodies and chalcedony have decayed under the erosion of time, but they are still stubborn and upright.
How can a person who has never surrendered be able to stay awake without pain?
So he added: "It has been three hundred and thirty-two years and three months...and seven days since that accident happened."
No one raised any objection to this - the time Cui Yigeng has experienced is clearly reflected in his Taoist body. The frosty hair and brows are the scars of time.
He only played against Cui Yigeng once, but he left a deep impression on him. Jiang Wang still remembered that Cui Yigeng was a person who cherished his time very much.
But people who cherish time like this are here counting time and passing by in vain bit by bit.
This is really cruel.
Shen Lin's lifespan was five hundred and sixteen years, but with Cui Yigeng's strength and character, he died before his lifespan... The pain he endured in his heart was far greater than the pain his Tao body endured.
"What happened?" Jiang Wang asked.
He casually handed the scroll of green slips to Chong Xuanzun.
When he got the green slips, he scanned them with his immortal mind. The green slips recorded a period of history - in the year 2531 of the Dao calendar, the Shao Kingdom destroyed Yan.
It seems that the "Six Yao Mountains and Rivers Forbidden" that was arranged here and sealed off by Cui Yigeng was based on the mountains and rivers of the Yan State. The mountains and rivers of the Yan State overlapped to a large extent with the later Xia State, but that was
The Yan Kingdom was in its heyday. On the eve of being destroyed by the Shao Kingdom, only three mansions including Xiangyou Mansion were left in the Yan Kingdom.
Later, the largest war between Qi and Xia took place in Tongyang City in Xiangyou Prefecture, with thousands of horses clashing on the Jiangyin Plain...
The normal way to break the ban is to have some understanding of the history of the Yan Kingdom, a considerable degree of knowledge of the politics of the Yan Kingdom, and good practice in the ban.
After all, Jiang Wang was granted a title during the Conquest of Xia Dynasty, and he had a considerable understanding of the death of Yue Taizong and the Lian family's eastward migration during the same period. After breaking the ban, he looked back at the problem, and it was very easy to peel off the cocoons.
The earth has learned this [Liuyao Mountain and River Forbidden·Remnant Yan].
The purpose of giving this historical green slip, which may have been written by Zuo Qiuwu himself, to Chongxuanzun was to let him see if there were any hidden clues. After all, Zhanliang is very useful, and if you don't use it, it will be in vain.
Although Cui Yigeng shed tears unconsciously, he never showed any expression of crying.
A person with an extremely strong will like him doesn't need pity, he just needs a little calmness. Now this kind of calmness can be found in Jiang Wang's gentle voice.
He faintly heard the sound of Sanskrit singing, and Jiang Wang in front of him seemed to be in his twilight years, wearing linen monk robes and full of Buddha nature.
The pain that continued to extend and seemed to be endless seemed to be soothed. Cui Yi could see Jiang Wang's eyes more clearly. It was not the same as before, but still like before.
That year when this man came to the bamboo forest, he only gave his name "Jiang Wang" and his purpose "asking for swords".
He only replied "yes".
At that time, he thought that, at least in terms of spiritual practice, this visitor was very similar to him. On the road to spiritual practice, one should only seize the day. There is no need to care about other successes, losses, honors, disgrace, interests and reputation.
But the journey was long, and I finally fell behind.
Are you not working hard enough?
Suffering counts as time, and pain also counts as laziness?
Cui Yigeng, have you... failed to give everything you have?
Cui Yigeng was startled for a moment: "...I don't know either!"
"That day was no different from usual. I finished my studies at Qinxin Hall and went to practice sword practice at the Bamboo Sea in Back Mountain as usual. When I came here... I discovered the change of time. A door separates the spring and autumn.
different."
"I saw my senior brother die of old age in an instant, and my nephew turn around and grow old. He was still saying hello to me a moment ago... The wave of time swept across like a tsunami. The academy was just an overturned sampan, and no one was spared."
"It was the dean who saved me."
"He sealed me here, saying that changes have already occurred, and asked me to wait patiently here. Only if I can see through the hole myself, can I get out of this sealed town, pass on the news, and continue the inheritance of the academy - but I... do
Not even there!”
"I can't..."
"Thank you for coming. I leave everything to you, I feel relieved - thank you."
"I wasted my time and couldn't make any progress. I called myself 'single-minded', but for three hundred and thirty years, I could no longer concentrate on the sword. There were cries in my ears, and there were dead people in front of me... They were all dead.
."
Cui Yi was more like a tree that had been hollowed out, with only the wrinkled bark standing there. He finally breathed a sigh of relief after being relieved of the burden. When this breath was released, the whole person withered. He repeated in a murmur: "
All dead."
"Who do you mean by 'them'?" Ju Gui asked.
Cui Yigeng looked at him and repeated painfully: "In the whole Qinku Academy, I am the only one who is still alive."
"This is impossible." Ju Gui said expressionlessly: "Unless detachment takes action, no one can silently erase Qinku Academy. But the more detached a person is, the tighter they will be watched. Such a huge move is impossible.
Leave no trace behind."
Secrets such as [The Nameless One] were also grabbed by the tail after blocking the way.
Qinjin Academy, which has long been known as "the best in the world", has such a profound heritage and huge influence that it can be called a contemporary context. To cut it out is to attack the torrent of humanity head-on. How can it be silent?
This is not like crushing a nest of ants.
It’s not that a transcendent person can’t erase such traces. It’s that even a transcendent person can’t erase the shock of other transcendent people in such a huge event!
"I have been here for the past three hundred and thirty years, and all the people I have passed in my sight have died. The scents I was once familiar with have also faded one after another. This is my feeling and my experience.
"Cui Yigeng stared at the Legalist True Lord in front of him, with bloody tears in his eyes: "I will not lie about this kind of thing."
Ju Gui still had no expression: "I believe what you said is not a lie, and my Legalist major also has this judgment for you. But my 'belief' is not worth mentioning. What we need to emphasize is cognition. For practice,
A correct understanding of reality - based on the known conditions, 'the entire Qinku Academy has perished today' is impossible to establish."
"No one is more willing to believe that you are right than me. But -" Cui Yigeng looked around and raised his wrinkled hand, which trembled: "I can't deceive myself."
"Time keeps running forward, I can't catch up... I can't hold it back. I have no strength. Since the year before last, I have been unable to hold the sword. Three hundred and thirty years have slipped through my fingers.
."
Cui Yigen is a strong person.
If he wasn't strong enough, he wouldn't have been able to survive until now. When he saw all his classmates die and he had no hope of moving forward, he still endured for more than three hundred years, and he was still standing when his golden body and chalcedony became old.
But a drop of water can penetrate stone.
No matter how strong your heart is, it will be weathered by endless failures.
The most important thing is that he is no longer young. His Taoist body is so old that he has no more time. In ten years at most, maybe tomorrow, he will fall.
He would not have given up until he hit the south wall, but his blood stains were all dried on the south wall, layer after layer.
"Then why are you still alive?" Jiang Wang asked.
"For... inheritance." Cui Yigeng answered instinctively: "The inheritance of Qinku Academy."
"Shu Shan is still there." Dou Zhao said beside him.
As long as the mountain of books is still there, the inheritance of the Diligent Academy cannot be cut off. It is nothing more than the birth and death of this group of scholars, and the birth and death of another group of scholars. The life and death of Cui Yigeng is irrelevant to this.
These Taixu cabinet members are so inhumane and so indifferent that they are almost cruel.
Cui Yigeng was angry for a moment, but he seemed to be hit by something. He finally asked himself in the pain, lowered his head in silence for a long time, and finally raised his head: "I am not willing to give in. I want to know what happened.
What? I hope I can seek justice for my dead classmates."
"So you can't just leave it to us." Jiang Wang said.
"Yes, I can't just leave it to you..." Cui Yigeng used his trembling hand to get close to the hilt of the sword, and climbed up finger by finger. The vines were tightly entangled like a tree.
The wooden hilt was decaying like a moth, but it once again gave him strength. He seemed to hear the sound of the wind passing through the bamboo forest again, such a clean... rustling sound.
After hundreds of years of being unable to "single-mindedly", he finally only had swords in his eyes.
"Mr. Drama." Jiang Wang had already walked to Cui Yigeng's side, but he did not rush through the moon gate. Instead, he turned around and looked at the drama cabinet: "'Qinku Academy cannot have perished', and 'Qinku Academy has perished'
'. These two things are not necessarily contradictory. They can exist at the same time."
Ju Gui understood immediately after hearing this: "You mean, in different time and space?"
Huang Sheli has been silently observing for a long time. At this time, he gave the professional opinion of a time and space traveler, echoing Jiang Wang's judgment: "Different time and space, there are different stories. In the history of Qinku Academy, this 'different' anchor
Point, not specific
years, but different people. For example, in Cui Yigeng's time and space, Qinku Academy has perished, and everyone he knows has died. But in Zhong Xuanyin's time and space, perhaps all of this still exists. The grass grows and the orioles fly in the spring.
, he is still writing letters..."
Cui Yigeng was shocked. He raised his head suddenly! His breathing suddenly became heavier: "In other words, is it possible that what I saw and experienced is fake? Is it just a fragment of time and space?"
"History must be recorded on paper in the end." Zhongxuan raised the green slip in his hand and said calmly: "Which one is true and which one is false depends on which history book you take with you when you go out.
"
The historical material of "Shao Kingdom Destroys Yan" is quite interesting. It is not just the period recorded in the book that is interesting - there was an emperor named Yuhui in Shao Kingdom later, who was the sworn brother of Emperor Wu of Qi.
Check out the correct version one by one!
"I am now more and more certain that it is the chaos of time and space of many people that jointly leads to the sinking of time and space in Qinku Academy." Huang Sheli touched his chin: "In Qinku Academy, not everyone has a separate time and space. These people
It’s the key ‘anthill’.”
She tilted her head and looked at this ordinary guy: "So Cui Yigeng, what's so special about you?"
Jiang Wang said for him: "Brother Cui is the top disciple of Qinku Academy, and his swordsmanship is very good."
"Each generation has great disciples. Although the best are chosen from the best, not all of them may become successful." Huang Sheli looked back at Jiang Wang: "This 'swordsmanship is very good' was your judgment when you were in the outer building, right?"
"There is nothing special about me. I have an average appearance, average cultivation, and average talent. There is only one thing -" Cui Yigeng said: "I have made no progress in this confinement that I cannot leave for three hundred and thirty years, but for three hundred years, I have made no progress."
I don’t know if I stopped practicing sword practice for thirty years. Does that count?”
"Of course it's settled." Qin Zhizhen said after silence: "You are a strong man who has repeatedly defeated despair."
Huang Relic was speechless for a moment.
It's not that she looked down on Cui Yigeng.
What she wants to explore is why Cui Yigeng became one of the ant nests that burst the embankment. Finding the answer to this question may be able to find the root cause of Qinku Academy's deep time and space.
Can hard work and persistence be the reason? It doesn’t seem very special.
In Taixu Pavilion alone, the only people she knew who were practicing every moment were Li Yi and Jiang Wang. After these two people reached the top one after another, everyone else followed suit... Her yellow relic is now
When appreciating beauties, I always practice a few Taoist techniques!
What kind of life is there?
No one can remain emotionless before three hundred and thirty years, Ju Gui is probably an exception. He remained expressionless: "You have such a character and perseverance, you can't make no progress for three hundred and thirty years. This doesn't suit me.
Understanding of spiritual practice.”
Cui Yigeng was silent, and then said bitterly: "I am too unqualified. I guess my talent is limited. You are all the top people in the world, and you cannot recognize mediocrity. Some people are born and can only go so far."
Jiang Wang still remembers that after the sword quest ended, Cui Yigeng, who lost, didn't have any trouble at all. He just picked up the sword and continued to practice swordsmanship. Later, he actually achieved the divine presence and moved forward step by step. Time is really too long.
So cruel.
"Give me your sword." Li Yi, who had been silent since he entered Qinku Academy, stretched out his hand to him.
Looking at Taiyu Zhenjun who was wearing a white Taoist robe and only tied up his hair with a wooden hairpin, so simple and without any unnecessary things... Cui Yigeng's mood was complicated and unspeakable.
Isshin Sword is a very pure sword, and he is also a very pure person in practice.
But he understood that Li Yi was a pure-hearted seeker.
The sword Li Yi cultivated is "One".
"One heart" and "one".
There is just one more word. But he and Li Yi are completely different.
He tried to make his hands more stable, held the sword in both hands, and offered it to Taiyu: "Please."
Li Yi took the [Yixin Sword], held it for less than two breaths, and put it back in Cui Yigeng's hand.
Cui Yi felt more clearly that his Ishin Sword had been unsheathed, but he did not see how his sword was unsheathed and how it was put back into its sheath. He did not even capture the sword energy or feel the sword's edge.
He had no idea what had happened in the past two breaths.
But he heard Li Yi say: "Your practice is locked."
He didn't know how he came to this conclusion, but he knew that Taiyu Zhenjun would not lie to him. What Li said was more important than the truth he knew!
He was stunned there.
He opened his mouth to say something, but nothing came out.
He thought he was about to cry, but instead he laughed.
Three hundred and thirty-two years, three months and seven days!
He watched helplessly as his fellow disciples died one by one, doing nothing and being powerless.
He held this long sword with a wooden handle and a bamboo scabbard, his eyes widened, and he grinned: "So it's not that my sword and I are useless...right?"
Li Yi looked at him calmly: "Your sword is not bad."
Cui Yigeng closed his mouth suddenly and gritted his teeth!
Who locked Cui Yigeng's practice? Is it this period of time and space? Is it the person behind all this? Or is it Zuo Qiuwu who saved Cui Yigeng and sealed him here?
"Is it possible for Brother Cui to appear in other time and space?" Jiang Wang asked Huang Relic.
The person Yan Xiao saw before losing contact was also Cui Yigeng.
At this moment, the person he saw after breaking through the [Six Yao Mountains and Rivers Forbidden System] was also Cui Yigeng.
But the other man was young and strong and now he is old.
Or in different time and space segments.
But at this time, Cui Yigeng said that he was here, standing in the moon gate, washed away by time for three hundred and thirty years.
He was completely able to feel the current Cui Yigeng's emotions, but he did not relax his vigilance. The two were so close now, and he could respond in time to any changes.
"In view of the special nature of this period, everyone who extends time and space alone will not appear in other people's time and space." Huang Sheli looked at Cui Yigeng: "Have you seen Zhong Xuanyin?"
Cui Yi thought more seriously for a while and shook his head.
Huang Sheli said: "Then Mr. Zhong should be fine."
"Mr. Zuo Qiuwu, as the dean of Qinku Academy, the true king of the world, and the master of Confucianism, didn't he extend time and space alone?" Cang Meng stood on the [Statue of Foreign Gods], and his voice extended through the darkness, slightly eerie.
If the long embankment of Qinku Academy collapsed in many key ant nests, with Zuo Qiuwu’s identity and strength, it is impossible that it is not the key!
But Cui Yigeng met Zuo Qiuwu, and Zuo Qiuwu left a seal...
Huang Sheli said solemnly: "Dean Zuo may not only appear in Cui Yigeng's time and space, but also not exist as a passerby."