Chapter 636 Benevolence is the Way of Man
Jiang Guo, Qiao Gu and others also saw Chen Shi dueling with the sword marks on the cliff, but their feelings were different from Chen Shi's.
"When I walked here, I had suffered many injuries and it was difficult to walk on. My junior brother has not been injured so far."
Qiao Gu praised, "His foundation is too solid, and his understanding of the Hunyuan Sword Sutra is far better than Me."
Jingmei said: "Back then, I was even more seriously injured and could hardly walk. It was my brothers and sisters outside who encouraged me that made me continue walking."
She felt deeply about this.
Master Jiao suddenly shook his head and said, "That's not right."
Everyone was puzzled. Jiang Guo said, "Uncle, what's wrong?"
Uncle Jiao said: "His moves are perfect and there are no flaws, but he can hit the sword again. There's something wrong with that."
Uncle Qiao said: "Uncle, that's not right. There are no flaws in his moves. He has understood the true essence of the Hunyuan Sword Sutra. Even I can't do this now." . Even if you were to use the Hunyuan Sword Sutra, you wouldn't be able to reach his level!"
Master Jiao said, "I really can't do it. But there is something wrong with his swordsmanship."
As he spoke, Chen Shi had already reached the eighth move of Shendao Cliff and faced the Tianluo Shachi on the cliff.
When he faced the fifth move Yun Pei Wu Lian, he was already slightly injured. The sixth and seventh moves made the injury worse, but it did not affect his actions yet.
At this point, few of the disciples of Jin'ao Island can do it.
Even though they were in a very narrow place between the cliffs, Chen Shi and the supernatural powers on the cliffs showed a terrifying scene of the sky falling apart and the earth splitting and the red sun turning like blood. It was even more sinister, as if there were two collapsing worlds hidden between the cliffs, colliding violently!
In front of Chen Shi's eyes, the red sun was rushing around, and the setting sun was like blood. It was a doomsday scene in which the heaven and earth turned into ashes.
His moves were flawless and fully displayed the great avenue of heaven and earth when the doomsday comes. The power of this move bloomed under his sword, and it was extremely splendid. But at the moment when he collided with the Tianluo smashing that shot out from the cliff, his sword skills were inexplicably broken. The next moment, sword auras attacked, some pierced his throat, some pierced his heart, some penetrated his dojo, some entered his sea of consciousness, and some had already arrived in front of his soul!
Chen Shi quickly retreated, activating the Xuanhuang Sword Qi, invading his sea of consciousness and even the Tao Realm in his dojo, and tried his best to resist the invading sword Qi.
By the time he blocked the sword energy, he had already retreated to the entrance of the cliff.
Fu was walking in front, and suddenly a cloud of auspicious clouds appeared under his feet. The auspicious clouds rose up and carried the two of them away, leaving Qiao Gu, Jingmei and others looking at each other. "There seems to be something wrong with Junior Brother Chen's swordsmanship." Qiao Gu scratched his head and said.
Chen Shi stood in the clouds and saw that the auspicious clouds were very fast. In a short time, they flew across thousands of mountains and rivers and came to sleep next to Penglaixi.
Although this is also the earthly fairy world, it is extremely desolate. The spiritual energy has been polluted by outsiders and cannot be used anymore. The changes in the past have made this place a difficult place to survive. However, humans still thrive here. Chen Shi sees villages like chess pieces, large and small, falling between the broken mountains and rivers.
The auspicious clouds slowly descended, and Chen Shi kept his feet on the ground. He looked around, but saw that it was freezing cold here, and there was still snow on the ground. In the distant crop fields, the green wheat seedlings seemed to be frozen by ice and snow.
"There's something wrong with your swordsmanship, it doesn't look like your own."
Master Jiao took the truth seriously, "You seem to understand those principles naturally, but those principles have no feeling or emotion in your heart."
Chen Shi frowned slightly and said, "Uncle, what do you mean?"
"You have not understood what benevolence is."
Master Jiao said, "Benevolence is the relationship between man and heaven and earth, and the relationship between people. This is the key to the Master's philosophy. In name, benevolence is actually the way of humanity. Feel the changes in the world and know life and death, feel the changes in the world and know the rise and fall, feel the world and know the self. Your understanding of swordsmanship is unmatched by anyone, but your swordsmanship is just empty air, without humanity, without your understanding, feeling and perception."
He limped on the snow-covered land and said, "Look at the ice and snow, it looks like it's freezing cold, but in fact spring is approaching, and it's not that cold in the human world anymore. Don't float on the ground, just land on the ground and feel it."
Chen Shi landed on the ground, relaxed his body, and walked slowly.
The soil on the ground was softer than he expected. Although there was still ice and snow on the ground, it was only in the shade. The soil was not frozen, and the weather began to get warmer.
He looked back and saw his footprints on the ground.
Uncle Jiao led him forward and said: "You have practiced well in the earth's energy, and I can't find anything wrong with it. But why did you get hit by the sword? I think you have never really seen the earth's energy greeting, and the sky's life and death. Only when you have truly seen it can you realize the benevolence and humanity that the Master said."
Chen Shi followed him and thought to himself: "Benevolence? Humanity? Could it really be the reason why I was struck by the sword? Why? "
The two came to a nearby village. The people in this village seemed to know Uncle Jiao and greeted him: "Master Jiao,
Are you here to teach your disciples again? "
Master Jiao responded with a smile and said, "Jiang Guo is from this village and lived here before. But that was more than five hundred years ago."
Chen Shi looked around the village and saw many villagers sitting in the sun, basking in the sun. They were wearing thick clothes, squinting their eyes, and their cheeks were reddened by the sun.
Five hundred years is just a blink of an eye for those who are already immortals, but for mortals, it has been several reincarnations of life and death, and all the past lives have turned into ashes.
"I led Jiang Guo into the Jin'ao Island Mountain Gate. He is a genius and learns everything very quickly. Even in a place like Penglaixi where it is almost impossible to practice, his cultivation speed is still astonishingly fast. Before he started, I taught him the Hunyuan Dao Sutra and the Sword Sutra.
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Decades have passed. I went to find him again and found that he was already an immortal. But he didn't look for me, but stayed at home to support his parents until he died. I didn't force him to come with me, so I left. A hundred years after his parents came to Jin'ao Island as promised, I took him into the mountain gate. There is a jade pendant around his waist. The quality is not good, but it is always hanging on it. It is a relic of his parents. "
While he was talking, he cut twelve bamboos of different lengths, the longest one was nine inches, the shortest one was four inches and seven minutes, and they were inserted into the soil, and the exposed lengths were the same.
Master Jiao also took some inner membranes of reeds, burned them to ashes, and carefully sprinkled them into the bamboos.
Chen Shi squatted next to him and watched him busy.
Master Jiao said: "You stay here and stare at these bamboos, and you will understand the human nature hidden in the earth's atmosphere."
Chen Shi guarded these twelve bamboos, while Master Jiao left on his crutch.
It is getting late, and the villagers have gone home. Soon, smoke rises from each house, and the air is filled with the aroma of food.
Chen Shi was still staring at the twelve bamboos. Not long after, he heard the sound of footsteps behind him. A child carefully carried a bowl of food and two multi-grain steamed buns and came to his side.
"My mother asked me to give it to you, eat it, eat it." The child's face was filled with an innocent smile.
Chen Zhengyi did not refuse, and thanked him solemnly. He picked up the bowl of food, squatted like a villager, took a bite of the steamed bun, took a bite of vegetables, and quickly finished the meal.
He wanted to return the bowl, but he was worried about missing something, so he had to put the bowl and chopsticks beside him.
Not long after, the child came back and took away the bowls and chopsticks.
The moon rises, and the moonlight is charming. Under the moonlight, the shadows and snow are mixed, making the air colder and colder.
It is extremely quiet here, with the occasional sound of dogs barking and the sound of the firewood door opening.
Chen Shi was still staring closely at the twelve bamboos. Unknowingly, at dawn, the village gradually became alive again. People got up early and greeted each other. Soon, every house was smoking.
The child came to bring him breakfast again, but Chen Shi still did not refuse.
After breakfast, the villagers were very curious about this outsider. Many people secretly looked at him from a distance and talked about him, but they did not dare to come forward.
Children are more bold. They will run to Chen Shi, squat down and look at him. The bolder ones will even reach out and touch his purple gold crown.
Soon they were called by their parents and given a scolding.
Chen Shi just stared at the twelve bamboos with great patience. Within a few days, the villagers got used to his arrival and their curiosity about him was greatly reduced.
Chen Shi was also completely selfless, as if he had integrated into the village.
After six or seven days of this, the weather became warmer, the ice and snow in the shadows gradually melted, and the land became softer. Some green grass buds have already sprouted in the corner of the wall.
Early that morning, Chen Shi was still sitting there like a wood carving and clay sculpture. A man who got up early stretched himself, yawned and passed by him, muttering: "Today is the vernal equinox."
At this time, Chen Shi I feel that there is Yang Qi flowing in the depths of the earth. It is indeed the Yang Qi of the earth. It is the melting of ice and snow deep in the soil, it is the breathing of roots in the soil, and it is also the creatures in the cave that open their eyes in a daze, speeding up their metabolism.
In short, the earth seems to be waking up.
He was shocked by his reaction. Suddenly, air currents from the depths of the earth blew upward from the bottom of the bamboo in front of him, blowing up the reed film ash at the bottom of the bamboo.
Those extremely light ash flew out from the end of the bamboo that emerged from the ground, dancing in the air, accompanied by a low sound coming from the bamboo.
The voice was very low, so low that if you didn’t listen carefully, you would ignore it.
But it is indeed a kind of music coming from the depths of the earth.
It is the rhythm of Huang Zhong among the twelve rhythms.
Ashes also flew up from other bamboos. In the bamboos of different heights, the earth's air blew, producing twelve kinds of music, including Dalu, Taicu, Jiazhong, Guxi, and Zhonglu.
This sound is like the sound of the earth, announcing to the whole world that spring has arrived.
This sound seems to have awakened the life in the world, giving Penglaixi, which was originally lonely and desolate, the breath of awakening thousands of lives.
This is the exchange of earthly energy, this is the upheaval of heaven and earth!
Behind Chen Shi, the village seemed to come to life from the dead silence of the night. People were busy with their own affairs, children were playing, hens came out of the chicken coop to look for food, and yellow dogs ran around and urinated on their territory.
The child who often brought him food came over with another bowl of food.
Although Chen Shi had already understood the mystery of this move by relying on Tian Ji Ce, he still couldn't help but burst into tears when he personally felt the earth revive and all things turn from death to life.
He realized it.
He realized that the benevolence mentioned by the Master is not about splitting people in half, but the relationship between people and heaven and earth, and between people.
He realized the mystery of human nature in the earth's atmosphere!
He understood why he was hit by a sword on the cliff of the mountain road.
"Don't cry."
The child who delivered the meal said, "Are you hungry? I still have some at home, I will give you some more."
"Thank you."
< br/> Chen Shi thanked him, stood up and said with a smile, "After eating your family's food for so long, and taking care of you for so long, how can I not get anything in return?"
His mind moved slightly, and the Yin and Yang Dojo spread out, covering this small village.
Chen Shi mobilized the Yin and Yang Dojo to absorb and refine the heretics here. In a short time, he refined all the heretics in the village and said to the boy delivering food: "If Grandpa Tubby Legs comes to look for me, tell him that I want to enter the world for a while. When I am perfect, I will come back." After that, he drifted away.
Since then, this small village has been full of spiritual energy and righteousness. The lifespan of the villagers has also increased a lot, and the crops have grown better.
Not long after Chen Shi left, Uncle Jiao and Jiang Guo came here. When people in the village saw Jiang Guo, they all hurriedly came forward and called their ancestors. Jiang Guo looks like a young man, but he is almost 600 years old. It is natural that he is called the ancestor by his fellow villagers.
The two looked at the village, each showing surprise.
They have deep cultivation, so they can naturally see that the reason why the small village has undergone earth-shaking changes is that Chen Shi has changed the way of heaven and earth here!
But, how is this done?
"Where is the boy looking at the bamboo?" Uncle Jiao asked hurriedly.
The boy who delivered the meal repeated Chen Shi's words, and Master Jiao and Jiang Guo each frowned.
"It took too long to comprehend the Hunyuan Sword Sutra. I don't know when he will come back?" Master Jiao said in a low voice.
Chen Shi unknowingly walked out of Penglaixi, observing and feeling the great roads of heaven and earth, seeing the local customs, understanding the varying winds, and understanding the green flames of Lili. He also went to the troubled times to witness the rise and fall of the country and the change of dynasties.
Maybe go to the depths of the desert and blow away the yellow sand, or experience the autumn wind and rain and understand the frost and snow.
He wandered back and forth, no matter how many thousands of miles or how many days he walked.
Master Jiao, Jiang Guo, Heiguo and others waited on Jin'ao Island for several months, but never saw him come back. After waiting for another two years, Chen Shi still did not come back.
On this day, Arc Dog was lying in front of the mountain gate. Suddenly his ears twitched and he raised his head. He saw a man with unshaven beard rushing from outside. He smiled at it and walked towards the mountain.
"Uncle Jiao, I'm back."
The man smiled at Master Jiao and said, "I want to climb the cliff again."