That year, that cicada, that sword

Chapter 50

Xu Beiyou's current situation is like being surrounded by a group of beautiful beauties, but sadly finds that he is still an underdeveloped kid, helpless, sad, and maddening.

Tian Lan, Que Xie, and Xuan Ming are like three beauties with different family backgrounds. Tian Lan is Xiaojia Biyu, a childhood sweetheart.

But Xie is a lady who has not known each other for a long time. She is dignified and ambiguous, as if she is saying, come on, as long as you subdue me, you can immediately become a master above rank one, but he is still powerless to subdue Tianlan, but Xie couldn't do what he wanted, he could only stare at this charming beauty and swallowed dryly.

As for Xuanming, she is a stunning beauty who has seen too many men in the world. With Gongsun Zhongmou, the old master, she completely ignores Xu Beiyou, and the eight winds do not move.

Now the group has left the border of Dunhuang, turned to the east, crossed the Wushao Ridge, and then entered the Xiulong Grassland, and then passed through the Xiulong Grassland, which is the destination of this trip, Julu City.

The three of them walked on the rugged Wushaoling Mountain Road, with Gongsun Zhongmou in front, Zhiyun in the middle, and Xu Beiyou in the back.

Gongsun Zhongmou looked at the dark green under the distant sky, and said with a little emotion: "The great events in those days, the debates in Biluo Lake, the secret realm of Jinglou Lake, the mutual market in Julu City, and the Taoist discussion in Xuandu, The Buddhist Obon Festival, as well as the Biyou Island sword fight, can be said to be contended by a hundred schools of thought, but looking at it now, only the Taoist discussion and the Buddhist Obon Festival remain.”

Xu Beiyou asked curiously: "Master, what is the mutual market in Julu City?"

Gongsun Zhongmou didn't make a fuss, and said frankly: "The so-called mutual market is actually doing business. For example, you are a Taoist, and you got a Buddhist magic weapon by chance, but I can't use it. But I am a Buddhist. There is also a magic weapon of Taoism, which is also useless, and there is no way to exchange it with each other, so the Julu City Mutual Market came into being, to put it bluntly, it provides a place to buy and sell things."

Xu Beiyou became interested, "That's a good place."

Gongsun Zhongmou said softly: "It's a pity that you didn't catch up with that time. The great general Murong Yan was defeated, retreated to Julu City, and drove out the monks here. Since then, the exchange market in Julu City has ceased to exist in the world. "

Xu Beiyou didn't show much disappointment, he just shook his head and said it's a pity.

Gongsun Zhongmou went on to say: "Over the past few years, the Daoist family has been dominant, resulting in more and more lonely ghosts like us. This time, Xiao Mahe wants to reopen the Julu City Mutual Market, recruiting heroes from all over the world, and specially invited me to come Go, his ambition is not small. According to the teacher, maybe Emperor Xiao is behind him. After all, although the king of Lingwu County is not a small person, he is not that big in front of Daomen. Being crushed to death is nothing more than apologizing to the court afterwards and admitting mistakes. Not to mention hurting the bones."

Xu Beiyou was shocked when he heard it.

Originally thought that the king of Lingwu County was a big man who could break the sky, but according to the master, he was actually Xiaodi's puppet pawn?On the other side of the Taoist sect, several great deacons have been lost back and forth.
Gongsun Zhongmou laughed at himself, "The Taoist school is the only one, that is, all the talents in the world are in it. The masters of the Taoist school grow faster than leeks, and they cut one crop after another, and they can't finish it even if they are exhausted, let alone die. Chief deacon, what happened to the 36 deacons who were almost killed or injured in the battle of He Laoshan? Not long after Chen Ye came to power, he reorganized the Demon Town Palace, and saved the effort of eliminating dissidents. The Demon Town Hall is still the Demon Town Palace .”

Xu Beiyou hesitated to speak.

Although Gongsun Zhongmou turned his back to Xu Beiyou, he had a clear understanding of his apprentice's thoughts, and said with a light smile, "Do you want to ask me, as a teacher, since the Taoism is so powerful, how can we revive the Sword Sect?"

Xu Beiyou wasn't embarrassed when his mind was broken, he just nodded and said, "Your disciple dares to ask."

Gongsun Zhongmou said: "Before Jiazi, Taoism had a thousand-year plan. This so-called thousand-year plan started from the time when Jianzong rebelled against Taoism a thousand years ago, and until Jianzong survived in name only, it was almost 1000 years. , The Taoist school thousands of years ago is not much different from the Taoist school today. They are all the only ones in the sky and the earth. Only in the middle of the 1000 years, the Taoist school lost its dominance, which led to the rise of Confucianism and Buddhism, and there is a saying that the three religions stand side by side. The millennium plan, In the final analysis, it is the door of revival."

Xu Beiyou is a man of great intelligence. After a little thought, he said, "Master means that the Daoist sect was at its peak a thousand years ago, but then declined. Naturally, the Daoist sect after a thousand years is not really unshakable."

Gongsun Zhongmou nodded approvingly and said: "That's right, thousands of years ago, the ancestor of my sword sect defeated the head teacher of the Taoist sect and 24 great masters who were already in the realm of immortals, led Jianfeng to rebel against the Taoist sect, and established his own sword sect on the East China Sea. The current situation is so similar to that of the past. If one person can step forward, it may not be able to overthrow the Taoist sect again. My master Shangguan Xianchen was expected to become the second patriarch, but it is a pity that he died under Tianzhu. Xu Beiyou, can you Do you want to inherit the mantle of the master? If you can, as a master, I don’t know if you can see it in your lifetime.”

Xu Beiyou was shocked and said, "Me?!"

Gongsun Zhongmou calmly said: "The eighteenth floor of the earth fairy, the nine heavens of the gods, the patriarch almost saw the steps of the heavenly realm, and the master also crossed the threshold of the eighteenth floor before he died. Now, the teacher pointed out this to you." There is a road, it may be a smooth road to the sky, or it may be a dead end, whether you take it or not, how far you go, it all depends on you."

Xu Beiyou's eyes were firm, and he said: "I will definitely go, but I have never figured out why Master and Mr. Xu Beiyou are so fond of Xu Beiyou. I don't believe that there are good things that don't cost money. Even if there are, it may not be possible. Let me meet."

Gongsun Zhongmou didn't give an answer, but said: "There are many unreasonable things in the world. You don't believe it, just because you haven't encountered them yet. Back then, Xiao Yu, a down-and-out kid who was regarded as an abandoned son, went abroad From the human point of view, how could such a person be favored by the grassland princess with eyes above the top? How could he be valued by the Weiwei Taoist sect? Why is it that there are so many masters in the world, but in the end it was this Zhuzi who won the world? It is said that Xiao Yu is mean and ungrateful, but in the end, why does the world return? Too many people can't figure out these things, and if they can't figure it out, they can only boil it down to one sentence, "There is no hero in the time to make Li Zi famous", what to say" If others had defeated Xiao Yu back then, what would be the situation now?" Such sour words, but no matter what, the winner and the loser, Xiao Yu won and won the world, that is the general trend."

Xu Beiyou frowned, waiting for Master's next words.

Gongsun Zhongmou said indifferently: "You said that there is no good thing in the world that does not cost money, so I would like to ask you as a teacher, is it a good thing that does not cost money for a son of an aristocratic family? A Taoist disciple is favored by the head teacher. Immediate prosperity, is it a good thing that does not cost money? If a person who achieves great things does not have a chance, how can he stand out from the tens of thousands of people? If Xiao Yu was like you back then, the opportunity was fleeting, and then How can there be Daqi Tianxia today? I am afraid that he has died without a sound and no place to bury him."

Xu Beiyou exhaled lightly, and said slowly, "Disciple realizes his mistake."

Gongsun Zhongmou said softly: "When the water is clear, there will be no fish. It is a good thing to be cautious, but if you are too cautious, you will become suspicious. Suspicion will push the people standing in the middle to the opposite side. This is a big taboo, you must remember."

Xu Beiyou nodded respectfully.

Gongsun Zhongmou sighed softly: "In the end, it's all fate. The Zhanyan School of Taoism always says that there is one fate, two luck, three bones, four accumulations of yin skills and five studies. I didn't believe this in my early years as a teacher, but now I firmly believe it. It is said that today’s dignitaries of the Manchu dynasty, such as Lan Yu, Wei Jin, etc., are indeed superior, but others such as Duanmu Ruisheng, how can they have any skills? Change the common people to sit in that seat for ten minutes. After a few years, he can be able to show his emotions without showing emotions, and he can also be sophisticated and tactful. Can this be called a skill? Those who can sit in that seat are nothing more than a better life. If you take off the official robes on your body, what is left? Men thieves and women prostitutes in their stomachs? Or is it a beautiful country?"

(End of this chapter)