Food Fairy Lord

Chapter 513 Sword State

Pei Ye sat up straight.

Cui Zhaoye had certainly never seen his sword ladder before. Today was just their first meeting. She had never even read "The Jade Sword" and had only seen him use a few moves on Ye Lake.

However, in just two sentences, the true meaning of this sword and the way forward are revealed.

Although he knew that this girl had a very high reputation in sword reviews, sword reviews were ultimately given to people who could not understand or see through swords. On the surface, they were reviewing swords, but in the eyes of most people, they were reviewing people.

Therefore, sword critics are often regarded as experts in the eyes of laymen, but as laymen in the eyes of experts. They are the channels for swordsmen to publicize themselves, and they are also another measure taken by the Immortal Platform to make the cultivation world not separated from the people.

However, Pei Ye now knew that this girl was actually a real sword expert. Her family reputation and age and appearance were just icing on the cake. Sword critics usually put effort into "explaining the truth from the shallow end", but she was the only one who really tried her best to "go deep".

Pei Yedao said solemnly: "I would like to hear the details."

Cui Zhaoye smiled and looked at him: "I just asked Master Pei so many questions about my past. Is Master Pei interested in my past?"

"..."

Chang Sun Jue said calmly at this time: "Why, he is not interested, so you won't tell him?"

Cui Zhaoye looked at her.

Chang Sun Jue lowered his head and ate the cakes.

Cui Zhaoye restrained his expression, took a deep breath and said seriously: "Young Master Pei, I have read countless sword books since I was a child."

Pei Ye looked at her.

"After I had lost interest in wooden carts and paper kites when I was a child, after I saw someone use a sword for the first time, after I suddenly came across a book called "Talking about Swords" while reading classics..." Cui Zhaoye looked at the withered tree next to him, "I plunged into this vast world and could never get out of it."

She smiled at the young man and said, "Unfortunately, as Master Pei can see, I cannot practice."

"Sword Fu is supposed to be more difficult to obtain than 'Open Meridians', but unfortunately I have one but not the other." Cui Zhaoye said, "I can actually wield a sword quite well, but after all, I don't have any true Qi, so my way up the mountain is cut off from now on."

"Fortunately, my family later found a way to open a pair of eyes for me. Although I cannot walk on the mountain, I have hope of seeing the top of this mountain. From then on, my only obsession was to absorb all the sword knowledge I could get. Many times, I felt that the true teachings of those famous holy places were far less than the sword books I had read, because they still had to practice swordsmanship." Cui Zhaoye said, "Two years ago, I felt that there was nothing to read at home, so I went to Beijing."

"Like many poor scholars, I took my sword theories to visit famous holy places, sent my articles to many big figures in the sword world, and helped their sword sects to deduce sword theories. If they recognized my ideas, I could read their sword manuals in the Sword Storage Tower of the Sword Academy." Cui Zhaoye smiled, "This experience was really hard, but it was really worth it. In the past two years, I have happily witnessed many wonderful sword games in Shenjing, and also touched too many precious sword manuals that I have never heard of."

"But even after this experience, I always feel." She looked at Pei Ye seriously and said softly, "The 'Sword' is not used well by this world."

Pei Ye was stunned.

He was prepared to hear some shocking and shocking words, but this sentence still left him speechless.

It's too far-fetched, too inexplicable, and too arrogant. Even with the previous halo and experience, it's too much like a laughable statement.

However, the girl was not joking. Her eyes even brightened, flashing with some kind of fiery sparks: "I have collected and sorted out the swordsmanship in the world. I have mastered nearly one-third of them, and I have covered more than 95% of the sword sects... Everyone is walking the same path. This also includes the Yunlang Mountain in public."

"It is said: Enter the Tao with the heart, and release the heaven and earth with the sword."

Pei Ye frowned.

"Everyone practices swordplay in this way. The state of clumsy spirit is the control of the sword, and when it comes to 'intention', it is the first expression of oneself through the sword." Cui Zhaoye said, "As the 'General Theory' says, 'Use my feelings to spread to the world', this is exactly what it means."

She looked at Pei Ye: "So what I said is that the Heart Sword actually means 'Use my heart to spread it throughout the world'. Is that appropriate?"

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"Appropriate." Pei Ye said slowly.

The Heart Sword is not something that can be covered by just two words, but there is absolutely no problem with the logic of using these two words to describe the Heart Sword. Pei Ye is the heir of the Heart Sword, and he has no doubts about this issue. It is originally "heart-to-heart" before "sword-to-sword" - you must first understand the "lonely" in your heart before you can grasp [The Clear Mirror and Ice Sky Reflect Me], and then you can convey it to the opponent with the sword in your hand.

"Master - Sword - Guest" is the universal sword structure. This is true for the sword of the heart, the sword of the mind, and in fact, all swords are like this.
Pei Ye was suddenly stunned.

He looked at Cui Zhaoye steadily and immediately understood what she was talking about.

"If Young Master Pei had read more of my sword theories, he would have seen that I always have a complicated attitude towards those perfect and shortcut swords. I can't help but be obsessed with them, but I am unwilling to admit that this is my opposite. I always favor swordsmen who rely on spiritual energy and intuition, even if they often just have a weak foundation; I love and hate swordsmen like Yan Feiqing and Yang Zhenbing who can do anything with their fingers, even if they are close to the extreme." Cui Zhaoye looked at him, "I always add a sentence in many articles, 'The sword is the sword of man', because under this sword cultivation structure, if you want to reach the extreme, you have to gradually abandon the human part, embrace human mistakes, impulses, inspiration, and everything else, and make yourself as powerful as the 'Tao'. That is the ultimate realm of sword that people pursue."

……Yes.

"Master - Sword - Guest", if people want to exert a stronger influence on the object they want to target, they naturally need to cultivate the "Master" and the "Sword".

Just like "Guyue's heart", it is of course much stronger than the ordinary worldly desires.

Pei Ye was still too far away from the top of the sword mountain, and the girl in front of him had hardly set foot on it. But at this moment, the two of them stood at the foot of the mountain covered by clouds and mist, and a certain arrogant thought actually coincided with each other.

——In this case, if man changes himself so that the sword can reach the ultimate, then is the sword used by man, or is man used by the sword?

Cui Zhaoye looked at the young man in front of her with bright eyes. Just by looking at his constantly changing expression, she knew that he had understood her with just a few words. This feeling of "confidant" almost swept away the depression that she had been feeling alone for several years.

"Master Pei..." She said nervously, "What do you think is right and what is wrong?"

"...How dare I talk about who is right or wrong." Pei Ye came back to his senses and smiled blankly, "It's just that although I haven't read much, I have actually seen many very novel or specious viewpoints. Miss Cui's statement is the one that has shaken my mind the most. But if an assumption wants to become the truth, it will probably have to go through an extremely long and difficult verification process."

The more the young man spoke, the more serious his expression became. It was obvious that he no longer had any politeness or euphemisms to his new friend. Cui Zhaoye smiled when he heard what he said: "Then Young Master Pei at least agrees that this is a path worth trying, right?"

"Of course it is."

"Then Mr. Pei...are you willing to try it with me?" The girl looked at him sincerely, her eyes seemed to be embedded with stars.

Pei Ye was slightly startled: "How... to try this?"

"Try it, 'Let the sword's intention be conveyed to my heart'. Try the sword-cultivation path of 'Guest - Sword - Me'." Cui Zhaoye said, "Try what the 'sword' looks like without any tricks. Try to defeat all powerful enemies with just a heart and a sword without having a god-like insight into the entire battle situation."

"...Miss Cui, have you ever thought about it?" "I think about it all the time, but no one has ever proven it for me." Cui Zhaoye looked at him, "Young Master Pei, are you willing to try to climb this cliff with me?"

Pei Ye was stunned. This was of course an absolute no-brainer, and also a somewhat presumptuous invitation.

Although it does not require the young man to change his sword path, it is inevitable that he will have to put in a lot of effort, and all of this just exists in his imagination.

But the girl's words just now really hit him.

He suddenly remembered that there was indeed such a sword. He had seen it with his own eyes and held it in his own hands.

...[Naked Heart Seeing Blade], is it the Sirius Star on this road?
"It's my honor." He said softly, "Thank you Miss Cui for your favor."

Cui Zhaoye's eyes narrowed with laughter, and he tilted his head and said, "It is only Master Pei who makes me see hope on this road."

She suddenly raised her teacup high and said to the young man proudly: "With a bosom friend on this journey, the journey to Shu is not difficult! Cheers!"

Pei Ye stood up with a smile. The seventeen-year-old boy and girl raised their cups high in the thin and steep winter forest. The already cooled tea sprinkled cool water lines in the air.

This day was November 11th of the Xinsi year of Suolin, and only Changsun Jue watched this scene with a sleepy look on his face.

Cui Zhaoye's action speed far exceeded Pei Ye's imagination. Seeing that it was getting dark, he was about to arrange another time to meet, but the girl couldn't wait to put away the paper and pen and said, "Let's go."

"…Where are you going?"

"The Sword Training Academy." Cui Zhaoye tilted his head to look at him in surprise. "It's only the hour of Xu, Master Pei, you won't stop practicing sword?"

"..."

I really didn't plan to practice.

……

In the comfortable and spacious carriage, the pearls emitted a soft light.

"Because the magic of the sword lies here."

"It can miraculously transmit a person's own intention, heart, and even the Tao to the heaven and earth. Other swords and guns, although they also talk about 'intention' and cultivate 'heart', but that is only the hope to better control weapons through self-cultivation. They cannot really cover the people they see with their own intentions, nor can they really enter the state of mind of people." In the quiet carriage, the girl slowly sipped her tea and told the story, and the street lights flowed through the gaps in the curtains.

The Cui family's carriage was really stable and comfortable. Changsun Jue and Cui Zhaoye sat together, while Pei Ye leaned on a small couch, listening with his eyes closed.

"Then I think the reverse should also be possible - that is, to convey the 'heaven and earth' into the 'heart' of the swordsman." Cui Zhaoye said, "So that the swordsman himself can have a certain magical state, which is probably similar to the 'great power belongs to oneself' mentioned by warriors."

Chang Sun Jue gently tapped his chin: "It sounds a bit like 'The Six Classics Annotate Me' and 'I Annotate the Six Classics'."

"That's right. Confucianism hopes to touch the truth of the world through classics, just like swordsmen hope to pursue the Tao through swords."

Pei Ye said: "Classmate Changsun, what is 'Six Classics Annotated to Me'?"

Chang Sun Jue smiled: "You know we always want to understand the Five Classics in order to obtain a criterion to follow. But there is a saying that the classics are nothing more than an explanation of the conscience inherent in my heart. As long as I cultivate my heart, the Six Classics will all be my footnotes."

".This sounds like a crazy person."

"No way. We just talked about it in class. Confucius said 'God has endowed me with virtue'. In fact, Mencius also believed that benevolence is born from nature. When they wrote classics, they were also expressing it from their own hearts. Therefore, 'The Six Classics explain the saints', and naturally 'The Six Classics explain me' can also be used."

"Shut up first." Cui Zhaoye raised his hand to stop him. "So, Mr. Pei, I think that people can also use swords to achieve some kind of changes in themselves. This is my first relatively complete idea. Let's try it tonight."

She looked at the boy and said, "I call it [Sword State]."

"Sword form."

"The attitude is what the heart can show on the outside. I think it represents the magic that a swordsman can achieve after 'using the sword to open the heart'." Talking about her idea, the girl's excitement was visible to the naked eye. "If this attempt can be successful, it means that our idea is at least a way to go a long way!"

"Does Miss Cui have many such ideas?"

"The more you read, the more you think." Cui Zhaoye smiled, leaned back on the backrest, then pursed his lips and paused, "Young Master Pei, I have a lifelong ambition."

"what?"

"I want to understand all the sword techniques in the world, sort out all the sword theories, and open up the path of sword cultivation from the basic to the advanced. Then I want to write a book." Cui Zhaoye's eyes sparkled in the dark, like two bright pearls. "'An Overview of Sword Art in the Six Dynasties' is a review of the history of swordsmanship, 'Talking about Swords' is just a high-level overview of sword theories, and 'Talking about Swords in Xiri Pavilion' is fluent and clear, but shallow and messy, almost like an essay... I want to write a book that explains 'sword' without adding any qualifiers."

"..."

"I carefully consider every word, face every problem head-on, and solve it as necessary." Cui Zhaoye fantasizes, "The words I write will be passed down to future generations of swordsmen like classics."

Pei Yesu was filled with respect. He himself had just learned to read and write, and his writing was still a mess. Just by listening, he knew what a huge project this was.

“That must be a lot of words, right?”

"I think it's about three to four million."

Pei Ye was respectful again and couldn't help asking, "How much has Miss Cui written now?"

“Still thinking of a name.”

"..."

"I want to call it "Sword Canon", but I wonder if it's too common." She suddenly tilted her head and smiled gently, "Why don't you ask Young Master Pei to help me think of one. If I can finish writing this book, it will definitely be thanks to Young Master Pei's help in swordsmanship. Then we can co-sign this book."

Before Pei Ye could say anything, Chang Sun Jue pointed at him and said, "Why don't you each take a character from your name? Let's call it "Ming Pei Sword Classic"."

“……” Cui Zhaoye looked at her silently.

(End of this chapter)