ask the mirror

Chapter 397 The Root Cause

"when!"

The hammer hit the anvil hard, sparks shot out from the metal pieces sandwiched between them, the raging flames around were blown away by the air waves, and the room was full of lights flashing randomly.

This is Rude's casting room.This room is located on the top of an empty mountain in the mountain gate. The real fire of the sun is collected by the talisman array, and transported to form a high temperature that can melt gold and sell iron, which is used for refining tools.

Rude said he would give him an answer, but brought him here instead.And pick up an unfinished job and start working.And still using this most primitive method, the sound of hammering iron can be heard endlessly.Even if he knew that Lu De said that one is one, and never empty words, Yu Ci still felt a little anxious.

Finally, Rude said during the blacksmithing break: "I just heard you call him master..."

He refers to Yu Ci's name for the boat when he took the words out of Baoguang's mouth.

Yu Ci frowned and didn't respond, because it wasn't what he wanted to hear.

"Actually, I have persuaded him a long time ago. It is really good to have a young man like you as a disciple. It is a pity that he has not followed up. I don't know whether it is embarrassment or other plans."

"The title doesn't matter." Yu Ci said briefly.

"Yeah, it doesn't matter. For Zhou, it really doesn't make sense..."

There was another loud sound of "dang", Lu De's beard and hair were all stretched out, and he slammed the half-formed sword with a hammer, and the surging spiritual pressure swept the entire casting room, Yu Ci's breath was suffocated, and at this moment , he heard Rude say:

"he died!"

Yu Ci muffled: "It's Honghua!"

"You really believe it?"

Lu De laughed loudly, the heavy hammer hit the anvil again, and the heavy sound of metal and iron mingled directly hit Yu Ci's heart: "When he dies, he dies, he has never been so straightforward in his life!"

"Does he matter?"

Yu Ci suddenly yelled, trying to overshadow the sound of heavy hammers: "He has taken the Xuanzhen Condensation Void Pill, and he still has at least one Jiazi's lifespan, and his cultivation has already reached the Buxu realm. Refining the shape and casting the body, obviously there is still a lot to do..."

"Shut up, kid!"

Rude suppressed it with a louder voice, Yu Ci shut up, but still stared at him without showing any weakness.The air was distorted by the high temperature, but it couldn't affect the sight of the two.

In the end, it was Rude who gave way first. He averted his gaze, and he didn't even care about Yu Ci. He threw away the heavy hammer, picked up the red sword with his bare hands, and looked at it against his cheek to see if it showed the planned arc. , the high temperature enough to cook the flesh, even his beard was not burned.

Yu Ci's voice was still sharp: "Master Lu!"

"You're lucky, boy. When I'm forging swords and refining weapons, I'll be in a good mood, so I don't care about you and me yelling..."

Rude's eyes extended close to the sword tool, pointing to the blazing golden flames in the eyes of the fire in the casting room, but in fact, there was no focus in his pupils, and his loud voice gradually sank: "It is here that I am in the mood to be with you." You say these things. I like to forge the iron smelter and let the fire roast it, and it makes me feel good."

Yu Ci was silent.

"Xie Yan focused on the sword. When he was practicing sword, it would be useless for him to be hit by thunder from the sky; as long as Xie Liang got into the book, he might not raise his head once in ten and a half months; that kid Qian Bao was even more curious when he saw something new. Baby, even my own mother has forgotten...we are all like this, we have sustenance and hobbies, and there is something that can be studied. Where is your master?"

He directly affirmed this relationship, and Yu Ci had no objection.

Rude continued to say: "His talent is so enviable. It is also very easy to practice the most difficult Huali Sword Art of the sect. He has also practiced several kinds. The elders have always said that he is not It would be more appropriate to go to Lichen Sect, and to discuss Jianxuan.

"However, he is not Xie Yan. Sword practice is a simple matter for him. When he is not practicing, he prefers to wander around, but he can do whatever we do: It’s okay to talk about refining tools with me, watching the fire by the stove and blowing the wind; it’s okay to reconcile Xieliang’s jokes, and the disputes between the Empirical Department and the Science Department are enough for them to quarrel for days and nights; Going to Manshan, just to grab a newly born magic weapon, he escaped death; not to mention Xie Yan, talking with a sword, killing the sun and the moon..."

After laughing again, Lu De said to Yu Ci: "I used to be surprised that he has so much free time? Later, I gradually realized that we like this and are obsessed with that, and he just likes it." Hanging out with us old buddies, talking, bickering, fighting, that's what he likes to do. Hey, this guy has a different hobby."

Although he was smiling, there was no joy in Rude's smile.

"He has a wide range of friends, and we are not the only friends. It's just that he can talk to us the most. However, in terms of intimacy, no one can compare to his Taoist companion..."

"He Qing?"

"Called Immortal!" Rude reprimanded honestly, but confirmed it.

At this moment, Yu Ci thought of the rhetoric and performance of many people such as Yu Zhou, Baoguang, Li You, etc. From there, it is easy to derive an already excessive possibility:

"It's her who can't stand the Lord!"

Rude glanced at him coldly: "Did you say it or me?"

Yu Ci knew that there was something seriously wrong with his state of mind, he took a deep breath of the scorching air, let his internal organs be on fire, and made up his mind not to say a word until he heard the clue.

Unexpectedly, Rude asked him later, and digressed a lot: "You have been staying in the mountain gate for a while, and you know the names and identities of the sect's thirty Buxu, four real people, and three robbers. ?”

He didn't count the changes in the last two days, Yu Ci frowned and thought about it, then nodded.

"Then let me ask you, how many people are assigned to each of the four mountain gates?"

Yu Ci opened his mouth to speak, but Lu De said on his behalf: "Master Fang needless to say, Master Jiang is from the Demonstration Department, and Master Xian and Master Kong Shan are also from the Department of Demonstration."

Among the few he mentioned, Master Jiang Jiang Zhen is another master of robbery besides Fang Hui and Master Yuxu, and he is also the current suzerain of Lichen Sect.Uncle Xian Luo and Kong Shanzi, there are four of them, no, now they are two of the five real people, these four people belong to the Department of Demonstration, if He Qing is included, there are actually five of the eight sect cultivators He is a monk of the Demonstration Department.

Among the Buxu cultivators, according to Yu Ci's rough estimate, there are as many as 14 cultivators in the Demonstration Department.In this way, nearly half of Li Chenzong's high-end combat power belongs to the Demonstration Department, which shows that the talents of the Demonstration Department have flourished in recent years.

But what does this have to do with Yu Zhou's matter?

"In recent years, like Xie Liang, there have been more and more people who are familiar with various departments, but they are often connected by the three departments of morality, precepts, and academic theory, and the empirical department is often excluded. You know, what is the reason for this? "

Yu Ci could only shake his head.

Lu De curled his fingers and said in a flat voice: "The four departments of the mountain gate have their own emphasis, but from a certain level, only the empirical department is different from the other three. The moral department focuses on induction, the academic department emphasizes speculation, and the precepts department emphasizes rules. Above the specific practice methods, there is a metaphysical thing, which may be ethereal and unreal, but it is the source of truth-seeking, the foundation of evolution, something that can be sensed, inferred, and followed. Even if there are mistakes, they will eventually lead to the same goal.

"Only the Demonstration Department is based on practice, not focusing on mystery, but on actual results. Therefore, with the same aptitude, it can often beat the fellow students of the other three departments. However, the practice method here, At the level of robbery, there is no precedent to follow, one has to try one way after another, but the empirical method, every step is true, one mistake, there is no chance of regret, how can the sect Take out the life of elder Jiefa and fill it in?"

He threw the newly formed sword tool into the fire, and smiled coldly:

"Going up, there is nothing to rely on; retreating, the abyss of ten thousand zhang, is actually a situation where the body is dead and the way is gone. If things go on like this, the way forward is dead, and the confidence is lost. How can we talk about practice? How can we talk about becoming a Taoist? But it's not about our own efforts. It's a matter of hard work, but a natural defect. Half of the Zongmen's combat power, the top talents, are stuck in this deadlock. Someone must point out the way for everyone. Regarding this matter, Master Fang Uncle is duty-bound."

The sword tool softened quickly under the golden flame, almost turning into juice.But Lu De didn't care about it anymore, he just said: "It's been more than 300 years since I joined the sect. At that time, Grand Master Fang had been studying this matter for many years. As far as I know, he went crazy because of this." There were two times, each of which was fatal, and it took more than a hundred years to recover. During that time, it coincided with the first massacre of the Tianrift Valley, and under the shadow of the Raksha Ghost King and the Taixuan Demon Mother, many people Already in despair, I only thought that the sect's downfall was just around the corner."

Yu Ci was speechless for a while, he could imagine the atmosphere of the sect at that time, it was indeed gloomy and misty.

"However, it was also because of the change in the sky rift valley that things changed again. Master Fang's uncle watched the battle between two strong earth immortals from a distance, and suddenly became enlightened. He realized the great evolution of yin and yang. Qi, to simulate and deduce the success or failure of various methods. Although it does not break away from the stereotype of the Department of Demonstration, the deduction of yin and yang's qi transformation and cultivation has the ability to predict and verify, and avoids the pain of seeking proof with 'nature'."

Yu Ci forcibly cut off the words that were about to come out in his throat, making the message only linger in his heart:

It is the technique of yin and yang transformation!

He was inexplicably apprehensive, and then he heard Rude continue: "The key to this method lies in the yin and yang qi. Although the human body has its own yin and yang, if you want to take effect very early, it is best to use the spirit to gather the qi and combine it." Double cultivation..."

Deep in Yu Ci's brain, there was a sound of "Zheng", and a certain string suddenly broke.

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Thousands of miles high in the sky, on the Star Reaching Building, the nun sits leaning on a railing, looking at the Pillars of Mount Optimus under the clouds and mist, thinking.

Fang Hui asked behind her, "What are you thinking?"

"The disciple recalled the time when he was able to meet the patriarch after he finished his journey of questioning his mind."

"Oh?"

"Now that I have lived and watched for a long time, I can't help but sigh with emotion. The rumors about asking about the way of thinking are certainly false, but for the disciples, the wish they made back then has already come true."

After a long silence behind him, Fang said: "You have worked hard for many years, and it should be so."

The female cultivator smiled slightly, thinking in her heart: The reason why the stubborn woman was duplicity and lied to the patriarch back then is so faint now that she almost forgot.

On the contrary, the moment when the strong desire to survive, overwhelmed her defenses and engulfed her was always so clear.

Ask your heart, it really is fake...

It's a good name.

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The last few hundred words took me three hours to grind, thankless, I believe what I said.