Taiping Inn

This time, it was Li Rushi who opened the door himself. The two doors were slowly moved away without making any sound.

Li Rushi stood outside the threshold and said in a deep voice: "Second Master, please."

Zhang Haishi nodded slightly, stepped over the threshold, and strode into the hall.

The design of the hall here is unusual, extremely narrow and long. After entering the hall door, there is a long passage with heavy gauze curtains. At the end of the passage are two hall doors. Behind the two hall doors is the real Jingshe.

There is a plaque hanging right above the hall door here, with four large characters in seal script written on it: "The law is better than showing". This plaque is exactly the same as the four large characters "Zhenjing Jingshe" on the plaque outside the hall. I think it was also written by Li Daoxu.

On both sides of the passage, every two meters, there is a huge three-legged copper incense burner with a lid. The lid of the incense burner is hollowed out according to the eight trigrams. There is a green flame burning in the incense burner, which makes the hollowed-out part emit a faint purple smoke, making this place smoky and like a fairyland.

Zhang Haishi walked in it, his footsteps were silent, and there was only the crisp sound of the bamboo stick in his hand constantly hitting the ground.

The master and the apprentice were separated by a door.

If you walk into the Jingshe, you can see at first glance that the altar on the main wall enshrines the shrines of the Supreme Taoist Ancestor and the Three Pure Ones. Under the shrine is a Yin-Yang Dharma seat with a black futon cushion. Under the Dharma seat is a lichen, which is like a picture. The sky is dark, the clouds are covered with fog, and the thunder and lightning are terrifying. There is a faint figure passing through it. It is the "Sword Immortal Ascension Picture" which is as famous as the "Heavenly Master Flying Fairy Picture".

Although it is a retreat place, it is not built in the dark underground after all. There are windows around it. At this time, the windows were opened, and the breeze from outside floated in with a few bamboo leaves. The old man who was sitting on the Dharma seat in the Jingshe slowly opened his eyes and reached out to take a bamboo leaf with his index finger.

The old man stared at the bamboo leaf and gently exhaled a white breath. The white air did not shake or disperse, like a long white dragon circling around the bamboo leaf, and then flew back into the old man's nose. The bamboo leaf turned into bits of debris and scattered on the lichen.

The old man looked up and saw that these fragments pieced together three short horizontal lines, one horizontal line is one line, and three lines are the stem.

These fragments actually just pieced together a hexagram of the stem position.

There are also divination methods in the "Xuanwei Zhenshu" of the Qingwei Sect, but they are not as proficient as those of the Taiping Sect and the Yinyang Sect.

The old man was very old, thin, with snow-white hair and beard, without a single color, and without a hair tied up, just casually hanging down. He wore a snow-white wide-sleeved crane cloak, which formed a sharp contrast with Zhang Haishi, who was dressed in black outside the door.

When the crisp sound of a bamboo stick hitting the ground came from outside the door, the old man frowned slightly, waved his sleeves, and the debris on the lichen flew out of the window with a breeze that came out of thin air.

Zhang Haishi stopped three feet in front of the door.

Decades of tacit understanding between master and apprentice, neither of them spoke at the first time, and was silent for a moment, and then heard Zhang Haishi outside the door slowly say: "Disciple Zhang Haishi wants to see you."

The old man is the old sword god and great sword immortal mentioned by countless people in the martial arts world. He is also the teacher of Zhang Haishi, Li Yuanying, Li Xuandu, Lu Yanbing and others, the old leader of Qingwei Sect, Li Daoxu.

In the abode, Li Daoxu did not answer immediately. He closed his eyes, seemed to be completely in a trance, and sat on the futon without moving. Since he moved here, he rarely personally presided over the internal affairs of Qingwei Sect. After passing the position of the sect master to Li Yuanying, he no longer summoned the thirty-six hall masters, and spent more time practicing Taoism and cultivating the mysterious on weekdays.

Without the powerful and difficult-to-control Four Masters Party, Li Daoxu took the Qingwei Sect, which had deviated from his control, back into his own hands, and handed over all the affairs of the sect to Li Yuanying. If Li Yuanying did it right, he would approve it; if Li Yuanying did it wrong, he would punish him. Right and wrong are in his hands, so he will never be wrong.

The saint has no name, the perfect person has no self, and the god has no merit.

There is no right or wrong, no merit or fault, no good or evil, and the god is no more than this.

Xu Wugui once relied on Li Daoxu in his early years: "Be cautious in everything, organize all affairs, improve the rules, and have a constant standard for the removal of people from inside and outside the country." It was Li Xuandu who revised the various sect rules and regulations of Qingwei Sect, that is, the rules, so he had to abide by his own rules.

Li Daoxu did not speak, and Zhang Haishi stood outside the door and waited, subconsciously looking up at the plaque that read "The law is better than being revealed".

The hall fell into a deathly silence, and time seemed to have stopped at this moment.

After a long time, Li Daoxu slowly opened his eyes, his tone was not fluctuating at all: "Come in."

Zhang Haishi slowly pushed open the door of the hall, stepped into it, and then bowed quietly: "Disciple greets Master."

Li Daoxu stood up with his sleeves fluttering, looking at Zhang Haishi indifferently, "Second Master, although you and I are master and disciple, you are also very old, there is no need to be so polite."

No one would have thought that the old sect master Li Daoxu would actually call his second disciple Second Master, and the unfamiliarity was obvious. But it was obviously not the first time. Zhang Haishi was not at all panicked. After standing up, he lowered his eyes and looked at the picture of the sword immortal ascending under his feet.

Li Daoxu looked up at the top of his head, which turned out to be an artificial map of the thirty-six Tiangang stars. His feet just stepped on the two points of the Yin and Yang fish on the throne, one foot in the Yin, and the other foot in the Yang. The positive pole produces Yin, and the negative pole produces Yang.

After a moment, he withdrew his gaze and turned his eyes to Zhang Haishi: "The Confucian saint said: 'I am determined to learn at 150, I am determined to learn at 30, I am not confused at 40, I am not confused at 50, I am known to heaven at 60, I am obedient at 70, Ten and do whatever you want without going beyond the rules. 'The older you are, the more you know the mystery of the towering heavenly way above your head is unpredictable. At this point, it is only one step away from crossing the Heavenly Gate. The deeper you feel, the less you dare to cross the lightning pool Half a step. I just started to start a half hexagram, but it turned out to be a bit of a stem. Why don’t you come and get the other half hexagram again."

Zhang Haishi nodded, but didn't see how he moved. A bamboo leaf actually grew from the bamboo stick in his hand.

Li Daoxu was not surprised when he saw this scene, but said, "It is already a means of the creation of the realm of heaven and man. It seems that you are still hiding your weakness in your daily life."

"Master praised it." Zhang Haishi said humbly, shook off the bamboo leaves on the bamboo stick, and also let out a breath of white air, straight like a sword, directly smashing the bamboo leaves, turning into debris and falling onto the lichens.

When the two of them looked at each other, there were three horizontal lines and three lines.

The three lines plus the three lines are the six lines, which is the Qian hexagram.

Li Daoxu had a smile on his face: "The stem is the sky, strong and upright. It symbolizes the dragon, and also symbolizes the yang and the health, indicating prosperity and strength. The Qian hexagram is based on the principles of adaptation of all things, including Yuan, Heng, Li and Zhen. It is a hexagram to show good luck and good luck."

Li Daoxu said to Zhang Haishi again: "You are also proficient in divination, so you might as well refer to what this Qian hexagram means."

Zhang Haishi waved his sleeves and dispersed the three lines, saying, "The Qian hexagram is the extreme yang. The above stems naturally refer to the master. It is hard to say what the below stems are, and it is impossible to say, and it will never be a disciple."

Li Daoxu smiled lightly and said, "Mr. Second, pretending to be confused because he understands it."

This time, Zhang Haishi did not call himself a "disciple" anymore and said calmly: "Many people think that on the chessboard of Qingwei Sect, I am the only person who is qualified to play chess with my master. In fact, over the years, I have been working hard for That's it, it's like a donkey pulling a big cart, and it's not as good as a horse after all."

Li Daoxu looked at him: "Who do you think will be this horse?"

Zhang Haishi didn't say anything.

Li Daoxu said for him: "You think it's Li Xuandu, he is the one who is qualified to play against me in the future."

Zhang Haishi raised his head and looked directly at Li Daoxu: "As early as the second year of Tianbao, he had already played a game of chess with his master. Although he lost, it surprised his master and even made his master feel it. Threat, otherwise the master would not rush to remove the so-called Four Mr. and One Party.”

Li Daoxu stared at him and smiled faintly, "Those who know me are Zhang Haishi."

Zhang Haishi lowered his head again and bowed slightly: "Master praised it."

Li Daoxu continued, "You raised the Zi Mansion, but his personality is not like you, nor like me. Instead, he looks like his senior brother who has been dead for many years. The reason why you like him so much is that For this reason. The person who truly looks like me is not Li Yuanying or Li Taiyi, but you, the second gentleman."

Zhang Haishi was speechless.

Li Daoxu sighed lightly and said, "Tell me what you are trying to come."