The Lord who use immortals as food

Pei Ye looked at the scroll quietly, staring motionlessly at the young man throwing a sword in anger. His tense face looked like a statue in the light and shadow of the bonfire.

Pei Ye had never looked at something so seriously. His eyes crawled over every strand of the person's hair, the width of the eyebrows, the color of the eyes, the cheekbones, and the nose and lips. When a completely unfamiliar face met for the first time, he was attracted by it. Little by little he was firmly imprinted in his mind.

The blue bird's sharp beak stood on his wrist and pecked at the fingers holding the jade beads in the cage. The boy seemed unaware until a jade hand stretched out and took over the energetic little bird.

Pei Ye came back to her senses: "Miss Ming."

Ming Qitian raised her thumb and gently stroked the blue bird's head, her voice as clear as water: "Do you want to listen to the sword?"

"I am now." Pei Ye was stunned for a moment. His mind was actually completely tied to this painting. He only planned to take a break for a while before entering it again. The flames were already burning. But when he met the woman's calm and clear eyes, his throat just moved and then he choked.

"." Pei Ye gathered his thoughts, rubbed his brows, and said in a hoarse voice, "Then, I'll trouble Miss Ming."

Ming Qitian unfolded the dark book in his hand: "Have you read it before?"

"not yet."

Ming Qitian nodded: "That's just right, we can read it together."

".I can ask you for advice after I finish reading, Miss Ming."

Ming Qitian shook his head: "Isn't it true that you have only read one Sword Classic like this?"

".What kind?"

"I don't know anything about swordsmanship, and I don't have a master to guide me and correct me. I just rely on a book to practice on my own."

"Yes." Pei Ye was stunned for a while, "Only "Cicada Sword"."

When it came time to learn from Huang Feicui, Master Cuiyu was already leading the way.

""Cicada Sword" is a very simple sword book, everything is straight and stable. What it says is very clear and you can understand it. A swordsman may not be able to learn it, or may take some detours, but it will not go too far. "The woman said eloquently, "But when facing more mysterious sword scriptures with this self-study method, it is easy to make mistakes - especially when the practitioner's foundation is not strong, the sword theory is still shallow, or the talent is barely there."

The woman looked at him quietly: "So let's read it together to avoid taking risks."

"Okay." Pei Ye nodded blankly, "Thank you, Miss Ming."

Ming Qitian placed the scroll between the two of them: "You should also carefully note down some of the key points I mentioned during the reading later. Learning to sword often begins with reading, and correctly interpreting the Sword Scripture is an ability that you will definitely use in the future. "

Pei Ye nodded silently again.

So the two began to read the book of Youxian for the first time.

When a woman reads a book, she is like clear water. The words flow slowly, and the meaning is understood carefully. She returns to reread every place where the boy pauses. She is so step-by-step that she even feels unaware of the preciousness of time.

It took the two of them two hours to finish the first half of the volume. The bonfire had turned into cold embers, and the whiteness of the East shone on the skirts of their clothes.

Ming Qitian slowly turned the last page, which contained a sentence of sixteen words: "Don't mention the grass and trees, I am all mine; the spirit is faint, and the life is fire."

The woman looked at this sentence and was quiet for a while. Without explaining it, she tilted her head and said, "This is a very unique Intention Sword."

Pei Ye nodded and paused: "Very quiet and beautiful."

Ming Qitian nodded twice with a smile.

Then he said: "This sword obviously has more meaning than reason. You can't learn it by just explaining it. You still need to understand it - it is very suitable for you."

Pei Ye smiled slightly.

The woman suppressed her smile: "The last sixteen sentences are the introduction to this sword. If you can't find the way for a while, you can read more and try to figure out this sentence - what do you think of it?"

Pei Ye was silent for a moment and did not answer directly: "I saw others using this sword."

The woman raised her eyebrows slightly: "You didn't say anything just now."

"He used it wrong." Pei Ye recalled, "Because the missing pages just now, he couldn't find a way to reach 'All I', so he created a sword to make up for it."

Ming Qitian was slightly surprised: "This is hard work - how do you make up for it?"

"A fierce attack sword." Pei Ye recalled, "He called it "Pulling Grass". He used seven sword moves that were inspired by his life to create a blazing fire, trying to burn everything around him. Achieve 'all for me'."

"."

"I knew after watching him twice that he was going astray." Pei Ye smiled sincerely for the first time, "I just relied on this weakness and defeated him without using my sword."

"Oh, it was Qiubi who hurt you."

Pei Ye nodded and added: "I won't make such a mistake, Miss Ming. It's just that I don't understand this clearly yet."

Ming Qitian said softly: "If you make this kind of mistake, I will be a little frustrated."

"."

Pei Ye suspected for a moment that these words came from the mouth of the black cat, but after all, the woman's peaceful face was right in front of him, and it seemed that she was just telling a simple fact, without any sarcasm. After closing her lips, she lowered her head to read the sixteen words.

"This method is to take the words 'life is fire' out of context. We said earlier that this sword has more meaning than reason. To supplement it from the structure, it is actually better to trace its original meaning from the understanding." Ming Qitian said seriously. He said, "Because he didn't realize the deepest temperament of this sword in the previous chapters, he got into trouble when he finally couldn't get through."

"The deepest one?"

"Its most distinctive feature is 'tranquility', and the depth of 'tranquility' is exactly the 'quiet beauty' you just mentioned." Ming Qitian said softly, "Based on this temperament, if you understand this sword, you will I won’t go down the wrong path of killing people.”

"Then what should be the interpretation of these sixteen words?"

"The phrase 'all of us' has a perfect interpretation, which is exactly what this sword aims to achieve. The phrase 'Linghua' points out the way to 'all of us'." Ming Qitian said softly, "These ten Which word do you think is the core of the six words?"

".life?"

Ming Qitian nodded: "Life. The correct answer lies here."

"I'm actually a little confused about Miss Ming's 'sing' here, doesn't it mean life?" Pei Ye frowned slightly, "'sing is fire', which means burning life, but in this way it also goes to Shang Huaitong. The road has gone astray. And it is far different from the temperament before."

"Here, the ancient meaning should be taken." Ming Qitian gently clicked on the ink words, "Do you know what font this is?"

“.Look it’s early”

But the woman praised softly: "Not bad, very early."

"The blue and white font is modeled after Ji Shaoqing, a calligrapher of the former Han Dynasty." Ming Qitian said, "After the Jin Dynasty, no one used this font."

Pei Ye was slightly stunned.

Ming Qitian continued: "Actually, the entire writing is in the style of the Jin Dynasty, even -"

The woman picked up the pages of the book and said, "The age of this shark-skin paper is over a thousand years."

"."

"This is the knowledge of interpreting scriptures," the woman said with a faint smile, "It doesn't matter if you don't understand it for a while. As long as you know this, we have to get the meaning of these two words from the Jin Dynasty."

"What means?"

"Taoist words. 'Xing' refers to the essence of human beings, and 'ming' refers to the endowment of heaven. When the two are used together, they often refer to the characteristics of things, rather than the meaning of 'life'."

".So that's it."

"Xuanfeng was very popular in the Jin Dynasty, and people liked to talk and talk about wonderful things. The sword writer used the word 'Sheng Ming' to write the sword words. He did not deliberately mislead. In fact, 'Sheng Ming' was indeed a commonly used word at that time." The fragmentary book with no origin gradually became clear in the woman's mouth, "It's just that the writing style at that time was beautiful and graceful, so he habitually made a little finer work when writing sentences. The meaning of the last two sentences should be-'The true meaning is hidden." If you want to illuminate clearly in a dark place, 'life' is the candlelight."

Pei Ye nodded blankly: "So, 'life' is not the life of the swordsman, but the 'life' of the bacteria."

Ming Qitian smiled and nodded: "Yes, so, I want you to understand the essence of the 'Earthly Immortals'. I think that for thousands of years, they must have their own way of gently reaching the 'all-me'."

"."

The woman took a breath and said, "In this way, the direction of this sword has been roughly determined. In the future, you can read it more carefully and don't deviate from this theory. If you have the opportunity later, remember to walk through the mountains and forests and take a look. It would be interesting to think about how these underground spiritual beings grow and how they could write such a sword."

Pei Ye nodded slowly: "But I think there are thousands of kinds of bacteria, so you still have to find the right one."

"Naturally, but it shouldn't be too remote." Ming Qitian folded the volume and said with a smile, "Okay, we'll talk about the second half of the volume when we have a chance, but that's it for the first half. Although there are indeed a few pages missing along the way, and it seems impossible to reach it. It is the end point, but it is a wrong idea to practice the book step by step from beginning to end. In fact, as long as the last sixteen words are still there, it doesn’t matter which pages are missing in the front, because you can always understand the true meaning. I’ll make it up later.”

Pei Ye smiled: "Is it okay to only have these sixteen words left?"

"Well, then you have to be very, very powerful."

"Miss Ming, is that okay?"

The woman chuckled: "It's like someone gives you a 'meaning' and you follow it to compose a mind sword."

"Is that possible?"

"Should, yes."

"."

The east is white.

Pei Ye gathered the camp, led the horse over, and the two of them continued running south, talking a lot along the way.

"Miss Ming, don't you want to learn this sword?"

"No, it's not on top of my sword ladder."

"I don't understand Miss Ming very well. Is there anything wrong with learning more?"

"It's nothing wrong, but it's not necessary either."

".Isn't the more you learn about an excellent sword, the better?"

Ming Qitian shook her head: "I have passed this stage."

"Oh." Pei Ye was quiet for a while, "Miss Ming, what stage are you at now?"

"Prove your own sword with the swords of the world." Ming Qitian said, "The sword ladder is nothing more than two steps. Put others before yourself. Have you thought about the sword ladder?"

"."

"You can only ascend to the Tao if you have a ladder." The horse galloped into the forest, but the waves and drum beats were just distant background sounds. The woman's soft voice entered his ears, "Senior Yue is the same. He sharpened his sword in the first half of his life and met me in the second half of his life. Only in this way can he enter the Tao realm. . If you want to achieve success in kendo, you have to build your own long ladder."

"I don't think very clearly, Miss Ming." Pei Ye whispered.

After being quiet for a while, he said quietly: "You said you asked me to choose a sword that I like to pursue, but I really don't know what I like now, Miss Ming."

"Do you still want to learn to sword?"

"think."

"Then, when the body desires something, it is the heart that moves first. Where is your heart moving?"

"."

After a long silence, the young man rubbed his eyebrows in pain: "I don't know, Miss Ming, maybe she is getting stronger now."

The woman looked at him, and Pei Ye looked straight ahead and said, "Now I want to learn from the very strong Miss Jianming."

The woman was quiet for a while and said softly: "This is desire, not heartbeat."

".Um."

After a long silence, the horse galloped into the mountain forest, and the road began to slope.

"Does Miss Ming also feel excited?"

"Of course." The woman's voice was as clear as a ring, "This is also the origin of my sword ladder."

"Sorry, when I was at the county government, everyone said you were [Dingjing Bingjian]. I thought you wouldn't be angry or happy, and you wouldn't like anything."

"You're talking about wooden people."

Pei Ye pursed her lips and smiled.

"That's the point of "Gu She"." Ming Qitian whispered, and then said, "Actually, everyone can be [Mingjing Bingjian]."

Pei Ye seemed to understand, but he looked straight ahead and didn't ask.

"You can be one too." The woman's voice has always been like cool water and light clouds in the sky, "When I was three years old, my master took me to Yunlang Mountain. I grew up there and I didn't see many people struggling. For me, making a choice or staying calm is indeed a very common thing. But I think I just do it easily that is difficult for others to do rather than doing something that others can't do.

"So, you can also try to get rid of desires and find your peaceful self."

"." Pei Ye looked at her blankly, feeling a little strange.

Even in such a sincere statement, it is still difficult for the woman to make people feel friendly. She is by no means indifferent to everything, and any obstruction will not make her move her eyes in the chosen matter.

But when you look at her divinely indifferent face, you know that she will never worry about anything. It feels like she is far away.

But it was this absolute indifference that made Pei Ye feel at ease inexplicably, and his restless mood calmed down a little.

But the heavy shadow became more vivid. Pei Ye lowered his head and found a note in his hand that was slightly wet with sweat. It was a few lines of the girl's handwriting that he had cut out from the top of the scroll.

"Pei Ye, this is the picture I saw in the heart candle. Now I will draw it and send it to you. This person is very dangerous. Please cooperate with the adults in the investigation. Don't act out of emotion.

The results should be available in my database soon, and I will send you a letter then.

Yang Yan also left Bowang today.

Say hello to Master Mingjian for me. If you have any news, please reply to me at any time. "

It was a very clean one-page letter, but Pei Ye could see some wet ink stains, which were traces left after smearing on the page - the girl had discarded the draft.

As soon as he saw these handwritings, Pei Ye couldn't help but think of the girl's appearance when she was writing.

".I understand what you mean, Miss Ming. Just like the senior who wrote the Youxian Sword, walking in the rain, walking in the mountains and forests, seeing subtle things that ordinary people cannot see, and then stroking the sword and thinking carefully. I can imagine how interesting that is." Pei Ye He held the note into his sleeve little by little and said in a low voice, "I must have been fascinated by this kind of sword-making journey before, but it's different now."

"I tell you honestly, Miss Ming, I'm not afraid of your teasing." Pei Ye lowered his head, his voice hoarse, "I was trapped by the desire for revenge, and now I think about all the swordsmanship that once excited me. Tasteless."

Lin Tao was like the sea, the horse's hooves slowed down, and on the top of the cliff ahead, the first iron-colored building appeared, like a standing goshawk.

Kongtong Mountain.

"I think that will not affect Pei Ye." In the silence, Ming Qitian said softly, "Before defeating the enemy, you must defeat yourself first."

The next chapter is the beginning of an extra chapter, an unfilled hole that can be skipped.