Yu Sha

He said he was going east.

But perhaps because he no longer had the sense of urgency and danger to chase and escape, Chu Weiyang's footsteps inevitably slowed down even though he knew he was racing against the evil energy in his body.

After traveling for another whole day and night, Chu Weiyang was still lingering in this wilderness and jungle, and he never saw another way to go.

This is also the common scenery south of the Chalcedony River. Because there are many demon cultivators and casual cultivators, they are ruthless and cruel. As time goes by, the population becomes sparse under the rule, and the whole area looks like barren mountains.

And such a vast and desolate world attracts desperadoes to run away. They just want to dive into the wilderness, as if the sea is wide enough for fish to leap, and the sky is high enough for birds to fly.

In this way, like some kind of paradoxical cycle, a chalcedony river separated the north and the south, thus making this wilderness a place where rogue cultivators and demon sects wreaked havoc.

Therefore, this wilderness contains unfathomable crises, but for Chu Weiyang, the wilderness is also a barrier, blocking the biggest crisis for young people at this moment.

After his mind relaxed, Chu Weiyang's mind also became active. His daily practice was no longer limited to "Five Zangs and Food and Qi Essence" and "Spring Time Sword". Instead, he held a Taoist book and read it by himself. While sitting, he would call Steward Ma out of the basket from time to time, lowering his head to discuss something in detail.

After a long while, maybe he was tired from walking, Chu Weiyang simply stopped, picked up the basket, broke off two branches from the book next to him, and started to draw on the soft ground.

After a while, several twisting and slanting snake-like lines were outlined by Chu Weiyang.

After just one glance, Manager Ma suddenly twitched the corners of his mouth as if he had a toothache.

Looking at his anger, it seemed that he was even angrier than when he saw Chu Weiyang chewing beef and mutton.

With one hand on the edge of the basket and the other holding the branch, Steward Ma seemed to have regained the feeling of wielding the whip. He whipped it in mid-air a few times, and the sound of the whistle seemed to vent the anger in his heart.

"I just thought you were a little less talented in swordsmanship, but now it's good. A person who can escape from the Demon Suppressing Cave knows so many Lei Zhuan and Yunlu, why does it take so much effort!"

"Let me tell you, this "Qingwei Leiyun Seal Script" is a more introductory Taoist book in the Sword Sect than the Sword of the Four Seasons! Even in the Demon Suppressing Cave, I usually only use it to cushion the table!"

"Weird! It's really weird!"

"You don't look like someone with a flawed mind, nor do you look like a lunatic who has ruined his mind. You are so good, but... you seem to have some kind of deep-rooted intellectual disability on swordsmanship and seal script!"

"Logically it shouldn't be like this, it doesn't make sense!"

"Even if there are different paths for good and evil, they are all the same path of cultivation. You also joined the Panwang Sect at the age of seven and started teaching it..."

"How can there be an obstacle to knowledge? But why does this obstacle to knowledge have no hindrance to the practice of "Five Zangs and Food and Qi Essence"?"

"What a lame talent."

"There is no other way. If you want to get the seal talisman, "Five Zangs and Food and Qi Jingjue" can't help you. You have to rely on rote memorization. When you memorize it proficiently, it will still be a method of sitting in meditation and forgetting. How many seal scripts you can get depends on your luck!"

"In the future, whether it is about writing talismans, refining weapons, or restricting cloth types, these seal characters will be the foundation and the starting point."

Saying this, Manager Ma grasped the branch in his hand, made a few scratches on the open space next to him, and wrote a complete thunder seal on the ground.

It looks like the same twisted snake-shaped traces as Chu Weiyang just now, but no matter who looks at it, the former seems to be a child's graffiti, but the latter has a somewhat indescribable and elegant beauty throughout. It seems to be done in one go, naturally.

Looking at the Lei Zhuan script written by Manager Ma, Chu Weiyang took a rare smack, turned his hand and picked up a Baicao Po Er Dan from his sleeve, without looking at it, he swallowed it wholeheartedly like eating jelly beans. .

No matter how well Guanshi Ma wrote the thunder seal, no matter how elegant it was, Chu Weiyang looked at the traces that looked like ghostly drawings and still could not understand why such lines intertwined together could represent a certain kind of Tao and Dharma. , some kind of natural rule, some kind of celestial phenomenon!

He really couldn't understand the reason.

He even knew that maybe he shouldn't raise the difficulty of confusion to the point where it gets straight to the essence.

But a certain inertia of thinking made Chu Weiyang habitually think about the problem in this way almost immediately.

As Manager Ma said, this seems to be some kind of intellectual disability.

In fact, after Manager Ma pointed out the "impairment of seeing and understanding", Chu Weiyang instantly understood everything.

I understand why I am not very good at swordsmanship and talismans, and I also understand why I have shown unusual talent and acceptance in a discipline that emphasizes taking food.

The trance-like emotion almost made Chu Weiyang feel as if he was withdrawn from the vast world.

But in the next moment, when the power of the elixir melted from the alchemy cauldron in the stomach pouch, the steaming clear stream pulled Chu Weiyang's mind back. A moment of trance actually gave Chu Weiyang an indescribable feeling of dizziness.

At this moment, Manager Ma seemed to sense something, and he suddenly turned his head to look at Chu Weiyang.

"Is this going to shake your mind? If it's too nerve-wracking, there's no harm in putting the talisman away first. Maybe after you understand the meaning of the Vernal Equinox Sword, the situation will be much better. After all, this is a rare sword that nourishes the mind!"

"You must understand that your first priority has never been to become an all-rounder or a greedy genius. You are just a sick ghost who escaped from the Demon Suppressing Cave. Finding a way to survive is what you should do best. Things to do!"

After saying this, Chu Weiyang finally calmed down completely. He grinned and looked at Manager Ma.

"That's almost it. If you try to poke my lungs again, I'll have to entertain you again!"

Manager Ma smiled nonchalantly.

"When a person owes a debt, he must pay it back. If there is no one time, there must be another time. I am not afraid of you settling accounts with me. I am not afraid of you killing me with one sword. I am only afraid that you will go completely crazy. I am only afraid that when the time comes, I Life is worse than death!”

Chu Weiyang paused.

He looked at Steward Ma in surprise.

It was different from the initial run-in in the mountains and fields, and it was also not like the several trials that followed along the way.

For the first time, Manager Ma vaguely stated his true thoughts, without any vague cover-ups or unrealistic statements.

Somehow, Chu Weiyang suddenly remembered all the messy scenes in the Demon Suppressing Cave.

"Logically speaking, there is no deep hatred between the two of us."

Manager Ma nodded.

"But many things in the world cannot be completely justified."

"Otherwise Guo Dian didn't deserve to die, and I didn't deserve to suffer like this."

"But you taught me swordsmanship and talismans after all."

"I also know that the phantom pain in your heart has also caused you a lot of torture these days."

"In this way, the day will come when you no longer want to live, or when the day will come when I really go crazy..."

"The Jingzhe sword has good intentions."

"I'll see you off then!"

When the words fell, Manager Ma leaned against the basket, as if he finally breathed a sigh of relief, with a rare look of exhaustion and decadence on his face.

"Okay, great!"

"What a pity. If we had met in another way, we could have been friends."

Chu Weiyang shook his head noncommittally.

"It has always been difficult to ask God's will. There is nothing that can be said with certainty. Thinking about the great disaster in the past, entering the Demon Sect, and then entering the Demon Suppressing Cave to suffer, there is nothing that I can decide. Now I am running away in a hurry. If you can live for a whole day, how can you dare to say that two people met in the vast sea of ​​people."

Hearing Chu Weiyang's emotion, Manager Ma sighed in a rare and extremely weak tone.

"Yes, there are very few things in the world that I can say accurately..."

Sighing, Manager Ma slowly closed his eyes, and within a few breaths, he fell asleep in front of Chu Weiyang.

At this moment, all of Ma Guanshi's vulnerability was exposed in front of Chu Weiyang.

Half of his body was crushed into mud. During this period of time, Manager Ma suffered another kind of pain that Chu Weiyang could not imagine, and he had to maintain his strength to cope with Chu Weiyang.

At the very beginning, Guanshi Ma bargained with Chu Weiyang, trying to find a way to survive and using his sword skills to gain life.

But I don’t know since when, Manager Ma stopped mentioning this statement.

It was only a short period of painful torture that seemed to have dissipated his spirit and made his real mind almost collapse.

Looking at the sleeping steward Ma, Chu Weiyang seemed to have a premonition.

Even if he achieves nothing in his practice, Guanshi Ma may die in front of him in the near future.

Shaking his head, Chu Weiyang picked up the basket.

Lifting his feet, he was about to wipe away the thunder seals on the ground.

But when he looked at it again, the young man's movements suddenly stopped.

At this moment, those twisted words and those seemingly complicated lines were deeply imprinted in Chu Weiyang's memory.

The barrier of seeing and understanding still exists, but Chu Weiyang seems not to understand this thunder seal, but his mind and memory have completely accepted it.

When did this change occur?

It’s not like he agreed to Manager Ma’s intention to kill him, but instead had this kind of retribution…

Even if the immortals and gods were alive, there would be no such truth.

Thinking carefully about the process just now, Chu Weiyang suddenly thought of that flash of trance.

Being a human being for two lives is the secret in Chu Weiyang's heart, the root of his birth defects, and the origin of some strange talents.

Since we have experienced such bizarre things, there is no reason why there won’t be further mysteries.

Think carefully.

"Taoist books say that Taoism enters concentration, observes reality without illusion, and forgets it with the flow of the mind, getting its meaning and forgetting its image. This is the truth of Tao."

"In the moment of trance just now, the mottled memories of the past and present lives are intertwined with each other. I don't know this or that; there is no self and no outside. This seems to be some kind of state of deep concentration, and it seems to be true. The artistic conception without illusion is revealed..."

"But my mind was not empty at that time, and I never forgot..."

"I can't figure it out, so I won't think about it. After the steward returns to his senses, I'll try to recreate it again."

Vaguely, Chu Weiyang guessed that maybe after he mastered his unique way of comprehending the meaning of the sword, he would develop a unique way of learning talismans.

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Chalcedony Hebei.

In the mountains and jungles, Xie Jiang and Jin Guan flew through the air, pursuing the direction in which Chu Weiyang had fled.

In fact, even though Chu Weiyang was running in such a panic at that time, he never really cleaned up all the traces.

In his past life and this life, he had never understood the subtle methods of such lawless gangsters.

Now in the eyes of Xie Jiang and Jin Guan, the traces of this line of work are as clear as looking at the lines in the palm of their hands.

Another stone platform.

The two people frowned, looking at a pile of bonfire marks, broken bones and sword marks, wondering what they were thinking.

After a long while, Jin Guan finally spoke slowly.

"The "Spring Sword" was really ruined when it was passed to him! From the Demon Suppressing Cave to this place, he can't even practice the thirty-six sword moves... Tsk..."

Hearing what Jin Guan said, Xie Jiang instantly understood what he meant.

"What? Do you think this pursuit is a waste of time?"

Jin Guan remained silent, seeming to acquiesce.

Xie Jiang shook his head.

"No matter how talented this person is, even if he is an illiterate fool, he carries the Four Seasons Sword Technique, which is a scourge that our sect needs to eradicate! Have you ever thought about it, if he introduces the Four Seasons Sword Technique into the What kind of impact will it have on the demon sect and the casual cultivators?"

"Junior brother, you have never walked in the world, so some truths are not so clear to you."

"Even in the markets in the wilderness of the south, in the most crowded places, there are very few people who trade and sell the most inferior methods."

"No matter how inferior the method is, it is always a secret that is not taught!"

"You sold the method to a certain person. That person's first thought is to look for an opportunity to kill you first, because from now on, you are the first to know the key points of his method and the key points of his life!"

"And people who practice the same technique will also try to get rid of you before you make such a deal!"

"Because once this transaction is successful, there will be one more person in the world who knows the secrets of their method..."

"Unless it's a master sect, people like us who practice the same technique can be brought together in such a harmonious way."

"But the master also protects you very well."

"It's just a spiritual object. Losing it only adds another treasure to the world that doesn't belong to us."

"But if the Four Seasons Sword Technique spreads out, in the next thousands of years, I'm afraid it will be the first hole in the long river that bursts its embankment!"

"Endless disaster!"

Hearing what Xie Jiang said, Jin Guan's face became solemn.

Perhaps it was because he had also entered the Four Seasons Sword Technique back then, so he actually felt the same way.

"Sure enough... going out with senior sister is a great way to gain knowledge..."

"This animal really deserves to be killed!"

"Get rid of it!"

While he was talking fiercely, at some point, an old voice suddenly came from behind the two of them.

"Little doll, who should be killed? How are you going to get rid of it?"

As soon as the words fell, Xie Jiang and Jin Guan became hairy! They could hardly believe that someone had touched their backs quietly, and the sound almost rang in their ears!

With his heart throbbing, Xie Jiang turned around with difficulty.

Not far behind the two of them, a talisman revealed an illusory spiritual light, condensing into the figure of an old woman in mid-air.

Grinning, Xie Jiang showed an ugly smile.

"Xie Jiang, a disciple of Qingquan Taoist from Jieyun Mountain of Qianyuan Sword Sect, has met Old Mother Danxia of Tingchang Mountain!"

Hearing this, the illusory figure of the old woman smiled and nodded.

"Good boy, grandma has seen it, but she hasn't replied to my question yet!"