Fu Shifeng

Chapter 295 The Way of the World

Cheng Sanwu and his party continued southward along the Xiang River. They did not stop when they passed Hengyang, but turned into the Lei River and went straight to Chenzhou.

However, after passing Hengyang, people began to fall ill one after another, including Zhang Fan. Cheng Sanwu and the others had to look for official posts on the shore to slow down temporarily.

"what happened?"

After Mu Xiangling finished the inspection, as soon as he walked out of the room, he met Cheng Sanwu and asked.

"We are not accustomed to the climate, and since it is close to the Five Ridges and the smog is strong, it is naturally unbearable."

"Zhang Fan has martial arts skills, isn't he spoiled and acclimatized?" Cheng Sanwu was a little surprised.

Mu Xiangling explained: "Although Zhang Fan has martial arts, he is just an ordinary person after all, and the aura in his body has not yet developed its own style. External evils enter the body and compete with the blood and Qi, so he naturally falls ill."

"Talk like a human being." Cheng Sanwu said angrily.

Mu Xiangling wasn't angry either: "For those of you who practice martial arts, it's probably about keeping your inner energy as one and condensing your Gang Qi, so that you don't have to worry about external evil invading your body."

"Okay." Cheng Sanwu looked at the setting sun in the west and muttered: "Counting the time, mid-autumn has passed, but it's still so hot in the south, and it's not much cooler at night."

"This place is still north of Wuling. It is much better than Lingnan." Mu Xiangling said with a smile: "Crossing the mountains of Wuling, the long summer is scorching and the miasma is strong. Many people who are assigned to Lingnan will not survive the first few days. Years later, the body will be buried in the wilderness."

"Listen to what you said, Lingnan is more wild than Xiaoxiang?" Cheng Sanwu asked: "Are there any big monsters there?"

Mu Xiangling held her chin and said, "As far as I know, there are many monsters, but most of them are insignificant and cannot cause serious harm."

"Then why are there so many giant monsters in the land of Xiaoxiang?" Cheng Sanwu smiled delicately: "Judging from the battles with them, any one of them is a powerful character who can dominate one side. In the end, they all seemed to be in the same position, guarding That one-third of an acre of land is very well-behaved!"

"Jun Zhaoyang doesn't think they are causing harm to anyone?" Mu Xiangling asked back: "But I have seen before that there is more than one case of innocent people being killed. I think this is enough to explain."

"Are you going to continue to hide it?" Cheng Sanwu raised his brows slightly, and the invisible divine edge passed through the empty space. Although nothing was harmed, people with keen spiritual awareness can naturally sense the sharpness of the divine edge. .

"Mr. Zhaoyang, do you think these giant monsters are related to our Yunmeng Pavilion?"

When Mu Xiangling said these words, there was no trace of shame or taboo on his face, and he was so candid that it would put others to shame.

Cheng Sanwu was somewhat impressed. If he hadn't known that Mu Xiangling was a spiritual creature of the mountains and rivers, and his temperament was different from ordinary people, he would have probably scolded her for being shameless.

"My brain may not be bright, but it doesn't mean that I really don't understand anything." Cheng Sanwu gently shaved his beard: "These big monsters are not law-abiding. Normally, they should have caused trouble a long time ago. In the end, there was no movement until I arrived...Don't you think this is too artificial?"

Mu Xiangling was silent for a while: "Indeed, this matter is not appropriate and makes Lord Zhaoyang laugh."

"Tell me, why do you want me to deal with these giant monsters?" Cheng Sanwu sat casually on the steps.

Mu Xiangling replied: "It should be to eliminate future troubles."

"future trouble?"

"As Lord Zhaoyang thought, these big monsters have been banned by our Yunmeng Pavilion in the past, just to prevent them from causing harm." Mu Xiangling said clearly: "They are stubborn and hard to change, and they regard the world as Creating a jungle and treating all living beings as food, once indulged, will definitely cause great harm."

"The fact that you are able to ban this group of giant monsters proves that you are highly capable. Why do you need to change past practices? Can't you continue to maintain the seal and prohibition?" Cheng Sanwu asked with a gloomy face and his cheeks propped up.

"There are more people." Mu Xiangling replied in a confused manner.

"Huh? What do you mean?"

"It's just that there are more people." Mu Xiangling said: "Looking back a thousand years ago, Yunmeng Daze was still there, and the land of Xiaoxiang had few people and many animals. In the mountains, lakes and swamps, there were monsters and spirits everywhere, and even It can be said to be their paradise.

"But as the population grew more and more, the wilderness was reclaimed, rivers and lakes were dredged, forests were burned and logged, and cities were built, monsters and spirits had no place to gain a foothold, and they gradually retreated into the mountains."

Cheng Sanwu was confused: "These monsters just retreated?"

"Of course not." Mu Xiangling looked into the distance with a misty look on his face: "According to the eyes of ordinary people in the world, countless monsters and ghosts have caused misfortune for thousands of years. How many capable people with lofty ideals can eliminate the evil spirits and sweep away the evil spirits? Peace today."

Hearing this, Cheng Sanwu remained silent.

"Mr. Zhaoyang, do you know where the monsters in this world come from?" Mu Xiangling asked.

"Animals and plants are telepathic?" Cheng Sanwu didn't know much about this.

"On the surface, this is indeed the case." Mu Xiangling explained: "All monsters and monsters are formed by the alternation of the air of heaven and earth. Since the creation of heaven and earth, yin and yang have been separated into clear and turbid air, but occasionally there is still a mixture of clear and turbid air. Change.

"There are no certain rules in this matter, and there is no distinction between clans. Therefore, in the eyes of Confucian scholars, monsters and ghosts are all caused by the unhealthy energy of the five elements. It is necessary to clean up the evil atmosphere and establish etiquette and education widely."

"Ethics are of no use." Cheng Sanwu said disdainfully.

"Wrong." Mu Xiangling shook his head gently: "Of course ethics are useful, they are a weapon for the prosperity of humanity. With ethics as the rule, humans and animals, Chinese and barbarians can be distinguished from now on. Ethics can eradicate evil spirits and can also defeat barbarians. . If ethics and education are at the forefront, we can naturally drive away barbarians, expand industry, and open up mountains and forests."

Cheng Sanwu was a little surprised. He had never thought of this.

"When humanity thrives, evil spirits will retreat. This is an irreversible trend." Mu Xiangling said with some emotion: "There is no right or wrong here, but if you try to resist, you will definitely be crushed into powder... Zhaoyang Jun, do you think it is right or wrong for humanity to flourish in this world?"

Cheng Sanwu looked serious and responded in an unquestionable tone: "I am a human being, and of course I would like to see humanity prosper. If there are monsters and monsters that try to make humanity decline, then I will chop it to death first, and then use its head to build a Jingguan!”

"Jun Zhaoyang has quite a legacy of sages." Mu Xiangling praised.

"Come on." Cheng Sanwu didn't care: "Then what's going on in your Yunmeng Pavilion? Don't think I can't see it. Most of your places are filled with monsters and spirits of all kinds, but they've just transformed into humans."

Mu Xiangling said: "We are well aware of the general trend of the prosperity of humanity. We neither want to go against the trend nor want to protect ourselves. The only way is to integrate into it. Before Yunmeng Pavilion officially established its foothold on Junshan Island, we I have been traveling in Xiaoxiang for many years and am deeply familiar with the ways of the world, so I decided to establish a sect."

Cheng Sanwu tugged at his beard and pondered, Mu Xiangling's frankness was displeasing. But at the same time, this kind of frankness also makes him blameless.

Yunmeng Pavilion itself is not based on conspiracy and calculation, they have a clear purpose and style of conduct. As a monster, actively integrating into the human world, not to mention whether there are any meritorious deeds and not doing evil, is an achievement that transcends past origins. If the monsters Cheng Sanwu dealt with along the way were not restrained and restrained, the word "haunting" would not be enough to describe them. Instead, they would turn into natural disasters and disturb the peace of the land.

As powerful as Cheng Sanwu, there is no guarantee of victory, so naturally there are only a few people in the world who can deal with them.

"What you call future troubles is that you are worried that Yunmeng Pavilion will not be able to restrain these giant monsters in the future?" Cheng Sanwu asked in confusion: "You turned into human form, shouldn't you become more powerful? Why worry?"

"Jun Zhaoyang really thinks so?" Mu Xiangling asked with a smile.

Cheng Sanwuyi was speechless for a moment, and naturally the first thing he thought of was Taotie.

If we were just comparing strength, or who could cause more damage, Cheng Sanwu was far inferior to the original Taotie. For this ancient evil, razing cities and shaking mountains is just a normal thing.

Compared with the original Taotie, the One-horned Cangsi and the Iron-gnawing Beast are not much different from kittens and puppies. Cheng Sanwu's invisible magic blade was used against Taotie's original body a thousand years ago, and the best he could do was give it a pedicure.

Therefore, it can be deduced that if monsters and spirits cultivate into human form, will they really become "more powerful"? Not quite, it seems.

"Jun Zhaoyang, for us monsters and monsters, the innate realm is actually far from being difficult to reach." Mu Xiangling said bluntly: "At the worst, we will give up this spiritual consciousness and return the cost to show our appearance. Fallen limbs, Get rid of intelligence, leave the form to know, and be the same as Datong, so that nature will return to the innate."

"Can this be considered an innate realm?" Cheng Sanwu couldn't help but laugh.

"Dissolving the physical body into vitality and dispersing it into heaven and earth is also a choice for those who practice Taoism." Mu Xiangling said: "Monsters and spirits can communicate with the spirit, understand the benefits and dangers, know the avoidance, and no longer be chaotic and ignorant. This is regarded as the beginning of practice. It is also the origin of humanity.

"The reason why monsters and monsters cultivate human form is that the human world is the most suitable for practice and enlightenment. They live in the mountains and forests, they are just animals, they have no strong body and magic power, they act perversely and arbitrarily according to their own desires, and eventually lead to death and calamity. They are really bringing their own fault. ."

"I'm not a Taoist, so I don't understand these mysterious and mysterious nonsense." Cheng Sanwu waved his hand: "Okay, let's just pretend that you can't handle it. But if I hadn't come, how would you have dealt with these big monsters? ?”

Mu Xiangling walked a few steps in the courtyard, then turned around and said, "This is why Yunmeng Pavilion has traveled around the world for many years and accumulated good fortune, hoping to find like-minded people to join forces to deal with evil spirits."

When Cheng Sanwu heard this, he didn't have much of a good expression. He always felt that Mu Xiangling had something else to say, that he was talking about Fu Shifeng openly or covertly.

"Gathering up good deeds? Haha..."

"Mr. Zhaoyang, don't believe it?" Mu Xiangling said, "I can prove it to you."

"No need." Cheng Sanwu was not interested and glanced aside: "To me, these giant monsters are just whetstones to sharpen the edge of a sword."

Mu Xiangling looked at Cheng Sanwu with a reserved and far-reaching gaze until the other party looked back.

"What are you looking at?" Cheng Sanwu asked.

"I'm watching the vast wasteland turn into the lights of the world." Mu Xiangling's eyes are like the endless flow of the Xiang River, witnessing thousands of years of chaos and changes in the world.

Cheng Sanwu stared into the other person's eyes for a moment, then took the initiative to avoid looking at each other and said calmly: "Then you are mistaken."

……

With Mu Xiangling's intervention, Zhang Fan and others were able to move around in two days, but their muscles and bones were not very flexible.

"He is incompetent in his humble position and is dragging down Lord Zhaoyang's important affairs!" Zhang Fan and others hurriedly arrived.

At this time, Cheng Sanwu was standing by the river embankment, looking down at the flowing water, and said calmly: "It's not a burden, it's not a burden. I just happened to stop and rest for a while to think about things."

"Yes." Zhang Fan was a little surprised. In his impression, Cheng Sanwu was the one who caused the most trouble. He could cause a big fight for you even if nothing happened. It's almost surreal to feel so safe and calm now.

"Has there been any news from Mr. Rou Zhao and Mr. Chongguang?" Cheng Sanwu asked.

"It has never happened before." Zhang Fan was afraid that his answer was not comprehensive enough, so he added: "The people who are assigned to Baling have been paying attention to the situation and sent news every few days by letter owl. I have never heard of any instructions from the two of them."

"Something's not right." Cheng Sanwu curled his lips.

"I'm sorry for speaking so bluntly." Zhang Fan bravely said: "Rou Zhaojun and Chongguang Jun see you taking care of everything, so they can't help but slack off, and they are happy to sit back and enjoy the success."

"Oh?" Cheng Sanwu looked back at Zhang Fan: "You mean to tell me not to work so hard?"

Zhang Fan smiled bitterly and said: "It's not that I am deliberately trying to please you because of my humble position. Since Lord Zhaoyang entered the Ministry of Internal Affairs, in just a few years, he has made countless contributions across the country. I am either on errands or on the road, and there are hardly many days for leisure and enjoyment."

Cheng Sanwu was greatly surprised: "Isn't this considered leisure and enjoyment? When I was in Jianghuai, I made a lot of money!"

"It's just a few common things donated by state and county officials. Everyone in the Ministry of Internal Affairs is like this. How can it be praised?"

Zhang Fan and others initially helped transfer the property and gained a lot of profit from it. This is why they followed Cheng Sanwu so wholeheartedly. Who wouldn't like a boss who takes the initiative to take on tasks and is very willing to reward his subordinates?

In fact, Cheng Sanwu didn't take much care of these subordinates. In the past, it was Afu who gave the orders more often. And since he himself was highly skilled in martial arts, he was naturally not afraid of doing anything to control his subordinates. Anyway, he had never seen anyone disobey and betray him.

"As far as I know, Gongchenwei's 10th Taisui is mostly free on weekdays. Unless something big happens, he will not be easily dispatched." Zhang Fan reminded in a low voice: "Actually, I have always wondered whether Eunuch Feng meant to make things difficult for Lord Zhaoyang. You will never have any leisure time."

Gongchenwei gathered a group of demons and monsters, so naturally they were not used as coolies to drive them around. Even Zhang Fan couldn't bear to do errands like Cheng Sanwu's one after another.

"Making things difficult?" Cheng Sanwu suddenly smiled and said, "That's probably it. After all, I have caused trouble for him."

Zhang Fan didn't dare to ask more questions when he saw this, but Cheng Sanwu said: "What? Are you afraid that working under me will cause trouble for you?"

"Don't dare!" Zhang Fan quickly lowered his head.

"I'm just afraid. What's not to admit?" Cheng Sanwu thought for a moment and said, "If I really get into trouble in the future, people from the Ministry of Internal Affairs will definitely arrest you and question you. At that time, you Just tell the truth, there’s no need to hide it.”

Zhang Fan was slightly startled, and when he was about to ask, Cheng Sanwu looked into the distance: "After recovering from the illness, it's time to set off."

(End of this chapter)