Chapter 353 Ning Daoqi, one of the three grandmasters of martial arts

The old man wore a tall hat and a wide belt, with five long wisps of beard. His face was ancient and simple. He was dressed in a thick brocade robe, which made his already tall and upright figure appear even more majestic and imposing.

Sitting by the lake, holding a fishing rod and intently fishing, he exudes the air of a hermit, detached from worldly affairs.

Beside the old man was a tree stump, its surface neatly trimmed.

Clearly, the sound of the whip whistling through the air that the women had just heard came from the old man's fishing rod.

Noticing Dongfang Bubai and the other girls emerging from the carriages, Qu Feiyan and Xue Qianxun quickly stopped both carriages.

When the carriage came to a complete stop, Chu Qinghe, who was lying in the second carriage, slowly got up and bent down to walk out of the carriage.

The moment he stepped out, a folding fan appeared in Chu Qinghe's hand.

After stepping down from the carriage, Chu Qinghe slightly raised his face, gestured to Dongfang Bubai and the other women, and then walked alone towards the old man fishing by the lake.

Upon approaching, Chu Qinghe plopped down on a tree stump next to the old man.

When Chu Qinghe's gaze fell on the fishing line in the lake, he said, "Jiang Taigong used a straight hook to fish. Your fishing hook is quite comparable to the one Jiang Taigong used."

Upon hearing the voice, the old man slowly said, "Since you know that my fishhook is straight, young master, you are still willing to come over. Your wisdom and courage are beyond the reach of ordinary people, which has surprised me."

As he spoke, the old man suddenly sighed, and then said in a heavy voice, "The road ahead is uncertain, and the world is ever-changing. I am not a person of this mortal world, so why should you, young master, become a guest in this mortal world?"

As he spoke, the old man's gaze remained fixed on the lake, and his large hands gripped the fishing rod without the slightest tremor.

It is as calm as a stone standing on the ground, unmoved by the wind or by people.

Upon hearing the voice, Chu Qinghe slightly raised his gaze to the lake surface in front of him, where ripples were spreading. He said in a gentle tone, "Although the Great Tang is not the Great Ming, the chaos of the mortal world has brought the winds of the Great Tang to the Great Ming. If I do not enter the mortal world of the Great Tang, how can I enjoy a peaceful place in the Great Ming? What do you think, senior?"

After Chu Qinghe spoke, the old man pondered for a moment and then slowly said, "If you, young master, are willing to give up, then the winds of the Tang Dynasty's mortal world will find it difficult to reach the Ming Dynasty. Once you are in the Ming Dynasty, whether you wish to observe the mortal world or enter into it is entirely up to you. What do you think, young master?"

Chu Qinghe gently shook his head as he fanned himself with his folding fan.

Seeing this, the old man pondered for a moment and then suddenly trembled slightly on his fishing rod.

Then, from within the lake, a fish was lifted to the surface by an invisible force.

At the same time, the water in front of the fish began to flow slowly, making the fish on the surface seem to be swimming against the current.

As the fish swam, its tails swayed, splashing water everywhere.

But in this gently flowing water, the fish, despite its efforts to swim, could not make any progress.

A few breaths later, as the fish swayed and turned its body, it quickly swam away with the current on the surface of the water until it disappeared into the lake bottom and was out of sight of the two people.

"The world is like a fish. If you go against the current, you will hardly make any progress until you are exhausted. But if you go with the flow, you can swim freely as if you are riding the wind."

"Bai Wanshan is strong. There are at least a dozen of them among the Bad Guys. Even when dealing with someone like Bai Wanshan, the young master's beauties were already seriously injured. How can they possibly deal with the rest of the Bad Guys, or even the Bad Guy Commander?"

"To you, young master, these bad guys and even the bad leader are like this gently flowing water, going against you and going upstream. Why bother?"

Chu Qinghe smiled and said, "If a person only knows how to go with the flow, what difference is there between him and the salted fish hanging in the fisherman's house?"

After a pause, Chu Qinghe looked at the old man with interest and said, "Moreover, how does Senior know that I have no way to deal with this?"

The old man slowly turned his head to look at Chu Qinghe and said, "Oh? Young master is so sure?"

However, Chu Qinghe did not respond to the old man's question. Instead, he changed the subject and said, "If the people behind you, senior, had been able to contain the Bad People and even the Bad Commander within the Great Tang Dynasty from the beginning, then none of this would have happened today. Now, I have been tricked by the Bad Commander time and time again, and yet you come to advise me to avoid his sharp edge. This is too much of a bias."

Chu Qinghe's voice remained as gentle and casual as when he spoke to strangers.

It can give people a feeling of being bathed in a spring breeze.

Yet it was precisely this gentle voice that caused the old man's hand to tremble slightly, and his internal energy to fluctuate for a moment.

Sensing the condition inside the old man's body, Chu Qinghe raised an eyebrow.

Then the old man spoke again, saying, "It seems that you know quite a lot, young master!"

Upon hearing this, Chu Qinghe smiled lightly and said, "The affairs of the world are like a tangled mess of threads that cannot be cut or cleared. The deeper these threads are tangled, the more threads will be involved if you pull them. Since you have already learned about the Bad Commander, you will naturally know some things as well."

In response to Chu Qinghe's words, the old man sighed softly and said, "It seems that the young master has made up his mind."

Chu Qinghe replied, "If you can offer me the conditions to settle this matter peacefully, I wouldn't mind traveling around the Tang Dynasty and experiencing firsthand the different customs and traditions within the four major clans' territories."

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