61. Admit your mistakes
In the small courtyard of the Taiping Medical Clinic, crows were hopping around on the branches, as if they had seen something incredible.
Old man Yao stood up from the bamboo lounge chair and was so shocked that he kept saying "you, you, you" several times.
Chen Ji sat cross-legged on the ground, feeling the faint sword energy in his body.
Old Man Yao bent down and twisted Chen Ji's ear: "Wake up, what happened just now!?"
"It hurts, it hurts," Chen Ji grinned.
He was originally full of pride and high spirits, but was immediately brought back to reality by Old Man Yao's twist.
He was still feeling proud and high-spirited, but was immediately brought back to reality by Old Man Yao's twist.
Just like all children, when they grow up, no matter how successful they are outside, they will still be nagged by their parents when they return home.
Chen Ji hurriedly asked, "What's wrong, Master?"
Old Man Yao loosened his grip on his ear, stood up straight, and said unhappily, "Let me ask you, was that the sword technique you just cultivated?"
"hold head high!"
Old man Yao stroked his beard, not knowing what to ask for a moment and was at a loss for words.
It's not that he is ignorant, so he was shocked by this incident.
It was precisely because he knew what the sword technique meant that he was shocked.
Old Man Yao pondered for a long time: "How did you cultivate the sword technique?"
Chen Ji said innocently: "Didn't you say that I can chop officials and princes with my sword skills? The two methods complement each other!"
When Old Man Yao heard this, he was shocked again. He glared and said, "Don't talk nonsense. I was just saying that. Don't do anything rash. Let me tell you, the best way to practice the Shanjun Sect is to wait for those high-ranking officials to die on their own. That way, you won't bring disaster upon yourself."
He then patiently advised, "The entire cabinet combined has less than ten teeth. They're all old, decaying things that won't last long. You should wait a little longer. There's no need to rush."
Chen Ji realized that his master was really worried that he would do that.
He quickly said with a smile: "I'm just kidding, I don't kill innocent people indiscriminately."
Old Man Yao corrected him, "Those ministers aren't innocent people, but if you kill too many, you'll inevitably stumble. Which minister doesn't have a high-ranking official guarding him?"
"Yeah, I got it!" Chen Ji nodded.
Old Man Yao had recovered from his shock by now. Sitting on a bamboo recliner, he asked earnestly, "Where did you learn the sword technique? This is the greatest secret of the Jing Dynasty Martial Temple. How could you possibly have learned it? Could it be that the person Jing Dynasty has been looking for is you? No, the age doesn't match. You weren't even born yet!"
"Could it be that your uncle or your mother passed it down to you? That's not right. How could they have had the opportunity to come into contact with the sword technique?"
Chen Ji answered calmly: "Master, it was the immortal in my dream who taught me!"
Yao Laitou rolled his eyes and said, "If you don't want to talk, don't make up stories. Get out of my way."
However, Chen Ji said seriously, "Master, I didn't lie. The immortal in my dream was called Xuanyuan. I've dreamed of him often since I can remember, but I couldn't see him clearly before. I couldn't talk to him either. Now I can have a good conversation with him."
Old Man Yao carefully observed Chen Ji's expression. The young man was extremely sincere.
He took out six copper coins from his sleeve and scattered them on the ground, but this time, no matter how many times he scattered them, the hexagram was different.
"The hexagrams are messed up. Could it really be that an immortal is helping you?" Old Man Yao smacked his lips. "I didn't expect you to have such a wide network of contacts."
Old Man Yao sighed deeply. "You can even learn sword skills with this? How can I justify this? Do you know that if the cultivation methods in this world were divided into different levels, sword skills would be ranked second, and no one would dare to claim first place?"
"Do you know that Lu Yang was obsessed with martial arts his entire life? He never married and had no children. How many young talents from the Jing Dynasty entered the Martial Temple, hoping that Lu Yang would pass on his sword skills when he lost hope in the great Dao? But how many of them ended up waiting from youth until old age, only to have their hair turned white in vain?"
As he spoke, he looked at Chen Ji and said slowly, "If Jing Chao knew that you were practicing the sword technique, he would mobilize the entire Military Intelligence Department to kill you. Aren't you afraid?"
Chen Ji whispered, "Master, I will practice quietly! Will Lu Yang come to kill me personally?"
"That's not the case. Lu Yang's lifelong cultivation is not for achieving immortality after achieving the Great Dao, but for finding new opponents."
Old Man Yao shook his head. "He might even expect you to reach the Divine Dao realm before fighting you! But even if he doesn't attack, you won't survive. Come, let me see your lifeline. I might have seen it wrong before."
Chen Ji said, "Master, I won't let others know that I'm practicing sword techniques."
Old Man Yao looked directly into Chen Ji's eyes: "But I know."
The small courtyard became quiet, and the crows stopped jumping around. It was as if a big hand had caged the place, and even the air pressure became tight.
Old man Yao said slowly: "I can see that you are a very cautious person. You are so cautious that you held the broken porcelain piece all the way from Zhou Mansion to Taiping Medical Clinic. I asked you if you killed anyone, and you said no. But if you are so cautious, why did you dare to practice in front of me? Do you know that the most unpredictable thing in the world is the human heart? How can you be sure that I will not betray you? If you tell Jing Chao this news, I might...
If I could get ten thousand taels of gold, I might even be able to ask Jingchao to build me a golden house!"
Chen Ji sat cross-legged on the ground, lowering his head in thought for a moment: "A person carrying too many secrets is like carrying a mountain on his back, which makes him breathless. I want to believe that you won't harm me. After all, you have saved me twice. If you really want to exchange me for gold, then do it!"
Old Man Yao looked at Chen Ji for a long time, and finally said slowly: "Don't tell anyone else, no one!"
The crow also looked at the old man and the young boy under the tree, and felt that the relationship between the two had finally improved a little and there was more trust between them.
Old Man Yao said, "Didn't you cultivate the sword technique? Let me see your sword energy!"
"good!"
Chen Ji urged the sword energy in his body to flow through his meridians and finally shoot out from the fingertips of his right hand, hitting the ground and raising some dust.
"Oh……"
Old Man Yao laughed, "So, when a person is speechless, they actually do laugh. Even She Dengke's fart is more powerful than your sword energy. But Liu Quxing can't do that. He's always farting!"
"How mean of you! I've only been practicing for less than an hour."
Old Man Yao pondered for a moment. "Lu Yang cultivates his sword in Jingchao Beihai. What do you cultivate your sword with? Back then, Lu Yang's father took him across mountains and rivers, and it took him a full year to choose Beihai. You just chose a place to cultivate your sword so casually. Could it be that you chose my Taiping Medical Clinic?"
At this point, Old Man Yao was furious. "Since you've learned the secrets to sword cultivation, you should have told me earlier so I could take you out for a walk and choose the best place to cultivate your sword. Whether it's the Hundred Thousand Mountains in the southwest or the Seven Gods Mountains in Tantric Buddhism, they're both better than this place. How can you decide on such a thing so casually?"
Chen Ji pointed to the east and said, "Master, I chose the sun as the place to cultivate my sword!"
Old Man Yao's expression froze, and he slowly raised his head to look at the rising sun: "You..."
At this moment, a furtive voice came from outside the courtyard wall: "Bai Li, Bai Li, step on me to climb up, slowly, slowly, don't fall."
The crows flew into the sky and left early.
Chen Ji turned his head to look at the courtyard wall and saw Princess Baili sticking her head out, quietly looking around the courtyard.
"Wow, Chen Ji, Doctor Yao, you guys are awake? Good morning!"
Baili stepped on the prince's shoulders and greeted him staggeringly.
Chen Ji was puzzled: "Princess Baili, are you and the prince up so early too?"
Princess Baili explained with a smile, "We all went to Mr. Wang's morning class. Mr. Wang is very fierce. My brother got spanked on the palm of his hand again this morning!"
Outside the courtyard wall, the prince urged, "Bai Li, turn over first and then we can talk."
Bai Li pushed himself up with his hands, turned over, and walked up the ladder to the yard.
Old man Yao looked at the other person's familiarity with the place, raised his eyebrows, and looked at Chen Ji with a serious expression.
Chen Ji hurriedly said, "Master, I've given you the toll."
"I almost forgot!" Old Man Yao's brows relaxed. He stood up, carrying the bamboo stick and went into the apprentice dormitory. "You guys chat. I'll go wake She Dengke and Liu Quxing up."
A moment later, the ghostly howling of the two brothers could be heard in the room.
One of them covered his buttocks to fetch water, and the other covered his buttocks to sweep the floor.
Liang Maoer happily went into the kitchen to cook.
Surprisingly, Princess Baili also rolled up her sleeves, went into the kitchen, and skillfully scooped a spoonful of lard into the pot, apparently ready to help cook.
Chen Ji asked in confusion, "Why is the princess so skilled?"
Bai Li smiled and said, "It was like this when we were in the academy. The teachers didn't allow us to bring along servants, so everyone had to fend for themselves."
"Everyone's self-sufficient?"
“Not really!”
Bai Li thought for a moment and said, "Some people from well-off families would pay their less well-off classmates to do the laundry and cooking, so they could live a more comfortable life! My brother wanted to do the same, but I wrote a letter to my father and reported him."
The prince leaned against the doorframe outside the kitchen and said weakly, "Bai Li, think about it this way. Some students from poor families want to attend Donglin Academy, and the tuition alone takes up the entire family's resources. But they still have to wait and see. After the provincial examination, they still have to go to the capital to take the imperial examination. If they pass the imperial examination, they still have to buy houses and land in the capital, and all this costs money. We save effort, and they earn money. What's wrong with that?"
"No way."
With a sizzling sound, the princess skillfully heated oil in a wok, poured the washed and cut cabbage into the wok, and made a dish of spicy and sour cabbage, the aroma of which wafted into the yard.
The Taiping Medical Clinic used to be like a corner forgotten by the world, but now it seems like a slum full of the atmosphere of life.
The smell of fireworks pulled Chen Ji back to the human world from the world of officials.
He struggled to get up, lay down on the bamboo chair, and slowly closed his eyes tiredly.
Chen Ji gathered the molten streams from the sixteen furnaces and fell into the depths of the dark sea of clouds again, returning to the ancient battlefield.
Chen Ji landed on a green hill and opened his eyes, only to see Xuanyuan wearing golden armor, holding the royal flag in his hand, sitting on the top of the hill.
“Communication is good!
Xuanyuan stood up slowly: "You never lied before... Which star did you choose? Let me guess, with your personality,
I will choose the brightest star in the sky - the Sirius. But even for the Sirius, it takes years for the divine consciousness to reach it. How can you complete it in just one hour?"
Chen Ji was silent for a moment: "I chose the sun, it's quite close. You may not realize that the sun is also a star."
"The sun! You actually chose the sun? You once picked the brightest star in the sky, but didn't cherish it, and now you've picked another one."
"Um?"
On the green hills, the breeze blew through the flags. Xuanyuan stood on the cliff, motionless, as if he had turned into a statue.
Chen Ji asked seriously, "I borrowed the fire of the sun and cultivated the first ray of sword energy. But the sword energy is very weak and disappears once it is used. I saw your sword on the battlefield before. It moved like a shuttle, with an extremely sharp mind and was indestructible. How can you forge a sword like that?"
Xuanyuan suddenly said, "Go back, I don't want to teach anymore!"
Chen Ji looked up: "You said you won't teach me, so you won't teach me? People should be honest."
"An hour ago you said you could teach me, and an hour later you said you wouldn't. Isn't that a bit hasty?
"Whatever you say, I won't teach you anymore." Xuanyuan held up the royal flag and walked down the mountain: "Don't come here again."
Chen Ji became anxious.
He followed Xuanyuan all the way down the mountain.
Xuanyuan took a step forward, covering more than ten feet as if walking on flat ground. Chen Ji could only follow the mountain path and stumble down to catch up with him.
Fortunately, he was healthy and unharmed in this dream, otherwise he would have been in so much pain just running down the mountain.
"Hey, walk slower, let's talk this over!"
Chen Ji shouted, "Why don't you teach me anymore? Is it because I chose the wrong place to cultivate my sword, or is it because of our past grudges?"
"You don't need to know." Xuanyuan said as he walked away, "You and I have a grudge, and I don't want to teach my enemy."
Chen Ji quickly said, "Although I'm definitely not the person you know, I see you're handsome, tall, and upright. I think you have a grudge against him, and it might not be his fault. If he did anything inappropriate, I apologize to you on his behalf."
Xuanyuan suddenly turned around at the foot of the mountain and looked at Chen Ji calmly: "?"
He was stunned, in disbelief: "You apologize to me? Apologizing so easily?"
Chen Ji nodded: "Very sincere!"
Xuanyuan burst into laughter: "Did you hear that? He apologized to me, he actually apologized to me."
"Do you want to learn the sword skills so much?" Xuanyuan asked in a serious tone.
Chen Ji: “I want to learn!”
"Okay!" Xuanyuan waved his hand.
The frozen battlefield came alive. A burly soldier stepped out from the battle formation, holding a halberd and kneeling on one knee. "King, what do you want to summon me for?"
Xuanyuan pointed at Chen Ji and said, "Kill him!"
After saying that, he looked at Chen Ji again and said, "I won't take advantage of you. His realm has been lowered, only one level higher than yours now. If you beat him, I will teach you."
"this?"
Chen Ji watched the burly man swinging his halberd. The huge bronze halberd made a whistling sound in the air, which hurt his eardrums.
hiss……
Chen Ji gasped and woke up from the bamboo lounge chair.
Before he could react, he was hacked to death by the giant halberd warrior.
The pain felt so real, as if everything that just happened was not a dream, but a real death.
Is Xuanyuan really taking this opportunity to seek revenge?
At this time, Bai Li was still cooking in the kitchen, while the prince was sitting on a bamboo recliner beside him, eating melon seeds. Seeing Chen Ji wake up in shock, he asked curiously, "What's wrong? Did you have a nightmare?"
Chen Ji shook his head: "It's okay!"
After saying that, he gathered the molten flow again, quickly fell into the dark sea of clouds, and landed on the green mountain.
However, this time, the Giant Halberd Warrior was already waiting here.
Before he could react, he was stabbed in the heart by the bronze halberd again.
Xuanyuan laughed and said, "Have you even forgotten your combat awareness? All battles in this world are based on deception and must be fought with all your might. If you've even forgotten your combat awareness, what's the point of learning my sword techniques?"
However, Chen Ji let the blood spurt out of his mouth, turned to look at Xuanyuan and said with a smile: "Come again."
"Um?"
Xuanyuan raised his eyebrows, and a light appeared in his eyes.
The next moment, Chen Ji calmly opened his eyes on the bamboo lounge chair, closed them again, and returned to the battlefield.
He ducked down at the moment the dark sea of clouds fell, avoiding the whistling wind above his head.
The iron halberd slashed across the sky, but missed.
Chen Ji actually picked up a piece of stone from the ground and held it in his hand.
Taking advantage of the opportunity when the bronze halberd's power was weakening, he pounced on the giant halberd warrior.
When he got closer, he saw the giant halberd warrior suddenly abandon the bronze halberd, draw a bronze dagger from his waist, and stab at him.
The giant halberd warrior thought that the knife would hit Chen Ji, but it didn't.
He looked up in horror and found that Chen Ji was carrying the discarded bronze halberd on the ground and running down the mountain.
Xuanyuan showed hesitation for the first time.
"Did you admit your mistake?"
End of this chapter.
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