Chapter 5: Ten Realms
"Demon ........"
Seeing a group of white foxes sitting around a campfire in the valley reading from a book like people, the only reaction in Hong Yi's head is "I really met a demon!"
Although he has read Li Yan's Cao Tang notes, which are mostly about foxes, ghosts and amorous foxes, he also fantasized that he would encounter them one day. But who knew that today he really encountered it, but his heart steeply surged a bone-chilling chill up.
"I'm not Ye Gonghao? Calm down calm down, if the fox ghosts are really as recorded in the Cao Tang notes, there is nothing to be afraid of. It can't be that this group of foxes want to read books and ask me to be a teacher, foxes also want to learn to read like people, really heavenly ......."
Thinking about some fox monster note novels that he usually read, Hong Yi's mind calmed down a little.
"Kiki, Kiki ......."
Right at this moment, the group of foxes reading around the campfire had already seen someone, and three young foxes called out, dropping their books with their front paws, stretching their limbs, and scurrying over in a flurry of smoke jumping up and down around the red-clothed woman in a cheering manner. It was obviously very familiar with this woman in red.
"Xiao Sang, Xiao Fei, Xiao Shu, don't make a scene, there are guests arriving today. Don't lose your manners. Why are your hands also crawling on the ground, you still can't change your beastly habits and make the guests laugh."
Another voice issued from beside the bonfire.
This voice was raw and had a strange accent, as if it was like a fishbone stuck inside his throat, but finally, the words were still spat out, yet it was understandable.
Hong Yi was surprised again, because he saw an old fox, standing like a human being, hind limbs on the ground, forelimbs make an arching appearance, walking crookedly over.
This old fox walking so upright caused Hong Yi to have an illusion, "This fox seems to be an old country scholar."
"Old Tu. Little Sang, Little Leek, Little Shue, they are still unintelligent, Little Sir is a wonderful person, he should not blame them for being rude."
The woman in red smiled and turned to look at Hong Yi, "This is your student. What do you think?"
Hong Yi looked at this group of little white foxes that were fluffy and seemed like snowballs rolling around on the ground, thinking about teaching them to read and write, a feeling of absurdity welled up in his heart.
"Are you a human or a demon?" Hong Yi once again looked at this woman in red and asked.
"Don't you care so much, I am your employer, hire you as a gentleman, just ten taels of red gold per month." The woman in red smiled mysteriously.
"Mr. today to light to visit the valley, really make the valley fluffy, Mr. is a reader, when you know that the beasts also have a good way to understand the heart of reason, in the past there are tigers and lions to listen to the sages preaching scripture, the Yuanfei today to invite Mr. to come, and there is not the slightest malice, and moreover, our pure fox clan is not the general wisdom of the beasts that have not yet been opened, understand reasoning, understanding of the world situation. Readers of the material and reasoning, when you know the ancient times, **** there is no difference, they are all raw hair and drink blood, hair all over the body, the people of the ancient times, but also and apes and monkeys are no different. Later only gradually upright walking, eating cooked food, the creation of text, before becoming a human being. We pure fox long lived in the mountains, but also equivalent to the ancient people outside the world. For mister to be so surprised, it makes us abrupt."
"Huh?"
Hong Yi's eyes widened as he looked at this old fox, the other party spat out words elegantly and presented facts and reasoning everywhere in his talk. More than a reader. Truly an elegant fox.
"How can you speak human language?" Hong Yi asked.
"People have human language, beasts have beast language. Buster, parrots can also speak human language. People can also learn bird language, why can't foxes learn human language? Foxes learn human language, just like the people of my Great Qian Dynasty, learning to turn over the outside of the cloud Mongolian language, fire Luo language, Yuan Tu language general. It just lies in the pronunciation of the language, what's so strange about it?" This old fox called Tu Lao replied to the question, still with a straight face.
"As long as one can make sense, it's not scary. What I, a subject of the Da Qian Dynasty? This fox seems to be really reading to get into the mood, treating himself as a people under the jurisdiction of the Da Qian Dynasty. But talking elegantly and reasoning clearly, it is worthy of respect." Hong Yi thought in his heart and settled down.
Regardless of whether it is a ghost or a fox, as long as it can speak with clear reasoning, then it is not scary.
"Old sir is truly a man of elegance." Hong Yi also arched his hand and returned the courtesy of a scholar. The other party with the etiquette of a scholar, but he himself could not lose his etiquette as well.
"Hahahahaha." Hearing Hong Yi say that he was a man of elegance, this old fox called Tu Lao was so happy that his beard twitched and seemed to be so excited that he forgot his form.
"The girl is called Yuan Fei?" Hong Yi turned to look at the woman in red and also bowed.
He had just heard the old Tu's fox call the woman in red called Consort Yuan.
"Miss Yuan Fei must also be a fox immortal with a high level of Dao, able to transform into human form."
"I don't dare, I don't dare." Yuan Fei said with a smiling face, "Illusion is nothing but a false image, using thoughts to confuse ordinary people's souls, such as 'ghosts hitting the wall' first class, can only confuse the people fishermen who are in awe of the fear of the ghosts and gods, and readers like young sir who understand the situation are not able to be illusory and confusing. I am not a fox, but a human being."
"Well, understand the reason, the mind is clear, and will not be ghosts and gods and demons to influence the thoughts. Knowing the bottom of things is not scary, not scary, the mind is stable, and demons and devils can't do anything." Hong Yi nodded.
"Little sir, do you promise to be their teacher?" Concubine Yuan asked.
"Making beasts understand reason is something that only sages do. Although I'm not qualified, I'll just reluctantly act as a sage for once." Hong Yi nodded.
"Since that's the case, that's good, but I still have to test you. Ten taels of red gold a month can open a schoolhouse, I can't give it out for nothing yet." Concubine Yuan's eyes stared at Hong Yi.
For a moment, Hong Yi sensed a flavor of bossiness from Concubine Yuan.
"What is Miss Yuan Fei going to test? Poetry and song? Scriptures and essays? Or Ceremony and Theory? If it's bow and horse martial arts, then I can't do it." Hong Yi said with a straight face.
"Of course I won't test you on bow and horse martial arts. I'll just ask you a question." Without thinking, Consort Yuan asked, "What is the biggest thing in the world?"
Consort Yuan blurted out, obviously this question had been perplexing her heart for a long time.
"Is anything in the world the greatest?" Hong Yi pondered, "Of course it is reason that is the greatest."
"Reason is the greatest?" Consort Yuan's face showed a hint of joy, "What a great reasoning is the greatest, fortunately, I stopped when I passed by the Autumn Moon Temple today before I heard young sir making a poem, and I knew that young sir is not an ordinary person. Mister can be said to have solved a heavenly mystery for me."
"Mister can still make poems?" Tu Lao was surprised again, his pair of turquoise fox eyes were pleasantly surprised, as if he had seen a treasure.
"Occasionally, I will just make a line or two." Hong Yi humbly said, a cold wind blew by, suddenly feeling a bit chilly.
"Mister sit next to the campfire." Elder Tu also saw that Hong Yi's body was slightly pale, and the night breeze in the valley was cool, and immediately invited Hong Yi to the fire.
Next to the bonfire, there were many, many exquisite small wooden stools, and a group of foxes were sitting and reading like a human being.
Hong Yi on the light of the fire, but saw that the books held in the hands of these foxes is not imagined what cultivation canon, but the market is very common "Thousand Character Essay", "Hundred Surnames", "Three Character Classic" and other children's enlightenment of simple books.
"I've read quite a few notes, and the foxes in them are all magical and proficient in the cultivation path, with endless changes. I wonder if Elder Tu has these magical powers?" Hong Yi looked at all this and felt that this group of foxes were very different from the fox monsters inside the notes, so he couldn't help but ask.
"Foxes that can be illuminated, there is not a single one inside ten thousand, all of them are amazingly talented people, our fox tribe was born with the general beasts and beasts are not different, muddled, only a small portion of foxes can be humane, follow people to learn how to use fire, eat cooked food, and this small portion of foxes and a very small portion of foxes can learn to read and understand the reasoning. Ming reason, only under the coincidence, learn to cultivate the way, and finally cultivate the Yin God is as powerful as the Taoist ghost immortal, in order to visualize. Our cultivation, but also completely learn the human Taoist cultivation method. Man is the pride of heaven, infinite wisdom. The mysteries of the body are endless. I also used to live in the neighborhood of the Great Zen Temple in Zhongzhou for a period of time, watching the monks inside cultivate and recite sutras day and night, and I know a little bit of the truth of cultivation. Fox to understand human nature, understand the reason, and then cultivate, that will have to go through all kinds of chance and coincidence. It is far less than human beings. These little foxes, now only simple spirituality, so only to ask Mr. to teach them to read and write. Only after they understand the truth will they cultivate."
Elder Tu spoke eloquently and organizedly.
"So what if you don't know the way to cultivate? How to cultivate?" Hong Yi asked.
"Daqian dynasty is good Taoism, outside the city Yu Jing Guan is the famous Fang Xian Taoism, Taoism practice God fixed God, Yin God out of the body is also widely circulated, which the profound mystery far better than our fur branches and leaves, Mr. Xiao is a reader, but why do you want to settle for the next best thing, do not look for Taoism Guan Taoism ask for cultivation, and look for us foxes?" Tu Lao said strangely.
"Oh? Readers don't talk about strange things, for these, I rarely understand. But today there is an opportunity to ask about it." Although Hong Yi knew that the Yu Jing Guan outside the city was the largest Taoist temple, and there were many Taoist priests inside, who climbed up to the power elite, and some of them even burned dan inside the imperial palace. However, these people were all disdained by the readers, believing that they fooled the people with the matters of gods and ghosts.
More importantly, Hong Yi is aware that his father, Marquis Wu Wen, holds himself to be a great scholar, but also detests Buddhism and Taoism, there was once a court and Yunmeng Empire's military affairs, the emperor summoned the Taoist priests to ask about the fate of the Emperor, was Marquis Wu Wen immediately advised, and when the court reprimanded the Taoist priests, "the streams of pretending to be ghosts and devils, but also want to sway the gods and goddesses and hold the divine weapon, it is simply ridiculous. This is simply ridiculous."
Under such circumstances, Hong Yi could not contact the Taoist priests at all, not to mention, the general Taoist priests in order to alchemize and burn mercury, are to climb the powerful and noble, with Hong Yi a lowly status of the common people's son, there is not much foreigners to contact him.
"There are many different ways to cultivate in the world, but the purpose is nothing more than transcending life and death. And there are mostly two main categories. One is to refine the divine soul, called Immortal Arts. The second is to refine the physical body, called martial arts. Immortal art of cultivation, in fact, is to repair their own thoughts, the method is diverse, but is nothing more than the ten realms. Fixed spirit, shell, night travel, day travel, drive objects, manifestation, possession, take over, thunderbolt, Yang Shen. As for the realms of martial arts, I don't really know about them, but Princess Yuan herself is a boxing expert, but she can explain a bit for you sir." Tu Lao said.
"When one is fixed, one can be quiet, and when one is quiet, one can be at peace. This is the reasoning of the readers, since it is an immortal art that cultivates the divine soul, the first step of fixing the mind is quite necessary, reading and making essays, the first step is also to quiet the mind and collect thoughts. In order to be fully concentrated. If the thoughts are scattered and the mind is distracted. Then nothing can be done well."
Hong Yi listened to the fresh things, combined with the reasoning of the readers, and secretly speculated.
"The things about cultivation are as numerous as the stars in the sky, so I can't say it all in a moment. Inside my snail house, there are quite a few books on cultivation, they were all brought out by the old man back then from the time of the Great Zen Temple's breakup, Mr. can look through them for a while, there are still a lot of places I can't understand, and I need Mr. to explain them for a while."
"Hm? Tu Lao still has a collection of books?" Hong Yi froze and looked around, but found that there was a stone cave in the southern part of the valley, with lights swaying inside.
"Of course there is, a prosperous world emphasizes on the collection of books, now my Da Qian Dynasty is an unprecedented prosperous world, ordinary big families have hundreds of books and thousands of books, of course we have to learn from it. In fact, this time we invited Mr. to come, half is to teach these small children, the other half is to want Mr. to organize the books for us. Divide the categories of scriptures, histories and collections, so that when these little children reach adulthood, it will be easier to read them, or else they'll be so disorganized, it's really a headache."
Tu Lao displayed a headache.
