Chapter 214: The Rebellious Scholar, the Young Man Who Created a New World with His Sword

The light grey carriage broke through the raindrops, like an inconspicuous swimming fish, passing through the bustling streets of Shantong Mansion.

When we arrived at the pavilion outside the city, the rain in the sky had lessened, and layers of cotton-like clouds of varying depths appeared, occasionally revealing wisps of bright white light.

The three of them opened the car curtain and got out one by one.

When Mo Tianheng was about to get off the car, the driver hesitated for a moment and said, "Let me give you a ride a little longer."

Mo Tianheng was not surprised at all and said with a smile, "This farewell at the Li Pavilion is a sign of affection. How can we say goodbye after the Li Pavilion? Besides, it is six thousand miles to Tianjing. When will we be able to see you off?"

The driver was about to speak again, when suddenly a stick filled with righteous energy came from behind and knocked him unconscious!

The person who took action was Cui Yu!
Master Mo Tianheng and his disciple looked at Cui Yu in amazement.

After these few days of contact, Cui Yu is a humble gentleman in their eyes.

But why would such a humble gentleman hit someone from behind?
Cui Yu met the surprised looks of the master and the disciple, and remained humble and polite, saying, "Just knock him out, it won't be a problem."

Mo Tianheng hesitated for a moment and asked, "Do you suspect he has a problem?"

Cui Yu shook his head and looked in the direction of Lulin Academy. "This driver is worthy of respect. I chatted with him along the way and didn't find any problems."

"And you knocked him out?"

Li Jianhu's shock still hadn't subsided.

Cui Yu sighed, "He is fine, but only a few people in the academy know the time of our departure, and even only the teacher, me and my senior brothers know it. Even the He family can't know it so accurately, so I'm afraid that this driver was notified by my senior brothers."

Li Jianhu still didn't think straight and asked, "Isn't this a good thing?"

My master had stood up for the driver in the past, and this driver came to see my master off today. If this story gets out, it will become a good story...

Cui Yu smiled bitterly and said, "It would be fine if he only sent me to Liting, but what if he insisted on sending me six thousand miles away?"

Li Jianhu suddenly didn't know what to say.

Cui Yu continued, "It is a good story to use a small person to achieve justice, but this journey is dangerous and I can't even protect myself, so how can I protect the driver? Therefore, I have to sacrifice the driver's life to achieve justice. This is a good story that will be passed down through the ages and can be used to teach people all over the world about morality."

He looked at Li Jianhu, without saying anything else, "Teacher, Confucianism will pay a huge price to save you, but it will not pay a price to save this coachman."

After hearing Cui Yu's words, Li Jianhu suddenly felt cold all over.

Mo Tianheng's pale face showed a smile, and he suddenly laughed loudly. When he laughed deeply, he coughed violently again, "A mean person is trying to achieve great things. I see, I see. This is a good move, enough to make the He family infamous for thousands of years."

Then he looked at Cui Yu, who was wearing a jade-white long gown and looked like a modest gentleman in the drizzle, and said, "Why don't you follow the academy's instructions?"

Cui Yu thought for a while and said, "Mencius said, 'Sacrifice your life for righteousness.' His doctrine is clear and the world follows it. However, I have been studying for a long time and I don't agree with this statement, at least not completely."

Li Jianhu opened his mouth, he didn't know what expression to use to express his surprise.

Sacrifice one's life for righteousness.

This is a truth that even people who have not read for a few days know.

Moreover, it is a truth recognized by everyone in the world. I didn't expect that today it would be opposed by a modest gentleman from Lulin Academy.

What a heresy this is!

"Why don't you agree?"

Mo Tianheng stopped coughing and asked.

Cui Yu answered seriously, "Because it is unkind."

"I have actually thought about this question for a long time. What kind of morality needs to be fulfilled with one's life? A benevolent person loves others, loves others, and also loves himself. This is the great benevolence."

"If the driver and the three of us have been forced into a desperate situation, he would sacrifice his life for justice, which is not worth living, so he can only sacrifice justice, which is naturally the right thing to do."

"But now he has life to talk about, how can he try to gain righteousness? Although he has gained righteousness by dying, how will his parents and wife grieve? So I think that one should live before righteousness, and if one does not know life, one cannot talk about righteousness. He does not understand this principle now, so I knocked him out."

Mo Tianheng looked at Cui Yu seriously, bowed, and said with a smile, "If I go to Tianjing this time and I am still alive, I will go to the Hero Building and get drunk with you."

"Count me in, too!"

Li Jianhu said loudly.

Although he only understood half of what Cui Yu, the gentleman, said, he felt that Cui Yu was also the best hero in the world, no less than Zhou Tieyi in "The World"!

After being filled with heroic spirit, Li Jianhu saw the driver fainted on the carriage frame, then looked at the stick in Cui Yu's hand that was filled with righteousness, and whispered, "In fact, Mr. Cui, you don't have to knock him out. You can talk to him and let him go back on his own. Now that he is fainted, are we going to send him back again?"

Cui Yu looked at the stick in his hand and smiled, "Actually, I learned this trick from someone else. This doesn't make sense. I can only let them calm down first."

After saying this, he dispersed the righteous energy in his hand, and seeing that the rain in the sky had completely stopped, he took out a piece of origami from his arms, blew at it, and the origami immediately turned into a white horse.

Cui Yu then took off her jade pendant from her waist, tied it to the coachman, and whispered something to the white horse, which immediately ran towards Lulin Academy.

With his personal jade pendant, those brothers should understand what he meant and will not embarrass the driver anymore. Besides, the jade pendant can just cover the fare for the carriage.

Cui Yu climbed onto the crossbar by himself and waved to the master and his disciple, "I will drive for you two."

Mo Tianheng coughed twice, did not refuse, and took the students back into the car.

Li Jianhu became more interested in Cui Yu and asked, "Mr. Cui, you just said that you learned the method of educating people from the future from someone else. Who did you learn it from?"

Cui Yu paused as he was tidying up the noose, recalling the scene in Wangshu Tower that night when Wang Mingyi knocked his fellow apprentice unconscious from behind. He couldn't help but smile, "I learned this from a wonderful man named Wang Mingyi. When we go to Tianjing this time, I'll take you to meet him if I have the chance."

"Have you been to Tianjing?"

"Of course I have been there."

Li Jianhu hesitated for a moment before he asked, "Have you met Zhou Tieyi?"

These days at Lulin Academy, he also learned about Zhou Tieyi from Lu Shanqing and many Confucian scholars.

Not only was he a peerless jester who brought chaos to the world, he was also the biggest obstacle to his journey.

A single move of his finger was enough to crush a small figure like me to death.

Li Jianhu's words made the relaxed atmosphere stagnate. Even the scholar who had just rebelled and the teacher who was going to the Yingxiong Building to drink fell silent before this name.

After a while, Cui Yu said, "I have met you."

"What kind of man is he?"

This is the biggest confusion in Li Jianhu's heart.

What kind of person is the hero in your own heart, but now a villain in the eyes of others?

Cui Yu thought about it and recited a poem.

"The dangerous building is a hundred feet high, and you can pick up the stars in your hand. Don't dare to speak aloud, you may shock the heavens."

"That night I saw him in Wangshu Tower. I saw him use a clever trick. Even without using force, he only used words to force Wang Mingyi, whom I just mentioned, into a dilemma. I couldn't think of a solution for a while. Then he used this poem, which overshadowed the literary talent in the whole building. So I could only leave Wangshu Tower like everyone else, not daring to speak loudly for fear of disturbing the gods in heaven."

Just reading this description made Li Jianhu's heart sink.

In his own eyes, Mr. Cui, who was stunningly handsome, did not dare to speak loudly in front of Zhou Tieyi.

What kind of monster is standing in front of me?

He hesitated for a moment and said, "This journey is dangerous. If you do this, aren't you just like the driver just now?"

He intended to persuade Cui Yu to leave, and even wanted to persuade the teacher to leave.

In his mind, only Mr. Panda might be able to save himself from Zhou Tieyi's hands. At worst, he could just be thicker-skinned and make three more promises...

Cui Yu smiled. In response to the boy's argument and his implicit attempt to persuade him to change his mind, he replied, "So I only understood half of what I just said. So I just don't completely agree with Mencius' sacrifice of life for righteousness, but I'm not completely against it."

At this point, he looked at the road ahead leisurely, "As for other principles that I haven't figured out, I should read thousands of books and travel thousands of miles."

He threw the reins, the horse's hooves clattered, and the road ahead sped forward.

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In the carriage, Li Jianhu told his teacher that he would take a nap for a while, then closed his eyes and fell asleep.

According to Mr. Panda's explanation, there were many people in the academy, and he was afraid that he would be secretly investigated countless times. Only by leaving the academy could they trust him. There was no outsider on the carriage, so he could just contact Mr. Panda. To be honest, Li Jianhu was really unsure because he hadn't contacted Mr. Panda during this period of time. And just now, he heard from Mr. Cui about Zhou Tieyi's horror, and now he urgently needed to find confidence from Mr. Panda.

Even though you, Zhou Tieyi, are powerful, I, Li Jianhu, have the help of an old gentleman behind me!
Qilin Pavilion, Zhou Tieyi, who was about to go to the Zhushen Division to handle official business, received a message from Li Jianhu. He muttered, "What a troublesome kid!"
A moment later, Zhou Tieyi entered Li Jianhu's dream.

With Zhou Tieyi's entry, this dreamland without heaven and earth suddenly revealed a real scene.

Zhou Tieyi originally wanted to guide Li Jianhu to reflect the surrounding environment.

He usurped the tradition of a quarter of novelists and became more adept at applying dreams.

But he just moved.

Li Jianhu and he were both stunned.

Zhou Tieyi smiled and said, "Not bad, kid."

Li Jianhu was able to react as soon as his dream changed, which was definitely not Li Jianhu's previous level.

What on earth happened to Li Jianhu during this period of time!
Zhou Tieyi seemed to be smiling, but he was actually thinking seriously in his heart, secretly looking at the clouds above Li Jianhu's head.

The clouds, which were already constantly changing and had various colors, became even more varied, with gray, white, gold and red interweaving together, with luck and disaster coexisting.

It makes it impossible for people to see the changes in fate clearly.

The only thing that could be seen clearly was that the original small sword condensed into three sword lights, fixing a small part of the cloud.

Among the three sword lights, two were virtual and one was real.

It was the vibration of this solid sword light that made Li Jianhu realize that the old man "Panda" was moving his dream and reflecting the surrounding environment.

However, Li Jianhu was not surprised by this. Mr. Panda had asked him to do this kind of thing before, and given his status as an old man, he certainly didn't need to inform him every time.

After all, it was I who went to ask the old gentleman for help, not the old gentleman who asked me for help.

Li Jianhu was just alert and had no ability to stop Zhou Tieyi from changing his dream.

The surrounding dream scene still evolved into the shape of a carriage, reflecting the figures of Cui Yu and Mo Tianheng.

Li Jianhu thought about it, afraid that the old man would think he had just done something wrong, so he explained, "Mr. Panda, my teacher taught me the way of the sword and helped me get started, so there was an inexplicable change just now."

Although there were some minor changes, Zhou Tieyi had already reflected Li Jianhu's physical body through the dream, and sneered, "What inexplicable changes, it's just that I pierced your Dantian and used your essence to nourish the external sword!"

Although there were still some parts of this method that he did not fully understand, with his current knowledge, combined with his previous understanding and speculation, he roughly understood what kind of swordsmanship Li Jianhu, or Mo Tianheng, was practicing.

When one's Dantian is pierced by external force, one can no longer nourish one's essence, energy and spirit. One can only fill it into the sword path as a bridge to repair the pierced Dantian.

It is indeed a brilliant idea, and being able to build this road, although the principle is simple, each step requires great luck and wisdom, otherwise it will be like cutting the fuse of a bomb, and if you are not careful, you will be smashed to pieces.

No wonder there are fixed Taoist traditions and no one would easily try to open up new ones.

Because the risks are too great and it may not be worth it.

Based on what he had observed, even if Mo Tianheng had opened up a new path, the hidden injury that pierced his dantian was still there, and this path could only reach the seventh level. If there were no other opportunities, Mo Tianheng would probably have to place further hope on Li Jianhu.

Although Li Jianhu's dantian was also pierced, but with his own example, Mo Tianheng must have found a safe way, so Li Jianhu did not keep coughing like Mo Tianheng.

It was directly pointed out by Mr. 'Panda'.

Li Jianhu thought, as expected, nothing can be hidden from old Mr. Panda.

During this time, he learned about the methods of cultivation at Lulin Academy. Naturally, he was no longer as ignorant as before. He could understand that the level of Mr. Panda was definitely not something that his seventh-grade teacher could reach.

After thinking for a while, he said, "This is the [Three True Dao Sword] that my teacher taught me."

Sanzhen asked...

Zhou Tieyi suddenly had an idea.

Now I understand why Li Jianhu could feel that I was disturbing his dream just now.

Ordinary people have their essence, energy and spirit in their bodies, so dreams appear. Even those in the Buddhist and Taoist sects can only control their own thoughts and cannot create dreams.

Based on the cultivation methods that I know now, novelists are the only ones who have done the most research on dreams.

And now, it seems, a new path is just around the corner for novelists.

The three true swords of essence, energy and spirit outside the body!

Even if the main body is confused, the Three True Swords connected to the main body cannot be confused!

"Interesting, really interesting."

Zhou Tieyi didn't act pretentious but just laughed out loud, just like a real master who sees a new way, only he was happy.

"tell me the story."

Li Jianhu was originally happy to hear Zhou Tieyi praising his teacher's method, but now he was troubled again when he heard Zhou Tieyi asking for his own method.

Seeing Li Jianhu hesitate, Zhou Tieyi sneered.

I can't even control you?
"It would be fine if you didn't say anything. From what I've seen of your method, it's only at the seventh level. Moreover, your teacher Mo Tianheng was forced to study this method at the beginning. According to your description, he has injured not only his Dantian, but also his lungs. If he tries to force himself to deduce the sixth level method without anyone's guidance, he will be in danger of death!"

Zhou Tieyi was telling the truth.

Finally, he looked at Li Jianhu and added, "You are lucky, kid. Your teacher will probably force you to deduce the sixth-grade method for you. If he dies, you can get the advantage. At least you can gain his experience of mistakes!"

Zhou Tieyi's words immediately frightened Li Jianhu so much that he broke out in a cold sweat.

He quickly called himself a fool in his heart. With Mr. Panda's ability, how could he covet the method that he had only cultivated to the seventh level?

He was probably just curious for a moment.

I must seize this opportunity quickly and let Mr. 'Panda' deduce the subsequent method, and then pass it on to the teacher. Maybe it can heal the teacher's heart injury.

"I was just thinking about the shortcomings of my own method. It's not that I don't want to tell you, old sir. Please listen to me..."

Zhou Tieyi listened carefully to the "Three True Ways of Taoism". Just as he thought, although Mo Tianheng had talent and opportunity, he was limited by his own knowledge and resources. He could only deduce the three steps of essence, energy and spirit and could successfully cultivate to the seventh level.

However, he had no idea how to integrate his essence, energy and spirit to reach the middle level.

The path of sword cultivation requires skills but no principles.

Zhou Tieyi suddenly smiled. Combining what he had just realized, this method had the potential to restrain the novelist's dreams. He didn't mind using Li Jianhu to deduce it.

Once this move was made, he had a feeling that he would be able to give the novelist a surprise.

Beware novelists!
Guan Guan’s reminder is still ringing in his ears, and Zhou Tieyi has to be careful.

He suddenly stretched out his hand, and a book glowing white appeared in his hand.

Li Jianhu looked at Zhou Tieyi's book curiously. Just as he was about to ask, he heard Zhou Tieyi say in a loud voice, "Boy, you are lucky. The path of sword cultivation requires skills but no principles. Today, I will connect you to this path."

He reached out and dropped his hand into the book.

The words loyalty and righteousness emerged, Zhou Tieyi sneered, only took the word righteousness and added the word chivalry.

Transformed into the word chivalry.

These two words, one shallow and one deep, fell on Li Jianhu like a living thing. Suddenly, a myriad of inexplicable feelings lingered in Li Jianhu's heart.

Before Li Jianhu could fully grasp this insight.

Zhou Tieyi pointed at Li Jianhu again and continued, "Boy, you owe me five things. Now I want to use one of them to write a novel based on your experience and spread it around the world."

Although Li Jianhu was confused, he was not unwilling. He accepted the baptism of Taoism and nodded in agreement wholeheartedly.

With Li Jianhu's consent, Zhou Tieyi took out the Hu inkstone, used Li Jianhu's joys, sorrows, anger and happiness as ink, the mirage as paper, and this world-renowned experience as a pen, and wrote a chapter.

"Sword Opens a New World".

[Episode 1]

It is six thousand miles from here to Tianjing, and the young man draws his sword to avenge his father!
(End of this chapter)