Under one person: I, Zhang Zhiwei, the arrogant Zhang.

Chapter 559: The Birth of a New Generation of Kings
The heroes and auspicious signs of Jiangxi, do you think I'm stupid... Zhang Huaiyi half-closed his eyes, glanced at Zhang Zhiwei, and said:
"My senior brother just told me to be braver and not be like Jiangxi Jerry. Jiangxi is a place name, so Jerry should mean timid."

You can fool Xiaotian, but you can't fool the big-eared thief... Zhang Zhiwei smiled and gave a thumbs up: "You guessed right, you look stupid, but you are not stupid at all!"

"Why is he called Jerry?" Zhang Huaiyi asked curiously, "Is there any story behind this?"

Zhang Zhiwei explained: "Some knowledgeable scholars called Sun Quan in the Three Kingdoms the Jerry of Jiangdong."

Zhang Huaiyi suddenly realized: "So they are rats, rats living in a remote corner of Jiangdong. Jiangdong is opposite to Jiangxi. Brother, you are quite good at using metaphors."

Being called a rat by Zhang Zhiwei, Zhang Huaiyi didn't think it was an offense. He actually liked rats. They were good at hiding and clever. What was wrong with that? Even the master said he was a rat!
In his opinion, whether it is a mouse or a lion, they just have different personalities and there is no high or low. Sometimes, a mouse can accomplish more than a lion, like this time.

"By the way, Huaiyi, did Master prepare some protective items for you?" Zhang Zhiwei asked.

"I just prepared some talismans!" Zhang Huaiyi said with a smile.

He did not say what the talismans were, and Zhang Zhiwei did not ask, as he was not a very curious person.

"It's getting late, and it's still a long way to Wen County. I won't delay any longer!"

Zhang Huaiyi said goodbye to his fellow disciples, then put on his magic-speed armor and horse, took a step forward more than ten meters, as if riding the wind, and disappeared on the mountain in the blink of an eye.

Everyone looked at the direction where Zhang Huaiyi was going and asked Zhang Zhiwei why Zhang Huaiyi went down the mountain to Qingyun Temple in Wen County?
Zhang Zhiwei felt an urge to explain, but he quickly suppressed the thought and lightly brushed aside the topic.

This is the ability of the inner sage and outer king realm. The mind sits high on the spiritual platform, overlooking the entire body, and is not affected by one's own delusions.

This delusion not only refers to interference from the outside world, but also refers to some not-so-good emotions generated by oneself.

Zhang Zhiwei can intuitively see this emotion and make a choice.

This process is just like fishing, he sits on the fishing platform and fishes.

Those external thoughts and our own thoughts are like fish in the water competing to be caught.

He can choose to fish for this emotion and accept it subjectively, or he can ignore it or even extinguish it.

This is also the reason why many enlightened people give people a sense of ruthlessness.

They ignored these emotions and remained in a state of sitting high in their minds, undisturbed by any thoughts. The hatred or love from the outside world could not affect them. Isn't that heartless?

It can be said that in this state, whatever the ego consciousness wants to do, it can complete it perfectly without any interference.

In Confucianism, this is called the state of unity of knowledge and action by Wang Yangming.

Zhang Zhiwei was in this state, but in most cases, he did not do so.

In order to preserve his nature and authenticity, he would catch the emotional fish jumping out of the water, feeling their joys, sorrows, anger, and happiness, as well as the warmth and coldness of human nature.

This makes him seem very human, not so high-handed and out of touch with the world.

Therefore, if Zhang Zhiwei didn't want to be a big mouth, he would not say a single word even if the sky fell.

After asking for a while, the fellow disciples saw that they could not get any information from Zhang Zhiwei. They thought that he did not know the specific reason, so they stopped asking and continued to work.

Lu Jin and Lu Ci were both gifted people. It didn't take long for them to get into the groove and master Zhang Zhiwei's skill of hoeing the ground.

The work continues until noon. If there are no special arrangements, you can arrange the next period of time at your own will.

The Taoists started chatting in groups of three or four. Some were practicing boxing and kicking, while others were drawing talismans and practicing magic…

As the King of Longhu Mountain, Zhang Zhiwei usually tempers his life until the evening class, and today is no exception.

As for Lu Jin and Lu Ci...

Lu Jin was concentrating on practicing the Tiantong Finger he had just learned, hoping to use this method to get back at Lu Ci.

Although Lu Ci had heard of this method during morning class, he did not learn it. A person's energy is limited. If you want to accomplish something, you must make choices.

He has already got what he wanted, and the next step is to improve it better instead of picking up shells one by one like picking up shells on the beach.

At this moment, Lu Ci was still hoeing the earth. After achieving minor success in the Tiger and Leopard Thunder Sound, he could better perceive the subtle changes in himself.

He keenly discovered that when he was digging the ground, his mind became particularly calm and he was able to exercise his life particularly efficiently.

This discovery surprised him. Previously, he had assumed the correct posture and tried to enter a state of meditation to temper his life, but he found it difficult to calm down, resulting in his meditation not being deep enough.

This made him very distressed. He had always known the importance of cultivating his life, but because of his impetuousness, his efficiency in tempering his life was low.

But when he was practicing the skill of hoeing the ground, he was surprised to find that even though he did not adopt the posture of meditation like "Wu Xin Xiang Tian" and even though he did not deliberately pursue tranquility, but just devoted his whole body to digging the ground, his life cultivation increased especially fast.

Most people cannot feel this kind of speed, just like when you are in a daze, it is clearly just a moment of trance, but a long time has passed.

Daydreaming has a time scale, but the cultivation of life is a slow process that requires a long period of accumulation to produce very obvious changes.

Many people fail to feel this point, so they regard this technique as a dispensable fake trick for digging the fields.

Through the Tiger, Leopard and Thunder Sound, Lu Ci has practiced Kung Fu to the core and has a strong ability to control himself, so he can feel it.

This shocked him so much that he didn't even have time to rest and turned into a digging maniac.

Lu Jin was very puzzled by Lu Ci's behavior, but he did not disturb him or join in, and continued to practice Tongtian Finger.

Zhang Zhiwei secretly praised Lu Ci for his cleverness. The reason why the hoeing skill had such an effect was ultimately due to two words - let go.

The more you care about something, the easier it is to lose it; the less you care about it, the easier it is to get it.

Let go of the posture of meditation, let go of the concept of tranquility, stop thinking about anything, and focus on hoeing the land. Your mind will naturally become tranquil, and your practice will naturally be twice as effective with half the effort.

Lu Ci dug until nightfall, when Zhang Zhiwei called him to attend evening classes. He then became dazed for a moment, ended his practice, put down his hoe, and looked up at the sky.

The sky had become much darker and the sun was about to set, which startled Lu Ci. He clearly remembered that the sun was still shining brightly just a second ago, but he didn't expect that in the blink of an eye, it was almost dark.

“What a hearty practice!”

Lu Ci understood that this was a sign of deep meditation. With a smile on his face, he wiped the sweat off his forehead and found that his whole body was wet. He also felt a sense of emptiness in his stomach, as if he could eat a whole cow, so he wanted to eat.

Zhang Zhiwei told him that dinner would be after the evening class, so he should just bear with it for now.

How could Lu Ci, who was extremely hungry, bear this? He asked Zhang Zhiwei if he could eat something in advance to fill his stomach.
Zhang Zhiwei patted him on the shoulder and told him that when he was extremely hungry, he should remember that it was the time to practice.

Lu Ci had no choice but to go to the evening class on an empty stomach. The evening class was still taught by Zhang Zhiwei, who taught Tiantongzhi.

Zhang Zhiwei's evening classes are more casual, without so many red tape. If it is a normal evening class, you need to burn incense and light candles first, and then Buxuyunqiang, that is, chanting Taoist scriptures in a rhythm that is like singing and reading, and explaining scriptures. These are called Taoist rituals, which are old rules passed down from ancient times to the present.

When the evening class was over, it was time for dinner. Before the meal, Lu Jin and Lu Ci were still very reserved, but now they blended in perfectly, like starving ghosts reincarnated, without any sense of being guests at all.

After eating and drinking, it was already dark. Life in the mountains was hard and everyone was used to going to bed early, so Zhang Zhiwei returned to his room to practice.

Lu Jin and Lu Ci lived in the guest room.

During the day, Lu Jin practiced the Tiantong Finger taught by Zhang Zhiwei. At night, he sat cross-legged on the bed and practiced the third level of Nisheng. This was his daily compulsory course.

Lu Ci boiled a bucket of hot water and prepared a bathtub. He was lying in it taking a bath, surrounded by the hot steam and his brows relaxed. Taking a bath after a day of work was definitely a very enjoyable thing.

Lu Ci clenched his fists suddenly, and a series of explosions sounded all over his body. His muscles and bones vibrated, and the water in the barrel began to vibrate continuously as if it was electrocuted.

This is the effect of Tiger Leopard Thunder Sound, which strengthens oneself from the inside out. Combined with the previous hoeing skills, the two add up to an effect of one plus one being greater than two.

“This state…”

Lu Ci's face was filled with excitement. He had never understood himself so thoroughly and felt his own strength as he did now.

He closed his eyes and meditated. He could clearly feel bursts of thunder coming from his body, like the sound of spring thunder. When the spring thunder sounded, all things revived and his body was awakened by the spring thunder.

"It worked. To prevent Old Lu from catching up, I have to keep working hard!"

On a whim, Lu Ci jumped out of the bathtub, put on a sweat shirt, went out with a hoe, and went to the fields of Longhu Mountain under the cover of night, where he started digging.

On the other side, in Wen County, not far from the downtown area, there is a small Taoist temple called Qingyun Temple.

There is real practice in Qingyun Temple, the Taoists inside are quite capable, the temple is very popular, and the money received from incense offerings is not small, but for some reason, Qingyun Temple has never been expanded.

At first, a big landlord in the county town thought that it would be inconvenient to expand the Taoist temple because it was built in the city, so he proposed to donate a piece of land to Qingyun Temple so that they could build a larger Taoist temple. However, the Taoist priests of Qingyun Temple rejected his proposal outright, and everyone was puzzled.

Some people say that Qingyun Temple was built here to guard something. If it is moved, the things inside will run out and the people will suffer.

Some people also said that the Taoist priest in Qingyun Temple did this for better cultivation. Isn’t there a saying that goes “hide in the city”?

In short, there are various opinions.

At this moment, inside the Qingyun Temple, purple smoke was rising from the incense burner, and a Taoist priest was wandering in circles in the yard, tirelessly, as if it was set.

Suddenly, a yellow paper crane came flying with its wings flapping. The Taoist priest, who was wandering around dully, jumped up suddenly as if a mechanism had been touched, and grabbed the paper crane.

The Taoist priest looked at the paper crane in his hand, his eyes rolling around, and then he rushed out like crazy.

His running posture was very strange, giving people a feeling of being light and as if his heels were not touching the ground.

The Taoist priest ran all the way to a large mansion, bypassed the dozing guard at the door, climbed over the wall lightly, and knocked on the door.

"Come in!"

The Taoist priest opened the door, walked quickly to the woman in the red dress, leaned over and handed her the paper crane.

The woman in the red dress took it, spread out the paper crane and read the message inside.

The young officer who lived next door noticed the commotion and went out wearing his military coat to ask:
"Did something happen?"

The woman in the red skirt frowned and said, "Longhu Mountain sent someone to check the seal."

The young officer's eyes flashed: "Did they notice anything?"

The woman in the red skirt shook her head. "It seems not. The Dragon and Tiger Headquarters doesn't care much about what's happening here. It's normal that the seal has lost its effectiveness after a hundred years. Most of the monsters suppressed inside have perished."

"But to be on the safe side, they sent a disciple to check. If it is confirmed that the monster has been killed, Qingyun Temple will not have to stay here and can find another quiet place to build a temple. If it is confirmed that the monster has escaped, Longhu Mountain will send people to hunt it down!"

The young officer was delighted: "So, as long as we deal with the Taoist priest who comes to inspect, we can rest assured?"

But immediately, he frowned and said, "Is there a trick here? Will the people who come see through your arrangement?"

The woman in the red skirt hesitated for a moment, shook her head and said, "The Longhu Mountain letter does not take the situation here very seriously. If the person who came was a great master, then it would be a trick. But the person who came was just a junior Taoist priest with an unknown reputation."

"The letter says that this young Taoist priest is called Zhang Huaiyi. According to the information I bought from the inn, this person should have just been granted the pseudonym not long ago."

"In such a short time, I'm afraid he hasn't even learned all the thunder techniques, so how could he be cheating? If it was that kid named Zhang Zhiwei who came, then that would be cheating."

“As for seeing through my arrangement, let alone a small Taoist priest, even a modern Heavenly Master may not be able to see through it.” The woman in the red dress was full of confidence.

The young officer asked, "Is it possible that the young Taoist priest is just a cover, and there are a few old guys following him?"

The woman in the red dress looked at her with disdain:
"Idiot, you are still leading troops to fight. If Longhu Mountain really does this, it means they have discovered my situation here."

"Why don't they just send a few veteran masters to come quietly? Why do they have to take off their pants to fart and send a junior to lead the charge?"

"Since they sent a junior here, it means they didn't notice it, or they are not sure if there is any problem."

"It's best if they don't find out. If they are not sure, then let's make this uncertainty become certainty!"

The young officer lowered his head and said nothing. He was actually the chief of staff of the warlord. After meeting the woman in the red dress, he used her means to kill his superior and became the commander.

As a wise general, it was natural for him to understand these things, but he was so concerned that he became confused and lost his composure.

Afterwards, the woman in red skirt began to cast a spell and assigned three Taoists from Qingyun Temple to welcome Zhang Huaiyi's arrival.

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In the early morning, in the mountains not far from Wen County, a figure appeared out of nowhere and took a step over 20 meters, as light as a fallen leaf. It was Zhang Huaiyi.

"Wen County is ahead, right? Next, we have to go to Qingyun Temple. Master said that the talismans of the fellow disciples in Qingyun Temple are still there, which means they are fine, at least not in danger of life. If they are fine, there shouldn't be any problem if I go."

"However, I still have to be cautious. As a member of the Heavenly Master Sect of Mount Longhu, I cannot act too weak. Too much is as bad as too little, which will arouse suspicion. I also cannot act too strong, as that would make me seem too purposeful..."

After thinking for a while, the image of Tian Jinzhong jumped into his mind. Among all his fellow apprentices, he had the best relationship with Tian Jinzhong, was most familiar with him, and was the easiest to imitate.

Zhang Huaiyi immediately adjusted his own Qi to a level only slightly stronger than Tian Jinzhong's, and then went into the city and headed towards Qingyun Temple.

(End of this chapter)