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

Zuo Ruotong felt that Lu Jin was impetuous, so he asked him to stay at Trinity Gate for a few more years. Lu Jin agreed, but he still couldn't help asking:

"Master, do you think I am no match for Lu Ci?"

Zuo Ruotong shook his head and said, "I haven't seen that kid from the Lu family for a long time. How can I know if you can be his opponent?"

"Then why did you stop me?" Lu Jin asked.

Zuo Ruotong said: "Although I have never met Lu Ci, I have heard some recent rumors. The competition between you and him has gone beyond the scope of sparring. If you win this time, how do you plan to deal with him?"

Lu Jin was silent. He did not answer Zuo Rutong's question, nor did he know how to answer. He had not thought about it yet.

However, he was sure that he would not let the other party go. At the very least, he would pierce his cheek with a palm leaf and then parade him through the streets as a warning to others.

Zuo Ruotong knew his apprentice too well. He knew what Lu Jin was thinking at a glance and said:

"That's too much. When I knew that the farce between you and him was getting bigger and bigger, I asked Senior Brother Zhuge to tell you and Lu Ci's fortune."

The Sanyi Sect does not consider background when accepting disciples, but only qualifications, so some extraordinary families like the Lu family will also send their children to the Sanyi Sect.

There is a person from the Zhuge family of the Wuhou faction who practices in the Sanyi Sect. He is Lu Jin’s senior brother and is a famous big mouth in the Sanyi Sect.

The Trinity Sect is located deep in the mountains. Most of the disciples are secluded and quiet, and it is almost impossible for what happens within the sect to be passed on to the outside world. It all depends on this big mouth Zhuge.

Every time they went down the mountain, they would talk endlessly about what happened inside the sect, so that the mysterious Sanyi Sect became known to everyone passing by at the foot of the mountain and was no longer mysterious.

Lu Jin and Zuo Rutong were both helpless about this big mouth Zhuge. Zuo Rutong also reminded him that a gentleman does not speak easily and that ears belong to the wall, but it was useless. It only lasted a few days before his true colors were exposed.

In recent years, after knowing that Zhang Zhiwei was also a big mouth, he even stopped acting and bluntly said that he had the style of a little Taoist priest.

Zuo Ruotong continued, "According to your senior brother Zhuge's divination, you and Lu Ci should not have much in common. You are neither enemies nor friends."

"But it's obvious that the development of things is not the same as what the hexagram shows. Not only do you and Lu Ci have a lot in common, but after a series of things, you have become good friends."

"But your recent series of actions seem to be heading in the direction predicted by that hexagram. I don't think this is a good thing."

"It's rare that two people who were originally destined to have no relationship with each other can become friends of life and death. Good deeds will bring good results. He may be able to help you resolve some of the disasters that will happen to you in the future."

Hearing this, Lu Jin lowered his head in thought. To be honest, he and Lu Ci had not had a very good relationship since childhood. He looked down on Lu Ci's style of doing things, and Lu Ci was not fond of him either.

It was after he met Senior Brother Zhang and traveled with him that their relationship began to improve.

At the same time, after Senior Brother Zhang stopped traveling and returned to the mountains to practice, the relationship between them began to gradually become tense.

Originally, although they looked tense on the outside, they had a tacit understanding on the inside. However, in recent years, with Lu Ci stationed in Longhu Mountain and themselves stationed in Sanyi Gate, the tension remained, but the tacit understanding between the two sides decreased a lot.

"Master, what do you think I should do?" Lu Jin asked.

Zuo Ruotong paused and said, "The original hexagram should be due to the evolution of your respective personalities. If your personalities are incompatible, and you fight each other and refuse to give in to each other, it will be easy for you to gradually become estranged and even become enemies."

"Character determines destiny. As long as you treat others with sincerity, I believe you can get back on track."

"Master, I understand!" Lu Jin nodded and said.

Zuo Ruotong continued, "The little celestial master must have seen the farce between you and Lu Ci, but he didn't stop it. He probably wanted you to compete with each other and make progress together."

“You do progress very quickly this way, but it’s too deliberate and too impetuous.”

"There are some things that Master has never told you. With your talent, you are already very talented. As long as you practice steadily, your future achievements will definitely not be inferior to mine."

"But if you are too impatient, you may end up taking an unfavorable approach."

Zuo Ruotong looked at Lu Jin and said, "You are a person who is quite soft on matters of reason, but too strong on matters of emotion. You want someone to live when you love them, and you want someone to die when you hate them. This makes you prone to getting stuck in a rut. This is your biggest shortcoming."

Love wants someone to live, hate wants someone to die, it is easy to get stuck in a dead end... Lu Jin repeated Zuo Rutong's words in his mind and nodded, "Master, I remember it."

Zuo Rutong nodded and Lu Jin retreated.

Looking at Lu Jin's back, Zuo Ruotong thought of Zhang Zhiwei, and then thought of Zhang Jingqing. He inexplicably thought that Lu Jin and Zhang Zhiwei were actually of the same generation. He sighed:
"When it comes to teaching, imparting knowledge and answering questions, Tianshi is truly one of a kind. I am obviously much more serious than he is and I put in much more effort."

Zuo Rutong stood up, quite puzzled. He had been to the Tianshi Mansion and met many of Zhang Jingqing's disciples including Zhang Huaiyi.

Even if we exclude the pervert Zhang Zhiwei, in terms of self-defense alone, Zhang Jingqing's disciples are generally stronger than his disciples.

Especially the one named Zhang Huaiyi, who made him look at him with new eyes. He even had a feeling that among his disciples, except for the eldest disciple Wu Chengzhen, the others were no match for Zhang Huaiyi.

Wu Chengzhen is almost two generations older than Zhang Huaiyi. Strictly speaking, they cannot be considered of the same generation.

The teaching ability of Longhu Mountain is stronger, which is why he does not object to Lu Jin going to Longhu Mountain frequently.

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On the other side, Zhang Zhiwei finished his trip, left Tianmen Peak, returned to Longhu Mountain, called his fellow disciples together, and started today's class.

The place where Zhang Zhiwei taught was the training ground of Tianshi Mansion.

The advantage of this place is that anyone passing by can come and listen. Many Taoists who are not Zhang Jingqing's disciples will also come to listen to Zhang Zhiwei's lectures.

The disadvantage is that the environment is a bit noisy and not quiet enough. However, Zhang Zhiwei has his own temperament. When you stay next to him, it is easy to calm down, so it doesn't have much impact.

When Zhang Zhiwei was giving a lecture, Lu Ci had just finished hoeing the fields and was coming back carrying the hoe.

He has been in Longhu Mountain for several years, and the nickname of the Longhu Mountain's "Digging Maniac" has long been known to everyone, so he no longer hides it.

There were already many people surrounding Zhang Zhiwei. Lu Ci arrived late and did not try to squeeze in with the Taoists.

He placed the hoe on the ground with the head facing upwards and the handle facing downwards, then he jumped up and landed steadily on the hoe, then sat down cross-legged and listened to the class attentively.

The other Taoists were not surprised by this and continued to listen to Zhang Zhiwei's teachings. After Zhang Zhiwei explained some principles of cultivation to everyone, he looked at Tian Jinzhong and said, "Xiao Tian, ​​what do you think is the most important thing to achieve success in cultivation?"

Tian Jinzhong thought for a moment and said, "It should be talent, understanding, and perseverance."

Zhang Zhiwei nodded: "You are right. A few years ago, I asked you to use your sleeping time to practice meditation. You persisted. This is perseverance."

"But that's not enough, because you have to treat this as a test. You have to not think of it as suffering, but as joy, and devote your emotions to it. Only in this way can you reach a higher level."

"As the saying goes, when you climb a mountain, your heart is filled with the mountain, and when you look at the sea, your mind is filled with the sea. It means that when we climb a mountain, our heart is filled with the mountain, and when we look at the sea, our mind is filled with the sea. We should do the same when we practice!"

"Brother, I will definitely remember it!" Tian Jinzhong nodded repeatedly.

Lu Ci on the side thought to himself that he should have reached the level that Senior Brother Zhang described.

He now fell in love with hoeing the fields. He had invested a lot of emotion in it and had fallen in love with this feeling. He would feel uncomfortable if he didn't hoe the fields a few times every day.

At this point, he finally understood why Senior Brother Zhang practiced cultivation all the time. It was not because he was a "labor thief" in Mount Longhu as the Big Eared Thief said, but because he truly liked the feeling of practicing cultivation.

After the class, his fellow students asked Zhang Zhiwei some questions, and Zhang Zhiwei answered them one by one.

Lu Ci also asked Zhang Zhiwei questions, including questions about the tiger, leopard, thunder sound and shock force.

Zhang Zhiwei explained it to him, but Lu Ci still didn't understand. He had made great progress in the past few years, but he always felt that something was missing, but he couldn't tell exactly where the difference was.

Seeing that reason didn't make sense, Zhang Zhiwei asked everyone to disperse and let Lu Ci come over. He wanted Lu Ci to experience it for himself.

Lu Ci walked up to Zhang Zhiwei.

"Attack me!" said Zhang Zhiwei.

Lu Ci's heart trembled: "Brother Zhang, I don't want to spar with you!"

"It's not a sparring match. We're fighting each other. I will control the strength to be the same as yours, so that you can find the difference from the collision of the two forces. See if that can give you some inspiration!" Zhang Zhiwei said.

Hearing this, Lu Ci felt relieved and struck out at Zhang Zhiwei with a palm, who returned the blow.

The moment the two palms touched, Lu Ci felt that the power in Zhang Zhiwei's palm was incomparably magical. Although the strength was of equal magnitude, it was easy for him to break down Zhang Zhiwei's strength, causing him to lose balance. Even his limbs were deformed, and he retreated several steps and almost fell to the ground.

"The purpose of a palm-to-palm fight is to let you feel the power, not to send you flying after a palm-to-palm fight. Keep calm. If you still collapse at the first blow of the same power, then don't ask for advice. Pick up your hoe and roll down the mountain to hoe the land!"

Zhang Zhiwei's words were a bit impolite, but Lu Ci was not angry. It was a huge favor to teach by word of mouth. Most masters would not teach so carefully. How could he blame Zhang Zhiwei for such a sentence?

Speaking of which, when they were in the Lu family compound, Zhang Zhiwei's words were even more impolite, but his awe of Zhang Zhiwei increased instead of decreasing.

I must catch it... Lu Ci made up his mind, stood up again and hit Zhang Zhiwei with a palm, and Zhang Zhiwei hit back with a palm.

When the two forces collided, Lu Ci was shocked and almost flew backwards, but he held back and forced his palms together, continuing to feel the power of Zhang Zhiwei's palm.

During the palm-to-palm fight, Lu Ci felt that the strength he exerted was like a small boat in the raging waves in front of Zhang Zhiwei's strength.

Every time Zhang Zhiwei's strength vibrated, it was like a huge wave that wanted to overturn him, but he forced himself to hold it back.

Even though his posture seemed very undignified to outsiders, sometimes hunched like a shrimp, sometimes twisted like a maggot, but at least he managed to resist being knocked away.

Seeing that Lu Ci could barely catch it, Zhang Zhiwei nodded secretly, thinking that he had finally made progress.

Afterwards, he carefully demonstrated to Lu Ci the various details of the shock force, the elastic force, the shaking force, the spinning force, the swinging force...

Lu Ci also knows these powers, and can even imitate them with Ruyi Power, but it is very different from Zhang Zhiwei. Now he can experience the ingenuity of various powers in person, which is of great benefit to his practice.

When they were fighting, his mind was completely focused, and he purely felt Zhang Zhiwei's strength with his own life.

Slowly, his strength, which had collapsed at the first touch with Zhang Zhiwei, began to change and turned towards Zhang Zhiwei's strength.

He had some capital to fight back, and he gradually adapted to the situation, so that his body would not be tilted in the clash of forces.

After fighting for a few minutes, Zhang Zhiwei felt that it was enough. He suddenly changed his strength, and fine and loud thunder burst out from his whole body.

At this moment, Lu Ci suddenly felt that Zhang Zhiwei's strength had transformed from a raging wave into a ray of thunder between heaven and earth. The place where his palm touched felt like being struck by lightning, causing him to tremble violently and fly backwards uncontrollably.

With a loud "bang", Lu Ci crashed into the wall, leaving a large human-shaped hole in the wall.

However, Lu Ci outside the big cave was not seriously injured. After practicing hoeing skills for several years, Lu Ci's life skills had greatly increased.

Moreover, Zhang Zhiwei's attack just now was only to make him feel the power better, and did not hurt his mind, so he naturally would not be injured.

With a palm push, the other fellow disciples hurried to look at Lu Ci, but Zhang Zhiwei waved his hand and left the training ground. The teaching was over, and he had his own practice to do next.

A group of fellow disciples went to see Lu Ci. They thought they would see him crawling on the ground in a very miserable state, but they found him standing there quietly, not saying anything, with empty eyes.

Someone wanted to shout at him, but was stopped by Tian Jinzhong.
Tian Jinzhong put his index finger to his lips and made a "hush" sound.

Everyone understood instantly that Lu Ci was gaining enlightenment, so they quickly shut up and looked at him quietly.

At this moment, Lu Ci was indeed thinking carefully about Zhang Zhiwei's last bit of strength, unwilling to miss any details.

Each of Zhang Zhiwei's powers was infinitely varied, like the hexagrams in the Book of Changes, which combined with each other. Especially the last one, it was like a wake-up call to him, waking him up and giving him an epiphany.

Lu Ci's brain was working rapidly. At this moment, guided by Zhang Zhiwei's strength, all his past accumulations burst out. All those things that he didn't understand or found difficult to do in the past were now easily solved. Just a few minutes of oral instruction were worth his several years of hard work.

Suddenly, Lu Ci moved.

He shuddered suddenly, and his whole body shook as if his bones were falling apart, but the sound he made was not the sound of bones moving, but the same fine and loud thundering sound as Zhang Zhiwei's before.

Tiger, Leopard, Thunder Sound! It's done!

The thunder was mixed with the sound of tigers and leopards. White lightning like tree branches burst out from his body and spread to the surrounding walls, leaving circles of spider-web-like cracks. (End of this chapter)