Meet the Gentleman

Chapter 683: Tomb of the Disciples of Zangshan Academy
Peacock River.

Those standing tall poplar trees present a magnificent picture of life.

Feng Qingyan stood under a poplar tree, quietly gazing at the snow-capped mountains in the distance, his clothes lifted by the hot summer breeze.

At some point, Helian Shan came over with a sullen face and a hint of anger in his eyes.

"Brother, did you know they left a long time ago?"

Helian Shan said with some anger.

At this time, Feng Qingyan retracted his gaze, looked at the clear river water, looked at the fish swimming in the water, smiled and nodded, and said: "Jiuge sent me a letter."

"why is that?"

Helian Shan suppressed his voice and questioned, his eyes ready to burst into anger, "Didn't we agree to recover the Western Regions together and educate the thirty-six nations together? Now, not even a mile of land has been recovered, and the people of a country have not been educated. Why are they leaving? Why are they leaving the Western Regions in such a hurry? Or leaving without saying goodbye!"

"Didn't the letter say that they were entangled in worldly affairs?"

Feng Qingyan said softly.

"Being entangled in mundane affairs? Haha——"

Helian Shan couldn't help but sneer twice. His inner anger couldn't be calmed down. He danced with joy and said, "This is clearly an excuse, and an extremely poor excuse. Do you think I, Helian Shan, am a fool? If one person is entangled in worldly affairs, it is understandable, but ten people are all entangled in worldly affairs? This is simply treating me, Helian Shan, as a fool, haha."

"Look up and be calm."

Feng Qingyan frowned and said, "Didn't you say so in the letter? Some of you are going back to get married, some are going back to serve their parents, and some are going back to take over the family business..."

"Even if that's the case, why did they leave without saying goodbye?"

Helian Shan sneered and questioned, with deep anger in his eyes, and then he said with some pain: "In fact, I can understand that they don't want to stay in the Western Regions. After all, it is not easy for the Zhou people to survive in the Western Regions, let alone to recover the Western Regions and educate the Thirty-Six Kingdoms. This will take who knows how many years. I can understand that they can't bear it. But what I care about is why they left without saying goodbye?"

"Yangzhi, maybe they have their own difficulties?"

Feng Qingyan was silent for a moment.

"Hardship? If you have hardship, you can leave without saying goodbye?"

Helian Shan was still angry, but the pain in his eyes was even stronger. He said, "They must still be blaming me. That's why they left without saying goodbye. Even Yunxiao left. Yes, if they stayed with me, Helian Shan, who knows whether they would live or die tomorrow? They left, I don't blame them, it's because I, Helian Shan, couldn't protect them..."

At this moment, as Helian Shan spoke, tears began to fall.

"Yangzhi, in order to save the 300,000 people on both sides of the Peacock River, you risked your life in the sandstorm. This is benevolence and righteousness, and you are not wrong. This is your choice, and it is also the choice of all the junior brothers. Don't think so badly of the junior brothers. You have benevolence and righteousness in your heart, and you have pursuits in your hearts. The junior brothers also have benevolence and righteousness and pursuits in their hearts. You can sacrifice your life for 300,000 people, and the junior brothers will not blink an eye..."

Feng Qingyan patted Helian Shan's shoulder and said softly.

He didn't expect that Helian Shan would blame himself so much. He was still brooding over the sandstorm incident and always thought that he was the one who harmed his fellow disciples.

"The brothers left not because they blamed you. They never blamed you. You have always been the second brother they admired. They have taken you as their role model and example throughout their lives. Otherwise, why would they follow you and travel thousands of miles to the Western Regions? And they also swore an oath with you to recover the Western Regions and educate the Thirty-Six Kingdoms together?"

"Ha ha--"

Helian Shan couldn't help laughing up to the sky and shouted, "Oath? Do they still remember the oath they made? They are gone, gone."

"Did they say they weren't coming back?"

Feng Qingyan said lightly.

Helian Shan was suddenly stunned. Yes, they didn’t seem to have said they wouldn’t come back. They just said that they were temporarily tied up in worldly affairs and needed to return to Zhou Tianxia…

"Yangzhi, didn't Jiuge say that they just need to go back to Zhoutian for a while, and will return to the Western Regions after finishing their mundane affairs. They haven't forgotten the oath they made, but they have something to do and need to leave for a while." Feng Qingyan smiled and said, "You think too much about this matter. They will feel embarrassed to leave without saying goodbye, so they have to leave secretly."

"is it?"

Helian Shan asked in a low voice.

"Of course they will come back."

Feng Qingyan patted Helian Shan on the shoulder and said, "Do you remember what I said a few days ago? At that time, I asked you, if you were the only one left, would you still insist on recovering the Western Regions and civilizing the Thirty-Six Kingdoms?"

"I, Helian Shan, have made a vow that I will not hesitate to sacrifice my life for." Helian Shan said coldly, with a choking feeling in his chest. "Even if they never come back, even if I, Helian Shan, am the only one left, even if I return to Buzhou Tianxia for the rest of my life, I, Helian Shan, will go to recover the Western Regions and educate the Thirty-Six Kingdoms. I will remain committed to this throughout my life. No matter if it takes ten years, a hundred years, or a thousand years..."

"Okay, I'm waiting for your good news."

Feng Qingyan smiled.

At this moment, a strong fighting spirit burned in Helian Shan's heart. Aren't you afraid of hardships and dare not stay in the Western Regions?
I, Helian Shan, can recover the Western Regions and educate the thirty-six nations alone!

When I return to Zhou Tianxia, ​​how will you face me?
Helian Shan felt a little choked up.

At this time, he had already determined that Liu Ling and others were afraid of the harsh climate in the Western Regions and dared not stay in the Western Regions any longer, so they had the intention of retreating, so they left quietly without saying goodbye.

This is a shameless farewell!

snort!
Even if I, Helian Shan, am alone, I will recover the Western Regions and civilize the thirty-six nations, no matter how many years it takes.

This life is unwavering!

Helian Shan vowed again in his heart that he would not return to the Zhou Dynasty until he recovered the Western Regions and civilized the Thirty-Six Kingdoms...

Feng Qingyan saw the strong fighting spirit in Helian Shan and couldn't help but smile, saying: "Jiuge, fishing rod."

"No."

Jiuge spread his hands from a distance.

"Lord Xiaowan, do you have a fishing rod?"

Feng Qingyan stepped into the air and looked towards the capital of Xiaowan Kingdom.

A moment later, a man named Wen Gong hurriedly brought a few fishing rods and said solemnly, "Canonize the saint, fishing rods."

"Thanks."

Feng Qingyan took over with a smile and looked at Helianshan, "Yangzhi, let's go fishing together."

Helian Shan was not in the mood at all, but since his senior brother handed him the fishing rod, he had no choice but to take it and go to the shore.

Feng Qingyan sat on the shore holding a fishing rod and fishing quietly.

Duke Wen bowed and left.

When Feng Sheng came to the Western Regions, all the thirty-six rulers had to know about it, mainly because Feng Qingyan took them out for tea, chat and stroll...

Although there were some kings who were dissatisfied, they all submitted in the end.

Feng Qingyan is the greatest gentleman in the world and the greatest virtual saint from ancient times to the present. Naturally, he wins people over with his virtue.

After a while, Feng Qingyan asked, "Yangzhi, what are you going to do?"

"First, open a college and train some students."

Helian Shan was silent for a moment.

Feng Qingyan nodded and said, "How about the name of the academy be Fengming?"

"Fengming?" Helian Shan frowned and said, "Isn't Fengming the name of the Qin Society? Using it as the name of the academy, this..."

"The Qin Society is the Qin Society, and the Academy is the Academy. I think Fengming Academy is a good name."

Feng Qingyan Road.

"Since Senior Brother said so, the name of the academy will be Fengming."

Helian Mountain Road.

Time passed by.

Feng Qingyan didn't catch a single fish...

Before he knew it, the sun had set. Feng Qingyan put down his fishing rod, stepped into the air, and looked out at the vast yellow sand in the east.

In the afterglow of the setting sun, the Yellow Sea is as red as blood.

Feng Qingyan sighed and walked down.

"Senior brother, I noticed that you have been looking towards the east these days. Are you missing the academy?" Helian Shan asked with some confusion.

Feng Qingyan smiled and nodded.

A moment later, he returned to the stone courtyard and asked Jiuge to find a new plaque. He then wrote the four big characters "Fengming Academy" on the spot.

"Yangzhi, you have educated the thirty-six nations. I cannot help you with anything. I can only give you a plaque for the academy."

Feng Qingyan Road.

"Brother, you have helped Shan a lot."

Helian Shan said hurriedly.

The senior brother took him to drink tea and chat with the rulers of the thirty-six countries, just to tell them that whoever dared to touch Helianshan would be an enemy of Fengsheng...

However, Helian Shan still took the plaque and carefully observed the four big characters "Fengming Academy", but suddenly found that there seemed to be a deep red shadow hidden in the four big characters.

It looks a bit like the legendary phoenix.

This surprised him greatly, and he felt a little amazed in his heart that Shujun was worthy of being Shujun.

Words can create images.

Words can generate power.

"If you encounter someone you cannot defeat, this plaque can help you."

Feng Qingyan pondered for a moment and said that he had already integrated the ultimate will into the four big characters, which possessed extremely terrifying killing power.

"Thank you, Brother."

Helian Mountain Road.

"You are welcome."

Feng Qingyan smiled and turned to Jiuge, "Jiuge, get ready, we'll set off tomorrow."

"Brother, are you going back to Zhou Tianxia?"

Helian Shan was a little surprised and somewhat reluctant.

"I'm not going back to Zhoutian, I'm planning to go to Kutuotian."

Feng Qingyan did not hide anything.

"Kutada?"

Helian Shan frowned and thought carefully, but couldn't figure out where Ku Tuo Tian was, so he asked curiously: "Brother, where is Ku Tuo Tian?"

"Kutuotian is on the other side of Tianbi Mountain, the land of Buddha."

Feng Qingyan Road.

"The other side of Tianbi Mountain?" Helian Shan suddenly realized and said, "So the other side of Tianbi Mountain is called Kutuotian..."

This made him very curious about Ku Tuo Tian, ​​so he and Feng Qingyan drank in the yard while chatting about Ku Tuo Tian, ​​the world, the Western Regions, and how to educate the thirty-six countries...

The night passed slowly.

Helian Shan was a little drunk after drinking too much.

The main reason was that Liu Ling and others left without saying goodbye, which made him very sad.

He was still blaming himself in his heart, thinking that it was because he had not protected his fellow apprentices that they left sadly...

Feng Qingyan sat aside and listened quietly with a faint smile on his face.

When the moon is at its zenith.

Helian Shan finally got drunk and fell asleep on the stone table.

But tears flowed...

Feng Qingyan went back to the house, took a felt blanket and gently covered him with it.

"Sir, everything is ready."

Jiuge said softly.

"Let's go then."

Feng Qingyan looked at the sleeping Helianshan, and took out a few plaques, calligraphy and paintings and other items and placed them on the stone table. Among these plaques, there are upper plaques and large plaques, which are very precious and can help Helianshan travel in the Western Regions...

These things are no longer of much use to him.

It would be better to leave it to Helian Shan.

Feng Qingyan looked at the night sky. The devilish night had already arrived, but it didn’t matter to him.

He walked out of the stone courtyard.

Close the door.

Get on the bullock cart.

Qingmang pulled the ox cart and quickly headed northwest.

After walking for more than a thousand miles, Feng Qingyan suddenly said, "Qingmang, go back to the Peacock Desert."

"Back to the Peacock Desert?"

Qing Mang was a little confused, so he slowed down.

"Ah."

Feng Qingyan Road.

Although Qing Mang was very confused, he still turned around and drove towards the Peacock Desert.

When the ox cart returned to the Peacock Desert.

The sky gradually brightened.

"Keep going."

Feng Qingyan Road.

Feng Qingyan didn't stop until they reached the center of the Peacock Desert.

At this time, Feng Qingyan got off the ox cart, looked around, and came to a high sand dune, saying, "Jiu Ge."

"gentlemen."

At this time, Jiuge came out of the ox cart, holding a black pottery vessel about a foot in size.

Qing Mang was a little confused when he saw this.

Feng Qingyan took the black pottery, stared at it for a while, was silent for a while, then opened the lid and said: "My fellow disciples, your second elder brother will recover the Western Regions and educate the thirty-six nations. I hope you can watch from here and protect him..."

He reached into the black pottery, pulled out a handful of ashes, and slowly released his hand.

The ash drifted away with the wind.

Qing Mang was a little stunned. What, what was going on?
But it didn't dare to ask.

At this moment, Feng Qingyan took out handfuls of ashes from the black pottery, slowly scattered them on the Peacock Desert, and let them float away.

As he was scattering the ashes, the desert wind grew stronger and blew the ashes westward.

It seems to be blown down on both sides of the Peacock River.

At some point, Feng Qingyan had finished scattering the ashes, and then Jiuge took out clothes, books and other items of Liu Ling and others from the ox cart.

"Nine songs build a tomb."

Feng Qingyan said in a deep voice.

"promise."

Jiuge said hurriedly, and immediately used the power of the mountain god to build a tomb in the desert. Although there was yellow sand everywhere, he had compacted the sand until it was as hard as rock.

Feng Qingyan buried the clothes and other belongings of Liu Ling and ten other fellow apprentices.

After a while.

He crossed the Peacock Desert and carved out a huge rock from the snow-capped mountains thousands of miles away, and stood it on the graves of Liu Ling and ten other fellow apprentices.

He wrote:
"In the summer of the 2351st year of the Human King Calendar, a sandstorm suddenly broke out in the Peacock Desert, about to submerge both sides of the Peacock River..."

"Liu Ling, Lu Shuo, Chen Jing, Luo Yi, Yu Chen, Gongsun Dian, Shangguan Heng, Yuchi Yi, Ye Zheng, Ji Su, and Yuan Song, disciples of Zangshan Academy, resolutely braved the sandstorm to save 300,000 people in Xiaowan State..."

"…Finally he was defeated and died…"

"…its meaning can be witnessed by heaven and earth, and explained by the sun and the moon…"

“Crimson can be ground, but its color cannot be taken away; orchid can be burned, but its fragrance cannot be extinguished; jade can be broken, but its whiteness cannot be changed; gold can be melted, but its hardness cannot be changed. Although he dies, his benevolence and righteousness will live forever…”

"A man of ambition never forgets his life in a ditch, and a warrior never forgets his loss."

"… laying out a feast, pouring out the cup, weeping and gazing at the horizon; heaven and earth are sad, the grass and trees are mournful…"

The final signature: Feng Qingyanli.

At this time, Jiuge had already prepared the sacrifice.

However, Qing Mang was stunned. Mr. Liu Ling was dead? Mr. Chen Jing was dead? All ten teachers of Zangshan Academy were dead?
This this……

It was horrified and couldn't believe it, its heart was as if it was filled with thousands of waves. What was going on?

Didn’t they return to Zhou Dynasty?

But the Lord wrote that Liu Ling and ten other gentlemen died while fighting against the Wanli Sandstorm...

This, this?

Qing Mang began to tremble all over.

At that time, didn’t the Lord rescue Liu Ling and ten other gentlemen from the Wanli Sandstorm? Jiuge also treated their injuries and said that they were not seriously injured…

And they are still standing alive...

“Your Majesty, what’s going on? Mr. Liu, Mr. Liu Ling and the others, no, no…”

Qing Mang asked with a trembling voice and stuttering.

But at this moment, Feng Qingyan did not answer, but just stared at the tombstone silently.

Before we knew it, the sun had set.

The afterglow sprinkled on the yellow sand really looked like deep red blood...

"Don't worry, fellow apprentices. Your second brother will definitely recover the Western Regions and educate the thirty-six nations." Feng Qingyan toasted to the tomb, "Unfortunately, your eldest brother is still a step late..."

After saying this, he remained silent.

She just stood there quietly, letting the wind and sand hit her body, lifting her white robe and messing up her long hair.

"I am named Qingyan, and I say: The tomb of benevolence and righteousness is here. Within a radius of thirty miles, horses cannot gallop, birds cannot fly, and people cannot fly across the sky..."

At this moment, a thread-like holy power suddenly burst out from Feng Qingyan's body, fell on the Tomb of Benevolence and Righteousness, and turned the area within a radius of thirty into a forbidden area.

From then on, people could not walk in the air within a radius of thirty miles.

When he finished everything, he walked towards the northwest step by step, and Jiuge and Qingmang followed him silently...

The setting sun stretched their shadows long.

That day.

The sandstorm not only crushed the flesh and blood of Liu Ling and ten other students from Zangshan Academy, but also crushed their souls. Even Feng Qingyan was unable to save their souls and could only watch them dissipate in the yellow sand.

However, when they completely dissipated, only fragments of consciousness remained, and they asked the eldest brother for help.

Don't let Second Brother know they are dead.

If the second brother knew that they were dead, he would be heartbroken and think it was his responsibility, that he was the one who killed them...

This is not Second Brother’s fault.

This is also their own choice.

Feng Qingyan agreed with tears in his eyes, and frantically collected their soul fragments and their flesh and blood fragments, asking Jiuge to quickly reassemble the flesh and blood fragments and integrate the soul fragments into the flesh and blood, so that they could support for one or two days...

So there was the scene where Feng Qingyan rescued Liu Ling and others from the sandstorm.

In fact, they were already dead by then.

However, the fragments of consciousness still support their flesh and blood, making them look no different from humans...

This is why, after returning to the banks of the Peacock River, Feng Qingyan would pull Helian Shan to resist Mo Ye, pull him to the Peacock Sea, and pull him to the Thirty-Six Kingdoms...

Because he couldn't let Helian Chu see it, he could only pull him away.

Under the night.

The banks of the Peacock River are still brightly lit.

Suddenly, an east wind started blowing. Helian Shan stood alone in the yard, watching the ashes falling from the sky...

There was a sudden pain in my heart.

Like a heartache.

He was blaming himself, so why wasn't Feng Qingyan blaming himself as well?

If only he had come a step earlier...

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(End of this chapter)