Confucian Cultivator Under One Person

Just as I was about to say hello, I saw the man and woman, holding hands, and suddenly jumped up, at least seven or eight meters high.

Then, using the cliff face for support, he shot up another five or six meters...

After repeating this several times, he climbed up the cliff more than 20 meters high in a moment and disappeared at the top of the cliff.

Herbalist: “…”

I met a martial arts master!

Chapter 93 Catching up

At night, the sky is dotted with stars and a crescent moon hangs in the southwest.

Fu Yuan took out the seasoning from his bag and sprinkled it on the roasted lamb on the campfire in front of him. The oil kept dripping and exploded into the fire, making a crackling sound.

Chen Duo was still holding the manuscript as usual, but she was much better than before. At least now she could still spare some time to turn the roasted lamb on the campfire from time to time.

As Fu Yuan cut the roasted lamb, he said, "To live a clear and thorough life, the key lies in two points. One of them is to set your goals. It doesn't count if others set them for you. You have to figure it out yourself."

Chen Duo: "Follow you."

"That doesn't count." Fu Yuan said, "Mencius said it well: 'If a country has no laws at home and offends its people, and has no enemies abroad and faces external threats, it will inevitably perish.' This sentence seems to be talking about the country, but isn't it also about people?

For a country, if there are no legalists to formulate rules internally and no wise men to enforce the rules, and if there are no enemies or opponents externally, the country will eventually perish, which is what we often say, "Born in adversity, die in comfort."

The same is true for people. There must be rules, "propriety" and "righteousness" in their hearts. There must also be an opponent or a goal in life... In short, you have to put some pressure on yourself so that you can live better and better.

Otherwise, if you live your life in a muddle, it would be better not to come to this world at all."

Chen Duo looked at Fu Yuan and said, "I want to live, and that's my goal."

Fu Yuan thought for a moment and nodded, "When you're facing a life-or-death crisis, staying alive is naturally your goal, so you were able to escape from the company. Imagine if your goal wasn't to stay alive, would you still run away?"

At this point, Fu Yuan paused, thinking of Chen Duo in the original novel, and laughed dryly, saying, "Well, you have your own rules. At least you didn't kill anyone when you escaped. Otherwise, I can't protect you."

Chen Duo tilted his head and said, "Kill someone? Who? Uncle Liao? Uncle Liao is very good to me."

Fu Yuan smiled and said, "This is the rule in your heart, the 'righteousness' in your heart..."

"boom--"

In the dark jungle, a faint sound was heard, followed by a faint noise. Although the distance was too far to make out clearly, in the originally silent jungle, it could still be accurately determined to be a human voice.

They both looked in the direction of the sound, but all they could see was the pitch-black jungle and nothing.

Chen Duo: "They started fighting."

Fu Yuan said happily, "It's great that someone is taking the risk ahead. Let them fight as they please. We just don't have to worry about it. We just need to follow them tomorrow."

Chen Duo: "It's very strange here. The deeper you go, the stranger it gets."

Fu Yuan smiled and said, "What's so strange about that?"

With his perseverance and cultivation of energy, Chen Duo is now not only able to control the primitive Gu in his body for a long time, but his own thinking and emotions are also gradually improving.

At least, Chen Duo didn’t have such a strong curiosity before, and curiosity is the key to human understanding of the world!

Chen Duo thought for a moment and said, "Insects are very smart."

What he said was incoherent, but Fu Yuan understood it.

When they set up the rest camp, Chen Duo had already set up poison circles around them. Animals might be frightened by the fire and dare not approach, but insects are attracted to light. However, there was not a single insect around the two of them.

To put it simply, the poison circle set up by Chen Duo is Qi, which is colorless and odorless, a kind of energy, not a substance.

Ordinary insects and poisonous insects may have a tiny bit of spirituality and can be repelled by smell, but they are not smart enough to avoid Qi on their own.

In "Journey to the West", Tathagata once said: There are five immortals in the Zhoutian, namely the gods of heaven and earth, humans and ghosts; there are five insects, namely insects, scales, hairs, and feathers.

Perhaps it can also be explained as, within the Zhoutian, all things have "spirits", but among these spirits, some have "gods" and some do not.

This "God" is the innate primordial spirit and the acquired conscious spirit. Those who cultivate the spirit become "immortals", and those who do not cultivate the spirit are all "insects".

Lizards include ordinary people who do not practice spiritual cultivation. Arranged in order of "spirituality", they are lizards, scales, hairs, feathers, and insects.

Chen Duo said, "Insects are very smart." "Smart" means they are very spiritual and are not ordinary insects.

Fu Yuan didn't explain in detail, but simply sighed, "This is all due to the good fortune of this world... It's almost done, let's eat."

The almost inaudible sounds of fighting coming from afar did not disturb the two of them at all.

Chen Duo was on duty in the first half of the night, and Fu Yuan took over in the second half.

Before daybreak, Fu Yuan woke Chen Duo up and said, "They've left."

After tidying up, the two continued to track the past based on some mysterious intuition and some traces along the way.

Around noon, we arrived at the place where the group had camped last night.

The surrounding trees and ground were damaged by some powerful impact, leaving a small area riddled with holes and a hint of blood seeping into the soil.

Fu Yuan tutted and said, "They're still thinking about cleaning up the bodies... Now we don't even know what they were fighting with."

The area was in a mess and there were bloodstains, but there were no bodies. There was no doubt that it had been cleaned up.

As for whether it was buried, burned, or taken away and discarded, no one knows...

Chen Duo picked up a handful of fur from somewhere and handed it to Fu Yuan. The fur was yellow in color, the length of a finger, and felt soft to the touch.

Fu Yuan exhaled and said, "I'm not a zoologist, how can I tell what animal it is from a tuft of hair?"

That being said, if nothing unexpected happens, it should be Monkey Hair, but nothing is absolute.

It is unknown how many years the Twenty-Four Sections Valley has existed, and no one knows how many living creatures there are in the Qinling Mountains. How could a group of monkeys have occupied such a magical place for so many years?

There must be other animals that obtained Qi through the twenty-four sections of the valley, but after obtaining Qi, they were either killed or expelled.

Grandma Jinfeng has been walking on this road, so it must have been cleared. The only thing that would stop a stranger on the road is probably a monkey.

……

The deeper you go, the harder it is to walk. The dense jungle seems to hide endless dangers in the darkness.

Fortunately, someone cleared the way ahead and avoided most of the danger. The people in front continued to fight, while Fu Yuan and the other two followed leisurely. There was no shortage of food in the mountains, so Chen Duo could not hide whether there was poison or not.

Finally, on the third day after going deep into the Qinling Mountains, Fu Yuan and the others saw the target they were fighting.

A monkey stood upright on a tree branch, looking at Fu Yuan and the others from afar.

The monkey's fur was still stained with blood, one of its arms was twisted, and it looked very miserable, but its eyes were filled with the same emotions as a human.

Hatred!

Chen Duo raised her hand and was about to take action, but Fu Yuan held down her wrist and shook his head.

Neither side made any movement, they just stared at each other from above. Fu Yuan tried his best to make his temperament gentle, trying to maintain peace.

However, the monkey stood there, although it did not move, but its eyes became redder and redder, as if filled with blood, and its expression began to become fierce.

Fu Yuan frowned, his expression became serious, and his temperament changed from gentle to majestic.

God is as powerful as hell!

The monkey's expression froze, as if frightened, and his eyes changed from hatred to surprise and suspicion.

"You're a beast, fearing power but not virtue!" Fu Yuan growled, "Get lost!"

"Squeak--" the monkey screamed and hid behind a tree, then ran away with the sound of leaves rustling.

Chen Duo then spoke up, "That monkey is about to turn into a human."

Fu Yuan gestured for Chen Duo to follow him, saying, "If you want to become a human, no matter how strong your spirituality is, it's useless. You must first have a 'god'!"

"Is there a god?"

"With your head in the sky and your feet on the earth, you must follow the laws of heaven and earth and become one with them. Only then can you attain divinity. That's why those monsters in legends who cultivate their Qi always choose to walk upright... Those who lie prone are always beasts!"

Humans are born with God, but they like to lie down and pray to God, while animals are born without God, so when they want God, they have to stand up straight...

The two continued forward and walked for about half a day. They drove away a few monkeys on the way. Finally, after passing through a dense forest, the view in front of them suddenly opened up.

A cliff tens of meters high blocked the way ahead, and a deep canyon came into view. The canyon was very narrow, only three or four meters wide, as if the cliff had cracked, or a path had been split open.

In front of the canyon entrance, a group of people were blocking the way, some of them were injured.

The leading woman smiled and said, "Fu Yuan, we meet again."

Fu Yuan calmly walked out of the dense forest with Chen Duo and said, "Guan Hua, I didn't expect you to have the courage to face me directly?"

Guan Hua laughed: "That sword of yours really made me feel uncomfortable. I couldn't even sleep well... But you can't kill me here."

"Really?" Fu Yuan chuckled, then his expression turned serious, and he shouted with his heart and mouth: "Thunder!"

The sky was clear and there was no unusual sight.

Instead, Fu Yuan's face turned pale, and his surging righteousness was suddenly stuck in his chest, making him feel uncomfortable.

"Hahaha..." Guan Hua laughed and said, "Here, your righteous spirit cannot obey the laws of heaven and earth!"

Fu Yuan grinned, relieved the blockage of his great energy, and stretched out his hand in front of Chen Duo.

Chen Duo understood, untied a long strip of cloth, and placed the hilt of the sword in Fu Yuan's palm.

"bass--"

The sword is unsheathed, and the cold light shines wildly!

Fu Yuan raised his sword and said, "If the laws of heaven and earth don't work, I still have sword skills!"

Guan Hua's smile faded, and he said, "Fu Yuan, don't you want to know why the laws of heaven and earth can't be practiced here?"

"Of course it's because..." Fu Yuan sneered and said, "This world has its own will."

The moment the great righteousness in his body was blocked, Fu Yuan sensed the will of the master of this world. It was this will that prevented Fu Yuan's great righteousness from flourishing, filling the world and following the laws of the world.

In other words, all the "qi" in this valley and this world has an owner.

"But this doesn't affect my killing you!" Fu Yuan raised his sword and stepped forward, with Chen Duo following closely behind him.

People around the painting came forward and blocked the view of the painting.

Across the crowd, Guan Hua asked, "Don't you care about the death of your grandparents?"

Fu Yuan paused and stopped.