the enlightener says

Certainly not enough.

Cao Meng just watched coldly the old man lying in a pool of blood, his body gradually became stiff and cold...

Facing the old man's body, he mocked in the most stable voice: "A person like you, who only has women and power in his eyes, how can he see the whole world clearly? What is Beidi County? What is it? You want to pass power to your own son, there is nothing wrong with that. It’s just that soon I will secretly kill him and marry your only daughter... One day, the whole north, and even the whole world will be under the control of me, Cao Meng. hand, so you can go with peace of mind..."

Thinking about it now, he's still in a daze. Counting it... it's been almost 17 years, right?

Seventeen is a good number.

Now, Canghai's hegemony has just begun, just like a good man who grows up and becomes stronger, the hand holding the knife will become stronger in the future.

"In 17 years, let us drink such a good wine, Brother Ji, what will your son do when he gets married in the future?" Cao Meng laughed while drinking.

"Don't talk about that, don't talk about that." Uncle Ji waved his hand quickly, with a sincere smile on his face, "Dear guests come to the door, our small place can't produce too good things, this jar of wine is the only thing that can catch your eyes What's more, Mr. Liu saved my son's life, it's just a jar of old wine, if you drink it, you drink it, it's nothing."

After Cao Meng listened, he and Guan Changyu looked at each other with a smile, and said: "It seems that this time, we are all thanks to Liu De, if it weren't for him, we still wouldn't be able to drink this jar of wine."

"Thank you, Brother Ji." Liu De smiled gently, and without pedantic rejection, he took a sip from the wine bowl and said, "It's very good, it will be more delicious if you drink it warm."

Qin Ke still sat nervously, straightened his back and said nothing, the anticipation revealed in his eyes was so hot, as if he was waiting for Liu De to mention his master again.

Chapter 6 Nine Recalling the Past

Liu De didn't rush to speak, but slowly drank the cold rice wine in the bowl.

Obviously at the same table, Cao Meng and Guan Changyu were sitting next to them and they were talking constantly, but at this moment, he felt a little more lonely for no reason, like a fallen leaf falling in winter.

In fact, of course he noticed Qin Ke's eyes, but he sighed softly in his heart, only feeling that from the pure eyes of this child, he saw himself in the past.In those years, I also trusted that person, right?

It's just that many good things in this world are always disillusioned.

"Where should I start... I met your master more than ten years ago. At that time, there was no Jing Wu, only the Wu country where the noble clans fought with each other." Liu De gently put down his wine bowl , and finally began to tell about the past, his cold voice seemed to contain complicated emotions, and he stirred the flames in the small yellow clay stove on the table.

The flame swayed gently, like a flower trembling in the cold wind.

"However, it doesn't really matter whether it is Wu State or Jing Wu. The important thing is that I was just kicked out that day. I only had a few old clothes, a worn-out quilt, a few rolls of bamboo slips, and only a few bamboo slips in my arms. With a few pieces of silver left, it’s not even enough to buy a room in the inn.”

"The person who drove me out was Liu Ran, the governor of Dongjun County. He is a distant relative of the same clan as me, but unlike my family, which was still in decline earlier, he has a prominent status. He has three thousand private soldiers under his command, and he is not a small name among the gentry. It's just that he has always had a heart problem, because his son's temperament has been surly since he was a child, but he is only eight years old, but he only likes to lead dogs and slaves to run amok. So I recommended myself to be his son's teacher, teaching His son reads."

"I know that the child is not bad in nature, but just thinks those old Confucians who teach him are boring. So I taught him martial arts and Chinese at the same time, and I really subdued him so that he would not continue It was a disaster for the village. As a result, Liu Ran was naturally overjoyed, not only multiplied my money, but also arranged for me to live alone in a courtyard."

Speaking of this, Liu De laughed at himself, took a sip of wine and said, "According to calculations, it was the best place I lived in when I was young. I wear silk every day, eat delicacies from mountains and seas, and have maids to serve me when it is hot." Rocking fans, and a fire to keep warm when it’s cold.”

Qin Ke didn't speak, because Liu De had already said the ending.Speaking of which, if Liu Ran hadn't kicked Liu De out of the house, Liu De at this moment would not have met his master, let alone go north to the sea, so that he was sitting here talking to himself today.

Liu De glanced at Qin Ke, and continued without too much pause, "It's just that I was restless and only worked as a teacher all my life, and I approached Liu Ran in order to express my ambition. So While I was teaching his son to read, I was also constantly stating my strategy to Liu Ran in various ways."

"At that time, I was still young, and I didn't understand human affairs, let alone how to advance and retreat. I only knew how to write lists and talk about strategies every day, but I didn't notice Liu Ran's increasingly dissatisfied expression with me and those who were gradually thrown away. to the bamboo slips in the corner."

"This has been going on for more than a year, and finally one day..." Liu Bei paused for a moment, and then said, "Finally, Liu Ran couldn't take it anymore, took my bamboo slips, rushed into my room, scolded me, and called the servants Drive me out of the Sheriff's House."

Cao Meng, who was listening on the sidelines, suddenly smiled. He had heard about it, but maybe Liu De didn't know it himself. To a certain extent, Liu De still hasn't changed much in these years. A person who would rather hit the south wall until his head is bleeding.

But he also valued this point of Liu De, not only regarded him as a lifelong bosom friend, but also bestowed high-ranking officials with generous salary and true heart-to-heart trust.

"And then? How did you meet my master?" Qin Ke asked softly.

Liu De glanced at Cao Meng, and then continued to speak steadily: "17 years ago, it was the cold winter of November, and the sky was snowing heavily. There were not many pedestrians on the whole street, and they all stayed at home to keep warm. Only me Standing alone on the street, carrying a quilt, looking around, with almost nowhere to go."

"My hometown is far outside the city, and it would take a lot of time to walk there. Moreover, I was filled with grief and indignation at that time. I just felt that there was no one in the world who could understand my ambition. It would be better to die cleanly. In such a state of mind So I carried a quilt on my shoulders, found a restaurant with broken wine, ordered wine with the last few coins, and got drunk all the time."

"When I woke up in a daze, I saw a beggar-like man with shabby clothes and disheveled hair sitting opposite me, drinking the rest of my wine, laughing like a lunatic .”

"It's my master?" Qin Ke said in disbelief.

"It's your master." Liu De grinned, as if recalling the scene was still interesting, "I found out later that your master was away from home for a long time at that time, and I don't know what he went through. A copper plate, a pair of bare feet, and ragged clothes full of holes, it seems that there is no way to keep out the cold."

"I saw that he was wearing thin clothes and had no shoes on his feet, so I wanted to give him the old clothes I used as a change of clothes, but he didn't want to. He just drank wine and sat there steadily, looking at him in rags. There is no sign of shrinking from the cold."

"I began to feel that there was something wrong with him, but I couldn't tell what was wrong. At this moment, he suddenly spoke, and the first sentence was that he wanted me to worship him as a teacher."

"Ah?" Qin Ke felt more and more ridiculous. You must know that the master he knew on weekdays was never an unsteady person, and he always liked to be clean.What Liu De said about going to drink other people's leftovers in shabby clothes already made him feel a little unbelievable, but the master also said that he would take Liu De as a disciple?

Could it be that... this Liu De in front of him should be regarded as his senior brother to some extent?

However, what Liu De said next made him breathe a sigh of relief, and he put the heart that was about to burst back into his stomach again.

"I thought he was a bit weird at first, but he suddenly said that he wanted me to worship him as a teacher. Of course I refused to agree, so he held his head in frustration, looked at me and said: 'This is not possible, I just need it now. Helper, you are the one I have been looking for for a year to find, if you don't agree, I have to find another one, which is too difficult'."

"It sounded strange to me, but judging from his very organized words and sharp eyes, he shouldn't be a lunatic. But what he said was so incomprehensible, so I asked him, what is it? What kind of helper. But he said that he can't tell me about it, and I can only know after I learn his stuff."

"Just when I felt bored and planned to sleep in another place, he cheered as if he had figured out something, then grabbed my sleeve and refused to let me go. My mood at that time It's not good at all, and I feel even more irritated by being teased by him like this, so naturally I don't want to mess around with him, so I plan to pull off my sleeves and leave."

"Who knew that my sleeves didn't move when I pulled it like this. I was shocked at first, and finally realized that he must be not simple, and I also had a contest in my heart, but even if I pushed my blood to the extreme, I still couldn't." Move half a minute, and even the sleeves are not torn!" Having said this, Liu De's voice suddenly sank.

Qin Ke's heart moved, and he guessed the problem: "What was your cultivation level at that time?"

Liu De looked at Qin Ke, smiled and said, "I'm actually not fast in martial arts, but that year I was faintly about to break through the bottleneck of energy and blood, and I was only one step away from the realm of the little master."

He raised a finger and pointed at Qin Ke: "It's almost the same as your current state."

Qin Ke was slightly distracted: So, at that time, the master's cultivation level could easily restrain a practitioner who was about to reach the level of a small master?

Moreover, Liu De couldn't tear the sleeves of an old dress under the condition that Liu De used all his energy and blood to pull it. Maybe even a little grandmaster couldn't do this kind of thing, right?

Liu De said that this happened 17 years ago. It is estimated that the master at that time was leaving home for the second time.

Could it be that he already had the cultivation level of a master at that time?

Chapter 6 The Wonderful Method of Sunda Wind

Qin Ke once made an estimate based on the time Zhuge Wanling said. The master left home twice, the first time when he was 17 years old, and the second time when he left home almost six years later, he was only 23 years old.

A 23-year-old practitioner in the realm of a master?This sounds really unbelievable.

He heard from Abu that even Gao Changgong, a genius in practice, found the way to enter the realm of a master at the age of 30, and it took another three years to succeed.

What happened to Master in those years?

Liu De calmly said: "Indeed, in my opinion, there is no other person in the world who can achieve such a state at his age. And looking at the annals of history, there is no other person like him in the world. Few. One can imagine how surprised I was at that time, but it turned out afterwards that this was just the beginning. There were too many things about him that I could not understand. He seemed to be wrapped in one mystery after another. living monster."

Liu De said softly, his eyes were a bit blurred while smelling the scent of rice wine, it seems that because of the slight drunkenness, he returned to that time, Zhuge Wolong's dirty but energetic face once again reappeared in front of him.

In fact, the tables, chairs, jars and bowls in front of me are very similar to that day?

In that restaurant, he and Zhuge Wolong were staging a stalemate, although in the eyes of others, it looked like a pair of children arguing.

"Let go!" Liu De said three times in a row, but his heart became more and more horrified by Zhuge Wolong's ability. If he wanted to defeat him, at least he had to be a master at the level of a small master, but even a master at the level of a small master had to do It is not an easy task to grab his sleeve like this without any damage to the sleeve.

But at this moment, the drunkenness surged up, and his still flushed face showed great anger. As he pumped all the blood in his body again, with a sudden tug, he finally broke free from Zhuge Wolong's grasp.

It's just that this kind of struggle is also because Zhuge Wolong let go of his pure and slender palm at a critical moment.

Liu De turned around and stared straight at Zhuge Wolong, "Who the hell are you? With your cultivation, no matter what you do, you won't be reduced to a beggar. Could it be that you are here to tease me?"

"Tricking you?" Zhuge Wolong rolled his eyes, and sat back at the table like a vigorous monkey, poured out the wine from the half-left wine jar, shrugged and said, "I'm teasing you!" You don't have to dress like this specially, and we didn't have any enmity before, so it's meaningless to tease you. But then again, with your current clothes and this wine... how much better can you be than me?"

Hearing these words, Liu De subconsciously lowered his head and looked at his clothes. Yes, is he really much better than Zhuge Wolong now?Since Liu Ran kicked him out of the house and took back all the noble services he had received before, he, like Zhuge Wolong, is nothing more than a fallen man at the end of the world.

Thinking of this, he also felt a little melancholy, and he was not so repulsed by Zhuge Wolong's actions.

Maybe, the person in front of him has his own ambitions just like himself, so he doesn't want to bend his waist for five buckets of rice, so he can only hang out in such a place?

"Who are you?" Liu De hesitated for a moment, and finally sat down, facing Zhuge Wolong, but this time his question obviously no longer had the meaning of provoking a teacher.

"Zhuge Wolong." Zhuge Wolong replied very straightforwardly, "You should have heard of the Zhuge family in Nanyang County, right? Although my family is not a noble family, it is also considered a scholarly family. There was an emperor teacher in our ancestors."

"Zhuge's family in Nanyang County?" Liu De was taken aback, his eyes looked up and down at Zhuge Wolong, "I remember that Zhuge's family in Nanyang is well-off, with thousands of acres of fertile land, and it can be considered a rich family. Why do you..."

"I look so poor and miserable, don't I?" Zhuge Wolong looked at Liu De's unspeakable expression, and simply asked him to complete the last sentence, "I can't help it, I have been away from home for half a year. They are extravagant, even if there are gold and silver mountains, they should be used up. Although I want to go to Liu Ran to borrow some money for emergency, but considering how I am now, no one will believe that I am the young master of the Zhuge family in Nanyang Bar……"

Liu De nodded slightly. If it were him, it would be hard to believe that the ragged man in front of him was actually the heir of the wealthy family in Nanyang County, or he was actually listening to a lunatic talking nonsense right now?

"Then why don't you go home?" Thinking of Zhuge Wolong's terrifying cultivation, Liu De felt that this person was not really talking nonsense, at least it would be as difficult as heaven for ordinary people to raise such a master , "It's only a month's journey from here to Nanyang County. If you have a fast horse, you can get there in ten days. Why should you belittle yourself here?"

"That's impossible." Zhuge Wolong shook his head and said: "I can't go back now, if I go back like this, my father will have to tie me up for the rest of my life and never let me leave the house."

With your current cultivation level, is there anyone who can restrain you?

Liu De slandered in his heart, but thinking that he might not be able to violate filial piety and do some outrageous things in front of his father, he also understood Zhuge Wolong's mood.

"Let's talk about taking back apprentices." Zhuge Wolong showed his childish and innocent look again, "I thought of a way, otherwise... you and I don't call each other master and apprentice, we... we can make friends My friend, how about I teach you something and you do something for me?"

Liu De frowned. He didn't understand why Zhuge Wolong was so obsessed with accepting apprentices. Although he really had the qualifications to be a master with the powerful strength he just showed, but this is not a joke. "I see that you have wonderful bones, you are unique in ten thousand, why don't you worship me as your teacher"?

"What do you want to teach me?" Liu De asked softly.

Zhuge Wolong smiled mysteriously, and was not in a hurry to explain, but slowly lifted his wine bowl and brought it to Liu De.

Although his appearance was so tattered and there was a lot of dirt on his cheeks, his hands were so white, under the dim candlelight, they were as warm as jade.

"What do you mean?" Liu De was a little confused, but soon, he showed a look of shock.

I don't know when it started, there is a weak airflow slowly gathering, the tightly closed door opened a corner at some point, and a snake-like wind came in from the outside, it was light, and it made people feel at ease. You can't feel its existence, and you don't even need people to pay attention to it. It will slowly dissipate by itself.

But when it was inspired and gathered on that jade-like white hand, it drove the wine in the wine bowl to spin crazily!

In fact, there was less than half a bowl of wine left in the wine bowl, but the wind was firmly controlled in the wine bowl, so that the rice wine liquid stuck to the inner wall of the wine bowl and could not fall down.

In fact, this kind of thing can be done by practitioners who practice spirituality. With Zhuge Wolong's cultivation base, it is not uncommon to be able to do this. But when Liu De stretched out his hand to cover the top of the wine bowl, he almost felt it. Zhuge Wolong is not using spiritual power to control the rotation of the wine.

There is a wind in the wine bowl, like a living thing, it is cheering happily!

Although there are tens of thousands of ways to control external objects with spiritual cultivation, there has never been one that can make the wind run so obediently, because the wind is erratic, agile, and free from any constraints. Once it is forcibly restrained by the spirit, it will only dissipate in an instant, and the situation like this will never happen.

Before Liu De could understand the reason, in the blink of an eye, the wine bowl burst open, and an invisible force cut it into hundreds of pieces like a sharp knife, and they fell onto the table one after another.

Liu De was taken aback, but the wine was still spinning in Zhuge Wolong's palm, lifted by the wind, as if it would never fall.

Chapter 611 People may have two sides?

"Xun Yi exercise power, the wind comes from the heart." Zhuge Wolong's hand shook lightly, and the wine in the bowl seemed to be greeted, jumped out of an arc, and fell into another wine bowl in front of Liu De Li, "This is an innate skill, and what drives him is not spirit, nor blood."

"What's that?" It was also the first time Liu De saw such a technique, and he felt somewhat solemn in his heart.

"It's qualifications." Zhuge Wolong smiled slightly, "Only qualified people can make them obey. Although there are some spiritual practitioners in this world who can reach the peak, cut off the flow of water, and overturn the mountain, it is not impossible, but if you want to Let the water flow according to your own mind, let the mountains collapse according to your own mind, but you must have the qualifications to let them obey, this is the difference between nature and nurture.”

Liu De was a little confused.

Zhuge Wolong looked at the dazed Liu De, grinned and added, "I can teach you."

Liu De frowned and looked at Zhuge Wolong: "Why? You should be able to tell that what I practice is qi and blood. Such mysterious and mysterious things are not my strong point."

"It seems that you still don't understand." Zhuge Wolong laughed loudly, and stood up straight on the ground with his bare feet. At this moment, Liu De realized that Zhuge Wolong was taller than him, and he could even be said to be very tall.

There was not much wine in the wine jar, but it was still possible to pour out a shallow bowl. Zhuge Wolong divided it up, which happened to be half a bowl for each person, and then raised his own bowl: "After drinking this bowl of wine, we are regarded as Friends, I will teach you how to get your own qualifications, how about you help me?"

Even today's Liu De thinks back on that day, but he is actually a little puzzled. He doesn't know why he agreed to Zhuge Wolong so easily at that time. Maybe it was because his face was dirty, but his smile was extremely clean, like a man who was born in the world. Undeep big kid?

In the following days, Liu De finally began to practice innate magic with Zhuge Wolong.

In fact, what Liu De said to Qin Ke about the Xunfeng technique was just a deceptive rhetoric. What he really learned was the Kun method. Self-extrication, and under the good guidance of Zhuge Wolong, it only took him three months to get started with this spell.

It was also during these three months that he got to know Guan Changyu and Zhang Yi, and even got to know another helper Zhuge Wolong had found.

That person is Zhao Ziyun.

The fire was slightly blown by the wind, Qin Ke heard this quietly, and asked with some doubts: "Who is Zhao Ziyun? Why do I seem to have never heard of it?"

In Qin Ke's mind, Liu De, Guan Changyu, and Zhang Yi are all well-known figures in the Canghai Kingdom. Since this is the case, this Zhao Ziyun should not be unknown. It's just that he has never heard of this name in these years. Could it be possible? This person did not go out to serve as an official, but went back to the mountains and forests?

For some reason, Guan Changyu, who was drinking at a table, choked on the wine and coughed.

Liu De glanced at Guan Changyu, knowing that he was worried about him, stretched out a hand and patted him on the shoulder, indicating that he was fine, and said to Qin Ke: "Of course you have never heard of Zhao Ziyun, but he was For a true young genius, until now, the only person who can compare with him is probably the general of Jing Wu, but even Gao Changgong, I am afraid that he will not be able to step into the realm of a master at the age of 22."

Liu De's expression became a little sad, and he continued: "The reason why few people know his name is because he died more than ten years ago..."

"Ah?" Qin Ke screamed uncontrollably, "What's going on?"

Perhaps it was because the mention of this matter made Liu De feel too heavy. He took a deep breath, drank half a bowl of rice wine, and said in a sad tone: "He died in the north, in that full It is the extreme northern land of ferocious beasts...and the person who killed him...is your master, Zhuge Wolong."

Almost subconsciously, Qin Ke immediately retorted: "Impossible, my master can't kill someone!"

In his eyes, his master will always be the gentle gentleman who sits in the yard, likes sunshine, likes to tinker with flowers and plants, knows everything about the problems of everyone in the village, and talks endlessly.

How could such a person kill his best friend with his own hands?

"Is it impossible?" Liu De slowly closed his eyes, and tapped his fingers on the table lightly, as if he was also thinking about this problem, "Actually, sometimes, I also think it's impossible, if possible, I really Hope I'm wrong."

But when Liu De opened his eyes again, there was only firmness in his eyes: "But the fact is, I was not mistaken, Ziyun died at his hands, and he himself never denied it. Since that day At the beginning, I finally understood that to Zhuge Wolong, all of us are just a tool for him to achieve his goal."

Qin Ke's face was slightly pale, looking at the serious expression on Liu De's face, he was convinced that Liu De was not lying.