Chapter 2564: Jade for Me

"This is a doomed path."

"Because the gods are already behind history. Chivalry often goes against the law."

"And the law is the cornerstone of the national system, the national system being the main system of contemporary humanity, the foundation of the era, the core of the human way."

"Seemingly two roads to heaven intersect on the ground, in reality neither is stable."

"The further you walk, the more you realize there's no way."

"He has long borne the name of chivalry, his heroic spirit guards the way, his righteousness saves the world, this road he walks is vigorous and booming, yet there is no road ahead!"

In the noisy tavern, wine guests were talking loudly and widely. When they got excited, they inevitably turned red-faced and red-eared, and saliva flew everywhere.

These wine guests were not ordinary either. There were scholars from Qingya Academy, medical cultivators from Dongwang Valley, monks from Xuankong Temple... all gathered at one table.

After Zhenhe True Monarch seized his name with three bells, many taverns sprang up overnight throughout the land. Places like Baiwang Jing, Baimaster Jing, and Baiyu Jing... were all doing booming business.

The Baiyu Jing tavern located in Xingyue Plain was even more crowded with guests, making Shopkeeper Bai smile all day long.

Many people would queue for several days just to get into the store to taste the flavor. The entire Tianfeng Valley thus became very prosperous.

This year, few commoners traveled far; most travelers were cultivators. And cultivators, inevitably, discussed matters of cultivation.

In such a large Baiyu Jing tavern, people discussing the dao all day long was indeed an interesting thing.

It was not easy to go to Chaowen Dao Heavenly Palace, but they could come to Xingyue Plain, right? And there was no one named Ju Kui here setting up examination illusions!

"What are they talking about?"

Jiang Anan was helping to deliver dishes in the tavern. Occasionally, she heard a few sentences and asked casually.

"Gu Shiyi," Lian Yuchan replied without turning her head.

"Them combined might not even beat me, yet they're evaluating world heroes!" Jiang Anan pouted.

Though she said so, she still listened seriously for a few moments.

"But what they say actually makes sense, it sounds like that matter," the female chivalry, Jiang Anan, said objectively.

As the younger sister of the Fenglin Five Chivalry, she had called herself "Jiang Xiaoxia" since childhood. Now, the person she admired most was Gu Shiyi. The first, of course, was always her own brother.

Her elder brother taught her not to deceive herself.

Although she was dissatisfied with "young people discussing heroes," she couldn't stubbornly say that everything these wine guests said was nonsense.

"Because these are the original words of the Great High Priest of Shenmian, Tu Hu, said during his dao discussion with Headmaster Ji Zuo of Penglai at Guanhe Terrace last time." Lian Yuchan turned back and glanced at her. "You really only care about your brother's matters and nothing else."

Jiang Anan was not convinced. "But the matters I care about are also great matters of the world."

Lian Yuchan couldn't refute and only said, "Hurry up and deliver the dishes, there's a sword technique class waiting."

Bai Yuxia smiled and looked over, not saying he would help anyone. When someone looked at him, he would start flicking his abacus, appearing very busy and unable to attend to other matters.

"Shopkeeper, someone sent three jars of wine. They said it's for our owner." A waiter stepped into the store carrying three jars of wine.

"What kind of place is this? The number one tavern in the world! If the owner is a wine lover, does he still need others to send wine? It'll be a laughingstock!" Shopkeeper Bai first criticized fiercely, then sniffed slightly, sensing the wine from the air for a moment. A look of surprise appeared on his face.

Although he didn't sell particularly good wine, he himself was indeed a wine tasting expert. These three jars were truly rare good wine.

To be honest, they were not inferior to the Baiyu Jing tavern's prized "Zhengdao Wine"—of course, the premise of fair comparison was that these three jars of wine also needed to be mixed with some water.

After sniffing, Shopkeeper Bai asked, "Who sent it?"

"A very beautiful woman holding a jade flute."

"Is she still here?"

"She left!"

"Did she leave any message?"

"She only said it was for the owner, not a single other word."

"What wine is it?"

"They said it's called... Human World Right Way."

Bai Yuxia's hand pressing the abacus subconsciously moved away. "No wonder it's a bit bitter!"

The waiter held the jars. "Then this wine..."

"Give it to me, give it to me!" Jiang Anan came over as soon as she heard the sound. "Wine sent to my brother, I'll take it up to him!"

As she spoke, she beckoned with her hand, and the three jars of wine lined up behind her and followed her upstairs, thumping along.

Another half shift passed, truly leisurely and happy.

Jiang Anan's own brother... was naturally cultivating.

The all-beings monk from the underworld, now stationed at the Baiyu Jing tavern, was the Immortal Dragon Dharma Image—

Since Tianhai was destroyed, it was currently being rebuilt. It indeed required more effort compared to other Dharma bodies, as it had been delayed from the start.

Jiang Anan knew how her elder brother cultivated. When she went upstairs, she didn't forget to manipulate techniques—she was sleepy when reading, lazy when working, but very serious when cultivating—When she reached upstairs, she was surprised to see her elder brother not cultivating, but sitting there writing a letter.

She led the three wine jars in. "Brother, someone sent you wine!"

Her eyes glanced towards the letter paper.

The Immortal Dragon Dharma Image simply pushed the letter paper forward, letting her look at it herself.

This letter was written to Zuo Guangshu, and the content was simple—

"You and Shunhua travel the world, enjoying yourselves quite a bit. Tell me which places are fun to play, which are truly magnificent, and which famous sites only have a reputation, one by one. Your brother will be going out soon and cannot delay."

Still urging!

Jiang Anan felt a bit embarrassed at once. "Ah, I still have many lessons to finish. The articles from the previous period are also backlog and haven't been written..."

The Immortal Dragon glanced at her, then threw the letter paper into the Taixu Hook Jade. "No hurry, you attend your classes well. Articles are a matter of thousands of years, write them slowly. Your sister Qingyu and I will go by ourselves."

Jiang Anan was still waiting to grit her teeth here.

On the other side, the Immortal Dragon said indifferently, "To spare her from seeing things and thinking of people, take her to four places to turn around."

Jiang Anan suddenly lost her calculations and forced a smile. "Okay!"

She herself actually had such an idea. Working at the inn these days was to save money, only fearing that she couldn't coax her sister to be happy. But to instigate her elder brother to go out and play, she was afraid of delaying his cultivation. It was best if her wooden brother could enlighten himself.

She sat down beside the desk and turned to chat about other things. "I just heard them downstairs discussing Gu Shiyi, the great chivalry. They said he was unwise and didn't know how to leave a useful body. Ah, hateful. How can swallows and sparrows know orioles!"

When Gu Shiyi sought benevolence in the East Sea, she also gifted Ming with Zhao Xue Jing Hong. It was a little chivalry respecting a big chivalry from afar.

The ambition of a Kunpeng is not enough to form a righteous god, but an oriole and phoenix are just right.

The Immortal Dragon's eyes were quiet and waveless. "Such onlookers are not rare."

"Discussing heroes after drinking wine, these are world heroes, only now. Idle men discuss heroes, ancient and modern heroes, it's hard to bear a single word."

"People now can know the matters before and after, dissecting the cause and effect completely, inevitably feeling that the former people were just so. Looking down from the stage, the vast blackness is not true, often only a few sharp voices are heard. Looking up from the stage, as long as they are losers, they are all clowns."

He hung the brush on the brush holder. "Onlookers discussing the parties, this is a common matter, no need to mind."

There was a moment of quiet in the room.

Turning back, he found Jiang Anan staring at him blankly, and couldn't help but ask, "What's wrong?"

"Brother," Jiang Anan said, "the way you spoke just now, it felt a bit like old mister Yan!"

The old scholar from Shushan, Yan Sheng, later also passed by the Baiyu Jing tavern and lectured Jiang Anan and Chu Yao a chapter of "Ancient Yi Now Search."

Jiang Anan and Chu Yao's cultivation conditions were not inferior to those from the homes of kings and marquises. Compared to Jiang Wang back then, there was a direct world of difference. Understanding that today's conditions did not come easily, they also knew to cherish them. It was just that reading and writing were really tormenting and not suited to her nature. Every time she studied, she would grin her teeth and remember as much as she could. Practicing techniques and wielding swords were indeed more interesting.

What she liked was being free and unrestrained. When she was a child and listened to Brother Wild Tiger and the others tell stories of chivalry, she would listen with her little fists clenched. The kind of chivalry in the world like Gu Shiyi, drinking wine and singing, was the wish she wrote in her letters to her elder brother every time, calling herself Jiang Xiaoxia.

She felt her elder brother was like Yan Sheng, of course not feeling that her elder brother was old, but also feeling that kind of master demeanor like Yan Sheng in her elder brother's body. Invincible in the world, nothing impossible, but always an intimate and reliable brother, suddenly seemed like he was from another generation, which made her a little uneasy.

"To be like old Yan, I must take a ruler and tell you to remember to review your books!" The Immortal Dragon smiled and asked again, "Who sent the wine?"

Jiang Anan quickly pinched a dao technique, and with a flick of her hand in front of her elder brother—

The dialogue between the waiter and Shopkeeper Bai then reappeared in front of her elder brother.

This "See Hear Re-mirror," although not considered a powerful dao technique, was quite simple to use, but the threshold was within the technique itself. The clearer, more specific, and more vivid the mirroring, the more it tested the cultivation of the dao technique.

The mirror surface was just an exam paper, but Jiang Wang had no intention of scoring her this time.

The person who sent the wine was Zhao Zi, and the person who had sent the wine was Gu Shiyi.

Speaking of the wine's name "Human World Right Way," it was he, Jiang, who had named it. The original name of this wine was "Cang Sang."

Today, of course, everyone already knew that Gu Shiyi was not a god-chivalry and did not join the Equality Country. But he obviously had some contact with the Equality Country, at least being familiar with some high-level figures within the Equality Country.

Otherwise, Zhao Zi would not have come to send these three jars of wine.

The time Gu Shiyi delivered these three jars of wine could only have been before he went to the East Sea.

This undoubtedly verified once again that Gu Shiyi's initial journey to the East Sea was only to seek benevolence. He sought benevolence and attained benevolence.

"Brother, who sent you wine?" Jiang Anan asked.

Jiang Wang sighed. "An old friend."

He and Gu Shiyi were only casual acquaintances!

But Gu Shiyi valued him so much.

First, there was the aid during the encounter with Wei Hai of the Equality Country, then there was the gift of the "Feng Hou Eight Arrays Map" during the Wine Country incident.

Now there were these three jars of "Human World Right Way" carrying heavy expectations!

He didn't know where this value came from, how this trust originated. Sometimes, between people, perhaps there is no need for too many reasons. He just deeply felt the weight of these three jars of wine. It was as if he saw that heroic figure putting down the wine jar, waving his hand, and walking away with big strides.

But the path of "Righteous God" was not what he sought.

He proved the dao by occupying the absolute ruling force of the Cave True Invincible. In just one autumn, he chose to climb the most difficult peak. He was to become the strongest self.

Righteous God was not that path.

Not the "strongest," nor the "self."

Heaven Human, Righteous God, World Honored, none of them were Jiang Wang.

Jiang Anan blinked, sensing her elder brother's emotions, and probably guessed that this old friend was already "old."

The three jars of wine lined up and walked to the desk, not shaking at all.

Jiang Wang reached out and gently stroked a wine jar, suddenly calling out, "Chu Yao!"

Chu Yao, who was reviewing books in the next room, quickly ran over.

His aptitude for reading was not outstanding, but he was steady and diligent. He never slacked off on the arranged lessons and even added practice himself—of course, if his master actively told him to rest, he was not a rigid person.

"Jiang Anan, what is your ambition?" Jiang Wang asked, raising his eyes.

Jiang Anan blurted out, "I want to be a great chivalry!"

She raised her long sword again and held it upright in front of her, with a bit of playfulness and a bit of seriousness. "My name is Jiang Anan, and I will protect the peace of one side!"

Saying that, she glanced at Chu Yao.

Chu Yao immediately followed, "My name is Chu Yao... I will subjugate demons and eliminate monsters!"

Jiang Wang sat in front of the desk, suddenly patted the wine jar as if striking a drum, and said in a long voice, "There are many injustices in the human world, a horizontal stroke in hand is in vain!"

After reciting, he sighed. "Gu Shiyi died, and chivalry is abundant in the world!"

"Because the crown on Tianma Plain and the divine glory on the East Sea have already made everyone understand what the end of a wandering chivalry is."

"Since the road has already appeared, there will naturally be countless people walking on it."

"Of course, many people are not for 'righteousness,' but also for Righteous God."

"But the sage said, 'Gentlemen discuss traces, not hearts'."

"Doing righteous deeds is being a righteous person!"

"Righteousness and profit are consistent, then there is a great trend, then one sees chivalry in the world. This is what Gu Shiyi sought."

He looked at Jiang Anan and Chu Yao, finally saying, "Reading ten thousand volumes of books is not as good as walking ten thousand li of road. You two have already grown up and should establish your own ambitions and understand your life ideals. Thinking behind closed doors is not enough. The road is under your feet."

"You two, starting from the Baiyu Jing tavern, one goes north, one goes south, measuring ten thousand li with your feet, encountering injustice, crying out with your swords. One from Mu to Jing, then Li, Qin, Qiao, Chu, and one from Chu, Liang, Qi, Zheng, then Jing, Mu, and so on, returning to the Baiyu Jing tavern, completing two circles of the divine land."

Jiang Anan's face showed joy. She had been too well protected these years, or in other words, too tightly constrained. Even when she traveled occasionally, there were always many people watching. This was the first time her elder brother allowed her to be a solo sword chivalry, stepping into the world by herself! She had also learned a body of skills.

"Understood!" She seemingly modeled herself after someone rushing towards her elder brother and cupped her hands, then flew out of the window, saying in a clear voice, "This great world of wind and clouds, this vast world, Jiang Anan is coming!!!"

As for Lian Yuchan's plan to teach her a sword technique class, she naturally slipped away.

Chu Yao then said "Yes" and properly kowtowed to his master to say goodbye, then went back to his room to pack. When going out, it was not like being at home. Everything had to be considered carefully. Preparation prevented trouble.

The master had him and little master aunt walk in opposite directions, each completing a circle of the divine land. This also had a test meaning. He had been a disciple of the master for so many years, and it was time to let the master know what he had learned.

"Are you planning to let them walk the path of Righteous God?"

After Jiang Anan and Chu Yao had both left, Shopkeeper Bai stood at the door, with his arms crossed, and asked quietly.

Jiang Wang shook his head. "Righteous God must rise from the common people, be tempered in hardship, shoulder the world, bear a hundred sorrows, and have a vast heart! The two of them do not have the qualifications of Righteous God, but they can assist in chivalry and righteousness. Let them walk this journey then, and also let them know what a ten thousand li journey is and what the vast human world is."

Bai Yuxia thus understood. This was simply using his own influence to promote "Righteous God"—Zhenhe True Monarch's sister and Zhenhe True Monarch's disciple were both coming to embrace chivalry. How could this path of chivalry not be good?

In the future, if a hero emerges who can bear the name of Righteous God, not only will the Original Heaven God protect him, but also Zhenhe True Monarch, who seized his name with three bells, will support him. Although the latter's strength is not as great as the former's, his reputation is far superior, and his influence is far heavier.

Of course, exercising Jiang Anan and Chu Yao's abilities and cultivating their character were also purposes.

"We must secretly follow," Bai Yuxia said, turning around. "You manage the tavern yourself."

"Nonsense!" Jiang Wang said seriously. "If you secretly follow, where is the meaning of experience?"

Bai Yuxia pouted. "Initially, if you hadn't come to Jian Ge, I don't know how long I would have hung in Qian—experience is experience, care is care. Don't think your name can wipe away all the dangers on the road. Moreover, you are still letting them perform chivalry all the way and cry out with their swords against injustice... In the world, one side is always flat, and the other is not. When there is resentment in the heart, blood is inevitably seen; personal interests outweigh life. People who kill with red eyes, can you manage which river?"

Jiang Wang said quietly, "I have placed Red Heart Seals deep in their divine souls."

Bai Yuxia then let out a 'ha' sound and didn't say anything else, going downstairs himself.

In the room, only Jiang Wang was left.

And those three jars of wine.

The wine was still that wine, the person was still that person, but the opposite side of the wine table... was empty.

Jiang Wang picked up one of the jars, patted open the mud seal, held the jar in one hand, tilted his head, and drank it all in one gulp like a whale, pressing the empty wine jar on the table. "You gifted me with fine wine, now I drink alone."

He sighed again. "You gifted me with fine jade, I don't know how to repay!"

You, Gu Shiyi, died, truly seeking nothing.

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