Chapter 627: A Gentleman Carves Jade

Li Qi used a lie to stun all the fifth-rank soldiers who followed the army.

Others didn't know how to refute it. After all, they had never come into contact with the third-rank soldiers. The power of the third-rank soldiers was something that these people had never seen before and could not understand.

All their knowledge could only support them to recognize: "It's so mysterious, it should be the third-rank soldiers. Anyway, the fifth-rank soldiers definitely can't simulate it."

It was this kind of half-understanding that made these fifth-rank soldiers fooled by Li Qi. They could only bow their heads in front of the power of the third-rank soldiers and finally give in.

Because Li Qi seemed very confident, they had no way to refute it, so they could only admit it.

So, Li Qi left the crowd and shuttled forward quickly.

Without the support of the army, he could move forward lightly alone, and the speed was indeed much faster. Maybe... he could really arrive alone.

At this time, the balancer, the son of destiny shared by the two sixth-rank worlds, the fifth-rank soldiers created by the combination of yin and yang, looked in the direction of Li Qi.

All the fifth-rank soldiers present seemed to have been deceived, and it seemed that only he could see it.

The commander was lying.

Li Qi had no way to prove it, and he couldn't find any evidence to support his actions, so he simply chose to lie and deceive everyone, just to make others give way to him, and the third-grade statement was false.

The Balancer discovered this, but he didn't expose it. Instead, he was "cheated" like other fifth-grade people, and let Li Qi go out.

He looked around, watching the others worried, and he also frowned and worried.

However, he knew in his heart that there were probably a few of these fifth-grade people who were the same as him, right?

They all knew that Li Qi was lying, but they took the initiative to be deceived.

Why?

I don't know, maybe everyone knows it?

The commander himself knows it, right? After all, he looked at himself before he left.

After looking around, the Balancer began to concentrate on his journey.

It's useless to consider these things, they have other things to do.

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On the other side, when Li Qi was traveling alone, Liu Junyi was in seclusion.

That's right, Li Qi's guess was correct.

Half a year ago, Liu Junyi delegated all power to the staff, and the decision was made by the staff, while he himself began to practice in seclusion, and tried his best to break through the fifth rank.

However, the progress was not smooth.

Logically speaking, it should be a natural thing for him to break through, but the timing was wrong, which might affect his future path.

But now, he can't care so much.

However, at this moment, he felt more and more confused.

The more intense the war outside, the more confused his heart became. Once his heart was confused, his cultivation was scattered, and it was difficult to break through. He had to spend a lot of time to gather his mind.

Especially one day ago, Wu Dao suddenly launched an attack.

Although Liu Junyi was in seclusion, he was also paying attention to the situation outside and reacting anytime and anywhere, so he noticed Li Qi's intention as soon as the front line failed, and he even guessed it at that time.

Li Qi is the fifth rank.

So, Liu Junyi made a bold decision.

He continued to shrink the defense line, and then sent all the combat power to the front line.

At this time, there was only Liu Junyi in Gansong City, and all the fighting forces had gone to the front line.

He practiced alone in this empty nest, and all this was done by his order.

The staff group firmly disagreed at the time, but Liu Junyi, in the name of the Right Wuwei General, intimidated the staff group and forced them to give in, so that he could stay in the city alone.

It was exactly the same as Li Qi.

In this case, there would be two endings.

The first one was that Li Qi was unwilling to come alone. According to Liu Junyi's calculations, Wu Dao would definitely not be able to hold on, but he had sent out all the garrison forces of Gansong City.

The large-scale attack of Wu Dao could not last on the war fortress at all. Li Qi would die outside before he arrived. This was absolutely true and there would be no mistake.

Sending all the garrison forces of Gansong over was a risky move, and the effect was very good. With the local garrison forces of Gansong, the Wu Dao on the front line could only hold on for two days at most, and then they had to retreat, otherwise there would be worries about civil strife.

If we don't do this and continue to let these elites stay in Gansong, the front line outside will be easy to lose.

If the front line cannot be defended, Gansong will be more dangerous. It is better for everyone to go to the front line to delay the army and force Li Qi to go deep alone to confront him.

If Li Qi chooses to go deep, the speed at which Li Qi leaves the front line is definitely not enough. All the defense forces of Gansong City are very scary. As long as the space distance is exchanged for time, and Li Qi is forced to leave the battlefield and cannot participate in the war, the victory of the front line is a foregone conclusion.

This is the first consideration.

The second is that Li Qi is willing to leave the army alone and rush to Liu Junyi alone. As long as Li Qi can sense that the speed of the army is definitely not enough, with Li Qi's character, he will definitely come alone.

After forcing Li Qi to move forward alone, at this time, Liu Junyi began to force himself.

When Li Qi arrives, if Liu Junyi cannot break through the fifth rank and is strong enough to fight Li Qi, then he loses.

Liu Junyi knew it was risky, but...

Let's take the risk. After half a year of seclusion, he knew that even if he concentrated on seclusion, he would not be able to succeed in promotion.

A gentleman works hard, so he can't put aside the outside affairs and seclude himself.

So, it’s better to be like this.

Let's have a duel.

There is no winner in the battlefield outside, and now the victory falls dramatically on the shoulders of two people.

Li Qi, who was alone and aggressive, and Liu Junyi, who pushed himself to the cliff.

A battle between two people can actually determine the outcome of the entire war zone.

This is really...

What a coincidence.

The operations of both sides are basically evenly matched, and the forces controlled by both sides are almost equal. To be honest, the combat power of Humanity and Witchcraft in this war zone is basically the same.

No one made a mistake, and both parties' operations were to the extreme. You came and I went back and forth, and even the conspiracy was not used.

For them, conspiracy is meaningless, and it is impossible to win by surprise. They can only conspire and defeat the opponent with strategic planning.

Therefore, after a series of scheming confrontations, the result was...a draw.

In the case of a tie, the last bit of weight can only be given by the commanders of both sides.

That is Liu Junyi and Li Qi.

Liu Junyi, who could defeat three Li Qi in the past, is now at level six, while Li Qi is at level five.

Therefore, what Liu Junyi faces now is a very extreme choice.

In the short time it took Li Qi to arrive, he was promoted to the fifth rank.

Or... if Li Qi meets him, he will be shot to death.

Liu Junyi absolutely believed that Li Qi would never waste a word with him. In the current moment of justice, reminiscing about the past was just condoning his rivals. The first thing he did when he arrived was to kill Liu Junyi and then tear Gan Song apart.

Liu Junyi and Li Qi knew each other very well about these things.

All the calculations have been exhausted, and the available strategies have been tried. All that is left is the most primitive and least technical hand-to-hand combat.

Who would have thought that in the end of the battle between the two armies, the two commanders would personally go into battle and box with their arms to decide the outcome?

It's funny, but...

Liu Junyi also realized that maybe this could be regarded as an opportunity?

right?

Thinking this way, his irritable heart calmed down.

"The righteousness of a gentleman is that he cannot avoid difficult things and cannot follow easy things. Only righteousness lies in it. He works every day, reflects on himself in the evening, and dies, which can be said to be keeping his career."

Liu Junyi whispered the words of sages.

It is only for the sake of righteousness that if you die, you can also be said to be keeping your career.

Isn’t this what we are talking about now?

But, are you a little timid?

In the past six months, although he had said the words "Wait for me at the fifth level" and actively put all the pressure on his shoulders, this made other humane warriors choose to believe in him.

And they believed it without hesitation, so these people went to die one after another just to buy time for Liu Junyi to break through.

But does Liu Junyi believe it himself?

Even if he is a genius, even if he is better than most people, even if others firmly believe that he can break through to the fifth level...

However, he actually still hesitated.

Fifth grade, is it that simple?

His Taoist heart was shaken. Faced with the pressure that came like a mountain and sea, faced with the reality that 'if you don't break through to the fifth level, you will lose', faced with the humanitarian sergeants who went to die one after another to buy him time to break through, Liu Junyi himself was disturbed.

Although it seems that 'meditation' is very simple, but...how many people can calm down in the face of this situation?

Liu Junyi's Taoist heart is actually very firm, but now... when the breakthrough or not is directly linked to the victory of the Vanguard Battle, even he feels even more pressure.

"I'm still too incompetent." Liu Junyi sighed.

If a husband talks about Tao without fulfilling his nature, it is like not carving jade but wanting to make it into a tool.

He himself has not grasped his own nature, so how can he talk about the Tao?

If you don't carve jade but want to make it into a tool, it's just wishful thinking.

So, come and get jade.

Let Li Qi come over in person to fight for the vanguard and carve jade for Liu Junyi himself.

If you think about it...

Then break it.

Thinking like this, Liu Junyi's heart miraculously calmed down.

In front of 'Yu Sui', he seemed to be able to really calm down.

In Liu Junyi's mind, what Liu Donghe said to him when he first chose Confucianism came to mind.

"Jun Yi, if you want to follow the path of a gentleman, do you know what a gentleman is? Even a great scholar would not dare to say that he is a gentleman."

Liu Junyi didn't know what this meant at the time, but he just said: "If a gentleman can help the world and bring harmony to the world, then I will definitely become a gentleman."

Because of this answer, Liu Donghe laughed loudly, and then began to train Liu Junyi according to the standards of a gentleman.

This is bitter, not ordinary bitter.

A gentleman takes the people of heaven and earth as his duty, takes poetry, books, rituals, music, and the Spring and Autumn Period as his own lineage, takes the fate of the poor as his own concern, and takes his pleasure in supporting the world, teaching, and tempering change.

Don’t begrudge what you have, so that you can be like those who do good;

Don't make any distinctions, let those who discuss my ways and help my disciples be afraid of them;

Don't raise your doubts, let those who have the ancient proof and the heart gain be the first to do so;

Don't underestimate your success, let the countries in the world go nowhere and do not deserve it.

Therefore, a gentleman is perseverant and perseverant, kind and profound, wise and observant, trustworthy and sincere.

What it pursues is wisdom, benevolence, courage and art.

To manage the world and the country is in the gathering of brothers Mibo Liu, and to make up for the shortcomings of the people in the world, in the autumn of the ear and the heart.

How difficult is this? How demanding are the requirements?

The wisdom we seek is to break through the past and present and understand the wisdom of heaven and man;

The benevolence we seek is to protect the people and things and to be equal to the benevolence of covering everything;

The courage we seek is to eliminate disasters and humiliate the courage;

The art we seek is to rectify the system and carefully evaluate the art of etiquette.

Now, he seems to understand.

There is a country only when people exist, there are people only when teachers exist, there are teachers only when the Tao exists, and there is Tao only when nature exists.

Humanity is what teachers teach and then maintain, and what is needed to teach is human nature.

The destiny of heaven is human nature, following nature is the road, and cultivating Tao is the teacher.

Therefore, a gentleman cannot be ignorant of the "Tao" and cannot be incomplete in "nature".

Only the most sincere person in the world can complete his nature. If he can complete his nature, he can complete the nature of man; if he can complete the nature of man, he can complete the nature of things; if he can complete the nature of things, he can praise the transformation and nurturing of heaven and earth; if he can praise the transformation and nurturing of heaven and earth, he can be compared with heaven and earth.

To do so is called "knowing" and "fulfilling one's nature".

He failed to "fulfill one's nature", so he was troubled by all kinds of impetuous emotions, which in turn affected his own progress and caused the bottleneck he had overcome to reappear.

Now, as Li Qi got closer and closer, he finally regained the calm state of mind he had when he was studying in the Imperial College in the past.

Liu Junyi's foundation of Taoism is his Tao heart.

When the heart is settled, the foundation of Taoism is settled.

He was named as a human being, served as a commander, and was responsible for winning the battle of the vanguard.

If the person who received the order goes forward, he will not be afraid of the enemy's elbows, and the people will not be afraid of slander.

If the enemy is not afraid of the elbows, then the wisdom and judgment are enough to make decisions.

If the people are not afraid of slander, then the root of the matter will be exhausted.

So, all the roots are obtained.

Yes, that's the key point.

He is a human being, and what he seeks is naturally "harmony among people".

What is harmony among people?

Everyone is of one mind, a thousand miles away in one room, ten thousand miles away in one hall, the same atmosphere inside and outside, the same spirit from top to bottom, this is ‘harmony among people’.

However, when everyone believed in him without a doubt and took the initiative to buy time for him to die, he was complaining about himself and worried that he could not do it...

The upper and lower can not be of one mind, so the harmony among people is broken, and naturally nothing can be accomplished.

Realizing this, as Li Qi's position got closer and closer, and the speed got faster and faster, Liu Junyi became more and more calm, and even closed his eyes.

Feel it.

Although he closed his eyes, his eyes and his strength spread out,

The heaven is vigorous, and the gentleman is self-reliant.

Vigorous and unremitting, it is the destiny of heaven, self-improvement is achieved, and virtue is the work of a gentleman...

No, this sentence is wrong.

Vigorous and unremitting, it is the destiny of heaven?

Vigorous and unremitting, it is the destiny of man!

Liu Junyi opened his eyes and stood up suddenly.

Now, facing difficulties, the great righteousness of defending the land lies in his body.

The greater the difficulty, the more righteousness will be raised.

A gentleman should always keep his integrity, integrity and land!

The confusion in his heart was immediately eliminated, and his heart of Tao was clear.

Although now is not the best time to break through, and after the breakthrough, it is not the best state, and it will also affect his future path, causing him to not be "perfect" all the time.

But it doesn't matter--

The fifth grade is achieved.

It was also at this moment that Li Qi, with the force of thunder and lightning, slammed into Gansong City.

Li Qi arrived.

At the moment Li Qi arrived, he suddenly landed outside Gansong City. At the moment he was trying to demolish the city wall, Liu Junyi also broke through.

The two people's auras exchanged, and they both realized each other's existence in an instant.

It's really... coincidence.