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Chapter VII Memorial Knife

Feeling the increasingly hot skull relics, Jiang Chen focused without distraction. Following the old man’s previous route of doing things, he slowly guided the heat to his arms, chest and even his dantian along his hands, and then slowly spread out until he covered his whole body, as if he had a fever!

Perhaps it is the effect of fever. After only a moment, Jiang Chen became a little confused! In the trance, Jiang Chen seemed to feel a voice sounding in his mind: "...Avalokitesvara Bodhisattva, when he practiced the deep Prajna Paramita, he saw that the five aggregates were empty and he survived all sufferings. Sariya, color is not different from emptiness, emptiness is not different from color, color is emptiness, emptiness is form, feeling, thinking, action and consciousness are also the same. Sariya is the empty appearance of all dharmas, neither birth nor death, neither dirty nor purified, neither increasing nor decreasing... Bodhisattva, based on Prajna Paramita, the mind has no worries, no worries, no fear, far away from delusions, and ultimately Nirvana... Therefore, he said the Prajna Paramita mantra, and said the mantra: Jie Di Jie Di, Pirajna, Pirajna, and Bodhi Savah..."

Jiang Chen endured the heat and calmed down. After listening for a while, he couldn't help but have a question in his heart: "Isn't this the Heart Sutra of Prajna Paramita translated by Master Xuanzang? Although he has never studied it in depth, he still has some knowledge!"

"That's right!" The question was a question, and before it could be said, Jiang Chen was surprised and had to attribute this unexplainable phenomenon to the mysterious secret method of inheriting skull relics!

A little surprised, Jiang Chen asked in his heart with some hesitation: "Is it the ancestor's soul thought?"

"That's right! My existence is limited, so don't think randomly, listen to my teachings in peace!... The authentic internal power of my Tianxin Pavilion is the infinite work of Heavenly Heart, which can also be called the Five Elements Heart Sutra. Taking this Prajna Heart Sutra as the outline, cultivating the five qi in the chest, which is the heart, liver, lungs, spleen, and kidneys, and is also metal, wood, water, fire and earth. It can imitate all the exercises and perform all the Dharmas. Therefore, the only top-level internal power in the world in the heavenly level!..."

...

The next day, under the leadership of his old servant Jiang Mao, Jiang Chen selected two young men in the Servant Hospital and the escort hospital, about thirteen or fourteen years old. Like Jiang Mao and Jiang Lin followed Jiang Feng, he gave them the names Jiang Wen and Jiang Wu respectively! Then, a group of masters and servants took a car and horses to their hometown in Qingyang, Chizhou Prefecture!

Chizhou Prefecture is one of the seven prefectures and three direct jurisdictions, and is directly under the jurisdiction of the court! Although Chizhou Prefecture is not as outstanding as Fengyang Prefecture, it is close to Jiuhua Mountain and is also a place with beautiful and elegant style! Especially Qingyang County at the foot of Jiuhua Mountain, it is a place with excellent Feng Shui. From time to time, young talents spread throughout China and resounded throughout the Ming Dynasty! Not to mention the distant future, many of the people who passed the imperial examination today came from this county!

Of course, Jiang Chen is the most accomplished person in this subject! Although Jiang Bange was hard to find after the list was released, the Fang family and Huang family were taken care of by the imperial sect. The court deliberately ignored it, neither pursuing nor adding it, allowing Jiang Chen to be free. After all, this is not the first time. Don’t you know that more than 20 years ago, Jiang Chen’s father Jiang Feng also gained the reputation of Tanhua and was free in the world!

The Tianxin Academy outside Kyoto is the outskirts of Jinling City. It is actually not too far from Qingyang County! And it is located in the direct jurisdiction of the court, and the journey is relatively stable and faster. Jiang Chen's master and servant had already rushed back to the old Jiang family's house in less than a day!

At this time, the old house of the Jiang family had been cleaned up under the arrangement of his old servant Jiang Lin, and just waited for Jiang Chen and his party to check in directly! After Jiang Chen took Jiang Mao, Jiang Wen and Jiang Wu to meet Jiang Lin, he roughly told the truth and many longings, and then went directly to the ancestral hall to worship the ancestors of the Jiang family. Of course, there was also Jiang Feng's tablet! Although Jiang Feng was born and died, and there was no news, according to Wu Rou's investigation on the spot, there was no possibility of Jiang Feng's survival!

After Jiang Chenjing put in incense and worshipped her, she sent Jiang Lin to arrange other things. Unconsciously, she came to Jiang Feng's study. Her eyes looked at and touched each other from doors, windows, tables and chairs, and then to books, feeling the memories of her childhood and imitating the actions of her father in the past! Although Jiang Xun is a martial arts master, she is also from Tanhua after all, so she naturally retains her habits as a scholar, especially at home, she is like an old scholar who is addicted to books and alcohol!

Looking at the wine jar and books by the desk, Jiang Chen felt a lot of emotion for a moment. For more than ten years, it seemed that in the blink of an eye, the boy who had learned to speak in the past has grown up now! When he was feeling emotion, Jiang Chen couldn't help but touch the covers of those books one by one according to his vague memories of his youth, like his father Jiang Xun, and finally held the wine jar and sat down in the position his father often did! He picked up a book and put it on the desk, flipped it open, and didn't care at all that the light was insufficient!

This book is exactly the "Heart Sutra of Prajna Paramita", which surprised Jiang Chen very much. Could it be that his father was passed down the mysterious "Heart Sutra of Five Elements" like himself? When he was confused, Jiang Chen casually opened the cover of the book, and saw a line of words written on the title page: "Heaven moves vigorously, and a gentleman strives for self-improvement; the earth is quiet, and a gentleman carries things with virtue." The signature is: "The master of the earth in Tianxin Pavilion gives his disciple Jiang Feng, please take care of it." Seeing this, Jiang Chen seemed to have some understanding. Could it be that the old white-haired man who taught him the skills was his father's master, the master of the earth in his heart?

Turning to the first page, I looked at the main text of the Heart Sutra: "When Avalokitesvara Bodhisattva practiced the deep Prajna Paramita, he saw that the five aggregates were empty and he survived all sufferings..." Although the Heart Sutra was short, there were only two hundred and sixty words, the meaning was extremely wide! Of course, everyone has their own different opinions, but no matter how big the difference was, they would not deny that the fundamental way to transcend everything was through the vast power of the mind!

When Jiang Chen saw the "relics" in the scriptures, he suddenly remembered the fact that he had preached the Heart Sutra through the skull relics. He seemed to have a thought flashed through his mind, but he could not catch it. He couldn't help but feel a little distressed!

And that flash of thought is exactly the truth of the matter. The skull relics are not just a cover for transmitting skills, but also a conductor for transmitting skills to Jiang Chen! Only through this method can the white-haired old man with deep internal skills remove the impurities contained in his internal skills, so that beginners can take it for themselves!

The book boy Jiang Wen, who was accompanying him, saw that his master was feeling a little depressed, changed the subject and said: "Young Master, the sky is so dark, you can actually read the books clearly. It seems that your internal strength is quite profound!"

Jiang Chen was stunned when he heard Jiang Wen's words: "Yes, I can actually see things in the dark, and it's very clear. Isn't this a manifestation of deep internal strength? Isn't this something I have always fantasized about? But when did I practice internal strength, I didn't have any impression of it?"

When Jiang Chen was confused, the thought that he had not caught just now flashed in Jiang Chen's mind again! This time this idea was so clear and it met all the conditions that Jiang Chen knew! This made Jiang Chen have to believe that the white-haired old man was indeed passing on his merits to him! As soon as he thought of this, Jiang Chen couldn't help but guess, was the old man who didn't keep and secretly passed on his merits to him?

As if everything made sense, Jiang Chen couldn't help but breathe a sigh of relief. Instead, he ordered: "Jiang Wen, go and light this candle. It's indeed a bit dark this day!"

Jiang Wen obeyed the order and just lit the candle, he saw Jiang Lin coming from outside with a book in his hand! Jiang Lin casually looked at the environment inside the house, and did not avoid Jiang Wen, and directly handed the book in his hand to Jiang Chen and said, "Young Master, this secret book was left by the master in the past!"

Jiang Chen took the secret book without doubt and saw that the four big words "Badao secret book" were written on the cover! And there was an extremely exquisite knife mixed in the book! Jiang Chen picked up the knife and looked at the word "Jiang" on the narrow blade of the knife. He was a little surprised. His father Jiang Feng actually left him this commemorative knife? Is there anything special about this knife? Otherwise, his father would not have let Jiang Lin pass it to him so deliberately!

Once upon a time, Jiang Chen pulled Jiang Feng's clothes and asked childishly: "Why don't my father pass on your sword skills to me? Are you not afraid of losing them?"

Jiang Feng laughed, not caring about Jiang Chen's unlucky words, touched Jiang Chen's head and said, "Chen'er, you are still young and don't know the meaning of this knife. How can you use it lightly? When you grow up and learn the truth, you will pass on your skills of dominating swords for your father! Even if I am gone, I will leave you a secret book and a commemorative knife symbolizing dominating swords!"

It turns out that this commemorative knife represents his father Jiang Feng’s way of overlord swords! Even with such an enlightenment, Jiang Chen still felt that he had overlooked something. This commemorative knife seemed to have a greater purpose, but he just couldn’t understand it now!
Chapter completed!
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