Chapter 1 Saying Goodbye
"Master, I will go to the county town to prepare for school tomorrow. I will not be able to visit you every day in the future. This is your favorite Huadiao wine, ten years old, and the beggar chicken you like to eat. Today, our master and disciple will have a good time to eat and drink." In front of a grave, a young man was holding a jar of five kilograms of Huadiao wine in his hand. In front of a beggar chicken wrapped in lotus leaves, and two porcelain bowls, pouring wine into the bowl while murmuring.
The young man was named Ge Dongxu, who was a villager in Gejiayao Village at the foot of Baiyun Mountain. His master Ren Yao was buried in the tomb.
Ge Dongxu practiced with him since he was eight years old until Ren Yao passed away at the age of fourteen. Now Ren Yao has passed away for two years, Ge Dongxu is already a 16-year-old boy. Because he was admitted to the No. 1 Middle School in the County Town, he will set off to the county town tomorrow. Today, he will come to say goodbye to his master.
Since Master Ren Yao, although Ge Dongxu has practiced with him for six years, he knows very little about his life. Even his name was only known before he closed his eyes. Because since Ge Dongxu knew about his master, his master has been a crazy old man who is always good and bad in spirit.
Ren Yao does not appear in the village often, and often lives in an abandoned Taoist temple deep in Baiyun Mountain. Occasionally, he is often crazy when he visits the village. The children in the mountain village are naughty. When they see the old man crazy, they laugh while chasing him with rotten fruit mud.
Ge Dongxu was simple and kind-hearted, not as naughty as other children. When he saw his playmates throwing things to the old man, he would always come forward to protect Ren Yao. In the end, he was thrown into pieces.
Occasionally, when Ge Dongxu was thrown into a dirty body in order to protect Ren Yao, Ren Yao suddenly woke up and drank the children away. Then he looked at Ge Dongxu for a long time and suddenly asked, "Are you willing to worship me as your teacher and practice with me?"
Ge Dongxu wanted to shake his head, but when he saw Ren Yao's hair was white and his clothes were tattered, he was very pitiful, so he nodded and agreed.
Ren Yao was very happy and immediately took Ge Dongxu to meet his parents and wanted to formally accept Ge Dongxu as his disciple.
Ge Dongxu's parents naturally refused to let his son worship a crazy old man as his master, although he seemed normal at that time.
I don’t know if it was stimulated by Ge Dongxu’s parents’ rejection, but Ren Yao became confused on the spot and left stumbled.
But since then, he always comes to visit Ge Dongxu every now and then.
When Ge Dongxu's parents saw Ren Yao crazy, they pestered his son again, for fear that he would hurt his son. After seeing him coming to the door a few times, they couldn't help but drive him away.
But no matter how they were rushing, Ren Yao would always come every now and then, while Ge Dongxu's parents still insisted on driving him away and preventing him from approaching his son.
Until one day, Ge Dongxu suddenly had a high fever and the doctor was helpless. Ge Dongxu's parents were so anxious that they were crying. When they were about to send Ge Dongxu to the county town to see a doctor, Ren Yao suddenly appeared and carried Ge Dongxu and ran away.
Ge Dongxu's parents were naturally anxious and chased him from behind. But it was strange that Ren Yao was obviously a gray-haired old man. He ran faster than Ge Dongxu's father with a child. In a blink of an eye, he entered the forest.
At that time, Ge Dongxu's parents didn't think much about it. Seeing Ge Dongxu being carried into the mountains by a crazy old man and disappeared, they were so anxious that tears flowed out. They thought that their son had a high fever and was carried away by such a crazy old man again. It must be a great disaster.
But unexpectedly, while they were so anxious that they were looking for their son's name, Ge Dongxu suddenly ran towards them from a mountain road. Not only was they very energetic, but they were also very agile. They were not as fast as they had a fever before. Don't be agile. They were drowsy, with a heavy head and a light head, and they couldn't even stand up.
Since then, Ge Dongxu’s parents have made a major decision to allow their son to become Ren Yao, an old man who is sometimes crazy and sometimes awake, as their teacher.
It was strange that since Ge Dongxu's parents agreed, Ren Yao suddenly became awake most of the time. However, although Ren Yao became awake most of the time, he basically didn't remember the past and didn't know what his name was. Later, Ge Dongxu's parents found that there were scars on the back of Ren Yao's head, and guessed that he had suffered some brain trauma, so he was like this. He wanted to take Ren Yao to the county hospital for a look, but Ren Yao was very stubborn and refused to go, so they had no choice.
Fortunately, Ren Yao could not remember the past and occasionally had unclear spiritual consciousness, but also remembered the practice. He taught Ge Dongxu step by step to draw talismans, taught him to know various herbs, taught him to recognize acupoints and use needles, and taught him to breathe and take luck.
When teaching these, Ren Yao brought Ge Dongxu to the ruined Taoist temple on the mountain, and Ge Dongxu's parents were not allowed to watch. Fortunately, after Ge Dongxu practiced with Ren Yao, he not only never got sick again, but also seemed to have become particularly smart and smart. He learned everything faster than children of the same age and was much more powerful than those of his peers. So Ge Dongxu's parents followed Ren Yao to teach his son, and sometimes they were a little curious, but thinking that Ren Yao should be a genius in the martial arts world and should have his rules, he resisted and did not ask what Ge Dongxu had learned from Ren Yao.
As long as your son is healthy, everything else is secondary.
One summer two years ago, Ren Yao finally couldn't stand the passing of time and left the world. When he was dying, perhaps in his return, he suddenly remembered some past events. Unfortunately, the time left for him was too short, so Ge Dongxu only understood part of it intermittently. It was then that Ge Dongxu only knew his master's name.
Recalling the little things that happened with his master, Ge Dongxu was immersed in the moment. He woke up until the wine filled the porcelain bowl and spilled it out. He wiped the tears in the corner of his eyes, picked up the porcelain bowl filled with Huadiao wine and poured it in front of Ren Yao's grave, and then picked up a bowl of gully and drank it all.
A blush appeared on the innocent face with a hint of childishness, but it quickly faded again.
"Master, after you left, I practiced diligently every day without slacking off. I didn't show off my skills in front of others, nor did I do bad things with the skills in your teachings. Don't worry, no matter where I go, I will remember your teachings." Ge Dongxu poured Ren Yao a bowl of Huadiao, drank a bowl by himself, and ate some beggar chicken.
"By the way, Master tells you a good news. I finally broke through to the third level of Qi training this morning. You definitely didn't expect my progress to be so great, thanks to the Bagua Furnace pendant you left for me. There is another universe inside, leaving Ge Hong, the ancestor of my Danfu School, and a complete volume of "Baopu Jiudan Xuan Sutra". Unfortunately, this secret was discovered too late. Otherwise, you might have inspiration after reading this volume of Dansu, and you wouldn't have left your disciple in a hurry." Ge Dongxu reached out to touch a peach wood sword pendant hanging on his neck. This peach wood sword pendant looked ordinary, but when Ge Dongxu touched it with his hand, a faint green light flowed on it, emitting a faint fragrance of peach wood.
In fact, there was another antique Bagua Furnace hanging on it, which was left to him when Ren Yao died. An accident, Ge Dongxu dripped a drop of blood on it, and the Bagua Furnace actually reacted with his blood, sank into his body, and disappeared without a trace. But at the same time, Ge Dongxu had inexplicably more knowledge related to cultivation in his mind, the most of which was knowledge about medicine and alchemy.
Originally, Ge Dongxu and his master Ren Yao practiced for six years and had just barely broken through to the second level of Qi training. Since he obtained the knowledge of practicing in the Eight Trigrams Furnace, the complete version of the "Baopu Nine Dan Xuan Sutra", his practice speed has been much faster. In just two years, he actually broke through to the third level of Qi training.
While talking to the master, eating and drinking, the jar of five kilograms of wine was unknowingly seen. Ge Dongxu, who was only sixteen years old, could not tell that he was drunk except for his red face.
Seeing that a jar of wine had already reached the bottom, Ge Dongxu finally stopped muttering, kowtowed respectfully to his master's grave three times, then got up and walked down a mountain road.
The road is overgrown with weeds, which is obviously a road that few people usually walk on.
At the end of the road is Gejiao Village. Gejiao Village used to be a very poor and closed mountain village. However, Changxi County has vigorously developed tourism in recent years, and urban people also like to go to the mountains to escape the summer vacation. Gejiao Village is lucky to benefit from it because it is located at the foot of Baiyun Mountain, the highest mountain in Changxi County. In recent years, not only has highways opened in the village, but also because tourists come to play, the villagers open a sales office or a farmhouse or a farm stay at home, but they earn money by sitting at home.
In order to attract tourists, the people in the village even started to make seals on the ancestral hall. Gejiao Village is a descendant of Ge Hong, a legendary Taoist scholar, alchemist and medical practitioner in the Eastern Jin Dynasty.
Ge Dongxu naturally didn't believe it before, thinking that it was the old people in the village who were talking nonsense to attract tourists. However, since the Bagua Furnace Hanging disappeared into his body and there were many things in his mind, he realized that he was really a descendant of Ge Hong, so the drop of blood reacted with the Bagua Furnace Hanging handed down by Ge Hong, the ancestor of the Danfu School.
Ge Dongxu's mother Xu Suya is a private school teacher in the village, and his father Ge Shengming runs a farmhouse at his own home, and he works as a chef and a boss.
It is the end of August, and it is still hot in Jiangnan Province. However, the mountains are cool and the children are still on summer vacation, so many people in the city like to go to Baiyun Mountain to escape the summer vacation. There are more tourists, and Ge Shengming's farm business has improved a lot.
Thinking of the good business at home these days, now it’s time to have a meal order, and my father’s urgent need for help, Ge Dongxu couldn’t help but speed up.
But before he got home, Ge Dongxu saw a lot of people around his yard from afar, pointing at the inside.
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