Chapter 9 Fate to the Town
Li Changsheng, who set off on this journey, followed the middle-aged man's instructions and avoided the dense bushes as much as possible.
After stumbling all the way for dozens of days, he finally arrived at Yuanlai Town. Yuanlai Town is a lakeside town with only 100 households, isolated from the world due to the obstruction of the Falling Immortal Forest. On the left side of this small town by the mountains and rivers is the endless Tongtian Lake, and on the other side is a towering mountain, which should be the Cangmang Mountain that the fortune teller said.
The birds and flowers are fragrant in the town, the folk customs are simple, very enthusiastic, a few fishing boats by the lake are busy looking for people to inquire casually to know the name of the mountain.
"Autumn Names Mountain?!!" Li Changsheng stopped a strong man who got off the fishing boat.
"Yes, it's always been this name, and I haven't heard of Cangmang Mountain when you said it. Or ask the old people in town, they should know more. The strong man touched his head with his big rough hands.
After asking several people in a row, they all answered that it was Qiu Mingshan, which made Li Changsheng very helpless, stumped the fortune teller old man to tease himself? Or is it just a legend after all?
"It's indeed called Akinayama, and the name of the mountain can't be verified, it's passed down from the mouth of the ancestors," this is an old man with gray hair and eyebrows, a bronzed face with deep wrinkles, and cloudy eyes that seem to confirm the authority of the words.
Before he knew it, it was evening, and Li Changsheng sat by the lake and looked blankly at the mountain covered with the afterglow of the sunset, how much he wished it was Cangmang Mountain. Naively kidding, it seems that none of the times I came here was smooth.
Grandpa Li and Qi Ran'er spent seven years in the cave peacefully, the day after his arrival, Grandpa Li died, and Qi Ran'er was also captured; On the way to find Tianyi Sect, he encountered a big snake again, and walked so hard, but he woke up and returned to Immortal Emperor City; this time he finally found Yuanlai Town, but there was no Cangmang Mountain!!
"What are you doing here?" interrupted Li Changsheng's contemplation, which strong man was before.
"I'm wondering where the hell is Cangmang Mountain?"
"Don't think about it yet, it's getting dark, do you have a place to live?" the strong man asked with concern.
I've never been here to live in a cave or a jungle, and the best place is the couple's house.
"I don't have a place to live, I'm here to find someone. When the man was found, he had a place to live. ”
Unable to withstand the strong man's warm invitation, Li Changsheng went to the strong man's house. The two are also considered to know each other, the strong man's name is Fan Xiuzhi, most of the people in the town are surnamed Fan, and the others are surnamed Jiang, but there is no surname Chen.
Fan Xiuzhi is 23 years old this year, he was raised by his father since he was a child, and Fan's father went to the lake three years ago and never came back, and now he is alone and makes a living by fishing.
Li Changsheng's arrival was very happy for Fan Xiuzhi, just look at the big fish he stewed in a pot that couldn't be stewed. Usually such a big fish is never willing to eat it by himself, because it can be sold for a lot of money.
Li Changsheng had never eaten this kind of big fish, the fish was fat, the meat was delicious and there was only one backbone. The two of them feasted, Fan Xiuzhi poured a big bowl of wine for the two, saying that it was secretly left by the mayor's daughter when she got married, and she took a small sip when she was idle, and directly changed the big bowl today. Li Changsheng took a sip of wine, coughing spicily, and Fan Xiuzhi laughed at Changsheng on the side that he didn't know how to drink.
The two of them ate and drank at the same time. Fan Xiuzhi was very yearning for the world on the other side of the jungle, and wanted to see the Immortal Emperor City that Li Changsheng said so exaggeratedly, and also wanted to get to know the big brother who could kill the big snake.
Li Changsheng also asked a lot about Yuanlai Town and Nado Mountain.
Yuanlai Town is not known where it comes from, there is a stone tablet engraved in the center of the town, only because of the age, you can only see the three big characters of Yuanlai Town. However, the town of Yuanlai Town has a legend of the water demon: the water demon is very beautiful, and sucks the flesh of men and children. Scare Li Changsheng not to go out at night, let alone go to the lake easily.
Li Changsheng was indeed convinced, because he had seen a demon who could fly into the sky.
Li Changsheng was so drunk that he lay on the table, and Fan Xiuzhi was still chattering non-stop.
The next day, the sun dried three poles before the two of them got up before and after.
"Brother Fan, I'm leaving today, before leaving, I'm going to go up the mountain to see if this mountain is what I'm looking for, if not, I'm going to die. After that, I will continue to look for Cangmang Mountain, I don't know if there is a chance to see you again, take care" Li Changsheng said.
"I'll go up the mountain with you, it's nothing anyway, and I'm familiar with Qiuming Mountain" Fan Xiuzhi's enthusiasm continued overnight.
"Qiu Mingshan looks high, but it's not very high, only about 100 zhang, we can climb back and forth in a day, you don't need to bring too many things, it's enough to carry dry food for a meal," Fan Xiuzhi explained.
This towering mountain is only a hundred zhang good? How can the mystery of the autumn name mountain be penetrated by mortals?
The two of them walked towards Qiuming Mountain, and along the way, Fan Xiuzhi introduced the customs of Yuanlai Town, and greeted the people they met warmly. After a while, he arrived at the foot of Qiuming Mountain, and Li Changsheng looked up very majestic, not like Fan Xiuzhi said that he could climb it in one day.
Seeing that the sun was about to set, the two of them only climbed halfway up the mountain. Fan Xiuzhi had an unconcealable embarrassment on his face, saying that he drank too much last night.
"Brother Fan, let's get to the top of the mountain soon. "There is only one path in Mt. Akina, and the path for the townspeople to go up the mountain to chop firewood has come to an end.
"Yes, it's at the top of the mountain, I came once when I was a kid"
Seeing that he saw the end of the path but did not climb to the top of Qiuming Mountain, Li Changsheng wanted to continue to climb up but was stopped by Fan Xiuzhi.
"It's useless, you can only climb here, if you insist on going forward, you will encounter a ghost hitting the wall, someone has been in before, and they haven't come out overnight. ”
Li Changsheng couldn't bear to give up, picked up a stone and threw it forward. But it disturbed a group of monkeys, who were jumping up and down the trees with their chatter, skillfully picking up stones and throwing them at them.
"Run, this group of monkeys is very tight, you have to bring them some fruit to chop firewood when you go up the mountain to cut firewood, and now you have thrown it with stones, it will not end well" Fan Xiuzhi finished speaking and threw the remaining food and fruit to the monkeys, but the monkeys not only did not accept it, but instead threw stones even harder.
"I'm sorry, Brother Fan" Li Changsheng also knew that he was in trouble.
"Run, it'll be fine when you go down the mountain, the monkeys don't dare to go down the mountain" The two of them were beaten by a group of monkeys.
It is said that it is easy to go up the mountain and difficult to go down, which is not true at all. The two of them were chased in a panic, and they couldn't find the path up the mountain for a long time. The monkeys behind him were still in hot pursuit, and Fan Xiuzhi stumbled to the mountain stream with a roller, but the cry for help scared away the monkeys.
"Brother Fan!!!Brother Fan" Li Changsheng shouted for a long time without a response, and had to give up. Because the way down the mountain was gone, I had to grit my teeth and climb up.
As you crawl, you can feel the changes in your surroundings.
"I just walked past here, and I broke a branch, why did I come back again. Li Changsheng looked at the tree, as well as the branches in his hand that were used to chop weeds.
Stumped, this is what Brother Fan said about ghosts hitting the wall? I walked again and returned to this place, but I just couldn't get out of this circle, and kept spinning. The angry Li Changsheng scolded.
"What kind of mountain spirits and ghosts, have the ability to come out, don't play these tricks behind your back"
"Master doesn't eat this! Believe it or not, I burned this forest with a fire, you see I can't get out!"
In the face of Li Changsheng's angry scolding, the surroundings were even quieter. After calming down, Li Changsheng was also scared, what if he encountered a group of monkeys in this ghost wall. The wind in the mountains blew towards Li Changsheng with a hint of coolness, like a girl's hand across her face, and it was very comfortable to be lightly cool.
At this time, the token hidden in his chest emitted a faint warmth and was taken out by Li Changsheng, when Grandpa Li gave it to himself, he had seen it, although the material was special and non-gold and non-iron, it was also hard and abnormal, why did it start to emit heat like a stove now.
Li Changsheng took the token and studied where the heat came from, and the ghost made the god walk forward. I couldn't see why, so I had no choice but to put it in my arms. Suddenly I found myself standing under a broken stone monument, and I didn't know how I got out.
Li Changsheng looked at the stone tablet more than a zhang high in front of him, and then in the moonlight, he could see a teaching word, which was a half-word on the top, as if it had been cut off by a sharp sword. Teach one, one teach, one day!!
Is this the Tianyi Sect?