Chapter 7: The Mysterious Man Who Suddenly Arrived

Following Master's guidance, Akasu walked in the direction of the waterfall for about two hours, and finally came to the vicinity of the waterfall. Akasu looked up at the waterfall not far away, and saw a stream of water rushing down from the snow-capped peak like a dragon, and falling straight into the turquoise pool under the mountain. He was amazed that the cascading waterfall did not make a roaring sound like the waterfalls he had seen before, and even fell into the pool without making much splash. Akasu thought that perhaps this place of meditation was originally different from the world of the Time Kingdom.

The stone house where the priests lived was among a boulder by the waterhole. The boulder is about one zhang high, two zhang wide, and five zhang long, and looks like a big ship moored at the water's edge from a distance.

The side of the boulder near the pond was built into a huge platform, with a turquoise pool and waterfall in front of the platform, and a stone gate to enter the stone chamber behind the platform. Standing on the smooth platform and looking at the turquoise pool, you will find that the turquoise pool water you just saw from afar, in fact, the water quality is very clear, and the pebbles and swimming fish in the water are clearly visible.

The prospect is intoxicating, but the thought of being alone for the next forty months is a bit of a loss. Although translating the revelation of the stone fish in Snow Mountain City is boring, at least there is a master to talk to. In his spare time, he can also go out to play with Rukes. What about here? I'm afraid I can't even find anyone to talk to?

"Don't disturb the master of Longtan, otherwise I won't be able to help you," Akasu's mind suddenly remembered Master's last reminder. Master of Longtan, since Master said so, this Hantan neighborhood means that he is not the only one who exists. The owner of Longtan can't be disturbed, so is there anyone else? Hehe, maybe he can find someone to play with. At least there are a lot of animals here, and you can really play with them yourself. However, I don't know if the beast language taught by the master can communicate with the animals in this meditation place. Thinking of this, the mood of the troubles just now finally improved a little. At the same time, Akasu's stomach screamed with joy.

Nearly half a day had passed since morning, and Akasu hadn't eaten a bit. Akasu opened the bag of dry food he was carrying, took out the butter cake and air-dried beef, and chewed it heavily.

"What a fragrant shortbread and beef!" was as Akasu was munching on dry food when he suddenly heard someone behind him.

Akasu looked back and saw an old man with white hair and gray clothes standing on the top of the stone chamber behind him, this old man was very thin and small, like a dried lamb, and the wide gray cloth robe looked very funny on the thin body. At this time, his round eyes were staring at the butter cake and air-dried beef in Akasu's hand, and his throat seemed to be irritated by the food and kept squirming. Akasu is no stranger to this situation, and when he fed animals on the snowy mountains with Lucas in the past, the animals stared at the food.

But this is not a snow-capped mountain, this is a place of meditation. Akasu thought that this strange visitor could not be the owner of this Longtan, and Akasu swore that he did not bother him. Although he didn't disturb the owner of Longtan, he was at the door of someone's house after all. Thinking of this, Akasu hurriedly took out a few more pieces of shortbread and beef from the dry food bag, and made an inviting gesture to the old man in gray. The gray-clothed old man's form looked funny, but the way he flew down was extremely agile, as if a meteor flashed through the sky.

The old man in gray took the shortbread and beef that Akasu handed him, and Ben was not polite, as if Akasu did not exist, and sat on the ground and chewed it heavily. His eating movements were not as dashing as his flying body, and it could be said that he was gobbling them up, and in a short time he finished the beef and pancakes that Akasu handed him. Seeing that he was still unsatisfied, Akasu handed him a few more pieces of bread and meat, and after a while he had finished eating again, so Akasu handed over a few more pieces. I don't know how many times I repeated this, and the bag of dry food he brought was eaten by him nine times out of ten. Akasu thought that this old man's appetite was really not small, and this time he and his master brought a total of four bags of dry food, which means that this bag of dry food is enough for one person to eat for two months. But the old man ate his two months' ration with less than a stick of incense. There is only this bag of dry food by his side, and the rest of the dry food is still at the entrance of the cave, and he entered the meditation place by mistake, but if he wants to go out, he may not be able to get out by mistake. Akasu couldn't help but wonder what to do with the days ahead, a full forty months!

The old man didn't seem to realize Akasu's situation at all. He burped contentedly, nodded to Akasu in satisfaction, and said, "Thank you, little one, for your hospitality. I still have something to do, and I'll see you later. Before Akasu could react, he turned around and vanished.

If it weren't for the empty bag of dry food and the scraps he left behind as he ate, Akasu couldn't believe that what had just happened was true.

Akasu counted the rest of the food, barely enough to eat for a week. But what can I do? I decided to take one step at a time, and then talk about it in the stone chamber.

Pushing open the stone door behind the platform, Akasu entered the cultivation stone chamber of the priests. There are three stone rooms, and the one at the door is a square room with a length and width of two feet, and in the middle of the room is a stone table larger than a bed, on which are placed a crystal ball, a celestial orbiter, an inkwell, and a quill in the inkwell. Next to the stone table is a stone chair carved with a large lotus pattern, all carved from the same large rock as the stone chamber. The stone table and chairs had apparently been polished in parts from years of use, and Akasu thought that hundreds of priests before him had been alone on this stone table writing their various thoughts on prophecy and various spells.

On the left side of the house is an empty stone wall, which is divided into four parts, and from top to bottom, it is carved with tadpole-like characters like prophecies appearing from the body of a stone fish. This script can only be read by the high priests of the Time Kingdom, and is an ancient type of writing that is older than the Time Language of the Time Kingdom. And Akasu, the future high priest, began to learn this language from a young age with the master, who said that this language was called the heavenly language, which was the language of the gods when the continent was first formed. Akasu saw that the first three stone walls were written respectively, "Heaven and Earth", "Prophecy", and "Life", which may be the three parts of the power of heaven and earth, the light of prophecy, and the song of life in the prophecy. And there is no text on the last stone wall, just a picture, which is very similar to the picture on the priest's robe, the only difference is that the eight-petal lotus is surrounded by not ** but a snake biting its own tail. Akasu couldn't figure out what that meant.

To the right of the stone chamber is a tall stone bookcase carved along the stone chamber. The bookshelves are divided into seven levels from top to bottom, the upper three layers are full of parchment scrolls, and the underground four floors are still empty. There are also hundreds of unused parchment rolls piled up next to the bookshelves. Akasu thought that the parchment scrolls were supposed to be used by successive priests to record their experiences. The upper three layers are probably the results of their thinking.

Walk through the first stone chamber and enter the second stone chamber. This stone chamber was supposed to be the place where the priests rested, about one-third the size of the first stone chamber, with only one stone platform and a stone table, on which was covered with a bearskin, and on which were placed a clay pot and two clay bowls.

The last stone chamber is a cabinet surrounded by stone-carved cabinets. The cabinet was cluttered with all sorts of things, including rusty swords, unsmelted ores, broken magic wands, and daily necessities such as jars, cups, clothing, and shoes. The only thing that is not available is dry food.