Chapter 12: The Walker
On the rugged mountain road, a group of monks clinged to the stone wall and climbed along. In the distance, you can faintly see a quaint temple, built halfway up the mountain, surrounded by old trees. Looking up at the top of the mountain, you will now be gradually covered with rocks halfway up the mountain as the terrain rises, creating a wonderful contrast between the desolate scenery above and the dense forest full of life below. If you can climb to the top of the mountain, you will have a temple that looks like it has just been built, although it is not very tall and grand, but it has a different feeling on the top of this barren mountain.
On the rock wall halfway up the mountainside, a figure that seems to be a teenager is constantly moving, if ordinary people see it, they will be amazed, only to see the figure of the boy constantly marching on such a difficult road, sometimes jumping on the pine trees growing in the cracks of the rock wall by protruding stones. The pine tree staggered as it carried the boy's body, and the boy continued to jump onto the next rock, and so on and so forth. Sometimes, there is no road ahead, and the boy has to turn back in other directions. Although it is not a cliff, it is still an extremely difficult section. Normal people can't support it for long under such strenuous exercise, but seeing that this teenager is only panting slightly, his face is as calm as ever.
Finally, after more than an hour, the boy finally saw the scenery from the top of the mountain. In front of me was a small sparse pine forest, and behind the trees was a small temple.
"It's finally here...... "The boy couldn't help but sigh, "Anyway, how did this temple be built, and this kind of road can't carry all kinds of raw stones......
Chen couldn't help but sigh when he looked at this miracle in front of him, without all kinds of machinery and equipment in this era, this temple could not be built by manpower alone. Maybe you're in the right place this time, it doesn't look like this is ordinary... Tatsumi couldn't help but think in his heart.
Earlier that day, Chen returned to Datong Temple with the whole sect. Tatsu asked Jeonjong if he could go up the mountain to meet the master, and Jeonjong readily agreed, and then gave Tatsu a map. The map looks very old and shabby, with vaguely marked roads up the mountain. Tatsu also had a big head when he looked at this map, because some of the handwriting on it was already very blurry, so Tatsumi had to grope up the mountain while leaning on this map. But even so, it took a lot of effort for him to go up the mountain, and if it weren't for his body being different from ordinary people, he might have been unable to bear it a long time ago. Maybe I'm on the wrong path...... Tatsumi thought with a little headache that he wasn't very good at finding his way, maybe because he had a poor sense of direction...
Tatsumi gathered up his mood and walked towards the temple behind the woods. As soon as I walked to the door, I saw a thin figure.
"Are you Master Hojo?" Tatsumi asked after looking at it for a long time.
The thin figure turned around, and an old man of about fifty or sixty years old looked at the young man in front of him, his eyes clear, like a child. Chen looked at this old man and couldn't help but be stunned for a moment, this old man was different from everyone he had seen before, just like someone who shouldn't have been saved in the first place? Chen carefully looked at the old man in front of him, his face was peaceful, his clothes were simple, and he was looking at himself with a quiet smile.
"You came up with the help of that diagram in the hand of the whole sect, right?" the Hojo master asked.
Chen nodded and said, "Quan Zong said that you and I both have something similar, and it just so happens that I also have some questions I want to ask the master, can the master help me solve it?"
The master smiled and said, "I have finally found a new walker, and the wish of several generations of ancestors has finally been fulfilled." â
Tatsumi was confused by Master Hojo's words, and he didn't know what he meant, but he could feel as if the new walker was referring to him?
"Master, you don't know clearly, I don't really understand. Tatsumi asked with some confusion.
Hojo looked at the young man in front of him and said softly, "You're not from this world, are you?"
Hojo's words set off a frenzy in Tatsuna's heart, and Tatsumi was a little surprised at first, and took a few steps back, because he had never confided in others about it, how could the person in front of him see it. People have a fear of the unknown, and even people like Tatsu can't avoid this instinct.
Seeing the boy retreat, Hojo said, "You don't have to be afraid, I can just speculate, after all, every walker is like this."
Hojo mentioned the word "walker" again, and Tatsumi felt a little big, and asked, "Can the master explain what that walker refers to?"
Hojo smiled and said, "You come in first and we'll talk slowly, maybe I won't be very clear, but someone will explain it to you in a while." Chen felt a little confused, and couldn't help asking: "Master, please explain it carefully, some questions have been bothering me for a long time, I hope you can answer them." â
Hojo brought a futon and motioned for Tatsumi to sit down. Tatsu was also a little tired from climbing to the top of the mountain, so he sat down to rest by the way.
Tatsumi sat down, first introduced himself slightly, and then asked Hojo, "Master, what do you mean by that walker?" Hearing the word walker twice, the curiosity in Tatsu's heart was also aroused.
I only heard Hojo say first: "There are some people in the world who live on a journey, they will pass through various places and meet all kinds of people, these people are also called travelers, they do not have a place where they can finally stay, maybe they are looking for a place to stay all their lives......"
Tatsumi also fell into some memories and thoughts when he heard this, but soon after Hojo said, "And the walker I am talking about is a character in the story handed down by my ancestor. After hearing this, Chen asked again, "Master, what does the walker mean?"
Hearing Tatsuna's question, Hojo said gently, "Walkers, it's not just every village, town, capital, or country that walks, they are beings who cross various worlds, constantly wandering between different worlds. This is the Walker!"
That's the traverser, isn't it...... Tatsu couldn't help but complain in his heart.
Hojo continued, "They not only travel through the world, but they also possess great power, or the more normal the mortal power of people, perhaps it is more appropriate to call them gods. â
God? That seems too ethereal...... Tatsu thought to himself.
But Hojo's next sentence made Tatsuku unable to calm the feelings in his heart for a long time.
"This temple and this mountain were created out of thin air by a practitioner, and perhaps it is not an exaggeration to call such a power a god. After speaking, Hojo sighed softly, this was also what he knew from his master, and he was also shocked when he heard it.
Chen was stunned for a while, and couldn't help but mutter: "That kind of storage zĂ i is indeed more appropriate to be called a god......"
Chen pondered for a moment when he heard this, and then asked, "Master, how can you prove that what you are telling is not a lie? And how do you know that, Master?"
Tatsuichi threw out several questions in a row, and for a while he still couldn't believe what the Hojo master in front of him said, did that kind of person who only had a mythical character really exist?
Hojo looked at Tatsumi and said, "It's really not true, you will find out later, and the things I know about the walker are only known from the records of the ancestors of the past generations." Hojo avoided answering Tatsu's first question, and Tatsu's heart was still full of doubts.
"Our founding patriarch of Datong Temple, Tagawa Shangren, once got acquainted with a walker. Datong Temple was also built with the help of that walker, and in addition, this small temple is the real Datong Temple, which has been built for three or four hundred years. Hojo said slowly.
The house still looks like new, and there is no trace of the passage of four hundred years. Chen gently stroked the bluestone bricks on the ground, which were still very smooth and neat, and there were no traces left after the vicissitudes of time.
"Walker helped us build the temple, but she also made a request to Tagawa to find a walker like her. There is an extraordinary aura on the walker's body, which is completely different from ordinary people. You have that trait in you, too. Hojo looked at the young man in front of him and said unhurriedly.
"Then how can you have such an aura on your body? You shouldn't be a so-called walker, right?" Chen thought for a moment after hearing this, and then asked rhetorically.
Hojo smiled and took out a string of Buddhist beads, and Tatsuneng felt a sense of disobedience from this item, as if this string of Buddhist beads should not have appeared here. Hojo untied the string of Buddhist beads, snapped, many wooden Buddhist beads rolled down onto the bluestone slab, this long-retained Buddha treasure was dismantled like this, but Hojo didn't care, he just looked at his hand intently.
"This is what the walker left behind", Hojo's withered hands quietly lay two crystal round jade beads.
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