Chapter 4 Seeking Immortals in the Mountains

On the rocky mountain, two childish teenagers were panting heavily. They carried longbows and quivers, their clothes were tattered, and there were a few fresh blood marks on their faces, and each of them carried a small bag and a bare wooden stick.

These two are the brothers Wang Jing and Wang Zhe. After listening to the story of the immortal Han Li in the tea house, they were moved to seek immortals. I heard from the storyteller that there was an ancient immortal legend in Yinshan near Qizhou City, so he secretly came here to find the fairy fate without telling his family.

"Wang Jing, we have been looking hard for almost three months in the Yinshan Mountain Range, and we have entered countless caves of various kinds, and we have encountered a lot of crises that almost cost us our lives. Except for encountering a lot of poisonous insects and snakes, there is no trace of half of the immortals, so it is better to go back now. Wang Zhe gently put down the burden and wooden stick, rubbed his sore calves, and said a little deflated.

"Let's look for it one last time, I've been looking for three months, and I'm not in a hurry to go home in the next few days. Wang Jing wiped the sweat from his forehead and persuaded with a smile.

"You've been saying this for almost two months, and I don't know when I'm going to talk about it, and I don't know what my family is going to be anxious about. Wang Zhe sat on a flat and smooth stone on the ground and complained dissatisfiedly.

"Don't worry, we all left a message when we went out, and the dry food and fire sickle arrows were also well prepared, they knew our skills, and it would not be a problem to survive in the barren mountains and mountains for a few years. In the past three months, we have walked through the mountains and rivers of the Yinshan Mountain Range, do you find anything different here?" Wang Jing narrowed his eyes and looked at the bare mountains here, and asked suspiciously.

"What difference can it be, isn't it that there are more stones, fewer trees and flowers, and I haven't seen a beast?" Wang Zhe said without thinking about it.

"The ancients said that when things are ordinary, there must be demons. I feel that there is an unspeakable danger here, perhaps the coercion caused by the legendary immortals here. Wang Jing patted his thigh and said excitedly.

"You want to be beautiful, I'm afraid it's the tiger's den in Longtan, the poor mountains and bad waters where you are buried here. Wang Zhebian flattened his mouth and retorted sluggishly.

"Butt, crow's mouth. Spit and foam on your hands, press it on your wooden staff, and say, "Childish words." Wang Jing glared and scolded.

"Go, you're just a child. Am I not right in this place where birds don't poop, and there is not a single hare?" Wang Zhe glanced at Wang Jing and replied with a smile.

"Quack, quack?"

At this moment, a flock of geese returning from the south lined up in a herringbone shape, flying quickly from a distance, flying closer and closer to them.

"Look, don't there be birds without rabbits? let's shoot a bird for lunch, and starve to death. Wang Jing took out a white feather arrow from the quiver, put on the longbow, and began to prepare for archery.

"Cut, you shoot a pheasant that can't run, and you can shoot this kind of goose in the air, and if you shoot one, I'll eat it raw." Wang Zhe stretched his waist and said disdainfully.

We have been walking around this bare mountain for two days, and this is the first time we have seen anything alive, and we want to eat it roasted and shared. Wang Jing said in the direction where the geese were flying without looking back.

"Ahhh~~"

Just as they were arguing about whether the geese should be eaten raw or roasted, the wild geese suddenly let out a scream, and then fell headlong less than three miles away from them, and the screams came to an abrupt end, which was terrifying.

In broad daylight, a group of geese flying high in the sky disappeared when they said they couldn't see it, it was really strange, the two brothers were so frightened that their faces turned pale, and sweat the size of beans flowed out of their foreheads, this time it was cold sweat.

"Could it really be that the immortals are doing it?" Wang Jing muttered in surprise as he stared at the place where the wild geese had disappeared.

"Maybe it's a big monster that swallowed them in one gulp. Wang Zhe's face was pale, his legs trembled, and cold sweat quickly wet his clothes.

"After looking for so long and seeing hope, let's go and have a look, maybe we really ran into an immortal this time. After Wang Jing was frightened, he said excitedly.

"Well, if you don't go to see you, you won't give up, maybe you will have to find the New Year. After hesitating for a while, Wang Zhe took off his sweat-soaked clothes and said helplessly.

"The place where the geese fell is not far from here, and there may be danger, so let's eat and drink enough to recharge before we go over. Wang Jing took out the water bag and the dough cake and jerky from the package, gave half of it to Wang Zhe, and then he ate it himself.

The bread was exchanged for their prey and the hunters in the mountains, and the jerky was made by themselves, and they had been eating these things for three months, and they were very tired, and in order to maintain their strength, they had to settle for it.

Half an hour later, they climbed up the hill full of energy, but they did not see a single living creature along the way, not even the most common hares and pheasants, nor the bones of any animals. The two chatted in a low voice as they walked.

It's really a dead horse running in the mountains. Even though the distance was less than three miles, they still crawled hard for two hours, their fingers grinding blood blisters, except for the bow and arrow and the burden on their backs, the wooden sticks had long become a burden, and they didn't know where to throw them.

When the two of them were sweating profusely and their feet were sore and they climbed halfway up the steep mountain, Wang Jing was shocked to find that there was a huge cave in the shade there. The diameter of the cave is about five zhang in diameter, and the cave wall is smooth and spotless, as if something has been rubbing on it for a long time. The light in the cave was dim a few feet deep, and the inside was unfathomable, and the slightest cold air kept coming out.

As soon as they walked into the cave, the hot sweat of Wang Jing and the others immediately became cold, and they couldn't help but shiver.

"The cave is so smooth, there must be huge beasts coming in and out, and the flock of geese just now may have been sucked into this cave. Are we going in or going back?" Wang Zhe stared at the entrance of the cave with a pale face, and asked Wang Jing tremblingly.

"It took so much effort to find this place, and if you don't go in and investigate, it won't be a waste of months of hard work, every inch of time. Wang Jing's eyes stared at the dark entrance of the cave, and his heart was full of excitement.

After a while, Wang Jing suppressed the excitement in his heart, turned back to Wang Zhe and said seriously: "If you don't go in, I'll go alone, and you can go home by yourself." If I die, don't let my family come here to look for it, lest the whole family be lost here, and without me, it's useless for them to ask for immortal fate. ”

Wang Zhe's face turned blue and white for a while, and after thinking for a long time, he nodded his head, patted his chest and said: "Go in, who called me your cousin, if you are left alone in this barren mountain and wilderness, your father will not peel my skin when I go home." ”

"Hehe, your heart towards the Tao is not firm, be careful that the immortal has already seen it from the cave. When Wang Jing heard that Wang Zhe also followed, he naturally felt a lot happier in his heart, after all, it would definitely be a lie to say that he was not afraid of this kind of dark place.

When they had enough rest at the entrance of the cave, they took out an old cotton cloth from their baggage, wrapped it in a fist-sized mass of grease, and tied it firmly with the wire they had brought with them, and made two simple torches. Then one of them was carefully lit with a fire sickle, and one was held in his hand for later use. The two of them held torches with black smoke billowing and walked step by step towards the cave.

The general cave is wide in the front and narrow in the back, and there is a crack after a few steps, and there is a ditch underneath, which is very dangerous. This cave is very weird, first walked up more than a dozen zhang, and then slowly walked down, the size of the cave entrance is still the size of a square circle, not reduced by half a point at all, and the stone cave is still dry and abnormal.

They held on to the stone walls of the cave, groping their way forward one foot deep and one foot shallow. Half an hour later, about three hundred and fifty or sixty zhang deep, it is estimated that I have reached the foot of the mountain, and I heard the sound of dingdong spring water in the cave. The inside of the cave was even colder, and the faces of the two were frosted. There is a thin layer of water in the hole, which is extremely slippery, and it is easy to slip if you are not careful.

After another stick of incense, Wang Jing and the others trembled and came to a dry platform, behind which was a wide and smooth hall. The entrance to the hall has an eerie curtain of multicolored light. It was soft and elastic to the touch, and the fist pushed hard two or three inches deep, punching and kicking plus gnawing with teeth, and the light curtain did not break after tossing for a long time. People couldn't get in at all, and they didn't know if the disappeared geese had entered it, which made Wang Jing puzzled.