Chapter 5: The Little Old Man
"Hey!" Seeing that he really couldn't catch up, Shen Cheng sat on the hillside with his brows furrowed. I don't know if this little paper crane really reported to the immortal master, in case I didn't follow the steps and lost it, such a big mountain, it's really not easy to find the immortal master!
Shen Cheng really regretted it now, he shouldn't have let that little thing go so recklessly, he had known that he would wear an eye on the paper crane and then tie a rope, and he didn't believe that it could escape from his palm.
Shen Cheng sighed helplessly, dragged a dry branch from under the tree, and whipped a few leaves in the dirt on the side of the mountain road, thinking about what he would do next if the immortal master didn't see the paper crane!
After about a cup of tea, there was a sound of footsteps on the path behind him, as if someone was hurrying towards him.
Someone went down the mountain? Shen Cheng looked back with joy in his heart, and his depressed mood finally improved. Even if the person who goes down the mountain is not an immortal master, it is always good to at least see a passerby and ask for directions!
After only a few moments, the figure emerged from the overlapping trees, and the man was still muttering: "This stinky boy, you can make the poor road wait so hard! Hehe, it's finally here, it's finally here......
Well, the meaning of the obedient words should be that immortal master, Shen Cheng was happy in his heart and got up to greet him.
But when I saw the person who came down the mountain, it was a thin old man of sixty or seventy years old! He was not tall, only half a head taller than Shen Cheng, but his body was still quite tough.
Under the dark Taoist hat, a thin face was full of folds, and the few sparse white whiskers on the side of the mouth were left on the chest, and the eyes were quite bright. There were no hairs left in the fly shake in his hand, but he was still holding on to the crook of his arm like a decent one.
"How can this old man have the posture of an immortal? How can he get rid of a piece of bark and become a essence! He can't touch the middle-aged Taoist with the immortal wind bone in his dream!" Shen Cheng couldn't help but drum in his heart, "Could it be that immortals are like this?" Although he thought so in his heart, he didn't dare to show it on his face. After all, that paper crane is not an ordinary mortal thing!
When the little old man saw Shen Cheng, he stopped and looked at him.
Shen Cheng hurriedly took two steps forward, although he was a little apprehensive in his heart, but he still said: "Meet the Taoist Elder in the next Shen Cheng." I, I'm here to apprentice!"
As he spoke, Shen Cheng was about to kneel down and bow down.
"Eh," the little old man smiled and helped Shen Cheng in the air, so that Shen Cheng couldn't bow down, and said in his mouth: "You are Shen Cheng? Okay, good, hey, you've grown so tall......!
Shen Cheng was quite curious about the old Taoist's spells, but after listening to the little old man's words, he muttered in his heart: "Accepting apprentices still depends on the days? Isn't it that the immortal master doesn't like me when he sees me, and he doesn't want to accept me as a disciple to prevaricate me, right?"
The little old man didn't know Shen Cheng's careful thoughts, and while taking Shen Cheng to the mountain, he said, "I have calculated that you will be able to reach Jinxia Mountain in a few days." In order to wait for you, I haven't been out to meet friends for a while!
Shen Cheng heard the little old man call himself "a teacher", and his heart was happy. Seeing that the little old man spoke wittily and kindly, the initial tension and restraint were also relieved a lot, and he followed behind the Taoist priest and walked towards the mountain.
After a while, the two of them followed the path to a tall cyan stone wall.
I saw the little old man make a strange gesture with both hands, and then pointed a little finger on the stone wall and said "open" in his mouth. The stone wall in front of him was inexplicably blurred, revealing the entrance of a cave.
This is really a fake Dao Immortal Technique, Shen Cheng's face was full of surprise and admiration, but he didn't dare to ask anything. Sure enough, Shen Cheng's initial suspicion of the little old man was gone, and he followed the little old man into the cave.
As the figures of the two disappeared completely into the cave, the entrance of the cave rippled like water waves, and turned into a stone wall again, and there was nothing wrong with it.
The passage in the cave is not low and narrow, and can accommodate two or three people walking side by side. Every few steps on the stone wall overhead, a strange stone emitted a white light, and the cave was not damp, but rather dry.
Is this the cave where the immortal master cultivates? It is completely different from what he imagined. Shen thought it was an immortal mansion, and it should be a palace, a mansion, a small bridge and flowing water!
After walking about dozens of steps, the cave suddenly opened up, and a stone hall with a radius of more than 100 zhang and a height of several zhang appeared in front of him. There are also several stone doors around the stone hall, apparently opening up several independent stone chambers. The stone hall is also dotted with glowing stones, illuminating the entire stone hall.
In the center of the stone hall was a stone table and a stone bench, and the paper crane was lying quietly on the stone table motionless, having lost its original spirituality at this time.
"Shen Cheng," the little old man took Shen Cheng to a master door, pointed to the stone door with a slight smile and said to him, "You can rest in this stone room tonight." ”
"Immortal Master Xie. Shen Cheng respectfully bowed his head and clenched his fists.
At this time, it was already past noon, and the little old man told Shen Cheng that he could go around the cave mansion, but he specially instructed him not to touch the herbs in the small medicine garden in the corner of the stone hall, and then he smiled and prepared dinner for Shen Cheng.
As he walked, he muttered, "Oh, I haven't drunk in a few days, so I'll have a few sips of ...... tonight."
Since the little old man took the initiative to say that he wanted to take a look around by himself, Shen Cheng was not polite. Of course, you have to take a look at the cave mansion that the immortals said, which is a little different from what you imagined!
Pushing open a stone door, there was only a flat stone bed inside, and the surface of the stone bed was neatly carved with a gossip pattern, and there was nothing else in the room! Thinking that this was the living room of the immortal master, it should be here to rest and practice, Shen Cheng felt that there was nothing to see and retreated.
Walking to another stone room, the stone door was engraved with the word "Dan", and a big iron guy came into view when the stone door was opened.
"What is this? Could this be the furnace used by Taoist priests for alchemy?" Shen Cheng held his elbow with one hand, pinched his chin curiously and tilted his head, and his face was groaning.
This big iron stove is more than a head taller than himself, and the lid of the stove has leaking holes on all sides, and the whole body is gray and dirty! The gossip pattern can be faintly seen outside the furnace wall, as if it has not been used for a long time.
Shen Cheng circled around the furnace and looked back and forth, thinking, "With such a big furnace, how many pills do you have to refine at one time!"
Although Shen Cheng is young, after all, he has studied in a private school for three or four years, and even if he has not seen some things, he has heard of them.