Chapter 3: Ancient Umbrellas
Zhang Yan was lying on the bed, and the quilt covering his body exuded a faint musty smell in the humid air.
The dim oil lamp quietly illuminates the uneven and somewhat dark mud walls of the house.
Looking at the roof, wandering out of the world, thinking that in two days, the master might be able to leave the mountain after the so-called heavenly tribulation, and his heart was full of excitement.
If my parents knew that Master was an immortal, then I don't know what excitement would be, although Master has been strictly ordering himself for five years that his existence should not be mentioned to others, but now that Master is about to go out of the mountain, he will definitely come to the house.
At that time, Master is willing to leave here with himself and his family, and his parents will no longer have to suffer and be tired.
When the friends in the village saw that they had an immortal master, they didn't know how much they would envy themselves.
With a beautiful vision, Zhang Yan fell asleep with a satisfied face.
"Boom...... Rumble......"
The deafening thunder woke up Zhang Yan, who had fallen asleep, and the crackling sound of thunder and lightning seemed to explode in his ears, reaching his heart, making people feel shocked.
Through the wooden window, under the light of lightning, you can see the pouring rain outside.
Zhang Yan has never encountered such a terrifying thunder sound since he was a child, could this be related to the master's so-called Heavenly Tribulation?
I couldn't help but feel uneasy, and I really wanted to go to the back mountain to see if everything was okay with the master, but in the dark night and pouring rain, he couldn't go to the back mountain.
However, he immediately remembered that Master was an immortal, how could thunder and heavy rain hurt Master.
With a conflicted heart, Zhang Yan kept his eyes open and lay on the bed until the early hours of the morning, when the thunder outside became smaller and the rain became drizzling.
Zhang Yan was about to get up and go up the back mountain, when suddenly, a long and low "boom boom boom ......" sound came from the back mountain, and the house and mud floor of the family also shook slightly.
Zhang Yan was shocked, his parents were also awakened and walked out, and hundreds of families in the village were also buzzing with discussions.
Zhang Yan didn't care about this, went out and ran all the way to the back mountain, and didn't hear the call of his parents behind him.
When Zhang Yan rushed to the foot of the mountain, looking forward through the dim light of the early morning, he was suddenly stunned by the scene in front of him.
The back mountain, which was originally nearly 100 zhang high, has now become a gravel pile only about 10 zhang high, and all the originally tall trees around it have been razed to the ground.
"Master!"
Zhang Yan's head went blank in an instant, tears fell uncontrollably, stepping on the stones that kept rolling down from time to time, and rushed towards the general direction where Ouyang Fu was.
"Master!"
Roughly confirming the location of the master, Zhang Yan began to frantically use his hands to remove the stones under his feet, shouting Ouyang Fu in his mouth, ignoring the stones flying down from the mountain stone pile.
But no matter how you dig it, you can't dig underneath, dig out a stone, and a pile will roll down on it, and Zhang Yan's hands and feet are bruised and blood flows.
"Master, where are you? Ah......hh
What about the big stone that I used to sit on and practice "Bone Forging Gong" by myself?
In the past, what about the sand table that I used to draw those symbols, lines, and herbs?
and the mountain wall where the master is located, all gone, and I haven't even seen the master's true face, why is it so gone?
Why did Master say that it was gone?
Zhang Yan was stunned for a moment.
He couldn't figure out the situation at this time, and lay on the rock, his swarthy face crying bitterly and crawling with tears, allowing the falling rocks to pass by his mountainside.
"Big head, what are you doing? Are you crazy, hurry up and give Lao Tzu down. The father of the big head chased after him to the foot of the back mountain, and when he saw this scene, he didn't know why, so he panicked in his heart, and could only roar at Zhang Yan.
"Child, what are you doing, you can't do stupid things, if you have any three long and two short, how can you call your mother to live. Zhang Yan's mother wanted to rush up, but was tightly pulled by Zhang Yan's father.
Hearing the shouts of his parents, Zhang Que suddenly came back to his senses, wiped his tears in a panic, staggered down from the mountain rock pile, and at the bottom of the mountain, Zhang Yan turned around again, knelt on the ground, and silently kowtowed three times to the mountain stone pile.
When he was about to get up and go down the mountain, he found that the corner of a dark black box was peeking out between the rocks not far in front of him, and he couldn't see it until he knelt down.
Zhang Yan stepped forward to remove the stone and picked up the box, which was only a black box the size of a palm, very light in weight, and it was impossible to tell what material it was made of.
Zhang Yan didn't have time to take a closer look, pulled the box into his arms, turned around and ran towards his parents.
"Rabbit, don't die! What are you going to do if you climb up and go crazy? If something happens, I'll have to break your legs. ”
Zhang Yan's father glared at him, but he was angry, and slapped Zhang Yan on the head again, but the force was very light, and his eyes were full of fear.
"Master, the child is already scared, and you still beat him. The mother rushed up and hugged Zhang Yan, looked at the injuries on Zhang Yan's hands and feet, and then couldn't help crying and said, "Child, if you have anything you can't think of, you can tell your mother, don't do stupid things, if you don't want to go to the town, then don't go, it's no big deal, your father and I have been staying in this mountain, and we haven't come here the same." ”
"Father, mother, the child is unfilial, and you are worried. Zhang Yan was even more sad at this time, and when he saw his parents like this, he couldn't help it and knelt down in front of his parents.
"Kid, it's okay, it's just a natural disaster, let's go back. With tears in his eyes, Wang picked up Zhang Yan, who was kneeling on the ground, and walked towards the village below the mountain.
Zhang Yan's father helped the mother and son stumble down the mountain.
In the middle of the night, Zhang Yan got up, thinking of the pile of rocks in the back mountain, and remembering that the master might have really died, and couldn't help but shed tears.
The mood was a little calmer, and Zhang Yan took out the black box he picked up during the day and looked at it carefully through the dim oil lamp.
The dark black box, with strange symbols on it, a familiar feeling emerged in Zhang Yan's mind.
Isn't this the symbol I've been drawing on the sand table every day for the past five years?
This must have been left by the Master. Zhang Yan was excited, but then his heart ached even more.
I remember that in the past five years, Master has taught me knowledge, taught me the method of cultivation, told me a lot of things about the outside, and saved my mother...... The bits and pieces of the past came up at this moment, and I couldn't hold back my choked tears again.
After coming back to his senses for a long time, Zhang Yan suddenly found that a few lines of small and dense text appeared on the originally black box:
"Throughout this life, I want to be Ouyang Fu, I built a foundation at the age of twenty, achieved Jindan at the age of thirty-five, and reached the late stage of Jindan in the year of the Mandate of Heaven.
"And a few years ago, I met my current apprentice, and after a few years of getting along, I feel in my heart that there is hope for a breakthrough in Yuanying, and with two hundred years of preparation, the catastrophe can be overcome. The most lull also successfully survived the catastrophe, immortality is expected, but I don't want to, the way of heaven is ruthless, in my weakest moment, but an ancient umbrella flew from the sky, straight down on the top of the mountain, the ancient umbrella seems to undertake all the power of the catastrophe, the mountain is broken, I am also the soul dissipated, the first condensation of the infant is also instantly broken.
"Apprentice Zhang Yan, if you are lucky enough to get the box and see the master left on it, when you are dying, there is a secret for the master to tell you here, whether you are the most backward and embark on the path of cultivation, after you know, you should consider it more, that is Zhang Daer and Wang, not your biological parents, ten years ago, the teacher saw your current adoptive parents, in the mountains outside the village to pick you up, you have a token attached to you.
"The last sentence for the teacher to send you the last sentence: Heaven and earth are ruthless, cultivators, should go against the sky, want to live forever, the three thousand avenues, all can be destroyed!
This is Ouyang Fu's left, red and blood-colored text, written by Ouyang Fu with his own essence and blood when he was dying, and it is shocking to watch.
After reading Ouyang Fu's last words, Zhang Yan was sad in his heart, crying incessantly, and extremely confused for a while.
After all, he is only an eleven-year-old child, even if he has lived in a small mountain village since he was a child, and the hardships of life have made him much more mature than his actual age.
At the moment, he was a little at a loss.
If Master hadn't died, everything would have been very beautiful, Master would have taken himself and his family to the outside world, and my sister would be so happy that she would be able to live a carefree life in the future.
But the master died so suddenly.
And today's parents are not their biological parents!
Is all this shattered just because of an ancient umbrella that fell on the mountain?
Before dawn, Zhang Yan ignored it and ran to the back mountain alone again.
More than ten zhang high mountain stone pile, Zhang Yan staggered all the way, and fell the way, almost rolled down the mountain, and finally climbed to the top of the mountain stone pile.
The scene in front of me is very strange, on the top of the mountain is a whole piece of intact boulder, firmly pressed on the pile of rocks below, and the trees on the top of the mountain are still intact.
Among the trees, a quaint umbrella stood upright, the front end of the ancient umbrella was completely inserted in the stone on the top of the mountain, the umbrella was intact, but the original mountain stone was penetrated like a piece of tofu.
Is this the ancient umbrella that caused Master's death?
Zhang Yan Daqi stepped forward, and with a little force, he pulled out the ancient umbrella.
The ancient umbrella is very light, the umbrella surface is broken, but the umbrella bones are intact, I don't know what material is used to make it, there is a cold hand, Zhang Yan also feels that there is a kind of vicissitudes on it that makes him unclear, just like the feeling every time he hears the master's words before.
Such a light umbrella can penetrate this boulder and deal a fatal blow to the master?
Zhang Yan didn't believe it, held the ancient umbrella, tightened his hand, and sent it hard to the top of the mountain stone, "bang", a dull sound, the ancient umbrella is intact, and the mountain stone is also intact.
Zhang Yan tried a few more times, but the result was still the same.
The strange thing is not that the mountain stone has not been penetrated, but that the ancient umbrella is actually intact, and you can imagine its toughness.
But with such an umbrella, how could Master be unable to resist it?
Staring at the ancient umbrella, Zhang Yan's heart instantly swelled with anger, and he raised the ancient umbrella with one hand and slammed it down on a big stone beside him.
"Bang!"
After a few years of cultivation, "Bone Forging Gong" can be regarded as a small success, at this time Zhang Yan's strength is so great, the stone instantly cracked, and the mountain stones not far below couldn't help but be affected, rolling down in an uproar.
But the ancient umbrella in his hand was not damaged at all, and not even a trace was left.
Zhang Yan put away the ancient umbrella, and he already had a plan in his heart.
Standing on the top of the rocky pile and looking up at the sky above me, it was already early in the morning, and there was still a dullness in the faintly bright sky.
Zhang Yan wanted to see what was in the sky, but in the vast and boundless sky, he was so small and ridiculous.
Is it really heaven that is difficult to disobey?
The master who has accompanied him since he was a child is gone.
God is ruthless, and people are ruthless, why did their biological parents abandon themselves?
Remembering that the box left by the master has not been opened, there may be clues.
But when the box was opened, there were only two torn thread-bound books, and a stone the size of two fingers in a black cloth bag.
There is a line of words left on the inner wall of the box: "Fu Seal Basic Notes" and "Formation Experience", as well as a mysterious stone that has protected me from danger many times, three things, in vain, I respectfully accept it!
"Mysterious Stone?" Zhang Yan sat on the top of the mountain blankly, looking up at the sky, and muttered to himself, "The things that can keep Master through danger many times have been kept privately for hundreds of years, so I don't think they will be mortal!"
"Master, you won't die like this, one day, the disciple will find the owner of this umbrella!"
Zhang Yan held the mysterious stone tightly and muttered to himself, his words were very soft, but they were resolute.
The box was put away closely, and the stone contained in the small black cloth bag was hung on his chest by Zhang Yan, and then he staggered back to the bottom of the mountain with the ancient umbrella in his arms.
Zhang Yan stood still, knelt down in the direction where the master was, and slowly kowtowed three times.
"Master, the apprentice has decided to embark on the path of cultivation, by the way to find his biological parents, the path of immortality, the apprentice will complete it for you in this life, the apprentice is not filial, and he can come back to see you in the future. ”
After speaking, Zhang Yan turned around and walked down the mountain and walked towards home, with mixed grief in his heart.