I'm wandering in the world

Chapter 149: The Gate of Lushan
hum...

The loud and distant bells rang...

Chen Qingyuan's body became lighter and he climbed up the long white marble stairs that seemed to have no end.

Chen Qingyuan, who has gone through self-cultivation and built a solid foundation, can ride a bicycle for ten hours in a row in "Mr. Zombie" without getting tired, but when he climbs the stairs, he feels that each step is a little heavier than the previous one.

After walking up 3,600 steps, Chen Qingyuan's clothes were soaked with sweat, his hair was stuck to his forehead, and he looked a little disheveled...

Finally reaching the end, he looked up and saw a very wide square, at least as big as ten football fields combined. Behind the square was a huge and magnificent palace with a plaque on the door that read "Lushan Linggong".

On the left side of the palace is a bell tower with a simple and simple bell hanging on it, and on the right side is a drum tower with a big drum with a brown-red body and an off-white drum head hanging on it...

Chen Qingyuan was very tired, but at the same time, he felt a little excited. It seemed that this was the place where Chen Jinggu, the Holy Mother of Shuntian, had practiced and attained enlightenment.

The legendary Lushan!

An independent little world that exists in the world and is hidden outside the world.

It's a bit like the caves of the old immortals in mythological novels. From the outside, it looks like an ordinary cave, but when you go inside, you will find a different world, with immortal birds and rare animals, natural treasures, and completely another world...

But...why is there no one here?
Chen Qingyuan held his hands together and said loudly: "Chen Qingyuan, a disciple of the Sannai Sect and Shuntian Shengmu lineage, comes to seek the truth!"

The gate of the Ling Palace was closed tightly, and the bells that were heard at the foot of the mountain and on the white marble stairs did not ring at this moment.

He felt as if he had accidentally walked into a university college during a closed period.

It's empty, so I can't help feeling a little panicked.

It can be any person or any animal.

Chen Qingyuan looked around, trying to find the shadow of the cockatoo, but unfortunately he found nothing. It seemed that the cockatoo was just a spirit beast guarding the door, helping to open the door...

I can't just go back like this.

He didn't know how to respond.

Thinking about it...

Looking at the seven or eight meter high vermilion gate in front of him, Chen Qingyuan took a deep breath: "Sorry for disturbing you, disciple..."

He pressed his palms on the door, one on the left and one on the right. With a low shout, his strength gradually increased. His face flushed, veins on his forehead bulged, and his feet frantically increased the friction on the ground...

puff!
The diving shoes couldn't withstand the friction and broke directly.

Chen Qingyuan took off his shoes and continued to push the door barefoot on the ground. Beads of sweat hung on his forehead. He subconsciously practiced the Lushan Zhengong Sutra to try to increase his strength.

Qi flows in the body, inflating the diving suit.

He simply took off his diving suit, changed into a set of sportswear in his teardrop mole, and continued to push the door...

The soles of my feet rubbed against the ground, slowly leaving scars and shallow bloodstains.

gah...

The door seemed to make a noise!
Chen Qingyuan was overjoyed and continued to work hard regardless of the pain.

In this Lushan Mountain, there is no sun or moon, but there are daybreaks and dawns. He kept supporting the door with both hands and counted the number of daybreaks and darkens five or six times. During this time, he also heard five or six creaking sounds.

Every time I thought the door was about to open.

As a result, there was not even a gap, and one even suspected that the gate of the spiritual palace was made up of two doors welded together.

On the seventh day, Chen Qingyuan was as wet as if he had been fished out of the water. During the seven days since he entered Lushan, he had been pushing the door all the time.

It was magical here. Even though he hadn't eaten anything, he didn't feel hungry. Although pushing the door was tiring and painful, Chen Qingyuan didn't feel sleepy at all...

Crunch!

Hear the creaking sound again!
Chen Qingyuan didn't hold out much hope for the creaking sound. He glanced casually and his whole body shook. A gap as small as a hair appeared in the middle of the huge door.

He put his face against the crack in the door and looked inside.

It was pitch black, I couldn't see anything...

Chen Qingyuan is also a person who has watched many film and television dramas and ancient books about myths and strange stories. He knows that some places in the immortal caves will put visitors through some physical or mental tests.

After pushing the door for seven days, only a gap as thick as a hair's width was opened.

This gave Chen Qingyuan great encouragement.

Unfortunately, the time has come...

A breeze surrounded him.

Disappeared in front of the gate of the Spirit Palace...

Boom! ! !
The huge drum surface of the Drum Tower, which had not sounded for seven days, began to ripple with invisible ripples, and it sank slightly and vibrated, making a deafening drum sound!

hum! ! !
Then, on the left side of the bell tower, the wooden bell hanging on the side began to swing automatically, and suddenly hit the ancient bell, and the dull and distant bell sound spread out...

The bells and drums rang out. Although there was no one in sight in the entire Lushan Mountain, there was a feeling of bustling with people coming and going. In the Ling Palace that Chen Qingyuan had pushed for seven days and seven nights, there was a faint sound of chanting scriptures. It seemed that there was an old man answering the questions of the chanters...

……

……

Gray world.

Chen Qingyuan came back, took out a chair from the teardrop mole and sat down, regulating his breathing and luck. He was pleasantly surprised to find that the Qi in his body seemed to become purer and flowed much faster in his body...

At this speed, I believe I can complete at least three small cycles a day, and within ten years I will definitely be able to reach the perfection of refining essence into Qi and reach the true realm of Qi refining.

He guessed that the purity of Qi was closely related to pushing the door in Lushan. If there were such results in seven days, what about seven months, seven years, wouldn't it take off?
It’s a pity that time is limited, otherwise it could be pushed to seven months, but it would be a bit boring.

Chen Qingyuan tidied his clothes and prepared to go!
Being able to enter the Lushan world this time is a huge gain.

He was looking forward to his next visit to Lushan, to see if he could find anything new...

A vortex appears.

The mission begins!
Chen Qingyuan disappeared in the vortex.

……

...Strange yet familiar streets, old cars, signs in both English and Chinese, circles of neon lights in broad daylight, and pop music playing in roadside audio-visual stores.

Chen Qingyuan reached into his pocket, took out his cell phone, and a text message popped up, which was a video.

I found a secluded place to sit down and watch the video, which turned out to be a horror movie from the late 80s called "The Evil Cat".

The plot is not complicated:
Four hundred years ago, a cat demon appeared and wreaked havoc on the world. A Maoshan sorcerer appeared to fight against it! The cat demon had cultivated successfully and had a total of nine lives. Every time he died, he would be resurrected after fifty years.

In order to kill the cat demon completely, the Maoshan sorcerers regarded killing the cat demon as their own responsibility. While their descendants inherited the Maoshan magic, they also had to kill the cat demon once every fifty years.

Every time the cat demon was resurrected and killed people everywhere, it would be killed and sealed by the descendants of the warlock.

After being killed for the eighth time, it was sealed in a desolate wilderness. After fifty years, this place became a construction site, and the place where the cat demon was suppressed was dug out by an excavator and the seal was broken...

Of the descendants of the Maoshan sorcerer, only a man in his fifties named Zhang Dashao remained at this time. Because Maoshan magic was passed down to males but not females, he had a daughter, which meant that the legacy would be cut off in this generation. In addition, he suffered from liver cancer and was very worried that he would not be able to find an apprentice and would not be able to kill the cat demon's last life. He was very depressed...

The cat demon is born!

Young Master Zhang plans to go to a meeting alone to eliminate the cat demon. On the way, he meets the protagonist Luo Jianming, who works as a driver in a large group. The two experience the cat demon together and share the same hatred for the enemy! Luo Jianming worships Young Master Zhang as his master, and the master and apprentice work together to capture the cunning cat demon. In the end, after a fierce battle, Young Master Zhang sacrifices his life to kill the cat demon...

It was just that according to the convention of horror films at the time, the ghost seemed to be killed, but there would be a scene at the end where the ghost was not completely dead or escaped.

This film is the same. The demon cat seems to possess a police inspector in the end, showing the habits of a cat...

……

Ding Dong!

A text message came: [Completely eliminate the cat demon. ]

It turned out to be such a task, Chen Qingyuan guessed it.

After watching the video, he guessed the reason why the cat demon did not die based on the plot.

The cat demon started to cause trouble 400 years ago. Although it is not very powerful, it is very intelligent and cunning. If it is injured and does not die immediately, it can heal very quickly by sucking human blood.

So 400 years ago, the sorcerer of Maoshan used precious materials to make a demon-killing bow and dozens of talisman arrows. As long as the talisman arrows pierced the heart of the cat demon, it would kill a life immediately, and then wait 50 years to resurrect and continue to kill...

Maybe it was not so easy to kill the cat demon every time. After eight cat demons were killed, there were only three talisman arrows left out of dozens.

In the movie, all three talisman arrows hit the cat demon.

The first talisman arrow hit its abdomen, blowing the person it possessed into pieces.

The second talisman arrow hit the shoulder, but did not cause fatal damage and was pulled out.

The third arrow hit the heart, seemingly killing it, but then it attached itself to someone else. Chen Qingyuan speculated that the third arrow hit an ordinary person by mistake before killing the cat demon, which weakened the arrow's power and therefore failed to kill the cat demon...

In this movie, the Maoshan sorcerer Zhang Dashao has been busy trying to eliminate the cat demon since he sensed the birth of the cat demon, and this task runs through the entire plot.

The group's driver Luo Jianming didn't believe in monsters at first, but after seeing the cat monster, he quickly joined forces with Master Zhang to help eliminate the cat monster...

The biggest obstacle in the process of eliminating the cat demon is not only its cunningness, but the first one should be the police inspector Wu Yingjun's refusal to listen to explanations and his various good intentions leading to bad results, as well as the fact that Mr. Zhang has a daughter who does not believe in superstition.

Chen Qingyuan sorted out his thoughts a little bit in his mind and came up with a preliminary plan.

The Maoshan sorcerer Zhang Dashao should be from the lineage that can marry and have children. In this generation, due to the development of science and technology, there is no longer any distinction between sects. The only thing they hope for is that someone can pass on the legacy.

Let’s go find him first.

Although the protagonist Luo Jianming is very brave, he is only brave enough. In the plot, he did not achieve any significant results after learning Maoshan magic from Zhang Dashao.

In the 80s, in order to provide elderly people with a place to rely on in their later years, Hong Kong Island began to try to establish a number of elderly activity centers, which is also a form of nursing homes.

The elderly can choose to live in a nursing home or at home.

They regularly visit the nursing home to participate in various activities that are beneficial to their physical and mental health.

Apart from mentioning the Zheng Group where the protagonist Luo Jianming works, the movie has very limited information about his residence, but this does not pose a problem for Chen Qingyuan at all.

On a busy street.

Chen Qingyuan hailed a taxi and said as soon as he got in, "Take me to the most popular bar or dance hall nearby!"

The driver heard this, smiled evilly, showed an "I understand" expression, and said: "Okay, sit tight!"

The taxi shuttled through the streets and alleys and sent Chen Qingyuan to the front door of a dance hall. He got off the car and handed a two-hundred-yuan note to the driver: "Thank you!"

People who can take a taxi are generally not poor, but few people are willing to tip the taxi driver.

The driver smiled and said, “Thanks handsome!”

He stepped on the accelerator and sped away...

The dance hall usually opens officially at 6pm, but it is also open during the day, but there are fewer customers.

There was a wooden platform inside the dance hall door, on which sat two young men with cigarettes in their mouths. There were dragons and phoenixes carved on their bodies, and they looked at the people coming and going outside the door with extremely arrogant expressions.

Many guests who were planning to go in and dance were frightened and took a detour when they saw their appearance.

Chen Qingyuan was speechless. With these two door gods here, there was no way the dance hall would have any business.

The mentality of the two hooligans is actually very simple. They are guarding the dance hall and watching the place. The income of the dance hall is shared by the boss and the society, while they, as small hooligans, can only get a fixed salary every month. Whether the dance hall business is good or not is none of their business. Besides, if there are fewer customers, there will be fewer people making trouble, and they can relax a little bit...

They were smoking cigarettes and frowned when they saw Chen Qingyuan coming towards them. One of them shouted, "Hey, little white-collar worker, you came to the dance hall without a girl. Are you trying to cheat her?"

Chen Qingyuan was wearing a white shirt, jeans, and ordinary leather shoes. He looked gentle and sunny, and indeed looked like an honest man who worked hard in the company.

He smiled shyly and said, "I heard that some gang members are more capable than the police, so I want to see if you two brothers can help me with something."

The young man with a crew cut chuckled and said, "You are quite good at talking, pretty boy. Of course, our abilities are much stronger than those of the cops, but if you want us to help you... you need to know some rules of the underworld."

Chen Qingyuan said, "It's like this. I've encountered something weird recently, and I want to ask a master to exorcise it. I heard that there's an old man named Zhang Dashao who's very powerful, and he seems to be a descendant of Maoshan. I only know that he lives in a nursing home in Hong Kong Island, but I don't know which nursing home it is... Could you two help contact your boss and mobilize the people in the society to look for him?"

As he spoke, he reached out and placed a 1000 yuan bill on the wooden table, with a kind and innocent expression on his face.

The gangster was in a good mood when he saw this!
Don’t be fooled by the gang members who seem to be so awesome. Those gang leaders often talk about hundreds of thousands or millions of dollars. In fact, only these leaders and some core thugs are rich. For those of them who are just guarding the gate, their salary is only a little more than that of white-collar workers, and they spend it very quickly...

They laughed and said, "You seem to have said something wrong. You want our boss to mobilize the people in the society to help you find someone? What's the use of your thousand dollars? But if you let us drink tea and help keep an eye on him, it's possible."

Chen Qingyuan understood everything. Sure enough, things were pretty much as he imagined. He hummed and punched the nearest gangster in the face with his right hand!
(End of this chapter)