Pure Yang!

Chapter 2: Stop the tourists and trust the science

"You didn't see such a big living person?"

Zhang Fan stood there in a daze, looking at Li Yishan with suspicion, his brows furrowed into the shape of the Chinese character "川".

"How could I not see the beauty? Weren't there just two of us?" Li Yishan stared at Zhang Fan strangely.

"Are you under too much pressure and your eyes are blurry?"

As he spoke, Li Yishan raised his hand and waved it in front of Zhang Fan's eyes.

"No... didn't you give way to her when you stood up?" Zhang Fan caught the detail and said anxiously.

"I gave up the pillar."

"Don't be ridiculous."

Zhang Fan's face darkened slightly, and the image of the girl in black just now appeared in his mind.

"You're kidding... We just broke up, are you possessed?"

Li Yishan rolled his eyes and hooked Zhang Fan's shoulders.

"It's all divided... You should focus on making money now... buying a car and a house... at least get a four-wheel drive car first..."

As he spoke, Li Yishan showed a meaningful smile on his face: "Have you heard of this old saying?"

"When you are young and promising, you buy an Audi, and the pants are all picked up by the salesperson!"

"..."

"Why should a man worry about not having a wife?"

"You really didn't see it?"

"Okay, this is Zhenwu Mountain, stop joking... The bus is about to leave, and the next attraction is still more than ten kilometers away."

Before he finished speaking, Li Yishan pulled Zhang Fan towards the sightseeing bus.

The mountain road was rugged and lush ancient trees passed by the car window.

Along the way, Zhang Fan remained silent, with the image of the girl in black all over his mind.

Such a big living person, didn’t you see it?

Maybe it was because the lighting in the hall was too dim and the incense was too thick, so I was really dazzled?
"Do you think she could be a fox fairy?" Zhang Fan muttered.

“Don’t go with the whole ban on superstition… Besides, in which novels or TV shows have you seen fox spirits dare to run into Taoist temples?” Li Yishan glanced at him and said calmly.

"You just have too many distracting thoughts..."

"The Guanxin Peak is in front of us... The geographical magnetic field there is different from other places. It can cleanse the soul..."

As he spoke, Li Yishan leaned close to Zhang Fan's ear.

“The scenery is also nice, and many climbers like to take photos here.”

"Um!?"

"It's all in the pornographic books...Look at the mountains and rivers from Guanxin Peak, and see long legs under the fairy skirt!"

"The ticket price is 280 yuan, but you can enjoy the game as if it cost 1800 yuan."

Zhang Fan shook his head and sighed, secretly praying to the Great Emperor Zhenwu, saying that he was not familiar with the person in front of him.

Half an hour later, the sightseeing bus stopped at the Guanxin Peak scenic spot gathering place.

In addition to the pleasant mountain scenery, the most famous thing about this place is a palace built in the air on the mountain, named [Nanxuan Palace], which has a history of more than one thousand years.

"Look over there... It is said that the peach wood sword was left by the Pure Yang Patriarch and has a history of more than 600 years."

Looking out from the railing, there is a thousand-foot cliff in front of you. Looking up, you can see a wooden sword standing alone on the cliff. It has an ancient style and some cracks can be vaguely seen, revealing the marks of time.

"It's been exposed to wind and rain for more than 600 years, and it's still there?" Zhang Fan stared at the wooden sword on the cliff with a strange look on his face.

After six hundred years, let alone a wooden sword, even an iron sword should have been corroded and weathered.

"It's a 5A-level scenic spot...there must be some gimmicks...how do you know if it has been changed?" Li Yishan whispered.

"Gods, he was the one who said that." Upon hearing that, Zhang Fan immediately distanced himself.

"..."

Climbing the mountain and admiring the scenery is indeed refreshing and can temporarily make people forget their worries. No wonder the great writers and sages in ancient times liked to hide in the mountains when they encountered worldly troubles.

"The gods don't save people from disasters... It was still better in ancient times. If you bear too much pressure, you will become a monster, a fairy, a god, or a demon..."

"Modern people bear too much and will only become mentally ill." Li Yishan climbed to a high place and looked into the distance, unable to help but sigh.

"Hmm? Look..."

At this moment, Zhang Fan tugged at the corner of Li Yishan's clothes and pointed. Not far away, he saw a tree-lined path shaded by grass and trees. At the head of the road, there were eight big characters written on it:

Tourists are not allowed to enter. "What is that place?" Zhang Fan asked curiously.

"I don't know. Zhenwu Mountain is too big. Many places have not been developed. The mountain roads are rugged and tourists are not allowed to enter and exit at will." Li Yishan said casually.

"However, I have also heard that there are many Taoist temples in this mountain, which are not used as tourist attractions and are not open to the public."

"Would you like to go shopping?" Li Yishan suggested.

"Didn't you see the words on the sign!?" Zhang Fan said indifferently.

"Why don't you just pretend you didn't see it?!"

"That makes sense, let's go."

The two hit it off immediately, bypassed the warning sign, stepped through the weeds, and stepped onto the hidden tree-lined path.

The mountain path is rugged and full of gravel and mud, which is much more difficult to walk on than the road in the scenic area. The key is that the further you go in, the wetter and colder the air becomes, and you can even see snakes jumping along the wall.

"Now I know why the passage is prohibited." Li Yishan regretted.

"Let's go back. There's nothing interesting ahead."

"There is a Taoist temple there..."

At this moment, Zhang Fan stopped and pointed forward.

Li Yishan followed and saw a Taoist temple hidden in the wild forest not far away. It seemed to be made of yellow earth, with a low gate. Unlike the palaces and temples in the tourist attractions outside, it looked shabby and dilapidated.

"Is there anyone here?"

Zhang Fan and Li Yishan looked at each other and walked straight up.

The gate of the dilapidated Taoist temple was tightly closed, and the rusty chain had long since solidified into a lump. One could only vaguely see through the crack in the door that there was an ancient well in the front yard. It must have been abandoned for a long time and was sealed with stone bars.

"This place is interesting..." Li Yishan said suddenly.

"What's so interesting about it?" Zhang Fan asked puzzled.

"Have you read Water Margin?"

"I've seen it, so what? Are there heroes of Liangshan here?" Zhang Fan asked back.

"The first chapter of the original Water Margin novel, which was not filmed in the old TV series, tells the story of General Hong inviting Zhang Tianshi to the capital to pray for the elimination of the plague, but he mistakenly opened the seal of the Demon-Subduing Temple in the mountains, dug out the stone tablet, and released the 108 demon stars suppressed by the stone tablet in the cave, which led to the subsequent story..."

Having said that, Li Yishan looked at the dry well in the crack of the door again.

"I heard that... many famous Taoist mountains may not have a demon-suppressing hall, but they all have an ancient well that suppresses the demons and monsters captured by Taoist priests of all generations..."

"Maybe this is..."

"What a feudal dregs! Let's crawl in and take a look!" Zhang Fan suggested.

"Two laymen, this place is not open to the public."

At this moment, a light and gentle voice came from behind.

Zhang Fan turned his head and saw a fat, middle-aged Taoist priest standing behind him, staring at the two of them with narrowed eyes.

"Well...well...we are lost..." Li Yishan's mind worked the fastest and he made up stories without any fear of retribution.

"You can just go back along the same route... This place has been in disrepair for a long time, and the road is slippery. It would be dangerous to enter or exit casually." The chubby Taoist priest had a good temper.

"Thank you, Taoist Priest... May I ask your Taoist name..." Zhang Fan nodded in thanks with a guilty conscience.

"I have broken my vows..."

"So it's breaking...breaking the precepts!?" Zhang Fan was stunned.

"Master, is the well inside here the legendary Demon-Subduing Well?"

At this moment, Li Yishan came up and asked curiously.

"Hahaha……"

Hearing this, Pojie raised his head and laughed: "Feudal superstition is not good. The teachings of religion are to persuade people to be good... Cultivating immortals and catching monsters are things that only exist in artistic creation..."

"Laymen, please believe in science."

Zhang Fan and Li Yishan looked at each other in embarrassment, then said goodbye to the Taoist priest who had broken his vows and returned along the same path.

After a while, there were no more figures of the two people on the long and quiet path.

Rumble…

At this moment, a dull "rumbling" sound suddenly came from the ancient well in the temple, accompanied by the sound of heavy iron chains colliding...

Pojie raised his eyebrows, squinted his eyes, and looked at the ancient well through the crack in the door. The next moment, the dull sound finally disappeared.

(End of this chapter)