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Chapter 4 Sincerity leads to spiritual success
As if to confirm what Boss Zhang said, the gang was robbed by four or five groups of people before they even left Qinghe County.

These people occupied advantageous terrain and were all villagers from nearby.

Faced with these strong villagers armed with knives and guns, no one had the courage to resist.

Even Boss Zhang's gold ring and bracelet were looted. The gang was soon left unarmed and had to start a life of picking wild vegetables to seek immortality again.

"This is too much bullying. We didn't rob them, so why did they steal our food?"

Some people broke down and cried out in grievance.

Everyone was in a low mood, but Boss Zhang encouraged everyone, "Everyone, hold on a little longer. We are not far from Yaoyue Sect."

The gang was so poor at this point that no villager was interested in robbing them anymore.

When they passed by a small village, someone even asked Tian Lin and his friends, "Brothers, why are you still going to Yaoyue Sect? Why don't you just join us?"

How could anyone agree?

Those people also said: "Well, if you can't enter the Immortal Gate, you can still come to us to find work."

After two or three days of this, when crossing an iron chain bridge, Zhang Lao said, "This is called Lin'an Bridge. After crossing the bridge and taking the official road, you can go directly to Yaoyue Sect."

"After more than fifty years, am I finally going to become a cultivator?"

The old man was leaning on a bamboo pole and stepping into the river beside the bridge.

Everyone rushed onto the rope bridge with joy. Tian Lin supported the old man and said, "If Yaoyue Sect was so easy to enter, there wouldn't be so many villagers farming nearby."

The old man panted as he trotted, retorting, "What do you know? To cultivate the immortality one must be sincere. How can those villagers living nearby be as determined as us, the Huahualangs, who have traveled thousands of miles and abandoned our homes and careers to pursue the Tao?"

Tian Lin said nothing more, because after getting on the official road, he saw many refugees walking in groups.

No, they cannot be called refugees.

Because these "refugees" were just like them, all Hua Hualang who had traveled thousands of miles from other places to seek immortality in Yaoyue Sect.

Tian Lin looked at the team of thousands of people, who were now gathered together and all heading in the same direction.

Along the way, there were groups of Huahualangs emerging from nowhere in the cracks of the rocks.

They continued to expand the team and marched towards the Yaoyue Sect in a mighty manner.

"Quick, look above your head!"

Someone shouted, and everyone in the colony looked up at the sky like an ant.

In the sky, several flying boats passed through the clouds and soon disappeared among the mountains.

"It's an immortal, it's an immortal!"

Some people excitedly dropped their walking sticks and ran after the flying boat.

Tian Lin was also very excited at this moment, he looked up at the sky.

Just like when he was a child in his previous life, when a plane passed over his house, he would run out of the house and look up at the sky.

He quickened his pace and ran after the army.

"Where are you, little brat?"

The old man's voice sounded behind him, Tian Lin turned around and said, "Here, come quickly."

But by this time the crowd was already in an uproar. Going up the official road was a narrow mountain road, and everyone was swept forward.

The crying of children, the wailing of women, and the calling of husbands came one after another.

At this time, no one cared about who was who. They stepped on the shoes of the people in front of them, grabbed the clothes of the people in front of them, and were pushed up the mountain by the people behind them.

"Back off, back off!"

The team gathered on the top of the mountain for a distance, and immediately someone shouted.

Tian Lin vaguely heard the person in front of him shouting "There is a cliff ahead", and then he was bumped into the arms of the person behind him by the person in front of him.

"Everyone, don't go any further, there's a cliff ahead, and many people have been squeezed off!"

The people in front were shouting, but the people behind were just trying to squeeze forward.

At this point, I wanted to stop, but I couldn't.

"Old man, go back quickly, go back quickly!"

Tian Lin was shouting, but he was carried to the edge of the cliff by someone.

The person walking in the front was wailing and falling into the abyss like dumplings.

Tian Lin stepped on the falling rocks while holding on to other people's clothes tightly.

'boom'

A bell rang from the opposite side of the cliff. The sound of the ancient bell spread from the top of the cliff to the mountainside, and swept across the official road from the mountainside.

In an instant, all the Hwahwarangs on the mountain and on the mountainside fell silent.

Taking advantage of the momentary silence, Tian Lin grabbed a big tree on the edge of the cliff.

"Look, little brat! That's the gate of Yaoyue Sect."

The old man's voice sounded above his head. When Tian Lin looked again, he found that the old man was riding on a tree branch above his head.

"Is this the Yaoyue Sect? But there's a chasm more than ten feet wide separating us from the other side. We can't get through at all."

Tian Lin took the old man's hand and climbed up the tree together.

On the other side of the ravine, there was a stone archway standing on the edge of the cliff.

Behind the stone archway is a stone staircase that seems to lead to heaven, hidden in the clouds.

And the sound of the bell came from the clouds.

"Go ahead, everyone, as long as you cross this abyss, you can achieve enlightenment and become an immortal!"

Someone shouted, and everyone on the mountainside went crazy.

The Hwahwarangs on the cliff, young and old, male and female, screamed and tried to get away from the cliff.

But they were all pushed by the crazy crowd behind them and fell into the abyss. "One hundred, two hundred? Or thousands of people?"

Tian Lin held on to the branch tightly, watching the person falling into the abyss under the tree.

The cliff on this side is very lively, but the cliff on the opposite side is very quiet.

As the clouds floated, the sound of the bell representing the Tao came slowly from the clouds on the stone steps.

"Brat, let's go down and find a way to get to the opposite cliff."

The old man on the tree's eyes turned red, and he suddenly spoke while grabbing Tian Lin's hand.

Tian Lin was stunned for a moment, then continued: "Are you crazy? Did you see the people under the tree? Do you want to be buried at the bottom of the cliff forever like them?"

"I have been searching for nearly sixty years. I have traveled all over the world and searched all over the mountains and rivers. I am now over seventy years old. How many more years can I look for it?"

As the old man spoke, he let go of the branch and tried to climb down the tree.

"Don't rush. If you want to go down, you have to wait until these people calm down."

Tian Lin grabbed the old man and comforted him:

"Look, everyone on the mountainside has come up, and the people on the top of the cliff are all dead. Let's wait until more people die, until the top of the cliff is no longer so crowded, and until everyone is calm, then we can go down."

The old man took a breath and then hugged the tree trunk again.

The two of them were looking at the Yaoyue Sect on the other side of the river from the tree, and could only see the stone archway and the faintly visible white stone stairs.

Besides, the other side of the cliff was shrouded in haze, blocking their view.

"Everyone, don't squeeze in. Let's think of a solution."

"I have a flying claw here. Once I hook it onto the stone archway opposite, I can climb over along the iron rope."

At this time, there were only about a hundred people left on the top of the cliff. It was hard to imagine how many people had died in the abyss before.

A man under the tree swung the flying claw in his hand to the opposite side. The iron chain was thrown into the air by the strong man and then hooked onto the stone pillar of the stone archway opposite.

"You are quite skilled. Are you also a master in the martial arts world?"

Someone cheered, but the strong man ignored it. He pulled the iron chain to straighten it around the stone pillars of the archway.

He tied the iron chain in his hand to the trunk of the ancient tree where Tian Lin was hiding, then used the iron chain as a bridge and walked to the other side.

"Okay, he landed!"

Seeing the strong man successfully reach the stone archway on the other side, some people cheered loudly, as if they had also stepped into the gate of immortality.

"Who's second?"

"I come!"

A group of people came one after another, some were able to cross the abyss directly by walking on the iron chain, some crawled over while holding on to the ropes, and most of them fell into the abyss.

"Stinky boy, let's go too."

The old man had already climbed down the tree by now and was talking to Tian Lin beside him.

Tian Lin shook his head and pointed to the stone steps on the other side of the river and said, "Look, what's flowing down from the stone steps?"

Although the old man's eyes were cloudy, he could still see blood flowing down the stone steps one step at a time.

"What's that blood?"

"It's probably the blood of those people who crossed to the other side and tried to climb the ladder. Didn't you notice that there's no sound of them talking on the other side?"

"Why? We finally got here, crossed the natural chasm, and are about to enter the Immortal Gate. Why do you want to kill us outside the Immortal Gate?"

The people on the cliff side were furious, and someone immediately said, "Didn't you see the words on the stone pillar on the other side? Immortals and mortals are forever separated, and ghosts and humans are not allowed to enter."

"Can't you get through yet?"

"I won't go there. I will live in a nearby town first. I will come here when the Immortal Gate reopens next year."

Some people turned around and went down the mountain, but others climbed up the iron rope unwillingly and used all their strength to climb to the other side.

"Stinky boy, let's go too!"

The old man grabbed Tian Lin's hand and said with red eyes.

Tian Lin shook his head and advised him:

"We can also stay in a nearby town first, and then look for an opportunity to enter Yaoyue Sect. You see, when we came from Lin'an County, which of those villagers who robbed us was not a former Huahualang? They lived in a village, and they must be waiting for some kind of opportunity."

"I can't wait any longer. I'm in my seventies now. I don't know how many years I have left to live. I can't wait any longer. I want to go."

The old man ignored Tian Lin's dissuasion and glanced at the abyss covered by clouds.

Then he closed his eyes, gritted his teeth and hugged the iron chain between the two banks.

The mountain wind blew the old man's tattered clothes rustling. He was like a maggot, wriggling his body and moving towards the unknown ahead.

"You little brat, wait for your chance outside the mountain. When I become an immortal, I will come find you."

The old man crossed the abyss smoothly and waved happily to Tian Lin under the stone archway on the opposite bank.

Tian Lin watched the old man confidently step onto the stone steps, then climb up and disappear into the fog.

I don't know how long it was before there were 'bang bang bang' sounds in the fog.

Then I saw a huge head rolling down the stone steps like a ball, and finally fell under the stone archway.

"It's the old man."

Someone said something.

"Haha, he is over seventy years old, and has long passed the age of cultivating immortals. At such an old age, he still wants to join the Yaoyue Sect?"

Some people laughed.

These voices seemed particularly harsh. Tian Lin could not help but ask, "Who said that cultivating immortals is about age and qualifications? The most important thing in cultivating immortals is sincerity. The old man told me that sincerity is the key to success!"

(End of this chapter)