Chapter One: The Mountain Climbing Expedition

  Since ancient times, Fu Xi painted the Eight Trigrams, Shennong wrote the Lian Shan, Xuan Yuan wrote the Gui Cang, and King Wen fixed the Zhou Yi. These historical books of divination created a legendary culture in ancient China, which can be said to be the source of the various schools of thought. Among them, there is a category that has been continuously studied and developed by emperors and sages throughout history, and this category is the technique category.

  As history evolved, these truly talented saints and hermits gradually hid from the world and fewer people understood their teachings. On the contrary, swindlers ran amok, constantly adding superstitious labels to these legendary methods.

  I was originally an ordinary person, living a life just like everyone else's, until a coincidence in college led me to adopt my master, who surprisingly revealed a shocking secret: he was a half-immortal from the Tang Dynasty era. To this day, I still remember what it was like back then.

  My name is Jiang Chu, I'm an orphan, don't know my father or mother. Since I was a child, I've been raised by the owner of a small tea house in a remote area. The tea house was located in a small alley in the suburbs. At that time, even getting a haircut required an apprenticeship, let alone learning to do business? So since I can remember, I have taken the tea house owner as my master.

  My master looks like a young man who is handsome and slender, and judging from his appearance, he doesn't seem to be much older than me. However, when I was little, around 5 or 6 years old, my master already looked this way, and surprisingly, he still looks the same now. When I was younger, I thought it was fun, but as I delved deeper into my studies and came into contact with more things, I gradually developed many doubts. It seems like my master is hiding many things from me and won't tell me.

  At that time, I was in my senior year of college. Because of this store, I didn't have to worry about finding a job. So every day when the master wasn't around, I would rummage through his things to see if I could find any clues.

  Of course, I didn't find anything that could help me resolve my doubts in the end. Instead, I was discovered by Master with my strange behavior. I couldn't hide it anymore, so I confessed to him about my doubts, such as his unchanged appearance and sometimes slightly eccentric behavior. Anyway, I just told him everything without hiding anything, clearly expressing my hope that he would give me an answer.

  He sat down and thought for a moment before saying to me: "Jiang Chu, if you really want to know, I'll tell you, but after knowing it, I'm afraid you might be scared."

  "We are all men, what is there for me to be afraid of?" I was very dissatisfied and felt that this was Master's way of diverting the topic.

  "I am a demigod, so I won't age and I won't die."

  What he said was not the kind of half-immortal who walks around, fortune-telling and divining characters. He is a real half-immortal, with one foot already stepping over the Dragon Gate, only lacking to cut off his heart's attachment completely, then he can ascend to the Immortal Path, never aging or dying, enjoying the offerings of heaven and earth, the essence of the sun and moon. However, for some reason, he was unable to become an immortal, and could only reluctantly stay in the mortal world, becoming a carefree earthly immortal.

  His words seemed ordinary, but in my heart they were like a tsunami, completely overturning my worldview. It was as if a huge stone had hit me and I was dizzy. Those absurd sayings, how could I believe them? As a good youth standing under the red flag of the 21st century? At that time, I thought either I should send my master to a mental hospital or he would send me there.

  So I asked my master: "You are a fairy, even if it's only half, shouldn't you have some magical powers or secret methods? If not, then teach me, otherwise it would be in vain for me to apprentice. At first, Master did not agree. However, under my persistent persuasion, he finally gave me an ancient book, saying: "This is the Taoist technique I used when I was still a mortal, all of which are methods from the Five Arts. This is all I can give you, take it and study it carefully."

  The master seems to be a bit angry and went out for a walk, I don't know when he will come back. This tea house is left to me to manage, every day serving people tea and water, I'm so tired that my waist and back ache. As for this book, at first I really treasured it like a precious thing, but after opening it and taking a few glances, I finally discovered that this so-called divine secret manual was no different from those books of Jianghu cheats. Oh right, there's one difference - this book is even more rubbish.

  A large teahouse, with just me sitting alone and looking bored, sometimes also greeting occasional guests who come to pass the time.

  Entwined in a past life, hard to continue the relationship in this life.

  My phone rang under the table, I picked it up and said hello twice. At this time, my old man was in a bad mood, who dared to come and ask for trouble?

  "Jiang Chu, have you eaten yet?"

  "In the morning, I don't eat anything, if you have something to say, say it quickly, if you have fart, let it out quickly."

  Nothing much, a few of us old classmates still haven't found jobs, thinking of calling you out to hang out and clear our minds, it's been so long since graduation and we still don't have any leads on work.

  "Alright, when?"

  "This afternoon, we'll spend the night outside with a tent and prepare everything we need for tonight." After finishing speaking, he said goodbye and hung up the phone.

  I'm holding onto my phone, and I finally have something to do. Being abandoned by Master here, I've been holding in a belly full of anger. My hands were so bored they didn't know what to do with themselves, but now it's all good.

  I just graduated from university, and because of my family's small tea house, I don't have to worry about finding a job. However, the large number of graduates is still overwhelming, so it's normal that Zhao Xinge and his friends can't find one yet. Anyway, it's not long since graduation, and there's still plenty of free time. My family also has some funds left, so why not come out and have some fun?

  I had been holding on until the afternoon, and was preparing to start sending people away. Of course, I would be bowing and scraping as I saw them out - these were all old customers of Master's, or else who would come to this out-of-the-way teahouse? I didn't know why these old guys liked coming here to drink tea so much, but they were my benefactors, and I was counting on them to let me marry a wife and live a comfortable life with a warm hearth and children.

  Finally sent all the seniors away, going up the mountain at night, suddenly thought that I also learned magic, calculated a divination, I followed the method on the tree to calculate a divination, never expected, Du Men Gong Palace, Ming Yi's phase, indicating my future road is dark and bumpy, danger lurking in unknown places, the best way is to hide vitality, wait quietly for things to develop.

  My good mood was ruined by this, what a broken book. I casually threw it away and won't bother with it anymore. Originally, I didn't believe those nonsense words of my master anyway. It seems that my master really has gone crazy. I'd better wait for him to come back and help him find a psychologist for consultation, otherwise he might go out and harm people, which would be terrible.

  I tidied up the goods, closed the shop door, carefully checked everything, and hung a sign that read "This store is closed, please forgive us" before walking towards the entrance of the alley. At that time, I didn't know that my master could see through past and future, and in his eyes, my future had already been decided, so he couldn't intervene in my affairs, but under the guise of going out to play, he left me a book that was a legendary treasure from a long-lost aristocratic family in history, titled "Cheng Tian".

  Few of my university classmates were really recognized, everyone was either studying in the library to prepare for the postgraduate entrance examination, or busy surfing the internet in the internet cafe, or dating behind the school. Unfortunately, I secretly fell in love with two girls at that time, both of whom were taken away by others before I confessed, so I had no chance to do these three things, and could only follow two useless friends to wander around the school, or go out together to do part-time jobs to support my life.

  These two friends are even more bizarre, one is called Zhao Xian Ge and the other Wang Liu Li, I don't know what their parents were thinking, obviously they are old men, yet they gave them such delicate names. My name Jiang Chu has a domineering air to it, my master was at least a half-immortal who had seen the world, he meant for me to learn from the bravery of the Hegemon-King of Chu, but also to have a flexible mind within.

  They drove up in an off-road vehicle, and Wang Liuli got out to help me move my stuff. Zhao Xinge was driving, and after I finished loading everything, I jumped into the back seat. There was another girl in the car who wasn't particularly beautiful, but had a pure and pleasant appearance. She smiled and greeted me, and I quickly returned the greeting. It wasn't until we started chatting that I found out she was Wang Liuli's girlfriend, and it was her idea to come out and play this time.

  I don't know what kind of good deeds this guy with the surname Wang did in his past life, but he's managed to get a girl like that, it's really "after three days, one should look at each other with new eyes", I now admire him so much that I want to find one for myself to show off too. However, I have such thoughts, but the old men in that teahouse are all useless, nowadays girls always want to go to cafes, who still wants to experience the ancient tea culture?

  As I walked along, I asked them a few questions: "Hey, hey you two, where are you planning to take me? Don't wander around randomly, be careful or I'll call the police and have you two cowards arrested.

  "I'd sell you off, I don't know if it's worth our car rental fee. Oh right, don't forget when we return the car tomorrow, the cost will be split among the three of us." Wang Liuli said casually, he was a person who calculated accounts very clearly, not knowing how to count had really harmed him.

  We were having a great time on the way, but when we arrived at our destination, we found that there was a Land Rover blocking the road ahead. The only way to get past it was to cross an old stone bridge over a river with flowing water. We had no choice but to park our car by the side of the road and continue on foot, carrying our things up the mountain. Fortunately, we didn't have much further to go.

  The sky has gradually darkened, it's probably already past six o'clock. I always feel a little uneasy and restless when the sky gets dark. I thought of the fortune-telling I had before leaving the house, but in the end, I just shook my head and threw those absurd thoughts out of my mind. Come on, let's go have some fun and not think too much about it.

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