Chapter 30: Hwa Hwarang is not afraid of suffering
Chapter 30: Hwa Hwarang is not afraid of suffering (please read)
Tian Lin put the 'inferior body-refining pill' into his mouth without hesitation, and saw Master Shang clapping his hands and smiling: "Good, from now on, I finally have someone I can use."
Tian Lin felt the blood boiling in his body. He stood up and said to Master Shang, "Master Shang, please give me some time to deal with the bodies of my second brother and the others."
"it is good!"
Master Shang opened his fan with a "whoosh" and turned to leave.
When the others left the door, a voice floated in from outside: "There are still six days before the black sandstone is escorted into the sect. I will let Xiaoyue come to find you after six days!"
After Young Master Shang left, the tavern owner and his waiter came in.
The two men looked unhappy, but they did not dare to get angry with Tian Lin.
Tian Lin said, "The water in the fish pond is poisonous. Please help me get a bucket of hot water. I want to take a good bath!"
The shopkeeper waved his hands to the clerk, and after the clerk went to fetch some water, he asked Tian Lin, "Young man, do you want us to help with the body?"
"Please help me contact the owner of the coffin shop and get me two high-quality coffins."
After the shop owner left, Tian Lin picked up the knife on the ground with his toes, and then began to practice the knife skills taught by Da Liu in the yard.
He was seen brandishing a huge sword so skillfully that no one could penetrate his body. The sword light was flying all over his body.
Half an hour later, the waiter came into Tian Lin's house carrying a hot bucket. Tian Lin was still practicing with the sword.
Another half hour passed, and the waiter had filled the bathtub with hot water, but Tian Lin was still practicing with the sword.
By the time the shop owner came back, Tian Lin had changed his sword training to boxing.
In the afternoon, when the sun had already set, Tian Lin finally threw the knife to the ground and staggered towards the bathtub.
Blood was oozing from every pore of his body, and every step he took left a layer of bloody shoe prints in the dust.
The waiter was a little horrified and said to the shop owner, "She must be too sad and has become possessed by the practice. How can you practice to the point of bleeding all over?"
The shopkeeper glared at the clerk and said, "Haven't you heard that he's going to enter the immortal gate soon? Why don't you just go back to your work?"
"Let's go, I want to be alone for a while!"
Tian Lin's tired voice was heard from the room, and the clerk and the shop owner did not dare to stay long.
After the courtyard was dead silent for about an hour, Tian Lin finally came out of the house looking refreshed.
Although his skin still looked a little dark at this time, his texture was obviously much smoother.
He first walked to Boss Zhang's body and threw it into the fish pond.
Then he walked to Da Liu's side and put Da Liu's body into the fish pond.
Looking at the blood on the ground, the two "human sticks" and the two corpses, Tian Lin didn't know whether to cry or laugh.
So many people died for this damn magic, is it worth it or not?
Tian Lin held Boss Zhang's body and cleaned it in the fish pond.
He didn't know whether the souls of dead people still existed in this world, or whether they could hear the words of living people, but he still said to Zhang Lao Da:
"You told me that you didn't want to be immortal anymore and wanted me to go back. I agreed at first."
"But now, the old man is dead, you and my second brother are dead. Even Manager Xu and Xiao Liu, whom I hated, died for the immortal arts and the so-called opportunity to enter the immortal gate."
"So many people died, and I got a useless immortal skill and a chance to enter the immortal gate. Although it's tiring, I have no way out now."
"I want to cultivate immortality and see what the world of immortality cultivation is like."
"I want to go up to the sky and see if there is the Chang'e you mentioned on the moon."
He carried the two cleaned bodies out of the fish pond, put clean clothes on them and shouted, "Boss, help me collect the bodies."
The two coffins were pulled to the corner gate of the backyard on a cart, and the wheels made a creaking sound.
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By the time the cart carrying the black sand and stones entered the Yuechi Mountain Range where the Yaoyue Sect was located, it was already the third day after Tian Lin had buried Zhang Lao Da and Liu Er, and another five days later.
Tian Lin was still wearing the black supervisor's uniform of the mine. He was riding on a horse, with a team of ox carts following behind him and Master Shang and Xiao Yue's carriage in front.
The carriage crushed dead branches and leaves in front and finally stopped at the fork in the forest road.
I saw Young Master Shang getting out of the carriage and holding Xiaoyue's hand to get off the carriage.
Then he took a copper bell from his waist, and he shook the bell in the wind, making a crisp "ding-ling-dang" sound, which was responded by the call of partridges in the fog in the deep mountains.
Hearing the call of the partridge, Master Shang turned around and said to the miners driving the carts, "You can go back now."
The new manager immediately called out to the supervisors: "Everyone, stand still. No one is allowed to fall behind. Let's go back to the mine now!"
Not long after the miners left, Tian Lin saw a group of men carrying baskets on their backs running out of the fog in the forest.
The leading man stood firm in front of Young Master Shang and said respectfully, "Manager Shang, the Third Manager sent us to take you up the mountain."
Young Master Shang did not comment, but pointed at Tian Lin and the man next to him and said, "This is my son, he has a talent for martial arts. When you work in the mine in the future, remember to bring him with you!"
The man turned his head and looked at Tian Lin, not knowing what his true impression of Tian Lin was.
But for Young Master Shang's sake, his tone was quite cordial: "Brother Tian, my name is Han Li, please give me your guidance in the future."
Tian Lin cupped his hands and said, "I hope Brother Han will take good care of me in the future."
"Okay, I've been away from the sect for a long time, so I won't delay you any longer." After saying this, Master Shang patted Tian Lin on the shoulder and said with a smile: "If you are bullied in the servants' yard in the future, ask your sister Xiaoyue for help."
Tian Lin looked at Miss Xiaoyue over there and met her cold eyes.
After Xiaoyue followed Master Shang up the mountain, Han Li shouted to the disciples on both sides of the forest path:
"What are you all standing there for? Unload the truck and load the cargo. Leave two people to lead the horses and drive the cattle, and the rest of you come with me to carry the ore up the mountain!"
As he shouted for the last time, the calls of partridges rose and fell.
I also saw dozens of men carrying baskets on their backs and cloth bags, loading cartloads of granular black sand into the baskets and cloth bags.
These stones weighing hundreds of pounds seemed light as a feather in their hands.
Han Li took off a cloth bag from his waist, gave one to Tian Lin and said, "Brother Tian, this is your first time going up the mountain today, I'll lend you the cloth bag."
Tian Lin took the cloth bag and followed Han Li to fill it up.
Fortunately, he was already a first-rate master, otherwise, even if he could carry the full bag of black sand, he would not be able to keep up with the pace of the menial disciples in front of him.
I saw those errand disciples carrying a basket on their backs and two bags in their hands, running briskly through the woods.
Tian Lin followed Han Li closely and asked him, "Are all the disciples in the errand hall masters like Brother Han?"
Han Li slowed down his pace and said to Tian Lin with a smile: "There are also newcomers like you in the errand yard who have not yet reached the Grandmaster level, but if you stay for a few more months, you will reach the Grandmaster level sooner or later."
As he was speaking, a narrow path carved out of the wall and growing out of the cliff appeared in front of them.
The menial disciples carried black sand and stones on their backs as they climbed up the path, occasionally uttering the partridge cry of "I can't go on, brother".
Tian Lin noticed that although they were all considered "mining slaves", the "mining slaves" of Yaoyue Sect seemed carefree, completely different from the "walking corpse"-like mining slaves in the merchant mines.
The group climbed the rocks and finally got around the shade of the mountain.
The sound of bells came from far away, passing through the dense forest and echoing among the mountains.
"Do you see the bell on the other side of the mountain? That is the 'Wendao Bell' of our Yaoyue Sect. When the bell rings, the disciples of our Miscellaneous Affairs Court can rest."
Tian Lin looked and saw a pavilion on the top of the opposite mountain.
There is a bell hanging under the pavilion, and one can vaguely see someone holding a bell pestle and striking the bell on the top of a mountain far away.
"The Daozhi Bell is on Daozhi Mountain. Apart from Daozhi Mountain, the disciples of the Miscellaneous Courtyard live at the main peak and the secondary peak. However, each courtyard lives in a different place. We live in the Mining Courtyard next to Yuechi Mountain."
"The Mining Academy at Lianshui Peak is a good place. It is next to Yuechi Mountain and has the most abundant water spirit. Young Master Shang arranged you to the Mining Academy. It seems that he really relies on you."
After Han Li finished speaking, he quickened his pace and chased after the errand disciple in front of him down the mountain.
While Tian Lin followed closely behind, his eyes were looking towards Wendao Mountain and the surrounding mountains.
He noticed that if Yuechi Mountain was the main peak, then there were a total of six secondary peaks surrounding Yuechi Mountain.
Except for Mount Wendao, each secondary peak has a railing-style building built against the mountain.
Some of these buildings are on the mountainside, and some are at the foot of the mountain.
Most of the people living on the mountainside are outer disciples, while those living at the foot of the mountain are all menial disciples.
The mining college that Tian Lin is going to now is actually at the foot of the "Lianshui Peak" next to Yuechi Mountain.
It is foggy here and the surrounding vegetation is extremely dense.
The stilt houses built along the foot of the mountain were filled with disciples doing menial tasks and clothes were hung out to dry everywhere.
Because it was right next to the waterfall on Yuechi Mountain, the sound of the waterfall forced Han Li to shout when talking to Tian Lin.
Han Li yelled, "Put your stuff in the warehouse with me. Someone will come to get the black sand and stone tomorrow. There is a sleeping place next to my house. You can stay there today and we will start working tomorrow morning."
"Where do we mine?"
After Tian Lin finished yelling, he saw Han Li pointing towards Yuechi Mountain on the bamboo corridor:
"The waterfall on the mountainside flows down, and this big river is full of water spirit minerals. What we need to do is to pan out the water spirit minerals in the river sand - anyway, let's talk about tomorrow's matter tomorrow!"
Tian Lin followed him and threw the black sand and stones into a wooden house, where he met the menial disciples who had returned before them.
The errand disciples were laughing and one of them greeted Han Li and said, "Brother Han, do you want to play dominoes with us?"
Han Li frowned and asked, "Did you come to Yaoyue Sect to seek immortality, or to eat, drink and have fun?"
But the man said:
"How difficult is it to be promoted from a menial disciple to an outer disciple? We had a hard time as Huahualangs, and now that we have finally entered the Immortal Sect, of course we want to do it as happily as possible."
Han Li did not refute the errand disciple, but sighed to Tian Lin when he left the warehouse:
"Most Hwahualangs travel thousands of miles, willing to die in order to enter the Immortal Gate. But when they enter the Immortal Gate and truly face the Immortal Fate, they forget their identity as Hwahualangs."
He said to Tian Lin: "Suffering sharpens one's will, but many people are not defeated by suffering, but by comfort. They no longer have the will to seek immortality."
"Or maybe, their purpose of seeking immortality is to eat, drink and have fun. Now they only need to work for a few hours a day, and the rest of the time they can eat, drink and have fun, so they are too lazy to risk their lives to seek immortality."
"So, I think the real difficulty for Hua Hualang in seeking immortality is not to enter the immortal gate. The difficulty lies in the fact that after entering the immortal gate, he is unwilling to endure the pain of seeking immortality again."
"Brother Tian Lin, did you come to Yaoyue Sect to seek immortality?"
I am not afraid of hardship, I am just afraid that the big guys will not follow my lead.
(End of this chapter)