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“Master, tomorrow I'm going to the county to prepare for school and won't be able to visit you every day anymore. This is your favorite flower wine, aged for ten years, and there are also flowers that you like to eat. Let's have a good drink and feast today, master and disciple.” 。On the grave of a mountain, an elderly man held a five-jin jar of Huadiao wine in his hand. In front of him lay a flower wrapped in lotus leaves and two porcelain bowls. He poured wine into the bowls while muttering to himself. 。This year, the person's name is Ge Dongxu, a villager from Gejiapang Village at the foot of Baiyun Mountain. 。He was buried in the grave with his master, Ren Yao. 。Ge Dongxu began practicing with him at the age of eight and continued until Ren Yao passed away at fourteen. 。Now that Ren Yao has passed away for two years, Ge Dongxu is already sixteen years old. 。Because I was admitted to the county No. 1 Middle School, I will go to the county tomorrow. Today, I came especially to say goodbye to my master. 。When it came to Master Ren Yao, although Ge Dongxu had trained under him for six years, he knew very little about his life. Even his name was only revealed just before he passed away. 。Since Ge Dongxu knew his master, his master had been a god sometimes and a madman at other times. 。Ren Yao doesn't often appear in the village, most of the time she lives in a dilapidated Taoist temple deep in Baiyun Mountain. 。Occasionally, when I visit my hometown, it's mostly a whirlwind of craziness. 。The children in the village were mischievous. Seeing the old man acting strangely, they laughed and chased him, throwing rotten fruit paste at him. 。Ge Dongxu was kind and innocent, unlike other children who were mischievous. When his playmates amused themselves by throwing things at the elderly, he would always step forward to protect Ren Yao. 。In the end, it was he who was thrown and left in a filthy state. 。One time, when Ge Dongxu was protecting Ren Yao and got thrown around covered in filth, Ren Yao suddenly woke up. She shooed away the children and then stared at Ge Dongxu for a long time. Suddenly, she asked, "Would you be willing to become my disciple and practice cultivation with me?"Ge Dongxu wanted to shake his head, but seeing Ren Yao's white hair and tattered clothes, he felt sorry for her. He unconsciously nodded and agreed. 。Ren Yao was overjoyed and immediately took Ge Dongxu to meet his parents, wanting to formally accept Ge Dongxu as his disciple. 。Ge Dongxu's parents naturally wouldn't allow their son to apprentice under a madman, even though he seemed perfectly normal at the time. 。It is not known whether it was because of the stimulation from Ge Dongxu's parents' rejection, Ren Yao immediately became dazed again, mumbling to herself as she walked away. 。From then on, he would visit Ge Dongxu every few days. 。When Ge Dongxu's parents saw Ren Yao acting erratically and clinging to their son, they were worried that she might hurt him. After he came to their door several times, they couldn't bear it anymore and drove her away. 。No matter how hard they tried to chase him away, Ren Yao would still come every few days. Meanwhile, Ge Dongxu's parents remained steadfast in their insistence on driving him away and keeping him from their son. 。Until one day, Ge Dongxu suddenly developed a high fever that wouldn't subside. The doctor was also helpless, and Ge Dongxu's parents were so anxious they were on the verge of tears. They were about to take Ge Dongxu to the county town to see a doctor when Ren Yao suddenly appeared, picked up Ge Dongxu, and ran away. 。Of course Ge Dongxu's parents were frantic and chased after him. 。It's rather strange, Ren Yao, who was clearly a very old man with white hair, ran with a child in his arms faster than Ge Dongxu's father. In the blink of an eye, they disappeared into the forest. 。At that time, Ge Dongxu's parents didn't think much of it. Seeing Ge Dongxu being carried into the mountains by the insane old man and disappearing, they were so anxious that tears streamed down their faces. They thought their son had a high fever and was taken away by this insane old man, surely something bad would happen. 。To their utter surprise, just as they were frantically searching the mountainside, calling out their son's name, Ge Dongxu suddenly dashed towards them from a small path. Not only was he in good spirits, but he was also very agile, not at all like his previous feverish state. Let alone being agile, he was even sluggish and weak, unable to stand properly. 。After that, Ge Dongxu's parents made a major decision and allowed their son to be apprenticed to Ren Yao, the old man who was sometimes insane and sometimes lucid. 。It's strange, ever since Ge Dongxu's parents agreed, Ren Yao suddenly became mostly conscious. 。While Ren Yao mostly remained lucid, he could hardly remember anything from his past and didn't even know his own name. 。Later, Ge Dongxu's parents discovered a scar on Ren Yao's nape and speculated that he must have suffered a head injury, which is why he behaved this way. They wanted to take Ren Yao to the county hospital for a check-up, but Ren Yao was very stubborn and refused to go. They couldn't do anything about it. 。Fortunately, Ren Yao besides not remembering past events and occasionally being mentally unclear, she still remembered practicing cultivation. 。He taught Ge Dongxu how to draw talismans, showed him various herbs, taught him how to recognize acupuncture points, and even instructed him on how to breathe and cultivate Qi. 。When imparting these teachings, Ren Yao always took Ge Dongxu to the dilapidated Taoist temple on the mountain, forbidding his parents from watching. 。Fortunately, after Ge Dongxu followed Ren Yao to practice cultivation, not only did he never get sick again, but he seemed to have become particularly intelligent and quick-witted. He learned anything much faster than other children his age, and was also much stronger than them. 。Thus, Ge Dongxu's parents also went with Ren Yao to teach their son. Sometimes, they were a little curious in their hearts, but thinking that Ren Yao should be a strange man of the Jianghu, he must have his own rules, so they held back and didn't ask Ge Dongxu what he had learned from Ren Yao. 。As a parent, as long as your son is healthy, everything else is secondary. 。Two summers ago, Ren Yao finally succumbed to the ravages of time and passed away. 。As he lay dying, perhaps in a final flicker of consciousness, he was suddenly reminded of some past events. 。It's a pity that the time he was given was too short. Ge Dongxu only learned a small part intermittently, and it was then that Ge Dongxu found out his master's name. 。Recalling past events with his master, Ge Dongxu was lost in thought until the porcelain bowl of wine was full and spilled over. He was startled awake and wiped away a tear from his eye. He picked up the porcelain bowl filled with flower-carved wine and poured it onto Ren Yao's grave. Then, he raised his own bowl and gulped down the rest. 。A flush of color rose on her youthful and simple face, but it quickly faded away. 。"Master, after you left, I practiced diligently every day, never slacking off. 。I don't flaunt the skills you taught me in front of others, nor do I use them for any bad deeds. 。Rest assured, no matter where I go, I will always remember your teachings. 。"As he spoke, Ge Dongxu poured another bowl of flower wine for Ren Yao and drank one himself. He also ate some flower seeds." 。"By the way, master told you some good news. During this morning's practice, I finally broke through to the third layer of Qi Refining." 。You definitely didn't expect my progress to be this much, did you? This is all thanks to that gossip furnace pendant you left me. 。There is another world within, containing the lifelong cultivation experience of our Dan Fu school ancestor Ge Hong, as well as a complete scroll of the Nine Embryos of Holding Simplicity. 。It's a pity that this discovery came too late. If not, perhaps you would have found inspiration in reading this scroll of the Danjing and wouldn't have left your disciple so hastily. 。"Ge Dongxu spoke, reaching for the small peach wood sword pendant hanging from his neck. The pendant looked ordinary at first glance, but when Ge Dongxu touched it, a sliver of green flowed on its surface, emanating a refreshing scent of peach wood." 。Actually, there was also another ancient-looking gossip furnace pendant hanging on top originally. It was left to him by Ren Yao when she passed away. 。Once, Ge Dongxu accidentally dripped a drop of something on the surface. The gossip furnace unexpectedly reacted with him and, without a trace, vanished. 。However, at the same time, Ge Dongxu's mind inexplicably gained a lot of knowledge related to cultivation. The most abundant of these was knowledge about alchemy and refining elixirs. 。Originally, Ge Dongxu had spent six years training with his master, Ren Yao. He had only just barely broken through to the second level of Qi Refining. Since obtaining the cultivation knowledge from the gossip furnace pendant and practicing the complete version of the Huapu Nine-Dan Sutra, his cultivation speed had increased significantly. In just two years, he had actually broken through to the third level of Qi Refining. 。As he mumbled to his master, eating and drinking, he unconsciously finished the five-jin jar of wine. At only sixteen years old, Ge Dongxu showed no signs of drunkenness except for a slight flush on his face. 。Seeing a wine jar at the bottom, Ge Dongxu finally stopped muttering. He respectfully kowtowed three times to his master's grave and then started walking down the mountain path. 。The path was overgrown with weeds, clearly a well-trodden path in normal times. 。At the end of the path is Gejia Yang village. 。Gejia Yang Village used to be a very poor and isolated mountain village. However, in recent years, Changxi County has vigorously developed tourism, and people from the city also like to go to the mountains to escape the heat and have fun. Gejia Yang Village is located at the foot of Baiyun Mountain, the highest mountain in Changxi County, so it was lucky enough to benefit along with... 。In recent years, not only has the village been connected by roads, but because of tourists coming to play, villagers have opened small shops or farmhouses and homestays in their own homes, earning money just by sitting at home. 。To attract tourists, the villagers even wrote articles on the ancestral hall, claiming that Gejiapang Village is the descendant of Ge Hong, a wealthy and legendary Taoist scholar, alchemist, and physician from the Eastern Jin Dynasty. 。Before, Ge Dongxu naturally didn't believe it. He thought that the old people in the village were just making up stories to attract tourists. But ever since the gossip furnace pendant disappeared from him and he had a lot of things in his mind afterward, he realized that he was really an descendant of Ge Hong, so the drop reacted with the gossip furnace pendant passed down from Ge Hong, the ancestor of the Danfu School. 。Ge Dongxu's mother, Xu Suya, is a primary school teacher at a private school in the village. His father, Ge Shengming, runs a farm stay at home and works as both chef and owner. 。It is late August, and the weather in Jiangsu Province is still hot. 。However, the mountains are cooler and since children are still on summer vacation, people from the city enjoy coming to Baiyun Mountain to escape the heat and have fun during this time. 。With the increase in tourists, Ge Shengming's farm stay business has also improved a lot. 。Thinking back to these days, the family business was booming. Now that it's mealtime, father needs help urgently at his place. Ge Dongxu didn't pick up the pace. 。Before even reaching home, Ge Dongxu saw a group of people outside his yard, pointing and gesturing towards the inside. 。Ps: The new book is out now, please vote and leave comments to support it. I'm very grateful. 。The Urban Medical Saint Ge Dongxu The Urban Medical Saint Ge Dongxu |
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