Seeking the Tao in the Mortal World

Prologue: Prologue

Prologue

In a small kingdom, Nanli, located in the south, there was a mountain on the west border called Immortal Track Mountain. The mountain was surrounded by red clouds all year round. The immortal aura spread faintly. The top of the mountain was rocky as if it came from outside the sky, which was even more peculiar among the red clouds.

Therefore, it was said that there were immortals in the mountains. Of course, no one had ever found half a strand of immortal hair. This red clouds around the mountain had become a story for people after dinner. Except for occasional visits by obsessed immortal seekers, it was no different from ordinary mountains.

At midnight.

A young boy slowly climbed up to the top of the mountain. He stood on the pile of rocks, lost in thought.

He was not an immortal seeker but a villager at the foot of the mountain.

The strange thing was that since he became an adult at the age of 16 this year, he often had a strange impulse as if something was waiting for him in the mountain. Every time he couldn’t hold back, he would come to the top of the mountain in a daze, but he never got anything.

The rocks on the top of the mountain were very rough. There were some very old patterns on them, but they were messy and unsystematic. The young boy stretched out his hand to stroke it, feeling an inexplicable familiarity, and he didn’t know where it came from. Ever since he was a child, he never felt like this…

“I don’t know if it has something to do with my parents… I asked Uncle Xu and they all said I was sleep-talking.” The young boy looked up at the stars and the moon in the sky. Surprisingly, there were some traces of red.

At this moment, a voice suddenly came from the pile of rocks, “How unlucky can I be. I came all the way to this shitty mountain, but I don’t know which bastard took the lead to have Little Magenta from Happy Red Court first.”

Someone responded, “Shut up, State Preceptor said…”

The 2 walked out from the pile of rocks as they talked. When they saw the young boy, they were startled at the same time, and the man did not finish his words. Then, they grinned and stabbed at the young boy with 2 swords.

The village boy was simple-minded and had little knowledge. He had seen some immortal seekers in the past. They were very polite to the local residents. He never thought that these people would want to kill him without saying a word once they met. Until he was pierced by the 2 long swords, he still had no idea.

The 2 left with a smile on their face. The young boy was lying in the middle of the rocks. With blood gurgling from his chest, he stared in the direction the 2 were leaving. He wanted to ask the reason even on the verge of death.

The 2 underestimated the vitality of the young boy, thinking that he would die. In fact, the young boy himself practiced martial arts since he was a child. If he was not caught out guard, it would not be so easy for them to kill him. The young boy survived and gradually discovered that the rocks he had seen since childhood gradually changed after being splashed with his own blood.

Under the moonlight, the rocks slowly shone with a faint blue luster mixed with the bright red blood, which was very strange. Then the light seemed to be contagious. The blue light began to flash on the surrounding rocks one after another. Within a short while, the rocks on the top of the mountain had almost all turned blue, and the dying young boy lying on the ground suddenly disappeared.

His vision was twisted, then he saw a vast expanse of blood red. It was like a blood-stained world with no end and boundaries. There were only white bones on the ground at a glance, eerie and rancid.

In addition to the bones, there were fragments of steles, fragments of various weapons, and sword hilts and blades scattered in disorder. There seemed to be countless faces in the surrounding red mist, twisting, roaring, and wailing.

“Is this… hell?” The young boy’s consciousness was about to disintegrate, “I really hate…”

The young boy himself did not realize that in this special area, there seemed to be a special aura that was gradually repairing his body. The body that should have died of losing too much blood was slowly recovering. It was a pity that his soul was too weak. His consciousness had been disintegrated, so he couldn’t live.

Amidst the roaring and howling in the depths of the soul, a vague voice suddenly sounded, “This bloodline… no wonder he can come here…”

“Bloodline?”

“Are you dying?” The voice seemed pleased, “Just in time for such a weak soul!”

Before the young boy had time to react, a cold feeling came from nowhere, passed through his soul, and reached the depths of his sea of ??consciousness. The young boy could only feel a terrifying ghost face approaching with a grin deep in his soul. He was surrounded and devoured by the boundless darkness.

“Possess…” This was the young boy’s last consciousness.

How unlucky. First, I was killed, and then my body is being possessed… Forget it, I am going to die anyway. The young soul let out a final roar, “Possess my body, then go ask the State Preceptor, why!”

At this moment, a soul of unknown origin suddenly broke into this distorted time and space.

As if feeling the traction of the body that just lost its soul, the soul got into the young boy’s body.

The ghost face that was trying to possess the body seemed to be a bit surprised. It immediately sensed that the new soul was not strong, so it simply swallowed the new soul too, trying to digest it.

“Boom!” With a sound, an unexpected and completely incompatible huge amount of information poured in, confusing the ghost face. With a muffled groan, the new soul was completely repelled by it.

It seemed that the repelling force was quite fatal. The ghost face suddenly became much weaker, and could not even form a shape. It was repulsed back like a tide, leaving the body.

Only the new soul was left in the young boy’s body.

The young boy opened his eyes in daze.

“It turns out that there really is hell after death. Is this what hell is like?”

Silence.

After a while, a voice sounded faintly, “What are those computer, mobile phone, video, and AV that are full in your soul?”

The young boy said, “Ah? After all these years in hell, you still don’t know this?”

“…” After a while, the voice said helplessly, “Who are you?”

“My name is Qin Yi.”

The voice seemed to be a little mocking, “What a coincident, I learned from the soul that I devoured just now, this person possessed by you seems to be called Qin Yi too.”

Hearing this, the young boy immediately became alert, “No, this is not hell… Who are you?”

“You can call me Liu Su.” The voice said slowly, “This isn’t hell, but it can also be considered hell. Do you… want to go out?”

“How to get out?”

“Pick me up and then you can get out.”

“Pick you up?”

“There is a mace in your hand that is slanted into the ground; that is me.”

Qin Yi, “…”

The moment Qin Yi pulled out the mace, the space was distorted, and the whole area suddenly disappeared. When he opened his eyes, he was on the top of the mountain again. The moon and stars were sparse with the lingering red glow.

At the same time, a small village at the foot of the mountain.

An old farmer sat up.

The woodcutter opened the door and looked at the moon.

The yellow dog at the entrance of the village turned his head to look at the top of the mountain.

“The door is open?”

“No.”

“That’s because I’m guarding the door, and you’re guarding the tomb.”

“Actually, I don’t want to guard the tomb.”

“Then why don’t you go?”

“If he is gone, this is not a tomb anymore.”

“I’ve never thought your words were so reasonable.”

…

Nanli Palace.

“Greetings, father.”

“Qinglin, Qingjun, you came at a good time. I took the golden pill given by State Preceptor last night, and I feel a little younger. Don’t you think my white hair is lesser?”

The young prince was silent for a while, then he said in a low voice, “Father, in this world, there is no…” Seeing that his father’s face turned grim, the prince didn’t continue. He directly changed the subject, “Last night, the general reported that Chen Army of the Stone City of the Xihuang Kingdom seems to have some movements.”

The king waved his hand impatiently, “You deal with it.”

“Yes.” The prince withdrew silently.

Leaving the palace, he turned his head and looked back for a while. The prince looked away and set his gaze at the magnificent taoist temple in the west of the city. There were many pilgrims kowtowing piously there. In the reverberation of the long divine music, the taoist temple surrounded by fireworks was like an immortal palace.

The prince’s eyes gradually turned cold.

“Brother also hates Dong Huazi?” A crisp voice sounded in his ear.

“Also?” The prince looked at his sister, “Don’t you admire immortals?”

“I admire immortals, but don’t immortals prefer living freely in the wild? How could it be possible to come to this mundane world to be the so-called State Preceptor?”

The prince laughed dumbfoundedly, “Yeah.”

“Haiz, in fact, there are legends in many places that there are immortals. Let’s find a real immortal. If we really find one, I will follow him to cultivate…”

The prince looked at the taoist temple in a trance, and he responded with a smile, “Okay, when I have free time, I will go find the immortals with you.”