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Hunting the Heavens

Junsheng

Junsheng

Dec 27, 2024

"Jun'er, where are you going?"

Seeing Camden turn his back to her and walk away silently. Yiyi's heart tightened, bit her lips lightly, and called out in a somewhat inappropriate manner.

Camden's footsteps suddenly stopped and turned around hurriedly. The woman in white tilted her head to look at the other side of the river. The breeze blew her clothes, but it could not raise a trace of ripples on her face, which was as calm as an ancient well. Camden's heart was sad, but the corners of his mouth still raised slightly, and he bowed to Yiyi and said, "Reporting to the master, the disciple will follow the master's teachings and go to apologize to Mr. Jian, and then go back to the room to prepare. I hope to be alive to see the master in three days."

After speaking, Camden looked up, stared at the beautiful eyes opposite him looking at the other side, took a deep breath, laughed twice, threw off his sleeves, and strode towards the Taoist temple.
"The most fearful thing for a person who is planning a plan is to be trapped in it." Taoist Jia in front of the Taoist temple sighed as he brushed the few abacus sticks on the table.

"That's right." Beside him, Mr. Jian, with his black eyebrows and red lips, stroked his long beard and said quietly. He withdrew his eyes from the beautiful figure on the river bank and unconsciously fell on the bronze mirror that he never got tired of looking at. He subconsciously twisted his fingers in front of the mirror, then his old face turned red and he looked at Taoist Jia nervously. Seeing that he was just lamenting and not paying attention to himself, he couldn't help but secretly breathe a sigh of relief.

"Old Jian! What are you doing!"

A rough shout came from not far away. Mr. Jian, who was twisting and turning, was shocked when he heard it. He was so scared that his hair stood up and the hat crown that he had just arranged was pushed up again. Mr. Jian turned his head guiltily, and saw a bearded man with a messy beard and a sharp axe on his shoulder walking towards him.
"Boss Tu, you are a rare guest. Come, let the old Taoist take a look at your face." When Taoist Jia saw the man, he was surprised and dropped the abacus in his hand and went to meet him.
"What are you looking at? What are you looking at! Humph, you have been looking at it for so many years, but have you grown even a little bit?" Boss Tu grabbed the old Taoist and threw him out, shouting.
"Little butcher, after so many years, why are you still so impatient? You know that old Jia is very anxious!" Mr. Jian sighed while adjusting his hat.
"Eh? Old Jian, why did you make such a sissy face? I just saw you curling your fingers like a delicate lady, hehe, when did you change your personality?"

"I... I didn't! It's all your good disciple's fault!"

As soon as the voice fell, Camden, dressed in white, walked up to them and bowed respectfully, saying, "Greetings to the three teachers. Hey, Master Jian, Jun'er knows his mistake and will never make it again."

"Humph, all you know is wearing white clothes, being neither yin nor yang, and being with Yiyi That woman has learned it to the core. A man should not be so pretentious! "Big Tu snorted with his nose pointed to the sky, subconsciously glanced at the strange-looking Mr. Jian, frowned, and snorted again, "Jun'er, you should learn more from your teacher. A man should be masculine, powerful, bold, and unrestrained..."
"Okay, okay, Tuzi, stop yelling. Can't you see that Jun'er has something to say? Hehe, good Jun'er, do you want your teacher to help you look at your face?" Taoist Jia narrowed his eyes and looked at Zhou Jijun, saying happily.
Looking carefully at the three teachers in front of him with different expressions, but all staring at him closely, Camden's eyes were a little complicated. Although this world behind Yashan has a vast sky and beautiful scenery like a fairyland, before he came, there were actually only four people, the three in front of him and Yiyi. After he arrived, they became his teachers after being lonely for many years.
After spending seven years with the four teachers and reading countless precious books in the Classics Pavilion, Camden gradually understood the strange place in the cave. Camden often sighed at how amazing and desirable the wonders and unknowns of the world were. It turned out that there really were such people who were almost like gods, with the ability to reach the sky and the earth, who could create the Dao Palace - that is, his own territory, and plant Dao livers and kidneys on plants, animals, and beasts... Then these animals would gradually cultivate into humans through the understanding of the Dao, but would forget the stories of their previous animal bodies after the Dao disaster, as if they were reincarnated and started from humans, just like... the three teachers in front of him.
……

"Mr. Jian, before he was cultivated into a human form, he was a thousand-year-old bull whale under the Wangji Water in the South China Sea, and he planted the kidney of Tao."

"Master Jia, before he was reincarnated, he was a ginseng in the Cangyu Mountain, and he planted the spleen of Tao."

"Boss Tu, he was a three-eyed Pixiu who dominated the Laokang Mountain, and he planted the liver of Tao."

"Fear is the will of the kidney, which belongs to water. Thought is the will of the spleen, which belongs to earth. Anger is the will of the liver, which belongs to wood..."

About five years ago, Camden found a piece of paper with this passage in a thick book "Travels of Various Countries". The paper was old and yellow, but the handwriting was clear as if it had just been written. After reading it that day, Camden was stunned on the spot, and he didn't come back to his senses for a full hour. Camden, who was influenced by his father's supernatural thoughts since he was a child, never believed that there were gods and ghosts in this world, not to mention that these monsters were his teachers. This piece of paper was left by the owner of the Taoist Mansion. The four characters "Pingtian Junsheng" were signed on the lower right. Although it was written very hastily, Camden felt his heart was lifted to his throat and he felt like he couldn't breathe after just one glance.

The owner here is called Pingtian Junsheng? What an arrogant and domineering name. However, with his ability to create a mansion, he deserves this name. Only when a cultivator reaches this level can he achieve something.

Junsheng, Junsheng... What kind of title is this name that he has never heard of?

Camden, who was only twelve years old at the time, was deeply touched, but he also felt that something was wrong. He carefully read the paper again and found that Yiyi was missing. There is no doubt that Yiyi and Mr. Jian are of the same kind, but Camden resisted this speculation from the bottom of his heart.

Among the four teachers, Camden liked Yiyi the most, but he was also the one he feared the most. This was a strange feeling. Twelve-year-old Camden liked to secretly look at the teacher who would suddenly become dazed when feeding the fish, but when the beautiful and playful eyes turned to him, Camden's heart beat violently, and then he looked away in panic.
After searching all the corners of the Classics Pavilion, Camden found a total of seven pieces of paper left by Pingtian Junsheng. The news given in them was more shocking than the last, but none of them mentioned Yiyi.
…
"Three teachers, it will appear in three days. Jun'er's life and death are on that line. I hope I can come back alive to see you teachers, and then... help you open the door."
Seeing the three people's faces tightened, and then full of astonishment, Camden laughed.
"Actually, I guessed it a long time ago."

"I am very grateful to the four teachers for taking me in, planting my heart and getting the seeds of Taoism, and being taught by the teachers. There is no such thing as getting something for nothing in this world. Back then, Master Yiyi was willing to keep me, presumably so that I could get it, and then help you open the door of the mansion that has been closed for hundreds of years. After all, only people like me who have it can open the door of the mansion."

"But, I know that if I fail to take it, then my life will end."

"There are only three days left. If Jun'er is lucky enough to survive, the teachers can re-enter the world."

There was a long silence.

Mr. Jian looked at the other two who were silent, raised his head and said to Camden, "Jun'er... yes, Yiyi and we all thought so back then. But... there are only three days left now, you should quickly take Xiaogu away from where you came from seven years ago. Outside of this, it will not appear, and you will not have any accidents because of it."

Jia Daoren looked at Mr. Jian in surprise, then sighed, and wanted to get up and leave.
"Are all the masters so pessimistic about Jun'er?" Camden's eyes flashed with disappointment, but it was fleeting.

"It's not that I don't think highly of you, but..."

"It's just that you are one in a million, so there is no reason for it to treat you differently."

Jia Daoren stopped and hesitated.

"I won't leave. A man cannot stand without faith. Since I promised Yiyi at the beginning, I have to go up and try it anyway. What's more, this is also the purpose of my coming to Luoyun Mountain seven years ago. It's not a normal person to cultivate a normal way. If a useless person like me can't win the luck and get that chance to seize it, then there is no point in staying in this world. Three masters, Jun'er will go back first, take care of yourself."

Hearing Camden change his words to call them master, the three people in front of him were a little excited. In the past seven years, Camden only called Master in front of Yiyi, and only called Teacher in the rest. Master and Teacher are only one word different, but there is a world of difference. Seeing the determination in Camden's eyes, Boss Tu's face tightened. Just as he was about to say something, Camden had already turned and walked away.
The second piece of paper left by Ping Tian Jun Sheng said that the master and his friends could not enter or leave the Dao Mansion. As the guardians of the Dao Mansion, they could only stay inside forever unless the door of the Dao Mansion was opened. The condition for the door to be opened was that the person who got it had to be a real person.
Thinking about it, Camden raised his eyebrows slightly and looked beyond the Taoist temple into the distance. Back then, I heard Yi Yi say that the person who took it could steal the world and change the day, and that person would have great potential and opportunities. For a useless person like Camden, not only can he get the Dao Ge, but his cultivation speed will also be much faster than that of ordinary people. But in the paper left by Ping Tian Jun Sheng, although it was mentioned, it was only said that it was dangerous and related to life, but the rest was not detailed.
Seven years ago, they began to teach Taoism, but they did not guide me to practice. They just let me feel the sun, moon and stars, and taught me a strange breathing formula a year later, saying that I could seize it with this formula. The sky of this independent world is exactly the same as the outside world, with the same scorching sun, bright moon and bright stars, but they only have the orbits of the sun, moon and stars, but no energy.

Camden has been here for seven years, but he is still an ordinary person who does not understand martial arts or profound Taoism. He studied Taoism and practiced the breathing formula day and night, never stopping, just for today, seven years later, to be sure to seize the stepping stone of practice called "it".

But why do I always feel something is wrong? Camden thought with complicated eyes. Seven years have passed, but I still don't know what "it" is that can change my destiny. Why doesn't Yiyi tell me? She didn't even tell me how to seize it, just said that she would arrange it when the time comes.
From behind came the sound of Tu Lao Da beating drums and singing, the song was magnificent and a little exciting.

Is Master Tu seeing me off? Or is he unable to hold back thinking that he might leave this cage soon? Haha, whether for them or for myself, I will do my best to seize this chance of luck.

The 17-year-old boy shook off his thoughts, took a deep breath, and smiled.

No matter, I have experienced life and death seven years ago. Even if there is only this little chance left this time, I will seize it. I want to become a superior person, I want to rescue my mother, I want to wash away the humiliation that happened to me and my parents... I can't die.

Walking into the Taoist temple and crossing the corner, Camden no longer looked back.

Behind him, the pale skirt fluttered alone.
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