Jieshi Mountain is located three kilometers north of Changli County. It has hundreds of steep and undulating peaks. Its main peak is called Xiantai Ding. Its top is cylindrical and looks like a Jieshi pillar from a distance, so it is named "Jieshi".
Looking down at the sea from the top of Sendai, you can see the vast expanse of sea water, the water and the sky are the same color. It is the holy place of "Viewing the Sea from Jieshi".
In the Eastern Han Dynasty, Cao Cao led his troops to conquer Wuheng in the east and returned from the Western Liaoning Corridor. He passed by Jieshi and left the famous "Jieshi Pian": "To the east is Jieshi to view the sea. Where is the water? The mountains and islands are standing tall. There are many trees and luxuriant grass.
.The autumn wind is bleak and the waves are rising."
Li Shimin, Emperor Taizong of the Tang Dynasty, also left a poem "Looking at the Sea in Spring" in Jieshi: "The waves have turned wild, and the green islands have become mulberry. Zhifu misses the Han Emperor, and Jieshi misses the Qin Emperor."
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It took Li Bai nearly an hour to fly from Minggao Mountain to Jieshi Mountain. Originally, he wanted to fly directly to the top of Xiantai, the highest peak, but was blocked by the spirit of the mountain and could not fly up the mountain. He had to start climbing from the foot of the mountain.
Jieshi Mountain is full of giant trees, and there are countless of them. Li Bai walked for half an hour and came to a mountainside, but saw that there were densely covered with strange trees in front of him, making it difficult to find the way up the mountain.
Li Bai had no choice but to trudge up the vast forest. Originally, he could have taken out the Longyuan Sword to clear the way, but in this fairy mountain, he was full of reverence for every plant and tree. How could he dare to cut it down at will?
As a result, his speed up the mountain was extremely slow, but he was not in a hurry, because he went to Jieshi Mountain to enlighten himself, so it didn't matter whether he could reach the top of the mountain. So later, he simply stopped going up the mountain and found a tree.
Climb up the giant tree and sit cross-legged on the trunk to enlighten yourself.
It took him two days to realize this. Although he became extremely peaceful in the secluded green forest, he did not gain anything from Lingyunmu's enlightenment, so he climbed down from the giant tree and wandered around in the forest of strange trees.
Follow your heart.
Two days later, Li Bai's eyes, heart, and mind were all filled with the shadows of trees, as if he was also a small walking tree. He suddenly felt that he was getting closer and closer to realizing Lingyun Wood.
On the fifth day, Li Bai wandered into a forest and found a fellow Taoist practicing inside. He wanted to quietly leave without disturbing the fellow Taoist, but he was stopped by the fellow Taoist: "If you are destined, please stay!"
When Li Bai heard this, he stopped and said: "Li Bai, I have no intention of disturbing my fellow Taoist Qingxiu. I hope you will forgive me."
"Fellow Taoist? Do you also practice Taoism?" The Taoist friend was filled with joy.
"I have practiced Taoism and academics in Dakuang Mountain for three years. I am a person with a predestined relationship with Taoism. Do you dare to ask the name of your friend?"
"I am a Taoist with a shallow Taoism. My master's Taoist name is Yimu Taoist."
"Taoist Yimu, Taoist friend Li Bai is polite." Li Bai performed the courtesy of Taoist friend.
Taoist Yimu returned the gift and then asked: "Li Bai, you have been wandering around Jieshi Mountain for five days. What are you going to do?"
Li Bai was startled. He didn't expect that this Taoist man knew all about his whereabouts. But when he saw the Taoist look on his face, he must be an expert from outside the world. He didn't seem to have any malicious intent, so he told the truth truthfully: "I want to enlighten to the Tao."
"What is the way to enlightenment?"
"The Way of Gomu!"
"Enlightenment of the Way of Mu? Okay! This time we are really waiting for a destined person who understands the Way of Mu!" Taoist Yimu laughed.
"Master Yimu, what do you mean by this?"
"Master asked me to enlighten myself here, and said that as long as I wait for the destined person to come and understand the way of wood, I can achieve enlightenment and become an immortal."
"You mean that after I come, you will be able to attain immortality?" Li Bai looked confused.
Taoist Yimu smiled slightly and said, "That's exactly what the master said."
"This is the sacred mountain of sacred trees. Most of the people who come here to practice Taoism come to understand the way of trees, right? Haven't you met anyone else before?"
"Seventy years ago, I met a man named Mu Laoguai." Speaking of this, Taoist Yimu looked a little strange.
"Monster Mu? Isn't he the master of Master Chen Song and Mr. Mu Du?" Li Bai blurted out and asked.
Taoist Yimu was stunned, "Do you know Mr. Mu?"
Li Bai waved his hand and said: "I don't know Old Monster Mu, but I know two of his apprentices, and I have a grudge with them. The main reason why I came to Jieshi Mountain this time is because of one of his apprentices, Old Taoist Chen Song."
"In this way, we are more destined to be together, but I have long since ignored the grudges in the martial arts world, so you don't need to mention Mu Laoguai's apprentice to me."
"This man is not a good person, so let's not mention it." Li Bai paused and continued: "Didn't you say that you can achieve Taoism and become an immortal when you meet a destined person? Then wouldn't you have achieved Taoism completely when you met Mu Laoguai?
Why are you waiting for a destined person? No, you just said you met Mu Laoguai seventy years ago? Then you are over a hundred years old? Why do I think you are only forty years old?"
"Haha, I am one hundred and eight years old this year." Taoist Yimu chuckled.
"One hundred and eight years old?" Li Bai couldn't help but take a closer look at him, "It doesn't look like it, it doesn't look like it, are you talking nonsense?"
Taoist Yimu was not angry when Li Bai said that he was talking nonsense. He smiled and said, "Have you ever heard of the idiom 'withered wood comes spring'? Those of us who practice the Way of Wood can achieve this effect, and you will understand this in the future.
, and I think your level in the path of Wumu will be very high in the future."
"Ten percent?"
"Yes, ten points high, much taller than me." Taoist Yimu said with certainty.
Although Li Bai was still not sure whether this Mu Taoist was an outsider or a mentally disturbed person, he always felt happy when he was praised. So he continued to ask: "You haven't said that you haven't met Mu Lao Wei yet."
What about attaining the Tao and becoming an immortal?"
"Haha!" Taoist Yimu chuckled and said, "It's my fault that I was so restless and impatient that I misheard what Old Monster Mu said."
"What words?"
"Back then, I met Old Monster Mu here and asked him what he wanted to learn. He replied: The way to control wood. At that time, I was so anxious to become an immortal that I mistook the way to control wood as the way to realize wood, 'The way to control wood'.
Although there is a one-word difference between 'enlightenment' and 'enlightenment', I have to spend seventy years practicing Taoism to make up for it."
"Is there a difference between the way of controlling wood and the way of enlightening wood?" Li Bai looked puzzled.
"Of course there is a difference. The Way of Wood is all the ways related to wood, while the Way of Controlling Wood is just a kind of Wood Way. It is a simple control, narrow way. Back then, I started to teach the old wood and the strange wood way without hearing it clearly.
As a result, except for the art of controlling wood, he could never learn other wood techniques. Only then did I realize that I had heard wrong. After this mistake, the master asked me to practice Taoism quietly and wait for the right person.
, but after waiting for seventy years, you are here!"
Li Bai was doubtful when he heard this, but he took it easy and said: "Master Yimu...Senior, may I ask, how long does it take to learn all the Taoist techniques of wood?"
"It all depends on the fate. If it's a profound one, it takes a month, and if it's a shallow one, it may take even a hundred years to complete it."
"A hundred years?" Li Bai was startled. Let alone a hundred years, even in one year, Cui Gongyi had already killed all the people in the alliance.
Taoist Yimu saw Li Bai deep in thought and said nothing, so he smiled and said, "Li Bai, you don't need to think too much. Anyway, after I passed it on to you, I will know the depth of your Taoist fate."
Li Bai compiled: "Senior, if you don't fully understand the way of wood, can you leave Jieshi Mountain on your own?"