Chapter 466 - Not Human
Chapter 466: Not Human
The rain fell in torrents as the boundless and indistinct streams of waters filled the heaven and earth. The front could not be seen and the back could not be heard. The middle aged letter delivery man lost both his eyes and ears. Perhaps it was because of his speed being too quick, the water droplets that were supposedly to hot his body were winded off by the flowing wind coming from him.
It was unknown just how long ad passed when the sound of thunder faded away and the torrential downpour vanished in an instance. The letter delivery man finally fell onto the ground. He stumbled a few steps and finally stood properly. There was a tea booth in front.
Being a letter delivery man for so many years, he could recognize that this was the courier route that was a hundred miles away from Seven Peaches Mountain. However, he did not know when there was an extra tea booth on this courier route.
Perhaps it was after the rain, there was not one passerby on the road and the tea booth did not even have business.
There was only one owner who was making tea while another old man sat by himself in the tea booth.
The owner in the front greeted the middle aged letter delivery man, “Official guest, come in and have a drink.”
The middle aged letter delivery man originally wanted to decline but his footsteps subconsciously entered into the tea booth. He found a place to sit down.
The owner eagerly attended to him with bringing him the tea. The hot vapor was steaming and there was tea foam floating on top of it. It was refreshing and natural. However, the middle aged letter delivery man just had the spiritual tea that Shen Lian had not long ago, how could he still drink the tea here?
Nonetheless, the owner did not solicitously asked him to drink the tea and he continued to shuffle the items in the booth.
The other old man said to the middle-aged letter delivery man, “You lad seemed unoccupied, how about this old man tell you a story.”
The middle-aged letter delivery man did not know whether to decline or accept but the old man did not give him the chance to choose.
The clear voice of the old man slowly rose in the tea booth. He first began with a poem that begins the play, “Talking for the sake of talking, listening for the sake of listening. Everyone come sit under the bean rack and melon stand, accompanied by the fine wisp of raindrops for the mottos in life. Human words of this world are given up, go for immortal tales from the crypt.”
From the beginning, the storyteller would mostly come up with an opening poem before telling the story. The purpose was naturally to have the audience to focus and listen to what he had to say.
The opening poem of this old man was truly enough to strike the heart of people. The sentences were concise and the meaning was profound. The middle-aged letter delivery man immediately felt energized.
The old man truly did not use human words of this world but he did spoke of a story. The location where the story happened was at Seven Peaches Mountain. There was a originally a peach tree on Seven Peaches Mountain, it absorbed the sun essence and moon radiance. It purified the resentment thoughts of the wandering ghosts that were all over the mountains and plains. Finally, it bore seven fruits.
Each of these seven peaches had spirituality. After a very long period of time, the peaches had human faces and it was about to grow into an infant. However, these seven peaches were bright colored and they enjoyed their innocence. They did know how to disguise themselves. Later, a woodcutter that went up the mountain noticed the oddity and the peaches were spoked by the scent of human. From that moment on, they were tainted by the secular mortal world.
Since the beginning of time, the spirituality of these unusual objects were not fixed and they were like humans in their childhood. They were spooked by the woodcutter and since the seven peaches grew in these mountains, they had quite a divine response. When they heard that the people below mountains told the woodcutter of their intention to come up to the mountains and see them, they urged the mother tree to flee out from the mountains all night.
However, these peaches did not know an item away from its native land was worth nothing. Under the panic, they escaped from their home mountain and they lost the source of their spiritual force. They began wilting halfway through.
They only had some spirituality and hardly knew any supernatural powers or Dao techniques. They were more than vulnerable once they left Seven Peaches Mountain. Even if they stayed on a spot and grow their roots, they were unable to draw in the sun essence and moon radiance from the Seven Peaches Mountain.
The spirituality wilted and under the instinct of survival, there was one peach that began engulfing the spiritualties of his other brothers. Five day passed and there were five peaches with their spiritualties entirely swallowed by that one peach. The only smallest peach was barely breathing.
Just as that peach was about to engulf its youngest brother, a white stork flew down from the sky during this moment and took advantage of the opportunity to carry off the smallest peach.
After the peach that was left behind had engulfed the spiritualities of other five peaches, its spiritual knowledge was strengthened. It gradually took control of the entire peach tree and its roots eventually rejuvenated.
A wild rabbit trespassed into the area of the peach tree and the peach had different notions in its mind. The roots emerged and strangled the wild rabbit to death. After it engulfed the rabbit’s flesh and blood, its vigor became greater.
From then on, after he had a sweet taste of blood and flesh, it began to kill other living beings. At the same time, it continuously shifted its location and lived on blood. Gradually, it had mana and supernatural power.
Unknown amount of years had passed and its cultivation had reached a hiatus. It attracted trials of the divine lightning and it spent every ounce of its effort. Finally, it crossed over peacefully and transformed into a human.
After the old man had told the story till here, his keen sparkling eyes were on the middle-aged letter delivery man as he asked, “Tell me since it had gotten the body of a human, could it be considered as human?”
The middle-aged letter delivery man was becoming dim and his awareness was becoming empty. He wanted to nod and answer, “Since it has the body of a human, it could be said that it is human.”
He did not feel that anything was wrong with it. Just as he was about to open his mouth and answer, Shen Lian’s words suddenly rang in his mind at this moment, “The things I want to know, I could know. The person that sent you here would naturally be the previous owner of this manor. You tell him, I am the young master of Xi Liang City and Mount Jieyang is my property. Every tree and bush does not belong to him. If he wants to come and argue, he can come and look for me. I am only afraid that he would dare to come.”
The content of the message that Shen Lian had him to pass on was unrelated to this moment but its silence and ethereal vital force awaken his awareness in a split second, causing him to regain consciousness.
The middle-aged letter delivery man answered, “It is not a human, because it had consumed even his own brothers.”
The old man asked with disappointment, “But he was just surviving at that time. Do humans not have times when they would cannibalize each other?”
There was anger in the mind of the middle-aged letter delivery man. Even though he was only a petty and low figure, but he had guidelines when it came to conducting oneself. He replied, “A human that cannibalize is not a human.”
He did not know about abstinence but he had a simple concept of good and evil. He firmly believed that it was a demon, even when it had a human body, it was still a demon and it was no human.
The expression of the old man gradually withered. A gust of foul wind blew and blew the middle-aged letter delivery man out of the tea booth. At this moment, he saw the Daoist from the Seven Peaches Mountain. He sighed at the letter delivery man, “What kind of person did you met when you want to Mount Jieyang?”
The middle-aged letter delivery man then told the Daoist everything that he had encountered. That Daoist’s expression moved visibly as he said, “So there is somebody who could use spells once it is said out. Master did not lie to me.”
The middle-aged letter delivery man did not know that the words that Shen Lian had said to him had become a spell. This spell had no other uses but only that it was not easily wiped off.
That was why when he wanted firmly confirm the demon that had shapeshift into a human, that spell verse jolted him awake.
Shen Lian did not expect this matter and that old man who told the story was also not in his expectation. Everything seemed that everything was by chance. However, the most important thing was that even when the middle-aged letter delivery man was petty and low, he was also clear that a demon like that that had gotten a human body was no human.
The middle-aged letter delivery man was slightly anxious as he said, “Daoist priest, there is something wrong with that tea booth.”
The Daoist faintly answered, “It is not human so naturally, it is a demon. Next, it would begin to devour humans. This is a good thing, once this karma is settled, it would also not be too late to go meet that connoisseur in Mount Jieyang.”
While the middle-aged letter delivery man was jolted awake, it was followed by a touch in Shen Lian’s mind. The spell that he had spoken was an unintentional action and a spell like that did not even have any substantial might.
This was because once he had reached this state, there would be this kind of effect.
His Primordial Spirit had not completely been restored and it was hard to know about the sequence of events. However, he also knew that mishaps had happened.
Shen Lian had no intention to occupy his mind with this matter and entered into a concentrated state following according to his routine. Day and night, he was tempered by the vital force of the universe. Even though he did not deliberately interfere, but the development of his body was so much quicker than the ordinary infant.
The Daoist of Seven Peaches Mountain was being worrisome regarding this matter.