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Ever since I was brought here by Master, I have always stayed here. Master is often invited to see a doctor, and most of the time, I am always at the medicine store to look after Master's shop.

Master said that a few of the big families in the village invited a teacher to hand over the books to the village and asked me if I wanted to go to school with the children in the village.

I never had the notion of going to school, and I didn't know what it meant, but I did.

When I returned after a day, I asked the teacher what she was teaching, and I said the Three Character Classic, the Four Books and Five Classics, and some other things I didn't know what to say.

Master smacked the table and stood up, scolding the teacher, saying, "This is some dog shit teacher, you are still teaching these things after so many years. If you learn these things, what's the use of going out in the future? Don't go in the future, just stay at home and I'll teach you."

I nodded my head. I really didn't want to go. That gentleman had a piece of wood in his hand. In just one day, I was hit by about ten of them.

After that, Master really began to teach me how to read and write, and sometimes he also taught me how to draw talismans. This was also the first time I learned that the yellow paper that Master was always using was called "Talisman".

When I was free, Master would sit in his rocking chair and tell me stories about how he killed evil when he was young.

When I was learning, I was very serious and listened with great interest.

But after I heard so much, I started to get curious about the identity of the master.

Once, after Master had finished telling me his story, I offered him a cup of tea and asked him, "Master, you told me so many stories about defeating demons, but you never told me that you had all the skills you had, that you had all those skills, and why did you want to live in these countryside for so many years?"

The master looked at me and jokingly scolded me, saying, "You little brat, you even tried to trick me."

I laughed and said nothing more.

"Alright, since you want to listen, I'll tell you about it." The master took another sip of his tea and told me about his youth.

"I was originally a young man who was just following the path of the Dao, but I couldn't find anyone to take me as a disciple, so I ran around a lot of places. After a while, I met a lot of masters, who were very outstanding in their line of work, such as carpenters, children (shoes) craftsmen, brick (clay tiles) craftsmen, formal and powerful corpse cleaners, Mr. Yin and disciples."

"Every time I see a person, I will very sincerely ask them to take me as a disciple. After eating so many closed doors porridge, I also learned many things, and in the end, my hard work didn't go to waste, and I finally found the place with the most flourishing of my traditional Tao techniques, which is Maoshan."

"At that time, I felt that I had learned a lot of things in different parts of the country. Although I had finally become a disciple of the Maoshan, I wasn't willing to learn those basic things, run around all day, and use the things I learned at the foot of the mountain to tease friends who are of the same generation as me who don't have the basics."

"Later on, he angered the Sect Leader, who said that he wanted to test me to see how strong I was. At that time, I was young and full of vigor, so I agreed. I didn't expect that after five rounds, I would not be able to stand up."

"Master told me in front of everyone that whatever you've learned is good stuff, but it has been completely buried by my unscrupulous work. At that time, I was extremely angry, stood up, pointed at my Master's nose and said, 'You let me learn all these useless things all day, if you let me freely enter the Maoshan's Scripture Hall, I can surpass you in just three years'. If you are unable to do it, I will leave the Maoshan and never step into the Maoshan again in this life! "

"When I said those outrageous words back then, not only did my master not get angry, he actually gave me the right to freely enter and exit the Scripture Tower that only elders could possess. Thus, in the span of three years, I borrowed my innate talent for photographic memory to read all of the books in the Scripture Tower and memorized the contents of those books as well.

I was overjoyed, and wanted to try every single one of them out, but who would have thought that I wasn't proficient in everything at all. At that time, I knew that there was a great possibility that I would have to leave the Maoshan, but I wasn't willing to give up. In the last few months, I chose a few types of Tao techniques to practice on night and day. "

But at that time, time was not allowed, the process of merging had just started, and time was already up. Thus, the competition that I had agreed upon with Master for three years, began under the witness of all my fellow disciples in the Maoshan. "

"I never thought that before the competition, Master would use a secret technique to quietly tell me that no matter what, you must lose, and then take the things in your brain and leave the Maoshan. I don't understand, and I don't know why."

"My master told me that not long from now, Maoshan and even the Z Empire will face a calamity. When that time comes, Maoshan will be the first to bear the brunt of the tribulation, and it will definitely be a classic. There is basically no way for Maoshan to survive, and it is very possible that all of those things will be destroyed as well.

"At this time, I finally understand Master's painstaking efforts. I asked Master what kind of calamity caused such a huge foundation with such a large Maoshan to disappear. "My master just said, 'The storm this time will be irresistible,' and he took the initiative to attack me."

"I did not go easy on him in that battle, and went all out. In the end, I still left the Maoshan under the scorn and ridicule of the numerous fellow apprentices, with wounds all over my body and the burden on my shoulders. When I left, Master told me that I did not need to spend my entire life, just eleven years would do. You are not allowed to enter the Maoshan for eleven years. "

"After that, I roamed the entire country, eliminating any monsters and ghosts I met. A year later, the calamity my master told me about really came, and it was really as my master said, unstoppable. Almost instantly, it engulfed every part of the country."

"In order to avoid a calamity, I had become the apprentice of an old Chinese doctor. I didn't expect that once I started practicing, it would take me ten years, and during these ten years, I watched as people around me were captured, and I wanted to return to the Maoshan to take a look countless times. However, I knew that my master definitely wouldn't let me return during the calamity, which was why he said that for the past eleven years, and even calculated that after I left the Maoshan for a year before the calamity even began.

When Master spoke till here, he stopped. I was naturally extremely anxious, I just wanted to know if my Master had returned to Maoshan, and how it was.

My master drank a mouthful of tea and said, "At that time, I was already past my prime, and only then did I realize that even if I went back to the Maoshan, I wouldn't be able to see anything. Thus, I simply didn't return to the Maoshan, and continued to live my life before the calamity, going about all over the country. After that, I felt tired of it and found a random place to open a medicine store to spend my days."

I panicked and asked Master: "Then what about Maoshan? Didn't you say that all the things in Maoshan are inside your head? If you don't go back, what about Maoshan? "

My master smiled and pulled me over, saying, "I'm already old. Even if I go back to Maoshan, I won't be able to afford it anymore, so I need a young man to inherit all my things, then help me go back and revive my Maoshan."

I'm not stupid. I looked at Master and said, "Master, are you talking about me?"

He nodded. "I don't have a second disciple other than you. Who else are you going to go to?"

I secretly took note of Master's words that sounded like a joke, and said to him, "Master, don't worry. I will definitely properly study your things and help you restore your Maoshan."

Ask me, do you know where Maoshan is?

I shook my head in embarrassment, saying that I didn't know.

Master said it's okay, I'll know in the future.

At that moment, a person walked into our shop.

I looked curiously at the person who came. It was really too rare to see a person coming to a store where the doors were mostly closed.