Above the source of Tao

Two days later...

At the west gate of Shanglin City, Yun Changan's home...

In the evening, my grandfather passed away with tears in his eyes because he couldn't catch his breath.

Yun Chang'an looked at the corpse on the bed with pain in his heart, which had not yet turned cold. This was his only relative in this world, and now it had left him. But why did Yun Chang'an seem so calm at this moment, with no expression on his face? He just stared blankly at the dry body that had not yet cooled down.

After a long time, he stood up and walked out of the room. He didn't know when he walked to a thatched house. This was his neighbor's house. There was a middle-aged woman in it. The husband of this middle-aged woman went to work as a laborer in the mine outside the city with his father a few years ago. Unfortunately, the mine encountered a landslide. In order to save people, his father was buried alive. The person who was rescued was the husband of this middle-aged woman. Although her husband survived, he also had one leg broken by the ore and could no longer do heavy work.

After knocking on the door, the neighbor Aunt Zhang opened it. When she saw it was Yun Chang'an, she started asking about his grandfather's condition, but he said nothing. He just borrowed a wooden cart from Aunt Zhang, put his grandfather's body on the cart, and covered the body with a long mat woven from hawthorn grass, and also put a lot of chopped hawthorn grass underneath.

Aunt Zhang asked, "Where do you plan to bury your grandfather?"

Yun Changan said, "I heard from grandpa that there is a mountain facing the water to the west of the city. After grandma passed away, grandpa buried her on that mountain. I want to bury grandpa and grandma together."

"No, it's too dangerous!" When Aunt Zhang heard that he was going to Linshui Mountain, she hurriedly spoke out to dissuade him.

Oh my! A few days ago, the city's public notice said: There is a coyote near Linshui Mountain. It has injured and killed people in recent days. Many people who went up the mountain to cut wood have encountered it, and several people have been bitten to death by the coyote. Now the city lord's mansion has ordered the city guards to take hunters up the mountain to look for the coyote.

After hearing the news, although he was still a little worried, he still told Aunt Zhang that he must go.

"I don't know if the coyote has been found. You must be careful when you go up the mountain," said Aunt Zhang with a worried look on her face.

After saying that, Yun Changan was a little doubtful and thought, "If we have to wait until the official from the City Lord's Mansion hunts the coyote before burying grandpa, I'm afraid grandpa's body will stink, right?"

Thinking of this, he made up his mind and pulled the cart towards the mountain west of the city.

An hour later, the sky just darkened...

“Is this grandma’s tombstone?”

Looking around, I saw a tombstone standing on a small hill in a quiet jungle. It was covered with moss and there were weeds growing beside it, covering the small hill. The tombstone was engraved with "The Tomb of Yun Fan's Wife Xiu Yu".

So Yun Changan pulled out the weeds with his hands, wiped the moss on the tombstone with trifoliate oranges, and kowtowed three times in front of the tombstone. After a while, Yun Changan picked up a shovel and dug a hole next to the tombstone, and then buried his grandfather's bones in it. After setting up a tombstone for his grandfather, he kowtowed three times and said.

"Grandpa, don't worry, I will take good care of myself. I will eat the pill and look for the way to become an immortal. I will also look at the scenery on this immortal road for you."

Yun Changan wiped away his tears and looked at his grandparents’ tombstone with a determined face.

After a long time, just as Yun Changan was leaving, he suddenly heard some movement in the grass not far away. The grass swayed wildly in the wind.

Yun Changan was a little scared and thought to himself, "It can't be such a coincidence, right? It shouldn't be possible to meet that wolf here, it can't be possible."

I comforted myself in this way, but just as I was thinking this, I saw a pair of dark blue eyes emerging from the bushes. It was indeed the coyote. This coyote was just as the city guards had described it: "It looks like a dog with a white head, and its voice is like a raccoon. It has six-inch fangs in its mouth, and its temples have red hair. It is large in size, with short and thick limbs, and looks very ferocious."

Yun Chang'an's hair stood on end instantly, and fear filled his heart. However, the coyote did not notice Yun Chang'an and was looking around for something.

After a while, Chang'an calmed down a little, holding a shovel in one hand, staggering, and ran behind him. He saw a shiny bluestone, and was about to go around behind the bluestone, but heard the white-headed coyote roaring behind him. Looking back, he saw the coyote running towards him. Without hesitation, he immediately jumped onto the bluestone, holding the shovel in his hand and pointing at the coyote running towards him.

Yun Chang'an did not dare to relax for a moment and kept staring at the coyote. He found that the coyote seemed to be injured and was limping as it ran towards him.

A moment later, the coyote pounced on him, and Yun Changan immediately swung the shovel in his hand and hit the coyote. The wolf howled in pain, stood up from the ground, and did not take the initiative to attack. In this way, the man and the wolf, one high and one low, stared at each other.

After a long time, the coyote could no longer bear it and pounced towards Yun Chang'an, as if it wanted to tear him to pieces with its claws. Seeing this, Yun Chang'an held the shovel with both hands and raised it to his chest to block the coyote's pounce, but the strength of that claw was beyond his imagination, and it broke the shovel into two pieces with one claw.

Yun Changan held the wooden handle of the shovel with both hands, pointed the broken end at the coyote, and stabbed it hard in the abdomen, but it didn't go in. Seeing that the attack didn't go in, he raised his left foot and kicked the wolf in the abdomen with all his strength. The wolf was kicked more than ten steps away, fell to the ground, and then stood up again.

"This hungry wolf's body is so hard that it seems impossible to pierce it without using all my strength." Yun Chang'an thought to himself.

The coyote in front of him was pouncing again, and Chang'an, still holding the half wooden handle in his hand, ran quickly behind him. Soon he ran to the edge of the cliff, and looked down. It was very deep, and there was a layer of mist in the middle of the abyss, so he couldn't see what was going on below.

The coyote saw Yun Chang'an running away and chased him. When it saw him stop, it growled and pounced on him. Yun Chang'an turned his head sharply and crouched down, dodging its claws while stabbing at his abdomen with both hands with all his strength.

Done, let’s go in!

When he saw himself stabbing the wooden handle into its belly, he couldn't help but feel a little surprised.

But then, the wolf endured the pain and charged towards Yun Chang'an. The impact was so strong that he could not resist and was knocked back a few steps. However, there was an abyss behind him and he missed a step. The man and the wolf fell off the cliff.

Yun Chang'an was very lucky that he was entangled by vines on the cliff, which slowed down his fall, but the wolf unfortunately fell straight down.

Slowly, the thin vines began to break, and Yun Changan thought to himself, "Not good!"

But he had no strength left at this point, and he let the vines break one by one, until the last thin vine broke completely, and he fell down along with the thin vine.