Chapter 466 Not Human (1/2)

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.