Behind the Mountain Gate

When she was twelve years old, Lan Fengyue received a letter asking for immortality. The post said she had immortal bones. Before the ninth day of September, if you hold the post to Budu Mountain, you can enter the mountain to seek the Tao. Lan Fengyue went happily. Then she discovered that cultivating immortals was different from what she had imagined. There are exams for sword control, talismans have to be written silently, you have to pay for making alchemy and blowing up the furnace, cranes will peck people, and credits will be deducted for overdue books borrowed from the Tibetan Scripture Pavilion. And the first problem she encountered after enrolling in school was—— She doesn't know how to draw air. The husband told it three times and she understood every word. Taken together, I don't understand. That night, Lan Fengyue squatted alone on the training ground and tortured until the moon was in the sky. Someone passed behind her, looked at her for a while, and said: "Practice the wrong way." Lan Fengyue looked back. That was the first time she met Yan Yunheng. He was the last chief of Budu Mountain and the leader of hundreds of swordsmen. He finished his training in the inner courtyard at the age of nineteen, but for some unknown reason he always stayed in the mountain. Lan Fengyue asked: "How should I practice?" Yan Yunheng was silent for a moment. "Start again." This teaching lasts for seven years. At the age of twelve, she asked him how to induce qi. At the age of thirteen, she asked him how he could wield a sword without falling. At the age of fourteen, she asked why demons must be evil. At the age of fifteen, she asked for the first time: "Senior Brother Yan, what if the textbook makes a mistake?" Then her questions became increasingly difficult. Why has no one ascended in three hundred years? Why is the seventh floor of the Sutra Pavilion lit up every fifteenth day? Why are the battles between immortals and demons recorded by the demon clan so different from the history they have memorized since childhood? Why do those who once studied in Budu Mountain disappear from the student roster one by one? At first, Yan Yunheng could answer everything. Then one day, he told her: "Don't ask this question again." Lan Fengyue didn't listen to him for the first time. She, Chu Qi, Yan Ruting, and Lu Xiao started from a strange campus talk, walked out of Budu Mountain step by step, and walked into the world's secrets that had been buried for three hundred years. They once thought that cultivating immortals meant wielding swords and flying clouds, the road to immortality, and the boundless world beyond the mountain gate. Only later did they discover that the "answers" they had learned for so many years might have been wrong from the beginning. When she was seventeen years old, Lan Fengyue asked for the last time: "Senior Brother Yan, do you think I should go?" Yan Yunheng did not answer. He just asked: "Do you want to go?" "Think." "Then go." Lan Fengyue was stunned. "You won't teach me anymore?" Yan Yunheng looked at the girl who couldn't even draw Qi when she was twelve years old, but now she could cross the mountains by herself with a sword. After a long time, he smiled. "Lan Fengyue." "Huh?" "You've already left." When I was eighteen years old, I closed the mountain if I didn't cross it. Lan Fengyue really walked out of the mountain gate for the first time. And the person who taught her for seven years finally no longer stood in front of her. He walked over to her. There are no immortals behind the mountain gate. There was only the human world that they finally saw with their own eyes. Purpose: Growth is not about becoming an omnipotent person, but about seeing the world clearly and still choosing the path you believe in.