Immortality

What does it feel like not to live past twenty? Chen Changsheng knew. Others are running and jumping in the fields, but you can only sit on the threshold and watch. Others go up the mountain to dig out bird's nests, and you can only listen to it while lying in bed. It was the old doctor in the town who shook his head and said: If you take good care of it, you may be able to live to be twenty years old. Maybe. Chen Changsheng didn't want to wait to die. The ancient books left by my father read: In Wuyi Mountain in Dongzhou, there is a platform for ascending to immortality. Anyone who is sincere can go to the stage to ask questions, enter the immortal gate, and seek immortality. He doesn't know what sincerity is. I don't know if I can go on stage. I don't know if I can enter the Immortal Sect. I don't know if I can seek immortality. He knows nothing. But he picked up the bookcase and hit the road. Even if he died on the road, it would be better than lying at home waiting to die. The nine continents are vast, and the five wonders of heaven and earth are famous for eternity - the sword waterfall hangs upside down like the Milky Way, the five fairies in the painting are hidden deep in the peach forest, the sacred sycamore tree reaches nirvana every ten thousand years, and the black ice reflects the past and present lives. On the top of Wuyi Mountain, the Taoist platform hangs above the sea of ​​clouds. For thousands of years, countless people have stepped onto the stone platform and never came down. But it's still waiting. Waiting for the person who can actually take the stage and ask. Chen Changsheng didn't know how long he had to go. I didn't know that people starved to death, froze to death, or were beaten to death every day at the foot of the mountain. I didn't know that the stone steps were called Dao Steps. There were nine thousand nine hundred and ninety-nine levels. Only a hundred people were allowed to go up the mountain every day. He knows nothing. But he was already on his way. --- What he wanted was never immortality. Just a reason to live.