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The ancient mountains contain incredible legends. (Image source: Adobe Stock)
During the Wei and Jin Dynasties, “Seven Sages of the Bamboo Grove“One of theJi Kangwith the given nameWang LieJi Kang was acquainted with people from Handan, Hebei Province, and the two often traveled together in the mountains. Ji Kang respected him very much. According to legend, Wang Lie had extraordinary intelligence and could easily climb dangerous mountains. He had been alive for more than three hundred years, but his face had not aged at all. He was aImmortalityofstrange person.
Encountered a strange man over 300 years old when the “Sacred Mountain” split open
It is said that Wang Lie once entered the Taihang Mountains alone. He heard the sound of a landslide coming from the east. When he went there to investigate, he found that a landslide occurred from a height of several hundred feet, and a cave made of bluestone appeared, about one foot in diameter. A kind of green mud flows out continuously, which looks very strange. Wang Lie stretched out his hand to pick up the green clay and tried to roll the clay into balls. Unexpectedly, he rolled the green clay into stone balls, like a candle melted into balls.
For some reason, the clay ball in Wang Lie’s hand exuded an aroma similar to that of japonica rice. He put it in his mouth and chewed it, and the taste of japonica rice appeared. So he made another clay ball about the same size as a peach and took it to find Ji. Kang. After Wang Lie saw Ji Kang, he said that he had obtained a strange thing and wanted to give it to Ji Kang. Ji Kang was very happy to hear this. When Wang Lie took out the clay ball, it underwent an astonishing change and turned into a bluestone ball, which made a sound similar to copper when struck. Later, Ji Kang asked Wang Lie to take him to the place where the mud ball was found, but when the two arrived at the site of the landslide, everything had returned to its original state, and there was no sign that a collapse had occurred.
After an unknown period of time, Wang Lie entered the mountains again, this time to Baodu Mountain, and encountered the same incredible thing. At that time, Wang Lie accidentally discovered a grotto. There was a shelf made of white stones, and two volumes of white cloth scriptures were placed on it. Wang Lie could not understand what the words on it were saying. Because he did not dare to take the scriptures away rashly, he only wrote down some words of the scriptures and put the scriptures back on the shelf. After returning, Wang Lie relied on his memory and asked Ji Kang to look at the script fonts found in the grotto. Ji Kang happened to be able to understand these characters, so they entered Baodu Mountain together to look for the grotto. However, this time was the same as last time. Although they followed the exact same path, when they arrived at the location of the grotto, they could not find the cave.
There is a saying that the so-called “Sacred Mountain” will crack every five hundred years, and an object called “stone marrow” will flow out of the cracks. It is said that after people take stone marrow, their lifespan can be extended to eternity. Perhaps the cave and the green mud that Wang Lie discovered in the Taihang Mountains happened to be the time when the sacred mountain cracked, and he gained immortality even in the Jin Dynasty. There are stories of his appearance. During the Yongning period, Wang Lie once traveled to Luochuan, Shaanxi Province. At that time, he competed with others in bow skills. Using a bow that required two stones to draw, he shot ten arrows from a hundred steps away, and only one of them missed. The next year he came here again, and met with Zhang Zidao, an elder in his nineties. The other person saluted him very respectfully, but Wang Lie still sat and remained motionless, which confused and surprised the people present. Shi Zhang Zidao quickly explained that he had seen him as early as seven or eight years old. Wang Lie’s face at that time was the same as it is now, with no signs of aging at all, and it was impossible to tell from his appearance how long he had lived. Since then, there has been no news about Wang Lie. Perhaps he is still wandering leisurely in a certain mountain.
(According to “The Legend of Immortals”.)
Source: Look at China
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