Zhu Xian (诛仙)

Vol 1 Chapter 8: Teaching (A)

Chapter 8: Teaching (A)

"Shaw Danon!"

A sweet voice in a deafening pitch cried out waking Shaw Danon from his dream. Opening his eyes he suddenly saw a big mouth, two rows of sharp teeth, laying right before him; he let out a scream: "AH!"

"Kaka kaka ... ..." a burst of laughter came from behind.

Shaw Danon finally calmed down, saw a big brown dog in front of him. Half a man high, with shiny bright yellow hair, lying on his bed. Behind the yellow dog, Hidi in tight red clothes, laughing.

Shaw Danon secretly glance at the large yellow dog, seeing its large body, sharp fangs, a long tongue sticking out, a ferocious look. He had never seen such a large dog before, he felt a little fearful but then saw Hidi smiling at him, he murmured said: "Shijie, what's up?"

"What's up?" Hidi said smiling, suddenly turning serious, frowns and shouts loudly: "It's already morning and you ask me what's up? Hurry and get up, we are going to the mountain to chop bamboo."

Shaw Danon curious: "You need to go too?"

Hidi said: "nonsense, any new disciples of our house need to go up to the mountain and cut down 'Black Bamboo' for the first three years, I started at ten years old, so this is my last year. Hey, why are you still in bed?"

Shaw Danon quickly answered, and carefully moved away from the big dog, got off the bed, hurried through getting dressed.

Hidi shouted: "catch it." Threw a machete over.

Shaw Danon caught it with both hands, saw that it was a common machete, quite heavy. Getting everything ready, he said to Hidi: "Shijie, do we need to ask Da Shixiong to come too?"

Hidi rolled her eyes at him, said: "Didn't you hear me say only new disciples new to do homework, so it's just me and you now who need to chop bamboo, let's go."

She waved her hand, Shaw Danon did not move, but the big yellow dog jumped out of bed, shaking his tail, then barked twice at Shaw Danon, growled bearing its teeth, and then ran outside.

Shaw Danon head this many times, remembered there was the sound of barking while following Da Shixiong coming back from the rear hill; seemed to be this dog. His mind could not help but secretly think: "Jadeon is so cool, even a random dog is much larger than the one we had in the village."

He followed Hidi out of the room, saw it is still early morning. Walking out of the corridor, looking at the back hill from a discance, hazy fog rolled through the mountains.

Two people and a dog walking towards Bamboo Peak back hill.

Yesterday, Shaw Danon was carried by Xavion to the hill; it seemed reasonably quick to reach there, and the trail seemed comfortable too. But, today, when only half way there; they discovered that the slope is increasing, the distance far further than what he had imagined.

Hidi, on the other hand, did not use the "Phoenix Soul" today; still, she had a very easy time with walking. The red figure walking on the trail, fast and light-footed. The large brown dog traveled easily, as well; unusually energetic, sometimes in the front, sometimes in the back and sometimes running into the woods. With no idea what he is doing in there, bursting out from the other side after a moment, very excited.

After half hour, Shaw Danon grew very tired, panting, legs aching.

Hidi walking in the front, and looking back at him, grunted, said: "completely useless, just stop and rest a bit then."

Shaw Danon nodded and sat down, breathing hard. That big yellow dog was gone, ran off somewhere else.

Shaw Danon rested for a moment. He sat on the trail, looked down and saw Bamboo Peak stands tall and straight, near by mountains seem a much shorter distance away.

"Shijie, I have something to ask you, don't know ... ..."

Hidi noticed his words are kind of timid, pair of eyes looked toward, feeling sort of proud, subconsciously fixed her hair a little. Her face got a little serious: "Just ask."

"Why we do need to cut the bamboo as homework, I thought homework is to practice cultivation?"

Hidi curled up her lip, said: "You know nothing. For a cultivator, the body is one of the most important aspects. My mom said, if the body is not strong enough, no matter how strong the magic is, it is difficult to learn. We Jadeon are branched from Taoism , very focus on health. When learning deeper, the body will be even more important. Take our Jadeon strongest magic spell 'Thunderblade' as example... ... "

Shaw Danon body twitched, his face became pale.

Hidi felt strange: "what happen to you?"

Shaw Danon's face still not settled, stammered: "No..nothing, I just think it must be very powerful because name of it."

Hidi glared at him, said: "Of course it is powerful, this is one of our Jadeon secret skills, not many people can cultivate it. I heard my dad said, to use this magic, they must use themself, with the help of esper, to attract the godly lighting from nine skies, as powerful as god, anyone there will be dead all at once, peerless power. "

Shaw Danon sighed: "Yeah."

Hidi spoke again: "Think about it, even with protective spells protecting you, it is the power of god's thunder. When normal people touch it, the will immediately turn to ashes. Of course the caster's cultivation must be deep, but with poor health, they will get killed by the lightning before anybody else does; how would they still be able to kill anyone?" She looked at Shaw Danon, said, "so, my dad told you doing homework is good for you, yet you seem reluctant."

Shaw Danon shocked, quickly jumped up and said: "No such thing, I never... never dare to disrespect master, and no reluctance. I have rested enough, let go, go! "

He picked up the machete, began to move, ran really quickly to the mountain. Hidi looked at his back, smiled gently, and followed him.

Finally reaching the hill, Shaw Danon was already out of breath. The big yellow dog has been laying in the bamboo forest. Seeing the two of them coming, he barks a few times, but does not even bother to get up; then, he turned his head.

Shaw Danon said: "really fast!"

"Are you talking about Big Yella?" Hidi came up from behind, her face is not red nor is she out of breath.

Shaw Dannon pointed to the big dog, said: "Its name is Big Yella?"

Hidi said: "Yeah, don't underestimate him, he is strong."

Shaw Dannon murmured: "Tell from the size, at least twenty years old."

Hidi shouted: "No way!"

Shaw Dannon was surprised: "He is less than twenty years old? Then Big Yella must grow really fast."

At this moment Big Yella barked ruthlessly at Shaw Danon.

Hidi said: "I meant not that few years. Uh, let's see, he was already here when fourth Shixiong came and that's seventy years; no, third shixiong said that Big Yella was already here when he came, then that's ninety-seven years. Ah!" She suddenly shouted, Shaw Dannon was surprised, quickly said: "what?"

Hidi happily said: "I remember. When I was a child, one day Mom and Dad were arguing; she said she is going to kill the dog that Dad raised when he was a child to cook dog soup, made Dad very angry. Big Yella was also scared for many days and did not dare to go home!"