A few days later, when Jinxiu came to bring food to Aze again, she found that Aze was riding a gust of wind and chasing and playing with two tits on the cliff.
"Aze - it's time to eat -"
After shouting over there, Aze quickly flew towards the house.
"Sister Jin, I can fly now. I can fly really fast, much faster than I can run in the mountains! I can fly with you!"
Aze seemed to have swept away the long-standing gloom, and flew to Jinxiu happily, telling her about his excitement. The two tits did not fly far away, but also flew around them. If they were not careful, they would be blown away by the wind that Aze was controlling, but they would soon fly back.
"Hahahaha, Sister Jin, look, I've become friends with them!"
"Aze, you are amazing. You will definitely be able to achieve enlightenment in the future! Come, take a look at what delicious food I brought you today."
The immortal cultivators in Jiufeng Mountain naturally don’t need to eat every day, even Aze is the same. After all, Jin Xiu also needs to practice, but she still brings delicious food to see Aze every two or three days.
"Haha, there are roast chicken, guava, and glutinous rice dumplings. Thank you, Sister Jin. They are all my favorites!"
The two of them returned to the other room talking and laughing. This time Jin Xiu also accompanied Aze to eat. When she finished cleaning up the dishes and went back, she had a smile on her face. Seeing Aze regained his energy and the head master allowed him to practice the Dharma, the worries she had for a long time were swept away.
In the not-so-long period of time that followed, Aze's progress was visible to the naked eye. Jin Xiu knew that if an outsider looked at Aze's progress from her perspective, they might feel jealous.
It was as if he wanted to completely release the talent that had been suppressed for so many years. Not only was the threshold of the flying method such as controlling the wind posing no obstacle to Aze, but he also made rapid progress in some other controlling methods. He was able to control objects at will, and he could even visualize spiritual patterns in his mind to increase his magic power and control over spiritual energy. He could even make hand seals and perform magic seals.
On this day, Jin Xiu accompanied A Ze to practice beside a small waterfall pool on Yashan Mountain. The latter suddenly opened his eyes while sitting cross-legged, and there seemed to be electric currents flashing in his eyes. The next moment, he put his hands together, and then the index finger, little finger and thumb of his right hand formed a formation and suddenly pointed forward.
"Shake the mountain!"
"Boom-boom..."
He pointed three fingers at the wall of the small waterfall beside him, and there was a loud bang, followed by a slight earthquake. Even the water of the waterfall was shaken away, and a light drizzle fell on Aze and Jinxiu's heads.
Jin Xiu looked at Aze in surprise, stood up and walked to the rock wall he pointed to, and found a triangular depression with a relatively rounded top, as if someone had pressed a small piece of the rock wall into it, but the rock inside was not broken at all, it was just a little darker in color.
At this moment, there was a rumbling sound on the mountain, and even many birds were startled and flew away.
"Aze, you are amazing! I can only cast spells by pinching the magic formula, but you can already do the seal formula! I envy your talent... But what is this seal formula?"
Jin Xiu was surprised and happy, but also very confused. The methods that Aze practiced were all carefully selected by her. Although there were classics on seals, they were mostly theoretical books that helped broaden the knowledge of immortal methods. How could he use seals? And these seals were obviously not like those in Jiufeng Mountain.
Aze was also very happy and answered directly.
"Sister Jin, this is not the seal of Jiufeng Mountain. This is Mr. Ji's seal. I can only imitate its appearance but not its true essence. If Mr. Ji used it, Yanfeng would have been blown away long ago!"
"Mr. Ji's? He taught you the seal technique? That's not right, how can it be..."
Jin Xiu's words suddenly stopped. She remembered that she and A Ze had seen Mr. Ji use a seal in an underworld in the mortal world of Jiufeng Cave Heaven. She asked about it later and Mr. Ji told her that it was the Mountain-Shaking Seal.
"Aze, could it be that you saw that seal formula back then, and you still remember it today, and then you used it?"
"I just tried to use the seal theory of Jiufeng Mountain and piece together my feelings at that time. If I really want to practice, it will not be easy to do even if Mr. Ji is willing to teach me."
Jin Xiu widened her eyes, and suddenly felt that her heart of seeking immortality had suffered tremendous damage. It was really frustrating to compare yourself with others.
"I think if your talent really spreads in Jiufeng Mountain, the seniors in the mountain gate will definitely fight to accept you as their disciple!"
"Haha, really? Sister Jin, stop praising me. By the way, Sister Jin, can I see the token that the Sect Leader gave you?"
“What’s so good about this?”
Although Jin Xiu asked this, she took off the token from her waist and handed it to Aze. The latter took the token and found that the black token was warm. He didn't know whether it was the token itself or the warmth from Sister Jin.
"With this, can I go to the Sutra Building to select classics? When can I go there by myself?"
Jin Xiu saw that Aze looked very eager and thought for a moment.
"The headmaster didn't seem to say that you can't go. Now that you know how to fly, and there are no restrictions around you, the restrictions of Yashan are naturally meaningless... How about this, let's go to the Sutra Building that I often go to, and show you the way!"
"Is it really possible?"
Now it was Aze's turn to widen his eyes, and Jinxiu tapped him gently on the forehead.
"Your sister Jin is also an immortal who keeps her word. How could she lie to you? Let's go!"
"Um!"
The two men stood up one after another, then flew away from Yashan and headed for one of the scripture towers on the nine peaks. Aze was in a rather uneasy mood until he flew away from Yashan and there were no obstacles, then he became cheerful again.
The token was held in Aze's hand the whole time. It was not known whether it was because the Sutra Building itself had no guards or because of the token, he was able to enter without any obstruction. Even if he met some disciples from the Jiufeng Mountain inside, no one would even look at him. He entered and exited easily, and he even brought back a lot of classics.
When they returned to Yashan, Aze was obviously in a better mood than before, and Jinxiu didn't extend her hand to him until she was about to leave.
"Okay, give me back the token."
Aze held the token with some hesitation.
"Sister Jin, can you leave it here with me? We can go together next time we go to Jinglou, okay?"
Jin Xiu frowned. This token was given to her by the head master. Normally, she couldn't lend it to others casually. But this token was originally given to Aze to make things convenient for him. In essence, it was more like giving it to Aze than giving it to her. There seemed to be nothing wrong in letting him keep it himself.
Looking at Aze's pleading expression, he is obviously a handsome adult, but he still acts so childishly, which makes Jinxiu want to laugh.
"Okay, but be careful not to trespass into places where elders are meditating or where the Dharma is forbidden. You will be severely punished! Other than that, it should be fine if you want to go out for a walk!"
"Well, I know my limits!"
Jin Xiu and A Ze smiled at each other, and then the latter flew away from Yashan on the wind. She was a little stimulated by A Ze, and felt that she was not practicing hard enough, so she wanted to go back to ask her master and ancestors for advice on the problems in her practice.
But after Jin Xiu flew away, the smile on Aze's face gradually faded.
'Sister Jin, I'm sorry!'
Almost half an hour after Jin Xiu left, Aze had already packed up the things in the house, put away the necessary methods of storing objects that he had just learned, and then placed all the classics and spells of Jiufeng Mountain neatly on the table, and left a letter.
The letter was a personal letter from Aze to Jinxiu, and also an apology letter. The first thing he wrote was that he stole Jinxiu's token and was very sad to leave without saying goodbye. After that, the whole letter was full of true feelings, but he did not say where he would go, only that he would wander around the world...
After doing all this, Aze put on the robe of a disciple of Jiufeng Mountain, which he had only tried on symbolically in front of Jin Xiu since he became an adult, but had never worn again since then.
"Huh..."
He took a deep breath, and the next moment, the wind appeared under Aze's feet, and he flew away from Yashan directly. He flew in the clouds for a long time, flew around one of the nine peaks, and then flew directly from that direction to the direction he remembered.
Aze didn't fly fast, and it was the same even when the faint forbidden spiritual text in the distant sky was getting closer and closer. He was very calm in his heart, and even his heartbeat didn't change at all.
Aze vaguely remembered that when he was still young, he saw the spiritual text appearing in front of him, and the disciples of Jiufeng Mountain appeared or disappeared out of thin air in the fog.
Faint spiritual patterns seemed to be growing in the sky, and with the passing of wind and clouds, occasional rays of light would flow. Aze became more and more nervous, but he forced himself to calm down. Although he left behind all the classics and spells of Jiufeng Mountain, he had already memorized all the contents in his mind, and he knew what to do when he got out of the cave.
'Concentrate your mind, concentrate your mind! Visualize the boundary between heaven and earth, visualize the mountain gate and passage opening for me...'
Aze's flying speed did not decrease at all. At a certain moment, the clouds in front became thicker and seemed to be rotating in a circle. There was a slight feeling of weightlessness and dizziness during the flight, and it seemed that a strange pressure came from all directions from time to time.
After this feeling lasted for a while, Aze suddenly felt his body become clear and the wind around him suddenly became much stronger.
“Hu…Hu…”
Aze looked down and saw slowly flowing white clouds below him. He could see the earth through the gaps in the clouds. He slowly turned around and saw nine mountains that seemed to be floating above the sky, looking very far away.
"I, I'm out!"
Aze clenched his fists tightly, his body trembling slightly due to being too excited, but he did not roar loudly to vent his emotions. Instead, he used his magic power to fly away in the wind. He did not fly around, but headed towards Ruanshan Ferry which was not too far away.
Aze, who had been preparing for this moment for a long time, knew very well that although Ruanshan Ferry was under the jurisdiction of Jiufeng Mountain, there were cultivators traveling back and forth from all over the world, and there were also ferry vehicles from various realms.
Ruanshan Ferry was extremely lively in Aze's eyes, and all the new and novel things made him dazzled, but he had no time to look at anything else. Instead, he went straight to the anchorage and saw a huge flying boat boarding passengers. He walked directly over there. The most urgent thing was to leave here directly, and as for how to go where he wanted to go, he would talk about it later.
Among those who boarded the ship were both mortals and cultivators. Aze did not see what tolls they had to pay or what receipts they had to give. He knew that if he did not need any resting house, even if he was an immortal cultivator, he could sometimes ride the ship for free, so he shamelessly kept moving forward.
There were several monks in golden robes beside the boat, and there was also a strange fairy beast squatting there. It looked like a big gray dog, with short hair but four ears.
When Aze was about to walk over, the fairy beast suddenly looked at him and opened its mouth to speak in human language.
"My little Taoist friend, your mind is in a mess! When you practice, remember to keep your mind clear, but don't go astray!"
"Thank you for your guidance, I will definitely keep it in mind!"
Aze bowed to the fairy beast, then quickly got on the boat and looked back at the fairy beast. The other party seemed to be looking at him as well, but did not intend to stop him.
"Huh..."
Aze let out a long sigh, quickly left the boarding gate, and went towards the depths of the flying boat.