“The Way to the Overcast Gates” by Feng Manlong in a brief summary
A tale of how Lee’s righteous went to the Sky-Gates
In ancient times, Li Tsin, the head of the most extensive family, rich and owner of several painted, was to be seventy years old. Chad and his family prepared gifts for him, but the old man asked everyone to give him a piece of strong rope. Nobody knew what the old man was up to, but on the appointed day the mountain of ropes grew up in front of the house. It turned out that Li Qing was going to descend in a special basket to the abyss of the Mount of the Transcendental Gate, in order to get to the celibates. A rope was weaved from ropes, a gate was built, and the old man sank into the abyss under the oath of tribulation.
As he disappeared without a trace, everyone decided that he was dead. Meanwhile, Li Qing after long torment reached the palace of the lord of the immortals. At first, they did not want to leave him in the palace, but then they relented. However, he himself sometimes wanted to return to earth to
Once, when there was a celebration in the celestial land, Li Qing violated the order – he looked into the forbidden window and saw his native city: all his property was in complete neglect, although he was absent only a few days. In punishment, the lord, the immortal, ordered him to go home, and with him gave him a book and told a mysterious spell: “Look at the stones, go, Think of the tree, take it.
On the way back, he lost his way and found the road only thanks to the first line of the spell. He did not recognize his native city. And the faces of passers-by were unfamiliar to him. I realized that during his absence, decades passed. It turned out that all his relatives died in the wars. This was told to him by a blind narrator with things a tablet – just as the spell promised. So he stayed on earth alone, like a finger, and even without a penny.
He looked into the book of the lord of the immortals, it turned out that this is a medical device. Li Qing understood that he was destined to become a doctor. And he decided to settle near the drug
Very soon, Lee-healer became known throughout the district. He treated the children, so much so that he did not need to look at the patient: he measured the measure of the drug – and the illness did not happen.
Years passed. Li Tsin was one hundred and forty years old. Here the emperor conceived to call to the court of all his immortal country. Approximated to the throne of the Taoists, the celestials informed the emperor that there are now three of them. Each was equipped with a special messenger. A dignitary named Pei Pinh went to Li Qin. Upon learning about this, the Elder remembered the fourth line of the spell: “Pei will appear – go away” – and decided to disappear. That’s what it meant. He gathered the disciples and announced that his hour of death is approaching and it is necessary, when the breath stops, put the body in the coffin and hammer the lid. He regretted only that his neighbor Jin was not with whom they had known him for seventy years.
The disciples performed everything as instructor ordered. And then just the dignitary Pei Pinh arrived and was very upset when he heard of Li Qing’s death. True, since he died, then no one is immortal. Still, he ordered to gather information about the life of Li Qing, but knew little about him: he did not have any peers at all. Did old Jin have something to tell. Soon he himself appeared and was quite surprised at the report of the neighbor’s death. It turned out that yesterday they met at the south gate and he went to the mountain of the Transcendental Gate. Moreover, a letter and an item had ordered somebody to hand over the official to Pey.
The audience could not be surprised. And Jin gave Pai a letter for the sovereign and a jasper staff as a gift. It was then decided that it was necessary to open the coffin and find out the truth. Hurried to the healer’s shop, they lifted the lid, and there only a pair of shoes and a bamboo staff and blue smoke curled up. Suddenly – a miracle! – the coffin soared up and disappeared in the sky.
The next year the country swept epidemic ulcers. Only the city of Li Qin, she bypassed, it is clear that the strength of his healing has been preserved. And the inhabitants of the city till today worship the spirits on the mountain of the Transcendental Gate.
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