"There you are!"
An old man with white dirty robes spoke
"Where am I?"
My rash voice, feeling thirsty for water.
Coursing in my veins was my blood vengeance against the protagonist, all hypocritical protagonist will die!
Holding in my emotions, clinching my fists.
I looked at the old man in dirty white robes, around him was a Go board, forest filled with trees and bamboo
"You can call it...Ghost Valley."
The old man had no eyes, staring at me and answered my question with a voice that was neither male or female.
I asked,
"Who're you, then?"
"You can call me...Zhang"
The old man replied back across from me
"Is this a Go board?"
I looked down from him and found one black piece in the center, another piece that was white in the left hand corner.
"Yes, and this round of Go has been going on for 3 thousand years, it didn't have a start. Nor will it have an end. You can call this board the 'Map of the Immortal World'."
Guessing that this is a still an ongoing game, wonder what are we fighting against and why must be take up arms.
I ask the old man, one hand on his white thick beard, the other hand on his on the black pieces of Go
"And who I am? Where was I from? Where will I go?"
"Good questions."
The old man was happy and delighted, laughing with a smile.
"Very good questions, let's play a round of Go first. You first my friend, you may place the first stone!"
I placed my hands into the white stone box, grabbing and placed the stone on top of the left corner of the board.
The old man passed along me, what appeared to be a Yin Yang symbol.
Looking behind me there were few wooden tree spirits coming up 100 meters ahead.
I looked back, the old man was gone but the Go board was still there
'What's this place? And who exactly was that elderly old man just now?'
I scratched my face, very oddly confused as for what is going on around me until,
"Tian...Yuan...Mountain..."
The old man voice spoked but the old man wasn't there
I was very confused about the old man speaking
sounding from the skies and disappearing as he kept speaking,
"Come to Tian Yuan Mountain... I will always be waiting for you at Tian Yuan Mountain..."
"Where are you? And where is Tian Yuan Mountain?"
I shouted at the sky, but his voice had faded away.
My first thought was to get out of here before I am surrounded by these spirits, I can always ask the towns folk where this mountain was.
I looked at the Go board where the old man and me played, on it were carved with the words Tian Yuan Mountain and a Ring with a piece paper
'This ring contains a good chunk of storage'
On this paper I was reading, it was instructions on how to use this ring and how much space it had.
I saluted to the sky thanking the old man for leaving me some items on my journey.
I hope to see this old man some time again.
Putting on the ring, I took out the short dragger from it. Look at this dragger, it has a very null shaped edge along with pointy end and little bit of green on the tip of it.
I held the dragger firmly, giving myself a short practice on the nearby tree, scratching it and leaving behind some marks.
This may be my first fight against the tree spirits that are 100 meters behind me, they were grouping up as time went by, I still do not know why they gather there or how strong they are.
My meridians were renewing itself with the manual inside the ring. On this manual contain short simple pictures of dragger and another human. On it contained Qi around the picture and where to use it at.
Giving myself amped time to practice on the tree and readying myself to take on the tree spirits and run to my home.