Chanaka walked over to Mount Konido. It was a long and tedious journey, that physically and mentally had worn him out. As he reached the summit of the caves, he was welcomed to a much harder path. A path full of dangerous plants, thorns and thick forests. Chanaka took his sword out and cut the branches of trees and other things that lay in his path. It was the hardest path he had taken in his life. The sunlight barely passed through in certain areas. There were wolves and foxes and other small predators that hunted him. He slain them leaving them for dead. What kind of person can live here? Wondered Chanaka. Only a true warrior!
After a very long and treacherous journey, he finally saw the caves in front of him. It was a large cave, but that's it. There was nothing special about it. He put his sword back in his scabbard and walked inside it. There was a man who was meditating in it. He was not large, nor small. He was just an ordinary man. But he certainly did not look old enough. Chanaka must have thought he was about his age.
"Hello," introduced Chanaka without calling him a Master.
The man opened his eyes.
"I must be mistaken," he said.
"I'am looking for Master Mashiro," he said
"I'am Master Mashiro," the man said.
Chanaka laughed.
"You surely cannot be the great Master a Mashiro," said Chanaka.
The man got up and kicked Chanaka in the ribs. He flew into the cosmos, to the far end of the universe and through a black hole and finally fell out of the caves.
Chanaka did not know what had happened. He tried to get up, but he simply could not.
The man came out of the caves, but when he did, this time he was in a different form. He took the form of a old man, with a long white beard.
"Now do you believe me?" asked Mashiro.
"Yes, Master," said Chanaka as he tried to get up.
"Take rest, and meet me here again tomorrow," said Mashiro and walked inside the caves.
"Again?" fumed Chanaka. He finally managed to get up.
Take test? he wondered.
But where'? he saw around and three was only the dangerous forests.
He had too much pride to enter the caves and take rest.
I will rest in the forests, he concluded.