A fearsome old guy

Nobody had ever seen the Shanguang waterfall since the birth of the village. Although a few villagers did not resist the urge to explore the world outside and passed through the magical barrier leaving the village. No one took the risk to anger this old entity by going closer to the waterfall. Indeed no one knew if the old expert was still alive or if he reached his goal, but the fact they had never seen people coming from the outside meant that even after all those centuries the mighty barrier covering their surrounding had fulfilled its purpose. Even if the old expert was dead he still remained an extremely fearsome existence.

But today, for the first time a villager set foot in this sacred place, he was none other than Xiao Yu, although he did not have the time to notice his surrounding before collapsing, the golden scalefish climbed up the river and dragged him to the waterfall's pound before escaping in another river's arm.

Xiao Yu's unconscious body was strangely floating at the middle of the large pound, only his back was visible.

An overwhelming amount of water was falling continuously and strongly in the pound propelling in the air an incommensurable quantity of water droplets giving birth to a dense mist, hence the name of the mountain: the Misty Peak.

An ancient voice came from the mist:

"Finally, after all this time..."

The fog became denser and took the form of an old man with piercing blue eyes and a long beard and hairs both as white as the snow.

"I can finally leave this place." he said full of anticipation.

His gaze felt on Xiao Yu, with a move from his hand his body rose in the air and smoothly landed farther his face to the ground.

"He just awoke recently and his body is well-built, not bad, not bad. He does not know how lucky he is to come to this place." Though the old man. He extended his hand above Xiao Yu and his ethereal body returned to a gaseous state and started to condense in a precise point above the young man. This tiny point grew larger and larger as the mist poured into it, glowing stronger and stronger.

This mass took the form of a little fish more exactly it looked like a little koi.

The fish began to fall in the direction of Xiao Yu, when it came in touch with the body he felt a slight resistance like a barrier, at this moment the voice of the old expert resounded:

"The dragon's gate!!!"

The fish forced his way until Xiao Yu's dantian, where it ended its progression provoking a huge force wave which scattered all the fog around the waterfall and even farther, in all the mountain spreading through the forest and reaching the Shouwei village. The villagers felt this sonic wave and could feel it was coming from the Misty Peak, they soon started to panic. Some were thinking the old expert were angry and it will be the end of the village, the others more optimistic were thinking it was a natural phenomenon like an earthquake or a rock fall, even so they were still worried. Calm came back progressively at the waterfall, and a mark appeared on Xiao Yu's back, drawing itself little by little under his clothes. An imposing tail with the ability to cleave the heavens, claws able to tear up the air and fangs able to shred mountains in pieces, started to form. Then came the body, huge and mighty, entirely covered with impenetrable scales and extended on sides by two enormous wings letting absolutely no doubt concerning the majesty of this beast, it was a Dragon!!

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Meanwhile, Xiao Yu was in a strange world, he was standing up on black water stretching as far as the eye could see and covered by an endlessly white sky. He was confused, how could he stand on water, what was this place, was he dead? He bent over to look closer at this strange water, even black in color the water still reflected his face and Xiao Yu saw his own face looking at himself.

Suddenly a change occurred on his reflect, instead the face of an old man with blue eyes appeared looking at him.

"Hello!"

"Aaaaah what's the fuck?!" Shouted Xiao Yu falling onto his butt.

The old man's reflect passed through the water and materialized in front of Xiao Yu.

"Wh-who are you?!" Asked shuttering Xiao Yu.

"My name is Mu Yong, I have accepted to take you as my disciple so I am now your venerable master." He said with a benevolent tone.

"Hein?! Disciple my ass, I don't want to become your disciple, when have I ever accepted something like that!!" Exclaimed Xiao Yu "And first what is this place?

"We are inside your mind, you are imagining everything here, you can create anything you want in this imaginary world or erase it." said Mu Yong.

"Everything I want?!"

Xiao Yu started to concentrate.

"Plop"

A huge bed appeared on the water and Xiao Yu jumped on the huge variety of pillows covering it. Then he looked the old man who was just staying still observing the young boy, they looked at each other for a moment, a very awkward moment.

Then Xiao Yu started to concentrate again.

"I hope you are not trying to make your master disappear, brat?!!"

Nothing happened, they were still looking at each other. The old man snapped his fingers too:

"Plop"

The bed under Xiao Yu disappeared and he felt to the ground, instinctively he had been afraid to fell in the water but to his surprise there was no longer any water. He was now sitting on a soft green grass spreading as far as one could see, he could even feel a cool breeze on his face, he looked up to see a large blue sky sprinkled by a few white clouds.

"You can't erase me, simply because you didn't create me boy, I have lived for ages, I have founded the Shouwei village where you came from if I believe in the design of your clothes. I have succeeded in apprehending a part of the power of this waterfall and I managed to keep my consciousness and soul intact even after all this time. But my body did not resist the flow of time, with only my soul left I could not leave this place it was too risky. In this state, without a physical body to protect my soul I can not even use martial arts, I decided to wait that someone came to this place to borrow his body with a technique I have created while searching enlightment from the waterfall: The Dragon's Gate.

This technique allow the user to forcibly transfer his soul and consciousness in the body of another cultivator. It still restrain the user's liberty, it is different from a possession it is more like a cohabitation. Hopefully the waterfall also preserved my sanity from being alone for so long, even so it is good to finally have someone to talk, it remembers my youth when I was 20 I met with an old weird guy too ..." Mu Yong had not talked with people for ages, he could not stop talking and an unceasing flow of words came out from him.

The time it takes for the sun to reach the half of its daily race later, the old man finally stopped talking:

"And this is how I have met your mother. I have always dreamt of saying this story to my child, but it was not your mother ahah."

Proud of his joke he looked to Xiao Yu, what he saw left him speechless.

Xiao Yu made the bed reappeared and was sleeping deeply.

"Such a shameless kid!!"

Mu Yong snapped his fingers and a bucket full of water appeared above Xiao Yu's head and tipped over waking him up with a jolt.

"Eh, what happened?! Is it meal time?!" said Xiao Yu looking around him.

The old man tried to remain calm:

"Did you listen to me?"

Xiao Yu tried to remember something from what he heard, he knew he did not remember a lot so he tried to improvise something and said with a very serious tone:

"Mmmh yes, I remember, you said you were an old martial art expert, you were the strongest but only your soul persisted through time and you had no choice that to take possession of a big rabbit to survive, you lived as a rabbit for so long that you have turned vegetarian..."

"Wrong!!" Said angrily Mu Yong hitting Xiao Yu's head.

"Did your head hit something in your childhood? You seem a little limited? At least you remembered the beginning." As his words end, the weather started to change, the sky darken, more and more black clouds appeared and the wind became a lot stronger.

"But you missed the most important part!" Pursued Mu Yong his voice was getting stronger and his face was becoming scarier as the weather was getting worse. Lightning were starting to fall down everywhere. Xiao Yu was scared by the simultaneous transformation of this old guy and the weather, he did not have any words to say.

Mu Yong was coming closer and closer to Xiao Yu: "You are such a stupid brat, you are the rabbit of your story, because I took possession of your body and you will be my puppet until you die!!!" Roared Mu Yong, his voice resonating with the deafening thunder coming from the sky.

Hearing these terrifying words and in front of this cataclysm Xiao Yu fainted from fear.

"Ups, maybe I went too far." Said Mu Yong.