Venerable Yuanshi Enters Huoyun Cave, Discussing Tea and the Dao: Different Paths Cannot Be Pursued Together, Human Dao Saints

Huoyun Cave.

After more than a decade of toil, Shennong took off his rain cape and straw hat and hung them on the wall.

He calmly boiled water and brewed tea, intending to receive the visitor who would soon arrive. Beside him, White Crane Boy wore an uncertain expression. In the end, he still called out Venerable Yuanshi's honorific title.

As a figure appeared.

White Crane Boy felt some fear in his heart. Trembling, he bowed and said, "This disciple, White Crane, pays respects to Master."

"Mm."

Venerable Yuanshi responded indifferently without even looking at White Crane Boy.

This made White Crane Boy's expression turn somewhat unsightly and uneasy. He hurried to Past Branch, trembling as he attended to the Saint.

"Useless thing. I sent you out to do work, yet time and again, you made me help you instead. What use are you? Get out!"

Venerable Yuanshi gave a light rebuke, and White Crane Boy immediately left Huoyun Cave, trembling all over.

"Shennong greets Yuqing Saint Yuanshi. Saint, please."

Shennong was not surprised by Venerable Yuanshi's arrival. He invited him to the tea table and said, "This is merely coarse tea and plain water from the fields. Forgive my inadequate hospitality, Saint."

"This tea contains your Great Dao. It is tea imbued with Dao resonance, a spiritual tea of Heaven and Earth. How could it be considered inadequate hospitality?"

Venerable Yuanshi smiled.

He sat down and drank tea.

The two merely savored tea and spoke of tea, without discussing anything else.

Suddenly, Venerable Yuanshi said, "Fellow Daoist Shennong, what do you believe makes good tea?"

"Tea that grows between Heaven and Earth is born of Fortune Aura. Only after receiving the Creation of Heaven and Earth, the Essence of Sun and Moon, and enduring Life and Death, Tribulations of