บท 100: The King of Metal Forging

At every hill, every lake, every farmland, every town, Li Yao saw many bizarre things and met many strange people.

One time, he had encountered an old man of 130-years of age. Obviously, he was just an ordinary person; however, he had a pet “Whistling Sky Hawk”, a spirit beast with a length of 4-5 meters.

When the old man was 4 years old, he had inadvertently picked up a palm-sized bird whose wings were broken. As the bird was very pitiful, using branches, the man had helped connect its broken wings and had also smeared healing ointments.

From then on, the little bird always stuck to him, accompanying him all the way through adolescence, marriage, childbirth, and old age.

From the beginning to a century later, the little bird had always remained palm sized. The old man had also gotten accustomed to the existence of this small thing that was always around him.