Chapter 118 The Most Powerful Poet
[“You are so young, but you still have a lot of rules…

Thank you very much, I am Li Bai! “

Li Bai bowed and formally stated his name.

“My name is Gao Shi.”

Gao Shi stuck his spear into the ground beside him and responded with the same courtesy.

“Gao Shi, thanks to you for taking my horse, otherwise I would not be able to catch up with them and I would be blamed for my death.”

Li Bai patted the horse beside him. If Gao Shi had not lent him the horse, Li Bai would never have been able to catch up with the thieves and would not have been able to get his luggage back.

“Is there something valuable here?”

Hearing Li Bai’s serious words, Gao Shi guessed that the horse must be carrying some valuable items.

“It doesn’t matter if the gold and silver in the bag are lost, but this… is my good friend Wu Zhinan.”

Li Bai was a free and easy person. He didn’t care about the gold and silver in his luggage. It didn’t matter even if it was lost. He cared about other things.

Li Bai clapped his hand on a black package, which contained the body of his good friend Wu Zhinan.

Li Bai and Wu Zhinan were classmates when they were young. They met each other in Mount Lu before and had planned to go together to seek immortals and learn Taoism, but they did not expect unexpected events to happen.

Wu Zhinan was killed by a serious illness. Li Bai decided to bury Wu Zhinan next to the Yellow Crane Tower and carry his body with him wherever he went.

“Brother Gao, come, let’s go together, let’s go together!”

Li Bai invited Gao Shi to go to the Yellow Crane Tower together. The two had a very pleasant chat on the way. Li Bai also expressed his own thoughts. After burying the deceased, he planned to serve as an official in the court, display his talents and serve the country.

The two traveled together, Gao Shi taught Li Bai spearmanship, and Li Bai taught Gao Shi sumo wrestling.

Wow…

The two men galloped on their horses, startling a flock of white birds.

Looking at the white birds spreading their wings and flying, Li Bai blew a whistle, demonstrating his bird-calling technique, and a group of white birds immediately surrounded Li Bai.

“Brother Li knows the art of bird summoning!”

Gao Shi was very surprised. Li Bai had given him so many surprises and seemed to know so many things.

“I once studied the art of vertical and horizontal strategy with a Mr. Zhao, but I didn’t expect that I didn’t master the art of vertical and horizontal strategy. Instead, I learned Mr. Zhao’s bird-calling technique.”

A group of birds were playing around Li Bai, then they spread their wings and flew high, forming a formation in the sky.

Li Bai and Gao Shi galloped on their horses on the ground.

“Brother Gao, you and I are living in such a prosperous era, we should be great rocs!”

Li Bai looked at the white birds in the sky, flying in the sky and roaming around the world.

This is exactly Li Bai’s ambition.

He, Li Bai, should be like a great roc, soaring high in the sky and leaving his brilliant light in this prosperous age.

After traveling for a while, the two arrived at the Yellow Crane Tower and buried Wu Zhinan.

“Brother Gao, life is like morning dew, fleeting, how sad!”

Lamenting the passing of his good friend, looking at the rising sun, Li Bai sighed, life is short.

“One day, I will devote myself to Taoism and seek the way to immortality!”

Li Bai thought of Taoism again. Since ancient times, there have been countless stories about immortals and gods, all of which said that immortals and gods were hidden among famous mountains and rivers.

Li Bai will go to seek immortals and ask for the way one day.

“Brother Li, you shouldn’t talk about strange things. The way to cultivate immortality is too illusory.”

Gao Shi felt that cultivating immortals was still too unrealistic. Immortals and gods were mostly legends. Many people had heard of the legends but had never seen one.

“Brother Gao, everything in this world is difficult. I, Li Bai, came to this world to do the most difficult thing!
One day, I will achieve success, fame, and retire to achieve enlightenment, but before I achieve enlightenment, I must first achieve success and fame!”

Li Bai had a lofty vision and did not care about the so-called difficulties. He was very confident in his own talent and wanted to achieve fame and then retire.

When Li Bai came to the Yellow Crane Tower, he also heard that the county magistrate here loved talents and had a unique vision.

I have specially prepared a piece of poetry about Dapeng in the hope of being appreciated.

: Brother Bai, my Brother Bai is out! : This character looks weird.

: Li Bai is not as handsome as imagined!
: It’s okay now, but I laugh so often that it seems a bit weird.

: Did Li Bai also know Gao Shi?
: Li Bai knew many people, but Gao Shi was not famous.

：Is Gao Shi not famous yet?
: I mean that among the literati that Li Bai knew, Gao Shi was not prominent.

: That’s true, but Gao Shi is the best fighter among the literati.

: Comparing martial arts skills with literati?
: Isn’t Xin Qiji the best fighter among the literati?
:Xin Qiji: Can you fight?
: What’s the use of being able to fight? Qi Ji is like Qu Bing, and the Emperor of Song is not Emperor Wu of Han.

: Yes, having good generals is useless, we also need a wise ruler.

: I can only say it’s a pity.

: Aren’t you talking about Li Bai and Gao Shi? Why did you bring up Xin Qiji?

: Gao Shi can be considered the most capable poet in the Tang Dynasty, both in leading troops and in personal combat.

: No one can fight better than him, no one can write better than him, and no one can fight better than him.

: The poet is relatively weak in martial arts. Li Bai is considered strong, but he is definitely not as strong as a general.

: Who is this Wu Zhinan? According to Li Bai, he has been dead for three years?

: It definitely wasn’t three years, otherwise why would Li Bai run around with the ashes for three years?
: Given Li Bai’s playful personality, it is not impossible for him to run for three years.

: The Yellow Crane Tower is indeed the most famous tower in the world, and Li Bai is very good at choosing places.

: After all, he is a famous street stalker who has been to many places and naturally knows which places are good.

: Oh my god, Li Bai has learned the art of diplomacy? And the art of calling birds?

: After all, you are determined to become an official, so it’s not surprising that you learn the art of diplomacy, right?
: But this bird-summoning technique is quite unexpected. Is it really okay?
: It may not be as mysterious as we think. It may just be an ordinary bird training technique.

: When the great roc rises with the wind, it soars up to ninety thousand miles! To be a great roc, you have to wait for the wind to come.

: Li Bai is too free and easy, his personality may not be suitable for being an official.

: Being able to write poetry doesn’t mean you can be an official.

: Li Bai should be able to do it, after all, he has learned the art of diplomacy, although he did not master it to the fullest.

: Was Li Bai seeking immortals and learning Taoism in order to become a Taoist priest?
: It seems that Li Bai is a Taoist priest?
: He is a poet, a swordsman, and a Taoist priest.

：Unfortunately, there is no immortality in this world.

: Immortality, aren’t the three realms and six paths destroyed by these four words?

: Gao Shi, I don’t talk about strange and supernatural things, but I haven’t stopped you from believing in them!

: Respect ghosts and gods but keep them at a distance, right?

: You just said you were silent, you didn’t say you didn’t believe it.

: No, this sentence means: Confucius doesn’t want to talk, and uses his strange strength to beat you unconscious.

: Good man, you are talking nonsense, right?
: Even Confucius could not have imagined that his words would have such an interpretation.

: Come on, come on, explain why I love Master Meng, whose elegance is known throughout the world.

: I like this romantic affair of Master Meng, and everyone in the world knows it.

：I knew there was such a translation.

: It was so outrageous that for a moment I actually thought it was okay.

: You guys are really defying the will of heaven.

: Although Li Bai had great ambitions, it was a pity that he was never valued in his life.

: It’s hard to say whether this is a good or bad thing.

: No matter what, Li Bai is not something we can compare to. 】

(End of this chapter)