Lions of the Yirnian wood-Meditation

Adam closed his eyes and fell into deep meditation. The lights of the school off, his mind and body lost themselves in the darkness, knowing only the red light of the altar to the ancestors, Guan Gung, the earth spirit and local spirits unknown as a refernce point in space. Then eyes closed with only hearing as a sense the walls evaporated to the outside and he was only a sentient being in the air sitting second floor high tucked away in a corner of a Chinatown Alley in a small city, a small bump on a small rock turning away from the sun.
The old man came to the door now, out of the statue, making his presence known. Adam met him.
"Come walk with me." and now the two walked down the street, away from the statue away from the school into the night as two normal men. They walked side by side. Adam knew who he was and yet had no idea, but nonetheless felt no need to ask any questions at all. The walked and turned and twisted now walking faster, and now moving as if running through streets through cars through buildings and lights, faster and faster up through windows and down through sidewalk and sewers until in blended all together and they crashed through the cold night river soaking wet.
Adam suddenly realized he was drowning and then was suddenly pulled by current and then by some creature up out of the river and his face into the mud of the bank, the stones cutting him. He coughed up water, bile and blood. His body was much more damaged than he had thought and was breaking down into nothing more than bones and flesh that no longer functioned.
"whereis this?"
"The Yirnian Woods by the river of time." said a voice. It was not the voice of the old man who Adam could make out to be sitting silently next to him. Though how Adam could see at all was a mystery.
The voice has come from a tall and terrifying creature now stepping out of the woods.
It had a single horn and a large round head, majestic, and lion like in shape, yet Dragon like as well, a long body. It leaned over and breathed on Adam and he began to feel as if coming to life for the first time. The creature shed its outer skin and covered Adam with it. It warmed him, and abosrbed the life that had spilled into the ground back into the man and then some, reviving him. And he fell away again into a deep sleep.