The hero of the book continues his long journey, the purpose of which is to learn from the keepers of ancient knowledge. He finally gets to the home of a powerful guardian, the old man Cherdyntsev, lost in the remote taiga, the path to which took the entire 4th volume of the book. But instead of a warm welcome, he was met with a cold shower of complete contempt, insults and even serious threats from the hermit. The hero’s only desire is to quickly get away from the magician’s territory. But it turns out to be not so simple. What did the young initiate do to deserve the wrath and bullying of the guardian? What will happen to him next? Will his training continue? In the book you will find a new wave of breathtaking adventures, the beauty of wild nature, amazing stories from life, technologies for survival in any situations, hard-to-find knowledge gained during millennia of existence among animals and plants, which the author collected during his countless travels across northern Eurasia. And of course, the book contains another portion of historical information about the past, present and future of human civilization, closed to the uninitiated.