Chapter 26 The life balance is a bit too much
Outside Chang'an City, beside Zhong Kui's horse-drawing road, he said goodbye to Zhong Sheng.
"Xiaosheng, the soul left the body and damaged the true essence. I am out of trouble now. You should leave as soon as possible."
Zhong Sheng said, "Second uncle, your body is still in the eastern suburbs and there is no way to bring it back."
The underworld does not interfere with the human world. Zhong Sheng’s soul cannot carry Zhong Kui’s body and can only rescue Zhong Kui’s soul.
"It doesn't matter. After the real man dies, how can I cherish this rotten body?"
Zhong Sheng said, "When fallen leaves return to their roots, they still have to return to their hometown for burial."
"Well, you go back to Zhongnan Mountain and take my body back to your hometown someday."
Zhong Kui said again, "Xiaosheng, you have lost a lot of your life to save me this time."
"Don't worry, I will travel all over the world to find the magic elixir that can extend your life."
Zhong Sheng raised his hand to Zhong Kui and said, "Second uncle, I'll wait for you at Zhongnan Mountain."
The next moment, three soul-awakening calls rang in my ears.
"Zhong Sheng, come back!"
In the blink of an eye, Zhong Sheng disappeared without a trace.
Zhong Kui looked at the empty ground and shouted coldly, "Zhongnanshan people, if you want to take advantage of my nephew, you will be in trouble."
Behind him, a group of evil ghosts surrounded him, asking questions.
"Lord, where are we going?"
Zhong Kui looked at the vast road ahead, his pride in his chest greatly increased, "Let's go, I will take you to the underworld and conquer the world."
When Zhong Sheng woke up, a wrinkled monkey face faced him full of worry, with two big watery eyes staring at him.
"Monkey."
Seeing Zhongsheng wake up, the ape squeaked as if to remind the people of Zhongnan Mountain.
"Come back, just come back."
Zhongnanshanren's tone was a little tired, and he seemed to have spent a lot of energy.
"Thank you for coming back. If you don't come back, the thread connecting the soul to the body will break, and you will become a lonely ghost, and the body will rot."
Zhong Sheng thought to himself, I have wasted fifty years of my life, and the sequelae are still so serious?
He felt sad, he would be a grandfather from tomorrow, his gums would be loose, his eyes would be blurry, his hair would be gray, his limbs would be weak, and he would be out of breath when walking!
But rescuing the second uncle and causing a scene in Chang'an is not a loss.
Zhong Sheng stood up and felt weak in his limbs, thinking that he would age so quickly.
"You..."
Zhongnanshanren looked at Zhong Sheng, as if he had seen a ghost all the way, "What's the matter with you?"
After a while, Zhong Sheng held up the bronze mirror and looked left and right, but there was no change!
"Shanren, fifty years of life, have you deducted it or not?
Zhongnanshanren ignored him, his hands were busy calculating, and he kept muttering, "It's impossible!"
Next, Zhong Sheng moved his hands and feet again, and he was still an energetic young man. He had been lying down for a long time, and his spirit had just returned to his body and he was not used to it, so he had the illusion that his limbs were weak.
The ape pulled Zhong Sheng and gestured to claim credit, saying that while he was sleeping, he had driven away hundreds of mosquitoes and eighteen geckos that swam in through the gaps to protect his body from damage.
"Thank you."
Zhong Sheng patted the ape on the shoulder. During the out-of-body experience, this good friend was of great help.
Zhongnanshan people are responsible for stimulating his soul to leave the body and become a real protector of the law. The first is the stone chamber, the second is the ancient sword, and the last is the ape.
Earlier, Zhongnanshan people also mentioned that apes are natural alien species and can be regarded as sacred beasts that protect the law.
From this point of view, it did its duty to preserve Zhong Sheng's physical body.
"Zhong Jiazi, let me see how much longevity you have?"
Zhongnanshanren pinched his wrist, pulled him to sit beside the stone bed, took a needle and pricked his fingertip, and squeezed out a drop of blood.
Immediately afterwards, he used this drop of blood as a guide to draw a spiral in the void.
The lines rotate and expand outward, in circles and circles, densely packed.
Zhong Sheng was dazzled by what he saw, shook his head repeatedly, closed his eyes and rested.
I heard the Zhongnanshan people exclaiming, "Impossible. Are you a banished immortal? You have a lifespan of more than a thousand years?"
What?
Zhong Sheng opened his eyes and saw spiral lines in the air, like the growth rings of ancient trees, covering the entire stone chamber.
Zhongnanshanren's lips trembled and he pointed at the line, "Look, it's more than 1,400 times, and one time lasts for one year. This is your life span."
"A lifespan of more than a thousand years, a mere fifty years, is nothing!"
The ultimate goal of a Qi practitioner is immortality, but since ancient times, immortals have been rare.
Peng Zu is a representative of longevity. He lived for a full eight hundred years but did not live for one thousand years.
One thousand four hundred years, theoretically speaking, is enough time for an old monster from the Spring and Autumn Period to survive until now.
"Boy, what adventures did you have when you were a child? What did you eat?
The people of Zhongnan Mountain showed a fierce look in their eyes, approaching step by step, and their eyes seemed to be stretching out hooks.
Zhong Sheng spread his hands and said, "Shanren, I really can't remember. Growing up, I had no taboos and ate everything."
"They eat bats, mice, cicadas, frogs, everything that flies in the sky, walks on the ground, and swims in the water. It's strange to say that I was not from Cantonese in my last life!"
Zhongnanshanren took a deep breath. He had lost his temper just now and almost had his Taoist heart shaken.
I can't hide anything in my heart with this hard work in front of me. It must have happened by accident, and I had this adventure.
But one thousand and four hundred years of longevity is too shocking. Now he is wondering if there is any magic that can transfer longevity to himself.
"You kid, are you the illegitimate son of the Supreme Lord? He gave you a Nine-turn Golden Pill to extend your life by a thousand years?"
The Zhongnanshan people made a joke and forgot about it.
Unexpectedly, Zhong Sheng felt like he was struck by lightning after hearing this. Could it be Jin Dan?
In his previous life, he was also a fearless hard worker, who actually had whimsical ideas and retro alchemy skills.
The mandarin duck pot is a Dan furnace, which captures the true meaning of the harmony of yin and yang.
American ginseng is a specialty product of Citi. It is blessed by the luck of the world's largest country and has extraordinary medicinal effects.
Ganoderma lucidum is not strong enough, so we use Yunnan black truffle instead, which is the most expensive mushroom in the world.
Ivory is illegal, so I used mammoth ivory medicine, and the ancient giant elephant almost became a sperm, which exceeds the standard.
In the end, a pot of traditional Chinese medicine, which is indistinguishable from real to fake, is made into a medicine similar to Danfei Dan in a mandarin duck pot... Ferrero Rocher.
Then there is the classic plot, where you write a good recipe and then you are convinced.
This is the reason why he traveled through time. He didn't dare to say it because no one would believe him and he was afraid of being laughed at.
Zhong Sheng has always believed that the biggest reason for possessing someone from time travel is that his predecessor was compatible with him, and they were both reckless to the end.
"Hey, elixirs are hard to find and inner elixirs are hard to achieve. When will we, the qi-refiners, be able to make their mark?"
The laments of the Zhongnan Mountain people ring in my ears.
Zhong Sheng suddenly remembered that the first year of Wude was about 618 AD, and more than 1,400 years later, Yihao was in 2023.
That year, he risked his own life and made an elixir by purchasing an elixir book online and made a pill that was said to be able to live for a thousand years.
That pill killed him, and sent him to the Wude period of the Tang Dynasty, where he became the legendary nephew of Zhong Kui.
"Zhong Jiazi, you have a lifespan of 1,400 years. This time your soul is out of the body, you will lose fifty, which is a drop in the bucket. No pain or itching."
The Zhongnan Mountain people looked at him with a half-smile, "This is a gifted person. It would be a pity not to practice Taoism. Are you willing to join my sect and inherit the Taoism of Zhongnan Mountain?"
This old man has evil intentions!
Chapter completed!