Chapter 177 Xia Qiusheng’s Record

"Manager! It seems like..."

Just as Liu Shengli was about to say something to Xiao Ran, he suddenly heard the sound of stones rubbing against Xiao Ran. He quickly squatted down and hid behind the alchemy furnace, looking in Xiao Ran's direction from below.

Seeing this, Xu Er quickly ran to the alchemy furnace and looked at the stone bed.

With their previous experiences, they already fully understood that at this time, as long as they protect themselves and don't cause trouble, it would be the greatest help to Xiao Ran.

Xiao Ran drew his sword and blocked it in front of him, and took a few steps back, nervously looking at the position of the stone bed. With the sound of stones rubbing together, a burst of dust flew up from the bedside, and the wall beside the bed slowly rose.

Behind the wall, there is a bookshelf twice as big as the stone bed.

On the bookshelf, there are piles of various scriptures, including animal skins, bamboo slips, silk, paper and other materials.

When the stone wall was completely raised and fixed, Xiao Ran saw that there was no other movement, and then he carefully walked to the stone bed and carefully looked at the scriptures.

Most of these scriptures made of different materials have been seriously damaged, and the animal skin rolls have basically shrunk into a ball. Some lines and patterns of small figures can be vaguely drawn on them, as if they were burying a pot to cook rice. He gently picked up the silk,

It all turned into crumbs, like baked paper. The real paper scriptures were not that good, they also fell into large pieces when picked up.

The only ones that are relatively well preserved are those bamboo slips. Although the leather ropes are all decayed and broken, the writing on the bamboo slips is relatively well preserved. It can be roughly seen that they are some prescriptions for alchemy, as well as the sources of some herbal medicines, etc.

Xiao Ran did not dare to touch those fragile scriptures casually anymore. He could only shine a flashlight into the gaps and confirm that these scriptures were all prescriptions for elixirs through the faintly visible words on the edges.

It turns out that behind the wall next to the stone bed is a sutra collection wall. For alchemists, elixirs and raw materials are indeed precious, but these secret collections of sutras that record the methods of making elixirs are the foundation of all the magic methods of immortality.

Seeing that the other two people were still watching from a distance, he secretly called to Baijiu Kuo: "Xiaojiu, are there any elixirs recorded in these scriptures that can really lead to immortality?"

Li Jiuguo said: "What the smelly Taoist said is right. In fact, the mysterious thing about immortality is to take over the creation of heaven and earth. How can it be like what is written in these shabby books, where you put some messy things together and bake them?"

Roast and boil

Can it be done? Those who really achieve immortality must pay a corresponding price, and they must combine the three connections of heaven, earth, and man, and encounter a rare chance coincidence in millions of years. The things in these shabby books are basically prescriptions for acute and chronic poisons.

son."

When Yin Yang Jing heard what Bei Jiuguo said, he let out a proud "Boom!"

Xiao Ran looked carefully at each frame, and in the lower right corner near the bed, he saw a stone box stuffed into the grid. The box didn't have any carvings on it. It looked like an extremely ordinary daily necessities, and it didn't even have a chain.

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He was afraid that the stone box had some mechanism, so he carefully removed the lid and saw that there was a paper book inside, with "Xia Qiusheng's Records" written on the cover.

He inserted the knife into the page of the book and carefully lifted it up. Seeing that there was no movement, he suddenly pulled the book out and jumped under the stone bed.

The surroundings were still quiet. Liu Shengli and Xu Er poked their heads out from behind the alchemy furnace. Seeing that there was no danger, they came over.

This "Xia Qiusheng Suilu" may have been relatively well-preserved because it has been kept in a stone box. The flexibility of the paper is much better than that of the exposed paper scriptures. However, the ink marks inside have been preserved over time.

It's somewhat blurry.

Xiao Ran flipped through a few pages and took a closer look. It turned out to be a diary. The diary was written by a worker, or rather a boy, who was responsible for refining alchemy in the alchemy room. He was also the apprentice of a practitioner known as "Tianling Sanren". This is who he was.

When Tianling San people passed by Futou Village, they showed some "miracles", which prompted the construction of Xianniang Temple.

Fortunately, there is not much difference between the vernacular of the Yuan Dynasty and modern Mandarin. When Xiao Ran reads this diary, it is like reading a Yuan Dynasty vernacular novel or Sanqu, and there is no dyslexia at all.

In the diary at the beginning, Xia Qiusheng also recorded what medicine he used every day, what pills he made, etc., which were all very honest and routine content. In the diary, he occasionally mentioned that Tianling San people would go out to collect medicine.

Or treating villagers, etc., and they would be away for many days.

As the diary goes on, Tianling San people go out for longer and longer periods of time. Every time they come back, they are even more abnormal than the last time. They start to capture some live animals to test the medicine, including a beast called "Mountain"

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Later, Tianling Sanren became increasingly dissatisfied with using animals to test elixirs. Especially after one of his outings, he claimed to have received a "living elixir" given by Mother Xia. It was said that after taking it, heaven and man could become one and ascend to the realm of the holy.

, so he asked Xia Qiusheng to take it.

Xia Qiusheng declined Tianling Sanren's request on the grounds that his six roots were still unclean. Tianling Sanren didn't say anything, but went out to look for materials for testing elixirs. That night, Xia Qiusheng saw him coming back with a bag.

, entered a certain secret room. Xia Qiusheng felt that the living creature in the pocket might not be the beast captured in the past.

There are a few pages at the back that have been artificially torn up. But further on, the content and tone of Xia Qiusheng's records are a little different. He seems to have fallen into a state of schizophrenia, sometimes excited and sometimes desperate, sometimes cursing Tianling Sanren, and sometimes

He also praised Xia Niang's reputation. Once when he was insane, he felt that Tianling San and the so-called alchemy immortality were nonsense, so he smashed the alchemy room in anger.

There was no record in the diary for a long time. When he recorded it again, he mentioned that the Tianling San people had left and never returned, as well as the war in the late Yuan Dynasty and the relocation of villagers. He decided to stay in the temple to guard those who had taken the living pill.

"Dan Sheng". He also said that there are indeed outstanding people among the Dan Sheng who have good intelligence and strong physiques, but most of them have become monsters who have no regard for life and death.

At the end of the diary, Xia Qiusheng said that he had found another method of immortality in ancient books, called "Golden Corpse Pill." The specific method was not recorded, but he said that there was a mechanism in the elixir room.

If you want to see the wonder of living elixir for longevity, you only need to offer fire to the elixir furnace.

On the back cover of the diary, there are still a few sentences recorded. Xiao Ran was about to read it clearly, but was interrupted by Liu Shengli.

"By the way! Manager! Look inside the alchemy furnace, what is this?"

Liu Shengli's voice was a little excited. Seeing this, Xu Er also stepped forward and held up a torch to shine inside.

Xiao Ran had no choice but to put the book away first and go over to read it with a flashlight.

The alchemy furnace was filled with a thick, black liquid that looked like some kind of oil. Under the oil on the surface, there seemed to be something shiny and golden, reflecting the light from above.

"Is it gold? Those people hid the gold in the alchemy furnace before they left?"

Xiao Ran saw the money-obsessed look on Liu Shengli's face and couldn't help but curse: "You said you have been with my second uncle and me for so many years, but you have never seen a piece of gold? How come you are exactly the same as the fat man? Look at Xu Er

, why are you so steady?"

Xu Er next to him turned a deaf ear to Xiao Ran's words, and just stared at the things in the oil carefully. Suddenly, his eyes widened and he backed away, shouting tremblingly: "That's a person inside!"

Liu Shengli was startled by his sudden shouting, and the torch in his hand accidentally fell into the alchemy furnace.
Chapter completed!