Chapter 539: Lighting the Sky Lantern, Continuing Life Against the Sky (Part 2)
Suddenly, Ye Qiu pulled out General Bai's oxygen tube!
His behavior scared everyone to death.
"No, General Bai is now fully supported by oxygen. If the oxygen tube is removed, can he still survive?"
Tang Fei was shocked.
"General Bai is too bold to do this." Long Ye was also very worried.
Bai Bing is a doctor and knows Old General Bai's condition better than them. When he saw Ye Qiu's actions, he looked panicked, but he didn't dare to disturb Ye Qiu, so he could only hold the corners of his clothes tightly with both hands.
Mr. Tang couldn't bear it anymore and shouted loudly: "Ye Qiu, stop it quickly——"
"Mr. Tang, let's take a look before talking!"
Zhang Jiuling's face was solemn.
He was also worried about the safety of General Bai, but after seeing Ye Qiu perform so many superb acupuncture techniques, he now had an inexplicable sense of trust in Ye Qiu.
Mr. Tang said solemnly: "We can no longer treat him. If General Bai dies, Ye Qiu will pay with his life!"
General Bai is the founding father of the country and a hero of the country. If something unexpected happens to Ye Qiu's treatment, he will be in trouble.
When the time comes, not only Ye Qiu will pay with his life, but all of them present will also have to bear responsibility.
"Tang Fei, go and bring Ye Qiu back, we must stop him." Old Tang said.
Tang Fei hesitated for a moment, "Grandpa, Ye Qiu told us not to disturb him during treatment."
"This is not to disturb him, but to save his life. If General Bai has any shortcomings, even the God of War can't save Ye Qiu."
"this……"
Tang Fei didn't know what to do for a while.
"Bring him back quickly, this is an order." Boss Tang shouted with a face.
"Oh well!"
Tang Fei glanced at Ye Qiu with complicated eyes and took a step forward.
Just then, something unexpected happened.
Only forty-nine lanterns were seen, slowly leaving the ground, floating into the air, and then lighting up in an instant.
Then, forty-nine lanterns moved slowly high in the sky and were arranged in groups of seven lanterns, in the shape of the Big Dipper.
Each takes his own side.
Seen from the ground, the seven groups are all in the shape of the Big Dipper. If these seven groups are combined together, they will form a huge Big Dipper.
Moreover, these lanterns were motionless in the sky thirty-three meters away from the rooftop, as if they had been immobilized.
Very weird.
Zhang Jiuling stared at the forty-nine lanterns in the sky for a while, then suddenly remembered something and exclaimed:
"This is...lighting the sky lantern!"
"None of you should disturb Ye Qiu!"
"He is already using the method to extend his life!"
Tang Fei immediately stopped.
"Mr. Zhang, what is a sky lantern for?" Long Ye asked curiously.
Zhang Jiuling replied: "Lighting sky lanterns is an ancient life-extending technique, also known as the seven-star lantern."
"I don't understand, Mr. Zhang, can you explain it more clearly?" Long Ye said.
"The method of extending life has always been mysterious. It involves medical skills, Taoist priests, and even witchcraft. I can't explain it to you in a few words. You should have read "The Romance of the Three Kingdoms", right?"
Zhang Jiuling suddenly mentioned the Romance of the Three Kingdoms.
"Of course I have." Long Ye said with a smile: "Who hasn't read the four great classics?"
"Then you should know what Zhuge Wuhou did before his death, right?"
"He left his last words."
Zhang Jiuling was completely speechless.
Tang Laodao said: "Zhuge Wuhou has always been strategizing and making clever calculations. Unfortunately, he died of illness in Wuzhangyuan at the age of fifty-four."
"It is said that before he died, Zhuge Wuhou had already calculated that his life was not long, but he was unwilling to do so because the great cause of Shu had not yet been completed."
"Therefore, he tried to borrow life from heaven by lighting a seven-star lantern, but in the end he failed and failed to change his life against heaven."
"It seems that Mr. Tang has carefully read the Romance of the Three Kingdoms," Zhang Jiuling said. "When Zhuge Wuhou made his fifth northern expedition to Cao Wei, he worked so hard and became ill from overwork. Seeing that he would not live long, he wanted to use the seven-star lantern to send people to Cao Wei.
God lends his life."
"So, Zhuge Wuhou placed seven big lamps, forty-nine small lamps, and a natal lamp in his tent. If the main lamp does not go out within seven days, Zhuge Wuhou's life can be extended.
Twelve years.”
"As the old saying goes, wealth and honor are in heaven, and life and death are determined by destiny."
"Although Zhuge Wuhou knew astronomy and geography and had the ability to predict the unknown, he failed to calculate that when he was lighting the seven-star lamp to renew his life, Wei Yan accidentally broke in, causing his life-extending lamp to go out."
"Zhuge Wuhou vomited blood on the spot, fell completely ill, and drove to the west of Hexi not long after."
Mr. Tang raised his head and looked at the forty-nine lanterns in the sky. He suddenly thought of something and asked in shock: "Could it be that the life-extending method Ye Qiu is using now is Zhuge Wuhou's seven-star lantern?"
Zhang Jiuling nodded: "It seems so."
"Didn't you just say that Zhuge Wuhou lit seven main lanterns, 49 small lanterns and one natal lantern? Why did Ye Qiu only use forty-nine lanterns?" asked Mr. Tang.
"I don't know this..."
Before Zhang Jiuling finished speaking, he saw Ye Qiu take out a handful of yellow paper from his pocket and wave his right hand.
Swish, swish, swish!
Eight pieces of yellow paper surround the body of Old General Bai.
The strange thing is that every piece of yellow paper hangs in the air, about a foot away from the body of the old general Bai. Like the forty-nine lanterns, it seems as if it has been immobilized and motionless.
The first piece of yellow paper was suspended above General Bai's head.
The other seven pieces of yellow paper are distributed in different directions, but if you look closely, they also look like the Big Dipper.
Then, Ye Qiu muttered something in his mouth, and the index and middle fingers of his right hand came together to form sword fingers, with a little space between them.
Oops!
Eight pieces of yellow paper burned at the same time, like eight lamps.
As we all know, once ordinary paper is ignited, it burns very quickly and will turn into ashes in a few dozen seconds to a minute or two.
However, these eight pieces of yellow paper burned very slowly, like candles, with blue flames.
Zhang Jiuling said excitedly: "One life lantern, seven main lanterns, plus forty-nine lanterns, all aligned. What Ye Qiu used was Zhuge Wuhou's seven-star lantern."
Compared to his excitement, Mr. Tang's face was solemn.
Zhuge Wuhou failed to survive, can Ye Qiu do it?
Mr. Tang was very uneasy.
If it were an ordinary person, Mr. Tang wouldn't be so worried, but General Bai's status was really extraordinary. If Ye Qiu failed, the consequences would be disastrous.
However, Mr. Tang did not stop him.
Now that the matter has come to this, there is no point in stopping it. All we can do is wait for Ye Qiu's treatment to end.
time flies.
In a blink of an eye, it was eleven fifty-nine.
Everyone noticed that Ye Qiu's face became more serious than ever at this moment.
Thirty seconds, twenty seconds, ten seconds, five seconds...
Three seconds.
Two seconds.
There is only one second left before twelve o'clock.
Ye Qiu suddenly raised his head and looked at the sky.
