Li Xiuyuan did not leave because the old man with white hair and beard made things difficult, but once again suppressed the urgency and anger in his heart and sat in front of the chessboard to play chess with him.
Although, those who achieve great things must have peace of mind.
But people have seven emotions and six desires. At a critical moment, no one can be anxious or angry.
While Li Xiuyuan was playing chess, he stared at the old man with white hair and beard: "Old man, you are trying to make things difficult for me in every possible way. From this alone, you can see that I am definitely not a Taoist."
"Why?" The old man with white hair and beard stroked his beard and said with a smile.
"Because no wise person in the world would really deliberately make things difficult for me. As for the reason, those who understand will understand it, and it is useless for those who don't understand." Li Xiuyuan said again.
The consequences of making things difficult for him are too big, and not many Taoists dare to get involved casually.
So the safest thing is to stay as far away from yourself as possible and not have any intersection with yourself.
But this old man is obviously not the former.
"What you said is a bit mysterious, but young man, although you are a wealthy person with a very noble destiny, you are just a mortal. Moreover, the old man is not making things difficult for you, but is just testing your sincerity. If you don't
If you are willing to accept the test of Laochan, you can go down the mountain on your own, Laochan will never be in trouble. In addition, you can take away the silver and rabbit skins you brought up the mountain."
The old man with white hair and beard said.
"The old man is joking. Since the things have been delivered, they belong to the old man and I will not take them away." Li Xiuyuan said, "Let's continue the topic just now."
"I said before that the old man did not attain enlightenment as a cultivator, so the only possibility is the latter. The old man attained enlightenment through a spirit in the mountains."
The old man with white hair and beard showed a strange color and smiled calmly.
"All things have spirits and can become immortals and gods. Don't young people know this?"
"The old man is right, but I have always been curious before. Although the old man is a spirit, his real body has always been invisible. He is neither a fox body nor a demon body." Li Xiuyuan said.
The old man with white hair and beard didn't move while stroking his beard, listening to him continue to speak.
"I wonder if the old man has heard of a legend." Li Xiuyuan said.
"What kind of legend, tell me about it, old man." The old man with white hair and beard said with a smile.
Li Xiuyuan looked at himself and then said: "There is a kind of medicinal material called Polygonum multiflorum. It is said that Polygonum multiflorum can grow into a mountain spirit in three hundred years. If you take it, you can be reborn with white hair and youth again. In five hundred years, it can grow into a human form, just like
A human child can walk among mountains, forests and countryside, and it is difficult to distinguish with the naked eye and Taoism. If it grows for another thousand years... Polygonum multiflorum will become an immortal in an instant."
"However, there is another legend. It is said that if someone eats Polygonum multiflorum for thousands of years, he can become an immortal. Unofficial history records that Zhang Guolao, one of the eight immortals, attained enlightenment and became an immortal after eating Polygonum multiflorum for thousands of years."
"I don't know, have you heard of this legend?"
The old man with white hair and beard was already shocked, and the chess piece in his hand fell to the ground unconsciously.
"Old man, you lost, no more, no less, exactly one piece." Li Xiuyuan suddenly lost one piece.
At the end of the chess game, counting carefully, he won exactly one piece.
"You, how do you know Lao Chan...know Lao Chan's identity."
The old man with white hair and beard looked at him in shock, and his voice was trembling a little. He had been shaken before and had no intention of playing chess, but Li Xiuyuan stole a piece and luckily won the game.
"How you know is not important. What is important is that if you lose, old man, should you treat my father?" Li Xiuyuan raised his head and looked at him.
The expression of the old man with white hair and beard changed slightly, and he immediately laughed and dropped the chess pieces in his hand: "You have evil intentions and impure intentions. How can you ask for the elixir? This elixir will not be given to you by this old man. You go."
Well, just pretend you haven’t been here before.”
"Why are you still not going to give me the elixir?" Li Xiuyuan stared at him coldly.
"The immortal elixir will not be given to bad people." The old man with white hair and beard squinted his eyes, stroked his beard and smiled, showing a somewhat indifferent expression.
The anger in Li Xiuyuan's heart could no longer be suppressed, and he immediately slapped him hard.
"Still want to commit murder?" The old man with white hair and beard smiled and shook his head. He stretched out his hand and tried to stop Li Xiuyuan in place.
But the next moment, the always powerful slap hit him hard on the face.
"Pa~!"
A crisp slap sounded on the top of the mountain.
The old man with white hair and beard staggered and was almost knocked to the ground by a slap. Then he looked at Li Xiuyuan with a look of shock and disbelief.
How, how could this happen?
Why didn't my spell work and I got slapped by a mortal?
Li Xiuyuan stood up and stared at him coldly: "You delay and make things difficult in every possible way, and you are not even willing to take out a cure-all pill. Do you really want to make my father die of illness? You said the word "God's will" before,
God's will allows you to win, so it means that my father is hopeless. He died of illness and his energy was exhausted. I have no words to say. But now that I win, does it mean that my father's energy is not exhausted, but your energy is exhausted?
"
"I have fulfilled three of your three requests. No, it should be four requests. You can return the elixir to me, but that doesn't matter. If you don't give it to me, I will come and get it myself."
After saying that, he pulled out his waist knife, raised his hand and slashed with one blow.
The old man was shocked and felt that the spell was not working, so he had to turn over quickly to avoid the knife.
But without magic power, he was worse than an ordinary person, and this knife immediately tore a gash in his body.
There was no blood flowing out as expected, but a stream of crystal juice splashed out.
Suddenly, a strange fragrance filled the air.
Li Xiuyuan just took a few sips and felt that the fatigue of not sleeping for the past three or four days was instantly wiped away. He felt indescribably relaxed all over his body, as if he suddenly had endless power.
"Okay, okay, what an elixir. With your elixir, my father will have no worries. Maybe he can ascend to immortality after taking it."
"Wait, wait, this little brother, you have something to say, something to say." The old man turned pale with fright and hurriedly backed away.
Li Xiuyuan couldn't let him go. He immediately rushed over and kicked him over, trampling on him.
"Now you know how to speak well? Why couldn't you speak well before? I sincerely come to ask you for a pill. Isn't it difficult for you?"
"It's not embarrassment, it's not embarrassment at all. I'll give you the elixir, I'll give it to you. I haven't cultivated for a thousand years, and you can't lift the clouds after eating it. That's a rumor spread by unofficial historians, and it can't be taken seriously." The old man said quickly.
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Li Xiuyuan said: "Even if you can't ascend, you can at least prolong your life and stay strong, not to mention curing diseases and saving people."
After saying that, he tied the old man tightly and then lifted him up with one arm.
The old man struggled hard, but saw that as he waved his hands, the five fingers spread out on their own. When he looked again, he saw that the fingers were just five roots gathered together to form a human hand.
Under the loose robe, there were no human feet, only two medicinal stems with clear texture and light yellow skin, exuding a medicinal fragrance.
After a while, the old man with white hair and beard revealed his original shape, which was a Polygonum multiflorum spirit the size of a six or seven-year-old child.
"You can't eat me, you can't eat me. Lao Chan is a blessed spirit. Under the protection of God, Lao Chan will be able to ascend in a few decades. He has already greeted the righteous God in the sky. If you eat me, you will definitely suffer.
God's damnation, if your family is implicated, you will have no descendants." The old man yelled.
"Okay, then you go and file a complaint now to see if I will be punished by God." Li Xiuyuan grabbed him and walked down the mountain; "Don't you monsters know how to leave your body? I won't kill your soul either.
It's enough for you to keep your body."
"You thief, you have used some shameless means to seal off the old man's magic power. I won't let you go after the old man is out of trouble." The old man shouted angrily again.
Li Xiuyuan said: "Old man, don't be so impetuous when you are old, and be calm. Since the old man is a spirit with profound merit, you might as well take a guess. If God does not kill you, old man, you will get out of trouble. In the future
Becoming an immortal or a god is a matter of course."
"If the old man can't get out of trouble, it means that the old man is exhausted. God wants to destroy you, and I can't do anything about it. Gods can't go against heaven, and mortals can't go against heaven either. What do you think?"
He repeated what the Polygonum multiflorum spirit had said to him before.
"Fart, fart." Polygonum multiflorum fine cursed.
"You know how to get angry and you know how to curse? That's right. I was in the same mood just now, but for the sake of my father's life, I endured it, but on the other hand, you couldn't help but curse for the sake of your own life.
It seems that your cultivation is not good enough, so you deserve to suffer this disaster." Li Xiuyuan sneered.