It was this top-secret file that allowed Deng Wei to find a way to restore his appearance.
That is to put oneself back into the black cauldron for three days, just like Curator Ge and the others used those coolies to experiment and turned those coolies into linear faces.
This black tripod is more like a converter. It can turn ordinary people into straight faces, and it can also turn straight faces into ordinary people again. The reason why Deng Wei regained his appearance is because of this black tripod.
However, Black Cauldron can restore the human face from the linear face, but the immortal body is still preserved, and there is a time limit for restoring the appearance.
From the first six months for Deng Wei to regain his appearance, it later became a month, then a week, and finally it became three days. Deng Wei found that he could no longer leave the black cauldron.
Perhaps, for ordinary people, being able to have an immortal body is already a luxury. In history, many people have sacrificed everything for immortality. Ancient emperors and historical heroes, but in the end they all died without illness.
However, for people like Deng Wei who have truly achieved immortality, they hope even more that their appearance can be restored. Otherwise, even if he has an immortal body, the loss of his appearance means that he will not be able to show his face in front of the world for the rest of his life.
Oh no, to be precise, he will live in darkness for the long immortal years.
Deng Wei is already immortal in a certain sense, but the long dark life makes Deng Wei unbearable. He longs for light and wants to be like a normal person, and he is even willing to give up his immortality for this.
It may be difficult for ordinary people to understand this, but if you think about it carefully, it is easy to understand.
In the trend of history, those who pursue immortality are only those emperors or dignitaries. These people are already at the pinnacle of the human world, so they hope for immortality and hope that they can enjoy glory and wealth in endless years.
But if you ask a beggar to choose whether he wants to have immortality, I'm afraid most beggars will refuse, because they would rather be reincarnated than begging for endless years.
And Deng Wei is in such a situation. He has lost his appearance, so what if he is given endless life? He has been inseparable from Hei Ding in his life. It is not even an exaggeration to say that Deng Wei became Hei Ding.
slave.
An immortal slave!
Deng Wei wanted to change this situation, so in the following years, he conducted an experiment, which was to put people into the black cauldron and observe the changes in their reactions.
Just like clinical reactions in medicine, Deng Wei observed and studied the changes in people who had become linear faces. However, Deng Wei regretted that after decades of experiments, there were no useful breakthroughs.
However, Deng Wei did not put all his hopes on the study of the linear face. He had another clue, which was to follow the traces of the four-eyed bird.
Compared with the previous piece of information, Deng Wei gained a lot from this clue. After more than ten years of research, he finally discovered the origin of this four-eyed bird.
Chongming bird!
In ancient Chinese mythology, there is a bird with four eyes, each with two eyes. In Chinese mythology and legends, when Emperor Xun ascended the throne and the world was at peace, a distant country presented a Chongming bird with two eyes.
It has four eyes, a voice like a phoenix, and a shape like a rooster. It can chase tigers and wild beasts, ward off evil spirits and protect it, and is regarded as a protector by the people.
Although the Chongming Bird is different from the bird on the pattern that Deng Wei saw, it is also the only bird that Deng Wei can find that is related to the four-eyed strange bird.
However, the Chongming Bird has disappeared long ago in the legend. It is so difficult to find it. Ordinary people may not be able to find it even if they spend their entire lives.
However, for Deng Wei, the most important thing he lacked was time. He would not give up as long as there was a slight possibility. Moreover, after decades, a bold idea appeared in Deng Wei's mind.
That is to cultivate Chongming birds.
No matter what the Chongming bird in myths and legends looks like, Deng Wei knows one thing, that is, the Chongming bird must have left descendants. Even if these descendants have greatly changed from their original appearance due to their bloodline, the bloodline
Even bloodline may return to its ancestors under certain circumstances.
Therefore, in the next few decades, Deng Wei established a laboratory, which was specifically used to study birds. Deng Wei collected countless birds for breeding or training every year, hoping that one day
A Chongming bird can be cultivated.
Although he knew that this experiment was very unlikely, for Deng Wei, as long as there was a slight possibility, he would not give up.
After Deng Wei finished telling his story, he looked at Qin Yu and said, "I know that the only way to resurrect your senior brother Bao is to put your senior brother into the black cauldron. Only in this way can it be possible to resurrect your senior brother."
"But even if you resurrect your senior brother, he will only live for a few days at most. If you want to completely save your senior brother, you can only work with me to decipher the true secret and origin of this black tripod."
Deng Wei looked at Qin Yu with bright eyes, but a bright light flashed in Qin Yu's eyes, because there were some things that Deng Wei didn't know.
For example, the mysterious bronze tree, the phoenix, and the realm of cloud dreams were all unknown to Deng Wei.
Since Deng Wei didn't know, Qin Yu had no intention of telling Deng Wei.
"How do you want to cooperate?" Qin Yu looked at Deng Wei and asked.
"It's very simple. Let's look for the traces of the Chongming Bird together." Deng Wei looked at Qin Yu and replied.
"The Chongming Bird is only a mythical and legendary thing. It is still uncertain whether there is a Chongming Bird in the world. I don't have so much time to search for an illusory thing."
Qin Yu refused directly. He had naturally heard of the Chongming Bird. However, the Chongming Bird was just like other monsters recorded in the Classic of Mountains and Seas. It was only heard of its name but not its body. It is still debatable whether there really is a Chongming Bird.
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"The Chongming Bird really exists." Deng Wei looked at Qin Yu and said firmly: "Over the years, I have been paying attention to those ancient tombs, and I even trained a team of tomb robbers to look for those ancient ruins.
It’s not like there’s no gain.”
"Historical records show that the Chongming Bird was originally presented to Emperor Yao by the king of a remote country. It only stayed in China for a while and then returned to its own country."
"However, I found records about the Chongming Bird among some ancient cultural relics. According to legend, the Chongming Bird is related to the Queen Mother of the West."
"What do you mean?" Qin Yu asked with a frown.
"In ancient Chinese mythology, the human king Fuxi completely disappeared after preaching among humans, and the Tao that remained was divided into three. One was the Yellow Emperor, the Xuanyuan family, the ancestor of mankind, and the other was the
It's for Chi You, but few people know that Fu Xi still has a Taoist tradition passed down to him."
"You mean Queen Mother of the West?" Qin Yu asked with raised eyebrows.
"That's right, it's the Queen Mother of the West."
A bright light flashed in Deng Wei's eyes, "There are many legends about the Queen Mother of the West in history, the most famous of which are the stories of King Mu of Zhou and Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty and the Queen Mother of the West. In both of these stories, immortality is mentioned without exception.
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In history, the image of Fuxi is with a human head and a snake body. In Fuxi's era, people's totems were dragons, snakes, birds, insects, and fire.
Among Fuxi's three branches of Taoism, Huangdi only inherited the dragon and fire, so later on there was a saying that he was the descendant of the dragon.
Likewise, Chi You only inherited one of them, which was the snake.
Only the Queen Mother of the West inherited the most traditions from Fuxi, including snakes, birds, and insects.
Moreover, since ancient times, in many Taoist myths, the Queen Mother of the West has been a symbol of immortality. All the emperors who wanted to find immortality in history were looking for the Queen Mother of the West.
"According to the information I have found, the Queen Mother of the West has a bird, and this bird is called the Chongming Bird." Deng Wei looked at Qin Yu and said firmly.
Qin Yu's eyes blinked slightly. He had naturally heard a lot about the legend about the Queen Mother of the West, but this was the first time he heard that the Queen Mother of the West had a Chongming bird.
Because the Queen Mother of the West is a person from such a long time ago and has always existed in legends, it remains to be seen whether a figure like the Queen Mother of the West really exists.
"Do you know the legend that King Mu of Zhou and Emperor Wu of Han found the Queen Mother of the West in order to seek immortality, and what was the elixir of immortality that the Queen Mother gave to them?" Deng Wei suddenly asked Qin Yu.
"What is it?"
"Bird poop, the Chongming bird poop is just like the one I swallowed."
Deng Wei's words shocked Qin Yu. If King Mu of Zhou and Emperor Wu of Han also ate the bird excrement, would they also have a straight face?
"Don't think about it. King Mu of Zhou and Emperor Wu of Han must have not turned into straight faces. Otherwise, it will definitely cause shock to the entire court. I think Queen Mother of the West must have a solution."
"How do you know this?"
"Because I dug up the tomb of Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty." Deng Wei chuckled, but a strange smile flashed across his face, adding an evil aura to his whole person, "I found these in the tomb of Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty.
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Hearing Deng Wei's words, Qin Yu's mouth twitched. The excavation of the tomb of Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty in history was the pride of those archaeological experts, because the tomb of Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty was one of the few large-scale imperial tombs that was not damaged by tomb robbers.
If these archaeological experts were told that someone once entered the tomb of Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty and took some precious things from it, I don't know if these archaeological experts would go crazy about it.
"So, you are looking for the Chongming Bird?"
"No." Deng Wei shook his head, stared at Qin Yu, and said word by word: "What I am looking for is the Queen Mother of the West."
Hearing Deng Wei's words, Qin Yu was slightly shocked, because the Queen Mother of the West only exists in myths and legends. The only record of the Queen Mother of the West in history is Yaochi, but no one can tell where the Yaochi is specifically. (