Chapter 24 A Method of Immortality
Zhou Mei in the outside world only exerted a little effort.
Any possible troubles will be nipped in the bud.

But Li Zhi in the Great Sage's Cave was in real trouble.

He never expected that there would be insects released into the medicinal fields in the Hundred Herbs Map.

There are bees, butterflies, mantises, spiders, toads and many other kinds of insects.

Although there were no huge beasts, the insects seemed to be more difficult to deal with.

Not only are they elusive, they are also extremely ferocious.

After climbing to the bottom of the medicinal field, Li Zhi was attacked by a swarm of bees.

After just one encounter, he got seven or eight big lumps on his body.

If he hadn't jumped into the mud pit next to him in time, he would have been stung to death by the bees.

Moreover, the venom of those bees was extremely strong. Li Zhi's face was swollen for three days before it went down.

This is only the first time.

Then he was stared at by a group of fiery red ants.
The ants had eaten a piece of meat from his calf. If he hadn't reacted in time, the ants would have gnawed his calf into bones.

He ran outside the medicinal field and rested for seven days before his wounds healed.

After recovering from his injury, Li Zhi changed the direction of his mountain climbing.

After the lessons from the previous times, he learned his lesson this time. He picked some herbs from the medicine field in advance, crushed them, and applied the juice on his body to prevent the poisonous insects from detecting his smell and attacking him.

This approach worked.

Li Zhi finally successfully climbed to the second level of the medicinal field.

During this period, when he was hungry, he would eat some medicinal herbs from the medicine field.

Unlike the outside world, he was surprised to find that there was still a trace of spiritual medicine in those herbs.

After refining those herbs using the Changsheng Gong method, the energy in his body seemed to have increased significantly, and even the speed of recovery after injury was greatly increased.

However, Li Zhi soon did not dare to continue practicing the Changsheng Gong.

He was afraid that taking those elixirs would create a sea of ​​suffering.

God knows if he would have a chance to survive hitchhiking after opening up the sea of ​​suffering.

Afterwards, Li Zhi only practiced breathing techniques.

The breathing method strengthens one's own spirit, energy and vitality and does not involve the practice of the sea of ​​suffering.

It doesn't seem to be the same as the secret realm method.

It can also help him refine the spiritual power in those herbs.

When he climbed to the fifth level of the medicinal field, the strength of his single arm had already reached the level of two thousand kilograms.

Faster, stronger, and more acute.

But even so, his climbing speed showed no signs of increasing, but instead seemed to be getting slower and slower.

Li Zhi realized that what looked like a terraced mountain was actually full of the magical power of the laws of space.

The actual distance between the two places is definitely not as short as it appears on the surface.

In fact, Li Zhi’s guess was correct.

Although the Hundred Herbs Map has no offensive power, as a quasi-imperial divine weapon, the space inside it can be called an integrated whole.

In order to ensure the integrity of the medicine garden, the Taoist priest Changshou refined a small chaotic world into the picture.

Since then, the medicine garden space has become solid and immortal, allowing the Hundred Herbs Map to have a certain degree of lethality against the enemy.

It can release a mountain that is like a small world to overwhelm people.

At the same time, in order to ensure that the small world within the magic weapon would not dry up, Taoist Changshou carved many array patterns in the picture to draw essence from all directions to nourish the chaotic small world.

The purpose is to ensure that the sacred tree on the top of the mountain does not drop in grade at any time.

It is a semi-god tree, a longevity fruit tree, which was cultivated from the core of a ginseng fruit using the secret method of Empress Nuwa.

At the same time, the medicinal gardens on the terraces are not used to grow elixirs.

Instead, he gathered the power of those elixirs through a special magic array and offered them as a sacrifice to the longevity fruit tree on the top of the mountain, allowing the tree to grow healthily.

Because of the environment of heaven and earth, if the semi-divine medicine is not watered with the water of the divine spring from time to time, it will easily fall in grade and degenerate into a holy medicine, or even directly degenerate to the level of a spiritual medicine, which is the so-called Medicine King and Small Medicine King of this era.

Although the Taoist Changshou had great fortune in the past, he had never obtained the Fountain of Good Fortune or the Fountain of Life, so the Taoist Changshou could only rely on this method to ensure that the quality of the fruit trees would not decline.

At this moment, the great sage sitting under the longevity fruit tree had also received great fortune and obtained a pot of magical spring water.

Let the longevity fruit tree bloom and bear fruit again, and produce a ginseng fruit with 30% of the medicinal properties.

In the blink of an eye, more than two hundred days had passed.

After untold hardships, Li Zhi finally climbed to the top of the mountain.

At this moment, the only clothes on his body were a pair of tattered shorts, and his body was covered with various scars.

These are all the products of Li Zhi's battle of wits and courage with those insects.

There was even a penetrating wound in the heart area.

It almost pierced his heart.

The thing that caused him such serious damage was a kind of insect he didn't recognize, with a twenty-centimeter-long horn on its head.

That horn is extremely sharp.

With just one encounter, he pierced Li Zhi's palm and his chest at the same time.

If he had not used breathing techniques to forcibly change the distribution of his internal organs at the critical moment, he would probably have died.

Li Zhi, who climbed to the top of the mountain, was disheveled and looked like a homeless man.

And there were two big bumps on his head.

It was smashed out by a flying insect with an extremely hard shell.

At that time, he was hit and suffered a concussion. If he had not taken a lot of spiritual medicine to greatly improve his body's toughness, I'm afraid that just that one blow would have caused his head to explode.

Lying on the platform at the top of the mountain, Li Zhi felt extremely unlucky.

Suddenly, he realized something.

He touched the big bump on his head and the wound near his heart and couldn't help but break out in a cold sweat.

Since coming to this world, he has only killed two people. One of them was blasted in the head by him with a hammer, and the other was pierced in the chest by him with a Luoyang shovel.

Now, he had also suffered injuries that were enough to cause an ordinary person's head to explode, and injuries on his chest that were enough to cause an ordinary person's heart to be pierced.

Li Zhi immediately recalled a passage in the Heaven Stealing Secret: "Heaven and earth will not tolerate the great fortune of stealing. Karma is cyclical. You must face the calamity with your body. Be extremely cautious."

Moreover, Li Zhi also remembered the mysterious feeling he had when he was offering sacrifices to the heaven that day. That borrowed good fortune would only stay with him for three years.

Now it seems that three years have passed and he is in such a mess.

Compared to the previous two times, when he could get the opportunity smoothly, this time after arriving at the Great Sage's Secret Realm, he was almost in danger of death.

In the previous two hundred days, he was like a savage. When he was thirsty, he drank muddy water in the fields, and when he was hungry, he ate some magical herbs that he didn't know whether they were poisonous or not.

Hard work pays off, after going through untold hardships, he finally reached the longevity fruit tree.

Thinking about getting the ginseng fruit soon, a smile immediately appeared on Li Zhi's face.

But the scar on his face made his smile look particularly creepy at this moment.

After lying on the ground and resting for more than half an hour, Li Zhi finally felt his strength restored.

Then he stood up from the ground with a somersault.

It seemed that his jumping was too big and caused the ground to shake.

The corpse under the tree instantly turned into a pile of powder.

This surprised Li Zhi.

Walking forward carefully, Li Zhi found a mini scroll that was completely azure blue in the pile of powder.

Recalling the records he had read before, Li Zhi quickly determined that it was the page of the scripture made of eternal blue gold that recorded the complete "Innate Longevity Art".

Li Zhi carefully used a dry branch to pull the scripture out of the pile of powder.

Then I found that the powder didn't seem to have any spirituality and was similar to ordinary lime powder.

It's not the bone powder left over after a monk becomes a Taoist.

Although the blue scroll is only three inches long, it is not light at all, weighing at least forty or fifty kilograms.

Li Zhi excitedly opened the scroll and immediately saw the scripture of Xiantian Changsheng Gong recorded on it.

The opening chapter, the Wheel Sea Volume, the Dao Palace Volume, the Four Poles Volume, the Dragon Transformation Volume, and the Immortal Platform Volume are all complete scriptures without missing a single sentence.

At the end of the scroll, there is also a record of a secret method of longevity.

Moreover, the font used to record the secret techniques is different from the font used to record the scriptures previously, and it seems to have been added later.

After reading the secret method of immortality, Li Zhi was deeply shocked.

He first looked down at the pile of powder on the ground, then looked up at the lonely ginseng fruit hanging on the tree.

The great sage who was sitting cross-legged under the tree before was also a man of great fortune. When he was young, he not only inherited the Taoist tradition from the Taoist Changshou.

Later, when he was old, he found a place of creation left by Queen Wa.

There he learned a method of immortality that had been deduced by Queen Nuwa.

Through her research on the elixir of immortality, Queen Wa seemed to have gained insight into the truth about the elixir of immortality. She knew that the elixir of immortality was made from the immortals who had died.

So based on this, Queen Nuwa deduced a method of immortality.

Queen Wa believed that immortals could turn into elixirs of immortality and continue to exist in the world after death. Then, could the emperor turn into elixirs of immortality and continue to exist in the world after death? Could the saint turn into holy medicine and continue to exist in the world after death?
Then there was this method of longevity through chemical medicine, in the hope that in the future one would be able to reopen one's spiritual intelligence in the form of a spiritual medicine and live another life.

When the great sage was about to die, he decisively chose to try this immature method of longevity created by the great Empress Nuwa.

He sacrificed everything he had to a longevity fruit tree, and imprinted his life on the only ginseng fruit.

In the hope that his life can continue in the form of ginseng fruit.

When this ginseng fruit is fully mature, that will be the time when he regains his spiritual intelligence in the form of a spiritual medicine, and it will also be the day when he transforms again.

It’s a pity that this method of longevity is very immature, and even Queen Nuwa doesn’t know whether it can work.

After sacrificing everything he had, the great sage only managed to make this ginseng fruit have 60% of the medicinal effects of a longevity elixir.

As for the life mark, there was no reaction at all.

Not to mention the rebirth of spiritual intelligence.

Moreover, during the process of gestating the miraculous medicine, the essence of the outside world suddenly began to decrease sharply.

The earth has entered the Dharma-Ending Period.

The process of creating the miracle medicine was directly interrupted.

If he is constantly nourished by sufficient vital energy, perhaps one day the mark he engraved in that ginseng fruit will really have a chance to give birth to a new spiritual intelligence.

Later, in order to ensure that the quality of the longevity fruit tree and the ginseng fruit on the tree would not degenerate, the god in this quasi-emperor weapon could only squeeze the essence of other medicinal fields in the small world as much as possible to nourish the demigod tree and ginseng fruit on the top of the mountain.

After hundreds of thousands of years of exploitation, this chaotic little world is almost drying up.

If no one uses magic power to refine and replenish its essence, this small world will dry up completely in perhaps not a few thousand years.

Eventually, this demigod tree and the ginseng fruit will also wither due to lack of essence.

At the same time, this is also the reason why the poisonous insects that Li Zhi encountered were not spiritual insects, and why the spiritual medicines in the medicine field degenerated into ordinary herbs.

After realizing all this, Li Zhi had no intention of picking the ginseng fruit immediately.

Instead, think about how to leave this place first.

(End of this chapter)