Longevity begins with alchemy

Chapter 18 Sleepless Night

...Song Qianqian and the maid Fangcao left the family and headed north. After several months of wandering, they finally arrived at the northern border.

The northern border is the area where Su Yi is at this time, but this is a general term. The northern border is very vast, and everything north of Zhongzhou can be called the northern border.

In the traditional sense, the northern border is a barren land, where there are many monsters and beasts, the villagers drink blood like hair, and most of the monks escaped from those who were not tolerated by Zhongzhou to live here.

Although Song Qianqian began to have expectations about the harshness of the northern border, it turned out that she still underestimated the danger of this trip.

On the third day after she and Fangcao entered the northern border, they were attacked by Jie Xiu. Fortunately, Song Qianqian had some life-saving equipment and managed to escape.

If Song Qianqian had turned back at that time, perhaps the tragedy that followed would not have happened, but at that time Song Qianqian was holding her breath in her heart and must get the Qingqiu White Bone Fire to prove her worth and prove that she was not just a tool for family marriage.

The two masters and servants continued to travel north, and were repeatedly attacked by Jie Xiu and monsters along the way. The last time they encountered monsters, Song Qianqian was seriously injured. Fangcao desperately escorted her to a place called Liushendian. Finally escaped.

Liushendian is a mortal village, where Song Qianqian could not get treatment from a cultivator, and eventually died.Fangcao was very sad, and after crying a lot, Fangcao was buried behind the Willow Temple.

According to local villagers, the reason why no monsters come to the village to eat people here is because they have the protection of the Liu God. After Fangcao buried Song Qianqian in the Liu Temple, she was also afraid that monsters would eat the corpse. After all, the corpse of a cultivator is harmful to the body. For monsters, it is equivalent to a tonic.

Song Qianqian died, and Fangcao lost her direction for a while. It is impossible to continue to fulfill the young lady's last wish. After all, the master and servant could not get to the place before, and now she is left alone, and there is no way to move forward.

As for going back to Song's house, it's not okay. At first, the two of them ran out secretly. Now that the young lady is dead, she will be cut to pieces by the master's house when she goes back alone.

Even if the Song family did not blame her, the two of them had been deep into the northern border for several months, and she could not get out even on this journey.

No advance, no retreat!

In desperation, Fangcao chose to build a lodge in front of Song Qianqian's grave behind Liu Temple to keep vigil.

She and the young lady grew up at the same time, and it goes without saying that they have a deep relationship. Now that they are separated forever, Fangcao sheds tears day and night, feeling sad for the young lady and her fate.

One night, while Fangcao closed her eyes and shed tears, she vaguely saw an elder with white hair and beard.

The man called himself Liu Shen Yuanhun, and because he was grateful for the deep love between master and servant of Fangcao, he manifested himself to see her.

It is said that Fangcao is also a cultivator. Although her cultivation level is not high, she should not believe this rhetoric.

It's just that the so-called "ghosts are obsessed with the mind", Fangcao has been sad for days, and her mind has long been no longer where it belongs, and for a while, she has no doubts.

The Willow God claimed to be able to bring Song Qianqian back to life, but the prerequisite was that someone would be willing to donate their blood and soul, and asked Fangcao if he would die for Song Qianqian.

Fangcao had lost her mind at that time, so she agreed to the other party without thinking.

In fact, what kind of good intentions did the "Willow God" have? It was originally a tree demon who had practiced for many years. First, he used demon methods to arrest Song Qianqian's soul and prevented him from reincarnating. Not working properly.

Song Qianqian's soul was detained by the tree demon. She could speak but was silent, and her hands could move but were invisible. She could not remind Fangcao. She just watched the essence and blood of Fangcao being drawn out by the tree demon and poured into a section of the tree core. He also detained Fangcao's soul and suppressed it in the tomb as a threat.

Finally, the tree demon divided the tree core that was filled with Fangcao's essence and blood into two parts, one part for Song Qianqian to shape the body, and the other part for the tree demon to shape the body himself, and separated a part for the tree demon to enter in shock.

If Song Qianqian resists, the tree demon will torture Fangcao's soul so that Song Qianqian does not dare to make any rash move.

In this way, after a long period of time, Song Qianqian and the Dryad finally succeeded in reshaping their bodies. Song Qianqian still had her original appearance, while the Dryad changed into the appearance of a fragrant grass.

The reason why the tree demon did this was to have a glimpse of the prosperity of the world. If he relied on his own practice, it would take tens of millions of years to truly transform into form.In this regard, Su Yi has also heard a little bit that the living beings here are divided into five categories: heaven, earth, gods, humans and ghosts.

When it comes to cultivation, excluding the things descended from heaven and the bloodline of gods, among the three categories of earth, humans, and ghosts, the human race has a unique advantage and has the fastest cultivation speed.

In addition, there is a family of monsters and beasts, but it will take thousands of years to transform.

The third is the demon spirit clan. Demon spirits are divided into spiritual plants and spiritual weapons. If you want to transform, you will have to practice for at least thousands of years, unless you follow those powerful people, grow up or are in a place full of spiritual energy. , can the transformation time be shortened to a certain extent.

That Song Qianqian was coerced by the tree demon and had to hang out with the two tree demons in the world, but Song Qianqian also said that the two of them can't be separated too far, at most a thousand miles away.

If it exceeds the body of the demon tree for thousands of miles, the transformed tree demon will lose the connection with the body.

Song Qianqian wrote this letter because she hoped to get Su Yi's help, hoping that he could get back the bones he had stored in order to get rid of the control of the tree demon.

In this regard, she also wrote that although the tree demon has been practicing for thousands of years, there are actually ways to deal with it and there are loopholes that can be exploited.

The first of the three cards she gave her before was Requiem Pill.

The Soul Requiem Pill is also called the Calming Soul Pill. After taking it, the soul is like an ethereal object for a moment or three, and can avoid the detection of the tree demon.

If Su Yi is determined to save him, he only needs to refine the Requiem Pill first and take it at noon, when the yang energy is the strongest. Then he can dig out the bones and save Song Qianqian and Fangcao. sea ​​of ​​bitterness.

Song Qianqian finally wrote in the letter:

The two slaves, master and servant, have been tortured by the old demon for thousands of years. Now they finally have a chance to escape, so they shamelessly write a book and beg for your mercy. Slave Song Qianqian weeps blood and thanks you!

Su Yi never thought that after traveling to another world, he would encounter a public case like "A Chinese Ghost Story". After reading the letter, he felt uneasy for a long time.

According to Su Yi's true intention, he didn't want to pay attention to these things. Now that he was just a minor cultivator at the fourth level of Qi training, how could he have the ability to draw his sword to kill the injustices in the world.

But what Song Qianqian said was really miserable, as the saying goes, "Human beings are not grass and trees, how can we be ruthless?" Even though Su Yi had a heart of stone, there were a lot of emotions accumulated in his heart now, just like the turbulent waves of the Qiantang River that were about to destroy the sky.

After taking deep breaths several times, Su Yi forced himself to calm down and began to think about everything carefully.

It is not difficult to imagine that Song Qianqian, also known as Chunxiang, at least started planning this matter after hearing that he was an alchemist. From this, it can be seen that Chunxiang is a very deep-minded person.

So, when did she know that Su Yi was an alchemist, was it a long time ago or recently, did his feelings for Lu Guangtian have any other thoughts?
Of course, out of sympathy for Song Qianqian's master and servant, Su Yi didn't have to think deeply about this matter, just stealing the bones, how risky would it be?
There was no risk at all. Su Yi didn't believe it. Of course, Song Qianqian gave corresponding remuneration and also gave many explanations in the letter.

The reason why Su Yi was needed instead of Lu Guangtian to steal the bones was because Chunxiang wanted to leave Lu Guangtian to cooperate with "Fangcao."

As for not finding other people to steal the bones, it was because Chunxiang was afraid that others would become greedy for her soul, and she was afraid that she would fall into another tiger's den after just escaping from the hands of the tree demon.

As for the reward, Chunxiang said that she would write down all the prescriptions she knew and give them to Su Yi afterwards.

In addition, the "Qingqiu White Bone Fire" map mentioned in her letter was also in the tomb and was given to Su Yi...

That night, Su Yi really couldn't sleep, nor could he meditate calmly.

Just lie in bed, tossing and turning until dawn.

(End of this chapter)