Longevity begins with alchemy

Chapter 45 Wooden Puppet

In the small courtyard, seventeen or eight wooden puppets were erected at some point.

These wooden puppets are the size of real people, with simple faces. Although their expressions vary, they all look dull.

Each joint is connected by rollers, and is equipped with a mechanism and a mana core inside. It has simple movement capabilities after being embedded in the spirit stone.

These wooden puppets were given to Su Yi by Shen Mo.

During a conversation between the two, Su Yi accidentally mentioned that he was practicing the "Chang Geng Sword Art". After hearing this, Shen Mo took out these wooden puppets and gave them to him.

This is the first time Su Yi has seen such a thing in the world, and it is even the first time he has heard the name "Wooden Puppet".

In Su Yi's opinion, these are somewhat similar to the "robots" he saw on TV in his previous life, and he felt like he was back in the original world.

Next, Shen Mo and Su Yi talked about the origins of these wooden puppets. According to him, he liked to travel when he was young. When he went to the Western Regions once, he saw another kind of customs and customs. Wooden puppets are one of the special products there. things.

Today, Su Yi is no longer a "newcomer" who has just stepped into this place. He already knows that this world is called Middle-earth.

The world of Middle-earth mainly includes five larger regions, namely the Northern Territory, Zhongzhou, the East China Sea, the Southern Wasteland, and the Western Regions.

Of course, in the eyes of the people of Zhongzhou, except for the land of Zhongzhou, the rest of the Middle-earth world is a barren land. After all, the division of this region originally started in Zhongzhou.

In fact, the world of Middle-earth is extremely large and vast, and it can be described as boundless. It is impossible for ordinary people to travel all over Middle-earth even if they spend their lives, because it is said that there are large unknown territories outside the "Five Realms".

Su Yi was surprised when he learned that Shen Mo had also been to the Western Regions.

In Su Yi's view, there are many "mysterious" things about Shen Mo, which make him feel like the bottomless ocean.

Shen Mo looks only about 40 years old, but Su Yi guesses that his actual age is definitely more than 40 years old.

There is only one possibility for this situation to occur, that is, as the cultivation level improves, the physical appearance of the practitioner will gradually "return to youth."

For example, after a monk builds a foundation, this world will give the monk an extra hundred years of life, and the monk's appearance will also become younger. Like Bai Xiu, the elder of Luoxia Sect whom Su Yi met before. Although he looks like he is in his late 30s and early [-]s, his actual age may be more than double.

Su Yi now suspected that Shen Mo was like this, otherwise it would be difficult to return to the North after traveling to places like the Western Regions.

But his cultivation level is definitely not foundation-building cultivation level, so there is only one possibility - he has fallen to a great level!

In other words, Shen Mo used to be at least in the foundation-building stage and above. Later, his level fell for unknown reasons, which made him look like he was just a monk in the late stage of Qi training.

Of course, these are just Su Yi's guesses. These things cannot be asked because they involve the privacy of the other party.

For cultivators, almost everyone has a secret. The higher the cultivation level, the more secrets there are. Unknown opportunities, pasts that no one wants to know, ugly and dirty killings, hatred buried deep in the heart...

It can be said that exploring other people's secrets is the biggest taboo among cultivators. Even when others intend to reveal it, they have to choose whether to listen or not.

After returning from Shen Mona with these wooden puppets, Su Yi used these wooden puppets to practice the Chang Geng Sword Technique, which was equivalent to having more moving targets.

And although they are called "wooden puppets", these puppets are actually very strong and can completely resist cutting by the best magic swords without injecting magic power into the magic swords.According to Shen Mo, there is a tree called "Ironwood" in the Western Regions. It grows slowly and grows three feet per century. However, the ironwood is fine and hard. These puppets are made of ironwood.

When Shen Mo said that he gave these wooden puppets to Su Yi, Su Yi had also speculated about this behavior. Maybe the other party needed his help for something.

Thinking that he has no other talents, he can only be somewhat good at refining alchemy, and then thinking about the other party's decline in realm, could it be that the other party wants his help in refining the "Heaven-Building Pill!"

Speaking of the Heaven-Building Pill, Su Yi was really familiar with it, because Lu Guangtian's old illness also needed the Heaven-Building Pill to be cured, and Su Yi also had the recipe for the Heaven-Building Pill.

It's just that one of the main ingredients of the Heaven-Building Pill is "the demon pill that transforms into a great demon". This is too rare, and the difficulty of obtaining it is too high, so the prescription of this Heaven-Building Pill is almost useless.

Otherwise, how could a recipe for such a high-level elixir be obtained by a young monk at the third level of Qi training? It was simply something that no one valued.

Thinking of this, Su Yi spoke out what was in his heart at that time and said directly, "Mr. Shen lent me books such as "The Preliminary Interpretation of Refining Weapons" as a favor to Su Yi. If Mr. Shen wants me to do anything, You can tell me directly so that I can have an idea and make some preparations in advance."

When Su Yi thought about it, if Shen Mo really wanted the Heaven-Building Pill, he would have to explain to the other party that the raw materials were difficult to find. He couldn't agree to what he couldn't do, so he had to let the other party come up with other conditions. to repay.

Of course, if the other party can provide the demon elixir for transforming the great demon, Su Yi can also agree to try to refine it, but he has to explain that he has never refined it before. If it fails, the raw materials may be wasted.

However, after Su Yi explained what he said above, Shen Mo still didn't say what he wanted. Instead, he said something incomprehensible.

"In this world, what you want may not come true. When Shen does things, he just wants to let nature take its course."

In this way, Su Yi found it difficult to bear the other party's high feelings for a while.

As an orphan since he was a child, he actually has some inferiority complex in his bones. The reason why he has formulated the principle of "transaction" for himself is because he thinks that he and the outside world do not owe each other, but he is afraid that his own abilities are limited and he will betray others' kindness and debt favors from others.

Fortunately, after Su Yi entered the world of cultivation, as his cultivation improved, his self-confidence gradually increased, and his personality became a little more free and easy.

Under the insistence of the other party, these wooden puppets were finally accepted.

This is how he mentally constructed himself.

"I am now a cultivator. I am no longer the orphan living on the street. I can no longer underestimate myself from the bottom of my heart."

In the original world, he had heard such a sentence.

"Princes and generals, would you rather be kind!?"

Now is the time to cheer yourself up and inspire yourself.

"Now that I have stepped into cultivation, I may not be able to achieve success in my studies in the future."

"If you receive a favor from someone today, you can repay it twice as much when you succeed in your studies tomorrow."

"Besides, the reason why Shen Mo did this is to show that he has confidence in himself. He no longer needs to be afraid, he just needs to withstand the pressure and move forward!"

(End of this chapter)