Genshin Impact, I'm Slime

Chapter 517 Heaven and Earth as Coffin

Bai Shu watched Famas leave until his figure disappeared around the corner of the construction site. Bai Shu, who was ill, began to cough uncontrollably. He immediately sealed the Sanjiao acupoint with the power of grass element, and only then did he manage to suppress the churning in his lungs.

Changsheng emerged from Doctor Bai's neck with a slightly unhappy look on his face. His slightly cool snake scales slid against the other's warm skin. After wrapping around him for a few times, he stuck his snake tongue against Bai Zhu's earlobe and sighed, "You are just a mortal. How many years do you have left to live? Can you withstand such a burning?"

Bai Shu paid no attention to the almost silent sigh that passed by his ears.

"Ahem... Changsheng, it's okay. I can't be impolite in front of guests."

Changsheng looked at the direction where Famas left, then looked at Baishu's expressionless face. He was about to open his mouth to persuade him, but he stopped in an instant. Baishu just pinched the white snake's little head, turned around and slowly returned to Bubu Lu.

The stairs leading to the clinic were not long, and the slope was just the right amount for exercise, but Bai Zhu was so tired and exhausted that he could not exert any strength. He simply sat down on the steps, touching the morning frost that had not yet melted.

Seeing that Bai Zhu looked sick and silent, Changsheng was so scared that he rubbed his body against him, fearing that Bai Zhu would catch a cold and die here. If the people who came to see the doctor tomorrow come closer to take a closer look and find that Doctor Bai had died in front of his own clinic with a snake in his body, that would be a real disgrace to his reputation.

Bai Zhu understood Changsheng’s concerns, but he really had no strength left.

In order to treat the soldiers and civilians injured in the war, Bubulu has been working non-stop recently. The high-intensity work has made Bai Zhu's physical condition worse. In addition, he has to investigate the resurrection. Even Bubulu's apprentice Agui can see that Doctor Bai's body has reached its limit.

Bai Zhu originally wanted to tell Changsheng that according to the blood theory of the Fontaine medical community, snakes are cold-blooded animals, and even if she tried hard to warm herself with friction, it would not have much effect.

But these words were stuck in my mouth.

After a short rest, Bai Shu finally regained some strength. He whispered to Changsheng to comfort him, and stroked the cool scales of the white snake with his fingertips: "Changsheng, the contact with Mr. Famas just now... did you feel anything discordant?"

"Inharmonious?" The white snake tilted its head, looking like it was reminiscing, and then shook its head vaguely, "Now that you mention it, although this is the first time I've seen him, this guy does have a familiar aura, very similar to the guest gentleman of the Wangsheng Hall..."

Before Changsheng could finish his words, Bai Shu immediately interrupted him, turned his head and looked at Baishe with an extremely serious expression.

"Changsheng, are you sure?"

Changsheng seemed stunned when Bai Zhu asked this. She froze in place, thinking carefully for a long time, and then nodded with an uncertain attitude.

"No... maybe, maybe... well, maybe I have seen them both before..."

Changsheng murmured with a slightly regretful tone, his voice was so weak that even Bai Shu, who was standing close by, could hardly hear it clearly.

"…I just forgot about it."

Changsheng is not an ordinary mountain monster. In the collection of Master Baishu's school, it is recorded that his true identity is "Yaojun", the master of Chenyu Mountain.

Medicine Lord is one of the three-eyed and five-manifested immortals listed in the immortal records, and the ancestor of Liyue doctors. In the turbulent ancient times, he once mistakenly served the second master, and also changed his mind and followed Emperor Geo because of the kindness in his heart. Later, he saved countless Liyue people who suffered from epidemics and diseases from the war, and was therefore honored by the ancestors as Medicine Lord with respect.

Even though he was seriously injured and on the verge of death and had to fall into a deep sleep, he still made a great wish to save all living beings in the world. Bai Zhu and Chang Sheng made a life contract with the secret method of the immortals, and from then on their destinies were connected and their luck was shared.

In Bai Zhu's impression, Changsheng rarely fell into such great sadness.

Even when the news of the death of Emperor Yanwang came, Changsheng only sighed with a little depression that the era of immortals had finally ended. The tea trees on Yaojun Mountain and the faces of his old friends were as difficult to see clearly as a dream of the past.

The power of immortality has been dissipated too much, even to the point where it has to borrow the life of a mortal to continue immortality. Fortunately, immortals are free and easy-going by nature, with weak obsessions, and will not feel unwilling because their intelligence is gradually being obscured and they will one day fall into the sea of ​​ignorance like ordinary animals.

Therefore, Bai Zhu could rarely empathize with this kind of urgent desire to recall something from the past.

"It doesn't matter, Changsheng, it doesn't matter if you can't remember it."

Bai Zhu respected Changsheng's opinion as much as he respected his mentor and blood relative, so he chose to suppress his doubts for the time being.

But this does not mean that Bai Zhu gave up on exploring the truth behind this. It can even be said that the more familiar Changsheng is with Zhongli and Famas, the more suspicious their identities become.

Bai Zhu had worked with Zhongli several times for work reasons. Although they were just acquaintances, they could be said to have a tacit understanding.

Bai Zhu's doubts about Mr. Zhongli, who claimed to be a guest of the Wangsheng Hall because of the last words of the 75th hall master, Mr. Hu, were far greater than they appeared on the surface.

Bai Zhu's master was named Bai Fu Zi, who was also one of the ceremonial attendants of Wangsheng Hall. However, due to differences in ideas with the head of the Hu family, he eventually chose to leave Wangsheng Hall and came to Yaojun Mountain in Chenyu Valley alone to practice medicine and save people.

But what Master Bai Shu cared about most during his lifetime was news related to the Hall of Rebirth. Whenever there were patients from Liyue Harbor who came to Chenyu Valley for medical treatment, the homesick Master Bai would find out about them in a roundabout way.

However, Bai Fuzi's departure at that time could be described as leaving without saying goodbye, and now he couldn't save his face and went straight back to Wangsheng Hall.

Most of the descendants of the Yaojun Mountain lineage died young, and Bai Fuzi was no exception. Until the end of his life, he was still thinking about his hometown and relatives in the distant Yangang. In the last moment of his life, Bai Fuzi put on the long gown of the Wangsheng Hall ceremonial attendant embroidered with dark butterfly patterns, hurriedly told Bai Shu a few words about his funeral arrangements, and then closed his eyes and passed away facing the direction of Liyue Harbor.

The reason why Bai Zhu chose to open a clinic in Liyue Harbor might be because he hoped that his master's soul would return to his homeland and take care of his family.

Unfortunately, Bai Zhu arrived too late. When he arrived at Wangsheng Hall with Bai Fu Zi's relics, the former hall master, Grandpa Hu, had passed away for several years. Wangsheng Hall is now run and maintained by his granddaughter Hu Tao and the guest official Zhongli.

  At that time, Hu Tao, who still had some childishness, stared at him straightly, without any nostalgia for the deceased, and even asked Bai Shu:

"Birth, aging, sickness and death are natural. It is such a blessing for mortals to have the heaven and earth as their coffin, the sun and moon as their jade pendants, the stars as their pearls, and all things as their gifts... Grandpa is like this, and so is my uncle. I don't feel sorry for it, so why do you have to act like this?"

Since the meaning of the scriptures in the Wangsheng Hall has been passed down for so many generations, there must be a reason behind it. Bai Zhu was refuted by Hu Tao at the time and could only smile bitterly and shake his head. He had to turn to investigate Zhongli's background.

The conclusion he came to was similar to Ye Lan's. Mr. Zhongli's manner of conversation, cultivation, demeanor and appearance were not like those of ordinary people. Especially his demeanor in words and deeds, it was as if he was a sage from ancient times walking into the world from a portrait.

After all, Bai Zhu has a long history with Wangsheng Hall, so he can do some of the investigation work more carefully than the General Affairs Department and Ye Lan. Although Changsheng has incomplete memories, she is also the Medicine King of the Mountains. Since she said that she might know Famas and Zhongli, the identities and backgrounds of the two people are even more difficult to guess.

What kind of "person" can make the immortals who have existed for thousands of years feel familiar?