Chapter 410 The Next Journey

Chen Shen listened to Douchong'er's bitter story and sighed, "Good Douchong, you are suffering!"

Douchong'er had previously said that he was depressed and numb, but when he heard Chen Shen's words, he suddenly felt sad and couldn't help but burst into tears.

He cried and choked, "Brother! They are so cruel. I can't work by myself, so they keep beating me! They don't even let me rest when I'm tired! I'm thirsty, but they only feed me bitter salty slop... Woo woo woo—"

Chen Shen kept comforting him, but Douchong was so tired of crying that he fell into a deep sleep.

Chen Shen placed Dou Chong'er on the bed, and while he was sleeping, he examined his body.

After checking, Chen Shen sat on the side with a gloomy face, staring blankly at the sleeping Dou Chonger.

When he met him that year, Douchong'er was just a child of seven or eight years old, naive and simple.

But when I see him again now, the boy has become a teenager of thirteen or fourteen years old, but he has become very thin and haggard due to the hardships he has suffered.

The long-term torture not only made Douchong'er thin and short, but also made his body full of holes and his body functions were on the verge of collapse.

Chen Shen used his spiritual power to treat him a little, but it could only temporarily relieve the distress and could not save him fundamentally.

The anger in Chen Shen's heart was like the magma at the bottom of the abyss, he could only suppress it and it never subsided.

The evil disciple pretending to be Li Gefei was not the real boss, but one of the incarnations of Qingbao Tianzun. If killing him was useless and would only alert the enemy, Chen Shen would have stabbed him to death with a single shot and would never let him retreat.

These incarnations are independent of Qing Bao himself and have their own self-awareness. In some aspects, they are similar to a ninjutsu called Shadow Clone Technique in the comic Eye Legend from Ergou's previous life. Normally, they have no subordinate relationship with each other. Even when the incarnations meet each other, they will not recognize each other as long as they do not reveal their identities.

However, when an incarnation is killed, some of the relevant memories and experiences of this incarnation will be known by other incarnations and even Qingbao Tianzun himself.

It was also very simple for his incarnations to accept the task assignments from Qing Bao Tianzun. Qing Bao Tianzun first created a new incarnation, told the incarnation the content of the task, and then killed him. In this way, the other incarnations all knew the content of the task.

As for whether the incarnations will carry out the mission of Qingbao Tianzun, it all depends on their self-identification with their own identities.

If there really were to appear an alien being who went against the will of Heaven, and if his self-cognition were to change, it would not be surprising.

For example, such a strange thing happened in the Western Han Dynasty.

The next day, Douchonger woke up from a deep sleep. This was the most sound sleep he had had since he was kidnapped by the evildoer.

However, he did not feel relieved. Instead, he looked around in panic, feeling inexplicably anxious. It was not until he met Chen Shen that he felt relieved.

Chen Shen brought a bowl of thick porridge to the bedside and comforted Douchonger, saying, "Did you get enough sleep, brother?"

Douchonger nodded repeatedly like a little chicken eating rice, saying, "I've had enough sleep! I've had enough sleep! Brother, I just thought I was dreaming. I can't believe I've escaped from the sea of ​​suffering."

Chen Shen nodded and said, "That's good. You've slept all night, so your stomach must be empty. Drink this bowl of thick porridge first. I put a lot of tonic ingredients in it. It will be very good for you!"

Douchonger had long been accustomed to the feeling of hunger. When he was a donkey, he ate more grass and fodder. He hadn't eaten porridge or rice for a long time. When Chen Shen mentioned it, he couldn't help but salivate and was burning with hunger.

He didn't hesitate to pick up the bowl of porridge and took a big sip.

The softness and fragrance of the cooked rice made the bean worms, who had almost forgotten the taste of rice, burst into tears. It was so delicious and smooth.

Chen Shen silently watched the bean worms devouring the rice in the porridge. What he said about adding nourishing ingredients into the thick porridge was not false.

After Douchong fell asleep last night, Chen Shen broke through the barrier of time and space and went straight into the fleshy forest deep in the void. He killed a Bodhisattva worm and took a drop of pure blood from its heart. He also slaughtered a Luohan python and cut a drop of detoxifying juice from its gallbladder. He also caught a pair of plague spirits and broke their skulls to take a brain bead.

The Echinochloa Forest is a breeding ground for evil demons of the plague series, and it is where more high-quality evil demon seedlings are raised.

For example, the Bodhisattva worm is a spiritual maggot bred on the rotten flesh mountain of the Great Impure Bodhisattva. This kind of maggot has its own rotten aura, but wherever it passes, all things decay, except the Bodhisattva worm itself, which is fat and yellow like a swollen silkworm, and it has a lot of good blood, and its heart blood can prolong life.

If a demon-suppressing person mistakenly enters the fleshy forest and is cut off from food supplies, he can drink the good blood of the Bodhisattva worm to satisfy his hunger and quench his thirst.

The Luohan Python is a highly poisonous creature. Its body is covered with venom that can melt gold and dissolve stone. It is extremely ferocious. However, its bile can detoxify various biological poisons, and is also the core that sustains the Luohan Python.

Plague spirits are said to be the result of innocent children being infected and corrupted by the power of the plague. These plague spirits are shaped like twisted children with swollen bodies. They are extremely smart, vicious by nature, and accustomed to betrayal. They will use deception and tricks to play tricks on other demons.

Plague spirits are the most terrifying of all evil spirits, and they are always at loggerheads with each other. For example, when a plague spirit becomes a source of infection that spreads the plague virus, if another plague spirit suddenly appears next to the infectious plague spirit, the second plague spirit will deliberately transform itself into a source of antidote to restrain the virus.

By mixing the brains of two plague spirits that are confronting each other, there is a certain chance that a peculiar kind of colloid brain bead will be born. Anyone who eats it can improve intelligence and brain health and resist the mental attacks of evil spirits.

Chen Shen took these three treasures and combined them into one using the method of three talents, which turned into a powerful medicine for strengthening the body.

The secret of this evil medicine was not passed down by the demon-suppressing master, but was the evil knowledge that Chen Shen obtained from the human skin scroll [Book of Longevity].

Some people may ask, how can this knowledge be evil? Is it because the precious medicine comes from the evil spirits? Or are these things used by the evil spirits to deceive people?
In fact, the knowledge about the medicinal value of demons is not really demonic at all; the real evil lies elsewhere.

For example, the heart blood of the Bodhisattva worm, the bile of the Arhat python, and the brain beads of the plague spirit are really very good things. The key is that their place of origin - the Epimedium forest is not a good place that ordinary people can go to.

The Delicate Garden is to evil spirits what the imperial garden in the emperor's palace is to them. How can ordinary mortals go there, let alone kill the roots of the evil spirits and obtain medicine?

Even though the human skin book records the secret method of how to enter the Meat-Stem Forest, anyone who foolishly goes there to "collect herbs" will only end up turning into a flesh-and-blood tree in the Meat-Stem Forest.

Those evil disciples who know about [Bodhisattva Worm Heart Blood], [Arhat Python Bile], and [Plague Spirit Brain Pearl] are unable to obtain the precious medicines. Can they only watch and sigh?

of course not.

If we use the naming method of modern books, [The Book of Longevity] should be called "A Manual on How to Use the Flesh, Blood and Souls of Mortals to Cultivate Demonic Medicines".

All the evil elixirs mentioned in the [Book of Longevity] have corresponding alternative cultivation methods that can be used by mortals. However, these alternative cultivation methods are all extremely vicious and often cost thousands of innocent lives as a basis.

Moreover, the substitute cultivated in this way has an indelible distortion characteristic compared to the real evil elixir, but anyone who cultivates or even uses it will inevitably suffer from the irreversible distortion.

For example, the so-called "Spiritual Blood Ginseng" cultivated by Chen Nianyi, the evil Taoist who was killed outside Fengqiu City, on Mount Tiantai is of this type.

Although Chen Shen had read the [Longevity Book], he disdained those evil medicines that were cultivated by harming people. What he really cared about was the real evil medicine. Especially now that he had achieved success, he had the confidence to cause trouble in the evil back garden. In addition, he had the secret method of sneaking into the Meat-sting Forest provided in the [Longevity Book]. With the right time and place, and Douchonger in urgent need of the medicine to prolong his life, Chen Shen did not mind taking the risk and trying it.

The medicine that combines the three treasures into one is really nourishing, and it is the warm tonic type, strengthening the body, consolidating the soul, and curing diseases, providing all-round energy for the bean worm that is about to collapse to survive.

But Douchong'er's health condition was so bad that he was like a dying patient whose immune system had completely collapsed, malnutrition had caused organ failure, and his mind was almost exhausted.

Originally he was able to survive because the positive properties of the animal-making technique and the evil spirit energy kept him alive.

After Chen Shen rescued him, Dou Chong'er would have had a hard time surviving the night without an effective method.

Fortunately, it was Chen Shen who rescued him.

Chen Shen's pure spirit allowed Douchonger to live one more day.

However, the Sanbao medicine can allow the bean worms to continue to survive.

Of course, even such a powerful medicine can only treat the symptoms but not the root cause.

The vitality of Douchong'er himself has been exhausted to the point where he cannot regenerate, and the Sanbao medicine is equivalent to an external source of vitality. If he wants to stay alive, he cannot stop taking the medicine.

It's not that Chen Shen doesn't have a way to completely cure Dou Chong'er. He would send him to a mysterious place to be with Lao Su and Lao Zhang, and use bio-transformation to start from the genetic level, to completely reverse Dou Chong'er's life origin which was broken and decayed to the extreme.

However, at this critical moment of fighting against the evil conspiracy, Chen Shen really didn't dare to do so.

The absence of Su Shi and Zhang Dun in the real world is the biggest flaw in the evil spirit's transformation between reality and illusion.

As long as the two of them are actually alive and the thread of fate is not broken, the evil will have to rewrite reality in a roundabout way.

Some people may ask, what if we kill them both?

The evil demons just want to say that we dream of killing those two old immortals, but the key is that we can’t find them!
The evil demons knew that Chen Shen had hidden the person, but they tried their best, even going back in time countless times, but they just couldn't find out where he was hidden.

Chen Shen suspected that Dou Chong'er was a Trojan horse prepared for him by the evil spirits, because Dou Chong'er's illness was too coincidental. Perhaps letting him die was the best option, but Chen Shen did not dare to gamble.

What if Dou Chong'er is really just an anchor tool for the evil demon's plan?

Chen Shen even suspected that Douchong'er had a dual identity, being both an evil Trojan horse and an anchoring tool.

Chen Shen estimated that this large dose of medicine could keep the bean worm alive for about half a month, and then he would have to go to Rousanlin again.

Compared to the suddenness of the first visit, the danger of Chen Shen's second visit to the Rousan Forest will increase exponentially. What's more, it will be more than just the second visit. As long as the root cause of the bean worm disease is not eliminated, Chen Shen will have to continue the third, fourth, and even fifth and sixth visits... until he is completely left in the Rousan Forest by the furious evil demon.

Douchonger finished eating the thick porridge and put down the bowl reluctantly. He licked the bowl clean, so clean that even a dog would admit defeat.

This porridge is not only sweet and delicious, but after eating the bean worms, the whole body will immediately feel warm, as if some warm little hands are massaging him; it is also like his mother whispering gently in his ear when he was a child, making him feel at peace both physically and mentally.

Douchonger felt full of energy. He said happily, "Brother, this porridge is really sweet. Can I have another bowl?"

Chen Shen smiled and said, "This is a medicinal diet. You have just recovered from your illness, so don't eat too much, or you will be over-nourished and suffer from poor health!"

Douchonger said "Oh" with some disappointment.

Chen Shen added: "Don't worry! You can have another bowl in the evening."

Only then did Douchonger's worry turn into joy and he smiled happily.

Seeing this, Chen Shen asked, "Bean Worm, do you still remember the merchant who abused you?"

When Douchonger heard this, his face suddenly showed boundless fear and pain, and he trembled and said, "Ah... Brother, why are you asking this? I... I don't want to remember!"

Chen Shen stepped forward and grabbed Dou Chong'er's shoulders, transferring some spiritual energy into him, and then said solemnly: "Brother! They are so vicious that they want to harm you, how can I let them off easily! Come on! Watch me go and avenge you!"

Dou Chong'er was at a loss for a moment, but Chen Shen dragged him out of the inn and headed towards the depths of the street market.

The story of Chen Shen using his donkey to save people yesterday had already spread throughout Huangzhou City after a night of fermentation. Even the related merchant had heard about it. What made the family even more terrified was that they were actually accomplices in such a bizarre incident. This was a bit scary.

In the folk, those who harm others with sorcery are despised and even frightened. But for ordinary people who are implicated, whether they are victims or ignorant accomplices of evildoers, if they do not have the protection of a powerful family, moving far away is basically the best outcome.

A bad ending, you ask?

Either they are ostracized by their fearful neighbors and their families are destroyed, or they are ruthlessly eliminated by the ruthless faction of demon-suppressors as those infected by evil spirits.

However, this family felt that they still had some influence, so they never thought of moving. They just wanted to keep a low profile for a while and wait for the storm to die down before making any plans.

Unexpectedly, the next morning after the incident, Chen Shen came to the door with Dou Chonger in a panic.

Chen Shen glanced at the sign of "Qin's Charcoal Shop" hanging on the shop and sneered. He picked up the trembling bean worm in one hand and kicked the door of the shop away with one foot.

He turned around and glanced at the crowd of onlookers behind him, and shouted, "I'm here to seek revenge! If you don't come near me, I'll kill you!"

Then he walked into the shop with the bean worms under his arm.

The decoration in the shop is quite tidy. The first thing you see is a row of wooden shelves with some exquisitely shaped charcoal blocks arranged in grids. Next to the wooden shelves are some baskets filled with more loose charcoal.

At this time, the shop owner had already heard the noise, and he hurried out to check and happened to run into Chen Shen.

The shop owner had never seen Chen Shen before, so he didn't recognize him. When he saw the crowd outside the shop through the broken door, he felt a little bolder and shouted, "Who are you, and how dare you break into people's houses in broad daylight?!"

Chen Shen sneered, "You thief! You are so mean! My brother was kidnapped by evildoers, but he suffered from bullying and persecution in your home! I am here to seek revenge on you!"

The shop owner was horrified when he heard this. He almost fell down, but he still said stubbornly, "Good man! We didn't know that donkey was your brother! Otherwise, how could we dare to mistreat him!"

(End of this chapter)

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