Longevity from Liao Zhai

Chapter 7 Uncle Lame, I heard you don’t have a son, I want to take care of you in your old age

Zhou Ping came to see Uncle Bo with a sewing kit.

It was already nightfall, and the escorts who were supposed to pay had already done so, so the escort agency was a little deserted.

When Zhou Ping went to find Uncle Bo, he was mending a flowered jacket in front of a kerosene lamp under the dim light.

It's obvious that this jacket was made to be mended for a young girl.

Uncle Lame has no children.

Uncle Lame and the head of the Yan family are like brothers and are fellow apprentices. After he was injured, he lived in the Yan family in his old age.

The head of the Yan family has only one daughter. He is very busy and often travels around, so Uncle Lame raised his daughter on his behalf.

Uncle Lame and the Young Escort Master have a relationship like that of father and daughter.

At that moment, Zhou Ping suddenly had the urge to kneel down: Uncle Lame, I heard that you have no son, I want to take care of you in your old age!
Another year has passed, and this body is already eighteen years old.

Zhou Ping looked at the panel.

Left side of the split screen.

[Lifespan: 23 years, 5 months and 4 days]

[Telepathy: Zero]

[The End of the World: 1]

[Go on a convoy to achieve immortality, do not ask about worldly affairs]

The right side of the split screen.

There is no white dot on the panel, only a red dot.

There is still a mission to escort medicinal materials tomorrow, but Zhou Ping did not accept it.

Zhou Ping took a few days off.

Uncle Bo was a little surprised about the request for leave, because Zhou Ping had never missed a day in the past two years, rain or shine.

Zhou Ping’s answer was: The world is so big, I want to go and see it.

In fact, Zhou Ping wanted to find the cave containing the giant snake's remaining soul.

From memory, the cave wasn't dangerous.

"It's time to see what skill this telepathic finger is."

When going on an adventure in the mountains, Zhou Ping always has to make thorough preparations.

If he encounters danger, Zhou Ping will use the "Tianya Zhichi" technique to escape back to the house in an instant.

Of course, one more skill means one more protection.

Zhou Ping is now over 20 years old and can afford it.

Zhou Ping's mind moved, and the panel changed accordingly.

[Lifespan: 22 years, 5 months and 4 days]

[Telepathy: One]

[The End of the World: 1]

[Go on a convoy to achieve immortality, do not ask about worldly affairs]

The life span was shortened by one year, but the telepathic connection added one more year.

At the same time, Zhou Ping also knew the function of Lingxi Yizhi.

[A single finger of telepathic communication can break any attack, regardless of its grade. However, it can only be used when there is no escape.]

"It ignores the grade and can break all the laws. This is amazing."

"That is to say, this skill is also useful for the first rank, and it ignores whether the opponent is attacking physically or magically."

Zhou Ping knew that there were Taoist priests and magic in this world. He once saw an old escort from the escort agency create a fireball out of thin air and then throw it out as an attack.

"But it's a bit disappointing that this can only be used when it's unavoidable."

Zhou Ping suddenly understood. This was a passive skill, and it seemed a bit like a skill in his memory.

100% bare-handed catching of a knife! Isn't this 100% bare-handed catching of a knife?

However, it is slightly stronger than catching a blade, and this skill can break any attack.

"This panel is really bad. It has an active skill that instantly escapes, and a passive defense skill that is equivalent to a resurrection armor."

Zhou Ping sighed: With this panel, I really can't spend my time recklessly.

The sun was shining in the sky and Zhou Ping was strolling on the street.

The feeling of strolling while others are at work gave Zhou Ping a rare sense of comfort.

This feeling of enjoying life also made Zhou Ping feel unreal.

For two years, basically non-stop all year round, as long as the mountain roads were not blocked by rain or snow, Zhou Ping would be on his way to deliver the goods.

Zhou Ping bought a few roujiamo.

The cliff where the cave is located is a bit like an eagle's head. It is a steep cliff on the northwest side of Yaoshan.

Because that place is on the northwest side and is very steep and prone to accidents, mountain people who collect herbs rarely go there.

It might take Zhou Ping a whole day to reach that place at his pace.

Zhou Ping walked through the city gate.

There was a lot of noise near the city gate.

There were many notices posted on the city gate, some of which were arrest warrants and some of which were tax collection notices issued by the government.

"Hey, hey, hey, there was a picture of a monk posted today. This monk must be wanted."

"He is uneducated, how terrible! This is the new imperial master of the dynasty."

"National Master? A monk is the National Master now."

"Yes, it is written here. Master Pudu Cihang has profound Buddhist teachings and is the Imperial Master of the Great Wei."

Zhou Ping was walking and he didn't care about these things.

But when he heard Pu Du Ci Hang, Zhou Ping's body trembled.

Pudu Cihang! Is this Liao Zhai? !
Zhou Ping was extremely confused for a moment. If this was Strange Stories from a Chinese Studio, there would be Yan Chixia, Zuo Qianhu, Ning Caichen, and the Black Mountain Demon.

As for Nie Xiaoqian, according to the calculation of time, she should have been reincarnated as a human at this time.

Is this Liao Zhai? Then the world is dangerous.

Zhou Ping felt a greater sense of crisis.

……

Yaoshan, northwest side.

After two days of walking, Zhou Ping arrived at the place in the memory of the giant snake's remnant soul.

Standing on the edge of the cliff, there is a bottomless abyss below.

Just by taking a look, Zhou Ping felt a little scared.

According to the memory of the giant snake's remaining soul, it fell off the cliff and landed on a huge horizontal tree. Beyond the tree was the entrance to the cave.

Although the cliff is vertical, there is a protruding platform at regular intervals.

Zhou Ping bit his finger and blood dripped down.

“This is the wrong location.”

Zhou Ping shook his head, changed his position, and dripped a drop of blood.

“This position is wrong too.”

Zhou Ping was dripping blood back and forth down the cliff.

This is the solution Zhou Ping came up with.

The End of the World is Within Reach allows Zhou Ping to teleport to a marked location, which needs to be marked with blood.

Although Zhou Ping knew the approximate location of the cave on the cliff, he couldn't use a rope to lower himself down because the place was right in the middle of the cliff, where the rope couldn't reach.

A map of marked points can be displayed on the panel.

So Zhou Ping continued to drip blood down the cliff and mark it.

Through the marked point, Zhou Ping could see the scenery around the cliff.

"right here."

Zhou Ping's eyes lit up. After dripping sixty-eight drops of blood, he finally found the tree in the giant snake's remaining soul.

But the blood did not drip on the tree, but ten feet above the giant tree.

on the panel.

[Lifespan: 22 years, 5 months and 4 days]

[Telepathy: One]

[The End of the World is Just a Step Away: 1] [Go on a courier journey to achieve immortality, do not ask about worldly affairs]

Zhou Ping's mind moved, and the panel changed again.

[Lifespan: 20 years, five months and four days]

[Telepathy: One]

[The End of the World: Part 3]

[Go on a convoy to achieve immortality, do not ask about worldly affairs]

Zhou Ping took out a short knife, which was specially prepared for this trip to the cave.

"go!"

Zhou Ping's mind moved and he disappeared from the spot. The next moment he appeared in the middle of the cliff.

There was a raised stone where the blood had fallen.

The moment Zhou Ping appeared on the cliff, he quickly inserted the dagger into the wall.

However, the stone wall was hard and the dagger failed to penetrate the first time.

Zhou Ping fell down.

"Snapped."

The dagger got stuck in the crack of the stone.

Zhou Ping let out a long sigh and looked at the giant tree several feet away from him.

A drop of blood was thrown by Zhou Ping onto the tree.

The next moment, Zhou Ping disappeared again, and when he appeared again, he was already standing on the giant tree.

"Two years of life are gone just like that!"

Zhou Ping felt a little distressed, but when he saw the hole at the root of the giant tree that was half-covered by branches and vines, he immediately became excited.

Zhou Ping used a knife to cut open the vines at the entrance of the cave and finally saw the scene inside the cave.

This place is exactly the same as in the memory of the giant snake's remnant soul.

The cave is not big, about ten feet wide, ten feet high, and thirty feet deep.

At the end of the cave, a skeleton wearing a cassock was sitting on the ground.

There were some words written on the wall behind the monk.

"My name is Yuantong, and I am the abbot of the Western Regions Galan Temple."

"In search of a way to become a saint and achieve immortality, my disciple and I came to the Wei Dynasty from the Western Regions."

"The life span of humans is short. Even if one reaches the first level, one can only live for three to five hundred years. But after becoming a saint, it is said that one can live forever."

"However, the four saints of the human race, the Saint of Taoism, the Saint of Martial Arts, the Saint of Confucianism, and the Saint of Buddhism, have all disappeared in the long river of history, and their lives or deaths are unknown."

"My apprentice and I visited various ruins in the Great Wei, and found the relics of the Taoist Saint, the Martial Saint, the Confucian Saint, and the Buddhist Saint, and learned their secrets."

"Thousands of years ago, this land did not belong to the human race, but to the demon race. The Taoist Saint stole the demon race's unique skills and opened up the method of cultivation for the human race."

"This technique is called the Sky Devouring Spirit Technique. The practitioner can devour living beings to strengthen himself. However, this technique also has disadvantages. The practitioner will eventually become a monster!"

"My disciple and I discovered the Heaven Devouring Spirit Technique left by the Taoist Saint. I think we should destroy it, but my disciple thinks we should follow the Taoist Ancestor's example and practice this technique to gain immortality."

"I had a disagreement with my apprentice, and he left me."

"I secluded myself in a cave and pondered over the solution. Finally, I had an epiphany when my energy was running out. I spent my entire life to complete the Sky Devouring Spirit Technique and erased its tyranny. It has only 30% of its effectiveness, but it can prevent one from becoming a monster. I named this method the Sky Borrowing Spirit Technique."

"I was already exhausted when I completed the Dao Dharma, so I left this book behind, hoping that someone with a predestined relationship would pass this Dharma on to my disciples. My relics, my cassock, and my Buddhist beads, these three magic weapons are left to someone with a predestined relationship."

"The blood dripping from the cassock can identify the owner. The Buddhist beads are the growth of the Bodhi tree when the Buddha attained enlightenment. They are naturally able to restrain ghosts, demons and evil spirits."

"If my disciple has gone astray, someone with a predestined relationship can practice this method on their own, and perhaps they will be able to fight against my disciple in the future."

"My disciple is very talented. His name is Pu Du Ci Hang."

After Zhou Ping read the words on the stone wall, he was shocked for a moment.

This is a lot of information!

1. Millions of years ago, the Taoist Saint stole the skills of the demon race, and then drove the demon race away, allowing humans to begin practicing and multiply. However, the skills of the demon race that the Taoist Saint practiced would eventually turn humans into monsters.

Did that saint also become a monster?
Second, the first-grade can live for three to five hundred years, and the saints are immortal. The human race has four saints, but have these four saints died?
3. This monk’s disciple is actually Pudu Cihang!

Zhou Ping was a little confused. When he heard the name Pu Du Ci Hang this morning, he wondered if this was Liao Zhai.

But after reading the introduction about the Sky-Devouring Spirit Technique written by the old monk, Zhou Ping believed that this was most likely the world of Strange Stories from a Chinese Studio.

If you practice the Sky-Devouring Spiritual Technique, you will eventually turn into a monster!

Pu Du Ci Hang finally transformed into a giant centipede.

After reading the message left by Monk Yuantong, changes immediately occurred on Zhou Ping's panel.

Because there is no escort, there is no white dot on the right side of his split screen, no cargo and no destination.

But after reading the words left by Monk Yuantong, two white dots suddenly appeared on the right side of his split screen.

One white dot is where Zhou Ping is, and another white dot is in the capital of Wei!

[Mission reward, thirty years of lifespan]

The message left by Monk Yuantong also said that he hoped that someone with a destiny could pass on his modified Shuntian Lingfa to his disciple Pudu Cihang, so this triggered Zhou Ping's escort mission.

Looking at the thirty-year lifespan, Zhou Ping's heart was of course pounding.

"Senior, you and I have never met before. I will not lie to you. Your disciple has become the state teacher of the Great Wei. He has practiced the Sky Devouring Spirit Technique and will turn into a centipede monster in the future."

Zhou Ping bowed to the skeleton.

Originally, Monk Yuantong's skeleton was intact, but after hearing Zhou Ping's words, perhaps due to wind blowing in or something else, Monk Yuantong's entire skeleton suddenly scattered all over the ground.

Zhou Ping sighed, sorted out the remains of Monk Yuantong, dug a hole and buried them.

After burying Monk Yuantong, Zhou Ping looked at a string of Buddhist beads and a cassock.

The relics are gone. I don’t know if they were completely weathered by time or eaten by a giant snake.

Zhou Ping didn't mind.

Compared to the relics, what is truly valuable is the method of borrowing the spirit from the sky that was modified by the old monk.

This method was derived from the skills stolen by the Taoist Saint from the demon clan, and is extremely precious.

Monk Yuanming exhausted all his efforts to improve the Sky-Devouring Spirit Technique, which now has 30% of the power of the Sky-Devouring Spirit Technique but without the worry of turning into a monster.

"When heaven and earth were first created, spirits were not heaven and earth, but were divided into all things, and all things have spirits."

Zhou Ping began to memorize the Shuntian spiritual method.

The entire exercise has five to six hundred words.

As Zhou Ping memorized it, an invisible vortex appeared in his dantian area.

After the vortex appeared, it pulled the surrounding spiritual energy into Zhou Ping's body.

When Zhou Ping memorized the entire set of skills, he secretly marveled at its exquisiteness.

"This method of borrowing the Heavenly Spirit is to cultivate the Dao of Alchemy. It cultivates an inner elixir like a demon in the human body. This elixir can store spiritual energy."

"However, without the tyranny of the Sky Devouring Spirit Technique, the Sky Devouring Spirit Technique can only absorb the spiritual energy of rocks, plants and trees, but not the spiritual energy of living things."

Zhou Ping understood that he had obtained a top-notch skill that could quickly restore his magic power.

The spiritual energy in the human body can be used up. After it is used up, you need to meditate or use pills to replenish it.

Pills are replenished quickly, but they are expensive.

Meditation takes a very long time and it is impossible to restore spiritual energy in a short time.

Things are different with the method of borrowing spiritual energy from the sky. Once Zhou Ping lacks spiritual energy in his body, he can use this method to absorb the spiritual energy from the surrounding mountains, rocks and plants without any side effects.

This technique is simply a return to the devil's outfit!
Furthermore, according to the practice, this practice also has an additional function.

Since we are borrowing the spiritual energy from heaven and earth, then we should return it to heaven and earth.

If the practitioner returns his own spiritual energy to the heaven and earth, to the mountains, rocks, and earth, he can use the mountains, rocks, and earth, and the scattered spiritual energy to sense everything around him, sense living beings, and also sense ghosts.

However, this perception has a range. At the beginning, it is only three to five meters. As the skills improve, it will eventually reach a distance of ten thousand meters.

"This is called placing a ward. It is equivalent to opening up vision around you."

Zhou Ping attaches great importance to this additional function.

There are ghosts in this world, and monsters that can use magic, so sometimes these eyes are of little use.

However, the perception function of this method of borrowing the sky's spirit is equivalent to giving Zhou Ping an extra pair of eyes, a pair of eyes that can see through illusions and sense ghosts.

"Big money!"

Zhou Ping licked his lips. He didn't expect that because of his one thought difference and not drinking the broth made from the giant snake, he would get this great opportunity.

In addition to this method of borrowing the heavenly spirit, Zhou Ping also obtained a cassock and Buddhist beads.

"Look at the effects of these robes and beads!"

(End of this chapter)