The blood on Xue Yulu's face suddenly faded. The Qing soldiers were her only support, but now this support has become a fatal threat. All the previous struggles were equal to defeat. Xue Yulu could not find anything but despair in her eyes. Any emotion.
I looked at Xu You calmly and said, "Is this kind of trick interesting?"
Xu You smiled faintly: "Let her go."
When the general's corpse was released, Xue Yulu immediately hid behind me. I stood with my hands behind my back in the cold light of the spear tip and looked at Xu You calmly: "What do you want to say? Just say it!"
Xu You raised his thumb: "Sure enough, it's easier to deal with smart people. To put it simply, you help me go to the ninth level of Dan Island, and I will take you out of Dan Island."
I said in a deep voice: "Did you get us to Dan Island?"
Xu You nodded and said: "Yes, I went to Dan Island as early as two years ago. It took me two years to figure out the situation on Dan Island, but I stopped at the second floor of Dan Island. To get to the island, someone needs to pave the way. So, I used some tricks."
I said coldly: "Your so-called method is to involve the Detective Hand? Aren't you afraid that the Detective Hand will cause trouble for you?"
Xu You shook his head and smiled: "I'm afraid I won't do it. Can you still find me with the meager skills of the Detective Hand?"
From the time we boarded the ship until now, there are many things that I can't understand. Since Xu You wants to say something, why don't I let him continue talking, and maybe I can hear something valuable.
I said coldly: "You deceived people into the sea just to pave the way to the island. Why did you poison the girl named Xiaomei?"
"Test the medicine!" Xu You said in a deep voice: "No matter whether the alchemists are still on the island or not, this is a battle between the alchemists. Naturally, I have to ensure that my elixir is foolproof. After that girl was driven away by me She actually wants to take revenge because I just lack a subject to test the poisonous elixir on, so it gives her an advantage."
I said coldly: "Is there any poisonous elixir among the elixirs?"
"Of course!" Xu You said: "When the ancient alchemists were refining elixirs, they had endless bizarre ideas, and the things they refined were naturally diverse. *Isn't it from the hands of the alchemists?"
"Besides, the battle between Danshi is based on the use of elixirs. Poison elixirs are one of the methods we use to fight."
Xu You said calmly: "I told you these things, but you don't understand. You will understand when I officially fight the Danshi on the island."
I said in a deep voice: "Since you wanted people to pave the way, why did you let the two ships collide? Wouldn't it be better to have more people here?"
"You are wrong." Xu You said: "Actually, I don't need so many people. I only need two kinds of people. The first is bold and hard-working. The second is those who can adapt to the pill."
Xu You said: "If you want to break through on Dan Island and don't have enough courage, you might be scared to death before you even get there. Dead people can't try elixirs. I've been scaring you since I got on the ship. , just to see who is bolder."
"Of course there is a reason to let you sink the ship, that is, to see who has a tough life. Sometimes, pills are just a gamble on luck. The pill masters on Dan Island left so many strange pills for the purpose of testing. One’s luck.”
I couldn't help but frown. Xu You's reason was a bit far-fetched. Things like luck are inherently illusory. If it is said to be there, no one will say it is wrong.
Xu You must have other purposes.
I said solemnly: "Then what happened next? You were the one who sent out the ghost ship to kill people, right? Then you were the one who created the dream for me and asked me to leave the woods, poisoned Si Ruo and the others, and the one who forced me close to the corpse place. You? What is your purpose for doing this? "
Xu You said: "In addition to the people who pave the way, I also need a few special people. I have already selected the other three people. I have never found the last person with extremely high understanding."
"Originally, I thought the person named Ruan Dalong was more suitable. Later, I found that the most suitable person is you. I sent you to the corpse dump just to test how high your understanding is."
I said in a deep voice: "Use your illusion?"
"No, no, no..." Xu You waved his hands repeatedly: "The resentment here is real, and so is the corpse aura. No matter who comes in without taking the elixir, they will be affected by the resentment and unable to extricate themselves. .”
"The fact that you touched the edge of the word 'holy' in the shortest possible time not only stimulates your potential between life and death, but also has something to do with your understanding and character."
As Xu You spoke, he suddenly turned around and pointed at me: "So, you are the person I am looking for."
I squinted my eyes and looked at Xu You and said, "So, I have no choice?"
"Of course!" Xu You said in a deep voice: "Either you accompany me to break through the barrier, or you all stay on Dan Island. Of course, you can also refuse. With the help of the Faceless Woman, you may be able to survive, but, you You're not a Danshi, and you can't do that kind of thing that you've never learned before. If you're stuck on a deserted island, without some kind of mental support, you'll go crazy sooner or later."
I was silent for a moment and said, "Okay, I promise you."
"Clever!" Xu You raised his thumb: "When I get the things left by my ancestors, I will not only send you out of Dan Island, but also give you an elixir to help you reborn."
I smiled coldly and did not answer the other party's words. Xu You probably knew that I would not believe his so-called elixir, so naturally he would not speak again.
When the two of us walked outside the corpse place again, I said, "Xu Fu has really been to this island?"
"Been here!" Xu You looked up at Dan Island and said, "This is the legendary Penglai."
"In the pre-Qin Dynasty, no one could explain what the mirage was like on the sea, so they regarded the mirage as a fairyland in mythology. This is the origin of the Three Immortals Mountain on the sea."
"Later, I don't know which ancient Danshi not only saw through the mystery of the mirage, but also sat on the beach for ten years to observe the changes in the mirage. Finally, he discovered an island that had never appeared before, and that is the current Dan Island."
Xu You turned to look at me and said: "Does this legend sound absurd? But it is the fact. There are not only naturally formed undercurrents on the periphery of Dan Island, but also a phantom array that is so big that you can't imagine it. "
"As for whose handiwork that illusion formation was, even the ancient Danshi who discovered Dan Island couldn't tell clearly. Therefore, he stubbornly believed that this is the legendary Penglai Island."
"The alchemist couldn't help but be ecstatic after landing on the Immortal Island. Alchemy Island is simply a natural holy place for alchemy. There is no place more suitable for alchemy than Alchemy Island."
"All, he gathered all the famous alchemists in the world and gathered on Dan Island. Although this secret was not recorded in the classics, it was passed down orally among countless alchemists. Later generations of alchemists found Dan Island one after another. Our ancestor Xu Fu It’s one of those things.”
I said in a deep voice: "When did the ancient Danshi you mentioned appear?"
Xu You shook his head and said: "I don't know the specific time. According to my guess, it should be before the Spring and Autumn Period and the Warring States Period. After the Warring States Period, the skills of the Danshi were not as good as those of the ancient Danshi."
Xu You said that the Taoist Waidan sect recorded in historical materials had too much input, so it is difficult for people to believe it.
External alchemy was once an important school of Taoism. Taoists used various secret methods to refine elixirs and use them to take, or directly take certain mushrooms and herbs to enlighten their own yin essence and turn it into yang energy. Alchemy, also known as external alchemy, yellow and white art, or golden alchemy, or "outer alchemy" for short, is distinguished from the "inner alchemy" Daoyin art of Qiu Chuji, the Quanzhen Longmen sect of the longevity master.
According to records, alchemy began in the middle of the Warring States Period and became popular after the Qin and Han Dynasties. After the Song Dynasty, Taoism advocated the practice of inner alchemy (i.e. Qigong). The "Alchemy Sect" became popular for a while and rejected outer alchemy; until the end of the Ming Dynasty, outer alchemy became popular. The fire refining method gradually declined and gave way to " Materia Medica". Taoist Waidanhuangbaizhu has been popular in China for nearly two thousand years.
If, according to Xu You, the art of external alchemy gradually came to prominence after the middle period of the Warring States Period, wouldn't it mean that it had become just a scratch of the true art of alchemy
When Xu You saw that I was silent, he said with a smile: "You don't believe it, do you? Then you should know that alchemy originated from Huang Laodao, right?"
I know a little about Huang-Lao Taoism, which is a popular sect in ancient times, respecting the Yellow Emperor and Lao Tzu as the originator. It advocates governing by doing nothing, and also emphasizes governing the body and the country. It is said that alchemy comes from Huang Lao Taoism.
Xu You smiled and said: "There have long been legends about refining elixirs in ancient times. Otherwise, where did the Queen Mother of the West's elixir of immortality come from, and where did Chang'e fly to the moon come from? The ancestor of the ancient alchemists might be Emperor Xuanyuan. Otherwise, How could Huang Laodao respect two people who have been thinking about each other for more than two thousand years as ancestors at the same time?"
I couldn't help but frown slightly: "Since Xu Fu found the Penglai Fairy Island back then, where did the legend of Xu Fu's eastward journey to Japan come from?"
Xu You said in a deep voice: "Once you enter this island, don't even think about leaving. From Emperor Qin to the present, only two people have rushed out of Dan Island. One is the ancestor Xu Fu, and the other is Wang Zhan."
Xu You looked at me sharply as he spoke, and I couldn't help but feel a little surprised.
Xu You tested me twice in a row. Could it be because he suspected that I had the secret to leaving Dan Island
After the shock in my heart passed away, I looked directly at the other person and said, "Didn't you break out of Dan Island yourself?"
"Me?" Xu You suddenly stopped and looked up at Dan Island. After a long silence, he said, "I don't count. I couldn't really escape from Dan Island."
Before I could figure out what the other party meant, Xu You was already striding toward the woods.
Xia Ji saw us from a distance and floated down from the top of the tree. She stared at Xu You and said, "Is it you?"
Xu You smiled lightly and said, "Long time no see the faceless girl."
Xia Ji said in a deep voice: "You are not already dead, how come you are back?"
"Come back and take what belongs to me, and make a break with Dan Dao."