Tower of Babel

It is common sense that cultivating immortals is nonsense. Normal people may believe in immortals and engage in some feudal superstitious activities, but who would believe in cultivating immortals? That’s why fairy tales are good. Who in this era still believes in cultivating immortals? Jin Guan Zhang Cheng has a family background, has been practicing Buddhism for generations, and is engaged in feudal superstitious activities.

His father, Zhang Youdao, was known as Zhang Banxian. He painted talismans, saw doctors, told fortunes, visited Yin Yang House, and presided over funerals. His grandfather, Zhang Fulai, was nicknamed Zhang Ba Blind. , but the person who was born into Zhang Cheng has passed away and has never seen his great-grandfather.

In Zhang Cheng’s generation, the incense has faded, and even the only magic stick career has no heirs. Although Zhang Cheng has heard about it since he was a child, he is not lacking in this aspect. He has a natural talent, but studying science and culture is a serious matter. Cheng's academic performance is also good, and he has been admitted to a key university. He has no intention of inheriting the career of his father's generation. However, reality always likes to make fun of others.

I didn’t find a good job after graduating from college, so I might as well have made money by working with my father. Zhang Cheng was born as a programmer. He didn’t make much money after graduating from college. In the end, he had no choice but to deliver food, although he still earned a lot of money. Not much, but much higher than programmers. And the exercise of running around is better than sitting on the bench. At the roadside antique market, I casually picked up a crystal clear red Pixiu pendant. It means that only making money but not making money means good luck and good fortune.

He hurriedly jumped into the great food delivery business. I work hard every day, and I have to pay hard-earned money when I encounter complaints. Food delivery is not afraid of high-rise buildings as long as there are elevators, but it is difficult to go to multiple floors without elevators. Day after day, year after year, I don’t know how long I have been running, and the heroic words of that time, It can only be said that he is young and ignorant. After youth, ideals turn into the rush of life.

In the old city, on the 23rd floor, I had a takeout. The elevator was a bit stuck, and I stumbled to the destination. When I came up, I thought it would be better if the elevator went down. Going down the elevator would always be more pleasant. However, after delivering the takeout, the elevator door was stuck. It couldn't be closed. I pushed and pulled hard and finally closed it. The elevator stopped starting again. The fault light came on. Nothing happened when I pressed any button. I tried to get out but the door wouldn't open. I pressed randomly and suddenly the elevator started and a malfunction sound sounded.

"Elevator going up"

"Elevator going down"

"The elevator is broken"

"The wire is broken"

""The brake is broken."

There was a clang, and the elevator suddenly lost control and descended rapidly. Zhang Cheng was suddenly confused and at a loss. He had completely forgotten any emergency evacuation postures. The moment the elevator fell on the shock-absorbing spring, he felt like one Buddha was leaving his body and two Buddhas were ascending to the sky. His internal organs were in turmoil.

At the moment when he felt that he was about to lose his soul, the glass pendant on his chest flashed red. Zhang Cheng suddenly felt that he had come to a space. This space was like a scripture library, with bookshelves and books everywhere. In the collection of books, in the most eye-catching place on the bookshelf, there are five big characters written, Xu Changqing's last calligraphy. The pen is vigorous and powerful, just like a calligrapher's style. These five characters are so beautifully written that Zhang Cheng can't help but come forward and touch them. When his fingertips touched him, a voice appeared in Zhang Cheng's mind like an enlightenment.

Hello, destined person, I am Xu Changqing. As an old monster who has lived for a thousand years, I didn't expect that my eternal life would be compromised. , above longevity, what kind of blessing is this? It is simply maggots attached to bones and soul-eating poison. Think of me, Xu Changqing, who has been refining alchemy for thousands of years and practicing for thirty-six generations. It is not easy to get it.

Except for the poison of lead and mercury, what else Arsenic, crane crown red, peacock gallbladder, five poisons and five stones scattered, I have seen countless but never seen the soul-eating poison. Its poison not only poisons the body, but also possesses the soul. Now a thousand years of practice have been ruined.

I am dead After that, I don’t know who this thousand-year career will belong to. My only unfulfilled wish is to punish the crime of the Opium War. Opium is also the sound of my body being broken. I hope future generations will take it as a warning and not take it.

In the ninth year of Tongzhi in the Qing Dynasty, Xu Changqing's last calligraphy is very magical. Just touching a few words brings so many more things to his mind. Zhang Cheng turned around the bookshelf and found that it was more like a bookmark than a book. There were only hanging bookmarks and no physical book. , but with a light touch, the knowledge of a book pours into my mind like an enlightenment. These books are magical. This library seems to be huge, but the amount of knowledge is not large. After all, the ninth year of Tongzhi in the Qing Dynasty was 1870. It was a long time ago. The total amount of human knowledge at that time was not large, and this Xu Changqing did not collect all the knowledge of human civilization. It was just a private collection of books.

Coupled with this reading method that is similar to computer downloading, Zhang Cheng quickly read almost all of it and quickly understood the ins and outs of things here.

This so-called Xu Changqing was the Xu Fu who deceived Qin Shihuang in history, and was the originator of alchemy. Many people scorned alchemy, but If there is no mystery in alchemy, why has it persisted throughout history? Do you really think that everyone is an idiot? Although

Xu Changqing is not immortal, he has become immortal in another way. A kind of magic similar to the reincarnated soul boy in the Tantric Buddhism. The method is to awaken the memory of the previous life, but it is not known whether the Tantra is true or false. Xu Changqing really mastered this method. And the key reason to achieve this is a cinnabar gem——Soul-Dinging

Bead The Xu family dealt in medicinal materials during the pre-Qin period. Xu Changqing was proficient in medicine. In his early years, he was weak and often saw some unclean things. To put it bluntly, his weak system easily caused evil spirits, or he was frightened. Cinnabar has the effect of calming and treating fright, so a piece of cinnabar crystal was used to make a pendant to suppress the spirit. But he never thought that he would unintentionally coincide with the mystery of heaven.

Cinnabar is a yang substance. Wearing it on the body can strengthen the mind and stabilize the soul. Taking it orally can treat fright. There are indeed alchemists who often use cinnabar to draw talismans, and using talisman water to treat fright has miraculous effects. This is an open secret. Cinnabar crystals are the purest form of cinnabar. Only when the molecules are arranged in an orderly and crystal clear manner can the natural mystery of cinnabar be revealed.

Powder or non-crystal, the molecules are arranged in a disorderly and chaotic manner, which can only reveal its chemical nature, and the mystery of physics is covered up by the mutual disorderly offset between molecules. Where there is yin there must be yang. Yin and yang are half and half, and yin and yang are balanced. This is a bumpy truth. The most yang things must be accompanied by the most yin things, and what are the most yin things? According to the theory of Taoist medicine, realgar is yang and lead and mercury are yin, but this is not the case. What is more yin than the human soul? The so-called ghost lingers, and there is a difference between yin and yang.

Cinnabar crystals can absorb the soul and store the memories of previous lives. After Xu Changqing died, he was reincarnated as Xu Fu with the pendant he wore, because he retained the memories of previous lives. Xu Fu knew it from birth. He could talk at one year old and walk at three years old. He was called a child prodigy by his neighbors. Due to his own strange experience, he became obsessed with alchemy and cinnabar in an attempt to explore the way to immortality. But it was not entirely to deceive people. If he had no real ability, how could he deceive Qin Shihuang?

Everyone knows the later legend. People thought that Xu Fu went to Japan, but there is no inheritance of alchemy in Japan. On the contrary, the alchemy of China has endured for a long time. In fact, it was just Xu Fu's golden cicada escape plan. Xu Fu and Xu Fu's reincarnation He has always been active in the Central Plains. The greatest loss in life is that the property from the previous life cannot be passed on. Including tangible, intangible, knowledge, experience, memory and intellectual property.

If this problem were solved everyone would be a thousand year old monster. After dozens of reincarnations and more than two thousand years of life accumulation. Life and death are not scary to Xu Fu. Whether it is the soul leaving the body, rebirth, or reincarnation, Xu Changqing has conquered it. For Xu Changqing, death is just a change of vest.

However, the art of physical immortality has never been realized. According to the original theory, death is caused by the soul leaving the body. As long as you find a way to keep the soul from leaving the body, you can be immortal. And cinnabar has the function of reassuring the soul, so the secret of immortality is In the cinnabar. However, metal and stone last forever, and the reason why the body ages is because it lacks the immortality of metal and stone. So they try their best to supplement this immortality, so that the body can achieve immortality. This is the simple and unpretentious idea of ​​the ancients. However, it couldn't be more wrong. The result of taking large amounts of cinnabar is mercury poisoning. No matter how much medicine is used to adjust the balance, it will not work.

Any theory is not afraid of being completely wrong, completely nonsense and easy to be falsified. It is afraid that it is true or false, half of it is proven, but the other half can never be broken through. Cinnabar or even yang things can be safe if taken orally in small amounts. Soul, wear it with you and by chance, it can form soul beads (this is the name Xu Fu gave to the cinnabar crystal), which can be used as a place for the soul to live, and can also store memories of past lives. However, the Soul Pearl has no hands or feet, and it needs to be reincarnated if it wants to make a difference. This is half true. Amazing, isn't it?

How the other half can create an immortal body has never been possible, and this is very important, because reincarnation takes at least eighteen years, and too many things have been lost. The family property, rights and status have to be regained, even if they are reincarnated. The tantric system cannot guarantee everything in the past life. People are gone, things are changed, and only a thousand tears can be shed. Rights cannot be lost for a long time. Xu Changqing does not intend to share the secret of the soul pearl with anyone. I don't even want to start a sect.

For two thousand years, Xu Changqing has been bewitching the emperor to make alchemy. Even the Qing Dynasty, which claims not to believe in the art of alchemy, was not spared. Even by chance, Xu Changqing became the emperor several times, and he has been obsessed with alchemy. It was not until the introduction of modern Western scientific ideas that the thousand-year-old devil Xu Fu was refreshed and finally opened his eyes. Only then did he end his erroneous research on elixirs and start studying them. Western Chemistry and Western Medicine. However, human beings are still far away from the beginning of the soul theory. What Xu Fu studied is far out of date. Although modern science has contributed to it, it is still rootless.