416. Chapter 72: The Mystery of Longevity
I sighed, not much surprise, because this was very consistent with Zhou Shun's current style of dealing with things.
Zhou Shun shook his head and smiled bitterly, "He killed a total of 100 people, and then broke the hundred people into the blood in his heart. Later, he found another child who was not very familiar with the world and dug out the baby's heart alive."
"You haven't stopped all this?" My mouth twitched slightly.
Zhou Shun shook his head: "I know that the killing of a hundred people has not been stopped, but I don't know about the killing of babies, and I only understood it later."
"Brother Zhou, is the life of one hundred and one person really not as important as that of a dead person?"
Zhou Shun suddenly turned around, stared at me, shook his head and said, "In ancient times, emperors did not hesitate to kill thousands or even ten thousand people in vain to fight for imperial power. I am not as good as the emperor, but I know who the person I want to save."
I stopped talking, but in fact, it was useless to say a lot, because these things had already happened.
"The last words of Changsheng's mother when she left were to let me take good care of Changsheng. At the last moment of her life, Changsheng's mother continued her life to Changsheng. I have been traveling for decades or even a hundred years to save Changsheng. Success was placed in front of me. Do you think I would let go easily?"
I sighed and didn't say a word.
Actually, I can understand Zhou Shun's mood. It's like a person who has spent most of his life trying to get something. Now that something is placed in front of him, you ask him to give up. How could he listen to you and give up that thing?
"The heart of a newborn is the purest, without compassion, and no evil thoughts arise. Although the hundred people killed by the barefoot doctor is of all kinds, they gather a little resentment before death. The barefoot doctor poured blood from the hundred people into the heart of the newborn, but the heart of the newborn stopped beating when it left the baby's body, which means that the heart is useless."
Zhou Shun took a breath and continued, "The barefoot doctor knew that I was not an ordinary person either, so he asked me if I could recall the dead hundred ghosts, so that the heart could absorb the ghost and beat again. Then it would mean success."
"In order to save the immortality, I can no longer take care of anything else, let alone those people are dead?" Zhou Shun smiled miserably and said, "I have been exploring the great rivers and mountains of China for decades. I have learned a lot of strange and secret techniques. I can pick up the ghosts of a hundred people by just summoning a hundred people. I put the hundreds of unintentional corpses into a large pit dug in advance, and then filled them with soil and burying them. Then I drew the Eight Trigrams and Eight Immortals on the burial pit of the hundred people with blood, and filled them with Taoist talismans. Then I inserted the Five Elements Flag and the Soul-Summoning Banner, and drew the Soul-Suppressing Talisman and the Eight Immortals on the surrounding ground."
I understand what Zhou Shun said, it is true, not false.
Because Jiang Bo gave me a book before, the name of the book is called "Theory of the Scholars" and it should have been written into Jiang Bo's lifelong experience.
Among them, there are mentioned what Zhou Shun said.
The Bagua empty diagram is actually the shape of the Bagua, that is, the regular octagon. Since it is said to be an empty diagram, it means that there is only an octagon in it. Later Zhou Shun said that it is filled with Taoist talismans. The Taoist inscriptions and spells should have the effect of summoning the soul. Filling into the Bagua empty diagram with the soul-suming banner behind it has the effect of summoning the soul.
The following Five Elements Flags and Soul-Suppressing Talismans and the Eight Immortals should be used to suppress these ghosts.
However, the Eight Dark Immortals here do not mean the eight gods in the Eight Immortals crossing the sea. The Eight Immortals include the Eight Immortals and the Eight Immortals. The Eight Immortals are naturally the Eight Immortals, while the Eight Immortals are the objects held by the Eight Immortals. For example, Zhang Guolao’s fish drum, Lu Dongbin’s sword, Han Xiangzi’s flute and other objects.
Jiang Bo once said in his book that the Eight Immortals of Darkness have the effect of suppressing houses and exorcising evil spirits. Zhou Shun used it to summon souls to suppress the hundred ghosts.
"After casting, there was a strong wind at midnight that day, and hundreds of ghosts gathered in the formation. The barefoot doctor immediately threw the heart out. What I didn't expect was that the moment the heart was thrown out by the barefoot doctor, it absorbed all the ghosts of the hundred people. The originally bright red and lifeless heart became dark and full of vitality at that time."
I was stunned and asked: Is it because the heart absorbed those ghosts?
"That's true." Zhou Shun gritted his teeth, as if he had recalled something that made him hate him very much. After calming down for a moment, he said: "That heart has the blood of the hundred people's hearts, so he successfully sucked their ghosts in. The heart did beating actively, but I felt something was wrong. How could a heart made by taking human life be beneficial or not to be harmful to people? When I asked, the barefoot doctor hesitated for a moment and told me that there was no problem with the heart. I half-believed and half-doubted supervised him to replace the new heart for Changsheng, and introduced Changsheng's soul into his body, and Changsheng really came back to life."
"What happened later?" I knew that things were definitely not that simple. I should have lived for about 67 years, and it has been forty or fifty years since then. If I had recovered from my life, I would not have been at this age.
Zhou Shun shook his head and said, "It's not long after I've lived a long life that I found something wrong with his heart. That heart is not an ordinary heart at all, but an evil heart, a complete evil heart!"
"What's going on?" I asked with a frown.
Zhou Shun replied to me: "Changsheng was still about one year old when he recovered, but he had just learned to walk. During that time, I had no place to live and took Changsheng all over the world for my home. That night, Changsheng and I went to a village with Changsheng. The village chief received us and left us a house. Unfortunately, an old man in the village happened to die that night. Because it was an outsider, Changsheng and I were going to stay in the house, not to go out so that others could not talk about gossip."
"But who knew that in the middle of the night, I noticed that Changsheng, who was sleeping beside me, actually got up from the bed and opened the door and walked out."
I was a little surprised. At that time, Changsheng was only one year old and had just learned to walk, so he would definitely not be able to walk steadily. He didn't say that he fell step by step, but it was still a bit difficult to take more than ten steps in one breath, and he didn't understand why Changsheng got up from the bed very well.
"I didn't know the situation of Changsheng, so I followed Changsheng quietly. Changsheng, who was unable to walk steadily on his usual road, seemed to be possessed by an evil demon, and walked in a straightforward way without falling down at all. Changsheng left the room and the courtyard, and finally stopped in front of the house covered with white cloth on the door and stopped."
"I already knew at that time that this family was the one who died last night. Changsheng's actions later surprised me even more. He stood outside the door and waited quietly for a while. Then an old man in a shroud and pale face walked out of the door and stopped beside Changsheng. Changsheng grew up and swallowed the old man with his mouth."
I was stunned and asked subconsciously: What's going on? Is the reason for that heart?
"Yes, this is the reason for that heart." Zhou Shun nodded. When he recalled, he still gritted his teeth and said, "I was afraid that Changsheng's actions would cause unnecessary trouble, so I stepped forward and took Changsheng away. At that time, Changsheng's eyes were pitch black and he showed a strange smile to me. It was clearly because of the inner demon. I pressed Changsheng's acupoint and made him fall into a coma for a while and left the village overnight. Later, I tried every means to find the barefoot doctor and asked him what the reason was."
"It turns out that all this is the plan of the barefoot doctor. When the four old barefoot doctors were thrown into the cowshed, I was rescued by me, but I was afraid that I would be desperate and helpless in the future, so I tampered with my heart. In this way, if he is in trouble in the future, he can ask me for help. If I don't help the mystery of the heart, I will not know."
I sighed and thought to myself that the barefoot doctor was also a slut. This threatening method may be useful to others, but it is simply a foolish way to Zhou Shun.
"I grabbed the barefoot doctor and used a little trick and revealed the truth to me. The result was similar to what I guessed. The heart was simply a demon heart. If you want to continue your life, you must constantly absorb other people's souls. Only in this way can your heart beat forever. I was extremely furious when I heard this news. I tortured the barefoot doctor and asked him if there was any other way. The barefoot doctor didn't know whether I was beaten by me or thought he was dead. He smiled at me. There was no heart-changing technique in the world. All heart-changing techniques were based on the damage to people. I advised me to give up as soon as possible. I was angry and killed the barefoot life with one knife."
"I naturally hope that I can live in Changsheng, but I am also afraid that the demonic heart of Changsheng will control Changsheng. Now Changsheng can only swallow the ghosts of dead people. Who can guarantee that I will not kill people and draw souls in the future? Weighing the pros and cons, I will throw away Changsheng's heart again, and then seal Changsheng into the ice coffin." Zhou Shun sighed quietly. Perhaps only he knew the bitterness of the past.
I asked, "What? Did Changsheng keep in the ice coffin?"
"For the next few years, I have been looking for a method of changing hearts. I firmly believe that the method of changing hearts exists in this mysterious and unpredictable world. Is it hard work to pay off those who have hearts, or the mercy of God, I can't tell me clearly, but I can be sure that the method of changing hearts really exists." Zhou Shun turned around and looked at it, shook his head and said, "In the next twenty years, I visited the rivers and mountains to visit experts, and kept looking for a way to change hearts. By chance, I heard people talk about the rumors about the Sacred Heart Demon Tree. It is said that the Sacred Heart Demon Tree is a demon tree that can create a heart. If no one puts it in it, he can create a heart for this man. After getting this glimmer of hope, I began to look for the Sacred Heart Demon Tree from all over the country, hoping that gas and hope are destroyed again and again, which made me feel a little numb. Later, I heard from the people in the Jianghu that one person had obtained the vine heart in the Sacred Heart Demon Tree a hundred years ago, but I don't know if he is still alive now."
I don’t know what to say, Zhou Shun’s approach is a bit stupid, but from the perspective of family affection, this is called love, fatherly love.
In modern society, the population has generally increased, and most of them are children. In order to find their missing children, some fathers traveled through more than ten provinces and hundreds of thousands of cities, traveling tens of thousands or even hundreds of thousands of miles, and they are willing to spend all their money to find their children who have been missing for one year, ten or even twenty years. What is this?
Isn't it because of love?
They understand the truth that blood is thicker than water. Whether the child is safe and sound after years of missing for not remembering his father, they also understand, but they are still unwilling to give up and searching. Isn’t it because of love?
Zhou Shun's love for immortality is also because of love. This is a kind of love that is difficult to cut off, and it is a kind of family affection.
I couldn't help but interrupt and said, "So you chose to look for the one who got the heart of a vine, right?"
"It's not easy to find the Sacred Heart Demon Tree without any clues? In comparison, it's easier to find the person who has obtained the vine heart. I asked countless people about this person, but he really found it, and he was not dead. I think that his acquisition of the vine heart means that he knows where the Sacred Heart Demon Tree is. I have given generous conditions to get some clues from him, but he ignored me at all, and made every effort to make me kneel in front of his door for three days and three nights. If I'm still there without eating or drinking, he will tell me where the Sacred Heart Demon Tree is."
"You, are you kneeling?" I looked up and asked in disbelief.
Zhou Shun smiled calmly: "Decades of time have passed, and after finally having hope, how could I give up?"
"That kneeling will be three days and three nights."
Zhou Shun shook his head, and his eyes revealed endless memories, as if he still remembered the kneeling he had.
"Three days later, the man came out and saw that I was still kneeling. Not only did he not tell me where the Sacred Heart Demon Tree was, but he laughed wildly." Zhou Shun paused and said, "I knew I had become a laughing stock by him, and he did not intend to tell me where the Sacred Heart Demon Tree was at first. Since that's the case, why should I deceive myself? After fighting with him for hundreds of rounds, I successfully defeated him. When I stepped on him and asked where the Sacred Heart Demon Tree was, he panicked and replied to me that he didn't know where the Sacred Heart Demon Tree was. The reason why there was a vine heart was completely a coincidence that I got it."
"He can get the vine heart if he kills one person. Why can't I kill him and take away the vine heart? So, I took action to kill him and took away the vine heart from his body." A smile appeared on Zhou Shun's face. This time the smile was different from before, and this time the smile was full of re-release.
After a while of silence, Zhou Shun continued: "After putting the vine heart on the immortal body, immortality miraculously woke up. This is enough to prove that my idea is correct, the vine heart can really be reused."
"only……"
"It's just something?" I asked for a moment of fright.
Zhou Shun said: "It's just that this vine heart also has life restrictions. A vine heart can last for only more than 200 years."
"More than two hundred years is enough for immortality? After all, that person has only been a hundred years since he got the vine heart..." Before he finished speaking, I suddenly thought of what Zhou Shun said before. He said that the reason why the man obtained the vine heart was to kill others, does that prove that the vine heart is useless when he reaches the vine heart?
Sure enough, Zhou Shun said: "When I was four years old, the vine heart stopped beating. I searched for unofficial history books and found this reason. However, this is not cured. The reason why the vine heart stopped its vitality was because the power of the Holy Heart Demon Tree in the vine heart faded. If a bloody tree could be found, the blood could be used to replenish essence and blood for the vine heart. "
I trembled all over and said in surprise: Is the matter of essence and blood true? ###### I have to go out to another place. I will have to go back until the evening. Today, I will update the guaranteed chapter. If I have time to come back in the evening, I will go to the second chapter and update it. Don’t wait until the second chapter is not out before 10 o’clock.
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