Chapter 346: Chapter 225: Protective Talisman, Elixir of Immortality (Part 3)

"He’s trying to make a name for himself by targeting the White Sun Sect. As for us followers of the Four Reversals, we’re insignificant to him."

At most, it’s just ten thousand taels of silver...

You speak so lightly!

Zhi Xin Temple has released a total of eighty-eight Protective Talismans!

It’s plainly meant for the thirteen guilds of Yihai Prefecture to buy at will!

Buying just one won’t satisfy Master Xuanji’s appetite!

Even Lu Zhongping, who usually prides himself on being generous and spending money like water, couldn’t help but feel the sting.

"Master Lu, in business, you need outgoings to have income. Not to mention, the effects of the Rejuvenating Pill and Beauty Pill bestowed by our sect’s ’Muscle Bodhisattva’, you’ve experienced yourself.

Take it regularly for ten days, and you regain youth, ensuring everlasting beauty so miraculous, it could bring the Lu Family wealth for ten generations. Why bother with the dirty and tiring work of tomb raiding!"

Mr. Zhou Er gave a sideways glance, as if he had seen through Lu Zhongping’s thoughts:

"With your means, you could build connections with the Celestial Water Prefecture and climb under the patronage of the Eight Pillars of the Realm. This business is bound to prosper.

As for the origin of the elixir recipes? Legitimate and honest, left behind by the Elixir Sect before its downfall, even a Dragon Court investigation would find a clear trace. Given that the Lu Family is already in the tomb raiding business, occasionally unearthing a few secret recipes is quite reasonable. Who would suspect you of colluding with the ’Demon Cult’?

Besides, once the ladies in those noble households get used to the comfort, can’t live without it, who would dare accuse you of collaborating with the ’Demon Cult’?"

Lu Zhongping’s eyes were burning. He knew Mr. Zhou Er might be drawing a tempting picture, but there was no denying the allure.

"I’ve heard that your sect also has the ’Elixir of Immortality’, capable of extending life by sixty years..."

Mr. Zhou Er’s eyes twinkled with irony, and he laughed mockingly:

"Our sect’s Elixir of Immortality comes in three grades. The first is the ’Centennial Powder’, allowing one to live an extra hundred years, but it’s hard to prevent the depletion of Qi Blood, ultimately aging until teeth fall out, bones become brittle, and one collapses with a gust of wind, reduced to living on porridge on a bed;

The second is the ’Thousand Autumn Pills’, granting one a life of a thousand years without dying, but gradually the heart becomes as dead wood, insensible, food becomes tasteless, and pleasures dull, viewing everything as monotonous, until eventually, like a rock eroding in the wind and sun, the body disintegrates and dies."

Lu Zhongping felt as though he’d been splashed with cold water, shivering uncontrollably.

This kind of living seems even more unbearable than death!

But some internal instinctive desire compelled him to continue asking, "And the third kind?"

Mr. Zhou Er clapped his hands and said, "The third is the most powerful and is called the ’Ten Thousand Years Pill’, a rare treasure that seizes the natural wonders of heaven and earth. It can make an ordinary man live for ten thousand years. Do you comprehend the length of ten thousand years? Surviving three Catastrophes of Turbid Tide, witnessing the rise and fall of over a hundred dynasties, countless families prospering and withering."

Lu Zhongping’s eyes widened, seemingly unable to believe such a miraculous medicine existed:

"Then, the cost! What are the consequences of taking the Ten Thousand Years Pill?!"

Mr. Zhou Er calmly said, "There’s no consequence. You can eat heartily, possess beauty, and maintain eternal youth, your looks unchanging, Qi Blood vigorous, appearing forever young."

Lu Zhongping held his breath, just about to speak when Mr. Zhou Er interrupted him:

"There’s only one condition: it must be used by ordinary mortals, who will forever be unable to cultivate. Martial arts, Dao arts, witchcraft, and any internal or external path to transcendence cannot be retained in a body that has consumed the Ten Thousand Years Pill.

Master Lu, imagine how fascinating it is for a flesh-and-blood mortal to live for ten thousand years, even if he’s decapitated, drawn and quartered, or boiled into mince.

Because of the pill’s miraculous properties, he can regenerate, living until the end of ten thousand years, before he finally dies. Until then, his existence is nearly indelible."

Lu Zhongping’s face turned deathly pale, his back pressed against the carriage wall. Hearing Mr. Zhou Er’s words, only eight words came to mind—

Couldn’t live, couldn’t die!

"Has anyone in your sect ever taken it?"

Lu Zhongping hesitated to ask.

"Yes, mostly Centennial Powder, followed by Thousand Autumn Pills. As for the Ten Thousand Years Pill, it’s exceedingly rare and not easily concocted. Since the founding of our sect, only one person was fortunate enough to consume it."

Mr. Zhou Er spoke softly.

"That person..."

Curiosity got the better of Lu Zhongping, but halfway through, he quickly shut his mouth, not wanting to know too many secrets of the Four Reversals Demon Sect, lest he find himself unable to extricate himself.

"That person disappeared. He spent five hundred years escaping our sect’s main altar. The last time he appeared was ten years ago, meeting Kou Qiuyue, the Daoist from Meridian Sword Sect, and since then, no trace has been found."

Mr. Zhou Er answered frankly.

Five hundred years?

Lu Zhongping furrowed his brow. Wasn’t the Four Reversals Demon Sect established only after the Dragon Court’s rule began?

"Our sect was founded alongside the Catastrophes of Turbid Tide, rising quietly, preferring to remain hidden rather than drawing attention."

As Mr. Zhou Er finished speaking, the moving carriage also stopped in front of the Long Lake Villa.

"As for Bai Qilang and his brother, I won’t touch them for now. Once the storm has passed, one of them will inevitably enter my furnace.

As for Ninghai Zen, although the Four Cultivation Grandmasters are deserving of awe, my sect’s Four Great Protectors—Muscle Bodhisattva, Bone Asura, Pimo King, and Meat Vajra—can all embody and walk in the mortal realm.

Master Lu, you and the Zheng Family, Zhu Family, and other families all see him as a thorn in your side. You, in particular, have a blood feud with him.

Why not pool resources and make a grand tribute to our sect? I am willing to set up a divine altar and directly invite the Four Great Protectors to eliminate him. What do you say?"

Lu Zhongping’s eyelid twitched. Eliminate Ninghai Zen? 𝚏𝗿𝗲𝐞𝐰𝚎𝕓𝐧𝚘𝘃𝗲𝐥.𝐜𝚘𝕞

He immediately shook his head:

"There’s no need to provoke him. As long as Ninghai Zen doesn’t enter Yihai Prefecture and coexists peacefully with the thirteen guilds, why stir up trouble and ruffle the tiger’s whiskers?"

He saw clearly that if the Four Reversals Demon Sect didn’t succeed, leaving a mess, he’d be the one to suffer.