I use myths to create immortality

Chapter 1: Mythological Atlas Contains Thousands of Treasures
Chen Dynasty, summer of the sixth year of Yuanhui; Lingyang County, Shili Pavilion in Qingtang Township.

In the early morning, the mountains outside the village were covered with mist. Many farmers had already gotten up early and were carrying hoes to the fields.

Ji Yuan walked unsteadily in the village, carrying a backpack that was taller than him, and the villagers' whispers rang in his ears.

"Isn't that the second son of the Ji family? I heard that he was struck by lightning the day before yesterday, but not only was he fine, his hysteria was also cured. It seems to be true..."

"I said Erwa would definitely get better. He's still young, but he's as big as a donkey."

"Hahaha... Look, he's still shy. A seven or eight-year-old kid is already shy..."

"Yes, Erwazi has been stupid since he was young and can't even speak clearly. Now he knows how to help his sister-in-law with work..."

"Pah... who knows if he's been possessed by some monster..."

Faced with the villagers pointing and talking on the road, Ji Yuan couldn't help but quicken his pace.

He was only wearing a shirt at this time, and it was a women's shirt that was full of patches and looked very big.

Fortunately, the clothes were large enough to barely cover the bare buttocks underneath.

"The most important thing right now is to get a pair of pants. After all, I am a time traveler. I feel cold down there with my bare butt all day long..." Ji Yuan lowered his head, his tender cheeks blushing a little.

Before this, he had not really awakened his "innate wisdom". He had been stupid and dumb for seven years since he was born, and was hated by everyone in the village.

It was not until the day before yesterday when there was a strong thunder and lightning and Ji Yuan, who was climbing to the top of a tree to catch cicadas, was unfortunately struck by lightning that his memory was awakened.

If it were someone else, he might have been struck to death.

Fortunately, Ji Yuan still had the golden finger, so he just fainted for a long time and was not seriously injured.

"The scroll I found in the antique market in my previous life is indeed a treasure. Maybe my ability to travel through time is related to it..."

Ji Yuan thought to himself, and now he closed his eyes slightly. A scroll of atlas unfolded in his mind, and 3,600 points of starlight flashed one by one in the atlas.

The scroll has no name. Because Yuan in the previous century was very fond of gods, ghosts, Taoism and Buddhism, when he was visiting an antique market, he saw this scroll, which was about ten feet long, with many pictures of gods and immortals painted on it.

I bargained it down to two hundred dollars and bought it as a handicraft. I was about to return to school to study it carefully when I was hit and killed by a speeding sports car.

And this picture actually followed him to this world.

In the scroll, there are three thousand six hundred rays of light, and each one is a method for practicing a general treasure.

Moreover, they are all well-known treasures from the myths of previous lives.

However, it was only a refining method. To refine these treasures, the materials needed were all kinds of rare treasures from heaven and earth, which Ji Yuan had never even heard of.

Moreover, even the refining method is still unclear to most Ji Yuan, let alone a thorough study.

"I'll work first to earn money to buy pants, and then I'll study it slowly when I get home in the evening..." Ji Yuan quickened his pace and walked towards the mulberry forest outside the village.

In the mulberry forest, a woman with a graceful figure, a bun and very simple clothes was picking mulberry leaves.

Hearing the footsteps, the woman turned around and looked at him, revealing her pretty face.

Although she was a woman, she was not very old. She looked only sixteen or seventeen years old. Her skin was a little dark due to years of hard work.

"Erwa, your injury hasn't healed yet, so just let you lie down at home. You can't help me with anything."

"I'm fine, Sister Yueru. Let me help you carry the mulberry leaves back. I can run very fast." Ji Yuan put down the backpack and snatched the bamboo basket from his sister-in-law.

This girl, about seventeen or eighteen years old, with her hair tied up in a bun and dressed like a woman, is Ji Yuan's sister-in-law Qin Yueru.

In this life, Ji Yuan's parents died early, and he was raised by his brother Ji Ping, who was nine years older than him.

Two years ago, the government sent a letter to recruit soldiers, requiring each household in Tingli to send one man. My brother Ji Ping, who had just gotten married, was conscripted and has not been heard from since.

After his brother left, fortunately his sister-in-law Yueru was very capable and took care of five acres of thin land and ten acres of mulberry forest, farming and weaving. She was also a kind-hearted person and did not remarry, and continued to raise the mentally retarded child Ji Yuan.

"Then run slower on the road and don't fall." Qin Yueru couldn't persuade him, so she could only give the bamboo basket full of mulberry leaves to Ji Yuan.

Looking at the little figure running home like the wind, carrying a backpack and taking short steps.

Qin Yueru's eyes were a little sour: "Erwazi's hysteria has been cured. Maybe, he should be sent to school. Ah Ping is right, his brother is very smart..."

With the current difficult family situation, where we can barely afford to eat and wear clothes in a year, it is almost impossible to support a half-grown child to go to school.

In the past, Ji Yuan was dull and stupid, and Qin Yueru only wanted to give him a bowl of rice to eat, and she would not care about him anymore when he grew up.

Not long after Ji Yuan left, a middle-aged woman with a big face, a sturdy figure and colorful clothes came running in from outside the mulberry forest.

"Aunt Wu, didn't I tell you that I don't agree to that?" Qin Yueru did not give her a good look.

"Oh...Mr. Wu is such a good man. So many people want to marry him, but they don't have the chance yet."

Aunt Wu came forward and said, "And Master Wu said that if you agree to marry him, he will definitely take care of Erwa until he grows old, and not only will he give you the original five acres of land, he will also give you another ten acres of paddy fields."

"I know you are loyal, but if you don't consider yourself, you have to consider the Ji family. Think about it, can you raise a child with just a few acres of thin land?"

"A Ping has been gone for two years, and I have been raising Er Wa all this time. How come I can't raise him?"

"Even if you can raise him, Erwazi is well now, and he'll have to get married in the future. Do you have the money to buy him a dowry?"

"You are still young and have a choice. If you waste a few more years in the wind and sun, it will be too late."

Qin Yueru was busy picking mulberry leaves: "Whether he can afford to marry a wife in the future is his business. I just raised him to adulthood, which is enough for Ah Ping."

After that, she said in a cold voice: "I know you have received money from the Wu family to be my matchmaker. Let Wu Dagui give up. I will not remarry."

"Yes, I did accept it. But your mother's family, my brother Qin, also accepted money from Mr. Wu, and it was a full twenty strings of cash as a betrothal gift!" "What! Did my father really accept twenty strings of cash from Wu Dagui?" Qin Yueru was shocked and angry when she heard this.

Thinking about his father who was idle all day and addicted to alcohol, he might really do such a thing.

"Your father said that he can't control you, but he has already spent all the money. If you don't agree, you can pay Mr. Wu back yourself..."

Aunt Wu rolled her eyes and said, "And Master Wu has also said that if you don't marry, he will take back the Ji family's land and mulberry forest."

Qin Yueru's face turned pale immediately. Thinking of Wu Dagui's fat and greasy body and toad-like face, she trembled with anger.

"I have come to see you almost twenty times. Today is the deadline given by Mr. Wu. You should go home and pack up and prepare to marry..."

Aunt Wu squinted at her and said, "Why? You dare not agree?"

"I..." Qin Yueru seemed to have lost all her strength. She collapsed to the ground, her lips trembling as she said, "I answer..."

"I don't agree!" Before he could finish his words, he was interrupted by a childish voice.

Ji Yuan, who had been hiding outside the mulberry forest and eavesdropping for a long time, walked out slowly.

"Erwa, you...did you hear everything?"

Facing the somewhat stunned Qin Yueru, Ji Yuan stepped closer and helped her up: "I told you I can run fast. I just heard the old woman from the Wu family threatening you when I got here. I heard it all."

When Aunt Wu heard that she was called an old woman, her face turned black: "Little brat, why are you butting in when adults are talking?"

"She is my sister-in-law. An elder sister-in-law is like a mother. Why can't I butt in? But you, you fan the flames in the village all day long, making random connections, and I don't know how many good families you have harmed. Sooner or later, your mouth will rot."

"You!" Aunt Wu waved her hand and wanted to slap him, but considering Qin Yueru who was going to marry Master Wu as a concubine, she just snorted coldly.

"That's your sister-in-law's business. How can you make the decision for her?"

"If she wants to get married, I will not only agree without hesitation, but also sell all my houses and properties to her as a dowry. After all, she will be my brother's wife, and my Ji family will not owe her anything."

As he spoke, Ji Yuan sneered, "If anyone dares to threaten to force me to marry him, I will sacrifice my life and make his whole family suffer."

"Old hag, if you dare to manipulate people again, I will kill you first. Do you believe it?"

Ji Yuan stared at her with murderous eyes, and Aunt Wu couldn't help but look away, not daring to meet his gaze.

That's not the look of a seven-year-old at all.

"Could it be true that Erwazi was possessed by a monster? This is not something someone of his age would say..." Aunt Wu felt uneasy.

She suddenly felt that the mulberry forest was filled with a chilly wind, which made her spine feel cold.

Even if he is not possessed by a monster, I heard that this kid used to be mentally retarded and could do anything. When he gets crazy, he really doesn't care about his life.

She wanted to turn around and leave, but thinking of the two strings of golden coins given by Master Wu, she resisted the urge to leave and looked at Qin Yueru: "Yuerru, do you agree or not? Please give me a straight answer."

Qin Yueru didn't say anything, but nodded with a dull look on her face.

"Okay, okay, then it's settled. I'll go and report back right away." With that, Aunt Wu ran out of the mulberry forest as quickly as if she was escaping.

"Erwa, pack up and go home. We won't pick mulberry leaves today." Qin Yueru stood up dejectedly.

"Sister-in-law, you..."

"I agreed voluntarily, okay? What do you know about adults' affairs? Be good in the future and don't say anything about life and death. You are the only one left in your Ji family."

He knew that Qin Yueru didn't want to implicate him, and didn't think that a child like her could do anything, so he stopped trying to persuade her.

"What else do you want to eat? I'll make it for you when I get home."

Ji Yuan put down the backpack: "I don't want to eat anything, I just want you to find me something."

"what would you like?"

"Two feet of yellow cowhide, three grams of cinnabar, a cup of strong liquor, and preferably a brush."

I thought Ji Yuan would beg for some money, or some snacks that he normally wouldn't be willing to buy.

But I didn't expect that what he wanted were some strange and weird things.

Yellow cowhide is hard and not tasty, what’s the point of having it?

He can't write, so what does he need a pen for?
Cinnabar? Isn't that used to treat diseases?

Is Erwazi hysterical again?
Or is it that Erwazi is really possessed by a monster?

"What do you want these for?" A look of surprise appeared on Qin Yueru's numb face.

Ji Yuan turned around and did not answer her question.

He just raised his head and said calmly: "Sister-in-law, just do as I say and help me find these things. The sooner the better!"

Looking at Ji Yuan standing with his hands behind his back, his heroic figure.

Qin Yueru was actually somewhat shocked by his mysterious self-confidence.

If he wasn't so short and wearing big women's clothes.

If you are naked and look ridiculous...

"Oh... by the way, it would be best if you could get me another pair of pants, the sooner the better..."

(End of this chapter)