"..."

Lin Mao was really stunned at this moment. He supported the coffin with one hand, and frowned slightly.For a moment, he almost doubted whether he was dreaming, but at this moment, he suddenly remembered the gray hair under the tattered clothes of the person lying on the bed that he had glimpsed before—— It happened to be the color of Chang Xiaoqing's hair that had caused him so much distress before.

Lin Mao's figure trembled as if he had been scorched on his chest suddenly by a spark, and he immediately turned his head and looked towards the bed.

"Xiaoqing?!"

He let out a low cry, and rushed to the bed with a single step.

After pulling away the tattered piece of cloth, the white-haired man's livid face was revealed. He looked much thinner than before, his face was cold and rough, and his white hair was as gray as an old man's messy cover. on his face.Lin Mao quickly stretched out his hand to carefully brush his messy hair back, and his face became more clearly visible immediately, which made Lin Mao feel so distressed that he stopped breathing.Even in a coma, Chang Xiaoqing can still see the wind, frost and pain on his face now.

This child seemed to have grown up overnight, old and haggard, with a stubble on his chin, his outline was as sharp as a knife, and he turned into a somewhat familiar yet unfamiliar young man.

But in Lin Mao's eyes, this appearance is nine points familiar and one point bewildered.For a very short moment, Lin Mao saw his brother who died many years ago again in this dilapidated thatched hut.

Lin Mao's fingertips trembled slightly, and the spark that burned in his heart scorched his skin and flesh, causing a slight tingling pain.

Fortunately, at this moment, Chang Xiaoqing frowned under Lin Mao's hands, and turned his head slightly in Lin Mao's direction.

Under the movement, Lin Mao made a clever move to recover from the illusion.

It's just that the heart is still beating fast, and the chest is tight.

Perhaps it was because he was about to wake up, Chang Xiaoqing even recognized Lin Mao's aura even in a daze, and the movement on his body became a little louder, and he saw his eyeballs under his eyelids moving rapidly, and his cold forehead There was another layer of cold sweat on his face, his dry and bleeding lips trembled, and he let out a few ho-ho sounds, but his body was still very weak, unable to move even if he wanted to, and his whole body seemed a little scary in the struggle.

"Xiaoqing, Master is here—"

Lin Mao was originally looking at Chang Xiaoqing with all his heart, but when he saw the latter's appearance, he became anxious, and according to his habit of practicing martial arts for many years, he put his hand on Chang Xiaoqing's chest out of habit. , ready to send a wave of internal force over.

But at this time, the unknown old man walked up to him without a sound, and clasped it on his shoulder.

"Why are you in a hurry, your good apprentice can't die."

The nameless old man whispered in Lin Mao's ear.Lin Mao didn't know what technique he used. Those skinny fingers like dry branches just touched his shoulders slightly. Lin Mao felt that he suddenly lost his strength. It was stuffed with cotton, and the whole person began to tilt sideways as soon as it softened.

The nameless old man's expression remained unchanged, he raised his toes, and hooked a chair that was also crooked, lacking arms and legs, and he dragged Lin Mao to move, just in time for Lin Mao to sit on that chair.

"...You are the one who needs to take good care of yourself now, so you should keep that bit of internal energy for yourself."

And when Lin Mao sat there limply, the unknown old man had just finished speaking.

"What is my Xiaoqing's situation now? You saved our master and apprentice? What happened?"

Lin Mao's face turned pale, and he asked hurriedly.

The old man didn't answer, but the pair of white eyes were always looking directly at Lin Mao, without moving away for a moment.

Lin Mao fell limply on the chair, finally regaining his composure under such gaze.

After a while, he looked up at the old man and asked, his voice sounded much calmer than before.

After a while, he added another sentence: "You... how do you know that I am me?"

Lin Mao knew that his appearance had changed a lot now, and it took him a long time to recognize him, even the little apprentice who had been with him day and night, but the words of the unknown old man just now were as usual. He didn't notice Lin Mao's change at all.

The nameless old man sneered, and said coldly: "At my age, there is naturally a way to see people without eyes. Old Guzhu Lin, your energy-raising skills are not good enough..."

Then he put his hand on Lin Mao's wrist, and said, "I healed the wound on your body. I used three Huisheng Pills and two Dream Fairy Flowers. The other medicinal materials are also expensive. I will talk to you when you recover. Count the money. As for your apprentice, there is nothing serious at the moment. It is nothing more than being overwhelmed with anxiety and worry, and you are a little exhausted. I am not saying, old Guzhu, your apprentice is good at martial arts, but your temper is not well-raised. People who practice martial arts are too paranoid, which is not a good thing."

When Lin Mao heard the nameless old man say that Chang Xiaoqing was fine, his face relaxed, and he let out a long sigh: "I shouldn't have kept him by my side. Fortunately, this time I got your old man's help..."

If he was really accidentally injured by Chang Xiaoqing and died like that, he really didn't dare to think about the final consequences.

After he relaxed in this way, his entire face was like a flower with dew slightly opening its petals, with a certain charm of its own.The nameless old man's eyeballs moved, and his deep gaze stopped on that delicate and bright face.

But at this moment, Lin Mao was restless and his thoughts were confused, but he didn't notice the strange peeping of the old man at that moment. When he finally recovered, the old man just changed his hand and continued to diagnose his pulse, clicked his tongue, and everything was as usual .

"I just wiped off the little wound on your flesh, and it's just a little rare and secret medicine. It's just a temporary solution but not the root cause—Guzhu Lin, your martial arts are completely useless."

the old man said.

"Such sparse martial arts is not important." Lin Mao had already prepared himself psychologically, and did not take the old man's diagnosis to heart. "To be honest, I just want to know what is wrong with me now. What happened... I was clearly dead before, why am I reincarnated now."

Lin Mao paused his head when he spoke, and stroked his face with one hand, looking confused.

"...Not only did I come back to life, I actually turned into what I am today."

He then told the unnamed old man about all the abnormalities in his body before.The Yu Wuxin sent by Qiao Muyun before was also a well-known doctor in Jianghu, but he didn't see the strange change in him when he was taking his pulse. Now Lin Mao can only tell the old man in front of him full of confusion Listen—to be honest, the actions of the unknown old man today seem to be far superior to that of Yu Wuxin.

After the words fell, the unknown old man sat upright like a mountain, still grasping Lin Mao's hand to check his pulse carefully, without any answer.On the contrary, Lin Mao himself was a little apprehensive, and added: "Such a strange thing, it sounds more like anecdotes scribbled in a script. If I hadn't experienced it myself, I'm afraid I wouldn't believe it."

"Although death and resurrection are not common, it is by no means unprecedented. However, the vision of Lin Guzhu, the old man has not yet figured it out..." The nameless old man let go of Lin Mao's hand and spoke slowly. Strangely, as soon as he let go of Lin Mao, Lin Mao felt that he seemed to have strength again.

The unknown old man continued: "...Thinking about it, it should be because of the medicine that this young man in your family begged from me before you were dying, old valley owner."

"Medicine?" Lin Mao was confused for a moment.

The nameless old man twitched the corner of his mouth, vaguely as if he was smiling.

He didn't say much, but stretched out his hand and slowly wrote four words in the air.

【Immortality】

Lin Mao was startled, and suddenly remembered——

That's right, at the beginning he had no medicine and no cure, and when he was about to return to bliss like this, Chang Xiaoqing carried him to the unknown old man and asked for two prescriptions.

This prescription is honest and straightforward. One dose of medicine is called "longevity" for the king, and the other medicine is called "immortality" for the minister. They need to be taken together. According to the old man's thinking, such a medicine It can be as the name says, the living dead can heal the bones, and can make people live forever, immortal.

But when the unknown old man gave the prescription, he made it very clear.

Although the two doses of medicine have the title of "immortality", they are actually made by the old man in his spare time using hundreds of strange and rare medicines with intelligible or inexplicable flavors. They did not follow the pharmacological principles. Many ingredients are even poisonous when taken together, and some of them have never been listed in the pharmacopoeia at all, and it is not even clear whether they are medicinal materials.

After the medicine was made, the old man just picked up two dead deer carcasses from the forest that had frozen to death in winter. After feeding the medicine, one of the sika deer with white buttocks was alive, and the other one was still unable to move. It was too dead. Die again.I'm afraid that the old man himself is a little confused, and he doesn't know whether the last sika deer came back to life after taking the so-called "immortality" medicine, or if it was just frozen and woke up after warming up in the house come over.

If it is normal, with Chang Xiaoqing's furious temper, it is impossible for Lin Mao to use such a prescription anyway.

At that time, Lin Mao was also on the verge of death, and the few apprentices tried almost all available methods, but they could only watch helplessly as the withered bones on the sick bed became cold.

In the end, Chang Xiaoqing took Lin Mao into his arms with his two senior brothers, and kept hanging for his life without stopping. With the help of his strong inner strength, he kept the heat from Lin Mao's chest, and forced him to hang on A heartbeat as thin as a gossamer.When he found out that the old man had concocted such a medicine, no matter if he was in a hurry and went to the doctor, or if he treated a dead horse as a living horse, he finally asked for the medicine and poured it down for Lin Mao.

A few days later, Lin Mao finally took back the half of the foot that was stepping on the door of hell, and he barely held on for a while.

However, during that time, he poured many rare and rare medicines that are hard to find in the world like running water, and in the end he didn't know whether it was the Nanmen Family's Bliss Recipe, the Banshan Temple's Soul Returning Pill, or whether it was really the immortality medicine. The medicine worked—of course, it didn't work. Lin Mao couldn't bear to make his apprentices sad, but he didn't last long. The soul fire that was hard to continue was finally cut off.

Who knew that he would come back from the dead in the end?

"...At the beginning, I just barely made up the so-called elixir of life according to the ancient prescription I found many years ago. Many ingredients in the ancient prescription were either nowhere to be found or unheard of. I could only rely on my intuition. , I found that similar thing and put it together. I didn't expect that this medicine seemed to really work, it's a pity, it's a pity..."

The old man shook his head and sighed.

"As soon as you passed away, Old Valley Master, I felt that the elixir of life had naturally failed. You even destroyed all the prescriptions. Now, even if you want to make another one for yourself, it is impossible."

Lin Mao caught a glimpse of the wrinkled face of the unknown old man, shriveled to a full circle, and was about to speak when he saw his hands resting on his knees, with even bones and flesh, white and smooth skin, just looking at the palms of his wrists Back, there is an indescribable sense of youthful plumpness.Lin Mao was inexplicably embarrassed. He was speechless for a long time in front of the old and unnamed old man.

However, there was no other look on the face of the unknown old man. After a short pause, he looked at Lin Mao again and said, "If the old valley owner really came back to life because of my elixir, I'm afraid the follow-up Not less trouble-"

"Trouble? You're talking about..." Lin Mao was startled.

"You know, your old man was really dead before, and now you can walk and move, but it's just because of the overbearing and abundant power of the medicine. Your internal organs, flesh, bones and blood have been scattered. This is something that the elixir of life cannot cure. .Ordinary people eat and sleep, and their bodies are functioning. They can naturally turn grains into energy, and energy can shape flesh and blood, but you..."

"how do I?"

"Your current body is quite different from ordinary people." The nameless old man said hoarsely, "The yang energy in your body is extremely weak and cannot operate on its own. That's why you were so weak before, that you couldn't even stand up and speak."

"I……"

Lin Mao frowned, vaguely feeling that something was wrong, but after careful consideration, he did not find anything wrong.

"If you live according to the way of ordinary people, within half a month, you may die of weakness again. Fortunately, your apprentice brought you here, so you still have a way to survive."

"What you said is a bit puzzling." Lin Mao said.

The nameless old man sighed.

"From now on, Old Valley Master, I'm afraid that you will have to rely on external force to absorb the yang energy and blood energy to maintain your body." Seeing Lin Mao's face showing a little puzzled look, the unknown old man stood up unsteadily, and put the paper on the table The cooled casserole was brought to Lin Mao.

Before the lid was opened, a strong medicinal fragrance mixed with the heat rushed towards the face.

Lin Mao was taken aback for a moment, subconsciously thinking that the casserole contained medicinal liquid.

Before Lin Mao could react, the unknown old man lifted the lid of the casserole under Lin Mao's nose, and saw that the casserole was not filled with the dark Chinese medicine that Lin Mao thought, but a pot of dark red blood plasma .Strange to say, seeing the steaming heat of the casserole, I felt that the liquid contained in it must have boiled, but even though the blood was bubbling, it was as if it had just been squeezed out of the blood vessel, and there was no trace of it. Discoloration, still so red, so fresh, there are still two jet-black strips of flesh floating up and down in the blood plasma, looking carefully, it turns out to be two jet-black and glossy black snakes, both snakes have been boiled until their skin is ripped apart, and the snake's head The huge meat crown is still as bright as fire, and the bright red is swirling in the blood plasma.There was a layer of green medicine mist on the surface of the plasma, and when the lid was lifted, the medicine gas would naturally rise with the heat, followed by a strong, fishy smell that seemed to be about to condense in the air. .

Ordinary people would probably feel sick when they smelled this bright bloody smell, but Lin Mao himself was rushed by the bloody smell, and he only felt the fragrance was tangy, body fluid was secreted from his lips immediately, and a hunger and thirst surged in his throat. He was so burned that he was about to jump up, wishing he could immediately bury his face in the casserole and drink up the red, sticky blood in one go.

"Well……"

Lin Mao covered his mouth with one hand, and it took a lot of effort to force himself to lean back so as not to show his ugly face in front of the unknown old man.

"what is this……"

He spoke intermittently, feeling extremely disgusted on the one hand, and scratching his heart and lungs on the other hand, as if countless small hands were about to reach out from his throat to grab the thick blood. Can't say enough.

"Don't be afraid, this is for you to eat." Behind the rising heat, the nameless old man smiled a few times, and there was an indescribable meaning in his low voice, "I said, ordinary Those things that people eat are like mountains, rocks and vegetation to you, and they cannot provide any nutrients. If your lifeless body wants to function normally, it naturally needs food supplements—the supplements are fresh flesh and blood full of yang energy .”

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