Chapter 148 Brothers in Danger Yishan, Fuqiu Temple. The temperature on the mountain is just right at this time of year. There is no rain or fog today. The Taoist temple stands quietly in the mountains and forests, looking so peaceful. “It’s still reassuring here.” "Don't worry!" The fox followed behind him and imitated his speech in a low voice. "You said, Senior Brother didn't starve to death, right?" "I'm starving!" Lin Jue pushed the door open and walked in. The fox followed behind him in small steps, lightly crossing the threshold. "I am back."
Lin Juexian shouted this. The fox was smart and did not learn this. Instead, it stretched its neck to look inside, sniffed, and felt a little confused. No one responded from inside, only the greyhound in the temple came out to greet them. “Why is it just you? "What about people?" The little dog looked sick and didn't answer. Lin Jue glanced at the dog and walked into the inner courtyard. The scene that came into his sight shocked him - In front of the Moving Mountain Hall, several chairs were placed side by side, with several senior brothers and younger sisters sitting on them. Then I saw that the little sister's face was black, the seventh brother's face was sallow, the sixth brother's face was pale and sweaty, and the two who were lying with their heads tilted back and down and whose faces could not be seen clearly should be the fifth and fourth brothers. They looked like they were lying on chairs with their hands hanging down, not knowing whether they were alive or dead. There is an empty chair. Lin Jue looked forward along the chair and saw that his third senior brother didn't know where to go. He was hunched over and walking with his hands on the wall. Suddenly he turned his head and saw Lin Jue. His eyes suddenly lit up and he immediately tried to stand up, but failed. He frowned and bent down again. "this?" Lin Jue was stunned. How is this going? Why do you all seem to be poisoned? "Junior brother..." An old and trembling voice came from the usually high-spirited Third Brother. When the others heard the voice, the little sister, the seventh brother, and the sixth brother immediately turned their heads and looked at Lin Jue with despair. The fifth brother lowered his head and also looked at Lin Jue. The fourth brother still lowered his head deeply, and it was unknown whether he was still alive. "Senior...brother..." "Junior brother..."
Some people can still make sounds, while others can only open their mouths. "what happened?" Lin Jue ran over quickly. His first thought was that after he left, a powerful demon came and severely injured all the brothers and sisters in the temple. But after looking at it carefully and thinking about it carefully, I don’t think it is similar. "Junior brother...you are finally back..." "What's going on?" Lin Jue looked at the third brother who was closest to him, "When I left, didn't I ask my little sister to cook for you? How did it become like this?" "You're not... in trouble..." "Don't worry about me, just tell me what's going on with you guys." "you do not know……" The third brother leaned against the wall, looking distressed, and said to him, "You don't know, Master, Master said that our generation of disciples came to the mountain too late, and our Taoism... is too low. It just so happens that we are in troubled times, so he was afraid that we would lose face for Fuqiu Temple after we came down the mountain, and he was also afraid that we would encounter danger, so you... you just left..." "speak slowly." "Don't, don't interrupt me." The third brother said to him, "As soon as you left, you gave each of us a Lingyuan Pill. Most likely, most likely he got it from Jiulong Temple." "and then?" "And... for..." “Then, in order to not waste the efficacy of the Lingyuan Pill and to avoid side effects, let you learn the method of taking it from Second Senior Brother?” Lin Jue felt uncomfortable listening to this, so he simply helped him speak. "Quick..." "No wonder." Lin Jue nodded and breathed a sigh of relief. At first I thought I was the one who asked my junior sister to cook for them, but it turned out that my junior sister had some bold ideas. "In the past few days, it's been the second brother who's been cooking, and every day there's always something annoying." The third brother said, "You're back just in time. I have you too, so you have to learn." Hearing this, Lin Jue couldn't help but look at him pitifully: "Brother, you are really confused. You forgot that I have already learned the method of taking medicine." "..." "And I learned slowly, not quickly." "..." The third senior brother looked at him in astonishment. The fox looked up at the third brother. "Then you continue to take poison and practice the method of taking it until you learn it." Lin Jue picked up a bamboo tube from his waist and sighed, "Alas, I passed by Hammer Mountain on my way back and met the mountain god of Hammer Mountain again. Because of fate, he invited me to have a chat and drink with him. I drank the Thousand Days Wine with the essence of the sun and the moon. This mountain god was really enthusiastic. When I left, he even let me take a pot with me..." "?"
"It seems like I won't be able to drink it anytime soon!" "??" The third senior brother wanted to say something, but Lin Jue had already turned and left. Only his fox was left. It turned its head to look at him carefully, then bent down, pretending to be unable to stand straight, and imitated him, raising one of its front feet to support itself against the wall, and staggered away. "?" The third brother looked extremely shocked. Lin Jue took back the paper donkey, went straight back to the room, and moved everything on the donkey's back into the room. First, there was a thick stack of paper. Originally, he only bought paper, but the merchants in Shu Village also sold pens, ink, paper and inkstones. Xuan brushes and Xuan paper, Hui ink and She inkstones are all world-famous. When he returned to Shu Village, the owner of the Shu family saw that he had bought a lot of paper, so he stuffed some fine pens, inkstones and inkstones into his pocket. These things were cheap only here. If they were sold in Jiangnan, the price would increase by who knows how much, and if they were sold in the capital, the price would increase by who knows how many times. Next came the Thousand Days Wine, the Small Gun and the Small Sword. After putting his things away, Lin Juexian opened the drawer. The wooden sculpture in which the silver-eating ghost resides is still inside. "Are you here?" "call……" Suddenly, a puff of white smoke emerged from the wood carving, forming the shape of a big-headed child ghost. At this time, the evil aura on it had disappeared. "I haven't seen it for a while." Lin Jue looked at it. "It has changed from black smoke to gray smoke, and now it has become white smoke. It seems that the evil spirit that you have been exposed to from the Corpse Tiger King has almost been washed away." "Thanks to the Taoist master in the temple." "I haven't seen you for so long, are you hungry?" "no no……" Although the silver-eating ghost said this, his voice was very low and he lowered his head. Obviously hungry. "Don't worry, I have something to ask you. After I'm done, I'll go get you some silver to eat." Lin Jue said with a smile. "What's going on?" The silver-eating ghost became nervous again. "It has nothing to do with you. It's just my doubts. I don't know who to ask. Fortunately, you have lived a long life and I think you have a lot of experience, so I ask you for advice." "Although I have lived for more than a thousand years, I don't have much free time, nor do I have extensive knowledge." The silver-eating ghost finally breathed a sigh of relief, "But please just speak up, Master." When Lin Jue returned to the temple, the most important thing for him was of course to see if the child-raising gift given to him by Goddess Yaohua was still there and what was inside. However, there was only one thing that could be put before that. It is to understand what the mountain god of Hammer Mountain said, "There is something on you that is destined to be with the Goddess", and what this thing is. However, apart from asking Empress Yaohua in person, there is probably no other way to confirm it completely. But we can also speculate from other directions.
Lin Jue thought for a moment before speaking: "You are one of the three alchemy ghosts, do you know anything about the other two ghosts?" The Silver Eater also thought about it: “Replying to Master, although the Three Alchemy Ghosts are often referred to together nowadays, we are not created by the same Alchemy master, nor did we appear at the same time. I only know the Gold Swallowing Ghost, because many years ago, both I and the Gold Swallowing Ghost were invited as guests by the same master.” "A guest?" "He is a powerful immortal. If he can find us, he can catch us, so we dare not not go. But he is a virtuous man. He only invited us to be his guest, asked us some questions, entertained us, and then sent us back." "I see." Lin Jue nodded, "Then do you know the order and approximate time of the appearance of the three alchemy ghosts?" "This...is too long..." The Silver Eater stood there, thinking for a long time before saying: "The Gold Devouring Ghost appeared before me, but it was not much different from me, both appeared about 1,200 years ago. It was made by a great alchemist to kill time, and it seemed that he wanted to show off his alchemy attainments. When my master found out, he didn't want to be left behind, so he imitated this method and made me." "Where's the jade chewing ghost?" "That's two hundred years later than us." "Two hundred years later..." In other words, about a thousand years ago. Lin Jue remembered that when he took the first Lingyuan Pill, the ancient books recorded the Silver-Eating Ghost, and described it as "one of the two ghosts in the alchemy world." This record about Lingyuan Dan, whether in handwriting or narrative style, seems to be the original author of this ancient book identified by Lin Jue. Most of the content in the book comes from this person. If there had already been the Three Ghosts of Alchemy in the era he lived in, with his knowledge, he would not have only known two of them. Putting aside that tiny possibility, it means that the person who wrote this book, or at least this page, was most likely written before the appearance of the jade-chewing ghost, that is, between 1,200 and 1,000 years ago. According to what Lin Jue knew about the life of Lady Yaohua, she achieved the status of a great sage almost "a thousand years ago", until she was defeated by Tianweng several hundred years ago. This "one thousand years ago" was passed down orally by the goblins and ghosts at the night banquet, and there might be some differences, such as a little more than a thousand years, or eight or nine hundred years, but it might all be summarized as a thousand years ago when people spoke. But it can't be too different. Becoming a great power or a great sage is not an easy task, and it requires a period of time. With this calculation, the time when the first author of the ancient book wrote this book is very likely to coincide with the time when this lady practiced, grew up and attained enlightenment. "Thanks for letting me know." "Does the real person have anything else to ask?" The silver-eating ghost looked at him weakly, shrinking its neck. The fox stood beside it, curiously stretching out its claws to touch it. "It's okay, I'll get you something to eat." Lin Jue was about to turn back when he suddenly thought of something and stopped, asking curiously: "Have you ever heard of the magic of phantom silver?" "Of course I've heard of it." The Silver Eater immediately showed a helpless look, as if he knew what he wanted to ask. "The silver and gold created by the Magic Silver Technique and the Midas Touch can indeed be eaten by me and the Gold Devourer, but they can only fill our stomachs and have no nutritional value. If we eat them for too long, we will starve to death." "That can..." "I can also spit out pills, but the silver transformed by the Phantom Silver Technique is fake, so the pills I spit out are naturally fake. The elixir can last as long as the illusion of the Phantom Silver Technique. The more realistic the Phantom Silver Technique is, the more realistic the elixir I spit out will be."
"I see." Lin Jue nodded, this was magical. Magical, but also useful. After all, Lingyuan Pill is a relatively expensive medicine. Since fake silver has an effect, fake Lingyuan Pill will naturally have an effect as well. After a while, Lin Jue went to the temple to get some silver. It can be seen that the brothers in the temple were not diligent during the time I was away. They were probably concentrating on practicing the method of taking medicine, eating all kinds of messy things including poisonous things every day, and the silver in the Taoist temple did not increase much. The additional ten taels were mostly obtained by the eldest brother and the second brother who went down the mountain to exorcise demons and exorcise evil spirits. Lin Jue took it and fed it to the silver-eating ghost. Then he took a hoe, called the fox, and went straight to the top of Fuqiu Peak. (End of this chapter)