People in Penglai Dongtian live a very leisurely life. The average life span of each person is about 6,000 years old. They do not need to work and there is no pressure from competition. As long as they can be self-sufficient. The reason why they can live so long is because there is an old tree spirit with great supernatural powers living in the cave. People in the cave call it "the old god".
Penglai Dongtian was originally a deserted island that no one cared about, located on the edge of the Bohai Sea. After the invention of ships, some strange people from the Central Plains successively explored this place.
During the Spring and Autumn Period and the Warring States Period, this place gradually became a gathering place for strange people and strangers, because it was rumored that there were immortals living here, and that as long as you took the elixir given by the immortals, you could live forever. This attracted a large number of strange people and strangers to come here to seek immortality and medicine, and these so-called strange people and strangers were the first batch of superpowers to emerge in the earliest period of mankind.
However, there are no immortals living on Penglai Island. Instead, there is an ancient tree that has lived for tens of thousands of years, called "Vicissitudes of Life." This tree has the ability to live forever and never grow old or die. It is a unique tree in the world. Tree. This ancient tree has lived for too long, and over time it has developed intelligence comparable to humans. After seeing the existence of humans for the first time, it developed a strong interest in human beings.
Although the vicissitudes tree cannot move, it can learn human language. It gradually understands that human lifespan is very limited. It can only live for seventy or eighty years at most, and will be buried in the soil after death. Although the lifespan of human beings is extremely short compared to it, it is extremely free. It hopes that one day it can become like humans, with a dexterous body that can speak freely and move at will, instead of being trapped forever in the soil where it takes root. Inside, don't move.
At that time, a charlatan who could communicate with plants found it. This man's name was Xu Fu. He was a strange man who was proficient in the art of numerology. He had been looking for the method of immortality and death. After many years of calculation, he finally discovered this tree in the world. The longest living vicissitudes tree. He was pleasantly surprised to find that the vicissitudes of life tree has extremely high intelligence, and there is a way to greatly increase people's lifespan, that is, it uses its own essence to produce fruit. As long as humans eat the fruit it produces, they can live forever. You can't live forever, but living for thousands of years is not a problem.
However, the Vicissitudes Tree made a condition, requiring Xu Fu to bury a complete human corpse under its roots. Xu Fu was horrified when he heard this and thought it was a demon tree. Not only did he not agree to the vicissitudes tree's conditions, he even threatened to find someone to cut it down. The vicissitudes tree has extremely high wisdom. In order to survive, it had to pretend to succumb to Xu Fu and expressed its willingness to bear a fruit of immortality. It only asked not to kill it. It took a month to bear a fruit. , falsely claiming that this is a longevity fruit that can extend people’s lives.
Xu Fu didn't have any scheming ideas and believed it to be true. He ate the poisonous fruit on the spot and died under the tree. Coincidentally, half a day later, a kind person passed by and found Xu Fu's body. Seeing how pitiful he was, he dug a hole and buried him on the spot. The vicissitudes tree originally just wanted to poison this person who wanted to kill him. A human being, unexpectedly, by chance, he got a complete human corpse in vain.
The only part of the vicissitudes tree that can move is its roots. It wrapped Xu Fu's body with its roots and nourished the body with plant nutrients for decades. Not only did it bring the body back to life, it also brought all of its body back to life. The spiritual wisdom is placed in this person.
After regaining his new life, the vicissitudes of life began to travel around the country, studying with teachers in various places, and made great achievements in martial arts, medicine, and literature, and even learned some Taoist magic that has been lost today. Because he lived so long, in order to avoid people's suspicion, he changed his name and identity every thirty or fifty years, and lived an extremely carefree life.
Later, during the Warring States Period, conflicts between countries continued and the people were in dire straits. Disgusted by this, Cangsangshu thought of living in seclusion in Penglai. But it would be a bit lonely to go back alone, so he called some strange people he met outside and invited them to go to Penglai Island with him to escape from the troubled times. He also used the longevity fruit produced by his body to extend their lives, which is why it spread. There are rumors about the elixir of life on Penglai Island.
After finally waiting for the Qin Dynasty to unify the six countries, Qin Shihuang's tyranny and political policies made people shudder. The residents of Penglai Island were still unwilling to return to the Central Plains. However, rumors of the elixir of life had spread in the Central Plains, and Penglai Island was suddenly in the middle of the Central Plains. Swinging in the wind and rain. Cangsangshu was worried that Penglai Island would be affected, so he deceived Qin Shihuang in the name of Xu Fu. He defrauded a lot of manpower and materials from Qin Shihuang. It took nine years to build Penglai Island into a cave. With help, the Xuan Ni formation was set up.
"Xu Fu" finally went to Qin Shihuang to defraud the last sum of manpower and materials, and then sank the entire Penglai Cave to the bottom of the sea, and was isolated from the world ever since.
This story is what Guo Jia read from "Penglai Ji". It was a book Guo Jia shamelessly asked the scholars here to borrow. Guo Jia has been looking for a way to leave Penglai Cave. In order to kill time, he borrowed many books from local scholars from time to time to read. But except for this "Penglai Ji", most of the other books are some literary poetry or traditional Chinese medicine dictionary, as well as Chinese dictionaries. These are "imported books" brought by the old gods from the outside world. It's no wonder that people here can speak modern Chinese. .
But these are not the main point. The Xuanzang Formation recorded in "Penglai Ji" should be an important clue to leaving Penglai Cave. However, other books did not have information about the Xuanzang Formation, so he couldn't help but feel a little discouraged.
The three meals a day here are mainly seafood. Guo Jia doesn't like eating seafood very much. Life like this is simply torture for him. He who didn't have much meat in his body is gradually losing weight and even has thoughts of committing suicide. Well, luckily things turned around quickly.
One morning, Guo Jia was summoned to Penglai Immortal Residence again. The elders gave him a brocade box, which contained a strange peach-shaped fruit. This strange fruit was also the legendary longevity tree fruit. As long as he took the If you take it, your lifespan will be greatly increased. This is a good thing, but Guo Jia has already been thinking about death. What's the point of living for a long time in this world without Internet and food?
But the three elders insisted on him taking it in person, so he had no choice but to obey. He casually put the whole longevity fruit into his mouth, chewed it for a few mouthfuls expressionlessly, and suddenly his expression changed drastically! This longevity fruit was unexpectedly sweet and delicious, tender and juicy. He had never eaten such a delicious fruit before. He couldn't help but savor the lingering fragrance in his mouth. Looking at Guo Jia's greedy look, the three elders were deeply moved. He nodded understandingly.
Not long after taking the longevity fruit, Guo Jia began to suffer from frequent diarrhea, skin pus and other adverse reactions. This condition lasted for three days and nights. The three elders left him in Penglai Immortal Palace. Except for three meals a day and sleeping, Guo Jia spent every day in the hut and bathroom. He ran to the village elders more than once and said angrily: " Have you poisoned me! Oh! Just wait for me!"
However, every time before he finished complaining, he couldn't help but have diarrhea again. Basically, he had to go to the toilet every half an hour, which made him almost collapse, and the elders gave him The explanation: "This is a normal reaction."
Three days later, Guo Jia dragged his even thinner body down the mountain. Before leaving, the three elders asked him to eat more fish to supplement his nutrition. Guo Jia stared back at them with despairing eyes. At a glance, he walked down the mountain like a zombie.
However, after this ordeal, Guo Jia had the desire to live again, because the day after taking the longevity fruit, his omniscient system came back! Not only that, but there were new changes in the omniscient system. On the way down the mountain, he turned on the omniscient system again. Many large and small virtual boxes suddenly popped up in front of Guo Jia's eyes, marked with the names and brief information of various things within his field of vision. There were enlargement symbols □, reduction symbols - and close symbols × in the upper right corner of the border. , and then there is an ellipsis at the end of the simple information. You can see more information after clicking it.
Although it is convenient to see things from this peculiar perspective, it always feels awkward. Just when Guo Jia was thinking about whether there was a way to cancel this perspective setting, the option box "Whether to change system settings" automatically popped up in front of him. Guo Jia nodded in surprise, and then the option box disappeared immediately, replaced by nine rows of setting options:
Information visualization ☑ Path navigation map □ High-energy early warning ☑ Three-dimensional mimic pixels □ Omniscient cloud-speed information processing □ Omnipotent synchronization first stage □ Omnipotent synchronization second stage □ Omnipotent synchronization third stage □ Select all □
Out of curiosity, Guo Jia checked all the boxes with his mind. Suddenly, he heard a beep above his head, and an Arabic numeral 1 appeared, then returned to 0. An irresistible tiredness overwhelmed Guo Jia. Guo Jia fell into sleep, and in just one second, Guo Jia's brain completed the analysis of a huge amount of information at an astonishing speed, and came to the conclusion: Excessive mental loss → Overload on the sea of consciousness → Caused The side effect of the ability is deep sleep, and the sleeping time is 71 hours, 59 minutes and 36 seconds.
Guo Jia fell asleep and rolled down the mountain road.
