She is devoted to cultivating immortality

Chapter 1 The Most Unfair Travel

"He's going to be beheaded soon!"

"If I remember correctly, this is the third batch this month, right?"

"I don't know when this killing will end."

"There is no other way. The emperor has invited all the Taoists in the world to practice and make the elixir of immortality. Those who succeed will be rewarded handsomely. Those who fail will inevitably have to come to this market to suffer!"

Daqian, Fengdu City, Caishikou.

At this moment, a large crowd of people gathered to watch, most of them were ordinary people.

The place they were watching was the execution ground where blood was flowing even in the cracks of the mud.

There are many people coming and going in Caishikou, and holding a fair execution here can serve as a warning to a certain extent.

But if someone looks closely at the reactions of the people, they will find that very few people are panicking, and most people have numbness in their eyes.

Without him.

Too many people were killed.

Even if it's about killing people, you'll get used to it after watching it many times.

Of course, this also depends on who was killed.

If the most treacherous and evil thieves and corrupt officials were executed, the people would certainly not be in their current state. They would probably shout a few "good words" and throw a few vegetable leaves to express their indignation.

But now the dozens of people on the execution ground are clearly just Taoists who have nothing to do with them.

Therefore, many people feel sorry for it.

But they didn't know that not all of the dozens of people on the stage were Taoists. The young woman kneeling in the front with confused eyes was a typical example.

Xie Lian, who had just woken up, was a little upset.

"I just crossed over and I'm about to get my head chopped off?"

Xie Lian raised his head.

The midday sun shines on her face. Even though it is covered with dust, she is still stunningly beautiful, as if she does not belong to this world, with an otherworldly aura.
Under normal circumstances, just looking at his own appearance, even if his gender changed from a man to a woman, Xie Lian, the time traveler, would feel satisfied.

But what time is it now?
As soon as I opened my eyes, I was about to be chopped!
When Xie Lian thought of this, he felt it was absurd.

In his previous life, he was just an ordinary person who studied ancient Chinese literature and liked to research ancient culture. Classics, historical books, stories about gods and immortals, folk legends, and miscellaneous histories were all within his research scope.

Because I had a strong interest in this area, I took a postgraduate exam in a related field after graduating from university. My life was not very good, but I was happy.

But who would have thought that after waking up from a sleep, I would actually travel to another world.

Xie Lian, who had just received all the memories of the original owner of this body, already had a certain understanding of this world.

This is a bizarre, vast and boundless world.

There were dozens of countries in the world that Xie Lian knew of.

And Daqian is one of them.

Its land area is no less than that of China in the previous world.

The current Emperor Qian was a man of great talent and strategy when he was young. He cleaned up bad politics, reorganized the military, and forced neighboring countries to cede land and marry princesses. He was unparalleled in his time.

But as he grew older, the aging Emperor Qian, like countless emperors who did not want to die of old age, began to seek immortality and seek elixirs and methods of longevity.

More than ten years ago, Emperor Qian publicly granted Taoists official positions, promised them huge benefits, and designated Taoism as the state religion.

All of a sudden, countless Taoists were jealous and headed to Fengdu.

But most of these Taoists are frauds who steal reputations. How can they have the ability to refine elixirs of immortality?

It wasn't long before the conspiracy was uncovered by the government.

At first, it was just an expulsion.

Later, Emperor Qian gradually lost his patience and his methods became more severe.

Those Taoists who dared to deceive him were first beaten with sticks, then thrown into prison, and later exiled...

Emperor Qian is now in his sixties. Perhaps because he feels that he does not have much time left, he has become more and more manic.

Since the beginning of this year, it is now August, and almost every month, there are Taoists being pushed to the vegetable market and beheaded!
Some people may wonder, if Emperor Qian’s methods are so cruel, why do Taoists continue to come and die?

But that's not the case.

In fact, as early as several years ago, no Taoist dared to come to Fengdu. They knew their own abilities and believed that practicing Taoism was just a way to make a living. How could they refine the elixir of immortality?
But Emperor Qian didn't think so.

As the Son of Heaven who holds the power to rule, Emperor Qian stubbornly believes that the Taoist does not come to Fengdu because he does not want to work for him. Since you all want me to die of old age, then I will not be polite!
As a result, local governments took action, and even the imperial guards were mobilized. Batches of Taoists were forced to be sent to Fengdu to refine elixirs. If they failed to do so, they would die.

Xie Lian was captured by the government.

She's not even a Taoist!

Her predecessor had lived in the mountains for a long time. She only left the mountains to go to the county town to take the imperial examination and buy some new clothes and cosmetics such as powder, rouge, and eyebrow pencil. However, it rained heavily on the way and she had to stay overnight in a Taoist temple. Because her clothes were soaked, the kind-hearted old Taoist priest lent her a Taoist robe...

But who could have imagined that in the middle of the night, the bailiffs broke into the temple, arrested all the Taoists in the temple, and sent them directly to Fengdu.

This road was naturally a dead end, so he cried all the way.

Among them, Xie Lian is the most wronged one, because she is not a Taoist at all!
But no matter how she explained, no one paid attention. For the government, the higher-ups had given them a target, and they only needed to capture the Taoist priest and send him to Fengdu to complete their mission. So, did it matter whether he was a real Taoist priest or a fake one?
Today, as Emperor Qian devoted himself to seeking the truth and ignored state affairs, Daqian has already declined rapidly. The people are living in poverty, thieves are rampant, and corrupt officials are everywhere...

With the country in such a rotten state, who will care about the lives of ordinary people?
So Xie Lian entered Fengdu, but naturally he was unable to refine the elixir, so he was pushed to the Caishikou and was to be beheaded at three quarters past noon.

An unlucky girl, who had suffered so much, was frightened to death before the executioner swung his knife. Unexpectedly, Xie Lian from another world happened to travel through time and space to her body, and had to take the knife for her...

If Xie Lian were given a pen at this moment, he would definitely write a big "miserable" on it.

"What did I do wrong? Why are you playing this on me?"

Xie Lian, who was tied up, was like a fish on a chopping board, helpless and helpless. She felt like crying but had no tears.

"It's three quarters past noon, execution!"

An official on the stage looked up at the sky and saw that the sun was very strong, so he waved his hand and threw the command arrow on the ground.

"Execution!"

The executioners raised their swords, the blades flashing with a cold light, which made Xie Lian feel a chill in his heart.

"Did he really die like this?"

Xie Lian’s lips turned pale. All the other time travelers were enjoying a good life, but she was the only one who started out in hell.

How could she be willing to accept this?

But the executioners would not stop just because she was unwilling to give up. There was no extra mercy in their eyes. They swung their knives like machines...

scoff!

Without even feeling any pain, Xie Lian only saw the scenery before him spinning around.

Her head had been chopped off and flew to the side...

At the same time, dozens of people's heads flew out, blood gushing out like fountains, and they died with their eyes open.

But he did not die. Instead, miraculously, he was able to see everything.

"what is this?"

He was even able to think, looking in amazement at a bronze tripod suspended in the air, which only she could see.

He looked familiar.

Isn’t this the bronze tripod he bought from the antique market yesterday?
It still had that rusty look, looking like scrap iron, but now there was a mist flowing in the cauldron. When looking closer, one could find that there was a wisp of vapor boiling in the cauldron.

There was really only a wisp, but it flowed out from the cauldron strangely, like a wisp of smoke, and sank into Xie Lian's "corpse".

The next moment, Xie Lian found that she had regained consciousness and could even control her own body.

"I'm not dead?"

She climbed up and walked towards her head almost instinctively.

There was a feeling in his heart that he really couldn't die!

But this scene was extremely shocking to everyone!

"what's the situation?"

"She's not dead, she's alive!"

"Oh my god, is she a monster or a fairy?"

The people cried out in surprise.

Even the officials who had just ordered the beheading and the imperial guards holding weapons showed expressions of horror at this moment.

Xie Lian’s headless body climbed up as if nothing had happened, easily broke the rope, and then walked towards his head.

Then he grabbed his head and turned it with both hands, as if to compare it to prevent it from being crooked...

Then, in full view of everyone, he put the head back on his neck.

The next moment, he opened his eyes, subconsciously moved his neck, and looked at everyone.

……

It took no more than three breaths before I knew who started screaming.

"Ghost!"

Then he ran away.

This led most people to flee like crazy.

The remaining people who did not escape knelt on the ground and kowtowed continuously.

"Severing a head and then being reborn, this is the art of the immortals!"

"Meet the fairy!"

"Please bless me, Fairy Goddess!"

(End of this chapter)