Movie variety show soul travels between two worlds to become a rich man

Chapter 651 The Tribulation of Immortality: The Abyss

Looking at Zhang Qiling, Gao Dongxu smiled slightly, then looked at Wu Xie and Wang Pangzi. After a moment's thought, he said to Zhang Qiling, "Brother, come with me for a moment—"

As he spoke, he walked into the bedroom. Everyone looked at Zhang Qiling, who followed him into the bedroom without any hesitation.

At this moment, Gao Dongxu, who had entered the bedroom first, was holding a bottle of mineral water with the label torn off. When he saw Zhang Qiling come in, he handed the water to him.

"Find a sturdy kettle and pour it in. This is specially made for treating illnesses and injuries. Keep it with you in case you need it."

Taking the bottled water, Zhang Qiling listened to Gao Dongxu's words, looked at the bottled water in his hand, and unconsciously twitched the corners of his mouth. He stared at Gao Dongxu with wide eyes, his eyes filled with astonishment and suspicion.

"What kind of look is that?" Gao Dongxu rolled his eyes. "If you don't believe me, give it back to me."

Zhang Qiling looked embarrassed and hurriedly opened his backpack, putting in bottled water, as if worried that Gao Dongxu might change his mind.

"Take good care of Wu Xie and Fatty." Gao Dongxu smiled as he looked at Zhang Qiling, who seemed much more human now, and gave him his instructions.

"Don't worry—" Zhang Qiling nodded seriously and said.

Gao Dongxu nodded, led Zhang Qiling out of the bedroom, and said to Wu Xie, Wang Pangzi, and Hei Xiazi, "Go back to the capital to prepare. Tomorrow I will have someone deliver your ID cards to Pangzi's shop, and then you can set off. Be careful and have a safe journey."

"Don't worry, leader, I will definitely complete the mission and bring out everything I can!" Fatty Wang immediately said jokingly, standing at attention and saluting Gao Dongxu.

Everyone chuckled. After seeing off Xiao Ge, Wu Xie, and the other three, Gao Dongxu took out the Hidden Sea Flower for A Ning and Ru Xin Ru Qing to admire.

"Is this the Tibetan Sea Flower?" Ru Xin and Ru Qing asked, their brows furrowing slightly as they looked at the Tibetan Sea Flower, its roots soaked in blood, its color a bewitching red.

"So alluring—" Ah Ning exclaimed, her beautiful eyes sparkling with admiration.

“Yes, legend has it that this flower contains the blood of the Queen Mother of the West. It can enable human cells to regenerate infinitely and revive repeatedly, thus granting longevity or even immortality,” Gao Dongxu said.

"What about the side effects?" Ru Xin frowned, looking at Gao Dongxu with a serious expression.

"Why would you ask that?" Gao Dongxu asked Ru Xin with a smile.

"Our master said that the more miraculous the effect of a medicine, the more severe its side effects. This is the balance of the world, without exception. If these flowers can really make people live longer, or even live forever, then its side effects must be irreversible and permanent..."

Ru Qing frowned and looked at Gao Dongxu earnestly, saying, "If you want to prolong your life, our master has passed down several ancient formulas to us. We can make them for you. Although many of the medicinal materials are quite valuable, it is not a problem for you at all. There is absolutely no need to take this so-called miracle drug that is full of uncertainties."

“I don’t approve of you eating them either, unless you’re sure they’re really harmless. Jude Kao has been madly pursuing immortality, but after all these years, all I’ve seen and heard is wishful thinking.” A Ning looked at Gao Dongxu with worry in her eyes. She was genuinely worried that Gao Dongxu would also become obsessed with the illusory pursuit of immortality, just like Jude Kao.

"Hehe, don't worry, I won't take it without fully understanding it. Its side effect is amnesia..." Gao Dongxu laughed, very happy and satisfied with the three women's concern for him. The "marital harmony water" had indeed paid off.

“Zhang Qiling—no wonder, he didn’t look any different in the photos from the Xisha archaeological excavation more than 20 years ago!” Upon hearing about the amnesia, A Ning’s beautiful eyes widened immediately, and she said in realization.

"Amnesia?" Ru Xin murmured, frowning as she fell into deep thought. Suddenly, her beautiful eyes lit up, and she looked at Gao Dongxu, asking, "You just said that this flower contains the blood of the Queen Mother of the West. It can make a person's cells regenerate infinitely and revive repeatedly, right?"

"Yes, that's the legend." Gao Dongxu looked at Ru Xin and asked, "What's wrong?"

“I think I know why its side effect is amnesia,” Ru Xin said, her beautiful eyes sparkling as she looked at the alluring Tibetan sea flower.

"Why?" Gao Dongxu asked Ru Xin with some surprise.

"According to genetics and cell biology, all the cells in the human body are completely replaced every seven years. In other words, every seven years, a person becomes a completely new person. The most amazing thing is that a person's memory is stored in specific cells, and new cells also inherit the 'information' left by old cells to ensure the continuity of people's memory, becoming a copy of the past self, or even a 'degraded version'."

The Tibetan sea flower can cause human cells to regenerate infinitely and revive repeatedly, leading to amnesia. Undoubtedly, the newly generated cells do not carry any memory information. It is a kind of indiscriminate replacement, replacing all cells, whether good or bad, with brand new blank cells.

This explains why people live longer; every seven years, they become newborns, all their memories are wiped clean, and they start storing memories anew.

While this could indeed grant immortality, such an endless cycle would rob life of its meaning and joy.

It's like a computer. No matter how many games, movies, anime, or software you download, it will eventually be formatted and wiped clean. Whether you like it or not, you'll keep downloading them again after a while, but eventually, knowing it's irreversible and will be wiped clean, you'll give up and stop downloading. Keeping the computer clean is fine. If it were a person, they would become an emotionless, immortal monster…” Ru Xin looked at Gao Dongxu, her expression growing increasingly grim as she spoke. Ru Qing and A Ning's expressions also turned equally grim, their eyes fixed on Gao Dongxu, who was deep in thought with furrowed brows.

“Zhang Qiling is so pitiful—” A Ning sighed with pity in her eyes.

"Alright—" Gao Dongxu looked at the three women's worried expressions, first put the Tibetan Sea Flower into his spatial storage, and then smiled and said, "I won't eat it."

"You promise?" Ah Ning reached out and took Gao Dongxu's arm, her beautiful eyes filled with tenderness and worry as she asked.

"I promise—" Gao Dongxu said with a smile, looking at A Ning's beautiful and delicate face.

Then he looked at Ruxin and Ruqing and laughed, "You two little devils, since you have such a good thing as the ancient formula, why didn't you bring it out sooner?"

"You're not sick, you're as strong as a monster, what would we do with you?" Ruqing said with a charming glare.

"It would be good to prepare some for a rainy day," Gao Dongxu said.

“Our master said that we must never expose this to anyone other than ourselves and our closest relatives. A common man is innocent, but possessing a treasure is a crime,” Ru Xin explained.

"Your master is certainly cautious enough," Gao Dongxu couldn't help but chuckle.

"It's not that he's cautious; it's that he learned his lesson through repeated bloody experiences. You know, my master lived to be over 120 years old. He was born into a family of famous doctors, but it was precisely because his medical skills were too superb that his family was destroyed, all his relatives were killed, and he died alone." Ru Qing said with no small amount of emotion.

"Although he took us sisters as his disciples, he only taught us the Thirteen Ghost Needles. As for the more magical and mysterious Nine Rejuvenating Needles, which can be called a divine skill, he would rather take it to his coffin and let it be lost than teach it to us. He said that teaching it to us would harm us and we would die sooner or later because of it."

"The ancient formula we have was given to us by our master before he died. He cried and made a scene, and we finally managed to get his heart to soften," Ru Xin said with some sadness.

Seeing the two sisters looking somewhat sad, Gao Dongxu quickly changed the subject, clearing his throat and raising an eyebrow with a chuckle, "Ahem. Besides those for prolonging life, is there any remedy that can turn a man into a superman?"

A Ning, Ru Xin and Ru Qing both gave him a coquettish look. Ru Qing smiled and said, "Yes, but you don't need it at all. You're already a superman."

"I want to be even more amazing than Superman!" Gao Dongxu said, his eyes burning as he looked intently at Ru Xin, who was both amused and exasperated.

The two sisters, Ruxin and Ruqing, exchanged a glance, knowing that Gao Dongxu had found out and that he would definitely not let things go if they didn't satisfy him.

“We need a very rare and precious main ingredient. According to my master, it can only be found in the Valley of Death in the Kunlun Mountains. This main ingredient is called Suoyang, and it also has another name, the Elixir of Immortality,” Ru Xin said, looking at Gao Dongxu.

Ru Qing continued, "In his notes on Yuan Dynasty history, *Nancun Chuogenglu*, written during the late Yuan and early Ming periods, Tao Zongyi recorded that 'In the fields of Tatars, wild horses or dragons... After a long time, they sprouted like bamboo shoots, plump at the top and thin at the bottom, with scales and veins connected... Once they received yin energy, they grew rapidly and vigorously...'"

Gao Dongxu's lips twitched. Well, this move has directly targeted the Kunlun Mountain Death Valley.

Death Valley, known as the "Gates of Hell" of the Kunlun Mountains, is one of the world's five most famous death valleys. It's a forbidden zone intertwined with anomalous magnetic fields, lightning storms, blizzards, deadly swamps, the legend of the praying mantis, and toxic sulfide gases.

Go to Death Valley to find that medicinal herb... Cough cough, let's forget about it for now. Anyway, he's already a superman. Even if he finds the herb, it'll just be icing on the cake.

Just as Gao Dongxu and Ruxin Ruqing were learning about the ancient prescriptions for longevity and what medicines were needed, his phone rang.

Upon taking it out, Gao Dongxu saw it was a bank notification text message that the money had been deposited. He raised an eyebrow and said with a smile, "That sly Xie Lianhuan finally transferred the money."

The three women's beautiful eyes sparkled. The next moment, their phones rang again. Gao Dongxu answered and said with a smile, "We've received the money. Did you get the artifact? Hehe, now that you have it, go back to the capital and tell him that Wu Xie went to Mirror Palace."

After hanging up the phone, Gao Dongxu laughed and said, "With this windfall, let's go spend some money! I'll pay for everything!"

The three women, their beautiful eyes sparkling and their smiles radiant, cheered happily and pulled Gao Dongxu along as they walked outside.

While Gao Dongxu was shopping at Hisense Plaza, Tianjin's most upscale luxury shopping mall, Director Luo in Beijing had already received authorization from the top leader to gather top experts, bring along various high-precision instruments, and form a grand convoy heading towards Xikai Church.

(End of this chapter)