Food gives me an entry, I will be invincible if I stay alive

Chapter 192 The Old Man Who Leaks the Sea, Strange Ghosts and Curious Objects
Chen Xu stopped and looked back, seemingly casually glancing at the stall in front of him.

In reality, he was looking at the entry itself, as well as the object that displayed it.

On the stall in front of me, there was a jumble of objects, some exquisite and some obscure.

Exquisite items included a precious mirror that glowed with an eerie light, spiritual herbs stored in a box, and talismans exuding a sinister aura... Among them were even some dark pills that clearly emanated a malevolent energy.

This was no ordinary stall. Although the stall owner's appearance was extremely strange, appearances can be deceiving.

Judging from the valuable items on the stall, the stall owner must be very skilled.

Sure enough, as soon as Chen Xu stopped, the tray ghost hurriedly pulled him and whispered, "This is the Leaky Sea Old Man. Its mouth can chew anything up. It's incredibly powerful."

But it spills everything it eats, and the things on its stall are usually unaffordable.

Although they spoke in hushed tones, the old man who leaked the sea clearly understood the conversation between the tray ghost and Chen Xu.

Suddenly, the old man who had been sitting quietly in front of the stall grinned, revealing a mouthful of sharp, white teeth like blades.

Its white teeth were menacing, but when it opened its mouth, there was no tongue inside.

Meanwhile, because of the action of opening its mouth, the black hole on its chin became even more obvious.

The black hole was bottomless; though it was right in front of us, it seemed to connect to an endless abyss.

Its smile seemed to transport the abyss across the infinite unknown, arriving here from the darkness.

A powerful and unpredictable aura spread out invisibly, causing the ghostly figures at the surrounding stalls, as well as the walking buyers, to involuntarily dodge.

The tray ghost cried out "Ouch!" and immediately pretended to run away.

However, it was being dragged along by Chen Xu and the short ghost using spirit control techniques, and with this momentum, it couldn't move at all.
The Spirit Control Technique is like the string of a kite, and Chen Xu only allows this "string" to be three feet long. The tray ghost is like a duck with its throat choked.

It could only let out a hoarse cry and hurriedly said, "My ghost friend, the things at Old Man Louhai's stall require at least ten years of lifespan to buy!"
If one cannot give up more than ten years of one's lifespan, one must obtain the most delicious food in the world.

"It must be something that the Old Man of the Leaky Sea can actually eat, not something that leaks out of his mouth. Only then will he sell it!"

The tray ghost explained all the rules of the leaky sea old man's stall clearly in one breath.

The old man grinned and said in a deep voice, "You little brat, you understand. That's right. Everything on my stall has a name and a name, so it can't be bought and sold in ordinary ways."

He had an imposing presence, but when he spoke, his tone was serious, so he didn't seem like the kind of ghost who was unreasonable.

But not far away, one of the ghosts sneered, "Things like the Yellow Spring Pill and the Mysterious Mirror, you could say they're worth ten years of your lifespan."

But your stall also has a lot of broken stones, rotten branches and other junk.

"How can these scraps of paper, stones, and twigs be worth ten years' worth of a spirit tablet?"

Perhaps because there were so many ghosts bustling back and forth among the stalls, the ghost hiding among them was particularly bold.

This questioning doesn't seem to indicate that Lou Haiweng intends to find the ghost among the ghosts.

It only said: "These scraps of paper, stones, and twigs are all spiritual objects that someone retrieved from the underworld."

Although it is not as well-known as the Yellow Springs Elixir or the Mysterious Mirror, it must have its own unique features, as it allows one to remain uncorrupted in the Yellow Springs.

This business is conducted with integrity. Although these items are difficult to authenticate, this business does not charge exorbitant prices.

Buy ten Yellow Spring Pills, and you can choose any one of these nameless trinkets as a gift... Would you dare to buy them?

After asking the last question, Louhai Weng grinned, revealing his mouth full of sharp teeth, and then gave a seemingly simple and honest laugh.

A sigh suddenly erupted from the groups of ghosts on both sides: "What are we buying? Who can afford it? Let's go, let's go..."

"Hey, look! What's that hanged ghost doing?"

"Hey, that hanged ghost's technique of concealing objects is pretty good. Whoa, what's he pulling out?"

The hanged ghost was none other than Chen Xu. Just as the ghosts were shouting and about to leave, Chen Xu suddenly pulled out a red clay stove right there in the street.

A small red clay stove with flames burning was not enough; Chen Xu then took out an earthenware pot.

The tray ghost was pacing anxiously, trying to urge Chen Xu to leave, when he was suddenly dumbfounded.

It hurriedly said, "My friend, what are you doing? Buying a Yellow Spring Pill with ten years of lifespan isn't a good deal..."

But Chen Xu said, "I will not buy a single Yellow Spring Pill."

Just as the tray ghost breathed a sigh of relief, he heard Chen Xu say, "I'd like to buy ten Yellow Spring Pills, or this Mysterious Mirror."

The tray ghost was lucky it didn't split directly off the short ghost's hand.

Then I heard Old Man Louhai grin and say, "Mysterious Mirror, you little devil, you'll need a hundred years of lifespan in the underworld!"

Chen Xu said, "You originally said that if it wasn't in exchange for your lifespan, then you would have to exchange it for the most delicious food in the world."

The old man with the leaky sea shrugged, his dark chin agape, and said, "That's exactly right, there's nothing I can do about it."

My chin has always been so deep that it seems to lead straight to the endless sea, and no matter what someone else eats, I can never get any of it.

Even if it's a miraculous elixir or a blood-soaked delicacy, once chewed up in the mouth, it can't be swallowed.

Only the finest delicacies in the world can make someone grow a tongue and swallow them whole.

"Little brat, if you can do that, why not sell me the Mystery Mirror?"

The Mysterious Mirror can reveal what a ghost cared about most in life and predict its fate. After being roasted and ground into powder, it can be used as a seasoning to harmonize the yin and yang and the five elements.

The Tongxuan Mirror is quite effective.

But what Chen Xu truly wanted this time was not the Tongxuan Mirror.

It was a black tree branch on Louhaiweng's stall that looked like a withered, decaying tree branch.

The entry for this tree branch is truly astonishing:
[A remnant of an innate spiritual root, its specific effects and analysis are unknown. It is currently sealed with negative energy and requires vast amounts of literary energy to dissipate day and night; perhaps then the truth can be glimpsed.]

Even with Chen Xu's talent for creating entries, this is the first time he's ever seen an entry with a question mark!
Although the term was marked with a question mark, the mere mention of "innate spiritual root" was enough for Chen Xu to pay any price to obtain it.

Chen Xu never expected to find such a surprise in the Yellow Springs Ghost Market.

He had always felt that the legends of immortals in this world were very strange, and there was always a sense of incongruity in that they were not truly immortals.

After all, what kind of immortal can only live for a few hundred or a thousand years?

Of course, the upper limit is different for each world.

It's absurd to say that immortals aren't immortals just because they can only live for a few hundred years; that's illogical.

This only shows that lifespan is indeed an extremely precious thing in this world.

Even immortals cannot live forever.

But the appearance of this remnant of the [Innate Spiritual Root] gave Chen Xu a different idea.

Then, recalling the Food God Scroll he himself cultivated, the highest cultivation realm was returning to the true nature and uniting with the Dao!
However, the highest realm of Taoism in this world is only in the state of emptiness.

Transform into the void, enter the subtle, return to the true nature, and unite with the Dao.

The three subsequent realms are completely unknown to the world.

Is it possible that only by merging with the Dao can one truly embark on the "path to immortality"?
If there are innate spiritual roots in the world, how can we know that there is no such thing as immortality?

(End of this chapter)