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

Chapter 458 Spring Returns After All Calamities, Where is Immortality?
In the secret chamber, the elixir entered his stomach, and he was rejuvenated.

This scene truly happened right before people's eyes.

Chen Xu stared intently at all of this.

With a series of cracking sounds, Wei Li's body, which had been weakened by years of alcoholism and whose back was hunched, suddenly straightened up.

He stretched his spine and limbs, and his face, which had been swollen and puffy with middle age just a moment ago, regained the firmness of a young man in the blink of an eye.

Her previously sparse hair suddenly became fuller, and her cloudy eyes became clear again.

Aside from his unusually flushed face due to his excitement, Wei Li at this moment was the epitome of a spirited young man.

Regain your youth with just one pill!
What kind of miraculous medicine is this?

If such a scene were to occur before the eyes of the world, countless frenzied pursuits would likely ensue.

Chen Xu's eyes lit up.

He stared intently at Wei Li, as if he were witnessing both an astonishing miracle and a bizarre dream that could never happen in reality.

He murmured to himself:
"Impossible! Rejuvenation? Is this really true? How is this possible... There really is such a miraculous elixir in the world!"

I, I…"

As he spoke, he suddenly turned his head to look at the cauldron.

There was also a hint of madness in his expression.

Chen Xu was not truly in a frenzy; in fact, his mind was frighteningly clear at that moment.

However, some of the shock was not entirely staged.

Chen Xu possessed a talent for identifying terms; he had clearly seen the terms on the pills as soon as the red-robed Taoist took them out:
The Myriad Tribulations Rejuvenation Pill is made from a variety of rare materials and refined using the true fire of the Nine Provinces Dragon Vein.

It contains traces of the Emperor's hair, the blood of a great Confucian scholar, and the ashes of a golden elixir...

This elixir is made by taking the bones of thirty-two kinds of demonic beasts as the main ingredients, mixing them with the essence and blood of living people, and adding the greed, anger, ignorance, and resentment of mortals.

Taking it can instantly stimulate the user's vital energy potential, turn gray hair black, restore youth, and return the body to its most youthful and peak state...

Just looking at this much information already reveals an astonishing amount.

The most shocking thing is that this elixir actually contains "the hair of the human emperor, the blood of a great Confucian scholar, and the ash of a golden elixir".

Human Emperor, Great Confucian Scholar, Golden Elixir!
This inevitably brings to mind the emperor, Wen Daoyuan, and certain living masters of the Golden Elixir.

Chen Xu had always believed that Wen Daoyuan might be in danger, and from this perspective, he was very likely being subjected to continuous blood sampling.

Therefore, Feng Yuanbo's earlier guess should be correct.

But what about the Human Emperor's hair and the Golden Elixir Ash?
Could it be that their initial assumption that the emperor was the root cause of everything was actually wrong?
The emperor was also imprisoned and murdered along with Wen Daoyuan, and became some kind of alchemical material.

This is not impossible, after all, everyone knows that the treacherous minister Liu Shao controls the government...

But Chen Xu still had many things he couldn't understand, and he felt that things were becoming more and more confusing.

However, he hadn't finished reading the entry for the "Eternal Rejuvenation Pill" yet.

The talent attribute also has a second half of annotation:
[Note: This pill has a limited duration of effect after consumption, ranging from two or three months to a few days.]

Those who consume the elixir will inevitably die from exhaustion of their vital essence and potential, transforming into Great Desire Blood Pills after death. Large quantities of these pills can be collected to refine advanced elixirs.

In other words, although the Eternal Rejuvenation Pill is a medicinal pill, the person who takes it is the raw material.

Chen Xu was not too surprised by this.

After all, where in this world is there truly a free lunch?

There are no free lunches that fall into your lap so easily; they're traps.

However, the entry for the "Eternal Rejuvenation Pill" is not yet complete; there are subsequent entries:
[If one consumes the Myriad Tribulations Rejuvenation Pill, and uses primordial Qi to activate karmic fire to refine and eliminate impurities, drawing upon the original essence, a single pill can extend one's life by ten years.] The deadly Myriad Tribulations Rejuvenation Pill, when correctly consumed by Chen Xu, can extend one's life by ten years with just one pill!
Having investigated this far, Chen Xu's expression, though seven parts acting, also contained three parts genuine emotion.

He suddenly turned his head and stared at the cauldron, his gaze burning as if he were looking at a lifespan of a hundred or a thousand years.

I wonder how many Eternal Rejuvenation Pills are in this cauldron?

As if mesmerized, Chen Xu began to walk step by step toward the cauldron in the center of the secret chamber.

Beside him, Wei Li burst into wild laughter: "Hahaha, I've become young again! I've really become young again!"

A hundred years of lifespan! So this is what it feels like to live a hundred years longer.

I am now full of power again, and I can kill ten Zhang Laizis with one punch!
To hell with cockfighting! I want to study. I can study for another ten years, pass the imperial examinations, gain talent, and live a life of fertile land, beautiful houses, fine wine, and beautiful women.

What is Zhang Laizi anyway? What is he anyway... Hahaha!

He laughed loudly and turned his head, fixing his gaze once again on the cauldron.

"Immortal Master, Immortal Master, I would like to ask for another elixir. Please grant me another elixir."

If I could obtain another elixir, I would surely have even more energy, and this year I would pass the county-level exam, next year the provincial-level exam, and the year after that the imperial exam.

"At that time, I will offer ten thousand taels of gold..."

He knelt down again with a thud, and crawled on his knees toward the cauldron with his head tilted back.

Inside the secret chamber, there were three people and a pill-making cauldron.

The red-robed Taoist stood silently and compassionately beside the cauldron, his eyes lowered as he looked at the two people who were simultaneously approaching it.

He was waiting for the person who was kneeling and crawling to prostrate himself, and also waiting for the person who was standing to kneel down.

As the whisk swept past him, an invisible yet irresistible force suddenly emanated from it, pushing Wei Li, who was kneeling on the ground, backward.

Chen Xu also stumbled backward, nearly falling to the ground.

The red-robed Taoist priest rebuked, "You scoundrel! If you want the elixir, then so be it! How can you be so greedy and shameless?"

Wei Li let out a painful cry, as if a bucket of ice water had been poured over his feverish head, instantly bringing him back to his senses, his back immediately drenched in cold sweat.

Chen Xu swayed, and amidst Wei Li's repeated pleas of "Immortal Master, spare my life," he once again walked towards the alchemy cauldron.

At the same time, he uttered a fearful whisper: "I...I..."

He only said two words before rushing to the alchemy cauldron. At the same time, his body swayed, and his knees were about to bend downwards, as if he was about to kneel down.

At that moment, Chen Xu raised his palm and struck out with lightning speed.

He instantly grabbed the red-robed Taoist's whisk, and the powerful true energy in his palm surged out like a mountain collapsing and a tsunami crashing.

Even a lion uses its full strength to hunt a rabbit. Chen Xu couldn't figure out his opponent's strength, so this move was his all-out effort.

He simply didn't use magic; instead, he used the blacksmithing techniques he had learned in the Divine Mechanism Sect.

One pull, one tug, one collapse.

The immense force unleashed in that instant could easily shatter a mountain peak.

Caught off guard, the red-robed Taoist priest's whisk flew out of his hand, and thousands of whisk threads instantly broke like falling snow.

"You brat!" The red-robed Taoist was shocked and furious, but the backlash from the destruction of the magic weapon instantly shook his internal organs, and his throat tasted bloody.

Knowing he couldn't fight back, he immediately retreated rapidly.

But then Chen Xu placed one hand on the cauldron, as if he were about to take the entire cauldron away.

The red-robed Taoist priest's eyes flashed with a shrewd light, and he immediately let out a mocking laugh:
"Foolish! The Earthly Cauldron is connected to the Jade Capital Dragon Vein. How could it be moved by human power? Ah... no, this is impossible!"

(End of this chapter)