Asked About The World Of Mortals

Chapter 4: Unbelieving in Immortals

After slowly finishing the wine in the pot, Qin Yi glanced at the sundial in the courtyard, calculated the time again, and turned back to the fire. The fire swayed by the wind, and he immediately protected the wind direction carefully, never leaving again, staring at the fire attentively without blinking.

It was unknown how long he had been staring, but the clay pot on the fire slightly shook, as if a faint light appeared and a fragrance filled the air. Qin Yi quickly covered the pot, and the fire went out.

Carefully uncovering the pot, a green pill lay quietly inside, with a fleeting radiance surrounding it.

"Is it done?"

"It's done," Liu Su's voice resurfaced, "You claim to have no desires, but you can endure the boredom of doing things. How can you stay so focused on something that doesn't move? You can stay still for even longer if you give me a game."

"...You treat alchemy as a game?"

"More or less, it's just leveling up..."

"Forget it," Liu Su sighed, "Anyway, the pill you made before only relieved the invasion of resentment and illness, it wasn't an antidote. This pill is the true elixir that can cure a hundred poisons with one pill. Of course, it's only the lowest grade of Ninth Grade, limited to curing earthly poisons, and it also depends on the degree of poisoning. But it can be said that you have made progress."

Qin Yi had no expression on his face, but his heart was surging.

Holding the pill in his palm, he could truly feel a kind of energy circulating within it, as if it contained many profound meanings that couldn't be discerned.

After more than two months, he finally refined the first "elixir" that transcended the "ordinary" level.

This was achieved without practicing any cultivation method, without a trace of spiritual power, without special medicinal herbs, special fire, or special alchemy furnace. It was purely accomplished through skillful alchemy techniques and control of the fire.

"Now do you believe that I didn't deceive you?" Liu Su said coldly.

Qin Yi went to the corner of the wall and picked up the wolf-toothed club. The club was black as winter, but under the moonlight, a faint dark red color could be vaguely seen, as if it contained remnants of blood from thousands of years, giving it a somewhat ferocious appearance. He sighed, "Even without cultivation, I can still set up formations and refine elixirs. The method you taught me must be a very advanced technique, right?"

"It's also because you are compatible with it. You are the most suitable person I have ever seen for cultivating immortality," Liu Su praised instead of arguing with him, "With such comprehension and patience, clarity and purity, many self-proclaimed cultivators can't compare to you."

"Just stop urging me to cultivate immortality every day. Life is the most important thing. Possessing someone else's body is terrifying to think about. Who would dare to gamble?"

"It's just that you're afraid of death," Liu Su said coldly, "You didn't dare to take any of the pills I taught you to refine before. Don't think I don't know what you meant by eating jujube pills. How do you want to name this new pill?"

Qin Yi didn't answer, he stared at the pill in a daze, and suddenly said, "You want to teach me cultivation so that I can help you reshape your body in the future, right?"

Liu Su replied impatiently, "Yes."

"Then why did you refuse when I suggested finding a new master for you? Many seekers of immortality would treasure you. Why bother competing with me? You've been grinding me day after day, saying the same things over and over again. Is it interesting?"

Liu Su said coldly, "In these two to three months, you've been wary of me, but I've also been observing you. Although you are fearful and suspicious, your heart is kind, but others may not be. I am just a remnant soul without any self-defense power, and I'm also afraid of being entrusted to the wrong person. Myriad Tribulations will not be repeated."

Qin Yi smiled and said, "You, such a malicious spirit, are actually afraid of being entrusted to the wrong person?"

"I am not a spirit... forget it," Liu Su said casually, "It is precisely because I am... a spirit that I know better what the outcome will be when encountering someone of the same kind."

"That makes sense."

"Of course it does," Liu Su said leisurely, "After waiting in the mountains for tens of thousands of years, I have a lot of patience. Since you are interested in alchemy and formations, one day you won't be able to resist practicing cultivation with me... To be honest, if you were to abandon me, would you be willing?"

Qin Yi twitched the corner of his mouth but didn't say anything.

Liu Su sneered, "Just like the little story you told me, the essence of human nature is indeed fragrant."

"Did I ever tell you about another essence of human nature?"

"What?"

"Parrot," Qin Yi said with a straight face, "If you don't understand, it doesn't matter. Just know that it's very much like you."

"Swish!" A silver light, like a flowing ribbon, Li Qingjun's spear pierced through the sudden appearance of a green python, nailing it to the mountain wall. This girl dressed as a boy unexpectedly possessed exceptional martial arts skills, indicating that her cultivation had reached a high level.

A faint poisonous gas dispersed, causing her to furrow her brows and wave her hand to disperse it.

Li Qinglin seemed confident in his sister's abilities, as he did not make a move but instead carefully observed the situation in the mountains. Clouds and mist enveloped the mountains, even drifting over the area where the two of them were, but it was faint and did not significantly affect their vision. He reached out his hand to touch it, but the clouds seemed to avoid him and dispersed instead.

"Qingjun, do you feel uncomfortable after entering the mountains?" he asked.

"I feel a chilling sensation from my scalp to my bones, and my skin feels a bit numb..." Li Qingjun shivered, crossing her arms. "It's like the sound of two spears rubbing against each other..."

Before she finished speaking, a sense of horror suddenly arose, causing their scalps to tingle. They turned their heads and saw a wild boar, completely red, leaping out from behind a rock. Its sharp fangs were several feet long, and the stench of blood emanated from its mouth, even from a distance.

Li Qinglin also raised his long spear.

"Roar!" The wild boar charged forward, kicking up a cloud of dust.

The two of them scattered to the left and right, and the wild boar abruptly came to a stop, leaving a pit in the ground with its hooves.

Li Qingjun was about to attack with her spear, but Li Qinglin's spear had already arrived, its dazzling sharpness fiercely stabbing the wild boar's head, piercing straight through. The wild boar struggled and roared, but it did not die immediately. Its fangs were still attempting to counterattack, as if they had a life of their own, with an extremely eerie and bizarre shape.

With a light shout, Li Qingjun gracefully leaped up, and her long spear plunged directly into the wild boar's mouth. After struggling for a moment, the wild boar finally fell silent.

They quickly dispatched the fierce beast in just a few moves, but they did not feel any sense of accomplishment, as if it were only natural. Li Qinglin looked at the corpse of the wild boar and suddenly smiled. "The villagers at the foot of the mountain are quite formidable. With such fierce beasts in the mountains, they still manage to live happily. Qin Yi lives directly at the foot of the mountain, isn't she afraid of death?"

Li Qingjun hesitated and said, "Could it be that there is a hidden cultivator protecting the villagers in the mountains..."

"No," Li Qinglin said decisively, "There are no immortals in this world!"

As if in response to his words, a low sobbing sound echoed from all directions in the thin mist, as if filled with resentment, lingering in their hearts and unable to be dispelled.

Li Qinglin listened to the sobbing sound without being moved, pondering, "I think this mist is not immortal energy at all, but rather the gathering of resentful spirits. This wild boar was probably influenced by some dirty thing..."

At least half of his judgment was correct. The mist was indeed filled with resentment, but the mutation of the wild boar had nothing to do with it.

Li Qingjun asked curiously, "Then why is it a bright red color, looking so ethereal?"

Li Qinglin said indifferently, "Who said that red mist is ethereal? What color is blood?"

"Oh..."

"So the mist is actually avoiding me because I have experienced battles on the battlefield, and the aura on my body may be stronger than the resentment that has been dissipating for thousands of years."

Li Qingjun was convinced by her older brother's words and said, "So perhaps many people died here thousands of years ago?"

"I don't know, but it seems that it is about to dissipate soon." Li Qinglin reached out and took out Qin Yi's pill, shaking his head and smiling. "The so-called poisonous miasma in the mountains is actually caused by the invasion of resentment. The pills made by those mediocre alchemists are more effective than genuine detoxification pills... This is the secret of Qin Yi's pill that can cure all poisons."

Li Qingjun widened her eyes and asked, "You... Did you come here for that?"

"In this world, there may be all kinds of monsters and spirits, as well as spells to capture ghosts and eliminate demons, but there is no true method of immortality. Otherwise, why would so many emperors be obsessed with it, yet not a single person has achieved immortality? With our martial dao accomplishments, prolonging our lives is already extraordinary, and we can also defeat demons and monsters. So why do we need to seek immortality?" Li Qinglin said firmly, "Donghua Zi only used some mediocre techniques to deceive the king and disrupt the court. I will bring back an alchemist to expose his tricks."

"So you came here specifically for Qin Yi!" Li Qingjun stomped her foot angrily. "You claimed to accompany me in search of immortality, but you were actually here to verify the rumors and find out if she is the person you are looking for!"

Li Qinglin turned to look at her and repeated, "There are no immortals in this world."

Li Qingjun ran down the mountain in a huff, saying, "I'm going to expose that Qin person's true face and see if you're bringing back a fraud just like Donghua Zi!"

Li Qinglin watched her descend the mountain, shaking his head and smiling. Then he looked up at the clouds and mist in the mountains and continued walking towards higher ground.

He wanted to see the strange tiger that Qin Yi said would not pursue people.

(End of this chapter)