Chapter 109 The Night Talks
"Brother." Chen Congwu lay leisurely on the leaves and said to the sky, "Are you going to the door?"
Yang Yuhan was stunned by his question. He originally wanted to deny it, but was worried that it would damage the reputation of the Chu family. He had to laugh and said, "Hehe, that's right."
"Haha, not bad." Chen Congwu praised, "You are better than I think."
Yang Yuhan said calmly: "You have over-rewarded."
Chen Congwu waved his hand lazily. After a while, he continued, "Have you heard of An Changzai before?"
Yang Yuhan shook his head: "No."
"Hehe..." Chen Congwu said helplessly, "You young people... are always indifferent to external affairs."
Yang Yuhan smiled and said, "Can you please tell me?"
When Chen Congwu heard this, he immediately sat up and said, "Okay."
Yang Yuhan said: "Let me listen carefully."
Chen Congwu turned to him and then brewed for a moment, saying, "Actually... An Changzai was originally a famous doctor.
Not only is he good at medical skills, he is also good at academics. In addition to saving lives and helping the wounded, he often punishes evil and eliminates evil. He is deeply loved by the people and is known as the "Xuanlin Saint Hand".
If nothing unexpected happened, he should have lived like this in his life, but in the middle of the road... his life trajectory was changed by the battle to chase the gods three years ago.
After that battle to chase the gods, An Chang couldn't bear to see so many people suffering from separation from life and death, so he had a thought, whether he could find a way to make the sudden disaster... borrow other bodies to continue to survive.
Of course, at the beginning, although he had this idea, he had no idea where to start.
Until the winter two years ago.
One day, he was collecting herbs in the mountains and happened to meet an old man with a young face. During the conversation between the two, the old man learned about his confusion and was moved by his desire to save the world, so he told him a story that was circulated within their family.
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It is said that more than 360 years ago, his ancestors met a masked man in a village outside Xingxing Mountain. He personally saw him take out his soul from the body of a seriously injured mountain citizen and put it on another man. The man had become an empty shell due to the attack of the soul-devouring man, but now he has been reborn by integrating a new soul. It is really incredible.
The villagers there all thought that this person had the ability to recover his soul and regarded him as a god. Only the old man's ancestors had seen some clues due to his academic practices throughout the ages, but he still couldn't understand how that person did it, because the man did not use magic like seals or refining. He just took out his soul and put it in. Then he left the village and disappeared without a trace.
This incident plagued the old man for three hundred years, and just as they were about to forget it, more than 60 years ago, he, who was still young, encountered a strange thing again.
That day, he was resting by the Jiaolai River when he suddenly saw a straw sandal floating upstream. He felt uneasy and rushed upstream, but when he arrived, it was too late. Although the young man who threw away his shoes had been rescued, the middle-aged man who came to help him had his thighs broken by the stinging footfish, and a hole was cut on his belly, and he seemed to be inactive.
At the critical moment, a masked human fire suddenly passed by, and with just one palm, the foot fish was so scared that it was scattered. Then he reached out and grabbed it, and then pressed the man's soul into the foot fish's body. Then he did not stop and ran into the woods by the river in a short while."
Hearing this, Yang Yuhan couldn't help but wonder: "The foot fish he mentioned is Han Siwen, the second leader of the Water God Palace, the 'River Demon'?"
Chen Congwu nodded and said, "It is precisely because the old man has always been secretly rumored about this matter, the villagers there are often indignant because of Han Siwen's death. Whenever they encounter it, they will run around and tell him, and then gather the strength of everyone to attack him.
Han Siwen was clumsy and didn't know how to explain to the villagers. He was also simple and unwilling to hurt the villagers, so he could only avoid them everywhere and hide around.
Later, those who understood a little bit, only thought that Han Siwen had occupied the fish consciousness and did not really understand the truth."
Yang Yuhan suddenly said, "So that's it." At the same time, he felt very strange in his heart: the masked man mentioned by the old man seemed like Wu Zixu no matter how he heard it, because only Tai Chi can lift the soul so easily, or his knowledge of this kind of mysterious method is too shallow, and his understanding of this kind of mysterious method is far from enough; and as for Chen Congwu... he always felt that his understanding of An Changzai was a bit too detailed, and even as a famous detective, he should not be so detailed.
He was still thinking about it, but suddenly he was pulled back to his senses by Chen Congwu's words: "Well. Let's get back to the point.
On the one hand, the experience of the old man and his ancestors has proved that the soul transfer is indeed feasible; on the other hand, although An Chang could not find a record of the methods used by the two masked men, the old man had a sentence that it could be improved on the basis of sealing or refining techniques.
So, after the two parted, An Changzai began to study the matter wholeheartedly.
Half a year later, he finally combined sealing and medical skills to create the prototype of the soul-moving method.
The reason why it is said to be a prototype is that at the beginning, if you want your soul to leave your body, you must use a mixed potion that can cause hallucination and paralyze people. Moreover, the separated soul is incomplete, resulting in the unsatisfactory result. Although people come alive, they all have either stupid or crazy.
Later, he thought hard and created a spell to completely strip the soul based on the medical principles of the mixed potion. The result was also very satisfying. More and more people came to seek medical treatment and soon became a constant stream. Later... some elderly wealthy businessmen even spent a lot of money to move their souls, and they regarded this technique as a magic technique that could live forever. People in the world heard of it and flocked to him, making him famous in the four countries for a while.
However, An Chang was dedicated to serving the people, and all the requests of the wealthy businessmen were rejected one by one. However, due to the excessive number of medical practitioners, the lost bodies were in short supply. In the end, people had to use death row prisoners to fill the gap. Of course, the nearby yamen were happy. The adults not only created blessings for the people, but also sold death row prisoners to make a fortune. It was a killing two birds with one stone.
But there is only one thing that cannot be solved, that is, the price of death row prisoners has been rising all the way, and it soon reaches the point where the people cannot afford it. At this time, the wealthy businessmen took the opportunity to propose conditions. As long as he is willing to move his soul for himself, he can help the poor buy a certain number of death row prisoners. In desperation, An Changzai had to agree to their request.
But not long after, all those who had received soul art had accidents one after another. They began to develop a strong fascination with the pleasure of death and rebirth, and returned to the clinic and asked An Changzai to use the magic technique again..."
Chapter completed!