"No...... I don't eat ......" Master Li's voice became lower and lower, and he struggled for a long time before lowering his head.

That's one option.

The Taoist priest chose immortality without being human or ghost, but Master Li chose to die like a human. I'm afraid that only their own hearts can measure what is right and what is wrong, right?

The Taoist priest was silent for a long time before standing up for Lord Li's corpse before slowly shaking his head, and finally stood up and walked outside along the edge of the cave.

I kept watching that Taoist priest go in and out of the cave, sometimes for a day, sometimes for half a day, and I didn't know what he was doing.

I don't know how long it took before the Taoist priest stopped, stretched out his finger and wrote on the cave wall: "The gate of heaven is closed and the ghost door is open, and the moon passes by the blade but the sea." The living go to the dead, and it is better to go to a desperate situation than to go white. ”

"Song of Life"?

Ruan Dalong and I immediately looked at each other and were stunned: "He wrote the "Song of Life"?"

Before the two of us could react, the sight was like the tide receding in all directions, and Ruan Dalong and I were still standing on the deck of a Tang Dynasty warship, which was still floating on the sea not far from the top of the mountain.

In that vision, we experienced several days and nights, but in reality only a few minutes passed.

Ruan Dalong hesitated: "What should I do?"

"Get off deck!" I turned and went into the cabin, everything in the cabin was exactly the same as what I had seen in the illusion, except that the Taoist priest meditating in the cabin had become a dried corpse.

When the Taoist priest saw me walk in, he slowly opened his eyes: "Poor Dao, Li Qingyang is polite." ”

I said in a deep voice, "You made the illusion just now?"

A little trick made Xiaoyou laugh. Daoist Li said with a smile: "At the beginning, if Poor Dao didn't rely on some illusions, how could he win His Majesty's trust and go to sea to find immortals?"

Daoist Li muttered: "Actually, the warlocks who deceived Qin Shi Huang and Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty back then were just proficient in illusion. Forget it, don't talk about these ......"

Daoist Li's statement is tenable in a sense, the guards in the palace may not be proficient in Jianghu tricks, but they still have eyesight, and ordinary tricks can't hide their eyes, but mastery of illusion masters is another matter.

When Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty called himself a Taoist priest of the White Bat Spirit, didn't he convince the Emperor of the Ages?

There is also the idiom "chicken dog ascending to heaven" left by Liu An, the king of Huainan, can it be interpreted as Liu An's ascension, maybe the eighth prince who taught Liu An the secret art of alchemy is also a master of illusion.

Daoist Li continued: "Everything you saw just now is what Poor Dao has experienced, and the secrets of this island are all in the word elixir?"

I said in a deep voice: "This is really Penglai Immortal Island?"

"Probably not!" Daoist Li shook his head and said, "But this must be the gathering place of the Ancient Danshi." Countless Danshi have opened furnaces here for alchemy. There are many relics of Danshi on this island, but there are also strange beasts guarding them. ”

I looked at the other person again, "What do you mean?"

Daoist Li said, "How do you think all the strange beasts on the island came from?"

Without waiting for me to answer, Daoist Li explained, "Those rare birds and beasts on the island are nothing more than the residue of the pill, or simply the pill that has become what they are now, aren't we the same?"

I couldn't help but think of the legend that Ruan Dalong said about the immortal who imprisoned the kraken on the island.

If, according to Daoist Li's statement, I am afraid it will be a different scene.

Thousands of years ago, an ancient Danshi discovered a small island with abundant spiritual energy and a hidden location, which was very suitable for refining elixir, so they occupied this island to seek the way of immortality on the island, and wanted to practice the immortal elixir.

The Danshi who occupied the desert island began refining the elixir again and again, and poured the residue of the elixir into the sea, and the nearby creatures were affected by the elixir and discovered the mutation, and a place that should have been haunted by the aura gradually became a Jedi under the erosion of the elixir, and the mutated sea beast became a demon.

However, the mutated sea beasts can no longer leave the environment changed by the elixir, so they can only survive near the island, and occasionally go out to hunt, and over time, there is a legend of the so-called "fairy prisoner".

But in the eyes of Xu Fu and others, this island is the so-called Penglai Immortal Mountain.

Someone once questioned that Xu Fuchu was still looking for Xianshan. First, why did Xu Fu have to go to sea to find Penglai? Second, how could Xu Fu conclude that Penglai must have hidden the immortal elixir.

The first question, later generations have already explained, that is, near today's Penglai City, mirages often occur due to geographical reasons. The ancients regarded the ethereal mountains and islands in the clouds as fairy mountains. This is the origin of the Overseas Three Immortals Mountain.

The second question can only be explained by the words of Daoist Li. This island was originally the alchemy of the ancient Danshi. The status of this island in the hearts of Danshi later was like Shaolin and Wudang in the minds of those who practiced martial arts, and it was a holy place that everyone yearned for.

Xu Fu should know the approximate location of this island, so he will return to the immortal.

But how do I explain the whirlpool around the island's periphery?

While I was thinking about it, Daoist Li had already continued: "There is nothing edible on this island, let alone a water source that can be drunk. Even if you grab a handful of grass and eat it, you are taking poison. The only thing you can eat on the island is pills. ”

I stared at the other party and said in a deep voice, "How about eating the pill?

"No!" Daoist Li shook his head and said, "We will become like this because we have taken the wrong pill. ”

Li Daoshi said quietly: "It is said that there were thousands of Danshi gathered on this island, and the Danding they left behind was all over the island, and they had used to study what was unbelievable and even absurd. There are also a variety of pills on the island, and the further you go, the more magical the pills become. ”

Daoist Li said: "Of course, you can also be like that Master Li, and would rather die than take the elixir." But can you do it?"

I glanced at Ruan Dalong, who shook his head slightly.

In fact, this truth could not be more clear. When there is enough food, no one will let something that may be poisonous enter the mouth, but when you are about to starve to death, even if you know that something may die after eating, you will gamble on whether it is so toxic.

Daoist Li smiled bitterly: "At the beginning, I just didn't do this, so I became like this. ”

I hesitated for a moment and said, "You said, the more you go up, the more magical the pill becomes, what's going on?"

"This island is like a nine-story pagoda, and the higher the status, the higher the position. Those who stayed in the strata were only low-level Danshi. ”

As Daoist Li spoke, he looked down at himself: "But such a group of low-level Danshi can turn me into this." ”

I couldn't help but gasp suddenly: Just a low-level Danshi can refine an immortal medicine, so what about a high-level Danshi?

Daoist Li probably saw my question: "I don't look dead now, right? But I'm not a living person either, at most I can only be regarded as a moving corpse." This is not the immortality that those danshi are seeking. Living like a normal person is the first step to immortality, and ascending to the immortal realm is the ultimate goal of immortality. There is probably such an elixir on the top floor of Immortal Island, right?"

I stared at Daoist Li's rolling eyes and said, "Have you been up?"

Daoist Li shook his head and said, "No." They didn't allow me to go up. ”

"They?" I was shocked, "Is there anyone else on this island?"

"Yes. Daoist Li smiled: "I, a person who has eaten a low-level pill, can still survive until now, may there be no great power among the ancient Danshi on the island?"

"I tried to go to the island several times, but I was stopped by someone. However, you still have the opportunity to go to the island. ”

Daoist Li raised his head and said word by word: "Because, you haven't taken the pill yet." ”

I couldn't help but frown: "What do you mean by that?"

Daoist Li said: "According to my observation, the people on the island want people to test the results of the pill. Only those who have not taken the pill will be allowed to go to the island. Preferably a boy or a girl. ”

I quickly asked, "Anyone has been to the island before?"

"Yes. "Many years ago, people often came down from the island and sneaked into nearby towns to bring back boys and girls. The children never came down after they got to the island, and only the guide was still going back and forth to sea. ”

The legend is right again, Ruan Dalong said, there are two legends here, in which the sea god took people into the sea, isn't it exactly what Daoist Li said? The person who appeared nearby to plunder the virgins was the Danshi who was hiding on the island.

Ruan Dalong couldn't help but ask, "How often do those people come out?"

Daoist Li thought for a while and said, "In the past, it was about once in about thirty years. Lately, they have rarely gone to sea, and many times they have returned empty-handed, and at most they have only brought back three or two people. ”

It may be a coincidence that the Divine Hand Trial crashed into the Sea Island Danshi. In the era of war and chaos, if you want to get people away, even the government will not pay attention. Who will go to the sea on a large scale to find people?

When is it now? The police's "Skynet system" is everywhere, and if they want to forcibly plunder people, unless they arrest a person and leave, they will never escape the pursuit of the police. If you want to bring back boys and girls on a large scale, of course, Island Danshi has to think differently.

The Divine Explorer's trial coincided with their thoughts, they probably directly killed the local liaison of the Divine Explorer, and then replaced the cruise ship that was supposed to appear on the beach with the ghost ship.

I was silent for a long time before I said, "What's the matter with those Qing soldiers outside? ”

Daoist Li said slowly: "They came in to chase someone. ”