"Aren't you here to find me?"

Jiang Ziya didn't answer directly, but asked me rhetorically, in fact, this is also an answer.

"That's right! Right! Now there is an outbreak of an ancient virus in the outside world, and everyone who has fallen for it has ......"

Before I could finish speaking, he waved his hand: "I've counted all of this, so I arranged everything in advance to prevent the seeds from disappearing in the previous three thousand years." ”

"That'...... What kind of thing? ”

I hurriedly asked.

"In the little jar over there!" Jiang Ziya pointed to a small black jar on his left and said.

It was a small black jar, much like an old urn.

"That'...... Can I take it with me? ”

Jiang Ziya smiled: "Of course you can!" This is your mission, and it is also my last bond in the world! ”

I was overjoyed, and my only fear disappeared in an instant.

"Taigong...... You're dead, but I can see you, and ...... And looking at you is no different from a living person. ”

I tried to ask Jiang Ziya rhetorically.

In fact, I was very hesitant to call him before I spoke.

Just call it by name! Obviously impolite, called "Jiang Taigong", and it seems to be too old-fashioned, just call him Taigong after a little hesitation! There shouldn't be anything wrong with that.

Fortunately, he didn't mind, and stroked his beard with a slight smile.

"I was originally a dead man, but now you are also dead!"

It made me shudder.

"Taigong...... What did you say? ”

"The reason why you can see me is because it is your soul that sees me at this time!"

I hurriedly waved my hand: "This can't be! How could I die if I was so good? Besides, if it's really dead, I don't know yet!"

Jiang Ziya smiled slightly again and asked me, "You should know what kind of place this is, right?" ”

"Here...... This is Hades? ”

"There is no doubt that this is the underworld!" He paused, then added, "The living cannot enter the underworld!" ”

I was even more anxious, and retorted: "But aren't Li Chunfeng, Yuan Tiangang and a few of them also here!" Are they also dead? ”

Jiang Ziya shook his head, and then began to explain unhurriedly: "First of all, they are different from you, they are ink masters—what are ink artists?" An existence between man and God. Secondly, they are just standing on the outside of the spiritual tower, which is strictly speaking on the edge of the underworld - and you are inside the spiritual tower at this time. ”

The Spirit Tower?

I wanted to ask what the Linglou was, but when the words came to my lips, I already understood.

This strange-looking palace is the Spirit Tower.

Listen to the name! You know that it is not a sunny place.

"How did I die so well? That's not going to work! I...... I can't die...... It was a few of them who lied to me...... "I was a little out of control, and my voice was a little louder.

Jiang Ziya walked slowly towards me.

"What are you anxious about? When you enter the Spirit Tower, you must be dead, but I didn't say that after leaving the Spirit Tower, you can't come back to life. ”

These words made me happy again, and I had the urge to run over and grab the old man.

"Really? Can you come back to life if you die? That...... Then why are you ......?"

"I'm not like you! My death was my own choice, and you only temporarily left your body, just like Tie Guan Li back then! ”

Seeing that Jiang Ziya wanted to tell a story, I hurriedly waved my hand to stop it.

"I said Jiang Taigong! I just want to be able to get out of here with the seeds in my hands, and as you said, I can't die, even if it's a blessing! Really...... There's really no leisure to hear you talk about a whole bunch of other things. ”

Jiang Ziya smiled again.

"Don't worry! Have not my disciples told you the secrets of Hades? ”

"Secret? What secret? I don't know! ”

"There is no time and space in Hades!"

"Oh! They said it, but I didn't understand it, so I didn't think it meant. ”

Jiang Ziya didn't explain directly, but asked me rhetorically: "What time did you come to the underworld?" ”

Hour?

"Oh! Probably in the middle of the night! ”

"Then no matter how long you stay here, when you go back, the time will still be in time!"

"Ahh I gasped, "Taigong means that even if I stay here for ten years, I won't get old?" ”

Jiang Ziya nodded slightly: "Yes!" Because there is simply no time here. ”

After pondering for a moment, I didn't seem to understand what he was saying—but I couldn't care so much at this moment.

"Are you sure I'll make it back alive?" I asked with a little trepidation.

"You can't leave alive, what are you going to do with this?"

That's right! I almost forgot, I came with a special mission this time, and it seems that I really can't die!

"That'...... That's great! Taigong ...... What did you just say about Tie Guan Li? "Thinking about this, I was overjoyed in my heart, and I began to fear that if I accidentally offended Jiang Ziya, he would change his mind and not let me leave—so next, I must coax him to be happy, and everything is aimed at being able to leave here.

In just a few minutes of contact, I can vaguely feel that the old guy has a great desire to speak, and he has probably been here alone for thousands of years, so he is really suffocated.

So I made up my mind that I would let him say enough.

"The world doesn't know that Tie Guan Li, one of the Eight Immortals, actually has an unbearable past......

Tie Guan Li's real name is Li Xuan, and he is a scholar with clear eyebrows and beautiful eyes and a burly figure. At that time, there were years of war, and the people were struggling to make a living, so Li Xuan saw through the red dust and went to learn the Tao to visit the immortals.

One day, he realized the reason why he did not grow: there was no guidance from a famous teacher in the cultivation of Taoism, and he decided to follow Lao Tzu to learn the Tao. Li Xuan walked on the mountain in his spare time to practice in the stalagmite mountain, suddenly listened to the fairy music loudly, looked up, the air was ethereal, the sun was shining, there were thousands of colors, a green cow and a crane appeared, and there were two immortal ancestors of Taishang Laojun and Wanqiu sitting on them.

Lao Jun said with a smile: "Your Taoism has made great progress, it is not easy, Wanqiu and I plan to travel to various places, I want to take you with me, you must be in ten days later, do not miss the appointment, remember." The old gentleman said, drove the ox and the crane away.

In the blink of an eye, the ten-day deadline has arrived, and Tie Guan Li said to his apprentice Yang Zi: "At the invitation of the master, the soul of the master has left, and the body remains here, you have to take care of it, if you don't see my soul return after seven days, it is enough to prove that the teacher has been listed in the immortal class, and you will incinerate my body."

Seven days, remember!" After speaking, Li Xuan sat cross-legged, his breath sank into the dantian, and the gods went out of his body and drifted away.

In the middle of the night on the sixth day, the apprentice Yang Zi met a white-haired old man in his sleep, this old man was kind and kind-eyed, full of red light, holding a handful of Buddha dust, and said to Yang Zi with a smile: "Your mother will pass away, you go back to your mother to do your filial piety." ”

The dream was awakened by a burst of thunder, and Yang Zi thought back: "The old man must be a fairy." Don't dare to be careless, he lamented that it is difficult to achieve both loyalty and filial piety, Master Tie Guan Li Yuanshen has been gone for six days, I am afraid that he will not be able to come back, besides, his mother is dying, so it is better to cremate the body of the master and his old man.

Yang Zi knelt in front of the master, kowtowed and wept to cremate the master's body, and then hurried home to visit the old mother.

On the evening of the seventh day, Li Xuanyuan Shen returned to the stalagmite mountain, just arrived at the stalagmite mountain and smelled a smell of roast meat, he suddenly felt that something was wrong, the yuan shen immediately floated down to the sitting platform, he fixed his eyes, as expected, his body had been incinerated, and there was only a charred body left on the sitting platform.

Just as he was in shock, he suddenly saw a starving beggar not far away, so he hurriedly clinged to the starving body. When he got up, he found that the starving man was a lame leg, and when he was about to leave, he suddenly heard the reprimand of Taishang Laojun from the top of the mountain: "This is the will of heaven, and it must not be violated."

Taishang Laojun appeared and said: "The Tao should be sought outside the appearance, not just the appearance.

As long as you are successful in your deeds, you will be a true immortal in different phases." This preaching made him finally accept this body, so Taishang Laojun gave him a golden hoop to tie his messy hair, gave Li Xuantie a cane and a wine jug, and extradited Li Xuancheng to become an immortal.

He rubbed his eyes with both hands, and rubbed the eye sockets like two big holes, so he called himself Li Kongmu, and people often ignored his characteristic and only paid attention to the crutches, so they called him Tie Guan Li.

After becoming an immortal, Tie Guan Li Jing specialized in pharmacology, and refined the ointment for the treatment of rheumatism and bone pain, which blessed the township, saved all sentient beings, and won the support of the people. Because of the legend that the big gourd on his back kept the miraculous elixir, he was named the "King of Medicine", and later people engaged in the plaster industry in Chinese society regarded him as their ancestor.

To be honest, this story doesn't make much sense, but I still pretend to be very engaged on the surface.

"And then?"

"Later, there was the story of the Eight Immortals!"

"Oh!" I scratched my scalp embarrassedly, "But what does this have to do with my current situation?" ”

"You are now like an out-of-body Tie Guan Li, the difference is that Tie Guan Li's body was unguarded at that time, and your body is being guarded by my disciples and grandchildren at this time."

"I see!"

"Grandpa Jiang...... I actually have a lot of questions that I want to find out! ”

"Oh? You say! ”

Maybe it was because I called him "Grandpa Jiang", and the old man looked very useful.

"Who the hell is the Ink Maker? Isn't it a fairy! ”

Jiang Ziya laughed again.

"You can come here, and when you see me, you will bring out the seeds of salvation, in addition to fate, it is still a great credit - I might as well tell you."

I took a few steps towards him and listened carefully.

"While the almighty creator created human beings, he also created a special type of human beings who looked like ordinary people, and gave these special human beings some abilities, so that they could maintain the continuation of ordinary human beings and the development of civilization, so since the moment human beings were single, the ink man also existed, and it belonged to a higher existence."

"You've been interfering in human development?"

Jiang Ziya shook his head: "To be precise, it is corrected!" The aim is to enable ordinary human beings to develop better. ”