The seventh master smiled when he heard my words, and said after a while: "Let's put it this way, seventeen years ago, I met Master Budai for the first time, and I met for the first time. Seventeen years ago, Ling Zun Gu Wenzhong said that he had found a secret treasure, which was likely to be one of the top ten secret realms, so we followed. But during this operation, several of us were poisoned by a chronic poison that I can't tell what it was, and several people died, and we came out in a mess. Soon after I came out, Brother Wen told me that we found something that seemed to remove the poison from our bodies, and of course we were very excited......"

I interrupted the seventh master's words: "Seventh master, what kind of poison is this?" Are there any symptoms? ”

"Symptoms?" When the seventh master heard me ask, his old face turned red, and he paused and said: "The symptom is that he slowly loses the performance of a man, of course, this is not the most critical, the most critical thing is that with the disappearance, there is also yang energy." If we continue like this, we won't be able to survive for five years. ”

This symptom is really unexpected. I nodded and motioned for the Seventh Master to continue.

"At that time, as soon as Brother Wen said that he had found something suspected of being able to detoxify, I immediately rushed to Jinan." The seventh master sighed: "But when I arrived in Jinan, I learned after seeing Brother Wen that Brother Wen had already tried the medicine himself, but there was something missing in this medicine, and without such a thing, there would be no effect." ”

"When the seventh master said this, I remembered it." The second uncle continued: "I remember that time, my brother asked me to consult the classics to see if I could find a plant called 'Sun Moon Lotus', I have never heard of this thing, and I searched for a long time, but I didn't find any clues. And at that time, my brother had been at home in Huimin County, and the shops in Jinan were closed, and some guests also went directly to Huimin to find him, and I stayed alone in Jinan. It didn't take long for me to hear the news of my brother's accident......"

"That's right." The Seventh Master nodded: "It's this kind of thing, it's called 'Sun Moon Lotus'." This is a very strange lotus, there is almost no record in the ancient books, from the extremely limited information, the sun and moon lotus does exist, but it is all legends, summed up, it seems that no one has ever seen it with their own eyes, it is completely apocryphal. And the most recent record was actually in the Spring and Autumn Period, a Qin State person once said that he had seen it, and it had been more than 2,000 years since then......"

I looked at the Seventh Master with a wry smile on his face, and asked curiously, "What is this Sun Moon Lotus?" ”

"The flower lives up to its name." The Seventh Master explained: "The Sun Moon Lotus is a very rare lotus. When this lotus flower blooms, it produces pollen that drifts away with the wind, and this pollen is the most critical factor that can crack the poison in us. But there is one point, the sun and moon lotus, only when the sun and the moon shine together, will bloom for a short time, once the moon or the sun sets, the sun and moon lotus will instantly put away its petals, at this time even if it is broken, there is no pollen. ”

"The sun and the moon shine together?" I frowned: "This phenomenon is still quite common, as long as the sky is clean enough, you can see it for several days every month." ”

"That's right." The seventh master smiled bitterly: "But firstly, this sun and moon lotus is already scarce, and secondly, even if it is found, it may not be somewhere." ”

"Among the ten secret realms, is there a place where this Sun Moon Lotus grows?" I asked.

The Seventh Master nodded: "That's right." Among the ten secret realms in the legend, there is a place called 'Tianshan Medicine Garden', where the medicine is not artificially planted, but because of the special microclimate, many precious herbs have grown by themselves, and the Sun Moon Lotus is one of them. ”

I grinned: "Seventh Master, then do you mean that you went to find the Ten Secret Realms in order to get the Sun Moon Lotus to relieve yourself of the poison, and what about me, my father has passed away, and I went to find the Ten Secret Realms just to fulfill my father's wishes?" ”

The seventh master glanced at the cloth bag monk, then at the second uncle, hesitated, and said, "This, ask the second master." ”

"Second uncle?" I was stunned for a moment, and turned my head to look at the second uncle: "Second uncle, what do you mean by the seventh master?" ”

The second uncle smiled wryly, was silent for a while, and sighed deeply: "Xiaorui, do you think my white hair is really caused by those things?" ”

"Isn't it?" I glanced at the seventh master, and naturally I wouldn't pick out the matter of the iron box.

"It's not." The second uncle waved his hand: "Although your second uncle and I are not as smart and capable as your father, we are also children of a family, and our hearts are not so small." Do you remember that Daoist Qingyue was full of surprise when he heard the news of your grandfather Gu Xiansheng's death? ”

I nodded, what the second uncle said was right. When I first met Qingyue Taoist, Lao Dao asked me how my grandfather was now, and I said that he had died of illness for many years, and the old Taoist priest was full of suspicion at that time, and said that with his grandfather Gu Xiansheng's ability, he should not have died so early. Later, when he saw the second uncle, Daoist Qingyue also talked to him about his grandfather, and after confirming that his grandfather had indeed died of illness, the old Taoist priest still had an incredible face.

In fact, according to Grandpa's age, if he lives until now, he should be more than one hundred and twenty years old, and the Qingyue Taoist and Xiu'er's predecessors should be similar, I have never heard of it, our Gu family is still a longevity family!

"Second uncle, how long did my grandfather live?" I looked at the second uncle and asked.

The second uncle naturally understood what I meant, and said, "More than one hundred and ten years old. ”

"Grandpa is about 100 years old when he lives." I frowned, "Isn't it longevity?" ”

"Count." The second uncle smiled bitterly: "But it has lowered the average age of our Gu family's direct children." Let me tell you this, about two hundred years ago, the average age of our Gu family's direct children was about one hundred and forty years old, which is terrifying, right? And we are different from Qingyue Taoist and Xiu'er's predecessors, they live long because they have had a superb internal and external kung fu since they were young, which is enough to support themselves to live to be one hundred and thirty or forty years old, while our direct children of the Gu family are different, and the special genes in our bodies can make us live a long life. But a few generations ago, our ancestors found that this age was getting shorter and shorter, and compared with the previous Gu family children, the descendants seemed to be aging at an accelerated pace. ”

"Accelerated aging?" It was as if I had heard an incredible story.

"That's right." The second uncle nodded: "Moreover, there is a trend of intensifying, don't believe it, take a look." ”

As he spoke, the second uncle stretched out his hand to roll up his sleeves, and I looked at it, and suddenly felt that my body was stagnant: it's really true, the second uncle's arm has begun to appear atrophied, and the fine lines are very clear, but the second uncle is only fifty years old! According to the current life expectancy, this phenomenon will not be so obvious until the age of seventy...... In other words, when the second uncle was fifty years old, he had already begun to show signs of aging!

"Why is that?" I looked at my second uncle with some incredulity and asked, "Could it be that my father kept searching for the secret of our Gu family's genes?" ”

"I didn't know it at first." The second uncle sighed lightly and put down his sleeves: "Neither your grandfather nor your father mentioned these things to me, but your grandfather's death is a little strange, I thought at the time that people who could live to be one hundred and thirty years old, why did they die of old age just over the age of 100?" Then your father began to wander around, as if looking for something, until he died, and he couldn't tell me what he was looking for. I only learned about this later in a diary left by your grandfather. ”

I turned my head and glanced at the Seventh Master: "That means that in my generation, the phenomenon of premature aging may be even earlier?" ”

"At this rate, it's estimated that you'll start to have premature aging in your thirties." The second uncle looked at me very seriously and said.

If that's the case, the second uncle has a reason to go to great lengths to find the ten secret realms, the seventh master and the Budai monk are to get rid of the poison on their bodies, otherwise, they won't live for long......

Liang Ruoyi was fascinated by listening to it, and it was estimated that she couldn't believe it, but when she saw the fine lines on her second uncle's body, she had to believe it......