"The elixir?" The old ghost and I asked in surprise.

"Hmm." The old man replied.

"Hahahaha...... The elixir of life! Hahaha...... Laughed at me. The old ghost smiled exaggeratedly, "I didn't expect anyone to believe in this thing!" ”

Hearing the old ghost laugh at himself so exaggeratedly, the old man hurriedly stopped him and said, "Don't believe it, there really is one here!" I can conclude that there is definitely one here! I've been to this place before, and only that miraculous elixir can save me. In fact, you don't know that the Empress Dowager Cixi didn't want to hide these treasures. What really needs to be hidden is the elixir I've been looking for. ”

Hearing the old man say this, the old ghost couldn't laugh anymore.

The old man said, "You should have heard the story of Xu Fu Dongdu, right?" ”

Of course, we know the story of Xu Fudongdu, this old grandson used to pretend to be in the name of "looking for the elixir of life", and after he went out, he never came back. Here's what it looks like:

In 219 B.C., Qin Shi Huang sailed around the Shandong Peninsula. There, he lingered with his ministers for three months. It was there that he heard that there were three immortal mountains in the Bohai Bay, called "Penglai, Abbot, and Yingzhou".

On the three immortal mountains, there are three immortals living with elixir of life in their hands. The man who told the Qin Shi Huang about this miraculous story was called Xu Fu, a local monk who had heard that he had seen the three immortal mountains with his own eyes.

Qin Shi Huang was very happy when he heard this, so he sent Xu Fu to lead a thousand boys and girls into the sea in search of the elixir of life. The huge fleet led by Xu Fu set off, but he drifted on the sea for a long time, and he did not find the immortal mountain he was talking about, let alone the elixir of life.

Qin Shi Huang was a tyrant, Xu Fu did not complete the task, and after returning according to Qin Shi Huang's style. You will definitely be beheaded. So, he took the thousand boys and girls and drifted down the river to Japan.

Although Xu Fu is gone, Qin Shi Huang did not die of the heart of seeking immortals.

Four years later, in 215 B.C., Qin Shi Huang found another Yan man named Lu Sheng, who was a monk who specialized in cultivating immortals. Thereupon. Qin Shi Huang sent Lu Sheng into the sea to seek immortality this time. Unlike Xu Fu, Xu Fu went to find the elixir of life, and this time Lu Sheng entered the sea to find two Gu Immortals. These two immortals, one is called 'Gao Oath' and the other is called 'Xianmen'.

According to records, Qin Shi Huang searched all over the country, but did not find the "elixir of life". The elixir of life is a medicine that can make people immortal in ancient Han myths and legends. In fact, the common name of the elixir is "Tai Sui". The scientific name is "meat reishi".

Out of greed for supreme power and endless glory and wealth, Qin Shi Huang dreamed of immortality. In order to realize his dream of immortality, Qin Shi Huang believed Xu Fu's words. Let him lead thousands of boys and girls to the East China Sea to seek medicine. As a result, Xu Fu and others also disappeared without a trace.

Later, a monk said that he could refine the elixir of immortality for Qin Shi Huang. Qin Shi Huang believed it again, and spent a lot of manpower, material resources, and financial resources to ask Fang Shi to refine the immortal elixir for himself. As a result, Qin Shi Huang was deceived again. Fang Shi was killed. Qin Shi Huang's pursuit of immortality ended in failure. There is no longevity. There was no immortality, and even the Qin Dynasty, which unified the six countries, perished early.

Regarding the elixir of life, there is also a folk legend: in a mysterious area of the land of China, there is a mysterious herb that can be used to refine the elixir.

It is said that it can only be found in a deep rift. This herb is refined. It is possible to create an elixir of life, also known as the "Resurrection Pill".

From the perspective of traditional Chinese culture, as long as you take the elixir of life, you can become an immortal.

"Ask who in the world is carefree, only the gods are at ease." The Daluo Immortal resides in the Daluo Heaven. Immortal, immortal, fairyland, bliss, no sorrows. Hongchen mortals live in the realm of the earth, and they live and die and reproduce endlessly, with bitter joy and lust for gain and loss.

For immortals, the fame, fortune, glory and wealth of the world are just a blink of an eye in the long river of time. Only by ascending to the Purple Mansion and ranking in the immortal class is the eternal pursuit.

But common sense tells us that there is no escape to the fate of eventual death. However, people are always reluctant to face this dark truth. They prefer to believe that there is a myth of immortality. Ordinary people seem to be more inclined to the so-called "fountain of youth", and to this day, in the fields of science and medicine, there are people who continue to explore ways to live forever.

Taoism is marked by the motto "immortality as an immortal". During the Qin Dynasty, the Fang Shi Xu Fu sought the elixir of life for Qin Shi Huang and went to sea to find the immortals on the immortal mountains of Penglai and Yingzhou. As a result, nowhere to be found.

In Taoism, there is also a school of special alchemy and medicine (including refining the inner pill), the purpose of which is also for immortality.

There are also immortal immortals in ancient Western Sumerian mythology, Western Celtic mythology, Norse mythology, and Irish folklore. The gods of Norwegian mythology are likely to die of old age. Eden, the goddess of the harvest, is in charge of the magic apples that make the gods immortal. Not to mention people, even animals have an extremely strong primitive desire to survive.

Immortality has always been the yearning of human beings, and for this reason, there have long been myths and legends of immortality in the world:

There was once such a rumor that during the Shennong period, there was a person named "Chi Songzi" who took an immortal medicine called "Bing Yusan". Therefore, he can go into the fire without melting, and go to heaven and earth with the wind and rain. Later, he became the god in charge of praying for rain, and the youngest daughter of Emperor Yan followed him, and she also became an immortal and ascended to heaven together.

In the legend of Peng Zu, Peng Zu lived for more than 800 years. Just because he told his young wife the secret of immortality, he was named by Lord Yama with a red pen; In the Western Bible, Adam lived to be 930 years old. When he was 130 years old, he also gave birth to a son, Seth, and then lived another 800 years. His son, Seth, also had children at the age of 807 and lived to be 912 years old.

The Egyptian pharaoh even contributed his own corpse as a mummy, the body is immortal, and the soul will return one day.

But legends are legends after all, and no one has ever really verified them. Therefore, "immortality" has always been just an ethereal and mysterious thing in the minds of ancient people. In modern times, it is also a pursuit that only a few people admire.

Therefore, when the old man said that there was an elixir here, the old ghost would react like that. Because in the eyes of the average person, it is nonsense. However, hearing the old man say that there is such an elixir here, the old ghost and I still couldn't help but be surprised. But we still can't believe it's true, and think it's nothing.

However, the old man believed that there was. We asked why, and the old man had no choice but to tell the truth of the matter. However, when he told the truth, the old ghost and I were deeply shocked!

The old man told us: It is precisely because he has taken the elixir of life that he will have a childish face. The most surprising thing is that he even told me about the time when my grandfather came to look for these national treasures! The details he described were almost exactly the same as the stories I had learned in my grandfather's notebook! (To be continued......)