Chapter 68 Birth, Old Age, Sickness and Death

――Thanks to Fan Xuanzi and the name with a friend's reward. Also, this is the final chapter transition.

He Ji and Cao Yuanze entered Zhou Chen's cabin, and looked at him lying on the bed with a sallow face, his lips were dry, unconscious, and he was also a little concerned, He Ji sighed to Shi Xuan: "Hey, I called people to the deck in the middle of the night, the weather is so cold, the wind is so strong, and Brother Zhou's health is not very good, it is really inevitable to get sick." ”

Cao Yuanze said with a smile: "Thanks to Brother Shi's proficiency in medicine, he can use the medicinal materials on the ship to prepare effective prescriptions, although Brother Zhou is sick, he is not in danger of his life." He was a little flattering to Shi Xuan, because he didn't dare to guarantee that he wouldn't get sick once during the two-and-a-half-year voyage, and the doctors of the Fan family were noble and arrogant, and the island countries controlled by the Blood Demon Sect of the North Sea were far apart, and they would only meet one in a month or two.

Shi Xuan didn't care about Cao Yuanze's flattery, and looked at the two brothers and sisters Zhou Yi and Zhou Ying who helped bring tea and water: "Fortunately, the two children are fine." "Actually, if that disciple of the Blood Demon Sect asked everyone to kneel down or something last night, Shi Xuan would quietly take action to control him, with Shi Xuan's current strength, it was a very simple matter. Shi Xuan's main concern was that when the True Disciples and Elders of the Blood Demon Sect were passing by and swept by with their divine senses, he happened to be cultivating and running his True Qi, so he deliberately stopped from the moment he got on the boat.

As for why you don't use the Gathering Soul Refining Pill to advance, but to find this illusory opportunity, it is because there is always an unstable situation when using the pill to advance, if it involves the physical body and meridians, it can be made up for in the future, it just takes more time, but when it comes to the soul and divine thoughts, once something goes wrong, it is very difficult to make up for it.

There are a lot of people who don't dare to take the Divine Pill to achieve the medium-grade Jindan in the Divine Soul Period, that is, when they advanced with the Gathering Divine Refining Soul Pill, something went wrong, and the unity of the Divine Soul was incomplete.

And the possible surnames of those who went wrong when the Gathering Soul Refining Pill advanced, there may be more than a dozen out of a hundred people, which is not too high, and it has something to do with their own cultivation and control ability. Those with strong soul control may only get five or six out of a hundred. But this risk, for Shi Xuan, who wants to achieve the avenue of immortality, he doesn't dare to gamble at all, in comparison, Shi Xuan is more willing to accept some pressure experience, at least life or death, he has a certain ability to control.

In general, it is just a matter of holding on to yourself, rejecting the temptation of a seemingly easy path, sticking to your heart, and sticking to the choice of path.

"Hey, the two kids really suffered last night. But fortunately, those monks who should have fled have fled, and the immortal elders of the Blood Demon Sect will not come to search again. He Ji couldn't see the embarrassment of the previous copper bell with big eyes and big mouth being exposed.

Cao Yuanze also said lightly: "That's it, the immortal chief of the Blood Demon Sect just has a vision that makes my legs and feet weak, and I won't be able to see it again in the future." Okay, Brother He, let's go to the canteen to eat, and by the way, help Brother Shi and the two children bring one, well, Brother Zhou just bring some gruel, right?"

As soon as he opened the door, he heard a cry from the corridor on the other side, and Cao Yuanze became curious: "A few brothers, the younger brother will go and see it first, and come back immediately." With that, he immediately walked out.

After a while, Cao Yuanze came back a little depressed, and He Ji asked, "What's going on over there? Why are people suffering?"

"Don't mention it, it's a dead man. Cao Yuanze waved his hand, "It's the white-haired old man surnamed Zhang that I often meet, he looks very good, I didn't expect to get a cold last night, and he passed away today." ”

He Ji didn't expect that the cold wind last night would really blow people to death, and he didn't know how to answer for a while, so he said for a long time: "It's the old man Zhang from the North Wind Country whose granddaughter married an Arctic realm monk?"

Shi Xuan was not too surprised, before he got on the ship in the North Wind Country, he accidentally met the old man surnamed Zhang, and it could be seen that his body was strong and strong, so he looked at his qi, he was already close to life, at most a year or two of life, but what he didn't expect was that he had just arrived in Beihai, and because of last night's incident, he passed away from the cold, which made Shi Xuan feel a little unpredictable.

Cao Yuanze said: "It's that old man Zhang, hey, the old man received a letter from his granddaughter this time, asking them to go to the North Pole to enjoy happiness, who knew that he had just arrived in Beihai and passed away, it's really pitiful." ”

"Alright, alright, let's not talk about that, let's go to the dining hall. Brother Shi is still waiting!" He Ji didn't want to talk about such a heavy topic, so he pushed Cao Yuanze's shoulder and went out with him.

Seeing the two leaving, Shi Xuan took Zhou Yi and Zhou Ying to start literacy. In the hearts of the two children, Uncle Shi, who is literate and can tell stories, and can treat their father's illness, is really amazing, much more powerful than those red-clothed villains flying around! Therefore, under Shi Xuan's teaching, Zhou Yi and Zhou Ying did not look reluctant at all, but were full of enthusiasm for literacy.

"Arjun... Arjun..."Zhou Chen, who was sleeping on the bed, spoke with a slurred speech and a painful expression, and then shouted: "Xiao Yi... Xiao Ying..."

Zhou Yi and Zhou Ying glanced at each other and pouted, "Daddy often talks like this in his dreams. ”

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After the old man Zhang passed away, the people of the Fan family's fleet came forward to build a small mourning hall on the deck, so that the Zhang family could cry.

When the first seven days passed, the Fan family sent someone to pile up a pile of wood there, put the body of the old man Zhang on it, and prepared for cremation, and the old man Zhang's wife had no opinion, after all, there were still more than two years away, and there were no monks on the ship, and the corpse was not as strong as the demon beast, so it would definitely not be able to be kept for so long, compared to water burial, cremation could at least leave some ashes.

The deck of the Fan family's fleet can be fireproof, but they are not afraid of the spread of the fire, so Shi Xuan, He Ji, and Cao Yuanze took Zhou Yi and Zhou Ying to stand in the distance and watch the cremation.

Zhou Chen's illness has been cured for a long time, but his body is still very weak and he can't get up, and Shi Xuan, He Ji, and Cao Yuanze take turns to take the two children every day.

Looking at the excitement here, Zhou Yi and Zhou Ying clamored to come and see, so the three of them had to bring them over.

"Doesn't it hurt to burn those fires on your body?" Zhou Ying asked curiously as she watched the fire gradually rise.

Zhou Yi looked at his sister with disdain: "He is asleep, how can he feel pain!"

"Yes, brother, when you are asleep, I can't wake you up no matter how I pinch you. Zhou Ying's words provoked Zhou Yi's angry eyes.

After a while, after the fire stopped, Zhou Ying hurriedly pulled Zhou Yi: "Brother, that person is gone!

"You are stupid, fire hiding (burial) means to hide. ”

"Oh, so he won't show up?"

"How do I know, you should ask him!"

The words of the two children were so good that He Ji and Cao Yuanze had bad faces, and the more childish and innocent they were, the more they felt the cruelty of death.

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Half a year later, the Fan family's fleet arrived at an island on the outskirts of the Blood Demon Sect, and the medicinal herbs, spirit grass, and demon beast corpses brought on the ship will all be unloaded here, and the two disciples of the Blood Demon Sect will also leave here, as for whether the Fan family's fleet will capsize or sink in the future, it has nothing to do with them.

Fan Han respectfully accompanied the two Inner Sect disciples of the Blood Demon Sect into the island, while the stewards instructed the boatmen to carry all those items to the island, and then they would go to buy the Spirit Grass and magic weapons unique to the Blood Demon Sect.

However, these have nothing to do with Shi Xuan and them, a few people leaned on the railing and looked at the ordinary people on the island who were in good spirits, and then casually instructed Zhou Yi and Zhou Ying to do some basic forging routines.

After Zhou Chen recovered from his illness, he felt the importance of physical health, and he heard the well-informed He Ji brag, saying that ordinary monks are forging their bodies from a young age, so he asked Zhou Yi and Zhou Ying to spend an hour playing some boxing in addition to literacy, and there are many people with martial arts on the boat, and there are people passing by at any time to point out a few sentences, so Zhou Yi and Zhou Ying are playing like this. Of course, Shi Xuan also helped to remove some unreasonable actions, which made He Ji Zhouchen and the others sigh for a while, Mr. Shi is really both civil and military, uh, and proficient in medicine.

"Uncle Shi, look, we've grown taller again!" Zhou Yi said excitedly, and the address to Shi Xuan had changed from unconscious uncle to obvious Uncle Shi.

Zhou Ying also stood by the railing, comparing the line drawn last month, and found that she had gone beyond a lot. For children of their age, growing taller every day, and starting to exercise, the effect is even more obvious.

Zhou Chen watched a pair of children grow taller, and sighed with relief: "They are also growing up, and I am getting old, hey, old." "The illness half a year ago made Zhou Chen have more gray hair and wrinkles, and he looked four or five years old.

He Ji patted Zhou Chen's shoulder and said with a smile: "This is a normal thing, when children grow up, parents will naturally grow old." However, your Xiaoyi and Xiaoying will definitely have a future in the future, Brother Zhou, you just wait to enjoy Qingfu. After a pause, he continued: "Tsk, I really envy me, I really want to return to Crystal City immediately, marry a Hun family, and have a big fat boy." He is only one or two years younger than Zhou Chen, but after arriving at the North Pole, he is busy working hard, but he has not yet started a family.

After he finished speaking, he saw Shi Xuan and Cao Yuanze smiling silently, so he teased: "What's the matter, two brothers, do you want us to be a matchmaker for you?" There are many big beauties in Crystal City, their bodies are tall and strong, but they are very uniform, they should be convex and convex, and they should be concave and concave. ”

It's not that Shi Xuan and Cao Yuanze haven't seen women before, so they don't blush, and after a few perfunctory words, they took the topic away: "This fleet has only been gone for half a year to reach the Blood Demon Sect, how can it be that it will go for nearly two years?"

"You don't understand this, the Blood Demon Sect is to the south, and further north, there are often icebergs floating in the ocean, the boat does not dare to go too fast, and it has to slow down at night, and in case of heavy snowstorms, you have to find an island to hide. Originally, it was only less than a year away, but it took two years. He Ji proudly bought his insights.