When Xu Fu took the turtle shell to see Qin Shihuang and recommended himself to him.

Perhaps because he was ill and sought medical attention, Qin Shihuang believed his words and immediately issued an edict to appoint the Xu family and the Tian family as special envoys to look for Zuzhou and nourish Shenzhi. All expenses would be borne by the state treasury.

After this operation, Xu and Tian temporarily escaped the sharp sword hanging above their heads, and finally breathed a sigh of relief.

And at the same time.

The content on the tortoise shell actually attracted Xu Fu's attention. This "scam" not only gained the trust of Qin Shihuang, but also convinced Xu Fu of the existence of Zuzhou and Yangshen Zhi. Even if it was not for Qin Shihuang or just to survive, he would

I also want to find the legendary Zuzhou and Yangshenzhi.

However this is obviously not easy.

At present, he only knows that Jiang Taigong once visited this magical place, and gained extraordinary longevity through the nourishing mushroom, and recorded the characteristics of the nourishing mushroom on the tortoise shell.

As for the exact location of this place and how to get there, I have no idea.

It is certainly not easy to find a needle in a haystack, but in this era, finding an unknown island in the vast ocean is not necessarily any easier than finding a needle in a haystack.

What's more, since Jiang Taigong, during the hundreds of years of the rule of the Lu Qi royal family and the Tian Qi royal family, they have sent fleets to sea countless times to search for Zuzhou and Yangshenzhi, but they all returned without success, which was equivalent to cutting off Xu Fu's hope.

...So many people have not found the legendary island for hundreds of years. How can he find it? How can he find it?

However, at this point, Xu Fu could only ask Qin Shihuang for manpower and material resources to build ships and go to sea. Even if he did it, he had to do it in a decent way, otherwise Qin Shihuang's butcher knife could fall again at any time.

that's all.

The search for Zuzhou and Yang Shenzhi lasted for three years. During these three years, Xu Fu went out to sea many times and sailed aimlessly in the East China Sea. He also repeatedly found excuses such as "there are huge fish in the sea that hinder the voyage" to delay the voyage.

Prevaricate Qin Shihuang.

Xu Fu knew in his heart that it would not be the same if things continued like this. Qin Shihuang would lose patience one day, and that day would be the anniversary of his and Xu's death, but he had no other choice but to delay it day by day.

Finally one day, Qin Shihuang did something big that made Xu Fu break out in a cold sweat. He burned poems and books to trap the sorcerers!

The cause was two well-known warlocks at that time, one named Hou Sheng and the other named Lu Sheng. Both of them were trusted by Qin Shihuang and enjoyed the status of imperial masters in Xianyang City. They were ordered to find and refine immortal immortality for Qin Shihuang.

medicine.

As a result, the two of them naturally searched for it for many years but never found it. Not only that, but after belittling Qin Shihuang's character, political strategy, and delusion of immortality, they took Taozhi Yaoyao, a huge sum of money used to seek immortality.

These two people escaped, but suffered a lot from the hundreds of warlocks who were also summoned to Xianyang by Qin Shihuang for the purpose of immortality. Qin Shihuang believed that they were the same as Hou Sheng and Lu Sheng, so he ordered all these warlocks to be arrested and interrogated.

, in the end, the whereabouts of Hou Sheng and Lu Sheng were still not found, so they ordered people to burn all the Taoist and witchcraft books carried by these people and bury them alive to vent their anger.

When news of this incident reached Qu County, how could the Xu family and the Tian family not panic?

After all, what they are doing now is no different from Hou Sheng, Lu Sheng and others. Since Qin Shihuang buried hundreds of sorcerers alive in Xianyang, they will probably be implicated soon.

that's the truth.

A group of thousands of Qin troops soon arrived in Qu County. Although the generals of this group of Qin troops claimed that they were ordered to help Xu Fu shoot fish in the sea, Xu Fu and Tian both knew that some of them were spying on them.

The meaning of every move.

Three anxious months passed like this.

What Xu Fu and others did not expect was that Qin Shihuang actually visited Qu County in person.

Both Xu Fu and Tian thought they were dead this time.

But no, Qin Shihuang only inspected the ships built by Xu Fu, expressed condolences to the family records of Xu and Tian, ​​and even brought them more supplies. With a warm appearance, he encouraged Xu Fu and Tian not to slack off, promising that as long as they found

Zuzhou and Yangshenzhi were given titles and titles to both families.

Xu Fu and Tian were so flattered that they had no idea what medicine Qin Shihuang was selling in his gourd.

It was only afterwards that Xu Fu learned from Gui Guzi that Qin Shihuang's hidden illness had become more and more serious at that time. However, he was no longer willing to believe in those magicians who made alchemy. On the contrary, the real Yangshen Zhi became his only hope, so he

Will look at Xu Fu and Tian in a new light.

But at the same time, Guiguzi also reminded Xu Fu that if he could not find Zuzhou and Yangshenzhi, he should arrange a way out in advance, otherwise when Qin Shihuang was dying, he would still order the Xu family and Tian family to be taken away together out of unwillingness.

From that time on, Xu Fu would draw a sea map every time he went to sea, and gradually found out the specific location of the Japanese country. This was the escape route he arranged for himself. Even in order to prevent the secret from being leaked, he did not inform Tian of the matter...

…

Two more years passed like this.

There was a strange phenomenon in the sea under Yuzhou Mountain. At that time, there was no one living on Yuzhou Mountain. Only Xu Fu often went up to the island to look far, so as to predict the climate in the sea and guess the time to go to sea.

It was also this time that Xu Fu saw the "ghost cave" hidden under the sea.

This ghost cave was mentioned in a diary left by the ancestors of the Xu family, and that diary recorded the relationship between the ancestors of the Xu family and the last king of Lu Qi, Lu Dai, on Yuzhou Mountain.

process.

Very few descendants of the Xu family know about this matter. After Xu Fu succeeded to the position of head of the family, he accidentally discovered it during a process of sorting out family information and immediately read the contents... At that time, Xu Fu did not include this information.

The article should be taken too seriously, but I am just glad that the content in it has not been spread, especially in the era when Tian Qi was in power, otherwise it would definitely cause a lot of trouble for the Xu family.

But when he saw it, it didn't matter anymore. After all, the Qi State was destroyed by Qin, and the Tian Qi royal family could only hide in Qu County with its tail between its legs. The situation was not much better than that of the Xu family.

But that's not the point.

The key point is the record about the "ghost cave" in that diary.

Xu Fu still has some impression of that strange thing: "Lü Dai's son went into the sea and strayed into the ghost cave when the tide was low. When the tide came back, he did not come out. Everyone thought he was in bad luck and built a simple tomb for him.

, however, more than ten years later, this grown-up son appeared next to Lu Dai, and after Lu Dai died of illness, he disappeared together with other family records."

Based on this strange incident, this ghost cave usually hidden under the sea immediately aroused Xu Fu's interest.

The people who were with Xu Fu at that time were all trustworthy Xu clan members, so Xu Fu told everyone about this strange incident and discussed it with everyone.

In the end, everyone agreed to enter the "ghost cave" to investigate.

Because if what is written in the diary of the ancestor of the Xu family is true, then Lu Dai's son must have lived in the ghost cave for more than ten years. This means that there may be a cave in the ghost cave, and it is indeed necessary to enter and investigate.

Fan.

It is said that the people of the Xu family are also bold.

In this way, they walked into the "ghost cave" without any protection measures and without even knowing when the tide would rise back. They spent several hours walking deep into the pool at the bottom of the cave.

Living by the sea all year round, Xu's people are naturally very good at swimming, and even Xu Fu is a master at it.

Not long after everyone descended into the pool, they also discovered the light at the bottom of the pool. In order to find out, they actually dived under with only a pair of iron lungs, which was simply astonishing.

Then.

The world was spinning, everything was upside down, and Xu Fu and others finally landed on this mysterious island.

…

Macaques, parrots, dense forest, Yushan.

Xu Fu and his group saw everything Wu Liang and others saw, and finally they came to the cave under Jade Mountain. However, there was no such quarry outside the cave at that time, and there were only a few collapsed thatched houses.

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Among the ruins of the thatched house are some living utensils that predate the Qin Dynasty at first glance. These utensils are also covered with dust, and some are damaged. Even if someone has lived here, they have probably left for a long time.

Among this pile of antiquities, Xu Fu found a stone tablet with writing on it.

As a descendant of the Qi State, Xu Fu was very familiar with the characters above. They were all the Qi characters used before the fall of the Qi State, and the contents recorded in these Qi characters were closely related to Zuzhou and Yangshenzhi.

The person who left this stone slab was none other than Lu Long, Lu Lo's son who had disappeared for more than ten years.

It is written on the stone tablet that this is the Zuzhou where Jiang Taigong, the ancestor of the Lu family, came to, and the function of the nourishing mushroom is also written.

Not only does the nourishing mushroom not make people immortal, but it also contains highly toxic substances. Anyone who takes it will bleed to death within a moment.

But Yangshen Mushroom can indeed revive people. Even those who have been poisoned by Yangshen Mushroom can just cover their faces with its branches and leaves, and soon the dead person will be able to stand up and walk like a living person.

However, such a person is just a walking corpse. He still cannot change the fact that he is dead. He will continue to decay like a dead person. After a month of this, he will turn into a pile of black soil.

And this black soil is the real panacea that can prolong life.

After a living person takes it, he will be refreshed. Even if he is already suffering from a terminal illness, it can be cured by the medicine. Long-term use can even extend his life, and it is easy to live over a hundred years.

However, this black soil is not without its disadvantages.

The biggest disadvantage is that people who have taken black soil will completely lose their fertility and will no longer be able to have children. They will also be unable to be "resurrected" by Yangshen Zhi after death. The body will also become extremely hard and sound like a stone when knocked.

Crisp sound.

If the corpse is left in this way for about ten days, the surface of the deceased's body will gradually turn into a gray-black color unique to rocks.

After another month of storage, the corpse will dry out and crack, eventually turning into cold gravel with no sign of life.

In addition to humans, this is also true for animals such as macaques and hares.

But birds, fish and snakes are not included in this list. Not only will these animals not be poisoned by the Nourishing Mushroom, there will be no obvious harm from eating black soil, and they can still reproduce.

That's why.

Animals such as macaques and hares on the island do not like to eat black soil and even avoid it for fear of eating.

Birds, fish and snakes, however, flock to black soil and often fight over it. Birds hover in the sky all day long and look down at the island. Whenever they see a macaque or an animal dying, they will kill it.

Come and raise the Shen Zhi to wait for death to come, then use the Shen Shen Zhi to resurrect it, and wait for it to turn into black soil before going to grab food...

That's all what's on the slate.
To be continued...