Chapter 294 Life Insurance

"Life-prolonging pill?"

It was the first time that Mo Hua heard this word, so he asked, "Can it prolong life?"

Zhang Lan thought, "It can be said to prolong life, but it is not."

Elder Yu and others looked at each other, all a little confused.

Mo Hua said, "Uncle Zhang, don't keep me in suspense."

Zhang Lan was startled, thought for a moment, and then asked Mo Hua, "What is the most important thing for a cultivator?"

"Cultivation?" Mo Hua thought for a while and answered.

"No." Zhang Lan shook his head. "Cultivation is the foundation of a cultivator, but more importantly, life span. Only with life span can one pursue cultivation and seek immortality."

"The so-called immortality is actually the ultimate eternal life span."

Mo Hua understood. "In simple terms, no matter what a person does, he must first live. If he doesn't live, he naturally has nothing."

"You are right to think so." Zhang Lan said, "No matter how powerful a cultivator is, he must first live. Without life span, he cannot survive. Even if his cultivation is unparalleled, he will inevitably die."

Mo Hua said, "So cultivators will try every means to prolong their lives?"

Zhang Lan nodded and said, "The idea of ​​prolonging life is actually wrong. The laws of nature are constant, and cultivators have lives. When the deadline is approaching, the life span is exhausted, and death is inevitable no matter what."

"But some elixirs or exercises can indeed prolong life..." Mo Hua asked in confusion.

Although Mo Hua had never seen the elixir or method of "extending life" with his own eyes, it was often recorded in the classics of Taoism, so it was nothing new.

"That's why I said that these so-called "extending life" are not really "extending life." Zhang Lan said.

Mo Hua listened carefully and waited for Zhang Lan to continue.

Zhang Lan's face was solemn, and he continued:

"It is impossible to extend the life of a cultivator who is about to die. This is the limitation of heaven. The so-called longevity of a cultivator usually falls into two situations."

"One is to regulate the body and meridians through exercises or elixirs, remove redundancy, remove diseases, and extend life."

"But in this case, the cultivator's own death has not come, and his life span has not been exhausted. This kind of longevity is the cultivator's own life span, so it can't be said to extend life."

"And once the cultivator's death is really coming, he will die due to the limitation of heaven. If he wants to survive, he can only go to the evil ways, practice various forbidden techniques, and refine various forbidden elixirs."

"The life pill is one of the forbidden pills."

Mo Hua felt a chill in his heart and asked, "Does it take a lot of people to refine the life pill?"

Zhang Lan nodded, "The life pill is difficult to refine, and you have to kill a lot of people."

"Refining Human pills extend life, which is equivalent to putting people into pills and borrowing lives from others. However, this kind of thing that goes against the way of heaven is extremely difficult and may take a lot of effort. One person can only borrow a little life, which requires accumulating a lot and killing a lot of people to extend his own life..."

Mo Hua's heart trembled, and he gradually figured it out:

"The way of man is to take away from the poor so as not to give to the rich, and it is all about exploiting others to benefit oneself..."

"Families and noble families become powerful, and they exploit spiritual stones; the Dao Court is the only one, and it exploits power; evil demons are more cruel, some drink blood, and they exploit fresh blood; some absorb spirits, and they exploit spiritual power; and refining this human life pill is to directly exploit people's lives..."

Zhang Lan was horrified when he heard this, and said: "Who told you this?"

Mo Hua scratched his head, "Isn't it like this?"

Zhang Lan wanted to say no, but he felt that it was indeed the truth, but it was difficult to sort out his thoughts for a while.

Elder Yu was also slightly surprised and looked at Mo Shan.

Mo Shan shook his head, meaning that it was not taught by me. He did not know why Mo Hua could say such a thing.

Mo Hua thought for a moment and asked Zhang Lan again:

"If it is really a human pill, then is this pill made for the big boss?"

Zhang Lan still frowned, thinking about what Mo Hua said. At this time, he remembered that the most important thing at present was the matter of the Black Mountain Stronghold, so he speculated:

"The big boss is a foundation-building cultivator. The life span of a cultivator in the early stage of foundation-building is only 300 years. The life span of the middle and late stages is longer, but it is only 400 years. With this calculation, the big boss is probably about to die, so he built a stronghold in the depths of the Black Mountain, recruited evil cultivators, killed people and robbed goods, and refined pills to prolong his life..."

"These actions are all prohibited by the "Tao Law." Mo Hua said.

"Yes, they are basically all serious crimes punishable by beheading, slow slicing, or even strangulation."

Zhang Lan sighed, but his expression was also a little relaxed, "The matter of refining human pills is the wrath of heaven and people. Once reported, the Dao Court will definitely attach great importance to it and will definitely dispatch Dao soldiers to kill all these evil cultivators!"

Elder Yu and everyone else also breathed a sigh of relief.

If this is true, the matter of wiping out the Black Mountain Village will not be so difficult.

Mo Hua thought for a while and asked again:

"This group of evil cultivators is so low-key, are they also afraid that these traces will be exposed and alarm the Dao Court, and they will be surrounded and suppressed by Dao soldiers?"

Zhang Lan thought for a while and nodded, "It is very likely, but..."

Then Zhang Lan thought of another question and asked Mo Hua:

"Refining the human pill is top secret, and the alchemy room is a forbidden place. These cannot be known by outsiders. How did you get in?"

Elder Yu and others looked at Mo Hua curiously.

"Nothing. I just took advantage of the Third Master going out and sneaked in."

Mo Hua said lightly.

"Then what happened?"

Zhang Lan asked again, he knew that this matter was definitely not that simple.

"Then I was delayed by something, and was caught by the Third Master..."

Everyone's expression suddenly changed, and Mo Shan's heart trembled, his expression worried.

"You were caught by the evil foundation-building cultivator, and you can come out alive?" Zhang Lan said in shock, "How did you get out?"

"The Third Master sent me out." Mo Hua said.

Zhang Lan didn't believe it: "What nonsense are you talking about?"

Mo Hua said: "Really."

Zhang Lan said: "Is his brain broken?"

"It's not broken, but maybe he thought wrongly, so he misunderstood."

"Misunderstood what?"

"Misunderstood that I was an old monster who took over another's body."

"Take over another's body?" Zhang Lan was surprised and asked, "Why?"

Mo Hua tried to be more modest, but still said with some pride:

"Maybe it's because my spiritual sense is strong."

Zhang Lan was startled, "I know you have a strong spiritual sense, but it's not to the extent of..."

As he was talking, Zhang Lan's spiritual sense suddenly moved, his expression suddenly changed, and he said in disbelief: "Your spiritual sense..."

After hearing this, Elder Yu also released his spiritual sense, and his eyes widened a moment later, and he stood up suddenly.

He hadn't noticed it until the spiritual sense was mentioned at this time, and he released his spiritual sense and peeked at Mo Hua.

But after only peeking for a moment, he couldn't sit still.

In the perception of the spiritual consciousness, Mo Hua's body was hazy and his aura was vague. It was impossible to see clearly and understand the reality.

The stronger the spiritual consciousness, the more obscure it is.

This means that Mo Hua's spiritual consciousness is already strong enough to rival him, and even hinder his perception!

But how is this possible? He is building a foundation, and Mo Hua is just refining qi! This has already broken his common sense of cultivation...

Elder Yu looked a little shocked, "Your spiritual consciousness..."

Mo Hua scratched his head and said embarrassedly:

"My cultivation is refining qi, but my spiritual consciousness has already built a foundation..."

Everyone took a breath of cold air, and in an instant, there was a dead silence in the room.

At the same time, in the deep mountains.

The third boss also murmured: "Qi refining cultivation, foundation building spiritual consciousness, how is this possible..."

He found something wrong.

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