I am a fairy

Chapter 262: The Temptation of Immortality
world.

Huajing City.

Since returning from the Great Sun Temple, Linghua Jun has been hiding the box on his body, but he always feels uneasy.

As if afraid that others would notice.

Knowing that she has the elixir of immortality, taking it can make one return to youth.

She understood where her uneasiness came from. Even she, Linghua Jun, who often went to the so-called "Heavenly Palace" and could go to heaven and earth, could not suppress the desire and greed in her heart for such a divine object, let alone other people.

Under night light.

When she was meditating alone and looking at the map of mountains, rivers and the country, she couldn't help but take out the box.

By candlelight, she looked at the pills in the box again and again.

"Elixir!"

Although this elixir of immortality is not as mysterious as in the myth, which says that after taking it, one can live forever and stay on earth forever.

But if you take it once, you can live one more life.
As long as the elixir of life exists, life will continue from generation to generation, and one will naturally be immortal.

For her now, immortality may not be so attractive, but the phrase "rejuvenation" is like a spell that tightly wraps around her head and echoes in her ears.

The younger and more beautiful you are, the more afraid you are of losing your beauty.

The more you are worshipped as a deity, the more difficult it is to give these things up.

Gain, lose.

Pick up and put down.

Sometimes, the latter is more difficult and more terrifying than the former.

Suddenly, there was a sound from behind and someone came in.

"Divine witch!"

"Who?"

Linghua Jun suddenly looked back and quickly put the box into his sleeve. Then he saw the wizard who had been following him open the door with a lantern and called softly.

The witch had never expected that his call would cause such a big commotion to Linghua Jun, who was always as still as a mountain. He was stunned for a moment.

Until Linghua Jun asked him, "What's the matter?"

The witch came back to his senses and said, "Witch, it's already dark and it's raining outside, and you're still in the temple without making any noise. Everyone urged me to come and ask you something."

Ling Huajun then stood up and said, "Let's go back!"

Walking on the stone slabs, everyone protected her, with shamans and witches holding umbrellas beside her.

Linghua Jun said: "From now on, you are not allowed to open the palace door without my permission."

Everyone bowed and said, "Yes!"

Seeing Ling Huajun being so cautious reminded the shaman beside him of what had just happened. With the help of the light, he seemed to see Ling Huajun putting something into his sleeves.

Linghua Jun held the elixir of immortality in his arms, but he felt upset.

In the following days, Ling Huajun felt that he would always remember and care about some things that he had not paid much attention to before.

E.g.

When Linghuajun looked at herself in the bronze mirror, she would occasionally mistake the shadows on her temples for wrinkles or spots from aging.

A touch of luster on the head was mistaken for white hair.

Now that I have the elixir of immortality, I have become even more afraid of not getting older.

With such a heavenly appearance, she is even more afraid of becoming ugly. Even the slightest loss would make her feel unbearable.

The more things you have, the less at ease you seem to feel. Instead, you feel as if you are standing in a sea of ​​clouds on a high mountain, walking on thin ice, afraid of falling from above.

Hesitate and wander, toss and turn.

She hid the elixir even tighter, feeling more and more that she might need it soon and more and more that she couldn't afford to lose it.

As long as you have it, you can recover when you get old, and you can find your youth again even if you lose your youth and pass away.

But the more she thought about it, the more she felt that the box of the elixir of immortality was not safe no matter where it was hidden.

Carry it in your sleeve?

What if it falls off?
If I put it somewhere else, what should I do if it gets stolen?
Every time Linghua Jun passes by a place.

Looking down, I saw a loose slab of stone and couldn't help but think of it.

"Hidden here?"

I looked up and saw the dark corner of the eaves, and couldn't help thinking about it again.

"Maybe we should hide it here, so no one can find it?"

I think about it day and night and can't sleep.

Finally, Linghua Jun couldn't help it anymore. He suddenly walked out of the house quietly with a lamp in his hand in the middle of the night and came to the pond behind the Yunzhong Palace Temple and the National Master's Mansion.

The pool of water led to the Donghua River and was full of lotus leaves, but at this moment they had all withered, leaving only a pool of lotus stems.

Linghua Jun held the talisman in his hand and waved the lantern, and then he saw something moving in the pool.

The light from the lantern shone on the object, reflecting a golden color.

At first glance.

It was as if the golden light gradually spread along the surface of the water and was carried away into the distance along with the ripples.

After a while, the dragon poked its head out.

Linghua Jun stood on the shore, let the dragon open its mouth, and then placed the sealed box with the talisman on it into its mouth.

"Whoa!"

The golden fish in the pond swallowed the box and sank into the water, never to be seen again.

Linghua Jun hid the elixir of immortality in the dragon's belly, as if he thought that this would put the dragon at ease and it would no longer be confused and sleepless every day.

But after returning, everything was still the same for her, nothing had changed.

"Will the elixir of immortality be eaten by the dragon?"

"Will the elixir go bad if placed in the dragon's stomach?"

"Will there be ghosts, gods, or evil spirits on earth coming to steal the elixir?"

From the moment she got the elixir of immortality, her heart was like rippling pond water.

The wind never stops, and she will never calm down.

Dainichi Shrine.

When Xinyue was offering sacrifices to the gods of heaven and earth, Linghua Jun traveled to the Great Sun Palace and saw that a banquet was being held in the palace.

Ghosts, gods, demons, and dragons attended the banquet. From the whirlpools above the dome, one could also see the scenes of sacrifices to gods and surrounding temples on earth.

The god on the cloud bed accepted the worship of humans, gods, demons, ghosts and all living things between heaven and earth, and then finally met her and heard Linghua Jun's worries.

"A dose of immortality medicine has made you confused."

"Too!"

"Who is not afraid of getting old, and who is not afraid of death?"

Yun Zhongjun was also confused when facing immortality.

He let go of his own confusion, but it was Linghua Jun who was also confused. However, it seemed that Linghua Jun was the same as him.

Yun Zhongjun asked her, "What are you going to do?"

Ling Huajun said: "The fact that an elixir of immortality makes me so worried shows that Lingzi really does not have the heart to live forever."

"Even if you gain immortality, you will inevitably become a demon in the end. After you gain immortality in one life, you will only think about living forever in the next life."

"I think about it every day and every night, and I don't know what it will become."

Linghua Jun hesitated for a long time, and finally spoke.

"Since we will all die and grow old in the end!"

"It's better to just end it in this lifetime."

"Enter that reincarnation and practice!"

"Or I will wait until I have overcome this inner demon, and then I will come to ask the immortal for the elixir of immortality."

Linghua Jun made up his mind and felt like a burden had been lifted from him. He no longer hesitated or wavered.

"But when I think about how the God will never grow old or die, I'm happy."

"As long as the Lord is still here, I will feel at ease."

Yun Zhongjun: "Since you can live one more life, after that life, you can find a way to ask me for one more. If you repeat this over and over again, you can live forever, right? Haven't you ever thought about this?"

Ling Huajun did not hide it: "It is because of thinking that such a demon is born. The more you think about it, the deeper and heavier the demon becomes, and it is difficult to suppress it."

"The more you think about it, the greedier you become. The greedier you become, the more afraid you become!"

"If I am insatiable, one day, the Lord God will be disgusted with me."

Yun Zhongjun: "You don't want that immortality pill anymore?"

Ling Huajun said: "Without it, I feel more at ease. With the immortality medicine, Lingzi is no longer like Lingzi."

Yun Zhongjun nodded, and at this moment something seemed to happen, Yun Zhongjun suddenly looked outside the hall.

After a while, look back.

"Sure enough, this immortality drug makes people possessed by demons!"

"Alright...Alright..."

Yun Zhongjun said a few words that Linghuajun could not understand, and then he said nothing more. Linghuajun also stood up and prepared to return the elixir of immortality after returning.

After Linghua Jun left, the Moon Goddess appeared.

"Look!"

"You're so stingy, only giving one."

"You said you wanted to pack an elixir of immortality for ten thousand lifetimes, maybe others won't mess around anymore."

Yun Zhongjun: "One is enough to drive a person crazy, ten thousand, you really are not afraid of chaos!"

Yun Zhongjun took off his mask and looked much older.

Wrinkles appeared at the corners of his eyes, and his beard grew much longer, making him look more and more like Taiyi God in the scroll.

Yun Zhongjun: "But her awareness seems to be higher than mine. After my body suffered from the five decays of the celestial being, I felt that I had changed from a high and mighty immortal to a mortal. The six desires entered my body and the five demons pierced my heart."

Wangshu: "So what's wrong? What's the difference from before?"

Yun Zhongjun: "The difference from before is that recently I keep thinking about how you instilled in me the idea that I was a deity. Now that I think about it, sometimes I actually believe it."

It's just like when there are always people around you calling you handsome. If they call you that often, you will really think that you are handsome.

The Moon God said, "They are indeed the inner demons. Kill them quickly."

Yun Zhongjun looked at Yueshen without saying anything, and at this time Yueshen turned the topic back to Linghuajun.

"It's not that she is more conscious than you. It's because she has an indestructible existence in her heart, like a coordinate."

"That existence made her feel at peace, and made her not afraid of death or reincarnation."

Yun Zhongjun asked: "What is that?"

The Moon Goddess said, "You!"

The Moon Goddess walked behind Yun Zhongjun and spoke to him.

"so."

"You can't die like this." "If this world has myths, you are the only pillar that supports this myth."
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Recently, many people have noticed Linghuajun's unusual behavior.

Let alone the emperor, even a county magistrate in the world has a large number of people trying to guess his every word and action.

Linghua Jun's current status in the human world even surpasses that of the emperor. Although the emperor is in charge of human affairs, Linghua Jun is in charge of yin and yang affairs.

However, naturally, countless people pay attention to and ponder his every move, and give rise to all kinds of fantasies.

Because one of his words could determine the life and death of thousands of people.

One action can bring wealth and glory to a person, or bring him down to earth.

The group of witches and shamans who followed Linghua Jun naturally observed more and knew more secrets.

Xiong Hai is over sixty years old. According to his bloodline, he is an elder of the divine witches and is also one of the witches who follows Linghua Jun and is very trusted by him.

On weekdays.

His main task is to assist Linghua Jun in organizing various ceremonies and Nuo dances, because he knows all kinds of customs passed down from ancient times, and the old witch naturally has his own strengths.

The first time I noticed that something was wrong with Linghua Jun was in that hall.

The wizard Xiong Hai saw Ling Huajun sitting under the candlelight late at night, putting something like a box into his sleeve.

Although it was just a quick glance, Xiong Hai was deeply impressed by the style of the box.

"It seems to be a pill box?"

In the next few days, Xiong Hai kept thinking about the appearance of the box.

That must be a pill box.

Moreover, Xiong Hai also knew that the elixir box must not be from the human world, but came from the sky above.

Because Xiong Hai had seen that kind of box before. When there was a plague on earth in the past, the elixir bestowed by Yun Zhongjun was packed in that kind of box.

Xiong Hai didn't take it seriously at first. After all, that was Linghua Jun, and it was too common to have some things from the Nine Heavens Palace on him.

In their spare time, the servants in the Yunzhong Palace Temple would also chat about some news they heard from inside and outside the palace, naturally with all kinds of fantasies and speculations.

Recently, the most widely circulated news inside and outside Huajing City is naturally that Yun Zhongjun is Taiyi God, the Emperor of Heaven who rules the sky above the Nine Heavens.

"Have you heard that Yun Zhongjun is Taiyi God, and when he returns to heaven he will be the Emperor of Heaven."

"I heard that there is a banquet in heaven, and those who attend the banquet can gain immortality. If a chicken on earth eats a mouthful of rice, it can also gain immortality."

"You said we could go to some banquet, even if it's just standing by and drinking a sip of the leftover wine!"

"You believe this nonsense. Even in heaven, the gods still raise chickens. Why don't you say that the gods eat soup noodles at the fairy banquet?"

"The rooster crows at dawn. Who says the chicken of the gods is for eating? That is a divine chicken, a fairy chicken."

"You said, has Lord Linghua ever been to heaven and eaten the elixir of immortality from heaven?"

"Look at Linghua Jun's heavenly appearance, he must have eaten it."

When Xiong Hai passed by, he heard these people's conversation and immediately shouted loudly.

"You guys have nothing to do, so you dare to gossip here?"

"You commit sins with your tongue, so aren't you afraid of going to the hell of tongue-pulling after you die?"

With just one sentence, the servants in the palace were frightened and dispersed.

However, what those people said remained in Xiong Hai's heart, especially what the last person said.

"Look at the divine appearance of Ling Huajun, he must have taken the elixir of immortality."

Xiong Hai was very old, and his biggest wish before was to go to the wormwood to enjoy a long life after his death, and then be reborn into a good family in the next life, which would be enough for him.

But at this moment, hearing this man talk about immortality, ripples suddenly arose in my heart.

"Elixir?"

Don't know why.

Xiong Hai naturally recalled the scene he saw in the hall that day, and the box that was neither gold nor jade under the candlelight.

The second time I noticed that something was wrong with Linghua Jun was by the pool.

Linghua Jun got up late at night, braved the drizzle, and walked towards the pond alone without letting anyone follow him.

In the past, when the witch gave an order, naturally no one dared to follow. Most people knew that the witch must cast some magic or summon gods or ghosts.

But this time, Xiong Hai remembered the pill box that was neither gold nor jade, and also remembered what the servant said.

In an instant, it was as if I was possessed by a ghost and I followed him involuntarily.

It was drizzling outside and the autumn wind was blowing.

He hid in the grass and watched the wizard lead the dragon to the riverside. Then he took out the jade box and let the dragon swallow it.

The wizard looked cautious and hesitated for a long time. Even if it was not Xiong Hai, anyone else could see that the box must contain something extraordinary.

If not, how could Linghua Jun, who is like a god on earth, appear like this.
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When the grand ceremony of worshiping the gods is held.

When Xiong Hai, wearing a Nuo mask and performing the Nuo dance at the beginning, saw the dazed Ling Huajun hesitating about something, and finally said something.

"Or should we return it to the Lord God?"

After saying this, Linghua Jun seemed to have gotten rid of his confused look in recent days and became calm again.

Linghua Jun stepped onto the stage and walked towards the portrait of Yunzhong Jun and the ancestral tablet in the hall.

The old wizard Xiong Hai, who was wearing a Nuo mask of a monster, trembled and fell into a daze.

But then he still obediently finished the Nuo dance and then left halfway through.

"Return it to the Lord God?"

"Return what, and why?"

"Is it the stuff in the box?"

"That's Yunzhong Jun. Is that what the Emperor of Heaven gave to Linghua Jun? What exactly is it and why are you so cautious?"

"To my surprise, even Linghua Jun doesn't dare to accept it?"

As a blood relative and elder of Linghua Jun, and a respected shaman around him, he is one of the few people who can get close to Linghua Jun.

He knew that Linghua Jun had a talisman on him that could summon ghosts and gods.

He also knew how to use the dragon lantern, what dragons different dragon lanterns corresponded to, and all sorts of secrets about Linghua Jun.

"Take a look!"

"Take a look at what that is."

"Then just return it. I'll take a look and then return it."

At this time, Xiong Hai could no longer suppress his inner demons. He thought about the pill box day and night, constantly guessing what was inside the box.

He wanted to "borrow" the dragon-luring lantern, quietly summon the golden scales in the pond, and then take a look at what was in the box.

Xiong Hai entered Linghua Jun's bedroom on the pretext of a ceremonial matter, then went around and began looking for the dragon lantern in the palace.

He found the dragon-guiding lantern and then headed straight for the river.

Xiong Hai held up the dragon lantern high and chanted a spell.

Not long after.

Sure enough, a golden scale floated up.

The dragon opened its mouth and spit out a box.

Xiong Hai couldn't wait to grab the box in his hand. Before he opened it, he stared at the contents of the box.

"Elixir of Agelessness!"

Just by looking at those three words, Xiong Hai was certain in his heart, and could even say that he believed it without a doubt.

This is what caused the demon in his heart to enter his body, and it is what he is obsessed with and cannot extricate himself from.

"Elixir of Life."

Or, you can put it another way.

"Elixir!"

The old witch felt his body go limp and he fell to his knees on the ground.

It was a sunny day at this moment, but he seemed to feel a strong wind coming from afar, and even heard countless voices coming from the bottom of his heart from all directions.

I don't know who made that voice, but they were all calling out the same word.

"Immortality!"

Holding the box that was neither gold nor jade, he seemed to hear the calls of all living beings from ancient times to the present, and the calls of his ancestors in his blood.

"Immortality!"

"Immortality...immortality...immortality..."

At this moment, what he held in his palm was the thing that had been pursued by emperors, generals, and all living beings in the world throughout the ages.

Moreover, it is something that those people have exhausted everything, pursued for generations, but ultimately failed to obtain.

With it, you can transcend reincarnation.

Swallow it and you will no longer be a mortal.

At this moment, Xiong Hai seemed to have his soul taken away by an evil ghost and his body occupied by an alien demon. His eyes completely turned into that of another person.

"The elixir of immortality, it really is the elixir of immortality."

"If I eat it, I will be immortal and become an immortal."

"No need to enter the cycle of reincarnation again, no need to suffer the pain of birth, aging, sickness and death again."

"Rejuvenation, eternal life on earth."

Xiong Hai was like a madman. He opened his mouth wide, continuously inhaled air, and then exhaled forcefully.

He grabbed the pill box and stared at it, his eyeballs seeming to bulge out.

Suddenly, he thought of something and looked around.

Just like Linghua Jun before, he was afraid that other people would see him and the box in his hand.

Then he quickly picked up the dragon lantern and jumped onto the dragon.

"go with!"

"Listen to my command and take me to the north quickly."

Xiong Hai knew that he absolutely could not escape to the south because the place was full of ghosts, gods, and landlords.

The only direction he could escape to was the north.

And he doesn't have much time left. Once the shaman finishes today's sacrificial ceremony and discovers that he has stolen the elixir of immortality, he will immediately mobilize all the ghosts and gods in heaven and on earth to look for him.

He wanted to find a place that could not be found by humans, gods, demons or ghosts, so as to become the first mortal to steal immortality.

He felt like he was crazy, but sitting on the dragon head, Xiong Hai held the pill box in his hands, his eyes once again immersed in it.

"This is the elixir of immortality!"

Xiong Hai opened the box and found a pill inside.

He picked up the "pill", but found that it was about the size of a fist and looked like fine iron.

He took the pill and tried to stuff it into his mouth, but found that it couldn't go in.

In the end, he could only vomit it out and then cough violently.

"Isn't that how it's used?"

(End of this chapter)