The ancients watched me play the Starry Sky Railway

"Then... let's change the subject." Luosha said helplessly, "Since you don't even know the deadly feud between Xun Lie and Feng Zao, it's too difficult to explain many things."

"Okay, let me change the subject: What's in that big box?" Su Chang stood on tiptoe curiously to look at the coffin behind Luosha.

"She's never seen a coffin before, so she doesn't recognize it."

"Is this the white box? It's a coffin, commonly known as a casket, used to hold the remains of the deceased." Luosha had no choice but to explain what a coffin was.

"So, what kind of business is he in? I've never heard of a merchant carrying a coffin around!"

Shen Wansan was full of questions.

He has been a businessman for so many years, but he has never seen anything like this!

Even the legendary corpse-driver from Xiangxi wouldn't carry a coffin around with him, right?

He didn't understand, but he felt that Luosha was definitely not a traveling merchant!

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"The deceased?" Su Shang's eyes widened. "You, you are a traveling merchant, aren't you?"

"This is part of the business trip," Luosha explained slowly, "I've been commissioned to deliver this coffin back to the Immortal Boat. And, for the immortals, who often live for thousands of years, death is probably a distant concept."

"Not really. Death is commonplace for Cloud Riders on the battlefield. But we don't have the custom of using a box...er, a coffin to hold the body. The Xianzhou people's custom of bidding farewell to their comrades is to enshrine their names and jade omens in the Karma Hall of the Ten Kings' Division."

"Furthermore, foxmen and vidyadharas each have their own farewell rituals. I've seen foxmen place their deceased comrades on star rafts and let them drift toward the distant stars—they call this 'rectifying the Qingqiu'."

"Su Shang said this very frankly, not feeling any taboo about mentioning death."

"The customs of the Luofu Fairy Boat are so strange... Don't they care about being buried in peace?" Xu Xiake was very curious.

However, no matter how strange it is, it still needs to be recorded!

Recording the local customs and practices of different places is also part of a travelogue!

Once these records were written down, how could future generations who read them think that he had never been to Luofu or Beloberg?

Well, cloud tourism is also tourism!

The more I write about Xu Xiake, the sadder I feel. Starry Sky Train, when will you come to pick me up for a trip?

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"Oh? What about the Vidyadhara?" Rakshasa played the role of a supporting actor very well.

"As for the Vidyadharas, they're quite mysterious." Su Chang looked up and recalled, "I heard that when a Vidyadhara lives a long time, or is injured and near death, they transform into a pearl-like egg, and then a newborn child breaks out of the shell... My mother calls Vidyadharas Dragonborn. When I was a child, she told me stories about Vidyadharas who could transform into giant dragons. I don't know if that's true."

"What! Doesn't that mean you will never die under normal circumstances?" Zhu Di jumped up from his chair in shock.

Before, he was wondering what self-sufficiency in reincarnation meant... Well, now he understands!

Reincarnation with oneself, it seems that this is a self-sufficient cycle!

When they get old, they turn into eggs. When they get injured, they turn into eggs... As long as they are not killed by malicious intent, the Chiming tribe will never die!

No wonder the dragon girl Bai Lu said she had no parents, because she gave birth to herself from an egg!

"It's simply perfect. The eternal life that is out of reach for mortals is just a racial characteristic of theirs..." Zhu Di murmured, his eyes full of envy.

He also wants to turn into an egg when he is about to die, and then be reborn!

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"How can this Chi Ming be so powerful? No wonder the Chi Ming's marrow is used in that prescription..." Ying Zheng was a little confused now.

From this point of view, the effectiveness of the prescription should be closely related to this characteristic of the Chiming clan.

But the Pig Dragon doesn't seem to have this characteristic... Is it really useful to use the Pig Dragon's marrow in the prescription?

(Zhu Polong: I have come to inform Your Majesty that in the depths of the distant ocean lies a rare creature called the Turritopsis dohrnii, which is worthy of being used as medicine!)

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Dan Heng, who was standing nearby and heard Su Chang say this, had a slightly changed expression: "Only special vidyadharas can transform into dragons."

"Oh my goodness, Mr. Silent has spoken!" Su Shang was stunned.

"..." Ignoring her teasing, Dan Heng said calmly:

"Your mother is right. The Vidyadharas are descendants of dragons, the immortal star gods—dragons. Therefore, among the Vidyadharas, some were once able to transform into dragons, but not everyone possesses this aptitude."

"This power is a rare one, passed down through countless rituals and trials. For those who receive it—it's hardly a blessing."

"The Immortal Star God—Dragon?" Liu Che's eyes lit up slightly. "Another Star God I've never heard of before... Even in the canopy introducing the Star Gods, this Star God doesn't appear!"

Besides, it was a dragon!

As early as the late Neolithic Age, totem worship of dragons had already appeared in this land.

...Although the dragons at that time looked a little different from the dragons later, at least they were all called dragons!

(The image of the dragon has changed greatly. During the Shang Dynasty, the dragon's head had no horns and had enlarged ears, looking similar to a pig's head.)

When it came to the time of the First Emperor, he called himself the Zulong. This was the first time that the dragon was used as a symbol of the emperor.

Regardless, for the people of this land, dragons are beings with very complex emotions.

"Perhaps I should pay homage to this immortal star god—the dragon. Immortal... immortal! This must be the god in charge of immortality!"

The more Liu Che thought about it, the more excited he became. He felt that by worshipping this immortal star god, he would be immortal.

Although I don’t know what the immortal star god looks like, since it is a dragon, I will carve it in the shape of a dragon.

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"I have heard stories of the Immortal Dragon and his descendants. Many myths praise him for his perfect, immortal life." Rakshasa changed the subject: "But for some reason, he disappeared among the stars, as if he had never existed—leaving only a few descendants behind."

“…Ah?” Ying Zheng was numb.

He had just excitedly asked people to cast a dragon statue, ready to worship the immortal star god - the dragon.

Then you turned around and told him that the Immortal Star God simply disappeared?

If he were to offer sacrifices here, would the Immortal Star God hear him? Would he bestow blessings upon him?

...Also, did it disappear, or... pass away?

"It should have just disappeared, right? Immortality, can that also disappear? Impossible! Absolutely impossible!" Ying Zheng seemed to be possessed by Cao Cao, and kept comforting himself.