Longevity: Sweeping Across the World as an Eunuch

Chapter 53: Chapter 52: Great Liang’s Secret

Zhu Feng was dying.

Perhaps sensing her impending death, she told Su Chen everything she knew without waiting for his answer.

"I believe that everything I’ve told you is worth having you protect my child until they are grown."

"A promise from Lord Su carries immense weight..."

Having said everything, blood streamed ceaselessly from Zhu Feng’s seven orifices.

She collapsed to the ground.

And breathed her last.

The vial of a Demon Fiend’s corrupting blood in her hand spilled onto the ground, looking like nothing more than dirty kerosene.

’An Immortal Treasure... a long-lived Exotic Beast that practices an Immortal Technique?’

A faint chill ran down Su Chen’s spine. As he gazed toward the Imperial City, he felt an unexpected sense of empathy, and a cold dread washed over him.

There were no historical records from three hundred years ago in the Library Pavilion.

He had learned from Zhu Feng.

Over three hundred years ago, there was no Great Zhou, Great Liang, or any of the other smaller nations. There was only one empire here, called the Great Yu Dynasty.

The last emperor of the Great Yu Dynasty, in his search for an Immortal Footprint, exhausted the national treasury and oppressed the common people until they could no longer survive. He eventually died, leaving behind a total mess.

The various Grandmasters of Great Yu then fought endlessly among themselves, causing the Dynasty to shatter. In the end, the whereabouts of these Grandmasters became unknown.

As war ravaged the land, two great heroes rose to the occasion, quelled the flames of war, and divided the land between them. They were the founding Grand Ancestors of Great Zhou and Great Liang.

With their new dynasties established, the two founding Grand Ancestors, who had plundered the treasury of Great Yu, also became Grandmasters one after the other.

Years passed.

The Grand Ancestor of Great Zhou was the first to die of old age. The Grand Ancestor of Liang’s lifespan was also nearing its end. He had consumed everything from Human Blood Life-extending Pills to Thousand-Year Treasure Medicines, but they only extended his life by three years.

He was one hundred and three years old.

Just as the Grand Ancestor of Liang was on the verge of dying from old age, a Giant Whale, an Exotic Beast, crossed the endless ocean at the continent’s edge and arrived. The Grand Ancestor of Liang believed an Immortal Beast had descended and, trembling with reverence, led his entire nation in worship.

However, it was merely a long-lived Exotic Beast that practiced an Immortal Technique and was passing through the area. Its natural Innate Lifespan allowed it to live for a full two thousand years.

Perhaps seeing the Grand Ancestor of Liang’s lavish hospitality and his impending death, the Giant Whale bestowed a drop of its longevity demon blood upon him.

The Grand Ancestor of Liang’s life was extended by thirty years, but his body gradually demonized. His human blood was suffused with the Longevity Blood, and every hundred days, he would suffer a pain akin to having his bones ground to dust.

The Giant Whale, feeling guilty about the Grand Ancestor of Liang’s demonization, granted him an Immortal Skill. This skill allowed him to transfer the Mutated Longevity Blood to his descendants, though his own power would decrease as a result.

He could recover his strength by taking the Longevity Blood back.

Such miraculous, demonic methods.

It was then that the Grand Ancestor of Liang realized that the Immortal Footprint was not a legend, and the Great Yu Emperor’s search for it had not been an act of madness.

He desperately wanted to make the long-lived Giant Whale stay. Thirty years had passed in the blink of an eye. Having extended his life by three decades, how could he be willing to face the great terror of dying from old age again?

And so, seeing the Exotic Beast’s insistence on leaving, he scoured the Ancient Books left by the Great Yu Emperor concerning the Immortal Footprint. He finally found a solution.

He mixed a thousand-year Miracle Medicine, the Soul Refining Fruit, into the water to drug the Giant Whale. Then, he forged seven thirty-foot-long Soul-Stabilizing Nails to Seal and imprison it. He caused its soul to dissipate and used the nation’s destiny to Suppress it deep underground. Whenever the nation’s destiny weakened, the Giant Whale would surface, and they would draw its blood to extend their lives.

Moreover, even with its soul scattered, the Giant Whale retained a residual consciousness that would answer any question. Having lived for nearly a thousand years, it held countless wondrous Magic techniques in its mind, including methods to quickly reach First Grade and even touch upon the opportunity to become a Grandmaster.

It even knew the legendary Cultivation Techniques.

However, these Cultivation Techniques required a Spiritual Root, and in three hundred years, the Grand Ancestor of Liang’s lineage had only found one person who possessed one...

Thus, over time, the descendants of the Grand Ancestor of Liang came to call it the Immortal Treasure.

’So that’s how it is.’

’The farmer saved the snake, only to be bitten by it.’

’If I were that long-lived Exotic Beast, I’m afraid my fate would have been no better.’

Su Chen fell silent, replaying everything in his mind.

He had been too conspicuous.

Fortunately, his identity as a Longevity Cultivator had not been exposed. Otherwise, with his meager strength, unable to even defeat a Peak First Grade expert, he would have had no hope of escape once noticed.

This Giant Whale, with a mere two-thousand-year Innate Lifespan, was hunted down and coveted by the whole world. He, on the other hand, was a true Longevity Cultivator with an endless lifespan. If he were exposed, he feared even the legendary Immortal Realm would go into a frenzy...

’I have to change! I need to be more cautious.’

’Thankfully, my Longevity Realm allows for Shapeshifting and Face-Changing. I can stop being so ostentatious and cut ties with my past. Hiding won’t be a problem...’

’In that case, it shouldn’t just be the Little Emperor who dies this time, but Emperor Jianwu as well! He called out my identity. I can’t afford to take any chances.’

Su Chen even considered abandoning his identity as the pharmacist, Xu Ge.

At this moment, with this cautionary tale before him, Su Chen finally understood what an anomaly like him represented to those who, like Innate Grandmasters, only had a hundred-year lifespan.

The existence of Longevity Qi could likely drive all the Grandmasters and even the Great Demon Fiends of the world mad.

The Jade Token had shattered, and the two Miracle Medicine seeds were now stained with the corrupted blood that had seeped from Zhu Feng’s seven orifices as the poison consumed her organs.

This was the proof of Zhu Feng’s sincerity for Su Chen.

She had willingly given her life, swallowing the Secret Medicine, to allow these Vital Organ Herbs and Flowers—both an Internal Organ Marvel Medicine and a First Grade peerless poison—to sprout and grow.

She herself was the method for making the Organ Flower Seeds blossom and bear fruit.

In that moment, the Five-organ Grass and the Six Viscera Flower sprouted stems from within the poisoned blood of her organs, taking root in the soil below.

A flower stem, crimson as blood, and a grass root, blue as azure...

’I’ll remember this favor.’

’I just never thought that, given my less-than-amicable relationship with the Seventh Prince, I’d end up raising his child. Oh, I mean, taking them as my disciple...’

The remaining sixty-nine wisps of Longevity True Qi in his body all surged into the nascent Five-organ Grass and Six Viscera Flower before him.

The grass glowed crimson like the sun; the flower shone sapphire like the moon.

A hundred-year-old Five-organ Grass was a Miracle Medicine for Washing the Five Viscera. A single blade could allow a Third Grade Marrow Cleansing expert to enter the Internal Organ Realm directly, instantly form their five viscera, and advance into the Six Viscera Realm.

The same was true for a hundred-year-old Six Viscera Flower Leaf.

But the tassel of the Five-organ Grass and the stamen of the Six Viscera Flower were rare First Grade poisons, capable of killing even a Peak First Grade expert on the spot.

And that was just for the hundred-year-old versions. The ones before Su Chen, resembling the sun and moon and glowing with fiery red and azure light, were a thousand years old...

’I’m afraid this could even affect a Grandmaster or a Great Demon Fiend.’

Snapping off a leaf from the Vital Organ Herbs and Flowers, Su Chen’s Internal Organ Realm, which had been stagnant for a long time, finally showed signs of movement. Washing the Five Viscera and Refining the Six Viscera began simultaneously.

In an instant, his five viscera and six viscera were refined in their entirety.

Normally, Su Chen should have advanced directly into the rumored Third Layer: Vital Organ Integration and Qi Merging.

However, that didn’t happen.

The residual medicinal power began to refine his five viscera and six viscera a second time.

’Is this a Second Refining of the Internal Organs? A second round of refinement? Why have I never heard of this? There’s no record of it, not even in the Ancient Books. Even the most elite Martial Arts Prodigies, after refining their organs in the Second Grade Internal Organ Realm, either push for First Grade or step into the Third Layer of the Internal Organ Realm, Vital Organ Integration and Qi Merging...’

’I’ve never heard of a second refinement...’

Su Chen snapped off another leaf from the Vital Organ Herbs and Flowers, swallowed it, and continued the refinement.

Hm?!

After the second refining, a third began automatically...

’What is happening?’

Su Chen continued to snap off leaves and continue the refinement.

After a long time.

Snap off a leaf.

Refine.

Snap off a leaf, refine.

...

’That’s nine refinings...’

’I’ve finally reached the limit.’

Su Chen stood up, relieved. He exhaled a breath of turbid air, and in that instant, the stream of white Qi from his mouth and nose solidified like True Essence, resembling bluestone and white jade...

Nine Refinings of the Internal Organs.

At this moment, even before stepping into the Third Layer of Vital Organ Integration and Qi Merging, the Qi from a single breath nurtured by Su Chen’s powerful organs could shatter stone and sunder iron, surpassing Anger Gang and rivaling True Essence.

Without hesitation, Su Chen pushed forward in one go, advancing toward the Third Layer: Vital Organ Integration and Qi Merging.

He had a feeling that once he stepped into this Third Layer, he would truly live up to the name of the strongest Second Grade, possessing the strength of the number one on the Martial Arts List—also known as the Earth List, the Peak First Grade list.

By then, he would be able to kill an ordinary First Grade expert with a single breath!

He could even Suppress a Peak First Grade!

Even a Dual First Grade Peak Grandmaster wouldn’t be able to do anything to him.

By then, below the rank of Grandmaster, he would be free and unfettered!

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