Chapter 404: The Unbridled Ghost

Lin Du took out the only two jade boxes from the empty storage ring.

The jade box is a special storage box for rare spiritual objects. Each pot has a corresponding lid. Even the Supreme Sect does not use jade boxes for everything.

Lin Du glanced at the mark on the jade box and took out the third rare treasure he had prepared for himself.

The first step is to use Tianxin Lotus to clear the mind, calm the nerves, dredge the heart meridians, invigorate qi and promote water excretion. The second step is to use Deep Sea True Spirit to replenish vitality. The third step is what is in front of you, which is a powerful medicine for restoring yang and rescuing the adverse condition, Chiyang Tiger Basket.

Ordinary people don't know how to use this thing, nor do they dare to use it, because it is extremely hot and toxic. If it is not used properly, the person may die.

But Lin Du's situation is different. She has the two rare treasures as a foundation, so she is not afraid.

"It was really a journey of adventure. Fortunately, I was already dead by then, so it was difficult for me to get hurt."

Lin Du sighed, the Tianxin Lotus is on the snowy mountains, the Deep Sea True Spirit is at the very bottom of the sea, but this one is in the ferocious and abnormal magma of the earth's crust.

She took out the black roots. No wonder this thing was the third step. If she had eaten this at the beginning, she would have been dead by now.

She sat cross-legged on the bed and began to concentrate on refining.

The medicine arrived just in time. She was filled with so much negative energy that she didn't look like a living person.

As soon as it was refined, Lin Du noticed the powerful nature of the medicine.

Fortunately, there were no outsiders here at the moment, otherwise they would have seen Lin Du with steam coming out of his whole body. Unlike the others who had smoke coming out of their heads, Lin Du had white steam coming out of his whole body. At first glance, he looked like a god with dry ice special effects.

The skin, which was usually pale and almost bloodless, was steamed into a cooked shrimp in just a cup of tea.

The real steam engine can only be seen from Lin Du himself.

Han Yueling hadn't come out for some fresh air for several days. As soon as she came out, sticking to Lin Du's wrist, she was so scared that she flew up to the sky, like a hedgehog flying into the sky.

"Eh? If not you, then who else?"

"Fake Lin Du?"

Han Yueling was born with both cold and hot phases, but she maintained her cold phase most of the time when she was with Lin Du. Who would have known that when she came out today, she was burned by the heat and fainted.

Chu Guanmeng fell on the bed, turned to look at Lin Du, who was steaming hot, and began to think about what was going on.

After returning from the underworld, when others lost their yang energy, did she lose all her yin energy? Can she bear so much yang energy? Or is she Lin Du?

Did I take the wrong medicine?

Chu Guanmeng thought about it and decided to knock on the spiritual contract with Lin Du, but as soon as he knocked on it, blood dripped onto the bed.

Chu Guanmeng was so frightened that he flew up from the spot again, "Lin Du!!"

Lin Du raised his hand and wiped his face, wiping away the blood from his nose. "Don't panic. This medicine is quite strong. It will take me a long time to digest it. If you want to be free, you can go out and play."

Chu Guanmeng said "oh" when he heard it, and he understood. It was closed again, and he was familiar with this.

Lin Du either freezes himself into an ice cube or turns himself into a brazier.

Maotuanzi shook his head vigorously. Young people should do things in an extreme way.

Lin Du really didn't expect the drug to be so powerful, so powerful that it rushed through her internal organs, her meridians were burning, and all the muscles and pores in her body opened up.

His mind was completely cleared up - the effect of the medicine had overwhelmed him, and he only knew to use his spiritual power to digest and vent his feelings over and over again.

The erupting fire poison wanted to destroy her heart, but the previously refined medicinal power and vitality were continuously replenishing her heart. The hot medicinal power stimulated the vitality of her mutilated body and dispelled the gloomy energy accumulated due to physical exhaustion.

The power of ice and snow relieved the burning sensation in the body. As the meridians circulated again and again, the chronic illnesses were burned away by the power of the medicine, and the abundant yang spiritual power was continuously internalized.

Lin Du also changed from soaking in magma to soaking in hot springs.

The time outside never stops, but the time inside is infinitely close to stillness.

Lin Du could not feel the passage of time, his entire mind was occupied by the power of the refined medicine.

She only has this one life, so of course she has to live, and she must live, at least for three to five hundred years.

In the underworld, in the Palace of King Yan, the judge on paid sick leave casually opens the Book of Life and Death, and the data on it changes every moment.

People in the world think that the book of life and death is fixed and that one's life is written down at the moment of reincarnation.

But for monks, this is not the case.

Monks begin practicing from the moment they enter the monastery. Everything they do and every choice they make may change their destiny.

This is the true practice.

It is for this reason that the Book of Life and Death is a real artifact. It is constantly evolving, constantly calculating a person's future destiny based on the merits and karma accumulated through their choices.

Before he became a judge, the judge truly believed that fate was predetermined. However, after seeing more and more examples, he suddenly realized his mistake.

It is said that fate is predestined, and the cultivators' cultivation and enlightenment are clearly also in the process of making choices. By understanding the rules of heaven, they improve their own fate.

Those who go against the way of heaven, such as giving up hard practice, giving up enlightenment, and abandoning the rules, will have their lifespan shortened.

It is only because of the merits and karma of past lives that everyone’s initial value starts from a different point.

The judge turned over one of the pages and saw two words written on it: Lin Du.

The life span that the judge had previously seen as ninety has now been extended to five hundred.

Although it is much shorter than that of ordinary Qianyuan realm cultivators, and even not even a fraction of theirs, it is indeed much more.

The judge looked at it for a while and then closed the book.

At that time, he pretended to exaggerate, saying that Lin Du only had a little time left to live. In fact, he still had 50 years to live. However, for ordinary people, 50 years is too short. Now it seems that Lin Du may not live to the end of his life.

As time went by, Lin Du got used to the pain and no longer felt it was tormenting.

When the burning sensation in her internal organs had faded, the blood had stopped rushing, her meridians had stopped widening, and her heartbeat had stopped deafening, she let out a long breath, and patiently circulated and consolidated a few more Great Circulations before she stopped practicing.

Her mental and physical energy is basically the same as that of an ordinary person, except that her appearance is a little fragmented.

Lin Du let out a long sigh, stood up, stretched his body, and began to sort out his memories.

In her previous life, after she left her body and became a ghost in the world of the living, she became more lively than before, no longer constrained by physical weakness and discomfort.

He had little experience during his lifetime, but after his death he ran around all over Zhongzhou like a wild ghost without any restraints.

In order to ask Granny Ma for help, Lin Du cleaned up many families and chambers of commerce in the gray area, and abolished those dragon masters and forces who used dragon magic to control people to do evil things.

Everyone just thought she was the most powerful zombie puppet raised by Granny Ma, but they didn't know that it was just an equal exchange.

She is not driven by anyone and only prepares for all her plans.

Snow-capped mountains, lava, seabed, old forests, and all the hardships we have experienced along the way. Now when I think about it again, it seems like just a light boat passing through thousands of mountains.

Of course Lin Du wanted to live, but she wanted to live as Lin Du, with this life, even more.

She has not achieved her goal in this life, she has not repaid the kindness to the people, and she has not repaid her master. She does not want to forget everything and return to reincarnation.

After stretching his muscles, Lin Du stood where he was, thinking about the last time he met Xia Tianwu in his previous life.

By that time, it had been several decades since Xia Tian Wuxin's death.

The decline of the sect and the rampage of evil spirits prompted Xia Tianwu to reopen the alchemy furnace to refine elixirs and medicines that could remove evil spirits, and send them to the guards of Junding Mansion who were still defending Dingjiu City and fighting against evil spirits.

She no longer had the exotic fire and the fire spirit root, so she could only use the simplest method, without any added fire, to refine the elixir.

Lin Du accidentally got several beneficial pill recipes from Granny Ma. When passing by the former site of the Supreme Sect, he heard the news that Xia Tianwu had started refining pills again. He changed his appearance, spent his remaining spirit stones, gathered a large amount of medicinal materials, and went to find Xia Tianwu to refine medicine.

It was the dead of winter at that time. Xia Wu was not in the mountains. She was very weak and pale. Her skinny body was still visible under her thick white fox fur, and she looked empty and frail. No matter how heavy the fox fur was, it could not stick to her.

Wu Xi stayed by her side, but Xia Tianwu never looked back. Seeing a stranger, Wu Xi was nervous and wanted to stay in front of her, but Xia Tianwu asked the tightly wrapped person in front of him, "I wonder what you want from me?"

Lin Du was wrapped in a "shroud" that was not breathable, revealing only a pair of eyes that had lost their light and had bright scars. "I have a few recipes for pills, and I want you to make them for me. You need to bring your own herbs. Five thousand spirit stones. Do you want to take it?"

Five thousand spirit stones are not even a small amount for an ordinary alchemist.

Wu Xi thought the person in front of him was deliberately humiliating him, and he immediately became angry, but Xia Tian did not stop him, "I have never refined these pill recipes, and the failure rate is very high. I see that these medicinal materials are extremely precious, and the pill recipes must be rare as well. If you really want to find an alchemist to refine the pills, you can find an alchemist from the Ji Shi Zong, which is more secure."

Lin Du knew that Xia Tianwu did not refuse the offer because Qian Shao was humiliated, but because he was afraid of failure.

In the past, even though she had the strange fire, a master, and her own cultivation, her success rate was not high. What's more, now that she is disheartened, she only refines basic pills for emergency purposes.

But Lin Du always has his own way. Even if it is someone he has only met once, he can find the opponent's weaknesses and key points in the situation, let alone someone he is familiar with.

She said sincerely, "I have obtained these recipes and collected these herbs. I have already spent all my spirit stones and only have 5,000 left. But I am really dying and have nowhere else to turn. I heard that you are the disciple of the number one medical practitioner, so I am taking the trouble to come and ask. If you are not willing to accept it, probably no one else will."

Xia Tian was moved for a long time after hearing this. "But I can't guarantee success. What if..."

"Life and death are determined by fate. Without you, I would have died even if I had the herbs. You don't need to feel stressed."

At that time, Lin Du was not sure whether his plan could succeed. Since Xia Tianwu was able to refine the elixir again, as long as she gave her a chance, she would have the courage to try other advanced elixir recipes.

Even if Lin Du failed and could not rewrite the ending, Xia Tianwu might be able to come back to life, or at least regain his original dream.

Xia Tianwu really succeeded.

Lin Du didn't know how many times she had failed, but when Lin Du received the message, Xia Tianwu had become thinner, frighteningly thin, but the light in her eyes was frighteningly bright.

"I have refined your elixir."

Lin Du took the pill and was about to leave, but was stopped by Xia Tianwu, "So, I can still be a useful person now, right?"

Lin Du paused. Winter was approaching and the ice was melting. The mud beneath her feet was winding and forming clear depressions.

"Um."

With just those one sentence, Lin Du knew that she recognized him.

Xia Tian didn't recognize him. She was a medical practitioner, so how could she not remember the way an acquaintance habitually walked and stood?

Apart from Lin Du, who else would look for a useless person who had long stopped making high-level elixirs?

Even though that person should have been dead, Xia Tian had a hunch that the person was Lin Du.

"Then in my next life, I want to be a more useful person." Xia Tianwu stood behind Lin Du, looking at that figure from back, his voice was very loud, louder than usual.

Lin Du took the medicine and left without looking back, stepping on the frozen soil, running in the opposite direction of the time of the living.

"Yes, I will."

Her words were lost in the thin wind.

But Xia Tian heard nothing.