PFC Chapter 7002 Extra Chapter: The Amusing Person
Chapter 7002 Extra Chapter: The Amusing Person
Chapter 7002 Extra Chapter: The Amusing Person
“Hey, isn’t this Marquis Chen who’s been dead for over three hundred years?” The girl in palace attire tucked her hands into her sleeves and looked at Chen Xi, who was tending to the flowers and plants in the courtyard. “Shouldn’t this be Marquis Cang’s job? Why is Marquis Chen doing it now?”
Chen Xi glanced at the girl whose expression was clearly mischievous, a stark contrast to her former gloomy, dejected demeanor and the vibrant spirit she displayed in the middle of her life. She stopped what she was doing, pressed her temples, and thought to herself, "To be honest, it's like seeing a ghost in this remote corner."
"I originally thought the first person to find me would be Duke Xuande, or my wife, but I didn't expect it to be Your Highness?" Chen Xi said to Liu Tong with a hint of weariness.
"I didn't come here specifically to find you. I just happened to be passing through this world and decided to take a look on a whim. I happened to see someone, so I came over to say hello. I'll sell this information when I get back; it should be worth a lot of money," Liu Tong said to Chen Xi with a greedy air.
“This world is not a place you should stay permanently. In our plan, this place belongs to a world without the essence of heaven and earth. The future belongs to a world of technology.” Chen Xi pointed to the chair next to him, indicating that Liu Tong should sit for a while, have something to eat, and then go back.
"You actually managed to create a world completely devoid of the essence of heaven and earth!" Liu Tong exclaimed in amazement, then immediately took over the rocking chair, lay down rather rudely, and shook it vigorously, causing the old object that had been with Chen Xi for hundreds of years to creak and groan in pain!
"There's always a need to try." Chen Xi said calmly, then formed a projection of the entire world sea in his hand. One could vaguely see the birth and death of worlds. This was anchoring the main timeline. What Chen Xi did more than 350 years ago was to split the entire universe and then, through various means, reconstruct this immeasurable universe in the void using a kind of historical projection resonance.
Their origins are exactly the same, deriving from a single point, with different possibilities emerging at different nodes, thus forming countless possibilities belonging to the world.
Within these immeasurable possibilities, a historical world will naturally emerge that is devoid of the essence of heaven and earth, free from any turbulence, and perfectly aligned with Chen Xi's understanding.
This is the world Chen Xi is currently in. As for whether this world evolved to a certain point where Chen Xi was born and then returned to that point, or whether the current Chen Xi created this world and wove the possibility of returning, it is actually meaningless.
At this stage, what Chen Xi really needs to do is anchor herself and retain her true nature, and that's exactly what she's doing now.
"Is this the world where you might have been born in the beginning?" Liu Tong glanced at it casually and went straight to the point. Chen Xi nodded in response. "Although it's just a possibility, I think I was probably born in this very remote tributary."
"Your statement is exactly the same as it was back then." Liu Tong laughed wildly, then imitated Chen Xi's tone, saying, "I'm just a branch of the Yingchuan Chen family, hahaha!"
"But that's the truth. Your background can determine a lot of things, but it only determines your lower limit. Your upper limit depends on yourself." Chen Xi said with a light laugh. "Alright, you've had your tea and seen what you wanted to see. How about I send you off? After all, this world can't withstand the interference of powerful people like you. I still want to see the finale."
"No!" Liu Tong quickly stopped Chen Xi when she saw that he was about to send her away. Although many powers could not be used here due to the limitations of heaven and earth, Liu Tong could still clearly sense the aura of trouble-making on Chen Xi's body, which excited her. "Take me with you, I want to cause trouble too!"
Liu Tong ultimately stayed, much to Chen Xi's dismay. However, considering that Liu Tong possessed the Universal Teleportation Mechanism, which allowed Chen Xi to easily acquire some outrageous items, Chen Xi accepted the reality. Of course, to prevent Liu Tong from causing trouble, Chen Xi also had Liu Tong send over Chen Lan from the past.
"So, what are you planning to do?" Liu Tong looked at Chen Xi working on rice seeds with a puzzled expression. No, Old Chen, this is the early Tang Dynasty. Don't you always like Li Er? You have to come out of the mountains and help Li Er. I still want to see you create another era of glory.
Chen Xi glanced at Liu Tong and said, "Help Li Er? Forget it. He's already done enough. You wouldn't understand what I'm going to do. And you said you'd create another life of glory, and I really did. If you stay here with me, it'll cause a lot of trouble. Right now, do you even know that the Chen Lan you're directing is my wife?"
"Go, get me some barnyard grass, and several different kinds." Chen Xi said to Liu Tong in an annoyed tone. Although Liu Tong didn't understand, he figured that when Chen Zichuan was working, you didn't need to know what the other person was doing, you just needed to watch. So he asked Si Niang to send him hundreds of kinds of barnyard grass from different timelines, many of which had become extinct by the early Tang Dynasty.
But it doesn't matter. These days, even if you bring out something extinct, the locals don't know much about it, so let's just do it.
Li Yuan fell from power very quickly. Liu Tong even took Chen Xi and a few others to see him. They thought Li Er was indeed heroic, but in short, he was incredibly absurd.
Unfortunately, Chen Xi had clearly seen too much of this and had no interest. He continued farming and, after more than a decade of incredible feats, finally produced a high-yield rice variety that could be replicated with current technology. He then secretly infiltrated Chang'an City, stuffed the complete research into the Chongwen Academy, and then did nothing else.
"What are you doing?" Seeing that Chen Xi had finally managed to produce some high-yield crops, and then inexplicably packed up and stuffed the data into Chongwen Hall, Liu Tong looked at Chen Xi with great confusion.
"Hehehe, what do you know? Hurry up and observe the future for me." Chen Xi excitedly called out to Liu Tong.
Liu Tong was slightly taken aback upon hearing this. "Can't you also observe the future? Why do you want me to do this?"
However, despite saying that, Liu Tong still made minor adjustments to the world's attributes and successfully cast the spell of future observation.
In the future of this timeline, in 1950, during the restoration of Xi'an, some agricultural books were found in the ruins of the Chongwen Hall of the Tang Dynasty. These agricultural books recorded the methods of making auspicious grains mentioned by the people of the Central Plains in ancient books since the Western Zhou Dynasty.
Considering that this thing has been mentioned many times in ancient books, and no authentic copy has been found in archaeological excavations, and that records from various dynasties have been somewhat shrouded in secrecy, the scholars were quite excited when the relevant agricultural books were unearthed. However, due to the general environment, they did not directly reproduce them.
Later, when China needed food and various agronomists began to work on high-yield crops, someone made a copy of this agricultural book. However, by then, most of the rice varieties had become extinct. Fortunately, during archaeological excavations, the old rice varieties were unearthed, and through cloning technology, the extinct barnyard grass was successfully revived.
Next, follow the instructions in the farming manual and do it once.
The researchers who did this were considered to be wasting research funds, but after being taught in agricultural books, they actually developed a high-quality seed that could yield thousands of kilograms per mu (unit of land area) under suitable fertilizer conditions by combining the two crops to obtain barnyard grass and then replanting the barnyard grass to obtain high-quality rice.
Seriously, dude, how did you guys figure this out?!
Seeing the rice seeds that yielded over a thousand catties per mu, agricultural scientists in the 1960s were dumbfounded. Were you ancient people so amazing? You could even research something like this!
So, the lines "Recalling the prosperous days of the Kaiyuan era, even small towns held ten thousand households. Rice flowed like oil, millet was white as snow, and both public and private granaries were full" are a realistic depiction? That's going too far! Our ancestors, how could you keep such things to yourselves!
"Hahaha!" Liu Tong looked at the people from the future exchanging bewildered glances, and after confirming that this was indeed a replica made using ancient technology, he laughed so hard he slapped his thigh. It was too funny, really too funny.
"Interesting, isn't it?" Chen Xi asked Liu Tong, glancing at her sideways. Liu Tong nodded repeatedly. She had never thought that it could be played like this, but after this idea was opened up, countless creative ideas came to Liu Tong's mind.
"Quickly, let's go to the Qin Dynasty, let's go to the Qin Dynasty! I have a brilliant idea!" Liu Tong said excitedly. Chen Xi tilted her head upon hearing this, but was still dragged to the Qin Dynasty by Liu Tong.
"Silk Maiden, quickly get me a few discarded longevity pills, the kind that are sealed in a cauldron, where the medicinal effects haven't dissipated, but will dissipate when opened. But even the dissipated medicinal effects must be something that can restore youth!" Liu Tong said excitedly.
“Uh, I think you should stop playing this game in the Qin Dynasty and go play it in the Zhou Dynasty instead.” Chen Xi was silent for a while. “The First Emperor didn’t find the elixir of immortality, but King Mu is said to have eaten it.”
"Ah, right, right, right!" Liu Tong excitedly traveled through time to the era of King Mu of Zhou. However, this world lacked the essence of heaven and earth, and King Mu of Zhou was just an ordinary king. When he went to see the Queen Mother of the West, he only went around Kunlun Tianshan twice and found a local tribal chief. It wasn't very interesting.
Of course, myths and legends still contain records of things like elixirs of immortality, longevity pills, and encounters with gods while hunting in the wilderness.
Liu Tong was very excited and started working on it. He buried a medicine furnace in a palace in Qishan and then immediately prepared to observe what major impact it would have in the future.
"Uh, I feel like something's missing." Chen Lan propped her head up with one hand and asked with a hint of doubt, "Hmm, why don't we inscribe the pill formula on the cauldron?"
To be honest, being naturally clueless can sometimes be so amazing that it leaves people speechless. This kind of thing that can easily rip off the heads of those who come after you is something that Chen Lan does with such ease.
"As expected of my wife, she accomplished something that no one else could even imagine with ease." Chen Xi gave Chen Lan a thumbs up. Anyway, as long as it doesn't affect Chen Xi's birth, we can completely mess around with the official history of this timeline!
With a wave of his hand, Chen Xi instantly displayed the steps for refining the elixir of immortality and the related medicinal materials on the inner wall of the furnace containing the elixir of immortality.
"Then why is it written on a cauldron?" Just as Chen Xi was about to put the small cauldron back, Liu Tong suddenly asked.
"?" Chen Xi was shocked; there was actually an expert among them.
With a wave of his hand, Liu Tong conjured two more small alchemy furnaces that were identical in shape and clearly made in the same batch. He then inscribed a portion of the elixir of immortality on each furnace and engraved King Mu of Zhou's praise for the Queen Mother of the West, expressing his gratitude for the elixir of immortality that allowed him to ascend to heaven in broad daylight.
In short, after a long string of praises, resulting in most of the words on the three cauldrons being words of praise, the last half of the first cauldron was inscribed with the sentence, "I will share this immortality with those who come after me. The formula for this elixir is as follows..."
He wrote down more than a dozen herbs that were actually used to refine the elixir of immortality. Then he wrote down the remaining herbs and their cooking methods on the second cauldron. Finally, he wrote down the remaining cooking and detoxification methods on the third cauldron.
Seeing this, Chen Xi could only say that Liu Tong really knew how to play the game.
"Hahaha, if we lose a cauldron, that would be very interesting!" Liu Tong crossed his arms, proudly lifted the cauldron a couple of times, looking quite arrogant.
So, in front of Liu Tong, Chen Xi crumpled the small cauldron in the middle into a ball, and then kicked the third cauldron away. That's it, problem solved. Future generations will go crazy!
Liu Tong was dumbfounded, but in an instant he understood what Chen Xi meant. This was simply a beast!
Meanwhile, in 2025 of this timeline, the excavation work of cultural relics in Qishan County unearthed an amazing thing. First of all, all the veterans who participated in the excavation were restored to the age of twenty. There was no way around it. There were two cauldrons with the same shape, but one was placed in an important position and the other was upside down in the soil, like a lost cauldron. When the only intact cauldron was opened, the life essence that gushed out directly restored the youth of everyone present.
This was already a major event, but the inscription inside the cauldron was King Mu's praise of the Queen Mother of the West, followed by records about the elixir of immortality: one was the herbs for making the elixir, and the other was the technique for preparing it, but both were missing a part.
Upon opening the cauldron, the gushing life essence instantly restored their youth. Only slag remained inside the cauldron, but such an astonishing effect, coupled with the inscriptions within, led no one to suspect that this was the work of some ancient rascal. Instead, they believed it to be a genuine elixir of immortality!
After all, more than 2,600 years have passed, and the medicinal power sealed inside this alchemy furnace can still restore the youth of so many people. If this were 2,600 years ago, it would definitely be considered an elixir of immortality!
Moreover, this cauldron contains information on the relevant medicinal materials and the techniques for preparing the elixir of immortality!
Given the millennia-old legend of the elixir of immortality, and the existence of real-life examples, it's almost impossible for Chinese people not to believe in it.
Then the question arises: where is the cauldron in the middle? This was the cauldron that King Mu used to hold the elixir of immortality and to offer sacrifices to the Queen Mother of the West, modeled after the three cauldrons of Heaven, Earth, and Man. Where is the one in the middle?
At this moment, almost everyone who knew about this went a little crazy. They didn't realize that the ancient people were watching the spectacle; they only thought that the cauldron had been lost.
But thinking about it, it's quite normal. The replica of the cauldron was upside down outside the palace, which clearly indicates a rebellion. These precious treasures were taken away, so it's perfectly normal for one of the cauldrons to be lost under such circumstances. But this is the recipe and refining method for the elixir of immortality!
Hey!
"Hahaha." Liu Tong watched the group of people who had gone completely mad while excavating the artifact. After all, they had unearthed a real elixir of immortality; it was impossible for them not to go crazy. In this world, immortality was always the pursuit of people! Admittedly, some people didn't pursue it because their lives weren't good enough, but for most people…
"Let's add some more, let's add some more." Liu Tong excitedly started adding more, and soon a bunch of metaphysical medical techniques and treatments were added to the cauldron. He was about to blow up some of them and then find a few places to bury them.
"No, no, no, please don't do this. If you destroy them all, people will inevitably become suspicious." Chen Xi quickly stopped him, then carefully selected one extremely powerful formula and method to stimulate human functions and break through the limits of the human body. This formula could both cure diseases and strengthen the body. After that, he selected five or six formulas that people in the 21st century could understand, and then reduced the remaining dozen or so formulas by either missing the first part, the second part, or the middle part.
Of course, there are also some truly outrageous things, but only one of the three parts is mentioned.
"This formula, used to stimulate bodily functions and reasonably push the limits, serves as the opening, indicating that it is one of the twenty-four secret formulas created by the Bian Que family in combination with the elixir of immortality, and forged by a family of swordsmiths. It is based on the twenty-four solar terms, with the first chapter being the Beginning of Spring, aiming to break the winter's blockade and bring about the revival of all things." Chen Xi chuckled, instructing Liu Tong to elaborate on this theme, "This is made entirely of tungsten steel, guaranteed not to be damaged!"
Liu Tong gasped. Chen Xi was really wicked, but also so interesting!
Then the three of them started chattering and quickly produced a whole set of ridiculous stuff. They then assigned the five or six things that Chen Xi had selected to correspond to the chapters of Awakening of Insects, Pure Brightness, Summer Solstice, Frost's Descent, Winter Solstice, and Great Cold.
For this reason, Chen Xi specifically searched for a suitable and effective prescription.
After all, the original intention of the Beginning of Spring is to break the blockade of winter and bring about the revival of all things. Therefore, the effect of the prescription is to unlock the body's secrets and break through the limits of the human body.
Therefore, the meaning of the "Awakening of Insects" chapter, which signifies the sprouting of all things, should be that the effect of the prescription is to revive the dormant life and the declining functions.
Similarly, the vibrant meaning of the Qingming Festival suggests that the formula's effect is to effectively resist all external diseases and allow the body to grow strong.
The Summer Solstice chapter signifies that from this point onward, the days become shorter and the nights longer. The effect of this prescription is naturally to help middle-aged and elderly people to recuperate, follow the natural order, and maintain their natural state.
It can be said that Chen Xi spent a lot of effort to create a self-consistent explanation for these preserved prescriptions, and the prescriptions really did have this effect.
As for the remaining eighteen types, this is just the beginning. If I can't continue writing about the rest, I'll just write something like "see next article for details".
In short, it's either abandoned or left unfinished, and then they just bury this whole thing somewhere.
However, this time it wasn't buried very deep and was unearthed during the Eastern Han Dynasty. But it was lost again and again due to wars. By the 21st century, only the Lichun chapter of the tungsten steel was complete. As for the remaining twenty-three chapters, not to mention that Chen Xi didn't even have the original eighteen complete ones, even the Jingzhe, Qingming, Xiazhi, Shuangjiang, Dongzhi, and Dahan chapters were all incomplete.
Fortunately, rubbings of these chapters survived from the Song and Ming dynasties, and they are basically highly accurate when compared with the originals. Considering that these prescriptions are still effective today, later generations are heartbroken by the loss of these miraculous prescriptions.
Of course, for the only well-preserved opening outline, namely the Lichun chapter, modern people are not only heartbroken by the loss of the other dozen or so divine prescriptions, but also have a headache about how the people in the Spring and Autumn period managed to shape tungsten into a tripod, and how this technology was achieved!
"I'm dying of laughter, it's unbelievable! There are still so many people trying their best to search for it!" Liu Tong laughed heartily; this method was simply too amusing.
"At least it's a genuine prescription. You see, people in later generations say that the 24 prescriptions combined should theoretically be the result of reverse derivation of the elixir of immortality. After all, the tungsten steel cauldron was originally created by our ancestors to help King Mu refine the elixir of immortality. Feeling the difficulty of obtaining the medicinal materials, they simplified the elixir of immortality into 24 prescriptions. These 24 prescriptions use simple ingredients. Although they cannot grant immortality, they can still allow one to live to be 800 years old," Chen Xi said with a grin.
This is unbelievable, those two are absolutely wicked.
"By the way, I have another plan for returning to the Tang Dynasty," Chen Xi said after thinking for a moment.
"What plan?" Chen Lan asked curiously.
"I remember that before I left that era, the Wang family of Taiyuan created a white dragon in Africa," Chen Xi said after thinking for a moment.
Actually, it's an albino horned viper, which was quite popular in the Han Dynasty for a while. After all, this thing has horns and claws, and once it grows to a huge size and has the ability to release internal energy from its body, it's no different from a dragon. Especially the albino horned viper, which really is a dragon.
So for a period of time, the Wang family specialized in breeding white horned vipers with internal energy detached from their bodies, making a fortune from auspicious omens. Of course, they stopped later because they made a mistake: one of the white horned vipers escaped from the breeding base and was awakened by the demon master's golden nature, gaining the rare talent of devouring.
Well, that's not a problem. After all, it's not uncommon for people to absorb the wisdom of demon masters and acquire talents. For a long time afterward, both the Han Dynasty and Rome were trying to eradicate these things. The only difference is that after this horned viper acquired its talent, it actually chose to eat stones to survive because of its naturally timid nature.
Of course, there have been other types with this kind of personality. The only problem is that this horned viper went to the mountains of the Democratic Republic of Congo in later years and started gnawing on some kind of powerful luminous stone. After gnawing for decades, the white dragon managed to develop its talent to the point that it gained the ability to re-fusion.
It's basically eating dirt, then undergoing a fusion...
This is an ability that only stars like the sun possess in their very late stages. Anyway, this white dragon possessed this ability through its talent, but it was useless, and it still got killed.
What Chen Xi needs to do now is to stuff the white dragon's corpse, which is capable of fission, fusion, and refusion, into Qianling, the tomb of Emperor Gaozong of Tang and Empress Wu Zetian. After all, this is the only Tang Dynasty tomb that has not been looted. If such a thing is stuffed in now, it will be very interesting when Qianling is opened in the future!
Hmm, a sudden inspiration struck me! I've come up with a fun way to play, a method suitable for time travelers from ancient times. (laughs)