Morning, 1 September 2009.

Changzhou, General Manager's Office.

Su Ze came back from Nanjing with a stomach full of thoughts, and he never expected that Mu Haogu was hiding such amazing news. If it weren't for the fact that he also had the "Colorful Stone" in his hand, that cunning "Captain Touching Gold" would definitely still be pretending to be stupid.

Si Ming's feeling was so accurate, and he immediately recognized the extraordinaryness of that stone. However, this thing is too rare, if it weren't for Mu Haogu's acquaintance, he would have made that "multicolored stone" into a stone bed.

Judging from the records on that fragment, this "multicolored stone" is extremely precious. In the pre-Qin era, a big piece of the finger was enough for the cultivators to break their heads. At that time, Xu Fu of the Qin Dynasty won the trust of Qin Shi Huang in one fell swoop because he offered a fist-sized "multicolored stone" and was appointed as the chief priest of the court.

It's just that this kind of thing is only useful for cultivators, and for mortals, it's almost like a brick. Qin Shi Huang got this thing, except for being happy for a while, there was no difference between not getting it at all. Because the two identities of the king and the cultivator cannot be compatible at the same time, no matter which of these two identities is done well, it will take a lot of time. As the first emperor of the ages, Qin Shi Huang was too busy with many military affairs, and where did the United States have the time to play Xiuzhen?

Therefore, Qin Shi Huang wanted to find a way to live forever without spending time cultivating.

Where in the world are there so many things that have the best of both worlds, so His Majesty Yingzheng's request stumped his subordinates.

Of course, Qin Shi Huang is the boss, and since he said it, the younger brother below has to find a way to do it. There are no difficulties to do, and there are difficulties to overcome difficulties or to be done. So, the monks who couldn't think of a way had to fool him, saying that they could refine a kind of elixir, as long as they ate it, even if they didn't practice anything, they could immediately become immortals and live forever.

Since it's a fool, sooner or later there will be a day when the stuffing will be exposed. Xu Fu is a human spirit, he saw that it was not a problem, so he found an excuse to "go overseas to find immortal medicine", abducted 500 Lori and 500 Zhengtai, and ran away!

There are many legends of becoming immortals in history, and there are many examples of kings becoming immortals, in addition to the legendary Chinese ancestor Yan and Huang Emperors, as well as several direct descendants. This is all three generations ago, and the kings after three generations are not one, and this is the iron law that the two are incompatible. Not only Qin Shi Huang was like this, but also many emperors such as Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty and Emperor Wanli in the future.

They were unwilling to give up the emperor's respect, but also wanted to become immortals and live forever, since they had violated this iron law, so they all shamefully failed.

However, from the point of view of later generations, the kings who were three generations ago, including the two emperors of Yan and Huang, were not "immortals". To be precise, they are "gods". The difference between the two will be described in detail later, so I will not mention it here.

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Judging from the unknown jade fragment, the "elixir" used by the monks to prevaricate Qin Shi Huang was not entirely foolish.

"Elixir", this thing is indeed real, and its effect is indeed like the legend, which can make people soar into immortals or immortality.

But the problem is that the elixir is not for mortals at all! Since it has the word "immortal", as the name suggests, it is a special item specially developed by cultivators for their own cultivation.

As for the kind of thing that mortals can become immortals or immortal after eating, there has never been anything in this world, and pies will not fall from the sky, and the same is true for becoming immortals. Even for cultivators, the elixir is not something to be eaten casually. If you eat it without reaching the "innate" realm, it will be similar to eating poison, let alone a mortal. It's like a stove that burns briquettes, but insists on burning nuclear fuel, so it's no wonder that there is no problem.

Another reason is the level. And those who can refine the genuine elixir must at least reach the "late stage of qi training", that is, the stage of knotting the elixir. Only when this stage is reached can the "Three Flavors True Fire" be used. Because mortal fire cannot be refined into an elixir, it must be refined with "three flavors of true fire". The kind of things that were refined by furnace fire in later generations were all copycats and cottage goods, of course they were not used.

And those monks who went to fool the mortal kings, most of them were liars, and only a few were real cultivators, but they were only half a bottle of vinegar. For example, Xu Fu, who fooled Qin Shi Huang, is also a half-bottle of vinegar, and his cultivation level is estimated to be not much higher than Su Ze. For a truly high-level cultivator, it's too late to cultivate by himself, so he has time to grind with the king. In their power, if they can't find anything, will they still need to curry favor with the kings of the world?

According to Mu Haogu, the pile of jade plate fragments and the multicolored stone were found in the tomb of a marquis of the Western Han Dynasty. According to his research, these funeral goods of this marquis are all from the famous cultivator - Liu An, the king of Huainan. After the failure of the Huainan Wang's conspiracy to rebel, part of his family property was distributed to the heroes by Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty, and this guy happened to be one of the beneficiaries.

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But it's a pity that the nineteen jade plates are only part of the fragments, not to mention the beginning and end, and there are still many missing pages in the middle. There are only five pages in it that are connected to each other, and they happen to be those about "multicolored stones" and elixirs.

This part lists the performance introduction and formula of five genuine elixirs, and it can be seen from the recipes that "colorful stones" are the most important main materials for refining elixirs. All of the five elixir recipes recorded in the fragment contain this kind of thing. But unfortunately, when it came to the refining process just now, the rest was gone.

This made Su Ze and Mu Haogu very depressed. But then again, even if they get the whole cheatbook, it's useless, because the cultivation level of the two of them is still far behind. It was repeatedly emphasized on the fragment that without the three flavors of true fire, it would be impossible to refine a genuine elixir.

Therefore, even if Su Ze had such a large piece of "multicolored stone" in his hand, he could not refine it into an "elixir" to take it, so he could only stare dryly with drool. However, Mu Haogu's research in the past few years has not been in vain. In the case of insufficient cultivation, he came up with a funny method, which is to soak the "colorful stone" in water and drink.

To be honest, Mu Haogu's method sounds really stupid and naïve. But it turns out that this seemingly stupid approach actually has some effect. After Mu Haogu drank stone soaking water for a few months, his physical fitness improved greatly, and his cultivation speed also increased by one or two percent.

Su Xue played with the multicolored stone the size of a cigarette box, and was very hesitant in his heart. He was thinking about whether to scrape some stone powder down and mix it with other foods and eat it directly. Since you can soak in water and drink it, you probably don't have a problem eating it directly, right?

But he was a little worried about whether it would be good to do this. After all, this practice is too outrageous, and there is no record in all the classics, and you can directly take colorful stones as an example of eating.

After thinking about it for a while, he decided to give it a try, anyway, it was the size of a bed, even if it didn't work, it didn't matter.

Su Ze was just about to make a multicolored stone dish when Manager Xiao Zhang called.

"Boss, are you there? He claimed to be from the [Beiwei Group], and said that he was looking for you to talk about a business......"

I don't seem to have much in touch with this company, what business is there to talk about? Su Ze thought a little confused, but said in his mouth: "Well, okay, call him up......"

For this [Beiwei Group], Su Ze knows a little. This is a leather bag company with a large background, mainly engaged in the import and export trade of various industrial equipment, semi-finished products and raw materials, and even arms. Most of its management is a high-ranking official, which can be called a prince-party company.