Chapter 1154

"Mr. Su, Cui Wenzi requests an audience!"

At the entrance of the palace where Su Xuan was staying, Cui Wenzi stood looking slightly uneasy. After saying the words requesting an audience, he felt some trepidation, but for the sake of a certain conjecture in his heart and to realize a certain matter, he ultimately had to come here for a visit.

"Come in!"

Su Xuan's voice came from within the palace, and at the same time, the tightly closed doors of the palace suddenly opened.

Cui Wenzi took a deep breath and walked inside.

Afterward, he saw the structure inside the palace; besides the shelves for placing medicinal herbs and the alchemy furnace, what truly caught his attention was a long black crystal placed right in the center, with many strange symbols carved upon it, looking like writing.

Cui Wenzi knew that this was that Heavenly Star.

"Did you come for the Heavenly Star?"

Su Xuan looked at Cui Wenzi, who was staring at the Heavenly Star with a fanatical expression, and asked softly.

Cui Wenzi came back to his senses and nodded hurriedly.

He looked at Su Xuan and said with hopeful eyes: "Mr. Su, I wonder if you could give me a little bit of the Heavenly Star's debris; just a little bit of powder or dust would be enough."

"You want to use it to refine an elixir?"

Su Xuan seemed to see through Cui Wenzi's gaze and said calmly to him.

Upon hearing Su Xuan's words, Cui Wenzi was startled again, but since he had already been seen through by Su Xuan, he no longer hid it: "For me, having lived a muddled life, there is only one thing I pursue most, and that is to make a name for myself in the world."

"Cui Wenzi may die, but he must leave something behind."

"I want to refine an unprecedented elixir. Over these years, I have searched for countless materials, and then one by one, I have rejected these materials. Up until now, I have only found one suitable material."

"What material?" Although he already had the answer in his heart, since Cui Wenzi had said such things, as a straight man, Su Xuan still asked him.

"The blood of a Heavenly Horse!"

Because he was asking for a favor, Cui Wenzi did not hide anything from Su Xuan but directly explained the truth of the matter. Su Xuan was also a supreme physician; he was even able to save Lu Su, who was terminally ill from the plague. And he had also seen Yu Shu's situation; according to Yi Xiaochuan, Yu Shu had even cut her own throat, yet Su Xuan had brought her back from the dead. Even if she hadn't woken up, keeping Yu Shu in the state of a living dead person was already an extremely incredible thing.

Having stated his purpose, he believed Su Xuan should be able to understand.

"The Heavenly Horse is a celestial horse produced in Dayuan. Even in the Dayuan Kingdom, this horse is an extremely rare existence. In the past, Meng Tian obtained a Heavenly Horse from Dayuan by chance. This horse can travel a thousand li by day and eight hundred by night, and even after such a long journey, it only needs to drink water once. Compared to ordinary horses, this is an extremely incredible thing."

"At that time, I once had Yi Xiaochuan find a way to get the blood of Meng Tian's Heavenly Horse. After research, I discovered that the fresh blood of the Heavenly Horse contains an incomparably powerful vitality. It is precisely this vitality that gives it endurance far exceeding ordinary horses. It was also because I was inspired by the fresh blood of the Heavenly Horse that I gradually developed an idea: if one could also make human blood contain powerful vitality, could it make the body stop aging and thus live in the world for a long time?"

"If such an elixir were successfully refined, could it be called an elixir of immortality?"

"You certainly have quite the ideas." Hearing Cui Wenzi's explanation, Su Xuan couldn't help but praise him.

Cui Wenzi sighed again: "Since succeeding as the Imperial Physician, over these years, with the help of the State of Qin, I have searched for I don't know how many kinds of materials, among which there was no lack of rare and precious medicinal herbs, but these things were not the materials I wanted. They could not help me refine the elixir of immortality."

Su Xuan looked at Cui Wenzi: "So you thought of the Heavenly Star?"

Cui Wenzi nodded: "The Heavenly Star is an object from outside the world, not of this world, and I have heard that this Heavenly Star is different from ordinary meteorites; it contains a peculiar power that can make all surrounding people and objects float in the air. Therefore, upon learning that this Heavenly Star had fallen into Mr. Su's hands, I presumptuously came here, wanting to ask Mr. Su for some fragments of the Heavenly Star."

"Hmph, you are quite direct." Su Xuan said with annoyance.

Afterward, he did not directly respond as to whether he would give the Heavenly Star fragments to Cui Wenzi, but said calmly: "I have to say, you did not come to the wrong place; the Heavenly Star can indeed help you refine an elixir of immortality."

Cui Wenzi's body suddenly shook, and he looked at Su Xuan in disbelief.

Su Xuan explained to Cui Wenzi: "Inside the Heavenly Star, there is an incomparably powerful energy. This energy is full of vitality and is constantly affecting everything around it. More importantly, this energy is hidden in the core of the Heavenly Star. Even if the Heavenly Star is shattered, as long as the most important core is not broken, the remaining fragments will be affected by this core power."

"If you refine the Heavenly Star fragments into an elixir and it is then consumed by someone, that person will be constantly affected by the power of the Heavenly Star's core and receive a continuous supply of energy, so achieving immortality is indeed possible."

"In other words, my idea is correct?" Cui Wenzi was very excited.

As a physician whose medical skills had reached the pinnacle of the time, Cui Wenzi's lifelong pursuit was to refine an elixir of immortality. To refine an elixir of immortality, he had tried countless methods.

The idea born from analyzing the blood of the Heavenly Horse was just one of them, but after all, it had not been verified, and Cui Wenzi was not sure if it was feasible. Now, here at Su Xuan's, he had received an affirmative answer.

Su Xuan believed his idea could be realized.

Cui Wenzi also did not expect that in this short time, Su Xuan would have studied this Heavenly Star so thoroughly.

You must know, he had timed his arrival here perfectly.

Upon learning that the Heavenly Star had been sent to Xianyang and that His Majesty the Emperor had handed the Heavenly Star to Su Xuan for research, he worried that Su Xuan would be in seclusion for a long time, so he rushed here at the first opportunity, and the delay was no more than half an hour.

In such a short time, Su Xuan had figured out the truth of the Heavenly Star.

Is this still a human?

However, once he thought of what a certain mysterious old friend had said to him, Cui Wenzi felt that only in this way would Su Xuan be so highly valued by that mysterious old friend of his.