Chapter 19: Immortal-Filling-Abdomen Pill (Seeking Collections)

"Father, the Earth God just now seemed to be in a very bad state..." Xiang Xiaoyu said cautiously.

It was more than just bad; later, when he fell out with the Daoist boy Qingsong, he was even struck by lightning.

It should have been the Daoist boy's Daoist arts.

Originally, his state was already terrible, and I don't know why he was backlashed by Dragon Qi, and then hit by the thunder technique of the soft-faced but hard-hearted little Daoist boy, and he died on the spot.

For the Earth God who knew her past best, dying as soon as he appeared was a great thing for her!

It's just unclear how much that bastard knew, and how much content he wrote into the "Sha Barbarian Xiang Xiaoyu File" and handed over to the Daoist boy Qingsong.

"Zou Qing is dead! Forget him, never talk about it to the outside world."

Guan Huchen casually gave an instruction, and once again activated his Thousand-Mile Eyes, his eyes shooting out three zhang of golden light, scanning in all directions as he turned his head.

Even Xiang Xiaoyu, who was hiding under the fire-washed cloth cloak, felt that the world suddenly became bright, as if a two-thousand-watt searchlight was rotating in front of her.

She immediately lifted the cloak and faced the three zhang of golden light shot from Huchen's eyes for the first time, witnessing the top-tier miraculous power of this world—the pupil technique Thousand-Mile Eyes!

Facing the three zhang of golden light shot from Huchen's eyes, the "Great Father-Destroying" in her consciousness began to stir again, and the "Purple Mansion" seemed to receive mysterious information, and the deduction progress of the "Method of Destroying the Thousand-Mile Eyes" was actually rapidly improving.

The data for the Purple Mansion to deduce the "Father-Destroying Method" did not come entirely from Xiang Xiaoyu, but Xiang Xiaoyu had to provide a certain amount of basic data.

Take AI painting as an example.

The more detailed the text description provided to the AI, the more accurate the image drawn by the AI.

The input text description is clearly not the only reason the image can be drawn.

The AI itself has an incomparably huge database, and that large database has nothing to do with the text description.

The Purple Mansion's deduction of the "Father-Destroying Method" also has a mysterious and extremely magical "large database."

For example, when killing the "Great Power of Xuanwu Gangqi" Ge Qing yesterday, Xiang Xiaoyu knew nothing about Xuanwu Gangqi, but the Purple Mansion in her mind instantly completed the method of "Destroying the Great Power of Xuanwu Gangqi Ge Qing."

The data Xiang Xiaoyu provided to the Purple Mansion at that time was probably only her own five senses' feeling of Ge Qing's Xuanwu Gangqi.

What she saw, heard, and felt were also data.

After worshipping Guan Huchen as her foster father, the activation conditions for "Great Father-Destroying" were met, and the "Purple Mansion" was like a "Heavenly Dao Computer," immediately starting to deduce a method that would allow Xiang Xiaoyu to personally execute and be enough to kill "Thousand-Mile Eyes Guan Huchen."

But Xiang Xiaoyu had never seen the "Immortal's Pupil," had never seen or felt it, and couldn't provide a single bit of data, so the Purple Mansion's deduction was stuck, and the progress improved extremely slowly.

And the operation of the Purple Mansion required energy—her brainpower, energy, and spiritual power.

Operating the Purple Mansion at high intensity was like continuously doing high school math problems, and she couldn't persist for too long.

Doing one high school math paper would be exhausting, but there was a difficult-to-describe satisfaction in the exhaustion (if one was very good at math); doing two papers in a row would leave one dizzy and exhausted, double the pain (both haggard and making too many mistakes in the fatigue, with terrible results); doing three or four papers in a row, the brain's CPU would burn out.

So after not persisting for long, Xiang Xiaoyu paused the deduction of the "Method of Destroying Thousand-Mile Eyes Guan Huchen."

At this moment, seeing the Thousand-Mile Eyes used with her own eyes, and being at such close range, facing the golden light, a large amount of information related to the Thousand-Mile Eyes entered the Purple Mansion, and the deduction speed of the Purple Mansion soared.

When the deduction speed was fast, the feeling in the brain was like playing a game; playing a game would also be tiring, but there was more pleasure, and the time of continuous pleasure was far longer than doing math problems.

"Found it."

"Whoosh," the three zhang of golden light retracted into Guan Huchen's eyes again.

"Father, what are you looking for?" Xiang Xiaoyu asked curiously.

"The sky is about to get dark, we must rendezvous with the Iron Cavalry Camp."

Guan Huchen said casually, then let go of the reins and gently whipped the Red Smoke Steed.

"Iron Cavalry Camp..." Xiang Xiaoyu's expression was strange.

Before, Guan Huchen galloped, completely throwing off the black-armored cavalry behind him, and was still full of confidence, saying they would definitely not be separated... she didn't understand, and even guessed that the Shu Kingdom cavalry had a special way of contacting each other.

It turned out that both sides were really running blindly; you run your way, I run mine.

But as long as the interval was not more than a thousand miles, opening the Thousand-Mile Eyes would immediately find them.

It wasn't the Iron Cavalry Camp looking for Guan Huchen, but Guan Huchen opening his "Immortal's Eyes" to find them, and then chasing them with the peerless speed of the divine steed under his crotch.

This act of showing off was truly tiring.

The Red Smoke Steed was tired.

When the Red Smoke Steed caught up with the Iron Cavalry Camp, the sun was setting, and the jade rabbit was just hanging.

The black-armored knights circled a piece of land behind a hill, and even lit seven or eight campfires; some were boiling water with copper pots, and some were roasting wild game caught on the road.

Seeing Guan Huchen riding the Red Smoke Steed over, they didn't feel surprised.

They stood up naturally to salute, and then returned to the campfire to chat.

Huchen activated his Thousand-Mile Eyes again, scanned in all directions, and after confirming there were no mountain spirits or wild monsters nearby, he jumped off the Red Smoke Steed. 【19-46

For dinner, Xiao Yu only received one brown pill.

It was about the same size as a Chaoshan beef ball, and the color was quite similar, too. The taste... it seemed to have a beef flavor, but it was mostly the fragrance of beans and sesame.

"This is the Immortal's Stomach-Filling Pill. After eating one, an ordinary person won't be hungry for three days, and a strong warrior can sustain a day's consumption." Seeing her holding the pill and looking at it from all angles, Guan Huchen took a bite of a succulent roasted deer leg and explained vaguely.

Xiao Yu glanced at the roasted deer leg and the golden cup of wine in front of him, then scanned the black-armored knights by the campfire.

Only thirty or so knights were allocated meat; the others, like her, only had one "Immortal's Stomach-Filling Pill."

Oh right, they also fed two pills to the warhorses.

The knights shot many pieces of prey on the road, but they were, after all, on a march and not specifically hunting; if they encountered prey, they would shoot an arrow at it.

If they missed and the prey ran away, they wouldn't leave the main group to chase it.

And the entire cavalry unit had over two hundred men; there wasn't enough meat to go around.

Actually, compared to roasted meat, Xiao Yu was more willing to eat the "Immortal's Stomach-Filling Pill"... at least today, seeing this rare item for the first time, she was very willing to try it.

Hmm, the taste... there was no taste.

It was like Zhu Bajie eating the ginseng fruit, sliding directly down the throat into the stomach.

It wasn't that Xiao Yu didn't want to chew; it was that Huchen had specifically warned her not to chew it.

If one used their teeth to crush it, the taste would be extremely heavy and difficult to swallow.

Even if forced down, most of the effect would be lost; what should have staved off hunger for three days would only last for one.

Xiao Yu closed her eyes, calmed her heart, and carefully felt the effect of the "divine medicine."

A moment later, she opened her eyes, with undisguised disappointment in them.

Although the name contained the words "Immortal" and the effect sounded mythical, there was no special "Immortal Origin Qi" born after eating it.

Just like its name, "Stomach-Filling Pill," as soon as it slid into her stomach, the feeling of hunger immediately vanished.

But there was no sense of satisfaction after a meal.

"Auntie Yu..."

A weak call interrupted Xiao Yu's research on the "Immortal's Stomach-Filling Pill."

Following the sound, she saw Danzi with his hands and feet tied tightly with rope, thrown on the ground like a tattered sack.

Beside Danzi was another tattered sack—Song Changqing, covered in yellow mud.

They were a bit far from the campfire, and the light was dim, so it was hard to see clearly.

"Danzi, is your body still uncomfortable?"

Xiao Yu walked over and helped Danzi sit up, but she didn't untie the ropes for him, only loosening them slightly.

"Auntie Yu, my stomach hurts."

Xiao Yu reached out to help him rub his stomach.

"Not here, a little higher."

What was uncomfortable wasn't his stomach, but his chest, his heart!

After rubbing for a while, Danzi whimpered, still uncomfortable, but it seemed even more uncomfortable not to rub it.

"Auntie Yu, I'm hungry..."

Xiao Yu turned her head to look at Guan Huchen.

Huchen was only focused on eating meat in large mouthfuls and sipping wine in small ones—there was too little wine.

"Danzi, wait a moment." Xiao Yu continued to hold him and rub his chest.

After Huchen finished eating and, with a satisfied burp, put away the gold wine pot inlaid with blue sapphires, she tiptoed over and picked out a few bones from Huchen's leftovers.

Using the short sword Huchen had given her, she scraped off all the meat threads and tendons, then used the spine of the sword to break the bones so Danzi could suck the marrow.

She barely managed to help Danzi get through dinner.

The next morning, Song Changqing handed an Immortal's Stomach-Filling Pill to Xiao Yu, asking her to feed it to Danzi.

He had been right there last night, covered in yellow mud, but he was conscious and saw the whole process of Xiao Yu feeding Danzi.

When they set off in the morning, no knight gave food to Danzi, and Xiao Yu was busy pouring water into Danzi's stomach!

"General Song, is your body alright now?"

Only now did Xiao Yu notice that all the yellow mud on Song Changqing had disappeared.

Actually, the yellow mud had already hardened into chunks last night, but the "Dragon Qi backlash" was too ominous, and the knights subconsciously avoided him; it wasn't until the early hours of the morning that he struggled to clean himself up.

"Once the yellow mud dries completely, it's just ordinary dirt," Song Changqing said.

Xiao Yu was very curious about what he had specifically experienced and what he had seen, but Dragon Qi was a sensitive topic for her, and it wasn't easy to bring up.

Eight days later, the heavy cavalry battalion finally crossed over three thousand li of wilderness and desert, arriving at the first majestic pass in the north of the Shu Kingdom, Hengsha Pass.

This marching record, if placed in the ancient times of her past life, would absolutely be a plot point from a mythical romance.

Even modern armored units couldn't achieve such an exaggeration.

The Luye Guard Iron Cavalry Battalion wasn't just ordinary cavalry; most of them were heavy cavalry, with both men and horses armored.

They didn't have space rings, so during the march, they wore their iron armor the whole time, not even taking it off when they slept.

One can only say the "Immortal's Stomach-Filling Pill" was too miraculous.

Humans could eat it, and horses could chew it; one tiny pill was enough to keep a warrior full for a day, and they would be full of energy with their strength undiminished.

The carrying capacity of a single lightly-equipped knight was enough to satisfy the supplies for a whole battalion of men and horses.

According to the news Xiao Yu had gathered over these past few days, the Immortal's Stomach-Filling Pill was a byproduct of Great Qin cultivators researching grain-abstinence pills.

The so-called "Immortals" referred to cultivators who sought immortality and mastered mysterious Daoist arts.

Cultivators needed real grain-abstinence pills, and the longer they could stave off hunger, the better.

Ideally, one could eat a single pill and never need to eat again for a lifetime, completely achieving grain abstinence.

Even slightly better grain-abstinence pills had to stave off hunger for a year or half a year.

Like the Immortal's Stomach-Filling Pill, which only kept one full for three days, it couldn't even be counted as a defective product.

For cultivators, it couldn't even fulfill the basic requirements of grain abstinence.

Its only advantage was probably its low cost and the ease of collecting materials.

The main ingredients were bean flour, sesame, peanuts, beef jerky, and so on.

Of course, the so-called low price was relative to those cultivators who burned mercury to refine pills and spent thousands of gold a day as if it were nothing.

Ordinary people had no ability to produce the Immortal's Stomach-Filling Pill at all.

It had to be refined by a cultivator using a pill furnace, barely counting as the most basic type of pill.

On the market, one pill could sell for thirty taels of silver.

Thirty taels of silver were enough for an ordinary family of four to live on for a year.

Even a power as great as Great Qin couldn't popularize the Immortal's Stomach-Filling Pill to all its armies.

The Shu Kingdom's Iron Cavalry Battalion only had a portion distributed when they were executing important missions.

(PS: This thing, the Immortal's Stomach-Filling Pill, often appears in ancient novels and actually exists in reality; it's the "Snickers" that the ancients tinkered with, and you can still search for the recipe online (everyone can try it).

In "Flowers in the Mirror," there is also a type of "bean flour" that is even more bugged; eat it once and you won't be hungry for half a year, eat it three or four times and you won't need to eat for a lifetime; it also has a recipe, and it's written in such detail, fearing that the reader won't learn it.

Here I present two "Immortal Recipes" for everyone.

Ancestor's Hunger-Staving Recipe: Walnut kernels (four liang), almonds (one jin, boiled, peeled, and sliced), licorice (one jin), fennel seeds (one liang, stir-fried), gentian (four liang), white poria (four liang), mint (four liang), platycodon (one liang); grind each into a fine powder and mix evenly.

Take one pill each time, hold it in the mouth, and when encountering various grass or pine and cypress leaves, chew them finely into juice and swallow; strength will remain undiminished.

Immortal's Stomach-Filling Pill: Sesame (one sheng), red dates (one sheng), glutinous rice (one sheng); grind together into a fine powder, make honey pills the size of marbles. Take one pill each time, swallow with water, and one can go a day without hunger.

This recipe is miraculously effective and beyond words, but do not experiment with it recklessly.

If it has miraculous effects, please slap yourself eight times and wake up from your dream quickly.)