Chapter 91: Three Immortals of Yunling

Rolling Han River water, humble people on the river.

Seeing Seeing Ning Zhe is willing to accompany Seeing Lan Shiwen to Chuyun Mountain for this trip, in order to ask him to use the rule of predicting the future to help him predict a certain thing in the future. But what about Seeing Lan Shiwen himself? Why is he taking risks?

"It can't be to save the common people in Yun Ducheng, right?" Seeing Seeing Ning Zhe joked to himself.

"Why not."

Seeing Lan Shiwen turned the steering wheel to the left, passed the big bend at the bridgehead: "I grew up in Yun Ducheng since I was a child. This is my home. My relatives are all here, and my friends are also here. In my 22 years of life, I have never been far away from my hometown.

Yun Ducheng is the place where I was born. How can I let a ghost slaughter the people I know on the land where I live? How can I sit and watch the city where I have lived for 22 years be dragged into hell by a crazy old man?"

"Take it easy, it's 220 yards. Don't die on the steering wheel instead of in the ghost's hands." Seeing Seeing Ning Zhe skillfully lit a cigarette, and then complexly extinguished it, not taking a puff.

Seeing Seeing Ning Zhe is a five-good youth who doesn't smoke or drink, but Zhang Yangxu is not, and that security guard surnamed Li is a heavy smoker who smokes at least two packs a day.

"Tell me, what's going on." Seeing Seeing Ning Zhe pressed the unsmoked cigarette into the ashtray, opened the car window to ventilate, and asked casually: "You said Ji Bochang wanted to drag Yun Ducheng to be buried with him, why do you say that?"

"Literal meaning." Seeing Lan Shiwen answered while watching the road: "You know, life-buying money is one of the common currencies on the Ascension Network. The source of this copper coin is the God of Wealth Wealth Wu Tong controlled by Ji Bochang."

"As long as there is enough life-buying money, even if you die in a Strange World event, you can buy back your life with money. It's not just Ascenders who need this thing, ordinary dignitaries also flock to it. But this thing cannot be traded on the bright side, and needs a price that is relatively idealistic as a cover to launder money... So Ji Bochang became a well-known calligrapher and painter in Yun Ducheng. His calligraphy and paintings always sell for sky-high prices, and every time a calligraphy or painting is auctioned off, the buyer will get a copper coin as a gift."

"No wonder." Seeing Seeing Ning Zhe suddenly realized: "I said, writing calligraphy like that and daring to shamelessly call himself a calligrapher, and being sought after by thousands of people, it's simply upside down."

It turns out that what those famous merchants bought was not calligraphy and painting at all, but life.

"I only found out later..." Seeing Lan Shiwen sighed softly, and continued: "But just like the rules we discussed before, the money for buying life will increase exponentially with the number of transactions. The first time you buy life, you only need to spend 1 copper coin, the second time you need 2 coins, and the third time you need 4 copper coins..."

"At the same time, the price of selling life is constantly plummeting, from 1 life for 1 coin, to 2 lives for 1 coin, 4 lives for 1 coin..."

For outsiders who don't know the inside story, this is just a purchase limit rule. Ji Bochang, known as the God of Wealth, will never sell more than 3 lives to the same person, but only he knows the real reason is that from the 4th life, the cost of the transaction will start to be too high for people to bear...

"The rules are fair. Others buy life and the price rises, and Ji Bochang himself will too."

Seeing Lan Shiwen slightly loosened the accelerator, reduced the speed to pass the curve and approached Chuyun Shanzhuang in the distance, continuing to say: "I don't know how Ji Bochang lost all the lives sold by the God of Wealth, but it is certain that Ji Bochang died many times for some reason, until he couldn't afford even one life, and could only watch himself get sick and die."

"The despair of approaching death drove him crazy. For someone who has bought and sold life, this is almost unacceptable. Ji Bochang lost his morality as a human being. In madness, he planned his own funeral, inviting those Ascenders he thought 'could not crack the Wealth Wu Tong rule'."

"Ji Bochang planned a super-large Strange World event with at least 10 rules out of control at his funeral. He wanted to drag the entire Yun Ducheng into hell to be buried with him."

"This old crazy man..." Seeing Lan Shiwen gritted his teeth when he said this. He is one of the few Ascenders with a sense of responsibility, although not too many, but enough to drive him to risk his life to strangle this large Strange World event brewing in the cradle.

"Get off, it's a mountain road ahead, can't drive anymore." Seeing Lan Shiwen unfastened his seat belt and said: "That ghost house is in the depths of Chuyun Mountain. We have to go there as soon as possible. We must get the money Ji Bochang hid in it before the God of Wealth kills other Ascenders and rolls the assets like a snowball."

Otherwise, everything is over.

"Understood." Seeing Seeing Ning Zhe also got out of the car.

Seeing Seeing Ning Zhe took off the wool coat he was wearing and put it on the shore by the pond. While taking off his clothes, he walked into the water.

"What are you doing?" Seeing Lan Shiwen was stunned.

"It's suitable for bathing today." Seeing Seeing Ning Zhe unbuttoned his shirt, poured the cold pond water on his muscular upper body, and continued: "Take a bath, and your luck will get better."

(End of chapter) ===== CHAPTER 92 =====

Seeing Lan Shiwen climbed onto Seeing Seeing Ning Zhe's back and hugged his neck tightly. The large, sturdy brown bear, fed to a state of plumpness on zoo rations, let out a low growl and charged into the woods like a wild boar.

"Brown bears have poor eyesight; you guide me," Seeing Seeing Ning Zhe's voice came from below.

"Alright," Seeing Lan Shiwen nodded and agreed:

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"The place we are going is an old residence called 'Gathering Immortals Garden.' In ancient times, it was a Daoist temple dedicated to a local faith known as the 'Three Immortals of Yunling.' Later, when the dynasty changed, the new imperial court favored Buddhism and suppressed Daoism. This temple was taken as private property by an official surnamed Yin and converted into a summer villa, which became the Gathering Immortals Garden. Now, it is a key cultural relic protection project in Yunzhou."

"'Three Immortals of Yunling'?" Seeing Seeing Ning Zhe thought for a moment, seeming to have some impression: "I think I saw the primitive faith of the Yunmengze water system in some book. The Three Immortals of Yunling—are they talking about Fortune, Prosperity, and Longevity, these three immortals?"

"I couldn't tell that you, being from Yongzhou, actually have an understanding of Yunzhou's cultural heritage," Seeing Lan Shiwen smiled and said:

"That's correct. The honorable names of the Three Immortals of Yunling are: Ziwei Tianzun of Boundless Fortune, Emperor Wenchang of Eternal Prosperity, and the Old Immortal of the South Pole of Boundless Longevity. When Gathering Immortals Garden was first a Daoist temple, it worshipped these three immortals. Later, when it was converted into a summer villa by the court official, the statues of the three immortals were never moved, and they still receive incense offerings to this day."

"Oh? That is interesting..." Seeing Seeing Ning Zhe narrowed his eyes slightly, as he remembered something.

Something that had made him feel suspicious when he first entered Chuyun Shanzhuang last night.

(End of Chapter)