chapter 30 – the end of the lord
”How old do you think I am?” The muscles on his cheeks jutted a few times, stiffening as he asked a mismatched question.
”From the looks of it, about sixty years old, but since you opened your mouth to ask this, your age certainly doesn’t want to match your appearance, could it be older or much younger than that?” Han Li was a bit surprised in his heart, but his tone remained unchanged, saying in a flat voice.
”Tsk! It’s really not bad to be someone who practiced the ‘Evergreen Kung Fu’, a little kid from the countryside, turning into someone so resourceful and intelligent!” Dr. Mo’s mouth kept on claiming wonder and began to look at him with eager eyes.
”You guessed correctly, I’m only thirty-seven years old this year.” A number that Han Li couldn’t believe came out of Dr. Mo’s mouth.
”Impossible?” Han Li, who had always maintained his composure, was surprised for the first time.
”Impossible! It is indeed impossible! For those who see me, not to mention thinking that I’m sixty years old, I’m afraid that no one would doubt it even if they declared to the public that I’m seventy years old.” Dr. Mo’s voice suddenly became high and shrill, and hearing it in Han Li’s ears, it was so shrill and unpleasant, as if it had touched the most painful part of his heart.
”I, Mo Ju Ren, was also notorious in the martial arts forest of the Arashi Prefecture of the Yue Country in my early years, creating quite a name for myself and striking out my own world with my bare hands. Heh heh! At that time, there was no one in Lanzhou who did not know the prestige of my ‘Ghost Hand’, no matter black and white, those who obeyed me were born, those who disobeyed me.” Dr. Mo resumed his original tone of voice and slowly recounted his story in a low tone. With his own description, his eyes shot out a sharp look like a sword, as if he had returned to the time when he was full of vigor and power.
Hearing Doctor Mo’s words, Han Li was secretly surprised, not realizing that this nominal master of his had such a great origin.
”Unfortunately, good times don’t last long. When I was just entering my middle age and wanted to further develop my skills, I was assassinated by a villain, and was poisoned by someone close to me. Although I controlled the onset of my injuries by virtue of my own medical skill, I was unable to heal myself, and my martial arts skills were greatly diminished, making it even more impossible for me to gain a foothold in the local area. In order to be afraid of the enemy backstabbing, had to leave behind the original foundation and family to hide, in other parts of the country to find a good prescription, hoping that there is a way to restore the original power.” When he was narrating his own encounter, people have been completely into the narrative of the past, his hands were clenched fists, nails deeply inserted into the palms of his hands, blood flowed, but he seemed to be completely unaware of it, only on his face showed the ferocious color of gritted teeth and teeth, this kind of venomous look makes people look at the chills and shivers, it seems that he was on the then to his poisonous villain is hated to the bone.
Hearing the continuous hatred in his words, Han Li also couldn’t help but feel hairy all over his body, his heart storing a cool chill.
”The heavens have eyes, finally in some mysterious place, let me unintentionally got a strange book, this book strange astringent profound, I fee a nine ox two tigers to understand a little two, and from the above to find a shortcut to restore the power, I follow the above said method to do, the result …… “Dr. Mo paused for a moment and did not speak on immediately, but the exasperated look was unmistakable, and there was some remorse mixed in.
”As a result, you’ve become this ghostly figure now.” Han Li coldly said for him what he wanted to say but hadn’t finished.
”Not bad, it didn’t occur to me that after following the methods in that book, my power was restored, but my person aged rapidly, turning into this aging-before-age, half-human, half-ghost appearance now.” Dr. Mo nodded his head grimly, not angered by Han Li’s sarcasm.
”You should have found the cause by now.”
”I was caused by an evil invasion due to some improper practices, now I live a day equivalent to the energy consumption of an ordinary person living ten days, and every moment is a massive overdraft of my life, fortunately I’m proficient in the art of toning, and prepared a secret medicine according to the book, so that I was able to slow down the rate of aging and support myself up to this point in recent years.”
”What does the recipe I practiced have to do with solving your troubles.” Han Li went nakedly straight to the heart of the matter.
”Soon after I became like this, I researched the way to crack it from a book, which is the ‘Evergreen Kung Fu’ that you practice, and as long as there is someone who has practiced it up to the fourth level, who helps me to run the kung fu and push on it, and stimulate the secret acupoints with the Evergreen qi, I can get out of my current predicament, and regain the Essence that I have already lost. ”
”Why does it have to be me, wouldn’t it be fine to find a random person to cultivate this mouth decree?” Han Li pondered for a moment, asking back a question that had been buried in his heart for a long time.
”Do you think that this ‘Eternal Spring Technique’ is something that any cat or dog can learn? Not only does this mantra require a young person to cultivate from scratch, it also requires that the cultivator must have a ‘spirit root’ physique, and although I don’t know what a ‘spirit root’ is, I’ve already searched for hundreds of children before you, and none of them were able to cultivate the Evergreen Gong. ” Doctor Mo had an exasperated look on his face.
”There is such a thing?” Han Li was a bit stunned, not realizing that the cultivation of this mantra was still so demanding.
”In the remaining years, I thought it would be impossible to find someone who could cultivate the oral recipe again, so I gave up on myself and disguised myself as a jianghu wild groom and began to wander around. I didn’t expect to occasionally meet the Seven Mysteries Sect’s Sect Master Wang, who had also been assassinated, and in the case of the same illness, I reached out and saved his little life, and then at his invitation, I went along with it and became the Sect’s offering, preparing to go incognito and live out my last days in the mountains. Heh heh! Miracle still happened, at first was afraid of their own all medical martial arts all lost, then you recruited you into the valley, really want to accept you two as a disciple, but at that time I do not know how, even ghostly let you go to try out the Changchun Gong, probably still hold a fluke mentality it. In fact, even if you can not cultivate this recipe, will also take you, will be the whole body learned to pass down one or two. But what I never expected is that you actually have a reaction to this gong. Haha! The sky is truly the limit!” Dr. Mo revealed all these mysteries in one breath, his face covered with a disease-like blush, seemingly very pleased with his good fortune.
”I haven’t yet practiced the fourth layer of the Everlasting Spring Technique, so why are you restraining me at this time and spreading all this out with me?” Han Li finally asked the question that currently concerned him the most.
”This is your own fault, I’ve spent so much effort and hard work on you, but you can’t satisfy me and keep playing tricks with me. Now it’s just short of this final step, but it’s slow to advance more, originally I could have waited for you for two more years, but this time when I went down the mountain, I was recognized by an enemy, and after a bitter battle, even though I killed the other party, it also exhausted my originally little energy, and my lifespan has been greatly shortened, even if I use all my strength I can only make myself live for one more year, so how can you tell me to wait any longer?” Dr. Mo’s smug look disappeared without a trace and was replaced with a ferocious look, finally growling at Han Li.
After hearing this, Han Li looked as normal, his face showing no sign of being touched. However, his heart was in turmoil, not at all as chesty and unperturbed as it appeared on the surface.
Although he had long predicted that Doctor Mo had deep intentions for himself, he had never imagined that there would be such a big inside story, and that the other party’s life, experience, and cultivation recipe were all beyond what he had imagined.