Act.17 Elixir of Life · Immortal Elixir

[Part 1: The Palace of Ten Thousand Demons]

"Our product contains 180 grams of Type B explosive."

"In layman's terms, it's a grenade made from a mixture of TNT and RDX."

"The effective kill radius is five meters. Interested customers can subscribe to my channel. Buy two boxes of twelve now and receive a free private photo of the host."

The TV screen went black.

Tang Ning got out of bed, looking at her strangely, and asked, "Why can Eureka's live-streaming salesgirls do all sorts of things?"

Hasben sighed, "Every industry in this city is essentially [selling meat]. Without some unique skill, it's hard to win in such brutal competition. Robert, you know the ecosystem of Eureka—the losers become food for the winners."

Tang Ning sighed, "This city, like Pandemani (the mythical palace built by the demon prince Mammon for his father), is inhabited by all sorts of demons and monsters."

Hasben: "Yes."

"When we went into the broadcasting building together, in the cosmetics section, we saw all sorts of strange girls getting their faces changed—they were using human skin as masks." Tang Ning recalled the TV station's program crew, her heart pounding. "They sewed their cell phones onto their arms, as if they couldn't be separated from their viewers 24/7."

Hasben held the laurel wreath, feeling only at ease when he could hold the Big Sister's brilliance in his palm.

"The most disgusting place is the fourth floor; that's where the TV station's pay channel is located."

Tang Ning, still shaken, replied, "Indeed."

The fourth section, for adults, is similar to a dark web reality show featuring bizarre and exotic content.

The survival competition in [KINGDOM] is like bringing the Hunger Games to the Underworld; it's a bloody killing contest.

Television programs are relatively low-carbon and environmentally friendly. These exotic reality shows include various rigorous extreme challenges and are customized according to the audience's preferences.

In the Eureka Volcano City, the stars must act like puppets, following the audience's commands, to perform different stories in the show's storyboards.

Eating feces, something that challenges the limits of human physiology, is something that every well-known junior anchor at Volcano City TV has encountered.

Occasionally, they would select a group of outstanding young talents from the same cohort to host nudist parties and cannibalistic feasts.

Leaving aside the content that would lead to too many 404 errors, let's leave that aside for now.

--While Hasben and Tang Ning were dominating the TV show, they also discovered a very mysterious prop.

It's called "elixir," but in Western English, it has a different meaning; it's also known as "Elixir of Life" or "immortality elixir."

Most people who come to Eureka Volcano TV seeking a better future and wealth know that beauty has an expiration date. The TV station, which is supposedly connected to the Mercy of Eros of Cupid, obtained this miracle drug from Kang Que Connor. It is said to be on par with, or even more powerful than, Universal Elixir, and can grant immortality.

Tang Ning immediately thought of the vampires in his hometown of the United Kingdom, England—

These bat-like monsters also sell the Blessed Holy Blood to people; perhaps the elixir of immortality is something similar.

However, when the two brothers captured a director and tortured him, they discovered that things were far more complicated than they had imagined. The effects of [Elixir of Life] were far more miraculous than the holy blood of the Rose Sect.

Right now, at this very moment.

The gunsmith and Xiao Qi pushed open the door and entered. Before they could take two steps, Bai Qingqing, the master's wife, screamed, "Tang Ning! Why aren't you wearing pants?!"

Little Robert leaped back under the covers, looking utterly aggrieved. "I never expected you, Master's wife, to just barge in like that!"

Hasben hugged the laurel wreath and explained to his teacher and his wife, "Robert was seriously injured before. His lower body was knocked off by Lao Gan Ma. The new limbs that grew using White Lady's products are very fragile. Even walking quickly is a problem. He will need a long time to recover. I want him to take off his pants and massage him according to the method I taught him to facilitate the recovery of his lower limbs."

Xue Ming: "You teach him?"

Hasben: "Yes, he learned it after just one lesson. I used to get injured a lot when I was in the Rangers. If it was a penetrating wound or a broken arm or leg, he had to recover in a short time. That's what my old commander taught me."

Xue Ming: "Thank you for your hard work."

Tang Ning, still under the covers, pulled on her pants and exclaimed, "Teacher, what brings you here?"

"I have some new intelligence, and two more things I'd like you to see." Xue Ming Xiao Qi down to sit with him and placed two glass bottles on the tea table. "One was found in a gambling den."

He pointed to the empty bottle, which seemed to be completely devoid of contents.

Hasben asked doubtfully, "Teacher? Is there anything in this bottle?"

"Here." Xue Ming picked up the bottle, tilted it, and finally inverted it.

A bright red fleshy ball, the size of a lychee, peeked out from under the bottle cap.

--Its shape was very similar to the Chaos Egg of Chaos Egg, but much smaller.

"What is this?" Hasben had never seen anything like it before, not even in the Rangers or the Arcane Library.

"This is the [elixir]." Xue Ming explained the origin of the thing, "When your master and I were wiping out the garrison at the gambling den, we seized it from an enemy. He seemed to want to take the medicine to save his life before he died, and he arrogantly shouted that I should wash my neck and obediently wait to die. So I took this thing from him, and his eyes became clear."

Tang Ning: "Hahahahahaha!"

Hasben: "Let's talk about this instead, teacher."

"They call this thing 'elixir'," Xue Ming said, spinning the glass bottle around. "It looks like a Chaos Egg to me, and it looks just like a POS. It's really strange."

Tang Ning immediately said, "The Chaos Egg is also the incarnation of a ferocious beast! I've learned that, teacher!"

"Yeah, when I was beating up these gambling dens and their garrison, I discovered that some of their officers were using Chaos Egg as telephones—" Xue Ming recalled the scene, "--Ishimura Shi Cun Tuozhen also had one of these, and it seems he used the Vita Imprint as a virus to control these silly little fleshy balls."

Tang Ning then jumped out of bed, leaped to the sofa, and sat on the armrest next to the gunsmith teacher.

"This thing looks like the larval stage of the Chaos Egg!"

Xue Ming: "Take your time to think it through, don't rush, just explain things clearly."

"Our beloved Ming De is the Taowu beast," Tang Ning explained. "And this Chaos seems to be on the same level as the BOSS. Although we don't know why it took this form, it has always served the underground banking system. The modernization of currency is all thanks to it. Everyone is inseparable from this little fleshy ball, otherwise they would have to carry a huge pile of paper money back and forth between various banks and markets."

The original digital dial on the Chaos Egg was artificially implanted. It could use the pheromone neural network to establish a relatively closed accounting system, much like signing a contract with a god equivalent to a BOSS, transferring all the accounts of the underworld to this biological computer for processing.

Now it seems that the Mercy of Eros have gained the support of the Yellowstone People, who are able to obtain the Chaos Egg as a test subject and establish their own communication system.

"This [elixir] seems to have been created in a petri dish," Tang Ning speculated. "But why is it so strange?"

So it is said--

--Everyone was observing the movement of the [elixir]. It was completely different from everything else in the world. It seemed to be unaffected by gravity and was the opposite of ordinary objects. The trajectory of its rolling in the bottle was straight towards the ceiling.

[Part ②: The Story of the Old Khan]

Before Xue Ming could introduce the second item of their spoils, there was a knock on the door.

Bai Qingqing went to open the door and welcomed the old Khan in.

The handsome Grandfather smiled and prepared two small gifts for the engaged couple, which he would present to them personally later.

He came in with his toolbox, sat down next to Hasben, and after greeting everyone, put down the ammunition box on his left.

"The supplies have been brought to me, heroes."

The four, master and disciples, checked their ammunition and looked at the elderly morpho.

--If Eureka is a den of demons, the Mercy of Eros have turned it into hell.

So the old Khan's White Ape might be the only sanctuary in the Demon Cave.

This inn has a strict blood testing system, as well as identification methods other than Polarized Sextant. According to the older staff, the old Khan is a descendant of the heroes who opened up the Shambhala route. He should know more about Kang Que Johnny, the Mercy of Eros, and the elixir.

The old man took the bottle and stared intently at the ball of flesh inside.

"This is the research result of the Mercy Society. The Arcane Library has also been conducting scientific research related to psionic energy, such as Mr. Lupin's attempt to combine the staff and stone to create new tools."

"The elixir you see here is partly made using alchemy techniques from Shambhala."

"On the other side of the Pompeii Sea, lies a relatively isolated world, rarely visited by modern humans."

As the old Khan spoke, he opened his phone's contacts and pointed to Daoist Master Ping'an's WeChat profile.

"This person came from Shambhala. Can you imagine? On the other side of the sea, there is actually an ancient kingdom that is hundreds of years behind civilized society—there are still emperors and courtiers there, just like the Qing and Ming dynasties in your East. Isn't that amazing?"

"Mr. Khan," Xue Ming asked, pointing at the ball of flesh, "What exactly is this elixir? What is it used for?"

"The Madness Butterfly Sect possesses a [Blood Transmission Method], using the Hohnheim Triad, combined with various calamity beasts nurtured by the bloodline of mountain demons, and the Madness Butterfly virus, to cultivate powerful warriors," the old Khan explained. "This [Elixir] is even more potent; it's a drug made by placing the somatic cells of the Chaos Seed into a culture dish, along with different formulas. Look at this fleshy ball; it's floating. This is the power of Kang Que Conqueror's soul at work—its name is [Heaven and Earth Turning], which can alter the gravity of matter, allowing one to reverse the heavens and earth, and leap across rooftops."

"Oh! I've seen those before!" Xiao Qi immediately remembered the dogs in front of the Flower Chess Bank: "Just this morning, there were four Spanish hunting dogs in front of the Flower Chess Bank. They were as fat as pigs, but they ran incredibly fast!"

Xue Ming immediately took out a second item, also a bottle or jar, containing a piece of Spanish hound meat, which, like the elixir, was floating in mid-air.

The old Khan nodded and then explained.

"That's right, this is a pill made by Kang Que himself. He can use this method to transform the superpower of Soul Might into a blessing and give it to the warriors of the Mercy Society."

"In the ancient eastern kingdom of Shambhala, the Great Xia Kingdom has legends of Qi cultivators."

"It's called cinnabar turning red, refining it into gold, and once the Golden Pill enters the body, one can achieve immortality."

"I think Mr. Luo Ping'an comes from there. The psionicists there also have another method of blood transfusion, and the elixir might be one of them. It's their elixir of immortality—using the Chaos Egg as a material to refine pills, which is the method the Mercy Society uses to recruit soldiers."

The old Khan took out the materials from his toolbox and showed them to everyone.

"Shi Cun Tuozhen dead, also from the control of the elixir. It was Kang Que Johnny who killed him with his Soul Power. He died inside the armored vehicle, as if he was under immense pressure, his limbs deformed by his own weight, turning into a pile of flesh on the roof."

"He must have consumed the elixir of immortality; his life is no longer in his own hands." Xue Ming's expression was grave as she thought of another matter related to Zero Platform: "If the Mercy Society's psychic power is to alter gravity, what will happen to Zero Platform?"

Xiao Qi: "Right above our heads?!"

There are no railway tracks in Eureka Volcano City. The hollow area outside the Twilight Pass is more than 1,700 meters away from the top of the cave. The Lord of Cinder can occasionally illuminate that area. Perhaps Zero Platform is hidden in the sky.

"Very likely," the old Khan analyzed. "The leader of the Mercy of Eros first appeared in public as a messenger of the gods, in the form of Cupid, the god of love. He was an angel who descended from heaven."

"That guy is a devil!" Tang Ning cursed. "An angel, my foot! He's ruined countless lives! The citizens of Eureka are now neither human nor ghost! It's all his doing!"

"It can be considered a kind of industrial upgrade." Hasben tilted his head and stared at the blood-soaked elixir. "In the past, the Blood Ceremony required the presence of elders and calamity beasts. The Blessed Holy Blood would be deactivated upon exposure to sunlight and could not be preserved for long—yet they actually used the Chaos Egg for blood-giving, treating the [elixir] as a token of power."

Tang Ning continued, "On the one hand, it can reward talented individuals recognized by the Mercy Society; on the other hand, due to Kang Que's soul power, any disobedient gang member or cadre will be killed by [Subversive· Heaven and Earth Turning Overturning]—this management method is low-cost and very effective."

The old Khan put down the [elixir], took out tattoo supplies from his toolbox, and Xue Ming.

"Gunsmith, I'd like to perform some ceremonies for you two as a wedding gift from me."

Xue Ming noticed the paint knife, pen, and ink in the old man's hand and was somewhat puzzled.

Does it have any special meaning?

"I have no power to fight against Kang Que." The old Khan's eyes dimmed as he spoke of his sorrow, "I was born here, I grew up here, and I watched helplessly as this city slowly fell into the hands of the Madness Butterfly Sect. The once simple and kind people became mincemeat in the millstone of terror, turning into mindless zombies in the materialistic den of demons. The once brave and fearless people were bought and corrupted by the Demon King, becoming cruel and bloodthirsty tools—and I was bound by the legs of the Mercy Society's lackeys, hung with a stone, and they threw me into the sea. But I was fortunate enough to come to the White Ape."

"I believe everything is preordained. This ship is a treasure left to me by my ancestors, so I gathered my old crew to renovate it, and it has become a window connecting me to the outside world."

"My soul power is very weak; its ability is to leave an indelible mark, like a carving knife—my earliest job on the ship was drawing nautical charts."

"I believe the nameless warriors can drive the Madness Butterfly from this land, and I hope to send you my blessings through this tattoo."

Xue Ming thought for a moment, then took off his coat and shirt and nodded to the old Khan.

The old Khan immediately took action, carving words on Xue Ming's back. These were the BOSS's principles and the corporate culture of the Abyssal Railway.

In the mortal world, there is a cold-blooded killer named Keanu Reeves, who also has this string of Latin characters on his back.

[Fortis Fortuna Adiuvat·Fate Favors the Brave]