"No matter what the reason is, one person dies and one ginseng fruit forms. That's true, right?"
"Yes."
"A few days ago, didn't the mayor eat a lot of ginseng fruit in front of everyone?"
"Yes. They say the mayor also ate plenty of ginseng fruit after the thunderclaps struck."
"And over these past few days, the Ascension Sect has been urging the townspeople to ascend to immortality," Li Qingxian said.
"I understand what you mean," Gai Fengyou said.
"I heard the Filthy Beggar say you can eat ginseng fruit, but not too much. Is that true?"
Gai Fengyou said, "People have said so. From what they meant, eating one ginseng fruit won't cause any problems, and even eating a few shouldn't matter much. But if you eat too many, your cultivation and lifespan will indeed increase, yet inexplicable changes will also occur."
"Such as?"
"For example... the North Xue Family's patriarch in Eerie Town kneels every day in a room hung with clothes of every color, bowing his head in worship and drooling all over his mouth. As for the South Xue Family's patriarch, crunching sounds always come from his room in the dead of night, like a dog gnawing on bones. And the mayor... supposedly-supposedly, mind you-he cuts open his own body every day, cursing Zhang Wentong, the sect leader of Devil-Transforming Mountain, as he bleeds."
"Looking at it that way, the mayor doesn't seem too bad."
"Those are only outward signs. Who knows what mutations have occurred inside their bodies? They even say that eerie beings don't dare eat too much ginseng fruit either. An eerie being only dares eat a single one in its entire lifetime."
"Even eerie beings don't dare eat it..." Li Qingxian sank into thought.
"As for whether to eat ginseng fruit at