My Simulated Road to Immortality

Chapter 841: Spin-off The Mystery of Longevity (To seek the Law of Longevity, one must enter this chapter!)

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I had a half-finished spin-off saved in the draft box for a long time. I wrote it hurriedly while inspiration was still lingering.

It won’t delay the regular update this evening. There will still be two more chapters tonight.

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“Ding Dong!”

Aware of the prompt from my phone, I jolted awake from sleep.

It took a good half a minute for my pounding heart to gradually calm down. I picked up the phone on the desk and glanced at the time.

Two-thirty in the morning.

“Damn it, who else would message at this time but that old coot, Zhang Yaobin!”

Swearing inwardly, I opened Tengxin, and sure enough.

“Li Yang, check your email. Write a research report for me based on the information in there, about 30,000 words will do. Before noon tomorrow.”

The words, along with Zhang Yaobin’s sleazy smiling profile photo, instantly made my eyelids twitch and my blood pressure surge.

In my head, I had already cordially greeted his ancestors several generations back, yet my fingers were involuntarily dancing on the phone keyboard.

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“Sure, boss!”

I sighed deeply.

“There’s no helping it, who told me to get such an advisor. Just bear with it a while longer, once this paper is successfully published, I can graduate.”

“Six reviewers, four of them friends of Zhang Yaobin. Whether it gets approved or not, it’s all up to him. Before getting through the review, this period, he’s sure to treat me like an ox or horse. Even more relentlessly.”

Complaining to myself, I opened my email, downloaded and unzipped the attachment, and started reviewing the contents.

“Contrary to the Principle of Heaven and Earth, to attest to Longevity…”

“What the hell is this.”

The sleepiness was instantly dispelled, and I couldn’t help but straighten my posture, staring intently at the image on the computer.

Half a month earlier, in the Hundred-Color World region of Hunan Province, an extraordinary event occurred. A kilometer-high mountain peak split open to reveal a cliff face as smooth as a mirror. Atop the cliff were the nine large characters, “Contrary to the Principle of Heaven and Earth, to attest to Longevity” carved vertically in ancient seal script.

The local government acted very swiftly. After the incident, the site was quickly sealed off. The public is still unaware of this event.

Because the ancient seal script used to write these nine characters dates back seven thousand years to the era of the Xian Dynasty.

Therefore, the investigative team invited Zhang Yaobin, the leading domestic expert in Xian Dynasty history, to assist with the investigation.

To see whether he could find any clues in the ancient texts.

…

I looked at the time on the bottom right corner of the screen.

“Today isn’t April Fool’s Day, yet they’re playing this kind of joke on me.”

The moment I saw this information, my first reaction was disbelief.

“Ling Yun Peak, more than thirteen hundred meters high. The highest peak in the Hundred-Color World region…”

I quickly searched for the mountain peak mentioned in the event.

“Nine characters, over a thousand meters. Judging from the spacing between the characters in the photo, each one is at least a hundred meters in size.”

“Even now, carving them on the mountainside would be a huge undertaking.”

“The seven-thousand-year-old Xian Dynasty? How could that be possible?”

“But these characters, they really are quite impressive.”

My thoughts paused for a moment.

But that old bastard, Zhang Yaobin, despite his ugly looks and strong capitalist vibe, is very meticulous and reliable in his work. He wouldn’t tease me with a non-existent matter.

I quickly began to search online for related news from the Hundred-Color World region.

As expected, I discovered some oddities.

“My folks, I’m completely speechless. I finally took an annual leave to travel to the Hundred-Color World. But when I reach the entrance of the scenic area, I’m suddenly not allowed in! Who understands this feeling, huh?”

“Hundred-Color World suddenly encountered an incident, and the scenic area is temporarily sealed off. For your safety, please cooperate with us tourists!”

“You might not believe it if I say it, but what on Earth did I see in the Hundred-Color World…”

Before I could click on it, this post was already deleted.

“It seems, there is indeed something going on.”

“The Xian Dynasty…”

I stroked my chin, the records about it surfacing again in my Spirit Consciousness.

The Ancient Xian Dynasty was the first recorded civilization in history.

Moreover, there was a huge cultural gap between it and the second civilization, the Yu Era.

The two eras were almost eight hundred years apart. To this day, no one knows what happened during those lost eight hundred years, or how the once flourishing Ancient Xian Dynasty came to annihilation.

There aren’t many people in the country studying the Ancient Xian Dynasty, and Zhang Yaobin is the most authoritative among them.

My area of research, though not the Xian Dynasty, is such because relics from the Xian Dynasty are too scarce and have been thoroughly studied already. Reluctantly, I had to settle for another focus.

Regardless, serving under Zhang the old thief, I’m familiar with all things Xian Dynasty due to my exposure and experiences.

But its characteristics, basically, didn’t differ from other ancient dynasties.

This time’s kilometer-long inscription, however, was a bit beyond my knowledge.

After drinking a cup of coffee and staying up late to finish the old bastard’s material, it was almost dawn.

Yet my curiosity only grew stronger.

The “smooth as a mirror” mentioned in the materials wasn’t an adjective but a statement.

It was truly like a polished mirror, unlike the rough mountain body.

And the material seemed to have changed as well. The cliff was much harder than normal rocks.

However, due to the purpose of relic protection, it is still not possible to measure it precisely with instruments.

The weirdness didn’t end there.

After the characters “Contrary to the Principle of Heaven and Earth, to attest to Longevity” appeared, the animals nearby Ling Yun Peak, as if terrified by something unknown, started to actively keep away from the area.