Vol 3 Chapter 68: Birth, old age, sickness and death

Thanks to Fan Xuanzi, I used a friend's tip for the name. Also, this is the last chapter transition.
He Ji and Cao Yuanze entered Zhou Chen’s cabin and watched him lying on the bed with a sallow face, dry lips and unconsciousness. He Ji sighed to Shi Xuan, "Hey, big Calling people to the deck in the middle of the night, the sky is so cold, the wind is so strong, Brother Zhou is not in good health, it is inevitable to get sick."
Cao Yuanze smiled and said, "Thanks to Brother Shi's proficiency in medicine, he can use the medicinal materials on the ship to formulate effective prescriptions. Although Brother Zhou is sick, his life is not in danger." He was a little pleased with Shi Xuan because he didn't dare. It is guaranteed that I will not get sick once during the two-and-a-half-year voyage. The doctors of the Fan family are noble and proud. The island countries controlled by the North Sea Blood Demon Sect are far apart, and they will only meet in a month or two. To one.
Shi Xuan didn’t care about Cao Yuanze’s flattery. He looked at the brothers and sisters Zhou Yi and Zhou Ying who were helping to bring tea and water: "Fortunately, the two children are fine." Actually, if the disciple of the Blood Demon Sect asked everyone to kneel down last night or something. , Shi Xuan would quietly control him. Given Shi Xuan's current strength, it was a very simple matter. Shi Xuan's main concern was that there were still passing blood demon sect true biography disciples and elders who swept past with their spiritual sense, and he happened to be cultivating and running Zhen Qi, so he stopped deliberately from the time he got on the ship.
As for why not just use the Spirit Refining Pill to advance, but to find this illusory opportunity, it is because there are always unstable situations when using the pill to advance. If it involves the physical body and meridians, it will fall in the future. It can also be made up. It just takes more time, but if there is a problem with the soul and divine mind, it is very difficult to make up.
A lot of people who dare not take the pill to achieve the middle-grade golden pill in the soul stage are due to some problems when using the soul-gathering pill to advance. The unity of soul and soul is incomplete. If one step is wrong, it will be difficult to make up. The nine-turn nine-return jade liquid pill that can increase the possibility of 30% will naturally not allow them to have the confidence to break through to the middle-grade gold pill.
As for the possibility of something going wrong when the Spirit Refining Pill is advanced, there may be about ten out of a hundred people. Those with strong soul control may only have five or six out of a hundred people. But for this risk, Shi Xuan, who wants to achieve Changsheng Avenue, is completely afraid to bet. In comparison, Shi Xuan is more willing to accept some pressure experience, at least life or death, and he has a certain ability to control. .
In general, hold on to yourself, refuse the temptation of the seemingly easy road, stick to your heart, and stick to the choice of the road.
"Hey, the two children really suffered last night. But fortunately, those cultivators who should run away have escaped, and the immortal leaders of the Blood Demon Sect will not come to search again." He Ji could not see the previous copper at all. Ling's big eyes and mouth were embarrassing that the cowhide was exposed.
Cao Yuanze also said lightly: "That's right, the sight of the blood demon sect's immortal light made my legs and feet soft, and I will never see it again. Okay, brother He, let's go to the dining hall and help me by the way. Brother Shi and the two children bring a portion, um, Brother Zhou can bring some gruel, right?"
As soon as he opened the door, he heard the cry from the other side of the corridor, and Cao Yuanze became curious and said: "A few brothers, brothers, go to see first, and come back soon." After speaking, he immediately walked out.
After a while, Cao Yuanze came back in a gloomy mood. He Ji asked, "What happened over there? Why is anyone suffering?"
"Don't mention it, it's a dead person." Cao Yuanze waved his hand. "It's the old white-haired man named Zhang that I often meet. He looks very healthy. I didn't expect to have some cold last night and passed away today."
He Ji didn't expect that the cold wind last night would actually blow people to death. He didn't know how to answer for a while. He said for a long time: "Is that old man from the North Wind country whose granddaughter married an Arctic monk?"
Shi Xuan was not too surprised. Before he boarded the ship in North Wind Nation, he occasionally ran into an old man surnamed Zhang. He could see that his body was strong in the outside world, so he looked at his anger. The life span of two years, but what I didn't expect was that he had just arrived in Beihai and passed away because of the cold last night, which made Shi Xuan feel unpredictable.
Cao Yuanze said: "It's the old man Zhang, hey, the old man received a letter from his granddaughter this time, asking them to go to the North Pole to enjoy the blessing. Who knows that he passed away just after arriving in Beihai. It's really pitiful."
"Okay, okay, let's not talk about this, let's go to the dining hall. Brother Shi is still waiting!" He Ji didn't want to talk about such a heavy topic, pushing Cao Yuanze's shoulder, and going out with him.
Seeing the two left, Shi Xuan took Zhou Yi and Zhou Ying to start literacy. In the hearts of the two children, Uncle Shi, who is literate, can tell stories, and can treat his father, is really amazing, much more powerful than the red-robed bad guys flying around! Therefore, under the guidance of Shi Xuan, Zhou Yi and Zhou Ying were not reluctant at all, but were full of enthusiasm for literacy.
"Aqiong... Aqiong..." Zhou Chen, who was sleeping on the bed, was slurred and pained, and then shouted: "Xiaoyi...Xiaoying..."
Zhou Yi and Zhou Ying glanced at each other, pouting, "Daddy often talks in sleep like this."
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After the old man Zhang passed away, members of the Fan family fleet came forward and built a small mourning hall on the deck, so that the Zhang family could cry.
By the end of the first seven days, the Fan family sent someone to pile up a pile of wood and put the body of Old Man on it to prepare for cremation. Mrs. Zhang had no objection. After all, there are still more than two years away. Without a monk, the corpse is not as strong as a monster beast, and it certainly cannot be preserved for that long. Compared with water burial, cremation can leave at least some ashes.
The deck of the Fan's fleet can be fireproof, and they are not afraid of the spread of the fire, so Shi Xuan, He Ji, Cao Yuanze and Zhou Yi and Zhou Ying stood in the distance watching the cremation.
Zhou Chen's illness has been cured for a long time, but his body is still very weak and unable to get up. Every day, Shi Xuan, He Ji, and Cao Yuanze take two children in turn.
Looking at the excitement here today, Zhou Yi and Zhou Ying clamored to come and have a look, and the three had to bring them over.
"Doesn't those fire hurt me?" Zhou Ying asked curiously as the fire started to rise.
Zhou Yi looked at his sister with contempt: "He is asleep, how can he feel the pain!"
"That's right, brother, when you are asleep, I can't wake you up no matter how I pinch you." Zhou Ying's words caused Zhou Yi to glare.
After a while, after the fire stopped, Zhou Ying hurriedly pulled Zhou Yi: "Brother, that person is gone! Isn't he changing the spell?"
"You are stupid, Huo Zang (burial) means hiding."
"Oh, will he show up yet?"
"How do I know, you should ask him!"
What the two children said, He Ji and Cao Yuanze had a bad expression, the more childish and innocent they were, the more they felt the cruelty of death.
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Half a year later, the Fan family's fleet arrived at an island outside of the Blood Demon Sect. The medicinal materials, spirit grass, and monster beast corpses on the ship will all be unloaded here. Two disciples of the Blood Demon Sect will also leave here. As for the future Whether the Fan family fleet overturned or sank has nothing to do with them.
On the surface, Fan Han respectfully accompanied the two inner disciples of the Blood Demon Sect into the island, while the stewards instructed the boatmen to carry all those items to the island. After that, they would go to buy the spirit grass and magical tools unique to the Blood Demon Sect.
However, these had nothing to do with Shi Xuan and the others. Several people leaned on the boat rails and looked at the ordinary people on the island with good spirits, and then casually pointed Zhou Yi and Zhou Ying to do some basic exercise routines.
After Zhou Chen recovered from his illness, he felt the importance of good health. He Ji, who had heard a lot of knowledge, brags, said that ordinary monks were trained from childhood, so Zhou Yi and Zhou Ying were literate. , It takes an hour a day to punch some punches. There are many martial arts people on board, and there are people passing by at any time to give pointers, so Zhou Yi and Zhou Ying are fighting like they are. Of course, Shi Xuan also helped to remove some unreasonable actions, which made He Ji, Zhou Chen and the others sigh for a while, Mr. Shi is really both civil and military, uh, also proficient in medicine.
"Uncle Shi, you see, we've grown taller again!" Zhou Yi said excitedly, and his name for Shi Xuan had changed from unconscious uncle to uncle Shi which pointed to the obvious.
Zhou Ying was also standing by the ship's rail. Compared with the line engraved last month, she found with satisfaction that she had already exceeded a lot. For children their age, growing taller every day, plus starting to exercise, the effect is even more obvious.
Zhou Chen watched his sons and daughters grow taller, he was pleased and sighed: "They are also growing up slowly, and I am getting old, hey, old." The illness half a year ago made Zhou Chen more. Some gray hair and wrinkles look four or five years old.
He Ji patted Zhou Chen on the shoulder and said with a smile: "This is normal. When your children grow up, your parents will naturally grow old. But your Xiaoyi and Xiaoying must be promising in the future. Brother Zhou, you just wait for peace and happiness. "Hey." Stopped for a while and continued: "Tsk tsk, I really envy me, I really want to return to Crystal City right away, marry a hunk, and have a big fat boy." He is only one or two years younger than Zhou Chen, but After arriving at the North Pole, I was busy working hard, but I still haven't gotten a family.
After he finished speaking, he saw Shi Xuan and Cao Yuanze smile silently, and joked: "What, two brothers, do you want us to be a matchmaker for you? There are quite a few big beauties in Crystal City, who are taller and stronger. , But very uniform, the convex convex, the concave concave."
It’s not that Shi Xuan and Cao Yuanze have never seen a woman, so they didn’t blush, and they just said a few words casually, and then moved the topic away: "This fleet has only gone for half a year and arrived at the Blood Demon Sect. How can it be followed for nearly two years? ?"
"You don’t understand this. The Blood Demon Sect is to the south, and further north is the ocean where there are often icebergs drifting across. The boat dare not go too fast, and it has to slow down at night. You have to encounter heavy snow. Find an island to hide. It was only less than a year's journey, and it took two years to walk." He Ji was shopping for his own knowledge proudly.