Chapter 788 - 414: Egg
The encounters between Master Xuan Du and Jiuxiao were few, but over the years, he still remembered Jiuxiao vividly.
Because the Carefree Immortal Venerable Jiuxiao was truly a rarity, one who appeared once every five thousand years... a true bastard.
Yes, the kind who, eek hehe ho ho... a lunatic who solely focused on his own joy and pleasure, a shameless scoundrel waiting for divine retribution, capable of all sorts of notorious deeds.
So although Jiuxiao was most infamously known for being the number one rapist on the Six Gates Heavenly List for major crimes.
But other low-life acts like punching seniors in nursing homes, kicking kids in kindergartens, chasing chickens and kicking dogs, blowing up cesspits were countless; captured and sentenced to instant execution, often not even worth filing a case.
Of course, a bastard like him never thought he had any issues.
When asked, Jiuxiao would have his explanations,
After all, living in this world, isn’t it just for carefree happiness and doing whatever one pleases?
If one doesn’t seek fun while alive, wouldn’t it be like being a salted fish?
So it doesn’t matter what you think, as long as I think it’s fun enough.
However, joy has its threshold; if you trip passerby making them bleed and still laugh, and keep doing so all day long, then that’s pure madness.
Sadly, Jiuxiao wasn’t a madman, so like an addiction, he quickly got tired of it, compelling him to continuously push the limits of his morality.
Throughout his life, Jiuxiao truly embodied the motto "if it doesn’t result in death, keep pursuing it," living in pursuit of thrilling happiness on the Great Dao.
Strictly speaking, among the most ludicrous things Jiuxiao did, enticing Nan Hua to descend into the Lower Realm wouldn’t even rank, considering the godly figures at the Xiaoyao Sect show how he truly had his eyes on Xuan Nu.
Of course, it’s still character, not intelligence, that’s Jiuxiao’s problem. So after being pranked by monkeys once, he vowed to change.
Well, he definitely felt the pain but couldn’t bring himself to change.
So he disguised himself, changed his appearance, went undercover in the Immortal Palace, not out of any grand ideals like saving the world, but simply out of whimsical adventure spirit.
He merely took the chance to indulge in a eunuch adventure, while seeking whether there might be secret prescriptions for limb regrowth or skeletal resurrection in the Immortal Palace.
Thus, he discovered such things.
’Egg’
Of course, this wasn’t a real egg, at least not one a normal chicken could lay.
According to Jiuxiao himself, one day while peeping at the Imperial Concubine bathing, he saw a close servant scrubbing her back, scraping her skin and angering the master, leading to the servant being dragged and skinned alive in front of the hall.
Typically, once a palace attendant is killed, they just dispose of the body by burying it in the imperial garden.
However, a few days later, the Imperial Concubine had several skinned, but always felt dissatisfied and started longing for the one who used to be so close, ordering her to be unearthed.
And then Jiuxiao saw the Palace Attendant of Ziwei Constellation digging out the half-decomposed servant, putting her in a jar, pounding her with a Jade Pestle into a paste, and dropping an ’egg’ into it.
Three days later, she came back to life.
Tie Dan’s eyes became sharp,
"Came back to life?"
Xuan Du glared at him,
"Don’t interrupt, I’m just starting."
All in all, even such exhilarating events were unprecedented for Jiuxiao, immediately arousing intense curiosity and eagerness to learn, prompting his experimentation.
What, how did he experiment? Well, simply peeled the Imperial Concubine’s skin, repeated the experiment a few times.
After several repetitions, Jiuxiao summarized a few patterns.
Firstly, the ’egg’ is summoned from the heavens above.
Just "Swish—boom!" like a meteor falling, meteorites landing, then calculated by Tai Chang for where it fell, retrieved by specialist personnel.
As long as it’s brought back swiftly within seven days of the death in the palace, and the flesh and bone remnants mashed up, and mixed with the egg, pickled in a jar, theoretically, the revival happens in three days.
Yes, theoretically, because the process is rather mystical and nobody should be watching.
For instance, during the Imperial Concubine’s case, Jiuxiao kept watching, and after three days, the flesh rotted without revival.
But if he didn’t watch, after three days, the pickled person would crawl out like a butterfly breaking from a chrysalis.
It was indeed magnificent...
Moreover, the revived person wasn’t quite the same.
Well, appearance-wise, they were identical: how they looked when dead is how they look revived, down to the last hair strand.
Though the inside was clearly off.
Because Jiuxiao personally confirmed it, whipping Concubines in Ziwei Palace with the Divine Beating Whip until their souls dissipated, secretly removing half of their brains, which theoretically should revive a fool.
Yet remarkably, they grew back perfectly restored, and were identical in character and memory, with no difference from a True Man, except unable to recall how they died.
Seemingly, as long as enough flesh is added, the egg can grow into an identical person.
On a similar note, if several people are marinated in one jar, the flesh will rot, ruining the revival.
Of course, the egg’s fundamental use isn’t for creating people or reviving them.