Chapter 6: The Legend of Reincarnation Continues

  Fortunately, the police car arrived just in time to save us, but Uncle Chicken was exhausted from bringing Fatso and Chenchen back home by himself. Fortunately, I could still walk on my own, or else I don't know what would have happened.

  Back home, Ji Ye first took out a large pile of pills for Pangzi to take, and then the two entered a secret room for acupuncture and bloodletting. After tossing around for an hour or two, it was finally over, and by this time, the sky had already lit up. Everyone was extremely exhausted, so Ji Ye didn't want to say anything else, just telling me to go to sleep and rest.

  Although my body was extremely exhausted at this time, after all, the experiences of this day really made me at a loss, but I really couldn't sleep. Especially when I saw an extra eye on my palm, I couldn't close my eyes no matter what. I kept thinking about what to do, would cutting off my hand work? Would digging it out work? The more I thought about it, the less I could sleep. This kind of insomnia was really unbearable. It wasn't until someone slapped the back of my head that everything went black and I lost consciousness.

  "Stop messing around, you're going to get me killed!" The person standing by my bed muttered.

  I don't know how many hours I slept, but I slowly got up, took out my phone and saw that there were over a dozen missed calls, including several from the company. It goes without saying that I knew I had lost my job. But in this situation, I didn't have the heart to go to work anyway. After turning off my phone, I decided to go find Jiaye and Pangzi, now they are my last resort.

  "Huh, woke up so soon? Why don't you sleep a bit more?" said Chicken Elder to me as he saw me approaching while chatting with Fatty.

  "Well, I won't sleep anymore. I want to talk with you all," I said, stretching out my right hand, which had a closed eye in the center of its palm.

  "We knew you'd come looking for us, so we took some time to look up some information, hoping it would be helpful to you." Fatso replied with an expression that I was all too familiar with, only I was too impatient and didn't notice the lack of enthusiasm in his tone.

  "Do you know what the Six Paths of Reincarnation are?"

  "Uh, I know a bit about some Buddhist theories."

  "It's enough to know, the Six Paths and Five Elements are ancient theories that no one can verify anymore. Whether it's Buddhism or Taoism, religions generally involve immortality and ascension. The eye in your hand now involves the secret of longevity."

  "Longevity, this is what countless people have been pursuing for countless years. Various scientific researches are not mentioned, and ancient myths and legends are not to be said much. But I want to tell you that longevity is not that easy. From the ancient practitioners of Qi Gong to the alchemists of old, no one has ever achieved immortality. Even if someone lived over 200 years, they still ended up dying."

  "So" the little chicken picked up where the fatty left off, "the normal way of longevity doesn't work anymore, so people thought of taking a shortcut. During the Eastern Han dynasty, Buddhism was introduced to China and Buddhist teachings spread widely. After many years, the teachings of Buddhism and Taoism began to merge, so some Taoist priests studied the Buddhist theory of reincarnation. Reincarnation, reincarnation, if one can transcend reincarnation, isn't that just longevity? Thus, the Taoist priests who thought they had found a shortcut to longevity quickly formed a small sect called the Reincarnation Sect."

  "The practitioners of the Wheel Return sect cultivate not to transcend themselves, nor to slay demons and evil spirits. Their goal is only one: to achieve immortality. Therefore, they quickly became unscrupulous in their pursuit of the right path, but they didn't care about that either. Every day, they think about how to escape the cycle of reincarnation. After decades of searching, they finally got a reward. In an ancient book, they learned that on Mount Kunlun, there is a cave called Wàn Xiān Dòng (Gazing at Immortals Cave), where inside the cave, there is a wheel called Lún Huí Pán (Wheel Return Disk). It's said that if you open the Wheel Return Disk, you can jump out of the five elements and three realms, achieving immortality. However, to open the Wheel Return Disk, they need something called Lún Huí Yǎn (Wheel Return Eye). So, they searched for it, but who knows if they found it or not? Anyway, in the end, the entire Wheel Return sect disappeared. Maybe they all became immortal, or maybe they couldn't find it and died of old age. Thus, the legend of the Wheel Return Eye has been passed down."

  "Is that it? That's all?" I felt a bit disappointed after hearing the two of them, what kind of legend is this, it doesn't even have a beginning or an end.

  "Yes, that's all for now. Of course, the story of the Wheel Eye is far from over. It's said to appear only once every thousand years, and each time it does, it brings a storm of blood and rain to the world of cultivation. The rest of the story would take three days and nights to tell - do you want to hear it?"

  I quickly shook my head, if it were in the past when I had nothing better to do, listening to old stories was fine, but now I just want to know what I should do.

  "Fat brother, Chicken Grandpa, you guys say they just want to get the reincarnation eye from me, so I think, if I cut off my hand, would that be okay?" My own thoughts were carefully spoken out, losing a hand is still better than losing a life.

  Fatso and Chicken Grandpa exchanged a glance, then Fatso sighed and said "Lin Hao, I'm not scaring you, but people who pursue immortality this crazily are basically all madmen. Don't even mention cutting off your hand being useless, even if it was useful they would never let go of any hidden dangers, so you understand."

  My face turned pale, I naturally heard what the fat man meant, now no matter what I'm dead for sure, because they will never let me go, they only believe in themselves, if I actively cut off my hand and handed over the wheel eye, they would be even more suspicious.

  "I've resigned myself to my fate, but my sister Xue is innocent. Can you please help us again? No matter how hard I think, there's no solution. I can only resign myself to it. I've thought about running away, escaping to a place with no people, but thinking of Xue makes me heartbroken. Her life or death is still uncertain. If they catch our parents and friends again, I'm afraid I'll go crazy."

  I thought Fatso and Chicken Grandpa would agree without hesitation, but the two of them unexpectedly shook their heads at me. Chicken Grandpa said to me, "Lin Hao, this time it's not that we're unwilling to help you, but rather we can't help you. You also saw what happened yesterday. If it were just a matter of one Three Gods' Path or Left Guardian, even if we had to pay the greatest price, we could still help you take care of it. But this involves Longevity, and we don't dare make a decision lightly. Because I and Fatso both have families behind us, families that have raised us for over twenty years. Even if our families can withstand all the evil sects and evil cultivators, we can't bear the weight of human desire for longevity."

  The words of Ji Ye made my heart feel like it had been struck by lightning, and I couldn't help but tremble all over. Yes, Ji Ye was right, if they protected me, it would be equivalent to going against the entire Dream Walker clan. Even if they managed to withstand the attack with their family's power, why should their family help me? What if their family turned on me instead? Now that Pangzi and Ji Ye haven't taken action and left me here, it's already a great honor, thinking about them taking action is impossible. But if they don't help me, then rescuing Xue Jie would be completely hopeless, I couldn't rescue her with my own abilities.

  "I understand, I'll leave here tonight. It's still early, let me invite you to dinner with Chenchen. We've just met and you've helped me so much, I really can't thank you enough. I don't have anything else to repay you with, so the only thing I can do is treat you to a meal." After saying that, I bowed sincerely to express my gratitude.

  So after hesitating for a few minutes, the two of them finally nodded in agreement. "Xiao Xiao, don't mind her, every time this happens she needs to sleep for 24 hours, just us three will go, let's go to that restaurant on the back street, it's quieter there."

  "Alright, I'll go wash up and leave," I replied, although I didn't know what was wrong with Chenchen, but it's better not to follow us. If we're seen by others, Jiaye and the others can take care of themselves, but Chenchen can't. Last night, a group of fools could see that Chenchen is also an ordinary person.

  After a series of events last night, my luggage was also lost. Except for my wallet and phone, I didn't have anything else on me. So the clothes for washing and changing were given to me by Jiaye, fortunately he and I are about the same size, so I can wear his clothes.

  It was almost five o'clock in the afternoon when we set out after washing up, and Chenchen still hadn't woken up. Jiye messed around at home for a while before closing the door and leaving with me to that restaurant they were talking about.

  This restaurant is indeed located in a remote area, basically in a small alley. I guess the business is not very good usually, but the boss seems to be familiar with Ji Ye and others. As soon as they meet, they greet each other warmly, while I sit down to order dishes. Because I had part-time jobs during my university days, I also have some savings on me. Plus, I'm grateful for their lifesaving kindness, so I ordered a dozen or more expensive dishes until Pang Zi stopped me, but this also made the boss's eyes gleam with surprise.

  The boss brought up wine, and a box of Snow Beer was served quickly. The three of us all lowered our heads to eat, not saying a word, the atmosphere was very depressing. But as I ate, I couldn't help but think of my experiences over the past two days, and suddenly felt sad, wanting to drink.

  "Pop" opened a bottle of beer, I directly held it up to the two and said "Come on, I'll toast you, I'll drink beer and you drink soup. Thank you for saving my life, accompany me to find Snow Sister."

  The two of them sat facing each other, neither willing to make the first move. This farewell dinner wasn't just an ordinary meal, and under these circumstances they wouldn't drink if they could help it. They had sensed that my emotions were off, and even the soup was left untouched.

  "Gululu", they didn't drink it, I did, and with one breath, I blew the bottle away.

  "Bang, another one!" I opened another bottle. "This one is for you guys and also for my Xue Jie (Snow Sister), she was the first person besides my parents to be kind to me without any self-interest, now you guys are the second, cheers!"

  Then I gulped down the bottle, my drinking capacity was not good before, beer was only three or four bottles, now quickly two bottles down, suddenly face red ears burning, heart racing, head also started to feel dizzy, but in my heart still very want to drink, stretched out his hand and opened the third bottle.

  "This bottle is for that damned eye" I said, holding the wine in my left hand and rubbing my cheek with the bandaged palm of my right hand. The feeling on my face made me even more uncomfortable, and I raised my head to drink another bottle, but suddenly Fatty grabbed my hand, "Brother, drinking alone is no fun, let's drink together!" After saying that, Fatty also opened a bottle and clinked it with mine. This way, Ji Ye couldn't refuse anymore and joined in as well.

  Half an hour later, a crate of beer was easily solved by the three of us. Although I was already drunk, I still felt unsatisfied and loudly asked the boss to continue serving wine.

  "Don't drink anymore, or you'll get into trouble!" The two fat men saw me calling for wine and immediately stopped me, but I was not to be outdone. I kept shouting loudly until finally the chicken vendor couldn't bear it anymore, took out a small box from his pocket, pulled out a black stone, scraped some powder off the stone with his fingernail, and blew it into my nose.

  As soon as the powder reached my nose, I suddenly smelled a very pungent smell, feeling a bit nauseous, but it was very short-lived. After a while, it went away and I also found myself surprisingly sober, with a very clear head.

  "Stop drinking tonight, I'll take you to a place, consider it our farewell gift to you. From now on, we'll go our separate ways and never know each other again." Fatso said to me with gritted teeth.

  "Where are you going?"

  "Don't ask so much, you'll know when you get there. Remember, watch my face and act accordingly, speak less." The fatty looked at Ji Ye with a profound gaze, and only after Ji Ye nodded did he take me away from the restaurant.