Chapter 442 Conspiracy Building
What exactly are the five declines of heaven and man?
According to the existing classics in the academy, when a great cultivator reaches the end of his life, his body will become weak, his body will be filthy, and he will be tired and impatient. The sun and the moon shine together, mirages, green lotus descending into the world and other visions of heaven and earth.
After the final sitting, the aura is scattered between the heaven and the earth, which is also called "Da Huan".
"It stands to reason that the more advanced a practitioner's cultivation is, the stronger his control over the body will be. Martial arts masters can accurately perceive and control every muscle in the body, and spiritual masters can 'see' the operation of their body organs, Even I can use moss to adjust at the cellular level.
Abyss practitioners throughout the ages are already gods and Buddhas, and even they are unable to overcome the five declines of heaven and man.
Emperors of the former Sui Dynasty possessed the resources of an entire empire. With their fanaticism for immortality, they would definitely make a move to seek help from alienated objects in secret.
But they also cannot seek eternal life. "
Li Ang thought silently, "The aging of organisms, especially mammals, has nine characteristics. They are genome instability, telomere loss, epigenetic changes, loss of protein homeostasis, nutrient sensing disorders, mitochondrial dysfunction, cell Aging, stem cell depletion, altered intercellular communication.
These nine are the characteristics and causes of aging, just like chicken and egg, egg and chicken.
They occur simultaneously and are interrelated, forming an exquisite and tight network. Solving one or several of these items may be able to achieve the ultimate goal that emperors and alchemists have pursued for countless years—immortality. "
Take epigenetics as an example, which is a branch of genetics that studies changes in gene expression levels based on non-gene sequence changes.
Simply put, it is acquired environmental factors (diet, temperature, smoking, etc.) that change the gene expression of organisms. Silencing or waking up certain genes.
For example, in the larval stage, most female bees can only eat royal jelly for the first few days, and then switch to ordinary honey, so their fertility is not fully developed and they can only become worker bees.
And if female bees can continue to eat royal jelly with specific active protein components, they can continue to develop and become queen bees with huge physiological differences from ordinary worker bees.
That is to say, in theory, there may indeed be an "elixir" that will change the expression of genes after eating.
Similarly, for many organisms, including mammals, dieting and reducing calorie intake can also prolong lifespan-starvation will trigger and induce the expression of specific genes, activate them, promote the repair of damaged cells, and delay aging.
This rule is common to everyone from nematodes, to mice, to monkeys, to humans.
It coincides with the "bigu longevity technique" invented by some sects in the pre-Sui period.
"Thousands of magic spells, infinite avenues, just ask one question, can you live forever?"
These words flashed in Li Ang's mind. He smiled slightly, listening to Chai Chai's happy humming, and looking at the bustling street scene receding outside the window, he felt peaceful.
The road to long life is too far away and rugged, and even figures like the Buddha and the Prophet Haotian can't live for a hundred years. It's better to live every day and cherish the people in front of you.
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The summer heat subsides, the autumn wind gradually rises, and Li Ang's fourth school year in the academy begins.
In the new semester, the courses have been adjusted a lot.
Xenology is similar to Beastology, but its scope is larger than the latter.
In his textbook, he recorded many heterogeneous materials that were forbidden to be consulted in the past, the process and experience of the predecessors who suppressed and sealed these heterogeneous materials,
Sometimes, veterans from the Zhenfu Division and seniors from the Supervisory Department will be invited to give lectures to the students and tell about their legendary and bizarre experiences.
For example, there is a masked senior from the Supervisory Department. He once received a mission to chase and kill a demon cultivator with his companions.
The companion was injured and stayed where he was. He continued to chase and successfully beheaded Moxiu somewhere in Hexi Road, but he was also seriously injured and was washed away by a mountain torrent to an isolated and closed village.
All the villagers in this village believe in an evil mushroom god, and they will regularly bring business travelers, pedestrians, and beggars from the outside world as sacrifices to the mushroom **** in order to obtain the bliss powder given by the god.
(In fact, it is a powerful hallucinogenic drug, soaked in water and taken, you can see strange and strange scenes, and experience physical happiness)
The spine of the senior supervisor was damaged, his whole body was temporarily paralyzed, and his aura was restrained, so he couldn't use any spells.
Seeing that the day of sacrifice was approaching day by day, the other two people who were imprisoned in the room with him were all executed,
The senior lay in the corner, bewitched the villagers guarding him with words, spread rumors in the village through the villagers, and lied that the village chief's family planned to monopolize the gift of the Mushroom God,
Successfully sowed dissension, aroused conflicts among several families in the village, and fought and hacked on the day of the sacrifice.
He also took advantage of the chaos and asked the villagers who guarded him to leave him away from the village. After he recovered from his injuries, he led people to exterminate the so-called Mushroom God. The villagers should be arrested and locked up.
There is also a senior from the Zhenfu Division. He and his companions accidentally broke into a circular building while arresting the murderer.
There are more than 30 residents in the building. They claim that the building has consciousness and will regularly drag out selected people from the outside world.
There are ferocious and terrifying evil spirits roaming in the building. Each evil spirit has its own unique action rules. Violation of the rules will lead to the massacre of evil spirits.
(For example, you must close your eyes when you see an evil spirit wearing red shoes. When you sleep at night, if you hear a dog barking outside your door, you must hide under the bed and fall asleep within a quarter of an hour)
These rules violate each other, and some evil spirits will even disguise themselves as other evil spirits to trap and kill the residents in the building.
Residents who are killed will become new evil spirits. Further increase the difficulty of survival.
According to the previous notes left in the room, when the evil spirit kills all the residents, a new cycle will start.
The deceitful building has existed for at least three or four hundred years, and it has absorbed many monks during this period, but none of them escaped and ascended to heaven, and even the news could not be passed on.
The companion of that senior is just an ordinary government servant without any talent for cultivation.
After witnessing the residents being killed by evil spirits one by one, he knew that the cycle was about to start again, so he decided to fight back and let the evil spirits kill the evil spirits by inducing the evil spirits to violate the rules, so as to delay the cycle of the mysterious building.
Finally, he committed suicide, voluntarily killed by the evil spirit, became a new ghost, and used the ghost's ability to send the remaining residents out of the tricky building.
Afterwards, the Zhen Fusi and Xuegong jointly went to the local area to investigate, but they couldn't find any traces of the tricky building, so they had to erect a tombstone for the little yamen servant at the original address.
(end of this chapter)