In the thirty-second year of the First Emperor's reign, Yinghuo guarded his heart, and his purple color dimmed. Emperor Mengtian Gate was closed, and he was afraid that the end was coming, so he sent the alchemist Xu Fu to travel eastward to find the immortal immortality.
Xu Fu, a descendant of the Yin and Yang family, holds the bamboo slips with heavenly secrets. He knows that immortality is not a blessing, but is actually the bait of heaven. If he eats it, the seven emotions will be cut off and he will turn into a walking corpse. However, the emperor's orders are like a mountain, and he has to obey them.
Then he led three thousand boys and girls, equipped with hundreds of craftsmanships, harvested grains and seeds, sailed buildings and huge ships, and broke through thousands of miles of waves. This trip is not just about looking for immortals, but actually entering the game. There is Guixu in the deep sea, and there is a secret realm hidden underneath; it is said that there is a mirage dragon that exhales and forms a fairy mountain. The mechanism of the five elements coincides with the stars in the sky; the numbers of yin and yang can be used to predict good and bad luck.
However, there is no pure land in the boat. Zhao Gao was the spy, spying on him; Lu Sheng had different ambitions, and he used clever words to slander him. The art of strategizing is no less than strife in the court.
When I arrived in Penglai, I saw the Bone Palace and heard the secrets of Tianmen. Xu Fufang realized: Immortality means death, and it is not a blessing to get the medicine.
Did he bring the medicine back to Qin, seek credit for his flattery, and cause the common people to suffer?
Or will he break the contract and resist the decree, offend the ages, and only uphold the law of heaven ruthlessly?
This book is written in chapters and chapters, imitating the writing style of "Historical Records" and mixed with strange stories from "Mountains and Seas". The volume is interspersed with "relics on bamboo slips", which is like the surprise of later generations of textual researchers. The false and the true are intertwined, and the authenticity is difficult to distinguish.
The ending is full of mist, like a dream for eternity.
Will Xu Fu become an immortal after leaving here? Escape? Or is it because "the Tao is in the world"?
Reading this book is like holding a volume of "Eastern Journey to the East", observing the great Qin Dynasty Fenglei, sighing at the frailty of human nature, and thinking about the mystery of immortality. Who can solve it?
