Chapter 549 Peng Boshou (2/2)

”This was gifted to me by the Boyi Tribe. I have another jar here. If you like it, you can have it,” Shen Lian never had a concern about material possessions. If he was in a good mood, he could gift even more precious things to the others.

Moreover, when he reached the stage of Taiyi, the things that he created would have spirits, and he would be able to create a majority of the priceless treasures in this world.

The old man smiled and said, ”It's alright. The taste of the wine would not be as good if it isn't shared with people like State Preceptor, you.”

Shen Lian responded with a deeper meaning, ”It looks like the five times when you drink this wine, you must be with some extraordinary people.”

The old man said, ”State Preceptor is right. This wine was tasted the very first time when I was with Si Wenming. As for the rest of the four times, the taste of the wine was slightly worse than the first time.”

Shen Lian soon realized that the old man was trying to uncover the fact that he was a Qi cultivator of the same generation with the king founder of Xia Kingdom through the topic of wine. Instantly, he understood the old man's identity, then he smiled, ”So you're Peng Boshou from the Dapeng Kingdom.”

The old man was surprised, ”I didn't expect the national advisor to know who I am.”

Peng Boshou was a very old Qi cultivator. A long time ago, he accidentally took an exotic fruit which was one of the immortal spiritual medicine that mortals could take without side effects. Peng Boshou was originally a mortal. After taking the immortal spiritual medicine, he had nothing to worry about the shortening of his life anymore. From another point of view, he was no different from the walking celestials of the earth.

Later on, he traveled around the entire world and began to learn some techniques on the cultivation of Qi. Besides, he also learned some supernatural power and even became friends with Si Wenming. After Xia Kingdom was established, a manor named the Dapeng Kingdom was given to him.

The Dapeng Kingdom was located at the east of Dongyi which was surrounded by Yellow Springs. Three hundred years ago, the overflowing Yellow Springs flooded and inundated the Dapeng Kingdom. From then on, nobody knew the whereabouts of Peng Boshou.

Even the seniors in Xia did not know much about this mysterious secret. Little did the old man expect that Shen Lian could see through his background so easily.

Then, he was clear about the reason and he continued saying, ”It seems that the rumor that the national advisor has a good relationship with Guan Longzi is actually true. I'm pretty sure he had shown you all the various types of ancients books and records of Xia. I remember that he didn't allow when I wanted to go to take a look at Xia's ancient books.”

Shen Lian said, ”An elderly senior like Uncle Peng shouldn't have many mysterious secrets that you don't know of. Why'd you have to take the trouble to go to Xia's library to find out about something?”

”I've been concentrating on the augury methods since thousands of years ago. Then, I gained some knowledge about it and predicted that I'd have to face a trial of death but I couldn't find out the origins of it. This is a serious matter and thus I wanted to borrow the fragmented River Map from Xia's library to improve my augury technique so that I'm able to find out everything about the trial of death in advance in order to escape from it. I didn't expect that Guan Longzi wouldn't want me to look at it,” Peng Boshou said.

Shen Lian drained the cup of wine with one gulp, his mouth was filled with the exquisite taste of the wine. After pondering over the wine, he said, ”I think Uncle Peng doesn't need the fragmented River Map anymore since you can clearly calculate the cause of trial of death, I'm sure your augury technique is already perfect. Could it be that your trial of death has anything to do with me?”

Upon hearing what Shen Lian said, Uncle Peng got up from his seat and he held his greenish jade bamboo crutch and approached Shen Lian in an attempt to gift it to him, ”National advisor, please save me.”

Shen Lian's eyes fell on him, then he said, ”Uncle Peng, why do you have to do that? You can be frank to me about what's on your mind.”