Urban Peerless Expert
Chapter 375 - 395: Forever Young, Rejuvenation? _1

Chapter 375: Chapter 395: Forever Young, Rejuvenation? _1

When Lin Chen saw Ma Yangpeng again, it was already dusk on the same day.

Ma Yangpeng had cut his hair, taken a bath, and changed into clean clothes. Although he looked a bit emaciated and slightly listless, he was a far cry from the man chained in the basement.

Lin Chen glanced at Ma Wencai standing by Ma Yangpeng’s side, his gaze somewhat strange.

Ma Yangpeng was Ma Wencai’s father, so Ma Yangpeng should be at least twenty years older than Ma Wencai. But when the two stood together, Ma Wencai, the son, looked more like Ma Yangpeng’s father.

Lin Chen couldn’t help but ask, "Mr. Ma, how old are you this year?"

Ma Yangpeng smiled and answered, "Eighty-six."

Lin Chen was shocked.

Eighty-six-year-old Ma Yangpeng seemed to be only in his forties, a standard middle-aged man’s appearance, with no sagging skin, rosy complexion, and black hair without a single white strand. In contrast, Ma Wencai in his sixties had thinning hair with some white strands intermingled and looked much older.

Rejuvenation!

Lin Chen exclaimed, "Mr. Ma, you have really done a great job in maintaining your youth!"

Ma Yangpeng laughed, "Maybe I have a special constitution. But I still have to thank Mr. Lin. Without your miraculous medical skills, I’m afraid I would have been living in a daze for the rest of my life. In the blink of an eye, I’ve been crazy for more than twenty years..."

Lin Chen tentatively asked, "Mr. Ma, can you tell me how you got this illness? I’ve never seen this kind of condition before. It was like treating a dead horse as if it were still alive, and fortunately, I happened to cure it."

Ma Yangpeng smiled faintly, "It’s been so long, I can’t remember clearly. I remember going to Cang Mountain for business, passing through a fragrant woods, then my memory stops there. When I woke up, it was today."

Lin Chen responded with an "oh" and speculated, "Perhaps there was some kind of hallucinogenic substance in that woods, and you inhaled it as you passed through, putting you in an illusionary realm that you couldn’t escape."

"Maybe."

Ma Yangpeng smiled and asked, "Mr. Lin, your treatment method is very peculiar and totally different from the previous doctors. What’s the principle behind it?"

Lin Chen said with a laugh, "I don’t understand the principle either, as it seems quite metaphysical. But I guess, the human mental threshold is limited. By using fear to enhance the sense of fear, surpassing this threshold, like inflating a balloon until it explodes, breaking the illusion and awakening the person."

Ma Yangpeng frowned, "If it exceeds the threshold, could it also be possible that the person would become completely insane and incurable?"

Lin Chen admitted, "The human brain has a self-protection mechanism. When encountering something unacceptable, it will spontaneously protect itself, like when you fainted. But I can’t guarantee that nothing will go wrong, especially since you’ve been like this for more than twenty years. The only thing we can do is to give it a try."

Ma Yangpeng smiled, "Fortunately, I was lucky. Anyway, thank you, Mr. Lin. You saved me."

Lin Chen laughed, "You’re welcome."

Ma Yangpeng turned his head and said, "I’m a little tired, I’ll sleep for a while longer. Wencai, you must take good care of Mr. Lin, for he is my benefactor."

Ma Wencai laughed, "That’s for sure."

Watching Ma Yangpeng’s receding figure, Lin Chen pondered over their conversation.

A fragrant woods?

Associating it with what Ma Yangpeng had said about the entrance in the basement before, Lin Chen felt that Ma Yangpeng had lied to him and kept something hidden.

In the daytime, Lin Chen inexplicably thought of the unknown land that Gao Zhengqiu had told him about when he was bored.

Gao Zhengqiu had said that the Unknown Land was hidden in this world, but without a special key, you could never find the entrance.

Ma Yangpeng, eighty-six years old but looking like a man in his forties, this eerie phenomenon couldn’t help but arouse Lin Chen’s curiosity.

The Unknown Land... immortality... extending life...

It seems that there are indeed many legendary places in this world that people don’t know about.

Speaking of which, the Heaven Opening Jade on his body might also be the key to entering an unknown land, right?

However, neither Chu Xuankong nor Gao Zhengqiu knew the specific purpose of the Heaven Opening Jade.

This made Lin Chen a bit resentful. They didn’t even know what it was or how to use it, yet they fought for it so desperately?

Lin Chen stayed at the Ma family’s place for another night, declined Ma Wencai’s invitation to stay longer, and set out for home.

Although Lin Chen was very curious about Ma Yangpeng’s true experience, their conversation was watertight, and Lin Chen knew that it would be impossible to know the truth, so he simply stopped thinking about it.

Lin Chen mentioned to Ma Wencai about buying medicine, and Ma Wencai readily agreed, offering to get any medicine he wanted with just a phone call.

After making his promise, Ma Wencai once again stuffed Lin Chen with a large bag of cultivation aid pills, demonstrating the generosity of a pharmaceutical family.

The Ma family doesn’t lack medicine!

As Lin Chen returned to Linhai by plane and walked out of the airport, he saw Zuo Yingying with sunglasses leaning against the railing and smiling at him.

"What are you doing here, didn’t I tell you not to bother coming all this way?"

Zuo Yingying smiled and said, "I couldn’t help it, I was ordered to pick you up at the airport..."