Ye Shaoyang adjusted the top of the magic knot to a fixed position and pointed to the inn where he lived. In this way, the real person of Miaoxin will definitely find out where he lives. After all, there is only one inn in the town, and only a few outsiders can find it.

"That person Miaoxin, since he is the inheritor of Zi Kuang, he must know a little about the ancient tomb. We need to ask her some things." Ye Shaoyang's words were recognized by Daoyuan and Mao Xiaofang.

The three of them returned to the inn and asked for a table of food. As soon as they sat down at the dining table in the room, Meihua rushed over and told them that the matter was done.

"By the way, what are the subordinates of the Five Tongs Gods?" Ye Shaoyang suddenly remembered this and asked Meihua.

Meihua smiled and said, "I have already been incorporated by me and become my subordinate."

"That's good, but... by the way, you don't want evil cultivators, don't hurt people, otherwise I don't know what to do with you."

Meihua nodded a little embarrassedly, "I'm just practicing in the water and it's not hurting people."

"That's good." Ye Shaoyang said, and invited everyone to eat. He was the richest among the few people. Of course, he invited this meal. He ordered a few good dishes and a pot of wine, which was a celebration. Mao Xiaofang and Daoyuan Zhenren were also very happy, and the three of them drank happily. Meihua stood beside Ye Shaoyang, like a maid, pouring wine and tea for them. Ye Shaoyang regarded her as Meihua a hundred years later, and he also benefited from it and did not treat her as an outsider.

After drinking and eating, Ye Shaoyang called the waiter to remove the dining table and then talked about the main business.

"When talking about the corpse refining tank before, your faces changed. What the hell is it?" Ye Shaoyang leaned on the bed, holding a toothpick in his mouth, and asked curiously.

Master Daoyuan and Mao Xiaofang looked at each other, and Mao Xiaofang said, "I probably know more about this, let me tell you. Shaoyangzi, have you heard of the elixir of immortality?"

Ye Shaoyang twitched his lips and said, "You should ask Xu Fu this. Legend has it that he found it for Qin Shihuang. Later, he went to the island country and reproduced the descendants of the plaster flag."

Mao Xiaofang waved his hand and said, "No kidding. In ancient times, many people have always believed in Taoist alchemy, and even those emperors believed it. You should know this."

Ye Shaoyang nodded. Of course he knew that alchemy has always been an important part of Taoist magic. Alchemy can be divided into internal and external, which can improve cultivation and prolong life. There are also some special elixirs that have various special effects.

However, when alchemy became popular, many lay Taoists and others also followed suit to refine alchemy, but they were unable to understand the method. When refining alchemy, they used a lot of harmful substances such as lead and mercury, and finally they were killed by eating them. Many emperors in history had problems with taking elixirs. Liu An, the King of Huainan, was even more funny. He failed to refine alchemy and actually refined tofu...

However, alchemy is real, but immortality is nonsense. This is the consensus of Taoism. Ye Shaoyang didn’t know why Mao Xiaofang mentioned this.

Mao Xiaofang didn't keep it a secret and said: "In ancient times, the emperors were actually Taoism, but they were more seeking ways to nourish themselves and strengthen their aphrodisiacs, and they also hoped that they could live forever. In order to cater to the emperor, some Taoists tried every means to refine elixirs. In order to live for a long time, the emperor also supported them and gave them whatever they wanted.

Although most Taoist priests cheated a little, they also cheated some money for the sake of glory and wealth. However, some Taoist priests with ulterior motives took advantage of the emperor's trust and started to do evil cultivators.

The legend of the corpse refining tank comes from the new dynasty regime established by Wang Mang in the late Western Han Dynasty. Like the emperors before, Wang Mang also believed in Taoism and was very obsessed with the elixirs. At that time, all kinds of people favored Taoism. Among them, the one he favored the most was a Taoist priest named "Tianzhuo". He claimed that he was from Zhongnan Mountain and had been to Penglai Immortal Island. He had a prescription for the elixir of immortality given by immortals.

This elixir of immortality is very difficult to match. There is one medicine that requires human oil...and human oil squeezed out by hundreds of living people.

The emperor was determined to live forever at that time, and just as some small uprisings were suppressed, he asked Taoist Master Tianzhuo to select suitable ones from these imprisoned prisoners of war to refine medicine. For Wang Mang, this was just a "waste utilization" because most of the prisoners of war were to be killed.

Taoist Master Tianzhuo took chicken feathers as a command arrow and selected nearly a thousand people to kill them in batches. The method was very simple and cruel at the time. He specially created ten special copper cauldrons, escorted people to the cauldrons, burned them with willow trees below, and roasted them to death. Runes were engraved on the copper cauldrons, which could absorb the resentment generated by death and the soul of the deceased on the wall of the cauldron.

"Because there are too many people who need to be killed, it is said that Taoist Master Tianzhuo used three-mouth cauldrons to kill people together, and at least hundreds of people were killed in each cauldron... Even without the blessing of special runes, just hundreds of people were executed, these cauldrons were absolutely a great weapon. Not to mention that the resentment and soul of the deceased were in the cauldron... Shaoyangzi, think about what this concept is?"

After listening to Mao Xiaofang's story, Ye Shaoyang took a deep breath. In ancient times, there was a execution knife used by executioners. Even if it was a family tradition, it could not kill more than a hundred people, otherwise the legend would produce evil spirits. Not to mention, hundreds of people were killed in each of the cauldrons...

The most important thing is that torture instruments such as swords are all open in shape, and resentment and souls are difficult to rely on. According to the magic world, the tripod is a cork, and any tangible and intangible things can be placed in the middle.

Mao Xiaofang also said that these cauldrons are specially made, with Taoist patterns on them, and they slowly roasted people to death. The resentment caused by them and the souls of these people were absorbed by the cauldron wall... Ye Shaoyang had never heard of such an extremely evil thing.

"That Taoist Master Tianzhuo, what did you do to kill these people?" Ye Shaoyang wanted to know the following things. Of course, he didn't believe it was really to refine some elixir of immortality.

"What kind of immortality is of course a guise. He did this to get the ghosts and the resentment he generated, and keep it for himself to use it slowly..."

Resentment and ghosts are the two favorite things of evil cultivators. They can be used for various purposes, they can be used to refine magic weapons, or they can be directly refined and improved. This is a consensus in the magic world, so Mao Xiaofang did not explain it specifically.

"What after?"
Chapter completed!