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The "Red Sand Shenjiao" mine in Yizhou City is located ninety miles east of the state, in the Cangshan Mountain.

Records of mountains and rivers record that Cangshan Mountain in Yizhou overlooks the East China Sea. There is the tomb of King Dou in the front, the pillar of King Qin in the back, and a stone chamber in the middle. It is said that An Qi was born and Xu Ze was promoted to immortality.

In fact, ordinary people have no idea where the Tomb of King Dou and the Pillar of King Qin are. Cangshan Mountain consists of nineteen peaks from north to south. Each peak has no independent name.

Living here, surrounded by green mountains and green waters, is quite comfortable.

In recent years, when officers and soldiers discovered several mineral deposits here and ordered mining, the appearance of Cangshan Mountain immediately changed.

When Guan Luoyang and the others came to the outskirts of Cangshan Mountain, they looked into the distance from a cliff. They saw a dozen black smoke billowing between the distant peaks in the blue sky and white sun.

In addition to the smell of green grass and leaves, there is also a faint smell of burnt smoke.

"Is there such a big movement in mining?" Guan Luoyang was a little confused.

Gongsun Sheng explained from the side: "The mineral deposits here include one large, two small and three cinnabar mines, several iron ores, and a red crystal mine."

"When cinnabar is mined, the cliffs and mountains are covered with firewood and burned with fire. After the mountain walls are burning hot, cold water is poured on them to make the rocks crack and peel off on their own, and then the ore is selected and transported."

"After the iron ore is mined, it must be forged into iron blocks on the spot and hammered to remove impurities. The furnace must be opened day and night. The fire will not go out and the smoke will naturally not go out."

"The last crystal mine is the most troublesome. After mining large pieces of crystal, we transport high-quality cinnabar and smelt it in a furnace. It can produce a kind of purple energy sand that is very beneficial to both immortal and demonic masters. On weekdays,

When practicing Qigong, light some purple energy sand in the incense burner or take it, which can transform into a purple energy, eliminate illusions and illusions, avoid impatience, and make the body and mind peaceful and comfortable."

Gongsun Sheng swept the dust in his hand, as if he wanted to sweep away the increasingly obvious smell of smoke in the wind, and said, "But once this purple energy sand is smelted, it will take a long time, nine turns and nine exercises, I don't know how to waste it."

No matter how many fires there are, it’s not surprising that the smoke stays there all day long.”

Dai Zong had also inquired a lot about the Cangshan Mine before, so he took over the conversation and said: "The Taoist officials in Bianliang City specially built several treasure furnaces for the Purple Qi Divine Sand and placed them here.

He also sent Baoxu Wushang Zhenren Ren Sen to lead a group of Taoist officials and magicians to look after the furnace fire. Yizhou City also sent a general, Shi Wengong, to recruit brave Zeng family descendants to oversee the mining here."

Gongsun Sheng nodded slightly: "That Ren Sen alone is already quite troublesome. Since Shi Wengong is a general, he must have practiced a sophisticated magic method. From Pindao's point of view, we should be more cautious when taking mercury.

, so as not to cause more trouble."

Lin Lingsu snorted from the side and said: "The Tiangang Five Thunder Zhengfa in Erxian Mountain is also the best among the thunder methods. If you have practiced it for a long time, open an altar to practice it, and kill a Ren Sen. What's the problem? I

Judging from the fact that your magic power is also a bit mixed, I am afraid that you were still a Taoist official a few months ago, so it has nothing to do with the luck of the court, and you will not be able to practice the true immortal way."

Gongsun Sheng lowered his head and said: "Master taught me in the early years, but I didn't take it seriously. When I regretted it, I regretted that I had not worked hard in the past. Recently, I have worked hard every night, and I will definitely not disgrace my master's reputation after his death."

Guan Luoyang walked with them along the way and saw that Lin Lingsu had difficulty walking on her own and insisted on being sharp-tongued and sharp-tongued. Everything she said seemed to have a somewhat sarcastic tone. He really admired Gongsun Sheng's good temper.

After all, 80% of his words were directed at Gongsun Sheng.

It's just that Guan Luoyang has heard something about it after listening to it too much. The way Lin Lingsu sometimes scolded Gongsun Sheng seemed to be scolding his former self. After all, he was talking about the Taoist priests who were deeply entangled with the Song Dynasty court.

, it seems that there are few who can compare with him, Mr. Yuan Miao, the Kinmen feather guest back then.

Fortunately, Lin Lingsu, apart from being sarcastic and having an off-putting tone, also had the advantage of being erudite. If someone gave him an introduction, he could talk a long paragraph on his own.

During this period of time, Guan Luoyang didn't need much innuendo, he just asked a lot about the cultivation situation in this world from Lin Lingsu.

There are thousands of schools of cultivation in the world today, and countless different people have formed their own sects throughout the ages. However, generally speaking, they can be divided into three major categories: the immortal way, the demonic way, and the heretical way.

The Immortal Way is said to have originated from Huangdi Laozhuang, while the Demonic Way originated from Chi You and Jiang Shang.

Although the latter's name had the word "magic" added to it, Chi You was later also called one of the three ancestors, and Jiang Shang was the first ancestor of the military strategist and a sage-like figure. Therefore, the devil's way is also called the way of war, and it is also one of the world's best practices.

The orthodox method of human beings.

The source of immortal cultivation is to adhere to the concept of "wood is better than flesh, stone is better than wood, and metal is better than stone", collecting the energy of immortality from immortal things, so that the mortal body can gradually transform.

The so-called immortal things can be summarized as "gold, silver, copper, iron, tin, lead, mercury, oil and carbon." The last word "rare" covers the widest variety and refers to various types of jade and crystal that are rare in the world.

Medicine fossil.

To practice immortality, you must first practice the nine orifices. The nine orifices of a person are connected to the inside and outside. Ordinary people have weak nine orifices. Not to mention swallowing gold, chewing iron, biting lead and drinking mercury, or even suddenly eating too much meat, it may cause various diseases.

Being able to eat but not excrete, such a person will naturally not be able to step into the threshold of cultivation.

Therefore, we must first start with relatively mild wood and stone anthers to cultivate and refine the nine orifices. After reaching a certain level, we can start from swallowing stone powder and cinnabar, and improve step by step, until we can eat gold raw and drink copper with ease.

The purest vitality can be refined from the things and used for one's own use. When the vitality in the body is full, it turns into jade liquid. After nine rounds of jade liquid, you can develop an indestructible golden elixir.

The biggest difference between the Demonic Way and the Immortal Way is that the Demonic Way does not care about purity or purity. People who practice the Demonic Way, after cultivating the nine orifices, start with the most common coal, eat whatever is available, and let the impurities fill their limbs and bones.

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When the physical body is heavy and turbid after training, and the spirit is stubborn and unchangeable, it is difficult to gather the turbid energy into the golden elixir, and can only be allowed to blend into the body everywhere, and finally it is forged into a fighting body that looks like a god or a demon.

The training method of the Demonic Way saves a lot of purification steps, and the difficulty of practice is much lower than that of the Immortal Way. Therefore, it was once widely spread among soldiers and generals. It was passed down from the Shang and Zhou Dynasties to the Spring and Autumn Period and the Warring States Period. The practitioners of the Demonic Way have been

They are the most numerous people in the world.

Unfortunately, after the disputes of the Warring States Period, the Qin Dynasty fell into war soon after its reunification. Then Chu and Han fought for hegemony, and suppressed the rebellion in the early Han Dynasty. The world was at war with each other. By the time Emperor Gaozu of the Han Dynasty was in his later years, many of the old mineral veins in the world were almost exhausted, and soldiers were training.

At that time, he lacked the qualifications, so that he was deceived by foreigners. Even wise monarchs like Emperor Wen and Emperor Jing found it difficult to restore their old views.

So during the reign of Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty, the immortal way was withdrawn, the demonic way declined, and the heyday of heretics... arrived!

Heresy, originated from witchcraft, is deeply entangled with the customs of various places. Unlike the immortal way, which seeks truth, and unlike the demonic way, which is pragmatic, the heresy cultivates illusory power. Starting from the beginning of deception, it collects people's emotions and spiritual thoughts, and gradually

Refining the false into the real, possessing the power to influence the real.

This kind of cultivation method can easily make people lose themselves when they are indulged in the sea of ​​desire. Moreover, once their prestige is hit, people's hearts will be scattered, and their magic power may even regress, so it has always been despised by the immortal and demonic ways.

However, Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty reused Dong Zhongshu, Dongfang Shuo, Zhufu Yan and other people to change customs and respect Confucianism, so that the vassal states and tens of millions of people in the world had a common understanding.

Then, using this common understanding as a medium, we pushed the heresy to the extreme and formed the art of dynasty luck.

Ordinary left-behind magicians only fooled villages and towns, but Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty united the people of the world based on principles, and the situation was more than a hundred times bigger.

Wei Qing and Huo Qubing were talented and victorious in every battle. The higher their reputation, the stronger their fighting power. They swept away the haze of foreign races that shrouded the Han border and created the confidence that one Han could serve as the five barbarians. In addition to their own military and strategic talents, that is,

It embodies the characteristics of the dynasty's luck technique.

Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty was very arbitrary, and no one dared to disobey the government orders issued. He also relied on the art of luck.

The law in the court is strict, and the power brought by the dynasty's luck is inseparable from the official position. Once the emperor deposes someone from the official position, this power will be immediately deprived of it. It is easier to control than the immortal way or the magic way. The emperor

The authority has reached an unprecedented peak.

None of the emperors of subsequent generations could escape the temptation of power. Therefore, from the Han Dynasty, through the Wei, Jin, Sui and Tang Dynasties, until now, the art of dynasty luck has been maintained.

After the founding of the Song Dynasty and Emperor Taizong's accession to the throne, maintaining the dynasty's destiny became a top priority, and the respect for Confucianism was far greater than before.

However, over-respecting Confucian scholars and civil servants will naturally belittle and neglect generals. Many people have to get tattoos when they join the army. They are no different from prisoners, and they are not even ashamed of the common people.

If the people's support is not in the generals, the strength that the generals can gain from the fortune of the dynasty will become less and less. Even if there are some famous generals, they will not be able to resist such a declining trend.

When Lin Lingsu talked about this, Gongsun Sheng mentioned the current emperor again.

After Emperor Tianming succeeded to the throne, he ignored the obstruction of his ministers and went his own way, vigorously promoting magic methods in the army. He actually did not know where he got the secret method of prospecting for mineral veins. He sent people to patrol the country, prospecting with extraordinary accuracy, mining on a large scale, and providing training for the soldiers.

The past ten years have truly been an era of revival of the Demonic Way...or, in other words, the revival of the Military Way.

In today's Song Dynasty army, everyone has practiced some military skills.

Among the Cangshan mines, Shi Wengong led eight hundred elite troops to garrison, which was much more dangerous than Ren Sen's group of Taoist officials. No wonder Gongsun Sheng first declared that he should proceed with caution.

"Pindao, let's go to the smaller cinnabar mine first. Maybe there is some inventory and we can steal it directly."

Gongsun Sheng watched for a moment, pointed in a direction, and said, "Brother Dai Zong, you are here to take care of Mr. Yuanmiao. Brother Guan Dao, are you staying here, or are you going to take a look with Pindao?"

The journey together was not long, but Gongsun Sheng already knew that Guan Luoyang was quite curious about everything, so he asked this question.

Sure enough, Guan Luoyang said: "I'll go and have a look too."

The two of them set off immediately, crossing the valley and depression, and when they approached the place where the black smoke was rising, they saw tree stumps all over the mountains and plains.

The Nineteenth Peak of Cangshan Mountain should have been full of forest land, but the closer to the mines, the more bare it appeared. The grass and trees had been cut down and burned as firewood. After several winds and rains, the soil slowly changed from the rocks.

There is water flowing up and the rocks are mottled.

Guan Luoyang thought to himself: No wonder the smoke was so thick. Not only because there were a lot of things burned, but also because the firewood didn't have time to dry. It was all wet wood, so he just threw it into the fire.

"Climb the hillside ahead and you'll reach a guarded place."

Gongsun Sheng reminded him in a low voice, then he pressed the invisibility formula with his hand, and his body turned into a piece of transparency and disappeared.

The subtle electric light on Guan Luoyang's body flickered for a while, and he walked over so openly.

Gongsun Sheng, who remained invisible, was about to say something when he suddenly forgot where Guan Luoyang was in the blink of an eye. After he calmed down and looked again, Guan Luoyang was clearly still walking there slowly.

"This..." Gongsun Sheng searched his mind and couldn't think of any family with such strange spells.

Guan Luoyang's mental magnetic field spreads outside, moistening things and silently affecting other people's brains. Even if others see him, they think he doesn't exist at all.

Even people of Gongsun Sheng's level cannot completely avoid this influence. As long as they blink their eyelids, they will temporarily lose sight of Guan Luoyang. It will take a while to "see" them again. Those responsible for holding shovels, rakes, etc.

Naturally, the young and strong civilian men who were guarding were unable to resist.

Guan Luoyang walked across the hillside in front of them.

What you can see is a huge valley with piles of gravel everywhere. Many people are squatting on the piles of stones, picking out the cinnabar ore, and putting them into baskets.

They carried the rough stones with their bare hands, stepped on the gravel with straw sandals, picked up full baskets, and walked to the path on the left side of the mine.

To the right is the vermilion mountain wall. Someone is laboriously spreading grass clippings and wood on the mountain wall, waiting for the next time it is set on fire.
To be continued...