Old Man Chen said, turned around and took his cigarette pouch. Everyone was shocked when they heard this, and after looking at each other, I asked him carefully, "Is it possible, there are really things in this world that can make people immortal?" ”

"Who knows." Old Man Chen said, snorted coldly, and smoked a cigarette for a while before slowly saying to us:

"Originally, this passage was almost forgotten, but I didn't expect you to turn it out again today. According to the description of Senior Daoqing, I suspect that those people have some connection with our Taoist sects, otherwise, they would not be like many Taoist priests to practice alchemy. ”

"Moreover, making a fuss about corpses has always been what Maoshan disciples love to do." Stick out your tongue, I said.

"You can't say that, a lot of wizards do." Coughing twice, Old Man Chen hurriedly corrected.

"But I still don't understand what they're doing with those zombies? You said that zombies can't be used for alchemy, but just now you said that those people use zombies to refine elixir that makes people immortal, isn't this a contradictory statement" After saying this, I looked at Ding Ling, Ding Ling heard this, and nodded approvingly, at this time, Old Man Chen stretched out his hand and knocked my head.

"What, you're going to rebel? After getting along for so long, how could the old man have lied to you? Old Man Chen said, pinched his cigarette pouch and thought about it, and then said to me with a little arrogant attitude of a university scholar bullying elementary school students: "Zombies, they can't be used for alchemy, there is no problem with this, there is no problem with using zombies to alchemy, the problem is that you misunderstood what I meant." Let me ask you, do you know what alchemy requires? ”

"Dan furnace, raw materials." I don't want to, I said.

"What else?" Old Man Chen nodded and asked again.

"And there's the fire, you mean?" When I said this, I seemed to understand what Old Man Chen meant, and after a moment of surprise, I covered my mouth and said to him: "Damn, those zombies are used to burn?!" ”

"Go to the side!" After hearing this, the old man Chen, who was originally smiling and groaning, changed his face suddenly, and that posture made everyone laugh, and I scratched my head a little inexplicably, not knowing what he meant.

"What my father means is that those clansmen may use the souls in the bodies of those zombies to refine the pill, and in a certain way, the zombies' '魄' can be stored as a furnace for refining the elixir, right, Dad." The man who was immersed in eating said, glanced at Old Man Chen, and when Old Man Chen heard this, he nodded with satisfaction, and immediately snorted coldly at me.

I knew that the old man wanted to question my talent again, so he bowed his head to eat and remained silent.

Regarding the matter of the three souls and seven spirits, I have specially asked many seniors for verification, and there is such a record in the Daojia classic "Yun Ji Seven Signs", saying: "Madame has three souls, one is a fetal light, one is a cool spirit, and one is a ghost. These three things are relatively clean, and the corresponding seven spirits are: "corpse dog, Fu Ya, Bird Yin, Swallowing thief, non-poisonous, defilthy, and smelly lung". These seven spirits are not like the three souls, they are all "turbid ghosts in the body".

In other words, in the Taoist theory, the soul and the spirit are two different things, the soul dominates people's consciousness, thinking, logic, morality, will quality and many other aspects, it belongs to the "yang", originally a kind and positive thing, it is precisely because of the existence of the three souls that people will self-restraint.

It is said that the soul in the soul is in charge of the physiological needs represented by people's "seven emotions and six desires", which belongs to "yin" and is turbidity, in other words, this is the most primitive and sinful aspect of the human body, eating and sleeping, beating people to bed, all physiological needs are the main cause of this thing.

Based on the different attributes of the two, the Taoist view is that after death, the soul ascends to heaven and descends to the earth, so the Central Plains has always retained the traditional custom of entering the earth for peace.

However, there are exceptions to everything, some people who have died horizontally, their longevity is not over, and they can't go down to the underworld, so the three souls in the body wander in the world and become ghosts, and the other part of the people, the three souls are hooked away, and the seven spirits in the body do not sink into the ground, and a move will be aroused with the help of the body to resurrect, and then create an illusion of immortality, this thing is what we often call zombies.

After knowing this, it is not so difficult to understand what Old Man Chen said, if what he said is true, then it is likely that the mysterious race in the depths of the mountains has mastered a special method of extracting the "spirit" from the zombie's body, and using it as a raw material to turn it into a raging pill for refining pills.

You must know that the human soul appears in a form that is very close to the "plasma state", and from the naked eye, they are closer to things like light and flame, so compared to the "human flesh pill" that uses the corpse of a zombie to make an elixir, Old Man Chen's statement is more acceptable.

Thinking of this, I suddenly had a feeling of enlightenment, whether it was true or not, I finally had a reasonable guess about the motives of those people, I thought about it, and asked Old Man Chen: "Old man, do you say that every corpse has a '魄' in its body?" "Of course not, or else, the world is full of zombies? Generally speaking, most people's souls are separated from their bodies very quickly after death. If the soul is hooked, it will definitely not be able to stay, and the spirit will sink more slowly, as long as the action is fast enough, the success rate is still very high. However, that's the method of artificial zombies, it's too lacking in morality, and it's also a big taboo in the Maoshan lineage, and few people are willing to use it until the last resort. Moreover, the artificial zombies are relatively weak in their bodies, so the zombies are more powerful the older they are, and the strength of the zombies that have been accumulated for a hundred years is probably incomparable to thousands of artificial zombies, otherwise, those people would not spend so much money to buy ancient corpses everywhere. However, this thing is actually quite strange, for so many years, I really haven't met a few people who use this method to make alchemy, and even the people who know those things are very few, they go to great lengths to do this, is it possible that those clansmen came out of the mountains? No, no."

Old Man Chen said, thoughtful.

"Not necessarily, it may be that Mr. Mao's hands and eyes are all over the sky, and he has already figured out the mystery inside. It may also be that Jin Jiuye was forced to be helpless and told them the truth. Alas, people are under low eaves, this is a common thing. "A little melancholy, I said.