My God, I am the emperor, the lord of mankind.

Chapter 448 Alchemist

But Zhu Houcong could not get the magic medicine from Sun En.

"Three mountains?"

Hearing this name, Dragon Girl's face showed a bit of bitterness.

Whether it is an overseas fairy island or a sacred mountain in Yaochi, it should have been a holy place that the Sea Clan visited regularly every year.

It is a pity that human beings are endlessly greedy. Both the First Emperor and the successive monarchs of the Han Dynasty have tried every means to interfere in these holy places of the Sea Clan. Even now, even the Sea Clan themselves do not know where these legendary three mountains are. where.

"The Three Mountains have long since disappeared in the long river of history. Even our Sea Clan can no longer find the location of the Three Mountains. Recently, only the occasional arrogant Taoist who wants to become an immortal in one step will try to find traces of the Three Mountains... "

The dragon girl said, she sighed softly.

The decline of the Hai Clan is visible to the naked eye.

The Three Mountains, which could still be controlled thousands of years ago, have been attacked from time to time by centuries-old dynasties, and the Sea Clan with a distant history has completely lost all traces of the Three Mountains.

It has to be said that the speed of human progress is really too fast.

Maybe the chaos every few hundred years isn't entirely without some benefit.

At least when the martial virtues of the previous generation's ruling group have disappeared.

The new ruler will once again use force to retake the world from the hands of the fallen who have lost themselves in the power of destiny.

Then began a new round of conquest against Sebari.

"Pre-Qin alchemists, I have heard my elders talk about these...monsters."

When the dragon girl talked about those human wizards who used bloody and wild witchcraft from ancient times, a hint of fear flashed in her eyes.

The glory of the debate among various schools of thought was based on the collapse of the Zhou rites and the sects of scholars and civilians all over the world who wantonly plundered the ancient secrets that could not be taken away after the relocation of the Zhou royal family.

"Be more specific -"

Zhu Houcong reminded.

He noticed the unnatural look in the eyes of the dragon girl in front of him.

Obviously, the dragon girl in front of him knew much more than Zhu Houcong imagined.

It's time for me to go to the Dragon Palace to reprint a few copies of the ancient classics that the Ming court had not collected or had long since forgotten, and let the bachelors of the Hanlin Academy compile these wonderful knowledge into that great book again. In the Yongle Ceremony.

"The origins of alchemists are very complicated. They include Yin-Yang family, Taoism, and even Confucian scholars from Qilu..."

The dragon girl talked about the stories she had learned during her long life span of eight hundred years. However, for humans, such a long life is just an adult for their tribe.

It's no wonder that no matter how the Taoist system in the Central Plains changes, there are always people trying to take away a body of the bloodline of the Merman nobles in order to achieve a certain sense of perfect immortality.

This is also the reason why these Mermaid nobles have to lock down the Dragon Palace even if they risk losing control of the world.

If they didn't do this, then I'm afraid those purebloods with noble blood would have been hunted down by all kinds of evil monsters and humans.

Out of reverence for the sea god worshiped by the sharks.

No one dares to attack the Poseidon Altar in the deep sea.

Praise the God of the Sea - Thinking of this, the dragon girl silently prayed to the God of the Sea in her heart.

But then, thinking of the terrible murmurs that the priests had heard recently when they were offering sacrifices to the Poseidon, she couldn't help but feel a layer of gloom in her heart.

When the ocean was no longer safe, the Ming court forcefully broke the closed state of the Mermaid nobles and forced them to once again walk out of the comfortable Dragon Palace.

Maybe that's not necessarily a bad thing entirely.

"When Qin destroyed the six kingdoms, various alchemists who originally served the royal families of the six kings resisted the Qin Empire. Of course, it was all in vain. Most of them were directly eliminated, while a small number were recruited and used by the First Emperor. The other part fled to the people, waiting for the opportunity to prepare to overthrow the rule of Qin Dynasty, and carry out cruel revenge on those fellow alchemists who betrayed them..."

"But most of the alchemists who surrendered to the Qin court could not wait until the day when the Han Emperor broke through Hangu Pass and Xiang Yu burned Afang. Most of the alchemists who surrendered either died on their way to sea to find elixirs for the First Emperor, or they burned books. When he was cheating Confucianism, he was brutally purged because he colluded with Confucianists and conspired against the rule of the First Emperor. The alchemists fled in all directions. They were also the first group of pre-Qin alchemists to go into exile overseas..."

"They established various organizations overseas that only they themselves could identify. Later, as the First Emperor's desire for immortality became stronger, more and more alchemists took advantage of this opportunity to escape from the Qin Dynasty... Of course, it is said that Zhao Tuo When he was ordered to march south, he also took a large number of alchemists to refine herbal medicine for his legion to resist the poisonous miasma of Baiyue in the south. Later, Zhao Tuo took advantage of the Central Plains to establish himself as king, and these people began to work for Zhao Tuo's family. Refining the elixir, the Han Dynasty marched southward, South Vietnam surrendered, and a large number of methods were provided for the Han emperors to continue to search for the way to immortality..."

The story told by The Dragon Lady is not complicated.

Zhu Houcong listened with great interest.

Gao Lin and Zhang Fawei are also listening that this may be the origin of Xuanmen in the Central Plains today.

Although everyone knows that Taoism in the Han Dynasty originated from the three generations of witchcraft in the bloody wilderness.

Compared with the barbarism of three generations, businessmen who ate babies, habitually killed people as sacrifices, used heads as wine glasses, and regularly held human flesh parties all seemed so elegant.

So much so that it was called the light of the righteous way by the surrounding countries.

But as the nominal heirs of the Zhou rites, we still have to try our best to imagine that era older than the Shang and Zhou dynasties as a peaceful paradise without killings and wars.

As for cannibalism? It's just that my ancestors were hungry and wanted to eat some meat. As for what kind of meat it was specifically! Is this important?

Not important at all!

Although the Zhou royal family also sacrificed people, they used it to build houses and worship their ancestors.

But at least on the surface he is relatively opposed to mass killing of prisoners.

On the one hand, the development of productivity requires a lot of manpower.

On the other hand, the Zhou royal family was influenced by their own experiences before overthrowing the Yin and Shang Dynasties.

The Zhou royal family was forced to fight with various barbarians every day to capture sacrifices for King Shang. In the end, they couldn't bear it anymore. They decided to join forces with the barbarians to overthrow the brutal King of Shang——

Therefore, the Zhou royal family did not dare to repeat the mistakes of the Yin and Shang Dynasties, and when the world was finally settled, they did not dare to provoke the barbarian chiefs who defeated the merchants with him in a bloody battle.

Not eating people is of course an improvement in people's moral standards, but obviously the reasons are not just moral.

Zhang Fawei listened very carefully.

He was already planning to write down what he saw and heard along the way when he returned, and then make it available to future disciples of Longhu Mountain for reference.

Normally, this knowledge can only be passed down through secret transmission. The nominally oldest source of Taoist magic is the Book of Changes deduced by King Wen of Zhou Dynasty.

But obviously, King Wen of Zhou was not the only priest who possessed powerful power and profound knowledge at that time.

Otherwise, the important task of overthrowing the Yin and Shang Dynasties would not have fallen on King Wu of Zhou.

(End of this chapter)