Chronicles of Celestial Origins

Tang Ning nodded. The Dou family would select a group of women with good looks and spiritual roots, and teach them cultivation techniques to help them transform into mortals. He would then teach them the art of accompaniment in the house and the secret technique of the furnace. He already knew this. .

"Yanxia Temple is where the Dou family imprisoned the female cultivators. Before they transformed into mortals, they were all imprisoned in the basement of the Taoist temple. After they transformed into mortals, if they did not follow the advice of the Dou family or practice secret techniques, they would use torture to force them to He must submit, otherwise no one in the world would be willing to make a furnace."

"Are you saying that the female nuns in the Wangxichuan attic were all forced by the Dou family, and that the Dou family has always been engaged in the business of forcing girls into prostitution?"

"More than just forcing good girls into prostitution, the Dou family robbed them by force and plundered young women with spiritual roots in Qinchuan. If there was anyone who refused to obey, they would kill the whole family and take them to Yanxia Temple to teach them how to practice. And because of this The methods taught are simple and crude, and without the sect’s system of transformation training steps, less than one in ten can truly embark on the path of cultivation, and the rest will die violently.”

"After the women transformed from the mortal world, they were forced to practice secret techniques. If they disobeyed even a little bit, they were tortured, skinned and cramped, making them unable to survive or die. The level of cruelty and domineering was outrageous. After those female cultivators entered the attic of Wangxichuan, Dou In order to prevent them from resisting, the family prohibits their practice. There is a spiritual restriction in their bodies, and the restriction is only lifted when they receive guests. "

Tang Ning was silent for a long time after listening. He originally thought that the maid cultivators accompanying Wang Xichuan were all induced by profit, but he never imagined that the Dou family was so cruel. Their income of more than 100,000 spiritual stones every year was filled with bones and blood.

There is no mention of this matter in the files related to the Dou family. I don't know whether it is because I didn't know about it, or I think this trivial matter is not worth mentioning.

After all, they are just ordinary people who have not transformed from the mortal world. The Dou family helps them transform into mortals, and they naturally belong to the Dou family's private property.

"What do you think of the riot in Wangxichuan?" Tangning asked.

He had doubts about his previous judgment. The Dou family was so cruel that it was not impossible for the female cultivators to work together to resist.

"Disciples dare not make any assumptions."

"It's not a sect matter, but it doesn't matter."

"It's reasonable but unexpected. Too much oppression by the Dou family will inevitably lead to resistance. I heard that female nuns often escaped secretly in the past, but they were captured by the Dou family and tortured to death. This time they rose up to fight, which is the inevitable result. Today If you don’t do it, you will do it tomorrow.”

"Do you think there's someone behind this?"

"The disciple thinks that someone must be causing trouble in this matter. The whole thing was well planned. How dare a tenth-level Qi Refining monk act so boldly and provoke the Dou family? The disciple thinks that unless this person is a lunatic, there is no reason."

"And the origin of this person is unknown. I have never heard of him before. There are casual cultivators in Qinchuan who have reached the tenth level of Qi Refining. It is said that there are not many, but not many. Even if you have never met, you have heard of him."

"But I have never heard of this person. He seemed to appear out of thin air. He acted in a life-threatening manner. He seemed to have a deep grudge against the Dou family. First, he killed two Dou family monks who were guarding Yanxia Temple. , not even the secular disciples of the Dou family were spared, and they killed all of them, and then set fire to the Wangxichuan Pavilion."

"According to the information learned by the disciples, the Dou family does not seem to know this person. A monk with unknown origins who has no grudges against the Dou family. He does not practice well to attack the foundation and provokes the Dou family for no reason. There is no one behind this. Disciple doesn’t think it’s credible to give instructions.”

Tangning nodded slightly. Fang Yuan had almost the same idea as him: "Then who do you think is causing trouble?"

Fangyuan mused: "This is not certain based on the intelligence information currently available. There are many people in Qinchuan who are jealous of the Dou family. The small family should not be so bold. They usually avoid the Dou family, so how can they dare to provoke it? it."

"When it comes to suspicion, the Qin family is the first to bear the brunt. Their family strength is not weaker than that of the Dou family. However, the Dou family relies on Wangxichuan to gain a higher reputation and profit than the Qin family. Therefore, things on Wangxichuan have made things difficult for them. The biggest benefit.”

"Secondly, it is also possible that the Lu family has power in the southwest of Qinchuan and has many conflicts with the Dou family. The Dou family has always suppressed them openly and secretly, and has caused many obstacles to them. The Lu family has been dissatisfied for a long time, but We are worried that the strength of the Dou family will be hidden, so it is not impossible to sneak up on it at this time. "

"According to the information received by the disciples, the Dou family captured many female cultivators yesterday, and several were killed on the spot. Those captured were being tortured and interrogated. I think they should know more specific information.

Tangning thought for a while, took out a pen and paper from her storage bag, wrote a letter and handed it to Fangyuan: "Give this memorial to Luo Yuan personally, and don't tell anyone."

"Yes." Fangyuan responded: "Uncle Master, if there is nothing else, the disciple will go."

Tang Ning nodded. The content of his memorial was to ask Lu Xingxian to order the various intelligence departments in Chu to investigate Xiao Mobai's whereabouts. If there is any news, he would be informed immediately.

The incident happened so suddenly, which seemed a bit strange. Without finding out, he felt uneasy. He had just agreed to the Dou family's invitation to serve as the head of Wangxichuan, and Wangxichuan was burned down. The timing was too coincidental.

Su Jiaoruo was also involved. According to Dou Yingjie, Xiao Mobai went to Wangxichuan twice to name her as his escort. Su Jiaoruo was the only female nun he called by name and met her in Wangxichuan. Every time he went there, he would listen to her music. There were so many female cultivators, but he chose Su Jiaoruo to accompany him. Isn't it a coincidence?

Moreover, Xiao Mobai's origin and purpose are unknown.

The coincidence of the time and the coincidence of the people made him suspect that the person behind it was actually targeting him for doing such a series of things.

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Yanxia Temple is located on the top of Ziyuan Mountain. It is known to the outside world as the private Taoist temple of King Hanchuan of Chu State. It is strictly forbidden for secular people to come and go. There are four knights at the foot of the mountain, patrolling back and forth day and night for twelve hours.

In the Taoist temple, more than ten strong men in black clothes stood in two rows in an orderly manner. A man came down with a sword in mid-air, holding a petite woman between his arms. He had a delicate face and fair complexion. He looked only fifteen years old. Six years old, the girl's face was ashen, her petite body was shaking, and there was a look of deep fear in her eyes.

"Take her there." The man said

"Yes." The two people next to him responded, stepping forward and escorting the little girl towards the palace.

Tangning crouched underground, heard their movements, and quietly followed them.

He heard about the Dou family's atrocities from Fangyuan, and his heart was restless. Hearing is false, seeing is believing. He couldn't restrain his inner fluctuations, so he decided to see it with his own eyes to see if the Dou family was as good as Fangyuan said. So cruel and domineering.

The two men escorted the little girl into the hall, turned the candle at a candlestick, and a stone staircase opened in the ground.

This passage is about three to four feet long and leads directly to the basement below.

In the basement, there are dozens of cells surrounded by iron cages, about one foot long and seven feet wide. There is a wooden bed and a stone table and bench in the room.

At this moment, there are four or five naked women in several cages. Their hair is disheveled and their bare feet are exposed. Some are lying on the bamboo bed with their bodies bent, or huddled in a corner. Their snow-white skin is covered with whips.

Tangning escaped from the ground into the surrounding walls. Seeing this situation, he couldn't help but feel angry. Intermittent and heart-rending wails kept coming from the front. He escaped straight forward from the walls and followed the sound to a room. In the meantime, I saw four thick iron locks on the right wall locking a woman's limbs.

The woman was frail and naked, and was bound into a large shape by four chains.

The body was bloody and bloody, with no good piece of flesh left, and pus had grown in some places.

The room was filled with all kinds of torture instruments, including burning shovels, sharp gold hooks of various sizes, custom-made wooden whips with tiny iron hooks embedded in them, and various wooden and iron clamps. A dazzling array of items.

"I fainted. Bring me a bucket of salt water." A big man with a sinewy face and a wooden whip in his hand said.

Another man walked out of the room and came back a short time later carrying a barrel.

The man with a sinister face picked up a bucket of water and poured it on the girl.

The salt water soaked into the wound and irritated it.

"Ah!" The girl was awakened by the huge pain and let out a painful cry like a beast.

"Why are you pretending to die?" The big man hit her with a wooden whip like rain, and while beating her, he yelled and cursed: "You bitch slave, how dare you defect, are you going to run away, are you still running away?"

Every time the whip went down, the tiny iron hook brought out a trace of flesh and blood.

Another person heated the spatula to a scalding hot temperature and suddenly stamped it on her lower abdomen.

The girl kept wailing, and her body bound by the iron chains continued to struggle. After a long time, she fainted again.

"Put ointment on her, don't let her die so easily." said the big man with a sinister face.

Another person took out white ointment and smeared it on her body, poured a bowl of water, put a pill in it, pinched her mouth and nose, and forced the water and pill into her belly.

Tang Ning looked at all this and was shocked and angry. The murderous intention came from the bottom of her heart and she could hardly restrain it. But in the end, reason prevailed over her emotions. He quietly left the room and escaped to several other rooms. As a result, the more I watched, the more shocked and angry I became.

The remaining rooms are filled with instruments of punishment. There are huge red-hot iron pillars used to perform the punishment of cannon and iron locks made of pulleys used to perform the punishment of dismemberment.

In another room, a huge pit two feet deep was dug in the ground. Thousands of venomous snakes were entangled and swimming in it, which was used to perform the bone-eating punishment of thousands of snakes. The withered bones in the pit were turned into piles. It was unknown how many women had fallen into the snake's belly.

The entire underground Taoist temple is simply a purgatory execution ground. The methods used by the Dou family to control these women are so cruel that people are shocked to hear them and change their minds when they see them.

This is something rarely heard in books.

Tangning was so shocked that she couldn't help herself. Only then did she understand the specific meaning of what Fangyuan said about being cruel and domineering. If you hadn't seen it with your own eyes, who could have believed that a family that has been practicing medicine for thousands of years would actually treat a group of people who have not yet transformed into mortals like this? A woman who has no strength to tie a chicken.