When Emperor Wu was in power, in addition to being murderous and treating human life as nothing, he also had another characteristic: he respected the practice of alchemy and pursued immortality.
At that time, the practice of alchemy was called witchcraft in the human world, and the great alchemist was also called the great witch.
It can be said that Emperor Wu has been particularly interested in this since he was a child. Even the national advisor appointed by Emperor Wu after he ascended the throne was a certain great wizard from Qingyun Continent, who later became the Great Alchemist.
During the time of Emperor Shuiyue Wu, the practice of cultivating immortals had not yet spread widely in the human world. Ordinary people knew very little about cultivating immortals. Only some princes and nobles were involved in it because they were well-informed.
With such a king, the people of Shuiyue Kingdom were naturally deeply influenced by him. Compared with other countries, they had extremely high respect and profound understanding of witchcraft.
As a result, several organizations have sprung up among the people to study this type of research. However, there are no sects that recruit as many disciples as Tang Ling did during his time, and there are specialized sect elders to impart experience and teaching. Therefore, most of the research is done by oneself and is superficial.
Very general.
But what the king didn't know was that the two ancestors of the barbarian clan that he exterminated were rare people who were proficient in witchcraft.
It is said that when the two ancestors were still in Shuiyue Kingdom, the king of Shuiyue Kingdom at that time was the Water God Emperor.
Yes, just by hearing this name, you will know that this is the king who was rumored to be taught the requiem by the water god.
Emperor Shui Shen and Emperor Shui Yue Wu had very similar temperaments, and both respected witchcraft. Under this influence, the two ancestors concentrated on studying witchcraft, and achieved little success.
After establishing the Barbarian clan, the two ancestors did not pass on their witchcraft. Instead, they kept it secret and often taught the Barbarian clan members that this was an unknown witchcraft and should not be used on people at will.
Therefore, even with these two ancestors, the Barbarian people did not inherit much ability to use witchcraft.
Except for the patriarchs of the past generations.
Perhaps unwilling to let the witchcraft they have studied all their lives disappear from the world, the two ancestors chose to pass on their witchcraft to the next leader of the Barbarian tribe, and warned that this witchcraft can only be passed down to each leader of the Barbarian tribe in the future.
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Generations of barbarian clan chiefs have passed down the witchcraft left behind by their two ancestors. Therefore, the selection requirements for each clan leader must be in good health as well as having the talent to practice witchcraft.
In fact, every clan leader was very strong due to their practice of witchcraft, and some even lived to be hundreds of years old before dying.
This is the same as the immortal cultivators of Tang Ling's era, but at that time, the "cultivators" of the Barbarian tribe did not form a very systematic cultivation system in their minds. In addition, the two ancestors were very secretive about this matter, so for
Very little is known about cultivating immortals.
Territory's father was the last leader of the Savage Tribe before it was exterminated.
Lingyu has known since she was a child that her father is powerful and has a long lifespan. She was already seventy years old when she was born, but she still looked stronger than the young men in her clan who were in their twenties.
However, the powerful father never bullied the weak just because of his great ability, and the barbarian tribesmen always stayed in a corner and never invaded others.
Because when the two ancestors taught each clan leader witchcraft, they also made the clan leader make an oath. The content of the oath requires that the witchcraft learned by each clan leader can only be used to save people, not to harm others.
This oath was also cast under a witchcraft spell by the two ancestors, and if it was disobeyed, the body would be dismembered.
So later, when the invaders knocked on the door, did my father disobey his oath?
Lingyu doesn't know.
Because my father did indeed die in the end.
But she didn't know whether this was caused by disobeying the oath, or whether it was done by those hateful Shuiyue Kingdom soldiers.
The only thing Ling Yu knew was witchcraft.
When she was very young, she took advantage of her clan leader's daughter and secretly learned witchcraft.
But he didn't learn much, and what he could use to kill people was hidden even deeper by his father, so he couldn't find it at all.
In fact, among the witchcraft developed by the two ancestors, very few are related to killing, and the most common ones are related to immortality.
In the bamboo slips Ling Yu stole, there was a piece of witchcraft related to immortality, which was the most bizarre and terrifying.
It is recorded in the bamboo slips that the so-called longevity is mostly understood by the world as a long and continuous life span.
But if the physical body decays, but consciousness and memory last forever, wouldn't it be regarded as immortality in another sense?
So witchcraft researchers began to study in this direction.
In order to study this secret of longevity, researchers have captured a large number of young children for experiments. The experimental method is to transform memory and consciousness.
They used an extremely cruel method to replace the internal structure of children's brains with those of old or middle-aged people, hoping to obtain immortality by constantly replacing younger bodies.
In fact, this is a bit similar to the "body-seizing" fairy method of Tang Ling's period, but it is not as mature and the person who casts the spell is not strong enough.
So, failed.
Countless adults and children died when they were used in experiments.
But after repeated failures, the wizards developed another similar witchcraft.
It's obsession.
In repeated death and rebirth experiments, they discovered that a huge potential will explode in the body of a person before death, which comes from the unwillingness for the innocent passing of life, which is a kind of nostalgia and reluctance for this world.
, that is an incomparable desire to live.
When this kind of obsession is extremely strong, it can even escape from the physical body and exist alone a few times. However, it only exists for a short time and will dissipate if you are not careful.
The wizards were overjoyed.
They spent several years trying to preserve this obsession, and the way they came up with it was to capture it during the short period of time it escaped from the physical body and store it in another living body.
The research process is full of difficulties.
Because obsession is not easy to acquire, and even if you acquire obsession, it is still difficult to find a suitable body to store it in.
Wizards have discovered that although the bodies that are most suitable for these obsessions are mostly the relatives of the owners of these obsessions during their lifetime, there is no guarantee that everyone with similar blood will be suitable for each other.
Even though it has been passed down to this day, wizards still have not found the rules.
Because the performance of this witchcraft requires extremely strong obsession and an extremely adaptable body, since it was developed, very few people in history have succeeded, so it was gradually sealed away in bamboo slips and not used by others.
After many years, Ling Yu secretly learned the witchcraft recorded in this bamboo slip.
Now, she wants to try it.
Facts have proved that Lingyu succeeded in the end.
Before she died, she transferred her obsession for revenge to her own flesh and blood. From then on, there was an additional memory about Ling Yu in Nangong Ling's memory.
And since Nangong Ling came to the Nangong family, she has always carried in her heart the deep hatred for the Nangong family and Shuiyue Kingdom that was inherited from Ling Yu.
This hatred is Lingyu's obsession.
After her death, she became Nangong Ling's obsession through witchcraft.
This is the seed that Ling Yu planted in Nangong Ling's body.
This seed continued to take root and sprout as Nangong Ling grew older. Later, it was discovered by Xiao Hei who possessed Nangong Ling and read the memory. Later, Tang Ling heard Nangong Ling say "Nangong family's allegiance"
The emperor has destroyed my people." After saying these words, almost in an instant, everything appeared before his eyes.