"Let's not talk about the Northern Wilderness King merging the Heavenly Soul into his own soul sea for now, let's talk about the previous story." The bald old man said.
He pushed the topic to the Holy War.
During the Holy War, many Central Plains people whose families were destroyed moved south.
Among them, those loyal believers who believed in the Emperor of Heaven, under the leadership of the "Witch" who was in charge of sacrifices in the Central Plains, went all the way south to Nanhuang Lingshan.
"In those days in the Central Plains, fire was obtained from building trees. People believed that the closer they were to the sky, the more guidance they could get from the Emperor of Heaven." said the bald old Taoist.
It just so happens that Lingshan Mountain is the highest mountain in the Southern Wilderness.
Therefore, these loyal believers in the Heavenly Emperor settled down in Lingshan.
Relying on the guidance they received from fire when they believed in the Emperor of Heaven in the Central Plains, they established witch monasteries and continued to worship the Emperor of Heaven.
However, no matter how they prayed and offered sacrifices to heaven, they could not get a response from the Emperor of Heaven.
During this period, the Wu Zhus had some inheritance of fire and knew some witchcraft, so their strength was much higher than that of the natives in the Southern Wilderness.
There is only one city exception, and that is Siyou City.
Rumor has it that this city was established when the Southern Wilderness was still a barbaric wilderness. It was good at witchcraft and enshrined a fire in its main hall.
"Lingshan Wu Zhu concluded that this was also fire, so he began to covet it." The bald old Taoist said.
There is a legend about the origin of fire in Siyou City.
It is said that the ancestors of Siyou City, when they were still in the tribal era, lost their sheep once and had to go down from a silent volcano crater to find their sheep.
The crater is very deep, and Si Youcheng's ancestor descended deeper and deeper until an abyss stood in front of him.
"It is rumored that the ancestors of Si Youcheng received God's revelation in the abyss. They went south along the abyss and came out of a cave by a big river and found the sheep they were grazing." The bald old Taoist told Yu Sheng, that's right.
The cave entrance is thousands of miles away from the volcano.
The ancestors of Siyou City later moved their family to the river, established Siyou City, and began to pass on witchcraft.
"Later, they obtained fire from the abyss and enshrined it in a spacious hall in the cave, which became the holy place of Siyou City - the sacrificial hall." said the bald old Taoist.
After learning about this legend, Lingshan sent a shaman, who led people to find the crater, descended from there, and finally stole the fire without anyone noticing.
Yu Sheng suddenly realized, "No wonder Si Youcheng didn't know who stole his fire at first."
They had always suspected that the Lingshan Ten Witches were responsible, but there was no evidence.
It wasn't until a few years ago, when I followed Old Man Tiandao to death in Yangzhou City that there was evidence that the ten witches from Lingshan had stolen fire.
"So, the ten witches of Lingshan also have fire?" Yu Sheng said.
"No." The bald old man shook his head.
"It is true that the fire was stolen, and it was also in the hands of the shaman, but it was never in the hands of Lingshan." The bald old Taoist said.
"The witch who stole the fire rebelled?!" Yu Sheng said in surprise.
"Of course." The bald old man nodded and took a sip of tea to moisten his throat.
The fire that the rebellious wizard got was the earth soul. He hoped to get the power from the fire and become the king of Lingshan.
However, since the King of Northern Wilderness couldn't understand it thoroughly, he naturally couldn't understand it either. At most, he could only get some inheritance of witchcraft from it.
"And most of them are witchcraft." The bald old man said.
Yu Sheng nodded with deep understanding. He had seen those mummies before.
These inheritances cannot improve the strength of the witches in a short period of time, so the defecting witches have been leading people around to avoid Lingshan's pursuit.
"In the end, he was slaughtered by the pursuers at the hands of the magic witch, and when he was desperate and fled to a village, he gave up the struggle."
At that time, the wounds all over the body of the witch were like candles in the wind.
While he was waiting to die, he lay in front of a farmer's house. The farmer was kind-hearted and even though the family was immersed in sadness, they still gave him a bowl of rice.
After eating, the shaman, who had some strength, sat up and panting asked the farmers what they were sad about.
The farmer told him that his son drowned in the morning. Although he was rescued, he was so shocked that he lost his soul and had not eaten for three days.
They also tried to find someone to call their souls, but it was of no use at all.
Seeing that the child was dying soon, the family was heartbroken.
Regarding the matter of summoning souls, Wu Zhu is good at it, so naturally the magic witch is not a problem.
He is already waiting to die, so he is idle, so he might as well repay the favor of this meal.
The wizard asked the family to bring his son over, "Maybe I can help."
This family was treating a dead horse as a living horse, so they immediately took their son out and showed him to the witch.
The shaman saw that this boy's eyes were blurred and he was out of his mind. He was indeed suffering from the syndrome of leaving the soul.
He was about to use witchcraft to retrieve the child's lost soul, but he was surprised to find that the fire that had been hidden in the lantern he had carried had penetrated into the child's body with a "swish"
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After a while, the child seemed to have returned as a ghost, his eyes were focused, he was energetic, and he was shouting that he was hungry and wanted to eat.
The farmer thought that the witch had used his magical power, so he thanked him profusely, and when he sent the child to eat, he tried his best to invite the witch to come in.
The magic witch was stunned on the spot.
After a while, he laughed and shouted, "That's it!"
Then, he limped out of the village and went elsewhere.
One day later, people saw the naked body of the witch in the wilderness.
It wasn't until his death that the wizard realized that the fire was actually a soul, and only by entering the human body could it fully gain its power.
"People have three souls, and they can only have three souls. The fire is a soul, and the child happened to lose his soul, so he entered the child's soul sea and followed him into the human world and reincarnation." The bald old Taoist said here.
, took another sip of tea.
Yu Sheng suddenly realized, "Needless to say, when this child grows up, he must be the old man from Tiandao who came to kill me, right?"
"You can say yes, you can say no." said the bald old man.
"Although the fire has become the soul of the child, it still depends on the body for him to awaken. An ordinary body cannot meet the requirements of the soul and cannot withstand the power of the fire. Therefore, the earth soul serves as the soul seal of the child.
Part of it has been reincarnated for a long time."
Speaking of this, the bald old man sighed with emotion, "The witch has been studying fire for a long time, and it was not until his death that he understood the wonderful use of fire."
"As for your mother, she is a master at coming up with bad ideas. She actually guessed the secret of fire and explained it in one word."
"What is a bad idea?" Yu Sheng was unconvinced, "Also, what is guessing? It's obviously wisdom!"
He waved his hand, "Forget it, you mortals don't understand."
The bald old man's tone paused and he glanced at him, "It's strange that you are exactly the same as your mother in terms of shamelessness."
Yu Sheng was puzzled, "She is my mother, I am the same as her, what's so weird about it?"
The bald old man shook his head, "Listen to me and you will understand later."
He took a sip of tea and was about to continue talking, but he didn't know where he started talking, "Where did I just say it?"
"It's said that my mother is wise." Yu Sheng said.
"What nonsense, would I say such a thing? Oh, yes, when it comes to meeting a magician by chance, your mother actually guessed it." The bald old man sorted out his words and continued, "As I said just now, the old man of that day is
That baby is not that baby either."
The fire type chose the body, so after a long time of reincarnation as a child, his soul mark finally ended up in the old man Tiandao whom he saw for the rest of his life.