The old Taoist relied on his superb deception skills to obtain a lot of cultivation resources from the emperor. He transformed himself from a quack Taoist priest into a well-known foundation-building cultivator.
Later, until the emperor died, the elixir of longevity was never refined.
Before his death, the emperor had a sudden realization and came to his senses. He realized that the Taoist priests and others had been deceiving him. He felt very angry and ordered that those Taoist priests who had deceived him should be buried with him.
The old Taoist had cultivated to the foundation-building stage with great difficulty. The life span of the foundation-building stage was two hundred years. The old Taoist was only a little over a hundred years old at the time, and he still had a hundred years to live. Naturally, he was unwilling to be buried with the old emperor.
So he packed up all the gold, silver and jewellery he had saved and tried to flee. Unfortunately, he failed.
Because there is a Jindan-stage ancestor enshrined in the palace. This ancestor was born in the royal family and has been secretly protecting the safety of emperors of all generations.
Normally, this Jindan-stage ancestor would be in seclusion and rarely come out, so the old Taoist had no idea of his existence. Now that the emperor was about to go down to see his ancestors, this Jindan-stage ancestor naturally had to come out to take charge of the situation and maintain the stability of the imperial family.
When they found out that the Taoist priest was trying to run away, they immediately caught him back.
Afterwards, the Taoist priest was buried alive.
But God did not abandon him. The old Taoist once obtained a soul cultivation method - "Yinming Sutra", but he was a human being before, so he was naturally not interested in soul cultivation methods.
Now that he was dead and turned into a ghost, he remembered the Yinming Sutra and tried to practice it. However, cultivating the soul was not so easy. Before he could make any progress, his soul power had been gradually declining and he could hardly maintain his form.
One day, his soul was accidentally attached to the body of a puppet, which was one of the emperor's burial objects. He discovered that when his soul stayed in the puppet, its soul power would not be reduced, but would be strengthened!
He thought of the legendary soul-nourishing tree that could nourish the soul.
In this way, in the Soul-Nourishing Tree, his soul, which was about to disappear, stabilized. In addition, he was still practicing the "Yinming Sutra", so his soul became more solid little by little.
However, the Soul-Nourishing Tree's effects gradually weakened over time, and it no longer provided nourishment to his soul, becoming merely a vessel for him to reside in. Without the Soul-Nourishing Tree's protection, his soul was constantly assaulted by the imperial aura within the mausoleum.
But he was unable to leave the imperial mausoleum and find a new body to live in.
More than a thousand years passed, and just when the old Taoist's soul was about to collapse, a tomb robber named Fang Xing sneaked in.
Because the imperial mausoleum was filled with numerous mechanisms and formations, Fang Xing never went into the inner area and only wandered around the outermost area.
This time, they came to a burial pit, and the old Taoist stayed there.
He once again used his deceptive tactics to make Fang Xing believe that he was a powerful man who had unfortunately died more than a thousand years ago. With the various benefits he promised, Fang Xing took him out.
After coming out, the old Taoist found that times had changed. Taoism was now in decline, spiritual energy was thin, and the Taoist tradition no longer existed. Cultivation was more difficult than before, and he could no longer carry out his original vision.
But he had to practice no matter how difficult it was. Since there was no spiritual energy for him to absorb, he could only think of other ways.
This method is to devour other people's souls to strengthen oneself.
This method of cultivation is against the will of heaven and may even lead to divine punishment in the future. The thunder tribulation when breaking through and advancing will be several times more severe than that of others.
But in today's world, there is not even a foundation-building stage, and the heavenly punishment and thunder tribulation are all very distant things. It is even a question whether you can cultivate to that time.
So the old Taoist simply put all those sequelae behind him and focused only on the present.
The old Taoist taught Fang Xing some unorthodox methods of cultivation. After seeing the results, Fang Xing became even more convinced of his words.
After tricking Fang Xing into doing things for him, the old Taoist ordered him to do things for him.
The soul cannot be swallowed just like that, because after the death of most people, their souls are basically immediately guided to the underworld by the road to the underworld. Only those who have great resentment and obsession in their hearts will stubbornly stay in the world.
In order to create resentful souls for the Taoist to devour, Fang Xing did a lot of evil.
Later he discovered that there were many ghosts lingering in the Wei Huiyou Bureau.
Instead of reporting Wei Hongguang, Fang Xing used this as a handle to threaten Wei Hongguang and asked him to do things for him. The children who were tortured to death by Wei Hongguang were lucky enough to be reincarnated in the underworld, but the unfortunate ones did not even leave their souls behind.
Seeing this, Xue Huan once again gained a deep understanding of the evil of human nature.
Some people are just wearing the skins of animals.
Calling them beasts is an insult to them. Such people are not even worthy of the afterlife.
Xue Huan silently recited the Qingxin Jue several times, and the rage that was about to burst out in her chest was finally suppressed.
She crushed the doll that the old Taoist had previously inhabited with one foot, and then crushed it hard, grinding it into powder. Although the doll was innocent, it had been polluted by the old Taoist's foul soul for so many years, and the evil had already seeped into its texture and could not be washed away.
After crushing it, she started a fire and burned the pile of wood chips and the formation together.
Without the blood supply, the blood soul formation engraved on the ground was unable to withstand the attack, and the ground was burned and cracked.
She held the girl in her arms, walked out of the secret room, and returned to the original room.
"Xiao Qi!" Xiao Jiu was originally hiding in the corner holding the little mole beast. When he saw Xue Huan coming in with someone in her arms, he rushed over.
Seeing Xiao Qi's pale face and weak breath as if she would die at any time, she didn't dare to reach out and touch her at all.
"Sister, Xiaoqi..."
"She's fine, just a little weak. She'll be fine after a while. I guarantee she'll be full of life by then."
"Yeah!" The tears that Xiaojiu had been holding back finally fell.
Xue Huan looked at the large bed in the room with gaudy colors, and thought of how many little girls had been abused here before. She felt disgusted and didn't want to put Xiao Qi on it. She took Xiao Jiu to a clean room and put Xiao Qi down.
He fed her another drop of spiritual spring water, and was relieved to see that her face finally had a hint of color.
"Xiaojiu, stay here and look after Xiaoqi. I'm going to go out for a bit. I'll come back here to find you after I've sorted things out."
Xiaojiu nodded obediently.
Xiaoyi and the others are here with her as well.
The Wei family's welfare agency was not very big, just a courtyard with two entrances. In order to conceal his dirty deeds from the public, Wei Hongguang did not arrange many people here. Apart from an old servant who guarded the door, a mute woman who cooked, and a maid who did odd jobs, there was no one else.
After all, when there are many people, they tend to talk a lot and things are easily leaked.
Normally, not many people pay attention to the Huiyou Bureau, so Wei Hongguang kept it secret for so many years, and countless children were harmed!
When Xue Huan thought of this, she couldn't help but feel murderous.
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