"The abbot of Shangqing Palace's side courtyard is surnamed Jiang, and people call him Daoist Priest Jiang. Like me, he's also a Daoist disciple and Daoist priest who has been enlightened. Shangqing Palace doesn't have many spells, and most of them were imparted by Patriarch Duke Jiu. Perhaps nineteen years ago, he received some secret teachings from our Lower Mao Mountain."
"But the Shangqing Palace is a righteous sect. Of the few true arts that we have secretly passed down from Mount Mao — poison, venom, corpse, curse, and talisman, I reckon that they only dare to collect talismans. However, they were already proficient in the most powerful of the Daoist techniques of the Daoist priest realm, the Thunder Arts, before they plundered us from Mount Mao's true teachings. Taoist Jiang and I have been neighbors for more than ten years. According to my investigation, he only knows a few Talisman spells and swordsmanship, but I have never heard that he is proficient in Thunder Magic. "
"The side yard of Shangqing Palace on Mount Phoenix is a small Taoist temple with a total of three Taoist priests. In addition to Taoist Jiang, there are two Taoist priests who receive Taoist scripts. They only practice some martial arts and know a few exorcism talismans. They are people who follow the Taoist rituals and etiquette, so there is nothing to worry about. In addition, they also keep eight thugs, called Taoist soldiers and outer disciples. They practice martial arts and have a rough understanding of swords, weapons, fists, and feet.
Wang Chen asked Shigong to write down everything he knew in detail, and he even drew a map of the Taoist temple on Phoenix Mountain to study. He found that the most difficult thing was not to kill Taoist Jiang, but to keep it a secret. It was extremely difficult for the two of them to capture all the Taoists in the side yard of Shangqing Palace. Perhaps only when the whole Phoenix Mountain was locked down by the army could they have a 100% chance of success.
But what Wang Chen lacked the most was people. Shigong could fool those stupid men and women to get some information and monitor the road. But if he wanted to take them to kill people, they were not enough!
He raised this question. Shigong pondered for a moment and suddenly raised his head. "Every morning and evening, especially the morning class, all the members of Taoist temple have to go to the main hall to chant scriptures and listen to the master's lecture."
"Then we'll catch them all at once!" Wang Chen made the decision.
As for the defense, the Taoist temple was not a military camp, so the Taoist priests of the Shangqing Palace would never expect that the remnants of Mao Mountain would dare to come to the temple like the Division Commander Palace, so the defense was certainly inadequate. This was also where Wang Chen's advantage lay. As long as the preparations were perfect, he believed that it would not be difficult.
After a moment of contemplation, Wang Chen asked again, "The external disciples of the Shangqing Palace are skilled in martial arts. Getting rid of them is like cutting off one of Taoist Jiang's arms. Do you have any good ideas?"
Shi Shigong pondered for a moment before replying, "We can use lightning techniques!"
He knew that Wang Chen did not know Taoist magic, so he explained in detail, "The ancient necromancers could make the sound of thunder when they made elixirs. After the Taoist magic manifested, they used elixirs as the foundation and refined it with magic power. When the gunpowder turned into thunder, it was called fire thunder. The fire thunder was the lightning technique, which was very convenient to eliminate evil and protect the Taoist doctrine. Taoist priests could even kill Taoists with lightning techniques. The imperial court used gunpowder as the army and appointed Taoist officers to control it.
"In the past, when Zhaobai rebelled, Li Rusong put down the rebellion in three months with 300 soldiers of the Mighty Army with guns and fire thunder. When Nihon invaded Korea, it was Li Rusong, Ma Gui, and the others who used Pingbo, Zhenyuan, Yushu, Shenxiao, Dadong, Xiandu, Polaris, Taiyi, and other divine thunders to obliterate hundreds of miles in the sea battle. Countless Nihon battleships were sunk, which made Nihon terrified. The King of Nihon sent a letter to the head of his general, Toyotomi Hideyoshi, asking for his surrender."
Wang Chen felt a little dizzy. Putting aside the miraculous changes of the Taoist priests becoming firearms experts and the Taoist temples turning into arms dealers, he could ask about what these Taoist priests and Zhenren had done to the little girl in history later. The most important thing now was that these Taoist priests and Zhenren had imitated the God Race in the Ming Dynasty. Bang! Bang! What level did the Taoist priests upgrade the gunpowder, and what was the role of the 'magic power'?
Wang Chen felt so confused that he had to start from the beginning. "Do you know Thunder Method?"
Shi Shigong said respectfully, "I know a little. Thunder Method is forbidden by the imperial court. Among the Five Elements of Thunder, Maoshan specializes in Gui Water Heavenly Thunder. Fire Thunder is the foundation of Thunder Method and everyone knows a little. But I don't know the First Wood Thunder, Seventh Gold Thunder, and Fifth Earth Thunder Method."
"How to refine Gui Water Heavenly Thunder?" Wang Chen asked in a low voice, "Now, are you sure you can refine it?"
Shi Shigong said in a low voice, "The key to refining Gui Water Heavenly Thunder is Genuine Water. Gui Water is the thunder of Genuine Water. It uses Myriad Thunder Water as the base and Bone-corroding Real Water. Using magic power to control these two kinds of Real Water to refine cotton, you can get Morning Jade Thunder. Using Myriad Thunder Water to refine fat, you can get North Pole Thunder. Using Myriad Thunder Water to refine Earthly Yin Real Water, you can get Interior Realm Thunder. "
Wang Chen was a little confused by these 'Genuine Water', but he still wanted to give it a try, so he asked Shi Shigong to fetch the raw materials to refine the Heavenly Thunder.
Shi Shigong was a little embarrassed and said, "It's difficult to refine Genuine Water, and even more difficult to preserve it. Young Patriarch, please give me some time and allow me to buy the necessary metal and stone medicines to refine it."
Wang Chen just said lightly, "Sure! But you need to remember that the lives of you and your disciple are tied to this. If you are one step late, there will be people from Shangqing Palace to deal with you, even without me punishing you! "
Shi Shigong knew what was good for him, he had his own channels for the metal, stone, and medicine he needed for his cultivation, so he took the silver and left. When the sky was bright, he came back with a horse carriage with a lot of metal, stone, and ores on it, and even two slices of pork. Shi Shigong ordered the two foolish men who followed him to cut off the fat on the two slices of pork and used them to refine oil.
He carried a bucket of mysterious liquid and carefully carried it into the house. When he opened the lid, Wang Chen smelled a pungent smell and asked Shi Shigong again. This was the 'Bone-corroding Real Water' he mentioned just now. Shi Shigong explained, "Bone-corroding Real Water was called Green Vitriol in ancient times because it could only be made with rice vinegar and green vitriol before the Taoist magic showed its divinity. Later, when Bone-corroding Real Water gradually became an important external medicine for Taoism, Immortals used secret methods to extract this Real Water from iron ore."
Speaking of iron ore, Wang Chen suddenly realized that this thick liquid seemed to be odorless, but it had a faint special stimulating feeling — wasn't it sulfuric acid?
Wang Chen's face was blank. He pointed at the bucket of sulfuric acid with impurities and asked, "Is this the Bone-corroding Real Water you mentioned?"
Shi Shigong didn't know why he asked this question, so he answered uneasily, "Yes!"
"It's really bone-corroding …" Wang Chen's tone was slightly cold, and he continued to ask, "Then is the All-Transforming Thunder Water also extremely corrosive like the Bone-corroding Real Water, and it's made by refining saltpeter?"
Shi Shigong answered in surprise, "Grandmaster, you're right. That's true!"
Wang Chen said excitedly, "Calling nitric acid All-Transforming Thunder Water … is really creative. Nitric acid is the mother of explosives, and almost all explosives need to undergo nitrification. No wonder it's called All-Transforming Thunder Water. Using oil to undergo nitrification — isn't that nitroglycerin? Arctic True Thunder … nitroglycerin? What's Earthly Yin Water? Is the Interior True Thunder picric acid or RDX? "
Shi Shigong answered in confusion, "The Earthly Yin Water is refined from the Mysterious Yin Evil Spirit, which … was called petroleum in ancient times, Fierce Fire Oil. It's condensed from the Mysterious Yin Evil Spirit underground. It's like oil, black and thick, and it burns when it meets fire."
"Petroleum!" Wang Chen gasped. "The cornerstone of the chemical industry! You've all learned how to refine petroleum! "
"Refining the Mysterious Yin Evil Spirit can produce several kinds of True Water, but it's controlled by the imperial court, and only a few top-secret mines can produce it."
The way Wang Chen looked at Shi Shigong was as if he was looking at a living god. Only now did he understand why it was written in the Taoist scripture of the Thunder Method — Illegal force is uncontrollable, and mortals who practice it will be smashed to pieces.
It turned out that the Taoists were all people who refined nitroglycerin explosives by hand — even with this level, they were still a group that needed the government to maintain stability and unity in the 21st century! The style of the Taoists in this world seemed a little wrong.
Thinking of this, Wang Chen felt his feet go numb, and he almost wanted to run away. Anyone who had a Daoist priest beside them who was using concentrated sulfuric acid to process saltpeter to prepare the Ten Thousand Transformation Lightning Water — nitric acid, and who was refining grease, preparing to undergo a saponification reaction and then using the Ten Thousand Transformation Lightning Water to refine grease to produce the North Pole True Thunder — nitroglycerin — would have this reaction.
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