Chapter 986 (2/2)
In fact, it is a chemical reaction of reduction and oxidation to make mercury from cinnabar and reduce cinnabar by sulfuration.
”Modern people all know that Mercury is poisonous. Pills made from mercury must be poisonous!” Chen Hui said with a smile: ”however, the ancients didn't know. They just thought mercury was magical. Alchemists mistook it for Alchemy to make the elixir of immortality. In fact, I wonder if the elixir of immortality made by these alchemists in ancient times is similar to the modern addictive thing?”
”I agree with you.” Zhou qiuchu said with a smile: ”if you can be an emperor, how can your IQ be online? Even if their intelligence quotient is not higher than that of ordinary people, they have to be the same as ordinary people. If they eat these so-called elixirs of immortality, if they have no effect, they must cut off the heads of these alchemists. They not only don't cut off their heads, but also insist on taking them. It is estimated that they are addicted to them. After taking them, they feel like immortals and think they are going to become immortals! ”
Shangguan Ruyun naturally knows what Chen Hui said. He laughs and doesn't say much. This kind of thing only appears in modern times. Shangguan Ruyun knows it. It has to be said that Chen Hui's analysis is very reasonable. If the ancient emperors took these pills, they would think that the elixir of immortality is fake, They will cut off the alchemists' heads.
There are even many historical records that the emperor who pursued to take the elixir of immortality would be as thin as a log and pale in the later period. Although there is a cause of mercury poisoning, this kind of symptom is very consistent with the appearance of modern addicts taking that kind of thing for a long time.
”It is recorded that the emperor who took the elixir pill must be after the Dan Ding sect.” Shangguan Ruyun said at this time: ”although the Dan Ding sect is a legend, the legend itself means that it is a very long time ago. The reason why we people in practice don't take charge of the emperor to take the elixir of immortality is that the rules of the practice world don't become, and the alchemists and Taoists who refine the elixir of immortality are not people in practice at all, How is it possible to make genuine pills? ”
Shangguan Ruyun has made it very clear that there are a large proportion of alchemists and Taoists entering the practice world. However, not all alchemists are people in practice, and there are also ordinary Taoists.
”And this bronze tripod?” Chen Hui pointed to the bronze tripod and said, ”don't you think it's a magic weapon for alchemy?”
”The Danding sect is a legend, and the pills of the Danding sect are also legends.” Shangguan Ruyun said with a smile: ”similarly, it's also a legend that how the Danding sect makes pills. However, since it's said that the Danding sect can make pills against heaven, it doesn't make sense to make pills without magic weapons!”
”The alchemists and Taoists who made alchemy for the emperor used alchemy furnaces!” Shangguan Ruyun said: ”if there is a Dan Ding sect in the practice world, it will not use a Dan furnace to make pills. How can ordinary wood or coal make pills of the Dan Ding sect? You know, although there are various legends about the Danding sect, there is never a legend that people in practice took the pills of the Danding sect, but there was a problem. ”
”Does the bronze tripod have another function, for sacrifice?” Chen Hui said with a smile: ”can't it be the magic weapon of sacrifice?”
”In practice, people are meant to become immortals in order to gain the Tao, and rise by the day!” Shangguan Ruyun asked: ”I want to be an immortal. Who do you think I will sacrifice to? What kind of gods can you communicate with with? What's good for communication? ”
”What do you mean, are you atheists in practice?” Chen Hui asked with a smile.