Afterward, Elder Hao no longer hesitated and began recounting everything he knew about the wine urn, point by point. However, the information he knew about this object was not particularly extensive.
Yet merely these things he knew had already cleared up some of the confusion that had once troubled Li Yan.
The origin of using wine urns as tokens chiefly stemmed from the backgrounds of the three ancestors.
The three ancestors had come from the same mortal dynasty. When they had jointly resisted foreign enemies, they had forged a brotherhood bound by life and death.
After the three of them set out together upon the great path of seeking immortality and endured several great calamities, they eventually founded the Soul Prison Clan. Once they had established a foundation, each developed personal interests in the hundred arts of cultivation during their leisure time.
Since the Great Ancestor had loved statues since childhood, even after becoming a cultivator, he turned carving into a form of cultivation that refined his heart and temperament, settling and deepening his insights.
Gradually, the things he carved began to carry the artistic conception of his cultivation.
He thus gained many inspirations and realizations from it. While enjoying carving, it also drove the growth of his own cultivation.
After the Soul Prison Clan was founded, he carved statues of all three of them. Within those three statues lay the strongest artistic conception of his understanding of souls at that time.
In the end, the three statues were placed in the rear hall of the Soul Prison Clan.
At the same time, he refined two wine urns and a scroll of iron-bound cinnabar writing, then gave one wine urn and the iron scroll of cinnabar writing to the Second Ancestor and Third Ancestor.
The Great Ancestor also regarded these