Chapter 996: The End
Tianchengzi, who finally left the temple, was shocked by the vastness of the outside world. He walked around and left behind many legends, some of which over the years became a chapter in later myths and legends.
The method he researched was really useful, which gave him enough vitality to support, but unfortunately the decline of the physical body was difficult to last as long as the divine soul. However, it also made him find another way later, that is, to take away.
And after his research, he found that in fact, the mysterious vitality in the secret realm is a kind of high-level life essence, and the secret realm relies on this essence to exist, and the people inside also rely on absorbing this life essence to survive.
But unfortunately, the level of that kind of life essence is obviously higher than that of ordinary people, so that the people inside can even maintain their physical bodies for a long, long time, almost immortal. But the life essence of ordinary people outside can only wait.
And this life essence also has a lifespan, the younger the body, the more vigorous and pure the life essence, and the greater its effect. But the older a person is, the thinner the essence of life becomes, and the effect of nature is minimal, or even completely ineffective.
In view of this situation, the answer is simple, as long as enough of the right life dies in the middle of the life, it can be absorbed and used. And what better way to do that than by waging war?
As a result, wars began to be staged again and again under the deliberate promotion and instigation of the existence in the shadows. It's just that in those eras, even including the later dynasties, the number of people in the Central Plains was far less than that of later generations.
Therefore, Tianchengzi wants to promote this kind of war on the one hand, and on the other hand, he must limit the scale of this kind of killing, which can neither be excessive nor less, and must reach a coordinated balance.
In this way, the land of the Central Plains experienced one dynasty after another, until the Ming Dynasty. At that time, the secret realm that had been held on for a long time finally ushered in the final end. The divine consciousness that supported the secret realm ran out of energy, and finally burst open, causing the secret realm to completely collapse.
Tianchengzi is sad, but there is also a kind of relief. From then on, he didn't have to carry such a heavy burden anymore, he only needed to collect enough life energy to maintain the power of his divine soul.
And at this time, the descendants who came out before the people in the secret realm also developed on a considerable scale. They inherited the name of the Sanctuary and devoted themselves to finding the original Divine Stone in the hope of rebuilding the Secret Realm.
And this hope is the rest of the divine stone back then. Although those divine stones are insignificant compared to the one back then, they are also divine stones after all, and it is certainly not enough to build a scale like a secret realm, but it is not impossible to build a small one.
After several generations of efforts, they finally settled on one of the pieces, which had long been acquired by the Mongols. And it was with the help of the power of that divine stone that Genghis Khan finally dominated the world, laid down a large territory, and almost swept the world.
But after Genghis Khan died unexpectedly, the sacred stone was eventually missing. After the fall of the Yuan Dynasty and the establishment of the Ming Dynasty, the people in the temple felt that only those who were in power in the world were most likely to get the divine stone. As a result, Tianchengzi personally infiltrated the Ming Court and began to quietly look for it.
However, he searched for a long time, but could not find it. But at this moment, he sensed that the time had come for him to exchange his body again. So, he found Yao Guangxiao, who was still an ordinary monk at the time, subdued him with extraordinary strength, and asked him to instigate Zhu Di, the king of Yan, to launch a rebellion, and finally succeeded.
As a result, he was supported by enough life vitality, but it also eventually caused the fall of Emperor Jianwen.
Tianchengzi felt that Jianwen had fallen due to his own cause and effect, and at the last moment, he reached out to help him and rescued his soul, leaving only a burned vague body. But because the spirit was rescued early, the body that was destroyed by the fire showed no signs of struggle at all. This is also the reason why Yongle has always suspected that Jianwen is not actually dead, and has quietly searched secretly again and again.
And after that, Tianchengzi accepted Jianwen as an apprentice, but what he didn't expect was that Jianwen, who was the most gentle and pure in the past, had a great change in personality after experiencing this catastrophe. From a kind and gentle character, he has completely changed to the other extreme. This also led to the fact that Tianchengzi was countered by his own apprentices, and in the end he could only survive and survive in a spirit card with a tragic end.
And Emperor Jianwen, who learned many methods from Tianchengzi, began to incarnate various characters continuously, while desperately trying to take revenge on the descendants of the Yongle lineage, while also accumulating and cultivating power, accumulating and searching for divine stones, or all people and things related to them.
In the past, the old monk Jiaman and his monkey called Asura, as well as Tian Yu, the son of the Tian family in Wuqing County that day, all came from this.
And no one else in the Tian family knows except for the son Tian Yu, they only think that they are the pawns of King Ning. This is also the reason why the Taoist who hid in the Tian family in Longhu Mountain was so arrogant.
After that, Su Mo was born, which eventually led to a series of accidents, so that whether it was Jianwen or King Ning, all plans were interrupted by accidents and had to be stopped.
And in the process of listening to this myth and legend, Su Mo finally knew the answer that had puzzled him all along.
Wei'er's identity is indeed the second son of Emperor Hongzhi in the past. It's just that Wei'er's apparent death was not arranged by Emperor Hongzhi, but because of Jianwen's flower work.
Jianwen has the inheritance of Tianchengzi, because of the resentment in his heart, he will not be like Tianchengzi, every time he is looking for some body replacement that has problems and lives for a short time. Because in that case, after occupying the body, you have to slowly adjust it with your own cultivation, which is time-consuming and painful.
He didn't believe in any heavenly retribution, and what happened to him made him hate heaven and earth, and hate all the good things in the world.
Therefore, unlike Tianchengzi, he always targets those who have the most potential and talent. And after Su Mo was born, his body was obviously the genius son of the Wan family, but in fact, he was just taken away by Jianwen.
Even when Emperor Hongzhi was still struggling to survive in the palace, the palace man who had rescued the young Emperor Hongzhi was just a body he had taken away. As for his purpose of helping Emperor Hongzhi, it is not really good, but he wants to wait for Emperor Hongzhi to grow up, take his body, and once again take back everything that belongs to him as Emperor Daming.
It's just that it was later discovered that Emperor Hongzhi's body was weaker than ordinary people because of his childhood experience, which made him finally give up. Subsequently, he set his sights on the son of Emperor Hongzhi.
At the beginning, his goal was Zhu Houzhao, who was the eldest son, but the sky did not obey people's wishes, and when Zhu Houzhao grew up, he found that this time the goal had to be given up again. Because Zhu Houzhao is a rare extreme yang body, it is not suitable for taking it away at all.
The so-called extreme yang body is that the fire nature of the body is far beyond ordinary people, and in addition to one's own soul being irritable and irritable, it is also difficult for other souls to get close, let alone say anything to give up. One is not good, if he doesn't wait for his soul to succeed, he will be roasted to death first, and his soul will be scattered.
So, as a last resort, he set his eyes on Wei'er.
In view of what happened to him at the beginning, he doubted that if he occupied Wei'er's body, he would be jealous of the crown prince, who was the eldest son, and then be persecuted. So, in order to put an end to this possibility, he simply took action and let Wei'er enter a suspended animation, thus successfully hiding it from everyone's eyes and ears.
It's just that what I never expected was that this move was first noticed by another secret force, and a series of close pursuits were launched, and this force was the Xingwang line, known as the virtuous king.
And after that, it was Su Mo who suddenly came out and inserted a pole, which not only caused the Xingwang family to finally lose their goal, but even Emperor Jianwen was concealed, and he always thought that Wei'er was mastered by King Xing, so he set his eyes on King Xing. By mistake, Su Mobai was relieved, but in fact, no one noticed him at all.
Originally, Emperor Jianwen's plan was to use Zhang Zhenren to slowly speed up the death of Emperor Hongzhi, and then use Li Guang and other dark sons to instigate the originally ill-intentioned King Anhua, King Ning, or the King Xing with unclear intentions to rebel, first, to take the opportunity to condense more life vitality for his own use, and second, to overthrow Zhu Houzhao openly.
At that time, he can use the new body he has given up, and he will naturally ascend to the throne and take back everything he has.
As for the new body that was snatched away, it was either Wei'er who was mastered by King Xing, or it could be the newborn son of King Xing, Zhu Houxi.
That's right, it's Zhu Houxi, not the Jiajing Emperor in the original history. Because at this time, Emperor Jiajing had not yet been born at all. At this time, King Xing had only one son, the eldest son Zhu Houxi. Historically, the eldest son of King Xing was born the next year and died just five days after birth. But in this time and space, Zhu Houxi was born two years earlier, and he also survived healthily, but he entered the eyes of Emperor Jianwen.
It's just that people are not as good as heaven, even Emperor Jianwen himself never thought that he would be dragged by Zhang Zhenren to the end, all the calculations, more than 100 years of efforts, all turned into nothingness, and made a joke in vain.
After Su Mo heard all this, he was completely stunned by shock. At this moment, history was completely subverted, which made him even more at a loss. At the same time, it also made him more sure of his previous plan, to leave, and to get away from this terrible vortex as fast as possible.
Tianchengzi finally chose to dissipate, and he really couldn't hold on. After the soul has nothing to rely on, it can only continue to weaken, even if it is nourished by the vitality of life, it is only a little more delay.
He'd lived long enough, he was so tired. Now that the temple has completely collapsed, and the descendants of the original group have also fallen in Su Mo's hands, the so-called observer line has actually existed in name only. In this world, he is the only one left, and it is completely painful to live.
And the reason why he insisted on waiting here was precisely because he felt Su Mo's presence. Compared to Emperor Jianwen, who was a halfway monk, he, a person who had been in close contact with the Divine Stone for countless years, could certainly perceive the same aura a hundred times more keenly.
But he insisted on not leaking it, which ensured Su Mo's safety, and never let Emperor Jianwen's eyes fall on Su Mo. And he also firmly believes that one day he will see Su Mo, he will tell Su Mo everything, in his heart, Su Mo, who can conceive the Divine Stone, is the same kind he really identifies.
In this way, Tianchengzi finally left, and left after all his thoughts. Su Mo walked out of the nunnery, only to feel that the world was unpredictable, it was really unpredictable, and people lived in it, and they couldn't break free.
Converged with the fat man who was waiting outside, Su Mo picked what he could say and told him, the fat man was dumbfounded when he heard it, and he couldn't come back to his senses for a long time.
Su Mo could only smile bitterly, and he was not surprised at all by the fat man's reaction. Not to mention the fat man, even he, a traveler, can be regarded as the most bizarre existence, and he hears it like a fantasy, let alone a native of the Ming Dynasty.
The two of them walked all the way, and they were speechless for a long time. And just after passing through a certain alley, Su Mo suddenly had a strange feeling, as if something was attracting him. When I went to inspect it according to my feelings, I was besieged by a group of masked people who suddenly appeared.
After a fight, after killing all these people, it was discovered that these people were all foreigners with different appearances. And in the end, it was under that kind of strange attraction, and the fat man's unintentional reminder that he came over. It turned out that this was the place where the old monk Jiaman asked him to inform his master to come and retrieve the collection before he died.
And the so-called attraction is actually the last wisp of life energy condensed by Jia Man after his death, using the power of the divine stone. However, he has been hiding in the fat man's body with secret techniques, and it was not until he entered the place in his last words that he was stimulated by his master's secret techniques and sensed by his peers.
Jia Man's intention is self-evident, that is, he wants to use the same door to avenge him, and at the same time hope that after the same door can kill Su Mo and the others, he will get back the original Asura Divine Stone, or the Divine Stone that Su Mo himself fused, and repay him with the master.
This incident made Su Mo sigh again that the plot with the ancients was really not something that a pure little white pigeon like him in later generations could deal with.
So, after returning home, he immediately began to speed up the preparations for leaving. The celebrity club and Sihailou still remain, after all, even if he leaves, he still needs to rely on the Central Plains. These two places will become the two tentacles of his connection with the Central Plains in the future.
The Cheng family and the Wang family have been implicated with him, and they can't be separated, so they must set off in advance and move out to their destination first. Otherwise, once the final action is too big, I am afraid that it will definitely attract the attention of many people and forces who pay attention to him, and it is difficult to say what will change at that time.
The crown prince Zhu Houzhao has been estranged from him because of Fu Bao, and children of this age are the easiest to go to extremes and admit death. It's hard to accept other people's explanations, and he doesn't have the time and patience to explain.
For the Ming Dynasty, as well as the emperor and the crown prince and others, what he has done is considered to be benevolent and righteous, and the rest will be left to him.
The Daomen asked the fat man to inform him, and he could also be used as an arm in the future. As for the exploration trip to the Daomen overseas, it can also be continued after the situation is completely settled here. This is also the reason why Su Mo can trust Daomen, and it is also the reason why Daomen is willing to give his best.
As for the original history, several rebellions in this period of the Ming Dynasty, as well as royal changes, Su Mo no longer wanted to make peace, and he didn't have the ability to do it. Today, Emperor Hongzhi is still alive and did not die as in history. With the support of this vitality, Emperor Hongzhi may still not be able to live a long life, but the longevity of a normal person can still be expected.
With the establishment of Emperor Hongzhi, then the rebellion of King Anhua, the rebellion of King Ning, and even the subsequent Jiajing replacement will not happen.
At this point, history has actually been completely changed beyond recognition, and no one can predict the final direction. This also means that Su Mo crossed over, and the golden finger of the prophet has almost completely lost its effect.
And without the golden finger, he faced these treacherous ancients, just like a little white rabbit dancing with a big bad wolf, and the end was unknown without asking.
This is true in the Central Plains, and the same is true in the grasslands. According to the original history, the Yismain group, which was finally and completely wiped out by Dayan Khan, had the capital to regain its slaughter because of Su Mo, and Dayan Khan would have to pay countless times more difficult than the original if he wanted to unify the steppe.
Russia, further north, was also led out by Su Mo in advance, and Mongolia was in the middle, and the strong national situation became a stumbling block, so that they had to adjust their national policy. Then, the natural connection with the Central Plains will inevitably make the interests tilt towards the Ming Dynasty. After all, that trade branch city, as well as the wool trade he offered, as long as the Ming Dynasty can keep it, Mongolia will be completely tied to the Ming Dynasty's chariot, even if you want to resist, you can't get it. If it is better to operate it again, it may even be possible to completely integrate Mongolia into the Central Plains and solve the border problems in the north for thousands of years once and for all.
It's okay, I've done it myself, it's good enough. Su Mo thought silently, he was actually just an ordinary person, an ordinary person who was the most humble in later generations, and it was enough to participate in such a period of history by chance, and unconsciously do so much.
After another year, all the preparations were finally in place. Under the joint efforts of the swarm of bees and the Mengjia army, and the help of the wolves and mosquitoes under the command of the wolf king and Jin Jia, the power of the Mongolian holy land was finally strangled.
Dayan Khan, due to the strong pressure from the two northwestern sides of Yismain and Russia, finally gave up the reverie of wrestling with the Ming Dynasty as Su Mo expected, bowed his head and really started the cooperative trade between the two countries. The northern and southern steppes have finally calmed down.
A swarm of bees then continued to march north, and with the help of many forces such as Enmeng, Chang Jia, Meng Jia, and He Family, who completely freed their hands, they completely broke through the barrier of Duoyan Sanwei and went straight to the place where the Jurchen clan would rise in the future. After another year and a complete removal of all obstacles, Su Mo achieved his preset goal.
Three years later, Su Mo, who was already twenty years old, took advantage of the excuse of getting married, and left Beijing with his family to embark on a journey to his true homeland.
Behind him, on the high wall of the capital, Prince Zhu Houzhao's eyes were complicated, and he watched the departing convoy from afar, speechless for a long time. I stood for a full afternoon before I left, just as it was getting dark. Su Mo in the distance seemed to be aware of it, and looked back at it for a long time, but finally only let out an inaudible sigh.
After a month, after a long journey, the convoy finally stopped between the white mountains and black waters. In front of a brand-new city, Gu Heng, who arrived first, took a group of subordinates and let out a huge cheer.
Behind, Daddy Han had tears in his eyes, and looked excitedly at his daughter who walked out of a few incense carts and sighed. Once upon a time, the old people would think that one day, they would be completely away from poverty and oppression, and they would truly have their own territory and be the masters of their own homes. Everything is like a dream.
Cheng Minzheng and Wang Mao also looked at each other and smiled, and the two old ministers who completely left the political center of the Ming Dynasty could finally shake off all the shackles, throw off their talents to the fullest, and draw a stunning work on this blank picture scroll.
Everything is no longer a dream, but a step-by-step implementation that can be seen with your own eyes. Although I had to leave my hometown, and I had to trek through mountains and rivers when I was old, and take root in this cold place, I have no regrets compared to the ambition in my heart.
Su Mo breathed deeply into the cold air of the Northeast Plains, and felt an indescribable transparency in his mind from the inside out. Touched by chance, the vitality of life that had not moved for a long time underwent metamorphosis again, breaking through to another level, faintly capturing a trace of fate.
The reason why he came to the crossing, the destined encounter with the flying squirrel, the situation in the secret realm, the encounter with the Holy Temple, Tianchengzi and other people, etc., etc......
And when he stepped into the room with a sense of understanding, a long-lost figure turned around and looked at him with a smile.
"Daddy......" Su Mo's eyes widened in shock, just as he had when he first arrived.
(End of book)