It seems that a strange army has sprung up, and the odd soldiers stand out. Suddenly, Cheng Li couldn't help but be stunned. Because the two words he heard from Zhuge Taifu's mouth were true, and he had never thought of them. Therefore, for a while, Cheng Li really didn't know what kind of reaction he should have.

After a long time, Cheng Lifang came back to his senses. He sighed and said, "Who came up with such a bad idea? ”

Zhuge Taifu's face did not change, and he twisted his beard and said, "I'm sorry." It was the old man who came up with this idea. ”

"Ah, is it Taifu?" Cheng Li was taken aback. Look back at Yu Linling and Bodhisattva Man. I found that between their eyebrows, there was a look of course. Obviously, the two of them either already knew about it, or they were too familiar with their master, so even if they heard Zhuge Taifu explain that it was he who proposed to make peace, they would not be surprised at all.

Cheng Li closed his eyes and adjusted his emotions slightly. Half a second later, he opened his eyes again and asked, "Taifu, can you explain?"

Zhuge Taifu said gently: "Of course you can." But he stepped back to the table and sat down, and picked up his glass. The Bodhisattva Man hurriedly picked up the wine jug and poured a glass of Western Regions wine for the master. Zhuge Taifu took a sip gently. Holding the wine glass in his hand and playing with it, he slowly opened his mouth and explained his suggestion.

"Where to find the blessed land of the cave, the glass under the moon ascends the fairy key. These two sentences have been circulating in the world for at least 200 years. As the key mentioned in these two sentences, that is, the glazed treasure knife, it has also appeared three times. Counting this time, it was the fourth.

The glazed treasure knife appeared for the first time, creating the 'King of Shenzhou' Chen Jingtao. The second appearance created the 'Sword Saint' music song. The third time it appeared, it was the 'Lonely Hou' Gongshan Shangqing. Three people, three invincible myths, three legends that shocked the world, and three catastrophes that changed dynasties.

When the King of Shenzhou and the other three were still alive, the question of 'how should they be treated' was actually discussed in the imperial court at that time.

For the first time, the court of Dazhao at that time decided to use the means of suppression. It's a pity that they really underestimate the King of Shenzhou. The Great Zhao court dispatched troops three times, but each time the king of Shenzhou, who used soldiers like a god, won more with less, and finally ended up in a big defeat. As a result, the prestige of the Great Zhao court was lost, and it eventually fell apart and changed hands. ”

For the first time, it was the Dayan Imperial Court that swept away the heroes in the war and finally won the world. They absorbed the lessons of the previous dynasty, and absolutely switched to the means of Fu to recruit the 'Sword Saint'.

It just so happened that the father of the Sword Saint was a man from Shilin at that time. Although he was only eight years old, he only took the third place in the imperial examination, that is, Tanhualang. Therefore, this person is called Lao Le Tanhua. But Lao Le Tanhua was not satisfied, and he was single-minded, just wanting to get a champion. Since he couldn't take the test again, he put his hope on his two sons.

It's a pity that the eldest brother of the sword saint went to take the imperial examination, but he only got one tanhua. When it comes to the sword saint himself, the original intention of the appeasement faction in the court should be given him a champion and appeased well. However, some people feel that the title of champion cannot be easily given to a martial artist, so when the list is released in the end, it is a flower again. ”

Cheng Li sighed: "These civil officials of the imperial examination still look down on the martial artists after all. What's the use of such half-appeasement?"

Yu Linling also sighed: "Yes." At that time, the eldest brother of the Sword Saint had already contracted an illness and died because he had studied too hard and damaged his body. Lao Le Tanhua put all his hopes on his youngest son. I didn't expect it to be Tanhua. When the news came, Lao Le Tanhua vomited three liters of blood and died of anger that night. ”

The Bodhisattva Man added: "What makes the Sword Saint feel even more angry is that some civil officials in the imperial court actually sent a deputy couplet to the door to celebrate. It is 'a door of seven jinshi, father and son three flowers'. Although these civil officials didn't know that Lao Le Tanhua had been angry to death at that time. But in any case, it always adds fuel to the fire. The Sword Saint actually endured it, and he didn't release the knife at these gift-givers, which was already considered to be extremely good-tempered. ”

Yu Linling said again: "But after this incident, the Sword Saint is also completely disheartened by the Great Yan Imperial Court. From then on, he no longer paid attention to the affairs of the court. And from this beginning, the confrontation between civil and military officials in the court became more and more serious, and finally it reached the level of splitting and fighting a civil war. So the Great Zhao court also perished in this way. ”

Regarding the experiences of the three people, including the King of Shenzhou, the Sword Saint, and the Lonely Marquis, Cheng Li actually knows a lot about it. After all, they had all dealt with each other in the dream void world, and they had also accepted their memories. But at this moment, listening to it from the mouth of Zhuge Taifu's master and apprentice, I had a new feeling.

Cheng Li also smiled bitterly and said, "As for the third time, the matter of the lonely marquis." I know a thing or two. Ha, if the King of Shenzhou and the Sword Saint are both righteous people, then the Lonely Hou is an out-and-out evil person. ”

Zhuge Taifu bowed his head and said, "That's right. During the Spring and Autumn Period and the Warring States Period, hundreds of schools of thought arose. However, when Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty arrived, the imperial court ordered 'to depose the hundred schools and respect Confucianism alone'. Since then, Confucianism has overwhelmed the hundreds of schools of thought, riding the dust, far ahead. Even the Huang Lao's way of governing the country in the early years of the Han Dynasty was abandoned.

Under the suppression of Confucian orthodoxy, the hundreds of schools of thought had to huddle with each other to keep warm. With Taoism as the backbone, they combined the ideas and ideas of a hundred schools of thought to form a very loose organization. Basically, it is the most primitive Taoists, prostitutes, merchants, chivalrous, Qiu, Zongheng, painters and so on.

For this organization, Confucianism denounced it as heresy and tried its best to suppress it. At first, the group was powerless to fight back, so it could only try to hide as much as possible. But by the end of the Eastern Han Dynasty, a genius had appeared in this organization.

This genius is cynical, arrogant, and unorthodox. Therefore, I searched all over the world's classics, removed the contents from the chaff, and compiled them into two classics. One is called "Book from Heaven" and the other is called "Book of Life and Death". He also called himself the King of Yama. ”

Cheng Li was stunned for a moment, then his eyes widened suddenly, and he asked, "Enma King......?" Do you say?"

Zhuge Taifu nodded slowly and said, "Not bad." Starting from this Yama King, the hundred schools of thought that were suppressed by Confucianism were renamed the Yin Si Ghost Mansion. As for themselves, they call themselves demons. That's why the world also calls them 'Demon Gate'. ”

Cheng Li frowned and said, "I don't understand this too well." Aren't there all ghosts in the ghost mansion? Why did they become ghosts again?"

Yu Linling explained: "The Central Plains originally did not have the concept of demons. Since the spread of Buddhism to the East, there have been so-called demons. What is a demon? The explanation of the root Buddhism is karma, which is the existence of disturbing and destroying the practitioner's path to enlightenment.

In the Buddhist scriptures, the Yama King is the sentient lord who was born in hell in order to atone for all the sins he created in his previous life. At the same time, it also refers to the entire race that can cause death and corrupt the foundation of the ascetic.

After entering the Central Plains, the myth of the Yama King in Buddhism and the myth of the Taishan Mansion in the Daomen were combined with each other, so there was the existence of the Yin Si Difu headed by the Yama King. There are also the so-called ten halls of Hades, judges of life and death, black and white impermanence, bull heads and horse faces, as well as Meng Po, Di Gong, You Xing, Yin soldiers and ghost generals and other legends. ”

Zhuge Taifu said again: "The part of the legend about mythology can be ignored for the time being. All in all, since the Demon King of Yama, the Netherworld Ghost Mansion, or the organization of the Demon Gate, has truly become the great enemy of the righteous path. They tried to regain the lost orthodoxy from the Confucians, and they did almost anything to do so. Later, many of the methods had even reached outrageous levels. The Confucian family alone can't resist it. So he pulled up the two doors of Buddhism and Taoism, and worked together to resist the demon gate.

The three sects worked together to finally block the demon gate. But the demon gate is also lurking, as long as the world is in chaos, they will come out to make trouble. Even if the world is not chaotic, they will try their best to mess up the world so that they can fish in troubled waters. Therefore, for thousands of years, the Demon Gate has become a cancer, which cannot be cured, and can only be suppressed as much as possible. ”

Cheng Li let out a long breath and shook his head: "I know that the Lonely Hou is a person in the evil way, and I also know that he has no good feelings about the Great Qi Dynasty that was re-established by the third Jiazi. So although he has become famous all over the world in the rivers and lakes, in fact, there are very few people who can see him with their own eyes.

In the face of such a person, whether the court wants to suppress or appease, it can't find a target at all. No matter how many means there are, they can't be used. So in the end, although the Lonely Hou himself passed away, several of his disciples rebelled separately, resulting in the Great Qi Dynasty not being able to survive the sixty-year limit and perishing.

However, it turned out that the lonely Hou was actually a person in the Demon Gate. I really don't know this, well, according to his identity, he should be one of the ten palace kings of the Netherworld, right?"

Cheng Li really doesn't know. Because although they live in the same dream world, they are nothing. But the Lonely Hou, the Sword Saint, and the King of Shenzhou are obviously different from other consciousnesses.

In the end, when the dream world disappeared and Cheng Li accepted their memories, it was obvious that what he received was not all the memories of the three people's lives, but only the memories that had been selectively deleted after they had selected them by themselves. Since the memory is incomplete, it is normal for Cheng Li not to know.

Cheng Li's experience, Zhuge Taifu naturally didn't know. He sighed: "Back then, my master Wei Gong (Wei Qingqing) had a deal with the Demon Gate, so he knew a lot about the inside of the Demon Gate.

In the Demon Gate, there are four sects and six factions, with a total of ten branches. The rulers of each vein have their own unique names internally, but externally they are collectively referred to as the Ten Palaces of Yama. Only the co-master of the Demon Gate, that is, the person who all the other branches are subservient to him, can be called the Great King of Yama, also known as the Holy King. The lonely Hou Gongshan Shangqing was the co-master of the Demon Gate at that time. ”