Volume 3: African Treasure Hunt [549] The last years of the Ming Dynasty

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Qin Qi was born in the forty-eighth year of Wanli, coinciding with the death of the thirteenth emperor of the Ming Dynasty, Mingshenzong, and the new emperor Ming Guangzong who succeeded to the throne followed the first emperor after only one month of reign, and the cause of death was: day government affairs, night royal number of women, as a result, the body was overwhelmed, and he also ate the prescription prescribed by the unlucky imperial doctor, diarrhea thirty or forty times a day almost prolapsed, and finally died on two red pills of unknown composition, which is also one of the three major mystery cases in the late Ming Dynasty "Red Pill Case". The net is worth your collection......

"Congenital red lead, early dew in the middle of the night, autumn stone, human milk...... Do you dare to take pills made from these things? ”

Congenital red lead refers to the menstrual blood of the virgin's menarche, and Qiushi refers to human urine, and the red pill refined with a large number of heavy ingredients is impossible to eat whether it is the emperor or ordinary people.

"The woman's passage through water is the yang in the yin, the essence of pure fire, and the disease of the Mingguang Sect is that the stomach is full of fire knots, and the fire is fueled by fire, so why don't you die quickly?"

The Nan family has a long history, although it is not the emperor, but it is not an ordinary person, as one of the six major families in the world, it is also a local wealthy family at the end of the Ming Dynasty, and the outside world knows that they are the family of good cultivators, and there are many monks who come and go, and they have a sense of detachment from the world, and they are not taboo to discuss the emperor's barnyard official history in private.

Qin Qi's parents are helpers in the back kitchen of the Nan family, he has been surrounded by pots and pans since he was a child, and he admires the fairy wind bones of the master's family, and finally once he was curious and stole the pill in the alchemy furnace, and almost lost his braids, thanks to the owner of the family who rescued him.

"Why can't this kid think about it so much, I just want to restore the red pill that poisoned the Mingguang Sect for a while, except for the innate red lead, everything else has been put in, aren't you looking for death?"

In modern times, there are exorcists, and in ancient times there is a similar unwritten rule, requiring those who have attained a certain level of ability to renounce the act of profiting from their abilities in the mundane world, let alone hold any public office in the mundane world, although they are allowed to continue to maintain their status in the mundane world, but they must live like a hermit.

All the members of the six major families are not officials, they are not officials, and some kind of Cheng dù is like a hidden sect in Xianxia novels, with unique skills and no questions about the world, all the energy is used to hone their skills, slay demons and eliminate demons.

The head of the Nan family used mana in the process of reviving Qin Qi, Qin Qi originally thought that the head of the family was a half-immortal body, and after witnessing it, he immediately prostrated on the ground and begged the bishop to teach him his own spell, and the head of the family asked him what he would do after learning the spell, and Qin Qi replied that he would not be afraid of his parents being bullied at that time.

"Hahaha, you are a filial person...... Perhaps, I have seen that you have good bones in the past, and if you have a heart for the Tao, I will give you a point or two in my spare time, but don't use it for evil paths, you know? ”

Since then, Qin Qi has been taught and instructed by the head of the family, practicing day and night, hard work and talent, and he has traveled thousands of miles day by day, and he has come to the top, making the younger generation of the Nan family embarrassed.

But Qin Qi didn't dare to slack off at all, because as he became a saint, a broader but more terrifying world unfolded in front of him, and together with the head of the Nan family, he saw the nine-tailed demon fox, Xingtian, Yaksha, bull head, and horse face...... All the existential beings of Chinese mythology appear in another form, familiar and strange, and at the same time with pure malice or pure contempt for the human world.

Qin Qi will never forget how the first time the head of the family took him to the edge of the land, how the convergence of the streamers of the Demon Realm March caused his spirit to shake, when he knelt on a floating boulder and covered his eyes with his hands and couldn't stand up, trembling all over.

"Too reluctantly? At this moment when March was in the sky, you looked directly at the convergence of the streamers but did not go crazy, and you were already the best among the cultivators of the same generation. ”

The head of the Nan family often dresses up as a Taoist priest when he goes out, covering his body in green clothes, wearing a sword at his waist, with white hair and white beard fluttering like a fairy.

"Qin Qi, do you know that this place is not extraordinary, cultivators call it the 'Spirit Realm' and the 'Kunlun Realm', and fellow Western Daoists call it the 'Marginal Land'?"

"Know...... I know......" Qin Qi reluctantly controlled his spirit, "this is the hometown of the demon genus, right?" It is from here that they went to the world to endanger the world! ”

The head of the house shook his head slightly, "Yes, it's not right. Many demons do come to the world from the edge to do evil, but their hometown is not the marginal land, but the demon world deeper than the marginal land, the demon world March above your head is just an imaginary image, the real March hangs in the demon world, and this is just the intersection of the demon world and the human world, so it is called the edge of the land. ”

"Magic ...... The Demon Realm? If it shines on the true light of the demon realm for many years, wouldn't the demon have greatly increased his power and be much more terrifying than ordinary demons? ”

"That's right," a trace of worry flashed between the family master's eyebrows, "The original demon world has seventy-two demon generals, also known as demon gods, which can be described as the god of demons, the demon of gods, and among them there is the demon king Baalbior, once this demon king breaks through the seal, there will be a shocking catastrophe in the world." ”

Among different peoples and beliefs, the name of the demon king Baal is different, the Moabites call it "Baal-Peor", the Canaanites call it "Baal", and there are other names such as "Balur" and "Bakar".

At that time, Qin Qi thought that the seventy-two demon gods, including Baal, were in the Demon Realm, and there was still some distance away from him, if he knew that Baal and dozens of first-generation demon gods were trapped on the edge or even in the human world, he would definitely be in chaos, and he would not be able to resist the mental torture of the Demon Realm in March.

The last seventeen years at the end of the Ming Dynasty were not peaceful, after the death of Ming Guangzong, the Emperor of the Apocalypse Zhu Youxiao ascended the throne, that is, the famous "carpenter emperor", and the carpenter work was comparable to the reincarnation of Lu Ban, but unfortunately there was no way to govern the country, which opened the door for Wei Zhongxian to be good at government affairs.

So the "nine-thousand-year-old" Wei Zhongxian monopolized the power, and the power was leaning for a while, and even began to engage in personality cults in the middle and later periods. Qin Qi couldn't hold back his temperament and wanted to slash this dead eunuch, but was stopped by the head of the Nan family.

"There is a mortal law in the mortal world, and the immortals have an immortal law, and the way of eliminating demons is our top priority, if Wei Zhongxian absorbs the power of faith because of the worship of the ancestral hall, and enters the demon from a person, we can do it immediately, but as long as he is a mortal for a day, he can only be punished by the mortal law."

Qin Qi didn't think that cultivators who were transcendent and holy should ignore the suffering of the world, and even the Buddhists who fasted and recited the scriptures said that "killing the wicked is doing good", why can't they be flexible even though it is obviously a gesture?

Fortunately, the days of cultivating and eliminating demons passed quickly, and soon the carpenter emperor Zhu Youxiao died, and his brother died and his brother died, and Zhu Youzhen succeeded to the throne for Emperor Chongzhen.

Qin Qi experienced a flying catastrophe with the Nan family, which forever changed his view of mortals, and an insurmountable gap appeared in his eyes between "capable people" and "ordinary people".