Chapter 20: The Seal
Cao Xiaoyang was a little puzzled for a while. "Yin Xi, what exactly is Yin Xi? I remember that Master also mentioned this thing before. ”
Bai Xiaoyan said: "If you want to talk about this thing, it's really been a few years, if I'm not mistaken, it should be eight hundred years." ”
Yang Qian nodded. "That's right, if it weren't for this Yin Seal, our Cao family wouldn't have such a spiritual building. ”
Cao Xiaoyang was even more puzzled when he heard them say this.
"Our Cao family, Sister Qian, are you also the Cao family?"
At this time, Bai Xiaoyan smiled slightly. "Chartered father, in fact, whenever you call her Sister Qian, I feel a little funny, do you know that she is the ancestor of your Cao family, it is not appropriate for you to call her grandma, let alone call her sister. ”
"This ...... What the hell is going on?"
Yang Qian said: "I don't remember how many generations have passed in between, so let's call a grandmother for the time being."
Grandma will now tell you about the history of our Cao family and the origin of the Yin seal.
Eight hundred years ago, about the thirteenth year of Jiading in the Southern Song Dynasty, there was a Honghua Agitation Army in the land of Shunan who established himself as the king and established the Honghua regime. The emperor of the Southern Song Dynasty decided that he was a traitor, so he sent an army of 30,000 to exterminate it.
Although the Honghua Agitation Army established a political regime, there were not many troops under its command, and the total was only more than 1,000 people, but with such a formation, the 30,000 Song troops who went to crusade against the rebels actually went and never returned, and the whole army was wiped out.
Later, several soldiers who fled back to the Southern Song Dynasty claimed that the Red Flower Agitation Army had mastered evil arts and could summon underground Yin soldiers to fight for them. That Yin soldier has an immortal body, with one enemy and a hundred, invincible.
The emperor of the Southern Song Dynasty thought that these soldiers were lying, and decided that this was an excuse for themselves to be deserters, so he beheaded them all.
In the end, the explanation given by the ministers of the DPRK and China was that the victory of the Honghua Agitation Army relied on the dangerous terrain of the southern Shu region, which was easy to defend and difficult to attack in the mountains and forests, which was the main reason for the defeat of the Song army.
Emperor Song originally wanted to send an army to sweep away the rebels again, but at that time, the Central Plains was in turmoil, and the main enemy of the Southern Song Dynasty was in the north, so the crusade against the Red Flower Agitation Army was temporarily shelved.
A year later, the power of the Red Flower Agitation Army gradually expanded, and little by little began to erode the territory of the Southern Song Dynasty.
And the main general of this expedition is named Cao Tianren, that is, Xiaoyang, your grandfather, my husband.
Before Cao Tianren set out on the expedition, he heard that the Red Flower Agitated Army would borrow Yin soldiers, and he was very uneasy, but he didn't dare to tell Emperor Song about it, otherwise he would definitely be sentenced to a crime of gullible rumors and confusing the army's heart.
Cao Tianren used to be a martial champion, in addition to being a martial artist, he also read poetry and books, and knew the truth of Zi Buyu's strange power, but because he had been in contact with some alchemists when he was a child, and had seen some bizarre and strange things with his own eyes, he felt that the matter of the Yin soldiers would rather be believed than not credible, after all, the army of 1,000 people drove out the 30,000-strong Song army, and it was impossible to do it no matter how good the time and place were.
So before this expedition, he recruited a group of monks into the army without telling Emperor Song, and then went to Shunan to exterminate the rebels together.
Cao Tianren only brought 20,000 soldiers with him this time, and his troops were even weaker than before, so he was very careful during the march, for fear of being ambushed by the Red Flower Agitation Army.
On the night he came to Shunan, Cao Tianren received a letter from the Red Flower Agitation Army, and the other party made an appointment with him to start a war in a place called the Valley of the Remnant Moon.
Cao Tianren was familiar with military books, and knew that this kind of talk should not be believed, if he rashly led his troops into the Wanyue Valley, he would probably be ambushed, and then caught by the enemy in an urn.
However, on the second day of the battle, Cao Tianren found that although this Wanyue Valley was the name of a valley, it was a rare plain in Shu, and there was no room for the surrounding area, and it was absolutely impossible for the army to set up an ambush in such a place without any cover.
The Red Flower Agitation Army personally brought the army to the battle, and it seemed that they did not intend to take advantage of any terrain advantage and have a hard fight with the Song army.
Cao Tianren was very puzzled when he saw this face, an army of 1,000 people and a 20,000 Song army fought head-on on the plain, which was simply hitting a stone with an egg.
Cao Tianren really felt strange and didn't dare to rush forward, at this time, the Red Flower Agitation Army charged forward violently in bright red robes, Cao Tianren Tianren finally had to send out the army, and the 20,000 Song Army directly surrounded the army of the Red Flower Agitation Army, and then all of them were strangled, all of which seemed to have no suspense.
Just as Cao Tianren was about to capture the Red Flower Agitation Army alive, he suddenly saw him take out a purple jade in his hand, which was shaped like a royal heirloom jade seal.
Cao Tianren was furious for a while, thinking that this rebel army was so rampant, and he wanted to establish himself as the king without occupying much territory, and even the jade seal was ready!
At this moment, the purple jade in the hand of the safflower agitated army released a strong light, and everyone in this light could not open their eyes, and when the strong light flashed, Cao Tianren opened his eyes and saw that the original blue sky and white day turned into night in an instant, and there was a round of crescent moon hanging in the sky, and the moonlight illuminated the outline of the surrounding mountains, and the original plain actually became a valley, and the waning moon reflected the valley, no wonder the name of this place was called Wanyue Valley.
Cao Tianren was amazed for a while, thinking that this safflower agitated army had the ability to steal the sky, at this time, a monk in Cao Tianren's army came in a panic with a compass to report, saying that they had been ambushed, and now it was late at night, and the previous rooster crows were all illusions.
Just as they were talking, Cao Tianren's army of 20,000 suddenly heard the wails of the soldiers, in addition to the sound of a wild beast roaring, Cao Tianren took a closer look, it turned out that all the soldiers who were strangled by the Red Flower Agitation Army just now came to life.
And at this time, they were fierce and brutal, and the sword could not hurt them in the slightest, Cao Tianren sighed, it turned out that it was true that the Red Flower Agitation Army would borrow Yin soldiers.
Cao Tianren knew that his army was by no means the opponent of the Yin soldiers, and the Song army that had been destroyed before 30,000 was a lesson from the past, so he ordered the whole army to retreat.
But it was late at night, the soldiers had no torches, no light, and surrounded by mountains, so it was almost impossible to escape from such a place.
A group of soldiers led Cao Tianren to charge, barely escaping from the Valley of the Remnant Moon, listening to the wails of the soldiers in the valley behind him, Cao Tianren felt that he was about to collapse.
After dawn, Cao Tianren withdrew to a safe place with the soldiers who had survived, counted the number of people, and found that most of his 20,000 Song troops had been killed and wounded, and only more than 2,000 people could still go to the battlefield.
Before the expedition, Emperor Song gave Cao Tianren a warning, and if he was defeated in this battle, Cao Tianren knew that he was exhausted and had no way out.
Fortunately, the soldiers he carried with him did not go to the battlefield, so they were all retained, and these soldiers told Cao Tianren after observing the Yin soldiers that the body of the Yin soldiers could not be hurt by ordinary weapons, and they needed to wrap the weapons with a charm to ward off evil spirits to kill the enemy, and if the soldiers also put charms on their armor, the Yin soldiers would not be able to hurt the soldiers.
In desperation, Cao Tianren had no choice but to listen to the words of these soldiers, put charms on the weapons and armor of the remaining 2,000 soldiers, and then prepared to have a last battle with the Red Flower Agitation Army.
Because the Red Flower Agitation Army controlled the Yin soldiers, he felt that he was invincible, and after Cao Tianren's battle, he didn't want to take the Yin soldiers to meet the battle, this time it was replaced by Cao Tianren's ambush.
Originally, after being ambushed, the Red Flower Agitation Army was not afraid at all, because he knew that it was impossible to win against the Yin soldiers with a mortal body, but what he didn't expect was that Cao Tianren actually used a spell in the army this time, and these soldiers who were protected by the spell were really invincible and killed all the Yin soldiers.
In order to prevent long nights and dreams, Cao Tianren did not choose to capture the Red Flower Agitation Army alive this time, but directly killed him on the battlefield.
Originally, this matter ended, but what people never expected was that the soul of the Red Flower Agitated Army after his death was not at peace, and his undead relied on the Yin Seal to control the ghosts of the Yin soldiers to kill those Yin Si who came to hook his soul, and since then he has broken away from the six reincarnations and established himself as the Red Flower Ghost King, on an equal footing with the Emperor Xudu.
This incident completely angered the Emperor Xudu, and he personally led the Five Ghost Emperors and Ten Palaces Yama to crusade against the Red Flower Ghost King, but the power of the Yin Seal was too strong, and the ability of the ghosts marked by it would be greatly improved, plus his subordinates controlled hundreds of thousands of Yin soldiers and undead, and the Emperor Xudu had no way to take him for a while.
Ten years later, the power of the Red Flower Ghost King has grown to more than the entire Xudu Ghost Realm, and the Emperor of Xudu is worried about this.
It was also in this year that Cao Tianren, who had killed the Red Flower Agitation Army, died of illness, and his ghost came to Xudu.
After seeing him, Emperor Xudu had an idea, planning to let Cao Tianren lead troops to defeat the Red Flower Ghost King again, and he would let the entire Xudu Ghost Realm provide him with the greatest support.
So the Emperor of Xudu once again summoned the power of the entire ghost world of Xudu, with the Five Directions Ghost Emperor and Cao Tianren as the six leaders, and once again crusaded against the Red Flower Ghost Emperor, this time, due to the existence of Cao Tianren, the ghosts of the soldiers who fought with him on the battlefield during his lifetime were still loyal to him, and with the addition of these undead warriors, the power of the Emperor Xudu finally overwhelmed the Red Flower Ghost Emperor and defeated him.
After that, Emperor Xudu sent the Red Flower Ghost King to the lowest level of the eighteenth layer of hell, the Infernal Hell, and he could not be reborn forever.
Speaking of this riot, the culprit is actually the Yin Seal that came out of nowhere, after disposing of the Red Flower Ghost King, Emperor Xudu ordered his subordinates to destroy the Yin Seal immediately, but at this time he got a shocking news that the Ghost Seal was gone.
For a while, the whole person was panicked, if anyone got the Yin Seal, then he was probably the next Red Flower Ghost King.
But fortunately, no one has ever seen the Yin Seal since then, whether it is the Yang or the Netherworld, and the Yin and Yang worlds have been stable for more than 800 years, until now.
At the beginning, because of your grandfather's meritorious crusade against the Red Flower Ghost King, Emperor Xudu named him the secretary of the Yin and Yang Town Mansion to manage the post station between Yin and Yang, that is, this spiritual building.
But your great-grandfather doesn't seem to like this official position very much, he is still greedy for the world, so he gave this position to his wife and reincarnated himself. ”