The dark tide of the Spirit Palace is surging, but the royal court is in harmony.

Yang Ke returned to the palace to meet his four wives. Seeing that the four women were all dressed in colorful clothes, holding a hehuan fan, they stepped forward to salute.

"I've seen my husband. ”

Because the Xia Kingdom did not really worship the heavens and establish the country, although the people called them "King" and "Xia Jun", but in private, Yang Ke and his wife did not have many rules.

He first pulled up his wife Nangong Clan: "Hurry up!" Yang Ke pulled up Nangong Clan, and said to the other three side ladies: "You too, we don't need to be polite between husband and wife." ”

The five of them walked into Shangde Palace, and Yang Ke asked Nangong Clan: "Qingyu, I am not in the royal court during this time, and the family is still peaceful?"

Nangong waved his fan lightly, and said with a smile: "Your Highness is fighting outside, and the four sisters should share your worries for Your Highness." There is order in this royal court, that is, some time ago, the Spirit Palace begged for a lot of wine. ”

"Sacrificing to the gods with a clear drink is also the proper meaning. Could it be that there is not enough wine over there in the Ling Palace?" Yang Ke didn't think much about it: "Yu Yuan wants to use it, you just don't stop it." ”

The concubine thought the same, so she arranged for someone to be recorded in the account of the Spirit Palace. But yesterday, the sister of the Yu family returned the wine from the Spirit Palace. ”

"Oh?" Yang Ke was surprised in his heart, but he didn't say anything on his face: "Since you return it, let's do it." How did his husband and wife know that Yu Yuan was helping Ji Le prevent disasters. The drinks that Ji Le drank a few days ago were all counted into the accounts of his own Spirit Palace. Yesterday, he embezzled the wine from the Spirit Palace to help Ji Le make up the bill.

"How are you doing during this time, what do you do on weekdays?"

"In His Royal Highness's absence, my sisters and I got together to play the piano and paint, and our days were clean. ”

"Yes, yes, a few of us are doing well, but my sister still has to take care of the palace affairs, you see, everyone has lost a lot of weight. Mrs. Jin Yue interjected and said, "When Your Highness comes back, you have to reward your sister well." ”

"It's me who is wrong, I can't help but treat you poorly these days. Looking at his ladies, Yang Ke felt more and more guilty in his heart.

He has four wives, in addition to Nangong as his wife, and later Jin Yue, Tong Ji, and Liu Qiongyun, three such as ladies. Among them, Liu Qiongyun had a miscarriage not long ago, and Nangong also died two children one after another. He should have taken good care of them during this time, but because of the war outside, he had to hand over the affairs of the royal court to the Nangong clan who lost his son.

"Qingyan, you've worked hard for you this time. I have to honor my elders, I have to take care of my three younger sisters, and I have to take care of the affairs ......of the royal court," Yang Ke muttered: "I remember, you and Jin Yue and the three girls have not added new clothes and jewelry for a while, so go back and get some silk from my private treasury." ”

There was a faint smile on the corner of Nangong's mouth: "Your Highness is fighting abroad, we can't wait to follow us for thousands of miles, a little hardship can be regarded as a god? ”

Jin Yue wanted to take the opportunity to ask Yang Ke for jewelry, but Nangong said that he had to temporarily dismiss his mind.

"Haha, that's not to mind. This time he returned with a great victory, and he got a lot of spoils, and everyone had a share in the reward. When the time comes, you will have to meet the women again, and you should dress up carefully. I remember when you and I were newly married, you liked to play with sideburns the most. In this way, I still have a 'Liuyun Hairpin' in my private treasury, and I will give it to you later. And Jin Yue, you girl, you haven't been staring at my private library for a day or two, and when you turn around, you take Qiongyun and the two of them to the private library. ”

As he spoke, Yang Ke took the key and handed it to Jin Yue: "You all go, I still have something to talk about with your sister." ”

Jin Yue and the three of them knew about the advance and retreat, and they all bowed and retreated, leaving only the Nangong clan and Yang Ke.

As soon as the three of them left, Nangong asked softly, "Is Your Highness going down again?"

"Well, I'm sorry for you. Yang Ke patted her on the shoulder, got up and walked to the bedroom of Shangde Palace, gently twisting the dragon button next to the bed.

Suddenly, there was a pain in the palm, and a trace of essence blood was absorbed by the dragon pattern button, and a black passage appeared from under the bed.

Nangong Qingyan heard the movement in the bedroom, but she and Yang Ke were young couples, and they understood that this was one of the biggest secrets of the Yang family, or the Xia Kingdom, so they silently stayed outside to help Yang Ke guard.

Outsiders say that their young couple has gone through ups and downs and has a deep friendship. At the beginning, the Nangong clan lost their sons one after another, and Yang Ke stayed at the Nangong clan every day to take care of them personally. But who knew that on the day of the loss of his son, the Nangong clan sat alone in the bedroom and cried, while Yang Ke stayed in the secret room and did not show up at all?

Nangong clenched the fan in his hand, looked at the night outside the window, and added two beads to his beautiful and pale face.

......

Yang Ke jumped into the passage and came to his secret room.

The interior of the chamber has its own light, and an altar is placed in the center. The four walls are carved with mysterious patterns, and the top burns with a golden flame similar to that of Ji Raku's fire.

Looking at the flames, Yang Ke's eyes narrowed: "Sure enough, the flame is still there!"

Looking to the side, totem poles that shine with five-colored brilliance are erected on both sides of the altar. On these totem poles, the images of the gods sacrificed by the ancestors such as Chiyou, Shennong, the Yellow Emperor, and the Queen Mother of the West are depicted.

It can be said that all the origin of the gods sacrificed by the ancestors for a hundred years have been sealed and suppressed here.

According to the research of the ancestors, the gods were divided into two categories. One is the bloodline god, who inherits according to the bloodline and controls the authority of the world. The gods come from the two creators, God and Mother Earth, and are the most authentic blood gods. On the other hand, there is a belief in God with spiritual power.

It was when the ancestors discovered the mysteries of the gods and planned to use their divine beliefs to create their own gods that they were destroyed by God.

"The divinity of the soldier master is still there, it seems that Ji Le's guy just used the divinity and did not awaken the consciousness of the soldier master. Yang Ke stood in front of the main pillar for a while, continuing to inspect the major totem poles.

The brilliance of the West Queen Mother Pillar was a little dim, and the Great Commander Pillar appeared a crack, and the brilliance of the Young Pillar became brighter and brighter...... As for the Shi Huang totem pole - this totem pole has long since collapsed, and the divinity belonging to the Shi Huang clan has disappeared.

"Sure enough, it's Emperor Shi. Yang Ke crouched down and inspected the broken totem pole. The divinity inside is completely gone, leaving only a mass of waste stone.

"If the old man is indeed Emperor Shi, then Ji Le can be regarded as his own person? But how was he born? The flame is still here, and the source power of faith accumulated in my Xia Kingdom has also been sealed by me, why was he born?"

Yang Ke couldn't figure this out no matter what.

The spirit of the nation is not an inevitability of the birth of a city-state. As far as Yang Ke knows, there are some countries that have not given birth to their own national spirits, but those countries are still living well. In the plan of his ancestors, he had no intention of creating a national spirit. Even the divinity of the Earth Mother found in the early years has been sealed in the Spirit Palace.

From the very beginning, the Yang family did not intend to pin the fortunes of the country on an ethereal national spirit.

"The birth of the national spirit requires the divinity of Mother Earth and the faith accumulated by the whole country. But the flame of faith is still there, where did that guy get the huge source of faith? Could it be that he brought it from his homeland?"

Yang Ke stepped forward to inspect the flame on the altar. This flame was originally sealed and continued to receive the people's faith and desire for the country. But in Yang Ke's perception, the golden brilliance had begun to wane.

"There is less, and there is a lot less power of faith. And it will no longer accept the faith of the people. ”

Because after Ji Le became the spirit of the country, he directly transferred all his beliefs to cut off Hu, and the fire here is already a semi-waste.

"National Spirit...... It's a big trouble!" Yang Ke smiled wryly and put the torch back again: "The demigod-level national spirit seems to be noble, but it is not enough for my country to completely integrate into this world!"

Yang Ke's heart was heavy, and he sat quietly in front of the altar and pondered.

The biggest problem of the Xia Kingdom is not the nearby barbarian Waiyi, nor the high heavenly gods, but the unsuitability of water and soil.

That's right, the environment is their real enemy.

In the same stable environment, a healthy couple from the Xia Kingdom is contrasted with an indigenous couple. The Xia couple can have a second child in five years, while the natives can have a third or fourth child. Moreover, the survival rate of infants is much lower than that of the indigenous people.

From the perspective of life expectancy, except for some special ways to continue life, in comparison with the situation of natural death, the life expectancy of the citizens of Xia is shorter than that of people in nearby countries. Roughly speaking, the aborigines lived for 70 years, while the ancestors lived only 50 years.

According to the research of the Taiping Sect at that time, the reason for this situation was that the ancestors were physically different from the natives, and they could not adapt to this new world, as if the whole world was rejecting the Xia people.

In order to overcome this exclusion, the ancestors had to create a god of their own in this world. With the opportunity of transforming into a god, the imprint of the civilization that belongs to the ancestors is put into the core of this world to eliminate this kind of resistance.

Back then, the Taiping Sect shaped Huang Tianjun, although it was arrogant, but it was also a last resort. Because back then, they were already aware of the rejection of the world. Even though they used various ways to extend their lifespan and improve their ability to reproduce, their acquired efforts still could not completely offset the rejection of the world's subconscious.

After staying in this world for a long time, any ruler of the Xia Kingdom can clearly understand that this world does not belong to them.

Can you imagine watching your own whipping and trampling slaves continue to give birth to their children, and every time a newborn born in your own Han lineage is born, it will be deformed, disabled, or even stillborn?

You must make your own god!

This is the ancestral motto of the Yang lineage. Even after the catastrophe of peace, Yang's obsession did not disappear.

According to Yang's original plan, since the God of this world does not allow them to regard "heaven" as a god, then choose a god position that does not exist in this world.

"Legend has it that the ancient holy kings such as the Three Emperors and the Five Emperors of the homeland all achieved the dignity of the Emperor of Heaven with their human bodies. Originally, I planned to use the torch to absorb the faith, so that I could prove the throne of the Holy Emperor and become the king god. Now that the national spirit has appeared, it is a complete end to this road. ”

The path of the Divine Emperor requires the power of the whole country to ignite the divinity, and now that the power in the fire has been divided by Ji Le, and there is the national spirit blocking the way, Yang Ke can no longer walk the road of the Divine Emperor Wang.

Bang –

A punch slammed into the altar floor, Yang Ke gritted his teeth: "If there is no Ji Le, I am sure that I will be a god within thirty years." ”

It takes three hundred years for the spirit of the country to be conceived, and it is only a few decades for him to become a god. Obviously, this is the true right path for Xia Guo. But with the appearance of Ji Le, all plans went down the drain.

"Is the birth of this national spirit really accidental?or is it that some heavenly gods want to prevent our Xia Kingdom from giving birth to its own gods?"

The god that Yang Ke taboos is the god realm who lives in the sky, the bloodline of the creation god who is high above. The beliefs of these gods are rooted in the countries of the earth, and the rise and fall of many countries are inseparable from them. It is precisely because of their interference that there is no world god in this world who is separated from the heavenly god system.

Therefore, their family had to find another way, starting from the state and royal power, to create a new god.

"The appearance of the national spirit means that I can no longer walk the path of the king and god as a king. Yang Ke's face was sad, this was the hard work of three generations of their Yang family, and it was part of the century-old plan of the Xia Kingdom. However, with the emergence of Ji Le, it has been a complete failure.

To say that Yang Ke has no hatred for Ji Le in his heart is a lie.

A national spirit that shouldn't exist, a national spirit that interrupted the Xia country's revival plan. If it weren't for Ji Le summoning Shi Huang's self-defense and touching Yang Ke, I'm afraid he would really have the intention of putting Ji Le under house arrest.

"Speaking of which, if the Shi Huang clan is really from his homeland. So this national spirit that appeared out of thin air may not be the interference of the local gods, or it may be related to the homeland?"

Thinking about it this way, the spirit of the country may interrupt the plan for the prosperity of the Xia Kingdom, but it may not be an enemy?

"Let's take another look. Yang Ke didn't dare to trust Ji Le easily, and planned to wait and see Ji Le's actions in the Spirit Palace for the time being.

"The most critical point at the moment is that we don't have a god in the Xia Kingdom. "Yang Ke didn't expect the national spirit to transform into a god at all, and the national spirit couldn't open the root of the world and correct the rejection of this world.

"Shi Huangshi is a good candidate, but the boss is afraid that he will not be able to do it, so he still has to make multiple preparations. Yang Ke thought about it, got up and walked to another totem pole.

"The ancestral god is above, and the descendants of the unworthy are offended!" he grabbed it fiercely, and the totem pole let out a burst of mournful screams, and a wisp of crimson divinity slowly emerged, which he grabbed in his hand and swallowed it.

"Ah......" Yang Ke was furious and retreated from the front of the totem pole. He stumbled a few steps, fell to the ground, and silently suppressed and fused this wisp of divinity with his own divine power.

"Is this considered the punishment of the ancestral gods?" but ......" Yang Ke smiled bitterly in his heart, but then he strengthened his mind, and his face was fierce: "Create a god for my Xia Kingdom, what is a little pain!"

The divinity entered the abdomen, Yang Ke was like swallowing a piece of coal, his handsome face was burned red by the flames, and there were bursts of stinging pain in his throat. Eventually, the divinity erupted into a flame in his body, burning all his internal organs to ashes......