Lian Jiuqi, who was in deep memory, had completely ignored the people around him, and no matter what the torture technique said, he turned a deaf ear. Ma Fei had to hug Torture's arm and signal him not to be so excited.

At the same time, Mo Duqiao, Angu, Torri and others also paid close attention to Gulal and Victor, who had already defected to Wu Zi'an, although the two were very dissatisfied with the employer's second change of face and were also very confused, but for the sake of the gold, they couldn't care so much, in a word, whoever gave money, they would work for whom.

At this moment, Tang Qianrou finally understood that at the beginning, Ah Le looked down on Gulal and the others, saying that they would sell everything they had for money, not deliberately insulting them, but with a factual basis.

Of course, Gulal and Victor are constantly deceiving themselves in their hearts that they just want to save Hayson and make another sum of money by the way, that's all.

"No, my family was not killed by my master." Lian Jiuqi finally raised his eyes and said, "Absolutely not, he is not that kind of person, and he has never mentioned anything about my background, nor has he asked about the past of the Helian family, and he has not even entered my ancestral house more than three times." ”

Wu Zi'an sat back in his chair and began to applaud: "Lian Jiuqi, at this point, you are smarter than your master back then, if your master really calms down and thinks, you will know that you have been wronged, just like what I told Qian Xiuye before, at a critical time, to provoke the relationship between you and your master, you think carefully, and you also know that your master did not harm your family, at that time, it was no one else who instigated those people to go to your house, it was Qian Xiuye who laid out, and your master saved you at a critical time, Originally, the role of your master was assigned to him by Qian Xiuye, but unfortunately, Zheng Cangqiong was killed halfway, and he could only retreat. ”

Xingshu breathed a sigh of relief, and after even Jiuqi glanced at him, he closed his eyes and took a deep breath, glad that he had not lost his most basic judgment.

Xingshu said: "You mean, Qian Xiuye set his sights on the Lian family back then?" Lianjia has a direct relationship with Qimen? ”

Wu Zi'an sat there: "Yes, the ancestors of the Helian family have been carrying the secret of Qimen for generations, this clue was found by the Zhangrong chasers hundreds of years ago, they spent their lives looking for the descendants of the Helian family, and when they finally found it, they were taken by Zheng Cangqiong, I think, your master must know all this, so he accepted you as an apprentice, the most important thing is to protect you." ”

Lian Jiuqi shook his head: "Since that's the case, then why did he choose to kill me with you on that snowy night in 1979?" Be your accomplice. ”

"I don't understand this question, on the one hand, I can only say that Qian Xiuye succeeded and made perfect use of Zheng Cangqiong's weakness in preaching the morality of the rivers and lakes, on the other hand, Zheng Cangqiong at that time didn't know that Qian Xiuye was the mastermind who killed your whole family back then, of course, I think there is another terrible fact......" Wu Zi'an raised his hand and pointed at Lian Jiuqidao, "If you die, the secret of Qimen will disappear forever, and no one will ever look for Qimen again, maybe at that time, Zheng Cangqiong's most cruel thought was this." ”

Xingshu looked at Lian Jiuqi and asked, "What is the secret of Qimen?" ”

Lian Jiuqi shook his head: "If I knew, would I still come here?" For as long as I can remember, my father has never mentioned anything to me, and my understanding of Qimen comes entirely from Master, but at that time, Master always told me that he couldn't control other cargo chasers, but stipulated that I could never look for Qimen, unless it was a matter of life and death. ”

Wu Zi'an looked at Lian Jiuqi and said: "That's why, Qian Xiuye wanted to frame you back then, and he wanted to save you, he wanted to divide you and your master, and why he wanted you to make a personal layout, and he would refine the huge plan that involved your son's torture again, because your father and son are the key, of course, Zheng Cangqiong is also a very important person, because even Qian Xiuye doesn't know how the secret of Qimen is hidden in your Lian family, perhaps, only Zheng Cangqiong knows it, that's why he can live to this day." ”

Torture glanced around: "What is the meaning of existence here?" What is the thousand-year-old black incense bowl you just mentioned? ”

"It's a very long story, a very long ......," Wu Zi'an lowered his head and said, "It's so long that even if I sit here and talk non-stop, I have to talk for a long, long time." ”

Lian Jiuqi said: "Wu Zi'an, the matter has come to this, we also understand, you don't want to continue to cooperate with Qian Xiuye now, because you are not willing to pretend to be a prophet here for so many years, and you are still looking like him Qian Xiuye, so it is better for you to tell everything you know." ”

Wu Zi'an raised his eyes and looked at Lian Jiuqi: "You want to know?" ”

Lian Jiuqi pondered for a while and asked, "What is Qimen?" ”

Wu Zi'an smiled: "Lian Jiuqi, I'm tired, I've been looking for Qimen all my life, and I've watched my companions die one by one because of Qimen, in the final analysis, we all died because of greed, and there is no place to die for an unknown greed, after Tang Sirong jumped off the cliff and fell to her death, I found her body, I stood there and watched her body being slowly frozen into ice, I was thinking, what are we for?" ”

For what?

I'm afraid that at the beginning, no one thought about this problem, chasing the goods is their nature, they subconsciously think that the strange door is full of strange goods in the world, but no one knows what it is, so everyone is extremely poor all their lives, unscrupulous means to find, only know that they have wasted their youth, spent their efforts, lost their family and friends, and finally died in a foreign land, and there was no one to trust before death.

Wu Zi'an witnessed Tang Sirong jumping off the cliff, and at the moment when Tang Sirong jumped, he also had the urge to jump down, because he knew very well that Tang Sirong was relieved, she had completely figured it out, she was the third person among the nine sons besides Zheng Cangqiong and Chen Taidong to understand why.

Wu Zi'an also wanted to understand, but he was afraid to understand, because he didn't want to die, but the belief that has always supported him to live is Qimen, if he gives up Qimen, it is equivalent to giving up his life.

Therefore, he was very afraid to figure it out like Tang Sirong, this is the relationship between the spear and the shield, and it will never be solved until he finds Qimen, or uses his eyes to confirm what Qimen is.

"When did the statement Qimen originate, it is impossible to verify, but in the clues mastered by the Zhangrong Chasers, Qimen has a direct relationship with Manichaeism, and later in order to confuse the public, they linked Qimen with the filial piety treasure that was handed down from the Ming Dynasty onwards, and deviated from the direction of others looking for Qimen, which is why Shen Dongjun of the Puppet Manchurian Intelligence Department has not found Qimen, and furthermore, Xing Renju also has the task of guarding Xiaojin before it was presented to the Chaser Division, so naturally, Everyone associates Qimen with Hyojin. Wu Zi'an began a long story, "In fact, the two have nothing to do with each other, the clues handed down from the ancestors of the Zhangrong Cargo Master, in addition to the pair of thousand-year-old black-incense chopsticks, there is also a matching thousand-year-old black-incense bowl, plus the secrets carried by the Helian family, these three can only unravel the secret of Qimen." ”

The torture technique asked again: "What is going on with this Khan City, as well as the Cast Iron Immortal, and that prophet?" ”

"There is more than one prophet, and in every age there is one or two prophets, or rather, those who call themselves the vessels of the prophets' souls. The first generation of prophets who came to the East to preach was a self-proclaimed cast iron immortal in the Heaven and Earth Mansion, this person first preached in the Tang Dynasty, and then went to the Bohai Kingdom, because the culture of the Tang Dynasty was inherited there, but later the Khitan destroyed the country, when Yelubei followed the Bohai King to the Heaven and Earth Mansion, he was impressed by the miracles of the prophet, recognized the prophet as the messenger of the true God, became the servant of the prophet, and secretly spread Manichaeism in the territory of the Khitan, but was discovered, and finally had to flee to the Later Tang Dynasty to continue preaching. Wu Zi'an explained in detail, "Therefore, the labyrinth in the Jiacuo Temple, as well as the wrath of the witch god, are all remnants of Manichaeism's attempt to recover the miracles of the prophets. ”

So, they are trying to replace the so-called prophetic miracle with such a thing as the wrath of the witch god? Cure all diseases? Muffy suddenly understood.

Lian Jiuqi looked at the sealing knife on Wu Zi'an's waist: "Then what's going on with this knife?" We found one in the Golden Eagle Tribe before, but it was returned to the Ural Khan tribe, why do you still have it here? ”

Wu Zi'an untied the sealing sword: "Manichaeism was first introduced to the Central Plains in the Sui Dynasty, and the first generation ......of cast iron immortals was preached at that time."

"Wait!" The torture technique interrupted Wu Zi'an's words, "I'm a little confused, what is the matter with the prophet and the cast iron immortal?" How could there be such a name as the first generation of cast iron immortals? ”

Wu Zi'an explained: "In the Central Plains at that time, the title of prophet did not exist, this title came from the West, in Chinese the title of prophet was taken separately from the prophet, the first person to have this title was a Shang Dynasty named Yi Yin, but according to tradition, the earliest traditional emperor was also called prophet. Therefore, at that time, Manichaeism spread, all of them started with the skill of cast iron, and after the missionaries studied the Central Plains culture, they called themselves 'immortals', and over time, the three words cast iron immortals became prophets in Manichaeism, which actually meant the same thing. ”

The first generation of cast iron immortals, that is, after the prophet came to the Central Plains, the first disciple he received, and later became the commander of the forbidden army of the Tang Dynasty, and then the title of cast iron immortal was passed down from generation to generation by this leader, and the sealing knife he wore also became the container for the soul of the legendary prophet, and after it was passed to the generation of the cast iron immortal of the Heaven and Earth Mansion, Manichaeism did not really carry forward in the Central Plains, and the cast iron immortal in the Bohai Kingdom did not achieve his ultimate goal, so he accepted Yelubei as a disciple, and let him find an opportunity to return to the Central Plains.

At the same time, the cast iron fairy at that time also led a large number of people from the Bohai Kingdom to embark on the road to the Altai Mountains, because legend has it that the tomb of the earliest prophet, that is, Mani, was among them.

Finally, after Yelubei failed to preach and did not take the throne, he had to go to the Central Plains, with his final efforts, although the Central Plains left a group of pious Manichaean believers, but also left the mountain horse, that is, the later Iron Eagle Department and the Wolf Head, but it did not play much role in the spread of the entire sect, until the end of the Northern Song Dynasty, Manichaeism gradually developed under the role of the Fangla rebel army, but also because of the relationship between the rebel army, it was recognized as a cult by the imperial court.

At the same time, the Palms also rose to prominence, believing that the Manichaean series of failures were due solely to the failure to grasp the three miracles of the true prophets, and that it was their duty to bring them back.

After investigating for many years, the Zhangrong Chaser learned about the Cast Iron Immortal of Tiandifu and the Sudden Khan City, and learned the legend that the Cast Iron Immortal went to the Four Seasons Mountain, which is why the Zhangrong Chaser repeatedly persuaded Fang La not to go north and to go west.

In the end, Fang La failed, which made the Zhangrong chasers think that without the miracle, Manichaeism was useless, so they had to recover the miracle, so they used the remaining strength to gather a group of believers and began a long journey, and the way they used was the tribute gold boat of the Northern Song Dynasty.

Originally, the Northern Song Dynasty attacked the Khitan, and after reaching an alliance agreement with the Jin State, which was a vassal of the Khitan, it began not to transfer the tribute to the Jin State.

"Legend has it that there were several thousand people in this team, but after all kinds of battles along the way, when they reached the shores of Lake Dada, there were less than a thousand people left, but it was these thousand people who recast the tribute ship used to make iron in the caves under Lake Dada." Wu Zi'an seemed to be tired when he said this, he kept panting, and rested for a long time before continuing, "You must be strange, why are they making iron in the cave, right?" They smelted iron in the cave, mainly to refine the tools used to climb the snow-capped mountains, as well as the weapons used to storm the city of Khuhan, because the Zhangrong Chasers and their disciples knew very well that they were not authentic Manichaeism, so if there were any survivors of the Bohai people, they would definitely not obey them. ”

"That's why they pretend to be prophets and woo the Wolf Head and the Iron Eagle Tribe?" Before that, the Wolf Head and the Iron Eagle Department were originally incompatible with the remnants of the Bohai Sea, so to speak, the Zhangrong Chasers had already learned about the Sealing Blade, so they forged the leather painting? ”

"Yes, it is." Wu Zi'an continued, "The Zhangrong Cargo Division continued to divide the Wolf Head and the Iron Eagle Division, and at the same time, he also used the two tribes with strong combat power to capture Kuhan City, and in the name of the prophet, he controlled Kuhan City, and began to search for the secret of the miracle, and at the same time once again created a Sealing Sword, using this Sealing Knife, continued to expand the contradiction between the two tribes, the purpose is to prevent them from reuniting and pose a direct threat to the Khahan City they control. ”

Time flies, and the Zhangrong chasers here gradually find that there seems to be no prophet left here, except for the six strange murals, and in the years that followed, there were constantly Zhangrong chasers who left one after another, and they decided to continue westward to find the prophet, or return to the Central Plains to carry forward the unified Manichaeism founded in their own way.

Angu, who had been listening carefully, looked at the others, and when he didn't ask questions, he stood up and asked seriously: "When did the concept of Qimen come about?" ”

"To be precise, the concept of Qimen comes from the first generation of prophets who came to the East to preach, that is, during the Sui Dynasty, but this person was not Mani, but just one of his disciples, this disciple was once a well-known blacksmith in Persia, and he also created the title of Cast Iron Immortal." Wu Zi'an recalled carefully, this history was relatively vague to him......

When the first generation of cast iron immortals came to China, they did research for many years in order to familiarize themselves with Chinese culture, but they died after accepting the person who later became the commander of the forbidden army of the Tang Dynasty as an apprentice. His body was collected by his apprentice, that is, the second generation of cast iron immortals, and buried in an unknown place, but before he died, he had hidden the rare treasures accumulated by traveling to various countries over the years in a certain place, and the hiding place was hidden in his body.

The remaining cargo chasers who have been living in Khuhan City began to look for it from the beginning, and finally found that the secret should be hidden in the Sealing Sword, otherwise the second generation of cast iron immortals would not have paid so much attention to this sword, and passed it on from generation to generation, and let the remnants of Bohai bring this knife back to the Four Seasons Mountain and come here to establish a new Khan City.

Wu Zi'an raised the Sealing Sword: "They finally found that the knife pattern on the body of the Sealing Knife was a fragmentary map, and it took them many years to put together the map, and they found that it was in a certain mountain in the hinterland of the Central Plains, so they decided to leave with the Sealing Knife, but they were stopped by the remnants of the Bohai Sea......"

The remnants of the Bohai Sea informed the Palm Rong Merchant that if they wanted to take away the Prophet's relics, unless they were killed, they would use their bodies to block the Palm Rong Merchant who tried to take away the Sealed Blade, and they would also inform the other two tribes outside the city of Khuhan.

The Palms had no choice but to give up the Sealing Blade, and they had already gotten the map anyway.

Wu Zi'an looked at the sealing knife in his hand: "That group of people followed the map, and sure enough, they found the cemetery of the first generation of cast iron immortals, which was in a plain, and they spent a lot of manpower and material resources to dig dozens of meters before digging out the huge coffin, guess what they found in the coffin?" ”

Lian Jiuqi and the torture technique almost said in unison: "Millennial black incense chopsticks? ”

"Yes, the thousand-year-old black incense chopsticks, the whole coffin is made of iron, and it is full of carbon, and the corpse is also burned to ashes." Wu Zi'an looked at the dome of the hall, as if he was also at the scene, "They judged that after the coffin was buried, it was filled with green oka wood used to burn charcoal, and then put the body in it, put fire oil on it, and then seal the coffin and put it on the soil after it was almost burned." ”

After pulling all the coffins up, they found strange paintings on the exterior of the coffin, and after researching, they found that the front and back left and right baffles and the bottom of the coffin, and the painting on the coffin lid was actually a complete painting, so they used paper to pull it down, and after piecing it together, they finally found that it was a strange painting with a mountain and a pair of chopsticks.