Chapter 408: Hugging is not cold
The old woman's former and backward compliments made Liu Lang unacceptable, but what made Liu Lang unacceptable the most was her address to Liu Lang.
"Uncle? What the hell is Uncle? β
Xiaorou's face turned red, she glared at Rong Mama, who was kneeling on the ground, and said, "Rong Mama, didn't we say that we wouldn't mention this matter?" β
"How can you not mention it!" Rong Ma Ma raised his head and glanced at Xiao Rou, then turned to look at Liu Lang and said, "Uncle, please save our bitter master and servant!" β
Liu Lang stood in place, embarrassed, if it weren't for Ren Mingyue standing next to him, he would definitely have to ask clearly, but now Liu Lang didn't dare to ask, although he had a lot of doubts in his heart.
"Auntie, please start first, if there is anything you need help with, please say it is okay, as long as we can help, we will definitely help you!"
Ren Mingyue looked very generous, and she stepped forward to help the old woman up from the ground.
"Maybe the girl has been the master of the uncle?" Rong Mama looked at Ren Mingyue, and then at Liu Langdao on the side.
"It's done!"
Ren Mingyue smiled slightly, looked back at Liu Lang and said, "Husband, what do you say!" β
"Of course I did, Lord!" Liu Lang smiled embarrassedly, then looked at Rong Ma Ma and said: "This aunt, you can eat more, you can't talk nonsense, I don't know you, I don't know you, I don't know you, and I already have a wife, you can't call me nonsense anymore!" β
"It's an old body that is abrupt!" Rong Ma Ma looked up at Liu Lang and said, "Uncle, have you ever heard of the legend of the Sunset Empire?" β
Rong Ma Ma said abruptly in the previous sentence, and still called Liu Lang's aunt in the next sentence, which made Liu Lang embarrassed, he peeked at Ren Mingyue who was standing next to him, but fortunately she didn't show any mind on her face.
"I've heard it!" Liu Lang no longer bothered with the question of title, he looked down at Rong Ma Ma and said, "The Sunset Empire is just a legend, what are you asking for?" β
"The Sunset Empire is not a legend, it is a magnificent empire that has really existed!" Rong Ma Ma said, pulled Xiao Rou behind him to Liu Lang and said: "Xiao Rou is the daughter of Huai Yade, the first generation of the Sunset Empire, and I am her servant Rong Ma Ma!" β
"Wait a minute!" Liu Lang scratched the back of his head and said: "If I remember correctly, the Sunset Empire has disappeared for thousands of years, this little girl is only seventeen or eighteen years old, and you will be around seventy or eighty years old if you die, please make up nonsense and make it up a little more reliable!" β
"Uncle, don't be impatient!" Rong Ma Ma sighed and said, "Listen to the old body slowly!" β
"More than 1,900 years ago, there was a great desert on the earth called the sun that never sets, and there lived on the desert a nomadic people named Takla, who was the predecessor of the Sunset Empire." Rong Ma Ma took a deep breath and continued: "The Takla nation, under the leadership of the leader Wyad, defeated one tribe after another in the southern and northern wars, and finally created a magnificent and vast empire. β
"Wyad is a great and brave king, he led thousands of Yellow Sand soldiers to build the world-famous golden city of the Sunset Empire, but as time went by, King Wyad was dying of old age, and the growth of age made him more and more anxious, he didn't want to die, because his dream of conquering the world was not yet completed, he was worried that after his death, the Sunset Empire would fall into the hands of people with bad intentions, so he sent people everywhere to find medicine that could make people immortalββ"
"The person you're talking about is Qin Shi Huang, right?"
The story told by Rong Mama, the first person Liu Lang remembered was Emperor Qin Yingzheng, who single-handedly built the Great Qin Dynasty, and in the end it was still difficult to escape for a hundred years.
"Uncle doesn't understand what the old man said, is Qin Shi Huang also such a great person?" Rong Ma asked puzzled.
"It's almost, it's not great!" Liu Lang seemed to have thought of something, and hurriedly asked: "King Huaiyade sent people to find the medicine of immortality, what is the name of the person who sent out, and where did he go?" β
The Great Qin Dynasty has a history of almost two thousand years, and Huaiyade's experience is very similar to Yingzheng, is there such a possibility, Huaiyade is Yingzheng, and the Sunset Empire is the Great Qin Dynasty?
Rong Ma Ma didn't think about it, and said directly: "It's a warlock named Xu Fu, I heard that he went to the overseas islands, as for where he went, the old body doesn't know, because Xu Fu didn't mention the process of finding the elixir of immortality after he came back later!" β
"No, it won't!"
Liu Lang just guessed casually, but he didn't expect that the warlock sent out by Huaiyade was also called Xu Fu, could it really be such a coincidence? If the Sunset Empire is the Great Qin Dynasty, why is there no historical record in history?
"Is there a problem, uncle?" Rong Mama looked up at Liu Lang in surprise.
Not only Liu Lang, but even Ren Mingyue was shocked, she muttered for a long time before saying: "The story told by Auntie is very similar to the Great Qin Dynasty in the historical records on the earth, the king of Great Qin is not called Huai Yade, but Ying Zheng!" β
"I don't know, the historical materials are all written by later generations, maybe someone maliciously tampered with history!" Rong Ma Ma shook his head and said.
Even if history is maliciously tampered with, the truth will always be handed down, so this possibility is very small, but Liu Lang can't figure out what the relationship between the Sunset Empire and the Great Qin Dynasty is.
"It's okay, just keep talking!" Liu Lang looked at Rong Ma Ma and said, "You said that the person named Xu Fu came back later, did he find the elixir of immortality?" β
"Hmm!" Rong Ma Ma nodded and said: "Xu Fu did bring the elixir of immortality, but the consumption of the elixir of immortality needs to be assisted by a sacrificial ritual called the Ascension Ritual, which requires the sacrifice of the hearts of a thousand virgins, a thousand virgins, and a thousand livestock, otherwise, the ascension will not be successful, and the king will not be immortal!" β
"Although King Wyad has killed countless people in the battles of the north and south, he has great respect for life, especially if he is asked to kill two thousand boys and girls, he can't do it!"
"The ceremony didn't take place?" Liu Lang asked.
"Done!" Rong Ma Ma smiled bitterly and said, "Although this ritual is very cruel, in the face of immortality, King Huaiyad finally chose to sacrifice two thousand boys and girls. β
"However, the imperial soldiers searched all the families in the country, and finally found only a thousand virgins and nine hundred and ninety-nine virgins, and one virgin was missing, and the ceremony could not be carried out, so the warlock Xu Fu set his sights on the princess Xiaorou, who was still in infancy at the timeββ"
"No, it won't!" Liu Lang sneered and said: "A generation of emperors is not even willing to let go of their own daughters in order to live forever? β
"Yes!" Rong Ma hesitated for a moment, and finally nodded helplessly.
"And how did you survive?" Liu Lang looked at Rong Ma Ma and Xiao Rou and was puzzled.
"Xiao Rou's mother, the high priest of the Empire, found me the night before the incident, and she asked me to take Xiao Rou out of the palace in her infancy. I obeyed the order and left the palace with Xiaorou that night. β
"Xiao Rou was taken away by you, what about the Ascension Ceremony?"
"The High Priest is a person with supernatural powers, and she used a tanuki to transform into Xiao Rou and sent her to the Ascension Stage."
"So, the Ascension Ritual ultimately failed?" Liu Lang asked.
"Failed!" Rong Ma Ma nodded and said: "King Huaiyade died in the ascension ceremony, and the warlock Xu Fu found out that it was the high priest who did it, so he led the imperial soldiers to capture the high priest, and hanged himself on the ascension platform in front of the entire imperial soldiers in the afternoon of the same day. β
"The emperor was killed by his wife, and the queen was forced to hang herself by her subordinates, and the most exciting palace fight drama of the year is not as exciting as the civil strife of the Sunset Empire!" Liu Lang couldn't help laughing.
Ren Mingyue glanced at Liu Lang and said: "Ruthlessness is the most emperor's family, sometimes, after being a royal family, many helplessness and tragedies are destined to be unavoidable!" β
"The girl's words are very true, ruthlessness is the most emperor's family, and it is not a blessing for ordinary people at the end of Wuyi Alley and ordinary people!" Rong Ma Ma sighed and said: "I left the Sunset Empire incognito with Xiaorou, and since then the master and servant have relied on each other, and sixteen years have passed!" β
"The story isn't over yet?" Liu Lang was surprised.
"Nope!" Rong Ma Ma shook his head and said, "After the death of King Huaiyade and the High Priest, the Warlock Xu Fu established himself as king, and sixteen years later, he started the ascension ceremony again!" β
"He also wants to live forever?" Liu Lang was surprised.
"Yes!" Rong Ma Ma nodded and said: "Originally, this matter has nothing to do with me, my task is just to raise Xiaorou to grow up well, so that she can live her life safely and worry-free." Who knew that an imperial general found us, and he told us that the king Huaiyad was not dead, he was just put under house arrest by the warlock Xu Fu, and the warlock Xu Fu wanted to ask him about the whereabouts of the golden scepter, but it did not succeed, and it was not Huaiyad himself who ordered to sacrifice Xiaorou sixteen years ago, but a puppet made by the warlock Xu Fu. β
"What the hell is the Golden Scepter?" Liu Lang's head was full of black lines, and he felt that his IQ was no longer enough.
"The golden scepter is a symbol of the power of the empire, and it is also the key to open the underground imperial tomb, the warlock Xu Fu not only wants to get the throne of the empire, he also wants to get a certain burial object in the imperial tomb."
"And then?" Liu Lang asked.
"The Imperial General wants to welcome Xiao Rou back to the Sun Empire to rescue King Wyad and expose the conspiracy of the warlock Xu Fu. However, I strongly oppose this, I have raised Xiaorou for sixteen years, and I don't want her to get involved in these royal power struggles again! Rong Ma Ma sighed, looked up at Xiao Ju and said, "But this kid is disobedient, and he still went back to the Sunset Empire with the imperial general behind my back." β
"After I knew the news, I chased back the Sunset Empire all the way, but when I arrived at the scene, the ascension ceremony had ended, and the door of the underground imperial tomb was also opened, I was worried about Xiaorou's safety, and I didn't think much about it and walked into the underground imperial tomb, at that time, the sky swirled, the entire Sunset Empire seemed to have an earthquake, the entrance of the imperial tomb collapsed, and I was crushed in a ruin, and when I woke up, I found myself lying in a desert, and Xiao Rou was lying next to me covered in blood."
"What's going on here?" Liu Lang looked at Rong Mama and asked.
"I have to ask Xiaorou about this, because I was unconscious at the time, and I didn't have any memory at all!" Rong Ma Ma shook his head and said.
"Xiaorou?" Liu Lang looked back at Xiao Rou and asked.
"When I arrived at the Sunset Empire, the Ascension Ritual was nearing its end, and although I tried my best to stop the Warlock Xu Fu, he succeeded." Xiao Rou frowned slightly, as if she was lost in thought.
"He gained endless power, and easily destroyed the rebels led by the Imperial General, and then he brought me to my father, and used me to threaten my father to tell him the whereabouts of the Golden Scepter, and then he used the Golden Scepter to open the entrance to the underground Imperial Tomb."
"In the underground imperial tomb, my mother's spirit came forward to save me, she told me a secret, it turns out that the underground imperial tomb of the Sunset Empire is connected to a devil's world, and the golden scepter is the key to open the portal, and she asked me to prevent the warlock Xu Fu from opening the portal and prevent the devil from entering our world."
"But I failed, and although my mother passed on the Nine Curved Finger Twisters to me, I still couldn't stop the warlock Xu Fu from opening the portal. When the portal was opened, the Sunset Empire collapsed, the Imperial City sank underground, and the boundless desert swallowed the oasis. Just as thousands of demons were about to step into this world through the portal, the gods of the ancestors awakened, and they used their supreme magic power to turn the Sunset Empire into a sealing enchantment, preventing the demons' iron horsemen from stepping into the realm of living beings. β
"This is where the seal is!" Xiao Rou pointed around and said, "Under this red desert, the Imperial City of the Sunset Empire is buried, and this desert is the demon path that connects the living realm and the sentient beings. β
Speaking of this, Xiao Rou glanced at Rong Ma Ma, and said with a sad expression: "The Demon Dao is a place cursed by time, time here will not flow, and there is no difference between a year, ten years, and a hundred years and a second in the outside world. β
Liu Lang frowned deeply, and said after a while: "In other words, this desert transformed by the Sunset Empire is the Demon Dao, and entering the Afterlife Realm from any portal is the only way to go?" β
"That's right!" Xiao Rou nodded and said, "We are the guardians here, and only by guarding the Demon Dao can the devils not be able to break through the enchantment of the realm of living beings." β
"No wonder I saw you in the portal of Kunlun Mountain, and I also saw you in the portal of Tianye Grand Canyon!" Liu Lang said thoughtfully.
"The Demon Dao is already on the verge of destruction, the mana left by the gods of the ancestors can't support too much time, there are already devils who can freely travel between the two worlds, it won't be long before the entire Demon Dao will collapse, and then peace will cease to exist, and hell will come to the realm of all beings."
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