Chapter 143: Eight Divine Generals
Ji Hao's story sounds very ethereal, even more than some folklore. But when he said it with his calm expression, it was surprisingly convincing.
"Finished with the story?" I took a sip of the coffee that had cooled down, and looked at Ji Hao who stopped after a tirade.
Ji Hao nodded and said, "It's over, at least, the story of fourteen hundred years ago is over here." β
"The story is good, but unfortunately, I'm not interested in the story of more than a thousand years ago." I put my coffee cup down on the table.
Ji Hao chuckled: "Mr. Lin, it should be Anna who cares, right?" Then you can rest assured that according to the information I have received, she has recovered and improved. β
"Is it the news you get, or is it the information that you don't have to know to know?" I looked directly at Ji Hao's bottomless eyes and asked faintly.
Ji Hao's eyes were still calm and amazing, and his bland words did not fluctuate at all: "I 'got' the news, Mr. Lin." Besides, you don't have to rush to leave, the helicopter of the Ji family will come here to pick us up at noon tomorrow. β
"I'm sorry, but being in the same space with you will upset my stomach." I didn't mean to be moved by Ji Hao's words, I stood up and wanted to leave, but after a pause, I said, "Also, Anna is right." In the future, I'd better not have anything to do with you. β
Ji Hao's eyes changed slightly as he watched me stand up, and said, "Mr. Lin, aren't you curious about the reason why the three sisters and brothers of Usheri went to great lengths?" β
"Resurrection and sΓ©ance? Eternal life? I said dismissively, "You don't want to tell me that too, do you?" Even if it is, don't say it, I'm not curious. β
"Including, the tall stone tablet in the tomb?" Ji Hao looked at me and said, "Mr. Lin listened to my story, haven't you realized it?" Is that stele the stele the stele erected by the empress Wu Cong 1,400 years ago? β
Ji Hao's words successfully made my footsteps pause for a moment, and my brows furrowed.
When I heard Ji Hao's story just now, I already had this association. What's more, I have seen another stone tablet with my own eyes, which adds to the truth of Ji Hao's unreliable legend.
Even though, I don't care about the stone tablet in this Poison Dragon Peak.
But I can't help but care about the Zhenlong Monument at the bottom of Zhangjia Village, the third uncle and Sun Hong are uncertain, and Jiang Fang said that Fu Ying's soul is still in the demon Jiao, and I don't know what to do to get it back.
These things are like little chains, tugging at my nerves and tugging at my heart.
I frowned and turned around, getting along with someone like Ji Hao, I also found some experience. In front of this kind of person, you must not let him know what you want, otherwise you will be unlucky.
Therefore, I didn't say anything about seeing the Zhenlong Monument, I just pouted and said, "Ji Dashao, have you been sleeping in a daze recently?" Do you really think that kind of legend of unknown origin is true? β
Ji Hao shook his head slightly and said, "It's not an empty legend, Mr. Lin. I'll tell you why I would want to stop the three Usheri siblings, and why I know the story. β
When Ji Hao said this, Ji Yining seemed to think of something, the expression on his face suddenly froze, put down the pistol, and said impatiently: "Cousin, do you want to tell an outsider about that?" β
"It's okay if it's inconvenient, I'd rather be an uninformed outsider." I followed Ji Yining's words, but I wasn't worried that Ji Hao would really be persuaded by Ji Yining.
Ji Hao waved his hand and said, "No, we still need Mr. Lin's help in this matter." It is appropriate to be sincere in giving appropriate information first. β
"But..." Ji Yining finally sat back, and I also sat back in my position, waiting to listen to Ji Hao's explanation with my hands around my chest.
Ji Hao closed his eyes slightly, as if he had sorted out his thoughts, and then said, "Since I talked about the eight divine generals before, let's start with the eight divine generals." After Emperor Wucong ordered the suppression of the Eight Evils, he sealed eight more troops as the Eight Divine Generals, and guarded the seal for generations. β
But in fact, the eight generals who sealed the eight evils did not get a good death.
At that time, the leaders of the eight generals were the four princes selected by Wu Cong from the descendants surnamed Li, and the four generals selected from the twelve guards.
The eight people who were selected were under the direct jurisdiction of the emperor, and there were no taboos in and out of the court, and they received many awards for their great contributions to the court, which can be described as a time of complacency.
But what I didn't expect was that endless glory and wealth were a splendid road of no return paved to the guillotine.
Four kings and four generals, eight people were executed by Emperor Wucong in various names, and the methods of death were different.
The fate of the four generals was extremely miserable, some were Ling Chi, some were beheaded in half, some were split into five horses, and some were beheaded.
And the four kings are descendants of the surname Li, who were originally feared by the empress. After the death of the four generals, the four kings also began to panic all day, but they could not escape death, or committed suicide, or drank dove wine, and the end was slightly better than that of the four generals, and they were all left with their bodies.
But none of the four kings' families, young and old, were spared and were all uprooted by the empress!
The four mansions are said to have been bloodied overnight, and everyone nearby could hear the screams until dawn.
The ruthlessness and decisiveness of Wu Cong's actions have been recorded many times in history. But hearing such a story still gives me a feeling that I can't help but feel creepy.
Ji Hao paused slightly when he said this, and then continued to talk about the next thing.
After the death of the four kings and four generals, the corpses were shockingly resentful, shrouding the divine capital Luoyang in dark clouds.
Yuan Shunchen, the nephew of Yuan Tiangang, was surprised to see this when he returned from Yunyou, and after finding out the reason, he asked Emperor Wu Cong for an order to bury the eight tombs.
Emperor Wu agreed to build eight more tombs at the eight dragon veins of the Yanhuang Earth that sealed the eight evils. Yuan Sunchen then exerted thaumaturgy and 'resurrected' the dead corpses, summoning his subordinates when he had sealed the Eight Evils.
The eight generals thought that the leader was not dead and was driven by him, and Yuan Sunchen skillfully arranged the formation with the Tongxuan Dao method. With eight generals of 800 people each, they laid down an innate gossip array, set the bodies of the four kings and four generals as the eyes of the array, and sent them all the way to the tomb safely.
Legend has it that the tomb was designed according to the direction of the four elephants, and the four kings and four generals were too angry to be grounded, so they could only lie in the coffin.
At this point, the four kings and four generals put their bodies into the coffin, and the eight generals were already done.
But the development of events was beyond Yuan Sunchen's expectations, and Emperor Wu Cong ordered that the tomb be closed outside and all eight soldiers were sealed in it.
Martyrdom!
A tomb of nearly 1,000 people, the resentment is unimaginable.
Moreover, it is in the eight dragon veins, and the Yin Soul corpse will be nourished to be more powerful and terrifying.
However, it is precisely because of this that the tomb and the evil stele induce each other, and deter the eight evil spirits suppressed under the evil stele.
Let them mistakenly think that the eight gods who suppressed them back then are still alive and guarding them. After thousands of years, the monument to suppress evil still stands, and the eight evils still can't get out!
Hearing this, I finally figured out what the empress had gone to great lengths to do.
She deliberately let the four kings and four generals soar, and then kicked them down the clouds, took everything, slaughtered the three clans, and maximized the resentment of the four kings and four generals!
So far, the design and layout have been re-designed, and finally all eight generals have been buried in the eight tombs!
Thinking about this, I just felt a chill in the back of my head.
If what Ji Hao said was true, the empress's mind could really be said to be unscrupulous to achieve the goal, she didn't care how many victims she would have in her thoughts, and even calculated the usefulness of those sacrifices.
In terms of the means used, it is appalling!
"Hearing this, does Mr. Lin still think that I will say another nonsense story?" Ji Hao looked at my expression, chuckled, and asked indifferently.
I looked at him, collected my thoughts, took a deep breath, and said, "I remember you said that this is not an empty story, right?" β
"Yes." Ji Hao nodded, sighed softly, his eyes became a little deep, like obsidian flashing a little bright, "Now, there are four families on the east side of the Yanhuang Land. Maybe you know, Ji Jiang Su Song, this is actually some of the current good deeds by themselves, in terms of origin, only the Jiang family can be ranked with our Ji family, they are all ancient families inherited from 1,400 years ago. β
My face changed slightly, staring at Ji Hao's face, and asked, "You don't want to tell the story you said..."
"That is the history of blood recorded in the ancestral shrine of our Su family." Ji Hao took a deep breath and said in a deep voice, "We are a bloodline inheritance of the Eight Divine Generals. β