"Well, that's a long story......

Maybe he drank too much, but Li Lao's emotions were a little excited, and his face turned slightly red.

Since his grandfather's death, Chen Tao has not seen such an old Li for a long time.

Chen Tao didn't speak, and quietly listened to Li Lao tell Chen about the mausoleum guards.

In 195 B.C., Liu Bang, the ancestor of the Han Dynasty, set up a mausoleum guard, which was recorded in the "Gaozu Benji": "In December, Gaozu said: 'Qin Shi Huang, Chu Yin King Chen She, Wei Anjiao Wang, Qi Mian Wang, Zhao Mourning Xiang Wang are all without a queen, to guard the tomb of ten each, Qin Emperor 20, Wei Gongzi Wuji 5, and then set up 35 households, and guard the remaining six royal family and noble tombs. ”

The family that can be selected will naturally not be ordinary people.

Each of them has been carefully selected and has their own ability to reach the sky. Knowledgeable about astronomy and geography, knowing the magic and understanding the mechanism, all of them are stunts, and they are all top masters.

And the Chen family is one of them.

"Han Gaozu Liu Bang?"

Chen Tao was shocked.

No wonder Uncle Long once said that the Chen family is a mausoleum keeper, but he didn't expect that the historical origin of the Chen family is even older than he imagined!

"Hmm." Nodding, Li Lao continued to speak.

"It is said to be guarding the tomb, but in fact, it is guarding the things in the tomb."

"What's in the tomb, is it a spirit?" Chen Tao asked.

"It's not the Spirit, but it has a lot to do with the Spirit." Li Lao Dao.

"What's that?"

"Things that shouldn't appear in the world....... "Li Lao looked at Chen Tao's eyes, "Those things can subvert everything!" ”

Taking a sip of wine, Li Lao told Chen Tao and the others a secret history hidden behind history.

With the change of dynasties and the change of generations, these families and those princes and generals have been drowned in the long river of history.

One after another, the Shouling family was scattered, and in order to survive and develop, some of the remaining families began to seek other ways of life.

Some became businessmen, some became officials, some became street artists, and some became operators and craftsmen. Others, taking advantage of their identity and ability, have done a trick of touching the gold.

But in the end, it is under the control of the Liu clan.

The Liu clan controls all the mausoleum keepers, even if the Han Dynasty has been destroyed for thousands of years, nearly half of the descendants of the mausoleum keepers have not been able to escape from the Liu clan's control.

The horror of those people is beyond everyone's imagination. The Tomb Keeper family has resisted for thousands of years, but no one has been able to escape from the clutches of the Liu family.

Under the power, there must be resistance, and an undercurrent is quietly brewing between the mausoleum keepers and the Liu family.

Gaozu calculated the right time and place, but after all, he failed to break people's hearts. He never thought that it was the Liu family themselves who eventually led to the split.

The original Liu family was also the guardian, but unexpectedly, some people of the Liu family were thinking about the secrets in the tomb, and in order to get those things, they conspired to kill the patriarch of the Liu clan at that time and controlled the entire Liu family.

Since then, everything has changed.

The imperial power was overthrown, and the mountains and rivers were in turmoil. When the whole of China fell into the chaos of warlords and the artillery fire of various powers, those families who had been controlled for thousands of years saw a glimmer of opportunity.

So, someone entered the mausoleum and discovered the secret that Gaozu wanted to hide.

That secret is enough to make people do whatever it takes.

Under desire, everything becomes worthless.

The first person who discovered the secret broke the oath of his ancestors and attacked the place they had guarded for thousands of years.

Like a pebble suddenly thrown into a calm lake, the chaos and contention become more and more intense, and finally it is completely out of control. Even within the Liu family, there were disagreements, and some people broke away from the Liu family's power.

originally thought that with this time, he would be able to get out of the control of the Liu family, but it turned out to be a big bloodbath.

The main forces of the Liu family united with the conservative camp among the mausoleum keepers, and began to clean up the other mausoleum keeper families. Some families were afraid of the power of the Liu family and chose to submit to it, while others retired to the rivers and lakes and never came out again.

In that dark and chaotic era, the mausoleum keepers were torn apart. There are only a few families who are unwilling to be controlled by the Liu family and are bent on getting rid of such a situation.

In order to survive, they were forced to unite, and thus, the Spirit Alliance was born.

Almost all of these mausoleum guardian families in the Spirit League are merchants, and their business is both black and white, and there are also some warlords and local forces.

Countless struggles, I don't know how many people died. Lingmeng finally won a position for himself, a position where he could resist face-to-face with the Liu family.

As a result, the two sides reached a brief stalemate.

After the founding of the People's Republic of China, all the ancient tomb sites were protected by the state, resulting in the loss of the meaning of some of the remaining tomb keeper families.

Thus, the second major reshuffle in the family of the mausoleum keepers began.

By this time, the oath of the ancestors had long been forgotten, and the only bond was left with one thing.

That's the benefits.

In order to further disintegrate the Spirit Alliance, under the secret control of the Liu family, with those weak tomb keeper families as the fuse, some powerful families began to annex and encroach on some small families, while the weak small families held each other, or attached themselves to a certain big-name family to resist the annexation of the rest of the forces.

At that time, the Chen family had become one of several big-name families under the management of Chen Tao's grandfather Chen You, and absorbed the power of several small and medium-sized families who took refuge.

Li Lao's master, Zhou Yaoting, is the person of the Zhou family who stood on the side of the Chen family in that reshuffle.

Zhou Yaoting had no son, and Li Lao married Zhou Yaoting's only daughter and Zhou Yaoting's only apprentice, so he naturally became the heir of the Zhou family's forces.

Over the years, Li Lao has been following his grandfather, and the two have traveled north and south, and they are like brothers.

From beginning to end, Li Lao has never left, even now.

Chen You died suddenly, and the Lingmeng group was leaderless, so some families began to sit still again.

They were originally big clans, and they succumbed to the Chen family just to obtain greater benefits in the Spirit Alliance.

Now that the Spirit Alliance has no owner, it will naturally start some other thoughts.

"Tao Yanzi, now do you know how much pressure the Chen and Li families are bearing. Once the Lingmeng is in civil strife, the Liu family will inevitably take the opportunity to cut in, and when the time comes, everything will be over. ”

"Since it's because there is no alliance leader, then why don't we just set up another one?"

"It's as simple as you think." Elder Li sighed heavily, "Do you know, why is the leader of the alliance your grandfather Chen You?" ”

Chen Tao has never thought about this question.

He always thought that his grandfather, as the pillar of the Chen family, should be the head of the Spirit Alliance.

But listening to what Li Lao meant, could it be that there are other hidden secrets?

"Well, I really don't know, grandpa never told me this."

"Back then, everyone on the road called the shopkeeper of the Chen family a golden eye and a ghost eye. It is precisely because of him that the Chen family can rise from the cracks and then take charge of the Spirit Alliance. ”

"Golden Pupil Ghost Eyes......" Chen Tao muttered, and suddenly recalled in his mind that when he was in the Valley of Cannibalism, Yan's eyes suddenly turned red, and even controlled Chen Tao's whole person.

That feeling like falling into an ice cellar, even now that I think about it, Chen Tao still feels a little uncomfortable.

At that time, Yan and Uncle Long seemed to be arguing about something, but Chen Tao didn't understand it at that time.

Although Chen Tao found that his eyes had also changed after passing through Tatunaan, he didn't know what was going on at all.

"The family that was chosen by Gaozu as the guardian of the tomb is not just ordinary people, their other identity ....." Li Lao looked at the two, "It is the descendant of the funeral guard!" ”

"Funeral Guard!" Chen Tao's hand shook as he picked up the vegetables, "You mean that the legendary burial guards who can deal with spirits are legendary!" ”

Chen Tao is not calm, if those people are the descendants of the funeral guard, then the Chen family, and even himself......

"Elder Li, can you tell me about the so-called spirit, the funeral guard, and everything in the forbidden ruins!" Chen Tao clenched his fists tightly, looked at Li Lao with two eyes, and there was a hint of urgency in his voice.

Li Lao didn't speak, looked at Chen Tao, frowned, as if he had made some decision, raised his hand and took a sip of wine and said:

"Well, if you want to hear it, it doesn't hurt to tell you."

Li Lao looked at Chen Tao and suddenly asked a very strange question.

"Tao Yanzi, do you believe in history?"

"History?" Chen Tao was stunned, this question made Chen Tao a little confused.

"It's okay, say whatever comes to mind." Li Lao smiled kindly, with a somewhat flushed face, and a pair of eyes with an indescribable look.

"Uh...... Believe it. Chen Tao didn't know how to answer.

The so-called success, prince, and loser, history is written by the victors, but all the ancient history books that have survived to the present, Chen Tao dare not say that he believes 100% of what he says, but he is more recognized.

"As we all know, the earliest recorded dynasty is the Xia Dynasty, but do you know what it is further on?"

"Go further, the Three Emperors and Five Emperors Rao Shunyu." Chen Tao said seriously.

"And what about further on?" Elder Li continued to ask.

"Pangu opened the world, and Fuxi Nuwa created people?" Chen Tao replied tentatively.

"Further on?" Elder Li didn't say anything, but continued to ask.

"Old Li, don't sell it, there will be big apes left before that." Chen Tao really didn't know how to answer.

"I've been thinking about a question for so many years." Li Lao smiled, "Where did we come from?" ”

"When I first learned about the magical existence of the Spirit and the Burial Guard, I was stupid."

"We have always believed that history cannot be reversed, and that life and death cannot be escaped. But then I found out that we were all wrong. ”

"What you see is just the tip of the iceberg. You will never know what is unknown in the endless darkness, in the untouchable abyss. ”

"The secret of the spirit has been passed down from generation to generation by the mausoleum keepers. There is growing evidence that those things are not of our time. ”

"What do you mean?" Chen Tao didn't understand what Li Lao meant.

"I'm afraid, they belong to the remnants of the last civilization, or even earlier!"

"The last civilized era!" Li Lao said amazingly.

Humans were born only 5 million years ago, while the Earth has been around for 4.6 billion years.

Whether other civilizations have been born in such a long period of time, no one knows, and there is no research.

And among these civilizations, there will be more advanced life forms that far surpass those of today's human beings, no one knows.

"I can't describe what 'it' is, in a way, it's a very, very special being, it's more like an evil life energy body that exists in some ancient and mysterious depths of the earth, capable of altering and mutating the creatures that come into contact with it. And what we call spirit is actually the product of the combination and mutation of human beings or other creatures and that kind of energy body. ”

"The changes brought about by this energy body are extremely terrifying, and it will make all life that comes into contact with it go crazy, lose their minds, and finally become terrible monsters. This kind of existence is already extraordinary, but I didn't expect it......" Li Lao drank the remaining wine in the cup in one gulp.

"There are even more incredible existences!"