Chapter 149: Historical Rivals Gather

It was General Zhao and Wei Zhongxian who fought the red-scaled python in the cave. What kind of immortal is Wei Zhongxian, and why is he here? He and General Zhao and Zhang Xianzhong, the Yin Devouring King, are both from the same era, and they are said to have some origins. Wei Zhongxian was a eunuch during the Wanli and Tianqi periods at the end of the Ming Dynasty. When Wei Zhongxian was young, his family was poor, illiterate, and he wandered the streets, often gambling with a group of evil teenagers. Once, Wei Zhongxian lost all his money after gambling, felt very distressed, regretted, and when he was desperate, he swung a knife from the palace and entered the palace, and the emperor gave him the name Wei Zhongxian. Wei Zhongxian colluded with the emperor's nursing mother in the palace, and got the respect of Ming Xizong, and gradually soared, tyrannical and domineering, wantonly eradicated dissidents, inserted party henchmen, cruelly-cool-persecuted-Donglin party members, built shrines all over the country, and did evil. After Emperor Chongzhen ascended the throne, Wei Zhongxian was impeached, exiled to Fengyang, and committed suicide on the way.

After the death of Wei Zhongxian, like Zhang Xianzhong, the king of Yin Devouring, he was unruly in front of the king of Hades, and the king of Hades had nothing to do with him. Wei Zhongxian himself was a person who died by suicide, and it was difficult to be reincarnated, and the king of Hades didn't want to care about it, so he let him wander around in the fourth dimension of the underworld. When Wei Zhongxian was alive, he built many ancestral halls among the people, and accumulated a lot of energy through sacrificial activities. In the fourth dimension, no one cared about him, and he relied on the energy accumulated by these ancestral shrines to feed his soul. After Wei Zhongxian died, his ancestral hall was smashed, and the energy accumulated before slowly sat down and ate empty, and a few years later, when his energy was about to be exhausted, that is, when Li Zicheng was about to invade Beijing, and Emperor Chongzhen was about to hang himself on the coal mountain, Emperor Chongzhen suddenly regretted killing Wei Zhongxian and sent someone to bury Wei Zhongxian. Although he did not announce it to the world, Wei Zhongxian had been rehabilitated in the mind of Emperor Chongzhen, so his energy in the fourth dimensional supernatural space continued.

The Yin Devouring King sent the mountain god to lure General Zhao in the cave, but General Zhao was unmoved. The Yin Devouring King moved his murderous intent to make General Zhao's soul scatter. The mountain god who had returned to the Yin Devouring King inquired in many ways, and found Wei Zhongxian's soul through various means. Although this Wei Zhongxian brutalized Zhongliang and excluded dissidents, he was still very heartfelt towards the Ming Dynasty in his heart. The mountain god told Wei Zhongxian that he had found the soul of General Zhao, who had besieged Zhang Xianzhong but betrayed the imperial court and surrendered to the thieves. Wei Zhongxian hated the anti-thief Zhang Xianzhong, and he also hated General Zhao who surrendered to the anti-thief, and at the instigation of the mountain god, Wei Zhongxian was going to clean up General Zhao.

Wei Zhongxian's soul came to General Zhao's cave, and as soon as they met, they scuffled, fighting and arguing. General Zhao scolded Wei Zhongxian and said: "You dead eunuch, it is precisely because you persecuted Zhongliang, eradicated dissidents, and harmed the people that the Ming Dynasty will perish!" Today, we meet on a narrow road, and I want to make your soul fly! ”

Wei Zhongxian was not to be outdone, and scolded: "When the old man was alive, he always helped the imperial court suppress the Houjin rebellion in Liaodong. As a general, why did you surrender to the bandit leader Zhang Xianzhong? The old man is going to make your soul fly away today! ”

"I didn't surrender! I was slandered by the literati of the Donglin Party who brought disaster to the country and the people! General Zhao told Wei Zhongxian about his counterinsurgency experience.

"Hey, I can't get used to the literati of the Donglin Party. One by one, they can only talk, full of benevolence, righteousness and morality, and they say...... Mencius said...... Whatever, they didn't do practical things at all, that is, they caused the Manchu Qing Dynasty to enter the customs and the Ming Dynasty to fall. Wei Zhongxian said angrily. He had been fighting with the Donglin Party since he was alive, and he is still like this for hundreds of years after he died.

"You don't know that there are people who scold you in the history books, and there are also people who scold the Donglin Party, but they scold you even more! You brutalized Zuo Guangdou, Yang Lian and other righteous gentlemen, and now people are still scolding you! General Zhao said.

"History is written by literati, and if I offend them, they will naturally scold me, and I will only record my evil deeds in the history books. I just can't get used to them, and I just want to fight them. They are full of benevolence, righteousness and morality, people-oriented, the imperial court needs money to levy Liaodong, they don't pay money, they don't tax those rich people in Jiangnan to fight, but tax those poor people. They are the rich people, how can they tax themselves for their own benefit? The common people suffered from famine, and they also raised taxes on the common people, which caused Li Zicheng and Zhang Xianzhong to rebel, and it was they who brought down the Ming Dynasty! Emperor Chongzhen called them to donate money to pay the soldiers, but they cried poor and only donated 200,000 taels. After Li Zicheng broke through Beijing, he was tortured and seized more than 70 million taels of silver from them! How can they have a country in their hearts? Wei Zhongxian said.

"When you were alive, you taxed them, why did you kill those famous men?" General Zhao asked.

"They can only recite poems and write articles, they turn a blind eye to the danger of the country, they can't come up with countermeasures, and they don't pull out a dime, if I don't get them, I won't be able to get the military salary for the expedition to Liaodong!" Wei Zhongxian said.

"They slandered me for surrendering to the thieves, beheaded my whole family, and erased my name from the history books. I asked a modern person, and he said he didn't see my name in the history books. General Zhao said.

"They love to play false, and their historical reputation has been earned by them, and I have to leave it for 10,000 years!" Wei Zhongxian said.

"I'll tell you now, that Zhang Xianzhong is the current Yin Devouring King, and he has bought the mountain god. The mountain gods instigated you, let us duel, they can sit and reap the benefits of the fishermen! General Zhao said.

"Let's not be fooled, we should join forces to deal with the Yin Devouring King!" Wei Zhongxian said.

There was a whirring wind, and the red-scaled python burrowed into the cave. This python is a yin thing, and you can feel that there are two souls in the fourth dimensional supernatural space in the cave. The red-scaled python spit out a stinking black gas, and the entire cave was shrouded in black gas, and the souls of General Zhao and Wei Zhongxian caused the ionization of gas molecules, which caused the black gas to condense. Just like Professor Yang Shimo's cloud room, the true faces of General Zhao and Wei Zhongxian were revealed in the black air. They were all victims of the Donglin Party, so they abandoned their previous suspicions and joined forces to fight against the red-scaled python.

The red-scaled python saw the images of General Zhao and Wei Zhongxian, and was no longer blind, and the attack had a target. The python's body swirled and flew in the cave, spitting out long letters, and General Zhao and Wei Zhongxian kept dodging, looking for the flaws in the red-scaled python to attack. General Zhao turned into a hurricane and rampaged through the cave, and the red-scaled python slowly fell downwind.

Another cloud of black gas entered the cave, transformed into a human form, and laughed wildly: "The Yin Devouring King is here!" When the king was alive, he ascended the throne in Chengdu and became the emperor, the country name was Dashun, and he was a prince. After his death, in the fourth dimensional Planck supernatural space, this king is still a great king, and he is the Yin Devouring King who rules the Quartet. General Zhao, I have sent people many times to ask you to surrender and submit to me, but you have always refused, and Hugh blames the ruthlessness of this king's subordinates today! Wei Zhongxian, you dead eunuch, I asked you to eliminate General Zhao, but you colluded with him, I will destroy you all today! ”

The Yin Devouring King whistled, and the red-scaled python that he had subdued moved forward and retreated with the whistle, attacking General Zhao and Wei Zhongxian. General Zhao and Wei Zhongxian gradually fell into disadvantage, and they only had the ability to parry, but they had no power to fight back. The Yin Devouring King gathered the energy of his whole body, pushed his palms forward, and pressed towards General Zhao and Wei Zhongxian with overwhelming momentum. They couldn't dodge, they were hit by the Yin Devouring King's palms, they received a huge impact, and their soul state bodies gained tremendous energy, and they swelled up sharply, rushing out of the cave, and they seemed to turn into a cloud, flying in the air. The clouds are getting bigger and bigger, and their shapes are constantly changing and undulating, turning into the shape of waves, with crests and troughs. Their bodies have turned into electromagnetic waves, propagating forward in the air, gradually dispersing and disappearing into space. General Zhao and Wei Zhongxian's consciousness became more and more blurred, and they finally disappeared between heaven and earth, and they could no longer be found in the three-dimensional space and the fourth-dimensional supernatural space. They ended up leaving only a few lines of cold text in the history books or in the field history notes of the literati.

After the Yin Devourer King fought hard to defeat General Zhao and Wei Zhongxian with two palms, he was exhausted and panting from exhaustion, and rested against the stone wall of the cave. At this time, Hongdaoshi hung down from the top of the mountain along the kudzu vine and entered the cave. He opened the Eye of Heaven and saw the Yin Devourer King and the python. The Yin Devouring King was physically exhausted, and when he saw Hong Daoshi, he was afraid of the treasure knife in his hand, so he dropped the red-scaled python and fled as a puff of black gas. I don't know what this red-scaled python thinks in his heart, it is driven by the Yin Devouring King every day to collect energy for him, but he abandons himself at the critical moment, he really has no conscience, he is really a veritable "Yin Devouring King"!

Hong Daoshi held the treasure knife, and his eyes met the eyes of the red-scaled python. This red-scaled python's cultivation was not high enough to turn into black qi and escape, he opened his huge mouth and wanted to swallow Hong Daoist into it. Hong Daoist slashed over, the red-scaled python turned its head to dodge, and the snake letter stretched out outside was cut to the ground by Hong Daoshi, like a forked straw rope. Hong Daoshi held the treasure knife and slashed in the air, the red-scaled python dodged in all directions, and the treasure knife slashed on the scales and rebounded back.

The python circled and tried to entangle the Hongdao master and strangle him. The Hongdao master will make a plan and jump on a stone, and the python will come and entangle the stone. After the python was entangled, Hong Daoshi jumped off the stone, aimed at the python's seven inches, and stabbed the treasure knife over, and the python was stabbed and donated blood. The python's whole body was wrapped around the stone, and it couldn't let go in a hurry, leaving only the snake's head to attack the Hongdao Master. Hong Daoshi danced the treasure knife, and for a while, the python was stabbed one after another, struggling in pain, slowly unable to move, and died with a whimper.

Hong Daoshi killed the red-scaled snake demon, got rid of a harm for the people, returned to the old farmer's house at the foot of the mountain, and described in detail the process of killing the demon, and the villagers no longer worried about the snake demon attack, and admired Hong Daoshi. The villagers took turns to invite Hongdaoshi to dinner every day, but Hongdaoshi couldn't shirk it, and after three days in the village, he returned to Calamus Township.