【Chapter 428】Demon Bell

Lao Li Tou looked at the sky, in this primordial crater that is not many meters deep into the ground, the skylight seems to have never changed, as if it will always be the faint blue, reflecting the top of the tower closest to the ground, everything on the entire bronze platform is like a dark place that the fluorescent lamp can't shine on, with a faint diffuse reflection in the dark, so that people can see the approximate, but can't see the details clearly.

is also because of the sky above his head, the shadow at the bottom of Lao Li's facial features and jaw is thick, no one can see his eyes clearly, people can't figure out what he is thinking at this time, what calculations he is making, only Rowan can see it, but the emotions that Rowan sees in Lao Li's eyes are very complicated, there are pride, playing, ridicule, indifference, and even with a sense of solemnity.

"This is the royal capital of the ancient Yelang Kingdom, and it is also the center of gravity of the political, military and economic affairs of the Yelang Kingdom, one of the largest foreign states during the Han Dynasty, and the most ethereal of the three ancient kingdoms that disappeared. It's not so much that I've spent my life searching for the Three Treasures of Taoism, but rather that I'm looking for this place.

It was once prosperous in the Han Dynasty period, although it was a small border country, but it was also a large number of soldiers, and the grass was abundant, I dare not say that the road was not left behind, and the night was not closed, at least the people of Yelang Country were relatively rich, but the most Han Dynasty was destroyed by the powerful Han Dynasty.

It is recorded in the history books that during the period of Emperor Cheng of the Han Dynasty, Yelang had a fight with a small southern country and did not obey the mediation of the imperial court. The newly appointed Commander Chen Li penetrated deep into the hinterland of Yelang, cut down the head of the last king of Yelang, Xing, and tactfully quelled the rebellion of his vassals and affiliated tribes.

Since then, the ancient kingdom of Yelang is no longer seen in historical records, and the entire country of Yelang disappeared overnight with the death of this monarch. Lao Li Tou walked as he spoke, slowly came to the bronze tripod, and glanced inside.

Lao Li Tou then took out a stack of cigarette papers and cautiously began to roll cigarettes: "This is recorded in the history books, but in fact this is pure nonsense. At that time, Emperor Cheng of the Han Dynasty did order the conquest of Yelang Kingdom, but the situation was not as smooth as recorded in the history books.

The county guard Chen Li was not as brave as in the record, nor did he go deep into the hinterland of Yelang, in fact, the situation was much more intimidating than this. After Chen Li received the order to conquer Yelang, he raised his army, but the Han army was not familiar with the terrain and landform here, and the marching speed was slow, and in order to achieve the effect of surprise attacks, it was common to get lost with the rudimentary map, and after the matter was revealed, it was repeatedly ambushed.

Second, the people of Yelang are fierce. Able to recruit and fight well, the people are soldiers, and the soldiers are for the people, which makes it difficult for the Han army to move forward and encounter enemies everywhere. Thirdly, this place is located in the outer soil, the mountain roads are steep and difficult to walk, and the supply of the army cannot be delivered in time, resulting in the successive defeats of the Han army. Not to mention capturing the royal capital, when it was not easy to reach 800 miles outside the royal capital, he was surrounded by the soldiers of Yelang Kingdom, and Chen Li only led some wounded soldiers to defeat the generals. Self-preservation is still reluctant, how dare you say that you have destroyed Yelang"

Lao Li Tou leaned unhurriedly on the bronze tripod and spit out a smoke ring: "But Chen Li didn't dare to say defeat to the invincible Emperor Han Cheng, so he had to lie about the tight situation of the war and continue to prolong the war." Desperately asking for reinforcements and food and grass, hoarding strength and planning to make the last fight. But just when Chen Li was at a loss, God did him a great favor."

Old Li Tou glanced at Dingli again. Then he said: "At that time, the people of Yelang didn't know that their royal city was actually built on a volcanic crater, and when it was fate, a small volcanic activity occurred without warning, and for a time the sky collapsed, the wind and clouds changed color, and the royal city capital fell into the crater with this earthquake, along with the entire land under his feet!"

Small strands of lava were squeezed out of the ground by the changes on the surface, transforming into fiery red pythons, engulfing the earth, and the volcanic ash that rose fell from the sky with scorching heat, like snowflakes and slowly falling to the ground, extinguishing all life in this side of the king city!

But it wasn't a massive eruption, it was just an earthquake caused by the intermittent activity of the volcano, which stopped almost suddenly, and even the rest of the ground felt only a slight tremor, but the epicenter of the earthquake was in this crater. But such a small earthquake buried the entire royal capital of Yelang Kingdom, and almost no people and animals survived, and they were buried forever in this dark crater. ”

Lao Li Tou extinguished the cigarette butt, rubbed the black ash on his finger and continued: "For Chen Li, the gift given to him by God is too heavy and too timely. So he followed the confusion of the Yelang national army, and hurriedly led the troops to fight and rushed out of the encirclement, all the way to the inside of the crater, and cut off the head of King Xing of Yelang!

At the same time, the good news of the 300-mile rush overnight was transmitted back to the national capital, and the story prepared by the strategists was dedicated to Emperor Han Cheng, the son of heaven of the Han Dynasty. Follow the army to go around to conquer the rest of Yelang, although he encountered resistance, but he was not defeated, and finally the Yelang country was included in the territory of the Han Dynasty. ”

Speaking of this, Lao Li Tou suddenly smiled: "But the story is not over here, the king of Yelang Kingdom has three sons, the eldest prince and the second prince all died in the earthquake, only the third prince sent to South Vietnam to escape, and when the third prince returned to the capital of Yelang Kingdom, he found that he had actually become a grass-headed prince!"

Of course, he was not reconciled, so he led his entourage to rebuild the regime, but at this time, the capital of Yelang Country had become a piece of rubble, and the military and political power of the entire Yelang Kingdom had changed hands, and it was not easy to counterattack and seize power. The first thing he did was to retrieve the head of his father Wang Xing, who was already being transported to the capital of the Han Dynasty at this time.

His success paid a terrible price, Chen Li didn't expect him to be able to catch up, or he didn't expect him to have the courage at all, Chen Li, who was at the peak of his life, was negligent and was robbed of Xing's head by him, but Chen Li also killed the entourage of the third prince without leaving a piece of armor.

When the third prince returned to this land with Xing's head, his entourage was no more than a dozen people, and most of them were disabled with broken arms. He found the old people again, and continued to recruit Yelang homeless people, while secretly fighting against the Han army, occasionally openly calling for open fire, like an uprising bandit, but also doing assassination.

While dreaming of the python robe and the enthronement of the great treasure, the captured Han army prisoners were escorted to this underground city, and the repair work was stepped up, wanting to restore this underground royal city to its original glory. Dynasties alternated, regimes changed hands, children gave birth to grandchildren, grandchildren gave birth to children, the descendants of the most relegated royal family in this Yelang country, there was no hope of seizing power, and the mission of life gradually became to repair this dilapidated royal city, where ancestors have worked and cultivated for generations, so that life continues. ”

After speaking, Lao Li Tou looked into the distance: "It was not until after the liberation that this royal city was built into its current appearance, and the owner here moved out as if he had completed his mission, and this place has also become the ancestral temple of the royal family of Yelang Kingdom, in addition to the annual ancestor worship and wedding and funeral, the royal family of Yelang Country will never set foot here half a step again"

The sea frowned when he heard the story: "No, that's half the story!" You mean, those wolf descendants are still alive? ”

Lao Li frowned: "Alive, but since the ancestral dragon is still alive, I'm afraid that there will be one less in their clan."

This couldn't be clearer, the person from the bamboo hall who pierced the heart with the ancestral dragon's sword just now is the descendant of the royal family of this Yelang country! It is no wonder that the architectural styles here are so difficult to unify, the sense of dynastic disconnection is obvious, and even there are differences in beliefs.

It turns out that this is the imperial capital of this Yelang country! And this endless Yelang royal family has been constantly resting and expanding here since the beginning of the Han Dynasty, but from the beginning of the Spring and Autumn Dream, it has become a later ancestral hall, and it has rarely come back today.

Luo Wen waved his hand slightly, interrupted the sea that was just about to speak with a painful grin, looked at Lao Li Tou and asked: "It stands to reason that you should talk about what you have spent half your life looking for here, but it is nothing more than something you can do here, I am afraid you must be here, even if I don't know what you want to do, I can guess roughly, you have said so much, and you have been paving for so long, it is nothing more than trying to delay time, I think the time you want to wait is almost the same, what are you going to do?" ”

Lao Li Tou looked at the sky, Luo Wen also secretly calculated, it has been more than a day since his group came down, according to the time, it should be very close to noon outside, Luo Wen Zhi said, such a long time has passed, Lao Li Tou is guarding this bronze tripod behind the throne.

If Lao Li Tou didn't deliberately plan to put on a play for himself, then it was to wait for a suitable time, and this time should be at this moment, otherwise Lao Li Tou would not have to waste his tongue and talk to himself, to be honest, no one here can do anything to him now.

Lao Li Tou didn't wait for Luo Wen to react, he bit his fingers with his teeth, and then drew a horizontal line on the Yitian Sword, the Qingyu Sword, the Demon Mirror and the Demon Suppression Bell, the scarlet color did not drip because of this, but was more like a gelatinous glue on the three treasures of this Taoist, and then I saw Lao Li Tou suddenly lift the Demon Suppression Bell in his hand, pull out the cotton and began to shake slowly!

The bell is like the cry of a yellow bird, and like a nightingale singing, the sound is like a heavenly sound, the heart is empty, three bells and three tones, the treble is really like a foreign sound, more like a cicada wing dance, epiphany pouring, brocade spitting bubbles; The alto is like a cardamom laugher, it is a merchant in the market, there is no difference, but it is familiar;

The bass person looks at the temple twilight bell or the morning class, and the deep voice is low, as if knocking on people's hearts, and then vibrating; The three sounds dissolve, far away like the murmuring of the mountain and the clear stream, and it seems to be coiled in the ear, which makes people hear all the illusions for a while, I don't know what they heard or the bell rings in the heart, and every light sound is like knocking on the heart!

For a while, there was a strong resonance, the pores were upside down, the whole body was soft, and I only felt that the golden phoenix of the Nine Clouds was just like that, and after a while, this bell came out and there was no other consciousness! (To be continued......)