Chapter 115: The Legend of the Blackwater River (2)
More than 1,000 years ago, the Shu people trekked to the ancient Dian Kingdom, excavated graves on the shore of Fuxian Lake, and transported a huge number of Manzhu Sawa into the belly of Wushan Mountain for what purpose, it is difficult to delve into what purpose.
The story narrated by Hongliang may be the truth of history. Obviously, Zhuge Kongming had a special way to extract the ingredients of Manzhu Sawa and the Nine Shadow Petals to refine some kind of hallucinogenic medicine, and finally placed them in the belly of Wushan Mountain, and even in every inch of the air of Wushan Mountain, which was already lurking. It will cause people to have all kinds of hallucinations, see illusions that do not exist in the first place, and cause people in the illusion to kill each other, perhaps to protect the secrets in the belly of Wushan Mountain.
Zhu Beichen never believed that the truth was just so simple, he had a hunch that if Hongliang's story was true, Manzhu Sawa must have other uses. The ancient Dian Kingdom and Wushan, which is also in the Dian region, must have secrets buried deep in the soil that cannot be spied on, and they are connected.
When the first generation of the Great Wu Yaoshuang returned to Heishui River from Chengdu, she brought back two things. The first is an ancient seal with a transparent body, and the inscription is not a text. The second is a parchment scroll, which may be a guide map of the ancient Dian cemetery. These two items are the inheritance of the Great Witch, and they are kept by the patriarch of each generation.
Secondly, Yaoshuang brought back the secret art of witchcraft that had been lost for thousands of years by the Jiuli tribe. Hei Miao is just the gatekeeper of Wushan and needs the times to protect this place.
Since the return of Yaoshuang, the position of the patriarch of the Black Miao has been passed down in the Yaoshuang lineage and has never been left behind. It also confirms the historical inheritance of the advanced witch Gu and the black seedlings brought back from Chengdu.
Zhu Beichen combined the retelling of Sanqian and the story of Hongliang to analyze several points from a lot of information.
First, the transparent ancient seal mentioned by Hongliang has been mutually corroborated with the ancient seal he saw in his dream, if the dream history he judged before was correct, the ancient seal came from Zhuge Liang. When Wuzhang Yuan returned to heaven, he had a dying entrustment, including this ancient seal, and the identity of the silver-clad general was very likely to be Jiang Wei. After Zhuge Liang died, Jiang Wei handed over the ancient seal to Yaoshuang according to his last words, and she brought it back to Heishui River.
Second, Chengdu hides more advanced witch Gu techniques, and Yaoshuang studied under the demonic prime minister of Shu, and she brought back many of the Jiuli clan's lost Gu recipes from Shu, thus stabilizing the rule of Yaoshuang in Heishuihe for generations.
Third, the Heishui River guarded by the Black Miao for thousands of years, and the Wushan Mountain belly guarded by the Black Miao has unknown secrets, including the profound witch Gu mastered by their ancestors are all to protect this secret, so if the frost can get Zhuge Liang's inheritance, it is just convenient for them to use the Black Miao vein as a necessary weapon equipped by the gatekeeper. Since there is protection, there must be waiting. Perhaps someone will find them in a thousand years and open the secrets in the belly of the mountain.
Fourth, the Nine Shadow Petals and Manzhu Sawa are two varieties of the Flower of the Underworld, one is stationed at the entrance and exit of the Underworld, and the Black Water River takes the Styx River as its source, perhaps in the deep underground dark river, there is a passage to connect to another world. On the other side of the passage, there may be the figure of Manzhu Sahua. In the eyes of the ancients, the underworld should have another reference, perhaps another dimension.
Fifth, the secrets in the belly of Wushan Mountain are closely related to the disappearance of the ancient Dian Kingdom.
"Is there a carving similar to a tadpole on the ancient seal, and the material should be crystal?" Zhu Beichen is in contact with the dream. The story in the big tent of the Chinese army seems to want to send some kind of message to him.
"Only the patriarch of each generation knows, we have never seen that ancient seal." Hongliang said.
"What's on that parchment scroll, the topographical map of the tombs of the Ancient Dian Kingdom?" Zhu Beichen asked.
"...... only"
"Okay, needless to say, I got it."
The rest of the story takes place in the Blackwater River, only about a hundred years later.
Hongliang can't remember the specific year, because his story comes from the oral account of Tong Jia Muqiu, and the time when the story takes place, Hongliang has not yet been born.
One year, a strange guest was welcomed in the remote wilderness and dense forest, hidden deep in the mountains on the banks of the Heishui River. He was a red-haired and blue-eyed foreigner, and even foreigners were rare in Miao Jiang at that time, let alone foreigners.
He, who called himself Morsey, came from the northernmost part of Russia. At that time, he was seriously ill, and the organs of his body were already showing signs of failure, and he was very emaciated. He followed the area inhabited by the Miao people after a difficult trek, found the Miao people of the Heishui River who were escaping from the world, and naturally, he met Tong Jia Muqiu. That year, Tong Jia Muqiu was still a young girl. Morsey had come to the Blackwater River for medical treatment.
The illness of this foreigner is very strange, Tong Jia Muqiu was initially treated with leeches, and the leeches died after absorbing enough blood. Morsey's symptoms were as if he had been poisoned by some kind of poison.
Tong Jia Muqiu has used various ways to treat, but to no avail. She judged that there was something wrong with the foreigner's blood. Finally, she proposed a transfusion. But she needed an ancient weapon, an ancient weapon for blood exchange, and the theory of black seedling blood exchange was not limited to simply extracting the blood from the whole body and injecting it into a person's blood, their theory was even more grotesque and terrifying.
Morsey left the Blackwater River, and he was going to find the blood-swapping artifact that had been circulated in the Black Miao Classics. A year later, he returned. He brought back the ancient artifact that Tong Jia Muqiu said, but in fact, it was a blood-washing utensil, which was placed in one place by ignorant people as an antique collection. Morsey was thinner than a year ago, and the skin on the surface was so dry that it was almost clenched to the bones, like a film that could be easily torn, and the blood vessels and veins inside were clearly visible.
Morsey brutally murdered a fellow traveler, a poor blonde Russian woman, because her blood suited him best.
"And then?" Han Qingxin.
"He's dead." Hongliang.
"Why?" Han Qingxin.
"The failure of the operation is fatal for a critically ill patient, but luckily he was able to get off the operating table and he returned to China." Hongliang.
"At least he died in his own kingdom, which can be regarded as a consolation for the soul." Hongliang.
This kind of person really shouldn't save him, for his own life, even the people around him can be brutally killed, why did Tong Jia Muqiu help him exchange blood back then. Han Qingxin is a jealous and hateful woman, she can't stand this kind of selfish behavior, and despises the already ancient Morsey.
"Because he has what we need." Hongliang.
"What's that?"
"A fragment of a lost ancient book."
Black Miao has been passed down for thousands of years, and many of the witch Gu secret methods from the generation of Yao Shuang have been lost in the long river of history. A foreign foreigner holds a dilapidated tome in his hand, which is only a chapter and paragraph of an ancient book, but it contains a lot of information about witchcraft and spells.
He paid a large amount of money for the consultation and asked the clever Heimiao physician to help.
As a result, the operation failed and he died.