In the southwest of our country, there is an unknown small village surrounded by mountains on all sides, and there is only one sheep intestine path leading to the outside of the village, and there are more than a dozen families living in the village.

To the north of the village, there is a small green hill thirty or forty zhang high.

From birth to old age, the villagers in the village, in their memories, and even in the memories of their ancestors, the entire Xiaoqingshan belonged to a clan with the surname Yishang. The Shang clan has gone through the change of dynasties and historical changes, passed down from generation to generation, no matter how the outside world changes, they are as immobile as a bell.

When the merchant was at its most glorious, above the small green mountain, the mountains were full of houses built by the Shang family, which were full of Shang family members. The number of merchants with the surname of a merchant is several times more than the total number of villagers in the entire village.

This thirty or forty zhang hill, which belongs to the Shang clan, has been operated by generations of Shang clansmen for countless years, and the center of the mountain has long been hollowed out. In the middle of the hollowed-out hill, there is a large black hall, which enshrines the spiritual seats of the ancestors of the Shang family.

"The ancestors of the merchants are on the top, and the one hundred and eighth generation of the merchants are not the descendants of the merchants, and there is no support for their parents, so that they can enjoy the joy of family, and they do not marry wives and have children, and they pass on the ancestors for the merchants, and they have no face to meet the ancestors and ancestors. However, the ancestors of the merchant are in the front, and the father's will is behind, so Tianji can only come to meet the ancestors with a cheeky face, and hope that the ancestors will bless me to successfully complete the mission of the descendants of my business, and reproduce the supreme glory of my business. ”

In the black hall, the black stone offering table, the gray cloth futon, the green light and red candles, the slight smoke and sandalwood, there is a young man wearing a black Tang costume, his appearance is kneeling respectfully on the futon, the young man is twenty-three or four years old, named Shang Tianji, the descendant of the merchant from this generation.

In front of the body of Shangtian, there is a high platform, on the high platform there is a wooden staircase step by step, step by step, on which are enshrined hundreds of woodcarved spiritual seats, one after another, densely packed, the spiritual seats are engraved with the names of the ancestors of the merchants.

Shang Tianji first reviewed his own mistakes before the Merchant Ancestor Spirit Position, and then unceremoniously kowtowed three knocks.

"Machine, are you ready?"

Beside Shang Tianji, there was an old woman with a full head of silver hair, who was about 90 years old. The old man was holding a silver dragon head cane, his back was not rickety, but slightly curved, and his complexion was faintly ruddy, and his body looked quite tough. After Shang Tianji knelt down and bowed to the ancestors of the merchants, the old man asked with a caring expression.

"Grandma, my merchant has been cultivating martial arts for generations, and now I am a martial arts cultivator, although I have not entered the hall, but I have also touched the threshold of the acquired realm, it can be said that one foot has already stepped into the acquired realm, so I am ready. ”

Although Shang Tianji's face was ordinary, his black and white eyes were bright, and after hearing what the old man said, he replied without hesitation, and his words and expressions were unusually firm.

"Go ahead!"

The old woman smiled kindly, waved her hand gently, as if she was talking about an insignificant matter, but the trace of despair in her eyes was caught by Shang Tianji.

Shang Tianji knew that since his great-grandfather's generation, there were only his great-grandfather and his grandmother, that is, the old man in front of him, a total of two people. And the merchant to his grandfather, his father and his own generation, the merchant is even more single.

The heirs of the business carry the ancestral mission of the business, and the three generations of the merchant began to take over the mission of the business, starting from the first step out of here, until their death, the old woman stood in the same position, with the same simple two words, and sent away the merchant for three whole generations. And now we have to start sending away the only seedling of the fourth generation of the business, personal drinking water, cold and warm self-knowledge, the taste of this, I am afraid that only the old woman herself can experience.

"Hmm. Shang Tianji originally wanted to comfort the old man for a few words, but when the words came to his mouth, he didn't know how to say them, and finally just nodded slightly, and under the old man's gaze, he silently turned around and took a firm step.

After a few steps out, Shang Tianji came directly to the altar made of black stone for the purpose of worshiping the ancestors of the merchants, and there were two black iron candlesticks on the offering table, Shang Tianji also ignored the red candles burning on it, and held the base of one of the candlesticks vigorously, and then gently turned it according to a certain law.

Click

As Shang Tianji continued to turn the candlestick, the dark wall on the right side of the black hall was like a heavy stone door, which was gradually pushed open from the middle to both sides, and finally revealed a man-high hole, a passage made of black stone, and I don't know where it leads.

"Grandma, I'm going. After Shang Tianji saw the entrance of the cave appear, he turned around and smiled at the old woman.

"Hmm. ”

The old woman showed a smile on her face and nodded, but her steps did not move, and she did not have the slightest intention of entering the Black Stone Passage with Shang Tianji.

The ancestor of the merchant said that only the contemporary heirs of the merchants are qualified to walk into the Blackstone Passage, and the things behind the Blackstone Passage can only be moved by the contemporary heirs of the merchants.

The old woman has gone through four generations of merchants, and she also knows a thing or two about the things behind the black stone passage, but she has never stepped into the black passage, let alone seen the things behind the stairs, because the ancestral teachings of the merchants cannot be violated.

After getting the old man's affirmation, Shang Tianji took firm steps, walked towards the black passage step by step, and then stepped on the top of the passage through the entire passage, step by step down the black stone stairs, and gradually walked towards the depths of the black stone passage.

In less than a stick of incense, Shang Tianji came to the end of the passage.

In the eye, there is a huge nine-story octagonal black stone altar, and above the altar is a nine-story white jade building with a square white jade platform as the base and as high as nine zhang. The white jade building, carved fence jade masonry, crystal clear, the whole body is made of unknown white jade, majestic atmosphere.

"It is worthy of the treasures that my business has inherited from generation to generation, and it is something that the ancestors of my business have to protect even if they fight for their lives. Even if you knock off a piece of white jade from this jade building and sell it outside, you can immediately make a fortune and become a billionaire, and you will not have to worry about eating and drinking for several lifetimes, and you can even squander it and live a luxurious life. ”

Shang Tianji, as the only successor of the merchant now, is also familiar with some of the history of the merchant, and has some understanding of the inheritance of the merchant, from some words of the predecessors, but it is better to be famous than to meet, at this time Shang Tianji was also shocked by the current Baiyulou.

And although Shang Tianji is located in a remote village, few people in the village go out of the village to the outside world, but Shang Tianji, as a business heir, naturally has to keep up with the pace of the times, so Shang Tianji was sent outside by his father to study when he was very young, and even after graduating from college, Shang Tianji still found a job outside, and did not return to the merchant until his father died, inheriting the mission of the merchant heir.

It is safe to say that Shang Tianji, as a modern person, can be regarded as having traveled through the south and the north and seen the world. But compared to the nine-story white jade building in front of him, which was almost thirty meters high, the high-rise buildings and skyscrapers that Shang Tianji had seen before were all scum.

Suppressing the shock in his heart, Shang Tianji raised his feet and walked up to the Black Stone Altar, came to the front of the White Jade Tower, slowly opened the door of the first floor of the White Jade Building, and then walked in.

First time into the white jade building.

In the eye, there is an incomparably empty, east, west, north and south sides, each side has nine, a total of thirty-six, in line with the number of four nine huge white jade pillars propped up by a zhang high, there are several football field size floor space.

The most central part of the floor space is a half-person high, covering an area of eighty or ninety square meters, and the whole body is carved from white jade.

Other than that, there is nothing in the floor space.

"The nine-petal lotus platform carved and cast by the white jade is the core of this white jade building, and after the martial arts cultivation of each generation of merchants reaches the acquired realm, they have to come here to sacrifice the core white lotus platform of the blood sacrifice, in order to refine the entire white jade building and reproduce the supreme glory of our business. ”

"It sounds a bit like a myth, like a novel, but it's something that every generation of my business does. Even before the death of my merchant's ancestors, the bones of our ancestors had to be thrown into it and sacrificed to themselves. Therefore, this is not only the place where my business inherits, but also the final destination of my business heirs. ”

"This is true of my ancestors in business, and so is my father, and even my final end. Although it seems a little cruel, this is the legacy of my ancestors and the mission of my businessman. Therefore, even if it is death, and in the end, there are no bones left, it must be completed with all our heart and soul. ”

Shang Tianji also saw the white jade lotus platform in the center of the floor space at a glance, and couldn't help but think of the ancestral training of the merchant who had been instilled since he was a child, as well as the ancestors of the merchants of the past generations who gave everything for the ancestral training and his father, and he was also full of emotion in his heart for a while.

At this time, after the blood sacrifice of the ancestors of the merchants, the white jade lotus platform has become crystal red. The lotus platform carries blood and bathes in blood, but this does not make the jade lotus become demonic and evil, but gives people a different kind of beauty.

"Rank Ancestor, forgive the heavens for disturbing it. Before Shang Tianji came to the lotus platform, he first bent down and bowed, and then climbed onto the lotus platform.

After all, the ancestors of the merchants sacrificed the jade lotus with blood during their lifetimes, and even sacrificed the lotus with their bodies after death, and the whole body was integrated into the jade lotus and became a part of the jade lotus, so in a sense, this jade lotus is the cemetery of the ancestors of the merchants.