Sur VI died.

The powerful Pharaoh died at the age of thirty-six, succumbing to a bacterial infection caused by his injuries.

The omnipotent spiritual power does not seem to bring a longer lifespan to the cultivators, because nature is fair.

In the high-spirit environment, humans are evolving, beasts are evolving, and microbes are evolving.

Before his death, Sur VI visited the border once to comfort the soldiers on the front, but unfortunately an arrow fell from the sky and pierced his thigh.

The accompanying high priest used a spell to heal his wounds, but a month after the wounds healed, the pharaoh suddenly had a convulsion and died.

The thing that killed him was later named Clostridium tetani, but at that time, even the transcendent could not find out the cause of Sur VI's death, so they had no choice but to send him to the temple.

Fifteen-year-old Sur VII watched his father's farewell.

He saw the priests cut open his father's chest and abdomen, take out the heart, liver, kidneys, and other body organs, treat them with lime and hay, and put them into clay pots filled with honey, and painted intricate embalming runes on the pots.

After returning the clay pot containing the organs to the abdominal cavity, they proceeded to concoct the body of their father, also with lime, hay, sackcloth and honey, and finally sealed the mummy completely into the golden coffin.

"Mother." Sur VII asked his mother, "What are they doing here?" ”

His mother stroked his hair: "For his body to never rot, so that he may be resurrected and returned." ”

"Resurrection?" Sur VII was puzzled.

So his mother took him, along with the coffin, and traveled all over the ancient Niro from the autumn of the first year to the winter of the second year.

In Ancient Nile, the death of the pharaoh seemed to be an extremely sad and extremely sacred event.

The priests would soon give a farewell to the pharaoh, but they would not bury him so quickly, but the high priest would carry the sealed coffin across the country.

Whenever the remains of the pharaoh came to a city-state, they would attract the whole city to pay their respects, whether it was the Nilotic, Turshrin, Yanting, Manlacher, or Guti .......

They knelt before the coffin of Sur VI, weeping, wailing, and praying with the lamps of the dead in their hands, and the pious even knelt from dawn till dark, and the priests never urged, but always waited for all those who were willing to send them off before they got up and went to the next city.

They walked and stopped, and they walked all over the Nile for a whole year.

In the mourning of the whole country, Sur VII seemed to understand a lot, but it was as if he understood nothing.

In the early winter of the following year, the remains of Sur VI finally returned to the royal city, where they were sent to the mausoleum in a lavish funeral.

"Will Father really come back?" Sur VII asked.

"Yes." Mother whispered, "When we need it, when Nile needs it, he will come back and fight for him." ”

That year, at the age of sixteen, Sur VII ascended to the throne and became the pharaoh of the new generation of Ancient Niro.

He has been forging ahead all his life, with clear rewards and punishments, resisting the invasion of three beast tides externally, and compiling a new code internally, but if these exploits are placed in the long river of history, he is just an ordinary emperor, mediocre and mediocre, without merit and fault.

At the age of forty-nine, he died in an accidental fall.

After his death, his remains, like those of his father, were sealed in a golden coffin, traveled throughout the country, and finally returned to the mausoleum.

In the dark burial chamber, a newborn spirit opened its eyes.

……

"I see." Yan Luge vaguely understood, "No wonder I can't find the core transcendent inheritance of Ancient Niro, because they don't have this thing in the first place.

"Even the most powerful Nilotic of all the city-state tribes, the cultivation books they left behind were at most cultivation to the level of the fifth or sixth order.

"Because they're different...... The transcendent path of the Nile people began after death. ”

……

With the remains of Sur VII at the core, and guided by the prayers of the people of the ancient Nile, the newborn spirits opened their eyes in the dark tomb.

This spirit, which was brought out of the tomb by the Golden Family in later generations, and is known to some as the "Pharaohs", is no different from other spirits.

It has all the memories of "Sur VII", but it knows that it is dead. The remains of the human were housed in a coffin, and this coffin is now part of it. In addition, there seems to be other parts, but even it itself is not clear......

Anyway, when it woke up, it did what a corpse would do - it lay down in the tomb and did nothing.

It doesn't feel lonely, it doesn't have the concept of loneliness; It doesn't feel sad, it doesn't feel sad; It doesn't want to return to the throne, it doesn't have ambitions.

Even if it had already traveled the country and received the prayers of all the peoples, it had achieved the most powerful ninth-order transcendent life of the Sea Blue Star.

But it still won't do anything.

This is the spirit class.

What the supplicant wants it to be, then it is...... Stuff.

It lay quietly in the burial chamber for a year.

It was not until the year after the death of Sur VII that war broke out.

In the empty burial chamber, spirits heard voices for the first time.

"O Pharaoh, please save us, please save your subjects......"

"The enemy transcendent is here! They're going to kill us! Slaughter the city! To steal everything from us! Our troops are no match for them! ”

"Who's going to save us...... Who's going to ......"

"We made an appointment. We made an appointment, didn't we? ”

This was followed by the long, thousand-word text of the Book of the Dead, written on papyrus from the priest's mouth.

“…… You are the guide of yesterday, today and tomorrow, and you are the Lord of life, death, and eternity......"

“…… You are the protector, the guardian and the ruler, the pioneer, the adventurer and the enlightener......"

“…… The years turn back for you in the continuous past, and move brilliantly to the end of time......"

In that moment, the spirits realized what they had to do.

So it got up, pushed the tomb open, and left the mausoleum for the battle, facing the radiant sun, the deep body of the high priest, and the fanatical cheers of the people.

By the mausoleum, on the steppe, in the desert, on the battlefield, it saw the father, grandfather, great-grandfather, and ancestor of "Suer VII...... They're all there, every generation of pharaohs is there, they've always been there.

There are also many "people" it knows or does not know, who are not as powerful as the spirits that the pharaoh incarnated, but who are also active on the front lines of the war...... During their lifetimes, they may have been nobles, priests, and patriarchs.

It fights side by side with them.

They have fought off strong enemies again and again, winning war after war.

With a fearless and fearless spirit body, he slain the transcendents of his neighbors, and never dared to covet Nile again; Kill the hostile tribes in fear, and henceforth give up the rich grasslands; The bloodthirsty beast trembled, and from then on he was willing to wear chains and guard the mausoleum.

After each war, they silently return to the burial chamber, quietly waiting for the next summoning and resurrection.

There were coffins that were broken in battle, but they never flinched; Spirits died in war, and they were not afraid.

When they enjoy the support of all the peoples, they have no nostalgia; Nor are they lost when they return to eternal silence.

Because that's what they're supposed to do.

During his lifetime, he enjoyed all the glory and wealth of the world, and after his death, he blessed a country and fought for the Nile forever.

This was the first and final contract between the Pharaoh and his subjects.

(End of chapter)