The ancestral land of the Hou Gang clan is a manor in the west of the city, and it is also the earliest settlement of the entire tribe, and now it is like a walled city. It is built by the mountain, there are walled walls on all sides, and a ditch is dug outside the wall, and the spring is drawn from the mountain to flow into the village, and the pond is stacked well.

In the event of a war, the ancestral land is also a military fortress for the tribesmen to escape the famine and war, and there is not only a granary in the village, but also a deep well dug in order to prevent the water source from being cut off. Now the upper reaches of the water have been cut off, but there is still water in the mountain spring behind the ancestral land. The Hougang clan has grown to its current scale, and this manor is equivalent to the private residence of the king.

Behind the center of the manor, there is an ancestral shrine in the highest place, which is the place where the ancestors of the ancestors of the past generations are worshipped. The shape of the ancestral shrine is also equivalent to a courtyard, which is divided into two entrances, the front and back, and the backyard is close to the mountain wall, and there is no back wall. In front of the mountain wall in the backyard, there is a long case made of stone.

Every year, after the ancestor worship, many offerings are placed on this long table, and then distributed by the head of the monarch to the representatives of each branch of the family to show the blessing of the ancestors. The ceremony is a bit like the wine given by the monarch after the annual national memorial ceremony in Ba Yuan, and the presiding officer is the monarch. During Hou Gang's absence, this ceremony was presided over by Hou Xian, the highest elder in the clan.

However, other affairs in the clan, especially those involving the allocation of various resources and the distribution of property, have been controlled by Hou Lechang for more than ten years, and others can't fight if they want to. Because Hou Lechang has his own powerful position as the city lord, and Hou Xian is not the head of the monarch after all.

In the mountain wall behind the long stone case, it is said that in ancient times, there was a stone niche with a depression inward, about the size of two rooms, which was naturally formed and artificially chiseled. Legend has it that the ancestors of the Hougang clan lived in this stone niche when they first came here, and later settled here, and their descendants have lived and multiplied to this day.

But now this stone niche is gone, there is a mountain wall that seems to be formed naturally, the story of the ancestors seems to be just a legend, even the highest elder in the clan, Hou Xian, has not seen the stone niche. This stone wall is a sacred place in the clan, and no one in later generations dares to dig it open to see, and over time, it has only become a miraculous experience of the ancestors.

Today, the ancestral land is very lively, just like the ancestor worship ceremony in previous years, representatives of all branch families have come and gathered in front of the stone wall in this backyard. Because Hou Gang returned and claimed to be able to open the shrine.

Hou Gang showed the token given by Danzhu in Yuancheng, but this was actually enough. Although Le Chang unreasonably came up with a problem, saying that things outside his body could not prove Hou Gang's identity, the authority of the token of Emperor Danzhu was not something that he, the city lord, could deny. In other words, the emperor Danzhu has officially confirmed Hou Gang's identity.

Emperor Danzhu gave Hou Gang a token before parting, which was the suggestion of Lord Chonghua. It seems that Lord Chonghua is also well-informed, and he has long expected what kind of trouble Hou Gang may encounter when he returns to his hometown. But Chonghua probably didn't expect that Hou Gang would meet such a ruthless and shameless Lechang City Lord.

If Lechang still wants to question it, he can only send someone to ask Emperor Danzhu for verification. However, after Hou Gang showed Danzhu's token, he declared that he would not prove his identity with this object. He may have other ideas in doing this, although it is not easy to question the official authority represented by Danzhu, but after all, this is an internal affair, strictly speaking, Danzhu can't actually prove who Hou Gang is.

If Hou Lechang is suppressed like this, people with intentions will inevitably criticize and even create rumors, saying that the emperor Danzhu sent a person back to be the head of the Hou Gang clan.

What Hou Gang needs is an authority that cannot be questioned, so who can have this authority? Even Hou Xian, the respected elder of the clan, has already recognized Hou Gang, and Hou Lechang has to deny it, so in this era, he can only obtain the approval of his ancestors.

It was impossible for the ancestors to come out and speak, but Hou Gang claimed that he could open the shrine. Opening the ancestral shrine is actually two different things from the identity of the head of the Hou Gang clan, but in the eyes of the Hou Gang clan, this is the same thing! Hou Gang actually has other methods, such as convening the clansmen to discuss and apply for an official ruling, but the current method is the best.

Hou Gang first stayed in the ancestral land for one night, waiting for the representatives of the clan to arrive. Hou Xian asked a little uneasy in private: "The shrine is just a legend, I have never seen it in my old man, can you really open it?" In fact, with the token of the emperor, no one can question you." ”

Hou Gang smiled: "You don't have to worry, Lord Shi Huang has his own explanation back then." I just didn't expect this to happen in the clan. It is not enough to only have the tokens of the emperor, and my Hougang clan is a descendant of Zhuan, and in the current situation, I am afraid it is inconvenient to make a posture of completely relying on Danzhu for everything. Besides, if I want to enforce the family law today, I must first have authority. ”

When everyone came to the backyard, the tiger baby looked at the mountain wall that was integrated with the back wall and was stunned, how to look at it was an ordinary cliff, and then thought about it, and suddenly understood. There was indeed a stone niche here back then, but the stone niche should have been opened up by Mr. Cangjie with great magical powers to form the Xianjia Cave Heavenly Enchantment, and the place where the portal was located became the appearance of a mountain wall.

Huwa couldn't help but whisper with some concern: "Hou Gang, Mr. Cangjie asked you to break through Dacheng's cultivation before leaving Bayuan." If you have already obtained the inheritance, you can open the Immortal Cave Heaven Enchantment, but now that you have no cultivation power, do you need Taiyi's help?"

Hou Gang's current state can't cast any magic spells, and of course he can't open the Dongtian Enchantment, if he wants Taiyi to help, he also needs to ask Hou Gang's consent, because the secret method of opening the Dongtian Portal is a secret inheritance in the Hougang clan.

Hou Gang smiled bitterly: "I won't tell you, even I don't know that there is an Immortal Cave Heaven Enchantment here." The master only told me that if his identity was questioned after returning to his hometown, he would come to the ancestral land to open the shrine, but he did not say how to open the shrine. ”

Huwa sighed and said: "I see, it seems that Mr. Cangjie has foreseen that others can't intervene." He and Taiyi both consciously stepped aside.

There are many leaders of the clan who have greeted Hou Gang as a courtesy to meet the monarch, and with their age, they actually know Hou Gang, and they also feel that Hou Lechang is really unreasonable. At this time, I am afraid that even the blind can see that Hou Lechang has other intentions, but since Hou Lechang has done this, there is only one way to go to the dark, and he is still stiff.

Hou Lechang muttered to a few clansmen close to him: "I don't believe it, he can really open the shrine." Even my father had never seen a shrine in the ancestral land, it was just a legend. ”

Several family representatives in the clan who were usually close to Hou Lechang had embarrassed expressions at the moment, they could actually guess what Hou Lechang wanted to do, and someone had to remind: "City Lord, if he really opens the spirit shrine, what will you do?"

Hou Lechang still said stiffly: "You need to help me think about it, if he can't open the shrine, what to do with it later!"

Hou Gang led the people of the tribe to place the temporarily prepared sacrifices on the long table, and was about to bow to the stone wall, when he suddenly shouted, "Slow down...... Except for Lord Hou Gang, everyone else stayed away and let Lord Hou Gang worship his ancestors alone. ”

Someone said angrily: "You are an outsider, why do you interfere with the affairs of our clan and prevent us from worshipping our ancestors?"

Ji Gu glared unambiguously and said: "You follow Lord Hou Gang to worship, when the shrine is really opened, who is worshipping it? Some bad things may have something to say, so only Lord Hou Gang can worship alone." ”

Hou Xian thought about it and made sense, and waved his staff and said, "Everyone retreat, let the monarch worship alone." ”

Hou Gang stepped forward and was about to bow down, Hou Lechang's eyes rolled, as if he thought of something possible, and he also stepped forward and shouted: "Slow, since he can worship, I can also worship!"

Hou Gang wanted to have a seizure but held back, stepped aside and said, "Then let you come first!"

Hou Lechang worshipped in front of the stone case for a long time, but the mountain wall was still a mountain wall, and there was no movement. Hou Xian struck the ground with his cane and said, "Lechang, don't you think you're not ashamed enough? Get out of here!"

Hou Lechang, who was red-faced, let go, and Hou Gang asked aloud again: "Who else wants to worship first?" This time no one spoke again.

Hou Gang walked alone in front of the stone case and knelt on the ground, without any superfluous movements, nor did he exert any magical powers, and the moment his forehead touched the ground, there was a suppressed exclamation in the backyard. Except for Huwa, Taiyi, and Jigu, everyone else in the courtyard knelt down, and Hou Lechang knelt down involuntarily with weak legs.

Everyone only felt a flower in front of them, as if they saw an illusion, and a cave with a diameter of two zhang appeared on the mountain wall, which was about the size of two houses in the depression into the mountain, and there were stone beds, stone cases, stone benches and other things hewn out of natural rock in the cave.

Huwa could see clearly that it was not that Hou Gang had opened the Xianjia Cave Heavenly Enchantment, but that the Xianjia Cave Heavenly Enchantment had disappeared on its own, and the mountain wall had returned to its original appearance a hundred years ago.

If you want to open up the Immortal Family Cave Heaven Enchantment, you must have the Nine Realms Immortal Cultivation, it seems that Mr. Cangjie has this cultivation a long time ago, this place should be his handiwork, the scale is very small, but the means are very wonderful.

The Immortal Cave Heavenly Enchantment can be opened up with great divine powers, and it can also disappear from the human world and return to its original state. But if you want the Cave Heaven Barrier to disappear naturally without collapsing, I'm afraid only the pioneer himself can do it.

It seems that when Mr. Cangjie took Hou Gang away, he had already made all kinds of arrangements for the future, and this worship of opening the shrine should meet some predetermined conditions, and the immortal mana sealed here by Cangjie will operate naturally, and there is no need for Hou Gang himself to do anything, and the immortal family cave heavenly enchantment will disappear.

This means that except for Hou Gang, no one can open the shrine, not even the tiger baby itself. Even if other people cultivate to a higher level, they don't hesitate to spend time and mana with the Immortal Family, at most, they can only open the Cave Heaven Portal or destroy the Cave Heaven Enchantment, but it is impossible for the Immortal Family Cave Heaven Barrier to dissipate so naturally. (To be continued.) )