In the enclosed space, time seems to stand still.

Zhu'an leaned against a stone wall, his eyes closed, and the chaotic patterns on the stone wall were still hovering in front of him.

After going through it in his mind a few times, he felt that there were several line shapes that appeared over and over again, like a line that seemed to be absent.

The fire fold was put away early, and he opened his eyes in the endless darkness.

The eye inadvertently fell on the roof, there were four patterns faintly shining in the dark night, the bright light was not dazzling but very soft, like a group of fireflies.

He looked at it, and found that two recurring shapes appeared again, and from his point of view, it was not so much a pattern as some words, and the shape of the characters was very similar to "phantom flowers", and his heart moved, and he felt like he had grasped something.

With such a direction, his thinking became much clearer, and he went through all the patterns in his mind again, some of which were very similar to the characters that are commonly used now, so that the meaning of the connection could probably be guessed.

It took him a long time, combined with the various ancient books he had read, to roughly decipher the meaning of the words on the stone wall.

Written on the roof is the history of the Phantom Flower Country.

There is indeed a record of such a country in the ancient books he has read: there is a country in the land of Beize, because this country grows a strange flower, so it is called the country of phantom flowers, and then because of the large-scale drought in the country, the rain did not fall in three years, the people were not able to live, and the country was destroyed in the spring of the fourth year. The territory was eventually subsumed into the neighboring kingdom of Chaoyue.

The country of Chaoyue is the country where they are now, although it has undergone several dynasties over the centuries, the name of the ancient country has been used to this day, and what has changed is only the name of the country.

The record of the death of the Phantom Flower Country in the history books is only a few lines, but the reason for the death of the Phantom Flower Country that he saw through the strange words on the stone wall is not the same as that recorded in the history books, and there is even no connection between the two versions at all.

There is a country in the land of Kitazawa, and its name is Phantom Flower.

There is a strange flower in the phantom flower country, the size of the palm, the petals are slender like hair, layered, the color is green, it is called the flower of the past, which means to regain life. It has the miraculous effect of rejuvenating the skin and repairing the face, and is also known as the phantom flower. Whether it is congenitally ugly or acquired, the face is damaged, and it can be repaired with it.

There is a well-known story about this magical flower throughout the country.

There is a very famous girl in a certain city in the country of Phantom Flowers, but not because of how beautiful she is, how good-looking, on the contrary, because she is surprisingly ugly!

When she was sixteen years old, the royal family drafted girls across the country, and girls from all over the country could participate as long as they were of the right age, but because she was so ugly, she was kicked out directly before she entered the door, and was laughed at by a group of girls who were showy.

Under such humiliation, she ran out of the city crying and hid in the mountains. Unfortunately, it was raining again, and she ran and fell, and her cheek was broken, which was even more ugly and terrible!

She only felt that there was nothing to love in life, so she climbed to the top of the mountain and wanted to jump off the cliff, but she didn't want to die, and she was hung by a tree on the edge of the cliff.

The trunk of the tree near the cliff originally had a small green flower, and it still emitted a bright light, which looked very fresh and lovely. However, she flattened the flower when she fell. After crying again for a while, she sadly picked up the flat flower and put it on the scar on her face, thinking that it would be so sad to block it, don't die and be so ugly, if you die and go to the underworld and be ridiculed for being ugly. As a result, she was so tired from crying all day that she actually fell asleep vaguely hanging on a tree.

The next day, her father found her on the edge of the cliff, and the flower on her face was gone. When her father rescued her, he asked her with a strange face: Who are you? The girl was getting sadder and sader, and she was so ugly that her father didn't even know her. She thought that her father might be blind, but she stood and thought about it for a long time, and her father could still praise her for being good-looking in this world, how could she be worthy of her father when she died. The two of them just talked to the chicken and duck, and after talking for a long time, she realized that something was wrong, and left her father to run home like crazy, but fainted directly in the mirror.

Beautiful!

It's like she's got a different face!

She replied

When she came, the whole city came to see her, and they all exclaimed that she had been reincarnated!

This miraculous thing has spread all over the country in less than two days, and later she was directly elected to the palace as a palace concubine, and since then her life has been smooth sailing and completed a big turnaround.

After thinking about it, it can only be because of this green flower.

The whole world was boiling, and began to frantically search for this little turquoise flower.

It has also been found that even if the flower is plucked, it will not wither, it will be folded like the palm of the hand, and it will bloom again with a little more water. If the face is damaged, it can be applied directly, if the face is intact, it needs to be scratched before repairing. But the effect was successful without exception.

Such a rare flower, the growth environment is extremely harsh, some people spend more than ten years trying to plant their own but always end in failure, can not grow at all, so it is extremely rare and difficult to find, many ordinary people have only seen it in the circulating albums, but there are always people who look for it at all costs, and even specially formed a hired worker to find flowers. Their footprints are all over the country in the deep mountains, just to find this kind of afterlife flowers, sometimes when they are lucky, they can find several at the same time, most of them are sent to the royal capital, but in the black market, as long as the price is high enough, they can also be bought, resulting in more and more rare afterlife flowers.

It is recorded in this text that the final reason for the demise of the Phantom Flower Country is because of this magical afterlife flower.

The people of Phantom Flower are very good at handicraft, and there are countless large and small workshops across the country, and all kinds of goods are made from the workshops, and then transported by caravans to all parts of the country, and even neighboring countries. But the heavens gave the people of the Phantom Flower Country a pair of dexterous hands, but did not give them a good fighting body, they are not warlike by nature and are not keen on cultivating an army, and they don't even have the army reserves that a country should have. Relying on the developed handicraft goods, they are provided to neighboring countries, and they are at peace with the surrounding neighbors, and the surrounding countries need the supply of goods from the Phantom Flower Country, and they also provide a certain amount of protection to the Phantom Flower Country.

Of course, this kind of peace and quiet is based on the fact that the neighboring countries do not know that the Phantom Flower Country has this kind of afterlife flower. Therefore, there is a strict order from all over the country to never mention this magical afterlife flower to the outside world.

After all, no one can remain indifferent to the existence of such a strange flower. With it, you can even change a perfect face to come out, how can you make people not excited?

There is no impermeable wall in the world, and the problem is that someone in the Phantom Flower Country has leaked secrets.

There is a person named Ji Anshi in the Phantom Flower King Family, who is the younger brother of the lord of the Phantom Flower Country, and looks seven points similar to his brother.

It's a pity that the Phantom Flower Country has followed the system of inheriting the unification of the eldest son for generations, and although his brother is also considered the best among people, he is still slightly inferior to him, he is a natural emperor.

Although he also has grievances in his heart, but the Phantom Flower Country has been like this for generations, and he can only pin his melancholy on political affairs and display his ambitions in governing the country.

He longs for the prosperity of his country and the well-being of his people.

However, it was such a good minister who was dedicated to his country that betrayed his country.

Ji Anshi often travels around, has rich experience and unique knowledge, and he believes that relying only on handicraft workshops for the lifeblood of the country is not a long-term solution at all. Moreover, they are neighbors with other countries, they do not have a complete army, and once there is a conflict in their interests, their national security will be in jeopardy, and they will be easily violated by other countries.

If the country is to continue to prosper and be healthy, it is indispensable to have its own army.

After returning to the royal capital, he wrote an excerpt overnight, and the next day he wrote a letter to advise, hoping that his brother could also have such a long-term vision and make full preparations for the long-term peace and stability of the country.

However, the king of the Phantom Flower Country rejected his suggestion on the grounds that the Phantom Flower Country had been like this for generations, and the rules of the ancestors could not be broken.

After he was rejected, he was a little disappointed, so he had to temporarily suppress it.

Unfortunately, he was right.

Less than half a year later, caravans broke out on the border between the Phantom Flower Country and the neighboring country Asahuke, because the merchants of the Asahuka Country were no longer willing to do business with the merchants of the Phantom Flower Country.

This is a fatal problem for the Phantom Flower Country.

The Asahi Moon Country was originally a big warlord country, and at first the handicraft industry was not developed, and there were very few craftsmen, and many times they could only rely on the goods bought from the Phantom Flower Country, even many hundreds

Surnames and daily necessities need to be bought for money. At that time, the goods of the Illusory Flower Country were very popular in Azuki, and merchants from all over the country could only buy, sell and exchange goods from the caravans from the Phantom Flower Country, and especially liked the exquisite and easy things they made, which caused the handicraft industry of the Asahagi Country to become more and more depressed, and the craftsmen were almost unemployed. But this is always too much of an expense, and sometimes the merchants of the Phantom Flower Country are too expensive, and they are very passive in economic trading.

The voice reached the imperial capital, so the monarch of Chaoyue State listened to the opinions of the ministers and drafted an order to vigorously transform the country's handicraft technology, issued more than 30 decrees to encourage the development of handicrafts in all walks of life, and had various supports for craftsmen and handicraft workshops. In less than a year, the country's handmade manufacturing level has been qualitatively improved, various industries are booming, and the things made by the craftsmen are becoming more and more exquisite and durable, and there is no longer a need to buy them from the Phantom Flower Country.

Since the country can make its own products, the merchants are no longer willing to pay high prices to buy things from the merchants of the Phantom Flower Country, and the economic exchanges between the two sides have been interrupted. The goods of the Illusory Flower Country could not be sold in the Asato Country, and the lives of the merchants of the Phantom Flower Country were greatly affected, and they were eager to return to the market of the Asato Country, and the Asato Kingdom rejected their arrival and repeatedly reduced economic exchanges. If the merchants of the Illusory Flower Country want to go to the Asagina Country to sell things, they must go through the border gates, and the Chaoyue Country Pass has begun to make it difficult for the merchants of the Illusory Flower Country to reduce their entry.

As a result, the relationship between the two sides became more and more tense, and the accumulated contradictions began to erupt.

After a friction broke out, Chaoyue Country directly sent soldiers to suppress it, and the caravan of the Phantom Flower Country was driven back in disgrace and asked the border guards of the Phantom Flower Country for help.

The border guards of the Phantom Flower Country were beaten miserably in less than half a pillar of incense, and they withdrew their troops in disgrace.

The soldiers of the Chaoyue Kingdom are still showing off their power at the border of the Phantom Flower Country, and the documents of the Chaoyue Kingdom to ask for an explanation for this matter are also sent to the monarch of the Phantom Flower Country.

With such a provocation, the monarch of the Phantom Flower Country had no choice at all, and he replied aggrievedly to admit his mistake, and also ordered his own merchants to withdraw from the market of Chaoyue Country, and the losses were extremely heavy.

When the matter reached Ji Anshi's ears, he was so angry that he wrote again to propose to train his own army.

If the country has a strong army, why should it be afraid of this?

As a result, it was again denied.

The stubborn and cowardly lord of the Phantom Flower Country was not merciful internally, and directly used the identity of the monarch to suppress Ji Anshi.

Ji Anshi was completely disappointed.

He looked at the incomprehensible and questioning eyes of the people, and suddenly a thought popped up! He wanted to prove to the King of the Phantom Flower Country, his brother, who was right!

Under the iron hooves of other countries, what capital does the Phantom Flower Country have to resist?

So mediocre, his royal brother is not worthy of being the king of this country at all.

He sent the secret of the deceased flower to the Asahuki country, causing an uproar throughout the country.

In less than half a month, it didn't take much time, and it didn't take much to hinder it, and the iron hooves of Chaoyue Country unscrupulously leveled the Phantom Flower Country.

The mountains and rivers are about to fall, and Ji Anshi brought the monarch of the Phantom Flower Country to the stormy palace tower, and in the distance is the army of the enemy.

He pointed to the enemy's iron cavalry, sneered and sarcastically said: "The gap between the army, this is the reason for your country!"

The Monarch of the Phantom Flower Country fell to the ground, suddenly looking like he had aged for more than ten years, his face was withered, and his expression was gray.

When the city was broken, Ji Anshi took what Chaoyue Kingdom wanted to get this time, the last three afterlife flowers in the Phantom Flower King Capital, and disappeared.

Before the city was destroyed, Ji Anshi hid most of the savings of the Phantom Flower Nation's treasury into this mountain, including the three last deceased flowers. When the army of the Asahuki Kingdom broke into the capital of the Phantom Flower King, they did not find the Flower of the Afterlife, and even the gold and silver treasures that were collected were very small.

This magical flower of the past has become the fuse for the destruction of the country.

Except for the three that Ji Anshi took away at that time, there are no more afterlife flowers in the world, and of course there is no phantom flower country.

These texts also mention that Ji Anshi wants to use this huge wealth to restore the country and re-establish his ideal Phantom Flower Country.

The text in the back became more and more sloppy and ugly, and Zhu'an really couldn't see what was written, and he didn't know what was going on behind it.

But judging from the current results, Ji Anshi has failed.

There won't be any more Phantom Flower Nations.