Chapter 21: Identity (1)
The following is all my retelling of Murong Zhi's family history, with a small part of my own brain in the middle, readers please listen to it:
A long, long time ago, a Rakshasa barbarian tribe called "Murong" crossed the sea from the Great Northern Wilderness to the middle of the world to adventure. Despite their barbarianism, the heroic feats of these oceans are admirable—ancient seafaring techniques and present worlds apart from each other, and it takes great perseverance, a sense of sacrifice, and greater organizational skill to cross the boundless and unpredictable seas of rage.
The chief of the Murong tribe, Timur 61, was a barbarian with a high will and intelligence.
At that time, it happened to coincide with the great turmoil of the Upper Central Plains Dynasty and the Yi Dynasty, and the grass kings bloomed everywhere. This chieftain grasped the trend set by the people of Middle-earth, gathered millions of Chinese refugees, and became a great separatist force in the north, and at its peak, Dayan once occupied the imperial capital. Based on this, some Chinese literati (perhaps some of whom were descendants of exiles) declared that the Great Yan established by the Murong clan belonged to our Chinese royal lineage.
Of course, the Great Yan Kingdom was a regime that was maintained entirely by personal ability and prestige. After the death of Timur 61 Murong Lao, the Great Yan Kingdom soon collapsed and disappeared into history.
For someone like me, who has been educated in my mother's Confucian classics and history since childhood, I can still vaguely remember that there was such a barbarian country in Middle-earth. Those who do not come into contact with ancient books have no concept of the Great Yan Kingdom at all.
It is said that it is a Rakshasa barbarian, and the appearance of this tribe is not much different from our Central Plains people, but their eyes and eyebrows are more slender. Murong Zhi's eyebrows and eyes are very slender, and when I was a child, I almost recognized the sheared eyes and moth eyebrows of the legendary classical beauty, until I learned the difference between Huaxia and barbarians from my mother, and I realized that she was a monster at all.
It is precisely because he is too similar to us Huaxia people that Murong Bu blends into the Huaxia people very lightly, and he completely loses his Rakshasa identity within a hundred years. There is only one exception, which is Murong Zhi's ancestor Murong Min (her official barbarian name is: Min Min Timur 61 Murong).
The Murong tribe was integrated into Chinese society, and the Murong people entered all classes of China as Huaxia people, and some Murong people who lost their genealogy even thought that their surnames came from the noble compound surnames of ancient China.
At that time, various "Clan Chronicles" and "Local Chronicles" written by Confucianism also contributed to this fallacy, which contained the profound intention of Confucianism to "change Xia into Yi"—when the Murong people thought they were Chinese, their danger to China would be reduced to zero.
Murong Min was the daughter of a forbidden army leader six hundred years ago.
At that time, hundreds of years had passed since the incident of "Ten Times Sonic Speed Flying Sword Killing the King", and the world had entered the era of martial arts for a long time.
The powerful people in the local area are all Jindan warriors, and their armament is the most powerful army (insertion, in the current world, Jindan warriors can be mixed with a nourishing gang leader like my father. Don't think about it or anything like that, that's what only the people of the Yuan Infant can do).
The prestige of the imperial court was even lower than it is now.
- Because of our time, the non-earthly sects of cultivation began to restrain their own disciples or unemployed disciples in the world. The contemporary Xiuzhen sect proclaimed itself the successor of the world's Taoist system, so it easily rewarded the court of the world's royal system.
However, compared with the people who couldn't control their lives in the troubled times, the life of the imperial capital people in the martial arts era was still relatively well-off. What's more, the daughter of the head of the forbidden army?
Murong Min grew up living a life of worry-free food and clothing, learning the martial arts taught by her father - a necessary survival skill in the martial arts era - and studying Confucian classics - her dream is to be the empress and enjoy the feeling of being admired by everyone, and the queen must have Confucian knowledge.
Needless to say, readers must have guessed that this Forbidden Army Sect Leader is a direct descendant of the Murong clan. But at that time, Murong Min and her father didn't even know this.
The reason is very simple: 1) Murong Min has never seen the genealogy of their family, but is influenced by the "Clan Chronicles" circulating in the world, and thinks that his surname originates from the noble compound surname of ancient China; He simply kept the Family Tree in a shrine as a family heirloom, and then invited it out every year during the ancestral sacrifice, and insisted that his children would not touch it—it was a fetish.
Murong Min's historical contact with that "Family Tree" is due to something that often happens among women: jealousy.
She is a classical beauty with sheared eyes and moth eyebrows, and she is very active in participating in the court draft for her dreams (or ambitions).
But conceited, beautiful, and captivating, she has lost again and again to girls whose appearance and talent are far more mediocre than her.
- The only thing where those girls are better than her is that they have a good father: the daughter of the Hou Ye, the daughter of the Prime Minister, the daughter of the Taishou, and the daughter of the Hanlin Bachelor......
Murong Min couldn't even see the emperor, so he was eliminated in the audition by the eunuchs who were stuffed* and the painters who had been bribed.
Of course, in fact, you don't need to have a good father, there is also a way to meet the emperor
- There are many women in the fireworks alley that the emperor lingers.
However, this is contrary to Murong Min's life goal: what she wants to do is not the emperor's pet, but the mother who holds the power and makes the world worship.
One day, she finally went crazy after being depressed all year round.
She didn't care about the barbaric family law of the head of the forbidden army, and stole the "Family Tree" in the shrine to see.
- Murong Min is the fifty-first Emperor of Dayan (given that the head of the forbidden army has only one daughter). The first emperor of Dayan had a premonition of the collapse of his kingdom before his death, and buried a treasure enough to restore the country in a place called Luding Mountain (undoubtedly the people of the Central Plains). The genealogy leaves a secret word to unlock the treasure and clues to the location of the treasure.
In order to be a mother, Murong Min studied a large number of Confucian classics, but he didn't expect it to be useful for solving mysteries. With some effort, she finally figured out where the treasure was. She felt that her life was very unwilling, and this was a developed opportunity from God, so she simply didn't do it.
She swept up all her family's savings and escaped from the imperial capital to find the treasures of Luding Mountain.
Her purpose is not to revive the Great Yan of Lao Shizi, in her mind, this barbarian country has nothing to do with her at all, and the beauty she is proud of has nothing to do with the barbarian blood of the Murong clan at all.
What she cares about is the treasure of Luding Mountain.
Even in the martial arts era, gold and silver jewelry were still precious things in the world—a large number of high-level machinery needed pure gold and mythril after the Wai Dan technique was ignited as materials, and those rare gems and mines mentioned in ancient times were actually the spirit stones needed by cultivators to smelt flying sword magic weapons. They are not only luxury, but also high-grade materials.
The treasures of Luding Mountain could still be sold for a good price in the world at that time.
She wants to trade this wealth for fame and status.
The journey of the troubled times was much more difficult than she imagined, and it completely changed Murong Min's style as a young lady.
She has to see the traps of liars, beware of robbers on the road, and beware of black shops that make human meat buns (in the martial arts era, there were still very few goblins in our Middle-earth, so she could have been less worried about this).
Sometimes she had to trade her body for information and food.
- Compared with the wealth that cannot be spent in hundreds of lifetimes, what is there not to sell for this?
When Murong Min thought like this, she was already a completely different person from when she first came out of the imperial capital.
She finally found Luding Mountain and opened the treasure.
The stalkers who coveted the treasure on the road were all killed by her by various means.
There was no sign of the treasure's mechanism triggering, and she secretly congratulated herself
- The design of the dead Timur still has two hits, and there is no cheap tomb robber.
But when she entered the treasure, she found that it was empty, not even a chest where the treasure was hidden.
She's going crazy.
She must not accept it!
She felt like she was being played by a big black hand.
She cursed all the vicious curses she had learned in the rivers and lakes, and suddenly found a gray ring, inconspicuously buried in the dust.
Her reason told herself that Timur 61 Murong's time did not have a cultivation civilization at all, and there was no such thing as a precept at all. There will be no treasure in this ring.
- But what if?
She was lucky enough to think that no one had ever seen a fairy. Although everyone in the world knows that cultivators only appeared at the end of the civilized era, there is no evidence that the immortals did not exist in the civilized era. Perhaps Timur 61 Murong, who once dominated the world, had the chance to see the immortals and was given a ring that could only hold as many treasures as a few hills?
She prayed to God for her blessing, and she didn't want to lose her life.
Murong Min rubbed the ring.
She saw a beating bloody human heart. This is the only thing in the ring.
Her heart also involuntarily pounded, with mixed feelings.
She didn't know what kind of treasure this heart was. She recalled the Confucian classics she had read, all kinds of wild historical monsters, and the incredible things she had encountered on the rivers and lakes.
"It must be an elixir! An elixir like a ginseng fruit! In this era, with supernatural powers, you can have whatever you want! With supernatural powers, it will not be a problem to revive the Yan Kingdom. Dead Timur must have thought so. I want to go back to the imperial capital, trample all those who climb on top of me, and make the faces of those bitches in front of everyone in the world! I can not only be the queen, but also the female emperor!"
Murong Min immediately grabbed the blood-drenched human heart and ate it raw one bite at a time.
Her lips were scarlet, dipped in blood, as if she had been wearing a poignant lip gloss.
Then Murong Min used her fingers to grasp the rocks of the cave. She felt that after taking the elixir, her body should be reborn, even if she didn't practice any spell, the ten fingers of her body could pierce the rock as long as she had a thought, but her hand was pierced with pain, and there was no change on the rock, only her unwashed bloody handprints.
She jumped desperately again, and as long as she had a mind after being reborn, even if she couldn't fly, jumping like a flea would not be a problem.
But she was disappointed again.
Suddenly, a gloomy wind swept up the ground, and a faint ghost swayed inside like a lamp shadow.
Murong Min was ecstatic
- It's not bad to be able to summon ghosts by the yin wind. She can build an army of ghost soldiers with this spell. Troubled times are full of dead people, and an army that is absolutely obedient to her can be formed lightly.
That ghost was the appearance of Timur 61 Murong.
Murong Min judged from the ghost's emperor's clothing and physical features.
- It must be this dead ghost who guarded this treasure after he died. Haha, in the future, he will be my eternal slave, fighting for the empress.
"First, I am not Timur 61 Murong, and second, you are still an ant-like mortal, just at the upper level of internal strength. ”
The ghost said, and he gave a cruel smile.
Murong Min was so frightened that he stepped back.
"What are you!"
"I look as you like, I am who you want me to be. If you think of Timur 61 Murong, I am the appearance of Timur 61 Murong. ”
The ghost shadow turned into Murong Min's appearance again,
"Now you think about yourself, so I'm like you again. ”
"What are you trying to trick me into here!"
"I'm a delusional heart you just ate. In the future, don't forget to work hard for the revival of Dayan, otherwise, you will be severely punished. ”
Murong Min hugged his head and screamed like a wolf.
There was nothing around her, not even treasures.
The idea of "reviving Dayan" was imprinted in her soul. As long as she dared to question it a little, this thought became a thought blade that pierced into the soul, making her unable to survive or die. This is not a physical pain, but an indelible heartache.
Others can't understand the behavior of this crazy woman, why this beauty would tear her clothes on the official road and scratch blood marks on her flesh for no reason. Because they couldn't see the blade that pierced her soul.
When Murong Min walked back to the imperial capital, she had become a third woman, her eyes were cold and fierce, and she was a walking corpse completely active for the revival of Dayan.
She had become numb to the Blade. Whether it is feasible or not, she no longer thinks about it, as long as she does the thing of "Reviving Dayan", she will not be punished by Nian Blade.
In her soul, she was locked in a cage composed of countless "Revival Dayan" Nian Blades, and only if she dared to give up the idea of "Reviving Dayan", and if she tried to get out of the cage of Nian Blade, Nian Blade would inflict a punishment like a slash on her. This is not a pain that any living being can resist.
Murong Zhi and I were close to each other, and my heart was completely open to her.
I can even see the monologue of Murong Min's life and soul presented in her soul.
"Delusion can be passed on and sown. If you open your heart to me, you will be able to see the family history of my delusional record. ”
Murong Zhi said,
"Delusion is like a seed, it can be planted in the bloodline of Murong Min's direct descendants, but it only sprouts and blossoms in one host, dictating his behavior. It is ridiculous that it is the host himself who sows the seeds of delusion, because the host will be worried that future generations will give up the effort to revive Dayan, and take precautions. Murong Min planted his delusion on his son before he died. Our family has passed on delusions from generation to generation, my father's delusions were planted by my grandfather, and my father's delusions were planted. ”