Li Longyuan picked up the map with his hands. It felt as gentle as old sheepskin. He turned the map over and saw that the back was densely written with words.
The young family head's eyes narrowed, and he suddenly realized that these handwritings were not written by the same person, but were jointly written by the sixty-two generations of family heads before the orthodoxy.
The beginning of the chapter indicates the time: the seventeenth year of Emperor Zhenguan of Emperor Taizong of the Tang Dynasty.
Li Longyuan quickly looked back on history. In that year, the prince Li Chengqian rebelled and was deposed!
When he was a child, Li Yongyuan had objections not only to his own name, but also to his grandfather's name.
After all, anyone who has read history books knows the reputation of Li Chengqian, the deposed prince. It will be inconvenient for someone with the same name to travel outside.
But my grandfather just smiled and said that this was what the clan elders had calculated when he was born, and it came from the meaning of "inheriting the family business and taking charge of the world". There was no further explanation.
The biography of the first generation head of the family says that in the 17th year of Zhenguan, Prince Li Chengqian encountered a dragon in his dream, and he uttered human words: "It is better to live forever if you lose your destiny."
At that time, Li Chengqian suffered from foot disease and lived in the palace for a long time. Every move he made was subject to critical advice from ministers.
For example, when he built a palace, he was accused of being too extravagant, and when he played with eunuchs, he was accused of being dissolute and immoral.
Since the death of Queen Changsun, Li Chengqian has become more and more rebellious in this high-pressure environment. He has changed from a prince with a handsome face and a benevolent and filial temperament to a lame man who indulges in sensuality and indulges in singing.
Later, he even fell in love with a Taichang Leren who was "beautiful and good at singing and dancing", and he was very happy.
No one knew whether the actress was a boy or a girl. She was so beautiful that her gender was indistinguishable, and there was no record in the history books. Of course, later generations always like to speculate on this matter with a more malicious look.
But as the prince of the East Palace and the future emperor, his excessive love for an actor is more than poison.
When Emperor Taizong Li Shimin found out about this, he thought that the actor named "Chengxin" had used witchcraft to bewitch the prince, and he was furious and ordered the actor to die.
This created a thick layer of estrangement between father and son, who were already at odds with each other.
Li Chengqian, who was already grieving over the death of Empress Changsun, was hit again. He even built a monument in the palace for the deceased actor and mourned all day long, living in a drunken dream.
It was at this time that he saw a dragon hiding in the sea of clouds in his drunken dream.
"Why teach me?" the prince asked.
"He who refuses to leave will die, but a strong man who cuts off his wrist may live."
At that time, Li Tai, the fourth son of the emperor, was favored by the emperor, and it was rumored that he was a king.
Li Chengqian then raised his troops to rebel and forced the palace. After the incident was exposed, Taizong spared his efforts and dismissed Qianzhou as a commoner.
The deposed prince secretly consolidated his forces, recruited those who were willing to follow him, and established orthodoxy incognito.
In the 19th year of Zhenguan, he died of illness, and the golden cicada escaped from his shell. From then on, there was no more Tang Dynasty prince Li Chengqian, only the first generation head of the Li family.
After that, Li Chengqian hid behind the scenes and searched for the magic of immortality. He died of illness seventeen years later.
Li Yongyuan read the life of the first generation head of the family in a eloquent manner, but felt a little dazed over the years, as if he had experienced the whole life of the deposed prince in a long and long time.
The wantonness of youth, the depression of losing one's mother as an adult, the pain of losing love in middle age, all because of the increasingly thick barriers between the supreme power and the father.
As for the secrets between the rise of Zhengtong and the Tang Dynasty, Li Longyuan had already guessed. After all, the group founded by his grandfather was the Tang Dynasty, with Peony as its brand and the surname Li.
Judging from the normal continuation of four generations over a hundred years, sixty-two generations would be around 1500, which also coincides with the time.
The only thing that interests Li Yongyuan is the "dragon" mentioned in the biography recorded in classical Chinese, and the sentence "It is better to live forever than to lose one's destiny."
The dragon hiding in the sea of clouds looks very much like Ba Xia. This is also surprising because Orthodoxy has controlled the Nibelungs for more than a thousand years since the first generation of family heads.
"As for destiny and longevity, they are what everyone pursues. Unfortunately, those who are lucky often do not live forever, and they must choose one of the two. Therefore, the illusory longevity will only occur when the emperor's life is approaching.
Think about it, since ancient times, there have been many emperors who died of heavy metal poisoning by burning elixirs and refining mercury."
"Did the first-generation head of the family also lose their sobriety and be deceived by such a lie?"
After all, the Tang Dynasty was not as good as modern times, and the prototypes of biological science and technology were all gone. Where can we see the shadow of immortality?
It was only when Li Yongyuan read along the autobiography of the first generation family head that he suddenly realized something was wrong.
What each generation of family heads does is actually for the same goal.
"Immortal!"
Crazy, they are all crazy.
With this crazy goal in mind, successive family heads have pursued and killed fallen hybrids all over the world, only to study the changes in blood factors and genetic sequences when the dragon bloodline exceeds 50%.
The transformation from human to dragon may contain the secrets of immortal species and hybrid species.
As for maintaining security and stability within the jurisdiction, Orthodoxy only needs a stable environment to conduct research on immortality species.
Facts have proved that through continuous collection of blood from various hybrids and pure-blooded dragons, Zhengtong has long been exposed to the secret of the Dragon King's immortality.
Taboos about making cocoons.
Cut off part of your body and seal it up. That part of the body contains a complete genetic sequence, plus the soul with past memories, to form a cocoon similar to the Dragon King, also called a bone bottle.
When the Dragon King dies, his soul will cocoon and wait for a long time to rehatch from the egg and gain immortality.
After understanding the specific process of making cocoons, it is very difficult to get started, especially with such an ethereal thing as the soul.
Like in the Nibelung world, all matter is killed, and even time can stand still. This is a country of the dead.
Except for the true master who can avoid the passage of time, no living creature can avoid time.
The true ruler of Yunding Tiangong is the overlord.
It is somewhat ironic that only immortals can rule the country of the dead.
Therefore, the first few dozen generations of orthodox family heads would at most make their bodies into cocoons and bury them in the heavenly palace before death to keep their bodies incorruptible, but their souls have generally dissipated like smoke.
It was not until the 32nd generation of the family that a major discovery was made. Xu Fu, the alchemist who made elixirs for the First Emperor, could not refine the elixir of immortality that would make the body incorruptible, but it seemed that this elixir had the effect of preserving the immortality of the soul.
It cannot make the body immortal, but it can make the soul immortal.
This means that the hybrid species only needs to cut off part of the body and seal it in a bone bottle before dying, and then take the elixir to preserve the soul. It is possible to wake up from the cocoon in the mausoleum like the immortal species.
Come.
Therefore, since the thirty-second generation of the family head, finding the prescription for the elixir of life has been the top priority of the orthodox work. For this reason, the Li family orthodox sent many teams of bad guys to the Mausoleum of Qin Shihuang to search for the elixir, but unfortunately there were few clues.
But unexpectedly, he found the famous sword passed down from generation to generation, Tai'a, which was buried with the First Emperor.
Therefore, the orthodox family head began to increase his efforts and continuously collected the burial objects of emperors of various dynasties. After all, in the feudal era, only the emperor was the most capable person to summon the world's alchemists to refine the elixir of immortality.
Therefore, they are not the guardians of the tomb, but the tomb robbers!
Later, it was less about protecting the secret of the imperial mausoleum and more about preventing the immortality pill recipe from flowing out to other organizations.
However, the elixir prescription seems to have been discontinued since the pre-Qin period. Orthodox people keep trying medicines, but they can't find any medicine that can make the soul immortal.
Some people may question that the soul is formless and its existence is difficult to determine. Maybe there is a real elixir in those elixirs?
Ridiculous, if that were the case, Zhengtong had swallowed all kinds of elixirs and was made into a cocoon and buried in the Yunding Heavenly Palace after his death.
So far, there are a total of sixty cocoons, and none of them have come back to life, which is the best proof.