The three Taoist immortals, Red Jing Jing, Golden Light Holy Mother, and Qin Wan, directly used escape techniques to escape.
Li Ping'an didn't want to speak at first;
But he really couldn't listen anymore.
Now that there is no threat from the Transcendents, he has given such a relaxed stage for the Great Tribulation Competition, and has also specially sent a total of 240 incarnations of Heavenly Dao to both sides...
Did the two families just start playing like this?
Chi Jingjing, Qin Wan, and the Golden Lady are all incarnations of themselves. According to what they said, they will go around the territory of each prince, focusing on forming good relationships and investing extensively.
They will help whoever starts to gain momentum.
If you do something outside the rules, isn't that cheating?
Li Ping'an took the initiative to show up, thinking of warning the two sects not to do anything unnecessary.
With the current conditions and rules, are they still dissatisfied with anything? Is there anything else to fight for or hide from?
These three uncles were quite familiar with each other. After recognizing Li Ping'an, they did not dare to say anything else and left in a hurry without giving them the gifts they were supposed to give.
It didn't matter that they were leaving, Ji Chang and a group of Xiqi ministers were dumbfounded.
Among the ministers who can serve in the Xibohou Mansion, which one is not a human spirit, and which one is a foolish person?
The three gods were targeting each other, and they saw it;
The gods all wanted to marry their Xibohou, and they saw it;
The Fourth Young Master suddenly spoke, his words were rude, and he even reprimanded the three gods. The three gods showed their magical powers, flashed in front of the Fourth Young Master, looked at each other, and immediately left.
Isn’t this the one who was scolded away by their Fourth Young Master?
The Fourth Young Master scolded the God away, and the God was extremely jealous of the Fourth Young Master. They then combined this with what they had heard before, that the Fourth Young Master could drink and play chess with the God in his sleep.
The ministers of Xibohou Mansion suddenly understood something.
The Fourth Young Master, Ji Dan, can communicate with the gods!
"Dan'er?"
Ji Chang's voice floated from the side.
Li Ping'an, who was in a daze, immediately agreed: "Hey! The child is here!"
He turned around the pile of grains and walked forward quickly, facing the hot and even fanatical gazes around him. When he arrived in front of Ji Chang, he bowed his head and saluted.
"Father, the child is here."
"Well," Ji Chang looked around, frowned and asked, "Do you know these gods?"
He winked at Ji Dan.
Li Pingan laughed dumbly.
What does father mean? Do you want him to answer yes or no?
After thinking for a moment, Li Ping'an sighed softly in his heart. This matter is quite complicated, mainly due to the complexity of Ji Chang himself.
Li Ping'an simply handed over his hands and said: "Back to father, it seems that the child has met them in his dream."
"Oh?" Ji Chang's voice suddenly became much louder, "My son met them in his dream. No wonder, these three gods left immediately when they saw it was you... Can you still call them back?
"
"Well," Li Ping'an cupped his hands and said, "the child is just a mortal, how can we call them back? If the father wants to see them, the child can search for them in his dreams, and he will certainly be able to find them."
Ji Chang immediately said: "Don't search randomly, don't search randomly! This matter will be discussed later... I ask you, what do you do when you meet the gods in your dreams?"
"Play chess, drink, and chat."
Li Pingan smiled and said:
"They have a magical brew that makes children sleep for days after drinking it."
"Then what they said is really true?"
"Father, are you asking..."
"The so-called Shenting," Ji Chang's eyes were full of light. He took half a step forward, approached Li Ping'an, and whispered, "The Shenting is no longer there, and now the person in charge has changed, right?"
"seems like it."
Li Ping'an said as if he didn't care:
"The Divine Court has been replaced. Now it's called Heavenly Court or something."
It's a mess.
As far as Li Ping'an knew, in the myths and stories of his hometown, heaven actually evolved slowly from the concept of God. This belief was nearly two thousand years away from King Wen of Zhou Dynasty in history.
This is the sequelae of the detached teacher who created the world and made up myths.
Li Pingan said quickly: "Father, as far as I know, there are no gods directly in charge of this place. Heaven is where the gods work together. They will not care about the affairs of the mortal world for the time being. They have more important things.
Have to worry about it.”
"Oh? Then what are they doing here today?"
"The child doesn't know this."
Li Ping'an lowered his head and avoided Ji Chang's gaze.
The gaze was so hot that Li Pingan felt a little guilty.
"Hahaha!"
Ji Chang laughed a few times and said to the subjects beside him:
"The gods came to our Xiqi. Although they have no connection with me, they have a close relationship with my son. This is a blessing for me in Xiqi!
"Dan'er, you will walk around our Xiqi territory later to promote your virtues to our people!"
Patrolling the territory?
Li Ping'an hurriedly said: "Father, this is not allowed."
"Oh?" Ji Chang said with a smile, "Why not?"
Li Ping'an smiled and said: "In our family, we have an elder brother who is wise and talented, and a second brother who is extraordinary in martial arts. They are both legitimate sons. I am just the fourth son. I am lazy and lazy and don't like to be close to the people. Think about it, I am lazy and lazy, and even gods think I can follow him.
They are having fun together, how can they patrol Xiqi on behalf of my father and eldest brother? I ask my father to take back his orders for this matter."
Ji Chang looked at the young man in front of him carefully with a bit of astonishment in his eyes.
He watched for a long time, then suddenly he clapped his hands and laughed, his laughter a little more relieved and a little happy.
He said: "Okay, I listen to you! From now on, you can play freely in our house, you are allowed to drink and have fun, and you are allowed to raise a singer!"
"Thank you father!"
Li Ping'an sighed slightly in his heart.
Ji Chang was in a good mood. He walked towards the road with his hands behind his back and stopped cutting grains here.
A group of subjects immediately rushed up and surrounded the young Ji Dan asking questions.
Li Ping'an just dealt with these 'fanatics' and almost lost his temper.
…
It's quiet at night.
Li Pingan was sitting on the roof of the attic in the corner of Xinxibohou Mansion, looking at the twinkling stars in the sky, quietly thinking about how to deal with the follow-up matters.
He didn't know if he should tighten up on the Great Tribulation of Gods.
After all, this is what he promised.
And to be honest, Li Pingan feels guilty in his heart. This guilt is inevitable and difficult to get rid of.
It's just that... he always felt that everything he was enjoying now was filled with a kind of sin that was difficult to wash away. It was all done by another father so that he could survive.
He could shamelessly say that he didn't know anything about it.
But he has a vested interest. It was Old Man Wanri who saved him from serious injury. Otherwise, the only one who completed the time travel was his current father Li Dazhi.
'Forget it, let them do whatever they want, as long as there won't be any big trouble.'
Li Pingan shook his head.
He did not raise a large number of people to teach the two teachings, and he pretended that he did not see these small actions of the two teachings.
He even felt that it was very likely that the two religions would end up directly without the incarnation of Heavenly Dao.
The probability of this happening is not low.
The night breeze was blowing, and Li Ping'an had almost finished drinking the sake in his hand.
"Dan'er...Dan'er?"
"Huh?" Li Pingan turned around and looked down, only to see Xibo Hou Jichang, wearing a gray linen robe, standing behind a rockery and waving to Li Pingan.
"father!"
"Shh!" Ji Chang made a silencing gesture.
Li Ping'an subconsciously wanted to turn over and jump down. Just as he was about to move, he remembered that his incarnation had no magic power. In order to practice the way of all living beings, he even withdrew the power of his immortal consciousness.
"coming!"
Li Pingan took two steps on the roof and climbed down the wooden ladder.
He also discovered that the palace soldiers and maids who were patrolling around before were now gone.
He hurried to the rockery and saw several gaps covered by the rockery.
Ji Chang looked around and lifted up a stone slab with some effort, revealing a sloping downward passage. There were aqueducts and rainwater collection designs on the edge of the passage. Below was a passage lit by luminous spiritual stones.
"Go, be silent."
"Hey," Li Ping'an agreed, feeling a little curious in his heart.
Then he followed Ji Chang down here, and did not forget to close the stone slab after entering.
The ventilation design here is really good.
Li Ping'an sighed in his heart, and then remembered the cellar Ji Chang built in the old Xibohou Mansion a few years ago.
He looked carefully and found that there should be a road leading to Xibohou Mansion.
For ordinary people, this is quite a big project.
Then he saw a dozen white bones arranged neatly at the end of a corridor...
"They are the slaves who built the tunnel here," Ji Chang sighed, "There is no way, we can't let them leave. Although I also thought about cutting out their tongues, I still felt uneasy in the end, so I had to do this.
"
Li Ping'an asked in a low voice: "What is father doing here?"
"Of course it's to deceive others."
Ji Chang smiled bitterly and bowed to these bones.
Li Ping'an always felt that this scene was a bit ironic.
The murderer saluted the slain, and then the murderer felt that he was worthy of the slain... Well, in terms of the current common courtesy, Ji Chang, the Xibohou, saluted the slave, which was considered a gift.
They explain enough.
Ji Chang turned around and said, "Come here, I'll take you to see something."
Li Pingan had already roughly guessed what Ji Chang wanted to take him to see.
Sure enough, one side of the wall was larger and more complex, with the sixty-four hexagrams of King Wen engraved on it. Under the light of several braziers, Li Ping'an's eyes came into focus.
There are more than a dozen huge wooden frames on both sides of this wall.
Ji Chang seemed to have aged a few years. He touched the wall with his fingers, sighed softly, and murmured:
"If there are no gods, then what do I have? What do I think about day and night? My son, can you tell your father? Did you really fail to communicate with the gods before you became a father?"
Li Ping thought quietly and didn't know how to answer for a while.
Ji Chang slowly leaned his cheek against the stone wall and murmured in a low voice:
"Fortunately, the three of them are not gods, but immortals. They are just enjoying themselves.
"How can gods communicate with mortals? Even a mortal king should be small and humble in front of gods. He must kneel down and salute the gods.
"Dan'er, do you know, do you know?"
Li Pingan asked calmly: "What do I know?"
"Do you know how shocked I was when I entered Chaoge City for the first time?"
Ji Chang narrowed his eyes slightly, his slumped figure left the wall, slowly walked to the bookcase beside him, and sat in a chair.
The firelight illuminated his face and the furrows of his wrinkles.
Ji Chang murmured:
"That was when I was as old as Fa'er. At that time, I also had strong physical skills and was particularly good at shooting.
"I led a group of Qiang people to Chaoge City. Because Chaoge City was in such a hurry, I was afraid of losing time, so I traveled all day and night, day and night, and 20% of the Qiang people died.
"Fortunately, the sacrifices were not delayed, and all the Qiang people arrived.
"I was also very tired, but when I came to my senses, I turned around and looked... guess what I saw?"
Several pictures emerged in Li Ping'an's mind, and then he shook his head and asked in unison: "What?"
"Hundreds of people! Hundreds of people!"
Ji Chang's voice became trembling, and his body was trembling slightly:
"Hundreds of people were stripped of their clothes, washed clean, and then hung up in a row. Then hundreds of butchers came forward and began to bleed and dismantle them.
"I was scared, you know? I really didn't dare to move, I just looked up.
"It turns out that the Qiang people were sent here to be slaughtered, just like those cattle, sheep, pigs and dogs, no, worse than them.
"The sacrifices have begun... I don't even know when the sacrifices started. I was pulled by someone to change into a dress. I followed behind your grandfather and walked among a group of ministers. I looked at the king, who was not very tall.
Your Majesty, step by step, you walked up the stairs to the top, prayed to God, and asked your ancestors for their blessings.
"Those human animals that were originally slaughtered were all used as sacrifices and placed here.
"You know, when I close my eyes now, I see these pictures, they turn over and over again, like a nightmare that I can't wake up from.
"Later I found out...they are all the same."
"Them?" Li Ping'an was a little confused.
Jichang sighed: "That is, the larger princes, the princes who guard the borders for the king, are all the same. They all have similar experiences and are shocked by this picture. The king just wants us to be afraid, fearful, and then, suddenly something
One day, I received your grandfather's coffin at home and opened the coffin... He was dismantled into pieces like a human sacrifice and was delivered to me. Then the king's messenger told me that I will start from today.
This is the new Xibohou..."
Li Ping'an nodded slightly.
Ji Chang looked up at him, with an extremely complicated look in his eyes.
He whispered:
"You know Dan'er, I have never dared to think about how to find an explanation for your grandfather. Your grandfather did not rebel. He conquered the east and west for the king of Shang and expanded the territory for the merchants. This is what happened in the end.
, I am not convinced! But I dare not be convinced!
"Before today, I have been thinking, thinking, thinking, how do businessmen communicate with the gods in the sky?
"In the entire Shang Kingdom, only the king knows how to communicate with the gods. So is it possible that this matter is false? Did the Shang King deliberately say this in order to deceive us and scare us?
"Actually, I'm not the only one who thinks so, they all think so.
"Then, I began to secretly learn their sacrificial methods and study the steps of human and animal sacrifices."
Li Pingan was startled for a moment.
He thought of those dozen white bones.
That might...not be the craftsman who repaired the cellar...
Ji Chang smiled bitterly: "But I can't communicate with the gods at all, and my divination often makes mistakes. Every time I think I have found the pattern, I later find that the pattern is wrong. There is no trace. There is really no trace."
Xun, take a look at these hexagrams! These recordings! I really found some patterns, but these patterns have nothing to do with gods! I can even predict when it will rain and when it will blow, and most of them
The time is always right!”
Li Pingan nodded secretly.
The sixty-four hexagrams coincide with the number of heaven.
"Alas," Ji Chang seemed relieved, "I just learned today that the gods are gone long ago, gone! Hahahaha! Hahahaha! No one is protecting King Shang anymore! Their ancestors, the ancestors they have always worshiped
, all gone!”
He laughed for a while, and then looked at Li Ping'an with a somewhat complicated look.
Ji Chang whispered: "Dan'er, I need to ask you a few questions, and you must answer me truthfully."
"Otherwise, father, you will kill the child, right?"
Li Pingan responded with a smile.
Ji Chang was slightly startled, and the dagger hidden in his sleeve shrank further.