Standing next to the huge human oil lamp, Liu Shiba silently stared at the pungent flame.
"Eighteen, if the old man is right, these withered bones should be the Qingzhou Yellow Turbans that were wiped out that year. Except for the 30,000 Qingzhou elites, the rest are all here."
"Old Cao, your idea coincides with mine!"
Liu Shiba could not calm down for a long time, and thought to himself:
Could it be that one general achieves great success but ten thousand bones wither?
Just to brew a massive amount of human oil, do you need to kill so many prisoners?
These are all ordinary people!
Cao Cao is truly worthy of being a hero!
With a secret sigh in his heart, Liu Shiba slowly turned around and looked around the cave.
After walking around for a while, I found nothing and didn't see anything unusual!
Liu Shiba felt a little strange.
Did I make a mistake in my judgment? Cao Cao’s real remains are not in this underground cave?
Liu Shiba looked at Cao Xiong and saw that the old man was also looking around.
Li Ergou and his wife, on the other hand, stood beside the mass grave and commented, marveling.
Slowly walking to Cao Xiong, Liu Shiba glanced at the huge human oil lamp next to Cao Xiong in confusion.
These human oil lamps surrounding the mass graves are somewhat different from the fire pits on the mountain streams.
The fire tank surrounds the hall as a whole. However, the human oil lamps in the mass graves are separate.
Each individual human oil lamp looked like an ancient cauldron. Liu Shiba roughly counted ten of them, and only one of them was different, which was the one next to Cao Xiong.
This human oil lamp is in human form!
At first glance, he looked like a man wearing armor. His face was blurry, but he could vaguely see an iron helmet with a top on his head.
The top of the iron helmet is a burning wick, and the flame seems to have a faint purple color.
The other parts of the human oil lamp are dark, and I don't know what material it is made of.
"Old Cao, what's weird about this lamp?"
Liu Shiba asked doubtfully.
"There are ten human oil lamps in the hall, and the remaining nine are huge bronze tripods.
Only this human-shaped oil lamp is not made of bronze."
Cao Xiong's voice was trembling as he spoke, as if he was extremely scared!
"Old Cao, what's wrong with you?"
Liu Shiba's eyes moved and he glanced at the man's oil lamp.
"Eighteen, don't you think this place is too weird?"
The corners of Cao Xiong's mouth trembled a little.
"Yes, little master, it was fine when I first came in. But now that the lamp is on, I feel that the surroundings are getting colder and colder."
Li Ergou smacked his lips and explained carelessly.
"cold?"
When Li Ergou said this, even Liu Shiba felt chilled all over.
In the gloomy mass graves, there seems to be an invisible and strange atmosphere spreading quietly...
"Eighteen, eighteen, the old man has a strange idea."
Cao Xiong stared at the human-shaped oil lamp in front of him in fear.
Liu Shiba felt the gloomy wind around him, looked back at Cao Xiong with a ferocious expression, and said strangely:
"I also have some ideas. Let's share them together and see if they are the same?"
"good!"
"one two three!"
Cao Xiong and Liu Shiba stared at each other, raised their fingers and pointed at the huge human-shaped oil lamp and said:
"Cao Cao?"
Li Ergou stood beside the two of them in confusion and said strangely:
"Although I am uneducated, I still know some allusions. I understand what you two mean.
Doesn’t it mean that this human-shaped oil lamp is Cao Xiong’s bones?”
Liu Shiba glanced at Li Ergou in surprise and thought: I thought you were a fool?
"Uncle Ergou, what is the allusion you are talking about?"
Liu Shiba couldn't help laughing, and asked with eyes wide open.
"Nine green lanterns burn purple energy!"
Li Ergou shook his head and said something.
"Crack!"
"I see!"
Before Li Ergou finished speaking, Cao Xiong clapped his hands and roared.
This roar spread very far in the cave, and the echoes rumbled for a long time, shaking down a lot of rubble on the roof of the cave.
Liu Shiba glared at Cao Xiong in confusion, looked up at the dark cave ceiling, and said dissatisfied:
"Keep your voice down, the roof of the cave collapsed and we can't get out! What do you think you know, Lao Cao?"
"Nine green lamps burn purple gas, which means that the purple gas that I brought from the east is not a miracle of nature, but man-made."
Cao Xiong said with a ferocious smile.
"Man-made?"
"Legend has it that before Lao Tzu left Hangu Pass in the west, Yin Xi, the commander of the pass, saw purple energy coming from the east and knew that a saint would pass through.
Later, I saw Lao Tzu coming riding a green ox, so I called it "Purple Air Coming from the East", which is now used as a metaphor for auspicious signs."
Cao Xiong explained softly.
"What does the coming of purple energy from the east have to do with our place?"
Liu Shiba said doubtfully.
"It doesn't matter, purple energy is not a sign of good luck, but a sign of great misfortune.
Purple energy is actually condensed by the legendary ghosts. Nine green lanterns are lit to gather thousands of ghost energy, forming the purple energy coming from the east.
Laozi wrote the Tao Te Ching, a 5,000-word chapter, in which Tao is used to explain the evolution of all things in the universe.
Laozi believes that Tao generates one, which generates two, two generates three, and three generates all things. Therefore, there is a saying that people follow the earth, the earth follows the sky, the sky follows the Tao, and the Tao follows nature."
Cao Xiong frowned and explained slowly.
Liu Shiba looked at the human-shaped oil lamp strangely, shook his head and said:
"I still don't understand."
Cao Xiong sighed and smiled bitterly:
"So, do you know what my most famous saying is?"
Liu Shiba was stunned when he heard this?
The most famous?
"Hahaha, this is not easy, I know, my father told me when I was a child."
Li Ergou laughed triumphantly.
"ah?"
Cao Xiong and Liu Shiba looked at each other strangely.
This old guy is over sixty years old. Isn't he usually silly?
Could it be that great wisdom is like foolishness?
"Which sentence?"
Liu Shiba's eyes lit up and he asked deliberately.
"The heaven and the earth are unkind, and treat all living things like mutt dogs; the ruler is unkind, and treats the common people as mutt dogs..."
Li Ergou squeezed his eyes and gave Liu Shiba a narrow look.
"I understand what Lao Cao means!"
Liu Shiba glanced at Cao Xiong, who was also stunned, and then said:
"I rode an ox out of Hangu Pass from the west, and at the same time the purple energy came from the east, it was not a good sign.
This is Lao Tzu resolving countless wronged souls in the world. He uses himself as a green lamp to burn the fire of his own life and guide countless wronged souls who have turned into purple energy to reincarnate."
Cao Xiong nodded happily after hearing this, and at the same time looked solemnly at the human oil lamp burning with blazing purple flames next to him.
"Old Cao, I understand now that your ancestor Cao Cao was not a vicious murderer.
There may be someone else who killed the people in the Ten Thousand Bones Pit to refine the human oil.
After Cao Cao died, he used his own bones to forge a blue lantern, turn it into purple energy, and guide thousands of innocent souls to another world..."
Liu Shiba was silent for a long time and said softly.
"Ancestor, the descendant Cao Xiong kowtows to you!"
Cao Xiong burst into tears and slowly knelt down in front of the burning human-shaped oil lamp.
Liu Shiba sighed slightly when he saw this.
It turns out that history is not as real as it seems on the surface!
All the truth is hidden in unknown corners.
Cao Cao was a tyrant and founded the Cao Wei Empire. How could he be a cruel tyrant?
Only an emperor who loves his people like a son can have such a broad mind. After his death, he will turn himself into an ancient blue lantern Buddha to light the lamp leading to bliss for the people who died unjustly...
This is the Purple Qi coming from the east!
What a good one, nine green lanterns burning purple energy...
