Text Chapter 885 The Secret of the Year
Under the leadership of a brocade-clothed butler, the three of them zigzagged in this large courtyard, and finally came to a tall and spacious blue brick house, and the brocade-clothed butler welcomed the three into the house. From the outside, this house is extraordinarily magnificent, but when you enter this house, it is extremely simple, with only a square long table, which houses several spiritual seats, and lingering incense dances in this room.
"Zhang Tianwang, I'm finally waiting for you." An old, deep voice rang out, and the three of them searched for it, only to find it coming from behind a piece of drape. Then from behind the curtain came an old man with a pale face and a light in his eyes. The old man was dressed in a brocade robe, he walked with a dragon and a tiger step, but his rickety body did not see a trace of the sluggish breath of the wind and candles, although his face was old and wrinkled, but the spirit of the old man was bright.
Old man Zhang's eyes flashed, his eyes were firmly fixed on the old man's body, he looked at it very carefully, as if he didn't want to miss any details. "It's you, aren't you dead, all the people are dead, why are you still alive." Old man Zhang's emotions became a little excited, he raised his hand to point at the old man, and he couldn't help but murmur with low sadness and indignation in his mouth.
"I didn't expect it, you didn't die, why should I die. All of them are dead, and maybe we're really just two of us old bones. Do you think I don't want to die, I've been looking for you in this Qianzhou City for more than ten years, and I haven't found you, how can I die. The old man in the brocade robe didn't have any strange expression, he said to the old man Zhang very calmly.
"Monk Jingquan, it turns out that all this is your plan, right? Back then, you let Li Tai carry the black cauldron, but you secretly surrendered to the Southern Tang Dynasty, resulting in the defeat of the righteous army. If it weren't for someone who changed his appearance and was escorted to Jinling, I'm afraid I would have become a ghost under the knife. It's just that I didn't expect that it was you, Seng Jingquan, who benefited in the end. Old man Zhang calmed down for a moment, and then said coldly.
"Success and defeat, the eternal truth, Zhang Tianwang, you don't know this truth. If we hadn't found a substitute for the dead, how could we have done well. You were just a small history of the government back then, and it was because of an inexplicable miracle that you were the sixteenth Arhat that made you our king. With your ability, how can you become our heavenly king, if it weren't for that so-called miracle, I'm afraid you would still be your petty official in Boluo, Zhenzhou. Haven't you thought about the reason why you were so completely defeated, and why the divine revelation didn't help you? ”
Old man Zhang's condensed essence flourished, and his eyes kept staring at the face of the monk Jingquan, and finally his expression became extremely depressed. "Back then, a man came to me and said that he could make me an emperor, and he said that he would give me a treasure that was rich enough to rival the country, and use this treasure as an armament to sweep the world." His expression was a little gloomy, and he said slowly.
"Hahaha, did you get that batch of treasures, what you got at the beginning was only a drop in the bucket of that treasure. Do you know who that treasure really belongs to, does the treasure that God has revealed to you really make the world dominant, do you know why so many brothers will betray you, have you ever thought about this? Seng Jingquan suddenly raised his head and laughed, and he said angrily to Old Man Zhang.
"Is it nothing more than that I distributed those treasures to the poor people back then, and did you follow me back then? Every time we conquered a city, we distributed a portion of our treasure to the poor people, and at last when we had less and less silver in our hands, and you did not get your rightful share, you rebelled. Do you still need to think about this, what happened back then, I Zhang Yuxian is worthy of heaven and earth, and even more worthy of the people, I am just ashamed of those brothers who were born and died with me, and I am ashamed of the brothers who have died in battle. Old man Zhang said excitedly.
"Is that really all there really is?" Monk Jingquan regained his calm expression, and he said coldly to the other party.
"Isn't it true that you do not get what you want, so you betray the rebels, and betray the poor people who give us hope. You finally surrendered, although it was not to surrender to the Southern Han, but what difference did it make if you surrendered to the Southern Tang. When I didn't die, I always wanted to find out the real mastermind behind the scenes, but I thought about it for a long time, but I didn't think that the military advisor of the righteous army, my Zhang Yuxian's left-arm and right-arm monk Jingquan was the real mastermind behind the scenes. ”
Perhaps after knowing the truth, Old Man Zhang's expression did not seem extraordinarily excited, and there was only a trace of unrelieved pathos and grief on his face. His compassionate gaze was scattered in the dark room, and the smoke of the incense and candles on the long table in the square was also shaken, and the names on the spiritual seats suddenly appeared in front of everyone's eyes.
"You are wrong, it was indeed for the poor people who were oppressed by the Southern Han Dynasty that we followed you at the beginning, and our wish was naturally to overthrow the Liu royal family. But do you know what the real reason for our failure is, when you were in Baiyun Cave, you also asked for divine revelation, but in the end, why couldn't God reveal it to help you, have you ever thought about this? Later, I secretly found out something, the rebels who died in the war and the officers and soldiers of the Southern Han Dynasty, their corpses later disappeared, so I thought it was a big conspiracy, so in the end we launched a betrayal and surrendered to the Southern Tang. ”
Seng Jingquan's words exploded in everyone's ears like a thunderbolt on a sunny day, and no one thought that there would be such a mysterious incident back then. Old man Zhang's eyes could not hide the shock, he looked at Seng Jingquan blankly, but he couldn't say a word for a while.
"Gone, what do you mean?" Ling Tianyun couldn't help but ask curiously when he heard this. He and Ye Yinfeng didn't know anything about what happened more than ten years ago, and they were also very curious about what happened back then, if this was a huge conspiracy, then what was the purpose of this conspiracy, they couldn't help but rise into a strong curiosity.
"The old man only found these, do you know where the treasure that the man gave to Zhang Tianwang came from, it came from the treasure of Huang Gong. There are rumors in the world that Huang Gong's treasure is rich and rivals the country, and if he gets it, he has the strength to sweep the world, but no one has really seen Huang Gong's treasure. At that time, the rebel army grew from a few hundred people to dozens of people, but what Zhang Tianwang got was a drop in the bucket of Huang Gong. Some people say that Huang Gong's treasure also hides a huge secret, and that secret is related to immortality and the way of heaven. ”
Not only was Old Man Zhang stunned, but even Ye Yinfeng and Ling Tianyun were stunned, they didn't expect to hear the words 'Huanggong Treasure' again in this remote Qianzhou City. Moreover, the red-clothed army back then also developed and grew because of a part of Huang Gong's treasure, and that divine revelation was to start a war and throw Huang Gong's treasure as bait, but what was the purpose, Ye Yinfeng and Ling Tianyun suddenly set off a storm in their hearts.
"Sure enough, why is this happening?" When Zhang Yuxian heard this, he suddenly muttered as if he had lost his soul, obviously he seemed to know some inside information, but he didn't seem to believe it.
"Do you think that if I take refuge in the Southern Tang Dynasty, I can successfully get the official title of a marquis, the Emperor of the Southern Tang Dynasty also heard of the 'Huang Gong Treasure', and one of my lives was left to find the 'Huang Gong Treasure'. When the imperial capital Bianliang is orthodox today, how can other countries be willing to submit to it, who doesn't want to be the only hegemon in the world. Since the fall of the former Tang Dynasty, after the Liang, Tang, Jin, Han and now the Great Zhou, the situation in the Central Plains has been chaotic again and again, wars and disputes, the world is difficult to determine, and outside the Central Plains, there are Shu, Southern Tang, Wu Yue, Min Chu, Southern Han, Northern Han and other small countries divided the world, who is willing to succumb to other countries, all the natural people want to get the 'Huang Gong Treasure', in order to sweep the world, the achievement of the hegemony of the world's unification. ”
"Monk seniors, that Huang Gong's treasure is just a rumor, if it is so easy to get, then the world has already been decided. Wealth is just an external force, the people's desire is the fundamental, if the world is because of the Huang Gong treasure and trouble, then what difference does this Huang Gong treasure exist. Ling Tianyun naturally didn't want to dwell on Huang Gong's treasure any longer, so he said to the monk Jingquan.
"Although wealth is an external force, who is not tempted by the wealth of the country. Xiaoyou wants to know why those corpses killed in battle disappeared back then, but at Xiaoyou's age, he has reached the martial arts realm of the near-heaven realm, but it is also an extraordinary opportunity. The old man looked at Xiaoyou's heavenly court full of extraordinary energy, and there was a heroic aura on his body, Xiaoyou must be from a Jiangmen family. Monk Jingquan's eyes showed a slight smile, and he said kindly to Ling Tianyun.
"The kid has only been a scout for a few years, but he doesn't dare to call himself a family. Monk seniors, what happened back then, why all the corpses killed in the war disappeared back then, and why these secrets have not been passed on. Ling Tianyun smiled humbly and said with his fists clenched.
"Zhang Tianwang, you should also know a thing or two about what happened back then, why don't you tell these two little friends, don't you still believe what happened back then, you still believe in that person in your heart, right." Monk Jingquan's eyes fell on Zhang Yuxian, who looked lonely, and he said to the other party.
"Someone did report it to me back then, but I didn't take it seriously. I remember someone describing to me that a volunteer saw a strange person appear on the battlefield with a mountain of bones, and that person was standing in the pile of bones, and then the volunteer saw that the corpse emitted a red light, which was like human blood, and the red light emitted by the mountain of corpses was sucked away by that person. The volunteer soldier was so frightened that he was dying, and then the rebel became delirious after such a fright, and kept babbling about what he had seen that day. ”
"Naturally, no one believed what the volunteer army said, someone reported this to me, and I naturally wouldn't take it as a thing at that time, I just felt that the volunteer army saw the corpses all over the field, and was so frightened that he lost his mind, even I didn't believe it, and naturally no one in the righteous army believed it, and finally the volunteer army died, and died an unusually strange death, as if all the essence and blood in his body were sucked dry, and only a skin was left in his body. This did not attract the attention of the entire rebel army, because at that time, the rebel army was defeated and retreated under the strong counterattack of the Southern Han army, and when they arrived in Qianzhou, many people forgot about it. ”
Ling Tianyun and Ye Yinfeng were even more shocked when they heard this, what kind of exercises needed to be brought by wars again and again to bring mountains of dead corpses to cultivate, they had never seen such a weird and terrifying exercise, not only had they not seen it, but they had never heard of it. They knew that the strange person must have used people who had died in the war to cultivate some kind of exercise, but it only required tens of thousands or hundreds of thousands of corpses to cultivate, and they couldn't think of such an exercise in this world. Starting a war just to practice a certain kind of exercise, but ignoring the lives of hundreds of thousands of people, the two of them couldn't help but shudder when they thought of this.