Anyone would feel afraid in a desolate place, even Wenshan. Although he was skilled and bold, he still mustered up his courage to charge in.
"Little Tian, check if there is any special energy in this palace.”Wenshan walked to the front door of the main hall and tried to push it open, but he couldn't. He was afraid that he would trigger the mechanism. He felt that this place was strange. He opened his Eye of Truth and did not find anything unusual. He could only let Little Tian investigate.
"Yes, brother, please wait a moment." After Little Tian replied, it immediately emitted bursts of light and began to rapidly calculate. It only stopped after ten minutes.
Little Tian said," Big Brother, there's a Bloodline Identification Barrier here. If your bloodline doesn't match, you won't be able to open the door through the barrier and enter. With your current cultivation, you won't be able to break through by force.”
Wenshan: " D * mn, DNA verification, advanced technology. This Zhang family is too awesome." If I can't enter, am I going to return empty-handed?”
Little Tian: " I've detected a passageway. It's in the last side hall on the right. There's a passageway. I wonder where it leads to?"”
"Alright, I'll go take a look." Wenshan looked around and could only give up on entering the main hall. He followed the route that Little Tian had pointed out.
He opened the side hall and walked in to take a look. Wenshan found the entrance under the bed. He opened it and looked inside. It was dark and gloomy. Wenshan activated the Eye of Truth to observe and found nothing unusual. He took out his flashlight and slowly probed inside.
The passage was not deep. After stepping to the bottom, Wenshan used a flashlight to look around and realized that someone had deliberately built this place because it was very neat and clean. Wenshan summoned a fireball and tried to light the wax lamp on the wall. He did not expect it to work. The passage was immediately lit up. He walked forward carefully. At the end of the road was a stone door that was half the height of a person. On the stone door was written: If it's not a member of the Zhang family, you have to bear the consequences.
It was better to be careful when using the spiritual mirror. Fortunately, there was no danger in the notification. Wenshan pushed his Genuine Qi with all his strength and only managed to push the stone door a little. He rested twice before opening the stone door to the point where it was wide enough for people to pass through. Then, he carefully turned his body and entered.
Suddenly, two faint figures appeared in front of Wenshan, giving him a fright. When these two ghost-like things pounced on him, Wenshan could only see them clearly with the help of the light. They were the same consciousness as the one attached to Zhang Qishan's body. They were the consciousness of the Zhang family's ancestor. Fortunately, he had always opened the Eye of Truth to maintain vigilance. Wenshan immediately summoned the Soul Suppressing Chimes and activated his Genuine Qi with all his might. He struck the Soul Suppressing Chimes with his palm, and a buzzing sound rang out. Wenshan heard the two consciousness bodies struggling and roaring, and they dissipated into the air after two breaths. Wenshan took a deep breath and observed his surroundings. Then, he slowly looked out of the door frame and realized that he was in the main hall. Those two consciousness bodies should be guarding this place. If they invaded his sea of consciousness, it would be dangerous. Fortunately, he had the chime bell magic tool that specialized in restraining these spirit bodies. If it was an ordinary person, it would be extremely dangerous.
Wenshan put away the chime bell and lit the oil lamps and candles in the main hall. Soon, it was as bright as day. The main hall was also very spacious. It was as big as two basketball courts. Four pillars supported the ceiling, and the ceiling was carved with dragon head embossed. There were two tall shelves on both sides, and on the shelves were neatly placed stone coffins of the same size. Wenshan found it strange. Did the Zhang family not like burial? Why did they all like to build ancient buildings to store things?
There were also some tables and chairs in the hall. Right in the middle was an altar, and on it stood a stone statue that was three meters tall. It was a man holding a bow, and he looked mighty and extraordinary. There were still traces of incense left on the sacrificial table in front of them. Could this be someone the Zhang family believed in? Who was it?
There were wooden shelves on both sides behind the altar. On the shelves were bamboo slips that were very old. There were also some bronze and jade ware. Wenshan activated the spiritual mirror to identify them and found that they were all daily necessities. There were no items that contained energy. It was a pity, but these items had great archaeological value and were worth collecting. He picked them up one by one and stored them in the Shigui Space without hesitation.
"Eh, what's written on this slate?”Wenshan saw a hard stone slab. There were some words written on it, and there were quite a number of them. He could vaguely tell that these were ancient hieroglyphic characters. This made Wenshan's brain short-circuit for a moment. He kept feeling that this stone slab was not ordinary.
" Oh right, summon Little Tian…" Xiao Tian, can you identify the hieroglyph's information?”
"Ah, big brother can't. Hieroglyph is the first language of human civilization. It itself is a carrier of providence. Even saints can't deduce its meaning. However, it was best to keep this thing. If it could be recorded in hieroglyphic characters, its origin must be extraordinary.”Little Tian explained.
So that was the case. However, he finally knew where Little Tian's limit was. Moreover, even if Xiaotian had not said so, Wenshan would have kept the stone slab for now. He would only translate it after he learned hieroglyphic characters.
After Wenshan collected these things, he focused his attention on these bamboo slips. There were a total of 30 scrolls. The Zhang Clan was indeed a prestigious clan with a long history. The books they collected were all bamboo slips. The books they had collected in the northeast were still in the Shigui space and had never had the time to study them.
Wenshan checked the labels of these bamboo slips. They were all recorded in ancient official script. Wenshan could still understand them. He had systematically learned ancient official script when he was in Baiqiao Stronghold. He carefully took down a bamboo slip labeled " Zhang Clan's Ancestral " and gently flipped it open. He discovered that these bamboo slips were very well-made. They were specially made of bamboo and were connected by gold threads, so they were not easily damaged. The words inside were also written with special ink and ink, and they were very clear.
After Wenshan read it seriously, the information inside shocked him.
In ancient times, the human race rose up and the Yellow Emperor ruled over a region. It was said that the fifth son of the Yellow Emperor was called "Hui". He was intelligent since childhood and liked to study the astronomical phenomena and the laws of nature. Once, when he was observing the celestial phenomena at night, a meteor flew across the nine stars, which made him realize. He studied the arrangement of the nine stars in detail, then bent the branches into a bow, cut bamboo wood into arrows, and made leather into strings. He developed the first bow in human history. Later on, the bow and arrow played a very important role in the survival of the tribe. The Yellow Emperor saw his great contribution and gave him the surname Zhang. Later on, Zhang waved his bow and killed the Qilin divine beast. He bathed in blood and devoured his soul. His bloodline mutated and he lived forever. Zhang Hui passed down the generations and the Zhang family appeared.
As Zhang Hui was also a powerful cultivator, the Zhang family inherited his abilities and continued to prosper. Moreover, under the change of dynasties, the inheritance continued. The Zhang family passed away on their thirty-year-old birthday because of the pure bloodline of the Qilin and the characteristic of longevity. The bloodline of his descendants also had the characteristic of longevity. If the Kylin Soul was awakened, the blood would have the effect of dispelling evil and evilness and being immune to all poisons. If the Kylin Soul and the Kylin Bloodline could be fused, that person would have infinite strength and the ability to move mountains and overturn seas. Such people existed before the Spring and Autumn Period. However, perhaps because of the thinning of the bloodline, fewer and fewer people awakened the Kylin Soul, let alone those who had fused their blood souls.
During the Eastern Han Dynasty, the Zhang family, Zhang Heng, entered the world. Zhang Heng had made outstanding contributions to the development of astronomy, mechanical technology, and earthquakes in China. He invented the armillary sphere and the geomantic globe. He was one of the representatives of the armillary sphere theory in the middle of the Eastern Han Dynasty. Later generations called Zhang Heng the " Science Saint." In fact, these were all rumors that the real Zhang Heng had inherited all of the Zhang Clan's legacies, especially in astronomy, geography, the Book of Changes, Feng Shui, and so on. He discovered that the entire land of China had always been protected by a dragon vein. As long as this dragon vein was intact and not extinct, the Chinese people would continue to pass on their heritage. Moreover, whoever could use this dragon vein would be able to control the fate of China. Zhang Heng panicked, so he recorded the location of the dragon vein and the secret of the Zhang Clan's bloodline in the family heirloom Snake Eyebrow Copper Fish. But for some reason, the news of Zhang Heng controlling the dragon vein was leaked, and the Zhang Clan was attacked by many ambitious people because of this, and the clan was almost destroyed.
The Snake-Browed Copper Fish was refined by the ancestors of the Zhang family based on a special fish found in the underground river of Gutong Jing, and Gutong Jing was once a habitat of the Zhang family. The Snake-Browed Copper Fish was a special treasure that the Zhang Clan had used since ancient times to seal up secrets that could disrupt order. Throughout history, they had made a total of nine of them, and the one that Zhang Heng had made was the ninth, which was already the limit. They would not make it again in the future, and the Zhang Clan had destroyed the method of making it. This method was made according to the Nine Palaces and Eight Trigrams. If one wanted to open one of them and obtain the secret inside, one had to gather all nine of them before opening it.
Since ancient times, the Zhang family would send people to hide the Snake-Browed Copper Fish in the Land of the Nine Prefectures after they made it. This was to prevent ambitious people from gathering all nine of them to control the dragon vein and bring disaster to China. They would also vow to hide and protect them forever and not let them appear in the world.
The Zhang family was afraid that their inheritance would be cut off, so they had no choice but to live in seclusion again to recuperate. Later on, the Zhang family realized that their longevity characteristics were getting worse and worse. At first, they thought that the spiritual energy of heaven and earth had become thinner, causing their cultivation to be lower than their ancestors, and their lifespan to be shortened to 60 years. However, at the end of the Tang Dynasty, it was discovered that their short lifespans were due to their marriage with outsiders, which led to the thinning of their bloodline and the shortening of their lifespans. Therefore, the clan leader set a clan rule that no one could marry outsiders. Unfortunately, it was too late. The longest birthday of the pure bloodline of the Zhang family was only 360 years. Moreover, the Zhang family was not prosperous, so it was inevitable for them to marry outsiders. All they could do was to try their best to preserve the bloodline. (One sixty-year cycle is equivalent to sixty years)
The descendants of the Zhang family had always tried their best to maintain the purity of the bloodline of the chief branch of the family and hide the information of the Snake-Browed Copper Fish well. This was the mission of the family inheritance, because this was caused by the Zhang family.
The bloodline of the Zhang family had another special characteristic. In every generation, there would be one person who could awaken the Qilin Soul, and this person would be the leader of the Zhang family's mission. Their name was Zhang Qi Ling.
After reading the book, Wenshan finally understood most of the history of the Zhang family and the reason why the Zhang family lived a long life. However, why was it only recorded at the end of the Tang Dynasty? Why were there no records after that?
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