When I saw the words on this plaque clearly, I was stunned.
Ancestral Temple?
What is the Imperial Ancestral Temple? Starting from the Qin and Han dynasties, the ancestral temple of the emperor in ancient times was called the Imperial Ancestral Temple.
In the Ancestral Temple, there are memorial tablets of ancestors or heroes.
In short, it is equivalent to the ancestral hall of the various sects in the world.
But this is the ancestral hall of a country’s royal family.
I frowned and looked down at the Soul Hiding Tablet in my hand, and asked doubtfully, "Which dynasty's Ancestral Temple is this? I have never heard of any royal Ancestral Temple being located in the Kunlun Mountains."
"Of course you haven't heard of it, because this is the ancestral temple of the Langya Wang family."
Cao Yan's voice sounded.
I was stunned.
It is not the ancestral hall of the emperor's clan, but the ancestral hall of the Langya Wang family!
Gradually, I seemed to understand many things.
The Langya Wang family is undoubtedly a member of Wang Guoguang's clan. He moved his clan's ancestral hall to the Kunlun Mountains and arrogantly named it Taimiao. He probably wanted to take advantage of the ancestral dragon feng shui of the Kunlun Mountains!
Wang Guoguang wants to use the feng shui of Kunlun Mountain to help his noble clan prosper!
But then I frowned.
If the Langya Wang family's luck can control the ancestral dragon feng shui of Kunlun Mountain, then they can be nourished by this sacred mountain.
But the question is, how can the Langya Wang family control the Kunlun Mountain?
How can I suppress the dragon vein of the ancestor of thousands of mountains and ancestors under my feet at this moment?
Even if all the disciples of the Langya Wang Clan have as terrifying metaphysical methods as Wang Guoguang, and as powerful as heaven and earth, they will never be able to suppress this ancestral dragon vein!
No matter how powerful the Langya Wang family is, can it be more powerful than the entire world? Could it be the royal land? Could it be that the shores of the land are not the royal families of the past dynasties?
Every generation of royal family in each dynasty could not suppress the ancestral dragon vein of Kunlun Mountain, and no one dared to move the clan's ancestral temple to this Kunlun Mountain.
Wang Guoguang named the ancestral hall of his gentry clan the Ancestral Temple. It was because he was quite ambitious, but in fact it did not affect anything.
But it's different to place the ancestral hall of their noble clan in Kunlun Mountain. If they can't suppress this ancestral dragon that crawls thousands of miles across the land, the backlash they will suffer will be huge.
"In that case, what are placed here are the spiritual tablets of the ancestors of the Langya Wang family? But what does this have to do with the cemetery?"
I still had doubts and asked Cao Yan.
"You'll know after you go in."
The dead soul of Cao Yan still didn't answer me, but asked me to enter the Langya Wang family's ancestral temple.
I nodded, but then, I asked doubtfully: "Isn't Wang Guangguang inside?"
"He's not here for the time being, and he's not around here either. The time you found was a coincidence, and it happened to be the day he left."
Cao Yan's dead soul said.
Relying on Cao Yan's relationship with my father, I had a lot of trust in him, so I walked in directly without doubting his words.
The scent of incense from the temple instantly penetrated my nostrils.
It can be found that there are people in this temple who often come to burn incense and manage it.
"Wang Guoguang is the temple official of Langya Wang's Ancestral Temple, and his duty is to guard this temple."
The dead soul of Cao Yan answered me in time.
I was secretly stunned in my heart. I had no doubt about Wang Guoguang's ability. His methods are far better than mine, and may only be matched by Lao Huang.
Lao Huang can be called the king of the rivers and lakes, but Wang Guoguang can only be an ancestral guard among the Langya Wang family?
How terrifying is the strength of the Langya Wang clan?
My understanding of the power of "gentry" has once again become deeper.
But my astonishment reached its peak after a few seconds.
I saw that in this Ancestral Temple, there were all large and small spiritual tablets. At a glance, there were nearly hundreds of spiritual tablets.
I was stunned.
There are too many...
Hundreds of spiritual tablets!
If only the most important members of the noble clan, such as clan leaders, were enshrined, then the Langya Wang clan would have existed for nearly a hundred generations!
How old is EMI?
Two thousand years!
Starting from the Eastern Han Dynasty and the Jin Dynasty...
But I immediately thought of a possibility and asked: "In this temple, are all the deceased members of the Langya Wang family enshrined in this temple?"
However, Cao Yan replied to me: "Young Master, there is no need to doubt what you think. Just like the normal royal ancestral temple, ordinary people are not worthy to be worshiped here. This is especially true in the Langya Wang Family Ancestral Temple. The people worshiped here are all Langya The head of the Wang family’s noble clan.”
After Cao Yan finished speaking, I took a deep breath.
I then asked Cao Yan: "Are the noble clans you speak of the powerful clans that emerged two thousand years ago?"
At first, I didn’t actually associate the gentry with the powerful families in the Eastern Han and Jin Dynasties.
But at this moment, if you look at the Langya Wang family's ancestral temple, it seems that the time is right.
The clan power arose two thousand years ago.
"Yes." Cao Yan nodded.
The so-called clan power refers to the scholar-bureaucrat class at that time. In layman's terms, it means famous families.
The children of powerful families often held the most important official positions in the country's court in ancient times! Moreover, they have held important positions for generations, which can be said to be a complete monopoly.
And some powerful clan forces influence the rise and fall of the country and the change of dynasties.
The power of the powerful family is sometimes not inferior to that of the royal family.
The most famous one is undoubtedly the "king and horse sharing the world" during the Eastern Jin Dynasty.
The "king" here refers to the Langya Wang family.
The "horse" here is the Sima royal family of the Eastern Jin Dynasty.
The power of clans was at its peak at the beginning, but things in the world have experienced ups and downs, and the power of clans will naturally weaken. What's more, the monopoly brought about by clan politics seriously threatened the imperial power. In the increasingly centralized ancient times, it withdrew from the stage of history. It is also the inevitable end of the clan power.
I then asked Cao Yan: "Didn't the power of the clans in those days almost disappear during the Sui and Tang Dynasties?"
Cao Yan smiled and said: "Young Master, the nobles have just disappeared in the eyes of the world, but they still exist in invisible places in this world, even like the big trees in the sky, they continue to take root in the deepest part of the earth. !”
My expression moved slightly and I immediately asked, "What do you mean?"
