No one expected that the rickety old man would comment on the late emperor like this.
Especially, he just said that it was the late emperor who invited Jiang Chaonan to come out.
This is even more puzzling.
However, the rickety old man did not show off, but slowly talked about what happened back then.
Only now did Duan Wenjun know that the old man in front of him was actually Yan Xiaohua, the son of Yan Yuxuan, the first master of the Shadow Sect.
If calculated according to time, Yan Yuxuan would have been an old man in his sixties when the Wei Dynasty fell.
It is said that Yan Yuxuan did not enter the palace until he was twenty years old.
Yan Xiaohua was his son before he entered the palace.
This means that Yan Yuxuan had this son when he was a teenager.
This means that Yan Xiaohua was already in her forties when the Wei Dynasty fell.
It has been more than sixty years since the founding of Dashun, and Yan Xiaohua is now over a hundred years old.
In this day and age, being able to live to be sixty years old is considered longevity.
Yan Xiaohua is over 100 years old, and it is really rare that she is still in such good health.
What Yan Xiaohua said seemed to be more detailed than what Mrs. Yinhua and Qiuqiu said.
He took everyone to a nearby thatched house, lit an incense burner, and then told his story.
In other words, the whole story of the Shadow Gate.
At first, the establishment of the Shadow Sect and the sacrifice at the temple were similar to what Duan Wenjun had heard before.
The only difference is that the person Yan Yuxuan recommended to Wei Emperor Zhao Yu was not Du Zhongxian, but his own son, Yan Xiaohua.
However, no one expected that Du Zhongxian had been secretly cultivating power for a long time, and even took advantage of Emperor Wei to go to the temple to quietly control the situation in the DPRK.
Not only that, he also recruited many martial arts masters, and used various means to secretly control many ministers in the DPRK.
When Emperor Wei returned to Kyoto, he was controlled by Du Zhongxian everywhere and became a puppet.
He had been resisting for a period of time, but he found that the more fierce the resistance, the more loyal ministers who supported him were implicated in the end.
Even Emperor Gaozu Chai Junxie and General Ye Xing were implicated.
In order to preserve his strength, Emperor Wei had to alienate the Chai family and the Ye family.
But secretly, he had asked Yan Xiaohua to join forces with the Chai family and the Ye family to find an opportunity to defeat Du Zhongxian.
What happened next was similar to what Qiuqiu said that day.
However, that banquet was not initiated by Du Zhongxian, but was planned by Emperor Wei.
The purpose is simple, to lure Du Zhongxian into action.
In his opinion, short-term pain is worse than long-term pain.
Even if it costs him his life and property, even if it costs him the entire dynasty, he will never let Du Zhongxian ruin the world.
Regardless of whether the Zhao family or the Chai family is in charge of the world, they all have a common goal.
That is to let the people of this world live a better life and make this country stronger.
However, in the nearly a thousand years since the founding of the Wei Dynasty, many institutional criticisms and many long-standing problems have left this dynasty riddled with holes.
Even if Dashun conquers Dawei, it will only change the soup without changing the medicine, and it will not fundamentally solve any problem.
Therefore, since Emperor Gaozu established Dashun, even after the efforts of three generations of kings, Dashun's national power has not been greatly restored.
It even went from bad to worse and was constantly being cannibalized by neighboring countries.
Both Wei and Dashun are known as the Celestial Kingdoms, and they are the hinterland of the Central Plains.
With such fertile land and such a huge population, it stands to reason that he should be the most powerful master.
However, each generation becomes weaker and weaker.
This may be something no one wants to see, but it is a fact that no one can change.
In fact, both Emperor Gaozu and the late emperor would come to the temple to offer sacrifices every few years, but outsiders didn't know it.
Therefore, it is impossible for them not to know that the real people from the Shadow Sect are Yan Xiaohua's people.
The Shadow Sect that everyone has been calling for so many years outside is just an intentional person who, in order to satisfy his own selfish desires, uses the guise of Du Zhongxian to do bad things everywhere.
Because Emperor Gaozu knew that after killing Du Zhongxian, Yan Xiaohua reorganized the entire Shadow Sect.
Almost all of Du Zhongxian's minions were liquidated.
Many available people, including those rumored cronies who were on the run, were actually gathered by Yan Xiaohua and brought to Yuxing Mountain. From then on, they were no longer involved in the world.
Over the years, Yan Xiaohua has been hiding in Yuxing Mountain with the Shadow Sect.
They have been guarding the temple and have been trying to decipher the secret of the previous artifact.
They always felt that the vision that came from heaven was a hint from God.
This hint is more important than the disputes in the world.
If the mystery can be solved, Dashun may really be able to achieve glory.
The dynasty is prosperous and the people live and work in peace and contentment...
Both Emperor Gaozu and the late Emperor understood all of this very well.
However, when those people with good intentions used the banner of Shadow Sect to do evil outside, their choice was bloody suppression, but they did not clear the name of Shadow Sect.
Because they need the existence of such a group of people.
Because this is an opportunity, an opportunity for the people of the world to share the same hatred.
The emergence of the Shadow Gate made them feel that they might have found an opportunity to connect with the people across the country.
Therefore, they will not clarify, and even deliberately expand the influence of the Shadow Gate.
Maybe someone in the court could see it, but no one said it.
Of course, Jiang Chaonan is a different kind.
If the imperial court wants to use the Shadow Sect, there will naturally be others who want to use the Shadow Sect.
Someone took advantage of the Shadow Sect's hatred for the imperial court, expanded this hatred, and even took it into their own hands.
From the beginning, these people only had conflicts with the court because of some interests, but in the end it turned out that they had embarked on a path of no return.
For their own sake and for the sake of their descendants, they have to be exploited by some people.
Even as the country's power deteriorates, more and more people join the Shadow Sect.
Although they have not made any moves, they must be preparing to go...
Jiang Chaonan saw this, so he sacrificed himself and the entire Jiang family, hoping that the late emperor would wake up from this.
Shadow Gate is actually a double-edged sword.
If it doesn't work well, it will put the entire Dashun into an extremely dangerous situation.
Therefore, he made the most decisive choice.
If I don’t go to hell, who will?
The Shadow Sect did destroy the entire Jiang family, but it made the late emperor realize how destructive it was.
That's why the Eighth Prince appeared and the subsequent liquidation of the Shadow Sect came about.
In other words, although Jiang Chaonan's approach was very extreme, in terms of his purpose, he was successful.
He successfully made the late emperor realize that allowing the Shadow Sect to grow bigger was an extremely dangerous thing.
Although he made the entire world share the same hatred and stand on the same side of the imperial court, this double-edged sword had huge hidden dangers.
Since then, the late emperor has been trying to find out the person behind the Shadow Sect in Jianghu, but he has been unable to do so.
This means that Jiang Chaonan's sacrifice will stop here.
After Jiang Chaonan's incident, the Shadow Sect was heavily liquidated and suffered heavy losses.
But suddenly, like evaporating from the world, he stopped moving.
In the whole world, disappeared.
The whole thing has reached a deadlock.
Even after the current emperor succeeded to the throne, he wanted to avenge Jiang Chaonan, but he was helpless.
Until some time ago, the Shadow Sect reappeared in Jingzhou, and even opened up old cases from many years ago, which allowed the emperor to see another opportunity.
Especially the appearance of Duan Wenjun caused countless changes in many things, so the emperor had a plan...
