"Well, it's a long story..."
Perhaps he drank too much, Mr. Li was a little excited and his face turned slightly red.
Since his grandfather's death, Chen Tao has not seen Mr. Li like this for a long time.
Chen Tao said nothing and listened quietly to Mr. Li telling Chen Zhu about the people who guarded the tomb.
In 195 BC, Liu Bang, the emperor of the Han Dynasty, set up a mausoleum guard. It is recorded in "The Chronicles of Emperor Gaozu": "In December, Emperor Gaozu said: 'The First Emperor of Qin, King Chen She of Chu Yin, King Anli of Wei, King Min of Qi, and Zhao The mourning kings all had no heirs, so there were ten families each to guard the tombs, twenty families for the Qin Emperor, five families for the Wei Gongzi Wuji, and then thirty-five families were set up to guard the tombs of the other six royal families and nobles."
The family that can be selected will naturally not be ordinary people.
Each of them has been carefully selected and has great abilities. He is well versed in astronomy, knows geography, knows alchemy, understands organs, and possesses unique skills. He is a top-notch master.
The Chen family is one of them.
"Liu Bang, the great ancestor of the Han Dynasty?"
Chen Tao was shocked.
No wonder Uncle Long once said that the Chen family is the guardian of the mausoleum, but he didn't expect that the Chen family's historical origins are even older than he imagined!
"Yes." Mr. Li nodded and continued.
"They say they are guarding the tomb, but actually they are guarding the things in the tomb."
"Is it possible that the things in the tomb are spirits?" Chen Tao asked.
"It's not the spirit, but it has a great relationship with the spirit." Old Li said.
"what is that?"
"Things that shouldn't appear in the world..." Mr. Li looked into Chen Tao's eyes, "Those things can subvert everything!"
After taking a sip of wine, Mr. Li told Chen Tao and Chen Tao a secret history hidden behind history.
With the change of dynasties and the changes of generations, these families, together with those princes and generals, were submerged in the long river of history.
One after another, the mausoleum guarding families dispersed and died. In order to survive and develop, some of the remaining families began to seek other ways of life.
Some became businessmen, some became officials, some became street performers, and some became fortune tellers and craftsmen. Others took advantage of their status and abilities to make money.
But in the end, it was under the control of the Liu clan.
The Liu family controlled all the tomb-keepers. Even though the Han Dynasty had been destroyed for thousands of years, nearly half of the descendants of the tomb-keepers still could not escape the control of the Liu family.
The terror of those people has exceeded everyone's imagination. The family of the tomb-keepers resisted for thousands of years, but no one could escape from Liu's clutches.
Under power, there must be resistance, and an undercurrent is quietly brewing between the tomb guardians and the Liu family.
Emperor Gaozu tried his best to calculate the right time and place, but in the end he failed to win over people's hearts. He never expected that the person who ultimately caused the split would be the Liu family themselves.
The original Liu family were also guardians, but unexpectedly, some members of the Liu family became interested in the secrets in the tomb. In order to obtain those things, they conspired to kill the then Liu clan leader and take control of the entire Liu family.
Since then, everything has changed.
The imperial power fell and the mountains and rivers were in turmoil. When the whole of China fell into the warlords' melee and the artillery fire of various powers, the tomb-keeper families who had been controlled for thousands of years saw a glimmer of opportunity.
So, someone entered the tomb and discovered the secret that Gaozu wanted to hide.
That secret is enough to make people risk everything.
Under desire, everything becomes worthless.
The person who first discovered the secret violated the oath of his ancestors and attacked the place they had guarded for thousands of years.
Just like a stone suddenly thrown into a calm lake, the chaos and struggle became more and more intense, and finally completely out of control. There were even divisions within the Liu family, and some people broke away from the Liu family's influence.
I originally thought that with this time, I could escape from the control of the Liu family, but it ended up causing a bloodbath.
The main force of the Liu family united with the conservative camp among the tomb-keepers and began to clean up other tomb-keeper families. Some families were afraid of the Liu family's power and chose to submit, while others retired to the world and never appeared again.
In that dark and chaotic era, the tomb-keepers were divided. Only a few families were unwilling to be controlled by the Liu family and wanted to get rid of this situation.
In order to survive, they were forced to join forces, and thus, the Spirit Alliance was born.
Almost all of the tomb-keeper families in the Spiritual Alliance are businessmen. They do both black and white business, and there are also some warlords and local forces.
Countless struggles, countless people died. The Lingmeng finally won a position for themselves, a position that could face the Liu family.
As a result, the two sides fell into a brief stalemate.
After the founding of the People's Republic of China, all ancient tomb sites were protected by the state, causing some of the remaining tomb-keeper families to lose their sense of protection.
Thus, the second major reshuffle in the tomb-keeper family began.
By this time, the ancestral vows had long been forgotten, and the only bond remaining was one thing.
That's the benefit.
In order to further disintegrate the spiritual alliance, under the secret control of the Liu family and using the weak tomb-keeper families as triggers, some powerful families began to annex and cannibalize some small families, while the weak small families joined forces with each other, or Attachment to a certain big-name family to resist annexation by other forces.
At that time, the Chen family, under the management of Chen Tao's grandfather, Chen You, had become one of the several big-name families, and had absorbed the power of several small and medium-sized families who had taken refuge. After countless battles of power, it became the spiritual leader of the time. The leader of the alliance.
Mr. Li's master, Zhou Yaoting, was a member of the Zhou family who sided with the Chen family during that great reshuffle.
Zhou Yaoting had no sons. Mr. Li married Zhou Yaoting's only daughter and was Zhou Yaoting's only apprentice, so he naturally became the heir to the Zhou family's power.
Over the years, Mr. Li has been following his grandfather, and the two have traveled extensively, loving each other as brothers.
From beginning to end, Mr. Li has never left, even now.
Chen You suddenly passed away, leaving the Ling Alliance without a leader, so some families began to feel restless again.
They were originally a wealthy family, and they succumbed to the Chen family just to obtain greater benefits in the Spiritual Alliance.
Now that the spiritual alliance has no owner, it will naturally have other thoughts.
"Tao Yaozi, now do you know how much pressure the Chen and Li families are under. Once there is civil strife in the Spirit Alliance, the Liu family will definitely take the opportunity to intervene. By then, everything will be over."
"Since there is no alliance leader, can't we just establish another one?"
"It's not as simple as you think." Mr. Li sighed heavily, "Do you know why your grandfather Chen You is the leader of the alliance?"
Chen Taoke had never thought about this problem.
He had always thought that as the backbone of the Chen family, it was natural for his grandfather to be the head of the Spiritual Alliance.
But hearing what Mr. Li means, could it be possible that there is something else hidden?
"I really don't know about this. Grandpa has never told me this."
"Back then, everyone on the street called the manager of the Chen family the Golden Eyed Ghost Eye. It was precisely because of his presence that the Chen family was able to rise from the cracks and take charge of the Spiritual Alliance."
"Golden pupils and ghost eyes..." Chen Tao murmured, and his mind suddenly recalled that in the Man-eating Valley, Yan's eyes suddenly turned red, and even took Chen Tao's whole body under control.
That feeling like falling into an ice cellar, even now thinking about it, Chen Tao still feels a little uncomfortable.
Yan and Uncle Long seemed to be arguing about something at that time, but Chen Tao didn't understand it at the time.
Although Chen Tao found that his eyes had changed after passing Tatunaana, he had no idea what all this was about.
"The families chosen by Emperor Gaozu to be the guardians of the tomb are not just ordinary people, they have another identity..." Mr. Li looked at the two of them, "They are the descendants of the Soul Burial Guards!"
"The Soul Burial Guard!" Chen Tao's hand shaking the food, "You mean the legendary Soul Burial Guard who can deal with spirits!"
Chen Tao is no longer calm. If those people are descendants of the Soul Burial Guards, then the Chen family, and even himself...
"Mr. Li, can you tell me about the so-called spirits, the Soul Burial Guards, and everything about the Forbidden Ruins!" Chen Tao clenched his fists tightly, looking at Mr. Li with both eyes, with a hint of urgency in his voice.
Mr. Li didn't speak. He looked at Chen Tao and frowned, as if he had made some decision. He raised his hand and took a sip of wine and said:
"It doesn't matter. If you want to hear it, it doesn't hurt to tell you."
Mr. Li looked at Chen Tao and suddenly asked a very strange question.
"Tao Yaozi, do you believe in history?"
"History?" Chen Tao was stunned. This question made Chen Tao a little confused.
"It doesn't matter, just say whatever comes to mind." Mr. Li smiled kindly, with an indescribable look in his eyes on his somewhat red face.
"Well... I basically believe it." Chen Tao didn't know how to answer.
The so-called victors are kings and the losers are bandits. History is written by the victors. Chen Tao does not dare to say that he believes 100% of what is said in the ancient history books that have been preserved to this day, but he generally agrees with it.
"As we all know, the earliest dynasty with records is the Xia Dynasty, but do you know what it is further back?"
"Moving forward, the Three Sovereigns and Five Emperors should spare Shunyu." Chen Tao said seriously.
"What about going forward?" Mr. Li continued to ask.
"Pangu created the world, and Fuxi and Nuwa created humans?" Chen Tao answered tentatively.
"What about going forward?" Mr. Li didn't say anything, but continued to ask.
"Mr. Li, you'd better stop showing off, there will only be great apes left." Chen Tao really didn't know how to answer.
"For so many years, I have been thinking about a question." Mr. Li smiled, "Where did we come from?"
"When I first learned about the miraculous existence of Linghe Soul Burial Guard, I was completely dumbfounded."
"We have always believed that history cannot be turned back and that everything cannot escape life and death. But later I discovered that we were all wrong."
"What you see is just the tip of the iceberg. You never know what else exists in the endless darkness and the unreachable abyss."
"The secrets about spirits are passed down from generation to generation by the tomb-keepers. More and more evidence proves that those things do not belong to our era."
"What do you mean?" Chen Tao didn't understand what Mr. Li meant.
"I'm afraid, they belong to the relics of the last civilization era, or even earlier!"
"The last civilized era!" Li Lao said surprisingly.
Human beings were born only five million years ago, while the earth has existed for 4.6 billion years.
No one knows whether other civilizations have been born during such a long time, and there is no research.
And among these civilizations, no one knows whether there have been more advanced beings that far exceed today's human beings.
"I can't describe to you what "it" is. To a certain extent, that thing is a very special existence. It is more like an evil life energy body. This energy body exists in some ancient The mysterious and unpredictable depths of the underground can change the creatures that come into contact with it and cause them to mutate. And what we call spirit is actually the product of the combination and mutation of humans or other creatures and that kind of energy body."
"The changes brought about by this energy body are extremely terrifying. It will make all living things that come into contact with it go crazy, lose their minds, and eventually turn into terrifying monsters. This kind of existence is already extraordinary, I didn't expect..." Mr. Li drank the remaining wine in the glass in one gulp.
"There are even more incredible existences!"
