Chapter 84 Broken Promise

Chapter 84 Broken Promise

Chapter 84 Broken Promise
Dragon head, lion body, deer horns, fish scales, sheep beard, eagle claws, ox eyes, horse hooves, and dragon tail.

Cheng Xinzhan was sure that he was not mistaken, this was a Qilin.

This Qilin has a green face and green scales, but its horns, whiskers, hair, mane and fins are all golden. The combination of green and gold is extremely eye-catching.

But what is more eye-catching than the Qilin's hair and scales are the scars all over its body.

Some of the wounds broke scales and hair, some were deep enough to reveal bones, and many of the wounds penetrated the mountain-like body.

However, beneath these wounds, there was not a drop of blood, only golden flesh and jade-colored bones.

Looking at the Qilin's belly and nostrils, there was not even a sign of breathing. Combined with the wounds all over its body, it looked as if it had been dead for many years.

But the domineering, arrogant, and unyielding aura woven together by the huge corpse, the rugged scales and horns, and the scars all over it left a deep impression on Cheng Xinzhan's mind.

He suppressed his fear and slowly stepped back.

When I turned around, I found that everyone was staring at me.

The meaning revealed in their eyes is the same.

"Can you see?"

Cheng Xinzhan nodded.

"Qilin."

He uttered two words silently, and everyone understood what he meant by looking at his lip shape, with wonderful expressions on their faces.

"Is someone from the Zhu family finally here?"

At this time, a man's voice sounded, which was the powerful and deep sound of a golden sword.

Everyone's face changed color, and Cheng Xinzhan was even more shocked. How could Qilin, who was injured like that, still be alive?
"Why are you hiding so far away? If you have the ability to do it, don't you have the courage to meet?"

The voice spoke again.

Zhu Jianmo's face turned pale. From what he heard, how could his ancestor hurt Qilin? How could he harm Qilin like this?

"I haven't seen you yet? Are the Zhu family no longer capable of breeding? Or are they all dumb?"

The voice gradually became impatient.
Zhu Jianmo was about to cry, but he still moved forward step by step. When he reached the end of the corridor, he stuck his head out and replied tremblingly,
"Zhu family descendants, greetings to the seniors."

"Why are you closing your eyes?"

Qilin asked again.

Zhu Jianmo thought that the Qilin's half-life eyes were actually quite powerful, so he slowly opened his eyes.

"what?"

He exclaimed in surprise. Why did the terrifying Qilin corpse disappear? Under the fire net, there was a man standing in the air.

A majestic man with golden hair and wearing green scale armor.

"He's fat and round, he's definitely from the Zhu family. What about the other one? What is he doing hiding behind?"

Zhu Jianmo was a little surprised when he heard this. Although he guessed something at the first time, he still pretended not to understand.
"Senior, I am the only one here with the surname Zhu. The others are my fellow apprentices, not members of the Zhu family."

The man said disdainfully, "Although that person's physical body is gone, his spirit, energy and soul have always been one. Blood is not flesh and blood. Do you think I can't see it just because he used the soul-resurrection technique? I'm not that blind."

Everyone was even more shocked when they heard this, and Sun Miaoshu and Xu Jishen even started looking for the hidden seventh person.

Cheng Xinzhan whispered, "No need to look for it, it's me. I'll explain the matter of the physical body after we get out."

He walked to the edge of the corridor and was stunned like Zhu Jianmo. The Qilin's body disappeared and turned into a man.

"Senior, I don't know my origins. I didn't mean to hide it. The Zhu family name is now the national surname, and the country has been peaceful for hundreds of years. I think the royal bloodline has spread a lot. I just found out today that I may have some Zhu blood."

The man looked at him quietly. After about ten breaths, he suddenly smiled and said, "Do you think anyone with any bloodline can see me? You look exactly like his eldest son, so how can you be of a rare bloodline? At least, you are more normal than this little fat guy."

Cheng Xinzhan and Zhu Jianmo looked at each other, and the latter asked, "Senior, who is the 'he' you are talking about?"

"Who else could it be? Zhu Chongba. But he later took a famous name. I have forgotten what it was called."

Cheng Xinzhan was struck by lightning when he heard this.

Zhu Jianmo looked at Cheng Xinzhan in amazement, his mouth wide open enough to fit a fist.
"Grandpa Taizu's eldest son, Xinzhan, you, you are the descendant of Crown Prince Yiwen!"

There were still some things that Zhu Jianmo didn't say, but the brothers present all knew that the first prince of the Ming Dynasty died young due to illness, and among his descendants, only Emperor Jianwen and Prince Wu had descendants, but these descendants either disappeared with Emperor Jianwen or lived a difficult life under the surveillance of the Yongle lineage, but they didn't know what they were thinking...

Cheng Xinzhan's breathing became unusually rapid, which had never happened before after he started eating Qi.

But after four or five breaths, his breathing returned to normal, and he said, "I am an orphan, and was educated by my adoptive parents. My surname is Cheng. The only connection between me and the Zhu family is that my mother's surname is Zhu. The rest has nothing to do with me."

The blond man looked at Zhu Jianmo and Cheng Xinzhan, and stopped pursuing the topic. Instead, he said,
"You two have magical powers. Come down. I am not used to looking up and talking to people."

Cheng Xinzhan and Zhu Jianmo looked at each other, and Cheng Xinzhan asked,

"Senior, the dragon vein in Zhu's Zhongdu is tainted with death energy and is drying up. Did you do this on purpose?"

The blond man said impatiently, "Yes, come down and talk. As long as you don't cross this net, I can't do anything to you. Since Zhu Chongba could do it, didn't he tell his descendants?"

The two looked at each other again, thinking that such a powerful immortal should not deceive them. If he wanted to harm them and if the fire net was useless, he might have done it long ago.

So the two of them rode on the clouds, jumped down into the cave, and stopped above the fire net.

The man moved up slightly, and the red net on his head swelled up as he moved, until his line of sight was level with Cheng Xinzhan and Zhu Jianmo. Cheng Xinzhan could see more clearly, and the man's face had clear contours, as if carved with a knife and an axe, and his appearance was heroic.

"How many years have passed since Zhu Yuanzhang founded the country?"

the man asked.

"More than four hundred and forty years."

Zhu Jianmo answered.

"It's been so long. You have magical powers and are not from the mortal world. How did you find this place?"

Cheng Xinzhan replied, "We are all disciples of Mount Sanqing. We have observed that the number of spring thunders here has decreased in the past ten years. We suspect that the Yin energy in the earth veins is stagnant. We are afraid that something unexpected will happen. So we searched for the energy along the way and found a nearly dead earth vein. We followed this vein to find this place and found that the source is under the imperial tomb."

"Sanqing Mountain?"

The man was a little surprised. "Is it the Taoist lineage of Ge Xianweng?"

Hearing this, everyone breathed a sigh of relief. It’s good enough that they know each other!
Zhu Jianmo nodded, "Yes, the Immortal is the founder of our Sanqing Mountain. Have you heard of him, senior?"

The man nodded. "I once discussed the way of the Golden Immortal with the Immortal Master. I benefited a lot from his insights."

Everyone was shocked again!

I thought I had only heard of this man, but I didn't expect that he was a person of the same era as the founder, and that was six thousand years ago!
"I thought the Zhu family's dragon vein had died, and his descendants had come to visit. I didn't expect it was you who stumbled in by accident."

Hearing this, Zhu Jianmo couldn't help but ask, "Senior, what is the grudge between you and the Zhu family?"

Cheng Xinzhan was also curious. How could a Qilin be hidden under the Zhu imperial tomb and appear to be sealed? This was too bizarre. No matter how wise and powerful the Ming Taizu was, he was still a mortal after all. How could he do this?
This Qilin is obviously not easy to control. Even if it is sealed, it can still use some means to kill the dragon vein.

The man looked at Cheng Xinzhan and Zhu Jianmo, and then said, "Since you are his descendants and have inherited the immortal's lineage, it is a fate. I will tell you about it so that you can know what a jerk your ancestor was!"

Cheng Xinzhan and Zhu Jianmo didn't dare to speak.

"I call myself Jin Mingzi, and I am from the Golden Unicorn clan. I attained enlightenment during the Jin Dynasty, but I could never find the key to becoming a Golden Immortal. I stayed in the mortal world for a long time, but to no avail. I had no choice but to ascend to the Heavenly Immortal Realm during the Tang Dynasty, and continued to seek the path to becoming a Golden Immortal in the Heavenly Realm. However, I made enemies in the Heavenly Realm, and was surrounded and killed by 19 Heavenly Immortals. I died and fell into the lower realm."

Seeing the two people's rather dazed expressions, Jin Mingzi smiled and continued, "Perhaps it was God's will that my body fell into the territory of the Flame Mountain in the northwest. The underground fire refined this body into a golden corpse. In addition, I had resentment that even the underground fire could not burn away. Fortunately, I was raised by Hou Tu, who allowed me to embark on the path of corpses. I practiced in a daze in the Flame Mountain for seven hundred years. I became a corpse immortal and remembered what happened before my death."

Everyone's breathing unconsciously slowed down after hearing this. A celestial being in life and a corpse immortal after death. Two proofs of immortality?
"The revenge of killing one's body and destroying one's way of life cannot be forgotten even after a lifetime. The events before death are even clearer in my mind than those before death. I have thought about the origins of those 19 people over and over again, and the more I think about it, the more complicated it seems. However, my cultivation level as a corpse immortal in this life is not as good as that in the previous life, so I am not in a hurry to ascend to heaven. Instead, I try to strengthen my cultivation level in the human world and think carefully about the plan of revenge."

"I walked around the world, looking for a place to keep corpses. Until the end of the Yuan Dynasty, I came to Fengyang and wanted to keep corpses there. When I was looking for a place to keep corpses, I met Zhu Chongba."

Jin Mingzi paused, "He was a general at the time. He returned home in glory and repaired his ancestral tomb. He and I met by chance on the road. Haha, he saw that I had an extraordinary temperament and wanted to recruit me as a general."

The man smiled, as if recalling that day. "I was about to leave with a sneer, but I accidentally took another look and found that Zhu Yuanzhang had dragon energy. Fengyang is a place where dragons thrive. The dragon veins of Huaixi all belong to this place. It should have produced an emperor. At that time, it was a chaotic time. I saw that this was due to Zhu Yuanzhang.

"After I calculated, I found that the virtue and fortune of the Yuan Dynasty belonged to gold, so I made a deal with Zhu Yuanzhang. I taught him the method of Iron-skinned Taoist Soldiers and the "Qilin Swallowing Gold" formation diagram. After he conquered the world, he built a mausoleum and set up a formation for me, absorbing the virtue and fortune of the Yuan Dynasty to raise my corpse. He agreed.

"This cave was designated by the master as the place where the Huai dragon spits out pearls. Next to it is the throat of his Zhu family's dragon vein. He used the excuse of moving the graves of his parents, brothers and sisters-in-law to build momentum here. After conquering the world, he really kept his promise and built Zhongdu on his Zhu family's dragon vein with the "Qilin Swallowing Gold" formation diagram. With the help of the dragon vein and the formation diagram, he gathered the gold energy of the world to this place. "

So that’s it!
Everyone also understood why Emperor Taizu of the Ming Dynasty insisted on building Zhongdu.

"In the eighth year of his reign, I sent a message to ask him to come see me. I told him that now that the battle has begun, it doesn't matter whether the capital is built or not, and adding bricks and tiles will not affect the battle."

Everyone realized that this was the reason why Emperor Taizu of the Ming Dynasty ordered the construction to be stopped immediately after inspecting Zhongdu in the eighth year of Hongwu.

“In addition, I have made another deal with him. Now the gold energy of the world is gathering here. I want to go into seclusion and sleep, using the gold energy to heal the old wounds on my body. But I am worried that my enemies will come looking for me, so I want to borrow his Ming Dynasty’s national destiny and royal blood to cover up the secrets for me. In return, when I wake up, you can do something for the descendants of the Zhu family that I can do.

"He agreed again. I taught him the 'Blood Lock Sky Net'. It required the royal blood of the Zhu family to cast the spell, but his blood was not enough. He needed to return to the palace to summon the blood descendants to bleed in order to succeed. So I taught him to cast the spell remotely. A few days after he left, blood energy descended here and turned into a fire net, which really obscured the secrets of heaven. Only the blood descendants of the Zhu family could see the net and my body underneath the net.

"So far, I still think he is a man who keeps his promises."

Jin Mingzi said calmly.

"So what happened next?"

"Then I fell into a deep sleep without any worries until I was forced to wake up ten years ago."

Jin Mingzi's voice changed a little. "I found that the gold energy entering my body was getting less and less. Once the gold energy reached the cave, it disappeared out of thin air. Even my own gold energy was disappearing. But I have calculated that the gold energy of the old Yuan should be far more than this. Looking at the direction where the gold energy escaped, I saw through the foundation formation of Zhongdu and found that it had been tampered with to form a formation that swallowed gold and raging fire. This gold energy has become a tonic for the Zhuming dragon vein.

“When Zhu Ming Dragon Vein sucked up the gold energy gathered in the cave, it actually began to absorb the gold energy from my golden corpse, which woke me up.”

"I wanted to go out and see for myself, but I discovered that this 'Blood Lock Sky Net' had changed its appearance at some point and became a sealing net that locked me up."

Zhu Jianmo was a little unconvinced, "Senior, you have been an immortal for two lifetimes, and you were the one who taught me the "Blood Lock Sky Net" formation. My ancestor is a mortal, how could he change the formation? Even if he did, how could he suppress you?"

Hearing this, Jin Mingzi looked at him and said, "If it were an ordinary 'Blood Lock Sky Net', it would naturally not be able to hold me back. However, this one was taught to Zhu Yuanzhang personally by me. It is related to the emperor's bloodline, Zhongdu's formation, and the underground dragon veins. If I force my way out of the net, the Zhu family bloodline would die suddenly, Zhongdu would collapse, and the underground dragon would turn over. I don't know how many people would die. I don't want to let tens of thousands of people be buried with me because of one person's fault.

"As for why he modified the formation, I don't know. But you said it's impossible, but I don't think so. Zhu Chongba had a man named Liu Bowen by his side. Although he was a mortal, he had the ability to observe the stars and control ghosts and gods."

Zhu Jianmo was silent. He had heard to some extent about Liu Bowen's story of cutting the dragon vein.

"So that's why Senior released the Yin Corpse Qi in his body?"

Cheng Xinzhan asked.

“Yes, I am using corpse qi to feed the Zhu Ming dragon vein, but I don’t want to destroy the dragon vein. I can do this at any time. I just want to make the Zhu Ming dragon vein gradually deteriorate. The dragon vein is entangled with Zhu Ming’s national destiny. It should be the Zhu Ming royal family. After they are sick, they will naturally come to see me. Then, I can ask them clearly.

"However, the emperor didn't come, but you discovered it first."

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