Chapter 6952 Past and Present

Chapter 6952 Past and Present

"What feedback?" Chen Xi didn't react. He wondered what Ji Zhong was trying to do by speaking so vaguely. Could he please explain it more clearly? What is feedback? Is there something that can't be said directly?
“Although Emperor Yu’s bronze gui is a tool for eating, it is essentially a ritual vessel similar to the Nine Cauldrons. Therefore, it also has some effects of suppressing objects. It’s just that the essence of this thing is to magnify the effect of eating.” When Ji Zhong said this, he actually had some intention of being discreet for the respected person. What does it mean to be a ritual vessel similar to the Nine Cauldrons? In essence, the Nine Cauldrons and Eight Gui are all tools for eating.

Even more directly, in ancient times, the divine objects actually used for sacrifice were basically those for eating, while things like daggers, spears, and swords were rarely sublimated into talismans.

"Oh, I roughly understand. This means that besides being used as a talisman for sacrifice, this thing can also be used for eating, right?" Chen Xi roughly understood what it meant. Dings and Guis, although they are very powerful, but at their core, they are just pots and bowls.

The former is used for cooking, and the latter is used to hold cooked food. If used as a shelter, this thing is indeed not very qualified, but for eating, this thing should be very powerful. Chen Xi has vaguely realized the effect of this thing.

"Its core effect is simply described as defeating and absorbing the opponent, which is similar to the talents of sacrifice and devouring, except that there will be no backlash. However, if you hold this thing normally, you cannot use it on an opponent who is weaker than you. Emperor Yu does not agree with the law of the jungle." Ji Zhong explained to Chen Xi briefly, "So this thing will provide protection for the user's will."

"Ah, that's a bit strange. What are you thinking?" Chen Xi asked in some surprise. Since it's a thing that eats, then just eat well. A weapon that can absorb energy by killing the weak is a divine weapon. This kind of thing that can only be used to kill the strong to absorb power doesn't look like a divine weapon at all.

If it’s a real artifact, it should give experience points even when you step on ants to death!
Chen Xi doesn’t care how much it is, what he cares about is whether it exists or not. If it exists, it is a magic weapon, if not, it is not.

This thing can only kill strong people to gain experience points for itself, no wonder it is a quasi-artifact.

"Because it is used to hold rice." Ji Zhong said speechlessly, "It is essentially a sublimation of a concept. Humans become strong by eating food, so the rice held in the Yuhuang Gui, no matter where it comes from, will make you strong as long as you eat it."

"This sounds much more normal. It's definitely a magical weapon." Chen Xi said with shining eyes.

"The problem is that this requires a ritual. Guess what the other sacrificial vessel used in this ritual is." Ji Zhong asked in silence.

"Well, can it really be that the emperor uses nine tripods and eats eight gui as in the legend?" Chen Xi said after a moment of silence. He had seen the set of nine tripods and eight gui as ritual utensils for the emperor in extensive historical records, but in the more detailed records of the Chen family, there was a more detailed explanation. If the nine tripods and eight gui were really used for eating, the representative objects corresponding to the nine states divided by Emperor Yu were taken, and after being cooked in the nine tripods, they were placed in the eight gui according to categories and eaten one by one.

This set of stuff itself is also a ritual. It is said that after eating it, it is the destiny to unify the Nine Provinces. It is a ritual to supplement one's own destiny, secure the position of co-leader, and continue luck and fortune. It is said that all the stuff that really has the effect of prolonging life are simplified versions of this set.

Of course, it was just hearsay, and Chen Xi didn't seem very sure whether it was true or not.

However, after Ji Zhong said this, Chen Xi vaguely recalled some things. If the Yuhuang Gui had this effect, then the Nine Cauldrons and Eight Gui might really be the ritual to determine destiny.

Therefore, in this ceremony, if Emperor Yu does not allow the strong to prey on the weak, it is probably just a rule of the ceremony, not a question of whether it can be done, but a simpler question of whether it can be done.

"It's the Nine Cauldrons." Ji Zhong gave the most accurate answer directly.

"Okay, I understand." Chen Xi nodded, "No wonder this Gui can only be used to protect the holder and can only be used for people of the same level or above."

"Because that was the will of Emperor Yu. After all, it was Emperor Yu who was forced to organize hundreds of thousands of people to repair the river when there were only a million people on this land." Ji Zhong said with some helplessness, "In short, this thing is a good thing, but it is useless. It's not a problem to call it a divine weapon, but this thing is essentially a complete set. Now, the original ones have long been scattered and no one knows where they are."

"Are the major families really not hiding?" Chen Xi asked casually.

Ji Zhong coughed twice and didn't answer. How to answer this? Say that it is not hidden? It seems that he can't say it. After all, everyone's ancestors have really seen this thing. Some of them were in Luoyi when the Eastern Zhou Dynasty fell. Ji Zhong can only say that his family doesn't have it.

"Okay, I understand." Chen Xi nodded and said, "That is to say, if you fight on the same level, that thing will not provide protection for the will layer, so killing the will can kill the opponent. By the way, can the bronze gui be snatched away? I don't need this thing, I just want to use a simpler way to determine who killed the Huns."

"It's not that easy to kill the will. The Hun who just appeared cannot be killed even if the Breaker present here drops a wisp of will." Ji Zhong said helplessly. In his opinion, this was a chance for the Huns to come in and disgust the Han Dynasty, and at the same time make the Han Dynasty realize that their great enemy, the Huns, had resurrected again.

As for the fact that the Huns were clearly dead and could not be deader, even their ashes were scattered and the grass on their graves had turned green and yellow for several years, why were there still such pure Huns crawling out from nowhere? Well, the Han Dynasty had long been accustomed to it.

After all, starting from three hundred years ago, the Han Dynasty defeated and killed the Huns several times, and it didn't take long for the other side to return with a large army. Now it is just a repetition of history.

"It's okay. The divine will that fell from the world may not be stronger than those veterans below." Chen Xi waved his hand and said, "In terms of willpower alone, some of the people below are not weaker than the officers present."

"Okay, but as for the Yuhuang Gui, if the weak defeats the strong, we will also be rewarded, because we are the legitimate dynasty. Although the Huns are descendants of the Xia Dynasty, the legitimate dynasty of China is in our hands. If the Huns take this, the effect will be effective for the whole group." Ji Zhong thought about it, and recalled the strange effect that would occur if the Yuhuang Gui was used by the Huns in this way.

"Wait, is that so?" Chen Xi was stunned. Could it be like this?
"It is possible. In our time, the Chu people were considered part of the Chinese nation. If the bronze gui held by the so-called Xiahou clan is the real Yuhuang authentic product, then once it is activated, it will be effective for both sides, because both sides belong to the Huaxia family in the setting of the Yuhuang Gui." Sun Wu, who had been listening on the side, said, "But in our time, this thing disappeared."

The State of Chu had been eyeing the Nine Cauldrons for a long time. In other words, the eight large bowls that went with the Nine Cauldrons had disappeared in that year. Now it seems that they were probably taken away by the fleeing Xia Dynasty in that year.

"Well, old things don't fit the modern setting, right?" Chen Xi said after thinking for a while.

"What you said is a bit too much, but it's not a problem." Ji Zhong glanced at Chen Xi and felt that this was not a good response, but it was very clear that the Huns and Qiang people were branches of the Chinese nation.

Perhaps in the eyes of the Han Dynasty itself, it was unpleasant that the Huns were considered Chinese, but from the perspective of Emperor Yu, the Huns were undoubtedly a branch of China.

"Speaking of which, in your era, were not considered branches of the Chinese nation?" Chen Xi turned his head and looked at Wu Qi and asked, "The Xiongnu count, the Donghu should also count, and the Dayuezhi is probably also counted. In this case, what else is not counted?"

"At my time, those alien species that were not my kind were almost all wiped out. In fact, during the Western Zhou Dynasty, everyone started to wipe out these things on a large scale and in an organized manner." Wu Qi thought for a while and said, "The three countries of Xiaoyang, Yanhuo, and Laomin were all destroyed before the Spring and Autumn Period. These people were treacherous. Later, when it came to our time, the only country that was more troublesome was Zhongshan."

It is said to be troublesome, but in reality, Wu Qi personally destroyed Zhongshan Kingdom, but not long after the destruction, Zhongshan Kingdom was restored.

"By the time of my time, Zhongshan was completely destroyed." Bai Qi thought for a moment and said, "But what I did to Zhongshan was to destroy its history, destroy its country, and exterminate its people."

This was a very cruel thing, but all the countries in the Central Plains had a positive attitude towards the destruction of Zhongshan Kingdom, because Zhongshan Kingdom was the last country established by white people in the Central Plains, and all the others, whether white or black, had been wiped out.

By the way, when the Zhongshan Kingdom was destroyed, there were actually no white people in the country. Even the writing system had become the seal script of the Central Plains, and the system used was also the system of the Central Plains. However, this country was still completely destroyed, and not even a trace of it was left.

"Are the Huns definitely from the Xia dynasty?" Chen Xi asked somewhat dazedly.

"It's hard to be sure, but people did use the Yuhuang Gui, so the one most distantly related to us is the Xia Dynasty. If it's closer, it's the Shang Dynasty, and the closer is the Zhou Dynasty. However, I tend to think that Sima Qian did not mess around in this regard." Ji Zhong spoke the truth. Although their family had been passed down for thousands of years, many things in their family had been lost, especially some things that were not very important in that era and were not remembered at all.

After all, when our ancestors recorded history, they didn't record everything. There are many things that seem very important to modern people, but they were just that insignificant to ancient people. The simplest example is that many of the utensils used in the Shang Dynasty did not have any names left at all, because people at that time simply called them ding, gui, li, mo, yan, yan, etc., and they didn't have proper names, so they just called them that.

Of course, it’s not that there is a problem, but it’s more frustrating. You finally found Fu Hao’s tomb and dug out a set of these items, but since there are several pieces of each type and you don’t know which one was used by Fu Hao and which one was buried with her, the value of the items plummeted.

"Okay, I understand." Chen Xi nodded and did not pursue the issue any further. The Huns at least truly recognized themselves as the descendants of Xia. This can be seen from the official history that Helian Bobo founded a country named Xia. To be honest, even if it was fake, since the Huns themselves recognized it, it was true.

What's more, when the Han Dynasty and the Xiongnu were at their most powerful, they both recognized this statement, so it shouldn't be a random statement. After all, they had to have some shame.

While Chen Xi and Ji Zhong were chatting about the Huns, the major families had already begun to secretly find ways to communicate with their core elite troops who were performing martial arts in the small world.

The rules of the game don't say that cheating is not allowed. Moreover, even if the rules say that cheating is not allowed, given the habit of the major families to trample on the rules, they will still have to do it.

In short, each family has its own methods. They were not used before because the time was not right, but if we want to fight the Huns now, we have to use some serious tactics.

"Brother Hou, go north and join up with the people of Chenjun Yuan clan first." Xiao Bao used a special communication method to send a message to Xiao Hou, "I'll be observing from outside the boundary. You take the two and go north. After you join up with the people of Chenjun Yuan clan, there is a lone Xiongnu in the northwest who seems to have self-awareness. Kill him. There is no need to fight the Yuan clan with fists. Whoever kills more Xiongnu will win."

"Ah, you have reached an agreement so quickly?" Queen Xiao asked in surprise. She knew that her question could not be heard, but it didn't matter. Xiao Bao's eyes were definitely on her, so she just needed to speak and Xiao Bao would know what she said.

"It hasn't been agreed upon, but it doesn't matter. Even if you didn't agree to the old soldier named Huang Zhong that Chenjun Yuan family found, as long as you lead the team to kill the Huns, we will win. Don't worry, no matter how shameless Chenjun Yuan family is, they will count the consequences in this matter." Xiao Bao gave the answer.

"You really are..." Queen Xiao said somewhat speechlessly.

"To put it bluntly, the hatred between us and the Yuan family of Chenjun is that the Xie family of Chenjun shared the hatred with them unfairly. But this can't even be considered a personal grudge. We can actually sit down and talk about it. But as for the Huns, brother, tell me honestly, do you think your ancestors had any hatred against the Huns?" Xiao Bao looked at Empress Xiao's speech and answered casually. Compared with the great hatred between the Xie family and the Yuan family, the hatred between them is nothing!

"I really don't know about that." Queen Xiao shook her head and said.

"You may not believe what I said, but I still want to say one thing, brother Hou, we in the Lanling Xiao family are really not lying to you. Your ancestors and mine are from the same family. If there is nothing wrong with our investigation, your ancestors should be the Jingzhao Xiao family, descendants of Xiao Wangzhi." Xiao Bao said to Queen Xiao through voice transmission.

"Who is Xiao Wangzhi?" Queen Xiao asked with some confusion.

This silenced Xiao Bao. After a long while, he transmitted his voice, "It doesn't matter. You just need to know that your family became a commoner when it came to your generation because the inheritance was cut off during the foreign war. Then, generation after generation could not rise again, falling from the highest level until you caught up with the times and seized the opportunity to rise again. It's that simple."

Empress Xiao was stunned for a moment, "Is he some important person?"

"Regent, Imperial Preceptor." Xiao Bao said truthfully.

Queen Xiao was not talking nonsense. Instead, the Lanling Xiao family had carefully investigated Queen Xiao's interpersonal relationships and compared the results with the Yellow Book.

There were very few people with the surname Xiao in Chang'an, and Xiao He's line was cut off in the Xin Dynasty. All they had to do afterwards was to compare the population yellow books of successive dynasties and search from generation to generation. The last population census before the Yuanfeng Dynasty was in the third year of Yongshou. Although Empress Xiao had not yet been born at that time, it was not difficult for the Xiao family of Lanling to find Empress Xiao's parents by comparing the yellow books.

Well, it was actually quite difficult. It was difficult enough for normal people to find the original text, but the Xiao family of Lanling was a prominent family and was considered well-known. After special investigation, they actually found the information. After all, from the third year of Yongshou to the tenth year of Yuanfeng was only 52 years. Even though there were quite a lot of turmoil, the Xiao family of Lanling still found the old man who had met Queen Xiao's parents more than years ago.

After determining the native places of Empress Xiao's parents, and comparing the population registers of each generation, the Xiao family of Lanling successfully traced back Empress Xiao's ancestors. The descendants of Xiao Wangzhi of the Western Han Dynasty were indeed their Lanling Xiao family's relatives. This meant that the Xiao family of Lanling's teasing of Empress Xiao that they were all relatives was not nonsense.

But this is not surprising. Poverty cannot last for more than three generations. In the ancient environment, if one was extremely poor, there would be no descendants after three generations. Since Queen Xiao could appear, her ancestors must have been of status. At the very least, they were from good families. All the children from good families had backgrounds. If you trace back further, you can definitely trace back to someone with a name and surname. This is true for every surname.

However, no one had explored this kind of operation before. Therefore, when Queen Xiao heard Xiao Bao say that his ancestor was the emperor's teacher and the regent, she was inevitably shocked. The next thought that came to her mind was, "Are my ancestors so glorious?"

"Are you surprised?" Xiao Bao said to the stunned Queen Xiao.

"My ancestors were like this. It's really shameful that I have ended up like this." Queen Xiao was stunned for a moment before continuing to speak. She became somewhat interested in Xiao Wangzhi and her ancestors.

"If you don't believe me, with your current status, you are also qualified to look through the old population yellow books. You can compare them and you will understand that the people who knew your parents, grandparents, are still alive, but they no longer live in Chang'an." Xiao Bao said, "As for the embarrassment, more than a hundred years ago, the inheritance was extinct, and you, my brother, are still here. It's already a great honor for our ancestors."

At this moment, Queen Xiao had a strong urge to find the graves of her ancestors and burn some incense. A girl who could not find the graves of her parents, who only knew that her name was Queen Xiao, who had no idea of ​​her ancestors and no idea of ​​her future, had a different urge at this moment.

Why are Yang Qiong and Yuan Wu so important to Queen Xiao? Why did Queen Xiao's heart be broken after her ex-wife attacked her so hard? Because apart from these pillars, Queen Xiao was alone, with no past and no future. But at this moment, knowing her own past, Queen Xiao suddenly had a future.

"Thank you." Queen Xiao looked like she was half crying and half laughing. Finally, she moved her mouth and spoke again.

"You're welcome. If you're interested, you can check it out." Xiao Bao said, "But now, brother, please do your best to kill an elite Xiongnu soldier, for me and for you."

"Okay, I'll go now." Queen Xiao said very formally. The lingering sorrow and dejection on her body were somewhat dispelled, and the dried-up pure land in her heart had a new bud.

"Brother Hou, who were you communicating with just now?" Zhang Chen asked curiously after Queen Xiao came back to her senses. He and Jiang Chen spent a lot of effort to knock to death the more than 30 Huns who had no self-awareness, and then hurried over to meet up with Queen Xiao. As a result, he found that Queen Xiao seemed to be communicating with someone, so he did not disturb her.

"Ah, you two are here." Queen Xiao did not sense any danger, so she did not pay much attention. Her mind was absorbed in what Xiao Bao said, so she did not notice the two of them until Zhang Chen spoke.

"Yeah." Jiang Chen also said, "Is Brother Xiao communicating with someone?"

"Well, Lanling Xiao told me the location of a Hun man. Let's go and kill him." Queen Xiao, who had always been bitter and vengeful, and whose smiles were very stiff, smiled relatively normal at this moment and said to Zhang Chen and Jiang Chen.

"We were just about to tell you that we brought up a bunch of Hun-like people while fishing earlier." Zhang Chen vaguely noticed the changes in Empress Xiao and nodded immediately.

"The Huns are not easy to kill. Lord Chen said that they are basically level six or seven and very dangerous. Weak people should stay away from them." Jiang Chen, the youngest, frowned and said.

"Let's go and take a look first. I can't do anything about the seventh level, but the sixth level shouldn't be a problem." Queen Xiao said with some confidence. With the past in mind and a new future in sight, even though her mind has not recovered yet, Queen Xiao has also recovered some of her fighting power with the new possibilities.

"Brother Xiao seems to be in a good mood." Zhang Chen said from the side. He was actually quite worried about the matter of Empress Xiao's ex-wife. Empress Xiao originally had a bright future, but now it was ruined by his wife.

"I have found a new possibility." Empress Xiao did not hide it. "But let's go see how strong the Xiongnu are first. The danger that Lord Chen mentioned sometimes fluctuates greatly. When the time comes, you two will help me to raid the battlefield. If I really can't defeat them, you can help me. If I can, let me do it."

"Brother Xiao wants to take all the credit." Jiang Chen said with a smile.

"I just want to test it." Queen Xiao said casually.

"Okay, I'll help you with the raid." Zhang Chen said very casually. He didn't care about the official position or the title. In his opinion, his current life was already very good. It would be great if the official position could be lowered a little bit and it would not affect his interests and hobbies.

The current official position is already a bit heavy for Zhang Chen, and the captain cannot run around!
I'm scratching my head. The saying that eating with the Nine Cauldrons and Eight Gui is the Mandate of Heaven is a legend. I suspect that Emperor Yu's Nine Cauldrons were made by taking representative objects from all over the Nine Provinces, cooking them with special methods, and paying tributes with ritual objects representing the eight directions. Taking into account the ruling scope of the Xia Dynasty at that time, in order to obtain the special representative objects of the Nine Provinces corresponding to the Nine Cauldrons, I'm afraid it would take the princes from all over the country to gather together. And in this case, I'm afraid there would be hope only when the common lord ascends the throne. I feel that the rumor is somewhat putting the cart before the horse. It's not that this set of rituals can get the Mandate of Heaven, but that in order to gather enough materials to use this set of things, it would take the princes of the Nine Provinces to gather together. And if all the princes of the Nine Provinces gather together, then it is definitely the Mandate of Heaven. Conversely, the method of prolonging life based on this set of rituals is very interesting.