Chapter 10: Xuanshan (Part 2)
While Junfang and Lu Ren were worrying about the tomb sweeping, another story was quietly unfolding on the other side of the city.
There are four major families in Xuanmen.
Zong, Zhong, Qi, Qian. The Zong family is good at exorcising evil spirits, the Zhong family is good at commanding ghosts, the Qi family is good at summoning gods, and the Qian family is good at writing with planches.
The grievances between these families are worth talking about.
Let's talk about the weakest family first. They really live up to their surname. The whole family is obsessed with money . They are accurate in fortune-telling and even more accurate in killing people. Whenever you ask someone from their family to help you tell fortunes, you always get an astronomical figure.
What's even more infuriating is that their family has lived in the south for a long time, and they can't distinguish between flat tongue sounds and curled tongue sounds, and they can't tell the difference between the Zong family and the Zhong family. A few years ago, a fortune teller said that the Zong family would have a big disaster, and they needed to marry Zong Nian to the family god as soon as possible to calm the matter down.
But Zong Nian is a man, and the family god is also a male god, how can this be possible?
In short, after a period of chaos, the ancestor of the clan thought that the Qian family had never made a mistake in their predictions. What's more, the person who predicted this fortune was the third young lady of the Qian family who had been the most popular in the past two years. It was not an exaggeration to call her Qian Banxian.
The old ancestor immediately made the decision: "Marry."
At the command, the whole clan went out. The mountain of the clan's ancestral property was decorated with lanterns and lights, and it was as bright as day. After a while of clanging and banging, the ceremony was over.
But at this moment, Miss Qian San rushed back from another place to attend the wedding banquet, and said belatedly that everything was wrong.
Her original words: "Why is it Zong Nian who is getting married? Shouldn't it be Zong Nian?"
After asking, I found out that the girl she was talking about was a girl named Zhong Nian from the side branch of the Zhong family. She couldn't be more side branch, and she didn't even live with the main family of the Zhong family. Zhong Nian was born and raised in a small coastal town in the east, and never got involved in Xuanmen affairs. Basically, no one knew about the existence of such a person before Miss Qian San told this fortune.
Now everyone was dumbfounded.
Heaven and earth, ancestors are above us. Now that the ceremony has been completed, the Zong family cannot regret it. The Zong Lao, who has been in a wheelchair for many years, was so angry that he stood up and waved his cane. He chased Miss Qian San for two miles and threatened to pull out her tongue, which was more likely to cause trouble than help.
Zong Nian, who was only 13 years old, was wearing a bright red wedding dress and holding the life tablet of the family god. She was dumbfounded watching this farce.
Qian San dug the pit, but she was in charge of digging but not of filling the pit.
If Zong Nian's engagement is not fulfilled, then his life is basically ruined. As a servant of gods, not only will he not be able to decide on his own weddings and funerals, he cannot even serve his parents at will.
Although the Zong family is prosperous, it has many collateral branches. Recently, they all responded to the country's call for only one child. It is said that as soon as the old ancestor and Qian San ran away, Zong Nian's father was directly sent to the ICU.
Zong Nian was still a child after all. He only dared to pull Zong Chen's clothes and asked in a panic: "Brother, what should we do?" Although he remembered the Zong family's teachings not to show weakness easily, he could not hide his red eyes.
The most outstanding person of this generation in the Zong family is Zong Chen. He has always had a good relationship with these cousins. He is upright and capable, and he looks like the head of the family at a young age. Zong Chen looked at his cousin who was in trouble because of Qian Sanyi's tongue, and comforted him: "Don't worry, cousin will definitely find a way to help you get through this ."
Zong Nian felt relieved when he saw his young but unusually calm cousin making the promise.
Although he promised, Zong Chen himself was actually unsure. After dispersing the crowd, Zong Chen immediately went into the Zong family's library. It was summer vacation, and he read books day and night for three days. Finally, he found a solution in an ancient book: the art of controlling the gods.
It was actually a travelogue of an ancient great man. The great man said that he had seen the art of controlling gods in an ancient book. He took the Taixu mirror from the Nine Heavens, the endless wood in the depths of Guixu, the water of Yaochi on the top of Kunlun Mountain, the feathers of the divine bird Qingluan, the bones of Xiangliu, who was rarely seen in heaven and earth, and a drop of the caster's heart blood, and then he could make a blood contract to control gods and subdue demons.
By then, moving mountains and filling the sea, and bringing the dead back to life will be just a matter of waving the hand.
However, the Taixu Mirror is just a legend. No one has ever seen it with their own eyes. It is probably something fabricated by our ancestors.
Guixu is located in the underworld, where even ghosts and gods cannot easily approach, and the Endless Tree has been extinct for thousands of years.
Kunlun Yaochi is still there, but the water has been dry for thousands of years.
Xiangliu has great magical powers and is ferocious by nature. It is hard to tell how many lives will be lost if one wants to take a bone of Xiangliu.
Only the Blue Luan Feather can be found in the northwest.
But that was when that great man was alive. By the time of Zong Chen, the last blue phoenix had been extinct for a thousand years. Fortunately, this senior said that he had worked hard for half his life and finally developed a replacement method, using some relatively similar things to replace the divine objects in ancient books.
Zong Chen used the Zong family's connections to find Thor tools from all over the world, and he also spent his spare time in the mountains and forests to look for things. After several years, he finally gathered all the materials for the formation:
The Qian family's heirloom mirror "Dustless" was forcibly requisitioned. It was said that this was the foundation of the Qian family and could predict the past and the future.
The endless wood was replaced by the lightning-struck wood.
If there is no water from the Yaochi Pool, use water from the Wuyin Pool, which is the rain that falls from the sky on the day of the spring equinox, heralding the renewal of a year and bringing powerful vitality.
The blue phoenix feather was not available, but the Qi family raised several spirit birds, and the ancestor of the Zong family risked his reputation to beg for a few.
As for the Xiangliu bone, the Zong family paid a high price to buy a fossil.
It's finally satisfactory.
Zong Chen was not completely sure. Although the family fairy was not a true god, it was at the level of a terrestrial fairy after all, so it must have some ability. If it failed, it would backfire and Zong Chen would inevitably be seriously injured. So Zong Chen thought about it and decided to find a very dark and evil place to weaken the power of the family fairy first, and then set up the formation to control the gods , and he would definitely be able to capture it.
Therefore, he chose to set up the formation at Xuanshan Cemetery on the night of July 14th.
In fact, there was nothing wrong with his action.
But the person in charge of buying fossils in the clan was a nerd who studied archaeology in college and was an expert at identifying fossils. During a transaction, he had someone replace the real thing with a fake one, and he didn't even notice it.
As expected, Zong Chen had an accident.
The family deity's life tablet was broken.
There were three people present at the time: Zong Chen, Zong Nian who brought out the family deity's life tablet, and Zong Qingchun, a solid middle-aged force of the Zong family who came to provide support.
As the fate card was broken, everyone's expression was blank for a moment, and then they immediately put on an expression as if facing a great enemy.
The so-called family immortals are not immortals, but great monsters that were subdued by the ancestors many generations ago, and are only half a step away from being immortals. Because they are too powerful, comparable to earth immortals, it is impossible for mortals to kill them easily, so they can only be taken in as family immortals at the cost of their lives, and at the same time, they can be enslaved and driven by their descendants, killing two birds with one stone.
This family immortal has been around for a long time, and his cultivation must have improved. Even if it has not improved, there was a rumor that in order to seal him, the clan lost a total of 100 young men.
At this time, the life tablet has been broken and the seal has been broken. Zong Chen knows that after being driven into slavery for so many years, the hatred of the family spirit towards the Zong family has probably reached an irreversible point.
A low chuckle came from the void.
The sound sounded like a person who couldn't help laughing as he watched a turtle struggling desperately in a fish tank.
A condescending, nonchalant laugh.
Zong Chen and Zong Qingchun took two steps forward without leaving a trace and stood in front of Zong Nian. They both knew that this would be a tough nut to crack.
