Hidden God

Chapter 82: Khitan

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I frowned and looked at Ito Moka: "What clues do you have?"

Ito Moka pointed to the stone wall in the distance that was engraved with unfamiliar words and said: "This is indeed a shaman's secret place. When I danced to invite the gods just now, although I could not communicate with the shaman's soul in a short period of time, It resonated with him over a period of time.”

Ito Maki said: "The soul of the shaman told me that he had an eternal enmity with an emperor buried far away. That emperor was named Yelu Deguang."

"What did you say?" I asked in surprise, "Is Yelu Deguang buried here?"

Old Man Sun turned around and asked, "Do you know Yelu Deguang?"

"I've heard some." I slowly recalled the information I had read and said, "Yelu Deguang was the son of Yelu Abaoji, the Taizu of the Liao Dynasty, and the second emperor of the Liao Kingdom."

In history, Yelu Deguang can be described as a great hero. In 936, he personally led 50,000 cavalrymen to the south, helping the famous son emperor Shi Jingtang to destroy the Later Tang Dynasty and seize the sixteen states of Yanyun, thus opening the door to the south to the Central Plains.

In 946, Yelu Deguang led his army to attack Bianliang, the capital of the Later Jin Dynasty, and captured Emperor Shi Chonggui of the Later Jin Dynasty, destroying the Later Jin Dynasty. In 947, Yelu Deguang issued an edict at the Imperial Palace in Tokyo to change the name of the country from "Great Khitan Kingdom" to "Da Liao", and changed the tenth year of Huitong to the first year of Datong.

Not long after Yelu Deguang proclaimed himself emperor in Bianliang, the people of the Central Plains began to rise up to resist. Only three months after Yelu Deguang took control of the Central Plains, he was defeated and retreated to the Liao Kingdom. It was on his way back to the Liao Kingdom that he died of illness.

When Yelu Deguang's mother, the Empress Dowager Shuluping of the Liao Kingdom, learned that her son was critically ill, she decreed that "you must see people when you are alive, and you must see the body after death."

When Yelu Deguang died of illness, the weather was hot. The officials accompanying him were afraid that the body would rot, so they were punished by the Empress Dowager. They came up with an unlikely solution, which was to use the method of pickling cattle and sheep on the grassland to marinate Yelu Deguang. It was pickled into what people call bacon today and brought back to the Liao Kingdom. Yelu Deguang became the only emperor in Chinese history to be mummified.

As I spoke, I couldn't help but look at the words on the cave. Lu Xinyao asked, "Where is Yelu Deguang buried?"

"Legend has it that he was buried in Huailing." I explained. "Legend has it that Yelu Deguang was not buried in the ancestral mausoleum of the Liao Kingdom, but in Fengshan, Huaizhou. Therefore, his mausoleum was called Huailing."

"But the Liao Huai Mausoleum miraculously disappeared after Yelu Deguang was buried. On the other hand, the Liao ancestral mausoleum of Yelu Deguang's father Abaoji has not only always existed, but the local people continue to offer sacrifices. But the Liao Huai Mausoleum disappeared among people In sight.”

"Huaizhou of the Liao Kingdom should be in the northwest direction of the current Bahrain Right Banner in Inner Mongolia. Probably in the 1970s, after research by scholars, it was believed that the Huailing of the Liao Kingdom should be in Benjingou, which is Chifeng City. However, Scholars exploring Huailing have not yet found Yelu Deguang’s body.”

I said solemnly: "We are right between Tongliao City and Chifeng City, and we are only about three hundred kilometers away from the tomb where the golden mask of the Liao Princess was found. If the tomb of Yelu Deguang is not found over there in bed Jingouzi , why did the Liao people bring Yelu Deguang so far away?"

"In order to resurrect Yelv Deguang," Ito Maki said, "the soul of the shaman told me that Yelv Deguang's mother once forced them to resurrect Yelv Deguang, otherwise, they would be sealed in the same place as Yelv Deguang. Until they can come out with Yelu Deguang."

"However, shamans would rather face death than go against nature. They were eventually imprisoned to death by the Queen Mother of the Liao Kingdom in Pingtianhai, and they never resurrected Yelu Deguang."

Ito Moka pointed to the tombstones in the cave and said: "This is where Shuluping imprisoned the shaman. Every tombstone here represents the curse left by a shaman. The shaman not only cursed the descendants of Yelv Deguang , are also cursing the Khitan. They would rather let the shamanic inheritance be buried in the world than let the Khitan disappear from now on."

Ito Moka pointed to the last words of the stone wall: "This is the strongest curse of the shaman - the Khitan will eventually be destroyed by the emperor who believes in the shaman."

I looked between the stone walls, and hundreds of shamans suddenly appeared in front of me. They danced crazily around the fire, and issued terrifying curses to the extremely powerful Khitan again and again.

The blood flowing from their eyes turned into runes and flew in all directions, to the Nine Heavens and the Netherworld, to the mountains and the earth. Their blood blended into the mountains and rivers, waiting for one day to take crazy revenge on the Khitan royal family who imprisoned them.

That horrifying scene only flashed in my eyes once before disappearing without a trace. The cold sweat on my body soaked through the back of my clothes in that instant.

Historically, the Liao Kingdom established by the Khitan was destroyed by the Jin Kingdom, and the subsequent countries established by the Liao aristocrats were all destroyed by Genghis Khan, and the Khitan also became a disappeared nation. The Immortal God believed in by Genghis Khan is exactly the god believed in by shamanism.

Is this a historical coincidence or a shaman's curse

I was sweating all over my clothes and couldn't help but ask, "What else did you see?"

Ito Moka said: "That's all I saw. By the way, I seemed to vaguely hear the shaman saying that there was a woman guarding them back then. Without that woman, they would not have lost the golden mask."

I frowned and said, "A woman? Who?"

"I don't know." Ito Moka shook her head. "The shaman said that she was a very scary woman. She was stunningly beautiful, but ruthless."

Who is that woman? I tried desperately to recall the outstanding female heroes of the Liao Kingdom in history, but after thinking about it, there were only two of them. One was Yelu Deguang's biological mother, Shuluping, who was known as the Queen Mother of Broken Wrists; the other was the famous Empress Dowager Xiao of Liao Kingdom, Xiao Chuo.

Empress Dowager Xiao was named a noble concubine when she was in Jingzong of Liao Dynasty. The time when she took power was too far away from the time when Yelu Deguang died, so it could not be her.

The most likely person is Shu Luping, the Empress Dowager Duan Wan. Not mentioning how Shulu Ping turned the tide and preserved the Khitan during her lifetime, the fact that when the ministers advised Shulu Ping to bury Yelu Abaoji with Yelu Abaoji, she was able to cut off her right hand without changing her expression and throw it into Yelu Abaoji's coffin for burial, it shows the story Rippei is ruthless and domineering. After the death of Yelu Abaoji, Yelu Deguang was her only spiritual sustenance. She could force the shaman to resurrect Yelu Deguang, and naturally she could also personally control Pingtianhai and suppress the shaman.

But the most unlikely person is also Shuluping. After the death of Yelu Deguang, his nephew Yelu Ruan proclaimed himself emperor with the support of ministers. Shulu Ping sent his son Yelu Lihu to send troops to attack. After the defeat of Yelu Lihu, Shuluping was sent back to his ancestral home by Yelu Ruan and was imprisoned until he died of illness. If that's the case, the person guarding Pingtianhai is not Shuluping.

"Who is this person?" As I kept scratching my head, Ito Moka said, "I think that person is the Empress Dowager Shu Ryuhei."

"I have studied the history of the Liao Kingdom. Shu Luping took over as regent after the death of Taizu Liao, taking charge of the military and state affairs, and smoothly transitioning the Liao Kingdom into the hands of Yelu Deguang. She would not be aware that her ministers wanted to establish a separate new empire. King? With her iron-blooded methods, she will kill them all before the ministers can support the new king."

"Besides, large-scale relocation of shamans and the construction of new mausoleums cannot be accomplished overnight. Shuluping did not know in advance that Yelu Deguang would die unexpectedly, and she had no plans to build a mausoleum in Pingtianhai. After she made up her mind, , will naturally choose to stay in Pingtianhai to suppress the shaman."

When I heard this, I couldn't help but ask, "Then she is not afraid that something will happen to the court if she is not in the Liao Kingdom?"

"Don't be afraid." Ito Moka said solemnly, "Any woman in a superior position has absolute self-confidence. Shuluping believes that one of her substitutes can suppress the Liao Kingdom, or in other words, she believes in Yelu Deguang."

Ito Maka changed the subject and said: "To take a step back, even if the Liao Kingdom changes, as long as she can resurrect Yelu Deguang, with Yelu Deguang's military talent, he can lead the sergeants guarding Pingtianhai to gather his old troops and return to the Liao Kingdom to defeat him in one fell swoop. Rebel."

I narrowed my eyes and looked at Ito Moka and said, "Don't you think there is a bit of a contradiction in your speculation? Since Shuluping firmly believes that shamans can resurrect Yelu Deguang, why does she still build a mausoleum?"

Ito Moka shook her head and said: "I can't guess this. However, I think it is also possible that Shuluping started building the mausoleum after he found out that Yelv Deguang could not be resurrected."

I took a few steps back and forth with my hands behind my back. If what Maka Ito said really came from the will of the shaman's undead, then her words would be 90% credible.

If I guessed correctly, the key to resurrecting Yelu Deguang lies in the golden mask. Even if Yelu Deguang was not made into bacon by the cook, it is unlikely that the shaman would resurrect a corpse. However, it is possible to use the characteristics of the golden mask to transfer Yelu Deguang's memory to others, achieving the purpose of memory resurrection. Purpose. In a sense, this is also a resurrection.

I suddenly said: "Old Sun, when you told me outside Pingtianhai that there are seven stars in the Big Dipper and then go to find the North Star, does that mean there are seven golden masks?"

Old Man Sun shook his head first, then nodded immediately. He didn't dare to speak out, but he could convey some information to me by nodding and shaking his head.

I immediately asked: "The total number of Beidou and North Pole is eight. Do you mean there are eight golden masks in total?"

Old man Sun nodded.

I see. The Khitans should have taken the mask from the shaman's hands, but they never knew how to use it, so they never really resurrected Yelu Deguang.

It seems that the secret in Pingtianhai is not only the golden mask, but also a thousand-year-old contest between shamans and Khitans. They must still be fighting in some way, but I don't know what the purpose and method of their fighting is.

While I was thinking about it, I turned my attention to the stone tablet in the cave.