After that, in Qingyan's slow talk, Ling Mulan figured out the truth about these murals.
After several years of searching, the immortal man still has not found a way to develop the elixir of life.
He knew that if he just went back like this, he would be angrily killed by Qin Shihuang. He is a member of a family that has inherited Taoism for more than a thousand years.
After he finished his studies, he voluntarily left his family and entered among the vassal states to work for various vassal states that were pleasing to the eye. Finally, when Qin Shihuang unified the whole country, he resolutely went to offer alchemy.
However, now, far from his expectation, he has gone astray.
He can't go back to his family, see his relatives and friends, and he doesn't want to die like this, leaving behind his profound Taoism, just like himself, turned into a handful of loess.
Therefore, in the process of traveling, he searched for young children suitable for practicing Taoism, and planned to pass on what he had learned all his life to them.
This corresponds to the mural in the mausoleum. The Taoist priest on the mural has three young children kneeling in front of him. These three young children are the apprentices he searched for.
Three children, two boys and one girl.
Among the boys, the older one, surnamed Han, became a branch of imperial power Taoism.
The younger one, surnamed Qi, is the ancestor of the most powerful Qi family. This child is the Taoist family that led the clan and established among the people.
And the only girl, surnamed Ling, was born with a spiritual body. According to Taoist priests, her blood is very special. She was originally a member of an ancient Taoist family. It is estimated that the family was wiped out by the king during the Western Zhou Dynasty thousands of years ago. , but there is still her, a child with blood inheritance, who survived. The last ancestor led his tribe to hide in the mountains and forests, living an isolated life.
And this girl, because of her special constitution, made the Zombie King who was still ignorant at that time very close to her. In the murals, several murals of the girl and the Zombie King were depicted. The girl was young, and the Zombie King At that time, it was the IQ of human beings when they were five or six years old. The two got along very well, played together, and had a very close relationship.
But the Taoist didn't like this result. After he found out about it, he beat up the girl and locked the Zombie King. He was locked in an underground coffin for a long time without seeing the light of day. .
The Taoist was afraid of Qin Shihuang's pursuit. Qin Shihuang himself did not expect that he was so short-lived. He only lived for less than half a hundred years. He died only ten years after he became emperor.
And the fatuous and ruthless Qin II ascended the throne.
They have long forgotten the Taoist priest, which made the Taoist priest heave a sigh of relief, but he was still worried, so he took three apprentices and the zombie king and retired to the mountains and forests, and did not continue to return until the three children had grown up. in society.
At this time, it was time for the Chen Sheng and Wu Guang uprisings, and the Qin Dynasty was about to collapse.
The world is in chaos. Although the face of a Taoist priest will not age, his body and mentality are no longer young. When he saw the corpses everywhere, he couldn't bear it, so he ordered his three apprentices to help a real man secretly. King, unify the country and resolve this crisis.
The three apprentices bowed to him, then turned around and entered the mundane world. They watched thousands of warriors fighting fiercely in the wilderness, with blood flowing like rivers and mountains of dead bodies.
The three couldn't bear it, so they chose to lurk in the dark, and when the two sides were about to fight, they set up a giant formation in the plain where the other side's team was. It has never been put into use, and no one knows the results that this formation will bring, but these three apprentices, after analyzing the current situation, had to choose to do it this way.
And after these soldiers entered this formation, all the human beings here were transformed into zombies.
The tens of thousands of soldiers on the mural are crying out in pain under the effect of the formation at this moment, the weather is changing color, and the sun and the moon are dimmed.
The Taoist calculated this result in the mountains, and rushed to stop it immediately, but it was too late, the incident had already happened, and all lives were destroyed in an instant, the Taoist regretted it in his heart, but at this moment, he could only find a way to solve this matter .
He tried to reverse the formation, but was countered by the formation, amidst the howling of ghosts and wolves.
In the end, he muttered to himself: "The destiny belongs to the destiny, the reincarnation of the heavens, no matter, no matter." After finishing speaking, he used the secret technique to permanently seal himself there.
He became the eye of the formation, suppressing the souls of thousands of soldiers. These souls were suppressed in this plain, and they would never see the sun forever.
The three apprentices knelt and kowtowed on the plain, then turned and left.
They separated and started their own lives.
And just a few years later, a young woman wearing a Taoist robe came to this formation. She forcibly untied the formation here, and searched for the zombie king among these zombies.
However, to no avail.
She left here, but these zombie soldiers are already alive, and they still carry their last memories, fighting everywhere in human society, and wherever they go, there are sorrows everywhere.
Two male apprentices surnamed Han and surnamed Qi came here after learning about this incident. They thought of countless ways to control these zombies, but their strength was too low.
In the end, I could only look around for the figure of the female apprentice Lingshi, because she is a natural spirit body, and among them, the one with the strongest Taoism, if she wants to seal these zombies again, she must help.
They found her, and she was already married and had a child, and had her own clan. After hearing about this, Lingshi thought about it for a long time. On the second day, he took the zombie king and went to the place where the zombies were.
It turned out that after the Taoist priest died, she returned to the Taoist priest's mountains and released the zombie king.
After that, the Zombie King followed her.
In order to help the zombie king recover his memory, she created a new master-servant contract, connecting the zombie king with herself, helping the zombie king to upgrade smoothly, becoming a high-level zombie, and restoring human memory.
After the zombie king regained his memory, he did not leave here, but guarded the grown-up girl to marry and have children.
Until they found it, Lingshi took the zombie king to the plain, intending to seal it up.
Originally, for Lingshi, sealing the zombies was not a difficult task, because after she established a master-servant contract with the zombie king, her strength increased greatly.
But when she threw herself into the seal, the female Taoist priest who unsealed the seal appeared again.
She disturbed the seal, causing Lingshi to be devoured by the formation, and the bones devoured by the zombies disappeared.
The Zombie King entered the center of the formation with a blank expression, completing the seal instead of her.
She became the eye of the formation. Thousands of zombies were suppressed, and with these zombies, they slept forever in the opened abyss.
For Ling Mulan, a thousand years of time is just a period of history that exists in the books, only in the flick of a finger.
Qing Yan said: "I have guarded here for more than two thousand years, until seven years ago, people from the Qi family came here again to practice, and your adoptive mother lifted the seal here, and then the zombies were resurrected, the zombie king Going back to human society, looking for her reincarnated lover."
Although Ling Mulan knew the development of history, she was still at a loss about the whole matter. She asked, "Who is that female Taoist priest who lifted the Taoist seal? Why is she so bad?"
Qing Yan smiled, but her eyes were dark, she said: "That female Taoist priest is the former lover of the Zombie King."
The Zombie King's name is Murong Shan. Before Qin Shihuang unified the six kingdoms, she was the daughter of a wealthy family in Qi, and she was also the number one beauty in Qi. After Qin destroyed Qi, she brought Murong Shan back to Qin. .
He originally planned to take Murong Shan as a concubine, but the timing was really too coincidental.
Murong Shan resisted Qin Shihuang tenaciously, while still on the bed, accidentally injured Qin Shihuang, making Qin Shihuang furious, and when he was about to order someone to drag her down to death, the immortal Taoism begged for an audience.
Qin Shihuang naturally took her to test the medicine.
Murong Shan has turned into a mindless zombie. Her lover, who grew up learning Taoism and gaining strength, came looking for her, and what he got was the news that she had turned into a zombie.
Her lover is naturally trying to find Murong Shan.
In the end, the most drastic method was adopted.
She did see Murong Shan, but she also hurt Murong Shan.
Listening to Mulan, she felt that it was a bloody tragic drama. The most important thing was that because of love, this Murongshan's lover actually regarded the common people in the world as playthings, and she could do whatever she wanted. It's too perverted.
After reading the mural, she asked, "Qing Yan, you have said so much, what does it have to do with the present?"
Qingyan leaned against the wall, looked at the zombie king on the mural, and said, "You should have guessed it, you are a member of the Ling family, your family has been exterminated, and now you are the only one left with a natural spirit body ,you are the only one."
Ling Mulan looked at Ling Nianqing, then at Qing Yan, and asked: "The Ling family is the one that returned to the mountains and forests, my ancestors, in order to save the common people, destroyed themselves, why would they be exterminated? In fact, the murals in the mountain mausoleum, the simple murals, probably depict the Ling family."
She took a step back and analyzed: "The mountain mausoleum, before, used exquisite murals to depict the imperial Taoist family, that is, the Han family, so that tomb actually belonged to the Han family, and the murals after that, It was painted by other people. Where are the people of the Han family, and who painted the murals?"
Qing Yan looked at Ling Nianqing and said: "I don't know about this, you can ask Ling Nianqing."
Ling Mulan's eyes fell on Ling Nianqing.
Ling Nianqing looked at her, her eyes still cold, and said: "The adoptive mother's surname is Han, and her name is Han Menghuai. She is the younger sister of the previous patriarch of the Han clan. Those murals were painted by your mother. In fact, she has been placed in the mausoleum by Han Menghuai. Among them, he didn’t die until seven years ago.”
Qing Yan nodded and said: "So, last time Han Menghuai mentioned this matter, the Ling family was wiped out by members of the Han family and the Qi family. My lord, the old man And the boys are directly skinned and boned, and refined into weapons, while the girls are taken back, used as furnaces/cauldrons to collect supplements, and finally killed. Your mother was brought back by the patriarch of the Han clan, and she has the most aura in her body. It was also the most perfect, and was brought back to the clan by the patriarch of the Han clan at that time, that is, Han Menghuai's father, and became a tool for his son to have children."
Qing Yan said in a sigh-like tone: "Your mother was still young at the time, only six years old, as old as your adoptive mother. Your mother, your adoptive mother, and your father grew up together. Your mother remembers listening to the family. , but I don't know who the enemy is, and I thought that the people in the Han family were the ones who saved her. Children are like this, whoever treats her well is a good person."
Ling Mulan closed her eyes.
Qing Yan continued: "Your adoptive mother and your mother fell in love, but they couldn't resist the obstruction of the Han clan. In the end, your mother gave birth to a child with your father, but your mother learned the truth in an accident, so she crazy."
Ling Mulan looked at Ling Nianqing, and after a long time, she asked softly: "You know?"
Ling Nianqing looked at her, suppressed the urge to avoid her sight, and said in a low voice: "I know, you are the niece of your adoptive mother. The reason why your body is so weak is because Ling has been so weak for two thousand years. It's all intermarriage within the clan, and you were born with someone outside the clan, which is sick. If you don't have the care of your adoptive mother, you will definitely not be able to survive."
"A natural spiritual body, a gift from heaven, the purest and most suitable body for cultivating Taoism, but also represents a kind of disaster, just like three thousand years ago, and forty years ago, when the family was exterminated." Qingyan sighed.
Ling Nianqing glanced at her, and asked: "I came here this time, apart from resolving Ling Mulan's doubts, there is one more thing, which is the whereabouts of my adoptive mother. When she left the valley seven years ago, she told her everything. And she said that the purpose of her leaving this time is to solve the people behind the scenes."
Ling Mulan said: "The person behind the scenes? The real culprit who killed the Ling family and promoted all this development? It turns out that the adoptive mother believes that all of this is man-made?"
Ling Nianqing said: "Yes, this is man-made. For more than two thousand years, this behind-the-scenes force has been slaughtering members of other Taoist families and collecting Taoism into your own family. It can be guessed that this behind-the-scenes force originated from the Qi family. The Qi family did all of this, but there must be a behind-the-scenes instigator for all of this. The adoptive mother created all this in order to completely destroy this conspiracy that has lasted for two thousand years. break in."
Qing Yan said with a smile: "Han Menghuai is indeed an extraordinary woman, and you are also very powerful."
Ling Nianqing asked: "Where is the adoptive mother now? I know you, the last person who saw her, do you know where she is?"
Qing Yan walked over, walked to the candle by the wall, touched the flame with her fingers, and said, "I know, the Qi family is the culprit. What do you think, if you were her, what would you do?"
Ling Mulan said: "So, the adoptive mother went inside the Qi family."
Ling Nianqing turned around, held Ling Mulan's hand, and said, "Let's go, go find her."