Origin

These are all Qi-tonifying elixirs on the table. They have no cough relieving effect. Even a fool knows that Wu Zhongyuan's move is a disguised reward for the second son's previous "loyalty to the emperor and the owner".

"The king, who is calm and steady, how can he be close to villains?" The old blind man shook his head helplessly.

The second child was a vulgar man with little knowledge. He couldn't quite understand what the old blind man said in the first half, but he could understand what the old blind man said about him being a villain. However, he was careless and not angry. He picked up the food on the table. The ear picker came up and said, "Sir, you have earwax. Come on, come on, come on. I'll take it out for you."

"Go, go, go." The old blind man was tired of resisting, but he was blind and couldn't see where the dick was, so he didn't push him away, and his ears were still pinched by the dick.

"You want me to put on airs, but I won't be able to learn it in this life," Wu Zhongyuan said with a smile, "I like what you hear. I came to you because you can talk. If you always act so serious, I won't see you again in the future. You and I have to take a detour.”

"Sir, this moment is another moment," the old blind man said.

"Hey, hey, don't move around. Don't blame me if you get deafened." The second child yelled.

Wu Zhongyuan didn't answer any more, laughed twice, and went out.

Leave Youbi Palace, go west and go up the steps to the gate of Dewang Palace.

Wu Di must have told him before that extra guards were posted outside the palace. The warrior who led the team knew him, and when he saw him coming, he hurriedly stepped forward to salute him, and then ordered the soldiers to open the city gate.

The palace of the Bear Clan is the largest among the three clans, but its scale is incomparable to that of the Forbidden City in later generations. It is about the same size as the palace. It is divided into two areas, the front and back. The vestibule is where Da Wu handles official business, and is guarded by guards. patrol. The harem is where Da Wu lives his daily life, with only palace maids and no guards.

There are not many guards in the palace, and they are not as strict as those in later palaces. The reason why there are not many guards is because Da Wu is different from later emperors. Most of the emperors in later generations have no power to restrain chickens, but Da Wu has He is a master of Taixuan.

Since Da Wu did not have as many wives, concubines, and concubines as later emperors, the number of palace maids was also very small. The entire palace was estimated to have only about a hundred people.

The palace in the middle of the palace is called Zhongtian Hall. This is the place where Da Wu summoned his subordinates. It is equivalent to the Jinluan Hall in later generations. The Bear Clan’s temple is just below the Zhongtian Hall. This is where the Bear God teaches his skills and the Bear Clan offers sacrifices. The place of ancestors is not here.

The door of Zhongtian Temple is open.

Wu Di and Wu Huan were sitting near the door in the palace. When they saw Wu Zhongyuan arriving, they hurriedly went out to greet them.

Wu Zhongyuan didn't have any airs, so he waved to the two of them, and the three of them walked into the hall together.

Although he has never been to Zhongtian Temple, he is not unfamiliar with this place, because Wu has been here, and there are images of this place in Wu's memory.

The layout of the main hall is somewhat similar to that of the Jinluan Hall in later generations, with four beams and eight columns. Da Wu's seat also faces south and faces north, high up. Since the bear tribe worships the bear god, the screen wall behind the throne is carved with a turning head. The giant bear on the left is not the five-clawed golden dragon seen in later generations.

There are large chairs with backrests placed on the left and right sides of the hall, with thirty-six chairs on each side. Although these chairs are still sturdy, the signs of time are very obvious, and it is obvious that they have been used for many years.

The main hall had been cleaned and spotless. Some of Wu Ao's personal belongings had been removed, and the heating pad on the throne and the writing pen and ink on the desk beside it had been replaced with new ones.

The big seal of Da Wu of the Bear Clan is placed on the table. It is an ancestral item of the Bear Clan. It is about the size of a palm and is carved from white jade. The circle at the top and bottom means a round sky and a round place. The seal is a bit big, so it is usually used The frequency is not very high, and the symbolic meaning should be greater than the actual use.

Wu Zhongyuan sat down on the throne and felt it. There was no joy of ruling the world, but only huge pressure. The past grand occasion of the Bear Clan no longer existed. Back then, the Ox Clan and the Bird Clan besieged the Bear Clan, and both the enemy and us suffered casualties. It was very big, but that war did not hurt the vitality of the Bear Clan. The Bear Clan was mainly destroyed at the hands of its own people. Wu Ao's two subordinates, Da Wu, killed each other, which caused Xiao Qiang. A large number of royal families were massacred, and Wu Ao After he ascended the throne, instead of consolidating his foundation and recuperating, he instead resorted to militarism and fought successive battles, which made the Bear clan worse and worse.

It’s okay to turn the giant ship into a broken ship. The most terrible thing is that the storm will come soon, leaving him too little time to regroup. In just one year, there is simply not enough time to develop agriculture and consolidate national defense. use.

If this broken ship sinks in his own hands, he will become a sinner through the ages. It is the most useless thing to bear the consequences of other people's mistakes. If that day comes, it will be unjust to bear the blame.

Behind the throne is not the back wall of the main hall, but a screen wall. The entrance to the temple is under the screen wall. Carved on the screen wall is a statue of the bear god. On the head of the statue is a gray-white round bead, the size of a dove egg. This thing is Over time, the spiritual energy contained in the Bear God's inner elixir has long since dissipated, and now its function is only to test the bloodline of the royal family and open the door to the temple.

Seeing Wu Zhongyuan standing in front of the screen wall, Wu Di and Wu Huan knew that he wanted to open the temple. They both knew that he had foreign blood, so they could not help but worry secretly. As the great Wu of the Bear Clan, if he could not open the Bear Clan Temple, he would So embarrassing.

After a brief pause, Wu Zhongyuan stretched out his left hand, scratched his middle finger with his thumb nail, waited for the blood to overflow, and applied it to the Bear God's inner elixir.

As the blood soaked in, the color of the inner alchemy instantly changed from gray to scarlet. At the same time, the heavy screen wall slowly moved back amidst the rumbling sound.

Seeing Wu Zhongyuan successfully opening the temple, Wu Di and Wu Huan secretly breathed a sigh of relief.

Wu Zhongyuan was not surprised that he was able to open the temple. He was an intellectual and knew that a son would definitely inherit his father's chromosome Y, while a daughter would inherit her mother's chromosome X.

There is another reason why he is not nervous, and that is that everyone knows that he is the Golden Dragon Linfan. The gods worshiped by the three tribes are mainly Dragon God. The Dragon God is a higher existence than the gods of the three tribes. Even if he cannot open the Bear Clan Temple , and no one can deny his noble status.

When the screen stopped moving, a descending passage appeared on the ground. The descending steps were about nine feet wide, with more than a hundred steps in total. They went into the ground about nine feet. When the mechanism was turned on, air entered and flames appeared in the temple below. bright.

"Da Wu has entered the temple, and we are here to guard him." Wu Di said to Wu Zhongyuan.

Wu Zhongyuan nodded, and just as he was about to step in, he suddenly remembered something and hurriedly stopped and turned around, "You guys come in with me."

Wu Di and Wu Huan looked at each other in shock when they heard this, and Wu Huan said, "The temple is a sacred place of the Bear Clan. Historically, only Da Wu can enter, and even wizards of the same clan are not allowed to enter without permission."

"It's okay, I let you in." Wu Zhongyuan said.

Wu Huan shook his head and said, "Da Wu trusts us and values ​​us..."

Wu Zhongyuan interrupted Wu Huan, "It's true that I trust you, but I don't let you go in with me to express my trust in you, but to let you be a witness."

"Da Wu opened the temple. The two of us saw it with our own eyes. Being able to open the temple proves that Da Wu is the direct descendant of the King of the Bear Clan." Wu Huan said.

"I don't like others to disobey me." Wu Zhongyuan said solemnly.

As soon as these words came out, the two of them dared to refuse. They hurried forward and followed Wu Zhongyuan to the temple.

While going down, Wu Zhongyuan slowed down and said to the two of them, "The reason why I asked you to come down with me is because the things in the temple have probably been destroyed by Wu Ao. Now that Wu Ao is dead, there is no evidence to prove his death. I don’t want anyone to suspect that I destroyed things in the temple in the future.”

After Wu Zhongyuan finished speaking, Wu Di asked doubtfully, "Da Wu, what's in the temple?"

Wu Zhongyuan shook his head, "I don't know, I've never been here before, but as far as I know, the Bear Spiritual Bones are kept in Weishui Longze, and what is stored here is only its sense of consciousness."

When Wu Di nodded, Wu Huan asked, "Da Wu is worried that the sacred objects in the temple have been destroyed, but he suspects that the sinner is a spy sent by the Gods, secretly working to destroy the foundation of our Bear Clan?"

"There is such a convenient reason," Wu Zhongyuan nodded, "Wu Ao is not stupid. He should know that the current strength of the Bear Clan is not enough to regain the lost city. I suspect that he has repeatedly sent troops after he ascended the throne. It is not because of this person. It’s such a great achievement, but it was done deliberately, with the purpose of weakening the strength of the three tribes and clearing the way for the coming of the gods in the future.”

"Your Excellency," Wu Huan said, "but there is one thing I can't figure out. The sinner has stolen Wu, and he can do whatever he wants with a hundred responses. Why should he obey the orders of the gods and be manipulated by others?"

Wu Zhongyuan shook his head, "It's not certain yet. Maybe the Gods have given him greater benefits, or maybe he thinks he is no match for the Gods and doesn't want to make unnecessary resistance."

While the three of them were talking, they went down the steps and came to the door of the temple. They said this was a temple because it was the residence of the Bear Spirit’s consciousness. In fact, it was more appropriate to describe it as an underground palace. The underground palace was not large, square in shape, with an area of ​​only a few dozen. It's about nine feet high, giving people a feeling of being private but not depressing.

The temple has no door, only one entrance. Standing outside the entrance, you can clearly see the scene in the temple. There are only two things inside, one is the statue of the bear god, and the other is the three-legged brazier in the corner.

The posture and expression of the statue of the Bear God are exactly the same as those on the screen wall. The difference is that the statue on the screen wall is a flat statue, while the statue here is three-dimensional. The statue is carved from black stone and should be carved according to a one-to-one ratio. The bear's back is almost as high as the top wall of the temple, and its body is about two feet long. It is several times the size of an ordinary black bear. It is truly a giant.

The head of the statue droops slightly, just within reach of an adult man. There is an irregular gap on the head of the statue, about two inches square.

After observing, Wu Zhongyuan approached the statue for a closer inspection, and then put his finger into the gap in the head of the statue. There was a faint liquid inside. After smelling it, he found it to be water.

Although the three of them had never entered the temple, they all guessed the principle of the bear god's power transmission. The black stone material used in the statue was very rare. The water inside the statue probably came from Weishui Longze, and the most important thing was the missing piece of water on the head of the statue. Part of it, judging from the shape of the gap, the missing part should be the Three Realms of the Bear God.

The Three Realms is an ancient term that generally refers to the chimney area of ​​human and certain animal skulls.

In some mammals, including humans, the skull is not completely closed when they are born. There will be a prismatic area not covered by the skull. This area is called the bicem. Over time, the skull will gradually cover the bicem, and even Finally closed.

Because the front chimney is grown and closed by three skull bones, it is also called the Three Realms. It is said that the three realms are psychic. When they are not closed, children can see many things that adults cannot see. As they grow older, the three realms close. This kind of The ability to channel is lost.

The three of them are all wizards, so they naturally know about the three realms. The missing three realms on the statue undoubtedly come from the bear spirit body, but it is no longer there at this time.

Only Da Wu can enter here. The lack of the three realms of the statue is naturally caused by Wu Ao...