Chapter 221 - The Secret of the Zodiacs (1/2)
Chapter 221 The Secret of the Zodiacs
Hu Xiaoxian had also come up with it. She said, ”We should respect the dead, in spite of all the Spirit Stones we've got from him. We should make a kowtow to pay out respect to Senior Situ.”
After that, she knelt down on the ground, and kowtowed to the tablet three times. Before she could stand up again, she heard the squeaking sound of some gear starting up.
”Crap! The gears just started!”
Qin Haodong held the little fellow in his arms and reached out to hold Hu Xiaoxian's waist. Then they rushed out of the stone cabin in a hurry.
When they looked back, nothing dangerous had happened in the room. The table under the tablet was moving to the right and revealed an entrance. The entrance was bright inside, with stages connecting somewhere below.
”Looks like there's another world down there!”
Qin Haodong took his hands off Hu Xiaoxian. The two went down through the burrow. It was another stone cabin down there, covering nearly 20 square meters. In the middle of the cabin, there was a futon, on which a man was sitting with his leg crossed. That was Situ Zhaixing, but there was not a single clue of vitality in him. He had been dead for long.
Just when their attention was drawn by the dead body of Situ Zhaixing, they heard a cracking sound. The entrance had been completely sealed.
”What happened?”
Qin Haodong was startled. He raised his hand and slapped on the direction of the entrance. Bang! The entrance moved still. Qin Haodong reached out to flicker on it, and it sounded like something metal. It turned out that the entrance had been sealed by a large piece of steel.
”Oops, we're trapped here!” Qin Haodong said.
”I'll have a try!”
Hu Xiaoxian said when she pulled out the Purple Flash Sword. The purple flash cut on the iron steel board at the entrance. After a clear clank, there was nothing but a small white dot left on the board, no other damages.
At the moment, they heard someone saying, ”Don't bother. I made the entrance with enduring cold iron. You would never be able to break it.”
Qin Haodong and Hu Xiaoxian turned back and saw a shadow showed up in the basement again. It was Situ Zhaixing. Now that his dead body was sitting aside, this must be his residue spirit.
”Senior Situ, why are you trapping us here?” Qin Haodong asked.
”You're the lucky ones who have found the secret room that I left. Why the rush since you've already in here? Now sit and listen. I got a story for you.”
After he said that, he pointed at the two futons at the corner for them to sit.
Qin Haodong thought about it for a moment and knew it wasn't the time to rush. The stone basement was too tough to break out. They had no option but to hear Situ Zhaixing talk first.
He took Hu Xiaoxian to sit down on the futons. Situ Zhaixing was no more than a virtue spirit, but he sat down, too. The little fellow stared at the virtue spirit with strong interest because she found it quite interesting.
”Senior Situ, if there's anything you want to tell us, please.” Qin Haodong said.
”This story is a bit long, and I'll start with my father, Situ Qing.”
Situ Zhaixing gradually started.
”My father was the 42nd master of Yiyuan Sect. He was once set up by the evil cultivator, Ghost Load of Mountain Meng. He was severely injured and escaped to the Liaodong Area.”
”He had got away from the hunting of Ghost Lord, but he was at the same time too severely injured that he was about to die. But it turned out that wasn't the end of his life, he was so lucky to have run into a hunter in the forest.”
”The hunter cured my father with deer blood. When he had been healed, he told the hunter that he could bring up any of his wishes and my father would fulfill them in reward. It had never occurred to him that the hunter was such an ambitious person; he said he wanted to be an emperor.”
”As the master of Yiyuan Sect, my father was a man of his words. The hunter's request had crossed the line, but my father promised him. To realize the hunter's wish, my father used 12 Upper Level Spirit Stones. He took advantage of the geomantic of the rivers and mountains outside the borderline, and then build a Rising Dragon Formation to nourish the Dragon Veins of the hunter.”
”A hunter? The Dragon Veins outside of the borderline?” Qin Haodong was so surprised when he heard that. He asked, ”Senior Situ, the nameless hunter you're talking about, was he Nurhachi, the Mongolian emperor?”
”Right, that was his name.” Situ Zhaixing continued, ”After my father helped him. He grew luckier and luckier day after day. Finally, he had unified the Liaodong Area. It as a pity that he died young, even before the Rising Dragon Formation performed at its peak.”
”Before he died, he pleaded my father to be the National Master of the Jurchen. My father was a cultivator, and he didn't want himself to get involved in the vulgar affairs; therefore, he refused him. But he did have promised the hunter that he would keep nourishing the Dragon Veins of his family with the Rising Dragon Formation, and make his descendants emperors.”
Qin Haodong was so surprised. He had heard that there were Dragon Veins outside the borderline of Huaxia, and now it turned out it was true.
Situ Zhaixing said, ”The hunter had a son named Hong Taiji. The guy was pretty smart. He knew my father's Rising Dragon Formation was the foundation of his family, so he tried his best to flatter my father. He offered my father the position of national but was rejected again. Later he named the country with my father's name, which was the Qing Dynasty.”