God Three Group Chat: Three Kingdoms

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Upon hearing about the plight of the Twenty-Eight Generals of Yuntai, Liu Xiu became even more silent, remaining completely still without uttering a word.

"Is there something wrong, Ancestor?" Liu Tong asked, puzzled. Looking at the silent Liu Xiu, he couldn't understand the reason.

Upon being asked this question, Liu Xiu sighed heavily, the thoughts that had been swirling in his mind continuing to surface.

In fact, at the beginning of Liu Xiu's reign, after he ascended the throne and established the Han Dynasty, he began to reward meritorious officials. He bestowed upon them vermilion gates to show their honor and status.

However, fate seemed to be playing a cruel joke on people; everything went incredibly smoothly before he became emperor, until after he did.

Just as the good fortune of the first half of one's life has consumed all the luck of one's entire life, it seems that after the rewards were given, the various families all experienced a decline in the number of descendants.

If only one or two families had this problem, it would be one thing. But of the twenty-eight generals of Yuntai, only the Deng family was without problems. In fact, the Deng family also had problems, but not as severe.

This situation persisted for several years, to the point that a certain rumor began to circulate.

The army that Liu Xiu once commanded when he established the Han Dynasty, an army with a strong military spirit that he personally built and created, possessed unimaginable power, but it also came at an unspeakable price.

Besides everything else the Military Soul Legion possessed, the Military Soul Legion, which Liu Xiu built and created single-handedly, also had a very simple yet powerful ability: to alter reality.

In most cases, the strength of an army itself cannot reach the world's upper limit. However, since the world has this upper limit, there will always be some armies that can reach it. Once the upper limit is reached, it becomes very difficult to improve rapidly.

They either need to unleash an extremely powerful burst of energy to rise above it, or they can only increase their own foundation and change with the world's upper limit.

However, Liu Xiu's military spirit legion can ignore changes in the world's upper limit. As long as its own strength is sufficient, it can change the world's upper limit suppression of the legion, and thus, without the world's rejection, it can unleash power that surpasses the world's upper limit.

It can be said that the combat capability of this military spirit army depends entirely on its own foundation, which also determines that the strength of this military spirit legion will not be limited by the world's upper limit.

This incredibly powerful legion was once under the control of the Deng family. Although it clashed with many of the Twenty-Eight Generals of Yuntai, its strength was undeniable.

However, it is precisely this power that has brought about a rather frustrating rumor.

That is the power of this military spirit legion, the power to alter reality, which comes from another price paid by the military spirit legion: this military spirit legion will consume its luck.

At first, Liu Xiu didn't pay much attention to these rumors and speculations.

After all, it was the Military Soul Legion that he personally built and created. As its creator, how could he not know what kind of capabilities and costs the Military Soul Legion had?
However, precisely because he knew that the Military Soul Legion did not have such negative effects, Liu Xiucai had to consider the issue of the prosperity of the Twenty-Eight Generals of Yuntai. In the end, he tried many methods, including some metaphysical methods, but all of them came to nothing or had extremely limited effects.

So much so that Liu Xiu eventually had to focus his attention on the Military Soul Legion he had created, and a sliver of doubt began to creep in. Surely this Military Soul Legion couldn't possibly have the effect of consuming one's own destiny?
As an extremely powerful founding emperor with a very stable imperial power, Liu Xiu did not pay much attention to the survival of a military spirit legion. After having no other choice, he chose to follow the system of the former Han Dynasty and use the Imperial Guards to annex his own military spirit legion in order to confirm and verify the negative effects and depletion of his own military spirit legion.

As a military spirit legion, especially the Yulin legion inside the armor, as long as it can perfectly absorb a military spirit legion, it can be reborn and possess the abilities of all the previous military spirit legions of the Great Han Empire.

However, despite this series of actions, Liu Xiu confirmed the rebirth of the Imperial Guards but did not discover any depletion of their fortune or the associated costs.

Until his death, Liu Xiu still couldn't find the specific reason, but adhering to the idea that if one's fortune was being depleted, then one should replenish it, he passed the problem on to his son Liu Zhuang.

Emperor Ming of Han, Liu Zhuang, also provided specific solutions and measures for Liu Xiu's problem.

That is to build the Yuntai Pavilion in Nangong and paint the Twenty-Eight Generals of Yuntai in it, in an attempt to use the national fortune to protect the Twenty-Eight Generals of Yuntai and truly achieve the goal of sharing the same fate with the country.

Liu Xiu, whose lingering regrets were still within the Imperial Seal, fell into a deep sleep after confirming Liu Zhuang's actions.

It was thought that the problem of insufficient manpower among the Twenty-Eight Generals of Yuntai would be completely resolved when they awoke from their slumber, but it seems that the problem has not only not been resolved, but has become even more serious.

From this perspective, his military spirit legion should not have had the side effect of consuming luck, which can be considered as resolving some of his doubts, but there are still many things he doesn't understand.

He briefly explained his problem, as well as the situation during this process, and further explained that Liu Xiu, who was spreading rumors, did not hide anything from Liu Tong.

Right is right, wrong is wrong, and if there is no result, then there is no result.

Listening to Liu Xiu's explanation, Liu Tong understood the reason and had the same answer in his heart.

The twenty-eight generals of Yuntai celebrated with the nation, but the number of them was not large. The most important reason was the vermilion gates bestowed upon them by Liu Xiu.

As the direct descendants' residence and building, it was generally not changed. Especially with the addition of the vermilion gate bestowed by Liu Xiu, it further demonstrated what it meant to be extraordinary and to share the fate of the nation.

The vermilion gates bestowed by Liu Xiu and installed by his men were primarily made of a large amount of cinnabar. Moreover, this cinnabar was used not only for courtyard gates but also for numerous private buildings and houses.

It would be a miracle if a family could prosper under prolonged exposure to cinnabar.

The reason the Deng family fared better was mainly due to the fact that Gaomihou himself did not use much cinnabar to construct his houses and gates, thus avoiding the creation of his own brightly colored vermilion gates.

It is precisely because of this relatively small amount of cinnabar erosion and consumption that the Deng family has been able to become increasingly prosperous and remain so to this day.

However, this was merely Liu Tong's speculation based on the actual situation. After all, this world is filled with metaphysics, and no one can guarantee whether Liu Xiu's military spirit legion will burn through his luck. (End of Chapter)