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Chapter 223 The Tribulations of the Eight Immortals (33)

This world not only has the fairyland, the underworld, and the human world.

There are also dragons, phoenixes, unicorns and other races.

Among them, the power of the dragon clan is particularly large. Even the Kunlun fairyland controlled by the ancient gods does not dare to conflict with the dragon clan easily.

Su Mingzhe has weak arms and legs, and with the support of the Star-Devouring Beast behind him, he dares not provoke the dragon clan.

So, there is no need to worry about helping others make it rain.

The rise and fall of the world is the business of emperors for a hundred years.

Time will wash away everything.

Soon, a hundred years passed.

During the Five Dynasties and Ten Kingdoms period, the imperial hegemony and the aristocratic families all disappeared in the course of time.

This year was May of the sixth year of Xiande in the Great Zhou Dynasty.

Su Mingzhe asked Sanqi to carry him to Youzhou, and gave the current emperor of Central Plains a life-saving golden pill.

"Azhe, why should we save him?"

Sanqi felt it was such a pity when she saw the golden pill being swallowed by the patient.

This is the elixir that Su Mingzhe spent thirty years to refine.

After taking it, it can cure diseases and eliminate disasters, get out of trouble and overcome difficulties. Basically, as long as you are still breathing, you can turn danger into safety and come back to life.

"Because he is a rare monarch of great talent and wisdom in history, I want to try to save him and see if I can change history."

Su Mingzhe and Sanqi watched for about half an hour, and the man on the bed woke up slowly and opened his eyes.

"Who are you?"

When Chai Rong saw two strange men and women appear beside him, he subconsciously jumped up and reached for the sword on the bedside. However, he underestimated his current physical health and jumped a dozen feet high, breaking through the gauze curtain and hitting the roof.

Fortunately, Chai Rong was good at martial arts and he stopped in time and landed lightly on the ground.

"Don't panic, Mr. Chai. We are here to deliver books."

Seeing that Chai Rong was no longer seriously injured, Su Mingzhe placed a copy of "History of the Song Dynasty" on the bedside. Without saying any more nonsense, he bowed and said goodbye when the guards came in.

"If we are destined to meet again in the future, we will meet again."

Without waiting for Chai Rong to ask, the two of them turned into a wisp of green smoke and floated out of the window.

"So they are two demons!"

After Chai Rong and the other man left, he snorted coldly, but was not afraid. He reached out and picked up the "History of Song Dynasty" on the bedside table and started to read it.

This book is a horizontal version of the later generation.

Chai Rong found the first page and was not used to reading it horizontally.

Just the first line of the first page made him furious:

"The Emperor Taizu was born in the Ming Dynasty, was a man of great talent, wisdom, and virtue. His achievements were great and his name was Kuangyin. His surname was Zhao and he was from Zhuo County."

"Ridiculous! Nonsense! How dare these two evil people sow discord!"

Chai Rong yelled loudly and wanted to throw the book to the ground, but the rationality he had accumulated from handling state affairs for many years made him hold back his anger and continue reading.

Chai Rong spent three days and three nights reading the book "History of Song Dynasty". He was supposed to return to the capital because of illness, but he did not mention it now.

Chai Rong ordered his troops to continue attacking the Sixteen Prefectures of Youyun.

In early August, the Sixteen Prefectures of Yanyun, which had been sold to the Liao people by Shi Jingtang's son, were returned to the Central Plains Dynasty.

The Liao people were terrified and sent Han officials to beg for peace.

Chai Rong and the Liao people established a border, then returned to destroy the Northern Han and subdue the Dingnan army of the Dangxiang people, thus unifying the north.

After returning to the capital Daliang, Chai Rong also received a secret report from the Jinwu Guards:
"A land immortal who lived during the reign of Emperor Xuanzong of Tang? Are there really immortals in this world?"

Although Chai Rong couldn't believe it, he still ordered someone to call his own supervisor of the Imperial Observatory.

Soon, the Director of the Imperial Observatory came hurriedly. When he saw Chai Rong, he prostrated himself on the ground and kowtowed three times and nine times.

Chai Rong did not believe in ghosts and monsters. In the third year after taking office, he began to eliminate Taoism and Buddhism. He also never liked the Si Tiantai, the only government office in the court that had any dealings with ghosts and gods.

When the director of the Imperial Observatory saw him, he naturally did not dare to show off. He just lay on the ground obediently, waiting for the emperor's instructions.

Chai Rong was a man of strong character who didn't like nonsense, so he directly stated his problem:

"Qingjia, do you remember a place called Penglai Qingniu Mountain?"

"Penglai Qingniu Mountain?"

When the supervisor heard the name, a figure immediately popped up in his mind, and he quickly replied: "To answer the saint, the Qingniu Mountain in Penglai is the place where the immortal Su Daoist lives in seclusion."

"Who is this Taoist Su?"

Chai Rong looked at the note in his hand and asked again, "I heard that it was already in existence during the reign of Emperor Xuanzong of Tang. Is this true or false?"

"Reply to the Saint!"

The supervisor gritted his teeth and replied:
"According to the records in my family's books, this should be true. Taoist Su would come out of seclusion every twenty or thirty years to visit friends and discuss Taoism. My father and I were fortunate enough to participate in several discussions, and I met Taoist Su twice. Every time we met, Taoist Su looked to be in his twenties, with no signs of aging. Moreover..."

"And what?"

"Moreover, Mr. Chen Tuan of Huashan also respectfully calls Su Daoren his senior."

It is said that Chen Tuan of Huashan lived for 150 years. He called this Taoist Su "senior". Doesn't that mean that Taoist Su must have lived even longer?
"is it?"

Chai Rong closed his eyes and thought for a while, then ordered: "When you go back, submit a memorial about this Taoist Su."

"The minister obeys the order."

The supervisor did not expect that Chai Rong did not scold him when he talked about ghosts and gods this time. He felt relieved and quickly took his leave.

"Wait a minute."

Chai Rong stopped him again, took out a piece of paper, walked down the steps himself, handed it to the Supervisor, and asked:

"Is this person the 'inspector'?"

When the supervisor heard the word "inspector", his heart trembled. He raised his head and looked at the word "Zhao" on the note. His face turned pale in an instant. He quickly fell to the ground, nodding his head like rain, not daring to breathe.

At the beginning of this year, before Chai Rong went to war, he received a secret report from the Supervisor, saying that the divination had revealed the identity of the traitors who were plotting to murder the Great Zhou.

Chai Rong asked Jian Zheng to bring up the divination result, on which there were only five words: 'The Inspector will be the Emperor'.

Later, on the way to the war, someone put a wooden box next to Chai Rong. Inside the box, the same five words "Dianjian Becomes the Son of Heaven" were written.

The appearance of these five words "Dianjian becomes the emperor" made Chai Rong very worried. The current Dianjian of the Great Zhou Dynasty was Zhang Yongde, the son-in-law of Chai Rong's uncle Guo Wei.

Although Chai Rong did not believe that his cousin-in-law Zhang Yongde would plot to usurp the throne, he still secretly dismissed him from his post as inspector and handed it over to his confidant Zhao Kuangyin.

Later, the first sentence of the History of Song Dynasty that Su Mingzhe sent to me was that the founding emperor of the Song Dynasty was actually Zhao Kuangyin.

This made Chai Rong very angry.

What he wanted to know now was, between the two inspectors in front and behind, which one should he be wary of?
The reaction of the Supervisor today made Chai Rong understand that the treacherous minister was actually the boy from the Zhao family.

Chai Rong paced back and forth a few times before asking the supervisor to keep it a secret and waved his hand to let him leave.

Chai Rong was truly decisive and courageous. The next day, he found reasons to demote Zhao Kuangyin's small team and stripped them of their military power.

Chai Rong was good at using people well, and he had over a thousand elite soldiers and generals under his command. Even after removing one of Zhao Kuangyin's small teams, he still had replacement generals to take his place.

These generals were originally not as high in status as Zhao Kuangyin and others, but now that they have been promoted, naturally everyone will compete to fight.

In less than three years, he successively destroyed the separatist regimes in the south, including Jingnan, Wuping, Hou Shu, Southern Han, and Southern Tang.

The Great Zhou Dynasty also initially unified the world.

In a blink of an eye, ten years have passed since the golden elixir was delivered.

The territory of the Great Zhou Dynasty has surpassed that of the Han and Tang Dynasties, creating a new generation of prosperity.

"It seems that this history is not unchangeable."

Su Mingzhe brought Yang Yunu and Sanqi down the mountain for fun and came to Bianliang City. Looking at the splendor of the Great Zhou Dynasty, he was suddenly moved by the changes he had made to history.

"Although Zhao Kuangyin is gone, the drinking and giving up military power still happened."

Yang Yunu said sadly:
"In addition, the national policy of emphasizing culture over military power has not changed. It seems that the Great Zhou will inevitably follow the old path of the Song Dynasty in the future."

Su Mingzhe couldn't help but sigh:
"This is what is called 'the big trend cannot be changed, but the small trend can be reversed.'"

Sanqi, who was standing next to them, didn't listen to their conversation. She kept sobbing and filling her stomach. Every time she followed them down the mountain, she would buy a lot of food.

For Sanqi, Su Mingzhe and Yang Yunu's lamentations about history were something that she didn't need to understand at all.

The rise and fall of a dynasty lasts no more than a hundred years.

Sanqi was born in the Western Jin Dynasty, which is more than 600 years ago. When she was Meng Po in the underworld, she swallowed up countless emperors and generals from the Wei, Jin, Southern and Northern Dynasties.

Therefore, it is difficult for her to be interested in the rise and fall of dynasties.

After traveling through the prosperous era of the Great Zhou Dynasty, the three returned to Qingniu Mountain again.

For the three of them, they are witnesses of history, not participants.

Of course, sometimes, when Su Mingzhe comes across some historical treasures, he will become a collector and take the items home to enjoy them slowly.

During the heyday of the Tang Dynasty, Su Mingzhe collected more than 5,000 authentic poems, including more than 500 poems by Li Bai and more than 100 poems by Du Fu.

In addition to authentic poems and songs, Su Mingzhe also likes to collect calligraphy and paintings by famous artists.

These things have been passed down to later generations, and each work is priceless.

The Zhou Dynasty was prosperous and lasted for a hundred years.

Su Mingzhe was naturally no exception and continued to maintain his hobby as a collector.

However, after a hundred years of prosperity, the Great Zhou Dynasty saw three consecutive incompetent rulers who, in their quest for immortality, caused chaos throughout the country.

Unfortunately, droughts, locust plagues and floods have occurred continuously for more than ten years.

In addition, the Jurchens in the north suddenly rose up, first defeated the Liao Dynasty, and then went south to attack the Zhou Dynasty.

In less than ten years, the Great Zhou became the Southern Zhou.

“It’s really a cycle of life.”

When Su Mingzhe heard the news that Sanqi and Yang Yunu brought back from the mountain, especially when he heard that the Jurchens had established a country named "Jin", he was completely stunned.

“I’m afraid this history also has a powerful corrective effect?”

"Sir, do we still need to take action?"

"Forget it. It's impossible to fix a rotten wall. This is the inertia of history. If we take action, I'm afraid it will backfire."

Su Mingzhe has been in a bad mood recently.

I don’t know what’s going on, but I just feel particularly depressed and don’t want to go out. Even when I sit cross-legged in meditation, I feel upset and restless. Naturally, I don’t want to meddle in other people’s business.

"Sir, have you been feeling very uncomfortable lately?"

That night, it was Yang Yunu's turn to practice dual cultivation with the man, but the man was absent-minded and it ended in a hurry.

Yang Yunu couldn't help but ask the questions in her mind.

"Are you feeling bad too?"

Su Mingzhe was shocked when he saw the sadness hidden between the woman's brows.

If you feel miserable alone, it means you are in a bad mood.

But if both of them are in this state, something bad is bound to happen.

The two called Sanqi who was sleeping next door, and found out that Sanqi had also been feeling upset for a long time.

But she was only thinking about eating delicacies from the wild, and didn't care about anything else at all.

"Something big must be happening!"

Su Mingzhe's mind raced as he began to figure out what might happen.

Soon, after careful analysis, he found the answer.

Not only did Su Mingzhe find the answer, but even Yang Yunu figured it out and said in panic:

"My lord, something terrible is happening. A great war between gods and demons is about to break out here."

“It’s not a war between gods and demons.”

Su Mingzhe breathed a sigh of relief and comforted her:
"It is time for the Eight Immortals under the seat of Taoist Master Taiqing to return to their positions. According to convention, the eight of them must go through the final tribulation to transform from mortals to immortals, and the place where this tribulation takes place is in the Penglai Sea nearby."

Yang Yunu was a little puzzled and asked:

"Sir, why do the Eight Immortals want to return to their positions in the Penglai Sea? There are no demons or monsters here."

"There are no demons or monsters here, but there is the Dragon Palace in the East China Sea!"

Su Mingzhe sighed and smiled bitterly at the two women:
"Forget it, let's just hide. It's better for casual cultivators like us to stay away from this kind of fight between gods."

(End of this chapter)