Conferred Gods: Start with a Phoenix clone

Chapter 34 Xiqi and Ji Chang

Deng Chanyu shrunk the five-colored stone and placed it in her bag containing the five-colored stones.

Could the Immortal Technique, the Molten Escape Spiral Five-Colored Stone, break Yang Jian's skin? She wasn't sure yet, but she believed the Five-Colored Stone would definitely be able to break through his defense!
After completing the task for the Mother of Mount Li, she did not want to delay any longer, so she immediately went to say goodbye to her cheap father and prepared to go to Mount Li to become his disciple.

Deng Jiugong pondered for a moment and said, "Going to Mount Li? That's feasible. My son, wait for a while. San Yisheng, the senior official from Xiqi, will soon arrive in Nandu. Then my son can go west with him. He will be there to take care of us along the way. What do you think?"

San Yisheng was extremely busy. He had failed in his attempt to persuade Nanbo Hou before. Not long after returning to Xiqi, he heard that Nandu was occupied by the Deng family and Nanbo Hou was badly defeated. He immediately came to negotiate peace for the second time.

This time, Nanbohou's attitude completely softened. He stated bluntly that as long as the Deng family returned Nandu and the nearby prefectures and counties to him, he was willing to go to the court to meet King Zhou, and it didn't matter whether he was killed or cut into pieces or whatsoever.

He's happy with it, but the Deng family isn't. We've conquered the city ourselves, and we have to give it back? Don't be ridiculous!

San Yisheng also felt that the Deng family was unlikely to agree to this condition. He ran back and forth twice, asking if he could release the family members of the Jade family. Deng Jiugong didn't dare to agree on this matter. He said, "This is a wanted criminal of the imperial court. What will happen if I release him myself?" San Yisheng had no choice but to rush to Chaoge City again.

King Zhou was still considering whether to let the Deng family occupy Nandu. Returning it to the Marquis of Nanbo was absolutely not an option, so he only agreed to return the family members.

He was the emperor of the Shang Dynasty and would not threaten the Marquis of Nanbo with the lives of the elderly, the weak, women and children.

All your family members will be returned to you!

Afterwards, San Yisheng took more than 70 people from the E family to Chuzhou, and Nanbohou paid a large amount of money and grain to the Deng family for this.

When San Yisheng returned to Nandu, his mission this time was considered completed and it was time to return to Xiqi.

Mount Li is located to the east of Xiqi City, which is a thousand miles away from Nandu. Deng Chanyu has never been so far away from home, so Deng Jiugong is a little worried. He hopes San Yisheng can help take care of her.

"Don't worry, Marshal. I guarantee on behalf of my master that Miss Deng will not encounter any problems in Xiqi." San Yisheng felt that this was a golden opportunity.

Now the entire south is divided into two, the Deng family is in the southwest, and the E family is in the southeast. The Deng family is already bordering Xiqi. San Yisheng has no reason to object to making friends with the Deng family and expanding his own sphere of influence.

It's just an escort mission, it's too easy.

Deng Jiugong watched his daughter get on the horse with the feeling of seeing his daughter admitted to university and personally sending her to the train. Then she smiled and waved to him, and left Nandu with Xiqi and his group.

Now Xiqi's fortune is on the rise, and Deng Chanyu has a fortune that she herself doesn't even know about. When the two sides come together, not to mention turning danger into safety, nothing will really happen if they walk in the actual control area of ​​both sides.

Not counting the time with Zou Wu, this is the first time Deng Chanyu and San Yisheng have met.

This senior official of Xiqi had been the head of the civil officials of Xiqi before Jiang Ziya met King Wen. His speech and behavior were very elegant. If Deng Chanyu wanted to pretend to be polite and curb her wild nature of digging the land, that was fine. They could talk about astronomy and geography.

We arrived at Xiqi City smoothly.

Ji Chang received the news early, and after they entered the city, he personally greeted them at the gate of the mansion.

Honestly, the image of Ji Chang in history books and the Investiture of the Gods is far too grand. All that talk of respecting the wise and humble, and being a sage within and a king without, seems like the standard template for a feudal emperor. But upon seeing him in person, Deng Chanyu couldn't help but feel a pang of disappointment. Is that all? Isn't this just an eighty-year-old man who looks gaunt but is actually completely hollowed out? At best, he could be given the attributes of a human seed drill. At your age and with your health failing, you shouldn't be wandering around.

Deng Chanyu did not see any aura of kingship or tyranny, but only decay and obsolescence.

She doesn't have any intention of "being replaced by someone else". Her original intention of joining Xiqi remains unchanged, but your own competitiveness is obviously insufficient. If you want me to join you again, you have to pay more!

Deng Chanyu was sixteen, Deng Jiugong was thirty-nine, and Ji Chang was eighty-five this year! He was about the same age as Deng Jiugong's grandfather, so Deng Chanyu couldn't call him "uncle" anymore.

She addressed Ji Chang as "Jun Hou" in a very formal way.

The old man seemed to know that he had nothing to talk about with the young people, so he asked his eldest son Bo Yikao to take Deng Chanyu for a walk around Xiqi City on the grounds of his old age and frailty.

The old man is eighty-five years old. Logically, Bo Yikao should be around sixty or seventy years old.

But the world of Fengshen is so unreasonable.

Bo Yikao had a face like a full moon, a handsome demeanor, and an extraordinary appearance. He looked like he had run out of the set of an ancient idol drama. He looked less than 30 years old!
Deng Chanyu also met the future King Wu Jifa, who was also a young man of great vigor and vitality.

She could only speculate about this. Perhaps old man Ji Chang had not been interested in women before he was sixty years old. He had been studying the I Ching and the Eight Trigrams, and only then began his carefree life as a human-shaped seed drill?
Ji Chang had nearly a hundred sons and even more daughters. Adding his wives and concubines, the population was so large that it was impossible to accommodate so many people without a household registration book as thick as a Chinese dictionary.

Deng Chanyu stayed in the city for only one day before leaving Xiqi City and heading for Mount Li, using the excuse that she was devoted to Taoism and wanted to travel in search of immortality.

Mount Li is located to the east of present-day Xiqi City and belonged to the Lintong District of Xi'an in later generations. Mount Li, Huaqing Hot Spring, and the Terracotta Warriors and Horses of Qin Shihuang are all in this area.

Ji Chang's ability to govern the place was beyond doubt. The people there were simple and honest, and no one picked up things on the road. Deng Chanyu asked for directions twice, and the old farmers on the road were so enthusiastic that she felt unusual.

"We're here!" We arrived at the foot of Mount Li.

The air was filled with curling cigarettes and Taoist music. Just at the foot of the mountain, she felt an invisible pressure.

"Biaozi, go play over there." As usual, she threw the warhorse aside and walked up the mountain.

The stone steps were very clean, and there was no test of increasing pressure the higher you went. She walked up the 365 stone steps and came to a gatehouse called "Wu Sheng Xianju". She bowed timidly.

I thought to myself, "Wow, just write the two big characters 'Wa Sheng' so bluntly? Are you afraid others won't know? Is this just to give up and come clean?"
She had to be cautious at this time, so she stood outside the gatehouse and looked inside.

On both sides of the square behind the gatehouse, there are two stone tablets three meters high and eight feet wide.

The one on the left reads "The Tao is the best of all times", and the one on the right reads "Virtue matches heaven and earth".

If you don't understand the details, just looking at these two stone tablets will scare you. In a world where gods and Buddhas are running around everywhere, aren't you afraid of being beaten to death for erecting these two stone tablets?
(End of this chapter)