my weird life.

Chapter 1509 Who has made the tripod in the past five thousand years (V)
A layer of white light floated in the distant sky, and the sky was about to brighten.

However, the Shang Palace was still shrouded in chaos and darkness, exuding an ominous aura.

The white-haired soldier drove the Shang king's chariot straight into the main gate of the palace. The soldiers guarding in front of the palace gate walked out of the shadows and knelt on both sides of the palace gate.

Emperor Xin leaned out of his carriage, looked at the soldiers on the left side of the palace gate, and asked, "During the time I was away from the palace, what was the situation in the palace?
Has General E Lai woken up now?"

The leader of the kneeling soldiers replied to the king respectfully, "General E Lai has woken up.

Before you came back, Tianchen Nuo had already returned in another car."

The celestial minister Nuo returns to the palace in a carriage? !
When Xin Wen heard the soldier's report, his expression suddenly became serious.

Now, the only chaste woman guarding the altar in the center of the palace and performing various sacrificial rituals for the King of Shang is Nuo 'Da Ji', the celestial minister appointed by Emperor Xin himself. The celestial minister Nuo that the soldiers refer to today refers to no one else except Da Ji!
However, Daji had been killed by him and Wu.

All nine lives were wiped out!

How could she possibly ride back to the palace? !
"But has Daji returned to the palace?" Xin sat back in the carriage, with the gauze curtain covering his face. The soldiers outside could only hear his voice, which was so calm that it seemed to be free of emotion, and had no idea of ​​the waves that were rising in his heart at this moment.

The soldier kneeling at the side of the palace gate nodded earnestly and replied to Emperor Xin: "Da Ji has returned to the palace."

"..."

Xin said nothing for a moment.

Darkness poured over the kneeling soldiers on both sides of the palace gate, the shadows obscured their faces and swallowed up half of their bodies.

They knelt on the ground, like wooden sculptures or clay statues.

During these few breaths, Xin thought of the words left by Daji before her death - unless all the people in the world were killed, people like Daji, the "reincarnation of the Queen Mother", could still be resurrected successfully by relying on the roots left in the bodies of people in the world!

All those previous sacrifices were nominally to "Heaven", but in fact they were mainly to Daji's "Empress Mother"!
Those slaves whose lives were taken away in the weekly sacrifices were actually eventually dedicated to the Queen Mother!

The Queen Mother used the lives of the people of the world to recreate Daji? !
"To the altar."

Xin Tong said to the white-haired soldier.

The white-haired soldier in armor respectfully agreed and drove the carriage through the deep and dark palace road, heading towards the central altar that was covered and blocked by layers of palace walls.

The soldiers guarding the palace gate watched the king's carriage go away. They stood up from the ground and slowly disappeared into the shadows. In the chaotic shadows, there were tiny strands of fluff floating. If you look closely, you will find that the so-called fluff is actually a series of slender human figures with their hands and feet restrained!
Nuwa's charm never faded from the Shang Palace even a little bit because of Daji's death.

Or maybe, Daji was not completely killed.

In the palace, E Lai, who had been resurrected from the dead, was mobilized by an order from Emperor Xin who had returned to the palace, and led a large number of soldiers to the central altar of the palace.

But within a moment, the central altar of the palace was surrounded on all sides.

Teams of soldiers patrolled the area, searching for Daji.

Soon, teams of soldiers carried out corpses from the dungeons and cells where slaves were imprisoned around the altar.

Corpses filled the vast altar, and a strong stench filled the inside and outside of the altar.

E Lai was covered in armor and hurried to Emperor Xin.

He is tall and strong, with an ugly and ferocious face. When ordinary people face E Lai, their courage will be reduced by 80%. What's more, E Lai is now a true human god who has become one through his own cultivation. He can control all kinds of beasts and has a strong aura of ferocious beasts, which makes people even more frightened and unable to confront him.

However, E Lai now looks a little haggard and his eyes are depressed.

He still saluted the king respectfully, and then reported: "Your Majesty, I led my soldiers to search all over the altar, but found nothing else except the bodies of hundreds of slaves who were sacrificed.

Daji is not here."

"Daji had already been killed by Wu and I. She shouldn't have appeared in the central altar of the palace. But the soldiers guarding the gate reported to me that Daji had returned to the palace." Xin looked at E Lai and said slowly. The worry between his brows did not disappear at all because E Lai did not find Daji in the palace altar.

"noon?"

E Lai noticed that the king mentioned a name he had never heard of.

He then turned his attention away from the name, pondered for a moment, and said to Xin: "If Wang Yuwu really killed Daji, would she come back to life again?

Daji's origins are mysterious, and a human god like me is completely unable to resist her attacks."

Speaking of this, E Lai's eyes dimmed. In a fight that took place in the palace at night, the human-god physique that he was proud of did not resist Daji for long. He was invaded by the all-pervasive slender human figure's hair. His own vitality collapsed in an instant, and he was then killed by Daji.

E Lai had no memory of what happened afterwards.

After he woke up, he only knew that it was the king who pleaded with Daji and sprinkled his own blood on his wounds to bring him back to life.

"It's not your fault that you can't resist Daji's advance.

I was seriously injured and dying at that time. If it weren't for you and many soldiers who risked your lives to protect me and sacrificed for me, I would have become Daji's puppet by now.

Fortunately, you and your subordinates stood in front of me, so I could catch my breath and recover from my injuries." Emperor Xin saw E Lai's depression and said, "The horror of Daji's methods comes from the fact that she has never fully revealed them before, which makes us feel that such methods are mysterious and unknown.

There is also the possibility that your human body does have major flaws, which she can take advantage of.

As I am now, after recovering from my injuries, it is no longer difficult for me to deal with Daji with my complete physique as a human king. What's more, you are here to assist me.

Now that Daji has the possibility of coming back to life, she might make a comeback again.

Why don't you and I join forces to fight her once more to test my words now?"

There was a bright light in the king's eyes, reflecting the strong soul within. When E Lai met the king's gaze, he was unconsciously encouraged by the king's words and his spirits were revived.

Yes, it is possible that Daji has come back to life now. Isn't this the perfect opportunity for me to verify the flaws of my own 'human-god physique' from her?

What's more, the king has now recovered from his physical injuries!
What could be more satisfying than joining forces with the most powerful human king in the world and dying for him? !

"If I can meet Daji again, I will do my best to serve the king and kill her again!" E Lai's tone was sonorous and powerful, with fire flashing in his eyes. He looked around - in addition to the many soldiers he brought who were taught the "Human God Law" by the king himself, there were also many soldiers who were originally guarding the palace.

As soon as those soldiers were caught in E Lai's gaze, they became furtive and hid quietly in the shadows under the palace wall. However, even though they hid in the shadows, the prying eyes still did not stop, and they were continuously projected from the shadows everywhere onto E Lai and the king.

This gaze, like sticky hairs, seemed to stick to E'lai's whole body silently, making him extremely uncomfortable.

He was therefore alert, lowered his voice, and said to the king: "My king, since the witch entered the palace, most of the maids and guards in the palace have changed from normal people. Daji's power is attacking them all the time.

These people may have become Daji's puppets.

So when you returned to the palace, is it possible that you met Daji's puppet, who claimed that Daji had returned to the palace - but in fact, if Daji was resurrected from the dead, she might not be in the palace, but went to another place?"

"Where will she go?"

Emperor Xin murmured for a moment, then suddenly turned around and looked at E Lai!

Both of them thought of the same possibility - now, Ji Chang, the governor of Zhou State, came to Yindu to pay homage to Emperor Xin. Xin had already seen through his purpose, and even the possible response of Ji Chang was within Xin's expectations - Ji Chang would most likely exchange himself for the safe return of the hostages of the nine countries to their respective countries!

This is the most brilliant solution to the current predicament faced by the Zhou Kingdom!

If Ji Chang responded in this way, Lian Xin did not know how to respond - so he avoided Ji Chang and temporarily arranged for him to live in another palace. However, Kao, who was a hostage of the Zhou State, and the hostages of the other eight countries were strictly guarded and temporarily imprisoned to prevent Ji Chang from having the opportunity to see his offspring and the hostages of the eight countries.

When Daji was Nuo, a minister of heaven, she had always tried to sacrifice the son of a noble king like Kao.

She sacrificed Kao not to help Xin relieve his injuries, but for other purposes. The benefits she gained from the human sacrifice were far greater than those of Emperor Xin. Now, she has come back to life, and her strength may be greatly weakened. If she sacrificed Kao, she might be able to restore her strength, and even provoke a war between Shang and Zhou, and all of Xin's plans would be ruined!

Whether it was for "revenge" or to restore herself, Daji had every reason to capture Kao!
She could even use the test as a threat to make Ji Chang cooperate with her!
As Emperor Xin was thinking, E Lai spoke up, "Your Majesty, I will lead the soldiers to bring Kao back to the palace!"

"It's too late." Xin shook his head. "If that's the case, and Daji ordered the soldiers guarding the palace to spread false news to confuse me, by the time I realize what's going on, she might have already done it."

Even though he realized that the situation had changed drastically and might be extremely unfavorable to him, Xin's expression calmed down instead. He continued, "Although the soldiers guarding the palace were infected by Daji and their essence was gradually hollowed out by Daji's aura, I have never doubted their loyalty to me.

As long as they still retain their consciousness as human beings, it is impossible for them to deceive me on major issues - this is also the reason why I still keep them and do not expel them from the palace.

So, maybe they really saw Daji return to the palace."

The king's words confused E Lai.

E Lai asked, "If Daji is in the palace now, where would she hide? Kao is in prison now, isn't he actually in danger and won't be captured by Daji?"

Xin smiled.

He thought of the nine fox tails behind Daji.

Each fox tail represents a life of Daji.

"Daji, is there only one?" Xin said to E'lai. He pointed to a four-legged square sacrificial tripod as tall as a person placed on the edge of the altar and ordered E'lai to move the large bronze tripod closer to him. Then soldiers threw firewood under the tripod and poured water into it.

The water in the cauldron gradually began to boil under the intense fire.

Xin put his hands into the boiling water, but his arms were unharmed. Instead, the boiling water surface gradually calmed down, becoming dark and deep, like a dark mirror. His eyes fell on the "mirror", and as his mind turned, under the mirror, in the deep darkness, there was a knock on the door.

Boom!Boom!Boom!
Emperor Xin, with his own consciousness, knocked on the other 'door' connected to this simple sacrificial ritual!
"Uncle Wang."

"Please ask your uncle to lead Ji Chang, the governor of Zhou, to come to the palace as soon as possible."

"Uncle Wang!"

The knocking sound continued, but the 'door' hidden in the black mirror did not respond.

Xin sighed, and his bad premonition became even stronger. He pulled his arms out of the water, and the water in the cauldron began to boil again.

He drew the bronze sword from his waist and cut his palm again, causing blood to spill into the cauldron and instantly turn into smoke and disappear without a trace.

At the same time, wisps of thin phosphorescent light suddenly floated from the slaves who were placed around the altar and emitted a strong stench!

Long and slender phosphorescent lights linger here.

Looking closely, those slender flames were clearly slender human figures with their hands and feet tied!

Countless slender figures gathered in a certain direction. They turned into clumps of fluff and attached themselves to a group of purple-red roots that exuded deep resentment and were like the roots of a tree. The group of purple-red roots turned into a woman in a white dress in an instant!
The white mist covered the whole body of the woman in the white dress. In the mist, she could hear her voice with a smile: "My king and that cruel thief tried to kill me nine times before, and now they are anxious to find me...My king, have you finally figured it out? Are you willing to join forces with me?"

E Lai looked at the woman who emerged from the thin wisps of phosphorous fire and whose white dress corners occasionally appeared in the white mist. His pupils suddenly contracted, and shadows under his feet boiled, with hundreds of beasts lurking in them!