[Qin Shi Mingyue] Ghost Valley Wordless Heavenly Book Thirteen Chapters

Prince Shang's concubine Ziqi secretly took refuge in Xibohou, but Shang Wang knew nothing about it.

A few years later, Ji Fa led his army to attack the royal city [Chaoge], and the army went all the way without hindrance. When they were about to reach [Muyi], which was only a few dozen miles away from [Chaoge], the king of Shang who was in the palace got the news. Personally lead the [Chaoge garrison] to fight in a hurry.

In the Battle of Muye, the Shang army who fought rebelled against [Shang], but the [-] elites of [Shang] were far away in Dongyi.In desperation, King Shang led his loyal guards back from [Muyi] to [Lutai] in a bloody battle all the way, relying on the [Bronze Yanjia Formation] set up by [Lutai] to hold on. At this time, there were only a few guards left by King Shang to a hundred people.

The extremely lethal [Bronze Yanjia Formation] did stop the rebels, but as time went by, the [Bronze Yanjia Formation] was gradually disintegrated by an old man in his 70s among the rebels. The expected reinforcements have never been seen.

Knowing that the general situation was over, King Shang ordered the remaining 37 guards to escape through the secret path of [Lutai]. The secret passage inside the [Deer Terrace] leads to a secret [Library Room] in the royal palace. The location of the [Library Room] and the method to open the [Library Room] are only known to the Shang kings of all dynasties.

All the collections in the [Library Room] are precious classics that have been passed down from a long time before the [Great Xia Dynasty]. They are called [Prime Ancient Silk Books]. Even the history of the past dynasties, Zhu, Shichang, Taishi, and Shaoshi who are loyal to the royal family, their talents are only two or three out of ten as recorded in the classics.

The king of Shang was not reconciled to the 【Imperial Silk Script】 falling into the hands of his concubine Ziqi and Xibohou, and ordered the remaining 37 guards to go to the 【Library Room】through the secret path of 【Lutai】to take away and hide the 【Imperial Silk Script】.

The guards begged King Shang to leave together.

The king of Shang said: "Being king alone, live and die with Shang!"

The guards were weeping.

The king of Shang said again: "There is no need to save the prince, the traitors dare not hurt my son. Keep the classics, keep yourself, go to the old capital, and look for Qingyan!"

The guards bowed farewell to King Shang.

When all the guards entered the secret passage, the king of Shang sealed the secret passage, and manipulated a few [wooden armor men] around [Lutai] to light fires everywhere!

[Deer Terrace] A fire broke out from within, and the fire spread extremely fast like a flood. All the rebels who entered the outer courtyard of [Deer Terrace] could not escape at all. Lu Shang of the Yanjia Formation] only had time to escape from [Lutai] with a sergeant beside him with extremely light work.

The fire is not extinguished by splashing water, but it seems to have spirituality and stops at the edge of the outer courtyard of [Lutai], no longer spreading. Lu Shang tried to put out the fire with extraordinary methods, but it didn't work at all. He could only wait for [Lutai] The fire went out by itself, and we could only watch helplessly as the hundreds of soldiers from our own camp who could not escape were burned into coke.

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After the [Lutai] fire extinguished by itself, Ji Fa's army entered [Lutai], and found a charred corpse on the burned and deformed throne. The corpse was sitting upright. The extreme pain of the body and not moving!

This is the last dignity of a generation of emperors, and he is the prince of Shang.

Ji Fa, the son of Xibohou, bowed his bow and shot three arrows at the charred corpse of the king of Shang, retracted his bow, stepped forward, drew his sword and stabbed the corpse of the king of Shang a few times, which was not enough, and grabbed the soldiers around him With a copper ax, he cut off the head of King Shang's corpse, and ordered that King Shang's head be hung on the top of the big flagpole for public display.

When Ji Fa calmed down, Lu Shang asked the sergeant beside him remindingly: "The body of the king of Shang who retreated to this place, the body of the guard of the king of Shang, have you found it?"

The sergeant who had inspected the ruins of [Lutai] reported: "Except for the corpse of King Shang and the remains of our soldiers, no corpses were found."

Ji Fa was startled: "There is a secret way!"

He turned his head and ordered loudly: "Search carefully for the entrance of the secret passage! Quickly invite Ziqi!"

The sergeant immediately divided into two teams, one team searched the ruins of [Lutai] inch by inch, and the other team rode horses to look for Shang Wang's concubine brother Qi.

"Could it be that King Shang's body is fake?!" Ji Fa said to himself.

"The King of Shang is dead." Lu Shang said firmly.

"Since there is a secret way, why not escape? It can be seen that this corpse is just a stand-in!"

Ji Fa didn't believe Lu Shang's words, and believed that King Shang was not dead, but since King Shang had escaped from the secret path, why did he keep a substitute?

Presumably there is a mechanism in the secret passage.

"Humph!"

Ji Fa sneered, did he still want to lure himself into the secret passage in person, so that he could kill him with the help of the secret passage mechanism?Of course he would not be so stupid, and it is impossible for King Shang to come up with such a stupid way.

Ji Fa's expression was cloudy and uncertain, what conspiracy does King Shang have?

Even though Ji Fa thought more and more, Lu Shang didn't say anything, but Lu Shang was sure that the body whose head had just been beheaded by Ji Fa was King Shang.The King of Shang must have a plan for letting the guards around him escape, but... Lu Shang smiled secretly, the business energy is exhausted, and Zhou will be prosperous, this is God's will.

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[Deer Terrace Secret Road] The width is enough for two people to walk side by side, and the height is enough for people to walk straight.

Hidden vents keep occupants from suffocating.

On the walls on both sides of the secret passage, there is a luminous bead inlaid every [-] feet. It is not a luminous pearl. As for why it is not a luminous pearl, but it can emit light by itself?At this time, people walking in the secret path have no psychological experience.

There are only 37 Shang king guards left, everyone is injured, and a dozen of them are even disabled. They are exhausted and support each other, and move forward in the [Deer Terrace Secret Road] as quickly as possible...

After walking for an unknown amount of time, they saw the door that the King of Shang had mentioned. The head of the guard, Bei Ji, opened the door according to the method that the King of Shang told him, and closed the door after all the people in the group passed through.

The head of the guard, Kita, pulled down the joystick fixed on the wall, and a huge rock fell from it, completely sealing the door.

The guards continued to move forward, and finally reached the secret door of the [Library].

The head of the guard, Bei Ji, took out a small copper ball from the hidden pocket of his clothes. The copper ball was engraved with complicated patterns.

Kita put the copper ball into the concave and hollow eyes of a [three-legged bird standing sideways] carved on the secret door of the [library room], and then there was a complicated sound of mechanism starting,

Finally, "click", the secret door of the [library] opened a crack, and the light in the [library] leaked through the gap.

The head of the guard, Bei Ji, stretched out his hand and fully opened the secret door of the [library room]. He walked in first, and after confirming that there was no danger, he let all the guards in, and immediately closed and locked the secret door of the [library room].

This underground secret [library room] is a stone room with a small interior. 37 guards are sitting on the floor of the [library room], which is a bit crowded.

The stone chamber is square and square, and one of the four corners on the top of the stone chamber is inlaid with one—the same luminous beads as on the stone wall of the dark passageway from where they came from, except that the beads are bigger.

On the wall of the stone room opposite to the secret door leading to [Deer Terrace], there is a bookshelf embedded. The bookshelf is about six feet wide and twelve feet high. There are eleven floors in total, and each floor is full and neat. There are rolls of silk books.

The head of the guard, Kita, divided these silk books into 37 parts, and the guards tore off their robes.Carefully wrap up the silk scroll assigned to you for safekeeping.

From [Lutai] entering the secret passage until now, the remaining 37 Shang king guards have never spoken.

The atmosphere was extremely dull and depressing, and Bei Tie wanted to say something to boost morale, his lips trembled a few times, and he patted the shoulders of his subordinates one by one, and in the end he just said: "It's not suitable to stay here for a long time, everyone, take the time to recuperate your internal breath, We must leave Chaoge before the traitor finds this place."

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Ruins of Lutai.

Ziqi, Prince Shou of Shang is the elder brother of the same father and mother. When Ziqi was born, his mother was just a concubine. Therefore, although Ziqi was the eldest son, he was only a concubine. When Zishou was born, their mother was already a queen. Therefore, Zishou is the legitimate son, and the one who ascends the throne is the younger brother Zishou.

Even if he failed to inherit the throne, Ziqi was still a royal after all. However, at this moment, the eldest brother of the king of Shang who betrayed [Shang] humiliated himself in front of Ji Fa. How could there be any dignity of the royal family?

To be able to easily capture the capital of Shang [Chaoge], Ziqi’s attack is indispensable, not to mention, Ji Fa still needs Ziqi to appease the survivors of [Shang]. There is a secret way, and Ji Fa's gentle expression did not change at all, but let Ziqi recognize the headless charred corpse on the throne in [Lutai].

Ziqi endured the nausea and fear, his face turned pale, and reluctantly stepped forward to identify the headless corpse. How could Ziqi have the courage to carefully identify the horrifying appearance of the charred corpse?As for the life or death of King Shang, the matter is of great importance, so Ziqi had no choice but to plead guilty to Ji Fa, but he really couldn't recognize him.

Ji Fa didn't blame Ziqi, and asked his attendants to support Ziqi, who was so frightened by the scorched corpse that he couldn't even stand still, and left.

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The secret of the royal family of Shang [Library] has three doors,

One door leads to 【Deer Terrace】,

A door leads to the king's bedroom in the palace,

A door leads to the outside of the royal city [Chaoge].

The guards walked through the secret passage leading to the [Chaoge] of the royal city. The walls on both sides of the secret passage are also inlaid with glowing beads, so there is no need to worry about not being able to see them.

Among the guards, Wang Xu, who was the youngest, felt that along the way, the terrain was sloping downwards, and he went deeper and deeper into the ground.

After walking for about two hours, I came to a high platform beside an underground river.

Looking back, it seems that I have walked out of the secret passage. The position where everyone is standing now seems to be an underground cave.

Turning his head and looking towards the opposite side of the cave, it was pitch black.

The guards all looked at the head of the guard, Kita.

The head of the guard, Bei Ji, ordered several people to return to the dark passage, and used a sword to pry a few glowing beads from the wall of the dark passage.

Bei Yi took a light bead with his left hand, turned around, held the light bead, and looked at the stone walls on both sides of the exit of the dark passage.

The stone wall is extremely smooth and flat, only the top center of the exit of the secret passage is carved with a hollow eye [three-legged bird standing sideways].

With his right hand, Bei Yi took out the second small copper ball given to him by the King of Shang from the hidden pocket of his clothes, raised his right arm and stretched it directly above the exit of the dark passage, straightened his arm, raised his heel again, and touched the ground with his toe , and then pressed the small copper ball in his hand into the hollow eyes of the sculpture [Side-legged Divine Bird].

The author has something to say: Note:

1: One foot in the Shang Dynasty is equal to 16.95 centimeters today.

2: Muye, another name for Xinxiang City, Henan Province.However, Muyeyuan is not a proper term, and it is relative to Chaoge, the capital of Yin (now Qixian County, Hebi City, Henan Province).From the inside to the outside of Chaoge City, they are called Cheng, Guo, Jiao, Mu, and Ye respectively.

"Erya": "The outside of the city is called the suburbs, the suburbs are called the pasture, the outside of the pasture is called the wild, and the wild is called the forest."

Muye in history mainly refers to Weihui City, and Muye in a broad sense also includes Fengquan District of Xinxiang City and parts of Huojia County.

Xu Shen of the Eastern Han Dynasty explained the specific location of Muyi most clearly in his book "Shuowen Jiezi": Muyi is located in "Seventy miles south of Chaoge", and "King Wu of Zhou and Zhou fought in Muye".

70 li in the Han Dynasty, or about 25 kilometers, is where the urban area of ​​Weihui is located.