After unifying the world, Duan Jiugong gave the old territory of Shanggu to Wu Geng, the son of King Zhou, as a return to the original owner.
The city has been surrendered, but there are not many people left in the city. The city walls have been damaged severely by numerous migrations and wars, and it is no longer suitable for habitation. Wu Geng has no choice but to move the remaining people to his fiefdoms, where they can concentrate on farming.
The old capital of Yin dynasty, to this day, is completely abandoned.
Deng Chan Yu no longer looked at the city of Zhaohe, but instead focused her gaze on Xuanyuan Tomb.
originally, there should be all kinds of small and big foxes, fox-tailed foxes, and chicken-headed fox-tailed foxes. They went to drink at the construction site of Zhou Shigu's deer platform, but as a result, the descendants of these nine-tailed foxes and nine-headed chicken-headed fox-tailed foxes drank themselves into a stupor. They were all burned to death by Huang Fei Guo's fire. Now that Huang Fei Guo has not burned the Xuanyuan Tomb, but as a relatively large burial ground, it is also an empty grave.
The nine-tailed fox spirit lineage has an overvaluation of the human essence, living in Xuanyuan Tomb for the convenience. The large tomb is only five li away from Zhaohe City, and when Zhaohe City was prosperous, the nobles and common people of the city could occasionally come out to have fun, allowing the fox spirits to also conveniently collect nourishment. This is a win-win situation.
Now that Zhaohe City is abandoned, with broken walls and ruins, there's not even a ghost to be seen. Who are they going to gather from?
The humans have left, and the demons have also left.
Deng Chan Yu and Taibai Baiming did not conceal their tracks. Taibai lightly tapped the ground, and the land god of Zhaohe City immediately emerged from the ground.
Deng Chan Yu is a disciple of a sage, having no subordinate relationship with the land god. Taibai Baiming, on the other hand, is an official of the celestial court, a legitimate high-ranking official. However, his position is too far removed from that of the land god. One is a deputy minister and the other is a village headman; the gap between them is so great that there really isn't much connection between them anymore.
"The old man doesn't know that Your Eminence and the Realm Lord have come, and I haven't been able to welcome you from afar. Please forgive me!" The land god spoke with reverence, bowing low but not bending low enough to be considered groveling.
Taibai Baiming glanced at Deng Chan Yu, who gently shook her head, indicating that she had come out "traveling" and letting him know that he should handle the formalities of greeting and asking for directions.
The old man is not clear about Deng Chan Yu's purpose of covering her ears while stealing the bell, but he has no problem with going along with it.
"I am here on official business. My duties require me to be honest. May I ask, Land God, has anyone visited the Xuanyuan Tomb in the past two days?"
"Yes, yes!" The land god nodded eagerly.
He pointed to the northwest corner of the Xuanyuan Tomb, where there was a seemingly dark and abandoned cave entrance.
"Old star official, let's go." Deng Chan Yu did not sense any danger and immediately pulled Taibai Baiming down the entrance. The space below was extremely vast, as if it was an underground world.
From time to time, multicolored fluorspar could be seen providing some illumination for the surroundings. Most of the buildings with demonic-style decorations were in ruins, piled with various animal dung, which Deng Chan Yu found distasteful. Nevertheless, she held her nose and followed the tracks left by Bo Yikao's group.
Only Bo Yikao and Yuan Hong have come to the underground world of Xuanyuan Tomb, and they arrived two days earlier.
Chiyou was bitter about the result of the battle at Cuolu, but Bo Yikao still had Chiyou acting under his banner to draw attention outside. Occasionally, he would send two petitions to Hou Tian and engage in verbal sparring.
Chiyou appears rough and is indeed rough in nature. However, as the former main opponent of Xuan Yuan Huangdi, he had governed the Qili tribe and possessed certain political abilities. If political skills are rated at 100 points, he might have a level of 40 points, which is quite good. Yuan Hong, a former small feudal lord, is not as good as him.
"Haven't we arrived yet?" Yuan Hong showed signs of impatience, worried about encountering enemies. He had always been carrying a refined iron staff.
His combat spirit peaked after consecutively opening three mechanisms and entering another space, which was the Taiyi Palace that fell from the celestial court.
The chronological order is: first, the fall of the Taiyi Palace; then, Xuan Yuan Huangdi built the tomb for his clothes and hat; finally, the nine-tailed fox spirits opened a bathing city here.
The Taiyi Palace covers a large area, but it's just too large.
Bo Yikao, the eldest brother, has been wandering around in here. It's like walking in a circle over and over again.
The enemies here keep appearing one after another, as if they are from the ancient demonic tribe, but it doesn't quite seem to be the case.
Yuan Hong is extremely strong and tireless. He has been fighting and killing along the way. After he killed another grayish-white tiger spirit, he couldn't help it anymore.
"Brother, when will this continue? Where exactly is the Taiyi Wheel?"
Bo Yikao was under immense pressure. He felt that the internal layout of the palace had extremely refined changes of yin and yang and eight trigrams. His own father, King Ji Chang of Wen, was very good at these things, but he really wasn't skilled in them. Even due to some rebellious psychology, he never learned his father's divination skills from the beginning to the end.
He can talk about governing a country, training an army, and managing politics ad nauseam, but when it comes to yin and yang divination and the eight trigrams? I'm sorry, I really don't understand!
He doesn't understand it, let alone Yuan Hong.
Even if he doesn't understand, at this point, he has to press on.
Bo Yikao pondered for a while, and pointed in a direction: "I think it should be up ahead, let's check the room in front of us."
While he was speaking, Yuan Hong struck out with a massive sweep that killed another wolf spirit.
The demonic creatures here are completely different from those in the outside world. He couldn't quite put his finger on exactly what was different, at least not immediately.
Deng Chan Yu followed him into the Taiyi Palace and immediately upon entering, she detected an incredibly elaborate maze.
She naturally understands the way of yin and yang divination, and the Dàluó Dàoguǒ has enabled her to calculate at a speed that an ordinary mortal cannot even imagine. However, when facing this maze laid down by the ancient Sage Fu Xi, she calculated three times in a row, but still could not come up with the correct answer. She became somewhat frustrated.
Taibai Baiming held a whisk in his left hand and a divine sword in his right, meaning he was more of a watchman than a protector.
He couldn't help but ask, "Aren't you done yet? Perhaps the Emperor of the Western Paradise has already surpassed us."
Deng Chan Yu lightly tapped her temple with her finger: "It won't be like that. Their divination abilities are much weaker than mine. It's not possible for me to be trapped while they manage to escape. My logic should be correct, but this is the maze laid down by Sage Fu Xi, one of the most revered figures in our history. I need to think more carefully and calculate again."
Taibai Baiming used to be a warrior, and now he has turned into an official. His knowledge of yin-yang and the eight trigrams is only superficial. Watching her calculate in such complexity, he dared not interject.
As soon as the name "Fu Xi" was mentioned, the sound of knocking on the door outside their hiding room could be heard.
"Is anyone there?"
"Two immortal sirs, the young woman has been trapped here for three days without a drop of water. Could you please give me some water to drink?"
"Immortal sirs, are you still there?"
A coarse voice of a man was heard outside the woman's desperate cries: "Aote, why are you crying here? Get out of the way, and I'll break down this door!"
