This is a solitary tomb in the wilderness, and it is not particularly large in size. However, it emanates a faint golden glow, which Nezha notices at a glance. This is also a kind of merit, used by descendants to protect the ancestral tomb. The ancestors receive merit from their descendants, enjoy incense offerings, become yinshen (spirit of the dead), and then they will bless their own descendants as well. This is a kind of mutual benefit and mutual advantage.
They first located the gravestone. Nezha's control of fire techniques was extremely refined. He swept the three jewels of fire over the gravestone, and all the vines and wild grass were burned away, but the gravestone itself remained unscathed.
He first went to examine the characters on the gravestone.
It appears to be of some age, but it is still discernible.
"The Tomb of Hou Ji?" The dunce Nezha scratched his head, wondering who this was. It seemed he should have heard the name before, but he couldn't remember it right now.
"Do you know who this is, Xiao Wu?"
"Yuan Xiao, do you know?"
Xiao Wu and Yuan Xiao are both shaking their heads.
Nezha clenched his fists and hit his head, trying to recall the long-forgotten information.
Bravery and recklessness are two different things.
With no knowledge of the inside of the tomb, to rush in impulsively is courting death. Now that the identity of the tomb owner has emerged, if they can recall the owner's past life, they will have a threefold advantage.
"I just can't remember. It seems like it was a family ancestor."
He was talking to himself, when suddenly a somewhat hoarse voice sounded in the distance: "Hou Ji is the son of Di Ku, the ancestor of all Ji-surnamed descendants."
Nezha turned sharply around and saw an elderly man with a gentle and scholarly demeanor. Upon closer inspection, he realized it was a yin spirit.
"Ji Chang! Zhou Wu Wang Ji Chang!"
Ji Chang smiled and bowed: "They have given the old man the title of 'King of Literature'? How can I speak of literature? My words are exaggerated, which makes people laugh. General Li, I haven't seen you in years, but your appearance doesn't seem to have changed much from when we last met. The techniques of immortals are truly amazing."
Nezha had not known Ji Chang before. The Chen Tang Guan Li family, where he came from, was a famous and wealthy family known as "inhabiting the coast of the East Sea." Ji Chang was in the west, and the two families had almost no contact.
Later on, Zhou and Han formed an alliance, and Nezha often went to the Western Capital to discuss matters of business. Gradually, he got to know Ji Chang, but they only interacted a few times. Ji Chang fell ill quickly and passed away.
"King of Literature" Nezha sized up Ji Chang.
Ji Chang should have received better treatment, but unfortunately, his descendants were not worthy of him. The fighting among his sons cut off the fortune of the Zhou country, leaving Ji Chang as a founder who had to "eat and drink" from the ancestor Hou Ji to enjoy a portion of human offerings, rather than being reduced to an aimless and homeless ghost.
Ji Chang looked at Xiao Xiao and Xiao Wu beside Nezha: "Are these two also heroes of the Han?"
Nezha dislikes people who are senior to him in rank, but he can still maintain respect for the truly elderly.
"King of Literature, let me introduce you to my two disciples, Xiao Xiao and Xiao Wu."
Ji Chang's virtue is far higher than Deng Jiugong, who only knows how to play mahjong and wield a broadsword. However, fate plays tricks, and now Deng Jiugong is the true "Nine Elder" in terms of human achievements, becoming the younger brother of three emperors and five emperors. But he has to rely on his ancestors instead.
Ji Chang treated Yuan Xiao and Xiao Wu with great respect, complimenting them on their youth and potential. Then he brought the conversation back to topic, asking, "General Li, have you seen my son Ji Fa?"
Nezha widened his eyes, pointing at the tomb: "Ji Fa is also here? He didn't make it onto the list of gods? Oh, I remember now!"
As soon as he spoke, he recalled that Ji Fa's true spirit was indeed on the list of gods, but he had not been deified.
Why? Of course, that is because most of the karma from the incident with the false chaotic bell fell on Ji Fa. This is too hurtful. He was the Zhou dynasty's emperor and Guangchengzhi's disciple. But after he was listed, his treatment was the same as that of Gao Ming, who could see a thousand miles, and Gao Jue, who could hear from afar. He ran in vain.
Even Lao Jiang couldn't help him get deified, and in the end, he was sent to the "social transfer" of the list of gods and fell to the level of a ghost without a resting place. It's truly a cause for sighing.
"King of Literature, we just arrived here and have not yet seen the Lord of the Martial King."
Old Ji Chang sighed heavily, worrying about his son his whole life, and now that he has died, he still has to worry.
If he had known today would be like this, he would never have had so many sons in his lifetime, nor would he have fed them so well.
He pointed to the tomb and said, "Hou Ji is the ancestor of the Ji family. According to legend, the first wife of Di Ku, Jiang Yan, gave birth to Qin by stepping on giant footprints." Qin is later known as Hou Ji.
Nezha nodded, knowing the trick of giving birth by stepping on a footprint.
Fuxi and Xiao Wu were born in the same way, and now hearing that Hou Ji was also born in the same way, Nezha felt a sense of affinity in his heart.
Xiao Wu was very clever. When he was a child, he often asked his parents where he had come from. His father would make up stories, saying today that he had fallen out of his armpit and tomorrow that he had crawled out of his belly button. However, his mother had mentioned stepping on footprints, and she had some impression of it.
Yuan Xiao was so startled by the three people talking to ghosts that he was stunned, closed his eyes, and didn't know what he was muttering.
Ji Chang explained the life of Hou Ji in general, and finally mentioned Ji Fa.
"After being deified, I brought Ji Fa here to live temporarily. Originally, everything was fine, but recently, Ji Fa had been going mad and making a ruckus in the tomb. I wanted to take him away, but he somehow drove me out with unknown means. When I tried to enter again, the human achievements blocked me."
Ji Fa had learned some Taoist arts from Guang Chengzi, so even after death, he could use two or three techniques, which was much stronger than the ordinary Ji Chang.
Since Ji Chang did not know Taoist arts, he hopes that the three of them can enter the tomb and help himself to bring Ji Fa out.
He couldn't face staying at Hou Ji's place anymore, so he would have to take Ji Fa to the estate of his old friends, such as San Yisheng and Nan Gong Shu, for a while.
Nezha also inquired about Gu Sheng's matter. Ji Chang had some recollection of it. Hou Ji was a senior official during the Yu the Great's period, assisting in water control, and was skilled in agriculture and music.
By a coincidence, he obtained the ancient Shen during the creation of humans by Nuwa and brought it into the tomb, which was not surprising.
It is not surprising that the Nine Altars of Yu were buried with it. After all, it is only an instrument.
Since they are going in anyway, finding the ancient Shen and finding Ji Fa are on the same path. They can handle both tasks together.
Ji Chang reminded, "Only the human race can enter the tomb."
Nezha is a pure human race, without any hesitation, and takes the lead by stepping forward.
The golden light of human fortune flashed, but it did not hinder him.
After Nezha, it was Xiao Wu. Deng Chan Yu still recognized her own human identity in her heart, and Daji also didn't feel that she had ever lost her human status. Xiao Wu passed through smoothly as well.
Then it was Yuan Xiao.
This does not look like a human at all, but the tomb did not hinder her. It seems that the human achievements inside the tomb regard her as a kind of harmless small animal or pet.
