The author of the book "The Book of the Dead"

Chapter 211 The Birth of a Deity, the Truth of History

many years ago.

Kuaiji Commandery, Zhuji County, Dongbai Mountain.

Night fell, and dark clouds stretched for miles.

Five figures approached from afar, their windproof lanterns illuminating the road ahead.

Four tall, middle-aged men were supporting an eight-year-old child. The men had dark skin, scars on their faces, and a menacing aura.

Chaotic times breed bandits. These people were genuine bandits, robbing, murdering, arson, tomb raiding, and gold digging—committing all sorts of evil deeds.

Powerful families formed strongholds for self-protection, making it difficult for ordinary bandits to target them. These bandits, however, specifically targeted ordinary families, often committing murder and wiping out entire families with ruthless and cruel methods.

They set their sights on the eight-year-old child's home, having learned that the family had clues about the tombs of ancient nobles, and thus hatched a wicked plan.

To make them easier to control, they killed the couple, leaving only their eight-year-old son, who was said to be a child prodigy in the village.

"Hurry up! Or I'll kill you too!" the scarred leader threatened, raising his knife so close to the boy's face that his foul breath nearly made the boy faint.

"To find the dragon and divide the gold, look at the winding mountains; each winding mountain is a barrier." With his life threatened, the boy was almost scared out of his wits, but had no choice but to do as he was told.

Soon, they were led to a pool of water.

"Here? There's a tomb underwater?"

"How do we get in?"

The group gritted their teeth and went to the city to buy several long rubber hoses.

"Third brother, you go down first!"

The group spent several days exploring the cave, which was 300 meters long and seemed unreachable. Fortunately, the cave was generally oriented upwards and was not filled with water, so they didn't have to hold their breath all the time.

"That's enough, let's go down together." The tomb raider leader looked at the boy and gestured to his men to tie the boy to a tree. He had a pistol tucked into his waistband and was the first to go into the water.

Wow!
The group waded through murky waters and narrow caves, carrying water lanterns.

Wow! !

The group emerged from the shallow water, where they found rotten wood, broken walls, and ruins, with only one stone house remaining intact.

In front of the stone house, the golden coffin gleamed.

"found it!!"

The leader jumped up in surprise, his eyes filled with undisguised greed and desire.

Putting everything else aside, even if there were no coffin or anything else, just this golden coffin alone would be enough to ensure a comfortable life for several lifetimes.

Next to the golden coffin was a two-wheeled cart made of white jade.

"superior!!"

Excitedly, everyone crowded forward and laboriously lifted the coffin lid.

Click click click...

The cave echoed with the dull sound of a coffin being opened, and as the coffin was opened, a strange fragrance wafted out.

This inevitably reminded everyone of ancient legends about miraculous elixirs.

Could it contain an elixir of immortality?

boom! !

The coffin lid, weighing over a thousand pounds, hit the ground with a deafening sound, and a cloud of dust fell from the cave ceiling.

boom!
At that moment, a snow-white hand climbed up the edge of the coffin wall.

Everyone's pupils shrank.

"Ghost!!!"

……

outside world.

The boy was tied to a tree trunk and couldn't move. The cold mountain wind made him cry and his heart was filled with panic.

If a ferocious beast were to appear, he would certainly not be able to escape and would only be able to watch helplessly as he was eaten.

Fortunately, it's daytime now; it would be terrible if it were night.

Wow!
At this moment, a person emerged from the pool; this person was the second-in-command of the bandit gang.

"Ghost!!"

Wow! !

An invisible force pulled him down, and blood mist rose from the clear pool.

Splash...

The water in the pool swelled with eddies.

A spirited black dog emerged from the water, swam to the shore, and scrutinized the boy with its pure gold eyes.

The boy looked at the black dog in terror, muttering repeatedly, "Your Majesty, please don't kill me. Children's flesh doesn't taste good."

"Xiaotian, don't scare the child!"

A young man appeared out of nowhere on the shore.

The young man had skin as white as jade, handsome features, wore a black crown and Confucian robes, and had a faint smile on his lips, which made people feel as if they were bathed in a spring breeze. His temperament was like that of an ancient person.

If it weren't for the bizarre way he made his entrance, the boy would have celebrated his rescue.

Liang Yue looked at the boy and gestured for Xiao Tian to bite through the rope.

"Child, what year is it tonight?"

After his seclusion, Liang Yue quickly underwent another transformation a few years later due to the depletion of his lifespan by the Sea of ​​Bitterness.

This is equivalent to passing through the sixth generation two hundred years ahead of schedule.

In fact, Liang Yue woke up early last year and is currently seventeen years old.

"It should be...it should be the 4640th year of the Yellow Emperor's reign."

"Oh, so it was 1943."

The Yellow Emperor's calendar is easy to convert; simply add 2697 to the Gregorian calendar year.

"Let's go down the mountain."

Liang Yue tucked the wet pistol into his pocket, patted the child's shoulder, and the warmth of his hand put the child at ease.

It seems to be a living person, not a demon or monster.

The two people and the dog went down the mountain.

If they encountered jackals, tigers, or leopards during the journey, the black dog only needed to growl once to frighten them into scattering and fleeing.

The boy looked at him curiously and asked, "Big brother, are you a god?"

"Have you ever seen a deity?" Liang Yue glanced at the boy.

"I've never seen you before, but I think you're a deity, otherwise you wouldn't have come out of the water."

Liang Yue laughed and said, "I am not a god."

Indeed, Liang Yue is no longer a deity.

He successfully survived the tribulation of the sea of ​​suffering and is currently undergoing the second level of the Thunder Tribulation Ghost Immortal Void Tribulation, compounded by the Great Void Era that began in 1924. With these two combined, he has returned to the Wei and Jin Dynasties overnight. Fortunately, he had foreseen this situation in advance and, to avoid the cave heaven from becoming ineffective during his slumber, Liang Yue simply returned to the Dragon-Raising Cave he had originally been in.

Unexpectedly, someone actually found this place.

This made Liang Yue sigh, realizing that the calamities that befall people from the unseen world are truly impossible to guard against.

In this life, I am in a vacuum period and can only draw upon a small amount of external golden core power, so I must keep a low profile.

Judging from the thief's pistol, human technology is quite advanced and has the ability to threaten us.

The two arrived in Zhuji County.

The county town was not prosperous. Due to the war, most of the people were emaciated and pale. There were short-haired workers and long-haired landlords. Not far away was a factory emitting black smoke.

"Not bad, at least it's better than I remember."

From the boy's few words, it was learned that China was currently in the midst of a civil war.

Unlike the era I remember, this modern era is one where China fights against others, such as the Russians in the north, the Songzhou Kingdom in the South China Sea, the Yin Kingdom in the West, and powerful European countries.

After the great war, all industries were in decline, and it was time for progressive groups in China to carry out violent reforms against the corrupt forces within their ranks.

"The outcome is already decided, the progressive groups have won, so I will not get involved in this matter."

Liang Yue thought to himself.

"Hey kid, have you eaten yet?"

"..." The boy blushed and clutched his rumbling stomach.

The two arrived at a restaurant filled with the aroma of food.

"Waiter, bring out all the restaurant's signature dishes!" Liang Yue handed over a silver ingot.

The waiter looked troubled and said, "Sir, we don't accept silver, we only accept banknotes."

"what about this……"

Liang Yue took out gold.

After the waiter took it to the shopkeeper for inspection, a steaming hot meal was served shortly afterward.

Liang Yue chewed slowly, watching the boy eat like a tiger or leopard, and asked, "Kid, what's your name?"

"My surname is Zhu, and my ancestral home is Shangyu. I don't have a formal name yet; my parents call me Er Gouzi (Second Dog)."

"The Zhu family of Shangyu..."

Liang Yue has a far-sighted look; he's probably a descendant of his brother-in-law.

"Zhu Er Gou sounds awful. From now on, let's call him Zhu Hongtao. It means 'great ambition and great strategy.' Come on, I'll teach you how to write it."

The two ate and chatted.

Occasionally, I would ask the waiter about the situation.

Liang Yue discovered that the Lingbao faith was surprisingly rare in this world, and Lingbao and the Jade Emperor were no longer royal deities.

Two hundred years ago, Xianming had already developed materialist thought. The legend of the Taoist priest gradually faded away. The great war between East and West Britain back then didn't seem to be that famous. The waiter knew nothing about it, and even the educated shopkeeper didn't understand it.

"Using gold would be too conspicuous; when in Rome, do as the Romans do and just use some cash."

Liang Yue recalled the pension account that Liang Daoxuan had left him years ago.
"I wonder if it's still of any use."

After finishing their meal, the two went to the bank.

"Account holder's account...name...password is..."

After searching through the Mountain Spirit Jade Pendant for a long time, Liang Yue finally found the bank's token, an ancient jade seal.

The bank teller searched for a long time but couldn't find the document.

The two wandered all the way to Jiankang.

Finally, the account was found at Jiankang Penglai Bank.

“Ah…this…” The young teller stared in disbelief at the ancient documents.

"Old Xu, what's wrong?"

When her colleague came over, she was so shocked that she couldn't speak for a long time.

Such an old account...

"Ahem, how much would you like, sir?" the young man surnamed Xu asked calmly.

Jiankang Penglai Bank is renowned both domestically and internationally, claiming to be honest and trustworthy, with permanent deposits and the ability to withdraw funds regardless of their origin, as long as the PIN is presented.

"One million, maybe."

"alright, please wait."

Soon, Liang Yue left carrying a thick wad of cash.

By the time the information was reported to the head office, Liang Yue and the others had already disappeared.

Afterwards, the two took a train to Luoyang and bought a small house there.

"Brother Immortal, you're so rich!" Zhu Hongtao said enviously. He couldn't even earn a million if he sold himself.

"Money is an external thing and not worth mentioning."

"Money isn't important, so what is?" Zhu Hongtao asked curiously.

"Nature is the transcendence of all immortality."

Zhu Hongtao seemed to understand, but not quite; at his age, he didn't know what immortality meant.

Liang Yue settled down in Luoyang.

Late at night, he rested in the courtyard.

After taking the elixir, the strands of internal energy were transformed into a wisp of true qi by the jade silkworm.

He wasn't without trump cards, such as the six-turn golden pill he had obtained in his previous life, and the one hundred thoughts he had saved in advance.

This thing is used in small quantities each time, so use it as a trump card.

"A seven-life destiny spanning three hundred years is sufficient to last until the spiritual energy revives. Before that, it is best to pass through the three tribulations of emptiness, delusion, and heavenly lightning in succession."

Liang Yue planned to find a quiet place to retreat from the world, cultivate himself, and reflect on the tribulations he had suffered, thus refining his spiritual thoughts.

Liang Yue stayed in Luoyang for three months, during which time he taught Zhu Hongtao a lot of basic geographical knowledge about mountains and rivers, as well as some rudimentary self-defense martial arts and movement techniques.

"Kid, I'm leaving."

"Hey, where are you going, immortal brother? I want to come with you!"

Zhu Hongtao was somewhat reluctant to part with her.

"No need. I'm a wanderer." Liang Yue waved his hand, slung his bag over his shoulder, and walked away. "Here's the rest of the money. If you want to make money in the future, remember to buy more land and antiques."

……

As soon as he finished speaking, the east began to lighten.

Time flies, and inside the museum, the boy of yesteryear is now an old man with white hair.

"Zhao Hong, you are destined for immortality. Join my scientific expedition team and let's explore the truth of history together."

(Ask for monthly ticket)

(End of this chapter)