Conferred Gods: Start with a Phoenix clone

Chapter 1235 Hou Ji Tomb
This is a solitary grave in a desolate mountain. It doesn’t look very large, but there is a faint golden light inside the tomb. Nezha could see it at a glance. This is also a kind of merit, which is used by future generations to protect the tombs of their ancestors. The ancestors obtain merit from future generations, enjoy incense, and become Yin gods, so he must also bless his descendants. This is a kind of mutual benefit.

They first found the tombstone. Nezha's fire control skills were extremely superb. He swept the Samadhi True Fire over the tombstone, burning all the vines and weeds, but the tombstone remained intact.

He first went to look at the words on the tombstone.

It looks a bit old, but still recognizable.

"Hou Ji's Tomb?" Nezha, a poor student, scratched his head. Who is this? It seemed that he should have heard of this name, but he really couldn't remember it at the moment.

"Xiaowu, do you know who this is?"

"Yuanxiao, do you know?"

Xiaowu and Yuanxiao both shook their heads.

Nezha hit his head with his fist, trying hard to recall the information he had long forgotten.

Being brave and being reckless are two different things.

They had no idea what was going on inside the tomb, and rushing in rashly would be courting death. Now that the identity of the tomb owner had been revealed, as long as they could recall the tomb owner's past, they would have a three-point advantage.

"I just can't remember. Whose ancestor does he seem to be?"

He was talking to himself when suddenly a slightly older voice sounded from not far away: "Hou Ji is the son of Emperor Ku and the ancestor of all descendants with the surname Ji."

Nezha turned around suddenly and saw an old man with a gentle and elegant temperament. Upon closer inspection, he found that it was a Yin God.

"Ji Chang?! King Wen of Zhou, Ji Chang?!"

Ji Chang smiled and saluted. "Did they give this old man the title 'King Wen'? How can a mediocre person like me speak of literature? Exaggerating is laughable. General Xiao Li, I haven't seen you for many years. You look the same as before. Your immortal skills are truly astonishing."

Nezha didn't know Ji Chang before. His Li family of Chentangguan was a prominent family that had "lived on the coast of the East China Sea for generations". Ji Chang had always been in the west, and the two families had almost no contact.

Later, Zhou and Han became allies, and Nezha went to Xiqi City from time to time to discuss official business. After a few visits, he got to know Ji Chang. However, they rarely interacted, and Ji Chang soon died of illness.

"Your Highness King Wen." Nezha looked at Ji Chang.

Ji Chang should have been treated better, but unfortunately, his descendants were unfilial and the fighting among his sons completely cut off the destiny of the Zhou Dynasty. This resulted in him, the founder, having to come to his ancestor Hou Ji to "live off his parents" and enjoy some human support so as not to become a lonely ghost with no one to rely on.

Ji Chang looked at Yuan Xiao and Xiao Wu beside Nezha and asked, "Are these two also heroes of the Han Kingdom?"

Nezha doesn't like people who are older than him, but he can still respect the real elders.

"Your Highness Prince Wen, let me introduce you. These two are my junior sisters."

Ji Chang's virtue is actually much higher than that of Deng Jiugong, who only knows how to play mahjong and wield a sword. However, fate plays tricks on him. Deng Jiugong has now become the true "Jiugong" in humanity and the younger brother of the Three Sovereigns and Five Emperors, but he can only rely on his ancestors.

Ji Chang was very polite to Yuan Xiao and Xiao Wu, praising them for their youth and potential. He then brought the topic back to the topic and asked, "General Xiao Li, have you seen my son Ji Fa?"

Nezha's eyes widened as he pointed at the mausoleum: "Ji Fa is here too? Isn't he on the Conferred God List? Oh, I remember now!"

As he spoke, he recalled that Jifa's spirit had made the list, but hadn't been deified. Why? It was because most of the consequences of the fake Chaos Bell incident fell on Jifa. This was truly traumatic. He was the Emperor of Zhou and Guangchengzi's disciple, yet after being listed, he was treated like a Clairvoyant or a Super-Earing, just a sidekick.

Even Lao Jiang couldn't help him become a god, and in the end he was "sent to society" by the List of Gods and became a wandering ghost, which is really a pity.

"Your Highness Prince Wen, we have just arrived here and have never met Prince Wu."

Old man Ji Chang sighed heavily. He had worried about his son all his life, and now that he was dead, he still had to worry about him.

If he had known this would happen, he would never have given birth to so many sons and fed them so well.
He pointed at the tomb and said, "Hou Ji is the ancestor of the Ji clan. According to legend, Emperor Ku's first wife, Jiang Yuan, stepped on a giant's footprint and gave birth to Qi, who later became Hou Ji."

Nezha nodded. He knew the routine of giving birth by stepping on footprints.

Fuxi and Xiaowu beside him were born in this way. Now that he heard that Houji was born in the same way, he felt more recognized.

Xiaowu is very smart. When she was a child, she often asked her parents where she came from. Her father made up nonsense. Today he said she fell from her armpits, and tomorrow he said she came out of her belly button. However, her mother talked about the footprints, and she had some impression of it.

Yuanxiao was so frightened by the fact that the three people were chatting with ghosts that he closed his eyes and muttered something.

Ji Chang briefly talked about Hou Ji's life and finally talked about Ji Fa.

"After the Conferred God Ceremony, I brought Ji Fa here to live temporarily. We were originally peaceful, but a few days ago, Ji Fa went crazy and made a lot of noise in the mausoleum. I wanted to take him away, but I don't know what tricks he used to drive me out. When I wanted to go back in, the humanitarian merits of this place stopped me."

Ji Fa had learned some Taoist magic from Guangchengzi, and even after his death, he could still use two or three spells, which made him much stronger than the ordinary person Ji Chang.

Ji Chang did not understand Taoism, so he hoped that the three people would enter the tomb and help him bring Ji Fa out.

He was too embarrassed to stay with Hou Ji anymore, so he could only take Ji Fa to live in the immortal palaces of old friends like San Yisheng and Nangong Shi for a while.

Nezha also asked about the ancient sheng. Ji Chang had some impression of it. Hou Ji was an important official during the time of Dayu. He assisted in flood control and was also good at farming and music.

It is not surprising that by chance, he obtained the ancient sheng made by Nuwa at the beginning of the human race and brought the ancient sheng into the tomb.

Several of Dayu's nine tripods were buried with him, not to mention a musical instrument.

We have to go in anyway, and looking for Gu Sheng and looking for Ji Fa are just on the way, so we can solve them together.

Ji Chang reminded: "Only humans can enter the tomb."

Nezha was a pure human being. Without any hesitation, he stepped in first.

The golden light of humanity's destiny flashed, but did not stop him.

Next was Xiaowu's turn. Deng Chanyu still identified with her human identity in her heart, and Daji didn't feel that she had ever left the human race. Xiaowu also passed the test smoothly.

The last one is Yuanxiao.

This person looked nothing like a human, yet the mausoleum didn't stop her. It was as if the humane destiny within the mausoleum treated her like some harmless little animal or pet.
(End of this chapter)