The prehistoric infrastructure maniac

Chapter 165 Unworthy Descendants
The sudden downpour has ended, but its impact is far-reaching.

Not only the soldiers and civilians in Chaoge City, but even the civil and military officials in the court couldn't help but wonder if it was the actions of King Zhou and that demon queen that had provoked this terrible divine wrath.

Therefore, led by Bi Gan, Huang Feihu and other civil and military officials jointly proposed to release Ji Chang and return him to Xiqi, which King Zhou eventually agreed to.

San Yisheng secretly bribed Fei Zhong and You Hun to persuade King Zhou. In the end, they managed to convince King Zhou to grant Ji Chang a higher title and rank, in order to reassure Ji Chang.

After all, now that all the feudal lords in the southeast have rebelled, if Ji Chang really dies of old age and illness in Chaoge, Ji Fa, the young master of Xiqi, might also rebel.

King Zhou pardoned Ji Chang and even bestowed upon him the honor of being granted a three-day official post. However, King Wu Cheng, Huang Feihu, seized the opportunity to remind him to escape from prison as soon as possible and not to linger in Chaoge, lest something unexpected happen.

Under Huang Feihu's arrangement, Ji Chang fled Chaoge overnight.
When King Zhou learned that Ji Chang had escaped, he was furious and immediately ordered his generals Yin Pobai and Lei Kai to send three thousand light cavalry to pursue him.

Ji Chang was caught up with before he even reached the Five Passes. Fortunately, Lei Zhenzi arrived in time, and Nezha couldn't resist coming along too.

"Senior brother, please take the Marquis with you first. I'll play with them for a while," Nezha said, seeing that Lei Zhenzi and Ji Chang had already recognized each other.

"Nezha, don't cause too much bloodshed," Lei Zhenzi couldn't help but remind him, knowing that his junior brother was always ruthless and deadly.

"I know, I'll play around for a bit, then I'll catch up," Nezha said excitedly as he rushed towards Yin Pobai and Lei Kai. Lei Zhenzi also took the opportunity to carry Ji Chang on his back and fly towards Xiqi.

Yin Pobai and Lei Kai didn't take Nezha, such a small child, seriously, but as soon as they clashed, Nezha knocked them off their horses and they fell to the ground, coughing up blood.

Immediately afterward, Nezha's Fire-Tipped Spear spun around, knocking the Yin Shang cavalry brought by Yin Pobai and Lei Kai off their horses. In an instant, men and horses fell over, and the neighing of horses and the screams of soldiers falling were deafening.

"Haha, you guys are too weak!" Nezha laughed loudly and flew into the air. Just as he was about to fly away, Lei Kai, who had risen from the ground, suddenly flicked his hand and a beam of lightning and fire shot out, landing on Nezha in the blink of an eye. It was a lightning and fire shuttle.

However, with the Hun Tian Ling protecting him, the Thunderfire Shuttle was just an ordinary magic weapon and naturally could not harm him.

However, Nezha, who was caught off guard and almost suffered a loss, was also a little embarrassed and annoyed. He directly used the Universe Ring to strike Lei Kai, hitting him squarely on the forehead and cracking his skull before retracting the Universe Ring and drifting away.

Yin Pobai, who was standing by in stunned silence, naturally didn't dare to give chase. Besides, he couldn't fly, and he couldn't catch up anyway!

In a valley thousands of miles away from Jiuding Iron Fork Mountain, beside a medicinal garden surrounded by a stream, Shi Mo stood with his eyes closed, holding half of a gourd ladle.

However, at this moment, apart from the half in Shi Mo's hand, the rest of the water ladle had turned into ashes, along with the newly grown medicinal herbs in the valley and the lush vegetation on the surrounding hillsides.

As if sensing something, Shi Mo took a deep breath and opened his eyes. Seeing the yellow dragon descending from the sky, he couldn't help but laugh self-deprecatingly:

"Although I have already attained the Primordial Dao, I originally thought that my Dao heart was calm and undisturbed, but I did not expect that there would still be times when I could not help but lose my temper."

"Take your anger out on the people who harmed our children! Why destroy your own forests and the medicinal herbs you've worked so hard to grow?" Huang Long said irritably.

“That’s right,” Shi Mo nodded slightly and waved his hand. Instantly, the herb garden in front of him and the surrounding hillside quickly came back to life. The vitality of water and wood in the world gathered, and the earth element energy and yang energy of the earth veins rose in the valley. The newly grown herbs and medicinal plants also grew rapidly in front of the naked eye.

"You went to Chaoge and killed a few people?" Shi Mo's words left Huang Long slightly speechless.

Shi Mo said, "Don't worry! Those tyrannical rulers and wicked empresses have committed heinous crimes and deserve to suffer the consequences. I won't let them die so easily. Besides, even if they die, they won't have the chance to be deified. What awaits them is atonement in the eighteen levels of hell."

"King Zhou was the Human Emperor! Besides, didn't you say that the nine-tailed fox was arranged by the Goddess Nuwa?" Huanglong couldn't help but ask.

"He offended Ziwei, murdered his wife and children, and blasphemed Nuwa. He has already severed his own destiny. What kind of human emperor is he?" Shi Mo sneered.

"As for the nine-tailed fox, Goddess Nuwa did not allow her to commit many sins. Although she was acting on Goddess Nuwa's orders, such actions, even if they ruined the fate of the Yin Shang Dynasty, could not outweigh her sins. Even without the incident with Boyi Kao, she would have ultimately met a tragic end, with her body and soul destroyed."

Huanglong nodded slightly, then his expression shifted slightly as he said, "Hmph, Nezha is still too soft-hearted! He only killed Lei Kai."

Nezha is soft-hearted? Shi Mo was speechless. It was likely that none of the people who would die at Nezha's hands in the future would think he was soft-hearted.

"Cough, Nezha is still a child! If he were to slaughter all the pursuers at every turn, he wouldn't be a little demon star, but a little devil," Shi Mo coughed lightly.

Lei Zhenzi and Nezha escorted Ji Chang out of the five passes and arrived at the territory of Jinji Ridge, where they bid farewell to Ji Chang and returned to the mountain.

However, the time is not yet right. Lei Zhenzi and Nezha are still young and need to return to the mountain to continue their cultivation and learn new skills. It is not yet time for them to truly descend the mountain.

Ji Chang traveled alone on foot, and after some twists and turns, he finally returned to Xiqi City to reunite with his family. The civil and military officials of Xiqi now knew of the tragic death of their eldest son, Boyi Kao, in Chaoge, and they all urged Ji Chang to raise an army to kill the tyrannical ruler and the wicked queen, but Ji Chang resolutely refused.

"This Ji Chang, he doesn't have the guts to rebel. He's stubborn and blindly loyal, yet he says that Boyi Kao is ignorant of the times and has a stubborn personality. What kind of talk is that? If Boyi Kao hadn't been trying to save him, would he have died in Chaoge?"

At the summit of Jiuding Iron Fork Mountain and Babao Peak, Huanglong, who was enjoying tea and snacks with Shi Mo and Ziwei, couldn't help but speak.

Shi Mo, who was resting with his eyes closed, couldn't help but feel a little helpless: "Although Ji Chang is a sage recognized by the human race, he is already old and frail. Why do you still care about what he says?"

"Moreover, although he seems pedantic, he is also a wise man; otherwise, he wouldn't have been able to write the Book of Changes based on the Eight Trigrams of Fuxi. What he says doesn't necessarily reflect what he truly thinks," Shi Mo continued.

"How could he not feel hatred after his son's tragic death? He was just being prudent and knew that now was not the best time to raise an army to overthrow the Shang. Besides, King Zhou had just appointed him as King Wen. If he were to rebel as soon as he returned to Xiqi, he would inevitably be criticized."

Ziwei, standing to the side, said, "Actually, he mainly didn't want to start a war, and he couldn't bear to see Xiqi suffer from war and death."

“It seems we can’t count on him to fight the Shang,” Huang Long shook his head slightly.

Although Ji Chang had no intention of launching a military campaign against the Shang dynasty, he devoted himself even more diligently to governing Xiqi after returning to the state. One night, he dreamt of a flying bear traveling to visit wise men. He met Jiang Ziya on the Wei River and invited him to serve as the prime minister of Xiqi.

Upon learning that Jiang Ziya had fled to Xiqi and become its prime minister, King Zhou was not angry. Instead, he thought that Ji Chang was old and muddle-headed, and that it was not worth worrying about to let an old man govern the country.

Just then, the construction of the Deer Terrace, supervised by Marquis Chong Houhu of the North, was completed. King Zhou, who was visiting and admiring it with his nine-tailed fox, actually dared to invite immortals and fairies to come and have fun.

The nine-tailed fox had previously tried to trick King Zhou into inviting immortals as guests, but unexpectedly, the tyrant took it seriously.

Helpless, the nine-tailed fox came up with the idea of ​​having the fox offspring of Xuanyuan Tomb impersonate immortals and gods to deceive King Zhou, since King Zhou was a mortal and couldn't distinguish between the real and the fake.

But the nine-tailed fox never expected that Bi Gan, the minister accompanying the wine, would see through the tricks of those so-called immortals. The fox's stench was unmistakable, and those who drank too much even revealed their fox tails.

Bi Gan, who was secretly annoyed, met Huang Feihu, the Prince of Wucheng, who was inspecting the imperial city, on his way back and told him about the matter.

Huang Feihu then had his men secretly follow those so-called immortals, and they found their lair, Xuanyuan Tomb. Taking advantage of the fox demons' drunkenness, he directly ordered his soldiers to burn down the fox den, killing a whole nest of fox spirits with shallow cultivation.

Afterwards, he discussed with Bigan and even had people select intact fox fur to make a fur robe to send to King Zhou, hoping to intimidate the wicked queen.

Unexpectedly, this act brought them their own demise.
When the nine-tailed fox saw the fur robe that Bigan presented to King Zhou, she was shocked and also hated Bigan. So she had a wicked idea and pretended to be sick to lure the nine-headed pheasant spirit into the palace. She told King Zhou that she wanted to use Bigan's heart as a medicine to cure his illness.

King Zhou, blinded by lust, actually believed this absurd claim and decided to dig out his uncle Bigan's heart to cure the nine-tailed fox's so-called heartache.

However, when the king commands a subject to die, the subject has no choice but to die. Bi Gan was deeply disappointed in King Zhou and ultimately cut out his own heart, dying a tragic death.

“Absurd! Utterly absurd! Even the Xia dynasty's Jie was not as cruel and ruthless as him,”

At Jiuding Iron Fork Mountain, it was rare to find both Gouchen and Ziwei present, and Huaxu had also arrived, making it a family reunion. Huanglong couldn't help but want to see how much of King Zhou's life he had left and what sins he was committing. Gouchen saw the scene of Bi Gan disemboweling himself displayed by Shi Mo's wave of his hand and immediately glared angrily.

"In fact, Tang of Shang was a descendant of Emperor Ku, and they were all descendants of Xuanyuan. They were our own bloodline!" Ziwei shook her head and sighed.

Hua Xu, standing to the side, also looked heartbroken, while Gou Chen couldn't help but say, "Such unworthy descendants are better left unrecognized!"

“Although Yin Shou was unworthy, Bi Gan was loyal and righteous,” Huang Long said. “Bi Gan died tragically, and it was pitiful for his wife and children.”

“Bi Gan has a son named Wei Zi De. Father, I intend to take him with me and teach him,” Zi Wei suddenly said to Shi Mo.

“Bi Gan’s son? Alright, you handle it,” Shi Mo nodded, raising an eyebrow.

His daughter Huaxu had so many descendants that it can be said that the Five Emperors of the human race, the royal family of Xia and Shang, and the Ji clan of the Western Zhou Dynasty that was about to be established were all descendants of the Yellow Emperor, of the same lineage and ancestry.

If he gets angry because of some unworthy descendants, he could be so angry that he dies!

Bi Gan's son, Wei Zi De, although not as famous as Bi Gan, later changed his name to Lin Jian and became the ancestor of the Lin family.

(End of this chapter)