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Chapter 57: The Curse Reached its Perfection!
In the hearts of the Aryans on this continent, the names of the Sun King and the Amoy King were too glorious for all Aryans to respect and worship. This was certainly related to the great deeds of these two men, but it was also related to the fact that the second dynasty highlighted them.
The founder of the second dynasty was also a hegemon, the number one person in the world at that time, but his unification was quite unremarkable. It was only at the end of the two-thousand-year dynasty cycle of the Kingdom of the Sky and the Sun that he ended the fragmentation of the world and unified the world.
In comparison, the unification of the Sun King and the Amoy King is even more sacred and great. Needless to say, almost all of the Aryans' firsts were related to the Sun King. The Sun King was the first universal ruler of the Aryans, the beginning, and the starting point of all their glories.
King Amaya was born as if he were a savior.
Towards the end of the second dynasty, the totem spirits of the various states revived, the temples of the Aryans were destroyed, and many Aryans thought it was all over. Many Aryan princes had already packed their belongings and fled. Aryan rule was almost over on this continent. It was at this time that King Amaya appeared.
He was like a natural king bestowed upon the Aryans by the gods, just as the Sun King drove his chariot south from the Aryan plains four thousand years ago, sweeping across the totem spirits of various states on this continent and unifying the world.
Four thousand years later, the descendants of the Sun King appeared at the most critical moment and saved the Aryans from collapse.
He not only restored the Sun King's great achievements, but also restored the Aryans' rule over this continent. In his early twenties, he waged wars in the east and west, wiping out the totem spirits of the various states in the north and south. Finally, he did something unprecedented and great, completely resolving the issue of the totem spirits' resurrection.
Since King Amaya, dynasties have come and gone on this continent. To this day, there have been five covenants of kings and five dynasties, but there has never been a large-scale resurrection of totem spirits like that of the second dynasty.
Therefore, on this continent, bards sing of the glorious history of the Sun King and the Amaya King. The Sun King enabled the Yari people to unify this continent for the first time, and he was the beginning of all glory and greatness. The Amaya King enabled the Yari people to truly unify this continent, and he completely resolved the matter of the totem spirit.
This is why the two kings, Amoy and Sun, hold such a supreme position in the hearts of the Yali people.
This is why, just now, when King Ananda recounted the glorious deeds of the Sun King and King Amaya at the altar, all the soldiers were once again filled with fervor and their morale soared.
Because in this land, in the hearts of the Yarians, for the past six thousand years, all the glory and greatness were brought by the Sun King and the Amoy King.
The scene before Li Wei changed once again. Despite the adverse effects brought by the gods, the soldiers' morale soared when King Ananda invoked the names of the two great kings, the Sun King and the Amaya King.
The soldiers believed that if the Sun King had opened up a glorious beginning for the Aryans six thousand years ago, then two thousand years ago, when the Aryans were in chaos due to the thousand-year-old totem spirits, and the capital was besieged by the sun spirits, and the Aryans were almost wiped out, it was King Amaya, the descendant of the Sun King, who stepped forward.
The Aryans wanted to repay all the great things these two kings had done.
They forbade any other kings from walking on the ancient road; the kings who walked on this road should be descendants of the Sun King, and only descendants of the Sun King.
With such high morale, King Ananda led his army on the first northern expedition. He advanced with unstoppable momentum, defeating the northern coalition forces one after another. In the end, he split his army into two routes: one heading straight for the core holy site in the central region, and the other detouring through the important military town of Namuais in the northwest.
The two armies advanced with unstoppable momentum. Finally, beside the sacred river of Via, the over ninety-year-old king led 300,000 cavalry to a great victory over the lord's 400,000-strong allied army. No one knew why this old king was so strong. With the body of a three-headed Naga and at over ninety years old, he was full of vigor and defeated the young and promising lord.
When this news spread, the world was in an uproar. Everyone thought that King Ananda was going to unify the country, just like his two ancestors.
Many people were not surprised that King Ananda, despite being a three-headed Naga, possessed such formidable martial prowess. This was because he was a descendant of the Sun King and King Amaya, and was capable of anything. In the minds of people at that time, the bloodline of the Sun King had been deified.
The Aryans say that two thousand years ago, when faced with the totem spirit that had ravaged the land for a thousand years, the Aryans were helpless. In the end, when the Sun Spirit led an army of 300,000 totem soldiers to besiege the capital of the Sun Wheel Kingdom, and the Aryans were almost wiped out, the seventeen-year-old King Amaye led 3,000 cavalry to the rescue. In the end, he captured the capital with three arrows and killed the Sun Spirit with three arrows, thus reversing the Aryans' thousand-year defeat against Turing.
Therefore, the Aryans were not surprised by any achievements made by the descendants of the Sun King.
After the Battle of the Sacred River, King Ananda was filled with pride. Even if the gods did not respond, so what? He was the descendant of the Sun King and the Amaya King. His unstoppable advance in the north was due to his strong and capable army, but it was also related to the people's longing for Nagquta.
Many of the Yari princes in the northern coalition were only going through the motions, and some even secretly contacted King Ananda, talking about how their ancestors followed the Sun King and the Amaya King, and finally saying that the world should be ruled by the descendants of the Sun King, and that they would not actually send troops to help the powerful ruler in the north.
This is why the powerful ruler of the north hastily assembled his forces to fight King Ananda at the sacred Vya River. He felt isolated and sighed, "Is this the essence of the Sun King's bloodline? Even though he had done so much before, and the princes of the north seemed to have completely submitted to him, everything changed as soon as an outstanding descendant of the Sun King appeared. The princes of the northern Yali began to observe."
Therefore, he had no choice but to hastily engage in a decisive battle. He wanted to defeat King Ananda to prove to these princes that he was no less capable than the descendants of the Sun King.
Unfortunately, he was defeated, and the powerful ruler fled back to the core holy land with his hundreds of thousands of remaining troops.
King Ananda led his army north, and just as he was preparing to enter the core region and head straight for the capital of the Sun Wheel King, bad news arrived.
His minister Muhammad, who remained in the south, and his eldest son, who was also his only son, both died suddenly.
Muhammad, King Ananda's most important minister, was his outstanding strategist and possessed great administrative abilities. When King Ananda launched his northern expedition, Muhammad was also in charge of the transfer of provisions and supplies in the rear.
His eldest son, born when he was over sixty, was his only son. He was exceptionally talented, possessing the blood of a seven-headed Naga and the blood of an eight-day ancient being, a double bloodline and the blessing of two gods. His eldest son was kind and generous, with both military and political talent. This time, when he led the army on a northern expedition, he left his eldest son behind to stabilize the rear and oversee the entire country.
But both of them died suddenly.
The deaths of these two men were undoubtedly a major blow to King Anan. He seemed to have aged ten years overnight. What was worse was that without a capable minister like Muhammad, who would be in charge of the grain transport and the governance of the country after his northern expedition? And without his son, what would become of him?
The most dangerous thing is for a king to have no heir.
Moreover, King Ananda was already old; he was almost a hundred years old. For such an old man to suddenly have no heir was a fatal thing.
Moreover, considering that the gods had refused to grant King Ananda a bloodline, coupled with the sudden deaths of these two people, a sense of panic quickly spread once again.
Some unwilling southern princes secretly spread the word that this was a curse from the gods on King Ananda, and that destiny did not lie in that ancient pagoda.
Some southern princes were even abnormally bold, and like they had lost their minds, they began to rebel.
Left with no other choice, King Ananda had to withdraw his troops. The soldiers were not in a good mood, there were problems with the supplies in the rear, and some southern princes had begun to rebel. He had to go back, and this is how the old king ended his first northern expedition.
Upon his return, King Anan spent six years quelling the rebellion of the various princes of Anan. By then, he was 103 years old.
After stabilizing the south, he launched the second, third, and fourth Northern Expeditions, but none of them were very effective.
Years of warfare had exhausted the soldiers, with campaigns to quell rebellions and launch northern expeditions. More importantly, news that the Mandate of Heaven did not reside in Naguta had spread throughout the north, and the attitude of the northern Yari princes began to waver. They did not advance with the same unstoppable momentum as the first time.
At the age of 107, King Ananda looked at the desolate river and sighed. He then ordered the army to withdraw. He knew that he had been too hasty in the past few years. He had no successor and was afraid that he would not live for many more years. So he wanted to launch a northern expedition as soon as possible to unify the world. But he was too hasty and the effect was not good.
After returning, King Ananda sat alone in the desolate palace all night, lost in thought. This king, now extremely old, had no sons, no most important ministers to support him, and no one to talk to in the palace. He felt utterly alone.
"What will happen to the ancient pagoda if I die?" Old Wang asked himself this question one last time, and finally, his gaze began to re-examine.
He has experienced too many failures in his life, and he will overcome this one as well.
King Ananda began a ten-year period of saving. During this time, he did not wage a single war, but instead reduced taxes. He also ordered his soldiers to train daily. Finally, he took many concubines in preparation for having another son, as he needed to resolve the issue of succession.
The final ten years passed. The south had ample provisions, and the soldiers regained their fighting spirit. Most importantly, during those ten years, he took many concubines, most of whom were childless, but fortunately, one became pregnant and was born today.
When King Anan was 117 years old, he was even older, but his ambition was once again undiminished. After ten years of preparation, he would learn from his three previous failures and believed that he would definitely unify the north. Most importantly, he would have a child, which would solve the succession problem.
But no one expected that the concubine in the palace would indeed give birth to a child, and it was a son.
However, he was mentally challenged, and possessed only the lowest-ranking single-headed Naga bloodline of the ancient tower, not even blessed by the bloodline of the Sun God, only having the Naga bloodline.
When King Ananda learned from the court physician that the child was mentally challenged, he held the child without saying a word. He locked himself in the main hall and stared at the portraits of the Sun King and the Amaya King for a whole day and night.
Finally, after emerging from the darkness, King Ananda, this extremely shrewd and experienced king, once again drew his sword and launched the Northern Expedition.
Ten years of preparation made King Anan's northern expedition a success, marking the first time he had launched such an expedition. He advanced with unstoppable momentum and once again headed straight for the core region. However, fate played another trick on him.
Just as he was about to lead his army to besiege the capital of the Sun Wheel Kingdom, he suddenly fell into a coma, which lasted for ten days and ten nights.
The powerful ruler, having somehow learned of King Ananda's coma, led his army in a counterattack. With King Ananda unconscious and his army demoralized, they were naturally routed. The chance to unify the world was lost once again.
When King Ananda awoke, his army had already begun its withdrawal. King Ananda said nothing, only glanced back at the north, and then silently sat in his chariot and returned.
As they entered the southern border, King Ananda struggled to sit up, lifted the carriage curtain, and looked north.
That city is getting farther and farther away.
The city he had always wanted to visit was getting further and further away.
He said nothing. He just stared silently, staring...
Thus ended the Fifth Northern Expedition.
He suffered heavy losses in this northern expedition; his elite 200,000 cavalrymen were wiped out in the counterattack of that powerful ruler.
The massive loss of cavalry power made it impossible for King Ananda to unify the world. At that time, everyone thought that King Ananda was doomed. The destruction of the cavalry and his sudden ten-day coma were seen by everyone as a warning from the gods.
But no one expected that just five years later, when King Ananda was 123 years old, he launched his sixth northern expedition. This was King Ananda's desperate gamble, because he knew that if he died, Nagut would be finished. Once he died, his mentally challenged successor would be unable to control the situation, so he had to solve the problem before he died.
He could feel himself growing old day by day, so at the age of 123, when he was short of cavalry and supplies, he resolutely led 100,000 cavalry, 300,000 infantry, and troops from various ethnic groups and vassals to begin his sixth and final Northern Expedition.
Before setting off, he held his mentally challenged son in his arms all night, showing him the portraits of the Sun King and the Amaya King on the wall. At that moment, King Ananda was very kind. He said to his son in his arms, "Your older brother is very smart, unlike you." As he said this, King Ananda smiled and kissed his son's forehead.
King Ananda held his son on his lap, pointed to the two portraits on the wall, and said again and again:
"This is the Sun King...this is King Amoya..."
"They are from our ancient pagoda...they are our ancestors..."
"You are a descendant of that ancient pagoda... You must remember them..."
The child, of course, couldn't understand. He just smiled foolishly, drooling all over King Ananda's sleeve.
King Ananda didn't wipe him; he just held him and gently rocked him, like any ordinary father.
Finally, at dawn, King Amaya handed his son over to his trusted minister, coldly saying that if he did not return, his son should be killed.
The minister was startled when he heard this. King Ananda simply said that ordinary people could kneel before other kings, but he absolutely could not.
Because he is a king, even if he is a king who has not yet ascended the throne, a king with a mental disability, he was born with the burden of glory. If he cannot bear the glory, then he can only die.
With that, King Ananda began his final northern expedition without looking back.
The process of this Northern Expedition was unexpected, and the result was also unexpected.
No one knows how King Ananda, with insufficient cavalry and provisions, managed to reach the capital of the Sun Wheel King, and even almost breached it.
Just as no one knows why, on the eve of dawn, the day before the conquest of the capital of the Sun Wheel Kingdom, on the eve of the resurgence of the ancient pagoda, King Ananda died in his tent.
It was in a camp where the generals were laughing loudly because the news of the siege was going very well. They would be able to break through the capital of the Sun Wheel Kingdom by tomorrow. They looked at the old figure in front of them with admiration. King Ananda, an unbelievable king, was about to break through the capital of the Sun Wheel Kingdom in such a desperate situation.
King Ananda also breathed a sigh of relief. He looked at the portraits of the Sun King and King Amaya hanging in the tent. He thought of the grand vow he made more than fifty years ago when he was sixty years old. Now, it was about to be fulfilled. He had not disappointed the Sun King and King Amaya.
At that moment, he thought of many things, of the white feather flowers that would be blown by the wind on the city wall tomorrow, of...
Of course, what King Ananda was thinking about most at this moment was not climbing the walls of the capital of the Sun Wheel Kingdom tomorrow to announce to the whole world that the ancient Tathagata Dynasty had risen again, but rather his mentally challenged son.
"I don't have to die." King Ananda smiled. He had won, he had won everything. But at that very moment, the wine cup in his hand suddenly fell from his grasp. King Ananda felt all the strength draining from his body. He collapsed to the ground with a thud. The generals cried out in alarm. In his last moments before dying, King Ananda silently gazed at the portraits of the Sun King and the Amaya King.
With his last ounce of strength, he turned his eyes and looked at the two portraits.
The Sun King stands on the left, still as majestic as ever, driving his golden chariot and looking down upon all living beings.
King Amaya is on the right, still so young, with a bow drawn and an arrow nocked, a confident smile unique to youth on his face.
He looked at them, his lips moving slightly.
No one heard what he said, and no one knew what he was thinking at that moment. All that was known was that before he died, after King Amaya closed his eyes, a tear rolled down his cheek.
"King Ananda's Cry, Third Form: King Ananda's Curse!"
With this scene, the incomplete martial arts seed in Li Wei's dantian was completely restored. At this moment, Li Wei mastered the first skill of the Earth Mother and watched the scene end in silence.
For him, it was a chance to review the life of King Ananda and learn a great martial art.
"King Ananda's Curse." Li Wei flicked his finger forward, and a wisp of black mist drifted out from between his fingers. This was King Ananda's Curse, a cursed martial art, and it was even somewhat magical.
Once activated, the enemy will be afflicted with various negative influences, and can even cause the sudden death of their loved ones by taking their heart's blood in conjunction with this curse.
This martial art is so insidious, and it's completely inexplicable. Li Wei thought of the various curses that King Ananda suffered in the latter half of his life. Who was using such a vicious technique against him?
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