Chapter 202 All Mortals Will Die 24
Mo Zhixian was stunned and looked back and forth between the stone statue and Jiang Yuelu.
"You still say you have no relationship with the Jiang family? Your ancestor looks exactly like you!"
Jiang Yuelu's mood was very complicated.
His mind was in a mess right now. Mo Zhixian kept asking him questions, and he didn't know how to answer. He closed his eyes, unable to bear it any longer, and said, "Stop talking."
Mo Zhixian shut up.
He could see that Jiang Yuelu was not someone that was easy to mess with.
Jiang Yuelu felt better after the surroundings became quiet. He stopped looking at the stone statue that had shaken his mind and came to the front of the statue, wiped the dust off the stone tablet, and wanted to take a closer look at this old story.
But the stone tablet was clean, without a trace of dust.
Was it done by Mo Zhixian?
Jiang Yuelu thought in a daze.
This stone tablet records a story about the Jiang family's prosperity.
It turns out that a long time ago, the Jiang family did not have a smooth start, and they also went through an embarrassing period of being weak and alone. At that time, wizard families valued talent the most.
The connection between heaven and man and communication with gods were extremely important at that time.
Unfortunately, the Jiang family has not had any powerful figures for a long time. Even if there were, they were only short-lived and died at a very young age, without making any great contribution to the family.
This situation lasted for a long time until the three Jiang brothers appeared.
Coincidentally, when these three brothers were born, their parents had high hopes for them and named them "Sun, Moon, and Stars". The eldest was named Sun, the second was named Moon, and the third was named Star. All three names carry celestial phenomena with extraordinary meanings.
At that time, few people dared to give their children such a name, for fear that the fate could not control it.
There are even fewer among wizards, and they attach great importance to this.
But the parents seemed to have blind confidence in their children, and they named them before they saw their talents. Later, as their parents expected, they got the best synaesthesia and became outstanding people of their generation.
After the three brothers grew up, they took over the Jiang family. The family quickly prospered in their hands and became the largest wizard family at the time. Its influence should not be underestimated.
That was the strongest the Jiang family had ever been since its birth.
Interestingly enough, the personalities of these three brothers are very different.
The eldest brother has the most amazing talent. Just as his name contains the word "日", he is the shining sun itself, dazzling wherever he goes.
He has a sense of family responsibility that his other two brothers don't have, and many important things are accomplished by him. The eldest brother himself is also extremely hateful of evil, and the number of ghosts who have died in his hands over the years is at least 800, if not a thousand. The gates of hell and the underworld road will tremble with fear when hearing his name.
As the saying goes, under the scorching sun, no ghost can survive.
But his younger brother, the senior with the character "Yue", has a completely different personality.
He is always smiling wherever he goes, and never solves problems directly like his elder brother.
For example, if they encounter a vicious ghost that harms everyone, the eldest brother will kill it with a talisman knife burned by sunlight, kill it cleanly and neatly, and then hang it on the city wall to warn everyone, which is quite like the style of the head of the family.
Then what this second brother did was extremely sinister.
He would collect all the evidence of the evil deeds of the evil spirit, and use the same methods to harm people in the past. He would patiently torture it for thousands of days and even hundreds of days. Some of the punishments he used on it were seen in ancient books, while others were unheard of and were created by him out of interest.
This second brother has learned the skill of torturing people without any instruction.
Just like the cold moonlight, it shines coldly on the world.
As for the youngest brother...I'm afraid he would just do nothing.
Under the protection of his two world-renowned genius brothers, he lived a carefree life and never had any troubles. Just like the stars twinkling in the night sky, they were shining like a blink of an eye, quite eccentric, coming and going like the wind.
The three brothers were very harmonious and there had never been any dirtiness or fighting. Under their leadership, the Jiang family naturally became the most shining existence among the wizard families.
At that time, someone once sighed: "Even if the Jiang family declines in the future, their name will definitely be recorded in the history books of wizards, because the Jiang family is already more powerful than any wizard family in the past."
“That’s not right.”
As he was watching, Mo Zhixian next to him suddenly said something.
"The head of this family is obviously the eldest son, so why are the second son placed in the middle of these three stone statues?"
Jiang Yuelu looked at the names under the stone statue. The three brothers were arranged in the order of "Sun", "Moon" and "Star". The eldest brother and the third brother were on the side, and in the middle was the vicious second brother.
Jiang Yuelu thought about it, "Maybe it's to follow the name 'Sun, Moon and Star'? Sun, Moon and Star are much more pronounceable than Moon, Sun and Star."
Mo Zhixian shook his head, "You don't understand how we wizards do things. We would rather listen to the rules than listen to them, especially the big families in the past. Although the four major families in the academy now do not value the order of seniority as much as before, there is absolutely no reason to put the head of the family aside and let the younger brother stand in the middle."
If you make statues like this, you will definitely be arrested and punished.
"Unless..." Mo Zhixian hesitated, "Unless the head of the family is not the eldest brother."
They guessed and guessed but got no result. They finished reading the whole stone tablet. The story ended abruptly at "The Jiang Family Prospered". Jiang Yuelu did not get the answer from it and felt a little confused.
Standing there in a daze, he looked at the stone tablet, and the stone tablet looked at him.
Suddenly, he hummed in confusion.
Mo Zhixian was originally looking at the three stone statues. When he heard the voice, he turned around and saw Jiang Yuelu staring blankly. Suddenly, he took a few steps and walked around to the side and back of the stone tablet. Then his eyes lit up and he waved at him, "Come and take a look."
"What's wrong?"
"There is something strange about this stone tablet."
Jiang Yuelu pointed at the stone tablet. When he turned it sideways, the light refracted strangely on the surface, and lines of words appeared. Mo Zhixian was surprised and happy.
He was happy that his investigation could be more comprehensive, but he was surprised that he had gone in and out here several times without noticing it, but Jiang Yuelu noticed it as soon as he arrived.
"How did you know to look sideways?" he asked.
Jiang Yuelu shook her head, a bewildered look in her eyes, "I don't know either, I just did it naturally."
The words fell in the lonely cemetery. There was no sound except the rustling sound of yellow leaves dying and crushing. The world was extremely quiet. This silence made the two of them feel some kind of mystery, as if there was an invisible giant hand behind them pushing everything forward, and they could not stop it.
Jiang Yuelu no longer thought about anything else and said, "Let's take a look first."
These newly emerged words make up for the ending of the story just now.
But as he watched, Jiang Yuelu frowned, his heart shaken.
It turned out that since the Jiang family became prosperous, they moved from a remote place to the bustling and crowded Central Plains.
Before this, the Jiang family had always lived quietly in a remote area in the mountains and rarely went out.
Some people say that this is a tradition left over from ancient times. At that time, the messengers of God were divided into four families. The other three families stayed in the Central Plains, but the Jiang family followed the oracle and went to the sparsely populated mountains, where they settled down for hundreds of years.
The Central Plains is a place of outstanding people and beautiful scenery, and the other three families took advantage of the situation and soon prospered.
But the Jiang family has remained silent, and no one knows what they have been doing over the years.
So when they moved to the Central Plains, it shocked other families.
But no matter what, the Jiang family are the survivors of the ancient times, and because the strength of the three brothers should not be underestimated, the other families in the Central Plains still want to establish a long-term friendship with the Jiang family.
They attached great importance to the initial communication, and the heads of several families went there in person.
Those who were unable to go due to other matters also sent the most capable wizard in the tribe to express their greetings on their behalf.
This was originally a good thing, but the subsequent development was unexpected.
These family heads have been in the Central Plains for a long time and have long been praised to the skies. At first they wanted to put on airs, but who knew that they would run into a thorn in the side of the Jiang family's eldest brother.
Perhaps because he has been in the mountains for a long time and is not good at these social skills, the Jiang family boss's emotional intelligence in this regard is shockingly low. He often speaks directly and doesn't even know when he has offended someone.
In addition, he and his two younger brothers never avoided the spotlight and acted as they pleased to the extreme, so gradually some people began to envy them.
You have to know that in the Central Plains at that time, there were very few families with such amazing talents as the three brothers. It was amazing to have one in a family, but the Jiang family actually had three.
Thinking about how the Jiang family came to prominence within a few years after these three brothers took over the family, the heads of various families all had a sense of crisis.
However, these alone are not enough for all the families to isolate the Jiang family.
The disaster originated from a rumor.
"gate of hell?"
Jiang Yuelu was immersed in the past events that happened a hundred years ago when Mo Zhixian suddenly spoke, startling him.
Mo Zhixian was also quietly looking at the words, and he didn't say anything until he saw a familiar word, "Gate of Hell."
It is said that Ghost Festival is the day when ghosts open their gates once a year.
In a year, only on that day can the ghosts come out.
"I have always wondered about one thing. Is it possible that the Gate of Hell is divided into the inner and outer parts? The inner part is the territory of humans, while the outer part is the territory of ghosts?"
Outside the Great Wall was just like the den of ghosts that Jiang Yuelu was familiar with.
The ghost den is the territory of ghosts.
Even if a wizard wants to go in to exorcise demons, he has to consider whether he is qualified enough to enter the alien territory alone.
Jiang Yuelu had heard from Dean Kong that the power of ghosts and witches had waxed and waned throughout history, and witches had always completely suppressed the ghosts. It was after the Ghost Festival incident that year that life and death were turned upside down, and the vitality of the human world could no longer suppress the ghost energy, and the scope of the academy was repeatedly reduced.
Now, the Jiang family’s tombstone mentions the Gate of Hell.
Is there a connection between the two?
"The Jiang family is guarding the gates of hell?" Mo Zhixian's face changed drastically when he saw this.
The attitudes of the Central Plains families towards the Jiang family changed completely because they heard this rumor.
If you think about it carefully, it does make sense.
Otherwise, why did the Jiang family stay in the mountains for hundreds of years without any complaints?
It is impossible for a person to do things that are not good for himself. They have been developing in the Central Plains for a hundred years. Isn't the Jiang family jealous?
In the past, they wondered why the Jiang family could sit still, but now it seems that it is because the gods had already given them more important authority - they had actually put the key to the gates of hell into their hands.
"If we really have this key, then the gates of hell will not be opened only once a year, but will entirely depend on the Jiang family." Mo Zhixian's face gradually became serious.
"For other families, this would undoubtedly mean their lives are firmly in the hands of the Jiang family. How could they be willing to do that?"
The subsequent story on the stele is consistent with Mo Zhixian's guess.
All the families started clamoring for the Jiang family to hand over the ghost gate.
One family said that Ghost Gate was so important that it could not be governed by one family. If the Jiang family had a different mind or was not capable enough, and they were not careful enough to keep an eye on it, Ghost Gate would open and ghosts would come out, and that would be the time when all the people would suffer.
Another family said that the Gate of Hell should be guarded by four families in turn, and only when the power of the four wizards is gathered together can people feel at ease.
They seemed to have completely forgotten that in the past few hundred years, the Gate of Hell had been safe and sound, and the things they worried about, such as ghosts coming out of the gate and causing great suffering to the people, had never happened.
There was a hint of sarcasm in Jiang Yuelu's eyes.
Is it really for the benefit of all people in the world?
That's not necessarily the case.
The reason they were making such a fuss was not necessarily because they were afraid that the Jiang family would threaten them with the key. The reason they were attacking so vigorously was probably just because the key was not in their hands.
Either none or both.
If one person has it, no one else has it.
Will give rise to disloyalty.
That's human nature.
The Jiang family is already feared by others, and this kind of rumor will undoubtedly add fuel to the fire. Jiang Yuelu doesn't need to read on to know that the final outcome will definitely not be good.
But he never expected that human hearts could be so dirty and terrible, and that the Jiang family's ending could be so tragic.
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