"The Mohists claim to be descendants of Mozi and are renowned throughout the world for their mechanical devices. The devices in the treasury of my palace were set up by disciples of the Mohists.
"The Mo family is one of the five hidden families. The other four are the Hua family, the Medical Saint, the Sun family, the Medicine King, the Ji family, the Artifact Master, and the Zong family, the Divine Calculation Master. As the saying goes, 'Emperors come and go, but aristocratic families remain forever,' and this refers to these families with long-standing traditions.
"They live in seclusion, and their descendants don't take up official positions. However, each has their own strengths, and their family heritage is rich. Even the royal family cannot easily shake them. They can even influence the world's situation. Even if the imperial power changes and the court is turbulent, it will not affect these major families in the slightest."
While Pei Ji was telling the story, he took a juicy and bright cherry from the crystal plate on the table and fed it to Xue Huan.
The tender red lips were stained with the fragrant juice, making them look even more plump and attractive. He grabbed her lips and sucked them for a while, and found the taste extremely sweet.
This year's cherries are especially delicious.
Xue Huan was eating cherries, and was almost swallowed the pit by his surprise attack. She reached out to push his face, turned her head and coughed hard for a while, finally spitting out the cherry pit stuck in her throat.
"Pei Ji, do you want to murder me?" She glared at him angrily.
Pei Ji immediately admitted his mistake, and next time he fed her cherries, he would use an ivory pick to pick out the cherry pits.
The topic returned to the five great families. Xue Huan was most interested in the Divine Calculation Zong family. "Are the Zong family members particularly good at divination and fortune-telling?"
Pei Ji did not answer the question directly, but said: "It is said that the ancestor of the Zong family, Zong Zong, won the true teachings of Guiguzi, cultivated the great way of immortality, and has lived to this day."
Xue Huan's eyes widened. "Alive to this day? Guiguzi lived during the Warring States Period. Our ancestor inherited his true teachings. Assuming he and Guiguzi lived from the same period, wouldn't that mean he's lived for over two thousand years?"
Pei Ji: "It's just a rumor. Whether Zong Ying is still alive has always been a mystery. No one outside the Zong family knows.
"Zong Ying once predicted five things. The first was the fall of the Second Emperor of Qin. The second was that a ghost would remain in the mountains, and the He woman would rule the world. The third was that Jiangdong would be divided into three kingdoms for 300 years and would reunite with China. The fourth was that the emperor would pass through three generations, and Wu would replace Li Xing. The fifth was that the five stars would separate in the sky, and spiritual energy would awaken, bringing great fortune.
"The first four have been achieved one by one, and only the last one remains."
Anyone who knows a little history knows that Qin II would die, but this prophecy was put forward by Zong Ying many years before Qin Shi Huang unified the world. At that time, Qin was just a small and barbaric country that was excluded by other countries in the Central Plains.
At that time, Zong Ying was not yet famous, so not many people knew about this prophecy, nor was it widely spread. It was only when Qin Shihuang unified the world and his incompetent son Hu Hai destroyed the huge empire he had built, that the prophecy made many years ago was brought to light.
It was from that time that Zong Ying became famous throughout the world.
Later, he made four predictions one after another. During the Han Dynasty, he predicted that "ghosts are in the mountains, the wheat girl will bring fortune, and she will rule the world." At that time, no one understood what this prophecy meant. Until later, the Han royal family collapsed, the world was divided into three kingdoms, Cao Cao became king, and named the country "Wei".
Isn’t Wei composed of three characters “禾, 女, 鬼”?
Because of this prophecy, Zong Ying once again made his presence felt, and the name of the Zong family's fortune teller became deeply rooted in people's hearts.
The third prophecy stated that Jiangdong would remain divided for three hundred years before reuniting with China. In 589 AD, Emperor Wen of the Sui Dynasty, Yang Jian, unified China, ending the long period of division between the two Jin dynasties.
The fourth prophecy, "The emperor will pass through three generations, and Wu will replace Li Xing," tells the story that the emperor of the Tang Dynasty passed through three generations, and Wu Zetian replaced the Li royal family and became the emperor.
These four prophecies were fulfilled one by one, and Zong Ying's reputation as a fortune teller was gradually established.
This fifth prophecy has not yet come true, but because Zong Ying's previous four predictions have all come true, people have no doubt about this one, believing that its realization is only a matter of time.
It’s just that many people don’t quite understand this prophecy. They know that the five stars refer to the Morning Star, Taibai Star, Mars, Jupiter and the Town Star. Among the five stars in the sky, it should be said that these five stars appear in the sky at the same time. What does Lingqi Su refer to?
Great benefit, what is the benefit?
Others didn't understand, but Xue Huan immediately understood. The resurgence of spiritual energy—could it mean that the spiritual energy in this world would revive? Would the environment once again become favorable for practitioners?
If this is the case, then the ancestor of the clan is most likely a cultivator, and a very successful one at that!
In ancient times, spiritual energy was rich, golden elixirs were everywhere, and Nascent Souls were as numerous as dogs. It was not surprising that both golden elixir and Nascent Soul cultivators were rampant.
When a cultivator reaches the Nascent Soul stage, his lifespan can reach two thousand years!
Zong Ying has lived from the time of Guiguzi to the present. At first glance, this rumor seems very bizarre and false. How could someone live that long? Even Xue Huan was shocked at first.
But what if we think about it from the perspective of a cultivator? A cultivator at the Nascent Soul stage can live for two thousand years. Beyond that, there are several major realms: the Spiritual Transformation, the Void Refining, the Body Fusion, the Mahayana, and the Tribulation Transcendence. With each realm breakthrough, a cultivator's lifespan increases exponentially!
Not to mention two thousand years, even living for tens of thousands of years would be no problem.
Which of the big guys in the Soul Realm hadn't lived for tens of thousands of years? To them, two thousand years might just be the time to shut themselves up and sleep.
If Zong Ying is a Nascent Soul cultivator, then all this can be explained.
But if he really was a Nascent Soul cultivator, how did he survive? The higher the level of cultivation, the greater the demand for spiritual energy. Now that spiritual energy was scarce, his situation was probably like a big fish that used to live in the deep sea and was stranded.
No matter how powerful he is, without spiritual energy, he is like a fish without water, and can only watch himself destroyed step by step.
Xue Huan thought again, hadn't those powerful beings or families long ago opened up other spatial channels and hidden themselves in the spirit world? Why didn't Zong Ying go there?
Based on the premise that Zong Ying is a high-level cultivator, the Zong family must also be a cultivation family. Then what about the other families? Perhaps they are also.
The Thousand-Thread Poison that Pei Heng used to poison the emperor was obtained from Yaowang Valley, which was the business run by the Sun family. When she was detoxifying the emperor, she felt something unusual. There seemed to be a trace of spiritual energy mixed in the poison, but it was too thin, so she thought it was her illusion.
Now that I think about it, it is very likely that the Thousand-Thread Poison does contain spiritual energy, but it is very little. This poison is made from spiritual plants, which is why doctors in the secular world are helpless against it.
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