Chapter 149 Promise

There were signs of human habitation and activities in every corner of the Zhou family's mansion, but the room in front of him not only had no signs of life, there wasn't even a single flower or tree around it. The two tightly closed doors were made of pure wood, without any signs of weathering. Instead, it was clean and tidy, looking like just an ordinary room.

However, in Jiang Wu's eyes, this room was shrouded in a huge formation, and this formation came from the huge talisman on the two closed doors.

The talisman was written with innate energy, with the Three Pure Ones on top of the door and the Three Star Gods below it. The secret word "imperial command" ran across the center of the door, and the foot of the talisman faintly revealed a murderous aura. It was originally an ordinary command to ward off evil spirits, but because it was written with innate energy, this talisman became a powerful weapon to suppress great evil spirits.

If Zhou Yannan had issued this suppression order in Ziyuan back then, Han Zhong would probably have fallen into a deep sleep on the spot and died of old age.

Jiang Wu was not interested in the spells and methods of the hundreds of Taoist schools. The only thing he knew was about Taoism, which he learned from Zhou Gongming's boasting after drinking. The same was true for this suppression order.

During the Yuanshen Year of the Great Zhou Dynasty, people were living in poverty and wars were frequent. Various evil spirits in the world caused natural disasters due to man-made disasters. As a descendant of Taoism, Duke Zhou often encountered these evil spirits when traveling. The most terrifying one caused an earthquake, which almost buried the people of the city alive.

At that time, Zhou Gongming used this spell to suppress the evil creature. When Jiang Wu followed the army to provide disaster relief, Zhou Gongming boasted to him about every detail for a whole night.

Until the first ray of light appeared in the sky the next day, covering the land, his friend seemed to have lost interest in bragging. He just looked at the desolate ruins of the city in front of him and said, "The spell can suppress evil spirits, but it can't suppress people's hearts, nor can it suppress the dying destiny of a country."

At that time, Yan Zhong had not yet ascended the throne, he was just an idle prince. Although Jiang Wu promised to help him ascend the throne, he did not care about the country and the people. If Yan Zhong was willing, he could even bear the punishment of heaven and kill all the Yanzhou royal family except Yan Zhong, so that Yan Zhong could succeed to the throne smoothly, as long as Yan Zhong gave him that answer, even at the last moment when his soul dissipated.

He originally thought that Zhou Gong's fate was the same as his own, but then he suddenly realized that it was not the case.

In his view, all living things are like plants and trees, coming and going. Since they all have a death date, why should we care about how they die? As long as this world does not die, the world will naturally continue to produce life, and there is no need to force it.

Zhou Gongming suddenly laughed when he heard what he said, and asked him, "You like a flower, so you will naturally feel sad when it withers. If thousands of identical flowers bloom in the future, will you still like that one?"

"Similarly, even if the world is prosperous again thousands of years later, what does it have to do with the people now?"

"Brother, you and I both live in the present."

Jiang Wu knew what he meant, but he never lived in the present, but lived in the unknown ending.

However, at this moment, even though he knew that if the evil-suppressing talisman reappeared in the world, there would be no more Zhou Gong life in the world, he still had a little delusion because of the familiar spirit breath he just sensed -

What if Duke Zhou was not dead? What if he, like Yan Chong, was reincarnated in this era through some unknown method?

He could even teach him how to use high-tech products, just like Zhou Gongming taught him swordsmanship, and tell him that he no longer needed to worry about whether the legendary swordsmanship existed or not, because now there were airplanes.

He slowly stretched out his hand towards the door in front of him, with powerful spiritual power entwined around his fingertips, causing the luck above this area to surge silently. The wind that rose from the sky quietly swept across the entire house, like an invisible net covering it.

The next moment, a long sword pressed against his back, and a familiar, careless voice rang out, "Stop."

Jiang Wuwei glanced to the side. He had been looking for Zhou Yannan all the way but couldn't find him, but in the end, the man came to him on his own initiative. However, he had another urgent matter to do right now.

"What's in it?"

"Dead things, miscellaneous things, but outsiders are not allowed to enter. Do you understand?"

Jiang Wu nodded thoughtfully, then suddenly put his fingers together to form a sword, raised his hand and chopped towards the closed door in front of him!

The evil-suppressing talisman drawn by the Xiantian Qi was instantly smashed to pieces, and a powerful evil spirit instantly leaked out from the house, instantly covering most of the Zhou family compound. The flowers and trees along the way drooped their leaves silently, and large camellia flowers fell to the ground.

Despite the powerful evil spirit, Jiang Wu was unaffected and jumped into the house.

Zhou Yannan's pupils trembled, and he immediately chased after him, then quickly closed the door, bit his fingertip and drew a talisman, which barely prevented the evil spirit in the house from leaking out.

At the same time, Jiang Wu rushed into the room and stared blankly at the rows and rows of memorial tablets in front of him. His calm eyes rarely showed a trace of fluctuation.

The front hall of this room was filled with memorial tablets, roughly counting hundreds of them, with different names on them, but all with the surname Zhou. There was only one memorial tablet at the front, and to his surprise, it was not the name of Zhou Gongming, but what surprised him even more was that he had seen this name before.

Zhou Hongyi.

He remembered that he had met a young man named Zhou Hongyi in his past. He was extremely gifted and possessed innate qi. He was impressed by his talent at first sight and gave him the Taoist secrets left by Zhou Gongming. He also made him the Heavenly Master of Zetian Mansion in the Great Zhou Dynasty, conferred him the rank of a first-class general, and made him the leader of all the Taoist sects in the world.

At that time, he just thought it was a coincidence and felt that he was lucky. Not long after Zhou Gongming's death, he met another Taoist genius with innate qi. Now it seems that it was not a coincidence.

"Who is he?" Jiang Wu pointed to the memorial tablet in the front.

"He is the grandson of Duke Zhou and the ancestor of this branch of the Zhou family. He was also the first Heavenly Master of Zetian Prefecture appointed by you."

"...He didn't tell me." Jiang Wu said bewilderedly, "He said he was an orphan."

"He is indeed an orphan." Zhou Yannan walked up to him with a sword on his back, "Because his parents and relatives all died in the Jiayou Rebellion in the eighth year of Yuanying, and the whole family was massacred. He was the only one who escaped death."

In the eighth year of Yuanying, the Jiayou Rebellion occurred.

Jiang Wu's eyes trembled slightly, and his memory went back to the ninth year after Yan Chong's death. At that time, five years had passed since he shot an arrow through Gou Ye's jade ring in the court and complained to Zhou Gongming and drank with him in Qiongshan. Yan Cong, together with his relatives and the general who was in charge of the state at that time, brought fifty Xuanmen monks and ten thousand soldiers to surround the entire Wujiang Palace, and used the Xuanmen secret method to seriously injure him and trapped him in Zhaixing Tower.

He was trapped in the Zhaixing Tower for seven days before he came out and killed fifty Xuanmen monks, rebel leaders and ten thousand others on the spot. However, he soon received news that when he was besieged seven days ago, Yan Cong had sent people with troops to Qiongshan and slaughtered the entire Shenxiao Sect. Zhou Gongming was intercepted and killed outside the imperial city of Xiangdu.

When Jiang Wu heard the location, he understood that Zhou Gongming was planning to rescue him, but he didn't expect that everything had already been planned.

At that moment, he suddenly remembered the promise he had made to Zhou Gongming on Mount Qiong. He had said it so easily, but he had not expected to break the promise and not even be able to see him off for the last time.

That was the second time since Yan Zhong's death that he realized that promises sometimes did not go as planned, just like the affairs of the world.