Mr. Tian did not hesitate. For him, there was no room for hesitation at this point and asked, "What should I do if I want to become a disciple of Laojun?"

"There is Laojun Mountain in Jianghuai, which is the temple where Laojun came to the world. According to the rules, the introductory disciples naturally have to receive the introductory ceremony at Laojun Temple." General Jin said: "It's just that the situation is special, so the introductory ceremony is held here for you. When the time comes, you will naturally take you to Laojun Mountain for the exact blood sacrifice!"

"Laojun Mountain? Blood Sacrifice?" Tian Hou was stunned. He had not heard of any Laojun Mountain on the Jianghuai Road. However, the territory of the Great Qin Dynasty was vast and thousands of mountains and rivers. Perhaps this Laojun Mountain was just not famous in the past, which did not mean that it did not have this mountain.

However, hearing General Jin's words, Tian Hou couldn't help but wonder, was God in Laojun Mountain, which was the heart of Tianmendao? The blood sacrifice that General Jin mentioned was not what happened.

I saw General Jin take out a scroll from his arms, slowly open it, hold it with both hands, take it back two steps, and leaning across his chest. Tian Hou saw through the light that there was a gossip on the scroll.

However, this Bagua diagram is a bit different from the ordinary Bagua diagram. The lines seem to be outlined with a red pen. It is as red as snow. Which Bagua diagram is in the center? There are some strange patterns at the edges and corners of the scroll, and there are dozens of patterns. These patterns are small and simple, and the patterns themselves are nothing special. However, the small icons of this secret pattern are covered with the corners of the scroll, which makes people feel a little strange.

"The Eight Trigrams come from the Book of Changes. The Eight Trigrams of Fuxi's Eight Trigrams are predicted by the Eight Trigrams. The Eight Trigrams of Later Zhou Wenwang deduced them and created sixty-four hexagrams...!" General Jin looked solemn, "Sixty-four disciples correspond to sixty-four hexagrams. Qian hexagrams belong to metal, Li hexagrams belong to fire, Zhen hexagrams, Xun hexagrams belong to wood, Kan hexagrams belong to water, Gen hexagrams, Kun hexagrams belong to earth. The sixty-four disciples are all distributed among the sixty-four disciples. Each of them has disciples affiliated with the five elements, the Sun General and the Yue general, who are the only two who are not among the five elements. They belong to the left and right generals of the Heavenly King, and the other sixty-two people are the heads of the Five Elements General, and are divided into five gates, so the true core of the Heavenly King's Dao is the Six Path Five Gates."

"Six Paths and Five Gates?" Tian Hou heard a little vaguely, but he could understand it clearly.

General Jin explained: "Original general belongs to the Jinxing, so the disciples of Qiangua and Duihe are all subordinates of the general. Each disciple has eight people, but the Sun and Moon General are excluded, so there are only seven people in Qiangua and Kungua. The seven people of Qiangua are originally the leader of Qiangua, so the name of the hexagram in Taoism is called Qian is heaven, and the eight people of Duihe is two hexagrams, fifteen people, so the disciples of Laojun who are commanded by this general are actually fourteen people!"

Mr. Tian understood, "Although there are hundreds of thousands of disciples in Tianmen Dao, there are only sixty-four real Laojun disciples, and they are the commanders of the Five Elements Generals!"

General Jin nodded, "Except for the sun and moon, the remaining sixty-four people, each Laojun disciple, has a hexagram name in the Taoist sect. I said that before King Wen, there were Fuxi Eight Trigrams. Fuxi Eight Trigrams refer to the eight states in the world, Qian is the sky, Dui is the Ze, Li is the fire, Zhen is the thunder, Xun is the wind, Kan is the water, Gen is the mountain, and Kun is the sky. The sixty-four hexagrams are changeable and impermanent, and they are combined together, so there are a total of sixty-four hexagram names." After a pause, he said: "Now the introductory ritual is carried out. After the ceremony is completed, you can get the hexagram name given by the general and officially become a disciple of my Taoist sect!" He said in a deep voice: "After entering the Taoist sect, don't kneel down!"

Hou Tian did not hesitate. He felt like a mirror in his heart. Not to mention that he had no other way, even if there were other ways, General Jin had told him the secrets of the core of the Tianmen Dao, then he had no other way except entering the Taoist sect.

Mr. Tian knelt at General Jin's feet. General Jin looked very satisfied. He stared at Mr. Tian and recited an extremely strange spell. At least in Mr. Tian's eyes, it was a spell, just like a Taoist priest chanting scriptures. He really couldn't understand any of them. The King of Han was just standing quietly aside without saying a word. After a long time, General Jin stopped the man who felt a little tired and ordered in an imperative tone: "Cut your chest and offer your blood to me!"

Tian Hou was stunned, and the King of Han finally explained lightly from the side: "Cutting a hole opens, and the entry ceremony requires blood to be presented to the general!"

Tian Hou pulled open his clothes, and the King of Han had already thrown a dagger beside Tian Hou. Tian Hou picked it up, without hesitation, cut a hole in his chest that was neither deep nor shallow, and blood immediately flowed out.

General Jin sent another spell, then slowly rolled up the Bagua scroll, put it in his arms, walked to Tian Hou, and stretched out a hand. Tian Hou saw that in the palm of General Jin, there was a golden pill.

"This is the golden elixir of immortality. Take the golden egg. From now on, I will be the disciple of Laojun." General Jin said slowly.

Tian Hou was stunned for a moment and did not reach out to get it immediately, and General Jin did not withdraw his hand.

Of course, Tian Hou knew that the so-called immortal golden elixir has a beautiful name, but it is definitely not a good thing. Perhaps after taking this golden elixir, he would be completely controlled by General Jin.

Blood sacrifice, golden elixir, and these two links in the ceremony alone, Tian Hou felt that this Heavenly Way was not a good deal.

After hesitating for a moment, Tian Hou, who had no choice, finally reached out and picked up the Golden Pill of Eternal Life from General Jin's palm. Although he knew that taking the Golden Pill might always be controlled by the Tianmen Dao, compared to his dark future after he was not convinced by the Jinmen Dao, perhaps following the Tianmen Dao would make him get more in the future.

He put the golden elixir in his mouth and swallowed it into his stomach. General Jin stretched out a hand and pressed it on Tian Hou's head, and slowly said: "From now on, you will be a disciple of Laojun, belonging to the Dui hexagram of the Jinmen. From now on, your hexagram in the Dao Sect is called Lei Zeguimei!"

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Fuhai Road and Zhangzhou City, the gates are closed and dust is everywhere.

Fuhaidao is located in the east of the empire, adjacent to Liaodong in the north and Hebei in the west. It has three prefectures under its jurisdiction. Most of them are plains and are beautiful places. Because it is located on the coast, it has built a seaport for a long time. Many merchants even went to Nanyang to do business, so the people of Fuhaidao are born with a sense of condescending heights in their hearts.

People in the Gyeonggi viewed people from other parts of the empire as rural local buns, and believed that Gyeonggi was the center of the empire. The talents here really belonged to a well-informed group, and were not comparable to those rural local buns.

But in the eyes of the people of Fuhai, even the people in the capital looked down upon.

Because many ports on Fuhai Road were once a large mouth of trade with the South China Sea, not only were merchants going abroad, but also merchants from Nanyang came to the Central Plains, and the landing place was in Fuhai.

Fuhaidao is not only an important source of supply of imperial sea salt, but also an important transit station for foreign goods.

For a long time, the trade in the Central Plains was mainly in the west and south, and the western region was mainly in the Western Regions. The northwest was used as a transit station. The former northwest merchants grew into powerful merchant groups in the Central Plains through Western trade. They once competed with the merchants in Jiangnan within the Pass. However, later the rise of the Western Liang Dynasty and the trade route to the west was cut off, so the Western Front trade became the past clouds.

In addition to the west, another source of trade in the Central Plains is trade with the Nanyang.

The trade with Nanyang originated during the Great Wu Empire.

At the end of the Han Dynasty, the Three Kingdoms fought for hegemony, and finally the Eastern Wu unified the world and established the Great Wu Empire. The Wu navy played a huge role in the road to building the country. In the late stage of the battle for hegemony, the navy army formed a powerful force, which was accompanied by the rise and fall of the entire Great Wu Empire.

In the middle of the Great Wu Empire, it was the most prosperous time. The empire had a huge naval army in the East China Sea and the South China Sea. The world was peaceful, so there was a memorandum that the navy army cost a huge amount, and the treasury would cost one army fee every year to two naval armies. Therefore, it was recommended that the court cut the naval army and reduce the pressure on the treasury.

The navy, of course, strongly opposed this, but in the absence of war, maintaining a large navy for a long time did put a lot of pressure on the empire. At the beginning, the navy could only use the reason that there were pirates at sea to harass the sea front and repeatedly postponed the proposal to withdraw the naval forces, and the navy did take military action to go out to sea to wipe out the pirates.

However, the Emperor of Wu obviously felt that it was imperative to compress the naval army. If there was no strong reason, the naval army's layoff was imperative. At this time, the Navy of the South China Sea lost its way at sea in order to pursue pirates and accidentally entered the territory of the countries in the South China Sea by chance. The countries of the South China Sea could not bear the suffering of pirates. With the help of the locals, the Navy of the South China Sea carefully designed and wiped out several pirates who had harassed the South China Sea for many years. When he returned to the Wu State, he brought back a large number of specialties in the South China Sea.

It was also because of this accident that the Great Wu Empire discovered the existence of the South China Kingdom, which became a life-saving straw for the Wu Navy. Since then, the Navy continued to retain it, but it was not used for war, but used the Navy as officials and businessmen to trade with the South China Ocean. Therefore, the South Line trade in the Central Plains actually started with the Navy. When the Wu Kingdom was replaced by the Dahua Empire, in order to stabilize the situation, the Dahua Empire issued a sea opening order, allowing the Central Plains merchants to trade with the South China Ocean themselves, and the focus of the trade was on Fuhai Road.

During the Dahua period, both the Western Front and the Southern Front were very prosperous. Even though the Western Liang Dynasty rose later and the Western Front trade route was blocked, the trade between the Chinese and South China Sea was in full swing. It was not until the Chinese and the Chinese were in civil turmoil, the world fell apart, and the heroes competed for hegemony. The trade with the South China Sea was interrupted for a while. It was not until the establishment of the Great Qin Empire that the Nanyang Sea Road was reopened, but it was still too far from the grand scene of the previous dynasty.

Because of the trade between sea salt and Nanyang, Fuhai Road became one of the extremely rich areas of the empire. The Tianmen Road Rebellion, the two roads of the Jianghuai and Donghai were blocked, and sea salt could not be supplied to Guanzhong area, so Fuhai Road became the only area to supply salt to the Central Plains. However, the Qingtian King Rebellion of Hebei Road, the sea salt land route of Fuhai was cut off, and the sea salt of Fuhai could only be transported from the sea. The Qingtian Rebel Army had actually entered the territory of Fuhai Road and seized the South China Sea Navy. Although the South China Sea Navy did not allow warships to fall into the hands of the rebels and burned them, it was still snatched by the Qingtian Rebel Army. The number was small, but it also cruised on the sea, posing a great threat to the sea salt route.

Fuhai Road has three prefectures under its jurisdiction. Zhangzhou is located in the west of Fuhai, bordering Hebei Road. When Han Santong and Qingtianwang were fighting on Hebei Road, Fuhai Road had already deployed defenses in Zhangzhou.

Han Santong suffered consecutive defeats, and the entire Hebei had fallen into the hands of the King of Blue Heaven. Han Santong had no choice but to lead the remaining troops to retreat to Fuhai and temporarily entered Zhangzhou City.

Han Santong originally wanted to use the defense of Zhangzhou City to block the attack of the Qingtian King first, and then wait for the reinforcements from the court to counterattack the Qingtian Rebel Army. However, now there are almost all the people of the Qingtian King on the Zhangzhou plain. The six counties of Zhangzhou and many cities have fallen into the hands of the Qingtian King. Zhangzhou City is already the last fortress in Zhangzhou.

Before the Qingtian Rebel Army entered Fuhai, Zhangzhou became the center to establish a solid defensive position. Although Zhangzhou City is located on a plain, it is a rare mountain on the plain. Although Mount Ami is not high, it is also considered a rear barrier. The entire Zhangzhou City is easy to defend and difficult to attack.

This is the last bone in Zhangzhou. In the eyes of the Qingtian Rebel Army, as long as this bone is gnawed, the morale of the entire Fuhai Road will collapse. It won’t take long before the Qingtian Army will sweep across the entire Fuhai Road.

The Qingtian Army gathered heavy troops, obviously to take down Zhangzhou City at all costs, as if it was intentional. On the first day of the Lunar New Year, it began to appear on the Zhangzhou Plain and launch a fierce attack on Zhangzhou City. If Han Santong had not been prepared for it, he would have been caught off guard.

Although he was a defeated general, Han Santong obviously wanted to regain his dignity in Zhangzhou and commanded himself on the city wall. For three consecutive days, the Qingtian Army fought to the death, and continued, and the Zhangzhou defenders also vowed to defend to the death.

Under the sunshine, the flag is clear and the armor is shining, but everyone's heart is covered with dark clouds.

On the city tower, Qin soldiers stared at the Qingtian rebels under the city with a serious expression, but they couldn't help but feel a little scared in their hearts.

The Qingtian soldiers were numerous, and most of them were untrained people. As soon as the Qingtian King showed off his flag, a large group of mud legs followed behind and waved the flag to rebel.

These Blue Sky soldiers did not even have unified weapons and clothing, and many of them were even dressed in rags. At first glance, they looked like a group of mobs, but under the leadership of the Blue Sky King, this group of mobs wiped out the entire Hebei Road, and defeated the Zuotun Guard General Han Santong step by step, and finally retreated to Zhangzhou, Fuhai Road.

The Qingtian Army attacked Zhangzhou City for three days. During these three days, the Qingtian Army suffered numerous casualties, but continued to go on like moths to the flames. This exhausted the officers and soldiers guarding the city and even felt chill.

The moat had been filled with corpses and was piled up very high. The corpses could not be cleared. The Qingtian Army stepped on the corpses, drove a ladder, or climbed with homemade ropes, and was shot down by arrows from the city, and soon joined the ranks of those corpses.

The moat water is already full of blood. Under the sunlight, it is blood red, piles of corpses, broken limbs and broken bones, emitting a disgusting smell of blood.

Fortunately, the weather is not hot, the corpses are not prone to decay, and they are not prone to diseases and plagues. However, the terrifying emotions began to spread in the hearts of the officers and soldiers who defended the city like plagues.

The defenders in the city, plus the thousands of soldiers and horses brought by Han Santong's retreat, had more than 20,000 people, but there were extremely serious casualties every day. For officers and soldiers, one less death was the only one less, but in their eyes, the Qingtian Army was more and more. If one kills one thousand today, two thousand will come to reinforce tomorrow.

They no longer had confidence in repelling these rioters, and they knew that if they continued to fight like this, Zhangzhou City would be destroyed sooner or later, but the reinforcements from the court seemed to have no sign of any sign.

A new round of attacks has begun, and no one knows whether they can survive after waiting for a round of attacks.

The eyes of the soldiers who were sieging the city were also reflected by the bleak red color of blood.

The soldiers on the top of the city watched the rebels under the city rushing over like wild animals, and their archery was a little weak, but listening to the roars of the bandits, they were roaring, roaring that after the city was broken, they wanted to slaughter the city of Zhangzhou without leaving any chickens and dogs. The officers and soldiers could only resist to the death. From time to time, one black shadow after another appeared in the sky. The rebels who came here from other places were fragile, their weapons were endless, and even had bare hands, but they wanted to take stimulants, just like there were peerless beauties in Zhangzhou City, gathering like flies.
Chapter completed!