allonlinenovel Chapter 446 The Duties of the Zhang Family
Chapter 446 The Duties of the Zhang Family
Zhang Qiling didn't speak, but silently took out the Ghost Seal that Chen Wenjin had given him from his pocket.
He slowly held the Ghost Seal in front of him.
A faint light appeared, and the sound of ancient horns echoed in this space.
Cheng Feng turned his head to look behind him, and saw that the wall was like a lake whose calm surface had been broken, and ripples began to spread.
Accompanied by the sound of horns, a ghostly soldier dressed in armor from the Shang and Zhou dynasties stepped out.
At the same time, the tightly closed bronze door slowly opened, only stopping when it revealed a deep passage.
"To be on the safe side, we can follow the ghost soldiers in."
Zhang Qiling put away the Ghost Seal and whispered to Cheng Feng beside him.
Cheng Feng smiled and patted Zhang Qiling on the shoulder, then stepped towards the bronze door.
Zhang Qiling put away the tiger tally and followed behind Cheng Feng. At this moment, a bronze tiger tally appeared in Cheng Feng's hand.
Holding the tiger tally, Cheng Feng walked arrogantly at the head of the ghost soldiers' procession, and all the ghost soldiers silently slowed their pace and followed behind Cheng Feng and Zhang Qiling.
Long after Cheng Feng and Zhang Qiling stepped into the bronze gate, and only after all the ghost soldiers had entered, did the open gate slowly close.
Inside the bronze door at this moment.
Compared to his last visit, this time Cheng Feng focused his mind and used his Heavenly Eye to protect his intentions completely, revealing not a trace of emotion.
Sure enough, the situation has changed this time.
The Changbai Mountain police station, and all the fantasies, never materialized.
There was only darkness before my eyes, as if there was nothingness behind the door, with no end in sight.
Zhang Qiling, who was beside Cheng Feng, did not disappear either, and stayed close to Cheng Feng.
"Old Zhang, what was it like here when you came before?"
Walking slowly through the darkness, Cheng Feng asked Zhang Qiling in a low voice.
Zhang Qiling replied, "Just like now, if we keep going forward, we will see the 'ultimate'."
The ultimate, the starting point of the entire world, cannot be described in words; it can only be described as the ultimate of everything.
"I saw an interesting scene when I came here last time."
After realizing that he was under the protection of the Heavenly Eye and that his consciousness had not caused any special problems, Cheng Feng's mindset relaxed.
He began to tell Zhang Qiling about what he had seen during his last visit.
Upon hearing this, Zhang Qiling's lips twitched. What a fine example of an intermediate court and a Changbai Mountain police station.
As they chatted, the two kept walking, and after walking for an unknown distance, a faint blue light suddenly appeared ahead of them.
Instantly, the entire world was illuminated by blue light, and a magnificent world appeared before their eyes.
There, Cheng Feng saw countless indescribable veins.
Whenever Cheng Feng gazed at one of the veins, he would see the life of a stranger.
Some of these people wore animal skins and ate raw meat and drank blood; some wore ancient costumes with feather fans and silk turbans; and some even wore Western suits, chatting and drinking.
Migrant workers, beggars, high-ranking officials—all walks of life are presented to Cheng Feng.
"Is this the ultimate goal you've seen?"
Cheng Feng withdrew his gaze and looked at Zhang Qiling beside him.
At this moment, he looked ahead with a devout expression, nodded silently, and then spoke:
"Every time I leave this place, my memories disappear, leaving only a deep imprint in my mind."
That is the 'ultimate,' the beginning of everything and the end of all things.
Cheng Feng didn't say anything and began to look around at the other places.
However, everything within sight was shrouded in this strange network of veins, and no other presence could be seen.
"Old Zhang, your Zhang family's duty is to guard the bronze gate, not just watch over this thing."
Zhang Qiling shook his head upon hearing this.
"No, this is the core area. The place I need to guard is not here."
After saying that, Zhang Qiling suddenly drew his Black Gold Ancient Blade and, under Cheng Feng's curious gaze, slashed open his palm with the blade.
As blood seeped from the wound on his palm, Zhang Qiling pulled Cheng Feng and began to move backward.
At this moment, the space in front of them began to blur and the light began to dim.
Cheng Feng kept this in mind. After the two of them took nine steps back, the blue light completely disappeared and was replaced by a bronze door.
Standing in front of the bronze gate, Cheng Feng turned around and looked behind him at Zhang Qiling's prompting.
The first thing you see is a huge pyramid-shaped space.
A giant bronze pillar supports the dome, and the surrounding cliffs are covered with a layer of bronze. Bronze utensils are placed in the recesses, making it look very primitive.
The ground was made of flat bronze bricks, engraved with the sun, moon and stars.
The coffin, crafted from meteorite jade, radiates outwards from the bronze pillar, and from Cheng Feng's perspective, it can be seen to form the shape of the Eight Trigrams.
It was the dim light emanating from these meteorites that allowed Zhang Qiling to see the light in this place.
"This is truly extravagant. King Mu of Zhou only had two jade figurines, but they actually made themselves jade coffins, and so many of them at that."
Cheng Feng already had a guess about the identity of the person lying here.
"They are the earliest tribe of mankind—Fuxi, the first people to pursue immortality in the ultimate end."
Zhang Qiling's words confirmed the information Cheng Feng had obtained, and it matched the information revealed by the person inside the meteorite in the Queen Mother of the West's Palace.
Upon arriving here, Zhang Qiling seemed to have been freed from some kind of restriction, becoming more talkative.
"These jade coffins blocked something from invading the people inside."
However, as time went by, every now and then, the jade coffins would inexplicably malfunction.
At that time, the person inside will undergo a terrifying transformation and will attack the bronze door in an attempt to escape.
At this point, Zhang Qiling pointed to several inconspicuous jade coffins.
Upon closer inspection, Cheng Feng noticed that these coffins were clearly different from the others, suggesting they had been opened later.
"The Zhang family's duty is to guard them. If the meteorite jade malfunctions, they must suppress it to prevent its excessive numbers from damaging the bronze gate."
At this moment, Zhang Qiling turned to the side and looked at the bronze door behind him.
Many parts are missing, and scratch marks remain on the hard bronze, showing how terrifying the thing after it turned into a zombie was.
"Old Zhang, how did your Zhang family manage to eat, drink, and relieve yourself when you were guarding this place? We can't afford to step on some old landmines later!"
As he spoke, Cheng Feng looked around at some hidden corners, trying to find the locations where the mines were planted.
"According to the Zhang family's most important records, you don't need to eat or defecate here. When you feel very hungry, that's when you should leave."
Standing side by side in front of the bronze gate, Zhang Qiling looked at the numerous jade coffins in front of him and began to speak.
A glint of shrewdness flashed in Cheng Feng's eyes. This was quite interesting. It seemed the Zhang family had reached some kind of agreement with this place.
As can be seen from the original timeline, there is a ten-year cycle, and someone must be here to deal with the Fuxi clan corpse variants that want to destroy the bronze gate.
The fact that a contract could be reached proves one thing.
Ultimately, there is wisdom, and it is not as simple as the myriad threads of the world that it appears to be.