My God, I am the emperor, the lord of mankind.

Chapter 390 King of the River

The light of the torch swayed in the cave dug hundreds of years ago, with the cold wind blowing from the depths of the cave from time to time.

Gao Lin could even hear the rapids coming from the underground river flowing through his feet.

He pushed aside the decayed bones in front of him, which would break into pieces at the slightest touch, and took out a gilt waistband full of patina from the earth accumulated over the centuries.

"Hejian King Sima Zhang Zuo... leads the middle man..."

Gao Lin carefully observed the rotten waist badge in front of him.

After getting a Taoist technique from Zhang Fawei next to me to clean the stains on the bronze medal in front of me.

He just read the above string of incomplete words.

King of the River - that is most likely not the good thing his ancestors did.

He breathed a sigh of relief subconsciously.

"Daozhang Zhang, look at this -"

I felt Zhang Fawei's searching eyes beside me.

Gao Lin handed over the bronze medal in his hand.

Although his family has some roots in Liaodong, he really doesn't know the origins of this so-called King of Hejian and this Sima named Zhang Zuo.

When Zhang Fawei saw the bronze medal in front of him and looked at it carefully, he also looked confused.

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Why do you think I, a Taoist priest, would understand these things?

Just when Zhang Fawei was looking troubled.

Zhu Houcong's voice appeared from behind the two of them.

"Let me see--"

Zhu Houcong took the belt card.

The patterns on it are still so clearly visible even after hundreds of years.

Zhu Houcong looked at it with his telescope, and could not see any other clues except that he could estimate that this thing must have been more than a thousand years ago.

However, a thousand years——

On the contrary, Zhu Houcong secretly became more vigilant about the cold air coming from the depths of the ground.

Zhu Houcong took the waist card in his hand and felt Zhu Houcong's aura. The cold air that had just been faint in the hands of Zhang Fawei and Gao Lin suddenly seemed to be stimulated by something. It immediately boiled and rushed towards Zhu Houcong's palm that was in contact with the waist card. go.

Then he was easily suppressed by Zhu Houcong with a burst of zhenqi.

He silently glanced at the relatively well-preserved bones in the cave in front of him.

Not only the closed nature of Han tombs provided them with a good preservation environment.

These warriors did not seem to suffer much pain when they were alive and dead.

There wasn't even a movement of struggle.

And Zhu Houcong was able to judge from the remaining bones of these warriors.

Each of these warriors probably possesses special skills, and their strength is probably no less than that of the ordinary Ming imperial guards.

In other words, I came to the right place this time.

If it is simply left to Zhang Fawei, Yu Dayou and others, if it continues downward, I don’t know how many twists and turns it will have to go through.

Zhu Houcong could feel the cold air on the waist card in his hand, although it was dull, there was no sign of completely dissipating even after a thousand years.

Just like the thing deep in the cave, even if it has been sleeping for hundreds of years, it is still possible to wake up from the underground river at any time.

But this is not a problem for Zhu Houcong.

After all, he came here with the purpose of "returning to Novice Village to fry fish fry with a full-level king" and striving for a quick victory.

But now it seems that the fry seems a little bigger.

But it's just a bigger, rougher fish, so it doesn't affect my ability to drive unparalleled. Behind him, Xu Youbang looked at the waist badge in Zhu Houcong's hand and hesitated to speak.

After a moment, he said slowly.

"My lord, could you please let me take this thing in my hand and look at it carefully."

Zhu Houcong remembered this young master from a distinguished family.

It was this person who presented to me the water control map of Dayu that recorded the possible ruins of the ancient Xu Kingdom last time.

That picture is still displayed in the Ministry of Rites. It is said that some officials of the Ministry of Rites secretly look at it when they lead a team to go to sea. They are afraid that if they don’t see it enough, they will miss the legendary ancient Xu Kingdom and the Undersea Dragon Palace. Opportunity to make a fortune.

Zhu Houcong felt a little speechless.

It seems that if you really encounter the Dragon Palace, you can go up and clear them out or something.

But Xu Youbang's erudition was obvious to all the Imperial Guards. Even those bachelors of the Hanlin Academy would not be as good as him if they did not study this skill intensively.

"It's a little cold inside, so be careful."

Zhu Houcong said.

After hearing the emperor's reminder, Xu Youbang looked solemn.

But when he actually got the waist card in front of him, he saw that even though he was on guard and was running his energy and blood in advance, the place where his right hand was in contact with the waist card was also covered with a thin layer of frost, and he felt numb. And feeling a dull pain, I realized that the so-called "a little bit of coldness" in the emperor's mouth was not something I could easily contend with.

This is the emperor's test.

Xu Youbang took a deep breath.

As the killing energy of the white tiger in his body slowly gathered into his right palm, Xu Youbang's face turned slightly red due to the full force of the white tiger's killing energy in his body.

There were some sweat stains on his forehead.

The two sides wrestled for several minutes. After Xu Youbang's true energy and the cold current in his waistband slowly reached a certain balance, he was shocked by the high quality of this cold energy.

Even if there is just a wisp of remaining cold air, I can't help but fight it with all my strength.

If the rightful owner appears, I may have no choice but to run away.

But he still looked carefully at the badge in front of him, which he seemed to have seen similar things somewhere.

"King of the River——"

When he looked at the three characters at the top of the token again, indicating the identity of the owner.

Since the Western Han Dynasty, the Hejian Palace has been one of the important tools used by the imperial court to rule the ethnic minorities in Northeast China.

Its territory varied as the empire expanded in the northeast.

Xu Youbang was really confused for a while as to which Hejian Prince's Mansion this token belonged to.

Zhu Houcong reminded from the side.

"This thing was at least before the Northern Wei Dynasty——"

Xu Youbang glanced at the emperor in front of him in surprise, then lowered his head and continued to look at the shape of the waist badge in his hand.

There is indeed a legacy of the Han Dynasty, and it is definitely something from the Wei and Jin Dynasties.

He really didn't expect that the boy in front of him had such sharp eyesight at such a young age.

And he really didn't expect that Zhu Houcong didn't need to read a lot of books like most people, and then he could master such skills through practice.

I have something to do——

Zhu Houcong felt the arrival of a certain intruder in the dark river beneath his feet, a creature that seemed to be waking up from his sleep.

Looking at Xu Youbang who seemed to understand something, he asked.

"What can you see——"

"It stands to reason that this kind of thing should have the imperial year and the name of the craftsman and the reason for the gift at the bottom - if it is Han Dynasty, it should be very neatly engraved with the imperial year name at the bottom. Could it be that it was from the troubled times from the Wei and Jin Dynasties to the Northern Wei Dynasty? , and it doesn’t look like this thing is of exquisite craftsmanship and is obviously an item from the period of the Unified Empire——”

(End of this chapter)