In the southwest of my country, there is a mountain surrounded by mountains and only a small path leading to an unknown small village outside the village. There are more than a dozen families living in the village. They work from sunrise to rest at sunset and live a life without conflict.

To the north of the village, there is a small green mountain thirty or forty feet high.

From birth to old age, the entire Xiaoqing Mountain belongs to a clan of the Shang surname in their memories, and even in the memories of their ancestors.

The Shang family has passed down from generation to generation after generation after generation after generation after generation after generation after generation after generation after generation of dynasties. No matter how the outside world changes, they remain as unmoved as a bell.

When the merchants were most glorious, the mountains were filled with houses built by merchants, and were filled with merchants. The number of merchants with a merchant surnamed was several times higher than the total number of villagers in the entire village.

This thirty or forty feet of hill belonging to the Shang clan has been run by generations of Shang clans for countless years. The center of the mountain has long been hollowed out, and there is a black hall enshrined in it that enshrines the spiritual positions of the Shang clan's ancestors.

"The ancestors of the merchants are above, and the unworthy descendants of the merchants are above, and the 108th generation of unworthy descendants of the merchants have not supported their parents, so that they can enjoy the joy of family life. They have not married and have children, and have passed on the family line for the merchants. They have no face to meet the ancestors."

"But the ancestral teachings of the merchants are ahead, and the father's orders are behind them. Tianji can only come to visit all the ancestors with shamelessness. I hope that my ancestors will protect me from successfully completing the mission of the successors of my merchants throughout the dynasties and recreate the supreme glory of my merchants."

In the black hall, there was a black stone altar, a gray cloth futon, a green light and red candle, and a smoldering fragrance. There was a twenty-three or four-year-old man wearing a black Tang suit and an ordinary face, kneeling respectfully on the futon.

The young man was named Shang Tianji, and he was the direct descendant of this generation of merchants.

In front of Shang Tian’s memorial body is a high platform.

On the high platform, there are wooden stairs step by step, one after another, with hundreds of wood-carved spiritual positions enshrined on it, one after another, densely packed, and the spiritual positions are engraved with the names of ancestors of the merchants throughout the ages.

Shang Tianji first reviewed his own faults before the merchant’s ancestor spirit position, and then kowtowed three dong dong dong dong dong dong dong dong dong dong dong dong dong dong dong dong dong dong dong dong dong dong dong dong dong dong dong dong dong dong dong dong dong dong dong dong dong dong dong dong dong dong dong dong dong dong dong dong dong dong dong dong dong dong dong dong dong dong dong dong dong dong dong dong dong dong dong dong dong dong dong dong dong dong dong dong dong dong dong dong dong dong dong dong dong dong dong dong dong dong dong dong dong dong dong dong dong dong dong dong dong dong dong dong dong dong dong dong dong dong dong dong dong dong

"Ji'er, are you ready?"

Around Shang Tianji, there was an old woman with a head of silver hair and an old woman in her nineties.

The old woman held a silver dragon-headed crutch in her hand, and her waist was not hunched, but was slightly bent. Her face was faintly rosy, and her body looked pretty tough.

After Shang Tianji bowed to worship the ancestors of the merchants, the old woman asked with care.

"My grandma Zu, my business has been practicing martial arts for generations. Now I have a martial arts cultivation level. Although I have not entered the house, I have also reached the threshold of the acquired realm. It can be said that one foot has already entered the acquired realm, so I am ready."

Although Shang Tianji's face was ordinary, his pair of black and white eyes were particularly sensible. When he heard what the old man said, his expression was extremely firm and he spoke without hesitation.

"Go!"

The old woman smiled kindly and waved her hand gently, as if she was talking about something insignificant, but the trace of down-and-out in her eyes was caught by Shang Tianji.

Shang Tianji knew that since his grandfather's generation, the merchants had only his grandfather and his grandmother, the old man in front of him, and there were two people in total. The merchants had a single lineage from his grandfather, his father and his own generation.

The merchant inheritors carried the ancestral mission of the merchant. They began to take on the business's inheritance mission from the last three generations of the merchant. From the first step here, until their death, the old woman stood in the same position and sent away three generations of the merchant with the same simple words.

Now, we are going to start sending away the only seedling of the fourth generation of the merchant. We know the warmth and coldness of the individual. I am afraid that only the old woman, the person involved, can experience it himself.

"Um."

Shang Tianji originally wanted to comfort the old man, but when he said something, he didn't know how to say it. Finally, he nodded gently and turned around silently under the old man's gaze, and took firm steps.

After walking out a few steps, Shang Tianji came to the table that worshiped the ancestors of the merchants and was made of black stone.

At this time, there were two black iron candlesticks burning with candles on the altar. Shang Tianji, regardless of the red candle burning on the candlestick, held the base of one of the candlesticks hard, and then gently turned it according to a certain rule.

Kak

As Shang Tianji kept turning the candlestick, the dark wall on the right side of the black hall was like a thick stone door, gradually pushed open from the middle to both sides, and finally a cave entrance with a height of someone was revealed, a passage made of black stone, unknown where to go.

"Grandma Zu, I'm going." After seeing the cave entrance appear, Shang Tianji turned around and smiled at the old woman.

"Um."

The old woman showed a smile on her face and nodded, but her steps did not move, and she had no intention of entering the Black Stone Channel with Shang Tianji.

According to the ancestral teachings of merchants, only contemporary merchants of merchants are qualified to enter the Black Stone Passage, and only contemporary merchants of merchants can move the things behind the Black Stone Passage.

The old woman has gone through four generations of merchants and knows a little about what is behind the Black Stone Passage, but she has never stepped into the Black Stone Passage, and has never seen anything behind the stairs, because the ancestral teachings of merchants cannot be violated.

With the recognition of the old man, Shang Tianji took a firm step and walked towards the black passage step by step. He stepped onto the passage and ran through the entire passage. He walked down the black stone stairs step by step, gradually moving towards the depths of the black stone passage.

In less than a stick of incense, Shang Tianji reached the end of the passage.

The place to see.

It is a huge nine-story octagonal black stone altar. On the altar, there is a nine-story white jade building with four white jade platforms as the foundation and up to nine feet high.

The white jade building is carved with jade, crystal clear and transparent, and the whole body is made of unknown white jade, which is magnificent and grand.

"It is worthy of being a treasure that my business has passed down from generation to generation. It is something that my business ancestors have to protect even if they have fought their lives. Even if they just knock a small piece of white jade from this jade building and sell it outside, they can immediately become rich and become a billionaire. They will never have to worry about food and drink for several lifetimes, and they can even squander and live an extremely luxurious life."

As the only successor of the merchant, Shang Tianji is familiar with some of the merchant's history and has some understanding of the inheritance of the merchant from some of the words and phrases of the previous generations.

However, it is better to meet than to be famous. At this time, Shang Tianji was also shocked by the current nine-story white jade building.

You should know that although the village where Shang Tianji is located is located in a remote place, and few people in the village go out to explore the outside world, Shang Tianji, as a descendant of the merchant, naturally had to keep up with the pace of the times. Therefore, when Shang Tianji was very young, he was sent outside to study by his father.

Even studying outside. After graduating from college, Shang Tianji found a job outside. He did not return to the business until his father passed away and inherited the mission of the merchant's successor.

So it is certain that as a modern person, Shang Tianji has traveled south and north and seen the world.

However, compared with the nine-story white jade building that is almost 30 meters high in front of you, the skyscrapers that Shang Tianji had seen before were all ruined.

Suppressing the shock in his heart, Shang Tianji raised his foot and walked up to the Black Stone Altar, came to the Baiyu Tower, slowly opened the door of the first floor of the Baiyu Tower, and then walked in.

First entered the Baiyu Tower.

The entrance to the eyes is extremely empty, with nine on each side, totaling thirty-six on each side, which is a total of 49. The huge white jade pillar supporting the sky that meets the number of 49 is one meter high, and there are several floor spaces as big as football fields.

The center of the floor space is a nine-petal lotus platform half a person tall, covering an area of ​​eighty or ninety square meters, and is carved from white jade.

In addition, there is nothing in the floor space.

"The nine-petal lotus platform carved by white jade is the core of this white jade building. Every generation of the merchants inherited their martial arts cultivation has reached the acquired realm, and they will come here to sacrifice the core white lotus platform for blood sacrifice, in order to refine this entire white jade building and recreate the supreme glory of our merchant."

"Although this sounds a bit like a myth and fantasy like a novel, it is something that every generation of my merchant inheritors has to do. Even before my merchant's ancestors die, they have to devote their corpses to sacrifice themselves. So this is not only the place where my merchant inherits, but also the final destination for my merchant inheritors."

"This is the case with my business ancestors, my father, and even my final outcome. Although this seems a bit cruel, this is the legacy of my business ancestors and the mission of my business descendants. Even if it is dead and the corpse remains in the end, it must be completed with all our hearts."

Shang Tianji also saw the white jade lotus platform in the center of the floor space at a glance. He couldn't help but think of the ancestral teachings of merchants that he had been instilled since childhood, as well as the ancestors of merchants who had given everything for the ancestral teachings of all generations and his father. He was also deeply moved in his heart.

At this time, the white jade lotus platform has become crystal clear red after passing the blood sacrifice of the merchant ancestors. The lotus platform carries blood and bathes in blood. However, this does not make the jade lotus become weird and evil, but instead gives people a different kind of beauty.

"Ancestors, I am sorry for my unworthy descendants, Shang Tianji disturbed me." Before Shang Tianji arrived at the lotus platform, he first accused him of guilt, then bent down and bowed before climbing onto the lotus platform.

After all, the ancestors of the merchants sacrificed the jade lotus with blood during their lifetime, and even after their death, they even had to sacrifice the lotus with their bodies. Their whole body was integrated into the jade lotus and became part of the jade lotus. So in a sense, this jade lotus is the cemetery of the ancestors of the merchants.
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