Chapter 7: The Secret History of the Sun

  However!

  A warrior's 'bone structure' may not be as excellent as a cultivator's 'spirit root'. Ordinary 'spirit roots' already require one in tens of thousands, let alone 'heavenly spirit roots'.

  The general difference in martial artists' 'bone structure', one can be found among hundreds of people. Compared to the 'spiritual bone' which is 'tens of thousands of people', it's indeed a huge difference.

  Xiang Qiushui felt that this 'inner energy' was like a fleeting glimpse of a startled swan, and immediately disappeared without a trace. If the 'energy sensation' is always so elusive, how can one hope to break through the 'Martial Artist's Innate Ability' in their lifetime?

  I originally wanted to exercise and recover a bit of spirit, but who knew it would make people even more annoyed.

  She glanced at "The History of Sun" in the wooden box and got angry, using her hand to pat it a few times.

  "Hmm! This 'Records of the Sun' is only three fingers thick, why do they need to make a wooden box as thick as ten fingers to hold it? Not only does it look bad, but it's also wasteful!" Xiang Qiushui muttered to herself.

  Finally found the reason why I felt something was off earlier, it turned out to be this wooden box. Because Xiang Qiushui knew that this wooden box containing "The History of the Sun" was made of purple sandalwood - expensive!

  "As the county magistrate of The Hague, Father shouldn't be such a foolish person. Isn't there more than one book in this box?" Xiang Qiushui thought to himself, unintentionally stretching out his hand to gently touch, knock and tap..."

  Finally, he discovered that the wooden base of this "Sun History" was quite thick, about 3 fingers wide. Xiang Qiushui immediately sat cross-legged and straightened his chest, closed his eyes, cleared his mind, and concentrated his thoughts, constantly requiring his spirit to gather intensely.

  Because 'innate martial artists' can vaguely perceive the movement and noise around them within a range of about 50 meters when their eyes are closed and their spirits are concentrated, living things can be sensed even farther away, with faint images at a distance of about 5 meters.

  For example, if you place a teacup 5 meters away, a 'pre-heaven' master can sense its vague outline in their mind with their eyes closed.

  It's like looking at flowers in the fog.

  However, the penetrability is extremely poor. For example, if you put this teacup in the next room, 5 meters away, it's very hard to sense it. If it were a person, you might still be able to sense their 'qi', but for inanimate objects, it's difficult.

  Xiang Qiushui had only just sensed a hint of 'qi' in her body after three months of practice, but it was fleeting and disappeared immediately.

  It turns out that since "crossing over" to the "Sun Dynasty", the divine soul's "heart awareness" perception ability of the previous life's " Innate Martial Artist" not only did not lose, but instead miraculously became even stronger.

  With a calm and peaceful mind, and with the spirit highly concentrated, the 'heart awareness' can actually perceive the vague movements of living things over a hundred meters away, as well as the faint aura. Even the rough outline of the person in the next room is somewhat vaguely perceived.

  For example, knowing whether it is Yinhua Lianxiang or Xing'er who has just entered the adjacent room, of course, the specific image cannot be perceived. To put it bluntly: even if they both take off their clothes, you can't perceive their beautiful bodies, and can only distinguish them from aspects such as appearance, aura, and characteristics.

  After concentrating her mind, Xiang Qiushui vaguely sensed that there was a problem with the bottom of the wooden box. "Could it be that there is a hidden compartment?" Her heart skipped a beat as her interest was suddenly piqued.

  He turned this black and red box over and over, and if he hadn't thought it was Ah Diao's father's thing, I'm afraid Xiang Qiushui would have torn it to pieces long ago.

  After looking, listening and cutting, the doctor in the hospital almost finished examining the patient. It was just one question away, but this box is an inanimate object, asking people won't respond to you either.

  After careful consideration, it is certain that there is a hidden compartment at the bottom of this box.

  However, the craftsman who made this box is a master. Xiang Qiushui relied on the 'Pre-Heaven Warrior' divine soul's 'Heart Awareness' sensitivity, and after messing around for half a day, he still couldn't figure out how to open this hidden compartment...

  At the bottom of the box, in the center of the wooden board, a red square seal with four sides was found, which was covered with Father Xie Huaiyi's name, and it was a positive square seal with three fingers wide.

  "Could it have something to do with the seal?" Xiang Qiushui muttered to herself, "Never mind, I'll go ask Mother for the seal and try it out first."

  Bang! Bang! Bang!

  Xiang Qiushui pretended to be calm and slowly walked into her mother Zhang Shi's room, seeing Zhang Shi sewing something. She didn't say a word, just standing there stupidly.

  "Ah-Dai, is anything wrong?" Zhang's wife asked with concern, stroking his thin, pale hands that were as white as chicken claws.

  Xiang Qiushui hesitated for a moment before speaking softly and asking, "Mother, I don't know... whether Father's seal is still here? I want to take a look."

  "Ah! Take it!" Mother Zhang put down the work in her hands, rummaged under the bed and took out a key, opened an intricately carved wooden box, carefully took out a small wooden box containing Father's seal, and handed it to Xiang Qiushui, saying, "Stupid child, don't play for too long, take care of your body, go to rest early."

  "Hmm!" Xiang Qiushui replied softly, and then ran away in a flash.

  "This child, alas! Still can't grow up! Already almost 16. Thinking back to when I was 16, I was already a 'scholar'. His Majesty personally appointed me as the county magistrate of Haiguan County, a 7th rank county... Now this silly boy, finding a good wife who is a good match for our family is probably impossible..." The mother sighed, her face covered in tears.

  The Hague County is under the direct jurisdiction of Fuzhou Prefecture, but it is a large county with a population of over one million and a territory that can rival a modern province in China.

  The rank of the county magistrate is half a grade higher than that in other places, and it is promoted to "6th rank" because it is an important southern port of the "Taiyang Dynasty", similar to today's Xiamen City, Fujian Province. There are 50,000 naval soldiers stationed here, and the commander-in-chief is a fourth-rank official, who is said to be a distant relative of the Duke of Guangzhou, much more powerful than the county magistrate of Haikou County!

  So this big county is particularly complicated.

  Because in the 'Sun Dynasty' 16 years old is considered an adult, rich people will also hold a 'coming-of-age ceremony'. After becoming an adult, they usually get engaged or married directly.

  "It's not that I haven't grown up, it's just that a 'half-wit' should be like this. Mother, wait until Autumn Water's abilities reach the level of a 'warrior', then I'll regain my intelligence and make you happy. For now, I'm powerless, so I can only be like this."

  Mother's sigh Autumn water that sensitive 'heart awareness' perceived early heard, he was somewhat melancholy in his heart silently muttering.

  Xiang Qiushui has positioned his current behavior as 'half stupid'.

  Quickly returned to 'Yi Shu Zhai', Xiang Qiushui appreciated it for a while and found that the material was similar to Shiwan Tian Huang stone, and it was actually carved into a crane. The seals of ancient Chinese people are generally auspicious animals, such as Qilin, lions, etc., but this square seal is quite another type.

  Yao Le shook her head and tried to put her father's seal on the box bottom's seal.

  "Hiss!"

  Something unexpected happened, and the whole seal sank into the box.

  "Crack!"

  The purple sandalwood pieces at the bottom of the box were actually divided into two loose pieces, "There's a way!" Xiang Qiushui excitedly tried it with his hand and gently pried open the two wooden pieces.

  "What a masterpiece!" Xiang Qiushui exclaimed, and as he glanced around, he found that the seal was pressed against a thin book.

  Xiang Qiushui had already forgotten about studying the mechanism of the wooden box, and hastily moved away the seal, picked up that thin book and began to examine it carefully.

  It was a handwritten copy, with four large characters in small seal script splashed on the cover - The Secret History of the Sun.

  At this moment, Xiang Qiushui's pupils enlarged a lot, and he quickly turned over the cover of the book to take a look.

  The first page says: This book was picked up by my father, Xiang Huaiyi, when he saved the daughter of 'Hongqin Wang' Helian Hongde, 'Zhilan Junzhu', and happened to be in the broken box of the princess. At that time, I quickly flipped through it several times, and after returning home, I wrote it down by relying on my own superhuman memory.

  The founding emperor of the 'Sun Dynasty' was Taizu 'Helian Khanji', who established the national title as 'Sun'. The current emperor is Your Majesty 'Helian Lingde', who is said to be not yet forty years old.

  The title of "Qin Wang" is generally taken from the first character after the surname. For example, "Hong Qin Wang" takes the first character "Hong" after the surname "He Lian".

  Because this 'Secret History of the Sun' was secretly handwritten by Father, it is not to be seen. If someone leaks it to Emperor Lingde, they will fall into the great crime of spying on the imperial family's secrets, and the crime of deceiving the emperor cannot be escaped. It is estimated that it may endanger the entire Xiang clan.

  No wonder it's hidden so deeply.

  If it weren't for Xiang Qiushui's predestined 'innate' perception from his past life, ordinary people would have found it very difficult to discover.

  As soon as she turned to the second page, three big characters appeared before Xiang Qiushui's eyes - Thousand Autumn Tripod.

  As soon as he saw these three words, Xiang Qiushui's soul seemed to have a spiritual connection, and his spirit trembled with excitement.

  "This is absurd! It seems like this 'Thousand Autumn Tripod' has something to do with me, inexplicably." Xiang Qiushui shook his head, feeling that this feeling was truly ridiculous.

  The book says that when Emperor Taizu 'Khanji' was 60 years old, the whole country celebrated. In the 'Taiyang Hall', also known as the 'Golden Dragon Hall', a grand national banquet was held to entertain officials of the third rank and above in the 'Taiyang Dynasty'.

  Because the territory of 'Sun Dynasty' is too vast, it's several times that of Huaxia. At that time, Xiang Qiushui roughly estimated that there were at least over 40 million square kilometers.

  Equivalent to the entire Asia.

  There were too many officials to count. Just the high-ranking officials, including princes, dukes, marquises, earls, and cabinet ministers, almost filled the huge "Hall of Supreme Harmony" to bursting point.

  Like a second-class governor-general, from the second-class governor, these territorial overlords, when they were in their own province, they were like local emperors, calling the wind and rain, how mighty. But today, they can only sit on the open square outside the 'Sun Palace' to drink some small wine.

  Unless you are the Governor-General who is also a Grand Secretary of the Imperial Cabinet (1st rank), or concurrently holds the position of Assistant Grand Secretary or Vice-Minister of War, Right Vice-Director of the Censorate, and Minister of War (2nd rank), you do not have the qualification to sit inside the palace.

  After three rounds of wine, and five courses of dishes.

  The ministers were drinking merrily when 'Li Dou', known as the 'Poetry Immortal' of the 'Sun Dynasty', was improvising a poem to praise the virtues of our heavenly dynasty's Emperor Hanji. The flattering officials, whether they heard it or not, burst into applause at every interval between Li Dou's lines, shouting "Bravo!"

  "Rumble!"

  A deafening crash shook the sky, and in an instant, cups and plates flew everywhere, tiles and debris floated in the air, fine wine and delicacies scattered all over, turning into a fragrant rain that splashed everywhere, mixed with some bright red blood, almost shocking and stunning the officials to the point of dizziness.

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