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Hiss!

Hearing Fourth Uncle's words, Hai Yang immediately sucked in a breath of cold air, and looked at Fourth Uncle while asking in astonishment: "Fourth Master, are you saying that the reason the Drilling Team Two was investigated in 1976 was not to search for the three armies that have disappeared, but to revive a certain someone?"

Fourth Uncle nodded: "What else do you think?"

"This is crazy!"

Hai Yang widened her eyes and puffed on her cigarette. I had vaguely guessed it before, but I was still extremely excited.

The Fourth Uncle didn't seem to want to talk about the backstory of the 1976 drilling team, so he changed the topic and started to talk about the Ming Dynasty's Emperor Jianwen s one by one. After listening to it, I was stunned for a long time but I still couldn't calm down, because all of this was too preposterous.

According to Fourth Uncle, Chen Jun had completely disappeared after his Wild Mountain and White Kingdom disappeared, and only after his Tang Dynasty had passed away did he reappear in the world once more.

Until the early Ming Dynasty, when Chen Jun was on his way to roaming the world, he met a talented child who was accepted as a disciple and was imparted with his abilities. However, when that disciple found out the secret to Chen Jun's revival after growing up, he went up onto the Wild Mountain by himself and also wanted to live on in the same way as Chen Jun.

That disciple's name was Wu Zhong. After he went onto the Wild Mountain, he found the entrance where the White Kingdom was transferred to the ground, but after entering, he barely escaped with his life and left the Wild Mountain in an extremely sorry state.

From here, I can deduce that until the early Ming Dynasty, White Kingdom should still exist in this world. It's just that they already treat Wild Mountain as a paradise and do not want to walk around in this world.

After heading over to the Wild Mountain alone and finding out what happened, in order to keep his secret, Chen Jun made up his mind to kill Wu Zhong. But on the other hand, not only did Wu Zhong learn all of Chen Jun's abilities, his personality was also very ambitious.

It was in those ten years that Wu Zhong, with the skills that he had learned from Chen Jun, managed to find an official and a half position in the capital. However, he did not put too much thought on being an official, he only secretly thought of a way to go up onto the Wild Mountain to seek a way to revive him.

Moreover, he knew Master Chen Jun's secret, Chen Jun definitely had to kill him to keep his mouth shut. So he was waiting for the right time, and even if he wanted to go up on the Wild Mountain, he had to eliminate Chen Jun, who was a thorn in his side right now.

This wait had waited for fifteen years, and Wu Zhong's chance had come!

In the 25th year of the Ming Dynasty, the Crown Prince Zhu Biao died of a cold. The entire country was shocked, and Zhu Yuanzhang was extremely saddened, because Zhu Biao was the ideal successor in his heart.

When Zhu Yuanzhang was still establishing the Ming dynasty, he was only the prince's son, and had followed Song Lian to learn the scriptures since young. Since childhood, he was carefully taught, so Zhu Yuanzhang had high hopes for him, and Zhu Biao was magnanimous, friendly to the princes and brothers, and held great prestige amongst the kings.

Zhu Biao's death gave Wu Zhong the chance, with his own abilities, he was unable to fight Master Chen Jun and Wild Mountain, but as long as he pulled Zhu Yuanzhang into the water, with the power of the Ming Dynasty, he did not believe that he would not be able to achieve his goal!

Thinking about it, taking the chance when Zhu Yuanzhang was sad, Wu Zhong reported to Zhu Yuanzhang that there was a way to revive the crown prince!

Zhu Yuanzhang was extremely surprised upon hearing it, he could hardly believe it. Wu Zhong had claimed that his master was the Southern Hill Hermit Chen Jun, and that he had studied the Eight Trigrams of the Five Elements of Yin and Yang since childhood. He even knew that his master Chen Jun had lived for more than five hundred years.

However, at that time, it was difficult for him to endure the pain of his son being lost. His attitude of holding onto a dead horse as if he was a living horse believed what Wu Zhong had said, and he then asked Wu Zhong how he could get the South Mountain Hermit to tell him of the method to revive him.

Wu Zhong reported back to him, the place that can let people live is in the Southern Wilderness, there are barbarians here, outsiders do not dare to approach, as long as Zhu Yuanzhang is willing to send troops, they can eliminate the barbarians, and let the crown prince revive!

After Zhu Yuanzhang heard this, he first sent some of his trusted aides to come to the Wild Mountain to inquire about the past events, and found out that there were indeed rumors of White Kingdom. However, he didn't know the truth, so with an attitude that he would rather believe it, Wu Zhong was promoted to the post of assistant minister of the army, and with him leading the troops, he searched through the Wild Mountain to search for a way to resurrect from death.

But Wu Zhong said that the barbarians at the borders were not enough to be feared, the one he needed to deal with was his master, Chen Jun. Because Chen Jun was the advisor of the Tang Dynasty Army, with his help, the barbarians would definitely not lose, so to eliminate the barbarians, he had to first kill his own master, Chen Jun!

Zhu Yuanzhang listened to Wu Zhong, thus, they conspired together to use Wu Zhong as bait, and tricked Chen Jun into the capital. They then captured Chen Jun and had him interrogate him personally.

From Chen Jun's words, it proved that there was really a way to revive someone from the dead. Zhu Yuanzhang was overjoyed, and wanted Chen Jun to lead the way.

But Chen Jun refused to speak, so Zhu Yuanzhang helplessly handed Chen Jun over to Wu Zhong. Wu Zhong did not dare face his master, and could only lock him up in the Sky Prison for one night, and on the second day, he secretly beheaded Chen Jun. Zhu Yuanzhang was worried that Chen Jun would come back to life, so he chopped Chen Jun's body into pieces and threw it into the wilderness, allowing the jackals and tigers to devour it.

Until now, Chen Jun, who had lived for more than five hundred years, had died in the hands of his own disciple, but when Fourth Uncle said till here, his doubts deepened, and he said that he did not believe that Chen Jun was truly dead!

At the moment of Chen Jun's death, Zhu Yuanzhang had already asked Wu Zhong to lead the army towards the Wild Mountain. Originally, Zhu Yuanzhang thought that he would succeed in reviving here, but things changed once again, because after Wu Zhong led the large army towards the Wild Mountain, he had mysteriously disappeared as well.

Not only him, even the army he led had disappeared from the Wild Mountain as well. As for what happened to Wu Zhong, no one knew.

But Zhu Yuanzhang could faintly guess that he had been tricked by Wu Zhong, so after Wu Zhong had disappeared, he secretly sent people to the Wild Mountain several times but could not find any trace of Wu Zhong. It was only after the 31st year of the Hong Wu Realm that Zhu Yuanzhang, who was seventy-one years old, also died.

He had spent the rest of his life trying to find a way to resurrect the crown prince, Zhu Biao. In the beginning, it was probably to revive the crown prince but it was all for himself in the end, but he did not succeed. As for Wu Zhong, there was still no news of him at the time of his death.

Before Zhu Yuanzhang died, he had told this secret to his own grandson Zhu Yunwen, which was also the later Emperor Jianwen. In the year that Zhu Yunwen ascended the throne, he had begun to investigate the Wild Mountain, but before he could come to a conclusion, his own blood uncle, Zhu Di, had rebelled and begun to resolve this difficult battle!

The Emperor Jianwen burned the palace, then brought his personal guards to dig out his father's bones and escape. As of now, the location of the Emperor Jianwen in the history books was a mystery, no one knew where the Emperor Jianwen went.

In fact, the first thing Zhu Yunwen did after he fled the palace was to rush to the Wild Mountain to revive Zhu Biao, because as long as Zhu Biao is still alive, he wouldn't be able to sit still on the throne. But Zhu Yuanzhang told him before that there were barbarians on the Wild Mountain, so he built a warship to head towards the Wild Mountain, which meant he is the Ancient Warship that we have seen before!

When Fourth Uncle said till here, I pretty much understood everything about Wild Mountain. Even though Fourth Uncle's explanation was very messy, with a lot of things being explained in detail, I had a plan in my heart.

Whether or not Wild Mountain could revive a person from death, no one had personally seen it, but Loong Liaan was the first person to benefit from this. Back then, the person who followed Loong Liaan must have found out something by accident when he escaped into the Wild Mountain, which was why Loong Liaan revived.

Therefore, Chen Jun went up the mountain alone to have a secret chat with Loong Liaan. No one knew what they talked about, but in the end, Chen Jun and the people from White Kingdom all moved to the underground, and even gave up on rebelling against Long Duo.

But why did the people from the White Kingdom want to survive underground?

Was it because of Chen Jun and Loong Liaan's conversation?

Or perhaps there was something underground more important than reviving after death that led Loong Liaan to give up on the rebellion?

Without personally coming into contact with the underground core of the Wild Mountain, they would never know the answer. In short, the people from the White Kingdom had transferred to the underground to survive, and Chen Jun had also benefited from it, having survived from the Tang Dynasty to the Ming Dynasty.

But she was coveted by Wu Zhong, so Chen Jun died, and for her own benefits, Wu Zhong was used, and in the end, even Wu Zhong also disappeared.

After Zhu Yuanzhang died, he told his secret to Zhu Yunwen, so after the calamity, Zhu Yunwen brought his father's corpse to the Wild Mountain, in order to resurrect Zhu Biao and take back his world.

The clues seemed to be very clear, but my heart was actually in a mess, because the Fourth Uncle's explanation was simply too general. There wasn't even a word that could be used, just a few columns, such as below the Wild Mountain can bring a person back from the dead, then how can the White Kingdom be destroyed?

Since Zhu Yunwen had come to the Wild Mountain to revive Zhu Biao, then why were there those Beastmen on his boat?

Also, the origin of the Zimu Jade that the old man found was also from the Emperor Jianwen, what was the reason he brought the Zimu Jade here?

My guess is that the Zimu Jade must be very important, otherwise it would be impossible for the 1976 drilling team to bring the Zimu Jade underground. However, during the process of Fourth Uncle's narration, he didn't clearly explain the Zimu Jade's situation.

When I raised these questions, Fourth Uncle immediately glared at me and scolded, "Brat, do you think that this daddy here is Chen Jun and has lived for over five hundred years? "I deduced all of these from a bit of information. Although it's very chaotic, the development of this matter should be more or less accurate. If you want to know the real secret, you can only find the answer by going underground!"

Hai Yang suddenly said, "I don't know what the underground secret is, but when Sanjin talked about those Beastmen, I suddenly thought of something."

"What is it?" Fourth Uncle and I asked at the same time.

Hai Yang licked her lips and said: "Actually, I should have thought about it when I was at the Ancient Warship, but there were too many unforeseen events back then. Sanjin, do you remember how San Ye died?"