931 Myths and Legends

"The first time was the battle between the Yellow Emperor and Chiyou, I didn't experience that battle, I was not born at that time, I only heard that behind the Yellow Emperor is a group of water gods, and behind Chiyou is a group of mountain gods...... At that time, there was no clear concept of cultivation, although there was already a cultivation system, but the main thing was still to believe in becoming a god, and at that time, the cultivation system was not mature, there was no saying of three disasters and five tribulations, and there was no concept of Yuan Shen and Yuan Ying, but the Dao of Perception was there, but the specific way was still uncertain. The largest number of gods are still gods, and the gods at that time are all more than 100 zhang long, which can be said to be gods or monsters.

That battle lasted for a long time, hundreds of years before and after, at the beginning, it actually had nothing to do with people, it was simply a war between gods and gods, and there was nothing to do with the Yellow Emperor and Chi You. At that time, human beings were very weak and had little strength, and they belonged to the object of shelter. Youkai shelter humans, and at the same time get the worship of humans, and gain faith will.

But then the situation changed, and I don't know who tried to use some cultivation methods...... There should also be a method of believing in becoming a god taught to human beings, and then human beings suddenly become powerful, although in terms of individual strength alone, human beings are far inferior to monsters, but human beings are naturally enlightened, and the way of cultivation is common, communicate with each other, remove the chaff, and soon summarize a set of methods that are most suitable for them.

That war, in the end, ended with the victory of the water god's side, but the real winner is actually human beings, human beings were originally the source of faith, the object of protection, but in the end it became a force that cannot be ignored, and the strength of human beings is still getting stronger and stronger, the most important thing is that the gods that human beings believe in are no longer limited to monsters, but also ancestors such as the Three Emperors and Five Emperors.

The second time was the War of the Gods, and I experienced that war myself. Unlike the Battle of the Yellow Emperor Chiyou, that battle was not dominated by monsters, but by humans. It is said that it is a god, but it is not wrong, in order to use the power of the monsters, whether it is Shang or Zhou, they all promise that after winning, those monsters who have helped can get incense offerings.

From this point, it can be seen that in the era of the Yellow Emperor Chiyou, the monster was the protagonist, and in the era of the gods, the monster has become a supporting role, and its nature is equivalent to that of a mercenary.

After the end of the War of the Gods, although the Zhou Dynasty kept its promise, they also played a trick and established 365 righteous gods to reward those who had helped.

That's right, it's a reward, it's not that there are too many vacancies in the heavenly court, and no one wants to serve in the heavenly court, so take the god list to catch the difference, that is the right position of the gods, enjoy the eternal incense, how can the loser be qualified to go up?

King Wen of Zhou and King Wu of Zhou are all masterpieces of a generation, and there is also Jiang Ziya, who has a lot of eyes! They got the help of the monsters, and at the same time they were afraid of the strength of the monsters, so while sealing the gods, they were also calculating.

Didn't they set up three hundred and sixty-five righteous gods? At the same time, they also declared that there should be no other gods. He also asked the three hundred and sixty-five righteous gods to help keep an eye on it, and once there was an outer hairy god appearing, he would immediately kill them all. In addition, the Zhou Room also asked the three hundred and sixty-five righteous gods to swear no longer to interfere in mundane affairs, and at the same time, if there were monsters interfering with mundane things, they were also invited to join forces to kill.

Isn't this trick exactly the same as the "two peaches killing three soldiers" in later generations? The problem was that no one could see it at the time, and the three hundred and sixty-five righteous gods happily approved of it. They became a knife in the hands of the king of Zhou, and as the power of the Zhou Dynasty expanded, those wild gods who were unwilling to abide by this rule were exterminated by the three hundred and sixty-five righteous gods.

At that time, there were definitely a lot of monsters and wild gods who were robbed by people, but in just two hundred years, most of the monsters and wild gods were killed, and the remaining ones either chose to lie dormant and live a life of survival, or turned to the path of cultivation.

Those three hundred and sixty-five righteous gods were assisted by the power of faith and will, and with the blessing of the power of the society, the speed of cultivation was very fast, and they soared one after another in just a few hundred years, and since then, human beings have become the masters of this land.

However, the relationship between monsters and humans at that time was at least half a teacher and half a friend, until the Qin Dynasty, the so-called immortals, at least seven achievements were monsters, and even from the early Han Dynasty to the middle of the Eastern Han Dynasty, there was no talk of subduing demons and eliminating demons at that time.

It was also at that time, with human beings as a reference, that the various ways of cultivation gradually became clear, turning into demons, three calamities and five tribulations, cultivating the primordial god or primordial infant, the great demon, the human tribulation, the earth tribulation, the heavenly tribulation, this set of things was formed at that time.

In the past, we monsters were all ignorant and ignorant, and we only knew how to absorb the essence of heaven and earth, but we didn't know how to take every step? What to avoid? Although there is a bloodline inheritance, but after all, it is limited, and if you want to achieve something, you still have to absorb the power of faith, saying that it is cultivated into an immortal, but in fact, it is a half-immortal and a half-god.

Since the Zhou Dynasty, we finally have a complete system. You can even learn from the exercises that human beings have figured out to cultivate, which is much faster, and if you use the power of faith and will, it will be even faster.

It can be said that those days were definitely golden years for us monsters.

It was not until the middle and late Eastern Han Dynasty that the situation changed, and this change originally originated from the entry of Buddhism into Middle-earth.

Before that, the things of the Buddha Gate had already been introduced, and in addition to the things of the Brahmins, of course, it was okay to say that it was the Demon Gate, and at that time there was already a great freedom in the heavens.

However, the real change was the establishment of the Daomen, which was also the third major change.

I have to admit that Zhang Daoling is indeed the No. 1 person, drawing on the system of Buddhism, he single-handedly established the Daomen, and the Daomen he established is very radical, which is completely different from the gentle tolerance of Buddhism.

You should have heard that one of Zhang Daoling's favorite things to do is to cut down mountains and destroy temples, but you definitely don't know it...... Or forget that nine times out of ten, those felled mountains are where some people or earth demons live, and those temples are the dojos of some wild gods or earth gods.

At that time, a thousand years have passed since the Great War of the Gods, and most of the three hundred and sixty-five gods who were enshrined at the beginning have been united by heaven and man, and only twenty or thirty people still exist in the world, and the Zhou Room no longer exists at that time, but the original oath is still there, and these gods do not care about things most of the time, turning a blind eye to the descendants who claim to be gods privately and absorb the power of faith, but if someone is true, they still have to fight hard.

In the early days, Zhang Daoling relied on the power of the fox and the fake tiger to expand his strength step by step, but in the middle stage, the Heavenly Master Dao had already become a wing, with sixty-eight disciples and more than 3,000 disciples, and his own strength was invincible.

At that time, there was no monster alliance, and the number of monsters was much smaller than now, and they were not the opponents of the Heavenly Master Dao at all, and almost two-thirds of the monsters who were killed by the Heavenly Master Dao before and after, and since then, the status of the monsters has plummeted.

Later, the Daomen flourished, and the people in the Daomen seized the blessed land of the cave everywhere, searching for strange flowers and plants and all kinds of heaven and earth spiritual objects. The remnants of the youkai are getting harder and harder, either hiding in the mountains and hibernating, or throwing themselves into the Daomen like me.

Overall, though, this period was also considered a Silver Age. Even for us old guys, the situation is not bad, even more comfortable than the golden age. The resources and exercises required for cultivation are ...... Anyway, there is no shortage of wealth in the law and land, and there are people to help explore the way, which road is smooth? Which road is a dead end? All of them are clear, and although the traces of the avenue left by the Pathfinder are shallow, they have great reference value for us.

After another thousand years, the situation changed again, and the Quanzhen Religion arose. The Quanzhen Sect even had to reject other sects of the Daomen, not to mention the monsters, at that time life was indeed not easy at all, but the Quanzhen Sect was also regarded as the last glory of the Daomen, and it was only a few hundred years of work, and the vitality of heaven and earth began to fail, and everyone began to flee. ”

Uncle Qin stared at the parallel goods above his head while talking about the past.

"So don't think of Taoism as anything remarkable, even the Shangqing sect has only a history of 17,800 years, and the establishment of the entire Taoist sect is only about 2,000 years, and the establishment of Taoism is earlier, but it is only 500 years earlier."

Uncle Qin's words are full of vicissitudes, and they sound so simple and heavy...... Anyway, Jiang Ning can't imagine it.

But he did understand something.

Human beings have become the protagonists of heaven and earth, I am afraid it is really God's arrangement...... Even if the appearance of human beings is due to one reason or another, even if it was some primeval god who created human beings for some purpose, it was God's arrangement.

He could vaguely feel God's pulse.

If God is really as he guessed, it is the fusion of all the consciousness bodies on this earth, and if this consciousness fusion also has the idea of evolution, then a race that is born with enlightenment but has a short lifespan, and even after cultivation, the lifespan is much shorter than that of other life forms is very meaningful.

As for the will of faith, getting it wrong is just a by-product. It may also be a plug-in specially given by God. Of course, it is also possible that it is a targeted screening. Or maybe it's as a tool, or maybe it's some kind of reward...... There are so many possibilities.

As for the emergence of the cultivation system, it is also easy to understand, although the belief system has various benefits, but the number of strong people who are qualified to stand at the top is a big problem, how many gods are there in Greek and Roman mythology? There are no more than sixty people who have really been enshrined, even fewer in Norse mythology, forty in the sky, and three hundred and sixty-five righteous gods in the Zhou Dynasty, which is simply astronomical.

Don't forget, those three hundred and sixty-five righteous gods are the best on the winner's side, if you count the loser's side, it means that the number must be at least doubled, and there must be a neutral faction, and the number of powerful monsters at that time is probably more than a thousand.

In addition, the belief system also has the problem of competing for the source of faith, and in the end, there will inevitably be a god war. The cultivation system is different, even if you need to rely on the power of faith, the demand is not so great, and generally speaking, there will be no war. In particular, the longer the lifespan of the youkai, the more afraid of death, so if you take this road, the number of people who can eventually reach the top is at least ten times that of taking the road of faith, and it is possible to get dozens of times worse.

However, even so, God may still be too slow.

That's why the vitality of heaven and earth has disappeared.

On the one hand, there is persecution.

Let those old guys soar quickly, on the other hand, it is also to let the people who stay break a new path, and stop sticking to the original set of things.

In the same way, forcing the old guys to ascend also has the meaning of clearing the way, otherwise there is a group of old guys who eat the old and want to change something, it will definitely be much more difficult.