Chapter 82: Shooting the Sun
Hearing the word sun mentioned in Chunting's mouth, everyone nodded thoughtfully.
There is no doubt that even if the time passes for another thousand years, the mountains and rivers have changed, the people are gone, and everything in this world is no longer what it is now, the sun in the sky at that time will not be any different from today.
As the so-called sun candle shines, too yin and gloomy, no matter what kind of legends and stories, the status of the sun is always so noble, and no one has ever doubted this.
There was once a saying that after Pangu opened the heavens and died, the sun and the yin that his eyes turned into were combined with the yin and yang in the two instruments, and the sun candle and the yin and shadow were born.
In this theory, the sun candle and the shadow of the sun are called the holy spirits, and these two incarnate into the four elephants, and under the combination of the four elephants, all the divine beasts, fierce beasts, and even strange beasts and mortal beasts in the world are born, adding endless vitality to this heaven and earth.
Regardless of the veracity of this statement, from this simple description alone, we can roughly feel the reverence of the ancients for the sun.
Obviously, something that is so far beyond our understanding can indeed be called eternal.
"Before the chaos opened, except for the Pangu Great God and the three thousand Chaos Demon Gods, there was nothing else in this heaven and earth, and naturally there was no so-called sun."
Seeing that we understood his words, Chunting spoke again and told us the story of the sun.
"After the great god of Pangu opened the sky with an axe, because he felt that this world was too deserted, he turned his body into everything in the world, and his left eye turned into the sun that shines to this day."
"People in the world often say that the eyes are the windows of the soul, and cultivators also have the magical power to hurt people with their eyes, and since even ordinary people's eyes are so important, then the sun transformed by the left eye of the Pangu god is naturally even more extraordinary, and it is precisely because of this that Nuwa Niangniang hit her own idea on the sun."
Speaking of this, Chun Ting lowered his head and looked at the puzzled people, and asked us in a considerate tone.
"In ancient mythology, when you mentioned something related to the sun, what would come to your mind first?"
Compared to the question that Chunting had raised before, the question he was talking about at the moment was too simple, so before his words fell, Shen Lang rushed to answer him.
"I know, I know, when it comes to the sun, the first reaction is, of course, Hou Yi shooting the sun and Kuafu chasing the sun!"
"There are many myths and stories that you don't feel anything unusual until you know the truth, but if you know the hidden secrets, you will definitely find some problems when you hear them again."
Hearing this answer, Chun Ting showed a mysterious smile noncommittally, and then asked Shen Lang rhetorically.
"I just said that the sun is transformed by the left eye of the Pangu God, use your brains to think about it, how many left eyes does the Pangu God have?"
Facing Chunting's rhetorical question, Shen Lang was speechless for a moment. Cola Literature
The two stories of Hou Yi shooting the sun and Kuafu's day by day mentioned by Shen Lang just now, everyone will naturally not feel unfamiliar, they are mythical stories that everyone has listened to since childhood, and it is even no exaggeration to say that even three-year-old children have heard their elders tell these two stories that have been passed down for thousands of years.
But it wasn't until Chunting asked a rhetorical question that we suddenly discovered that for the time being, not to mention the matter of Kuafu's day by day, the story of Hou Yi shooting the sun seems to have a huge problem in itself.
Legend has it that in ancient times, there were ten suns in the sky, and these ten suns were brothers who lived together on the Fuso tree in the Yutani, nine of which perched on the branches of the trees that grew shorter, and the last of which perched on the treetops.
At the beginning of a new day, when Shenzhou needs light, the sun perched on the treetops rises from the Tang Valley, crosses the sky, illuminates the world, and sprinkles light and heat all over every corner of the Shenzhou, until the evening, this sun will set in the Yu Valley.
The ten suns change every day, take turns on duty, orderly, all things in heaven and earth are in harmony, people work at sunrise and rest at sunset, and life is both happy and happy.
But the good times didn't last long, and after a long time like this, the ten suns couldn't help but feel a little bored, so they decided to travel the sky together, and when the new dawn came, the ten suns rose together, and embarked on a journey through the sky.
A sun shining on Shenzhou is to sprinkle light and heat all over Shenzhou, so that the world can see the light, but if ten suns appear together, then the creatures in Shenzhou will not be able to bear this too strong light and heat at all, and as the ten suns rise together, the land of Shenzhou will suddenly be in chaos.
Ten suns are like ten large fires, the heat they release scorched the earth and dried the rivers, neither humans nor demons can resist such heat, there is no doubt that if it continues for a long time, Shenzhou will definitely become a scorched earth, and there will be no more life.
As the saying goes, there must be heroes in times of crisis, and in such a situation, a hero really appeared.
This hero's name is Hou Yi, he is an out-and-out archer, excellent archery, 100 shots, because he feels that the land of Shenzhou is scorched by the ten suns, and people live in suffering, so he secretly decided to shoot out the nine suns in the sky to help people get out of the sea of suffering.
So, Hou Yi climbed over the mountains, through the desert, and finally came to a mountain by the East China Sea, after reaching the top of the mountain, he bent his bow and arrows, aimed at the sun in the sky that was emitting a poisonous light, and shot an arrow at the ground.
After an arrow was fired, the sun high above was actually shot down by Hou Yi.
After feeling the decrease in heat, Hou Yi couldn't help but look happy, but he didn't give up, but continued to pull out the bow and arrow, aiming the arrow at the next sun, and as the arrow shot out again, the second sun also fell from the sky.
In this way, Hou Yi shot arrows at the sun one after another, and after shooting nine suns, the light and heat between heaven and earth finally returned to normal, and Shenzhou avoided the danger of being turned into scorched earth.
At this point, Hou Yi retired, he spared the last sun, warned him, and then turned and walked down the mountain, and no one in the world knew where he was going.
This is the story of Hou Yi Shooting the Sun, we grew up listening to this story, but we have always just treated it as a simple story.
But now, after hearing what Chunting said, everyone immediately thought of the problem in this story.
Since the sun is the embodiment of the left eye of the Pangu god, there can never be a second sun in this heaven and earth.
In that case, what exactly is the legendary thing that Hou Yi shot?