Chapter 129: The End of the Age of Mythology

Although we have doubts, we dare not easily refute them.

Chunting just mentioned that the fuse that triggered the Lich Hegemony was the well-known story of Kuafu chasing the sun and Hou Yi shooting the sun.

At the same time, he tells us that the myths and legends of antiquity are not just legends, but things that really happened at that time, but because people do not know the details of the time, they are processed into legends, and the truth is very different from what we know.

Because of this, although we didn't feel that the killing of the gods had brought any destructive disasters, we didn't dare to draw conclusions lightly because of the lessons we had just learned.

Looking at the way we wanted to speak and stopped, Chun Ting smiled faintly, he didn't explain directly, but looked at Niu Kelian and asked slowly.

"Ke Lian, you just said that killing the gods is not a catastrophe, so what kind of stories happened during the god period in your eyes?"

Niu Kelian was already full of doubts, he heard Chunting have this question, he didn't hesitate at the moment, sorted out his thoughts, and then opened his mouth to talk about the story of the Romance of the Gods, which was known to later generations.

At the end of the Shang Dynasty, King Yin was brutal and unkind, when he entered the Xiangnuwa Palace, because he saw the beauty of the statue of Nuwa, so the inscription poem was blasphemous, Nuwa was angry that the King of Xuan was rude to him, so he sent the three demons of Xuanyuan Tomb into the Song City to confuse the king's heart, so as to destroy the world.

Xibohou Ji Chang is known as a virtuous name, and the king of Zhou was worried that it would affect the Shang Dynasty, so he imprisoned him in Chaoge, and his son Boyi Kao was killed by Daji in the three demons, but Ji Chang did not show abnormality, but chose to endure humiliation and burden, intending to paralyze the king of Zhou.

After he fled back to Xiqi, he visited Jiang Ziya, who lived in seclusion in the grassland, and after a conversation, he worshipped him as prime minister, and began to fight with King Yin.

However, the battle between the two sides was not as simple as in later generations, because it was extremely close to the ancient period, so the cultivators on both sides went out of the mountain to help, and the combatants were all powerful people who could move mountains and seas, and ordinary people could not control the battle situation at all.

Because I grew up listening to the story of the Romance of the Gods, the process naturally does not need to be detailed, and the final result of this battle was that King Yin set himself on fire in the Star Picking Tower, and the three demons such as Daji were captured, and the Shang Dynasty came to an end.

At the same time, Jiang Ziya led the Yuan Shi Tianzun to edict, beheaded the gods in the Fengshen platform, and the martial king Ji Fa was the son of heaven, sealing the seventy-two princes, and setting the capital of Haojing, thus starting the 800-year national glory of the Zhou Dynasty.

Speaking of this, the story of the Fengshen List came to an end, Niu Kelian stopped talking eloquently, and looked at Chunting with an inquiring meaning.

Chunting didn't make us wait too long, he turned his gaze to Wuzhiqi, not so much that he was explaining to us, but that he was actually asking Wuzhiqi for confirmation.

It seems that he is not completely sure of his statement.

"Senior, on the surface, the War of the Gods seems to be just a war between the Shang and Zhou dynasties, but in fact it is far from that simple.

Before the Shang Dynasty, there were many myths and legends that could move mountains and reclaim the sea and live forever in ancient times, but after King Wu successfully established the Zhou Dynasty, those myths and legends gradually disappeared, and there seemed to be no cultivators in the world. ”

Looking at our gradually solemn expressions, Chunting continued to add the opinions of the people of the next generation.

"Time is long, and later generations don't know what happened back then, but everyone agrees that the War of the Gods is an extremely important turning point, this war divides the mythical period from the historical period, and for the mythical era is no less than a real catastrophe."

After speaking, he looked at Wuzhiqi, waiting for the response from this ancient giant.

And when we hear this, we can't help but fall into deep thought.

Although Chunting's statement sounds a little strange at first, after careful consideration, it is found that there is a lot of truth in it.

The ancient period in the mouth of later generations is not actually a fixed time, but an imaginary reference to the ancient times, which generally refers to the legendary mythological era.

In the legends of that period, it was not uncommon for immortals to be able to move mountains and reclaim the sea, and it is not uncommon for such legends to become less and less with the passage of time.

It wasn't until we heard Chunting's remarks just now that we suddenly discovered that the end of the mythological era seemed to start with the beheading of the gods!

The War of the Gods originated from King Yin's disrespect for Nuwa, whether this statement is true or not, but at least it can mean that there were still so-called myths in the world at that time.

And as Chunting said, after King Wu successfully created the Zhou Dynasty, the imperial era of China began, and since then, all we can remember is the historical records of the past dynasties, and the myths and legends are almost extinct.

From this point of view, the War of the Gods may be nothing more than a war for mortals, but for the cultivators of that period, it is indeed a calamity.

After waiting for a long time, Wu Zhiqi did not intend to answer, but asked Chunting again.

"You just said that there are five things that can be called calamities in your impression, so what is the last thing in your mouth?"

Seeing Wu Zhiqi's reaction, Chun Ting had no choice but to continue to speak.

"After the beheading of the gods, the Shenzhou we are in has moved from the mythological era to the dynastic era, and the last catastrophe in my mouth is the last one that is widely spread in Shenzhou, which can be said to be a myth and legend known to women and children, that is the westward road of the Tang Dynasty."

Chunting turned out to be the story of Journey to the West.

Tang Sanzang, Sun Wukong, Zhu Bajie, Sha Monk, White Dragon Horse, the four masters and apprentices traveled all the way to the west, just to obtain the true scriptures, after nine hundred and eighty-one difficulties, finally arrived at the West Heaven Da Lei Yin Temple, the merit was complete, and the Buddha was achieved.

Although I don't know if there was such a westward journey during the Tang Dynasty, we are really no stranger to the story of this Journey to the West.

Or it is no exaggeration to say that all Chinese people are no strangers to this story.

At the time of the Tang Dynasty, Wuzhiqi had already been suppressed in the Vientiane Shrine, and Chunting was worried that it didn't know what the story was, so he explained it intimately.

After a long time, after Wuzhiqi finally sorted out the story line of Journey to the West, Chunting looked at it seriously and said in an extremely respectful tone.

"This is what I have in my impression of the land of Shenzhou that can be called a catastrophe, but I don't know how much of these stories I have learned are true and how fictional, and I ask my predecessors to answer my questions."