Volume 1: The Story of Yuan Pu's Anthology "Eight-armed Nezha".
According to legend, this "eight-armed boy" was a mysterious thief in the late Yuan Dynasty and early Ming Dynasty, who had done a lot of shocking cases at that time, and was a very legendary figure.
He was first of all an extremely dangerous assassin, specializing in assassinating Ming Dynasty officials at that time, and more than a dozen officials died in his hands, including the prefect of Daizhou at that time, as well as several generals who had made military exploits for the Ming Dynasty.
In addition, he also has a penchant for looting treasures and antiques, and as long as these treasures are targeted by him, he must get them. It doesn't even matter if you are a famous family or an insider of the state capital, as long as you are targeted by him, it is almost impossible to be spared.
And after every successful crime, he will not forget to leave an extremely eye-catching mark, that is, a bare-chested little doll with eight arms, which seems to be a deliberate demonstration.
In addition, although he is ruthless and never leaves any life, he never kills innocents indiscriminately.
The most interesting thing is that every time he has to list the crimes of the people he killed, he writes them on the clothes on the chest of the deceased, as if deliberately letting people know that this person is innocent of death. Not only that, but the treasures and antiques he plundered, he could tell how they had been snatched by their current owners from others.
It's just incredible that he has been able to cross the country for more than 30 years and has never missed a beat. It wasn't until he disappeared completely in the end that I didn't know what the end would be to him.
It's just that later, according to the trajectory of his life, some people speculated that he should be from the area of XX State, and some people even rumored that he died in XX State in the end.
But there is no conclusive evidence for this rumor, and it is just a kind of reasoning, based on the fact that the general scope of his crime is centered on XX state.
Moreover, the huge treasures, antiques, gold, silver and jewels he plundered have never been discovered by anyone. This, along with his eventual silent disappearance, has become a permanent mystery, and no one knows the answer to this day.
But who would have thought that this mysterious thief "eight-armed boy" turned out to be the grandson of the famous politician and military strategist in the last years of the Yuan Dynasty.
Totoh, full name Tokhtar Timur, Mongolian beggar. This detachment was a famous "virtuous minister" at the end of the Yuan Dynasty, and he advocated "Confucianism to rule the world", which played a major role in the stable rule of the late Yuan Dynasty.
He has been a famous prodigy since he was a child, and when he grew up, he became a genius who governed the world with both civil and military skills, he was not only outstanding in literature and proficient in Confucianism, but also rode a strong horse to get hard skills, and finally stood out and became a solid pillar in the last years of the Yuan Dynasty.
But in the end, he was framed by the hostile forces in the court, was dismissed and exiled, and finally committed suicide with hatred by the enemy's false edict of Emperor Yuan Hui.
After Tokhtar committed suicide with hatred, most of his family members were murdered by the enemy, and almost all of them were wiped out, except for his youngest son.
It turned out that his youngest son had been separated from the people since he was a child, and when Tokhtar had just tried his best to find him, he suffered from the enemy's plot and lost his former power.
In desperation, Tokhtar had no choice but to continue to let this young son hide among the people, but secretly sent his henchmen to protect and take care of him, and passed on what he had learned in his life to him.
After Tokhtar "committed suicide by edict", his henchman hurriedly took this little son away from home and hid among the people. and also changed his name and surname, and gave him another Han name, called Yu Yin.
More than ten years have passed in a blink of an eye, and under the loyal care of that confidant and dead man, this Yu Yin has also grown up to marry a wife and have children. Yu Yin named his son Yu Yi, which means that he wants his son to be like himself, continue to hide in the people, and be an ordinary person in peace.
However, this Yu Yi did not continue to be an ordinary person as his father expected, honestly and dutifully.
Since he learned his true life experience from that henchman, he secretly followed this henchman to practice martial arts. By the time he was seventeen or eighteen years old, he had already become a top master in the house, and all he lacked was actual combat experience.
It turned out that this confidant of Tokhtar was not an ordinary samurai, but a cult master with extremely strong martial arts. When he was young, he relied on his domineering mastery to do a lot of big cases, and finally was mobilized by the government from all walks of life, so he was designed to arrest him.
Later, it was not easy to get rid of the peerless kung fu practice in his body, and it was a pity to kill him with a knife, so he used the trick of dropping the bag to save one of his lives.
However, although this person is ruthless and vicious, he is extremely affectionate, especially for the life-saving grace of liberation. In addition, Tokhtar's reputation was excellent, and he was very respectful in plain life, so he willingly turned into a slave and sat a personal guard beside Tokhtar.
However, Totokh is also respectful to him on weekdays, and does not treat him as an ordinary subordinate at all, and the two have slowly become real friends. Later, after Tokhtar was framed and his family was ruined, he was ordered to protect the young son of the lord.
It's just that Yu Yin's innate endowment is poor, and he is not suitable for practicing his kung fu, so he didn't forcibly teach it to him. It wasn't until not long after Yu Yi was born that he saw that this child was born to be a good billet for martial arts, and he loved it very much.
In addition, he knew that he was old, and if he didn't pass on his mastery to future generations, he might really have to be brought into the coffin.
So he made every effort to secretly train and teach Yi, and sure enough, more than ten years later, Yu Yi lived up to his expectations and became a master of martial arts.
Not only that, but he also taught Yu Yi a lot of tricks and tricks, so as not to let him wander the rivers and lakes in the future. It's just that when Yu Yi was just eighteen years old, his master suddenly fell ill and died.
This Yu Yi has been conceited since he was a child, and he has always remembered the glorious past of his ancestors and the grievances of his ancestors, and even he resented the Ming Dynasty at that time, and regarded the court as his imaginary enemy.
Because his master had secretly killed the enemy for his father and son and avenged his grandfather, he put all his hatred on the Ming Dynasty, which had a hatred for them to destroy the country and destroy the clan.
On the one hand, he secretly assassinated the local officials he thought should be damned, and the leading generals who had made meritorious contributions to the founding of the country, and on the other hand, he secretly united with the remnants of the courtiers who were still obsessed with the previous dynasty hidden among the people, intending to wait for an opportunity to regain the Great Yuan.
Because of his extremely high martial arts and extremely secretive behavior, even his family did not know about him, so that he has never missed a battle in more than 20 years, which cannot be regarded as a miracle.
During this period, under the name of the "eight-armed boy", he killed at least fifty or sixty civil and military generals of the Ming Dynasty, and also gathered a large number of rare treasures and huge wealth. But with the passage of time, the Ming Dynasty has become more and more stable, and even the remnants of the earlier dynasties have given up their insistence.
The matter has come to this point, and Yu Yi himself knows that big things can no longer be done. In addition, the government's tracking of him is getting tighter and tighter, and he seems to have smelled some clues, and he has long sensed that the danger is approaching step by step. So he categorically decided to retreat to the mountains and forests and withdraw from the rivers and lakes, completely disappear, and fade out of people's sight forever.
Since then, there has been no trace of the "eight-armed boy" on the rivers and lakes. At that time, many people, even his secret subordinates in his early years, thought that he had either been secretly executed after being arrested by the government, or he had died under a stronger opponent in a vendetta. Even in the eyes of his closest family, he died of a violent illness, and no one doubted it.
In fact, he didn't really hide in the mountains and dense forests, but just used his superb disguise skills to transform himself into another identity, becoming a sloppy beggar, and continuing to play red dust on the rivers and lakes. It's just that he has really put down the butcher's knife, and he will never show his martial arts at will again, let alone participate in any grievances.
Not to mention, more than ten years have passed in a flash, and no one has really recognized his true identity, so that he has been a beggar for more than ten years, but he is also free.
Until one day, he suddenly met an old beggar who was similar to him at the foot of Lianyun Mountain, and was finally recognized by others. At that time, he had no intention of taking people's lives, he just wanted to get out as soon as possible and change his identity again and continue this carefree and comfortable life.
But the old beggar didn't give up, deliberately teased him to his heart's content, and didn't say anything to let him get out. Later, although Yu Yi was very angry, he had no choice but to surpass him far more than this old beggar in terms of martial arts and IQ, even if he tried his best, he still couldn't get out.
The entanglement between the two was more than ten days, and Yu Yi was exhausted by the torture of this old beggar, and he was completely helpless. In the end, he was forcibly locked in the stone chamber of the Wisteria Valley, and closed the stone door outside, no matter how strong his martial arts were, he couldn't break through the door.
Who knows, this level turned out to be a whole year. Within this year, Yu Yi only relied on his pure internal force, and the perennial seepage of water in the rock crevices in the stone chamber, as well as the vine roots inside. It turned out that there were many vine roots growing in this stone room, which he used as food to satisfy his hunger, and he ate almost half of them in the past year.
It was only a year later that the old beggar released him. When the two met, they didn't say a word, and started fighting directly. This battle lasted for three days and three nights, but in the end he was defeated by others, and was forced to be locked in by the old beggar.
Who knew that it was another year, and when the old beggar released him again, the vine roots in it had been almost eaten by him, but he was still tenaciously alive.
After being released, the two had another big battle, although after two years of painstaking cultivation, Yu Yi's skills have improved by leaps and bounds, but he is still not the opponent of the old beggar. After two days and two nights of fierce fighting, he was finally defeated again and was unceremoniously locked up again.
This situation is a bit miserable, because there are not many vine roots left in the stone room, and I don't know how long he can survive. Fortunately, in the past two years, his internal kung fu has improved a lot, and he has no choice but to rely on his pure internal strength to support it, and when he can't stand it anymore, he can eat a bite or two of vine roots to replenish it.
In this way, another year passed slowly, and by the time he was released this time, the old beggar had obviously become much older. The two fought again, and this time in less than a day, the old beggar was defeated by his men.
But just when Yi Yangtian howled to release himself, the old beggar suddenly walked into the stone room tremblingly, and wrote the three big words "Xinzhai Ju" on the wall of the stone room with all his strength.
After Yi found out, the old beggar had already fallen to the ground and died. At this moment, Yu Yi, who was already both civil and military, seemed to suddenly understand something. This old beggar who has tormented himself for three years turned out to be the senior master who was specially arranged by Mi Mi to guide his path of cultivation.
He defeated and imprisoned himself several times, in order to polish his edges and corners, so that he could finally go to the Great Dao of Enlightenment naturally. Since then, he has regarded himself as a layman of Xinzhai, and then he has entered this stone chamber four times to devote himself to cultivation, and has begun his true path of cultivation and enlightenment.
Moreover, after smoothing out the three words left by the old beggar, he left his experience of retreat four times, which can be regarded as a kind of reverence and remembrance for the old beggar, which is the stone inscription that everyone saw in the stone room of Wisteria Valley yesterday.
After a few years, he finally broke through and returned to real life. It's just that after he came out of the mountain, he no longer fought the sword rivers and lakes, nor did he play Hongchen. Instead, he traveled all over the famous mountains and rivers, visited the masters of the Dao, studied martial arts with them, and explored the way of cultivating the truth.
Until one day, he overheard an old Taoist who traveled to say that the ghost cave hidden on Lianyun Mountain where he was back then turned out to be a cave blessed land that Zhuang Zhou, one of the founders of Taoist thought had practiced.
And legend has it that even to this day, you can still see a strange colorful butterfly inside, and it is said that it is these colorful butterflies that triggered the classic "Zhuang Zhou Dream Butterfly" theory.
So Yu Yi immediately returned to Lianyun Mountain, and according to the guidance of the old Taoist, he finally found this ghost cave. Since then, he has been practicing in this for a long time, and after more than ten years of pondering, he finally cracked the hallucinogenic magic of this natural "Crystal Demon Palace".
In his opinion, it was the high-intensity rays reflected by the crystal rock wall of this 'Crystal Demon Palace' that were the root of all this.
It is the high-intensity rays refracted by these crystal rock walls that make people form an illusion of thought in an instant.
And those colorful butterflies of different species live in this cave, and their unique way of existence combined with movement and static, to a certain extent, has further intensified people's spiritual fission. It makes people feel as if they have suddenly entered the ethereal passage of time and space, and they can't help but fall into endless painstaking meditation, completely unable to extricate themselves.
In fact, this so-called 'Crystal Demon Palace' is just an objective natural phenomenon, and it is indeed difficult for ordinary people to escape its hallucinations, but as long as they have a little inner skill, they can still quickly stick to their hearts and resist this magical natural hallucination.
However, later, on the basis of the original foundation of this 'Crystal Demon Palace', the eight-armed Nezha arranged a powerful prohibition similar to the Xuankong Nine Palaces, which made this place even more powerful.
In fact, this is the real power of this eight-armed Nezha, and his prohibition is to stimulate and enhance the special natural magic here to the greatest extent.
And it is also a very peculiar impromptu prohibition, a bizarre prohibition that is weak when it is weak, and strong when it is strong.
If this prohibition encounters a fool with no scheming, or an ignorant child, it will have no effect, even those original natural hallucinations, which may not have the slightest effect on them, because they are a blank slate.
But the more you resist, the more you struggle, and the more you are stimulated, until you finally have a nervous breakdown and fall into a temporary state of fainting. However, this coma is only very short-lived, and as long as you do not take the antidote in time to be treated during this period, you will wake up again and enter a permanent state of madness.
In fact, this is the real power of the eight-armed Nezha, and it is also the most amazing place of his Xuankong Nine Palaces.
He was originally an obsessive of Zhuang Zhou's thoughts, and everything he arranged in it was actually to restore and interpret his personal understanding of 'Zhuang Zhou's Dream Butterfly'.
By chance, he discovered the 'Crystal Demon Palace' in this ghost cave and the different colorful butterflies in it, and he thought that this was very likely to be the real scene of the 'Zhuang Zhou Dream Butterfly' back then.
Later, after more than ten years of painstaking practice, he finally thought that he had fully comprehended the meaning of 'Zhuang Zhou Mengdie'.
He believes that the essence of the supreme human being is the enlightened person who understands the nature of all things and conforms to the changes of nature, and that the true meritlessness, namelessness, and selflessness are the essential characteristics of the supreme human being.
Reactive power is to get rid of the heart of fame and fortune, and not deliberately chase foreign things, in order to protect one's life and support one's relatives to the fullest, and there is no ideal of fame and fame.
To be nameless is to forget the gains and losses of honor and disgrace, praise and disapproval by others, and follow me with admiration, ignoring reputation and public opinion.
Selflessness is to transcend one's own body and participate in the natural operation of heaven and earth, so as to achieve the forgetfulness of things and self, and to become one with the nature of heaven.
Only when we have attained the level of reactive power, namelessness, and selflessness can we finally truly enter the supreme realm of silence and inaction.
The prohibition of this Xuankong Nine-Square Grid specially arranged by him was precisely to test the state of mind of those who entered later. Only the true supreme can face all this safely without any damage. Then he went to the ashram behind him, and was able to accompany him on the path of initiation.
Otherwise, the more scheming and heavier the person, the heavier the prohibition and hallucination. In fact, his ban only played a triggering role, as long as you fall into it, it will be out of control and fall deeper and deeper.
After that, he began to retreat in the stone room where everyone is now located, and began to cultivate the true enlightenment path more profoundly. Later, he had a whim, and on top of the natural "Crystal Demon Palace", he specially extended and designed a more powerful prohibition of the Xuankong Nine Palaces.
And according to the specific situation here, he specially refined thirty-six Soul Resurrection Pills and stored them in his treasure gourd in case of emergency.
In his old age, he suddenly remembered that he still had a huge treasure hidden under the old mansion of his family. At this time, his descendants had already moved to other places because of their fame, leaving only an empty old mansion.
At this time, he suddenly had a childlike heart, and secretly moved those treasures into the stone room behind him in batches, thinking that he would leave these things for those who could break his ban in the future. Moreover, the person has to have enough respect for him to really see these treasures.
In addition, to everyone's imagination, he actually smeared a layer of highly poisonous poison on the conspicuous treasures on the surface, as long as the person who entered had the slightest secret thought, he would immediately die under the poison.
Only if you can completely suppress your greed, find the mechanism in the small stone niche, and close the stone door again, can you finally see this crucial ancient book. After learning that the treasures on the surface must not be touched, this can really reopen the small stone door and finally get most of the treasures inside......