Chapter 219: The Shinto Path
The former are mostly loyal generals who died in battle and in battle.
Or the loyal ministers and famous generals in history, or some famous mountain gods and river gods.
The imperial court sealed the edict to show respect for them.
The latter is mostly for some ordinary people, spontaneously worshipping the gods of faith.
And among them, a few are some officials who benefit the people, or heroes who sacrifice their lives for the people.
In order to commemorate them, people spontaneously built temples to worship.
In addition, it is mostly some lonely wandering spirits who wander the world, or mountain spirits.
They have supernatural powers, and they have deceived the people, so that they will worship them.
After obtaining the incense and faith of sentient beings, they can turn the chaotic beastly nature in their souls into divinity, helping them to improve their spiritual wisdom and increase their cultivation.
Even if you don't have the determination to go to the end of Shinto, it is very convenient to use Shinto to help you in your own practice.
Of course, there is basically no such thing as a mountain spirit with such wisdom and vision.
Most of them are refining divinity and directly using them to improve their cultivation and Taoism.
And their end is basically either killed halfway, or they are gradually become puppets of divinity and lose their will.
A person's will, no matter how firm it is.
But when you absorb faith and incense, you will be baptized by the thoughts mixed with these beliefs and incense, and you will always change slowly.
Become what the beings who worship and pray to you are looking forward to.
Or eventually, because of the lack of faith, believers stop praying and go to perdition.
With the rise of Buddhism and Taoism, the controversy of hundreds of schools of thought, and the shortcomings of Shinto are now widely known, so among the really big sects, or monks with roots, few people will still walk the way of Shinto.
But in the old days, Shinto was indeed a path that was sought after by many people.
So much so that many people even killed for the sake of incense.
Shinto has drawbacks.
But in the past, when Buddhism and Taoism had not yet flourished, and the thoughts and paths of the hundred schools of thought had not yet appeared, Shinto was a fragrant bun.
People, not only people, but all living beings, will always have an end of life.
But God didn't.
Shinto can make people immortal.
This alone makes one wonder why the value of Shinto and incense beliefs is conceivable.
Before Great Qin, Shinto also flourished.
Now the world is unified by the Great Qin, and before the Great Qin, it was the Zhou Dynasty.
The Zhou Dynasty ruled the world, from the founding of the country to the destruction of the country, a total of more than 30,000 years.
And before the Zhou Dynasty, it was the first dynasty of the human race, Great Xia!
The Great Xia Kingdom was founded more than 50,000 years ago.
The Xia Dynasty came from the ancient barbarian era.
In the ancient barbarian era, the human race flourished, swept through all races, and became the master of all races on the earth.
At that time, although the human race was strong, it was not monolithic.
Among the human race, there are many tribes.
Some of these tribes joined together, while others fought on their own.
There are also a few brutal ones, even treating other Terrans as enemies.
Trying to trample other races into slavery as well.
The most famous of them is the Jiuli tribe.
The Jiuli tribe is extremely ferocious, they believe in demon gods, they like to fight and slaughter everywhere, sacrifice the lives and blood of captives, and come to baptize themselves and gain more powerful power.
The leader of the Jiuli tribe is the famous Chiyou.
And the opposite of the Jiuli tribe and Chiyou is the Xuanyuan clan and the Yellow Emperor.
The two tribes fought each other, and in the end the Yellow Emperor won a great victory.
The Yellow Emperor's beheading is also a story that has been handed down in history and is known to everyone.
At that time, the Yellow Emperor did not dominate the world, and he still retained the independence of various tribes.
It's just that he is revered as the leader of many tribes, that is, the Son of Heaven.
The fate of the Heavenly Dao is destined, leading the people of the clan.
Son of Heavenly Dao.
After the death of the Yellow Emperor, he passed on to Zhuan, who passed the position of the Son of Heaven to Emperor Yu, who passed the throne to Yao, and Yao to Shun.
And Shun, the Son of Heaven, passed the position of the Son of Heaven to Yu.
At this time, the inheritance of the Son of Heaven is not inherited by blood, but from generation to generation.
When the previous generation of emperors was old and realized that they would soon die, Zen was given to the virtuous people.
From this, the person is the Son of Heaven, and then the leader of the clan.
It's a pity that Zen let the inheritance, and the position of the Son of Heaven was passed to Yu, and there was a problem.
He was going to pass on to Boyi.
But Yu's son Xia Qi was not convinced, and he launched a mutiny and seized the position of the Son of Heaven from Boyi.
Then he founded the Xia Dynasty.
Since then, the history of the inheritance of the imperial family has begun.
The Xia Dynasty ruled the world.
The human race prospered in all corners of the world and became the lord of many lands.
No more worrying about the survival of the race.
But after the Terrans entered the era of peace, new problems arose.
Many people with lofty ideals in the Terran Race have discovered that although the Terran is gifted with outstanding talents and is born with seven tricks, in a short period of time, they can cultivate great magical powers that penetrate the heavens and the earth.
can tear the gods with his hands, swallow the sea with his mouth, and shatter the mountains with his feet.
The supernatural powers are indestructible, and the earth is difficult to hide.
But the lifespan of the Terrans is too short.
Not to mention those masters and heroes of high status among the human race, even the sons of heaven in the past dynasties can only live for a short period of a hundred years.
How short-lived!
How unwilling they are in their hearts, and what a desire for immortality.
Therefore, with the diligent efforts of these people with lofty ideals, various methods and paths for seeking immortality have been opened.
Shinto originated in the middle of the Xia Dynasty and flourished in the middle and late Xia Dynasty.
In the end, there was even a tragic civil strife among the human races because of various forces and sects fighting for faith and incense!
The Xia Dynasty, the first dynasty in the history of the human race, was destroyed by this.
And this civil strife of the human race, which destroyed the Xia Dynasty, is known as the War of the Gods.
It happened more than 35,000 years ago.
After the War of the Gods, the Xia Dynasty fell, the Zhou Dynasty was established, and Shinto officially reached its most prosperous period.
The Zhou Dynasty sealed an unknown number of gods.
I don't know how many temples were built.
At that time, in the high temples, I don't know how many Shinto masters were dreaming of immortality and turning the world into a divine domain.
However, what they don't know is that the way of heaven is always balanced, and it is prosperous and declining.
When Shinto flourished to the extreme, various disadvantages of Shinto began to appear on a large scale.
The first is awareness.
Because I absorbed too much incense and faith.
The distractions of incense and faith make Shinto practitioners change unconsciously.
This change is subtle.
But as time progressed, they absorbed too many incense beliefs, and the distracting thoughts accumulated in their consciousness changed their soul and consciousness.
Let them become self-aware, puppets waiting for the walking dead.
At this point, it is naturally no different from the soul flying.
Some people, even if they rely on their own cultivation to be profound, have a solid soul and resist change.