Chapter 386: The Legend of the Night Demon (2)
This strange army did not join either side, they destroyed the armies of both tribes at the same time, and those who returned alive from that battle said that the demons that emerged from the ground used powerful sorcery and tongues of fire devoured everyone on the battlefield.
The news quickly spread among the nearby tribes, and at first, many people did not believe the survivors, until a few months later, the legendary army continued to appear, and every time they appeared, a tribe was slaughtered, and the survivors of each tribe repeated several of the same words: mask, woman, maiden, blood red, fire.
The human face gradually believed in these legends, and since the strange army always appeared at night, many people called the masked girl "the demon of the night", hence the name of the night demon.
Soon, the Daredevil led her people to reclaim the land that belonged to them, but the other tribes that had been attacked by her were all scorched to the ground.
The chief said to his daughter that they had attacked other tribes not to kill, but to seize their land, their men, their cattle and sheep, and told his daughter not to kill them in the next battle with the other tribes, but to try to make them submit instead of killing them.
The Daredevil's answer to this was unusually simple, she told the leader that she was fighting to kill people.
The night demon's answer made the leader sense a hint of danger, but she still didn't pay much attention, after all, the night demon was her own daughter, and she told the night demon to try to gather a few more tribes and expand her power.
The Daredevil was only twelve years old at the time, and her true nature was not fully revealed, but she eventually followed the advice of her leader and tried to win over the other tribes.
But her methods of co-opting were still brutal massacres, and her reputation was feared by many tribes, who vied for their attachment and expanded her army.
At that time, the Night Demon had briefly unified the tribes in the west of Qizhou, but she was not satisfied, and after calming down for a while, the desire to kill in her heart began to stir again, and she also extended her claws to the Western Queen Mother Kingdom.
Historically, the Western Queen Mother was a small country near Qizhou, and like the tribe of the night demons, it also continued the tradition of a matriarchal society, with women ruling the country with full authority, but this country had an army of strong men.
The confrontation between the Night Demon and the Western Queen Mother Country was not smooth, not only was the civilization more developed than them, the army was stronger than them, and even a few priests in the country also had some good witchcraft attainments.
For the small tribe of the Night Demon, the battle that lasted for several months was a protracted battle, with heavy casualties among the soldiers and the Night Demon almost defeated by the priests of the Western Queen's Mother.
In desperation, the Night Demon was able to lead his troops back to his hometown, recuperate and wait for the next opportunity to attack the Western Queen's Mother Country.
After a few years of brutality, the Daredevil's people also complained about her, and they gradually discovered that the reason why the Daredevil had brought them back to the surface was not to save them, but to satisfy her own thirst for blood.
The leader of the tribe finally realized that the night demon and the mask she wore on her face every day might not be the gospel given to her by the gods, and that the mask, along with her daughter, could be the embodiment of the demon. She attempts to remove the Daredevil from his powers, but the Daret's loyal followers inform the Daredevil of the leader's plans in advance.
Feeling betrayed, the Night Demon became even more insane, cutting off her mother's legs, locking her in a cellar, and burning those who opposed her.
This is exactly in line with the content of the second mural on the stone gate.
When the leader of the prisoners was imprisoned, she wrote about the actions of the Daredevils in words she had learned from other tribes, and it was then that she thought of a man who might be able to save her tribe.
Shortly after the leader was imprisoned, the Daredevil went berserk during a sacrifice and slaughtered her tribe with the utmost brutality, sparing no one but her five closest followers and the imprisoned leader.
Later, when the other tribes rescued the leader, she saw the decomposing corpses of the tribesmen, most of whom had been torn apart by some great force, and their stumps and entrails were scattered everywhere, attracting a large number of scavenging birds and wolves.
These contents can also correspond to the third mural.
Later, with the help of several other tribes, the leader went to Qizhou and found someone who could save them.
Mindu said that the book said that the man was a priest of Qizhou, a saint from the shore of Weishui.
At this time, Liang Houzai interrupted Min: "The saint from the shore of Weishui, you shouldn't be talking about Jiang Ziya, right?" ”
Min Du blinked and looked at Liang Houzai in surprise: "How do you know, I haven't said it yet." ”
Liang Houzai said: "Jiang Taigong's fishing wisher took the bait, which is what Jiang Ziya said when he was fishing without bait on the shore of Weishui and ran into King Zhou Wen. And you mentioned Qi Zhou many times, Qi Zhou three thousand years ago, it was a small country ruled by Ji Chang and Ji Fa. Then you mentioned the saint on the shore of Weishui, and it could only be Jiang Taigong. However, there is one thing I must correct, Jiang Taigong is not the priest of Qi Zhou, he should be the teacher of King Zhou, worshiped as 'Taishi'. ”
Mindu made a look of surprise: "Oh, no wonder the book says Jiang Taishi, Jiang Taishi, it turns out that Taishi came here like this, I have seen it from another book before, Taishi is indeed an official position......"
I hurriedly interrupted the two of them: "Mrs. Jiang's affairs will be talked about again when I have a chance, let's talk about what happened to the night demon first." ”
Mindu returned to the topic, he said, after the tribal leader found Jiang Taigong, he told Jiang Taigong about the night demon, although Jiang Taigong felt that things were not good, but he was busy helping Zhou Guo prepare for the war, and he didn't have much energy to deal with the night demon.
But in order to hunt down the fleeing leader, the night demon actually came to Qizhou with a few followers and asked Jiang Taigong for someone.
After all, Jiang Taigong was a person more than 3,000 years ago, although the legend about him has been passed down to this day, but no one knows what kind of person he was back then. Mindu said that the book he read mentioned Jiang Taigong's character, saying that Jiang Taigong had great wisdom, he acted resolutely, but his temper was very big, and he belonged to the kind of person who was decisive in killing.
Originally, Jiang Taigong planned to wait for King Zhou to get the world and then deal with the matter of the night demon, but he didn't expect the night demon to send it to the door by himself.
The book does not record what happened between the Night Demon and Jiang Taigong, only that the Night Demon was defeated so badly that even the retinue she brought to Qi Zhou was almost dead. But Jiang Taigong didn't ask for the life of the night demon, and didn't even detain her, but let her go, and warned her to abide by Qi Zhou's etiquette, if she dared to make trouble again, she would face the pressure of Qi Zhou's 100,000 male masters.
For the first time in her life, the night demon was scared, and she promised not to make any more trouble, and left Qizhou in a gloomy manner.
Min Du speculated that Jiang Taigong was able to spare the night demon this time, probably because the night demon's mother interceded for her.
This defeat did not stop the Daredevil, and she began to brutalize the surrounding tribes even more, and many people found that the more people the Daredevil killed, the stronger her mana became. During those years, the mask was worn on the night demon's face, and she never seemed to eat or take off the mask, so much so that many people forgot what she was meant to be. At that time, Qi Zhou had already started a war with Shang, and Jiang Taigong had no time to pay attention to the affairs of the night demon.
Until the world was decided, Jiang Taigong quelled the chaos in Qi and successfully became the king of Qi. At this time, another tribal leader rushed thousands of miles to the Zhou capital to state dozens of charges against the night demon in front of Zhou Tianzi Ji Fa, Zhou Tianzi felt that things were not good, and immediately recalled Jiang Taigong, who was far away in Qi State.
Jiang Taigong, who was over 100 years old, traveled all the way back to Qizhou's hometown, and sent soldiers to summon the night demons in the area of Brown Deer Mountain.
At this time, the night demon was already ferocious, Jiang Taigong sent people to summon twice, and both envoys were brutally killed by her, and she also wanted to be chopped up by the killed messenger and wrapped in sheepskin for people to give back to Jiang Taigong.
No one knows what kind of expression Jiang Taigong had when he saw these minced meat, the book only said that he first asked people to take a boulder from the snowy mountain, and personally cut the surface of the stone flat, and then asked the night demon's mother to paint three murals on the stone surface overnight, and told the night demon's mother that three days later, she still needed to paint a fourth mural on the stone surface.
When Min Du said this, Liang Houzai and I exchanged glances.
In fact, everyone in the house should have thought that the flat stone was later transformed into a stone door in the Jizo tomb.
After everything was ready, Jiang Taigong asked the nine wrestlers to lift the stone slab, and then took the night demon's mother, and waved the master to Brown Deer Mountain.
When Mindu said this, Liang Houzai interrupted him: "Isn't Brown Deer Mountain the place where the tribe of the Night Demon lived in seclusion back then? ”
Mindu nodded yes, and said that he had omitted some details in the book in order to save time, and that he had returned to Brown Deer Mountain after the Night Demon had slaughtered all his people, but instead of going underground, he built an altar on Brown Deer Mountain, where he made five stone figures from his cronies.
Stone Man? Hearing Mindu mention the stone man, I thought about the armored corpse in the Jizo Tomb with skin as hard as stone, but I didn't ask any questions right away, just waited for Mindu to continue.
Mindu said that when Jiang Taigong came to Brown Deer Mountain, the night demon brought his army and stone people to fight with Jiang Taigong, and was defeated by Jiang Taigong again.
When Jiang Taigong was about to arrest her for questioning, suddenly dark clouds surged in the sky, and a thunderclap fell from the sky, falling right on the mask of the night demon, and the night demon immediately ignited everyone, and black smoke poured out from the top of her head.
Jiang Taigong seemed to have expected this, and immediately asked the night demon's mother to draw this scene, and this is also the origin of the fourth mural.
The Daredevil's body was quickly burned to ashes by the flames, but the mask she wore on her face was completely undamaged, and the black gas that emanated from the top of her head condensed into a black snake in the sky, but the mask was still on the snake's face.
The snake launched an attack on Jiang Taigong, but was still subdued by Jiang Taigong, and later Jiang Taigong buried half of the snake's body in the ground, and asked people to press the boulder with four murals on the snake's body, and sent nine wrestlers to guard it day and night, until forty-nine days later, it was considered to be completely suppressed the night demon.
However, when Jiang Taigong suppressed the night demon, he said that the night demon was originally transformed by a pure yin qi between heaven and earth, and even if it was suppressed now, one day, it would still come out to do evil.
Sure enough, not long after Jiang Taigong left, several small countries near Brown Deer Mountain ignited the flames of war for no reason, these countries seemed to be attracted by the murderous nature of the night demon, and actually chose the battlefield in Brown Deer Mountain, but just when several troops just started to fight, the earth shook, and all the soldiers fell into the ground. These contents are similar to what Mr. Sun said.