Chapter 21: The Dream of the Warrior King

Subsequently, Zhao Hong told me a legend about the seventy-two valleys of Yimeng Mountain that he knew when he was a child. Pen ~ fun ~ pavilion www.biquge.info

It was a legend about "landslides", "yin soldiers" and "goblins".

He said that the seventy-two valleys of Yimeng Mountain are also called seventy-two square mountains or seventy-two table mountains, there are many legends about the origin of these seventy-two mountains, and there are many descriptions, among which people do not understand why these mountains do not have "mountain tops", but are as flat as the bottom of tables or buckle basins.

In this regard, the ancients have many explanations and associations, some people say that these mountains are the broken stone pillars in ancient times, and some people say that they are the relics left by the eight immortals when they benefited, and some people say that they are the relics left by Taishan Niangniang and the Jade Emperor when they fought and so on.

But Zhao Hong's grandmother told him the most different story about Seventy-two Gu.

Zhao Hong's grandmother said that there are several landslides every few decades in the Yimeng Mountains. And those landslides...... It was caused by the fox fairy crossing the catastrophe.

"What? Coquette? I scratched my head.

I can't imagine why Zhao Hong is telling me this at this time, what does he mean by telling me such a ghost story in a desperate emergency?

Zhao Hong ignored my reaction, but continued his story during the time of this cigarette.

The story is very ancient, so old that it begins with King Wu of Zhou's destruction of Shang......

In the pre-Qin period, King Wu of Zhou's father continued as a son, and after the world was destroyed in the First World War, he captured the stunning demon girl "Daji" who was transformed by the sky fox.

It is said that she likes to study torture for fun in her life, and she also uses her own brains and hands, inventing torture such as pots and cannon falls, and cruelty in different ways, and the viciousness of its means is only slightly comparable to that of Henkel after more than a thousand years.

Such a femme fatale was captured by the Zhou army, and naturally it was impossible for her to survive, but what King Wu never expected was that the order to show the public was given three times a day, and this Daji was stunned and couldn't kill it!

Why? According to the later executioner's report, the reason was nothing else, just because Su Zhu was too charming, especially those soul-seductive eyes, no matter which man looked at him, he felt numb and soft all over his body, and his strength was completely gone, as if the three souls and seven spirits were absorbed by the woman's gaze.

In short, no one can do it.

As soon as King Wu of Zhou heard the report, he was a little panicked, it was definitely not a way to drag it out like this, and he couldn't do it just because of the woman's eyes, and it would be insulting to King Zhou's prestige to say it.

In desperation, King Wu had no choice but to seek advice from Jiang Shang, the prime minister who was also a teacher and a minister.

Jiang Shang is Jiang Ziya, who is known as the "Hundred Grandmasters", but he is a man who is better than the gods! Dealing with a vixen is naturally no problem.

He first used the "Five Tigers and Dragon Locks" to penetrate the fox spirit's charming bones, and then used the "Four Locks Soul Cover" to blind Su Daji's autumn water, and finally according to the gossip deduction, the executioner was ordered to open the knife at the peak of the yang energy at three o'clock in the afternoon, and cut off the fox spirit's "three souls, nine spirits and twelve lives" in one fell swoop, and then beat the remnant soul into the impermanence hell, and never turned over.

Since then, the world has been calm, the king of Zhou has been unified, and the executioner has also left the custom of "the most heinous criminal", who must be cut at three o'clock in the afternoon. Because Jiang Shang calculated that at that time, the yang energy was extremely strong, and all ghosts and ghosts would slash their souls with one sword. The soul shall never be reborn......

But even so, on the seventh day after Daji's surgery, King Wu of Zhou still had a demon dream, a dream about the demon concubine Daji.

In the dream, King Wu dreamed that he was dressed in full uniform, with a sword at his waist, parading around the world, accepting the worship of the princes, and suddenly arriving at the guests of the East China Sea, at this time it was noon, the sun was scorching, King Wu of Zhou walked between the sandy beaches by the sea, the heat was unbearable, but he could not find a tree and reef to shade the shade.

In desperation, King Wu took off his robe and cruised the sea, trying to find a shade to escape the summer.

It didn't take long for King Wu of Zhou to really find such a shady place.

Just after King Wu of Zhou patrolled the sea and walked two hundred and seventy-six steps, he suddenly found a rare shade on the beach. King Wu of Zhou was overjoyed, and hurriedly burrowed into the rare shadow to escape the heat and cool off.

But as soon as he sat down, King Wu suddenly felt that something was wrong.

Because he suddenly noticed that this shadow was very strange, it seemed to have only shadows, and there was no "entity" that formed shadows.

As the saying goes, "immediate results", where there is a shadow, there must be a "pole", and this can still form a shadow without a "pole", but this martial king has seen it for the first time.

Surprised, Wang looked around blankly, trying to find out what the thing that formed this shadow was, but after looking for a gap, King Wu indifferently found that he really couldn't find any physical thing that could form this shadow.

Just when King Wu was at a loss, he suddenly heard a gloomy female laughter above his head. The king immediately looked up at the sound of laughter, and finally saw the "thing" that formed the shadow.

It was a red pink skull the size of a grinding disc, with a cold light in its eyes, hanging in the air and sneering at the Martial King.

The appearance of the skeleton surprised King Wu, and in his eagerness, King Wu knew that he had met a monster, so he hurriedly drew his sword to cut it.

But before he could swing his sword, the skeleton suddenly burst into a burst of red light, shrinking and changing into the head of a beautiful woman.

The woman's head is stunning, but it's a pity that she doesn't have eyes, but even so, she is as beautiful as a fairy, and she doesn't lose her elegance. Seeing this, King Wu was also surprised, and the sword in his hand slowed down because of this.

Just when the Martial King was about to cut me off, the woman's head suddenly spoke: "You killed me once seven days ago, do you want to kill me again now?" ”

The woman's words made King Wu immediately understand that this was her Su Daji's demon soul to take revenge. But it must be that King Wu is the true son of heaven, he is in the face of the demon but he is not in danger, without saying a word, he suddenly regained his strength and slashed the sword down, just like that, in his dream, he really killed the nine-tailed fox again.

The woman's head was split in half and immediately turned into a cloud of green smoke and drifted away. Leisurely, a cold voice floated from the Nine Heavens and said: "You are bad for my cultivation, I can't charm you, but don't be happy too early!" Sooner or later, the retribution of the king will befall your descendants, and I will definitely make your temple extinct......"

Subsequently, King Wu of Zhou woke up in his dream, and suddenly found that he had pulled out his sword in his sleep and beheaded a bloody fox.

And then, the Zhou Dynasty suddenly changed one after another.

On the second day, a soldier reported to King Wu that the "Daji's head" that had been hung on the city gate seven days earlier and displayed to the public suddenly disappeared in the night. What's more, some palace people saw a group of hundred foxes screaming at the east moon night outside the east gate, and the cry was very miserable.

All this made King Wu of Zhou connect with his previous dream. Moreover, he was also sincerely afraid of Su Daji's prophecy:

After two hundred and seventy-six steps, the sacrifice of the Zhou clan was cut off, "Isn't this a sign of the death of the country?"

Even though the Zhou Chamber is now in charge of a virtuous monarch like himself, and is assisted by the divine minister Jiang Shang, what should he do after a hundred years? At that time, if there is another "Daji" to corrupt the government, what can he do?

In desperation, King Wu of Zhou invited Jiang Shang again and asked him to give him advice.

After Jiang Ziya heard about King Wu's dream, he stroked his hair and smiled, and first comforted the king: "It's just a trace of resentment, that demon fox was cut off by me with three souls, nine spirits and twelve lives, and he will never be able to return to the sky." But her fox grandchildren should be suppressed......"

While speaking, Jiang Shang explained the question in the dream for King Wu.

He told King Wu that the two hundred and seventy-five steps he took in the dream were two hundred and seventy-five years, "the coast of the East China Sea, the sun is in the middle of the sky, and the sky is due south", which is the meaning of the eastward journey of the temple, and the head of a beautiful woman is naturally a fox spirit like Daji.

If these messages are combined, the meaning of this dream is that the heavens are warning the martial king, two hundred and seventy-six years later, there will be a beautiful woman incarnated by the fox clan to rebel against the government, at that time, the Zhou Dynasty will fall in the world, if the heavens bless, then the Zhou Dynasty can also move eastward, there is a trace of turning to the ground, if the Lord is stubborn, then there is only the point of no heir.

Jiang Ziya's words shocked King Wu, and he immediately asked the prime minister to plan a solution.

In response to this situation, Jiang Ziya thought of two suggestions, both inside and outside.

Internally, Jiang Shang suggested that King Wu should overhaul Wende, spread grace to the world, practice the rule of filial piety, and conform to the mandate of heaven.

Externally, he suggested that the princes of Ji sex should be divided into various places and at the same time send capable ministers to practice the method of disgust and victory, with the help of the power of gods and ghosts to exterminate the ghosts of the fox tribe, and return humanity to the world.

Jiang Shang's suggestion made King Wu overjoyed, on the one hand, the king cultivated benevolence and virtue, divided the princes, and on the other hand, let Jiang Shang practice the law of ghosts and gods, and make every effort to exterminate the demons and foxes who helped the abuse.

In the end, the demons and ghosts in various places were wiped out by Jiang Ziya or returned to obedience, leaving only the demon fox clan who was cowering in Yimeng Mountain, because of the "same love" with Daji Niangniang, they would rather die than surrender. They relied on their familiarity with the terrain of Yimeng Mountain and their ability to dig holes, and they fought with the king of Zhou to death and did not descend for a long time.

Faced with this scorching situation, Jiang Shang also made the same ruthless move.

Although Jiang Shang is not a god and has no divine power, but he has two treasures, "Feng Shen Bang" and "Whip God", with the help of these two artifacts, Jiang Ziya borrowed the power of God to do the "tired of winning" method in Mount Tai, and invited Bixia Yuanjun of Mount Tai and Tufu Xingjun of Sidi. With the "divine power" of these two people, Jiang Ziya flattened the entire seventy-two valleys of Yimeng Mountain, and checked out every nest of the fox spirit. The "Yin Soldiers" were moved from the underworld again, and the soul of the fox spirit was completely sealed. Forever pacified the fox demon clan.

So far, the seventy-two peaks of Yimeng Mountain have all been cut off by Tufu Xingjun. Bixia Yuanjun moved the stone of Mount Tai again, and suppressed it forever, so that those demon foxes would never be able to be reborn. Later, King Wu was still not at ease, and divided Jiang Shang and his clan into Shandong Qidi as kings, and let him and his children and grandchildren forever guard the "suppression" of the demon fox in the Zhou family......

After Zhao Hong said this, a cigarette was completely smoked. He extinguished the smoke fart and watched the black dog dig hard under the white stones.

I looked at his deep expression and couldn't help but ask him: "So, your grandmother told you that the stones in Shirengu were all moved by Bixia Yuanjun from Mount Tai to suppress the demon fox?" ”。

Zhao Hong nodded, and continued to say to me: "Grandma also said that every thirty-three years, there will be a landslide in Yimeng Mountain, which is caused by the demon fox breaking through the seal and escaping, and at that time, the place where the landslide began to gather Yin soldiers, and they were responsible for catching the escaped goblins back.

I frowned and said, "Yin soldiers gathered?!" ”

Zhao Hong nodded and said: "Grandma said that when she was a child, she also met strangers who stopped the ox cart at night, saying that they were lost, but when she took them to the predetermined place...... Those people will somehow turn into stones or dead rats. After that, there will be landslides, plagues, ghosts crying and fox howling......"

Zhao Hong's words are getting more and more vague, I don't know if he doesn't want to say it, or if he doesn't know the specific details.

However, I continued: "So you think that those people who took the rental to Shirengu are actually ...... Hitchhiker Passing by Yin Soldier? ”

Zhao Hong nodded, while I was speechless.

At this time, Zhao Hong was a little emotional, he slowly held his head with both hands, and said to himself: "I actually don't believe it, but the current situation is like this...... Grandma also said that you must avoid the Yin soldiers crossing the border, otherwise the whole place will become very weird, and even stones may kill people! ”

But just when Zhao Hong wanted to tell me what a weird method was, the two of us suddenly heard the dog digging desperately and let out a long roar at Zhao Hong!

Zhao Hong looked at the dog's performance, and suddenly his face twitched! Then he stretched out his hand and pointed to the pit dug by the dog: "It has dug something!" ”