Gods, demons, immortals, demons, ghosts, foxes, spirits, monsters these kinds of concepts, Xiao Qi found that there was no proper explanation when sorting out the information, the following concepts are created by the Shan Hai Jing, those who do not agree are welcome to discuss.

"Kongtong Q&A" said: "The pretense of people is a demon, the nature of things is the essence, and the soul of a person is not scattered as a ghost." Heaven and earth are obedient, and suddenly there are very strange, the gods are not righteous and evil, the human heart is crazy and demonic, and the bias is heresy and the outer way.

God: The concept of God comes from Taoism, a traditional Chinese religion (some say that there is a religion of existing mythology), which refers to the existence of beings above all else. The gods in Taoism can protect human beings from all kinds of disasters, punish all kinds of evil, and serve as guardians of human beings. In addition, in addition to being highly skilled, those who can be called gods must also be recognized by the Central Heavenly Court (the government in myths and legends) and perform certain duties, similar to the civil servants we now serve in government departments.

Immortal: A person who has special abilities in ancient myths and legends and can live forever. The concept of immortal is also derived from the traditional Chinese religion - Taoism, Taoism is happy to live and pursue immortality, so the concept of immortal was born.

Buddha: Buddhism was introduced to China from ancient India in the Eastern Han Dynasty, and in the concept of Buddhism, the person who has completed the practice is called the Buddha, referred to as the Buddha.

Demon: A concept derived from Buddhism, in the original texts, demons were celestial beings who lived in the heavenly realm, and their leader was named Bo Shun, who, out of jealousy, tried to prevent Shakyamuni from becoming a Buddha. After Shakyamuni began to preach, they also disturbed the Sangha disciples many times. Buddhism believes that any obstacle that can hinder the practice can be called a demon, and now it refers to all ghosts and gods that take people's lives and hinder good deeds.

Demon: Refers to something that is different from the normal state and makes people afraid, and is man-made or humanized.

Essence: The state of animals and plants after cultivating into human form and gaining a certain amount of mana.

Strange: something that people are not familiar with or understand, or something that is different from the same kind.

Ghosts: The ancients believed that human beings were divided into visible bodies and invisible souls, and that after death, the body decayed, and the soul returned to another world and reincarnated again into the next reincarnation. After death, before reincarnation, the state of the soul is called a ghost.

The conversion between them can be done with this one

Relationship Transformation Diagram

Figure to represent.

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Deaf: "Liao Zhai Zhiyi: Zhang Aduan" said: People die as ghosts, and ghosts die as deaf. The fear of ghosts, the fear of ghosts.

Charm and Spirit: "Jade Chapter" cloud "The mountain god is the charm, and the water god is the spirit". Note in the eighteenth year of Zuo Chuan Wen Gong: "Cantis, the shape of a mountain god and a beast, or said to be like a tiger and a tiger." Or say: charm, the body of a human-faced beast and four-legged, so confusing, born of strange atmosphere in the mountains and forests, harmful to people. ”

Therefore, the ghost of the ghost refers to the monsters in the mountains and forests that can harm people, and there is another saying. Legend has it that the entrance to the ghost world is located on Wokduo Island, and there are four little ghosts guarding it. 魑, Yu, Mei, Li, 魍, Wang, 魉, Liang.

Since Buddhism was introduced to China in the Eastern Han Dynasty (recorded in the classics as the Eastern Han Dynasty, in fact, the time may be earlier), Buddhism and Taoism have penetrated and integrated with each other, so many concepts are also interpenetrating, such as the Three Realms, Five Elements and Six Paths (Buddhism Three Realms: Desire, Color, and Colorless. The five elements: Sunnah, Brahman, Celestial, Infant, and Sick. The Three Realms of Taoism: Humans, Ghosts, and Gods. Five elements: metal, wood, water, fire, earth. The Six Paths (Buddhist Sayings): Heavenly Path, Asura Path, Humanity, Animal Path, Hungry Ghost Path, and Hell Path. Buddhism and Taoism have their own sayings, but in classical Chinese they often do not make a distinction, for example, in "Journey to the West", Sun Wukong jumped out of the Three Realms and is no longer in the Five Elements.

The gods and Buddhas are not in the Three Realms (the gods are not in the Three Realms and the Six Realms, this is worth discussing, like Pangu, Nuwa, Hongjun), jumping out of the five elements, they are not limited by time and space, in addition, in folklore, zombies also jump out of the Three Realms, not in the existence of the five elements.

Zombie: After a person dies, the soul leaves the body, and the body dies without transformation, which is for zombies, legendary zombies, born from the resentment of heaven and earth, immortal and immortal, and is abandoned by the three worlds of heaven, earth and man outside the six realms of sentient beings.

The idea of the Classic of Mountains and Seas is to refer to historical classics, chronologically record the appearance and story of a single character from the initial appearance, and record his step-by-step development to the present appearance according to the timeline.

There are many materials that need to be referred to in the sorting work, and it is inevitable that there will be omissions and vacancies and incompleteness, and I hope you will correct more, you can also tell us by leaving a message that you want to know the development history of the characters the most, and we will give priority to sorting out the highest likes according to the number of likes.

In terms of species, the Classic of Mountains and Seas first sorted out those that are not within the Three Realms and Six Realms, and then sorted out them in the order of gods, demons, fairies, demons, ghosts, foxes, and spirits, and the first issue sorted out the four zombie gods.

The Four Zombie Gods

And all of this starts with the battle of Zhuolu thousands of years ago.

At that time, the Shennong clan and the Jiuli tribe were in a war, the Shennong clan was defeated, and the Xuanyuan clan took the opportunity to rebel and defeated the Shennong clan (that is, the Yandi Emperor) in the suburbs of Hanquan, and rose from then on.

The Xuanyuan clan took advantage of the victory to pursue, and the battlefield of the two sides extended from the outskirts of Hanquan all the way to the Zhuolu generation, where the two sides released all their hidden strength, fighting with all their might, and all kinds of gods and demons, ghosts and spirits have appeared on the battlefield.

According to research, Chiyou is a descendant of Emperor Yan, after the Shennong clan was defeated by the Yellow Emperor, it plummeted, and Chiyou often proposed to Emperor Yan to raise troops to recapture everything that belonged to him. However, Emperor Yan was old and had experienced countless wars, so he was unwilling to fight again, so he did not accept Chi You's proposal.

Chi You was not angry, and rebelled privately and founded the Jiuli tribe. According to the "Classic of Mountains and Seas", Chiyou looked very strange, with a human body, hooves and legs of an ox, four eyes, six arms, sharp horns on his head, and the hair on his ears stood straight up like a sharp sword. Usually the eating habits are also very peculiar, I don't like to eat rice chestnuts, and only eat some sand, stone and iron to satisfy my hunger.

People who are in the company of extraordinary people are certainly not ordinary. Legend has it that Chiyou had eighty-one brothers (another version is seventy-two), all of whom wore iron-clad battle clothes and had animal faces, and these people had the same peculiar eating habits as Chiyou, and they also liked to eat some sand and rubble to satisfy their hunger. Chi You is the first military wizard in the ages, and understands that these brothers can't fight the Yellow Emperor's hundreds of thousands of soldiers and horses in hand-to-hand combat, so he opened up the wisdom plug-in, invented weapons, and created war weapons such as scepters (fir sticks), knives, halberds, and crossbows.

With iron armor and advanced and sophisticated military weapons, Chi You gave full play to his advantages in eloquence, in addition to instigating the rebellion of the old clan of Emperor Yan, he also incorporated the Sanmiao clan, and instigated all kinds of ghosts and spirits and monsters to join him to resist the rule of the Yellow Emperor.

The Yellow Emperor can be said to have taken advantage of the right time and place in this battle, coupled with the absolute superiority in numbers, he was very disdainful of Chi You's small fight, and he didn't take them into account at first, so he casually brought a large group of soldiers to exterminate Chi You.

I didn't expect this large group of people to go to the battlefield to see, although there are few people in the Chiyou clan, but they lead a group of fierce and manic beast corps, these beasts are manic, fierce, it is estimated that they have also played the fog mode of the glory of the king, and also invited the wizard to do it, as soon as the Yellow Emperor rushed into the battlefield, the battlefield was full of fog, and things were difficult to distinguish. Before the soldiers of the Yellow Emperor clan saw Chiyou, they were killed by the Chiyou clan.

Fortunately, he thought that he had a backstage, so on the one hand, he sent a wind-chasing messenger to the fierce plough mound to summon the dragon, and the electric messenger to the central heavenly court to summon the heavenly maidens; the eighteen gods and the Taibao were divided into the three realms by holy decree, and ordered the princes of heaven, earth, and the underworld to quickly reinforce them. Li Mu led 5,000 soldiers to patrol day and night, set up sentry posts, and beware of stealing camps and robbing villages; after the wind, he led 10,000 soldiers to dig deep trenches, build high barriers, and wait for reinforcements.

On the other hand, he asked for help from the Central Heavenly Court, the Lord of Haotian (that is, the God we often call).

Fuxi Nuwa made a contract with Haotian before, and the gods were not allowed to harm living beings in the lower realm. This time, in order to get the offerings and incense in the world, Haotian tore up the contract and privately sent the Nine Heavens Xuannu to the lower realm to help the Yellow Emperor. (There is also a theory that the Queen Mother of the West sent her down)

When the Nine Heavens Xuannu first appeared in the "Classic of Mountains and Seas", her image was not a fairy and beautiful woman in "Soul Ferry", and the first time the Nine Heavens Xuannu appeared in the Classic of Mountains and Seas, she was just a monster with a human face and a bird body.

The Nine Heavens Xuannu led the divine beasts and wizards who came down from the heavenly realm to help the Yellow Emperor. With the blessing of the backstage, the Yellow Emperor led the whole army to fight with Chi You with all his might. The Yellow Emperor led the six beasts of Xiong, 罴 (pronounced pí), 貔 (pronounced pí), 貅 (pronounced xiū), 貙 (pronounced chū), and tiger, as well as divine beasts such as Ying Long and Phoenix, and the 81 brothers of Chiyou and all kinds of ghosts and spirits to go to war with all their might.

This battle was earth-shattering, so the wolf howled, the wizards on both sides took turns casting spells, and the beast army led by the Yellow Emperor fought together with the beast army led by Chiyou. The dense fog in the battlefield rolls, the Chiyou brothers flicker, rampage, the people of the three seedlings come and go, left and right, the charm or open fire is fighting, or the secret arrow hurts people, the Yellow Emperor's guards are in the fog, dizzy, and are killed on their backs.

The battlefield was earth-shattering, and the battlefield was also unstoppable, alarming the playful ancient beasts. Legend has it that after Pangu opened the world, although the soul returned to chaos, after the whole body essence and blood were integrated into the earth, after thousands of years of evolution and fusion, the four ancient gods were slowly bred, namely the human king Fuxi, the mother of the earth Nuwa, the god Shaohao, and the king of divine beasts.

It is said that the skull is Pangu's hard skull, inherited Pangu's incomparably strong ability, the body of the skull is extremely hard, strong to the sky, after the birth of the skull because of the brute force, the IQ is hard and there is no sense of mission, all day long, I know that in the world, the heavenly realm is wandering everywhere, Nuwa, Fuxi is not at ease and has to look at it from time to time.

The battle of the deer was earth-shattering, Nuwa and Fuxi were busy observing the war situation, and neglected to take care of the Qian, and the Qian was playful for a while, so they took the opportunity to cholera in the world. Nuwa and Fu Xi watched this brainless brother do such an unkind thing as taking advantage of the fire to rob, so the two discussed how to deal with this stubbornness?

He is a typical person with well-developed limbs and a simple mind, and has inherited Pangu's extremely strong physical body, and Nuwa and Fuxi can't hurt his body at all. In desperation, Fu Xi used the number of deductions to trap the Bagua Array, and then teamed up with Nuwa to extract all the three souls and seven spirits of the Qi and divide them into three seals.

However, Nuwa and Fuxi underestimated Li's strength, and it didn't take long for Li's three souls and seven spirits to break free from the seal and begin to search for their physical bodies.

One of the bodies that he found was the Yellow Emperor's general Yinggou. In the course of a battle with Chiyou, Ying Gou was defeated because he did not carry out the orders of the Yellow Emperor, and the Yellow Emperor sent Ying Gou to guard the Yellow Spring Styx Sea along the way. Ying Gou guarded the lonely Yellow Spring Styx Sea, his heart was extremely dissatisfied, a wisp of remnant soul floated here, and found the darkness in Ying Gou's heart, so he lured Ying Gou to trade his soul with himself, Ying Gou used his soul as collateral, and he gave him boundless ability.

At the beginning, Ying Gou's heart was resolutely refused, and he kept resisting Ying Gou, but the four ancient gods were a little Ying Gou that could resist it! Although it was just a wisp of the remnant soul of the Qian, Ying Gou was helpless against him, and was taken advantage of the opportunity to occupy his body, Ying Gou continued to resist at the beginning, but after countless failures, Ying Gou finally admitted this fact, accepted the exchange conditions of the human Qian, and gave up his soul to the Qian. After the soul of the dragon and the soul of Yinggou fused, the physical body began to mutate, and under the nourishment of the corpse qi, the body became strong and stiff, becoming one of the four zombie gods, and began to take crazy revenge on the emperor, causing chaos in the world. At the beginning, the Yellow Emperor was busy fighting with Chiyou and had no time to take care of winning Gou, after the battle of Zhuolu, the Yellow Emperor took the Xuanyuan Sword to kill the Xuanyuan Sword, the battle lasted for seven hundred and forty-nine days, and finally with the blessing of the Xuanyuan Sword, the Yellow Emperor destroyed the body of the Winning Gou, but his soul fled with endless corpse gas, and he never knew what to do.

Another wisp of the remnant soul of the Yellow Emperor floated into the body of Hou Qing, in front of the Yellow Emperor is a staff general, is the younger brother of the thick soil, under the command of the Yellow Emperor is quite important, in this war Hou Qing unfortunately died, Hou Qing died in the Yellow Emperor before his death, but after his death exposed the corpse wilderness, his resentment deepened day by day, the soul wandered around the corpse, just at this time a remnant soul of the Yellow Emperor floated here, Hou Qing in order to ask the Yellow Emperor for an explanation, agreed to fuse his three souls and seven spirits and a wisp of remnant soul, Hou Qing was resurrected.

Houqing, who has been resurrected from the dead, is just a flying zombie, and although his ability is average, he has an extremely terrifying power - the power of curses. In order to take revenge on the Yellow Emperor, Hou Qing made a big fuss in the Yellow Emperor's camp, Nuwa rushed to hear the news and removed Hou Qing, and before his death, Hou Qing used his soul to put a curse on all the corpses that died unjustly - cursed that all the corpses that died unjustly can become zombies, and later in order to prevent the corpses from becoming zombies, cremation appeared.

After the corpse was sealed by Nuwa and Fuxi, an accident actually happened. This accident is like this, a long time ago he asked Haotian for a branch of the Divine Tree, and after the Divine Tree Branch was sealed, the branch of the Divine Tree took advantage of the void and took root in the body of the Divine Tree and occupied the body of the Divine Tree, becoming the ancestor of the vampire zombies - the general. Because the general is born from the fusion of the body of the dragon and the sacred tree, he has no soul and must suck the human blood containing the spirit to nourish the body. And the general's teeth contain viruses, and all those who have been sucked by the general's blood will be corpsed, so all the blood-sucking zombies we see on TV now are the descendants of the general.

To get back to the point, the Chiyou clan relied on the enchanting magic of the enchanted monsters, changing in many ways, calling for wind and rain, blowing smoke and spray, making the fog dark for three days and three nights, the sergeants did not see the day, it was difficult to distinguish the direction of the mountains and rivers, and the Yellow Emperor was trapped under the Taishan Mountain, and the Yellow Emperor was defeated and retreated, fighting desperately, and he was invincible in nine battles.

Fortunately, there are many capable people under the emperor's banner, at that time there was a strange person called the wind who mixed rice and ate under the hands of the Yellow Emperor, he Shu Xu magnet characteristics, this night he watched the sky at night, inspired by the Big Dipper, since the magnet is placed horizontally, under the condition of free rotation, when stationary, both ends must guide the north. Inspired by this, Wind invented the guide car. Feng commanded the craftsmen in the army to build a car, and a wooden man stood on the car, and the wooden man stretched out a hand, and stretched out a finger, no matter what the direction of the car, the wooden man's outstretched hand could accurately point to the south. Relying on the guidance of the guide car, the Yellow Emperor led the guards to charge due north, and finally broke through the siege of the fog, got rid of Chiyou's pursuit, and led the troops to retreat to the Taishan Mountain, where they slept in a drowsy night.

Haotian watched the Yellow Emperor lose the battle again, and his heart was angry and anxious, and the reinforcements were upgraded again, and he sent the Xuannu to the lower realm again. After the Xuannu went to the lower realm, she first taught the Yellow Emperor the method of leading the troops to fight, and presented the Yellow Emperor's strange book of the art of war "Huangshi Heavenly Book", which taught the Yellow Emperor the five meanings of the three palaces, the strategy of yin and yang, the art of Taiyi Dunjia and the six non step fighting, the machine of the yin rune, the text of the five charms of the Lingbao five runes, and the sword of the soldier rune. In order to ensure the victory of this war, the Nine Heavens Xuannu felt that it was not a problem to always play the fog mode, and she had to find a way to have a five-on-five real king PK. This Haotian is also fighting hard for incense, in order to let the Yellow Emperor win the war, he sent a god to help the Yellow Emperor build the Xuanyuan Sword.

After the Yellow Emperor learned the art of war, Xuannu instructed the Yellow Emperor to send people to Kunwu Mountain to mine copper ore to cast Xuanyuan Sword, Xuanyuan Sword is a weapon made by God, on the day of casting, the world was turbulent, and there was a thunderous roar, and the surrounding creatures were killed and wounded, and the Yellow Emperor died and injured countless people in order to cast the Xuanyuan Sword. But at this time, the morale of the Yellow Emperor's soldiers was low, and in order to boost morale, the Yellow Emperor hit the idea of Kui Niu, who had no quarrel with the world on Liubo Mountain in the East China Sea. It looks like a cow, has a gray body, has one leg, and has no horns on its head. Its eyes are like the sun and the moon, and its voice is like thunder, and whenever it enters and exits the sea, it must be accompanied by heavy rain and wind.

With the assistance of the Nine Heavens Xuannu, the Yellow Emperor sent his son Donghai Shenyu to capture Kui, peel it and cramp, peel it off to dry, and make a war drum. At this time, the Yellow Emperor hit the thunder god again, and the thunder god lived in the thunder valley, with a human head and dragon body, and usually had no quarrel with the world, and liked to pat his stomach to play, and every time he beat it, he made a thunderous sound. This girl is Fuxi's father, legend has it that Hua Xu used to pass by in Lei Zeli, and accidentally stepped on Thor's footprints, so she became pregnant and gave birth to Fuxi. The Yellow Emperor sent people to Lei Ze overnight, this powerful thunder god, after being targeted by the Yellow Emperor, it was like the remnants of blood was chased and killed by the invisible Lanling King, and was killed by the Yellow Emperor's thundersweeper in two hits. What's even more cruel is that Thor's skinning cramps are not the ultimate goal, and the purpose of the minesweeper team is to draw Thor's thigh bones to make mallets, so this time Thor was treated more cruelly than Kui Niu.

The battle started again, the Yellow Emperor hung the Xuanyuan sword, held a mallet, and the mallet made of the leg bones of the thunder god hit the war drum made of Kui Niu, and the sound was earth-shattering, resounding in the sky, and it was deafening within five hundred miles.

The Yellow Emperor stood on the top of the mountain, and the life force retreated while fighting, luring the enemy deeper. Seeing that all the Chiyou troops entered the encirclement, they violently beat the Kui Niu drum and the battle situation took a sharp turn for the worse after the Kui Niu drum was beaten, and the sound that resounded through the sky frightened the Chiyou clan to abandon their troops and abandon their armor, and their morale declined. I saw that the whole battlefield shook the mountains, the sky swirled, shouting to kill the Chong Xiaohan, so that the Chiyou soldiers were fascinated, rushed to kill the Yuanmen, and fell like a mountain.

And the Yellow Emperor danced the Xuanyuan sword up and down, and the cyan sword blade spewed out red flames, coupled with the blessing of divine power, shaved off the iron forehead copper head of the Chiyou brothers, which was as light as chopping vegetables and melons;

The female lu was originally the daughter of the Yellow Emperor, died due to eating poisonous weeds by mistake, and when the female lu was terminally ill and was about to die, the three souls of the nuwa sealed by Fuxi broke the seal, one of which took advantage of the extremely weak body of the female lull to give up, but because the soul of the nu was incomplete and could not completely control the female lu's body, in order to control the female lu, the female lu will have his remnant soul and the female lu three souls and seven spirits are all fused, the fused female lu's body mutated, the body is full of powerful energy, the whole body is dehydrated, the skin becomes shriveled, the folds are born, wherever she goes, the rivers are instantly exhausted, and the land is cracked。

After being resurrected, the female squirt possessed strange abilities, and was rejected by the people for thousands of miles in drought wherever she went. As soon as the female leader came, the mana of Fengbo and Yushi instantly collapsed, the weather cleared, and the dense fog dispersed instantly. The Chiyou army was shocked, and the Yellow Emperor took the opportunity to command the army to fight wildly. Ying Long also spread a pair of golden wings, soaring in the air, fangs and claws, quacking, and screaming, and in the huge fast-moving shadow it cast, there were piles of broken corpses of the ghosts and the people of the three seedlings.

Then, Chi You's spells were all broken, Chi You was defeated, and was chased by the Yellow Emperor to the hill of Li Mountain, exhausted, before Chi You had time to breathe, the Yellow Emperor under his command of the five tiger generals, eight hussars have been killed, scratching the hook together, dragging him over, an iron rope tied to the spot and beheaded, in order to prevent Chi You from resurrecting and making trouble, his head was buried in two places, so far the god of war Chi You withdrew from the historical stage, and was shaped into the first demon god of the ages because of the defeat.

The war is finally over, and the female lu has also completed her mission, but because the female lull soul has been fused with the female hermitage, this time the great war has taken the opportunity to devour many ghosts and ghosts and the anger of the unjust soul, and the female lu's temperament has changed greatly, and she has been deprived of the qualification of the celestial maiden, and she can never return to the heavenly palace. Since then, he has stayed in the world.

However, she had a terrifying energy all over her body, and everywhere she went, the rivers dried up and the farmland cracked, and the Yellow Emperor had no choice but to order Lu to move to the Gonggongtai in the remote Kunshan Mountains north of Chishui. Lu did not want to live in a remote and desolate place, and escaped from time to time, but the peasants were afraid of the calamity she brought, so they dug ditches, cleared the river, and shouted loudly to drive them away: "The god of drought is back to the north of the red water!"

In this way, the Heavenly Lady successfully transformed into one of the four zombie gods in this Yanhuang War.

In fact, except for the source of the female eagle, the other three have no historical records, and they are not mentioned in the Classic of Mountains and Seas, so they should be made up by future generations. Regarding the growth history of the female lu in the ancient records, the book has been written in great detail in "Which is the loneliest monster among the Chinese monsters?", so I will not sort it out again, and the following information is from the book "Which is the loneliest monster among the Chinese monsters?", which has been authorized by the author.

Attached to the Female Lu: "Which is the loneliest monster among the Chinese monsters?"

Author: Song Shu (reprinted with the author's permission)

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