Chapter 1 Heaven and Earth Divide at the Beginning of Ten Thousand Scenes
At the beginning of chaos, the clear one is the sky, and the turbid one is the earth. Heaven is the beginning of all things, and earth is the mother of all things. There are thirty-four heavens, and the thirty-four heavens are the places where the saints, immortals, spirits, and beasts are located. Thirty-four days for the gods, emperors, emperors. The heavens are the Tao, and the Tao walks in the heavens and all the worlds, and there are rules on the ground and underground.
It is said that the earth was originally a cloud of turbidity wrapped in the sky, and after being burned by the heavenly fire, washed by the nine springs, beaten with muddy gold, and nourished by fragrant wood, it was finally the soil of the five elements.
In this dead and irregular land, there is no life, and darkness is the only color. It wasn't until one day that a phoenix came down from the thirty-third day and spat fire at the swarthy land, and the land had light. I don't know how long this flame burned, and it was finally doused with rootless water by an eventful green dragon. The phoenix felt provoked and set the fire back on fire, while the dragon stubbornly extinguished the fire, and even worse, the dragon directly wrapped the land with its body and completely flooded the land with water. The phoenix also spun its body at great speed, releasing more powerful flames, vowing to steam the water around the dragon dry.
Time flies, time flies. No one knows where the dragon and the phoenix have gone, but this swarthy land has had light and water from then on.
I don't know when the first life was born on this land, and I don't know how long it took for this land to finally come alive.
Natural selection, survival of the fittest, human beings slowly became the existence at the top of the food chain, and named this land Wu. It is said that the origin of the name is to receive instructions from the heavens. The Divine Turtle Book gave the first civilization of mankind, and also taught human beings how to communicate with the heavens, how to use the rules of the heavens to practice, and to manage this young world.
In an unknown corner, there is a village called Gu Feng. Men plough and weave, work at sunrise, rest at sunset, wind and rain, more than every year. The people of the village have lived here for generations, but it is also comfortable.
One day, Yicheng County suddenly received a message that all the villagers of Gufeng Village died violently. The county order quickly sent a head catcher to investigate. It is surprising that the whole village has not been damaged in any way, and it is not the work of bandits and robbers. The villagers were all in their homes, most of them were lying in bed, apparently dying at night, some with smiles on their faces before they died, apparently not due to the plague. The head catcher hurried back to the county office and told the county magistrate of the situation. Such a strange thing has never happened in the local chronicles of Yicheng, and if the county magistrate directly reflects the results of the investigation to his superiors, it will definitely be regarded as perfunctory and alarmist, and his good career will come to an end.
The master came up with such an idea for the county order: to reward the person who solved the case. Notices were posted in conspicuous locations all over the county, and there were many onlookers, but not a single person volunteered. Everyone thinks that Gufeng Village is a bad curse, and God will punish them, so that the chickens and dogs in Gufeng Village will not stay, and whoever goes to investigate will be punished by God. Public opinion slowly fermented, and no one even dared to read the notice.
A strange thing happened today, and suddenly there was a person next to the notice that no one had cared about for many days. This person has a yellow face and thin muscles, but his eyes are clear, he is of medium height, his clothes are clean, and he has combed his hair in a Taoist bun, which is obviously a monk. Fang Shi walked to the county government and reported his family's common surname Ye, from Evian Mountain Pinyunguan. The county magistrate personally received the priest and gave a detailed introduction to the situation in Gufeng Village. Fang Shi decided to go to Gufeng Village to find out, and the county order asked the county government to cooperate with Fang Shi with a few strong headhunters.