Ancient Chinese Myths and Legends (Part II)
The Emperor is also known as the Emperor of Gouchen Shanggong, his natal star originates from one of the six stars of Gouchen in Ziwei Hengzhong, and is in charge of the north and south poles and the three talents of heaven, earth and man, and was later assigned by the Yuan Shi Tianzun to assist the Jade Emperor to control the gods and manage the affairs of the world's military revolution. Emperor Ziwei was first sent by Yuan Shi Tianzun to manage the stars in the sky, including the twenty-eight stars, each star dou, the nine stars and other stars of the Yinhan Dynasty, and later the Jade Emperor divided the heavenly realm into four major parts, dividing powers and balances, he was sent to govern the north, and thus established the Shenxiao faction, and his reputation and prestige rose rapidly, approaching the Jade Emperor, becoming the second emperor of the fairy world. The Seven Emperors of the Northern Heavens is the name given by the gods after the Big Dipper Seven Star King stirred up a storm between heaven and earth. Although these seven sons were born to one mother, their personalities and temperaments were completely different. Greedy Wolf was born to be willful and reckless, and his good and evil deeds are often in a single thought, and he has always been regarded as an outlier by the gods. Giant Gate Star and Greedy Wolf Star have similar temperaments, and their personalities are easy to go to extremes, and they are good at admitting death and often going their own way. Lu Cunxing has a pure character, treats people warmly, and is humble and open-minded, but he does everything in a big way, and often does something that is not as good as it. Wenqu Xing is talented and intelligent, good literature is not good at martial arts, the books in the world, he can read with his eyes, the words of his mouth, the words are beady, when the seven stars are in the heavenly palace, he even entered the martial arts from the text, and created a very powerful set of spells. Lian Zhenxing has a brutal temperament, is narrow-minded, angry, and quarrelsome, and unforgiving. Wu Quxing is a decent person, good martial arts is not good at writing, he is the best martial artist among the seven sons of the Big Dipper, and he makes a purple dragon sound gun. The world knows that Wuqu Xing makes guns, and everyone learns marksmanship, and calls the gun the king of weapons! It was not until there was a great swordsman and bearded man in contemporary times that the saying that marksmanship was suitable for human practice was broken, and there were more and more people who learned swords in later generations. He is also known as the Disaster Star by the world, because he is good at using all kinds of plague methods, and from the five elements of gold, wood, water, fire, and earth, he has innovated the extremely destructive Qimen Dunjia technique, which has the ability to change the situation in an instant. (The idea of this part originated from some theories about the symbol of the Big Dipper) These characters must have determined a later disaster, that is, the catastrophe that was later called the Seven Stars Troubled Times. The Seven Brothers of the Big Dipper made a big fuss in the Lingxiao Treasure Palace, and even the Jade Emperor, who had ten success powers at that time, couldn't suppress them, and finally the Emperor and the Emperor Ziwei came forward to make peace, and the Yuan Shi Tianzun was the middleman, so that the chaos in the heavenly realm was calmed down, and the seven brothers offended the immortals too much in that chaos, and they knew that their personalities were peculiar, and they were not easy to get alike. They left behind seven disciples, including Tianshu, Tianxuan, Tianji, Tianquan, Yuheng, Kaiyang, and Shaoguang, to succeed the Big Dipper Star Monarch, but these seven sons could not learn from them, and the reputation of the Big Dipper Star gradually weakened, and then merged with the rest of the Dou Dou to obey the command of the Five Dipper Star Monarch. In the battle of the fairy world that began in the Lion Camel Country, the Seven Emperors of the Northern Heaven died, and when Wenqu Xing was seriously injured, he was exiled to Qiqu Mountain in Zitong County, Sichuan, and was rescued by the god Zitong. This Zitong God was originally a member of the Jin Dynasty and was a well-known filial son, because the world was not peaceful during the Jin Dynasty, and the war in Nanzhan Buzhou was non-stop, and Zhang Yazi died heroically in a battle. Because he had learned the Five Thunder Thunder Thunder Spell during his lifetime, he was worshiped as the god of thunder by the local people after his death. Wenqu Xing's vitality has been dispersed, and he is about to disperse, and before he died, he passed on what he had learned all his life to him. Later, the Jade Emperor returned to the Heavenly Court, so he transferred him to the Heavenly Palace and was named Emperor Wenchang to take charge of the human realm. Li Shimin, the emperor of the Celestial Empire, was the first to create a scientific award after he received his dream, and since then, the literati and students in the human world have worshiped him. There were also two miscellaneous boys around him, named the deaf and the dumb, and it is said that they were called children to prevent the leakage of heavenly secrets. There is also a Kui Xing in the Wenchang Mansion under the control of Emperor Wenchang, who is the full-time manager of the imperial examination on behalf of Emperor Wenchang. He looked like a red-faced and blue-faced ghost, always standing on top of his head, holding a pen in one hand all the year round, and always holding a bucket in the other. Although his appearance and behavior are very strange, because his power is so great for ordinary people, over time there is a saying that "the stars are fighting and dominating", and once he is pointed at by his fight, that person will become the champion of the year. Under the glory of the Nine Emperors of the Northern Heavens, the youngest son born to Lady Ziguang was dimmed, he was known as the Eighth Star of the Big Dipper, and he had been following the Emperor Ziwei, managing the Qingwei Heaven, Yu Yutian and the Great Red Heaven in the thirty-six days, specializing in controlling the wind and all kinds of strange ghosts. Later, when Zhu Bajie rehung the Tianpeng Shuai Seal in Qinghua Palace, he was named the Nine Heavens Child Killer General. The birth of the star gods in the sky has caused a sharp increase in the number of immortals in the Qiankun, first the birth of the six stars of the Southern Dipper, then the birth of the four gods, then the twenty-eight nights, and then the nine stars, for a time the stars were brilliant, and the thirty-three days entered the most prosperous period. The four gods are the green dragon, the white tiger, Vermilion Bird and Xuanwu, they manage the affairs of the four directions of the southeast, northwest and northwest, because they are all beast gods, so the cultivation of spells is relatively weak, with the birth of other stars, the status is getting lower and lower, and finally the green dragon and white tiger became the door god of Taoism, and the Vermilion Bird has only become the third term when people nostalgically talk about the four gods, only the Xuanwu God is rich and noble, and the status is far higher than the other three of the same door, known as the Xuanwu Emperor, who has been enshrined in Wudang Mountain by mankind for thousands of years, and was really renamed the Zhenwu Emperor by Song Zhenzong when he was falsely called Song Zu by Song Zhenzong。 The origin of Emperor Zhenwu has always been a mystery, some people say that he is the reincarnation of the stars, and some people say that he is a three-legged turtle after the death of Kun. (But it is commonly said that after his death, he was transformed into a large yellow dragon.) The most official version is that in order to strengthen his grasp of the heavenly realm, the Jade Emperor transferred one of his three souls to the human world to practice, and he did not expect that this reincarnated person had not been able to achieve positive results, so he had to be transferred to the womb of the queen of the Pure Happiness Kingdom, Mrs. Shansheng, who was pregnant for fourteen months, and finally gave birth to him with a squeaky nest. When Emperor Xuanwu was reincarnated again, he was very smart, because the memory of his previous life was not lost, he was very young and had memorized Taoist classics, ran away from home at the age of fifteen, and after the Zixu Yuanjun mentioned, he learned to go to the Tao of Wuji, crossed the East China Sea to Taihe Mountain Ziyun Peak Zixiao Cave to cultivate, after 7749 years of diligent cultivation and hard work, and finally refined to the day, the Jade Emperor immediately named him "Marshal Taixuan", in charge of the demons and monsters in the world, so people respected him as the ancestor of the Nine Heavens Wandering Demons. In fact, Emperor Zhenwu is not as illustrious as the Taoist legend says, he is actually a freak created by the snake cultivator and the nine babies among the six generals of the Heavenly Demon, and he is a brother of the King of Ten Thousand Beasts, the Beast Emperor. When it was born, it was a monster that looked like a turtle and a snake entangled, because it was too alien, its life could not survive normally in the universe, and it only relied on the demonic power of the nine babies to maintain its life, and then the nine babies were killed by Hou Yi, and it almost died. At this time, it happened that Lingbao Tianzun passed by the Jiuyin Mountain where it was located, and heard its subconscious cry for survival, and suddenly had a thought in his heart: "Is it possible for the monster to be taught well?" For this great reality, he began the transformation of Xuanwu, after thousands of years of hard work, it was finally reborn, Lingbao Tianzun erased his memory of the past, recommended him to work under the Jade Emperor, and was named the Quartet God General together with the three gods such as the green dragon, the white tiger, and the Suzaku. The last great immortal Taishang Laojun in the Three Qings was finally born when the heavens were "full of gods". Speaking of his birth, it has to be extrapolated to the time when the Fuli Yuan Shi Tianzun (Pangu Clan) opened the heavens and the earth, although the Taishang Elder at that time had the most basic form, but in addition to constantly absorbing the essence of heaven and earth every day, he has not been able to conceive into a sentient and wise god. Time passes like lightning, in the blink of an eye, thousands of years, one day in a certain month and year, a meteor fell near it, shook it into the air, floated into the world, and finally reincarnated as a human, because he was born in the Li family, he got a name Li Er. He grew up to be the librarian of the Zhou Kingdom. Due to the weakness of the Zhou family, he decided to resign, find a good mountain, and live in seclusion. Unexpectedly, when the west sent a letter to Guguan, Yin Xi was his fan who guarded the pass, not only stopped him to sign it, but also asked him to write some authentic handwriting before letting him go. It is said that that day was the seventh month of the twenty-third year of King Zhao, and Lao Dan was riding a green ox to pass the customs, but was hurriedly stopped by Yin Xi's subordinate Sun Jingxian, and reported to Yin Xi to come. Although Lao Tzu is full of experience, but when he meets Yin Xi, it is like Xiucai encountering a soldier, no matter what he says, Yin Xi just said: "Please accept me as an apprentice and take me to cultivate immortals and learn the Tao." ”。 Lao Tzu really had no choice, so he hypothesized that he wanted to test him, and if he answered satisfactorily, he accepted him as an apprentice. Lao Tzu asked, "How do you know that I am going through Hangu Pass?" Yin Xi replied: "In October last year, I saw the Heavenly Star moving westward, and from this month onwards, the true qi of the east is like a snake moving westward, which is a sign of the action of the Great Sage!" Lao Tzu felt that this person's kung fu was really first-class, and he was about to nod his head in agreement, but who knew that Yin Xi would not stop there, and then asked: "Dare to ask the name of the saint?" Although the name of any immortal in the heavens and the earth can be called several times better through Lao Tzu's mouth, but he is still a little unaccustomed to bragging to his face, he first said: "My name is slim, from one calamity to another, I can't finish it..." Then he stayed in Hanguguan for more than three months, and wrote a "Five Thousand Words" (i.e., "Tao Te Ching") before he left the dust. When he was leaving, he asked Yin Xi to go to Sichuan Qingyang to find himself, Yin Xi followed Lao Tzu to cultivate, and finally ascended to the throne of the supreme real person, whose name was ranked above the four heavenly kings, and led 80,000 immortals in the sky. "Lao Tzu's Five Thousand Words" became the classic basis for Lao Tzu's disciples in the world to establish Taoism, after the establishment of Taoism, they began to seal the gods for the heavenly immortals, but there are too many great immortals in the sky, how to rank so that everyone is more satisfied? This is a headache for even the Jade Emperor. It was at this time that the Great Emperor of the world wrote a love poem in the hall of the creation god Nuwa, so under the planning of the Sanqing, the gods of the four directions went to the human world and joined the two hostile camps respectively, in order to expand the influence of the Taoist gods and rank the gods, launched an earth-shattering bloody battle. Section 6: Shang and Zhou fought for the world, Taoism conferred gods, and the Shang Dynasty and the Zhou Dynasty were two of the three oldest dynasties in China. When Di Jun was in the world, he had a son named Hou Ji, but although this son was born when he was a human king in the world, it was not his own son, but a freak born to his wife Jiang Yan because she trampled on the footprints of giants during an outing. Due to the unknown origin, Jiang Yan once wanted to abandon him, so Houji's earliest name was "abandonment". Of course, in the end, he was raised by Jiang Yan. When "Abandoned" grew up, it was already the time when Emperor Yao was in charge of the world, because "Abandoned" was a good farmer, so he was appointed by Emperor Yao as his Minister of Agriculture to manage and guide all aspects of agriculture in the world. Later, in recognition of his great contribution to the agricultural exhibition, Yao rewarded him with Taidi, sealed a Ji character as his surname, and called him Houji, so the farmers began to call him Houji, and the earliest name "abandoned" was forgotten by people. Houji became the ancestor of the Zhou nation, and when he died, he was buried in the "Duguang no Ye", which is a good place for all seasons and spring. Houji had a grandson named Shujun, who knew how to plough the land with oxen. The name of the ancestor of the Shang Dynasty was called Qi (Nian: some), and the mother of Qi was called Jian Di, who was the second concubine of Emperor Jun. Legend has it that Xuanyao was a businessman, and the contract can be said to be the son of Xuanniao. From the perspective of the clan, the fathers of the ancestors of Shang and Zhou turned out to be Emperor Jun, but the funny thing is that they were not Emperor Jun's biological sons. (No wonder Emperor Jun abandoned four human wives after becoming the emperor of heaven, these are perhaps the most important reasons.) Besides, after Xia Qi founded the country and established the dynasty, the world had abundant grains, herds of horses and cattle, and there were no wars and natural disasters, and the lives of the common people became better and better, and the comfortable life made the nature of human beings that had not been revealed gradually revealed, simply put, there were three in total: greed, greed, and arrogance. Greed makes them never satisfied, ** makes them often do something extremely abnormal, and arrogance creates arrogance, and the gods and goddesses are not taken into their eyes. For this reason, the Jade Emperor specially went to the Qingwei Palace in Yuqing Realm to consult Yuan Shi Tianzun. It just so happened that Lingbao Tianzun and Daode Tianzun were also there, and after some discussion, Lao Tzu proposed a reference that could be compared to the meaning of opening the world: "Give them a faith!" He explained: " In fact, human beings are sometimes poor, no matter how deeply he is poisoned by the three thoughts, his body is still very fragile, and the more obsessed with the three thoughts, the easier it is to lose himself, at this time, if there is a spiritual support, he will sincerely trust him, and worship it as a life-saving straw, and eventually this spiritual support will become a beacon to guide his life. When the Jade Emperor heard Taishang Laojun's words, he was like an initiation, and immediately invited Taishang Laojun to come out of the mountain to establish a religion, and Laojun agreed without hesitation. At this time, Lingbao Tianzun raised another question: "How to make the people believe in them?" Regarding this point, the Jade Emperor was very proficient, and he only said two words: "War!" Sanqing suddenly understood, the discussion ended here, Daode Tianzun entered the world to establish a religion, Lingbao Tianzun was responsible for doing the mobilization of the fairy world, Yuan Shi Tianzun personally went to the lower realm to find the entry point of the war, and the Jade Emperor continued to send a large number of Tianding to spread to the world, preaching the supremacy of imperial power, as long as the imperial system is passed down for thousands of years, no matter how great the spiritual leader you Sanqing becomes, it is not comparable to the supreme authority of the heavenly emperor in the eyes of mankind! Outside Chaoge City, there is a fox den, because this was once the place where the Yuan Shi Heavenly Demon practiced, so not only the animals in this vicinity have become essences, but even a pair of pipas that were abandoned on the side of the road have been cultivated into human shapes. Yuan Shi Tianzun was attracted by the sky-high demon spirit here, changed into the appearance of Nuwa, and subdued nearly a hundred fox demons here, he hypothesized that he returned to the world because he was angry that the king of Xuan wrote obscene poems in his main hall, but he has not asked about the world for too long, if the fox demon is willing to help him to corrupt the country and let the people overthrow the Shang Dynasty, then he is willing to pass on her five thousand years of skills as a reward. The fox demon meat is on the chopping board, how dare you say a word, after getting the elixir of Yuan Shi Tianzun, he assumed the name Daji and mixed into the palace. The king was fascinated by Daji and obeyed her, especially to the rebel Xibohou Jichang, who had already been appointed, and even let the king cook his son's meat for him to eat. Although sometimes the king felt that he was a little excessive, but for some reason, the order of life and death was issued a little unconsciously and lightly. Killing the queen, beheading two sons, ripping off the big, chasing the flying tiger, a few years to make people's hearts deviate. Ji Chang got the help of Lei Zhenzi and Nezha, returned to Xiqi, and after several years of fierce soldiers and horses, and then united the princes from all walks of life, he finally had the strength to fight with Chaoge. Shang and Zhou fought for the world, this article will not discuss it in detail, it can grow to a book, such as "The Romance of the Gods" or something, but in this war, there is a great god who stands out and becomes a very famous brave general in the history of Chinese mythology, he is Nezha. Speaking of the gods who did not contribute much in the battle of Shang and Zhou, but benefited the most, of course, it was none other than Li Jing, the king of Tota. That Li Jing's own skills are really not good, but his father is expensive by his son, and he was exceptionally promoted by the Jade Emperor to be the king of the fairy world, commanding the heavenly soldiers, and he has the best luck throughout the ages. Li Jing, the chief soldier of Chentangguan, can only be called very ordinary regardless of his background and skills, and in terms of magical powers, he only knows a little about the Five Elements Dunjia, but he gave birth to three extraordinary sons. When his eldest son Jin Zha and second son Mu Zha were born, they had the vision of Jin Guang Ruicai and the rebirth of dead wood, respectively, and Li Jing also sent them to Wutai Mountain and Emei Mountain when they were very young, and followed the two Bodhisattvas Manjushri and Fuxian to learn art. If the vision of Jin Zha and Mu Zha when they were born can be understood as a coincidence, then Nezha's birth is completely a myth. First, his mother conceived him, and then he was pregnant for three years and six months, and when he was born, he was still a meat ball, Li Jing thought it was a monster, and after raising his sword to cut the meat ball, Nezha broke out of his shell. Because he has a "which" character on his left palm and a "zha" character on his right palm, he is named Nezha. On the day he was born, Taiyi Rescue Tianzun actually visited in person and passed on his two magic weapons, the Mixed Heaven Aya and the Qiankun Circle. Nezha grew up fast, only three days to grow to the size of an ordinary child eleven or twelve years old, because when he was bathing in the sea, he took the Chaotian Aya to play in the water, and the huge water flow actually washed away the Dragon Palace of the West Sea, and the third prince of the Dragon King went out of the sea to take Nezha, but he was skinned and cramped, and he gave his life. After Nezha happily finished the Dragon Palace, he took the dragon tendon of the third prince home, and wanted to give it to his father to make a belt, Li Jing learned that this tendon belt was actually the dragon tendon of the third prince of the Dragon King of the West Sea, where did he dare to tie it on his body, (The son-in-law of the Dragon King of the West Sea is the famous Erlang God Yang Jian!) Because he was afraid of causing the disaster of destroying the door, he wanted to behead the son to apologize. Nezha was so angry that he used a knife to cut the flesh and return the flesh to his mother, remove the bones and return the father, leaving only a little soul, and flew to the Western Da Lei Yin Temple to find Ru to reason. The Buddha was lecturing with the Bodhisattvas when he heard someone shouting "help" under the cover of the banner, so he used lotus root as bone and lotus leaf as clothing to create a new body for him, on the condition that he go to the ninety-six caves of demons. After Nezha was reborn, he followed his master Taiyi to save the suffering Tianzun in the East Miaoyan Palace for ten years, and then re-entered the Three Realms on the Hot Wheels, and subdued the ninety-six demons with his own strength. After the task was completed, he went straight to Chentang Pass to seek revenge on Li Jing. Where did Li Jing dare to fight him, and urgently sent his two sons back to help, Jin Zha didn't want to kill each other, and begged Master Manjushri Bodhisattva to come out of the mountain to resolve this grievance. Manjushri Bodhisattva asked for a delicate and transparent relics Ruyi golden pagoda from the place where he came, and personally came to Chentangguan to pass it to Li Jing, and persuaded the two fathers and sons to reconcile. Nezha was afraid that the pagoda was powerful, so he had to agree to reconcile with his father, and Li Jing was afraid of Nezha, so he held the pagoda in the palm of his hand anytime and anywhere, and later when he was promoted to the immortal class, he was named the king of Tuota by the Jade Emperor. Besides, the war between Shang and Zhou for the world was imminent, and due to the participation of many immortals, the road of Zhou Wu Wangji's eastern crusade can also be called the road of death. Stepping on the corpses of countless gods and people, the Western Zhou Dynasty finally defeated the Shang Dynasty, which was originally in full strength, and became the new master of the world. In fact, this protracted and long war is also a magic exhibition for Taoism to eliminate dissidents and establish divine power, countless how many strange treasures have been used in this war, and countless kinds of mysterious celestial phenomena have appeared in this continuous war years, only know that at the end of the battle for hegemony between the emperors of the world, what is left in the immortal world is basically only the Yinhan stars who respect the Sanqing and the immortals who have some nepotism with the Sanqing. After the end of the war, Jiang Ziya was ordered by the Jade Emperor, entrusted by the Yuan Shi Tianzun, to be enshrined as a god, what four heavenly kings, four blasphemy dragon gods, five plagues and five mountains, (Bixia Yuanjun,) five dipper star monarchs, nine yao star officials, twelve yuanchen, twenty-four thunder generals, twenty-eight stars, thirty-six heavenly generals, sixty Jiazi gods and so on should be the heavenly immortals, all of them were sealed. A huge system of gods was formed, and Taoism was founded shortly thereafter, and due to the great influence left by the gods such as Sanqing in the world, Taoist believers soon spread throughout the Lianghe Valley, and Taoist beliefs spread to almost every mile of land in Nanzhan Buzhou. If it weren't for the sudden rise of Buddhism, perhaps people's fanatical belief in Taoism would have continued to this day, and we would all have believed in Sanqing as the people of Xiniu Hezhou believed in Christ. With the entry of Yuan Shi Tianzun into the world, the brothers of Yuan Shi Tianzun also appeared on different occasions. But after the excitement, a question emerged: "You are Tianzun, I am the emperor, and he is also a true monarch, who should the people believe?" At this time, there was a major event that caused a sensation in the Three Realms, and the birth of this event can be said to be the inevitable result of too many vice presidents of the fairy world, and this event was later called the "Seven Star Troubled Times". Because the heavenly immortal realm is composed of two parts: the Nine Heavens Realm (Note 1) and the Thirty-six Heavens. Yuan Shi Tianzun's eight elder brothers, except for the Eastern Princes, were responsible for governing the nine nights and nine heavens, and the world was known as "the nine nights of the general Brahman, and the eight emperors ruled the heavens" (Note 2). However, in these nine nights and nine days, there is nothing except the spirit birds and beasts, nominally called governance, in fact, it is similar to the Monkey King's Monkey King, it is an easy job to manage the garden, except for the Jade Halal King because he wants to assist the Jade Emperor to rule all souls, in fact, the Seven Emperors have nothing to do every day except for cultivating the Tao and chanting the scriptures. Because there is nothing to do all day, every gathering of the Lingxiao Treasure Hall is the most meaningful thing for the Eighth Emperor of the Yuan Dynasty. Once the Seven Emperors meet each other, they will be endless, because of their noble status, they often brag loudly, and they feel good about themselves. The world was peaceful, and soon it was the day of the Queen Mother's birthday, and sitting not far from them in the Yao Pond happened to be the Seven Emperors of the Northern Heaven who had rushed back from the dust and dust of the world. The Seven Emperors of the Northern Heavens have always been high and extremely unsociable, and when these two groups of weirdos meet together, of course nothing good will happen...; He actually fought at the peach party. Where are the Seven Emperors of the First Heaven the opponent of the Seven Emperors of the Northern Heavens, so they pulled a large number of immortals such as the Taiyi Heavenly Emperor to help, and finally led to the farce of the Seven Emperors of the Northern Heaven to make trouble in the Heavenly Palace! After the chaotic times of the Seven Stars, the Seven Emperors of the First Yuan Dynasty also left the Nine Nights and Nine Heavens because of their embarrassing identities, and went to the Nether to live a life of scattered immortals. But the Jade Emperor also realized from this matter that the magic power of the stars has come out of his own control, after several days of hard thinking, in the end it is still too platinum star to offer a plan, in addition to the golden cloud palace where he lives, the entire immortal world is divided into four directions, southeast, northwest and northwest, and then invite four heavenly emperors with high moral standing to serve, on the one hand, they can reduce the burden of their own management, and on the other hand, they can better manage this group of "uncles" with the help of their mutual strength. The first to be considered is the second brother of the Northern Heavenly Seven Emperors, Emperor Ziwei, in terms of seniority and position, he is undoubtedly the most prestigious Heavenly Emperor outside the Jade Emperor. The second one to be considered, of course, is the ninth son of the Yuan Shi Heavenly King, the Yu Qing Zhen King, who is the emperor of the party, and a large number of disobedient Yuan Shi close relatives can be easily managed. The third person to be chosen was the Emperor. He has fought for the Heavenly Court over the years, is in charge of the military power of the Heavenly Realm, and has made him the Emperor of Heaven, which can not only recover the military power, but also govern those generals who have made great achievements. In fact, the reason why the Seven Emperors of the Northern Heaven were able to make such a fuss was not unrelated to the fact that the Emperor had room for quelling the chaos at that time. The last Heavenly Emperor made the Jade Emperor really difficult, originally the thunder Puhua Tianzun Xuanyuan Yellow Emperor was an excellent choice, but now the emperor is not to carve up the world and fight for sovereignty; This Taiyi Salvation Tianzun, also known as Taiyi Salvation Suffering Tianzun, lives in the East Extreme Miaoyan Palace, similar to Guanyin Bodhisattva, he is helping the most needy creatures in the Three Realms all day long, whether it is natural disasters and plagues, diseases and vicious pains or wars, wind and rain or goblins harming people, robbers and thieves and even uneasy pregnancy, difficult childbirth and even unjust death, reincarnation, etc., as long as he knows, he will incarnate and go, it can be said that he is the hardest and busiest god in the heavenly realm. Taiyi Rescue Tianzun not only has great compassion and righteousness, but also has an invincible supernatural power that is afraid of demons and hatred. (Looking through Journey to the West, the most powerful monster is the Nine Spirits Yuan Sheng, the mount of the Great Heavenly Venerable, Sun Wukong couldn't resist it with a move, and he was hung in the hole for a day.) Having him as the fourth Heavenly Emperor can not only convince the people, but also increase the prestige of the Immortal Realm in the Three Realms, and the list of Heavenly Emperors of the Four Directions has been decided. After the Quartet Heavenly Emperor took office, the chaotic situation in the Heavenly Realm was immediately changed, and many immortals who did not listen to Xuan or listen to the tune in the past, the Jade Emperor could indirectly command them through the Quartet Heavenly Emperor. Unexpectedly, asking Sanqing to seal the gods would cause so much trouble, and the Jade Emperor began to change his thinking about using "people". There are still a large number of vacancies in the Heavenly Palace, but the vacancies are no longer like before to go to the Yuqing Palace to invite the Innate Immortal Saint, and instead of being promoted from the human world, the Jade Emperor first sent a heavenly god to the lower realm, so that he could create an influence in the human world, and then return to the immortal class, and then named him the Heavenly Master, who is responsible for selecting the pillars of talent in the human world to come to the Heavenly Palace to do things, those immortals who are promoted from the human world are called the Heavenly Immortals, and the Jade Emperor sent the Heavenly Master of the Nether 66 There are as many as five, the most famous of which is Zhang Xu Qiu Ge The Four Great Heavenly Masters (see Humble Zuo for full name"Chinese Immortal Table"). Among the four Heavenly Emperors, the one who had the most trouble after taking office and later achieved the greatest was the Arctic Zhongtian Ziwei Emperor. The north is the birthplace of the gods, it has been very difficult to manage since ancient times, the local gods and goddesses have a family history of tens of thousands of years, and the most powerful Nine Yao Stars and Twenty-Eight Residences of the Ziwei Emperor have all been left in the Central Heavenly Palace, and when he went to the north, he only had the youngest brother by his side. Most of the immortals in the north are thunder gods, and once they fight, they all call for wind and rain first, and then thunder and lightning, and Emperor Ziwei is annoyed by the changing weather here from time to time. He first showed his might, defeated the most powerful Thor family here, and then slowly changed them, after years of hard work, he gradually gained the trust and respect of the great gods here, and then he used the two methods of founding the country and establishing a faction to expand his influence in the north, and the country he established was called the Northern Heavenly God Kingdom, and the sect he established was named the Shenxiao faction. After the establishment of the Shenxiao faction, he immediately invited Yuan Shi Tianzun and other Sanqing to be honored as the honorary patriarch of the Shenxiao faction, and then the Sanqing patriarch appointed himself as the head of the faction. He also set up nine provinces, three divisions and four prefectures in the country, and the leaders of the four prefectures were also known as the Four Sages of the North Pole, and the four sages were actually Marshal Tianpeng (Master Wu really talked about this generalissimo of the Guardian in the Shenxiao faction). Under the four saints, there are also the three famous thunder marshals, namely Deng Bowen, Xin Hanchen and Zhang Yuanbo. Through the active efforts of the thunder gods, the Shenxiao faction also created a unique magic skill, five thunder**, when it was displayed, the momentum was very amazing, and the power was also extremely powerful. Note 1: Nine Nights and Nine Heavens refer to Shenxiao Yuqing Xuhuang Tian, Danxiao Antarctic Yuwentian, Bixiao Taixu Zhenjitian, Yuxiao Yuling Suhuatian, Taixiao Tailing Zhenyuantian, Langxiao Suling Haoyuantian, Zixiao Jiuling Shangjitian, Jingxiao Miaoling Baohuatian and Qingxiao Yuhua Wujitian. Note 2: The Nine Nights of the General Brahma is a legend of the Nine Heavens that was transformed into the Nine Heavens by the Great Brahma of the First Heavenly King. The names of the eight emperors of the Yuan Shi are listed as follows: the second son Baosheng Maharaja, the third son Zhangming Maharaja, the fourth son Huming Maharaja, the fifth son Ming Emperor Maharaja, the sixth son Feiqing Maharaja, the seventh son Nanji Jun, the eighth son Beitai Maharaja, and the ninth son Yuqing Halal King. Section 7 Lao Tzu accepts apprentices, and the eight immortals enlighten the way; after crossing the East China Sea, each god calls that after Lao Tzu ascended to the fairy world, he actively wants to do something for the fairy world, so although he appears in the heavenly court, he seems to be very powerful, but he lacks two very important things, the elixir and the magic weapon. There should be something that can quickly restore the vitality, The elixir to improve cultivation to help those immortals who are too tired or injured when they punish demons, Heavenly Court should have more powerful magic weapons to cope with unexpected needs, and the magic weapon can also reduce the danger after each heavenly soldier and heavenly general is dispatched, and speed up the speed of eliminating demons and demons; 。 The elixir refined in the gossip furnace is even more magical, after Sun Wukong eats a whole gourd and nine turns of the golden pill, the whole body becomes invulnerable, water and fire are difficult to invade is a clear proof, other effects such as can make mortals become immortals, eliminate difficult and strange diseases and so on. After Taishang Laojun refined the elixir, he began to cultivate new vitality for the heavenly court, he saved a large number of people, naturally it is impossible to count, but there are eight particularly famous characters, because of their high mana, chivalrous benevolence, and temperament and personality also have their own characteristics, they have been praised by later generations, they are the eight immortals. As early as the Yanhuang era, there were two unknown gods, one called Huang Shenshi and the other called (彳巨) Shenshi, both of whom were single-minded monastic hermits. When Huang Shen's family was in the Eastern Han Dynasty, he was born in the home of the general Zhong Lizhang, because he was born as big as a 3-year-old child, and the top was round and the forehead was wide, the lips and face were like Dan, and the milk was longer than the arm, and he did not cry day and night for seven consecutive days, and suddenly spat out on the seventh day, his father thought that this son had been contemptuous since he was a child, and he would have a general great achievement when he grew up, so he named him Zhong Liquan. It's a pity that although Zhong Liquan was born with a vision, he has grown up more and more beautiful, although he is very good at writing and martial arts, but when he fights, he has a few battles and loses a few battles, and his luck is particularly bad. After another defeat, Zhong Liquan met a Taiyi True Immortal King Xuanfu, was presented with the Tai'a Divine Light Sword, and learned the Qinglong Sword Technique and the True Recipe of Immortality, and then met Huayang Zhenren, and finally broke away from the world, became an immortal, and later worshiped under the door of Taishang Laojun and became his closed disciple. He once wrote three quatrains to be passed down to the world, among which "the courtiers often carry a pot of wine, and do not teach their eyes to know the imperial capital", "it is not easy to meet the true immortals, when will they return and be willing to obey" and other sentences written are full of fairy flavor. Another giant god used to be a friend of Chi Songzi, but when Chi Songzi became famous all over the world, his skills were only equivalent to those of earth immortals. Soon after, the Yellow Emperor unified Middle-earth, and in order to better manage the land of Shenzhou, Guangzhao Magi once found him, and in order not to cause trouble, he even changed his name to Li Ningyang to concentrate on escaping the world. It is said that this Li Ningyang is burly and chic, because of his long-term cultivation, he looks like a fairy wind and bones, and he is the first disciple of the Eight Immortals to officially join the Taishang Laojun. But how did He become lame and ugly? It turned out that once Taishang Laojun took him to Huashan, he went with the teacher in the way of the Yuan Shen out of the body, and told the disciple that he would return in seven days, but the disciple was because of a sudden emergency at home, and on the morning of the seventh day, his body was burned, and the seventh day was the limit time for him to go out of the body, but when he returned on the night of the seventh day, his body was gone, because he was afraid that the Yuan Shen would be damaged, and he was in a hurry, and he saw a beggar not far away who died of cold and hunger, so he jumped in, oh my God, this beggar was actually a lame man...。 At this time, Taishang Laojun appeared and persuaded him: "The level of Taoism does not depend on the appearance of ordinary people. He suddenly realized, and from then on he carried a big gourd on his back, hanging the gourd to help the world, and playing the world. The oldest of the eight immortals, the world calls him Zhang Guolao. Like the other Eight Immortals, He also has a very special feature, he likes to ride a donkey upside down. His white donkey is said to be able to travel tens of thousands of miles a day, (in the Tang Dynasty, he even enjoyed the degree of the suspended magnetic subway), and when he stopped, he could even fold the donkey like paper and put it in the box he carried. There are many legends of Zhang Guolao, but compared to Lu Dongbin, who has the highest mana, the most strange experience, and the greatest influence among the eight immortals, there is nothing to say about his little things. (It is recommended to read "Journey to the East", or the Singapore TV series "Journey to the East".) Later, however, someone wrote a poem specifically for him, which was quite interesting: "How many people in the world are not as good as this old man; "Lu Dongbin's original name is Lu Yan, his origin and birth, there are many versions of folk circulation, in a nutshell, it is no different from ordinary people. When he was weak, he was familiar with the Four Books and Five Classics, and the anthology of the hundred schools of thought, and was known as a prodigy, but he took the exam for more than 2o years, and he was not ranked in three moves. It is estimated that "fairy literature does not enter the eyes of ordinary people". However, he was very persevering, and he did not give up until he was 46 years old, but it was in this year that he met Han Zhongli. Lu Zhongbin and Han Zhongli met each other, so they invited him to the inn where they settled down, and talked with him by candlelight, and chatted until midnight, Zhong Liquan said that he was hungry, and cooked Huangliang (millet) himself, while Lu Dongbin fell asleep on the table. In the dream, he won the first place, and then rose to prominence, and his official position climbed all the way, at this time he married the daughters of two high-ranking officials and nobles, had children, and lived a rich and noble life. Later, he became the prime minister of the dynasty, and his power was incomparably prominent, and he was glorious for a while! However, as the saying goes, a companion is like a tiger, and suddenly disaster fell from the sky, and he was raided by a serious crime, and his wife and children were also exiled to Bian Qiang, and he was alone, stored in the wind and snow, infinitely lonely, and could only sigh gloomily... Suddenly, he woke up from his dream and saw Han Zhongli walking in from the door, and said to him with a smile: "Huang Liang is still unripe, and he dreamed of Huaxu." (Huaxu is the hometown of Fuxi, and the allusion to Meng Huaxu comes from the Yellow Emperor.) It is said that one day, the Yellow Emperor fell asleep in broad daylight, and he still had a dream, in which he visited Huaxu Kingdom. Since then, people in the world have mostly used Menghuaxu as a metaphor for someone who has a beautiful dream. Lu Dongbin Huang Liang woke up from a dream and knew that the person standing in front of him must be an immortal, so he wanted to worship Han Zhongli as a teacher and learn the Tao. Han Zhong left here to want Lu Dongbin to become an immortal, but he had the heart to test Lu Dongbin, so he came up with ten questions to test his sincerity in cultivation. Lu Dongbin has gone through the great joy and sorrow in Huang Liang's dream, and his ideological realm has become vulgar, where did Han Zhongli hide this trick from him, for example, in the fifth test, Han Zhongli found a beautiful girl, to test whether Lu Dongbin's cultivation is free of distractions, this Lu Dongbin called himself the pure yang patriarch after obtaining the Tao, and has his own opinions on the way of yin and yang, but at that time, in order to study, he actually endured it for three days and three nights. After Lu Dongbin cultivated the positive fruit, he met the fire dragon real person, got the male and female swords, and learned the "Tiandun Sword Technique", and since then he has punished countless demons, and has really done a lot of good things for the people.
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