Chapter 151: Transformation out of the body, evil spirits entering the heart
Two thousand years ago, in the river, a carp got an opportunity and embarked on a long road of spiritual practice.
The cultivation methods of monsters are all kinds of strange and have their own strengths, but most of them have to go through the stages of nourishing Qi, shaping the body, transforming into mortals, transforming into gods, and ascending to immortality.
Nourishing Qi is a long process. It requires absorbing the spiritual energy of heaven and earth into the body, cultivating spiritual wisdom, and then shaping a new body. After shaping the body, they can be transformed into human bodies and continue to practice in the form of the spiritual beings of heaven and earth. p>
It took this yellow-flowered carp two hundred years to create a human body and walk on land. For a wild monster with no blood heritage or adventure, this speed is not too slow.
On land, she had just acquired a human body and was even more fragile than when she was in water. She was just an ordinary human being who was good at swimming. With this weak body, it was really difficult to open up a cave of her own.
Just when she thought her practice would come to an end and she would die in body and spirit after spending the same lifespan as ordinary humans on land, she met a group of humans who were out fishing.
After these people found her naked and unable to speak, they not only provided her with clothes and food, but also took her to live in the village.
With the help of the villagers, she quickly learned to speak, mastered certain life skills, and integrated into the village. In order to thank the villagers for their kindness, she used her strong perception of nature to guide the villagers to the nests of prey and predict disasters.
She guides farming. With unknown origins, she not only looks otherworldly, but can also perform such miracles. She is regarded as a goddess from heaven and earth by the villagers, and she is even more respected and loved.
The villagers helped her dig a small cave by the river so that she could practice meditation. Unexpectedly, from then on, her cultivation speed increased by leaps and bounds, and she was soon able to expand the cave by herself - this is the cave where Zhou Shi and others are.
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Although cultivation is her hope to extend her longevity and reach a higher realm, instead of meditating alone in a cave and inhaling spiritual energy, she prefers to go to the village to work with the villagers, eat, and listen to the elders' stories by the fire.
All kinds of legends are strange. The fireworks of the world are very attractive to her who has just gained spiritual wisdom, especially those little guys who always like to hang around her and call her "sister".
When she met the villagers in her first incarnation, she still had a few carp beards on her face, so the villagers affectionately called her "Asu".
Asu lived in the village for thirty years and sent away a generation of villagers who accompanied him.
When she came to the village for the thirtieth year, people from the next village came to her door. Thanks to Asu's help, the village was prosperous, rich in products, and much wealthier than the neighboring village. This aroused the suspicion of the neighboring village.
, they sent people to sneak into the village to investigate, and sure enough they discovered the secret of "goddess" Asu.
After the news leaked out, representatives from nearby villages came to negotiate, asking Asu to protect other villages as well, and not let one village enjoy the benefits alone. Asu didn't have any objections to this, but the village that was the first to find out about her quit.
, they believe that the goddess's visit to their village is a virtue accumulated by their ancestors and cannot be shared with outsiders. The dispute broke out into a conflict, which escalated into a war and evolved into a melee among seven villages.
Asu tried to mediate, but no one was willing to give up their own interests, and the war could not stop.
As the war intensified, Asu was exhausted mentally and physically, and her laziness in practice weakened her perception. The village where she lived no longer had a huge advantage in strength.
One night, while the villagers were building fortifications and storing food, people from a neighboring village broke into the village and killed several sleeping children.
When the villagers came back and found that their children had turned into cold corpses, they immediately launched an even more violent revenge and wiped out the neighboring villages.
Asu buried the young corpse that the villagers did not care to dispose of, and also buried his mortal heart.
She practiced in seclusion and no longer predicted disaster for the villagers. Half a year later, the war had not stopped, and a mudslide buried half of the village, killing countless people.
Having lost their shelter and food, the villagers brought sacrifices to the goddess's cave and prayed to her to help them survive the crisis.
The goddess agreed and killed the villagers who entered the cave, leaving only one person to go back and report: If you want blessings, you must make a donation.
The goddess gave herself a new name, a more majestic, revered and feared name: Xu Niangniang.
The inspiration for the name comes from what I saw a few days ago: a five-year-old girl was impaled by a spear, and before she died, she was still shouting: "Asu-ah, mother, save me..."
Under the protection of the increasingly powerful Asu, the villagers multiplied and multiplied on both sides of the river, forming a huge ethnic group all over the middle and upper reaches of the river. The legend of Xu Niangniang was also passed down from generation to generation, and countless temples dedicated to Xu Niangniang were erected on both sides of the river.
Xu Niangniang successfully broke the mortal heart when she killed the villagers who offered sacrifices as punishment, and after a hundred years of practice, she transformed into a mortal. The incense worship on both sides of the river allowed her to continuously accumulate merit and divinity, and in the fifth
A hundred years later, she transformed into a god, gained supernatural powers, and became a god who controlled the river. Among the earth gods, she was already the pinnacle of existence.
After transforming into a god, her true body stayed in the cave all year round, while her soul often left her body to travel to famous mountains and rivers, and even visited the hometowns of other immortal families to find the way to immortality.
Once she leaves her body, it often takes several years before she returns. Every time she returns to the cave, she will stay in the mountains above the cave for a while to recall the goddess named "Asu".
The narration stopped abruptly, and no one came back to their senses, as if they were still reminiscing about the two thousand years of memories.
With a lifespan of less than a hundred years, it is difficult for them to understand Xu Niangniang's mood, and they cannot guess what she was thinking when she killed the villagers they once loved most.
Zhou Shi is the calmest among them. Perhaps because of his two lives, he understands Xu Empress a little more.
"So, who is the other Lady Xu?" he asked.
The Lady Xu paused for a moment, and something strange flashed in her eyes. She didn't know whether she was very sensitive to this issue or was dissatisfied with Zhou Shi's forthrightness.
Her lips, which were as white as her skin color, trembled slightly: "After I transformed, I took all the fish in the river as my dependents, because becoming a god requires the worship of an entire group of people to cultivate divinity. One of the catfish is the most spiritual, and in my
Under the guidance of the teacher, he quickly cultivated spiritual wisdom.
"I saw that it was smart, so I accepted it as my disciple and allowed it to practice with me. But I didn't expect that it had evil intentions. It actually learned human language secretly, and deceived humans on the shore to bring living people to offer to it... p>
"After tasting human food, it became obsessed with it. Although it could not go ashore, it often tempted fishermen on the river and passers-by on the shore, causing them to fall into the river. Soon, it not only ate human flesh, but also discovered the method of exploiting human flesh.
The method of using my own flesh and blood to help me practice. I had just transformed into a spirit at that time, and I was obsessed with the soul leaving my body and traveling around, but I didn’t realize that its ambition and strength had greatly increased at the same time.
"By the time I found out, it had already extended its claws to me."
After Xu Niangniang appeared for the first time, there was an obvious change in expression on her face for the first time.
"It took advantage of my soul to leave my body, blocked my cave with human corpses, took away my inner elixir, and even risked swallowing my true body.
"Although it is impossible to digest me who has gained divinity due to its cultivation, but by chance and the strong body brought by practicing the evil way before, it actually stole some of my magical powers at the cost of never being able to shape a human body. Its strength
It has almost become mortal. After that, it used my name to demand a living sacrifice, and went further and further down the evil path..."
Lady Xu sighed, with a sad look on her face.
"It is also my fault that it harms living beings. Alas, it is my sin, it is my sin..."
Zhou Shi on the side nodded and said: "It's good as long as you know the crime, it's good as long as you know the crime."