After that, Ding Ning stopped having nightmares, and Chen Zhi kept him locked in the barrier to sleep.
There is no doubt about the defensive ability of Fierce Curse, neither material weapons nor invisible spells can enter it.
Ding Ning slept peacefully in it for the next few days, but he was indeed very frightened. Lao Jiandou found a psychiatrist to provide him with psychological counseling. It is estimated that he will not recover for a long time.
During this period of time, Lao Jiandou found various ancient book experts and archaeologists, and read through a large number of ancient books to find information about Shen Gongbao.
This kind of work can only be done outside now, and the organization cannot help at all.
Chen Zhi had long discovered that there was no record about Shen Gongbao in the library, and even the documents within the entire organization did not mention this person at all.
However, after a period of search work by these experts and scholars outside, the results obtained are very limited.
Regarding Shen Gongbao, he only exists in the legend of Fengshenbang, and there is no record at all elsewhere.
The legend of Fengshenbang is too old and is passed down orally. Until now, it is impossible to tell which one is a story and which one is official history.
As for some records from later generations, their contents vary widely and are even somewhat contradictory.
And now it is generally believed that Shen Gongbao was a despicable person who was kicked out of the school...
In this view, Shen Gongbao is described as a villain who looks vulgar, speaks vulgarly, and behaves inappropriately.
He was indeed Jiang Ziya's younger brother. He became a Taoist when he was young and assisted King Zhou of Shang as an adult. In the last years of the Yin and Shang Dynasties, Shen Gongbao served as a national advisor in the Shang Dynasty and tried his best to maintain the rule of the Shang Dynasty.
When he and Jiang Ziya were apprentices under the same sect, they were expelled from the sect because they violated the rules and etiquette of the sect and did despicable things.
After he took refuge with the cruel King Zhou of Shang, he became even more absurd and capricious, doing all kinds of bad things and acting despicably, which was despised by the world.
He and Jiang Ziya have been enemies all his life. He has always been jealous of Jiang Ziya's talent and wishes he could get rid of him quickly.
However, he has great magical power, has a wide range of friends, and has excellent eloquence. He is especially good at confusing right and wrong, discrediting and deceiving, and deceiving capable people and immortals to help him commit evil.
Shen Gongbao once lobbied his fellow disciples and capable people from the Three Mountains and Five Mountains to help the merchants conquer the Zhou Dynasty, and gathered a large group of people. The allusion of thirty-six groups of people in history to jointly fight against the Zhou Dynasty came from his handwriting.
Therefore, from ancient times to the present, Chinese people have a very bad impression of Shen Gongbao. They think that he is the embodiment of evil, a despicable villain, good at using black magic, and doing evil things that go against God's will.
When the old people in the late Han Dynasty talked about Shen Gongbao, they all said that he was a beast that transformed into a spirit from a leopard and wanted to harm the world, so he got this name and scolded him.
There are even ancient New Year paintings from that time that still exist. On the picture is a leopard that has grown into a spirit. It is extremely ferocious and is being killed by various gods and generals.
It can be seen that from that time on, Shen Gongbao has always been the biggest villain in the hearts of Chinese people.
But in fact, the name Shen Gongbao has quite a history.
Shen Gongbao's surname is not Shen, but the compound surname Shen Gong, with the single character Bao.
The surname Shen Gong was a noble surname in ancient times.
Before the Yin and Shang Dynasties, the laws and regulations were extremely complete. The ancient and noble clans of gods and people were still in the world at that time, and a person's origin and status could be seen in his name.
For example, the Marquis of Beibei worships Hou Hu, and worships him as a national surname. Marquis refers to a marquis, and tiger is his name.
Jichang is also called Xibochang, Xi means that the fiefdom is in the west, Bo is the honorific title for the leader of the western princes, and Chang is the name.
Shen Gongbao was the patriarch of the Shen Gong clan. From the surname, it can be inferred that his status at that time should not be inferior to Jiang Ziya, or even higher than him.
The record of his death is very simple. Shen Gongbao was sentenced to death because he aided the emperor, was jealous of Jiang Ziya's talent, and was his mortal enemy.
Legend has it that when the Yin Shang Dynasty was finally over, Jiang Ziya gave Shen Gongbao a chance to make a vow for something.
Shen Gongbao once swore:
"If I disobey you, I am willing to stuff my body into the eyes of Beihai."
However, in the end Shen Gongbao violated this oath, so Jiang Ziya finally ordered the Yellow Turban Warriors to roll up Shen Gongbao with a futon and use it to stuff Beihai Eyes.
Judging from these legends, Jiang Ziya was a man of great virtue and righteousness. He cared about the friendship between his masters and was forced to deal with Shen Gongbao.
Shen Gongbao, on the other hand, brought the blame upon himself. He not only helped Zhou to commit evil, but also violated his oath, so the eye of the Beihai was blocked.
As for what exactly this oath is? No one can tell clearly, and people don't care about it anymore.
After thousands of years of vicissitudes, the myth has become more and more legendary, and the facts at that time have gradually been forgotten...
But as for the eye of the North Sea, history does have clear explanations.
In ancient times, people believed that the sky was round and the earth was surrounded by seas. Therefore, in ancient times, there was the legend of the four seas. The four seas were the East China Sea, the South China Sea, the West Sea, and the North Sea.
In ancient times, people believed that the four seas were connected to each other, so there was the saying of the Dragon King of the Four Seas.
There are also legends that there were four magical irons in ancient times, and Dayu's Dinghai Divine Needle was one of them, which was left in the Beihai and blocked the eye of the Beihai.
Later, the magic needle was stolen, and the sea eye flooded year after year, so that the seawater surged out and tried to submerge the land.
The sea eye filled in by Shen Gongbao is the sea eye of the North Sea.
The exact location of the North Sea is currently impossible to confirm.
Some people say that the Eye of the North Sea is not the North Sea, but the deepest lake in the world. It is said to be connected to the North Sea underground. There are conches, starfish, deep-sea sharks and other creatures in it, so it is called the North Sea.
Some people say that the North Sea is actually the current Arctic Ocean. There is an underground waterway there that is the same as that of the Chinese mainland. The connecting place to the north is called the Eye of the North Sea.
This sea eye is located in the Bohai Bay area of Dalian. It is said that there was once a bottomless cave deep in the Bohai Bay. Some strange sounds and even weird bubbles often emerged from the cave.
Hundreds of years ago, fishermen discovered huge waves at sea, and several fishing boats were involved in them. The waves lasted for several months. When the waves subsided, the sea surface was full of ruins, and there were even some ice and snow fragments floating on it. It was quite strange.
Spectacular.
One of them was an old man who was lucky enough to be alive. He said that he entered the eye of the North Sea and saw all kinds of strange things. However, the old man passed away not long after, and what he said sounded like something to everyone.
It's like a fantasy, and no one cares about it.
This statement from the Bohai Bay has now been proven to be the most reliable, but there is no real strong evidence yet.
But Chen Zhi suddenly remembered something very important.
That was the sea sand table made by Yelu Chucai himself that he found in Genghis Khan's mausoleum.
At that time, they took out a miniature sculpture the size of a sesame seed in the sand tray. Under the magnifying glass, it was a pavilion, which happened to be located on the Bohai Bay of Dalian!
If you guessed correctly, that place should be the legendary eye of the North Sea...