He said there was no discussion, but Qi Xuansu still couldn't help but feel moved in his heart.
Because it involves ancient witchcraft.
Zu Tianshi is a disciple of Taishang Taozu. His "Three Five Male and Female Evil-Slaying Swords" and "Yangping Zhidu Gong Seal" were both given by Taishang Taozu. He directly gave two immortal objects. This is to go to war.
Yes, it can be said that the Ancestral Master came with a mission.
Later, the Ancestral Heavenly Master established the Tianshi Sect and destroyed the ancient witchcraft religion. There are different opinions on his motives. Some said it was to grab territory, others said that the Ancestral Heavenly Master couldn't stand the barbaric style of the ancient witchcraft religion, and some said that the ancient witchcraft religion was caused by ghosts.
, which has to be eliminated.
In short, there are any opinions.
But no matter how you say it, the Taishang Daozu behind the Ancestral Master must have known about it and acquiesced.
Combined with the myths and legends Shi Bingyun just mentioned, there is another theory. The elimination of the ancient witchcraft is actually an act of eliminating dissidents.
Qi Xuansu sorted out his thoughts and came up with a guess.
Donghuang Taiyi, also known as Dongjun, led the gods to establish the first generation of heaven. As the main god, Dongjun naturally became the lord of heaven, that is, the first generation of heavenly emperor.
This Eastern Emperor is not the Eastern Emperor of Taoism, and this Heavenly Court is not the "Heavenly Court" of Nanyang.
This matter is essentially the same as Itsumna's paradise. The highest level in the heaven is the Emperor of Heaven, and under him there are the God of Clouds, God of Thunder, God of Wind and God of Rain.
At this time, the system of gods was still very simple and primitive, not as complicated as it was later. Each god performed his own duties. If you need to pray for a certain kind of weather, wind, thunder, rain, and clouds will all play their respective roles, but they need to be prayed for in their own way.
Offer sacrifices to different gods.
It can be seen that the economic base determines the superstructure, because it was still a very primitive primary farming system, so the gods were related to the weather. There were no gods of business, gods of wealth, etc. Because there was no contact with the sea, there were no gods such as Poseidon and Queen of Heaven.
The God of Wealth and the Queen of Heaven are new gods that were born later with the development of the world to meet the growing and diverse needs of the people. Shinto is also constantly developing and advancing, rather than just standing still, so there is no need to worship the ancient and downgrade the present.
However, what is different from the New World is that outside the first generation of Heaven at that time, there was an ancient and powerful being who did not belong to this Heaven, and that was Taishang Daozu.
The underlying logic of all power is force.
When someone has absolute force but not absolute power, the situation will get out of control.
Perhaps Taishang Daozu at that time had not yet reached the state of inaction in the future, so Taishang Daozu did not remain indifferent, but did something and became Patriarch Guangcheng to enlighten the Emperor of Heaven, and a generation of human emperors emerged.
During the rise of the Human Emperor, the Human Emperor also encountered some opponents, such as the Jiuli forces, which were closely related to the ancient witchcraft. It was even said that the chief of Jiuli was a great witch.
During the battle between the two sides, Feng Boy and Yu Master personally came to the scene to help the Jiuli forces and jointly defeated Ying Long, who was loyal to the Emperor of Humanity. Feng Boy and Yu Master were the first generation of wind gods and rain gods in heaven.
From this, we can suspect that behind the "Jiuli" power is the first generation of Tianting.
Dong Jun did not sit back and watch the rise of the Human Emperor without being indifferent, he did take action.
Later, a series of things happened, and the Human Emperor received help from the Nine Heavens Xuannv.
Jiutian Xuannv was the one who left the "Sutra of Immortality Sutra". She broke the spells of Feng Bo and Yu Shi, allowing the Human Emperor to defeat Jiu Li, chase him all the way to the place where the deer is chased, and capture Feng Bo and Yu Shi alive.
The people surrendered, and the chief of Jiuli was beheaded.
As for why Dongjun didn't take action himself, it was probably because he was afraid of the Supreme Taoist Patriarch behind the Human Emperor.
In this way, the Human Emperor took control of the Central Plains.
Later, under the promotion of Taishang Daozu, the Human Emperor established a separate Heavenly Court to compete with the first-generation Heavenly Court.
Judging from the final result, the Human Emperor won, Dongjun's sons were all killed in the battle, Dongjun himself has most likely fallen, the ancient witch sect surrendered, the Thunder God surrendered, and the Cloud God disappeared.
The Human Emperor became the second-generation Emperor of Heaven and the second-generation master of Heaven, which continues to this day.
However, the Emperor of Heaven was not yet firmly established at that time, and the power of the ancient witchcraft cult was still huge and difficult to move lightly. Therefore, the Emperor of Heaven treated the ancient witchcraft cult mainly by appeasing them, and still allowed them to serve as his priests. However, the Emperor of Heaven also had some ulterior motives, that is, planting
Got a Wu Yang.
This can explain why Wu Yang is incompatible with the ten witches of Lingshan, why the legends about Wu Yang are relatively independent, why Wu Yang finally chooses to be an enemy of the ten witches of Lingshan, and why Wu Yang prefers Taoism.
Because Wu Yang was the confidant of the second generation Emperor of Heaven and a nail planted by the Emperor in the witch religion.
This reminded Qi Xuansu that he had often seen such a scene in his dreams, where the great witches were discussing matters around a fire, while Wu Yang kicked the fire into chaos and laughed with his arms akimbo.
Moreover, all the ten witches in Lingshan are like giants, only Wu Yang is the height of a normal person.
In the past, Qi Xuansu had not thought of this. As his understanding of the ancient witchcraft religion continued to deepen, he suddenly discovered that except for the word "witch" in his name, Wu Yang really did not look like a person from the ancient witchcraft religion.
Then it makes sense that the Taoist sect later devalued the Ten Witches of Lingshan and exalted Wu Yang. Not only because Wu Yang was kind to Xuansheng, but also because Wu Yang belonged to one of his own.
After the Emperor of Heaven gained a firm foothold and the situation was established, he began to dismantle the ancient witchcraft religion.
The first move is to sacrifice Yaoyao.
Yaoyao was killed by his subordinates, and his body was sent to Lingshan Mountain. He asked the ten witches of Lingshan to rescue him. The ten witches of Lingshan used the elixir of immortality to revive Yaoyao. However, after being revived, Yaoyao's temperament changed drastically and she started eating everywhere.
He was finally shot dead by the Emperor of Heaven.
After this incident, Wu Peng, the number two figure in the ancient witch sect, had a disagreement with Wu Xian, the leader of the ancient witch sect. Wu Peng believed that the elixir of the ten witches in Lingshan was incomplete and needed to change their thinking, while Wu Xian denied that Wu Xian
Both sides have supporters of Peng's proposal, but generally it has not reached the point of falling out.
At this time, the Emperor of Heaven used his second move, Wu Yang appeared.
After Wu Yang appeared on the scene, the specific process is unknown, but the result was the birth of the Six Enlightened Witches, Wu Peng, and the Six Enlightened Witches led by Wu Yang turned back from Lingshan and headed for Kunlun, where they were eventually trapped by Lu Wushen, a loyal subordinate of the Emperor of Heaven.
The remaining five great witches had nothing to worry about. As a result, they themselves cut off their arms because of the elixir of immortality. First, Wu Xian fell into madness because he tried the medicine with his own body, and then Wu Luo secretly joined forces with the other three great witches.
He stabbed Wu Xian and buried him in the Netherworld Valley. In the end, Wu Luo replaced Wu Xian and became the leader of the ancient witch sect.
At this point, the ancient witchcraft religion has fallen into pieces and is no longer relevant.
At this time, Taishang Daozu and the Emperor of Heaven used the third and final move, bestowing the "Three Five Male and Female Evil-Slaying Swords" and the "Yang Ping Zhidu Gong Seal" to the ancestor Tianshi, and ordered him to establish the Tianshi Sect.
The earliest origin of the so-called Heavenly Master is Patriarch Guangcheng, the incarnation of Taishang Taoist Patriarch. Because Patriarch Guangcheng enlightened the Emperor of Heaven, he is the teacher of the Emperor of Heaven.
There are poems to prove it:
Emperor Xuan came out of the imperial palace and sat in the Dharma Palace. He heard that children were singing everywhere along Kang Qu.
The feathers of the neon flag swirled, and the question came to Kongtong. The heavenly master Guangchengzi, the truth is the same as the emperor.
A word suddenly resonates with each other, and the four seas share the same wind. What did the Heavenly Master say at the beginning? Zhuolu has not done anything.
Covered with pure blessings, it descends into the Huan area. Both the king and his ministers are well-off, and the sky is naturally patterned.
Heaven's way is good, and I will repay you with my bow. One thousand two hundred years old, how can this life be so short?
It tells the story of Patriarch Guangcheng and the Emperor of Heaven, and also tells the story of the Battle of the Deer.
Later, the Celestial Masters gradually evolved into the priests of the Celestial Emperor, such as the famous Luotian Dajiao. The Celestial Masters completely replaced the functions and status of the Great Witch. Even Xuan Sheng later made Zhengyi responsible for the affairs of ghosts and gods until today.
After the Ancestral Heavenly Master was ordered to establish the Heavenly Master Sect, he accumulated strength, coupled with the fact that Wu Luo did not know the heavens and acted recklessly, which finally made the sky angry and people resentful, and the hearts of the people were devastated.
From this, the Ancestral Heavenly Master rose up in arms, and in a true sense he acted on behalf of heaven, punished the people, and became famous. He broke into the cave of Lingshan, killed the last four great witches, and wiped out the "remnants" of the first generation of ancient heaven.
Shamanism, formally established the Taoist foundation.
As a result, Taoism replaced the ancient witchcraft religion, just as the second generation of heaven replaced the first generation of heaven.
As for the ups and downs of the Taoist sect, that is a story for another day.
On the other side, the six enlightened witches trapped in the Kunlun Cave by God Lu Wu were not spared. They did not die at the hands of the Zu Tianshi, but died at the hands of Xuan Sheng, Li Zu, Zhang Zu, Xu Zu, and Tantai Yun.
, in the hands of Emperor Daxuan Gaozu and others, they were also the people who contributed to the Xuansheng Zhongxing Daomen, and respectively laid the foundation for the later Taiping Dao, Zhengyi Dao, Quanzhen Dao, Xidaomen, and the Daxuan court.
In the end, in addition to Wu Yang, five great witches including Wu Peng among the six enlightened witches also died.
Not one of the ten witches from Lingshan in the ancient witchcraft religion was spared.
After nearly a thousand years, the ancient witch sect, a behemoth that once dominated the Central Plains, became a legend in the old books, and the Taoist sect stood on the land of Kyushu as a replacement.
Taishang Taoist ancestors and the Emperor of Heaven have also become the supreme beliefs of the Chinese people.
This makes people wonder, is there really God’s will in the dark?
Anyone else would certainly not be able to make such a guess, but Qi Xuansu could.
Because he possesses the "Heart of the Immortal Stone", he knows too much about the ancient witchcraft. He even went to Lingshan Cave and witnessed the fall of the great witches in retrospect.
As his status in the Taoist sect became higher and higher, he also learned more secrets about the Taoist sect.
In this case, we have to think about it.
His guess cannot be said to be completely correct, but at least it is logically sound.
As for why Qi Xuansu pays so much attention to these ancient legends, the reason is very simple, because the Yao family.
Qi Xuansu didn't want to admit it, but he was indeed on the road to becoming an enemy of the Yao family, and the Yao family had the blood of a great witch, and all the earth masters of the past generations had an inexplicable relationship with Wu Xian.
Only by knowing yourself and the enemy can you be victorious in every battle. How can Qi Xuansu do it without paying attention?
As the descendants of the witch sect and the top leaders of the Taoist sect, the Yao family has some other goals? For example, revenge?
This is also hard to say.
At this moment, Shi Bingyun's words pulled Qi Xuansu back.
"In the legend, Yunzhongjun is the cloud god under Dongjun, with a high status. But there are also legends that Yunzhongjun is not only the cloud god, but also the water god of Yunmengze, and he and Xiangjun are two sides of the same body."
"You should know what it means to be one body and have two sides, right? The moon gods you met in the New World are named Ixichel and Chakchel."