"Although I am not very good at cultural history, I know that the official history of literature rarely mentions prophets. The strange people who can predict the future and compile strange books are collectively called saints, or physiognomists. As for prophets, they are usually cut off as soon as they emerge."
Cen Jin's remarks are not made up. The Huaxia Dynasty is very taboo about prophets, prophecies and other inciting and demagogic identities and speeches. Whoever dares to come forward and reveal the secret by claiming to have the will of heaven will be directly cut off.
But it is not that there are no prophets, but they usually appear in other identities, and they follow the principles of keeping a low profile and staying away from politics.
Taking a step back, there is really a Chinese official history that records the prophets in the anthology, and this person should not be King Mu of Zhou. The "Book of Changes" compiled by King Wen of Zhou, the father of his great grandfather, is much more famous. regarded as the first divine book.
Zhou Muwang's ability to stand out in the 5,000-year history of China is also due to his "Mu Tianzi Biography". This book describes his love with the Queen Mother of the West on the surface, but it is actually a travel note that records the geographical locations of Kunlun and Ghost Country in the sea.
In general, neither the experience of King Mu of Zhou nor the literature related to him has anything to do with the prophet.
"Furthermore, the so-called prophet is known innately, born to know, and his perception is correct, and he can't make mistakes."
"You're right, there is no written record in the official history of China that King Mu of Zhou was a prophet, because he hid himself behind the wonders of past dynasties and hid himself well." Huang Jiang raised his hand and pointed to the bookshelf on the front wall. : "There are authentic works left by Mu Tianzi. To be precise, it is his travel notes. You can also read it as a private diary."
Cen Jin looked in the direction she was pointing, and saw a dusty shoebox in the corner of the bookshelf that was used as a foot stand. The lid of the box had been opened, obviously Huang Jiang had checked it just now.
He didn't take the initiative to go to check the shoe box, but looked at Huang Jiang sideways: "Continue talking."
Huang Jiang: "The bamboo slips in the first row in the shoebox are Mu Tianzi's first personal diary. He claims to have known it from birth, is very intelligent, and can often accurately predict what will happen in the future.
When he was young, a group of people persuaded his father, Zhou Zhaowang, to successfully take Mu Tianzi and cultivate his innate ability as a prophet, teaching him martial arts and military talents. Therefore, most of the literary and historical records about Mu Tianzi began after his accession to the throne, and his life was quite legendary. The following descriptions are recorded in various official and unofficial histories of China.
Emperor Mu enacted laws, pacified civil strife, and made the country develop and stabilize. He began to expedition to the south and west. In just a few years, he conquered the Qin, Rong, Huaiyi and other countries, and the Zhou Dynasty returned to its prosperity in his hands.
The following records tend to be legendary and full of mythology.
In the fourteenth year of Mu Tianzi, he summoned a strange man with a magical power of illusion. He was bewitched by him and decided to travel to the west. On the journey to the west, he met a master Yan who was good at making human dolls, walked with him, and invited him into the palace.
In the seventeenth year of Emperor Mu's expedition to Kunlun, he crossed Ruoshui and entered the Jade Pond. He met the Queen Mother of the West and fell in love with her. Later, when there was a rebellion in the country, King Mu of Zhou had to return to the dynasty to quell it, and agreed with the Queen Mother of the West to return within three years, but he did not return to Kunlun until he died.
It is said that he lived to be 105 years old. Later, many unofficial legends believed that he lived that long after eating the longevity pill given by the Queen Mother of the West. "
Cen Jin: "It sounds like King Mu of Zhou is a majestic emperor, but he is not a prophet."
He paused, took a few packets of compressed biscuits from his backpack and threw them.
"Eat."
Yu Wen and Huang Jiang took the compressed biscuits respectively. The latter looked at the biscuits and the water, and finally couldn't help but ask, "Are you a human?"
"Can't Weird like to eat human food?"
Huang Jiang and the two were stunned, of course, because they had never seen it before, and it was impossible for humans to think of the overlap between strange and human recipes in the strange recipes.
"Fuss."
Yu Wen thought as he tore open the packaging bag, this night wandering god is not very weird, but full of human taste, and the three sentences are full of thorny complaints.
"I didn't finish." Huang Jiang gave up entangled with the true identity of the white coat, biting the biscuits and said, "Remember what I said about the Quan Rong? King Mu of Zhou fought against the Quan Rong, and the Quan Rong was originally called Ghost Fang. Fang, Guoye, Guifang, is a ghost country in modern Chinese. Wuding defeated the ghosts and attacked them for three years. Later, they moved to the area of Sichuan and Gansu, forming a country of their own, and had close contacts with Kunlun in China.
During the period of King Zhao of Zhou and King Mu of Zhou, the ghost parties often violated the border and arrested children and women for cruel sacrifice. King Mu of Zhou defeated the ghosts twice. Although he won a great victory, he could not completely conquer the ghost parties, and even the conflict with the ghost parties intensified. "
Cen Jin interrupted her: "Ghost Fang is the ghost kingdom of the Queen Mother of the West? The prototype of the current Kunlun kingdom?"
"Distinguish the ghost party from the ghost country in Kunlun. At this time, the ghost party was only a force cultivated by the Queen Mother of the West. It was a human being who traded with the Queen Mother of the West in order to defeat the Zhou Dynasty. A digression was inserted, and the people of the ghost party like to wear one. The three-eyed ghost masks are rumored to be Zongmu people, the messengers of the Queen Mother of the West."
Ghost Fang Guomin wears a three-eyed mask and is the rumored Zong-eyed person.
In Shanhaijing's Ghost Country chapter, the ghost country people depicted have only one eye, also known as Zongmu people.
It turned out that the two sides were not the same species, and Cen Jin was thoughtful.
Huang Jiang continued: "King Mu of Zhou learned about the existence of the Queen Mother of the West and Kunlun in the sea through the ghost, and he had the idea of conquest. He was suffering from not knowing the geographical location of Kunlun in the sea. So he searched for strange people and scholars, and King Mu of Zhou finally found the sea with their help. Kunlun, see the Queen Mother of the West."
Cen Jin guessed according to the routine: "Then they began to fall in love, but King Mu of Zhou failed to live up to the Queen Mother of the West. The Queen Mother of the West, because of love and hatred, vowed to turn all mankind into the citizens of the ghost country?"
"It's just that simple." Huang Jiang smiled bitterly: "There is only interest between King Mu of Zhou and Queen Mother of the West, they use each other, and there is no love. From the very beginning, the meeting between the two sides is a chess game of 'Please enter the urn'."
***
Inland Kunlun, the ruins of ghost country.
Contrary to the expectations of Totem and others, the ghost country site is not a spooky place, nor is it the imaginary Kunlun fairy mountain, like a dream, but a bronze city floating in the air.
A huge city made of bronze, from houses to streets and bridges, from handicrafts to large decorations, all are rusted and faded bronze. bronze.
Totem and others stood on a bronze tower and looked into the distance. They were all overwhelmed by this great and majestic building and fell into deep shock.
The original color of bronze is bright golden yellow. It is not difficult to imagine how splendid Kunlun was in its heyday. It is simply the pinnacle of human art.
And they also saw bronze mechanical bridges, automatic smoke-extracting candlesticks, and even very cyberpunk buildings such as delicate gears.
People who are accustomed to modern machinery can't help but feel surprised when they enter this city, not to mention the ordinary people who strayed into Kunlun three thousand years ago, and naturally regard it as a fairyland.
Any magical, inconceivable item is placed in the fairy world, and everything becomes reasonable.
Having said that, it is no wonder that the bronze smelting technology of Huaxia has been proficient as early as 4,000 years ago.
Ye Shengying whistled and said, "It's so cool, what can you say to bring this huge bronze city to reality?"
"With just a few of us, the odds are slim," said the old ghost.
"If the golden door switch is under our control and the access is free, we can send the army in to dismantle the city and find a place to reassemble it." Totem said the way.
Old Xiong: "It's hard to guess. Who can withstand the dragon's roar that opens and closes? The mountain collapses, avalanches and rivers flood back, which means that there are no people living around, otherwise it will be a major disaster."
Ye Shengying put her arms on her hips and coveted the bronze city: "Don't talk about the research value, just how much does it cost to move out and get a ticket. Once this thing is moved out, the whole world will shock our Huaxia family."
"No matter how thick it is, you can't stand it. A group of urban legends in the ugly country + new gods and new sects are weird, disgusting and difficult to deal with. The key is not worth studying. Almost all people believe in Christ, but they can't catch an ancient god, and they covet others every day. God of an ancient country. As soon as we move out of Bronze City, they will send countless spies over the mountains to come and steal." Lao Xiong said carelessly.
Old Ghost: "The Bald Eagle Country is indeed shameless. Many spies sent in these years have been arrested, and they have also rebelled against many Huaxia students from the University of Michigan. I heard that some time ago, the Bald Eagle Country stole one in Bharat. Shura, the Bharatana was under martial law from top to bottom, and several sects suspected each other and launched a spell battle, causing heavy casualties."
"A Chou has done a lot of crimes." Ye Shengying sighed without sympathy.
She jumped on the high tower railing and made a swooping gesture: "I saw the group of people wearing masks. I chased after them and caught one to find out the truth."
After speaking, he jumped down, like a cheetah jumping vertically and horizontally among the scattered city high-rises and private house alleys, the old ghost and others followed, the totem was at the end, and suddenly saw Zhou Man passing through an alleyway not far away, Immediately follow up.
The street was empty, the totem stood still for two seconds, his toes stepped on the bronze wall, stepped on a high place like walking on the ground, stepped on a ridge beast in the shape of a blue bird, the corners of his eyes and the center of his eyebrows were burning with fiery red Buddha prints, and his pupils were sharp. Shrink, it is a little mung bean-sized red on the inside, and a golden yellow ring on the outside.
The yellow ring protects the red dot, which are the two classic colors of Tantra that symbolize the joy of life and death.
The buildings he saw in his eyes all turned white, representing dead things. The red group represented living things, and the yellow group represented non-human and non-dead things, that is, strange and irrational, just like an infrared thermometer with accurate detection. sense instrument.
This is the extraordinary art of totem, sequence 50, called 'chakra'.
The technique of tantric chakras can cut off yin and yang.
The eyeball moved to the right and landed behind a bronze seven-story cornice tower in front of the upper right, three yellow and one red.
The totem leaned forward, fell straight, and suddenly turned over three meters above the roof of a house, his feet landed on the roof, and in an instant it flew out like a cannonball, running directly up the seven-story eaves tower, and then circled around. To the back, like a seagull, it opened its arms and fell vertically, grabbed a corner of the eaves and used the inertial force of the downward thrust to bounce itself up, and squatted firmly on the corner of the eaves. A backflip fell behind him, and Huang Ying cut his throat.
Huang Ying in the upper right rushed forward angrily and was thrown out by an invisible force, followed by a crisp sound of bone cracking, and the spine and skull were crushed by the power displayed by the red shadow.
Huang Ying in the front left stared at Hong Ying: "You betrayed the Mother Goddess, and the Mother Goddess will not forgive you!"
Saying so, it turned and ran away.
Hong Ying watched it run away, walked to a bronze tree beside the street, broke off a branch, ran a few steps and threw the bronze branch out, 'puchi' pierced through the red shadow and dragged it for about ten meters, and died. nailed to the wall.
After killing Huang Ying, Hong Ying clapped his hands and turned around and said, "Have you seen enough? Totem."
Totem's eyes froze, returned to normal the next moment, and jumped down: "Zhou Man?"
That's right, Hong Ying is Zhou Man, is he actually human
However, it may also be a high-level strangeness with the attributes of living creatures.
Totem: "You cooperated with the Queen Mother of the West, and now you are against the water?"
Zhou Man smiled: "Don't say that, I'm always ready to backstab."
Totem: "Are you human or weird?"
Zhou Man: "I used to be a person." He waved his hand and said, "Okay, kid, I don't want to fight with you. Speaking of which, we have the same goal, and I can still be regarded as the ancestor of your friends."
Totem looked at him calmly, unmoved: "First explain your motives for killing and killing."
"Are you referring to the group of adventurers in the square? No way, human blood is needed to open the dragon gate. This is the underworld design of the Queen Mother of the West, unless you change the gate." He had to wave his hands to explain clearly: "That group of adventurers has been specially screened, and they are all scumbags. I am really on your side, at least three thousand years ago and at this moment."
"You haven't explained the motive for killing Wei." Totem was very persistent.
Zhou Man complained: "Is there an explanation for killing the monsters? Why are you kids from the esoteric sect so dead-headed? This is the rumored Zongmu people, the first force of the Queen Mother of the West. Yes, the first force she cultivated is human beings. , she is also the first to implement and determine that humans can be alienated into strange gods by crawling out of the belly of demons."
Totem showed a slightly surprised expression.
Zhou Man: "Do you know what it means to change the limit? The nationals of the ghost country and the nationals of the ghost country in Kunlun are exchanged like this. Humanity has become an ironclad proof of the weirdness. From then on, the ghost face worn on the face can no longer be taken off, and the people of the ghost side have truly become the rumored Zongmu people, who came to the Queen Mother of the West, worked for her, and worked hard for her to create a ghost country. ."
Totem frowned: "You said before that when the Zongmu people were celebrating the festival, you led soldiers from outside the mountain to slaughter the Zongmu people. Now you say that they are the soldiers and horses of the Queen Mother of the West. The lie is reversed, how can people believe it?"
Zhou Man paused, his pale lips pursed into a line, and his eyes were extremely indifferent, making it easy to feel his strong displeasure, as if this incident touched a wound he didn't want to talk about.
Disgust filled Zhou's full brows and he said, "I didn't say this was a plan for Zongmu people."
Totem: "What do you mean?"
"It was the soldiers and horses outside the mountains who were deceived, and that was a holiday gift for Zongmu people." Zhou Man showed his disgust, turned his back, and walked forward, his eyes full of shadows and killing.
"I'm going to slaughter the Zongmu people, come after agreeing to cooperate, don't blame me for being cruel if you want to stop me. Friends of Tantra," he looked back at Totem, his expression dark and unclear, and his footsteps did not stop: "To be honest, you are not me. expecting people."
***
"King Mu of Zhou and Queen Mother of the West used the name of love as a cover for their cooperation. The former gained longevity and strength, helping the latter to stand out from the many strong opponents in Kunlun at home and compete for control of the ghost country."
Huang Jiang pointed out: "The domestic Kunlun region is vast, and there are countless strange and high-level gods. The Queen Mother of the West is one of the high-level gods that symbolizes the five punishments and killings of the plague. At that time, the domestic Kunlun was similar to the Western Zhou Dynasty. , ready to usurp the country at any time, the Queen Mother of the West has little chance of winning.
Later, the ghost party sacrificed to the Queen Mother of the West, and was noticed by the Queen Mother of the West, and at this time she had a prototype of a plan in her heart.
Until King Mu of Zhou attacked Guifang twice, and then under the influence of illusionists and master Yan, he suddenly ignored national affairs, searched for Kunlun in the sea for no reason, passed Ruoshui, was warmly welcomed by the people of Guifang, and then successfully met the Queen Mother of the West—all of these were It is a modified description, and the real situation is more cruel.
In order to get the ghost party to agree to take him to Kunlun in the sea to meet the Queen Mother of the West, King Mu of Zhou recruited troops and horses from the nearby vassal states in the name of exterminating ghosts, and slaughtered the ghost party nationals in the festival. The soldiers and horses of the lords believed it to be true, rushed into the territory that was easy to defend and difficult to attack, and were slaughtered by the people of Guifang.
They didn't know that this was a deal, a holiday gift from King Mu of Zhou to Guifang, and a stepping stone for him to cooperate with the Queen Mother of the West. "
Cen Jin commented: "People who play politics, heart."
Huang Jiang stared straight at Cen Jin, she really felt that this was strange and familiar, just that temperament, indescribable, very special temperament, like the feeling of being exposed to the sun for seven days and still smelling of salted fish.
But I can't remember who it was.
In fact, she didn't know that it was Yeyoushen's full set of perverted equipment that affected Cen Jin's temperament to a certain extent.
"King Mu of Zhou and the Queen Mother of the West reached a cooperation and quickly entered her era. First, "The Legend of Mu Tianzi" promoted the longevity and auspicious number of Queen Mother of the West, and then used the love story of the infatuated goddess to draw the distance between her and human beings, and plan step by step to eradicate the domestic Other gods in Kunlun.
But during this period, the plan went wrong. The Queen Mother of the West was seriously injured and had to escape from Kunlun in the sea. She used Guifang as the base of the ghost country she re-created... Oh, her obsession is to call the kingdom of Kunlun.
As the first prophet beside her, King Mu of Zhou, while the Queen Mother of the West was recovering from her wounds, left her identity as Mu Tianzi by suspended animation and wandered the world. While promoting Queen Mother Xi and her plan to restore the country, she used her identity as a prophet to teach knowledge everywhere.
For example, he compiled a story himself, saying that Dayu engraved the "Mountains and Rivers Map" that recorded the location of Kunlun on the Jiuding, so King Mu of Zhou found Kunlun in the sea, and then actually cast a "Mountains and Rivers Map", which fooled many people.
One of them is Lao Tzu, so there is a legend that Lao Tzu rode a green ox out of Hangu Pass in search of Kunlun. In the end, whether Kunlun was found or not, I didn’t say in the diary, I don’t know.
By the way, Lao Tzu's apprentice is Guiguzi who later wrote Kuanggu Qishu. "
Cen Jin quickly digested the huge and complex amount of information, tried to keep his head clear, and asked a question: "What is the purpose of King Mu of Zhou?"
At this time, only one light in the bookstore flickered, and there were mixed footsteps approaching outside. At some point, a strange one appeared in the window, staring gloomily at the three of them, but the three inside did not change their expressions.
Huang Jiang lowered his eyes and said softly, "Use the Queen Mother of the West to slaughter the Kunlun in the sea."
"The domestic Kunlun is a nuclear bomb that threatens the land of China. Any god in it can kill all human beings, and they really do not have a good impression on human beings. Because before the establishment of the human dynasty, they were once due to strange things. The struggle between them has destroyed human civilization.
In the face of the power of absolute deterrence, there is no other way for the human type.
Civilization has been destroyed once, and the power of advanced gods has been seen. If humans want to survive in peace, they must be eradicated. "
"King Mu of Zhou is indeed a prophet and does not work for the Queen Mother of the West. The group of people who cultivated his ability to see and see are the people of our institution."
"He was our first prophet of mankind."
... For 5,000 years, there have been people who have been quietly doing the work of clearing up weirdness. They have been hiding among the traders and pawns, generals and princes, and their beliefs will last forever.
Cen Jin slowly relieved the sullenness in his heart and concluded: The first lineman in the history of King Mu of Zhou.