Chapter 3, Village Spirit
Based on the memories of the original person and the old witch, Xiao Yunyi has a rough understanding of his current situation.
The world I live in is a world where gods, humans, demons, and demons coexist.
In terms of history in this world, there is almost no difference between the history before the Zhou Dynasty and the history in his previous life.
It also experienced the Three Sovereigns and Five Emperors, Xia Dynasty, Shang Dynasty, and Zhou Dynasty, but it became different after the Zhou Dynasty.
At that time, King Wu ended his campaign against Zhou and ascended the throne as emperor. After establishing the Zhou Dynasty, he enthroned gods with the luck of humanity and used Shinto to assist humanity to manage the world.
Although assisted by the gods, the Zhou Dynasty ruled the world for three thousand years.
But the gods succeeded and the gods failed. In the end, the coexistence of humans and gods caused too much chaos, and the huge dynasty was eventually dragged down.
The imperial court was weakened, rituals and music collapsed, the world was divided among its heroes, and demons were rampant. From then on, the world fell into an era of war.
After hundreds of years of chaos, a wise man named Li Dan suddenly appeared, founded the Tao Te Ching, and spread it throughout the world.
Since then, "Tao" and "Virtue" in the world have been redefined.
The birth of "Tao" and "De" made the fate of humanity begin to gather again, and Zhou Li began to be reestablished.
The world began to regain its clarity, and the demons began to hibernate again.
Humanity's luck is restored, dragon's energy gathers, and finally a new hero is created.
After more than ten years of fighting, the world was pacified, and he finally replaced the last emperor of the Zhou Dynasty. He was enshrined in Mount Tai and became the new generation of human emperors. The country was named Xuan.
After becoming the Human Emperor, he re-established the system of gods, with Li Dan as the highest honor and the title of Taishang Moral Heavenly Lord.
Later, Yuanshi Tianzun and Lingbao Tianzun were established, and together with Daode Tianzun, they were called Sanqing.
Next comes the Jade Emperor who rules over the gods, and then comes the 365 gods.
Then the underworld was established and the gods of the underworld were enfeoffed. At this time, the system of gods was perfected, and each god performed his own duties without interfering with each other.
It is much better than the situation in the previous dynasty where the gods worked independently, and even the gods would attack each other because of their power.
And they wanted to avoid chaos caused by the mixing of humans and gods like the previous dynasty.
It is stipulated that without the handwriting, the gods can only live in the god's space, which is the small space attached to each god statue, except when performing their duties.
As for the 365 righteous gods and other gods, they live in the thirty-three days established by the Supreme Moral God.
The system of gods was perfected, and the imperial system was gradually improved. From then on, the world entered an era of peace for two thousand years.
Of course, peace in the world is only relative, and it is still very dangerous for people like Xiao Yunyi who are originally at the bottom of society.
After all, this is a world haunted by monsters and monsters, and there are so many small villages like Xiao Yunyi's in this world.
Every night, monsters appear, and without the protection of gods, one's life may be threatened at any time.
But if you want to protect these villages from monsters and monsters, you will need a lot of manpower.
The imperial court didn't have that many people, and it couldn't canonize so many gods, so generally only county towns would have city-defending god generals.
But it is not unsolvable. After all, there are not only demons and monsters in this world, but also many monks.
They take it as their duty to slay demons and protect peace.
In addition, the village can also use incense to worship the village spirit.
The village spirit can be an ancestral spirit, a monk, or a demon spirit.
Although there is no compulsory requirement for village spirits to have racial identity, there is one condition that must be met, which is that they cannot practice evil practices, steal people's essence, or eat blood to practice.
Therefore, if a village wants to worship a village spirit, it must be reported to the Yamen, who will notify the city emperor, who will send someone to inspect it.
If there is no problem with the village spirit, the city emperor will issue a soul disc as proof of the village spirit's identity.
Although village spirits can also practice with the help of incense, they are not real gods and are only temporary workers at most.
However, every year the city emperor will send people down for assessment. If you perform well, you will have the opportunity to become a full-time official, enter the official establishment, and become a land god.
The village where Xiao Yunyi originally lived was called Xujiazhuang, and his name was Xu Ze. The village used to worship the ancestors of the Xu family.
But I don’t know what happened. Some time ago, the ancestral spirit suddenly stopped showing up to respond to the villagers’ sacrifices.
Even before Xu Ze's accident, several young adults had gone missing in the village, and people in the village were already panicked.
Perhaps it was precisely because Xu Ze was so frightened that Xiao Yunyi took advantage of him and seized his body.
However, judging from the memory of the old witch, the missing young man was not her fault, which means there is still a demon entrenched around Xujiazhuang.
This is not easy to handle. If you return to the village, you may continue to be in danger. If you don't go back, you may starve to death in this barren mountain.
He searched through the old witch's memory but had no clue. As for the cultivation physique he mentioned, it was completely useless because the old witch didn't know how to practice.
No, she probably doesn't understand the authentic Taoist cultivation methods. All she has learned are heretical and heretical magic.
If you want to practice the authentic Taoist cultivation method, you must have a Taoist physique. Only with a Taoist constitution can you draw the vitality into your body to develop your magic power, and then you can perform real magic.
People like the old witch who do not have a monastic physique cannot draw the energy into their bodies, so every time they cast a spell, they either use their own energy, or use other people's energy, resentment, and soul at the cost, so it is called a heretical magic.
In the memory of the old witch, there is an evil trick that involves taking over the body of a living being by sacrificing its life.
The more powerful the sacrificed creature is, the more perfect it will be to seize the body. Unless the city emperor comes in person or a monk with a high level of cultivation, ordinary ghosts, gods and monks will not be able to discover it.
It was precisely because of this that she spent a huge amount of money, setting up various traps, and trying to catch a fox even though it was injured.
What she didn't expect was that she would fall into the hands of Xiao Yunyi, whom she considered the least threatening person.
After thinking about it all night, I still couldn't figure out what to do next, but I felt a little sleepy.
I yawned, forget it, let's go to bed first, and have enough energy to think of countermeasures.
Xiao Yunyi then searched around and finally found an animal skin.
Chapter completed!