Chapter 1149: Ancient Secrets
The Chaos Beast is said to have been born in the ancient times. Together with Taowu, Qiongqi and Taotie, they are called the Four Great Beasts.
In the ancient times, the world was created not long ago, and the Chaos Spiritual Energy had not yet evolved completely. In many places, the earth, fire, water and wind were raging.
If people today were to return to that time, there would be almost no place to stay. Everywhere was a desperate place of death. If you were not careful, you would die without a burial place.
But then again, it was precisely because of the aura everywhere and the incomplete way of heaven that countless natural treasures were born. Many of these treasures were top-notch innate treasures, which were unimaginable to cultivators after the Middle Ages.
Because of the dangerous environment, those who could survive and leave their names in later generations were all Taiyi Immortals, and the next step was the Great Immortal of Daluo Fruit.
So much so that in later generations, there was such a saying that in ancient times, when the immortals were everywhere, the Golden Immortals could only shake.
Then the monks took advantage of this statement and talked about how abundant the resources were in ancient times, and that the current era was the Dharma Ending Era. If they could be born in that era, they would definitely be able to make some achievements. They would definitely be able to do so.
The monks in the early ancient times were basically born from heaven and earth. They were extraordinary and enjoyed the luck of heaven and earth. It was normal for them to be stronger. Compared with them, they were stupid.
Only after the middle period did the three tribes of dragon, phoenix and unicorn rise, and then there was the concept of reproduction, which evolved into the first great catastrophe of the primitive world, that is, the struggle between the three tribes. The racial contradictions reflected behind the great catastrophe have not been resolved even today. People and demons still look down on each other.
In general, the number of ancient monks was far less than that of today. The speed of self-reproduction of races, especially humans, was much faster than the evolution of heaven and earth, or the reproduction of mythical beasts such as dragons and phoenixes.
With fewer monks, individuals can naturally obtain more resources and reach a higher upper limit.
However, at that time, reincarnation had not yet evolved. If you died, you died. There was no chance for your soul to reincarnate. It didn't matter if you were a Daluo celestial being.
Reincarnation was created by Hou Tu, the ancestor of the twelve ancestor witches in the Central Earth, in the ancient times after the ancient times. Hou Tu felt that the Yin Qi of the earth veins could warm the soul, maintain the soul, and even give a new life, so she created reincarnation.
Hou Tu's merits were no less than Nuwa's repairing the sky and creating humans. It was a pity that she used the wrong direction. Otherwise, with the merits of heaven and earth, it would be no problem to become a saint.
At that time, there were only five reincarnations, which were the most primitive reincarnations. They reflected the will of the witch clan everywhere and were created against the background of the war between the witch clan and the demon clan.
For example, the Asura Path was a reference to the witch clan, which was strong and powerful and was one of the three good paths, while the Animal Path was a satire on the demon clan.
There are rumors that reincarnation evolved from Hou Tu, the ancestor witch, to make up for the original world after the original world was broken, and also to eliminate the karma of the witch clan.
This statement is obviously passed down by the later Buddhist sects. The concepts of making up for and saving all living beings carry obvious Buddhist intentions.
However, if we look back at the original reincarnation, it is easy to find the fallacies in it. Therefore, some concepts, even if they are well-known and regarded as "truths" that will never change, are not irrefutable. They are all created by humans.
People should always be skeptical.
Reincarnation was created by the witch clan, but nowadays, when people think of reincarnation, the scene of the kind-hearted Buddhist monks jumps out of their minds. This is because reincarnation has been further developed in the hands of Buddhism.
However, no matter how much Buddhism changes, it is impossible to break the core of the witch clan's creation of reincarnation, such as the interpretation of Asura. Let's take a look at what Buddhism says!
Buddhism acknowledges that Asura is a god, but in order to suppress Asura, it adds the Heavenly Path to Asura, so that the five paths of reincarnation become six paths.
And those who reincarnate in the Heavenly Path are the great Buddhas of Buddhism. This move is to suppress the witch clan and respect Buddhism. In addition, in order to gain the support of the human race, the status of the human race is also elevated to surpass the Asura Path.
This is not enough. As time goes by, Asura has become a monster that is neither a god, nor a ghost, nor a human in the eyes of Buddhism. It has the power of a god (recognizing the power of the witch clan), but does not have the good deeds of a god (contrasting to highlight the goodness of Buddhism), and has something in common with ghosts.
If one day, Asura is eliminated from the good path by Buddhism and becomes an evil path, there is nothing to be surprised about. In other words, if Buddhism does not do this, it will be a problem.
A lot of words have been spent on writing about ancient things, especially the changes in reincarnation. It seems that it has little to do with the previous article. In fact, it is just the opposite. The reason is very simple, because the reincarnation under the control of the witch clan was guarded by the chaos clan.
The chaos recorded in the Taoist scriptures is like a dog, with long hair and four legs. It is like a bear (pronounced as skin) but has no claws. It has eyes but cannot see, cannot walk, has two ears but cannot hear, has human intelligence, has a belly but no five internal organs, has straight intestines but does not rotate, and eats directly.
As for the later record of "people with virtue go to resist it, and those with evil virtue go to rely on it", there is no need to care too much. This kind of nonsense is just to deceive those cultivators who have just entered the cultivation world.
Good and evil are different in the eyes of different people. What kind of evaluation criteria are there will be what kind of good and evil.
Many people think that the four fierce beasts, Hun Dun, Qiong Qi, Tao Wu, and Tao Tie, became fierce beasts because they killed too many living beings, which seems a bit naive and ignorant.
The dragon, phoenix and unicorn tribes are tens of millions times more powerful than them, so why are they not ferocious beasts?
In a nutshell, these four kinds of beasts abandoned their demon races during the war between witches and liches in ancient times, and chose to join the witches. They were thus slandered by the demons and became ferocious beasts.
In theory, in ancient times, although the human race was weak, it was also a faction of the witches (among the five paths of the witches, the human path is also a good path, and it is obvious that the human race is a faction of the witches). After the Middle Ages, the human race gradually became the protagonist between heaven and earth, and should have reversed the case of ferocious beasts such as chaos, but it did not. On the contrary, the human race continued this statement and even surpassed it.
As for the reason, it is not difficult to figure it out with a little thought. After the middle of the Middle Ages, as the human race gradually adapted to the general trend of the world with the decline of spiritual energy after the shattering of the original world, the human race gradually replaced the previous witch and lich races, and one race had the tendency to dominate.
In order to appear legitimate, the human race began to erase all previous records that were unfavorable to itself, including its history as a vassal of the witches, or slaves.
Therefore, at this time, not only can we not overturn the verdict on the four fierce beasts, on the contrary, we must continue to discredit them.
In this way, for countless years, the reputation of the four fierce beasts has always been with the four beast tribes, and it is difficult to get rid of it. People hate it when they see it, and it is difficult to grow.
Except that the Chaos Clan is the guardian of Hou Tu's reincarnation, this point is created by Sanren to adapt to the development of the novel. The rest are explained according to the Honghuang flow and Buddhist classics. If you think there are loopholes, welcome to discuss.