"Goddess, I have two distinguished guests, please come with me."
The old woman said with a smile, but we have too many questions to ask, and Shana has recovered from the previous trance. She touched the tears on her cheeks and didn't understand why she was so moved when she saw the scenery here. There were such violent mood swings in my heart.
"I know you have many questions to ask, especially the goddess. You probably don't know your origins at all. Don't worry, I will tell you everything. But we have to find a place to sit down, right? ?"
The old woman smiled calmly and said, we also think what she said makes sense. It¡¯s really not a problem just standing here, so the three of us nodded in agreement. Seeing that we agreed, the smile on the old woman¡¯s face became brighter and brighter, and her whole face looked like It seemed to be glowing. She seemed quite happy, and like a mother-in-law doting on her granddaughter, she held Shana's hand affectionately and led us down the slope.
With Shana's skills, she would not be caught so easily, but when the old woman stretched out her hand, Shana did not feel any resistance, and just let the old woman hold her hand, and then, a seemingly Emotions that had been forgotten by her arose, and a faint warm feeling came from the hand held by the old woman.
That feeling is called family affection.
After walking down the slope and crossing the stone bridge, after passing through the woods, the scenery in front of me suddenly became clear.
Under the faint blue sky above our heads, layers of terraced fields appear before our eyes. Although we have already seen this scene when we were on the slope, when thousands of hectares of fertile fields appear in front of you, apart from opening my mouth, I have already Can't make other expressions.
There were many villagers working in the green fields that seemed to be endless. When we passed the paths between the terraces and walked towards the houses behind the terraces, the villagers working in the fields all came in one after another as we passed by. He finished his work and bent down to say hello to the old woman. It was obvious that this old woman's status in the village was not low.
¡°After we walked through, we could still feel the villagers pointing fingers at the backgrounds of the three outsiders like us, and it seemed quite strange why the old woman would bring the three of us here.
"I haven't announced the return of the goddess to the villagers yet. Originally, I only received a message from the patron saint in a dream that heralded the goddess's imminent return. However, firstly, the goddess has left the village for a full hundred years, and secondly, she has not returned. I knew when the goddess would return, so I hid it from the villagers and only explained the matter to the other two elders. I would only explain the situation to the villagers when the goddess actually returned, so I asked the three of them." Seeing something strange on our faces. , so the old woman explained to us.
We just said "Oh" and answered, but deep down we felt that this matter was getting more and more unreliable. After the goddess Shana, another divine messenger appeared. I really don't know where this village is. But having said that, anything related to the word "god" probably doesn't have a trivial background.
But when I lowered my head and was thinking about things, Kong Kong bumped into me lightly, and I heard the monk say in a very low voice: "I don't know if you've noticed it, but it's really strange that there are more women than men in this village."
¡°Senior Brother Kong Kong, it¡¯s not good for you to pay attention to women like this.¡± I said with a teasing look on my face.
He felt empty but didn't care. He smiled faintly and said to himself: "I just think it's strange. Normally, it's weird that there are more men than women in jobs like labor. But while walking along the way just now, I counted silently in my heart. There are definitely no more than ten men in the field, but there are dozens of women, which is really strange."
After being said by Kong Kong, I couldn't help but look back. Sure enough, almost all the people I saw were women, and very few men appeared in the field. This scene made me wonder, could it be that all the men in this village are taking care of themselves at home? Can't have a child?
"Huh?"
Shana¡¯s exclamation drew my and Kong¡¯s attention to her. She stood on tiptoes, pointed not far away and said, ¡°Could that be a white deer?¡±
Looking in the direction she pointed, a child was riding on a snow-white animal. The animal was indeed very similar to a deer, but it also had curved antlers, but it was covered in white fur. To be honest, if it was a deer, I didn't know there were white deer in the world.
The old woman smiled and nodded: "That is indeed a white deer, but there are only a few of them now. There are only about a dozen of these auspicious beasts left in the village."
But Shana said in amazement: "Those are the strange beasts in the Classic of Mountains and Seas. Do they still exist in the human world?"
When I heard this, I couldn¡¯t help but look at the white deer a few more times. I never expected that there would be such rare and auspicious beasts in this village that only existed in legends. I saw that the white deer was indeedExtraordinary, not as timid as ordinary deer. When it saw us, it not only did not run away, but looked at us with a pair of clear eyes. When I looked carefully, I realized that this deer was much more majestic than ordinary deer. It is small, and its long snow-white fur gives it a faint majesty.
Moving forward, we saw several animals that we would never see in the real world, such as a strange bird that flies by using the hairs under its throat, and its name is Hu. Another example is the bird that likes to hold children, with the face of a human and the body of a horse. , a strange beast with bird wings and snake tail; there is also a majestic unicorn beast, which looks like a horse, with a white body and a black tail, tiger teeth and claws. This kind of animal is called Majiao (I can¡¯t type the word, just The beast that can be beaten into two characters suddenly appeared when we were about to climb the terraces and enter the village. It was extremely fast. When we first saw it, it was still far away, but when it ran towards us it looked like Like a white lightning, it appeared in front of us in just a blink of an eye. This unicorn looked at us outsiders with vigilant eyes, but when it saw Shana, it actually let out an intimate cry, until the old woman After shaking his hand, the unicorn ran away in a hurry. It is said that there are only five of these unicorns in the village. They are agile and are more powerful than tigers, so they were tamed by the village for patrolling in the village.
Seeing these strange beasts that only existed in legends one after another made the three of us secretly speechless. We really didn¡¯t know what the origin of this village was, and it actually domesticated so many strange and auspicious beasts.
After walking onto the central street of the village, I found that this street was quite spacious and could probably accommodate three cars walking side by side. This kind of road was considered a thoroughfare in the village.
Along this avenue, the old woman had no intention of stopping. It seemed like she wanted to take us to the temple in the center of the village. Sure enough, after a while, we had already arrived at the temple whose outer walls were already a little yellow. In front of the gate.
This temple looks not much bigger than the ordinary City God's Temple, but when we walked inside, we found that the space inside was no less than that of the main halls of those big temples. The huge gap in space between the front and back, I could only raise it. Head, mouth wide open, stood stunned and sighed.
Just when I was sighing like a country man entering the city, Kong also showed a surprised look, which made me somewhat mentally balanced, lest I look like a country bumpkin who has never seen the world.
"A technique that can affect and manipulate space, my God, how can a mortal have such power." Kong sighed and said: "No matter what kind of technique, whether it is the Five Elements Technique or the techniques of time and space, there are limits. Human power Sometimes, even the most powerful magician can use space magic. The most powerful one is just space transfer, or like the shadow puppeteer, he can borrow foreign objects to create space rifts. But now, this is a reality. Really, the inner and outer spaces are different. This level of magic can only be accomplished by gods."
Regardless of the empty exclamation that seems to show off one's erudition, the shock caused by the unequal space between inside and outside did short-circuit my thinking for a moment. After listening to the empty words, the old woman's voice came into my ears. .
"This kind of Taoist magic is indeed not possessed by us mortals. It was a magic spell personally laid down by the first-generation goddess when this village was built. Together with the restriction on the exit, it is a great magic technique that cannot be matched by future generations like us. "
At this time, the old woman was standing in front of a magic table. Behind the magic table, there were three huge stone statues. One of the stone statues was ten meters high. I looked up and saw that the stone statue looked half human and half snake, with its upper body The human shape is that of a woman, and the lower body is a huge snake body. The hands of this half-human, half-snake stone statue seem to be holding something like a stone tablet, but this image reminds me of someone from ancient times. God, isn¡¯t this what the legendary goddess Nuwa who created humans and mended the sky looks like?
On the right hand side of what is suspected to be the goddess Nuwa stands a stone statue of a woman about five meters high. The statue uses exquisite workmanship to fully express the texture of the character's clothing. I can tell at a glance that this woman is wearing a gauze robe. Under the craftsman's uncanny knife skills, the clothes on the statue showed a fluttering appearance, and the woman's face showed a mysterious image half-covered by gauze, so that people could only see the woman's eyes. Eyes, but could not fully see her appearance.
Opposite the female stone statue, there is a headless giant stone statue. The giant is about the same height as the goddess Nuwa and has a ferocious shape. Although the giant is headless, it has a pair of angry eyes carved on the chest. But there is a huge mouth at the belly button. The huge mouth opens as if roaring silently. The giant holds a shield in his left hand and raises his right hand in a grasping shape, as if he is holding something, but there is nothing in his hand. From the image of this giant, I could easily guess an ancient fierce god, Xing Tian, ??who was hailed as the God of Battle by later generations!
??Except for the stone statue of a woman whose face is half covered, the temple in this hermit village enshrines two famous gods from ancient times. Who knows the great God Nuwa and the fierce godWhat kind of relationship does Tian have with them?
The old woman didn¡¯t bother us to watch the things in the temple. It wasn¡¯t until we seemed to have returned to God¡¯s place that she gently said to Shana: ¡°Goddess, do you recognize these three stone statues?¡±
Shana nodded: "The one in the middle is the great goddess Nuwa, and the one on the left is Xing Tian. It's just the image of the woman on the right. Although I don't know who she is, I have seen her in my dream. At that time, she Claims to be my guardian angel or something like that.¡±
The old woman smiled and said: "Yes, this stone statue of a woman whose face is half-covered is the patron saint of the Hermit Village and the first-generation goddess!"
"The first generation goddess?"
"Yes, the first-generation goddess is also the first and last human being created by the God Nuwa with her own essence and blood, and every generation of goddesses is the blood descendant of the God Nuwa!"
"What?"
The three of us were all shocked at the same time, especially Shana. We never thought that her status as a goddess also contained such a great significance. The goddesses of each generation turned out to be the blood descendants of Nuwa's catastrophe. This is simply shocking. unbelievable.
"Wait, wait a minute!" I shouted hurriedly: "That's not right. According to legend, the humans created by the great goddess Nuwa were not all made of mud. I have never heard that she used blood essence to create humans; and , if there is a blood relationship between Shana and the Great God Nuwa, then Shana should be different from ordinary people. At least, she would be half-human and half-snake like the image of the Great God Nuwa, but she looks completely like an ordinary person. ah."
The old woman seemed to have expected that we would have these questions. She looked at God Nuwa and sighed softly: "Yes, God Nuwa did create humans out of mud in the legend, but when she used five-color stones to patch up the sky, Before she was about to die with all her efforts, her spiritual consciousness crossed time and space, predicting that there would be a shocking battle in the future. Therefore, she used her last drop of blood essence to create a goddess with great supernatural powers, and made our clan become the goddess's bodyguards. In order to Be fully prepared for the unprecedented battle that will occur in the future, I will tell you this later; as for your point that goddesses are no different from ordinary people"
Turning around, the old woman said with a smile: "Apart from the fact that the goddess's natal blood source has not yet awakened, so she cannot transform into a half-human, half-snake image, do you really think there is really no difference between the goddess and ordinary people? Ordinary people Can a person from other worlds summon beings from other worlds for his use? Can ordinary people build channels to connect with other worlds? That is almost impossible."
When the old woman said this, I remembered Shana's ability to summon evil spirits and beasts. It was a real summoning, and it could only be realized after building a channel to connect with other worlds. Just getting along with her It took me a long time to ignore this, and as the old woman in front of me said, not to mention ordinary people, even the legendary gods, it seems that they have never heard of existences that can summon evil ghosts and beasts.
"But my superpower is due to my mother-in-law's bloodline, and it should have nothing to do with the great god Nuwa." Shana herself seemed unable to accept that she was related to such a great god as Nuwa, so she He also defended himself subconsciously.
But she didn¡¯t want her words to make the old woman sigh.
In ancient times, the god of fire Zhurong fought with the god of water Gonggong. Gonggong was finally defeated and retreated to the foot of Buzhou Mountain. Seeing his complete defeat, the angry Gonggong bumped his head against Buzhou Mountain, which is the pillar of heaven and earth. When Mount Buzhou fell, the sky collapsed and the earth collapsed, causing disasters in the world.
After the sky was broken, fire from the sky continued to fall on the world, and the earth was plunged into a sea of ??fire. In order to prevent the human beings she created from extinction, the great goddess Nuwa used the flames from the center of the earth to refine the five-color sacred stone, and then used the five-color stone to repair the broken pieces. The sky, finally, in order to completely fill the sky, the great goddess Nuwa decided to use her body and blood to fill the holes in the sky.
But just when she was about to fly into the sky to perform the feat of mending the sky, her consciousness transcended time and space and saw a war that would occur many years later. It was a war that would affect the three realms of gods, humans, and demons. The greatest battle of all time is also the battle of chasing deer that has been passed down in later generations.
At the moment when her consciousness crossed time and space, the great goddess Nuwa saw the immortal great demon king Youxiong Chiyou, and also saw the Yellow Emperor sealing his soul in the five-color spiritual stone, which was later called the Chiyou stone, but Huang Di's seal was incomplete. Although he sealed Chi You's soul, the body of the Great Demon King could not be sealed. For this reason, after understanding all this, the Great God Nuwa made advance preparations.
God Nuwa knew that after killing Chi You, the Yellow Emperor would create the ancient world of gods and completely separate gods, humans and demons. The ancient gods and their people would live in the god world, while the demons would fall into the demon world, where only humans would live. In the human world, in this way, once the demon's body left in the human world is connected with his soul,Together, mankind will be in catastrophe. In order to prevent all this from happening, God Nuwa mixed the remaining five-color sacred stones with a drop of her own blood to create the first generation of goddesses.
The Great God Nuwa taught this human being, who is like her own daughter, many spells, including constructing passages in various spaces, binding the breath of the mother of all things in Nuwa's blood, and allowing various foreign objects summoned to be used by the goddess. , and then on the occasion of flying into the sky, the great goddess Nuwa taught the goddess the method of sealing the demon's body, and found the human beings she created for the first time as the goddess's bodyguards. After making all these preparations, the goddess Only then did God Wa feel relieved and ascend to mend the sky.
Besides, after the great goddess Nuwa ascended, the first-generation goddess led her guards to find a place to rest and live. For the battle to seal the demons many years later, the first-generation goddess collected the five-color stones left by the great god Nuwa, and then He kept refining the instrument used to seal the demon's body day and night. Until the death of the first-generation goddess, she finally created an instrument that could seal the demon's body - the Chiyou Monument!
Goddess can be combined with a human man, but the baby born will definitely be a baby girl. The baby girl inherits the blood and superpowers of the mother. However, except for the first generation of goddesses who are half-human and half-snake when they are born, the offspring's There is only a very small chance that the goddess will be in this situation. Of course, if the goddess's original bloodline is awakened, she will also return to the half-human, half-snake sub-god state.
When the first-generation goddess died, her consciousness did not disappear. As the first-generation goddess, the power she inherited from the great goddess Nuwa was unmatched by other goddesses. Although the body died, the first-generation goddess existed with consciousness. , became the patron saint of goddesses and other humans. Because of the existence of the patron saint, we can protect the healthy growth of each generation of goddesses.
As time went by, the unprecedented war finally happened. Under the guidance of the guardian angel, the goddess and her guards also joined the Yellow Emperor. After the Yellow Emperor killed Chi You, the goddess had already prepared The good Chiyou stele seals the demon's body, and one of the Chiyou stones that seals his soul is guarded by the goddess and her guards.
After completing the great task of sealing the demons, the goddess led her guards to the retreat mountain forest, and each generation of goddesses did their best to protect the Chiyou Monument and Chiyou Stone from falling into the hands of evil people. The village of the hermit then became It gradually evolved from the goddess and her guards.
"This is the origin of the Hermit Village." Grandma Pujing ended her account of the origin of the Hermit Village with these words.
Ever since the old woman spoke aloud, we didn¡¯t even dare to take a breath, and we didn¡¯t expect that the village of the hermit was also involved in ancient myths. I couldn¡¯t help but look up at the stone statue in front of the sacred case. It turned out that this enshrined There is a story like this in the statue, but after Shana's identity is confirmed, one day her original bloodline will awaken and she will become half human and half snake. When I think of this, I feel a little weird. .
When I saw the stone tablet held in both hands of the stone statue of Nuwa, I couldn't help but ask: "Could it be that the stone statue is holding the stele of Chi You?"
"It's Chi You's monument."
Seeing Granny Pujing say affirmatively, I cried out: "You just put such an important thing on top of it casually?"
"What's so strange?" Granny Pujing looked shocked at me, but the old woman smiled lightly and said: "The Chi You Monument has been banned for a long time. Except for the people of this village and the goddess, no other outsiders can If you touch it, you will be attacked. Even if someone can suppress the restriction on the monument, if they forcefully break the seal, the Chi You Monument will be shattered in an instant, so do you think there is anything wrong with where it is placed?"
¡°If you put it that way, then no.¡± I said naa.
"What about the stone statue of Xingtian? Does this famous fierce god have anything to do with us?" After the initial shock, Shana had basically accepted the fact that she was the blood descendant of the great god Nuwa, and the fact Whether it was the strangeness of her bloodline, the strange dream that brought her here, or the words of the patron saint in the dream, they all pointed out the fact that she was a goddess. Therefore, now Shana is gradually beginning to identify with herself. of this identity.
"Xing Tian dances with Qian Qian." Granny Pujing sighed and said: "After the Yellow Emperor beheaded Xing Tian, ??this fierce god kept dancing his giant shield and sharp ax towards the sky, and kept making roars of grief and anger. That generation In order to prevent innocent people from being hurt by this fierce god, the goddess subdued Xingtian with her great power. However, the evil spirit of this fierce god was too bad, and the goddess could not calm down its resentment, and she was afraid that it would explode and hurt people, so So I sealed it within its own axe, and then built a stone statue to enshrine it, hoping to appease its resentment."
"But what about the ax? It doesn't seem to be here?" I felt that something was missing in the right hand of the stone statue of Xing Tian early in the morning, but it turned out that Xing Tian's ax was missing.Son, I think that thing is the weapon of a fierce god. If I can see it once, it will increase my knowledge, but the ax may have been put away now.
"That axe, well, it's a long story." Granny Pujing took a deep look at Shana and said earnestly: "Speaking of this matter, I have a certain relationship with you, the goddess."
"Me?" Shana pointed at herself and said. She had no idea how she could have anything to do with Xingtian's weapons.
"You all noticed when you entered the village just now. There are many boys and girls in this village. This unusual situation happened because the goddess of the previous generation ran away." Granny Puqing sighed softly and said, "We are a village of hermits. The goddess has been the guardian of the goddess for generations. Women are good at using various Taoist techniques, while men are good at fighting skills. With the cooperation of the two, the village has always been peaceful. Originally, each generation of goddess would choose one from the men in the village. As your husband-in-law, you can continue the bloodline of the goddess, but the goddess of the previous generation, your mother-in-law Bosang, eloped with your grandfather."
"Elope?"
I'm glad I wasn't drinking water, otherwise I would have been gushing water. I didn't expect that the goddess's special nature would be associated with the word elopement, but after thinking about it carefully, it's not impossible. , after all, apart from the divinity of goddesses, they are no different from ordinary women. Take Shana for example. In addition to summoning evil spirits, supernatural beasts, and using various Taoist magic, she is also a slight shopaholic, and she has a lot of knowledge about shopping. An urban woman who is very sensitive to money.
But having said that, the elopement of this goddess is indeed a piece of extremely gossipy news.
Granny Pujing coughed briefly, temporarily pulling us out of our daze.
"Yes, it's an elopement!" Grandma Pujing said in a more serious tone: "Back then, your mother-in-law met your grandfather when she went out to collect medicine. At that time, he fainted in the woods for some unknown reason. Well, The kind-hearted Bosang took him back to the village for recuperation. The hermit village often encounters injured people. It¡¯s not that we have never brought these injured people to the village for recuperation. It¡¯s just that these people will be treated as such when they leave. The magic technique erases the memory of the village, so when Bosang brought your grandfather back to the village, we didn't care. Who would have thought that your grandfather would have said some sweet words to Bosang and just kidnapped our goddess!"
I heard the people beside me snickering secretly. Grandma Pujing had a kind-hearted look on her face since we met, but when she talked about this matter, she gritted her teeth, as if she was still interested in her after so long. Grandpa Shana couldn't let go of the fact that she abducted the goddess in their village for a long time, but from this point of view, Grandpa Shana's method of picking up girls was really not bad, and he even picked up other goddesses.
"Compared to my secret snickering, Shana had a weird look on her face, but she never imagined that grandpa and mother-in-law actually had such a romantic history.
"When the goddess left, the village also suffered an unprecedented impact, and changes began to appear from that time." When Grandma Pujing said this, she couldn't help but sigh: "After the goddess left, everything in the village changed. A Chiyou stone that had a great influence on the world also disappeared. After losing important people and objects, there was gradually a voice of doubt in the village. Most of the male villagers believed that the goddess had fallen and were no longer willing to shoulder the responsibility. Since even the goddess has left the burden of guarding Chi Youshi, there is no need for the hermit village to exist. In this way, the village is divided into two factions. One faction believes that the hermit village should be disbanded, and the other faction wants to disband the hermit village. The other group insisted that the goddesses would return. The former group was mostly men, and the latter group were naturally women like us. After the dispute lasted for a period of time, the people from the former group left in anger, and not only did they take most of them with them The male villagers also took away Xingtian's weapons. After leaving the Hermit Village, they established another village in this mountain forest."
"Split?"
We never imagined that such a small village would be divided, let alone the reason for all this. It was just because of the departure of the goddess. It seems that the goddess occupies a very important position in their hearts, otherwise, there would be no There will be this kind of anger that was betrayed by the person he respected in his youth, which led to all this happening.
"I'm sorry, I didn't expect that this situation would happen in this village because of my mother-in-law." Shana said apologetically.
Granny Bojing waved her hand: "This is none of your business. When we think about it afterwards, in fact, this matter cannot be entirely blamed on Bosang, because we impose that the goddess has too much divinity, too much Taking it for granted, but forgetting that after being passed down from generation to generation, the divinity in the goddess has gradually been replaced by human nature. In the final analysis, the goddess is just like us, a human being, not a real god. So now that I think about it, the Bodhisattva back then Sang probably couldn't bear the pressure everyone put on her and ran away."