The ancestor said slowly: "This is the Shang Dynasty and the destiny of the Shang tribe. By some chance, they mastered the mystery between life and death, mastered the way to make the deceased eternal life and become gods, and mastered the communication technique of communicating with gods and ancestors, and gaining magic power and knowledge from them. This is actually not unique to the Shang tribe. Many other tribes also use human sacrifices to sacrifice people to obtain this channel for communication between the living and the dead, and between descendants and ancestors. In general, compared with the righteous monks who practice immortality and use incense and prayer, this method is called evil practice. These ancestors will also directly absorb the essence and spiritual power of heaven and earth because of their enjoyment of human sacrifices, and their cultivation is generally higher and stronger."
"As for the sacrifice of humans, there is Gantian and this point, it seems to us now to be a ruthless person. Because it has been thousands of years since the formulation of the Zhou ritual and accepted by the people of the world, we as humans have formed the Zhou ritual Confucian values, regard human beings as the highest creatures, and regard the act of killing people as evil deeds. Even in the name of a war to defend the country, massacre cities, killing civilians, women, children, and elderly and weak, it is regarded as a great sin. It is unforgivable. Bai Qi, Xiang Yu and other ancient war gods, because of the large-scale massacre of prisoners, it will be regarded as a peerless evil man with bloody hands."
"But, Venerable Black Robe, you have to know that the values ​​of ancient times and ancient times were completely different from today. In ancient times, humans were no different from beasts. In order to survive, similar cannibalisms were common behaviors. We have said before that human existence itself absorbed the essence and spiritual power of heaven and earth. In the eyes of humans in the ancient times, hunting large beasts or fighting monster elves is far easier than hunting equally weak humans. The essence and spiritual power contained in humans themselves are far more than ordinary beasts. This is the most important reason why people in the ancient times like to be cannibalism. Through similar cannibalism, they have achieved comprehensive improvements in their bodies and intelligence. Some people with abundant magic power are also the origin of priests and chastity in this world. They also have the ability to obtain the memory and power of those who are eaten by cannibalism."
"In ancient times, people who feed on people and gain power became the earliest group of evil gods. The Shanhai Jing would call these half-human and half-beast things as monsters and strange beasts. But in fact, they are the human body that caused changes after eating too much people because of various uncontrollable forces. In the end, these people cannot be compatible with the same tribe and are often expelled from the tribe and wandering among the mountains and fields. Some die because of the arrival of their life span. There are also extreme cases of extreme death.
A few can become immortals through various cultivation, which are the origins of the earliest group of guardian gods in various tribes. The monks of the righteous path often become immortals by absorbing the spiritual energy between heaven and earth, cultivating immortals and attaining the Tao. The gods of the evil paths can often become gods through eating people, eating beasts, etc., including animal husbandry, taming wild animals into domestic animals, and raising them for regular killing and eating in the future. It is also the method taught by these evil paths to their descendants."
Black robe sighed: "But animals are animals, that's not humans. In ancient times, humans had difficulty in survival, and sometimes they had to cannibalize each other, which was fine. Later, humans mastered the method of taming wild animals and growing grains. They no longer needed to survive through cannibalism. Even during the Xia and Shang dynasties, no one would take it for granted. Although there were still human flesh-eating behaviors in the sacrifices of the Shang dynasty, it was more of a religious ceremony, a manifestation of anger and punishment for the enemy, and to remember their hatred for the enemy. It was not that the Shang dynasty really liked to eat people."
Dou Peng nodded: "In this regard, I agree with the view of the Black Robe Venerable. The old custom of cannibalism has been downplayed and abandoned during the Shang Dynasty, just like the custom of sacrifice for people to sacrifice for others. During the Zhou Dynasty before the Spring and Autumn Period, it was also despised by the people of the world. What King Zhou wanted to do but did not do was successfully realized in the Zhou Dynasty. Those nobles who wanted to preserve the old customs of the Shang Dynasty were finally defeated and buried in the long river of history and disappeared. Ancestor, what is the significance of telling us about these old things that were tens of millions of years ago?"
The ancestor said calmly: "I want you to know that the origin of these evil gods and righteous monks. In essence, they were all the ancestors of human beings in the ancient times. They either enjoyed incense, absorbed the essence of heaven and earth, or directly obtained power beyond ordinary people by eating people. In the end, they could all become immortal gods and live above the nine heavens. The different ways of practicing to become gods have led to the difference between the two factions of righteous path and evil path. After tens of millions of years, the evil gods who advocated power and the righteous monks who took it naturally and were inaction and clear-hearted, finally made a big break in the battle of the founding of gods in the Zhou Dynasty Shang Dynasty."
"The demise of the Shang Dynasty caused most of the evil gods headed by the Evil Heaven to die in war, and the losses of the righteous gods are not smaller than those of the evil gods. It can be said that more than 80% of the gods and ancestors were destroyed. Even the surviving righteous gods, the Supreme Gods of the Three Pure Land and the Twelve Golden Immortals, were greatly damaged in magic power and had to enter a long-term dormancy and retreat. From then on, the many good and evil gods and ancestors in the sky were already powerless and could no longer care about the affairs of this human world."
"The gods in the past could use their high potential to change the color of the world, launch great earth and floods, and use this natural disaster to punish humans who are disrespectful to themselves. However, in the Battle of the Gods, a large number of gods who fought on earth were directly killed by various attached magic powers and could kill gods. For the first time, humans could slaughter gods on such a large scale, which made the gods on both sides of good and evil who had lost the ability to punish humans on a large scale, and felt great shock and fear. After the war, the gods on both sides of good and evil reached an agreement, and from then on the gods on both sides of good and evil reached an agreement.
Chapter completed!