If Gods demands downfall, how can man argue with it? Like a King who sees an impudent servant, is it wrong to uphold Justice? History is written by the hand of Conquerors, those who lose, how can they uphold truth? They say “Just as the rise of countries must involve some degree of luck, the fall of countries must involve a degree of black magic” – Fengshen Yanyi, What is luck if it not The Heaven’s will? Should Black Magic happen if The Heaven don’t allow it? Should we say that The Rise and Fall of a Dynasty is all depend on The Heaven? If not The Heavens Like an unwise parent, how can they expect their child's to behave? History says that there’s once a man who became The Ruler of the world, and when The King met a woman whose beauty match The Goddess, The Ruler became The Corrupted, The world cries, and Heroes Falls, How can a Statement of Beauty lead to destruction? His enemies writes his stories, and he became the symbol of Tyranny. King Zhou of Shang, and the Evil Fox Da Ji.
But is this not The Will of The Heavens?
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“Da Ji, wake up quickly!, quickly!”
“Aiya, Ma, why the rush in the morning?”
“Lazy child, yesterday I said that today The Gods gather to bless the land”
Sound and steps of animals are heard inside the old forest, there, wind blows in a soothing sound, the trees and grass sway like a graceful dance, and all the animals are living in peace and bliss, preparing to witness the one that bring them lives, the Old Gods.
Two foxes were quarrelling on their hut, a small white fox was waking up from her slumber, still sleepy and tired, she moves slowly ignoring her mother chatter.
“The Gods are full of patients, it’s okay to be late a bit ma, Hoamm……”
The Mother fox is annoyed seeing her only daughter laziness and sloppiness, the mother fox then bit her daughter's ear a little, showing the sign of unpleased.
“Aww...aww!, okay, okay! I’ll hurry up!”
“Sigh… Da Ji, you’re a grown fox now, you gotta be a bit more, you know... Lady like”
“Sigh…. Yes Mother, I know”
The small white fox then, move in a pitter-patter way, walking with its paw in line, occasionally tilt her head upward, and move it’s silky tail in a graceful manner, and as the small fox move, it talks
“A Lady must, shows grace in everything she does! No matter what living things are you, a Lady must be the epitome of Beauty, Control, and Grace, Don’t talk dirty, Don’t be sloppy!, and Don’t be Rebellious!”
The Mother fox, only smiles in confirmation about how her daughter behaves, she watched her with great delight, and proud of how her child became, if she was truly wholeheartedly doing it that is.
“And if you do this perfect enough, you will be as Famous as Da Guan!, The Most Beautiful and Graceful creature of the forest!”
The Small Fox, blabber while laughing, The mother fox, Da Guan, face became red as she hears her daughter words
“Hey! Sushh!!!”
“Hihi! Even animals from different race sometimes cry because The Heaven don’t make them a Fox, The Beauty of Da Guan is indeed a dangerous weapon in the animal worlds!”
Da Ji laughed as she was starting to run, why? Because at that point her embarrassed mother has already run toward her, to put some sense on her grown daughter
“Da Ji! Come back here right now!”
“Wa! Ma, Don’t you say we must be hurry!, I help you hurry right haha”
“You naughty child!, Aih!! Wait for me!”
Both fox, and other animal was hurrying to gather to see the gods, at this special day, the Gods come to earth to see how the earth become, in the past, Nu wa and the other Gods have created Human, according to their likeness. Tian [Heaven] created the Heaven, Earth and Hell, Tian then establish a “System”, An Idea, A Will, A Source, A Way, then the Jade Emperor daughter Nu Wa, felt the earth is in need, and so Nu Wa and Fu Xi tie their Immortal bond, and begin their lives as Husband and Wife through a way called “Married”, even the old document and stories write this.
And now after they created Humans, they come to earth, to see how Humans and the land have become, and of course to bless it.
Near the temple of Nu Wa, there’s no sight of any Human yet, Humans don’t usually comes to this place because it’s a sacred place, they only come on special occasion, example if they wanted to “Send A Message” to Nu Wa, or to bring “Offerings” to her.
But for the Animals, they who are created before the humans, and also the original residence of the forest, they have privilege to come to the temple, as Animal don’t have the “Humane Desire” to go do anything Impudent, and so, the animal of the forest gather, Animals who walks on land, Animals who fly in the sky, Animal who live on the water also comes to pay respect to Nu Wa. Among these creatures some of them have meditated and trained for a hundred or a thousand of years, and each of them have acquired Magic to do miraculous things, as if they were Gods themselves. One of this Strong Animals are, A White tiger, it’s body is 8 Feet tall, it fangs is as hard as iron, its claw was sharp as blade, for most animals, truly he was the king of the forest.
And as the animals were gathering, talking and waiting in front of the temple gate, this majestic creature comes, it’s presence startled the other animals, as the said “King” walks, some of them whispered
“It’s Bai HuJin, be careful with him, he is known for his short tempered”
“Oh my!, it’s Bai HuJin, the King of Land Creature”
“Really?, I thought the humans is set to rule the land now, Oops!!”
And as Bai HuJin, hear those words, He comes near the animals who blabbered out that unpleasant word, it was a young female Pipa frogs who carelessly said those word, the young pipa only shaking as Bai HuJin come near her.
Bai HuJin give an awe-shaking aura, no other animals are brave enough to get in the way of the great tiger, and as Bai HuJin come near the Pipa, he whispered
“What did you say before?”
The Pipa frog, only shake in fear, her body won’t move, her mouth can’t say anything, she only stood there and close her eyes, thinking “Oh no…. Please leave me”, The tiger whispered to her
“Open your eyes”
“Ye...yes”
After The pipa open her eyes, A white aura suddenly sway around the tiger, the wind then gathered near the tiger, the wind bring great forces that the animals around the tiger move back, only the small pipa get pinned down as she feels the great wind surrounding the tiger, and suddenly the tiger paws became feet, it’s fur changes into skin, and it’s front paws became hands, and a human like figured was seen inside the wind, The white tiger turn into a human, his body was tall and beefy, his hair was long and white, with his yellow eyes he turns fully into a human. Bai HuJin then, yells at the other animals, declaring his might and powers.
“I, Bai HuJin, King of those who stood the land!, have trained myself to become this form!”
All the animals who witness this, were shocked in awe and amazement, Bai HuJin has turned into human.
“Even among Human, I, stand as the strongest in the land, I have already killed a few of them, and they were no match for me!”
“Waaaaa!!!!!”
The animals are yelling, some of them was amaze of the feat that Bai Hujin was displaying, but some also scared of Bai HuJin, after that, Bai HuJin turns back into his original form, and whispered to the weak Pipa. His big paw, pinned the Pipa down. He asks her
“Now, who is the ruler of the land?..... Ugly Creature”
Near there, Da Ji and Da Guan finally arrived at the temple, Da Ji fur was a mess, because she was running all over the forest and walks through tree branches, and bushes, Da Guan licks Da Ji fur to make them straight again.
“Da Ji, looks at your fur, it’s a mess”
“Ahh!, Ma don’t worry about that simple things hehe, Ahh! What happening there!”
“Da Ji!, wait!”
Da Ji then walks toward the crowd to see what happen there, she is a small fox, so she can’t get pass the big and crowded animasl who blocks the view, but Da Ji is not but smart and witty full, She Jumped and slip under the big animal, making her way through the crowds, while Da Guan is politely asked the gathering animals to move out!
This text was taken from Royal Road. Help the author by reading the original version there.
Da Ji then finally can see what happen, and what she sees displeases her, a Tyrant harassing The Weak, she saw the scene and she grew annoyed, just because Bai HuJin is Stronger than other Animal, it doesn’t mean he can do whatever he wants! Da Ji knows, that Tian has given “The Way” for creature to lives, that is “Justice” the power for everyone to be on the same ground, no one is higher than other, and no one is lower, that is justice according to Da Ji, she believes that because the Gods loves their creation, “Justice” must be presence among them, to suffer because of “Justice”, to be hated because of “Justice”, is a noble way to lives. And seeing how the tiger act as a “Tyrant”, of course Da Ji became angry.
Da Ji then, jump towards Bai HuJin, she falls on Bai HuJin backs, and of course this startled Bai HuJin, and as the tiger trying to throw Da Ji from its back, Bai HuJin claws stopped pinning the Pipa, and the Pipa run away feeling grateful for Da Ji.
“Ahhh!! Get off me!”
And as the tiger starting to jump, Da Ji too jump down from the tiger, she falls gracefully and without scratch or strain on her soft fur, Da Ji smiled like she was doing nothing wrong to the Tiger, and of course this makes the tiger more angry!
Bai HuJin don’t even try to think, and rushed toward Da Ji, while the Animals watched both of them, some of them was already thinking “Da Ji is dead”, Da Ji of course, knows how strong Bai HuJin is, the claw as sharp as sword, fang as hard as Iron, but not as cunning as a fox right?
Da Ji run toward the temple of Nu Wa, she jumped across the gate inside, Bai HuJin of course follow her jump across the gate too, Da Ji then find a small stone window, enough for a Small fox to get in, but not for a 7 feet tall tiger. She creeps in the hole while the tiger tries to find a way to get in, on the window, Da Ji, gracefully walks and sees Bai HujIn
“Aiya! King, I’m sorry for my small and fragile body, please don’t blame that Big and Strong body that you’re proud of okay, hihi”
Bai HuJin only grew more angry as he hears what Da Ji said, he clenches his fangs and roar
“Raaahhhh!!!!!!!! Come down here!”
“Ahh King, maybe your body is not as strong as we think, if it were Human, they won’t have trouble getting in like you, umm maybe they can “Break The Wall”"
Hearing that, Bai HuJin feels belittled and angry, saying “Human” are better than him not only triggered him, but also makes him want to prove otherwise, Da Ji, brilliantly prepared each word carefully, she knows what to say for Bai HuJin to do as her bidding, and the mean to realize it. She sees Bai HuJin ram the temple wall with his body, A Temple is but stones for Bai HuJin, destroying a few stones won’t be a problem, the problem are this is a Goddess temple, and wrecks it, means dishonor to the Goddess, Da Ji Smiles as she waits for what happen.
Bai HuJin, ram the stone wall with all his might, he didn’t think for a second about the consequence he would face for damaging a goddess temple, but for now, he only thinks of proving that he is more supreme than human, and to capture Da Ji.
Bam! Bam! BAM!
The Temple walls started to shake and crack, and finally Bai HuJin successfully storm into the temple. Da Ji who relaxingly waited on the window, finally started to stand and meet with the Tiger, she jumped down, and sees the tired Tiger, and bow to him while gleefully smile
“Your Majesty, this little fox was wrong, you maybe are the strongest in the land”
“Hufff….hufff… Sly little fox, just this one… Huff...huff, what you said is true…”
“Fang as strong as Iron, Claws as sharp as sword! ……. But sadly, it’s brain is below average”
And just like that, Da Ji started to run all over the place again, Bai HuJin became furious, and chase her, Da Ji then run into the interior of the Temple, the temple is divided into 2 main sections, first is the outer section which is fenced by a stone wall, in this section, there are a large streaming rivers that connected to the sea, on the end of a river there’s a pool in which hydrangea, Lotus and other flower grows and decorate the inner spot and the coast of the pool, the pool itself is located in the middle of a stone field, this used as a place where Tribe’s Elder and Gods may gather, pass this field, stone Stairs can be seen, these stairs connect the outer section into the inner section of the temple, where the physical temple is located, the temple is made with bronze and stone, it epitomizes the knowledge of architecture in which Human and God both took part in it. The wall is painted with the story of how “Nu Wa Mended The Heaven”, word of wisdom and some of the “Great Flood Stories”, and in the middle of the temple, a Statue of Nu Wa is stand majestically, it fully made of jade that shines the room. This statue is made with the blood and tears of the Architect,
Why should a Goddess demand a Statue? And if it because of the Gratefulness of man who wanted to build it, why is it so enchanting? Man get bewitched by Beauty, and what is the Beauty of a Statue? Other than a lump of shining stones that radiates light, is it not the meaning behind the statue, the deed and the feeling of the people behind the story the more important? But maybe it was the God's sense of self exaltation or man’s ambition for fame that clouded them from this way of thinking? What can a weak man do against the ideas of Gods and Society?
Now Bai HuJin just wreck the stone on the Inner Section, that is Nu Wa Physical Temple, and now Running Across the great Mural, Da Ji, does not run here without any plan, she knows that the God’s will come in no time, and right now she was stalling time, outside the Inner Section, Da Guan finally arrive at the centre of the gathering and asked where is her Daughter run off to.
“Excuse me do any of you saw where’s Da Ji going?”
“Da Guan! Ohh… your daughter Da Ji went inside the Temple, and is right now being chased by Bai HuJin, she disrespects him while he was harassing a Pipa”
Da Guan was surprised a little, but quickly regain her calmness back
“What!... She did what!..... Sigh, thank you for the info…”
Da Guan then said sorry for the mess Da Ji done to the crowds, and when to chase Da Ji too, Da Guan raise Da Ji to be a highly respected Lady, in the way she talks, the way she walks in all of her behaviour she must be perfect, and Da Ji can be said successfully grasp that concept, Da Ji grown to be a wonderful daughter and lady, of course that makes Da Guan proud, but that is only when Da Ji feels she need too, even though Da Ji is thought to be a respectable woman, but she has a high sense of justice, and high sense of freedom, she can’t take orders that doesn't suited her principal, and she likes to do anything she likes, and so she likes to get in trouble, so when Da Ji is in trouble, Da Guan usually comes and sort things out, but Da Guan never gets mad at Da Ji because she knows that Da Ji must has a good reason, and it's the same for today.
Now in the Heavens, The Gods & Sage Kings were gathering, they were discussing about the reason they come the earth today, for many years the earth was damaged by The Great Flood, but a few Years ago, Yu, The Son of Gun, and a relative of Emperor Shun managed to subdue The Great Flood by establishing an Irrigation system and vanquishing the fallen Gods, it is one of the few times, a mere Human were given the privilege to command the Gods, but the privilege seems will never happen again, as for that time, Yu commit a wrong act by beheading an Innocent God, FangFeng. And today the Gods is discussing what fate should Yu have.
Note :
Yu - talks about Yu The Great, a person who control the flood water through irrigation system rather than contain it, myth says that in that time he also fight supernatural being
Great Flood - A flood from Yellow River that happen in china approximately in 1920 BCE
FangFeng - A deity with a giant figure, after Yu finishes controlling the flood, he gathered the gods to fight the flood, but FangFeng arrives late and Yu had him executed, but Yu doesn't know that the reason for FangFeng lateness was because he has to fight a local flood he encountered