Chapter 193: Witchcraft, Universal Rebellion

In the beginning, Shamanism did have twelve immortals.

It was only in the late Qing Dynasty that a large number of Han people from the Central Plains entered the Northeast, combined with Taoism, Buddhism and other sects, and eventually derived the worship of five immortals, but Shamanism gradually declined.

If it was just a virtual god, then it could only be a spiritual aggregate.

But these animals, they really have bodies.

With the worship and offerings of the people, a large amount of spiritual power gathered, making the spiritual wisdom of the worshipped animals begin to rise rapidly.

In the end, their spiritual wisdom was not inferior to that of humans.

It's just that they are just some animals after all. The initial spirituality is not to say that it is blank, but it is also some animal instincts.

After being worshipped by humans, they merged a lot of messy spiritual memories with human cognition of them, and instantly tampered with their cognition. They really think that they are gods and immortals.

This makes them have humanity, animality and divinity at the same time.

Humanity allows them to communicate with humans;

Beastly nature makes them bloodthirsty, and with countless miscellaneous memories, their intelligence is often filled with chaos, tyranny, chaos and bloodthirstiness. Compared with ordinary sacrifices and offerings, they prefer blood food;

The existence of divinity allows them to mobilize the power of heaven and earth to a certain extent.

If there are enough people to perform sacrifices and offerings, they will even form a special power similar to the fate of the country like the masters of major forces, which can interfere with the rules of heaven and earth to a certain extent and respond to the prayers of believers.

In this way, shamanism has flourished again in Northeast Qing and other places.

However, the development of sects will inevitably have a certain impact on the rule of the rulers.

Shamanism, which had been gradually suppressed and controlled by Huang Taiji, is once again on the verge of losing control.

Especially, Huang Taiji's defeat this time made his prestige plummet.

Not only the four beiles suppressed by him, but also the other three beiles except Daishan have risen again, with a tendency to compete with him.

Shamanism has developed vigorously, relying on the twelve immortals who truly have extraordinary powers to gather a large number of believers.

Even if there are virtual gods like the dragon immortal among the twelve immortals, as long as other animals have extraordinary powers, the lack of one or two virtual gods will not have much impact.

And so many believers have sacrificed and worshipped, which has also made the power of the twelve immortals expand rapidly, although it is still far less than Huang Taiji.

However, it is also a considerable force, and it has a large number of believers, which makes Huang Taiji very afraid and begins to think of ways to weaken the power of shamanism again.

However, it has become difficult to move them now, which requires him to plan slowly.

There are twelve immortals in the northeast, and special existences have also appeared in the mountains of Yunnan and Guizhou in the south, such as witchcraft.

With the promotion of the world, the concentration of energy in the world continues to increase, and the existence of spiritual power has made the ancient legendary witch sacrifice popular again.

Fortunately, in the interior of the Ming Dynasty, with the existence of Buddhism, Taoism and Confucianism, immortals and Buddhas are more popular.

In the border areas, especially in the southwest, witch sacrifices gradually rose, and even the legend of the ten witches in ancient times began to spread again.

Ancient legends, of course, also have the twelve ancestor witches in later novels.

However, they are not ancestor witches, but ancient legendary gods recorded in the Classic of Mountains and Seas.

Naturally, there is no witch clan.

However, there were indeed legends of witches in the past, but they were ten witches.

They are Wu Xian, Wu Ji, Wu Pan, Wu Peng, Wu Gu, Wu Zhen, Wu Li, Wu Di, Wu Xie, and Wu Luo.

Of course, regardless of whether these people really existed in history.

But now, they must not exist.

So in the southwest Yunnan-Guizhou Plateau, and even in some places in Sichuan, although there are legends about them again.

However, they are actually no different from other virtual gods.

At most, they form spiritual aggregates, especially in Sichuan, where there is the existence of spiritual power and national destiny. Their spiritual aggregates are more pure, and they must all have spirituality with firm beliefs, but at the same time they are also the weakest.

Most of the spiritual power generated by the offerings was assimilated by the spiritual power.

However, in the Yunnan-Guizhou Plateau, some relatively powerful spiritual aggregates were produced.

Of course, the witch sacrifice is mainly to communicate with the heaven, not to refer to a specific god.

Therefore, the gods communicated by the witch sacrifice are not necessarily the ten witches, but many legendary ancient gods, as well as the heaven and earth themselves.

Including the twelve ancestor witches in later legends, Zhurong, Gonggong, Dijiang, Houtu, etc., even Pangu, and some gods in the Central Plains legends, are all within their sacrificial scope.

And these spiritual aggregates, after reaching a certain level, can indeed communicate with some witch sacrifices and witches, convey some vague ideas, and show some magic.

In addition to this most orthodox witch sacrifice, there are also the Gu masters who are popular in the Miaojiang area.

With the enhancement of the energy of heaven and earth, humans and animals are constantly getting stronger, and those insects that were inconspicuous in the past and seemed to be able to be crushed to death at will are also evolving rapidly.

In the past, the breeding of Gu was essentially just some special poisonous insects.

However, with the increase of energy in the world today, these specially cultivated poisonous insects have begun to truly possess some special abilities.

Especially the expectations and wishes of the people who raise the Gu, will constantly transmit spiritual power to these Gu worms.

As time goes by, the spirituality of these Gu worms will begin to increase continuously.

In addition, these spiritual powers are all gathered by the person who raises the Gu.

Therefore, the newly born Gu worms will be close to the person who raises the Gu, and even can achieve a certain degree of spiritual communication and move as the heart desires.

In this way, some Gu worms in legends and later novels began to be cultivated by Gu masters.

Even as time passed, the method of raising Gu began to spread faintly.

And the first to know and experiment with this method were naturally the leaders of various forces.

In this way, with witches as spiritual guides and Gu worms as combat power.

The ambitions and desires of the leaders of these forces also began to grow day by day.

Gradually, they were no longer satisfied with their own small piece of land, and began to try to expand their territory.

At the beginning, they naturally would not choose forces as powerful as them, but chose to annex smaller forces.

However, they have witches and wizards, Gu masters who control Gu worms, and other forces as well.

Therefore, after a fight, although they annexed those small forces, they also suffered heavy losses.

Finally, they began to choose to unite, and eventually gradually formed several large-scale united forces, fighting each other, but facing the outside together.

Needless to say, this outside is the official power of the Ming court.

As time passed, conflicts began to break out between the two sides.

Especially after the Salvation Army occupied Sichuan, the Ming court did not take it back for a long time. These chieftain tribes seemed to see the weakness of the Ming court and launched a complete rebellion.

Using Gu worms to poison and kill the officials, generals, etc. sent by the Ming court, they soon achieved a great victory.

Even Yunnan, which was guarded by the Mu Palace for generations, also had a large-scale rebellion.

The reputation of the chieftain Pu of Amizhou had already begun to rise during the previous rebellion of She Chongming, and gradually gathered a large number of people.

After acquiring the art of witchcraft, that is, the method of witchcraft and raising Gu, his strength began to improve further.

When the dynasty went north from the Great Wall, attacked Lin Danhan and Huang Taiji, occupied the Hetao Plain and Shanxi Xingdusi, Pu Mingsheng, whose strength had greatly increased, finally led the people to attack Kunming.

At that time, Mu Tianbo, the contemporary Duke of Qian in the Mu Palace, was only a baby of fourteen or fifteen years old.

He inherited the title of Duke of Qian in the first year of Chongzhen, but he was only ten years old.

The duties of the Mu Palace were all taken care of by the Governor of Yunnan, and all matters in the palace were decided by his mother, Mrs. Chen, and the housekeepers, the Ruan brothers.

It can be said that Mu Tianbo, the Duke of Qian, was born in the hands of women, and he was only fourteen or fifteen years old. How capable could he be?

Even with the promotion of the world, the energy of heaven and earth became rich, and many guards of the Mu Palace began to breed their own true qi.

However, facing the difficult-to-detect Gu insect poison, they often died miserably before fighting.

In just three or five days, Kunming was conquered by Pu Mingsheng, and Mu Tianbo, the Duke of Qian, was led by his mother and the generals, the Ruan brothers, to escape.

In fact, at this time in history, Pu Mingsheng was probably dead.

But now, because of the world's promotion and the emergence of heaven and earth energy, he is not only alive and well, but also attacked and conquered Kunming in advance.

After conquering Kunming, Pu Mingsheng, whose strength has increased again, will naturally not be willing to live in a small place.

Therefore, Pu Mingsheng, relying on his greatly increased strength and the fame of conquering Kunming and defeating the Mu Palace, began to recruit troops and expand his power, forming alliances with close forces and sending troops to encircle and suppress those who refused to obey.

When the Salvation Army occupied Datong Xuanfu, he also nominally ruled most of Yunnan and began to set his sights on Sichuan, the land of abundance.

The Ming court was so weak, so how strong could the Salvation Army be even if it defeated the Ming court?

At this time, Pu Mingsheng was very proud of himself because he mastered the art of witchcraft, broke through Kunming, expelled the people of the Mu Palace who ruled Yunnan, and nominally ruled most of Yunnan.

Even though the various magical legends about the Salvation Army were widely spread, he did not take it to heart.

How could they compare with the witchcraft they mastered even if they were stronger than the Ming Army?

There was another reason. The Yunnan-Guizhou Plateau was called "eight mountains, one water, and one field". Although it was a military stronghold, it was really inconvenient to travel.

Therefore, the exchanges between the Yunnan-Guizhou region and Sichuan were not as frequent as the exchanges between the Salvation Army and other regions.

Therefore, Pu Mingsheng only heard rumors about the Salvation Army.

In his opinion, even if the Salvation Army had some magical abilities, they were just like those of the Ming Army. They were just exaggerated intentionally or unintentionally during the process of dissemination.

Since the Ming Army could be easily defeated by them, the Salvation Army would only spend more effort and have more people die.

As long as Sichuan can be occupied, all this will be worth it.

Of course, although he is full of ambition, he is also a local hero after all, so he will not rely on himself to blindly attack the Sichuan People's Rescue Army.

Instead, he sent troops to contact Guizhou and some remaining powerful chieftain tribes in Yunnan, preparing to gather everyone's strength to capture Sichuan in one fell swoop.

Pu Mingsheng thought that if he could capture Sichuan, which is known as the Land of Abundance.

Perhaps, he can learn from the historical uncle Liu, establish his own "Shu Kingdom", and then spy on the Central Plains.

Moreover, he can also rely on his own strong power and strength to gradually subdue many other forces in this process.

As for those who are stubborn, they can only be sent to see the gods.

At that time, he can lead many chieftain tribes and rely on the powerful and mysterious witchcraft.

Even if he cannot occupy the Central Plains with his reputation, he can still maintain his country and dominate the three provinces of Yunnan, Guizhou and Sichuan by relying on witchcraft, which should be no problem, right?