Chapter 68: The Legend of Heiyan (2)

During the Ming Dynasty, when the Miao people who had mastered the essence of the witchcraft and sorcery arts retreated into seclusion, the essence of the Han people, Taoism, experienced great development. In those days, Taoist geniuses emerged, as if recreating the glory of Taoism in the ancient times, before Buddhism was introduced to China.

It was a very special era, and there was a secret legend that the inheritance was set in that era. However, there is a time for everything, and after that dynasty, the inheritance will close and Taoism will also enter a period of decline.

This is just a Taoist secret, which originally had nothing to do with the Miao people, but in that magical dynasty, there was a Miao village that seemed to be related to this so-called inheritance. That Miao village was the Heiyan Miao village.

When I heard this, I felt very strange. It was as if I had caught a glimpse of something, but it wasn’t very clear. I interrupted Ling Ruxue and asked her, “How did you, a little girl, know about these secrets from so long ago?”

Ling Ruxue replied, “I only learned about it a few years ago. These are secrets between your master, Grandpa Huijue, and my great-aunt. Since my great-aunt was leaving, she told me about the Black Rock Miao Village when she told me about it.”

I nodded. Since I couldn’t figure it out, I didn’t bother to think about it. After all, in my current situation, I was too busy to think about it. It was useless to figure out too many secrets.

Ling Ruxue nodded and continued to tell me.

Ling Ruxue did not know what the relationship between the Black Rock Miao Village and the heritage was, nor did she know what the heritage was and what kind of impact it had. She only vaguely told me a concept, that is, everything has two sides. What the heritage brings is not necessarily good, but also disasters. It’s just that there are some people who have been quietly making up for those disasters.

This is also what Grandma Ling Qing told Ling Ruoxue.

No one knows how long the inheritance ended, but when the Manchus broke through the Han people’s stronghold and entered the Central Plains, the inheritance must have ended.

During the Ming Dynasty, there were a total of 11 Miao villages that chose to live in seclusion, of which 7 were Bai Miao villages and 4 were Hei Miao villages. Heiyan Miao Village was only the weakest of the Hei Miao villages, and it was the weakest in terms of both witchcraft and sorcery.

No one expected it to rise strongly, even though that rise was only in these Miao villages.

But even so, it was already a disaster! Unlike the Bai Miao, the Hei Miao have always been a branch of the Miao people who are ambitious, warlike, and worship bloodlines. They chose to live in seclusion only because of the situation, and once they had a foothold, they would definitely make a comeback.

The Heiyan Miao village is a typical Heiyan Miao village. Their rise can certainly be described as a disaster. They first annexed some ordinary villages, increasing the population of their own village, and then found three other Heiyan Miao villages, meaning that they wanted to unify the Heiyan Miao before making any plans.

Faced with the demands of the once weak and small Heiyan Miao Village, the other three Miao villages of course sneered at them and rejected them with arrogance. However, disaster struck when these three villages were rejected. The leaders of these three villages, without knowing the situation, were all infected with a very inexplicable poison, and began to age rapidly for no reason.

What is even more terrifying is that people from the Black Rock Miao Village have come, and they are all monsters over 100 years old. You have to know that whether it is witchcraft or the art of poisoning, it is something that is accumulated over time. The lifespan of a person is ultimately limited. When your witchcraft and poisoning skills have developed to a very high level, you are not far from the yellow earth.

The appearance of these old monsters undoubtedly caused panic in the other three Black Miao villages, and the senior members of their villages died off due to rapid aging, and the remaining ones were too weak to move. The result was predictable.

The three Black Miao villages were annexed, and the rise of the Black Rock Miao village was initially complete. They reached out to the White Miao village, but due to the long-standing feud between the Black Miao and White Miao, the White Miao did not have such good luck.

After their village was destroyed, they could only go to the Black Rock Miao village to become slaves, unlike the Black Miao people, who could become ordinary villagers. It is said that the fate of these slaves was very tragic, but no one knows exactly what happened.

It took the Black Rock Miao Village seven years to complete this task. By then, the secluded villages had also heard the news, including the four remaining Bai Miao villages.

They never imagined that the agreement they had reached before they went into seclusion would now become a necessary condition for their accelerated demise. The general content of the agreement was that in order to avoid the complete annihilation of the Miao people, the eleven seclusion villages should put aside their hatred, know each other’s seclusion locations, and accept each other if any of the villages had a sudden disaster.

Because no matter what their internal hatred is, the blood of the ethnic heritage should not be cut off. They are all descendants of the legendary Chiyou.

The world is full of surprises. Who could have predicted that this agreement to help each other would turn into a source of harm? The remaining four villages panicked. It didn’t matter that they themselves had become slaves, but would their descendants also become slaves for generations to come?

So the four villages’ witch doctors got together and sent a few brave warriors to find out what was going on. They decided to quickly get some clues before making a decision.

In the end, only one warrior escaped and brought back a terrifying news, that is, the Black Rock Miao village does have a mysterious insect that can make people age rapidly. The smart warrior also came to a conclusion based on various clues, that is, the Black Rock Miao village has a group of old monsters, and their longevity is somehow related to the aging of others.

He also told everyone that the captured Bai Miao people were miserable, kept in captivity, forced to give birth to children, and work to support the Black Rock Miao village, and that the slaves were all showing signs of aging.

The warrior brought the news to everyone, but he himself had already begun to age. A young man in his twenties looked like a middle-aged man in his forties or fifties.

The warrior asked the Boqe shamans to kill him and burn his body with fire. He said that he knew he must have carried this evil parasite in his body, and that he could not bring disaster to the village, so he asked the Boqe shamans to do this to him, otherwise he would choose to return to the Black Rock Miao village and end his life there.

This was a brave warrior worthy of respect. All those who knew him saw him off with tears in their eyes. They chose to poison him, unwilling to see him leave this world with any strange scars. Even a little bit would have been enough to show their respect for the warrior.

As the warrior died, a terrible thing happened. A worm crawled out of his body. The worm was a strange, gorgeous purple color, and looked like a silkworm. But as soon as it came out, it fell into a state of hibernation, and then it transformed into a beautiful butterfly, or rather, something between a butterfly and a moth.

The great shamans left the worm behind, but were surprised to discover that no matter what method of control they used, including the most advanced method of controlling insects with the mind, they could not control the worm, and it seemed to be evolving. This conclusion was reached by a great shaman with an incredibly rich knowledge.

So how do you get rid of this bug? The shamans tried everything they could think of, and they found that none of the insects they had at their disposal were effective against this bug, nor was witchcraft. They even made a very frightening discovery, which was that this bug had an amazing vitality and was even immune to fire.

As a result, one of the great shamans smashed the bug in a fit of rage, but the next day, the shamans were surprised to discover that the bug was moving again, but it was extremely weak.

It even laid an egg. What did this mean?

The shamans were all panicked. The last shaman crushed the head of the bug. After a few days of observation, they discovered that the bug was completely dead. Before it died, its wings and head had already been covered with a thin layer of shell. It was evolving.

When Ling Ruxue got to this point, she summed it up by saying that the bug was the devil’s bug, terrifying and almost impossible to defeat with the help of the Hmong’s unpredictable and unstoppable witchcraft.

The purple, demon worm reminds me of a plant I found at the bottom of a river in that abandoned village鈥攁 purple plant that I also call the demon flower.