Chapter 69: The Legend of the Black Rock (3)

Fate in this world is a very strange thing. It can explain any coincidence, but isn’t everything in the world a coincidence? Just like a grain of wheat, it is made into flour, wrapped into a bun, and finally eaten by you. It also contains countless coincidences.

Just like me, it seems that I have fallen into a purple mystery. From birth to meeting my master, everything has been moving in this direction. Is that my destiny?

I thought about this question and found that I only had one thought in the face of this question. Since it is moving in this direction, then don’t stop, and I must be given a result, otherwise it would prove that my life is a useless effort?

Ling Ruxue’s story continues.

Faced with such a terrible insect, the four Bai Miao villages panicked. The choice before them was, on the surface, only one: to flee! They moved the entire village to the deeper parts of the mountains and forests, to places where people rarely went.

But would that be useful? Not to mention that they had spent a lot of sweat and toil on this land before they could take root. Just saying that places with few people are generally places with harsh environments, can they adapt? Maybe a large number of their people will die during the migration process, or maybe all their people will die during the adaptation process.

Although the Miao people are known as experts in playing with insects, there are so many insects in the world that even modern science cannot explore them all, let alone them at that time. The poor and rugged places are also home to particularly poisonous insects, which is the biggest problem with the migration.

It seemed that there was no way out, and they were waiting for their fate as slaves. Several great shamans were particularly sad, and at this time, a girl who was second only to the great shaman stood up. This was a beautiful and intelligent woman, who was also the ancestor of Ling Ruyue. This woman had traveled outside, so her thinking was also particularly open-minded. She proposed an idea.

The Hmu people have caused trouble, but after all, they are on the land of the Ming Dynasty. What about cooperating with the Han people?

Since ancient times, the Miao people have been xenophobic, especially towards the Han people, a mysterious, resilient and powerful people. Because their people are always so numerous and always expanding, no matter what disadvantages they are in, they can always rise again. They are like the most adaptable bugs, which are terrifying.

These are not the most terrifying things. The most terrifying thing is that the Han people have a strange characteristic: no matter what ethnic group they meet, they will inevitably accept their culture, their ideas, and even their way of life, and then be assimilated.

The Miao people are a people who value their own culture and bloodline, and they don’t even want others to change their way of life. So this is especially something that scares them, but do they still have a choice?

The rise of the Black Rock Miao Village is like a wake-up call, already ringing in their ears, and they can’t afford to hesitate.

In the end, the great shamans compromised, including the most stubborn of them all. They sent emissaries, waiting anxiously for them to return before the arrival of the Miao at Heiyan, and also waiting for the Han emperor to intervene in the matter.

The days of waiting were excruciating, but fortunately the envoys knew how serious the situation was and worked quickly. They returned with news after only a month, saying that the Han emperor had promised to deal with the matter.

In fact, the envoys did not enter the Forbidden City to see the emperor. They only met with a high-ranking official, who felt that the situation was serious. When the Miao people saw the emperor leisurely, he was afraid that it was already too late. That night, he wrote an urgent memorial and submitted it in a special way overnight.

After a few days, the emperor’s decree was passed down, to the effect that this matter should be handled urgently, and only a few of the Miao people were to be left to lead the way, while the rest were to return first to explain the matter.

Since ancient times, there have been many strange people around the emperor. Not everything has to be solved by the army. Of course, such strange things have to be solved by strange people. Later, the four people from the Miao village waited for a team of 100 elite warriors, plus 10 high-level Taoist priests to lead the team.

Next, there was a campaign against the Black Rock Miao village. That battle was not the focus of Ling Ruxue’s explanation to me. The point is that in the end, the cooperation between the four Bai Miao villages and the Han people achieved victory, and the Black Rock Miao village was defeated.

Ling Ruoxue told me that the Taoist priests at that time were very capable, and were incomparable to the Taoist priests of today. But the most detestable thing about Taoist priests is that they are too self-centered and regard their own abilities as too important. If it weren’t for this, why would the Taoist tradition have been broken so many times that the Black Rock Miao Village has begun to show signs of ambition again?

This statement made me smile wryly. In fact, Taoism has never been conceited. What skills can be made public? The methods of fitness, medical experience, and divination are just things that require time to accumulate results, and they also require some talent and insight.

As for the things that cannot be made public, there are also their own reasons. First of all, the resources required for cultivation are enormous. If everyone cultivates, it is imaginable how miserable the picture would be. How many people would be driven crazy by the lack of resources? Furthermore, the conditions for learning the techniques are even more demanding. The requirements for spiritual awareness are far stronger than those of ordinary people, and talent is essential.

With such conditions, how difficult is it to pass on the knowledge?

In ancient times, the environment had not yet been destroyed, resources were still abundant, and there were certainly many great Taoist priests. Nowadays, however… You must know that the Taoist priest’s body of skills is related to his power, and power is directly related to resources!

But what does all this have to do with outsiders? I didn’t explain anything, I just listened to Ling Ruxue continue to tell the story.

This victory was actually hard-won. The elite hundred-man squad had lost nearly half of its members, and the four Bai Miao villages had lost nearly half of their elite warriors. Four of the ten Taoist priests had died, and even the great witch and the witch girl had both died.

But even this tragic victory could not completely destroy the Black Rock Miao Village, because the Black Rock Miao Village had an old immortal witch with incredible powers. He naturally also had the ability to prophesy, and he had long since found a clear prophecy from the complicated and unclear future turning points. He believed that the Black Rock Miao Village would definitely have a great disaster, so he had long since prepared a way out.

That is, he sent some of his people to hide in the Han Chinese city, and these people all carried the eggs of the magical worms. The Great Shaman had secretly developed a special way to control them. In short, once the Black Rock Miao Village was destroyed, these eggs would hatch and cause havoc in the world.

This is an unbreakable situation. Even if the great witch lied, no one would dare to gamble with so many people, whose fate is linked to that of the country. So the Black Rock Miao Village survived.

Among the Taoist priests with great power, there was one who was also full of wisdom. He threatened the great shaman, not to underestimate Taoism. If the Black Rock Miao Village dared to continue to cause such havoc, once the heavens did not tolerate it and gave a hint, the Taoist priests would definitely have someone with great power who would seize this hint and find all the descendants of the Miao people. He told the great shaman, “Don’t you believe in the heavens!”

The great shaman naturally believed in the Tao, because he himself also had the ability to prophesy.

After negotiations between the two sides, and with the permission of the Han emperor, a delicate balance was reached, which was to allow the existence of the Black Rock Miao village, but the number of people in the village could never exceed 3,000. Villages within a radius of several dozen miles were also allowed to provide for the Black Rock Miao village, but they would never be replenished with villagers.

The general trend is always ruthless. For the sake of the majority, a small number of people are often sacrificed. Moreover, there are only a dozen villages within a radius of tens of miles. The Black Rock Miao Village did not compromise on this issue at all, and this was not enough for the general trend, so the agreement was reached.

Afterwards, the Taoist priest, who had great influence, returned to the Bai Miao village and said to the village’s great witch and the witch doctoress with great concern that the Heiyan Miao village was always a cancer in the world’s general trend, and once it spread, there would be endless trouble.

He wants the four villages to maintain close cooperation with the Han people, no, to be more precise, not the Han people, but with the forces of the world trend, whoever they are!

In addition, he wants the four villages to closely monitor everything in the Black Rock Miao village and maintain close contact with them, even through marriage.

Hearing this, I felt uncomfortable. Is Ruoxue just a pawn in this marriage?