What is the strength or status of Nuwa Niangniang in the "Fengshen Yanyi"? To figure this out, we first have to block the influence of some web novel settings. For example, what nuwa niangniang is meritorious and holy, nuwa niangniang is the leader of the demon clan, and so on. There is also the shielding of some elements of ancient mythology, because Xu Zhonglin's "Fengshen Yanyi" only uses some of the settings in ancient mythology, such as nuwa genesis, nuwa creation and other factors have not been reflected in the "fengshen yanyi". Only by removing these can we conclude the image of Nüwa in the "Fengshen Yanyi".
In the opening chapter of the "Fengshen Yanyi", there is a dialogue between the King of Shang and his courtiers, asking: What merit does Nuwa have, let me put down my posture and give her incense? The courtier replied: Nuwa is a goddess in ancient times (that is to say, in the Fengshen Interpretation setting, Nuwa is not a demon. When the gonggong angrily collided with the zhou mountain and the sky collapsed, Nuwa refined the five-colored stone to make up the heavens, so it was meritorious to the people (meritorious rather than benevolent, indicating that it should be the same clan. The people and the court sacrificed in return, and set up Nüwa as the right god to bless the country and the people (Nüwa was worshipped for this reason, indicating that in the act of conferring gods, Nüwa did not have the merit of creating man, nor did she have the merit of Genesis. ）
In addition, in the "Fengshen Yanyi", although there is a description of a saint, it is not strict, and it is described in the book: Yuan Shi Tianzun is a saint, western religion is a saint, and Huoyun Cave also has three saints. But in addition, Ji Chang is also known as a saint, and there are also sentences in the poems describing Nezha that have successive saints as the first, so the saints are estimated to be more adjectives than realms, according to Hongjun, the realm of Yuan Shi Tianzun and others should be the Mixed Yuan Da Luo Jinxian.
Then let's talk about it, what is the strength or status of Nuwa? If you look at the details of the book, you can only say that the status of Nuwa is definitely not as high as we think, let's look at the description of several plots.
One
Moreover, it is said that on the fifteenth day of the third month, she went to the Huoyun Palace to return to the Three Saints of Emperor Xuanyuan of Fuxiyan.
On the day of Nuwa's birthday, Nuwa was not at home waiting for someone else to come and wish her a birthday, but he went to the Huoyun Palace to find the three saints. On her birthday, she also had to find someone else's family to celebrate, which could probably prove that Nüwa's status was under the Three Saints (Three Emperors), after all, Nüwa was born of the Terran and then saved the Terran, and these three were the ancestors of the Terran race. So what is the status of the Three Emperors in the "Fengshen Yanyi"? Yang Jian had dealt with the Three Emperors twice, and it was his master Yuding Zhenren who asked him to seek medicine. The first time Yuding Zhenren and Yang Jian mentioned seeing the Three Holy Masters and quickly taking the Dan Medicine, and the two times Yang Jian went to the Huoyun Cave to call the boy a master brother, calling the Three Emperors the Old Master, probably judging that the status of the Three Emperors was above the general Golden Immortal, but it was not the level of the Mixed Yuan Great Luo Golden Immortal, otherwise it would not be yuding Zhenren who let Yang Jian ask for medicine, but personally ask for medicine. According to this deduction, the identity status of Nuwa is not at the level of the Mixed Yuan Great Luo Jinxian, and it is also above the ordinary Golden Immortals, in the words of the online novel, they should all be quasi-saints who behead three corpses, because they do not need to be robbed.
Second
When Niangniang was walking, she was blocked by this qi. Because he looked at the next look, if the King of Ru still had twenty-eight years of luck, he could not make a mistake, and temporarily returned to the palace, and his heart was not happy.
The King of Lu mentioned an obscene poem in the Nüwa Palace, and Nüwa was naturally very angry: This kind of unscrupulous emperor dared to blaspheme me, anyway, the six hundred years of qi in the Shang Dynasty had been exhausted, and if I took revenge on him, it would be difficult to understand the hatred in my heart. However, when he went to Chaoge to prepare to find trouble for the King of Qiu, he was blocked by a red cloud, and he pinched his finger, and the King of Qiu still had twenty-eight years of luck and could not retaliate now. Although Nuwa was very unhappy, she could only do so, using the demon banner to summon the three demons to harm sentient beings, and could not directly retaliate against the King of Qiu. Compared with Lao Tzu's ability to open up the heavens and the earth, and the spirit of the Tongtian Sect's main master to reopen a heaven and earth if he couldn't fight, Nuwa was much weaker. Because of the obstruction of luck, he could not retaliate against the King of Qi, and his heart was also very wronged.
Third
The king of Lu sits and enjoys peace, the people are happy; the wind and rain are smooth, the country is tai and the people are safe; the four Yi are arched, and the eight parties are served.
In the opening chapter of the "Fengshen Yanyi", it is described in this way that the ruling environment of the Shang Dynasty King, Wenchen has Taishi Wenzhong, the martial general has Wucheng Wang Huang Feihu, and the Wenchen military general is enough to settle the country. Empress Jiang, as well as other concubines, were very virtuous and virtuous. The wind and rain are smooth, the people of Guotai are safe, the people live and work in peace and contentment, the barbarians around them are all defeated generals, let's look at the second evidence, the Shang Dynasty has run out of gas for six hundred years. But this is obviously not the scene of a country that has run out of gas, it is obviously a country in the period of strength, there are no internal worries, no external troubles, and the king of Qiu is not a fainting emperor.
However, it is because the king of Lu mentioned an obscene poem, of course, this must be the wrong of the king of the king, probably because the king of the atheist. Because of this matter, Nuwa sent three demons to seduce the king, to be reasonable, these are three thousand-year-old goblins, no matter how high the status of the king, is just a mortal, can he not be deceived? So he became a tyrant, and the Shang Dynasty died because of it. This is derived from the King of Lu, but also from Nüwa, so Nüwa became a helper of the Heavenly Dao. Otherwise, even if Nuwa killed the King of Lu, it would be nothing more than a turmoil, there were civilian ministers and military generals, and the princes of the King of Lu, Yin Jiao and Yin Hong, were also very capable, and there was no basis for an uprising in the country, and the Shang Dynasty would not die at all. Therefore, it can be judged that Nuwa still has not transcended the Heavenly Dao.
Her strength was at least below hongjun, the three saints of Taoism, the second saint of the West, and the three saints of Huoyun Cave, and she could probably rank tenth.