Explaining the teachings has always paid attention to the preference for lack rather than indiscriminate, especially the personal disciples of the Yuan Shi Tianzun, all of whom are excellent talents. But there are exceptions to everything, and the well-known Jiang Ziya and Shen Gongbao don't seem to meet the standards of Yuan Shi Tianzun's apprenticeship, so it is obvious that Yuan Shi Tianzun has an obvious purpose in accepting the two as apprentices.
In fact, if you simply compare the two of them, Shen Gongbao is undoubtedly better, but Yuan Shi Tianzun chose Jiang Ziya as the person who seals the gods on behalf of the sky, which makes Shen Gongbao extremely dissatisfied. Yuan Shi Tianzun is good at calculation, and every step he takes has his reason, this seemingly inappropriate employment is actually his cleverness, but it is a pity that Shen Gongbao did not see through the key. Of course, even if he sees through everything, I'm afraid it will be difficult to change anything, after all, the sage's calculations are not something that a little Shen Gongbao can see.
The cause of the gods and the attitude of the immortals
First of all, we need to explain why there is a god canonization, and this point is clearly explained in the book.
First of all, the twelve disciples of the Jade Void Palace's Sect Yuan Shi Tianzun are about to kill the ring, so naturally they need to break the robbery, and nothing is faster than starting the Great War of the Three Realms.
Secondly, Haotian God ordered the twelve immortal heads to be ministers. To put it simply, Heavenly Court is short of people and needs fresh blood to replenish it. As a result, there are the three major disciples of Hongjun Dao, Taishang Laojun, Yuan Shi Tianzun, and Tongtian Sect Master, and the "Three Sects Discuss the God List". The battle of the gods was launched through the defeat of the martial kings in the world and the change of dynasties.
On the surface, everything has been discussed and put on the surface, as long as the task is completed according to the smooth process, so several sect leaders will return to the dojo after agreeing. Lao Tzu has always been quiet and inactive, so he went back to the Bajing Palace to close the door, saying that even if it is ordinary, he basically does not leave the palace very much, and he is not interested in mundane things, and almost all of the teachings are handed over to the second junior brother Yuan Shi Tianzun to take care of (here it needs to be explained that Lao Tzu and Yuan Shi are both people in the teachings, which has been mentioned more than once in the original work.) The so-called human religion leader,In fact, it is the setting of modern online texts.,There is no so-called human religion in the original work.,The three religions of the three religions jointly discuss the three religions of the god list refer to the exposition of the religion, the interception of the religion and the humanitarianism). The Tongtian Sect Master warned his disciples not to go out of the mountain and be contaminated with red dust, otherwise they would have names and surnames on the list of gods, and they would die as gods and people.
Many readers don't understand this.,It seems that the god should be a good thing.,Why it's said like a disaster.,And judging from the attitude of the people in the cave gate in the book who are hesitant to seal the god.,No matter how you look at it, this god doesn't seem to be a popular thing.。 This is actually determined by status, for ordinary people, becoming a god is naturally excellent, but the qi refiners are different, what they seek in their cultivation is nothing more than a glimmer of opportunity that is difficult to touch, in the words commonly used in modern online texts, what the qi refiners seek is the opportunity to become holy, even if it is ethereal, it is their lifelong pursuit, and compared to the heavenly court for the gods, it is naturally not a good destination.
Of course, over time, many people may no longer be extravagant, after all, that glimmer of opportunity is not so easy to obtain. However, no matter how bad it is, it is better to be idle than to be driven by heaven and earth than to be driven by heaven, so for the vast majority of qi refiners, becoming a god is not only not a glory, but a kind of bondage, which is no different from demotion for them.
The calculation of the Yuan Shi Tianzun
In fact, I have always felt that the list of gods is not an accurate list, although the book openly and secretly says that the three hundred and sixty-five righteous gods seem to have decided on the candidates, but there are still some doubts in this, such as the Tongtian Sect Master warned the sect not to go down the mountain. If the list has already been finalized, then why should he do more? If it is finalized, it will be a certainty, and there will always be one reason or another to force him to leave the mountain, and Tongtian's words are actually the same as not saying it, and even if he really does not go out of the mountain, he will also die for one reason or another, because this is irreversible.
In addition, from the chapter of the Jiuqu Yellow River Array, the dialogue between the Burning Lamp Daoist and Yunxiao Niangniang, we can know that when the three sects discussed the god list, in addition to the three major sect masters, there were also top disciples in the two sects, including Yunxiao, if his name is directly written on the list, this is too unreasonable, so I have always felt that the god list should only delineate a general range, or about the proportion of the three sects, so that many questions can be explained, and at the same time, it also leaves room for Yuan Shi Tianzun to plan.
As we said just now, Lao Tzu is quiet and inactive, and Tongtian is frank and open, so they will not and disdain to do anything to the people on the list, but Yuan Shi Tianzun may not. As far as he is concerned, the future of the twelve disciples must not be sloppy, let alone disobey the Haotian God, and they must send enough subordinates to them, and retain the high-level combat power of the exposition as much as possible. So how can you do these things that you want to do but can't do on weekdays by the gods? In Yuan Shi Tianzun, everything is not a problem.
The doctrine of interception is completely different from the exposition of teaching, and it pays attention to "teaching without class", so it has attracted many scattered immortals who have already achieved something, such as Zhao Gongming and Sanxiao Niangniang, which is also why Wen Zhong, the apprentice of Our Lady of Jinling, and Yang Jian, the apprentice of Yuding Zhenren, intersect with their peers - shoulder to shoulder as brothers.
For Yuanqi Tianzun, his "rather lack than excess" must be right, then the heyday of the sect is a naked slap in the face to himself. Therefore, taking advantage of the gods to cause the greatest damage to the sect, so as to highlight that the orthodox identity of Hongjun is the religion of the gods, it has become another purpose of the war of the gods.
So if you want to accomplish this goal, in addition to asking for foreign aid from the Western Sect, you also need to make clever use of the god list, so the selection of the person who is the god on behalf of the sky has become the top priority, and there are Jiang Ziya and Shen Gongbao, the two abrupt disciples under the Yuan Shi seat.
Jiang Ziya was close to middle age before worshipping under the gate of Kunlun Mountain, and he had practiced for forty or fifty years, and during this time, Yuan Shi Tianzun had almost never taught Jiang Shang any decent skills, which made Jiang Ziya unable to become a martial artist, and even survival became a problem when he first came down the mountain. From this point of view, Shen Gongbao's dissatisfaction with Jiang Ziya is completely understandable, coupled with his improper mental skills, so it is almost predictable to "surrender to the enemy" in anger.
Yuanqi Tianzun is scheming, he will not fail to think of this step, and even this is his intention, after all, relying on Jiang Ziya alone, it is not easy to get together three hundred and sixty-five righteous gods, then there is an enemy to make it difficult with Jiang Ziya, and this person is Shen Gongbao.
"Make the best use of talents" for Jiang Ziya and Shen Gongbao
Jiang Ziya and Shen Gongbao did not meet the purpose of recruiting people, but Yuan Shi still chose them for the sake of the great plan of the gods. But what is their role, and why do they need to oppose each other?
Let's talk about Jiang Ziya first, Jiang Taigong in film and television dramas is really omnipotent, but friends who have actually read the original book know that Jiang Ziya in the book is not only quite good at divination, but can restrain the monsters at the level of pipa spirits, he is a waste of firewood, Taoism, cultivation, and martial arts are not worth mentioning, and his strategy as a commander comes and goes, and the most important thing is that he is not very capable, but his temper is not small, and he is stubborn and self-serving. ran into a wall several times, Yang Jian reminded him, Jiang Ziya not only didn't listen to the advice, but also spoke angrily, and it turned out that Yang Jian was right, such as the yin and yang mirror of red sperm and the Fantianyin of Guangchengzi. And highly similar things Jiang Ziya has the same attitude every time, which can be regarded as unprecedented and unprecedented.
So Yuan Shi Tianzun tried his best to temporarily accept apprentices, why did he choose such a hundred people? This is because the people who are the gods of the heavens need to help the martial king to lead the army to defeat Yin Shang. If the ability is too strong, even if there is no last resort, and the best way to deal with any problem can be found, then smoothly push all the way to Chaoge, I am afraid that a few people will not die by the end of the war, so how can we gather three hundred and sixty-five righteous gods for Haotian God?
As for Shen Gongbao, his role is similar to Jiang Ziya's and opposite. Although Shen Gongbao is Jiang Ziya's junior brother, his cultivation is obviously higher (guessing that he should be apprenticed to the artist), and it is precisely because of his stronger ability that he is extremely dissatisfied with Yuan Shi Tianzun's choice of Jiang Ziya to replace the heavenly gods. In his opinion, he was undoubtedly more qualified, so he first went to fool around after Jiang Ziya's order to Kunlun, and relied on a few tricks to fool Jiang Ziya, and almost deceived the god list.
Just when Jiang Ziya was confused and wanted to hand over the Fengshen List, the Antarctic Immortal Weng arrived in time and punished Shen Gongbao, although he finally spared his life, so that Shen Gongbao held a grudge, and since then he has embarked on the road of confrontation with Jiang Ziya, and even betrayed the master in actual behavior.
Although Shen Gongbao is wiser than Jiang Ziya, he is still a little clever in the final analysis, and his position limits his vision and pattern. In his opinion, it is infinite glory to be a god, and it is unfair for a teacher to choose a waste wood. But he didn't think that if it was really supreme glory, how could so many immortals with advanced cultivation in the Jade Void Palace not blush, if it was a meritocracy, even if it wasn't Jiang Ziya's turn, would it be your turn to be Shen Gongbao?
I have to say that Yuan Shi Tianzun's control of human nature is perfect, and he successfully provoked the confrontation between the two apprentices without doing almost anything. So what is the specific role of Shen Gongbao? First of all, he didn't dare to offend the Yuan Shi Tianzun and the senior brothers of the Yuxu Palace head-on, but he was at odds with Jiang Ziya, so he went around every day, wandering around, and when he saw a suitable one with a low IQ, he would use the Dafa to sow discord, so that more people would participate in the battle of the gods, and there were many people who were related to these people, so he moved the whole body, which greatly increased the rate of the immortals on the list.
At the same time, after the Tongtian Sect Master agreed with the two senior brothers about the matter of sealing the gods, he once warned the disciples not to go down the mountain easily, usually speaking, if there are no special circumstances, the sect members will naturally not risk their lives to disobey the master's orders, which requires someone to tease and tease. For example, after Zhao Gongming was killed by Lu Zhuan's nail-headed Seven Arrows Book, Shen Gongbao rushed to Sanxian Island non-stop to deliver a letter for Sanxiao Niangniang, which eventually led to Sanxiao's death and canonization of God.
There is a detail in this, which can better show that Yuan Shi Tianzun deliberately connived at Shen Gongbao. When Shen Gongbao was captured for the first time, Yuan Shi did not punish him severely, but just reprimanded him in a serious manner, and then let him go, which made Shen Gongbao, who thought he had a plan, secretly rejoiced, and felt that the teacher was soft-hearted and his acting skills were exquisite, but he didn't know that this was just Yuan Shi Tianzun's intention, from beginning to end, he was just a poor chess piece.
The so-called "blessings and misfortunes lurk, misfortunes and blessings rely on", in fact, for Jiang Ziya and Shen Gongbao, although they were used, they also got their own best ending. Although Shen Gongbao may not be willing to become a god, but according to the deep fortune of the person who becomes an immortal, the second becomes a god, and he becomes a god again, and he can enjoy the wealth of the world again, his final ending is one level higher than Jiang Ziya, and it can be regarded as moving back to a city for the long-term grievances.