Monday, September 24, 2007

Chap 1 Part 9

'What a corrupt ruler King Zhou is! He doesn’t think of improving himself so that he can rule his land. Instead, he is fearless of Heaven and has dared to even flirt with me through his poetry! How evil this is! Well, I suppose six hundred years have passed since Cheng Tang defeated Xia Jie to become King; the time his descendants were given has come up. I would not be showing my divinity if no reaction is given to this King’s poem.' So she summoned her pageboy, Twilight’s Clouds, and together they rode on blue clouds towards the City of Chaoge, where they saw the two Crown Princes, Prince Yin Hong and Prince Yin Jiao, visiting their father, King Zhou of the Shang. Later, Prince Yin Jiao would be known as the Ancient One on the List of Appointed Gods, and his brother Prince Yin Hong would become the God of Grains and Cereals; the both of them were notable Gods who were Generals when they were human.

During the Princes’ visit, two rays of red light bolted through the sky. The Goddess Nuwa was prevented from going ahead by the two rays of red light, and she peered down at the scene below. She noted that the King still had 28 years of good luck left to him, and that she was not allowed to tamper with this, so she returned, unhappily, to her Temple.

There, she summoned another page, Rosy Clouds, to go to the back of the Temple and bring her the Golden Calabash, which she then put in the Red Courtyard in the Temple. She took off the stopper on the Calabash, and pointed; a beam of white light as large as a pillar, as high as four or five zhang,shot out of the Calabash.

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