Yellow King battles Bad God Beast

Before story time, the south had a person named Bad God Beast; a descendant of Fire King; born with a copper head, an iron forehead, a human body with bull feet, an immeasurable strength.  Not only was his shape out of the ordinary and his actions uniquely weird: took sand and rock as food; but he also had the ability to create sharp arrows and spear.  Not only was he born with immense god power, he could also chase away ghost spirits and had all sorts of bad people as his underlings; and so, he conquered the Shoot* citizens of the south and became their leader which ignited his wild heart's desire to become the king of central.

At the time the king of central was the Yellow King.  Bad God Beast estimated that the Yellow King's ability was not weak but, nevertheless, he believed he had the ability to defeat the Yellow King.  he thought of detailed plan to take the Yellow King's treasured seat.

The first step, Bad God Beast wanted to first take his ancestor Fire King's treasured seat, take over his territory to increase his power for use in invading the Yellow King.

Bad God Beast led the courageous and great battlers of Shoot and ghosts and surprised the Fire King with a sudden attack.  Although the Fire King had a godly network and had a lot of people supporting him; however, he was not prepared and had a kind and loving nature; he did not want to bring disaster to hundreds of names, destroy livelihoods and cause deaths; and so, all he could do was escape from the south to Water Deer at the north.  Bad God Beast took over the entire South, began calling himself the Fire King and started mass productions of weapons in preparation for step two of his plan.

Not long, Bad God Beast's crowd savagely, aggressively made quite a killing at Water Deer; the Fire King taking shelter at Water Deer saw and realized he could no longer avoid and so defended with all he had; however, he could not withstand Bad God Beasts attack tactics, the continuous battles spread across the entire North, reluctantly, he had to send people to ask for help from the Yellow King.

The Yellow King, who led a life of peaceful days, was suddenly informed of Bad God Beast and army's attack at the North, their invasions to his territories and Fire King's urgent call for help; he was in shock.  He had great virtue and integrity and did not want to meet Bad God Beast and army in combat and so he sent people to give blessings and forgiveness to Bad God Beast in the hope that Bad God Beast would felt moved and be resolved to transform his weapons and shields to a white flag.  Who would have thought that Bad God Beast would be so rude to demand Yellow King to give up his throne and threatened to not stop attacking until his demands were met.  The two sides could only agree to battle.

The Yellow King led his crowd to be prepared for the enemies.  He had, under him, ghost spirits from all four directions; on top of that he also had bear, cheetah, tiger and other peculiar beasts.  The two teams of people and horses met, the battle was quite tragic and horrific.

As blood was spilling everywhere, Bad God Beast suddenly started summoning his demonic power which caused a heavy mist to descend.  It was foggy across the four wilderness, cannot tell North, South, East, West, Yellow King's underlings were slaughtered into flying blood muscle.

Yellow King saw the misty maze, a battle against his favour, wanted to breakthrough but cannot tell left from right, with an aggravated heart.  At this time by Yellow King's side, Wind Queen, suddenly thought of an idea.  He thought of the handle of the big dipper which always points to the north.  If they could create something that always only point in one direction then the three other directions can also be determined and they will no longer have to fear big mist.  He immediately created the Compassriat.  In front of the Compassriat was a little tin person with a pointing arm, no matter how the Compassriat is pushed, the arm always point to South.  Yellow King using the Compassrait finally broke through the big mist.

Bad God Beast saw Yellow King had a Compassriat, knew the mist no longer worked.  He sent his underling's monsters, spirits and other odd beings to battle, one type is QiMei, human face with beast body, had four legs; one type SenFai is also human face with beast body but had only one hand and one leg; and one last type is MonLeung, black body with a hint of blushing surfacing red, had a doll-like appearance and would make weird sounds which distracted and confused the Yellow King's army.  Yellow King knew the battle cannot be won without defeating these things and commanded people to make blowing machines with bulls and goats' horns to blow sounds of dragon crying commands.  As soon as the things heard such sounds they immediately left.

The Yellow King was delighted at the sight of them leaving and recruited a god dragon, named
Responsive Dragon.  Responsive Dragon arrived and immediately flew to the sky, planned to use clouds and rain on Bad God Beast.  Bad God Beast send out Wind Uncle and Rain Master, the two danced up big gust and heavy rain.  Responsive Dragon could not show true abilities and clumsily escaped.

The Yellow King lost yet another battle, felt unhappy.  In order to lift everyone's spirit, he sent people to East Ocean Flowing Wave Mountain to capture a being that was like a cow with no horn, called something, skinned its skin and made a drum.  He also sent people to Thunder Waterway to capture a dragon body human head thunder beast, after killing the biggest bone was extracted to make sticks (for the drum).

Yellow King beat on the drum nine times, the sound echoed and shook everywhere, at this moment everybody rushed ahead to kill the enemy, their attacks sent Bad God Beast's crowd back, uncountable death and wound.

Bad God Beast finally got to know the power of the Yellow King, only less than half of his original crowd remained, started to feel frightened.  He discussed with his crowd, someone suggested to seek help from a group from the West.

The group from the North lived in some capital in an unfound/undiscovered/abandoned land, located in Sky Mountain, everyone was tall and big, and each had four yellow snakes in total, two in their ears and two in their hands.  Bad God Beast sent people to these people's place of domicile, fan and wave at them to come down the mountain to assist. A majority of this group of people were peaceful and friendly and so only a few came to help Bad God Beast.

Bad God Beast obtained a little group of this people to assist in battle, spirits were up again.  Yellow King knew Bad God Beast received help and felt irritated, did not know what to do temporarily.  The battle with Bad God Beast was continuous and lasted for days, both sides were even, it was hard to tell who was winning and who was losing.

One day, Yellow King was thinking very hard in his base camp of a way to defeat his enemy, suddenly, an underling came to report, a self-proclaimed goddess with an appearance of a human head and bird body came to pass down some useful battle "tactics" to defeat Bad God Beast.  She even came with a legendary sword, shiny shiny, capable of slicing jade like mud.

Yellow King learned the "tactics" and obtained this very sharp weapon, was extremely happy and so practiced the tactics in preparation to wipe out Bad God Beast.

Not long after, both sides began their battle to death, Bad God Beast's crowd was still extremely strong, but was trapped inside of the self-proclaimed godddess' tactics, their pushing and shoving was useless. In the end, Bad God Beast was the only one captured alive.

Because Bad God Beast was horrible, Yellow King killed him.  According to talks Bad God Beast was killed at someplace in the West, at that place he was dissected in two, that's why that place is called Dissection.  Near that place is a salty pool, the water inside the pool is red, red with Bad God Beast's blood.  His head and body was eventually moved to two places in the East, two big graves were dug.  In ancient time, people from one of these two places would visit the grave every October.  At around this time, a red mist will ascend from the grave to the sky.  According to talks, Bad God Beast was still angry!

*shoot could be sprout.

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Notes: Did not feel like editing.  I usually skip or skim battle scenes when I am reading therefore I lack battle scene vocabulary.

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