The Destruction of a Life of Six Desires 1

Outline

This book mainly sums up the real lives and emotional desires of today's dazzling world, describing the reality of how six kinds of desire can destroy a life. It truthfully reflects the realities of modern society: a decadent record of drunken stupors, escapist dreams, and a life of wine and women.

Because human desire is limitless, demons and monsters run rampant across the realms of Heaven, Earth, and Humanity, disrupting the court and misleading the ruler. The king is foolish and immoral, heeds slander, indulges in wine and women, covets beautiful women, and has no principles. He writes lewd poems to tease the goddess Nüwa, enraging this righteous deity of the mortal world. She unleashes disaster upon Chaoge, leaving the people destitute and causing ordinary folk to suffer. Nüwa then issues a decree, sending a thousand-year-old fox and two other demons to Chaoge to beguile King Zhou. On top of that, his lust for beauty leads him to seize Daji, a minister's daughter, by force. On the road to Chaoge, in the dead of night, the thousand-year-old fox demon gets its chance. King Zhou's greed for wine and women and his infatuation with beauty extinguish his true nature and his original kindness. He wastes the people's labor and wealth wherever he goes, and his brutal punishments and instruments of torture are horrifying. He drives loyal ministers and generals into retirement to protect themselves, frames them, kills his royal uncle Bigan, eliminates the Crown Prince, gouges out the eyes of the empress who has been his wife since their youth, harasses his ministers' wives and tries to take them for himself, and kills Huang Fei. These are ten great crimes, all carried out with merciless cruelty under the principle that when a ruler orders a minister to die, the minister must die.