There are not only positive figures in the list of gods, but also many villains who hinder the deification of Jiang Ziya. For example, Shen, who also practiced under the Jade Palace, can be said to be the ghost of Shen all the way. No matter what Jiang Ziya does, he always makes trouble. This is the task of sabotaging Jiang Ziya.
Although he was Jiang Ziya's younger brother, Shen was refined by a leopard, which lasted at least one thousand years. He only worshipped under the Buddha in the early Yuan Dynasty, so he probably relied on his own skills. In addition, Jiang Ziya was dull by nature, and Shen always refused to accept his brother. Therefore, when the Buddha appointed Jiang Ziya to perform the mission of sealing the gods in the early Yuan Dynasty, Shen was unconvinced.
Since then, after a mission in Jiang Ziya, he also sneaked into the world, even ignoring Zhou Wang's fatuity, and helped Zhou Wang deal with Jiang Ziya, leaving Jiang Ziya in danger every time and doing all the bad things. Finally, it was used by the Buddha to fill the eye of the North Sea.
On the other hand, however, the success of The Condor Heroes is also inseparable from Shen to a great extent. If it weren't for Shen's help, Jiang Ziya wouldn't have found the clue faster. So from this point of view, Shen's contribution to the society is enormous.
Anecdotes of characters
In the past, when listening to the old people talking about deification, they all said that Shen was a leopard, but at that time, they just laughed it off and thought it was just a folk prejudice like saying that the sea was a toad essence. However, when rereading the passage that Jiang Ziya got the Kunlun Mountain on the deified list, I found that this statement was not groundless. I watched a conversation between Shen and Jiang Ziya when they first appeared.
Shen said angrily, "Jiang Ziya is counting on you to protect Zhou. How capable are you? You've been doing it for forty years. Listen to me. There are poems as evidence: refining the five elements really begins, and moving mountains into the sea is more mysterious; It's my pleasure to turn the dragon into the tiger, and cross the crane to Lapras for nine days. Purple gas soars to thousands of feet, and when you are happy, you plant golden lotus; It has been thousands of years since I set foot in Xia Guang. "
Ziya said, "You won your time; My time, I must; How many years have you had? "