Is “Resided in Fire Cloud Cave and sent a boy to bestow divine medicine to relieve disasters” true?
novel invention
In "Investiture of the Gods," the plot where the Yellow Emperor resides in the Fire Cloud Cave and sends a divine child to bestow divine medicine to lift the smallpox plague in the Xiqi camp is a construct of the novel's immortal system. The original text states: "今著杨戬速往火云洞，见三圣大师，速取丹药，可救此愆。" ("Investiture of the Gods," Chapter 58).
the Yellow Emperor
In official history, he was the leader of the Huaxia tribal alliance, while in novels he is revered as the master of the Fire Cloud Cave in the Chan sect and the supreme humanistic ancestor.
Other claims about the Yellow Emperor
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