Nie Yinniang

Nie Yinniang: Nie Yinniang's the daughter of Nie Feng, Great General guarding Weibo during the rule of Emperor Li Kuo of Tang Dynasty (785-804 A.D.). A nun came to her family for alms when she was ten, who liked her very much and told Nie Feng that 'you should make her my prentice!' Nie Feng was so angry and scolded the nun. The nun said 'I'll get her away even if you hide her in a steel cabinet.' As expected, Yinniang disappeared at night without a trace. Nie Feng was panicked and asked servants to search everywhere, but there's no sign of Nie Yinniang. The couple could do nothing but cry when thinking about the child. Five years later, the nun took Yinniang home. She told Nie Feng 'I finished my work with her, please take her back', and suddenly disappeared. Members of Nie Family felt both bitterness and happiness to see Yinniang, and asked what she had learned from the nun. Yinniang said 'nothing else than chanting.' Nie Feng, who didn't believe her words, pressed her hard. Yinniang said 'you won't believe the truth.' Nie Feng told her that 'just tell me the truth.' Yinniang sighed, 'When I was taken away by the nun, I didn't know how far I had gone. At dawn, I was in a giant cave dozens of steps above the ground, which's very quiet and uninhabited. There were only apes, monkeys, pines and wisteria, which made it spooky. There were two little girls already, who were also ten, smart and pretty. Not eating anything, they could walk extremely fast on the cliff like agile monkeys on a tree. The nun gave me a pill and a sword of 2 feet in length, which's extremely sharp and can easily cut a hair. She told me to learn climbing from the other two girls, and I gradually felt my body's as light as wind. One year later, I never missed a kill of apes and monkeys. After that, I could kill tiger and leopard with a single movement. Three years later I could jump to the sky and kill eagles without a single miss. The sword was grinded down to 5 inches, and no bird could survive it. By the fourth year, the nun took me to an unknown town with the other two girls guarding the cave.