"Looks like I don't need to do anything. Ye Wuji looked at Akunonokia, who was besieged by the five dragons and fell into crisis, and finally breathed a sigh of relief in his heart.

Igonirus is inferior to Akuninokia in terms of strength, but with the blessing of the auxiliary magic of the dragon Grantine, the strength of the two dragons is almost equal at this time, but Igonirus still has three dragons to help, and Akuninokia's side can be the only dragon on his side.

As the battle continued, the dragon scales on Akunonokia's body began to peel off, and red dragon blood was everywhere on his body.

"It doesn't look like so. Makarov, who had just walked to the ruins of Demon Tail, stopped after Iguniru and the five dragons appeared, and with five dragons present, he didn't need to use Demon Tail's last hole card.

"Is that what Natsu said about Igoniralu?" The demon tail people who were watching the battle on the ground slowly walked out of the suppression of Akunonokia's dragon power after the five dragons appeared.

At the time of the battle of the six dragons in the sky, the battle between the demon tail on the ground and the underworld had come to an end, and Lucy, the demon tail's magician, had won.

The battle between Gray and one of the Nine Ghost Gates, Absolute Zero Silver, ended with an unexpected ending, the Nine Ghost Gates of the Gate of Hades, in fact, there are only eight demons, and the Absolute Zero Silver was resurrected by the dark monk Zhengji with a necromancy spell in the Nine Ghost Gates.

Silver's true identity is Gray's father, in the Deliola disaster, in order to protect Gray's father who died, was resurrected Silver, after which Silver went through a lot of hardships, and finally learned the magic of killing demons, the Demon Destroying Method.

The battle between Silver and Gray is to pass on his demon extermination method to Gray, so that Gray can destroy the president of the Gate of Hades, END, the reason why Silver learned the Ice Demon Extermination Method is to deal with END, because END is the Demon of Fire, and the Ice Demon Extermination Method is just to restrain him.

However, in the end, Silver's death was not caused by Gray, but by Jubia, and as soon as Keith died, as a puppet resurrected by Keith, Silver naturally disappeared.

Elusa and Miraj also defeated their opponents at the same time, especially Miraj resurrected the Hell Core used by the Gate of Hades to resurrect, and the Nine Ghost Gates had no way to use this to resurrect.

Now the only one who is still fighting at the Gate of Hades is the vice president of the Gate of Hades, Hades King Maldogil, Hades is worthy of being Hades, after using the demon form, even Gerald and Urrutia teamed up, they can't suppress him.

But with Natsu, Gray, Elusa, Miraj, Scaryu, Mineba and others joining the battle, the Hades didn't even have the strength to fight back.

Up to now, no one has a real-name one-on-one heads-up with Hades.

"It's a shame to do what the Lord commanded. Maldogir, who fell under Gray's demon slayer, said very unwillingly.

"What are you doing. Just as Gray was about to destroy the END Book with the Demon Slaying Method, Natsu on the side stopped him for the first time.

"Ruined the book, of course. Not to be outdone, Gray exclaimed, destroying the END Book was his father's last wish, if it weren't for Daliora, Gray's parents would not have died, in the end, it was Jelf's pot.

Igoniru said that the book should not be damaged in the slightest. Not to be outdone, Natsu shouted that Natsu would definitely complete Igoniru's orders.

"Shut up, put this book here for me first, and I'll talk about how to deal with it later. Elusa immediately stopped the two who were about to fight, and snatched the book of END into her hands.

"Damn, slay the dragon. "Facing the siege of the five dragons, Akunonokia finally fell from the sky because of his injuries, and at this time, Akunonokia's two wings were all torn off, and the scales on his body were even more peeling off, and the dragon's blood was spilled all over the ground.

"It's over, Akunonokia. Looking at Akunonokia on the ground, Iguninokia's pair of dragon eyes showed a complicated expression, for Akunonokia, Iguninokia was not particularly hateful, although Akuninokia slaughtered the entire dragon clan.

"Slay the dragon. Akunonokia, who fell to the ground, suddenly showed a strange smile on the corner of his mouth, and his eyes suddenly glowed with gold.

"Not good, be careful. As soon as Iguniru spoke, he felt a pain in his body, and the dragon wing on the left left left left his body, and he saw that Akunonokia was standing in the air unharmed, shaking his head, and throwing the huge dragon wing from the dragon's mouth.

"Iguniru. Grandigne and the other dragons were shocked, they never thought that there would be such a change, they were about to kill Akunonokia.

"Ankuselam. Igoniru looked at Akunonokia not far away with a solemn expression.

"It's worthy of being the king of the dragon clan, and it's really thanks to you, if it weren't for you, I'm afraid I wouldn't be able to get out. Akunonokia's voice turned into a crisp female voice.

"After all these years, you haven't even died. ”

"If you want me to die, how can it be so easy, now I can completely kill you and complete the original deal. "Akunonokia's huge dragon body appeared by Igoniraru's side in an instant, and with a single dragon claw, it grabbed Igoniru's body in two.

"Let's go together. ”

"Look for death. ”

In just a few moves, the Celestial Dragon, the Iron Dragon, the White Dragon, the Shadow Dragon, and the Four Dragons, like the fire dragon Igoniraru, were torn into several pieces by Akunonokia and fell to the ground.

The current Akunonokia is not something they can fight against at all, and the reason why Akunonokia can grow from an ordinary dragon-slaying wizard to an existence that slaughters the entire dragon clan four hundred years ago is thanks to Ankuselam.

Four hundred years ago, after the death of Akunonokia's family at the hands of a dragon, he was the only one who survived, and Akunonokia vowed to exterminate all dragons to avenge his accession.

But it is not easy to exterminate the dragon clan, even if he becomes a dragon slayer wizard at that time, he is not the opponent of the weakest dragon.

The gap between the Dragon Slayer Demon Wizard and the Dragon Clan is huge, and even if he becomes the pinnacle of the Dragon Slayer Demon Wizard and becomes a dragon, he does not have enough strength to exterminate the Dragon Clan.

Even if a genius like Erin, the first dragon slayer wizard in history, and even the dragon slayer mage of the holy dragon, successfully turned into a holy dragon, he can only deal with a few dragons.

At that time, there were many very powerful existences in the evil dragon camp, and even Iguniru, the king of the dragon clan, did not dare to say that he was invincible among the dragon clan.

In order to fulfill his oath, Akunonokia researched a lot of materials, especially about the battle of the Black and White Women, and then Akuno Nokia went deep into the spiritual peak of Dronia, which was then known as the Forbidden Land, which was also the site of the Battle of the Black and White Women.

Even four hundred years ago, Lingfeng Zhuonia was also a forbidden place, and the dragons of the dragon clan did not dare to go too deep into it.

After nine deaths, Akunonokia finally managed to reach the depths of the Spirit Peak, where he met his greatest opportunity, the god Ankuselam.

In the battle with the god of time, the god of time fell, and the god of Ankuselam was not happy, and the godhead was shattered,

"Shuo Wen Jie Zi" contains: "Dragon, the length of the scale insect, can be dark and bright, can be small and huge, can be short and long, ascend to the sky at the spring equinox, and dive into the abyss at the autumn equinox." ”

The ancestor of the dictionary, Erya, mentions the image of the phoenix, but does not mention anything about the dragon. In the supplement "Erya Wings" made by Song Ren Luo Yuan for Erya, there is a "release dragon": "The horns are like a deer, the head is like a camel, the eyes are like a rabbit, the neck is like a snake, the belly is like a mirage, the scales are like a fish, the claws are like an eagle, the palms are like tigers, and the ears are like cows." Guo Ruoxu, a connoisseur of calligraphy and painting who was also a Song person, expressed a similar view in his Pictures and Stories.

In the Ming Dynasty, the image of the dragon became more specific and plump, and the cloud of "Compendium of Materia Medica?wings": "The dragon is the length of the scales." Wang Fuyan has nine shapes: the head is like a camel, the horns are like a deer, the eyes are like a rabbit, the ears are like a cow, the neck is like a snake, the belly is like a mirage, the scales are like a carp, the claws are like an eagle, and the palm is like a tiger. It has eighty-one scales on its back, with nine or nine yang numbers. Its sound is like a copper plate. There is a beard next to the mouth, a pearl under the chin, and an inverted scale under the throat. There is Boshan on the head, also known as the ruler wood, and the dragon cannot ascend to heaven without the ruler wood. It can turn into water and fire. ”

In "Romance of the Three Kingdoms", Luo Guanzhong summarized the characteristics of the dragon through Cao Cao's mouth: "The dragon can be big and small, and can rise and hide, the big one will raise clouds and spit fog, and the small one will hide the form, and if it rises, it will soar between the universe, and it will lurk in the waves." Fang is deep this spring, and the dragon changes with time".

Yuan Mei of the Qing Dynasty wrote in "Zi Bu Yu" that "the thunderstorm is obscure, the dragon comes to wail, and the sound is like a cow's roar." ”[6]

The Song Dynasty painter Dong Yu believed that the dragon "has horns like a deer, a head like a cow, eyes like a shrimp, a mouth like a donkey, a belly like a snake, scales like a fish, feet like a phoenix, a beard like a human, and ears like an elephant." This is a saying that has been widely recognized in the 21st century.

Image evolution

From the cultural era of thousands of years ago, there was no history to study to the Yin Shang, the Western Zhou Dynasty, and then to the Warring States and the pre-Qin, the vessels and ornaments about the image of the dragon have always emerged in an endless stream, with wings, without wings, horns, horns, and more Liangzhu culture, the beast-body dragon, the serpentine dragon of the Chahai site, its image is also different, so some scholars believe that the origin and source of the dragon are numerous. [7]

The dragon figure of the Western Han Dynasty (including the Wang Mang period) has a slender body, resembling a snake-shaped, with an indistinguishable tail and a fin at the end. The head resembles that of a crocodile, and the overall body is slender and elongated. There are two types: winged and wingless. Some of the horns resemble bull's horns, elongated, and slightly curved at the tip. The upper and lower jaws are of equal length, and the upper and lower lips are rolled up and down, respectively. There are two types, and the wings are bird's wing. Beast legs, short and stubby. The foot part is two kinds of animal and eagle feet, with three toes.

In the Eastern Han Dynasty, the dragon body was stout, like a tiger, with a distinct body and tail, and individual fins. The horns resemble the horns of a bull. There are protruding ridges under the horns, and the top is rolled forward, and there are also antlers that resemble antlers. And they all have wings. The beast has long legs. The image of the tiger is the mainstay, supplemented by the image of other animals.

The dragon body from Jian'an to Wei and Jin (Sixteen Kingdoms period) is more slender, like a tiger, and the body and tail are distinct. The head horns are slightly similar to the antlers. There are two types of wings, and the winged dragon is still in the shape of a bird's wing. The legs are beasts and long. [8]

From the Northern and Southern Dynasties to the Sui Dynasty, the dragon body was slender, like a tiger, with a distinct body and tail, and a ring of flames appeared on the neck and back. There are still two kinds of dragon wings, with streamer-shaped wings appearing and bird-wing still existing. The limbs are floating upward, and there are long animal hairs.

During the Tang and Song dynasties, the body was thick and plump, returning to the body of a snake, the body and tail were not distinguished, and there were scales from the back to the tail, and there was a circle of fins on the tail in the Song Dynasty. It absorbs the characteristics of the image of a lion, round and plump, with a hyena on the back of the head. In the Tang Dynasty, there were forked antlers, and the antlers were slightly similar in the early stage. The upper lip is long with a pointed tip, and the lower lip is short and no longer curled. The dragon wings are already streamer-shaped. In the Song Dynasty, four-clawed feet appeared, and the hind limbs and tail often crossed and circled. [9]

The difference between China and foreign countries

Although "dragon" is generally translated as "dragon" in English, and the "dragon" in Western culture in Europe and the United States and traditional Chinese dragons are very different from each other except for some similarities in appearance, but in fact, it is not only that.

Before the popularity of Christianity, the Western "dragon" was the national symbol of the Vikings, Celts and Saxons, just like the Eastern dragon. With the growth of Christianity, the negative connotations of dragons and serpents were magnified, and they were portrayed in the New Testament as evil "ancient serpents", "demons", and "Satan", and since then Western dragons have often been equated with evil. [10]

The dragon of the West

The dragon of the West

But the difference between the Western Dragon and the Eastern Dragon is not simply a "good and evil" distinction. As *** and other great people said: "Good and bad, good and evil, exist in everything at the same time, like the two sides of a coin,"

In the 21st century, more people around the world have realized this, so there is no such thing as absolute good and absolutely bad in the world, and the judgment of good and bad is often related to the judge's own position - this is dialectical thinking. Although there is no conclusive and reliable evidence that the dragon actually exists in the objective world, it is clear that it is also in the dialectic of the legends left by mankind.

Some Chinese scholars have proposed to change the English translation of "Chinese dragon" to "loong", which is close to the pronunciation of Chinese, but this has not been widely recognized in the 21st century. Europeans and Americans are accustomed to calling Chinese dragons "Chinese dragons". [11]

Generate background edits

In the early days, the social productivity was low, people lived in the harsh natural environment, and they could not independently control the natural forces, nor could they explain their own origins, they were full of illusions, longings and even fears of the natural world, and worshiped various natural or supernatural forces that were more powerful than human beings, which was the social basis for the emergence of totems and ghosts. [12]

Pu Lao

Pu Lao

The reason for the formation of the dragon totem, one theory believes that it originated from the Yellow Emperor's Busan Hefu. "Historical Records: The Five Emperors" records that after defeating Emperor Yan and Chiyou, the Yellow Emperor toured the Quartet and "fit Busan". This "merger" not only unified the letter of the military orders of the various ministries and established a political alliance, but also took some elements from the original totems of each tribe and combined them to create a new animal image - dragon.

Since then, all tribes in the Central Plains have a common dragon totem, and the history of unified Chinese civilization has begun, so the Chinese are all "descendants of the dragon".

Although this story perfectly explains how the dragon that existed in the unnatural world became the ancestor of the Chinese nation, the discovery of the dragon image in the prehistoric cultural site made it self-defeating.

Most modern scholars believe that the dragon totem evolved from other animal totems. In the early days, the "snake evolution theory" was widely representative, and when the snake evolved into a dragon, we naturally became "the descendants of the dragon". [12]

In practice, however, the idea of a descendant of the dragon did not become popular until after the May Fourth Movement.

Types of dragonsEdit

Qinglong: It is one of the "Four Saints", "Four Elephants" (Qinglong, White Tiger, Vermilion Bird, Xuanwu) and "Four Spirits of Heaven", also known as Canglong, representing the East and cyan, so it is called "Oriental Green Dragon".

Green Dragon

Green Dragon

Ying Long: Also known as the flying dragon, also known as the yellow dragon. The dragon with wings on its back, according to the record of "Shu Yiji": "Jiao turned into a dragon for a thousand years, a dragon for five hundred years as a horned dragon, and a thousand years as a dragon." It is said that Emperor Xuanyuan's famous general was Ying Long, and his main achievements were to kill Chiyou and praise his father.

Yu's "Narrative of Differences" contains: "Yu has turned into a dragon in five hundred years, and Jiao has turned into a dragon for a thousand years." "It's the juvenile stage of the dragon.

虬 (: The dragon is a small dragon with horns in ancient legends, and it is said to be a young dragon without horns. "Saying Wen Jie Zi": The dragon has no horns. Each book is a dragon with horns. Today, according to the rhyme club, it is correct. However, the rhyme will still be mistaken with many words. Li Shan's note "Ganquan Fu" quotes "Shuowen", the dragon has no horns.

Cantis: A serpentine monster of the genus Dragon, a dragon-like creature without horns. The dragon is like a dragon, and the north of the yellow is called the land mole.