The city lord of Tianshui City has a compound surname of Dongfang, a single name and a Peng character, and he is a very powerful saint-level powerhouse. In fact, there is not only one saint-level powerhouse in Tianshui City. There are four major families in Tianshui City, and each family has a saint-level powerhouse. Tianshui City is controlled by the city lord Dongfang Peng and the patriarchs of the four major families.

Among them, the city lord Dongfang Peng controls the city lord's mansion and the central area of Tianshui City, while the four major families are in charge of the four major regions of east, west, north and south.

The four major families are all ancient families with thousands of years of history, and their heritage is very powerful. And the first patriarch of the four major families is still alive. The lifespan of a saint-level powerhouse is extremely long, and they can live up to 10,000 years.

If it is said that the supreme level can only live for five hundred years, even if it swallows the raw pill, it will not be able to exceed a thousand years old. Once the millennium limit is reached, no matter how much you eat Shengsheng Pills, it will be useless. Dust to dust, dust to dust. If you want to continue to survive, you can only break through to the holy level. If you want to break through to the holy level, you must control the mysteries of heaven and earth. Once you master the mysteries of heaven and earth and break through to the holy level, then your longevity will skyrocket to 10,000 years old. Although it cannot live with heaven and earth, it is also extremely long.

Tianshui City, as the only city in Tianshui Mountains, gathers countless powerhouses, earth-level martial sects are everywhere, and there are also many heaven-level supremes, and even occasionally saint-level powerhouses from other places come to Tianshui City.

Chen Feng followed the team of Dahe Village towards the city gate, and when he was about to enter the city, suddenly there was a commotion at the city gate.

I saw countless people looking up at the sky, looking excited and excited.

"Look, everyone, is it a divine beast kiss flying in the sky?"

"How is it possible, the divine beast disappeared in ancient times, where is there still a divine beast in this world. It should be a descendant of the divine beast. ”

"What a powerful breath. The appearance is very similar to the kiss of the divine beast. ”

"The bloodline is very strong, it should be an emperor spirit beast or a king-level spirit beast ichthyosaurus."

The spirit beast ichthyosaurus is a descendant of the mythical beast Kiss. Extremely powerful. The mantis kiss is one of the ancient divine beasts, whether it is the ancient martial continent or the heavenly martial realm in this life. It's still the earth of the previous life. There is a legend of the kiss.

The cockroach kiss, also known as the owl tail and the owl kiss, is generally considered to be the ninth son of the dragon. It is easy to swallow in life, that is, the shape of the beast's head on the spine of the temple. This decoration has been used now, and in ancient Han palace buildings, the five ridges and six beasts could only be owned by officials. He likes to look around, and is often arranged on the roof ridge of the Han palace building, making an open mouth swallowing ridge, and has a sword to fix it. Small beasts made of clay were invited to the rooftops of palaces, temples and nobles. Looking down on the world, it is really a bit of "steady progress" and "one person attains the Tao, and the chicken and dog ascend to heaven".

Where does the kiss come from? This starts with the dragon culture of the Chinese nation. The dragon is a symbol of the origin and cultural beginning of the Chinese nation; the totem worshipped by the descendants of Yan and Huang; The mighty, courageous, invincible, and fearless spirit of the dragon is exactly what the Chinese nation needs to expel the invading ghosts and protect the safety of the house, and can hope for abundant food and clothing, and prosperity of the people. For this reason, the owners of the houses, whether they are of high or low building level, are decorated with 'dragons' on the ends of the ridges and horns to ward off evil spirits, and to show the authority and status of the owners of the houses.

The mantis is also called ichthyosaur, a combination of fish and dragon. It is one of the nine sons of the dragon in ancient legends. Of the nine sons, the kiss is believed to have originated from Indian Buddhism. According to legend, around the time of the Northern and Southern Dynasties, the Indian Capricorn fish changed with the introduction of Buddhism. The appearance and shape are like a four-legged snake with its tail cut off, and this dragon is fortunate to look around at a dangerous place. Also likes to swallow fire. The kiss is a metaphor for protecting the Dharma in Buddhism, and it has the effect of driving away evil spirits. Because of his good temperament, he is happy to swallow it. It is often used as a decoration for buildings, especially the head of a beast that is used as a roof to suppress fires. Make an open mouth and swallow a ridge and fix it with a sword. From the evolution of ancient totem worship. The fish became a dragon because the clan with the fish as the totem in ancient times was integrated into the nation of the dragon totem, and the totemic image as the family emblem also changed and became the fish dragon with the head of the dragon and the body of the fish. There are many types of ichthyosaurs, some have more dragon features, and some have more fish features. In ancient times, there was a saying that "the carp jumps over the dragon gate" and "the climber turns into a dragon", which originates from this. Later generations also put the "carp jumping over the dragon gate" as a metaphor for scientific research, and those who pass the examination will turn into a dragon, and folk art will mostly take this as the theme.

Legend has it that when Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty built the Bailiang Palace, someone said that there is a kind of fish in the sea, with a tail like a gull bird, which can spray waves and rain, avoid fire, and drive away the charm. Therefore, the spine beast's snout was not originally in the form of a dragon. There are bird-shaped ones, and more ichthyosaur-shaped ones. After the Qing Dynasty, the dragon-shaped owl snout increased, the surface of the dragon pattern four claws in the air, the dragon's head was angry and made an open mouth swallowing ridge, a sword was inserted on the back, standing on the tail ridge of the building, and was called "the good hopeful". It is said that this thing can swallow all things, so it is called to be responsible for guarding the horizontal ridge of the house building; It likes to climb up and look down, so it is regarded as an ornament to pray for rain and avoid fires among the people. The "Taiping Yulan" has the following account: "After the disaster of the Liang Palace of the Han Dynasty, Yue Wu said, 'There are fish in the sea, the tail is like an owl, and the torrent is rain' so that it is like the tail, so as to disgust the fire and auspicious." The "witch" mentioned in the text is the Fang Shi and the like, and the "Yu Qiu" is the predecessor of the mantine kiss. The kiss is water-based, and it is used as a thing to suppress evil to avoid fire, and the Han folk are also called dragons. The sea is a fish, and its tail is like an owl, and it is used to spray waves to make it rain. Two opposite kisses are placed on the ridge of the house to avoid fire. The eaves and ridges of ancient Han buildings are often decorated with a different number of small animals, and these beautiful ornaments are a major feature of the decoration of ancient Han buildings. These small animals are generally called roof beasts, eaves beasts, fairy beasts, vertical spine kisses, etc., and are also known as trotting or "cornered" within the ancient construction bank. They have "walked" to the front of the eaves, and if they take another step forward, they will fall, and they are really cornered. Most of the ancient buildings were civil structures, and the roof ridges were made of timber covered with tiles. Because the tile at the front end of the eaves corner is in the forefront position, it has to bear a downward "thrust" of the entire vertical ridge tile at the upper end; At the same time, if there is no protection measure, it is easy to be blown off by strong winds. Therefore, people use tile nails to fix the tiles at the front end of the eaves, and gradually form various animal images in the process of beautifying the nail caps, which are further endowed with the role of decoration and marking in addition to practical functions. It is a decorative component on the roof ridge of a Han building, and it is located at both ends of the ridge of the roof of the building. "Owl" means "harrier eagle" in ancient times, and it is a fierce and large bird. Legend has it that Kiss is the son of a dragon, and the so-called dragon gives birth to nine sons. Owl kiss is one of them. Shaped like a four-legged snake with its tail cut off, the dragon was particularly fond of looking around at dangerous places. Also likes to swallow fire.

The early form of the nose was similar to that of a fish's tail, which was its name "owl tail". According to Mr. Liu Zhiping's research, the owl tail appeared after the Jin Dynasty. During the Northern and Southern Dynasties, with the prevalence of Buddhism, the Capricorn fish (that is, the whale), which is called the seat of the two gods in the Buddhist scriptures, spread to China, and it was called the plover. The image of the owl tail in the Northern and Southern Dynasties is more common in the Yungang Longmen stone carvings, and there are also records about the owl in many documents. After the late Tang Dynasty, the owl tail evolved from the original fish tail to the shape of a beast's head, and the air tail was relatively short. With its mouth wide open, it is swallowing the ridge of the roof, and the tail is rolled up, so the name of the owl at this time has also changed from the tail of the owl to the kiss or the kissing beast. The kiss of the owl was followed by another name of "kiss". The name of the kiss is related to the image of the kissing beast opening its mouth and swallowing its spine. In the Ming Dynasty, Li Dongyang's "Huailu Tang Collection" later manuscript 12 "Remembering the Dragon Gave Birth to Nine Sons" has a record: "The dragon gave birth to nine sons, and the kiss is easy to swallow, and the head of the beast in the palace is its posthumous image." Why did this divine beast at both ends of the main spine of the building become one of the nine sons of the dragon again? This is because in the Ming Dynasty, the shape of this snouting beast has undergone great changes, and it has gradually changed into the shape of a dragon. So people associate it with the legend of the dragon giving birth to nine sons. The specific image is that the dragon head is staring at each other with his mouth wide open. Swallowing the ridge, the upper part bends inward and then curls downward, making it difficult to see the shape of the fishtail, and dragon scales are carved on the snout. Lifelike. In the Ming and Qing dynasties, the kiss was located at both ends of the ridge of the roof of the building, and the general scale was relatively large, so it can also be called the kiss and the big kiss. Generally, high-grade official-style buildings are equipped with a kiss on the front ridge of the roof. The main kiss consists of several parts, such as the back beast at the back of the head that swallows the main spine, the tail that curls upward, and the sword stuck in the back. The shape includes all parts of the dragon's body. The carving is more delicate, and the image is very realistic. The longan is huge. The eyes are angry, and they can see everything. The dragon's nose is high. It indicates the dragon's keen sense of smell. The dragon's mouth is wide open, revealing a long tongue and sharp dragon teeth. The dragon's tooth has a saying in the Han folk to ward off evil spirits. The dragon's ears are downwind ears that float towards the back of the head. There are mane rolls on both sides of the dragon ear, carved into a curly grass pattern. The dragon whisker carving is clearly visible, representing the sacred dignity of the dragon. Huge dragon claws, showing their great strength. The dragon's tail is upturned and then curled inward, like the image of a flower. The back beast at the back of the dragon's head is the dragon's soldier and protects the dragon's back. In addition, there is a baby dragon on the dragon's head, which takes the state of two dragons, representing auspiciousness. The dragon also has a sword handle made of wishful lotus flowers. There are two legends about Xu Xun's sword inserted on the back of the Owl Kiss, one is to prevent the Owl from escaping, taking its meaning of spraying water and suppressing fire forever; Another legend is that those demons and monsters are most afraid of Xu Xun's fan-shaped sword, and the intention here is to ward off evil. In fact, the owl is composed of several components put together, and the sword handle plays the role of a series member on the structure of the owl. It has a dual role of architectural cultural significance and practical function. The five ridges refer to the large ridge (normal ridge) and the four vertical ridges. There are dragon kisses at both ends of the main ridge, which is also called devouring beasts. Four vertical ridges are lined with five squatting beasts. Collectively referred to as "five spines and six beasts". This is the sacred beast of the town's ridge: the triple function of Qi auspiciousness, decorative beauty and protection of architecture. The ancient building is a wooden structure, with a beast to suppress the ridge to avoid fire and eliminate disasters. At the intersection of the two slopes of the tile, it is tightly sealed and fixed by swallowing beasts to prevent rainwater leakage, which not only collects the beauty of decoration, but also collects the effectiveness of protecting the spine. The dragon's kiss opens its huge mouth and swallows the ridge, and the Han myths and legends say that the two sons of the dragon king compete for the throne, and the one who swallows the roof first is called the king. Brother Long swallowed his brother's spine, drew his sword and stabbed his brother on the spine, and the hilt of the sword was still exposed. On the four vertical ridges, there are five "squatting beasts", which is the "kiss" that Yang Shen said in the Ming Dynasty. "Sheng'an Outer Collection" said that the nine sons of the dragon: "The kiss of the two days, the shape is like a beast, the sex is good, and the head of the beast is also on the house today." Dream of Red Mansions writes them as "golden beast faces, color for claw heads", which is used to describe the main hall of Daguanyuan Province. The five squatting beasts are: the squat beast, the bullfighting bull, the hedgehog, the phoenix, and the fish. The Han folk vulgarized the mantle, and gave them nicknames: cornered, driven to kill, smash with the cheeks, beat (pull) the flag with the wind, and sit on the mountain to watch the fire. From the nickname, it can be seen that the "beast head" is a hideous face and a grimace. And only the vicious can be majestic and vicious, and can carry out the mission of the town. The proverb captures the image characteristics of "five spines and six beasts" with fierce gods and grinning teeth, which is used to describe people's uncomfortable mentality and appearance; It's not just an ordinary discomfort, it's an extreme state of discomfort. "Five spines and six beasts" is a common saying, and the inclusion of this sentence in the old children's book "Four Words and Miscellaneous Words" is proof of this. Not to mention the spine beast, even the spine is gone. Not to mention that ordinary people don't know what a beast's head is, even experts and scholars often misunderstand and mislead. The misunderstanding of the beast's head does not begin today. The Qing novel "A Little History of Civilization" was mistaken for "Shoutou Mold", which should be "Beast Head Mold". Extending from the body of the beast's head to the mother of the mold, it is an upgrade of the curse. Regardless of the head of the tile pottery, it is called the tile beast, and it is all demolded and fired. Now it is carried in the clouds, forgetting the time when it was in the kiln. "The squatting beast that took off a lump of mud, got rid of the fetus, fired it in the kiln, and then carried it into Qingyun, was clearly written. Owl kiss, a kind of ornament at both ends of the ridge of the roof of the ancient building, so it has also become another name for the kissing beast. The first made the shape of the tail of the owl, one said to be the shape of the tail of the worm (a kind of sea beast), symbolizing the removal of fire. Later, the style changed, folded upwards and seemed to open the mouth to swallow the ridge, because of the name of the owl kiss, also known as the "dragon kiss". In ancient times, "owl" meant "wren", that is, [鸱鸱門] was a fierce and large bird. There are ten such kissing beasts on the roof of the Mahavira Temple. Among them, there is one at each end of the main ridge, four vertical ridges, and four fork ridges. Therefore, there is a saying of "nine spines and ten dragons". It means that there are ten dragons guarding the palace every day. These glazed beasts also have other special functions in architecture, the main ridge and the eaves are the meeting point of the two slopes of the temple roof, and rainwater is easy to seep through the gap at the junction. The snout beast plays a role in tightly sealing and fixing the tile ridge here, so that the ridge is stable and not seepage. One will also find a sword stuck in the back of the owl's kiss. According to legend, this sword is Xu Xun's sword. Xu Xun's sword was inserted on his back for two purposes. One is to prevent the owl from kissing and escaping, taking its meaning of spraying water and suppressing fire forever; Another legend is that those demons and monsters are most afraid of Xu Xun's fan-shaped sword, and the intention here is to ward off evil.

Seeing that everyone was looking at the sky, Chen Feng and everyone in Dahe Village looked puzzled, and they also turned their heads to look at the sky.

I saw a spirit beast with the body of a dragon head and a fish in the sky flying high in the sky, and if the spirit beast was as expected, it should be the spirit beast fish dragon beast with the blood of the divine beast's kiss. On the back of the ichthyosaur was a woman, and the surrounding qi was surging, exuding a powerful aura. (To be continued......)