"Poof!" "Poof!" "Poof!"

The heat wave in the forest is familiar, the sword shadow is heavy, the golden light is shining, the blood and rain are bloody everywhere you pass, and the huge beast heads are thrown up, and the blood is splashed away

In this inner area, all the fierce beasts killed were of the human rank or the local rank.

"Ding, the system prompts, congratulations, after killing a three-star human-level fierce beast blackhorn cow, the quality of the ancient martial soul bead has increased by nine hundred and twelve points, and you have obtained nine hundred and twelve contribution points."

"Ding, the system prompts, congratulations, after killing a three-star ground-level beast Red Demon Tiger, the quality of the Ancient Martial Soul Bead has increased by 6,735 points, and you have gained 6,735 contribution points."

"Ding, the system prompts, congratulations, after killing a three-star human-level beast demon cow, the quality of the ancient martial soul bead has increased by nine hundred and sixty-seven points, and you have obtained nine hundred and sixty-seven contribution points."

"Ding, the system prompts, congratulations, after killing a three-star earth-level fierce beast black-haired bear, the quality of the ancient martial soul bead has increased by two thousand five hundred and sixty-six points, and you have obtained two thousand five hundred and sixty-six contribution points."

There are countless fierce beasts in the Dark Forest, and the crazy slaughter continues, and the contribution value of the Ancient Martial Soul Bead is soaring at a terrifying speed.

Until the third day.

"Ding, the system prompts, congratulations, the quality of the Ancient Martial Soul Bead is up to standard, and the Ancient Martial Soul Bead will evolve from a high-grade Ancient Martial Soul Bead to a Divine Martial Soul Bead."

A crisp and pleasant voice sounded in his mind, and Chen Feng couldn't help but be stunned, "Divine Martial Soul Bead? ”

Chen Feng couldn't help but stop, his eyes were extremely expectant.

"Evolving, please wait!"

"Ding, the system prompts, the evolution is complete. The Ancient Martial Soul Bead successfully evolved into the Divine Martial Soul Bead. The Divine Martial Soul Bead contains space, increases the function of slavery, and can use contribution points to enslave fierce beasts as minions. ”

With a crisp and pleasant voice ringing in my head.

And then—

Chen Feng felt that there was an extra golden bead in his mind, and there was a simple pattern on the surface of the bead, and that appearance was the ancient martial soul bead that had been fused before. It's just that the golden light on the surface of the original ancient martial soul bead is dim, and this divine martial soul bead is shining with golden light. It exudes a great deal of power, and it depends on the materialization.

Chen Feng's mind moved, and suddenly the Divine Martial Soul Bead flew out of his mind, and suddenly the brilliant golden light plated the leaves of the entire forest with golden brilliance. The golden leaves, like gold leaves cast from gold, were shining with golden light.

"Boss, here's a treasure !!"

"Look, it's the golden beads. It must be a powerful spiritual treasure! ”

Suddenly, there was a rustling sound in the forest, the rustle of feet like fallen leaves, and in the blink of an eye, a team of men and horses rushed out of the forest.

Chen Feng's face changed slightly, his mind moved, and he hurriedly put the Divine Martial Soul Bead into his body, and suddenly, the golden light in the forest immediately dissipated, and the golden leaves also returned to their turquoise appearance.

"Boy. Hurry up and hand over the treasure. ”

With a loud shout, it was a bearded man with a big knife on his shoulder and a fierce face. The cultivation of the Ground-level Martial Sect is estimated to be more than 4,000 points, and among the villages in Tianshuiling, it can be regarded as a master. Behind the bearded man were more than twenty men armed with big swords and axes, all murderous and exuding a strong evil aura.

It looks like these people are all predators. Marauders are like robbers. He is a robber in the Heavenly Martial Realm. Specializes in plundering the property of warriors. Some of them are specially guarded in the forest, and some are blocking the road and robbing, killing people and stealing goods.

Chen Feng's eyes froze slightly, and a cold glint flashed in his eyes. "Now that you see it, let's all die."

"Boom!"

The Yanjin Sword suddenly came out of its sheath, and in an instant, the heat wave in the forest was accustomed, and the layers of heat waves spread out like ripples in all directions. The terrible heat wave, the temperature in the forest is rising. Jiuyang Divine Power was running rapidly, and the Heaven and Earth Yuan Qi was surging wildly.

"Whew!" "Woohoo!"

The sword roared in the forest. The shadow of the sword broke through the air.

"Boom!"

The bearded man's face changed wildly, and he hurriedly swung his big sword to block Chen Feng's Yanjin Sword.

"Bell!"

With a loud bang, the bearded man felt a sharp and brutal aura surging into his body, and the entire mouth that was slashed by the Yanjin Sword spat blood, and flew out upside down.

"Whew!"

The golden sword shadow flashed by, chasing after it like lightning.

"Poof!" With a bang, blood splattered out, and the head of the bearded man instantly rolled to the ground.

"The boss is dead, run away!"

The remaining twenty or so marauders fled in terror. Except for the leaders of these marauders, only two of them were cultivators of the Earth-level Martial Sect, and the rest were all human-level Martial Sects.

"Poof!" "Poof!" "Poof!"

In the midst of a scream, all these marauders were killed by Chen Feng, and one by one the corpses fell in a pool of blood.

The matter of the Divine Martial Soul Bead, Chen Feng absolutely did not allow the slightest leakage. If it was seen by ordinary people, Chen Feng might still hesitate to kill people. And since they are these predators who are looking for their own death, Chen Feng naturally will not be the slightest soft, and he will not have the burden to kill.

After killing all these marauders, Chen Feng was ready to study the functions of the Divine Martial Soul Bead. Just now, the system prompted that the Divine Martial Soul Bead seems to have two more functions, one is storage space, that's really good, Chen Feng is worried that there is no Tianshi to buy a space cloth bag. Unexpectedly, as soon as the Ancient Martial Soul Bead evolved into the Divine Martial Soul Bead, it would be able to have storage space, which naturally made Chen Feng extremely happy. Of course, what made Chen Feng most pleased and curious was the second function - soul seal enslavement, which could actually enslave fierce beasts by spending contribution points.

Chen Feng was about to study the function of the Divine Martial Soul Bead when suddenly-

"Roar!"

A loud roar rang out from deep into the core of the woods. The ground shook violently.

"What a powerful energy fluctuation!" Chen Feng's face changed slightly, and he looked at the forest.

I saw a huge ancient beast, full of demonic energy, running away from the forest, this ancient beast has a sheep body and a human face, eyes under the armpits, tiger teeth and human claws, and the body exudes a monstrous fierce aura.

"What kind of beast is this? How is it so like the gluttony of ancient monsters recorded in ancient books! Chen Feng's eyes were extremely solemn.

Gluttony is "the legendary gluttonous beast." The shape of its head is engraved on the ancient bell and Ding Yi vessel as a decoration. "Ancient Books" said in the explanation of the word gluttony: gluttony means "greed." 'Greedy and dangerous' Yan Shigu notes: 'Greed is very greedy. 'Specifically gluttony. ”

The Divine Sutra. "The Southwest Wilderness": "There are people in the southwest, hairy, and pigs on their heads. Greedy as vicious, accumulating wealth without using it, good at robbing people of grain (the original work of the first two sentences is "good to accumulate wealth by yourself, not to eat people's grain", according to the "Ancient Books. Five Emperors Benji" righteous citation). The strong take the old and the weak, and they are afraid of the strong and hit the single, which is called gluttony. "Ancient" glutton, Jinyun's untalented son. ”

"Ancient Books" cloud: "The Jinyun clan has no talent." greedy for food, bribes, lustful and extravagant, not disgusted; Accumulation and accumulation. I don't know Ji Ji; No distinction between widows and orphans, no compassion for the poor. The people of the world compare the three evils, which is called gluttony. The so-called "Ancient Words" in the "Divine Mystery Sutra" is this.

"Zhou Ding is gluttonous, and he has no body. Cannibalism has not swallowed its body, and it has been repaid with words. ”

Song Luomi's History of the Road. The Legend of Chi You Note Cloud: "The god of Chi You Tianfu, the shape is not common, three generations of Yi weapons, and many of them are like Chi You, which is the ring of the corrupt. Its image is in the shape of a beast, with meat wings. "As he said, he is also gluttonous. "Ancient Times" said that gluttony is "Jinyun's untalented son", "Ancient Books. Five Emperors Benji": "The Jinyun clan is not talented and greedy for food. Taking the risk of bribery, the world is called gluttony. "And the Ancient Books. The Five Emperors Benji collection quoted Jia Xuan as saying: "Jinyun's family, surnamed Jiang, the Miao descendant of Emperor Yan, was also an official in Jinyun when he was the Yellow Emperor." "Chiyou Jiang's surname is also a descendant of Emperor Yan ("History of the Road. Chi You Biography"), so Chi You is likely to be the "untalented" gluttony of the Jinyun clan. According to legend, the gluttony is the head of the head that was cut off after Chi You was defeated by the two emperors of Yan and Huang, and it has the ability to devour all things, and was sealed by the Yellow Emperor with the Xuanyuan sword (the dragon pattern on the sword), and was guarded by the lion clan for generations (guarding the stone lion). and "The Classic of Mountains and Seas. The "roe deer owl" recorded in the Northern Second Classic. Guo Pu thought it was the gluttony of "Zuo Biography". "Gods and Demons. Strange Beasts: There are evil beasts in the extreme south of Shenzhou, with four eyes and black skin, long neck and four legs, and fierce sex. Extremely gluttonous. Traveling swiftly like the wind, it is a disaster. A kind of Jiaolong water beast, the head has a pair of horns, the whole body is surrounded by cold air, most of them are blue-white, dozens of zhang long. Sex is sometimes mild and sometimes irritable, and it rises in the air to stir up several feet of water waves, and it is extremely powerful. The Divine Sutra. There is a cloud in the Western Wilderness Classic: "Gluttony, the name of the beast, the body is like a cow, the human face, the eyes are under the armpits, and the cannibalism is eaten." ”

Gluttony is a legendary beast that is extremely gluttonous, so greedy that it even eats up its own body, so its shape is generally headless and bodyless. "Ancient Books and Warcraft" said: "Zhou Ding is gluttonous, has a head but no body, cannibalism has not swallowed and his body, and he will repay it with words." In ancient Chinese mythology, gluttony is one of the four evils. Legend has it that the Yellow Emperor fought Chiyou, Chiyou was beheaded, and his head turned into gluttony. The Classic of Mountains and Seas. There are clouds in the Beishan Sutra: "There is a lot of jade on the top of the mountain of Hook Wu, and there is a lot of copper under it." There is a beast, its shape is like a sheep's body and human face, its eyes are under the armpits, tiger teeth and human claws, its sound is like a baby, its name is roe deer owl, it is a cannibal."

Gluttony According to Guo Pu's annotation, "roe deer owl" here is gluttony. The Divine Sutra. There is also a similar record in the Western Wilderness Classic: "gluttony, the name of the beast, the body is like a cow, the human face, the eyes are under the armpits, and the cannibalism is eaten." The "Sutra of Differences" says that gluttony refers to the Sanmiao people in the southwest, and Chen Mengjia, a close friend, further says that gluttony is Chiyou, while Mr. Liu Chiping's "Bronze Gluttony Pattern Questioning" is believed to be Shennong's. Later, there was a legend that the dragon gave birth to nine sons, and Lu Rong and Yang Shen of the Ming Dynasty listed gluttony as one of the nine sons of the dragon, which is already a kind of attachment. Lu Rong's "Shuyuan Miscellaneous Notes" recorded gluttony "good water, so the bridge is built", and Yang Shen's "Sheng'an Collection" recorded that "gluttony and good food, so it stands on the top cover".

The animal face ornaments of ancient bronzes reflect the worship of nature gods at that time, so they have a mysterious and solemn atmosphere, but there are different opinions about the specific meaning of these mysterious ornaments. The bronze ware is the embodiment of the consciousness of "respecting the gods" of the ancestors of the Yin Shang Dynasty, and the Zhou Dynasty developed into the "Respect for Heaven and Dharma Ancestor", forming a representation of the trinity of religion, political power and clan power. Most scholars believe that the Shang and Zhou rulers used the "hideous terror" of bronze ornamentation to express the "mysterious majesty" of royal power, to express their possession of political power, status, and wealth, which was daunting. The slave owners placed all their majesty, will, nobility, fantasy and hope in these terrible ornaments. Mr. Zhang Guangzhi also believes that "bronze is politics and power", but he believes that these animal patterns are not for intimidation, but for communication with God. Due to the low level of productivity in primitive society, people attribute many unexplained phenomena to the power of the gods, and people are full of reverence for the gods, begging the gods, pleasing the gods, and dominating things with the help of divine power. Therefore, the wizard who "can communicate with the gods" has a very high status, and the wizard class has become the original imperial ruling class. Sacrifice is the prerogative of shamans, and it is also the central link in communicating with people and gods, and sanctifying the order on earth. Wizards used the animals on the bronze to communicate with the gods, so these strange animal patterns represent mystery and power. According to the research of Chen Gongrou and Mr. Zhang Changshou, the most primitive form of the bodyless animal face pattern is just a pair of round bubble-shaped milk nails to represent the eyes of the animal face. The eyes are the main body of the animal face pattern, because the animal face pattern is generally only seen with two eyes, it should have originated from the prehistoric eye worship. There are pairs of eye patterns on prehistoric faience pottery, and pairs of eye patterns on jade objects. In the late Neolithic period, there were already standard animal face patterns, and there were also simplified forms of animal face patterns, that is, eye patterns. According to Mr. Tang Huisheng's research, the god of heaven in shamanism is also the god of the sun, and the sun god is often depicted in the shape of an eye, because in many ancient myths, the sun is called the "eye of heaven". For example, the sun god of the Balmanical religion is also known as the "eye of the sky" or "the eye of the world". Scholars who hold this view believe that the traditional taotao pattern is not just a kind of animal face pattern, but that the taotao should belong to the god of heaven or the sun god, and the emphasis on the eyes in the taotao pattern is a description of its characteristics as the sun god - light.

In ancient times, the tiger was also a very important beast of the heavens, and the shape of the sorcerer riding the tiger appeared in many cultural relics in later generations.

In the long history of Chinese culture, before the worship of the "dragon and phoenix", there was a rather long stage of dragon and tiger worship. The dragon and tiger fighting pattern was very popular in the Eastern Zhou Dynasty to the Western Han Dynasty, especially the dragon and tiger fighting picture unearthed from the Mawangdui Han Tomb is the most exquisite, and the momentum is extraordinary. The ancients believed that the tiger was a yang beast, "the cloud is from the dragon, and the wind is from the tiger." "The dragon and tiger fight each other, indicating the combination of yin and yang. In the Han Dynasty, Canglong, White Tiger, Vermilion Bird, and Xuanwu represented the four officials of the East, West, South, and North of the Astronomical Universe. At least, in the early years of Chinese history, the tiger's status was not below the dragon. However, the depiction of the tiger's supernatural powers in ancient texts is clearly difficult to compare with the prominence of gluttony in bronze.

The true name and prototype of the mythical beast referred to by the beast face pattern have long been buried in the irreproducible era, and the descendants are given the name gluttony because of their fierce appearance, mysterious, terrifying, and some of them have human heads in their mouths. Gluttony was originally used in the Zuo Chuan to describe the unkind and unrighteous people who are greedy for money and gluttony, and modern scholars have pointed out that naming the animal face pattern as a man-eating gluttony is purely far-fetched and contrary to the social and cultural conditions of the Shang and Zhou dynasties.

In ancient times, it was a battlefield of demonic beasts and mythical beasts. Divine beasts and demonic beasts are both terrifying existences. Although it is gone, the descendants it leaves behind also possess many incredibly powerful abilities. Spirit beasts mostly spread the bloodline of divine beasts, and fierce beasts spread the bloodline of demonic beasts. The more it looks like an ancestor, it means that the concentration of blood in the body is very high, and the stronger the strength.

This strange beast that suddenly appeared looked like the legendary ancient monster gluttony. (To be continued.) )