Chapter 319: Skull Cave Crow

Coming out of the cave, Chen Feng immediately headed in the direction of Tianshui City.

The journey was leisurely, in this Heavenly Water Forest, Chen Feng was not worried about any danger. Because the strongest in the Tianshui Forest is also a saint-level fierce beast, the high-level martial saint will basically not be in danger.

However, Chen Feng seemed to ignore a point, and saw the branches and leaves suddenly shaking in the forest in front of him.

"Hand over the fire phoenix!"

In the dead woods, accompanied by a cold and arrogant voice, a person slowly walked out of the darkness, black clothes and black pants, black sheathed sword, and a black face seemed to have a dead color. Only a pair of dark eyes were glowing. He walked slowly, but his whole body seemed to be lilt, and his feet seemed to be at all like he was on the ground, like an elf ghost in the dark.

"Get out!" Chen Feng's eyes froze, and he said coldly. He was in a bad mood now, and the fire phoenix bird in his hand flew like this. At this time, someone came to him to ask for a fire phoenix bird, and it was strange that Chen Feng's mood was good.

The man in black obviously didn't expect someone to dare to talk to him like this, his expression couldn't help but be stunned, and then he burst into anger, "Boy, you can't find death, do you know who I am?" ”

"Who are you, Master Guan and my, good dog should not be good, get away from me." Chen Feng said.

"This seat is the crow of the seventy-two hall master of the Skull Cave, it is your misfortune to meet me, I wanted to leave you a whole corpse. But you've annoyed me, and I've decided to split up your ignorant boy. "The crow of the Skull Cave is surveying.

As soon as the words fell, I saw a flash of black light, and the crow of the seventy-two hall masters of the Skull Cave had already rushed towards Chen Feng.

"Snort. I'm afraid you won't make it! A cold light flashed in Chen Feng's eyes.

"Boom!" With a bang, the Yanjin Sword suddenly came out of its sheath. Lifting and penetrating the mystery, the Yanjin Sword turned into a pale golden sword light and flashed. As if it had penetrated the space, it had already pierced the throat of the crow of the seventy-two hall masters of the skull cave in the blink of an eye.

"It's actually a high-level mystery!" The crow of the seventy-two hall masters of the Skull Cave suddenly changed his face, and his body swayed violently, leaving a shadow clone in place.

"The Dark Law is a high mystery—the Shadow Mystery!" Chen Feng's eyes froze, and the Yanjin Sword directly stabbed into the air.

The Shadow Mystic is one of the three major Mysteries of the Dark Law, and the Martial Saint who comprehends the Shadow Mysteries is extremely good at assassination. In terms of attacking the Shadow Mystery, it may not be as good as penetrating the Mystery, but in terms of assassination and life, penetrating the Mysteries is not as good as the Shadow Mysteries, and the Shadow Mysteries are unpredictable. Born to be an assassin. If one is not careful, even if his strength is stronger than him, he will be caught in his way.

"Ping Pong!" "Boom!"

"Bell, bell!"

The two fought fiercely, the sword flashing and sparks splashing.

Although he was at a disadvantage, Chen Feng was full of fighting spirit in his heart.

This Skull Cave Hall Master Crow has probably comprehended the two mysteries, and his comprehensive strength is stronger than Chen Feng's. However, the attack power is almost the same as Chen Feng. The two were evenly matched.

During the battle, the crow of the seventy-two hall masters of the Skull Cave suddenly slapped the storage cloth bag on his waist with his left hand.

The mouth of the bag suddenly untied, and then a black gas floated out. The black qi quickly turned into a giant beast with a human face and a sheep's body.

"Boom! Boy, let's die, under the devouring realm of the main parish beast, you just wait to be consumed. The crow of the seventy-two hall masters of the Skull Cave tightly entangled Chen Feng and prevented Chen Feng from escaping.

Then. The demonic qi of the demonic beasts beside him was rolling, and the demon-devouring realm was directly shrouded towards Chen Feng.

The Demon Devouring Beast is a king-level medium-level spirit beast, a descendant of the gluttonous beasts of the ancients.

Gourmand. It is a fierce beast that was extremely gluttonous in ancient times. It devours all things in heaven and earth, whether it is energy or living beings. The Divine Sutra. Southwest Wilderness Classic: "There are people in the southwest. The body is hairy, and he wears a pig on his head. Greedy as a wolf, so that he can accumulate wealth by himself, and not eat the valley of people, the robber robs the old and weak, and hits the list in fear of the group, which is called gluttony. Later generations exaggerated the greedy part of the gluttonous image, and the gluttonous food was good, so it stood on the top cover. It is also said that gluttony is called gluttony, so gourmets are commonly known as "gluttony"; Greed for money. In the world, it represents the greed of human nature. The Greedy Man "Book of Wei. Huan Xuan Biography": "The concubine is the same as the six bodies, which is to make the scholar and servant shoot as a matchmaker, and the long history is to welcome guests, and the concubine is gluttonous, and he is the same as Changqiu." The first scene of Cao Yu's "Pekingese": "And he is the most particular about eating, he is a famous glutton, good at tasting the beauty and evil of food." "Gluttony" is a mythical beast in ancient Chinese legends, and its biggest feature is that it can be eaten. It is an imaginary and mysterious monster. This monster has no body because he is too good at eating and eats his body, only a big head and a big mouth, and is very greedy, and finally eats himself all. It is a symbol of greed, so it is often used to describe gluttony or greedy people. "Left Biography. The eighteenth year of Duke Wen": "Shun Chenyao, bin in the four gates, flowing four fierce clans, chaos, poor qi, 梼杌, gluttony, cast into the four descendants, in order to resist the charm." It is to collapse and the world is as one, with one heart Dai Shun, thinking that the Son of Heaven is the Son of Heaven, with his sixteen phases, to the four murderers. Gluttony is "the legendary gluttonous beast." The shape of its head is engraved on the ancient bell and Ding Yi vessel as a decoration. "Cihai" said in the explanation of the word gluttony: gluttony is "greedy", "Hanshu. Lile Zhi": 'Greedy and dangerous' Yan Shigu Note: 'Greedy 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, and taking people's grain (the original work of the previous two sentences is "good for self-accumulation, not eating people's grain", according to the "Historical Records. 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. "Spring and Autumn" glutton, Jinyun's untalented son. "Left Biography. "The Eighteenth Year of Duke Wen" cloud: "The Jinyun clan is not talented, greedy for food, risky for bribes, greedy for extravagance, and not disgusted; Accumulation and accumulation, do not know the extreme; 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 "Spring and Autumn" words of the "Divine Sutra" are this. Lü's Spring and Autumn. First Knowledge": "Zhou Ding is gluttonous, has a head but no body, cannibalism has not swallowed harm and his body, and he repays it 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. "That's what he said. Gluttony is also gluttonous.

"Zuo Biography" said that gluttony is "Jinyun's untalented son", "Historical Records. Five Emperors Benji": "The Jinyun clan has no talent. Greedy for food and drink, risky for bribes. The world is called gluttonous. "And the "Historical Records. 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 necks and four legs, fierce sex, and extremely greedy. 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, and most of them are blue-white. It is dozens of zhang long, sometimes mild and sometimes irritable, and it rises in the air to stir up several zhang water waves, which 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, and the face of a man. Eyes in the armpits, cannibalism. "Gluttony is a legendary beast that is extremely voracious. is so greedy that it even eats up its own body, so its shape is generally headless and bodyless. Lü's Spring and Autumn. "First Knowledge" said: "Zhou Ding is gluttonous. There is no body, cannibalism has not swallowed and its body, and it is more rewarding 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." According to Guo Pu's annotation in the Jin Dynasty, the "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 the Shang and Zhou 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. 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. The taotao pattern first appeared on the jade of the Liangzhu culture in the lower reaches of the Yangtze River 5,000 years ago, but the taotao pattern is more common on bronzes, especially on the ding, which appeared on the bronzes of the Xia culture in Erlitou. However, the name "gluttonous pattern" did not exist in ancient times, but was named by the Song people when Jinshi science arose. The most perfect gluttonous mask is 21.0 cm tall and is now in the Seattle Library in the United States. The ornamentation usually has the bridge of the nose as the midline, and the sides are arranged symmetrically.

What exactly does the gluttonous pattern refer to? There has been a lot of controversy, and so far there is no conclusive conclusion. There are many types of gluttonous patterns in the Shang and Zhou dynasties, some like dragons, tigers, oxen, deer, and mandrills; Others are like birds, phoenixes, and people. Among the ornaments, the gluttonous pattern is the most widely recognized in the shape of a tiger. 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.

Chen Feng really didn't expect that the hall master of this skull cave, the crow, actually had a demon-devouring beast, and he wanted to have a few more moves with this person, using him as a training stone to practice swordsmanship. However, since this person has released the Demon Devouring Beast, the Demon Devouring Beast's Demon Devouring Domain will continue to swallow the martial artist's Yuan power, which means that it will not be able to fight for a long time.

Shaking his head secretly, Chen Feng could only release his Emperor Extreme Devouring Demon Beast immediately.

The next moment, with a flash of golden light, the Emperor-level Demon Devouring Beast was released by Chen Feng from the Ten Thousand Beasts Pavilion.

"Roar!"

As soon as the Emperor-level Demon Eater came out, it roared towards the King-level Medium-blooded Demon Eater Beast, and then the billowing black qi surged away, enveloping the entire forest in it. (To be continued.) )