The old patriarch of the Servant tribe came over, communicated with Jiang Ming for a while, and then invited us to dinner. This place to eat is like a sacrificial place, surrounded by tall wooden pillars, and a high platform behind it, of course there is no rice, but it is roasted with starch-rich melons and fruits, and of course there is barbecued meat. For example, fish, pheasant, baby fish.

Jiang Ming glanced at the animals that were still being slaughtered next to him, and said that these were all animals from ancient times, and he didn't expect to see them all in this underground world. The fish is the winning fish, with wings; The pheasant was called an oasant, with three heads and six tails. As everyone knows, the baby fish is called the giant salamander.

We also saw fish ponds nearby, and it is estimated that the winning fish are autotrophied. There is also a pheasant with three heads in captivity in the fence, which is the ostrich. When the servant had finished roasting the meat, he brought it to the table, and the fragrance made people have a great appetite.

We were not polite, let go of the stomach and ate violently, but the taste was a bit light. Jiang Ming asked the patriarch, don't you have any salt? The patriarch said that there was very little salt and that it was to be extracted by distillation technology, and that the salt pond was on a nearby basalt site.

The patriarch and a few old men accompanied us to eat, and after eating, Jiang Ming was discussing things with the patriarch again. Jiang Ming turned around and said that the patriarch knew the habitat of the Vermilion Bird Firebird and said that he could take us there, but if they wanted to hunt it, they would not help, because it was their sacred bird, the totem of the clan.

If she wants to lead the way, there is a condition, which is to rescue her youngest son, who has been arrested. The fat man and I were stunned when we heard it, her son? Caught? Who caught you? Jiang Ming said that it was the indigenous underground people here.

Xuanru? Jiang Ming said that it was a humanoid beast in the Book of Mountains and Seas, and there was a Gaotu Mountain nearby, and there was a humanoid beast in the mountain, shaped like an ordinary deer but with a white tail, horse-like hooves, human-like hands and four horns, and its name was Xuanru.

The fat man said that he could fight it? Jiang Ming said that the Servant tribe had a war with them and was defeated. At that time, Xuanru and the Servant Tribes grabbed the salt pond and defeated the Servants, and the Servants regularly provided salt to Xuanru. In the last few days, Xuanru took the patriarch's youngest son away, saying that he would put it into the salt pond tomorrow and sacrifice Xuanwu.

This Xuanwu is the descendant of the Xuanwu of Nuwa Mending Heaven, Jiang Ming said. Why did Nuwa Mend Heaven hook up with Xuanwu again? I asked curiously.

Jiang Ming said that according to "Huainanzi Lan Yin Xun": "In ancient times, the four poles were wasted, Kyushu was divided, the sky was not covered, and the earth was not circumferential. The fire is not extinguished, and the water is vast and unstoppable. Beasts eat the people, and birds grab the old and weak. So Nuwa refined the five-colored stone to make up for the sky, broke the turtle enough to set up the four poles, killed the black dragon to help Jizhou, and accumulated ashes to stop the flood. ”

The "broken turtle is enough to stand the four poles" in this is Xuanwu, also called the dragon turtle. And its four descendants are the pillars that support hundreds of thousands of square kilometers of space underground. There is a salt pond nearby, and in it there is a dragon-headed turtle carrying a very thick pillar, and every year it has to sacrifice to the living to eat, otherwise it will move when it is angry.

Earthquake? That is, an earthquake? The fat man said why did he help her save people? We tracked the Vermilion Flamingo ourselves, found their habitat, and got one.

Jiang Ming said what if they couldn't find their habitat? My Kunpeng Talisman is not endless, and it can only be used for half an hour at a time. And there are hundreds of thousands of square kilometers underground.

Even if you find their habitat, what if you don't have one? If you can't get the Vermilion Bird Firebird, you can't cure Zhang Shan. So it's best to have the help of the Servants. After speaking, Jiang Ming glanced at me.

I said, can you tell me about the situation of that Xuanru? If you want to fight, you have to know each other. Jiang Ming turned back and asked the patriarch again. After the exchange, I learned that there were seventy or eighty people living in Gaotu Mountain, which was fifty kilometers away, and they were the aborigines of the underground, each of whom was two meters high.

The one at the head is two meters and five meters high, and its mount is a poor strange beast captured by Qishan. There is a kind of wild beast on the mountain, shaped like a lion, with a single horn, wings, and red hair all over its body, and its name is Poor Strange Beast, and its sound is like a dog barking, and it is very ferocious and can eat people.

The fat man said that Xuan Ru can't spell Daojutsu, right? Jiang Ming said that this is not true, it is just a group of humanoid beasts. The fat man clapped his hands and said, no matter how fierce the Daoist Master is, he is not afraid of him, this time the Daoist Master has brought enough magic weapons over, and he will get them to rescue people, so that we can go to find the firebird.

After everyone made a decision, the patriarch sent a hunting team of twenty people as a guide and went directly to the place called Gaotu Mountain. It is said that Xuanru lives in a cave halfway up the mountain, seventy or eighty, and usually the poor strange beast is stationed at the entrance of the cave.

Fifty kilometers is also a long time to walk, this underground world is full of primeval forests, many fierce beasts are infested, and there are many dangers, but fortunately, there are servants hunting team to lead the way. Halfway through, a leader of the servant hunting team came over and pointed to Jiang Ming to a large pillar in the distance outside the forest and said that under this pillar was the salt pond, and there was a Xuanwu pressed in the salt pond.

We all looked curiously through the trunk of the forest, and saw that this pillar was ten meters in diameter, straight, smooth and covered with runes, and hundreds of meters long into the rock formation on the roof of the cave. From this point of view, this Xuanwu is ten meters tall.

It is said that there are four directions in the underworld, and there are such pillars, and under each pillar there is a Xuanwu carrying it, and if Xuanwu wakes up and does not eat meat, he will be restless, and if he moves, it will cause an earthquake.

It seems that these hundreds of thousands of square kilometers of the underground world are the masterpieces left by the ancient immortals. What a great ability it must be to be able to descend four ten-meter Xuanwu, and to put four pillars on their backs.

We marveled and continued on our way. When I went to the foot of Gaotu Mountain, I saw a strange beast halfway up the mountain, with red hair, this should be the poor beast. The hunter led us to crouch down and hide. The fat man said that we declared war or a surprise attack?

I asked Jiang Ming to ask the head man to see if he had any methods, so he turned back to discuss with the head man. In the end, he said, he went to lure Qi away, the fat man set up an ambush, and I came to fight the leader, and tried to block the rest of the people in the hole with fire. If there are other holes, then only the enemy.

After arranging, each of them came up with the ability to take care of the house. Jiang Ming sat on the bird talisman and went to lure away the poor strange beast. When the poor beast saw a birdman flying towards him, he turned around and flew away, and a fire came up from it, and he followed with a flap of his wings.

When the poor beast was far away, several ugly-looking Xuanru came out with javelins, and the fat man threw his four-elephant arrow, sealed the hole around it, and sprinkled a match, and the whole sky went dark.

The fat man and I rushed over, and while a few of them were panicking, the fat man shot a few fireballs and burned them. Watch them roll on the ground, howl in pain, and shoot a few more fireballs into the hole. Then the servant brought a large bundle of branches, leaves, weeds, and so on, and blocked the entrance to the hole, and the fat man set the weeds on fire with fireballs.

A flash of fire rushed up, blackening the entrance to the cave, and the servant pulled the weeds apart with sticks. From the firelight, I could see a lot of Xuanru in the cave, and I was trembling with fear when I saw the firelight, and a few of them dared to rush through the fire, and I punched them and flew back.

After burning for ten minutes, all the Xuan Ru in the cave hid in the depths, but the depths were also full of smoke, so I asked the head man to extinguish the fire, and walked in side by side with the fat man. The walls of the cave are very smooth, and the cave chamber inside is very large, but the roof of the cave is still full of smoke, which is very choking.

We waited a few minutes and the smoke cleared a lot. The fat man raised the fireball in his hand, and from the firelight, he saw that there were more than a dozen Xuan Ru rolling and coughing on the ground. These Xuanru are all adapted to the life without light underground, and their eyes are large, and they suddenly see the light of fire, which has a great impact on their eyesight. Smoke also has an effect on their respiratory tract.

Let's go to the caves of the other branches, and in each cave there are a few Xuanru who are rolling and coughing. The servants searched every hole and finally found the patriarch's youngest son. The head man came and reported that there was a small hole at the end of the back, and many of them had fled outside, coming from the front hole.

The fat man said that it was okay, they couldn't break the four elephant arrays.

We took people out and saw dozens of Xuanru outside the array, and the first one was the tallest Xuanru head. The fat man told the servants to stay in the formation, and the fat man and I walked out of the formation. In the face of this tall Xuanrutou man, he also looked at us in amazement, and then let out a loud cry and knelt down.

Looking at this deer-headed horse-hooves guy with four horns, we can't bear to look at it, it's too ugly. But these are underground creatures, their society is centered on living, what they look like is secondary, and there are no beauty pageants in the underground world.

I thought there would be a fierce fight, and I was ready for it, my left arm was accumulating, and I was thinking about sending him dozens of meters away with one punch. The fat man returned to the formation, found the head of the servant, and asked him to translate it, and see what the head of the man said.

The head of the servant said that the Xuanru tribe was willing to submit, and called us gods, gods who could make fire, and they had divine powers. It seems that this fire attack was the right one, because the underworld has never seen a creature that can make fire except for the firebird.

After subduing Xuanru, the fat man withdrew the formation, and at this time Jiang Ming also rushed back, he rode the poor beast and flew over majestically. Seeing dozens of people kneeling on the ground, they said grass as soon as they landed, what are you doing? Is this a little brother?

It turned out that Jiang Ming fought with the poor strange beast, and with his strength, he subdued the poor strange beast, and from now on the poor strange beast was his mount.