The image of this sacred bird of the dragon bird is the body of a bird and the head of a dragon, with the body of a half-dragon, and it is the mountain god of Dongting Mountain.

The dragon bird is a fierce but very lonely bird, which rarely appears in people's sight.

There are also some people who believe that after the dragon finch turns into a human, it should be the wind god Feilian in ancient times.

The eighth is the Phoenix.

If the golden crow represents the flame and warmth, and the dragon bird represents loneliness and fierceness, then the phoenix represents grace and luxury.

The phoenix is the legendary "King of Birds", and its image resembles that of a dragon, made up of the characteristics of many animals.

The image of the phoenix is "a chicken head, a swallow's jaw, a snake neck, a turtle's back, a fish's tail, five colors, and six feet high." ”

It can be seen that the body of the phoenix is not large, only two or three meters, not to mention a behemoth like Kunpeng, the phoenix is much smaller than the bird.

The ninth is Kunpeng.

Who was the largest mythical bird in ancient times?

Kunpeng has a saying that "its wings are like clouds hanging from the sky, and it does not know how many thousand miles".

The Kunpeng's wings are thousands of miles long, which is much more powerful than the Golden-winged Dapeng.

Its body can be compared to the mythical beast Candle Dragon, and in ancient times, Kunpeng's food was dragons. Being able to feed on dragons is enough to prove Kunpeng's strength.

Kunpeng is also the mount of the Mixed Kun Patriarch, the Mixed Peng Patriarch is also known as the "Beast Ancestor", and the Hongjun Ancestor is known as the "Immortal Ancestor".

The last one is the Destiny Bird, which appeared earlier than the Phoenix.

Before the phoenix and the dragon, the Xuanniao was the highest status of the divine beast. In ancient times, the earliest totem of the sacred bird was not the phoenix, but the Xuanniao.

Xuanniao is considered to be the ancestor of the Shang people, and it is also the totem of the Shang people, and it can also be said that Xuanniao is the earliest image of a divine bird in ancient legends.

Ye Xiaofeng obtained the blood of Xuanniao and Dragon Sparrow, to be exact, he stole the blood of the two divine beasts that Qiu Shan Zhenren had worked so hard to collect.

In the past, there was a village on each side of a river, and there was a wooden bridge over the river for people to cross the river.

Qiaonan lives a family surnamed Lu, called Lujiazhuang, and Qiaobei lives a family surnamed Feng, called Fengjiazhuang.

People from the two villages have to cross this bridge.

For this reason, Lujiazhuang and Fengjiazhuang made an agreement: the people of the two villages took turns to repair the bridge.

Because the tide is the lowest in March, the time for repairing the bridge is set in March every year.

In March of one year, when it was Lujiazhuang's turn to repair the bridge, a person surnamed Lu Yi accidentally fell into the river and became a ghost.

There is a rule in the underworld that all ghosts who fall into the water must stay in the river for a year, and when the yin qi is sufficient, they can drag people into the water as a stand-in and reincarnate themselves in the yang world.

The ghost surnamed Lu Yi stayed in the river for a whole year, and in March of the following year, when it was Fengjiazhuang's turn to repair the bridge, Lu Yi blew a gust of wind and dragged a person surnamed Feng Bing into the water, and he went to Lu's house to reincarnate.

The man named Feng Bing also became a water ghost.

Since then, every March, there must be a bridge builder who is dragged into the water by a ghost who is either surnamed Feng or surnamed Lu, so scared that the Lu family and the Feng family no longer dare to come to repair the bridge.

After a few years, the wooden bridge was on the verge of collapse.

The Lu family used to be a member of the Feng family, and now he is in his eighties, and his name is Lu Ling.

One day in March, he called his children and grandchildren to him and said to them, "I am old, I will not live long, and today I will be the stand-in for the water ghost, and you must repair the bridge as soon as possible!"

After Lu Ling finished speaking, he said goodbye to his children and grandchildren, walked to the Lujia Bridge, and jumped down.

Lu Ling jumped into the river and became a ghost in the water, which touched the people of Lujiazhuang and Fengjiazhuang.

So, they worked together and the bridge was repaired in no time.

Besides, Lu Ling jumped off the bridge and became a ghost in the water, lonely and miserable in the river, and finally suffered for a year, and in March of the second year, it was the day when he could find a substitute.

This year, it was the people of Fengjiazhuang who came to repair the bridge, Lu Ling saw it, and a gust of wind blew a person from Fenghe under the bridge, and the people on the bridge shouted in unison: "Lu Ling is looking for a stand-in!"

Lu Ling under the bridge had just dragged people into the water, and suddenly heard someone shouting on the bridge: Lu Ling is looking for a stand-in! I was taken aback, and thought: "I was born in the Feng family, and then joined the Lu family, and now I am a ghost in the water, not for the Lu family and the Feng family, how can I hurt the descendants of the Lu family and the Feng family?"

Thinking of this, Lu Ling regretted it very much, and hurriedly lifted the man named Feng He to the shore, and said to his ear: "You go back, after you go back, please tell my children and grandchildren, and also tell your Feng family, so that they can rest assured that they will come to repair the bridge, and I will bless them under the bridge." ”

After speaking, he patted Fenghe on the back and dived into the river.

Feng He stayed on the shore for a while before waking up, as if he had a dream. He sat on the shore, thought about it carefully, remembered everything in his heart, and then hurried back to Fengjiazhuang.

When the people in the village saw his wet and strange appearance, they all thought that he was going back to the village to ask for a stand-in, so they were so frightened that they hid, and a few bold ones just rushed at him from a distance: "You are a member of the Feng family!"

When Feng He heard this, he knew that everyone regarded him as a ghost in the water, so he said loudly: "I'm not a ghost, Lu Ling asked me to pass on the word to everyone!"

When they saw what he said, they believed him.

Feng He told everyone what Lu Ling said to him, and everyone was very moved, and they prepared incense, candles, and money one after another, and came to the bridge to pay tribute to Lu Ling.

When the people of Lujiazhuang saw it, they asked for the reason, and they also came to burn the money and kowtow.

Since then, there has never been a case in Lujiaqiao where the drowning ghost is looking for a stand-in.

All those who pass by this bridge must first arch their hands at the head of the bridge, and then cross the bridge to show their respect for Lu Ling, and the incense is even more vigorous in March every year.

The incense of the Qiaotou sacrifice to Lu Ling alarmed the land god here, and he came to the heavenly court and reported the situation to the emperor.

When the Emperor heard this, he was very moved, and immediately issued an order: seal Lu Ling as the god of the bridge, and give him a ghost fighting stick.

Since then, Lujiaqiao has become safer, and anyone who accidentally falls into the water will not drown.

Lu Ling is the second cultivator of Night Wind.

It was only later that Yexiao Feng drank the blood of Xuanniao and Dragon Sparrow, and achieved the realm of the god king.

Ye Xiaofeng was not really a thief, but went up the mountain to find a cultivator but didn't find it, so he slept in the open and hid in a cave.

There is a narrow passage in the cave, and if you go all the way forward, there is a pool. I didn't know that the night breeze bathed in the pool, and entered another cave through the pool.

The cave is very clean, and there is a futon cushion under the main wall.

In the bedroom with the side hole, Ye Xiaofeng wanted to sleep peacefully, but he didn't know that the pillow made him very uncomfortable.

Ye Xiaofeng tore open the pillow and found two jade bottles, the red liquid in the bottles was refreshing, so he couldn't help it at all, and drank it all in a few clicks.

The night breeze was hot, but it was extremely comfortable, and he was dizzy and sleepy.

When he woke up, there was an old Taoist sitting on the edge of the stone bed, and this Taoist was Qiu Shanzhen.

Qiu Shan Zhenren didn't blame Ye Xiaofeng, but just let him go down the mountain by himself after resting, and didn't accept him as an apprentice.

Yexiaofeng had no choice but to go down the mountain, but he didn't know that he later cultivated to the sun, and now he has become the realm of the god king.