Mu Ji pondered for a moment before slowly explaining the origin of the night owl spirit.

This legend about the night owl spirit originally originated from an ancient Yi tribe at the foot of Ailao Mountain, Mu Ji said, this tribe first lived under the three bamboo shoots peak of Ailao Mountain, and later for unknown reasons, most of the tribes left their hometown and migrated to other places, in the ancient Yi classics, these people from the foot of the three bamboo shoots are called Sanzhu people.

When the Central Plains was still in the Shengtang Dynasty, a group of Sanzhu people came to this village under Laowu Mountain, and they brought the legend of the three girls seeking the sun, and also brought the fire of the night owl spirit.

Mu Ji didn't know what the so-called tinder meant, he just said that this was described in the ancient books in the village, but he didn't give a detailed explanation.

Reminiscent of the fact that the Great Witch of Noja once said that the night owl spirit may have offspring, I guess that the so-called fire should be the cub of the night owl spirit, and the thing that is now pressed in the depths of the western tomb is this cub.

However, this speculation has not been confirmed to this day.

Mu Ji said that the reason why these migrated ancients are called Sanzhu people, and the place where they once lived is called Sanzhu Mountain, because next to their hometown, there are three high mountains that rise into the sky, and at the foot of the three mountains there is a lush bamboo forest, and the peaks of the three mountains are like bamboo shoots, one higher than the other.

There is still a scenic spot called Sanjian Mountain in Ailao Mountain, but the bamboo forest that grows at the foot of the mountain does not know if it is still there.

It is said that these three mountains are incarnated by the three women's primordial gods, who guard the Ailao Mountain every day, waiting for the sun to rise and set in the west, in the eyes of the Sanzhu people, as long as these three mountains are there, the world will never fall into eternal darkness.

Before these three mountains appeared, the heavens and the earth had fallen into an extremely long night, and before that polar night came, there were originally seven suns in the sky.

In ancient times, the seven suns gave birth to all things on the earth, there was no winter, there was no night, everything in heaven and earth was always new, crops could mature seven times a year, cattle and sheep were pregnant with seven children a year, human beings were favored by warm sunshine and abundant products, food and clothing were worry-free, and life was like paradise.

But the yin and yang of heaven and earth will always maintain a delicate balance in a way that no one can imagine, and on a thunderstorm night, the raging river suddenly poured into the Ailao Mountain, and a black night owl spirit was conceived from the raging river, it struggled to swim ashore from the flood, and disappeared into the dense mountain forest, and for hundreds of years, no one knew where it went.

After the flood, the locals lived a quiet life for hundreds of years, until one day, the head of the people, inspired by the heavens, decided to open up the mountains and forests to build a larger home for the people.

At that time, the night owl who emerged from the flood had long been forgotten, and they reclaimed the mountains and forests day and night, expanding their homes little by little, until a few young men with stones and pickaxes cut down the last forest at the foot of the mountain, and the bad luck began.

In the corner of the woods, there was a deep cavern in which the night owl had been sleeping since it came ashore, and because the dense jungle blocked the sun, it coexisted peacefully with the locals for a long time.

But the mountains and forests were cut down, and the sunlight shone into the cave, and the night owl spirit was suddenly awakened.

The reason why it was able to coexist with the natives was not because of compassion, but because it had to sleep in the dark, and as soon as it was awakened, it immediately bared its fangs, first tore several young men who had strayed into the cave to pieces, and then transformed into an incomparably tall iron man with a hawk's beak, and took revenge on the sun that woke it up.

The night owl flew up to the highest mountain with its wings, and as soon as the sun showed its face, it shot down the first sun with its iron feathers as sharp arrows.

The sun rose one after another, and was shot down by it one after another, until the sixth sun fell, and the seventh sun did not dare to rise again as before, and fell into sedimentation.

Without the sun, the long polar night began, everything lost the infiltration of sunlight, and gradually decayed, cattle and sheep no longer grow, the grass and trees withered, in order to survive, the head man prayed to the sky, hoping that the last sun would appear early, but the sun just did not dare to show its head, and the night owl spirit also disappeared without a trace in the darkness of the wilderness.

In desperation, the head man could only send Bi Mo, who had the most profound mana, to find the sun, but he sent several Bi Mo one after another, but they all went back without returning, and in the end, it was the oldest Bi Mo in the clan who personally went out to bring back a little news.

When Da Bimo came back, he was covered with bloody wounds, he sat at the entrance of the stockade, asked the leader to come, and only said the three words "night owl spirit" to the leader, and he lost his breath.

Just when the leader was at a loss, the three medicine women in the village stood up, and they concluded that this polar night was related to the night owl spirit, and if you want to let people see the sun in the world again, you must first attack the night owl spirit.

These three medicine women didn't know what method to use to find the place where the night cat spirit was hiding, they led the tribesmen to dig the mountain embankment, and introduced the water into the mountain forest, but the night cat spirit was not afraid of water, and the flood failed to drown it, and then they took the disciples of Bimo in the past generations to surround and suppress the night cat spirit, cut it with an axe, shoot it with a bow and arrow, but could not kill the night cat spirit, and the arrows shot out were blocked back by the night cat spirit, and countless Bimo disciples died under the poisoned arrow.

In the two confrontations, the medicine woman found that the night cat spirit was afraid of yang energy, so she asked the clansmen to tie up a torch, no one held one, and surrounded the place where the night cat spirit was hiding, and the fire outside the night cat spirit cave was bright, and she didn't dare to come out anyway, so the doctor girl asked the tribesmen to throw the torch into the hole, and attracted the thunder and earth fire from the heavens and the earth, and finally burned the night cat spirit alive.

After the death of the night owl spirit, the last sun still did not rise, and the three medicine women went together to find the sun.

They had climbed nine hundred and ninety mountains, crossed nine hundred and ninety-nine great rivers, and for a year, ten years, and decades, they kept running in search of the sun, until their hair fell to the ground, their black hair turned white, and the sun was getting closer and closer to them.

When they came to a place called Qiu Niu Mountain, a thunderbolt suddenly swept through the sky, and the trees were shaken, and a colorful tiger flashed out of the thunder, blocking their way.

The three medical women spent half of their strength, and they fought hard for three days and three nights to subdue the colorful tiger.

When he came down from Qiuniu Mountain, another thunderbolt flashed in the sky, and a huge python appeared in the electric light, and a blood-like long letter spurted out of a big mouth like a night, and pounced towards the medicine woman.

The three medical women exhausted all the remaining strength, and it took another three days and three nights to subdue the python.

When they left Qiuniu Mountain and walked into a large canyon, Caixia appeared in the black night sky, and an old man with long blond hair appeared in front of them.

The old man told them that the sun had been trapped by the Colorful Tiger and the Wooden Python and could not rise again, and the medicine woman told the old man that the Colorful Tiger and the Wooden Python had been ambushed.

The old man said that the sun was tired and did not want to rise again, so the healer told him that without the sun, everything would wither, and the people and cattle would soon die, and that they would find the sun no matter what.

At this time, the lives of the three medicine women were almost coming to an end, and the old man looked at them with pity and said, on the day of the beginning of autumn, a young man would come here on horseback, and he would be the seventh sun.

With that, the old man vanished.

The life of the healed woman finally came to an end, but they were afraid that they would not be able to wait for the young man on horseback, so they became mountains, forever waiting for the arrival of the seventh sun.

On the day of the beginning of autumn, a young man rode a majestic horse to the middle of the three mountains, he looked at the three towering mountains, and was silent for a long time, and that night, the young man left quietly and left his horse at the foot of the three mountains.

The next day, the sun finally rose as usual.

The following year, a dense bamboo forest grew at the foot of Sanjian Mountain.

By the time the sun rose, the old man had died, and his youngest son had come to the foot of Sanjian Mountain with hundreds of his clansmen, where he had established a home and guarded the medicine woman who gave his life for them for generations.

Now the old village built at the foot of Sanjian Mountain has disappeared, but Mu Ji said that among the Yi people, there are two small groups of people, one of whom is called the Sanzhu people, and the other part calls themselves the "medical women", and this group of medical women is actually the descendants of the Sanzhu people with the purest blood.

In fact, not long ago, I also deliberately checked some legends related to Sanjian Mountain, and indeed found the story of the three girls seeking the sun, but its version is very different from the version dictated by Mu Ji.

As for whether such a legend is true or false...... Anyway, in my opinion, the credibility is not high, after all, if in ancient times, the earth was really surrounded by seven stars, then I estimate that our world should be a scorched earth, and it is unlikely that there will be life, let alone everything is always new, and I don't believe that there will be such a powerful life form, and a feather can destroy a star at will.

Of course, such legends cannot be forcibly explained by science, and I only think that they are not very credible, or at least exaggerated, but I dare not give a complete conclusion if they are fundamentally true or false.

By the time Mu Ji finished telling the whole story as it was, the yin qi in the dark path had almost dispersed, and the remaining yin qi field could no longer make any changes in the snake tide on the ground, and at the same time, due to the loss of the nourishment of the yin qi from the outside world, the snake tide gradually lost its last vitality.

I patted Li Huaishan on the shoulder, let him shine a flashlight, and then took a step onto the ground covered with snake corpses.

When the soles of the shoes came into contact with the snake corpse, there was an immediate soft and collapsing touch, which was very uncomfortable, like stepping on a large round rubber tube.

Xiao Heitian also regained some strength a little, and not long after, it also stepped into the snake group with Mu Ji, the flames on Xiao Heitian's body scorched the snake corpse on the ground, and the air was immediately filled with a stench of burnt skin and flesh, which made people feel sick in their hearts.

(End of chapter)