"Nameless Senior Brother."

"No, no flower, junior sister? Why are you sitting here? ”

By the hot spring pool, Nameless, who was sitting cross-legged on the shore with his eyes closed, slowly opened his eyes, took a long breath of relief, and heard a soft call in his ears.

Nameless turned his head and found that Wuhua was sitting casually beside him, smiling and looking at him.

Wuhua didn't know when, but she had already woken up before Nameless from the realm of selflessness that cultivators often encounter but cannot seek; I'm bored on the sidelines.

"People look at you, senior brother, you've been here for a long time, and you haven't gone back. So, so I came here to have a look. Hey? Senior brother, where did that Ao Bing go? ”

Wuhua pouted slightly, responding to Nameless's words, while looking left and right, as if she wanted to find that Ao Bing.

"Oh? You said Brother Ao Bing. Hey, he turned into a silver carp and jumped into the hot spring. Hehehe, I don't know where he's playing now. This big brother Ao seems to be, it seems that he really has a little, some child-like temperament. ”

Nameless stood up and looked at the hot spring in front of him with a smile.

"He, he? Senior brother, you said that he became a, a silver carp, a carp? Also, you jumped into this hot spring? Don't be so exaggerated, Senior Brother Nameless. ”

Wuhua quickly stood up and took a few hurried steps forward to the edge of the hot spring.

Looking at the hot spring pool where the heat was slowly filling and rising slightly, Wuhua was surprised to half-open her little mouth.

"Brother Ao's body is the true body of the dragon, and the dragon is a divine beast. Legend has it that the true body of the dragon can be hidden and visible, can be small and huge, can be short and long, the spring equinox ascends to the sky, the autumn equinox dives into the abyss, and calls for wind and rain. The dragon is the fifth of the 12 Chinese zodiac signs in the Chinese tradition. Moreover, it is also known as the "Four Divine Beasts" together with the White Tiger, Vermilion Bird, and Xuanwu. Therefore, no matter what Brother Ao will become, I will no longer be as surprised and strange as I was at the beginning, and even scared and frightened. ”

Nameless slowly took a few steps forward, standing side by side with Flower.

"This? Hi! It's fun, it's fun! Nameless brother, you know so much. I think the senior brother must have read a lot of Taoist classics. I've seen some of them without flowers, but I only know what dragons and phoenixes are auspicious, dragons and phoenixes are dancing, and so on. As for some other things, I don't know very well, I don't know. I never thought that I would one day meet and meet a real dragon. This—This is a mythical object that only appears in myths and legends. Hehe! It's like I'm still in a dream. Nameless brother, tell me about it again, tell me about this dragon and phoenix. ”

Wuhua turned around, grabbed Nameless's left arm with both hands, and said with a coquettish smile while shaking.

"This? All right. ”

Nameless's little face was imperceptibly slightly red, and he wanted to break free from the arm held by Wuhua, but in the end, he let Wuhua do it.

In this way, Wuhua put his hands on Nameless's arm, and the two brothers and sisters stood by the hot spring water.

Nameless stared at the hot spring with a radius of ten zhang on this side, as if he was caught in the memories of the past, and slowly spoke.

I grew up in the mountains of Ghost Valley.

In the cave on the cliff on the side of the Guigu Mountain, there have always been only two people, Master and I.

For as long as I can remember, Master began to teach me to read and hyphenate.

At the beginning, I studied the Tao Te Ching.

Master used the Tao Te Ching as a children's rhyme and often read it to me.

Later, as I grew up, Master taught me ways and means of cooking, dressing, bathing, and so on.

After I learned this, when I was six years old, Master began to teach me some of the most basic Taoist meditation techniques.

Actually, since I started to remember, many times I was alone in that cave, in my own little quiet room, reading books, that is, reading those Taoist texts.

Master sometimes goes out, and I don't know where he went, and sometimes he goes out for ten days and half a month and doesn't come back.

At a very young age, I would cook, dress, wash and take care of myself. This is not only because the master taught me early and well, but more often than not, now that I think about it, I was actually forced out of helplessness, hehe.

In the Guigu Mountains, the cave where Master and I live has many Taoist and other types, such as Buddhism, Confucianism, Legalism, soldiers, and the classics of the Mohist family, as well as some history books and miscellaneous books. Anyway, there are a lot of miscellaneous books, and many of them are mutilated and damaged.

A year before I went down, I had read all the books. I've read even some of the most broken books, some of them many times, and I've memorized many of them.

I've seen a lot of descriptions and stories about dragons, a mythical creature, in those books.

Dragons have dragon scales, and dragons have dragon whiskers.

The dragon scales are irreversible, and the dragon's whiskers cannot be touched.

In my mind when I was still young, the dragon was a very magical but terrifying existence.

In fact, the moment I saw Brother Ao Bing's true dragon body, I was almost horrified.

The dragon is also a totemic symbol of the Chinese nation.

In some of the dragon motifs in those books, the dragon's horns are like antlers, the head is like a camel, the mouth is like a donkey, the eyes are like a turtle, the ears are like a cow, the whiskers are like shrimp, the scales are like snakes, the belly is like a snake, and the feet are like eagles.

Now it seems that Ao Bing's ontology is indeed very similar to these descriptions. This is enough to show that the legendary supernatural thing such as the dragon did exist, and some people have seen it. Otherwise, how could it be portrayed so badly?!

Later, it may be that when the dragon gradually disappeared from the mortal world and disappeared, the dragon became a symbol of the emperor in the world. It is also used to refer to the supreme power and emperor of the world. For example, the face of the emperor is called the dragon face, and the descendants of the emperor are called the dragon son, the dragon girl or the dragon grandson, collectively referred to as the dragon species.

There is also the place where the emperor lives is called the Dragon Court, and the clothes he wears are called dragon robes, and so on.

As for the dragon and phoenix that the junior sister just mentioned, in fact, the dragon and the phoenix are not paired, but the phoenix and the phoenix are paired. "Dragon vs. Phoenix" should just be a misunderstanding of people in the world, so that it has been rumored from generation to generation, and after a long time, it has gradually become true and can no longer be changed.

In fact, the phoenix, the mythical and legendary mythical bird and the king of birds, should be divided into phoenix and phoenix.

The phoenix is male, and the phoenix is female.

The world is not subdivided, and it is collectively called Phoenix.

It is often used to symbolize auspiciousness, for example, the phoenix flying together is a symbol of auspiciousness and harmony.

Legend has it that the phoenix has a noble personality, does not drink unless it is morning dew, does not eat bamboo and does not eat, and does not inhabit the thousand-year-old sycamore.

As the saying goes: planting a golden sycamore attracts a phoenix.

There are many legends about dragons and phoenixes, as well as other myths and legends. Who knows if it's true or not? In many cases, people just read or listen to stories to kill and pass some boring time.

"If it weren't, if it weren't for the fact that I went to the East China Sea Dragon Palace's "Dinghai Shenzhen Palace" for some reason this time, I accidentally bumped into Brother Ao Bing, and I didn't believe that there were really dragons in this world! Sister Wuhua. ”

Nameless breathed a sigh of relief, and turned his head to look at Wuhua, who was holding his arms with both hands and could listen to his thoughts.

"Ahh

Wuhua, who had been listening to it as if she was fascinated, suddenly let out a "ahhh

"What? What's wrong? Sister Wuhua. ”

Nameless casually seemed to be taken aback.

"I, I, nameless brother, I think I, I seem to know a big secret, a secret."

Wuhua raised her eyes and looked at Nameless who was holding her arm.

"The big secret? What, what big secret? ”

Nameless felt very inexplicable and turned his face to look at Wuhua.

"I—I seem to know, I know some of Ao Bing's secrets."

Wuhua blinked her eyes and looked at her nameless senior brother with a serious little face.

"How is that possible? You are talented, just met Brother Ao Bing. With just one side, how can you, how can you know what secrets Brother Ao has? Sister Wuhua, don't, don't, by the way, don't be naughty or naughty. When I was young, Master would always say this to me~ Nameless, don't be naughty. Hehehe......"