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Yu successively sent dozens of generals to fight, but they could not defeat Wu Zhiqi. In the end, Gengchen was dispatched to capture Wu Zhiqi.

The tribal leaders on Wu Zhiqi's side and many wood charms, water spirits, mountain demons, stone monsters, etc., saw that Wu Zhiqi was caught, and they all rushed up with shouts, wanting to snatch it, but they were all killed by Gengchen wielding a bronze ge.

Yu ordered people to lock Wu Zhiqi's neck with a metal chain, put a copper bell on his nostrils, and then suppressed him at the foot of Turtle Mountain on the south side of the Huai River.

The world only knows that Li Tang is a historical figure, but they don't know that his true identity is a disciple of the Xingzhu Sect of the Yin and Yang Sect.

Although this story is only found in the ancient literary novel collection "Taiping Guangji", most people in the Xuanmen know that it is a real person and a true story. Wu Zhiqi is not a legend of strange powers, but there is such a creature.

According to Old Don, this creature is likely to be a close relative of humans, an evolutionary variant of an ancient giant ape. However, this giant ape is only more than three meters tall at most, and its size is far worse than that of the legendary Wu Zhiqi.

I have raised this question, but the old Tang Tou can't answer the reason, and can only attribute it to the numerical error in the false rumors.

But how to explain that giant face?

I saw it for real!

However, since it didn't attack us, it was safe for the time being.

I told everyone to be careful not to make a loud noise, and walked down the stone steps for more than fifty meters until they came to a corner.

Originally, the stone steps were distributed in a zigzag shape, but the surrounding area was hollow. This is not only very different from the internal structure of the famous ancient Egyptian pyramids, but also has never been seen in China itself.

Walking down the corner, there are many regular notches on the stone base on one side, which add up to a living fresco.

According to my personal understanding, this mural is a hunting picture, but the content on the picture is very strange.

In the upper left corner of the picture is a large, round sun, and dozens of running figures are drawn below. They wield spears and make hunting gestures, and the target is a large upright monster.

The ancient ancestors did not have the same painting skills as their descendants, but fortunately, the ancient tombs were sealed all the year round, and the picture was well preserved, and it can be seen at a glance that it is the appearance of an ape.

My heart moved, and I wondered if this mural tells the story of Emperor Yu's hunting and killing of Wu Zhiqi?

Is this a summer tomb?

The mural was very long, and I looked at it with doubts by the faint light of the torches, and I saw all kinds of youkai appearing in the middle.

Maybe these monsters have been artistically exaggerated, or maybe they existed in history, but they disappeared from the world for various reasons.

At the end of the mural is a mountain depiction, and on one of the peaks, a large human is depicted. Ancient murals often featured tall shapes to highlight tribal leaders or heroes to distinguish them from ordinary tribal people. Needless to say, this giant is a leader.

He stood on the top of a mountain, with a fox creeping beside him.

What is unusual is that this fox has nine long tails trailing behind its buttocks, reminiscent of the legendary nine-tailed fox.

This nine-tailed fox is attached to the human hero, and its form is very intimate, unlike the relationship between a pure owner and a pet.

Unbelievably, the voice of Second Grandma Li sounded behind her: "If the old woman is not mistaken, this is the legendary nine-tailed fox immortal." ”

The nine-tailed fox is a creature in ancient Chinese folk myths and legends, and the earliest record of it appears in the "Classic of Mountains and Seas" compiled in the Spring and Autumn Period and the Warring States Period, and then spread to Japan, Korea and other Asian regions.

This creature was worshiped as an auspicious beast in the pre-Qin period, and it was demonized in the Northern Song Dynasty.

"The Classic of Mountains and Seas" has clouds: the mountain of Qingqiu, there are beasts, and its shape is like a fox and nine tails. This is the earliest source of a description of the nine-tailed fox. Most scholars believe that the nine-tailed fox is an imaginary creature that does not exist in reality, while a few scholars believe that it is a prehistoric creature that is extinct in antiquity, resembling a fox, and is called "nine-tailed" because it has a particularly long tail, rather than nine tails.

The fox fairy belongs to the category of the horse immortal, which originated from the witchcraft in the area of Changbai Mountain, not the Central Plains civilization, so there are few relevant records in the classics of Bailongmen.

I smiled and said, "The Nine-Tailed Fox Immortal and Master Hu San are a family, right?" ”

Second Grandma Li didn't answer, but asked rhetorically: "Doll, do you know the origin of Third Grandpa Hu?" ”

I shook my head and said, "I still hope that the second grandmother will give me some advice." ”

Second Grandma Li thought for a moment, and then talked about an old story.

Legend has it that in ancient times, when the flood flooded, Emperor Yao first chose the Xia Hou clan to control the water, although the flood was cured, but it could not be discharged, resulting in the final failure of the flood control. Later, Emperor Shun succeeded to the throne, first chose Yu's father Kun, but because there was no harvest in water control, it caused a catastrophe, and was executed by Emperor Shun, and then Yu took on the heavy responsibility of controlling the water, so that all living beings were saved from the catastrophe of the flood, which includes the deeds of our Hu family. Hu Sanye's father, Lao Hei Hu Xian, was originally an old immortal who had been cultivating for thousands of years, because he was ordered by the Emperor of Heaven to help Dayu control the water, and went through many difficulties and dangers, and finally made a complete merit. The daughter of the old black Hu Xian is called Nujiao, because of her profoundness, with nine tails, she is called the 'nine-tailed fox', and she secretly has feelings for him in the process of helping Dayu to control the water.

Because of the merits of the nine-tailed Hu Immortal who helped Dayu to control the water, the Emperor of Heaven named Nujiao ranked in the immortal class. Her old father, Lao Hei Hu Xian, was also able to rank in the immortal class because of his goddaughter's talent, and was in charge of Tianlu (that is, the documents and archives of the Emperor of Heaven). Old Hei Hu Xian left the base camp Tu Shan to his eldest son, Master Hu, and the rest of his descendants went to other places to continue their cultivation. Nowadays, the fox immortals in the land of China and even in North Korea, Japan, Vietnam and other places can be traced back to the old black beard immortals.

Not to mention other Hu Xian, it is Hu Sanye and Hu Santai's grandmother, who dragged their children to the Bohai Bay in the northeast, and saw that there was an isolated island sitting in the north and facing south, and the feng shui was excellent, so they chose this place for cultivation. Soon after, Mrs. Hu San's grandmother was pregnant with Liujia, and when it came time to give birth, she caught up with dystocia. Mrs. Hu was very anxious, and in desperation, he had to find a midwife in a nearby village at night, so he safely gave birth to a daughter, named "Hu Xiuying", and later gave him the nickname "Pai Feng Girl".

When Hu Xiuying grew up, she went to Mantou Mountain to cultivate, and since then, Hu Santai, Hu Santai, and ten sons and daughters Hu Xiuying have taken Changbai Mountain as the center, opened a wide range of dojos, and appeared in the Dharma body to save sentient beings in dire straits.

I didn't expect the disciples of the Hu family to have such a relationship with the ancient Emperor Yu, and I couldn't help but sigh: "Dayu is the ancestor of Chinese civilization and one of the holy kings worshiped by Daomen. Why do many factions of the Dao Sect regard the fox fairy as a side-door? ”