The snake cultivator couldn't see me on his head, and naturally he couldn't feel my complex mental activity, but it seemed to know that I was on its head because it shook its head.

The thing shook its head like an earthquake, and I clung to what looked like a snake's crown to keep it from falling. But as I grabbed it so hard, the thing let out a piercing scream and began to change.

The snake's head shook and didn't shake me down, and then the snake's head began to look left and right, and at this moment, I seemed to feel that the snake was a little nervous.

I heard the thing scream, and then the red eyes stared at me tightly, the bright flashlight in his hand seemed to pull the snake man directly in front of him, the strange eyes seemed so clear, the fist-sized eyes had no eyelids, as bright as a polished red bloodstone, there was no iris or eyeballs.

The moment I met the strange red pupils, I felt as if I had been struck by four red rays of light from a distance of thousands of meters, and suddenly I had difficulty breathing, as if I was being held tightly by a huge fear. A suffocating force took control of my will, and I couldn't move. I tried all my strength to get out of it, and shouted to myself in my heart: Run!

My legs began to sway, but I couldn't take a step, and not only that, I couldn't even put down the flashlight in my hand, and I couldn't get out of this horrible sight at all—I could only see the soft crown of the snake's head in front of me begin to change, and soon began to look like a human head. After turning into a human face, this thing slammed into me.

The crown of the snake on the snake's head was wrapped around my body, and I grabbed it with one hand and punched it twice with the other. It's hard to mess with snakes, but this thing on its head is nothing. I threw a few punches down, and the thing went limp like a dead snake.

The snake cultivator can't threaten my safety for the time being, as long as I don't leave the snake's head, this snake cultivator can't do anything if I don't dive back to the bottom of the lake, but I feel that the snake cultivator is a little nervous, which caught my attention. Something that can make this snake cultivator nervous is obviously not something to deal with, and if that thing appears if I don't care, I won't move, and it will be affected by the pond fish.

Just as I was thinking this, the surface of the lake suddenly began to shake, and even the snake began to shake.

The surface of the lake suddenly began to shake, and the snake let out an angry and frightened hiss, and then the hundred-meter-tall body began to fall violently, and in a few seconds, it quickly sank to the bottom of the lake. I stood on the head of the snake and grabbed the human face on the head of the snake, and the strong wind was blowing in my face, and the strong wind blowing from the bottom up made me feel like I was in free fall.

The wind almost blew and I couldn't open my eyes, I squinted my eyes and stared at the surface of the lake, and in a few seconds I had to find the most suitable time to get out of the snake, otherwise it would be difficult to be taken to the bottom of the lake by the snake. The huge and terrifying head quickly approached the surface of the lake, and the surface of the lake quickly magnified before my eyes like a magnifying glass. Just before the snake's head was about to sink into the lake, I ran a few steps on the snake's head and leaped forward frantically.

'Bang! My body slammed against the surface of the lake, and almost at the same time, the water behind me rushed forward. I used the power of the water to endure the pain of my body falling apart and swam forward. After a few seconds, I swam hundreds of meters before I showed my head, and I immediately continued to swim forward.

The snake under the lake is so big that I don't want it to swallow it with saliva, and I guess I won't want to come out alive if I get into the belly of this snake. This snake can grow so big, I don't know how many snakes and survivors in the dragon vein have entered its belly!

Before I could run out, a hand grabbed me. My heart throbbed, but it was a familiar voice. I called out to Shi Lingren and passed out.

When I woke up, I was met by Shi Lingren's concerned eyes, and there was indescribable pain in his eyes, as well as deep self-blame.

Where are we now? I asked.

Shi Ling walked over to the bright flashlight, which was still emitting a faint green light, picked it up and threw it again into the darkness in the distance.

With the last rays of the flashlight, I could faintly see the faint reflection of the dome of the rock wall in the distance. It's a culvert by the lake, but it's not a closed cul-de-sac, but it leads to a larger and more spacious underworld. From the uniform angle of the slope of the cave wall around me, it can be seen that the bottom of the cave seems to be a gentle slope terrain, and the further down the cave wall becomes, the wider it becomes, so wide that Shi Ling and I can't see the rock walls on both sides. Except for the rubble beneath his feet, everything around him was plunged into endless darkness.

"Bang!" I stepped on a metal object.

The stone lingman leaned down and picked up a strange-looking weapon.

This is the snake man's claw knife.

He said that those monsters had already opened their minds and could even use simple weapons...... It may be a bronze weapon smelted with the help of the Xiong'erzhai volcano, it's incredible! He sighed, who would have thought that there was such a huge danger hidden at the feet of this seemingly quiet and peaceful Son of Heaven. The specific number is unknown, and the origin is not clear, a group of mutant monsters have lived in the depths of the deep mountains and old forests for at least 50,000 years. Just now the Shi Ling people saved me from the snake cultivators, the snake cultivators couldn't chase me, just drove those snake people, the Shi Ling people and the snake people chased a fight, and blew up the entrance of the cave with the fruit, this thing should have fallen last, so it was not buried under hundreds of millions of tons of rubble. He had seen this snake man's unique smelting weapon at least three times during the battle just now, and if it weren't for the distance it was too far, he would have really wanted to jump over and get one for himself as evidence. If these monsters run outside, it must be a terrible disaster. Although their bronze weapons are backward and slow, they appear everywhere with their strong vitality alone...... This snake repair alone can kill most human armies equipped with modern weapons in an instant. Whenever they thought that their habitat was only 300 kilometers away from the capital, the Shiling people couldn't help but shudder.

Although the bronze claw knife is not as easy to handle as a saber, judging from the cold and hard appearance, the hardness of this thing should not be inferior.

Originally a wild animal, but now the snake people who have evolved into human forms and even pray to gods and ghosts to make living sacrifices, where did they learn to smelt this bronze alloy weapon? So who repaired snakes, are they their ancestors or what kind of owners?

Shi Lingren was full of questions, wielding the freshly acquired claw knife at will, to familiarize himself with the feel.

I looked at the knife about 80 centimeters long, which should be considered a large short sword for a human like him who was close to 1.9 meters tall, but it was definitely a long guy for a snake man with an average height of only 1.4 meters.

With a thought, Shi Lingren slashed at the rock wall beside him with a knife in his left hand.

"Dang!" The screeching and dull sound of the intersection of gold and stone was clearly transmitted into my extrasensory perception through the sonic vibration sense.

The claw knife slashed into the hard igneous rock, sending the rock wall into a cloud of rubble. When I pulled it out and looked at it again, there was no gap in the stressed blade and the cutter head, and there was no trace of cracking and phase breaking.

"Good knives!" Shi Ling exclaimed, holding a knife in his left hand, and strode towards the endless darkness below the slope.

I knew he wasn't just walking around as he pleased, and when he threw out the flashlight, he saw a faint reflection in the distance.

Real rock walls are non-reflective, and in such a deep underground world, the only thing that can reflect light is either metal or ice.

If it's ice, then water has been found, and the biggest problem we face has been solved.

If it was metal, he had to take a look at what kind of objects the monsters of the snake people had buried deep underground.

The bright flashlight could only allow me and the Shiling people to see the scene within a hundred meters of the surrounding area, and the gradually expanding cave walls quickly retreated into the farther dark area, making it impossible for the Shiling people to use them as a reference for the way forward.

We had no choice but to walk towards the strong flashlight that emitted a faint green light in the distance, and then pick it up and throw it away when we got closer, and then move towards the strong flashlight again.

Half an hour later, the flashlight, which had played a huge role, finally died and went out.

There was still a flashlight in the Stoneling's backpack, but that was the last one. We were ready to stop and rest for a while and wait until we had recovered our strength before moving on.

The backpack also contained two bags of sports drinks, an automatic rifle magazine, and a first-aid kit left by Linglinghu. We took out a bag of sports drinks, sucked gently on each other's lips, and a stream of sports drinks with a faint salty taste poured into our dry mouths.

It was a sports drink specially designed for Traveler Action, and according to the advertisement, it contained all the protein, calories and trace elements that humans need, but ...... Let's hope so.

"Taste is not the first thing we think about, maybe in the future we can add some chocolate juice to it." Now, Shi Ling people finally believe the advertisement.

When we sat weary and tired in a cave deep in the ground at the feet of the Son of Heaven, unable to reach out and not even touch the walls of the cave, we really didn't care too much about the taste of the sports drink.

Shi Lingren and I sucked mechanically, while lying on the cold ground with our limbs spread out, so that our physical strength could recover a little more in a short time.

We quickly took turns taking a pack of sports drinks, and although we didn't feel full at all, we had to stop there. The last remaining bag in the backpack must be saved until the most critical moment, and no one knows how long it will take for the rescue team on Sister Xiaomo's boat to find us.

Food isn't our biggest problem right now. The lack of oxygen in this culvert is that without food, a person can support for a long time without dying. But without air, the best diver in the human race could barely last fifteen minutes.

Shi Ling taught me to try to relax my mind and let my breathing slow down until I reached a smooth rhythm, only in this way can I minimize the consumption of oxygen and allow the internal circulation to last longer. Shi Lingren chuckled and told me that maybe this was part of the hexagram...... The sound of cranes and nine gao is heard in the sky!

"The crane is singing in the yin, and it is given and harmonized; I have a good lord, and I am with you. This is the rhetoric of Zhongfu Jiuer. Confucius put forward his experience report on these four sentences: the upper hexagram of Zhongfu is Xun, Xun is the wind, the lower hexagram is Dui, and the exchange is Ze, which together is the wind Ze Zhongfu, and in the hexagram order of the Book of Changes, it is the sixty-first hexagram. The principle of moderation comes from Zhongfu. Confucius quoted the words of Zhongfu Jiuyi here, and proposed that "the crane sings in the yin", and the crane is found in the northeast and northwest of Chinese mainland. The so-called crane top red is because the top of the red crane is red, and the whole body is white hair, and now there are only more than 90 in the world, and there are probably a few in the northeast.

Shiling people said that cranes are very rare animals, and they are a long-lived bird in China, living for at least more than 1,000 years. Some people meditate and practice qigong and breathing, and there is a school of Taoism that imitates the Danwu Dao of the white crane. It is said that the crane's breath circulates in the body, and when the crane sleeps at night, its nose is facing the buttocks, and the qi circulates in the body along the second pulse of Rendu, so it can live a long life. There is a poem in the "Book of Songs" that says: "The crane sings nine gao, and the sound is heard in the sky." "The saint has the ability to see the movement of the world, and to observe its understanding, to resemble its ceremony, which is a rhetoric! To judge its good fortune is so called. Say that the world is the most serious and not evil, say that the world is the most moving and not chaotic, and then say, discuss and then move, and propose to make its changes. The crane sings in the yin, and its son is with it; I have a good lord, and I am with you. Zi said: The gentleman lives in his room, and if he is good, he should be thousands of miles away, and what is his argument? Living in his room, out of his bad way, it is violated thousands of miles away, and it is not argued? He is out of the body and the people; It seems to be far away; Like, cardinal of a gentleman. The hair of the cardinal, the lord of honor and disgrace. It seems that the reason why a gentleman moves the heavens and the earth is not. Cautious?

In the past, the use of Chinese characters could not be done casually. For example, to describe the call of an animal, the bird is calling, the crane is singing, the dragon is groaning, the tiger is roaring, the lion is roaring, the long right is crying, and the dog is barking. "The crane is singing in the yin", the yin is an invisible place, a white crane is calling in an invisible place, and the crane call is difficult to hear. There are two kinds of crane sounds, the flying one is called "唳", such as the crane sighing in the nine skies, the crane in the sky, and the crane in the wind, which is very sharp and piercing, like the sound of thunder or a very good gong, especially heard in the high mountains, it is really unique. "The crane is singing in the yin", the crane screams in an invisible place, "its son and it", the little crane hears it and follows the call, and immediately replies, it is such a picture. The next sentence "I have a good lord, I am with Er", I have a good wine, good friends, you come, let's drink together, drunk the most happy.

Why use the crane song - the white crane that screams? Why not use ducks? If you use "the duck sings in the water, its son snorts", can it be different? Yes, too. Why does it have to be "the crane sings in the yin, its son and it, I have a good lord, and I am with you"? The two, three, and four lines of the Zhongfu hexagram are the shock hexagrams, saying that the hexagram is "hoof", and "hoof" is the ancient crane character, which is the hexagram of the two cranes. Second, is this crane a male crane or a female crane? The answer is a female crane, not a male crane! Why? "The crane is singing in the yin, and its son is with it", as soon as the hen crows, a flock of chicks comes; The rooster crows again, and the chick ignores it. In the same way, when a cow crows, the calf crows, and the cow and the calf bark, especially when it is dark to return to the pen. Therefore, "the crane sings in the yin, and its son is with it", you can see the mother's love, don't think of it as a male crane, and this crane is not a flying crane, it is hiding behind a mountain, behind a tree or in an invisible place. What about the cranes? Still standing on the rock wall, he heard his mother call, "His son and him", so he followed and ran to his mother. What if it's a cow barking? The chicks won't get along, and the cranes won't get along.

The Shiling man talked about the scenery again, he had been to Amdo on the plateau, the natural kingdom of wild animals. Common wild animals include Tibetan wild ass, Tibetan antelope, wild yak, argali, etc., and the main birds are the world-famous Tibetan snowcock, black-necked crane, and white swan. The Amdo River is crisscrossed by numerous lakes and rich in fish. The famous Cuona Lake contains schizophrenia and other subfamily fish, which have a unique flavor and are treasures among fish. Amdo has more than 30 kinds of mineral resources, which are extremely rich, and the construction of the Qinghai-Tibet Railway provides convenient conditions for the development of mineral resources.

We continue to lie on our backs and meditatively slow down our breathing. Just as our drowsiness was at strain, we faintly saw a faint blue glow flash in the darkness overhead.

Shi Ling said it might be an illusion. Human beings in a desperate situation are prone to all kinds of hallucinations. The wisest way to do this is to stay calm and rational.

You should continue to regulate your breathing and keep your eyes fixed on the blue light.

The blue light gradually became brighter, and we finally determined that it was not an illusion, but a light source approaching us.

After a few minutes, we sat up and watched in disbelief as a flashlight appeared in the darkness, and when we got closer, Shi Ling saw a man with scratches and bumps on his body.

It was You Murong, who looked at Shi Lingren with a smile on his face, and made a gesture to disarm the alarm.

Shi Ling's heart was relieved, and in an instant, he took a hard breath of the air in the darkness.

The air outside was fresher than in the snake people's underworld, and there was even a moist feeling rich in moisture.

"Do you smell it? There must be water around here and the air quality is good, I found out when I arrived. Although You Murong's voice was full of excitement and excitement, there was a weakness that could not be concealed.

Shi Lingren threw away his claw knife and came closer, and by the light of the bright flashlight, he saw You Murong's right calf turning outward at a strange angle.

"Before I was separated, I stayed awake until I hit rock bottom. I found it not difficult to slow down by grabbing those stalagmites with my hands, so I didn't fall too hard. However, when I rolled down the slope, my good fortune ran out. ”

"I'll give you the right place to break the bone, and bandage it." Shi Ling pulled out the first aid kit from his backpack.

"There are no splints here, and broken bones cannot be fixed."

"You can use this." Shi Ling pointed to the claw knife that had been thrown on the ground.

"Wrap it up like that, and I'll be a notorious pirate." You Murong laughed. "By the way, are you just two of you? What about the policemen in Youyimo? ”

Shi Lingren nodded, and You Murong looked around and immediately gave up on the same question. You Murong, who is immortal, is obviously also a person. Yue Shiyin didn't know what to do.

"It doesn't matter, the people up there have helicopters, and they will definitely find us soon." Shi Ling took off his combat uniform first, and then took it off for me, and then tore open You Yimo's right leg combat uniform and found the bloody and bloody fracture.

"It's good that I still have supplies in my backpack, so I found you first."

"Didn't you find Yue Shiyin and them?"

"No...... Ah——!h The heart-wrenching pain from his right leg made You Murong scream, and he pressed hard against the crack in the rock on the ground, and his forehead immediately sweated like a spring.

"My craft is a little rougher, but the effect should be good." Shi Lingren quickly took off the roll of bandage that he had bitten between his lips and began to tie the wound to stop the bleeding.

“…… I checked the pile-up of mutant creature remains, but I didn't find the remains of Long Sihai and Yue Zhende...... Ah......——!h They're probably all alive, at least not buried under the Black Swamp......"

"Helicopters can detect this hole...... Do you know how deep it is from the outside? Shi Lingren put the claw knife close to You Murong's calf, gestured, and then used the climbing rope to tie the calf and the claw knife tightly together.

"Ah——! it should be more than three thousand meters deep,...... The hole above is probably not detected by the police helicopter, and I estimate that it is about 6,000 to 8,000 meters from the time I came...... My phone was also damaged and I couldn't contact the police. Ah——! boss, can you be lighter?!"

"I'm already very light, if I don't tie it tightly, your leg will be useless!"

I said, somebody's coming.

At the same moment, our quarrel was interrupted by a long howl from a distant place, a voice majestic and low, which seemed to contain endless power. Just from this volume, you can tell that the owner of this voice is not small.

It was obviously not a sound that Yue Shiyin, or any mercenary personnel could make.

We were silent and looked at each other.

Since there can be snake people in the underground world under the feet of the Son of Heaven, there may be more other monsters as well. As for what those monsters will look like, we immortal ones sincerely hope that we will never see them with our own eyes.

"It's all flat terrain around here, and we need to move quickly and move to a safe place."

"I'll help you, let's go quickly." I helped, Shi Ling picked up the debris on the ground, and together they helped You Murong up, and let the female mercenary's right arm on his shoulder.

In the dark, we don't know how far we have gone. For safety reasons, You Murong turned off the flashlight, so as not to attract the big monster following us.

I saw that Shi Ling was sweating profusely, presumably for Shi Ling people, it was not very tiring to support You Murong, but the impact of each landing made the wound sprout severe pain. However, there was no choice but to endure and move on.

The detection of the surrounding terrain by You Murong all the way just now has confirmed that the rock walls on both sides and even the dome above us are beyond the range of three thousand meters, and it is obviously not a wise choice to retreat back to the dead-end lake. The snake is waiting for the rabbit.

More than 2,000 meters ahead, there is a cluster of rocky rocks four or five hundred meters high, and that is where our hope for saving our lives lies.

In order to distract us, we told the story of snake cultivation one by one. Due to the barrier of the Qinling Mountains, the early exchanges between Shu and the Central Plains should have been from the two norths through the Bailongjiang River and the Western Han River Valley, and then to the Gansu area, and finally eastward into the hinterland of the Central Plains. It's just that the Zhou people moved eastward, and Gansu became the land of the Rong people, and this passage where their lives hung by a thread was cut off. Therefore, after the Eastern Zhou Dynasty, especially during the Warring States Period, the powerful Qin State at that time often wanted to swallow up the Shu State. However, the terrain of Shu is dangerous, as the saying goes, one man is the pass, ten thousand people are not open, the army is not easy to pass, and a hard attack is obviously not a way. If Qin and Shu want to get a connection in a substantive sense, it is imperative to directly break through the blockage of the Qinling Mountains and Longmen rock walls. However, in order to open up the passage between Qin and Shu from the front, and to dig stones and build roads between the cliffs and ravines of the Longmen Rock Wall and the Qinling Mountains, the difficulty and danger of the project and the huge cost are so great that in the eyes of today's people, it is simply incredible!

At that time, Shu was a superpower and many powers, and Guyong was a larger country in the Spring and Autumn Period. The capital was built in Shangyong, with a long history, and accompanied by King Wu of Zhou to destroy Shang. Others, including 麇 (jūn), 儵 (shū), Yu Guo, Kui Guo, etc., are all small subordinate states, and Qu Yuan's ancestor was a monarch of Yongguo, Boyong. The tree is a big wind, and other countries either join forces or lure wolves into the house, trying to make a mediocre country. Among them, Shu has more potential, and Du Shang, the king of Shu of the enlightened clan, is far-sighted, and his younger brother is the Marquis of Hanzhong and belongs to the Tho State, so the monarch of the Tho State is also surnamed Du, and he is a vassal to the Shu State and is the Marquis of Tho. Later, the relationship between Shu and Tho deteriorated, and he did not become king, because it was Du Shang, the king of Shu, who divided his brother to manage the kingdom of Tho.

It's a pity that the children and grandchildren are blind. When the Enlightened Eleventh, the then Marquis of Tho asked to be paid tribute and taxes more and more frequently, and the Marquis of Tho felt that he had done this Hanzhong Marquis's nest, so he joined forces to resist Shu many times under the pull of the Ba State, and the tribute and taxes paid to the Shu State were also less, which annoyed the Shu State, but due to the importance of the existence of the Tho State, and the Marquis of the same clan, the 11th King of Shu just sent someone to respond to the sentence "If there are Qin soldiers in the future, they will retreat" that is, "If there is a Qin army to attack the Tho State in the future, you will withdraw by yourself." Since then, the Marquis of Tho has once interrupted his contacts with the Shu Kingdom of the same sect. When the enlightened 12th Shu King Du Lu, Ba was a headache by the invasion of Yong, so he set the goal of moving to the west of Shu, Shu and Ba wars are very frequent, Shu due to the decline of the national strength of the 11th enlightened 11, the 12th Shu King Du Lu is ready to concentrate on defeating Ba to inspire the hearts of the Shu people, so there is the largest battle of Bashu, Tho is still leaning on the side of Ba in this campaign, but in order not to tear the skin with Shu, only sent a team of soldiers to guide the way for Ba. Du Lu, the king of Shu, had already gotten the news of the confluence of Tho and Ba, so he secretly sent the old and weak soldiers of the Shu army to be bait, leading the main force of the Ba army to go deeper, and then encircled and suppressed the nest, and the battle ended with a complete victory for Shu and a general who beheaded the enemy.

During the Warring States Period, Zhou Shenliang Wang Ji Ding six years, Shu repelled the invasion of the Ba country, the powerful Shu King decided to cut down Tho and set up a new Hou Hou, at this time, the nineteenth year of the throne, with the clan resentment, the Qin Huiwen King who killed Shang Yang was eyeing the tiger, and he was ambitious to change the "Gong" to the "king", and changed the Yuan to the first year of the Yuan Dynasty, becoming the first king of Qin. To this end, he needed to demonstrate his martial arts, first after consolidating power, he inherited the legacy of Xiaogong and attacked Wei in the east. After that, he decided to sweep the Xiongnu Yiqu in the north and Ping Bashu in the west. defeated Yiqu and became the antecedent for Empress Dowager Xuan Miyue to kill the king of Yiqu in Ganquan Palace in the future. After that, King Qin Huiwen changed his strategy in time, and the destruction of Shu and Chu was put on the agenda. He used Zhang Yi's strategy to attack Shu, and asked people to make five stone oxen, and put them on the stone cow road from Shu to Tho, and put a pile of gold behind the stone cow's buttocks every day, lying that the stone cow was a golden ox lit by witchcraft, and it could pull a pile of gold every day.

When Du Lu, the 12th King of Shu of the enlightened clan, heard the news, he had long wanted to quickly send troops to attack the increasingly disobedient Tho State. Now if he wants to get these so-called golden bulls, he asks someone to ask the king of Qin, and the king of Qin immediately agrees. But the stone ox is very heavy, how to move it? At that time, the Shu Kingdom used the ancient witchcraft of the Wu Kingdom to create Wuding Lux. The king of Shu told them to dig a mountain and open a road to bring the golden ox back. Wuding Lux finally opened a golden bull road, pulled back these so-called golden bulls, and returned to Chengdu, only to find that they were just stone cows, and they knew that they had been deceived. The king of Shu later asked someone to scold the king of Qin for not believing his words, and transported these stone oxen back to Qin.

Previously, the Marquis of Tho asked for help from Qin, and Du Lu, the king of Shu, also sent envoys to form an alliance with Qin, in order not to want Qin to interfere in Tho's politics. But after the cunning Qin Hui Wang Yingsi received the gift from the two kingdoms, he was very happy to hear that the Golden Bull Road had been opened. But it is very taboo to Wuding Lux because of its infinite strength, and he does not dare to attack immediately. So he came up with another plan, and asked someone to tell the king of Shu: There is no golden bull, but we have five fairy-like little girls, more precious than gold, if the king of Shu wants it, he is willing to give it selflessly. King Qin's original intention was to use a beautiful woman to confuse the king of Shu. The hero is sad to pass the beauty level. After hearing this, the king of Shu was overjoyed. Asked the five strong men to go to Qin again, and asked them to bring back the five beauties as soon as possible. On the way home with five beauties, Wuding Lux passed by the place of Zitong, and suddenly saw the snake sweeping away the beauties and was going to a cave. It is probably the egg-laying season at this moment, and many male snakes gather in the direction of female snakes, but the snake is single, so they don't care about reproductive isolation...... Isn't the big snake god of Yongling, in the central region of Dongyue, also likes to eat twelve or thirteen-year-old girls, and finally the legend of Li Ji cutting the snake is popular?

One of the five wrestlers hurriedly ran over and grabbed its tail and pulled it out vigorously in an attempt to kill the snake, but the snake was too big for one person to drag, so the five brothers came together. At this time, the head of the snake has entered the cave, and the tail of the snake is at the entrance of the cave. Several of them joined forces to drag the snake's tail with their hands. After a while. Little by little, the snake was dragged out of the cave, and the brothers were very happy. Suddenly, the demon wind made a strange noise, only to hear a loud noise, the ground shook the mountain, the mountain collapsed, and in an instant, the five strong men and the five beauties were crushed to death, turned into blood and mud, and a big mountain turned into five peaks! When the king of Shu heard the news, he was overwhelmed with grief. He dreamed of getting these five beauties for him to have fun. He personally climbed these five mountains to pay brazen tribute, and named these five mountains as five women, but as for the death of five strong men, he was not distressed at all. The people were very unaccustomed to the behavior of this faint king, and they loved these five strong men very much, so they called these five mountains five dings.

Thinking that at the beginning, the king of Qin heard that the Wuding strong man had died, and the Shu road had been opened, and knew that the time was ripe to attack the Shu country, so he couldn't help but be overjoyed, and sent Zhang Yi, Zhang Ruo, and Sima Cuo to lead the team to go to the Golden Bull Road of the Sword Pavilion to destroy Shu and swallow Tho, the king of Shu died, the Marquis of Tho was deposed, and the prince of Shu fled to Peng Township and was arrested. King Qin Hui destroyed the Shu State, degraded the Shu State to the Shu Marquis State, and appointed Chen Zhuang as the Minister of Shu. After the Qin State annexed the Shu State, it became more prosperous and powerful and despised the surrounding countries. At this time, the cuckoo bird that the soul of the Emperor was transformed into was very painful when he saw the destruction of his homeland, and every time the peach blossoms were in full bloom, he shouted one after another; It's better to go back, it's better to go back. As soon as the people of Shu heard this voice, they knew that their monarch was missing their homeland again. Therefore, rebellions came and went, and at the same time, the bird clan Wu Zhu made waves, first Shu Xiang Chen Zhuang killed the Marquis of Shu, and in the first year of King Wu of Qin, Gan Mao killed Chen Zhuang. In the thirty-sixth year of King Qin Zhaoxiang, Yinghui, the prince of Qin, was exiled to Shu to serve as the county guard of Shu because he was difficult to discipline, and King Qin Zhao ordered: "You must not return to Qin for three years!" In the same year, Gongzihui rebelled against Qin in Shudi, and the Qin general Sima Coo was ordered to crusade against the rebels. Killed Yinghui and 27 of his henchmen, and put down the rebellion in Shu. The name of Shu was abolished and officially included in the county system of Qin County. These legends make history and mythology inseparable, and seem to be nonsense, but those who know will always read some hidden truths from them. The legend of the snake swallowing the elephant and the opening of the mountain by Wuding has at least two aspects that inspire future generations:

First, in order to cross the Qinling Mountains and Longmen rock walls to destroy Shu, the Qin State must have done everything possible to open this way to destroy Shu; The god representing Venus usually has two faces, sometimes holding the priesthood of war: the star Tai Baixing, who was an old man when he was a messenger of the gods, was transformed into a maiden dressed in gold during war. Venus, turned into a golden bull in times of war. According to the Qur'an, Pharaoh, the Egyptian ruler, did not allow the Israelites to keep a baby boy, and after the birth, the mother had to put Moses in a wooden box and throw him into Hanoi. Later, he was picked up by the pharaoh's attendants and sent to the palace, and the pharaoh's wife took pity on him and adopted him. When he became an adult, he had a brawl outside the palace, and one of the Israelites of the same tribe called for help, and he drew a knife and killed another Egyptian and fled. When he went to Maideyan, he met two shepherdesses, married one of them, and worked in his father-in-law's house for 8 years. Later, when he traveled with his wife, he was led by the light of fire to the valley of Duwa, where he was given nine "miracles" by Allah and inspired to return with his brother Harun to preach to Pharaoh. Pharaoh summoned the warlock to "fight" with him, and he showed a "miracle" and threw out his staff to destroy the serpent that the warlock had transformed, leaving Pharaoh dumbfounded. Later, he led the Israelites on his way, and while passing through Mount Sinai, he went alone to the mountains to meet Allah's covenant, and returned 40 days later with the "testimony." On the way, he found a golden calf that was an idolatry, and he was very angry, and he rebuked Harun, only to find out that it was a man named Samiri who had instigated the people to gather together the jewels and cast them into the sea. When they had repented, they chose 70 people to go into the mountain and go to Allah's covenant. After that, he led the crowd to continue to the Red Sea. Unwilling to be defeated, Pharaoh led a large army to chase after him, and he performed another "miracle" and struck the Red Sea with his cane, and Pharaoh and the army were drowned. After crossing the sea, he came to Palestine and struck the rocks with his staff, and obtained 12 springs, so that each of the 12 tribes of Israel had a place of water and settled. Later, he went out to seek knowledge, and met Allah's servant at the junction of the two seas, and made an appointment to go with him, but he could not ask for reason when he was in trouble. Along the way, Allah's servants scuttled a boat, killed a child, and built a wall. He could not bear to ask, and the servants of Allah finally explained that the boat was chiseled because a king had forcibly requisitioned all the ships in front of him. He killed a child for fear that he would grow up to rebel against his believing parents, and asked Allah to give him another son who was pure and filial. The wall was built because orphans' property was buried under the wall, and it was not taken out until adulthood.

In the six-in-one belt of Nanjing Jiangbei, there is the legend of Zhu Yuanzhang killing the golden bull. It is rumored that Zhu Yuanzhang once herded cattle for the "Xu Bainiu" family in Liujiao Niu Mountain. One day, Zhu Yuanzhang, who was hungry, wanted to eat beef, so he and a few cattle herders teamed up to steal and kill a calf. In order to have an explanation, Zhu Yuanzhang placed the cow's head on the west side of the mountain and the ox's tail on the east side of the mountain. When he went home at night, Xu Bainiu found that there was a cow missing, so he asked what was going on, Zhu Yuanzhang made up nonsense, and there was a cow that lay on the mountain and did not come back. As soon as Xu Bainiu called, there was a response from the cow on the mountain. How can there be an echo when the cow is dead? Because Zhu Yuanzhang is the true son of the dragon, with such a swing of the head and tail, the cow resurrected the Golden Bull Mountain, hence the name. This is just a legend, in fact, because the appearance of this mountain is very similar to a cow, it is called Jinniu Mountain. Moreover, there are different versions of this story, and the place of occurrence is also different, and there is a similar legend in Jinqiao Village in Fengyang, Anhui Province, but the owner has changed from Xu Bainiu to Liu Daxiu, and there is a mountain in the local area, so it is called "Yang Niu Pot Mountain".

In addition, Suzhou Dagu Mountain also has a similar legend. These may all come from the Ming dynasty Wang Wenlu's book "The Legend of Longxing Ci", "The Holy Lord Zhu Yuanzhang played with the shepherd boys when he was a child...... Kill the calf, cook it, insert the calf's tail into the ground, and the master says: Sink the ground and crack it. The master dragged his tail into the ground, and really thought he was trapped. After Zhu Yuanzhang whipped Niushou Mountain a hundred times, he felt that he still did not understand his hatred, and then ordered the relevant personnel to "add punishment" to Niushou Mountain and wear torture tools, dig a hole in the "Niu's nose" on the main peak, lock it with an iron cable, pull the "Niutou" over, bow down to the north, and bow to the wind. The cave that Zhu Yuanzhang ordered to dig back then is no longer available. But it is more regrettable that in 1958, during the period of "great iron and steel", because iron ore was found in Niushou Mountain, the local government dug here, and dug a "horn" on the head of the cow, and now only one horn remains, and the "Shuangque" has become a single que, and the feng shui of the legendary Niushou Mountain has been completely destroyed.

On the other hand, it can also be seen that the construction of this road is difficult and dangerous, and there have been many major accidents in this project, resulting in a large number of deaths, and the most serious one may have occurred in the territory of Zitong, where the legendary Wuding snake was broken. The traces of the struggle between the two major groups of Dongyi and Miaoman have gone through two or three thousand years, and they will be revealed in the "Huainanzi" of the Western Han Dynasty and the later Ba Snake Tomb and Ba Snake Temple. It is reflected in the poem "The Difficulty of Shu Road" by Li Bai in the Tang Dynasty: Woo, the danger is high, the difficulty of the Shu Road is difficult to go to the blue sky. Silkworms and fish, the founding of the country is at a loss. He is 48,000 years old, and he is not populated with Qinsai. There is a bird road in Taibai in the west, which can cross the top of Emei, and the earth collapses and the mountain destroys the strong man to death, and then the ladder stone stack is hooked together.

Since there are these ancient species in Bashu to survive, maybe one of them escaped to the dragon vein, where there are no natural enemies, they have obtained a longer life than any python anywhere, the older the number of years they live, the bigger the body, and finally after I don't know how many years have passed, the descendants of this Titan python have become a well-deserved snake cultivator!

As he was talking, suddenly there was another desolate and terrible howl in the air, and listening to the sound, the monster was closer than just now.

You Murong's weapons are all gone, we only have one automatic rifle now, and Shi Ling people don't think that this automatic rifle alone can solve the monster that is approaching through the darkness. Hiding in the crevices of the rocks, waiting for reinforcements from the ground to arrive is the only way to survive at the moment.

"There were no suspicious creatures in my detection area before...... It's still at least three thousand meters away, and we still have hope......" You Murong was already out of breath, and he didn't feel easy with only one leg left to support his body.

The three people who were supporting each other seemed to be panting thicker and more violently than anyone at the moment.

When the monster's long howl sounded for the third time, we all stopped, our hearts relaxed, for the sound suddenly became distant.

And the monster is gone again? Is this a joke, or is it a ploy to get away with it?

"Keep going, let's keep going." The Shi Ling people don't know if that monster also knows how to capture and indulge, but no matter what tricks that monster plays, as long as we can reach that rock wall, we have a better chance of survival.

"Well, there are still eight hundred meters to go......" You Murong's voice was trembling, and my physical strength was almost overdrawn.

From the direction of the monster's last long howl, there was a faint rumbling sound that lasted for three to five seconds, and the air around it even twitched and shivered from it.

"This ...... It sounds like thunder, right? Shi Lingren shook his head, thinking that he was probably insane. At the feet of the Son of Heaven, thousands of meters underground, there was a sound of thunder? Could it be that the big monster and the snake cultivator are fighting each other?

"Six hundred meters!" When You Murong said this, he had already gritted his teeth.

The thunder didn't sound again, but the ground beneath our feet began to shake. At first, Shi Lingren thought it was an illusion caused by vigorous running, but You Murong, who only had one leg left, quickly realized it.

"Is this going to be an earthquake? Or are the damn monsters going to blow it up too? ”

"Leave it alone, the last three hundred meters! Dead or alive, we'll talk about it when we get there!" Shi Lingren helped You Murong and jumped forward with all his might.

After a few more steps, the tremor under his feet disappeared inexplicably, and the whole world fell into a deathly dark silence again.

"Quick, quick!" Shi Ling screamed, feeling his lungs about to be torn apart under his rapid breathing.

Through the glimmer of the interface of the wrist watch on You Murong's hand, I saw the outline of the swarthy rock wall not far ahead.

However, the silvery cold light emanating from the edge of the silhouette surprised me!

This rock wall is actually an iceberg?!

"It's here!" You Murong grabbed a huge icicle, and I did the same...... The biting chill from my hand immediately made me exclaim, "Is it really ice?!"

"It doesn't matter so much, let's climb up first and take a rest."

Here the icicles are staggered, the terrain is rugged, and it is inconvenient for us to walk side by side. Shi Ling let go of You Murong and climbed the ice mound first. Then pull us up.

It was only after my pace slowed down that I felt the cold smell that permeated my surroundings. Shi Lingren joked that it was appropriate to talk about the Kun hexagram now. "On the sixth day of the first month, the frost is hard and icy. The elephant said: Walking on frost and ice, the yin begins to condense, tames its way, and reaches the ice. ”

The astronomical science of the ancestors in the past used the twelve trigrams to represent the twelve months, the twelve trigrams are the changes of the two hexagrams, the Kun hexagram is the October, which is the hexagram of pure yin, and the Kun hexagram was formed in ancient times, perhaps more ancient times. Many people have always suspected that the culture of the I Ching is a legacy of the last ice age, not a product of this ice age, because its scientific and philosophical principles are too clever. It is deduced that the kun hexagram represents October, in the twenty-four solar terms of the year, there is a frost solar term, at this time there will be frost at night, when the door is opened in the morning, when there is frost on the ground, you know that the weather is going to be cold, prepare clothes for winter. Then comes the beginning of winter, light snow, heavy snow, and it will snow, and the Yellow River will freeze. This sentence is to tell people that if they talk about philosophy, a person who has studied the Book of Changes will know the cause and effect. When a thing is done, you must know the consequences, and you should know what the conclusion of this matter is, because everything has its causes and consequences.

Then the explanation of the "Speech", quoting the words of frost and ice, is that the yin qi in winter begins to condense, and the beginning is the antecedent, and as for the consequence, it is "tamed to its way, to the ice". If you go through this time, it will be cold, and the ground will freeze. If you divinate the hexagram and get the first hexagram of Kun, you know that it will be more difficult in the future, but if you fight and encounter this situation in the north, you will know that the Yellow River is going to freeze, and it will not take a few days to cross the river. In Wuhu Chaohua, the Yellow River did not freeze many times, resulting in the rise of Tuoba Xianbei ....... "Kun for the Earth" Kun: Yuan, Heng, Lima Zhizhen. The gentleman has a future, first lost and then the master, the southwest is a friend, and the northeast is a friend. Ahn Jung, Ji. The sixth day of the first month: frost, ice to. Sixty-two: straight, square, big, no disadvantage if you don't get used to it. Sixty-three: including chapter Kezhen. or from the king's affairs, there is no end. Sixty-four: encapsulation; No blame, no reputation. Sixty-five: Huang Shang, Yuan Ji. Upper six: The war dragon is in the wild, and its blood is yellow...... The big monster over there, it can't be a dragon, right?

"Peng-wow!"

In the far sky, a white light suddenly lit up.

That white light appeared without warning, like a ghostly fire that was born in the dark, and the speed of expansion and expansion was also extremely alarming, and in a few breaths, it turned into a huge ball of light that was impossible to look at.

Through the illumination of this ball of light, we can see the general shape of the underground world in which we are located at once.

It is a super-giant space that spans tens of kilometers in length, and if it were a circle, the total area would be more than a thousand square kilometers, and it is impossible to describe it with the concept of a culvert.

The top of this subterranean space was perfectly curved, but the bottom was flat, stretching far beyond the reach of my extrasensory eyes.

Eight evenly symmetrical raised convex lines converge at the center point of the dome from different directions, and there is a large hole with a diameter of kilometers at the center point of more than tens of thousands of meters above the ground. The ball of light had fallen from the hole, and it was hovering not far below the hole, its size continuing to grow and its brightness becoming more and more dazzling.

We stared blankly at the ball of light, like a giant eyeball, silently staring at the vast plain below.

"Look below!" You Murong's exclamation came from behind me.

Looking down, I saw that around the ice mound where Shi Lingren, I and You Murong were, the ground where the ball of light shone emitted silver light.

It turned out that we rushed all the way, and what we stepped on under our feet was not rocks, but frozen ice!

We're on an ice-hill on the shore of a frozen lake!

You Murong turned on the strong flashlight, looked around, and then smiled bitterly.

"What's wrong?" Shi Ling asked.

"All the ice is melting," You Murong's answer was full ......of despair.

Shi Ling turned his head, and through the scorching sun of the ball of light in the dome, he could clearly see the droplets of water slowly flowing down from the icicles around him.

Looking at the stream that had already merged under his feet, Shi Ling raised his head to look at the ice directly below the ball of light.

A white ice hundreds of meters long was collapsing and sinking, and its broken end was warped, pointing high into the dome, as if to indict the unwarranted disaster that the ball of light had brought to this peaceful world.

Just next to the ice, there was a tumbling and crawling black spot, with a long neck and tail, a round body, and thick limbs. Judging by the observation distance and the surrounding references, the creature is at least two or three hundred meters long. It looks like an enlarged version of the Bay Crocodile!

Its right hind foot appears to have collapsed on the rapidly melting ice, and its entire body is out of balance, struggling to reach safety.

But where can we find safety on this melting ice?

In less than half a minute, the creature's tail and two hind legs sank into the icy water, and it lifted its long neck and let out a long, unwilling howl.

Hearing this familiar voice, Shi Ling immediately judged that it was the main master who had spoken in the darkness just now. Like a legendary dragon! Jiao resembles a snake with four legs, a dragon genus, a horse's head and a snake's tail. Legend has it that the dragon turned into a dragon for 500 years, the dragon became a cockroach for 500 years, and the dragon became a horned dragon for 500 years; Millennium. Is it true? I remembered the previous golden-scaled monster fish, which was clearly the legendary tiger Jiaoyu, with a fish body and a snake tail, and its sound was like a mandarin duck, and the eater was not swollen, and could have hemorrhoids.

While the dragon was struggling, three much smaller figures sprang up from farther directions. These three latecomers have four-legged short tails, thick jawbones, and quick movements. I'm afraid it's the legendary dragon.

The first dragon pounced on the dragon struggling at the edge of the ice, as if trying to pull the unfortunate drowning man ashore.

But Shi Ling soon saw that the latecomer just opened his mouth and tore a piece of flesh from Jiaolong's body.

It turned out that this was not a rescue, but a hunt to rob while the fire was burning.

"Woo——!" The dragon struggled in the water let out a long howl of despair, but the clatter of ice shattering across the entire lake soon drowned out its wail.

The other two dragons did not hesitate, and resolutely pounced on them, racing against time to bite a few more pieces of meat before the prey slipped into the icy water.

"It's more than 2,500 meters." Shi Ling estimated the distance between the dragons and himself, and immediately concluded that they were beyond the effective range of the automatic rifle.

He said to himself, I don't want to save the unlucky dragon that leaks from the rain, those three later dragons are obviously experienced carnivorous beasts, and their existence in this unobstructed underground world is an incomparably huge threat to me and You Murong. As long as there is an opportunity, I must deal with them at all costs, just as these three benevolent brothers will definitely not miss any opportunity to satisfy themselves and You Murong.

"Looking at the spectrum, I'm afraid that the core temperature of that light ball has exceeded two thousand degrees, and all the ice in this cave will melt in a few hours." You Murong smiled bitterly. "We are descendants of the dragon, and we didn't expect to die with the dragon! Or be belly by the dragon! ”

"That might be!" Shi Lingren disagreed, ""The Nineteenth Year of Zuo Chuanzhao": "Zheng Dashui, Long Dou is outside the gate of time." "Rites and Rites": "Scaly phoenix dragon, called the four spirits". "Zhuangzi Lie Yukou": "The pearl of a thousand gold will be in the abyss of the ninefold, under the jaw of the dragon." "Zhou Yi" dry: the ninth day of the first month - don't use the hidden dragon; Ninety-two - see the dragon in the field, see the lord; Ninety-four - or leap into the abyss, no blame; Ninety-five - the flying dragon is in the sky, and it is beneficial to see the adult; Shangjiu - Kanglong has regrets; With nine - the dragons have no leader, Ji Kun: the sixth - the dragon fights in the wild, and its blood is yellow. "Saying" dragon, the length of the scale insect, can be dark and bright, can be small and huge, can be short and long, ascend to the sky at the spring equinox, and dive into the abyss at the autumn equinox. "Guangya" has scales called Jiaolong, winged called Ying Dragon, horned called Qiulong, hornless called Dragon, and not ascended to heaven called Panlong. "Romance of the Three Kingdoms": Cooking wine on heroes, Cao Cao said: "Dragons can be big and small, and they can be promoted and hidden; The big one is the clouds and the fog, and the small one is hidden and hidden; The rising is soaring between the universe, and the hidden is lurking in the waves. Fang is deep in this spring, the dragon changes when the time comes, and the Jews have the ambition to cross the seas. The dragon is a thing, comparable to the hero of the world, "The classification of the dragon has a beetle snake, and it can fly without feet to see "Xunzi Persuasion"; The scaly one is called Jiaolong, the hornless one is called the dragon, and the horned one is called the dragon, all of which are quoted in "Guangya" in "Lisao". The winged one is called the Ying Dragon. "Tianwen" Wang Note. Jiaolong, Dragon, Qiu, and Ying Dragon are not the orthodoxy of the dragon, and the orthodoxy of the dragon is called Canglong.

On the bronzes of the Shang and Zhou dynasties of the Warring States period in China, we can see these different kinds of dragons. "On Balance" says: "The image of a dragon, the head of a horse and the tail of a snake." "Legend has it that it can be visible and hidden, small and huge, short and long. The spring equinox ascends to the sky, the autumn equinox dives into the abyss, calling for wind and rain, omnipotent. The sage Wang Fu of the Han Dynasty believed that the dragon had nine resemblances: the head was like a camel, the horns were like a deer, the ears were like a cow, the neck was like a snake, the belly was like a mirage, the scales were like a carp, the claws were like an eagle, and the palm was like a tiger...... It stands to reason that the dragon is an inviolable existence of the extremely holy spirit at the court level. However, in all kinds of ancient classics and myths and legends, there are many descriptions of derogating dragons, insulting dragons, fighting dragons, slaying dragons and even eating dragons. "Romance of the Gods" and "Journey to the West" have chapters of "Nezha Troubled Sea", and the plot of Nezha peeling the skin of Ao Bing, the son of the Dragon King, is vivid. "The World Says New Words" also mentioned a very famous story "Removing the Three Evils in the Periphery", which was also in the textbook when I was a child, and it was familiar to me, saying that the Zhou was a fierce teenager when he was young, and the Jiao in the water and the tiger in the mountains were called "three horizontals", especially the surrounding places were the biggest scourge. Someone persuaded Zhou to kill the tiger and cut Jiao, after three days and three nights, people thought that Zhou was killed, so they congratulated each other, who knew that Zhou was killed Jiao, and learned that the neighbors celebrated, and finally understood how disgusted they were, so they reformed. After all, although it is rumored that Nuwa's "human head and snake body" may have reptile genes.

Since the legendary Nuwa owns the copyright to "create man", it makes perfect sense that the snake has a bright future. The Chinese call themselves "the descendants of the dragon", the snake gives birth to a single-horned dragon, and the dragon gives birth to a double-horned dragon - the snake is the ancestor of the dragon, and the dragon evolved from the snake. The dragons in the Classic of Mountains and Seas are all ridden, and the "Classic of Mountains and Seas" records that Xia Houqi, Bei Harvest, Jumang, etc. are all "riding the rain dragon". There are also secretaries who "take the dragon to the four seas" and "the emperor takes the dragon in spring and summer". Snakes of his kind are either held,, or wrapped around their necks, showing the difference between the two; In ancient China, the horned head was a male dragon; The two-horned one is called a dragon, and the single-horned one is called a Jiao; The hornless one is the mantle, and in ancient times, the jade pendant often had large and small double dragons, and it was still called the mother and child mantle; The status of dragons is much higher than that of India. Because in China the dragon is a sacred object, it is supreme, and it is also a symbol of the emperor. It is also the representative of the East, the five elements are wood, and because the cyan is wood, there is a saying that the left green dragon and the right white tiger. And the green dragon, the god of the East among the four holy beasts, is the dragon of the dragon, which was subdued by Nuwa in ancient times, and later given to Fuxi as a mount.

Later, the seven Suzhou horns of the east of the twenty-eight nights, Kang, Di, Fang, Xin, Wei, Kei, etc., are the descendants of the green dragon, and it can be seen from their literal meaning that the horn is the horn of the dragon, Kang is the neck, Di is the root, but the root of the neck, the fang is the shoulder, is the wedge, the heart is the heart, the tail is the tail, and the Kei is the end of the tail. Therefore, "man" is the "descendant of the dragon", but the evolutionary theory of ancient people is very simple and straightforward, but they have never "fantasized" that humans evolved from apes, proving that they believe that apes are superior to humans.

Do unarmed people in the mountains and forests have the real ability to survive? I'm afraid that a wild cat can easily put him on the table. This is the root of human inferiority. In fact, we have evolved through great difficulty, and we have not insulted the spirit of all things, nor are we as rash as the mud on Nuwa's hands. On the contrary, it is a dragon. It has always been the antithesis of humanity. "Interpretation of History" said that Nuwa's descendant Dayu was ordered to control the water, and the method used was to inherit the ancestor Nuwa's water control strategy and invent and innovate. According to historical records, Dayu controlled the water, "digging the ground", that is, digging waterways, "and injecting into the sea", that is, diverting water into the sea; "Drive the dragon and let it go", that is, expel the dragon to a swampy area with many water and grass far away from the people's living areas. Dayu's water control is famous in ancient and modern times, and he is worthy of being a descendant of Nuwa.

At the same time, it is said that the third of the five emperors in the era of the clan alliance, the emperor Zhiqingyang clan who is called the emperor by Jinde. Emperor Zhi's real name is Eagle, and later generations are also known as Zhi because of his emperor name. His mother is a remnant of the Changxi tribe who moved into Dongyi, and belongs to the Dongyi tribe, so she is named after the bird. Starting from the Qingyang regime, the Dongyi group once again entered the central power group, and gradually integrated into the Yanhuang group, and formally formed the Chinese nation composed of the direct line of Fuxi Nuwa, the Yandi Jiang family, the Yellow Emperor Ji family, the Sanmiao nationality, and the Dongyi nationality as the main body, supplemented by other ethnic groups. Although Emperor Yu was old, he only gave birth to children in his later years. At the time of his death, Yao Fang, the son of Concubine Zheng, had just been born.

And Ji Yu is already in his twenties, grew up in Dongyi, and is martial by nature. Previously, due to the retreat of the remnants of the Gonggong, it had experienced a catastrophe that lasted for many years, and it had gradually disappeared. However, around 2800 B.C., the sea water suddenly rebounded in the case of gradual retreat, the water level rose again, and the sea water quickly pushed inland, and the Shandong Peninsula was almost completely engulfed by floods except for mountains and hills. Trapped by the floods, the major ethnic groups of Dongyi living in the Shandong Peninsula and the Bohai Bay region fled to the northern, eastern and western Hebei regions of the North China Plain, and gathered in the mountainous areas of Haiyang, Laiyang, Jiaozhou, Zhucheng, Juyi, and Linyi on the Shandong Peninsula. Dongyi boy Ji Ying stepped forward and found that it was the dragon in the East China Sea who made a monster, entered the sea to capture Jiao, and became famous. Therefore, the head of Dongyi, Yi, then recommended Ji Ying as the emperor, and the emperor Zhiqingyang clan, the world responded.

After Emperor Zhi succeeded to the throne, the flood receded on its own because the dragon had been removed, and Dongyi took the opportunity to publicize that this was God's support for the two generations of Emperor Zhi's regime. Due to Ji Yuan's Dongyi lineage and the benevolent government implemented during the reign of Emperor Yu, the Emperor Zhi Qingyang clan regime established by Ji Yu was widely supported. In addition to the ancestors of the clan, the Emperor Yu clan and the Shaohao Dongyi branches, there are also the descendants of Emperor Yan in the Yangtze River Basin, the Zhurong clan and the Kuafu clan, the Sanmiao clan and the Jiuli clan of the descendants of Chiyou, as well as the tens of thousands of tribes of hundreds of clan alliances such as Chen Feng's clan, Zou Tu's clan, Lou Zi's clan, Youtai clan, Youlu clan, etc., and even the people of Pangu who live deep in the southwest Shu region, all belong to the central alliance power of the Emperor Zhi Qingyang clan, which is known as "the return of all nations" in history. However, the dragon has always lurked in the world.

During the Wei and Jin dynasties of the Northern and Southern Dynasties, Xu Xun people called Xu Jingyang. A native of Nanchang, Jiangxi, he is the ancestor of Taoism and the Lushan faction. When he was young, he took hunting as a profession, and one day he went up the mountain to shoot deer, and the deer fetus fell to the ground, and the doe licked her son and died. Xu Xun suddenly realized, turned the crossbow and returned, went to the house of the Jin family in Xishan to cultivate the Tao, and learned the Tao in Lan Gong, Chen Mu, etc., and traveled with Wu Meng, the true monarch of the Sanxian Great Cave, and was also a teacher and friend. "Yongcheng Jixian Lu" called Chen's mother "secret cultivation method, accumulated for decades,...... Wu Meng and Xu Xun traveled south from Gaoyang, and their mothers asked to pass on the way they had obtained, and they were given because of the alliance. The law of filial piety is carried out on the river table". And Lan Gong, according to the "Biography of the Twelve True Monarchs", is a native of Qufu County, Yanzhou, the hometown of Confucius, "fine and filial piety", and the real people in the fight are specially awarded the "Teachings of Filial Piety" and "The Secret Decree of the Dao", and indicates that there is a true immortal Xu Xun in the Jin Dynasty. Sure enough, the secret method of filial piety of Lan Gong in the Jin Dynasty, the treasure scripture Jindan, and the copper rune iron coupon were obtained by Xu Xun. Xu Xun was the Jin Dynasty of Sichuan Jingyang, so he was named Xu Jingyang.

He inherited the Taoism of Zhang Daoling in Shu and continued the Taoism. Praised by the imperial court of the past dynasties and loved by the people, he is known as "the true monarch of the gods", "the immortal of loyalty and filial piety", and is also known as the heavenly master and the true monarch of the people. Successfully soared, the rebellion of the Eight Kings broke out in the Western Jin Dynasty in the first year of Yuankang, Xu Xun abandoned the official and spread filial piety in the Yuzhang area. Also returned with Xu Xun to the east, leaving a legend of cutting the dragon to control the water in the Jiangnan region, there are twelve backbone members of the Xu Xun Sect, called the twelve true monarchs - Xu Xun, Wu Meng, Shi He, Gan Zhan, Zhou Guang, Chen Xun, Zeng Heng, Xulie, Shi Cen, Peng Kang, Huang Renlan, Zhong Lijia. With Nanchang Xishan as the center, missionary activities spread throughout Yuzhang and nearby areas, Yuezhou Pingjiang, now Hunan Pingjiang also has Xu Xun missionary relics. Xu Xun returned to the east, at the time of Pengli Lake, now Poyang Lake flood for many years, he led the county people to sparse the governance, footprints all over the lake area. He not only controlled the water for Yuzhang, but also went to Huguang, Fujian and other places to eliminate floods, winning wide respect from the people.

In the second year of Ningkang in the Eastern Jin Dynasty, on August 15, 374, Xu Xun "soared with his family, and the chickens and dogs went". "The Biography of Filial Piety Wu Xu Erzhenjun" contains: On the day of Xu Xun's ascension, "the people of the four townships gathered in the view and set up a yellow urn for Lent." Invite Daoliu, three days and three nights, ascend to the altar and enter the table, go up to Xuanyuan, make a ceremony and burn incense, sincerely invite, survive and be blessed, and rest and relax. "Yuzhang and the nearby areas have many Xu Xun kill the snake and kill the legendary story of the people, the folk have many Xu Xun worship, called him "the sect of filial piety", "for the chief of the immortals", "every year in the summer, all the Qing Shishu, each each fragrant, drums, flags, the dormitory to welcome the true monarch small like the fortunate village community, with the wish to pray, to eliminate the drought locusts".

Jiaolong is like this, and the dragon is not good at stubble. In the Yuncheng area of Shanxi Province, there is a town of Jiezhou. Most people have little impression of this small place, but in the Northern Song Dynasty, the Jiezhou area occupied a very important position in the country's economic life. Because salt is produced in that area, it is said that it has been produced for more than 4,000 years. As the saying goes, the delicacies of the mountains and seas are inseparable from salt, and the world is inseparable from money. Everyone understands this truth, and the officials in the court who can make money have never forgotten it for a moment. Therefore, from ancient times to the present, there have been countless dynasties, and the political ideas and ways of governing the country are different, but there is one thing that is conventional, that is, the government's monopoly on salt. With the salt of white flowers, there will naturally be silver of flowers. The wealth of the government-run salt merchants in Jiangnan in the Qing Dynasty has also made people blush until now. Not to mention anything else, the "Huaiyang cuisine", one of China's eight major cuisines, was forced to be eaten by salt merchants in a short period of time. However, the salt in Jiezhou is slightly different from the salt in Jiangnan Salt Merchants. The salt in the south of the Yangtze River is all produced in the coastal areas of Jiangsu and Zhejiang. What about the salt in Jiezhou? It is produced in a local salt pond and is called "pond salt". From a scientific point of view, this is a kind of "rock salt". Another source of rock salt is in Zigong, Sichuan Province, called "well salt".

It is said that the quality of Zigong salt is not as good as that of Jiezhou salt. From the point of view of production methods, Zigong salt is also much more troublesome than Jiezhou salt. Others are wide salt ponds, and they can directly scoop the brine in them to dry. What about Zigong salt? It also costs a lot of money and manpower to dig salt wells. Because of this, the salt production in the pond in Jiezhou is very high. From the Yuan Dynasty to the Yuan Dynasty at the peak of production, it once reached an amazing record of 85.54 million catties per year! It can be seen that the salt pond in Jiezhou is an important cash cow for the imperial court! Song Huizong Chongning for five years, but something went wrong with this cash cow: a monster was found inside, which looked very much like the legendary dragon! If it is replaced by now, it will be a beautiful thing that falls from the sky for the people of Jiezhou. Everyone doesn't have to be busy drying salt under the hot sun, let's go to the hotel to "pick up" money! Isn't tourism as profitable as buying a bag of salt for 5 cents? Look at the United Kingdom, a fictional Loch Ness monster came out, and it emptied the pockets of countless travelers. But the people of Jiezhou at that time did not agree with this view.

One is that in ancient times, these strange things often appeared in places where they shouldn't be, and everyone was tired of watching them! Second, this dragon is very unfriendly, it will swallow clouds and spit fog. The dragon follows the clouds and the tiger follows the wind, and the clouds and mist are just an epiphytic product of the dragon, which everyone can understand. But the dragon of Jiezhou has done quite excessively, and when he spits out the clouds, there is no figure on the other side for dozens of miles. Poultry and livestock, adults and children, as long as they walk into this fog, "all chew and chew, and hurt many people". The dragon gave birth to nine sons, each of whom was different. It seems that the dragon of Jiezhou is obviously not a good dragon. A good dragon should bless the dragon's descendants with the right talents, not treat us as desserts after a meal. Song Huizong was very troubled, not to mention that the salt money could not be collected, in case this dragon became addicted to eating and crossed the province to Bianliang, Henan, how could it be good? For a while, he didn't even want to go to Master Li's house, so he was so anxious that he went around the palace, bent on finding a solution. But with his standard faint king, what decent method can he come up with? I had no choice but to convene the ministers to discuss the matter.

Hundreds of civil and military officials gathered in the hall, looking at each other one by one, how can there be any good ideas to talk about? The Great Song Dynasty emphasized literature over martial arts, which made even the generals a bit sissy. Therefore, no one dared to bravely walk out of the queue as written in the romance novel, and shouted proudly: "The last general is not talented, I am willing to make a military order, within three days, if I don't cut off the head of the demon dragon, the last general will come to see me!" "- It's easy to change to the Tang Dynasty! Even a civil official like Wei Zheng dares to cut off the head of a dragon king and carry it down to play! So some ministers suggested: Learn from Comrade Han Yu, write a passionate "Sacrifice to the Dragon", find a bold one, throw it into the salt pond of Jiezhou, move the evil Jiao, and let him stop messing with the world. Everyone shook their heads when they heard it, and they just talked about the scary things in the article. Even Han Yu himself boasted about how powerful he was at that time, but later Li Deyu, Chen Yaozuo and others went to Chaozhou to take a look: Isn't the crocodile still there?

Another minister suggested: Why don't we all come to the meeting today, sincerely fast and pray for March, and resolutely do not approach women! In order to move God, he will naturally send a god to descend to earth and collect the dragon into the sky! Where! Song Huizong was the first to shake his head. It's okay to eat fast, which happens to be my favorite. But this woman, hehe...... Was the tunnel of Master Li's house dug for nothing? In the end, a minister recklessly suggested: It is better to learn from Emperor Zhenzong's imperial expedition, long live you are the pride of the sky! With the power of the sky, come to the side of the salt pond, forgive the dragon and dare not be rude, seeing you coming, don't you hurry up with your tail between your legs? - What?! Song Huizong stared at the daredevils in front of him, suspecting that this guy was suspected of killing the monarch. He was about to call the sergeant to come forward and ask questions, when a figure suddenly flashed in front of the hall.

Emperor Huizong took a closer look, and the person who came was none other than his most favored Taoist priest of the Shenxiao faction, who was named the envoy of the Taoist army in Wenzhou, and was given the name "Jinmen Yuke", and was called "smart fairy" by the people of the time. Mr. Lin Lingsu swayed the dust lightly, glanced at the ministers with disdain, and did not bow down to Emperor Huizong, he said loudly: "Such a trivial matter, why worry about it? There is a Taoist friend below, with vast magical powers and magical Taoism. If he is willing to go out of the mountain, don't say that it is a dragon, it is ten hundred, and it is like an earthworm in the mud! "Huizong is overjoyed! Hurriedly stepped down from the throne and stepped forward and asked respectfully, "May I ask the Immortal Master, who is this Taoist sage?" Lin Lingsu smiled and said, "Your Majesty actually saw this person in his early years. He is the thirtieth generation of the Heavenly Master of Longhu Mountain, Mr. Zhang Jixian, after the Heavenly Master of the Han Dynasty.

Emperor Huizong was happy and a little worried: Can the Heavenly Master Dao deal with that evil Jiao? As it turned out, Song Huizong's worries were unnecessary. Mr. Zhang Jixian accepted the will without hesitation. He led a few disciples and officials of the imperial court to the salt pond in the state of understanding. One look, it's amazing! The salt that lives around has long since run out. The embankment of the salt pond collapsed everywhere, and the dark red brine was steaming like a boiling pot. At first glance, it looks like a demon-infested lava lake. The officials who came with them were all frightened, and they looked at Zhang Jixian, who was pretending to be old in front of them, but still had a childish face, and secretly made preparations to sacrifice his life for the country. The timid is just like the time when Zhu Bajie went to Huaguo Mountain, his eyes looked around, and he saw that the road was empty and easy to run. Master Zhang Jitian was not in a hurry, took out a pen, wrote a talisman, called an apprentice named Zhu Yongyou, and threw the talisman into the collapse of the salt pond. Then, take a small stool and sit by the pool with your hands in your sleeves to watch the excitement.

In order to show chic, I originally wanted to ask someone to bring a cup of tea. But because of his young age, he really didn't like the bitter taste of tea, so he had to ask someone to pour half a cup of warm water. In a few moments, the sky was covered with dark clouds, followed by lightning and thunder, and wind and rain. Zhang Tianshi's entourage and officials stared wide-eyed: they had to squat in the rain and shiver like a flock of chickens in the soup, waiting for the show to begin.

The rain is getting heavier and the clouds are getting lower. In a trance, a gold-armored god general tore through the dark clouds and jumped into the salt pool. The blood-red water churned even harder, and from time to time I saw a long black shadow hovering left and right at the bottom of the pool. Suddenly, a thunderclap sounded, and in the flash of lightning, everyone vaguely saw that there seemed to be a knife shadow in the pond, and then there was a piercing howl! All is calm. The wind and rain dissipated, the sun shone on the earth again, and a beautiful rainbow rose by the salt pond. Baili Salt Pond, the water surface is as calm as rose-red. In the boundless red, a long black shadow is particularly eye-catching. Everyone can see clearly: this is a huge dragon corpse, carrying heavy loads and floating in the pond water.

Master Zhang Jitian stood up, and the rain remaining in his robe flowed to the ground with a loud sound. He looked at the cup in his hand, which was already full. With a "plop", he threw the cup into the pool, then wiped the water droplets on his face, tilted his head slightly, and said, "Go back to Beijing!" "In Bianliang City, on the Jinluan Palace, there is a song and dance. Song Huizong was an artist, and he was proficient in music, art, and calligraphy. The level of the art troupe in the palace is not something that ordinary people can imagine. Today, the emperor was in a particularly happy mood, and simply moved out all the programs at the bottom of the box, which looked even more flowery, making people dizzy, and wishing to have an extra pair of eyes. All of this is to celebrate the achievements of the young Heavenly Master Mr. Zhang Jixian. This battle was won so smoothly. Thinking of the silver that was lost and recovered in the future, Song Huizong smiled from ear to ear. He looked at Zhang Jixian, who was sitting beside him with satisfaction, who was slightly thin.

At this time, Mr. Zhang was watching the song and dance intently. - Please don't get me wrong, he's not greedy for beautiful women. Instead, listen carefully to the tune and beat it one by one. Zhang Jixian is also an accomplished lyricist, and many of his works have been handed down to future generations. When it comes to poetry and music, he is no layman at all. For example, the following two "Memories of Jiangnan": Autumn Night Events, Bamboo Pavilion in the Moon. Qinglai and who noisy pool water, the breeze sent me down the eaves. If the circle is lacking, it is love. Zhongnan Road, tired of laughter and singing. Danque goes to the horse at night, and the Yellow River shines on the boat at dawn. The bridle went back to it. It's a pity that many of his poems are too "specialized", and he mentions Taoist cultivation and immortal ascension at every turn. The average reader will find it uninteresting to read two more poems. Song Huizong asked kindly: "Zhang Aiqing! What the hell is that dragon all about? Why hasn't it appeared in 4,000 years, but it appeared in our Great Song Dynasty? ”

Mr. Zhang Jixian took his eyes back from the beauty and replied respectfully: "Oh! You mean the dragon? That's a long story, it's not a dragon but a dragon, it's a very famous figure thousands of years ago: Chi Youhua! ”