Hello dear readers, my name is Da Scum. It's a great honor for me to have you click on this book.

Before opening the book, please allow me to ask a "pastime" question: Throughout history, in the era of cold weapons, what is your favorite weapon?

Knives, spears, swords, sticks, rakes, whips, maces, axes, sickles, pickpockets, crutches, bows and arrows, rattan cards, halberds, axes, forks, borings, hooks, lances, rings...... Regular, outward, and too many to mention. Which one is the king of weapons in your heart?

The big scum is very interested in these cold weapons, especially the bow. I was fascinated by the unique charm of the bow, and the story of this book will revolve around a sword and a bow, and the bow is the narrative thread of the book.

The bow should be one of the earliest weapons used in human history. In the earliest bone inscriptions, this bow is a curved wavy line, to the oracle bone inscription unearthed by Yin Shang, the word "bow" is like a realistic picture, this picture has a bow frame, also has a bowstring, is a pictograph, it can be seen that before human beings have written records, our ancestors have begun to use bows. At this time, the bow was only used as a hunting tool, and later, human beings continued to quarrel, and the arrows of the bow and arrow turned from prey to people.

In the earliest Chinese dictionary, "Shuowen", it is explained: bow, soldier also, so the arrow. In ancient mythology, the legend of Hou Yi shooting Jiuyao has always been popular, and this is also the most effective advertisement about the power of bows and arrows

The bow really came to the stage of history because of the huge role it played in warfare.

During the Warring States Period, Zhao Wuling, the king of Zhao - Zhao Huan, implemented the "Hufu Cavalry Shooting" in China. The army was uniformly dressed and practiced the art of archery on horseback, a move that greatly improved the fighting power of the Zhao state. This cavalry of the Zhao State also became the earliest regular cavalry team in Chinese history.

Emperor Yingzheng of Qin felt the powerful power of the art of mounted archery, so he ordered the army to practice archery hard. During this period, bows and arrows were greatly developed in terms of shape, size and function, and strong bows and crossbows emerged in an endless stream. Yingzheng "King Qin swept Liuhe, and looked at He Xiongzai." "Although it's not all because of the bow and arrow, this strong bow and hard crossbow really contributed a lot to King Qin. The great patriotic poet Qu Yuan wrote in his "Nine Songs of Chu Ci 61": "With a long sword, you will not be punished if you take a long sword and hold a Qin bow. At this time, Qin Gong was already a "well-known brand" that was famous throughout the Warring States.

By the Three Kingdoms period, a generation of gods Zhuge Kongming also studied the bow - Zhuge crossbows still appear in the playground today. So much so that in the splendid period of Chinese culture, in the Tang Dynasty, the poet Du Fu did not hesitate to praise the bow and arrow.

"Hold the bow as a strong, use the arrow as a long, shoot a man before a horse, capture a thief before capture the king." In "Former Exit", Du Fu made a concise summary of the role of the bow and arrow, and this poem has been passed down through the ages.

"The chariots, the horses, and the pedestrians have bows and arrows at their waists. "The bow and arrow in "Soldier Chariot Travel" is no longer simply a weapon for long-distance shooting, but initially has the role of close-range self-defense.

Su Dongpo, a poet of the Song Dynasty, said, "In order to repay the city, follow the Taishou, shoot the tiger in person, and watch Sun Lang." Will hold the bow like a full moon, look northwest, and shoot the wolf. Passionate and heroic, the heroic spirit not only expresses his "old man is in the bush, aiming for thousands of miles", but also reveals that whether it is a literati or a soldier general, they all have a soft spot for bows and arrows.

"A generation of Tianjiao, Genghis Khan, only knows how to bend the bow and shoot eagles. "Our great chairman also left a place for bows and arrows in "Qinyuan Spring 61 Snow".

To create a good workmanship, the process is cumbersome and complicated, "Examination of the work" believes that "bow making to dry, angle, tendon, glue, silk, lacquer, collectively known as the "six materials" is important. It is necessary to get the stem of the six materials, the corners of the six materials, the tendons of the six materials, the glue of the six materials, the silk of the six materials, and the paint of the six materials. "to make a strong bow.

From a historical point of view, it can almost be determined that the bow was first invented by China, and in the long history of thousands of years, there have been many famous bows in Chinese culture: the Condor Bow of Genghis Khan, the dragon tongue bow of the famous general Lu Bu of the Three Kingdoms, the Wanshi bow of the veteran Huang Zhong, and the Lingbao bow of the flying general Li Guang...... These bows will follow their masters and go down in history forever.

Although the above bows are famous, they cannot get rid of a trace of ordinary, and some of the famous bows with mythical colors can arouse people's yearning for those long histories. Here, I would like to introduce you to three artifacts from legends.

For this first bow, the first thing that comes to mind is an idiom: "The overlord is the bow".

The "overlord" here is a tragic figure in Chinese history, the overlord of Western Chu - Xiang Yu.

In ancient times, bows and arrows were not wound when soldiers were resting, in order to maintain the elasticity of the bow frame. The bow frame is bent for a long time, and it will gradually lose its toughness, and when it is time to march and fight, the bowstring will be put on. Generally, warriors first hang one end of the bowstring on one end of the bow frame, and then clamp the bow with both legs, the bow socket is just between the legs, use the lever principle to bend the back of the bow, and then put the other end of the bowstring on the bow. This is done because the bow frame is generally relatively hard, and ordinary people's arm strength is not strong, so they have to do this to make a good bowstring.

And Xiang Yu, the overlord of Chu, only needs to use his arms to bend the bowstring on the bow, so there is a saying that "the overlord is hard to bow on". It's just that the meaning of this "allusion" has changed a lot today. It has nothing to do with this book, so don't mention it.

The first of these three artifacts is Xiang Yu's belongings, the "Overlord Bow".

This bow is extremely powerful, the bow body is made of dark iron, and the most mysterious thing is the bowstring of this bow.

The bowstring is said to be the back tendon of a black dragon. Legend has it that when Xiang Yu was young, he encountered a black dragon in the Wujiang River to do evil, devouring his neighbors and flooding, which can be described as a lot of evil. Xiang Yu was very angry, found the black dragon, fought hard with it, and fought with infinite strength, but he killed the black dragon and obtained the dragon tendons to rub the strands. The black dragon is originally the most yin and cold thing, and it is extremely tough, so the string is not afraid of ice and fire, and is not afraid of swords and guns.

Chu overlord Xiang Yu Wujiang killed himself, and the whereabouts of this bow are unknown, which is also a big unsolved case.

The second bow, the name is even more resounding, that is Hou Yi's sunset bow

The character of Hou Yi is a well-known god man, and in China, primary school students are familiar with him abnormally, because of the story of "Hou Yi shooting the sun".

It is recorded in the "Classic of Mountains and Seas": "Yao Shi ten days and out, Yao Yi shot ten days, and fell Wojiao". When it was said that Emperor Yao, ten suns appeared in the sky, scorching the earth and scorching the crops, and mankind was facing annihilation. In addition, some strange birds and beasts of prey have also escaped from the dry rivers and lakes and the flame-like forests, killing the people in the world.

The calamity on earth alarmed the gods in heaven, and Emperor Chang Jun ordered Hou Yi, who was good at archery, to go down to the earth to help Yao save mankind. And gave Hou Yi a red bow and a bag of white arrows.

Hou Yi's bow and arrow were first aimed at the source of the calamity, the ten suns in the sky.

He took off the red bow from his shoulder, took out the white arrows, and shot them one by one at the arrogant sun, and in an instant nine out of ten suns were shot away, leaving one for the benefit of the world.

As soon as the sun was removed, the disaster disappeared, and Hou Yi thought that this sunset bow had completed its established mission, so he threw it into the depths of the East China Sea, and his whereabouts were unknown. It's a pity that future generations want to come.

The third bow to be introduced is the most colorful of the splendid culture of the Chinese nation. That is the Xuanyuan bow made by the Yellow Emperor

Emperor Xuanyuan made a bow, and carefully made a bow called Xuanyuan Bow by selecting the Zhe of Taishan Nanwu, the horn of Yan Niu, the Pier of Jing Elk, and the glue of river fish.

Xuanyuan Yellow Emperor's surname is Gongsun. Grew up on the shore of Ji Shui, so he changed his surname to Ji. Living in Xuanyuan Hill, so the name Xuanyuan Shi, born and divine, weak and able to speak, young and Qi, long and sensitive, adult and smart. It is the ancestor of Chinese civilization. His own person has a strong color of the gods, and he is a big man who can invite the goddess of heaven to go down to earth and make the dragon clan bow down. The coexistence of humanity and divinity of the Yellow Emperor is a strong stroke in the history of Chinese culture, and the Xuanyuan bow naturally deserves to be the best of all bows.

This bow was born from mythology, and naturally disappeared as the myth faded.

When mankind entered the age of weapons from the age of cold weapons, the bow, like all cold weapons, lost its lofty position in warfare. And in this book, the protagonist Lei Luo, will travel the Eight Realms with a longbow and deduce a heart-wrenching, bow story.

If you are interested in stories such as classical Chinese legends, the Book of Changes, the Eight Trigrams of the Heavens, the Nine Sons of the Dragon, and the Five Purities of the Phoenix, you will surely get great satisfaction in this book, and if you are interested in the upgrading and magic weapons of fantasy novels, you will also get pleasure in this book.

Anyway, if you're interested, read on!

Chapter 1: Cliff Flowers

Lei Luo stood quietly under the cliff of "standing on the wall and having no one to rely on", staring intently at the small tree that suddenly grew on the mountain wall. He just looked at it, and it had been two days, but the little tree still hadn't bloomed.

The mountain wall, shrouded in clouds and mist, is like a quick knife cut out, smooth and smooth, the difficulty of flying birds, but in the middle of the mountainside, a magnificent tree grows horizontally, tenaciously rooted, for this lifeless, lonely and boring cliff, smeared with a trace of feelings. The oldest man in the village couldn't tell how many years the tree had grown, but he knew that there had been a tree on the cliff since the village had been there.

As far as he can remember, Lei Luo saw this ancient cliff tree bloom twice, the first time was when he was six years old, and he couldn't remember it very clearly because he was too young. The second time was six years later, and Lei Luo was already twelve years old at that time, and he could be regarded as a young man. This time, counting the time, it's time for the third flowering in the last few days. This time, Thunderfall is ready to climb the cliff and pluck the flowers to give to the prettiest girl in the village.

This flower blooms to wither, but in just a few hours, if you miss it, you will have to wait another six years, thunderfall can wait, the beautiful girl in the village can not wait.

No one dared to climb this cliff, and Lei Luo did not dare to tell anyone, if anyone in the village knew that he was going to pick flowers on the cliff, they would definitely stop it. Thunderfall didn't know why, but everyone in the village loved him very much—except for the pretty girl's mother, of course. For the people in the village, this cliff is a forbidden area, a natural danger that even birds and beasts dare not take a step beyond the thunder pool, how can everyone watch the thunder fall to die?

The sky was getting darker, and the ancient cliff trees in his vision were already a little blurred, and he sat down dejectedly, and his stomach rumbled uncontrollably. took out the steamed bun in his arms, Lei Luo touched and touched it with his hand, looked at it and looked at it, put it on his nose and smelled it, then closed his eyes and ate it slowly. This steamed bun is made by Guan Er himself, and Guan Er is the most beautiful girl in the village.

After eating the steamed buns, Lei Luo had the strength again, stood up, looked up at the ancient trees that had been hidden in the darkness on the cliff, and slowly closed his eyes.

I don't know when, Lei Luo found that he was a little different from normal people. When a normal person closes his eyes, he loses the whole world, but when Lei Luo closes his eyes, the whole world appears in his heart. Closing your eyes and seeing more clearly than opening your eyes, Thunderfall calls this the eye of the heart. But he didn't dare tell anyone the secret, he didn't want to be treated like a monster. Of course, to the old man who guards the cemetery in the village, Lei Luo will share the secret with him, because that old man is the closest person to Lei Luo. What's more, there are more secrets in this old man than thunderfall.

As soon as the eyes were closed, the darkness around them faded away like mist in the sun, and the ground under their feet, the cliffs in front of them, the trees on the walls, and the leaves on the trees...... all appeared in Lei Luo's heart in detail. Thunderfall could see it so clearly that he could even see the rough bark on the trees, the vertical and horizontal meridians on the leaves, and the imperceptible pale pink at the top of the small buds on the branches.

In late autumn, the mountain breeze blows slowly, and it is cold to the bones. Lei Luo just stood with his eyes closed, like a stone statue, melting into the nature of this mountain and river.

Suddenly, the ancient tree on the cliff trembled slightly, and Lei Luo clearly heard the slightest imperceptible sound, which was the sound of flowers blooming. Sure enough, the pale pink on the top of the buds on the ancient tree has become thicker and thicker, and the stamens are like a child waking up from a deep sleep, stretching her waist. Then, the petals begin to spread out in all directions at a speed visible to the naked eye. That scene is like a peacock slowly spreading its wings and showing its beauty. The seemingly small buds, when spread out, are so stunning. There is only one blooming mountain flower, but it is far more rich than the peony, not losing the elegance of the orchid, but also the wind and bones of the winter plum, and the charm of the bamboo......

Looking at such a hollow valley orchid, Lei Luo naturally thought of Wan'er, in Lei Luo's mind, Wan'er was like a flower blooming on this cliff...... Wan'er, when he thought of Guan'er, Lei Luo trembled and opened his eyes. Now is not the time to admire the flowers, Wan'er is still waiting for him in the village.

Closing your eyes and contemplating the world with your heart and eyes is much more tiring than looking at it with your eyes. Lei Luo refreshed his muscles and bones and stood on the edge of the cliff. Looking up, it was late at night, the black cliff was like a huge barrier, and the ancient tree was nearly a thousand meters high from the ground, where could ordinary people climb it?

But Lei Luo is not afraid, because Lei Luo knows that he is different from ordinary people.

Stepping on some small pits, his fingers clasped the imperceptible mountain cracks, and the thunder fell towards the ancient trees on the cliffs, and climbed up. In the first section, due to the many gaps in the mountain wall and the abundant physical strength, it was still easy to get up, but the further back, the more difficult it became, and soon, Lei Luo's legs began to be sore, and his hands were worn out by the stone wall, and his hands were red......

Looking up, I am afraid that there are still more than 300 meters away from the cliff and ancient trees, but the thunder is no longer enough. The thunder full of confidence is hanging on the mountain wall six or seven hundred meters above the ground at this moment, neither advancing nor retreating, and falling into a desperate situation.

This position is no longer accessible to ordinary people, and if it were not for extraordinary physical strength and outstanding perseverance, it would be impossible to climb here. Thunderfall stabilized his body and slowly closed his eyes. This time, instead of observing the world with his eyes, he focused his attention and felt the warm current in his chest that flowed through his body whenever he was exhausted, and his body was full of strength again. This is also an important reason why Lei Luo dares to come to this cliff to pick flowers.

Sure enough, the faint feeling of warmth in the chest emerged, like a bubbling spring, flowing to the limbs, and the thunderous body, like the rejuvenated earth, was rejuvenated by the warm current. Lei Luo stabilized his mind and took a deep breath, and he could already smell the faint fragrance of the ancient flowers. Wan'er's delicate face and the sorrow on his face appeared in his mind again, and as soon as he gritted his teeth, Lei Luo crawled out again.

Getting closer and closer to the ancient flowers on the cliff, Lei Luo's heartbeat was getting faster and faster, he could already see the brilliant and dazzling appearance of the flowers, and he seemed to see the smile on Wan'er's face when he received the flowers...... Excited, Lei Luo took another step forward.

The ancient flower of the cliff was already close at hand, and Lei Luo was probably the first person in the village to observe this flower so closely. The ancient tree is only three or four meters long, and it takes root tenaciously in the cracks of the cliff, overflowing the cliff and stretching wantonly, which makes people admire the tenacity and resoluteness of life. There is a single flower at the top of the tree, the petals are yellow, layer upon layer, like the stars and the moon, the stamens in the center are clustered, the stamens are three, the color is pink and yellow, delicate and gorgeous, fresh and tender. The whole flower is like a huge lantern, faintly flickering with fluorescence, the most intoxicating thing is the faint fragrance, if there is nothing, if it is about to leave, it is like a girl who wants to refuse and welcome.

"Look, I succeeded. Thunderfall cheered, his left hand clasped through the crack in the stone, and his right hand stretched out towards the ancient tree.

Without warning, in the crevice of the mountain where the ancient tree had taken root, something suddenly poured out, climbed the ancient tree, and bit down on Lei Luo's right hand. The huge mouth of blood teeth, long letters, turned out to be a colorful poisonous snake, and the body was faintly glowing like a firefly. Although Lei Luo grew up in the mountains, he has caught a lot of poisonous snakes, but such poisonous snakes are rare, when he was a child, he seemed to have seen it once, and he could not see it hiding in the mountain crevice, defenseless, panicked, his feet slipped, and Lei Luo's body was like a leather ball, along the steep mountain wall, rolling down.

Even if he has the power of the heart's eye, even if there is a source of strength in his chest, he can't let Lei Luo stabilize his body. Falling from this position, there is no possibility of survival, Lei Luo's eyes closed, a wry smile appeared on his face, and he read: "Wan'er, Lei Luo has failed you......"

Falling from a distance of three or five hundred meters in an instant, the strong sense of weightlessness has made Lei Luo lose the ability to think, but Wan Er's delicate face and the faint tear stains on his face still clearly appeared in Lei Luo's mind.

"Wan'er, if a person can become a ghost after death, and Lei Luo becomes a ghost, I will also help you pick this flower. That was the last thought in Thunder's mind.

The body is about to fall to the ground, Lei Luo knows that he is about to turn into a handful of loess in this deep mountain, fate is so unpredictable, just at the moment of landing, the figure flashed, and a black shadow shot out from the artemisia grass more than one person high, and the thunder fell to the waist, carried it on his back, along the steep mountain wall, a few longitudinal, and arrived at the edge of the ancient tree. Lei Luo was carried on his back by this black shadow, and he always felt that there was a hot current flowing into his body in the black shadow's hand, and the hot current was like a warm current in his chest, flowing to every inch of his body, and his body was indescribably comfortable.

The colorful little snake saw that someone was coming again, and opened its mouth to bite, and the black shadow stretched out its hand at will, and an incandescent arc popped out from between its fingers, hitting the little snake, and the little snake suddenly flashed with lightning and fell from the ancient tree...... The black shadow dropped the thunder and hung it on the ancient tree, and then it shot out in a flash, and disappeared into the vast night.

"Hey, ...... you," Thunderfall cried out, reaching out to grab the black shadow, where to catch it. Looking at the vast darkness in front of him, Lei Luo couldn't figure out what was going on. This series of events is long and complicated to narrate, but in fact, it is only a matter of a moment, Lei Luo sat on the ancient branch blankly, stunned - all this cannot be explained by common sense.

Who is that black shadow? Why did you save yourself? Is his longitudinal figure the legendary light skill?

I don't want to think about it, what matters now is to pick the flowers, and if I don't do it again, I'm afraid it's going to wither. Thunderfall cautiously crawled towards the flower, this ancient tree did not know how many years it had grown, although it was only three or four meters long, it was so thick and strong. Thunderfall rode on the trunk of the overflowing tree, carefully stretched out his hands, and plucked the flowers. The flower was by no means any of the flowers that Lei Luo had ever seen, although it had left the ancient tree, there was a faint halo on the surface of the flower, and the halo was warm to the touch, like an electric current......

Lei Luo took out a burlap pocket from his trouser pocket, put the flowers in his pocket, and then put the pocket around his neck with a rope, and prepared to climb down the mountain wall.

At this moment, at a glance, Lei Luo found that the roots of this ancient tree were faintly shining through. This is a strange thing, could it be that there is a cave at the root of the ancient tree? A strong curiosity drove Lei Luo to find out.

Lei Luo climbed the ancient tree, climbed to the mountain wall step by step, came to the root, reached out and probed, and found that the ancient tree actually grew out of a crack in the stone. Because of the age, the stone crevices were covered with moss, and they hung down, covering the stone crevices tightly.

"Isn't this the viper's lair in this crevice?" said Lei Luo, "the viper was killed by that strange man, and it would be a windfall if he could find a nest of snake eggs." Thinking about it, Lei Luo brushed away the moss in front of him with his hand.

The crack in the stone was two feet wide, and the thunderbolt turned sideways, so that he could get into it. In the depths of the stone crevice, there was a faint trace of fluorescence, and Lei Luo couldn't help but think of the light on the poisonous snake's body, and said in his heart, it seems that in the depths of this stone crevice, there must be the lair of the poisonous snake.

Thinking of this, Lei Luo retreated again, what if there were poisonous snakes inside?

Thousands of meters of cliffs, dark nights, bold teenagers, if there is no fluorescence, thunder this step, will unveil, is the dust of the history sealed in the long river of years.

Just when Lei Luo wanted to retreat, the faint warmth in his chest appeared without warning, and what was even worse was that the warm current in his chest actually echoed the fluorescence in the cave...... A strong impulse pulled Lei Luo, and with a horizontal heart, Lei Luo stepped into the stone crevice.

When I entered the crevice, I found that the roots of the ancient tree were all under my feet, and they stretched deep into the crevices of the mountain—what kind of life was this? Thunderfall stepped on the root of the tree and walked slowly inside.

This mountain crack is getting wider and wider, and after walking dozens of steps, a narrow bluestone road has appeared, and the faint fluorescence I saw before is at the end of the bluestone road.

The old roots of the ancient tree are still there, but they have retreated to both sides of the mountain crevice, and they are growing tenaciously along the mountain wall. Lei Luo stepped cautiously, his palms were full of sweat, and the closer he got to the fluorescence, the more intense the strange feeling in his heart became.

Closer, the crack in the mountain was about five feet wide, and Lei Luoxin walked in without feeling suppressed at all, but the apprehension and tension in his heart were even stronger. Looking up, there was a mountain wall in front of him, and the old roots of the ancient trees that had receded on both sides of the mountain just now spread back along both sides, and finally converged and entangled on the mountain wall in front of him. When I looked closely, in the center of the tangled roots, a long strip of things was faintly glowing. The fluorescence seemed to be alive, and it spread to the roots of the tree, flowing slowly on the long old roots of the ancient tree, until it flowed to the ancient tree outside the cave......

Before, I saw the ancient trees on the cliff blooming with brilliant flowers that shimmered with fluorescence, which really made Lei Luo tremble, but now that I think about it, the faint fluorescence naturally comes from the long strip of things on the mountain wall in front of me. The question is, what is this thing, is it poisonous, is it dangerous?