Sure enough, the master said, guess it, that's the big snake inside. According to Qin Bukong's own words, when the villagers saw a puff of black smoke rising from the mountain, he was actually looking for a snake, and what he was looking for was the poisonous snake that hurt people.

So I asked Master why he found Ganmu, and it wasn't it that bit people, and that there was such a powerful spell that could pinpoint which snake bit a person in a mountain, which was incredible. Master said yes, and when he heard it, he couldn't believe it. But later I learned that this Qin Bukong, in addition to being both witchcraft and Miao Gu, actually has quite attainments in the magic of Taoism and folklore, and magic is something between witchcraft and Taoism. For the people, many rules and regulations are not so important, after all, the common people seek the law, what they seek is only quick results, which has formed a sect of law and religion composed of many different names, they call themselves branches of Taoism, but in fact, many of them just borrow the name of Taoism, but what they do is the law and teaching.

And the technique used by Qin Bukong, according to his own words, is actually from our Taoist Zhengyi Yuan Emperor Sect, as I said just now, it has the name of Taoism, but it is more inclined to spells. And this set of spells is called the "Siege Mountain Method", and in the Jiangnan area, because of the relationship between dialects, it is also called the "Hoop Mountain Method".

Master said that the so-called "hoop" literally means to tighten and bind, and in the southern dialect, it also means "to restrain and make it immovable". Qin Bukong originally took the mountain as the range, and within this range, he cast spells on the mountain, and then tightened it from all sides towards the center, feeling like squeezing toothpaste, forcing those things that were hidden on the mountain and what he wanted to capture to himself, and then surrendering to him.

However, when Qin Bukong was practicing the method of encircling the mountain at that time, all the snakes in the entire circle gathered in front of him, according to his own words, there were only a few hundred of them at that time, and each of them was hovered in front of him, with his head on the ground, in a state of submission. But Qin Bukong will not kill innocents indiscriminately, he only needs to find the source of this incident, and the rest will be released into the mountains and forests. When he gave the order to let the biting snake stay and the rest dispersed, he found that in addition to this poisonous snake, there was also a large yellow and white snake.

Master said that at that time, Ganmu was not as big as it is now, but almost a third smaller. Generally speaking, a snake that looks very thick is thought to be a python. But in fact, pythons and pythons, like snakes, are two subcategories in the big category of snakes, and the biggest difference between snakes is that the first two are very huge, and there are pythons and pythons, both of which are non-venomous snakes, they rely on the huge strength of their bodies to strangle their prey, rather than killing each other with venom.

So at the moment, Qin Bukong didn't understand, thinking that he was surrounding the mountain with the poisonous snake that harmed people, why did he leave a non-poisonous "python"? So I was curious, and when I took a closer look, I realized that Ganmu was not a python, but a snake. It's just that it's huge, about the same size as a python.

I asked Master, then why did Qin Bukong judge like this? How did he recognize it, what a humiliating thing it would be to be treated as a snake if someone was really a python. Master said, I see that you and Ganmu seem to have a lot of harmony recently, haven't you noticed that although the pattern on Ganmu's back is light, it can distinguish between yellow and white. But judging from the pattern of the pattern and the shape of the snake's head, it is obviously a highly poisonous red snake.

I couldn't believe it, because although I hadn't seen many snakes with my own eyes, I knew from some books that the color of the red snake was red and black, or black and chestnut, and there was a white and yellow space. Master said that this is why Qin Bukong would have thought that it was a python and not a snake at that time, but if you count it carefully, the patches on the whole body are divided into forty-eight sections, and the alias of the red refining snake is called "forty-eight sections". It is very likely that it is a discoloration caused by individual mutation or other reasons, so the color is different from its peers, and it is much larger.

Only then did I believe that I had been murdered by Ganmu countless times earlier, and from that large mouth, although there were sharp fangs up and down, it was not poisonous fangs, but on both sides of its snake hyacinth, there were two things similar to spouts, so that it was really a red snake.

Master went on to say that Ganmu was also coiled there at that time, and Qin Bukong had seen the wounds of the bitten person before going up the mountain, and there was only one wound, and the size was not the bite mark of a big snake, so he immediately concluded that this move was not Ganmu's doing. So he walked to Ganmu's side and ordered it to leave on its own, saying that it was not easy to cultivate such a huge amount, and that he should live carefully in the future, so as not to be seen or taken away.

I snorted coldly in my heart, I always felt that these words were added by Qin Bukong when he said them to my master, according to my understanding of him, although this person is not a great traitor, but he really doesn't have such a good heart. But I've heard what he's saying from somewhere else. It is said that some animals will cause some individual mutations because of their unique growth environment, and this part happens to be relatively easy to achieve positive results, but the hardships to be experienced will be more than those of the same kind. This is what ordinary people often say, "become a fine".

Over the years, it has been common to hear legends about these strange things, such as where it rains heavily and when it thunders, a large snake is killed. Another example is an earthquake somewhere, and a giant rat is crushed to death underground. Another example is where the root of the wall has fallen, and a dead large centipede is found inside. The old people often sigh and say that this is an unsuccessful catastrophe and cannot be ranked in the immortal class. It is not difficult to find that all these rumors have one thing in common, that is, these animals found are very huge.

As a result, for a long time, everyone has been accustomed to thinking of this huge individual animal as having a spiritual path, and that it is more advanced than its own kind. What Qin Bukong said at the beginning, assuming that he really said it, then he must have been based on such considerations.

The master continued, but after Qin Bukong said this, Gan Mu just looked up at him, but he still didn't leave. Qin Bukong felt very surprised by the scene in front of him, so he looked at Ganmu carefully, but he didn't know why, Ganmu actually raised his head to look at him, and tilted his head from time to time. In the end, Qin Bukong felt that maybe it was because Ganmu was much older than his peers, so he couldn't integrate into his own group, but he was not a python and couldn't fit in, so he could only survive alone and be lonely all the time. Aren't these situations a true portrayal of yourself?

I stopped talking, vaguely guessing that there would be such a layer. Qin Bukong probably didn't have such a big beard thirty years ago, that is to say, his weird mouth should have brought a lot of inconvenience to his life, at least most people in the village would not regard him as his own kind, even if others respected him on face, behind his back, they still treated him as a monster. From this point of view, Qin Bukong is indeed the same as Ganmu, although he is in his own group, he has always been excluded.

Master said, so at that time, Qin Bukong pointed to his bamboo basket, and then patted the edge of the bamboo basket, and used some sound to guide Ganmu, meaning to ask it if it was willing to go into the bamboo basket to follow him, originally he did this only tentatively, and he didn't plan to try a few more times, but Ganmu was unexpected, obediently climbed into the bamboo basket.

This can be regarded as a kind of fate, in the dark, it seems to be so coincidental, and it is so strange. Since then, Gan Mu has been following Qin Bukong, becoming more and more humane, and now thirty years have passed, getting along with people day and night, except for not being able to speak, after all, the brain is a snake, the rest are more advanced than the same kind I don't know how many times. And Qin Bukong thinks that letting it walk the world with him can be regarded as accumulating cultivation, and if he really becomes an immortal in the future, it will also be a merit.

Later, he named the snake "Ganmu", and in their local area, the two adjacent Miao villages may have had a slightly different language, and according to the Miao language in his own village, "Ganmu" means "partner".

It wasn't until today that I learned about Ganmu's background, and it wasn't from Qin Bukong's mouth, but from what Master told me. This story does make people feel unspeakably embarrassed to me, but what Qin Bukong did to Ganmu today really didn't mean to be a partner.

So I asked Master, what about the villager who was bitten? What happened next. Master said that Qin Bukong told him that the next morning, the poisonous snake whose tongue had been cut off had really turned into a pool of blood, leaving only a layer of snake skin hanging on the snake bones. The person who was bitten also began to recover very obviously, his leg was no longer so swollen, and the bleeding was no longer black blood, but the yellow-white liquid that was recovering, and then continued treatment, and it would be all fine in a few days. And after Qin Bukong saved people, he took off the seven-inch bone of the poisonous snake and used it for spells.

I asked Master, what kind of spell requires the seven-inch bone of a snake? He didn't know what the master said, Qin Bukong didn't say it himself, and he wasn't embarrassed to continue to ask, but according to Qin Bukong's methods that he had secretly observed later, he found that many of them were indeed related to snakes, so he guessed that the seven-inch bone should have been used by Qin Bukong to refine the snake Gu, and it was very likely that it was what he put in the Gu bell.