033, Jiang Ben Shenguo
During the trip, Xuanyuan asked Bai Rongjiao, if he returned to Taotangqiu Cave Heaven in the future, what would he want to do the most? Bai Rongjiao was no longer the ignorant demon he was at the beginning, and after thinking about it, he replied: "I have eaten all the birds and beasts in the cave sky, if I encounter the same genus and species in the world, I will get them back and let them relive and reproduce." www.biquge.info There are still some plants and trees that have been destroyed by me, and some of these varieties have disappeared in the sky, and if you encounter the same in the world, you will try to transplant them back. ”
This answer made both Huwa and Xuanyuan quite satisfied, in fact, they knew a certain metaphysics of opening up the cave sky, and Bai Rongjiao at least knew about it. Xuanyuan and Huwa originally planned to visit the ancient hidden caves, but because Xuanyuan accepted Bai Rongjiao as a mount, they did not continue for the time being, and took Bai Rongjiao to the other eight hills in the nine hills of Bayuan, and the last place was the black and white hills.
When he went from Shenmin Hill to Heibai Hill, flying over the East China Sea, Bai Rongjiao sighed: "It's so big!"
Xuan Yuan smiled: "Actually, it's already a lap smaller than before." ”
The black and white mound is on the south bank of the Dajiang River outside Baichuan City, which was originally only a few dozen miles away from the East China Sea. When the East China Sea was at its most extensive, of course, it was the years when the Great Flood broke out, which stretched for more than 1,000 miles, and the Black and White Hill was submerged by the flood at that time, and only one mountain tip remained. Later, when the flood waters receded, the Fangfeng clan split a new waterway in the Wuyun Mountains with a slashing blade, and the area of the East China Sea was slowly decreasing, and now the shore is about 100 miles away from the black and white hills.
In later generations, there was no East China Sea in Bayuan, but the East China Sea was still there at this time, and it gradually disappeared as the waterways in the Wuyun Mountains were continuously eroded, eroded and widened, and the East China Sea residents surrounded the lake and hoarded fields. The East China Sea disappeared more than 2,000 years later, and it is still a vast lake, which of course amazes Bai Rongjiao.
Taking Bai Rongjiao around Ba Yuan is to instruct and teach her a lot of things on the spot, although it can also be taught with the Divine Mind Heart Seal, but after all, Bai Rongjiao has broken through the cage of heaven and earth and entered a new world, and he does not have the kind of cognition that others are accustomed to. It would be better for her to see the people and explain the changes in the world at any time.
Flying across the East China Sea and entering the Black and White Hill Xianjia Cave Mansion, the ruins of the ancient Kui Long who died in the Heavenly Punishment are still there, and Bai Rongjiao was also startled. The tiger baby had already refined a secret treasure similar to the Rune of the Void, handed it to Bai Rongjiao for protection, and came directly to the Dongting Immortal Palace through the space passage created by Taihao.
Three months ago, when Xuanyuan ascended, the tiger baby sent out all the heirs in the fairy palace, and now they are recalled again, and Bai Rongjiao is introduced to the same family, including the tiger baby's mount Qingniu. Huwa and Xuanyuan left Bai Rongjiao in the Dongting Immortal Palace, and told her to live a good life and cultivate steadily, and then she could go to Kunlun Immortal Realm to find other fellow disciples, especially Ao Guang.
Ao Guang is a black fish in the East China Sea into a demon, and later broke through the Yangtze River waterway when he was reborn as a dragon, and he has also witnessed the ocean, he and Bai Rongjiao's experience in some aspects is more similar, and the two can also better communicate with each other. In fact, there is also a water tribe demon cultivator in the Dongting Immortal Palace, which is Yuli. Yunli is still the god of water, but his cultivation has just broken through to Dacheng, and he can't be compared with Bai Rongjiao.
Leaving Bai Rongjiao in the Dongting Immortal Palace, Huwa and Xuanyuan left again, and they came to the shore of the ocean between the big river and the Huaishui estuary. This area was called the land of Dongyi in ancient times, and the Huaxu clan from which Taihao was born was born here, and later Taihao was respected as the leader of the alliance by various ministries, which gave rise to the Chinese saying, and then the Chinese Son of Heaven was the lineage of the Qingdi.
When Shaowu claimed to be an angel and wanted to canonize Ba Jun in Lu Zhang, he once called himself "After Taihao, a member of the Shaodian clan", and today's Chinese Son of Heaven actually calls himself this way. Because both the lineage of Emperor Yan and the lineage of the Yellow Emperor claim to be the descendants of the last Qingdi Shaodian, inheriting the orthodoxy of the Son of Heaven of China. Therefore, the Dongyi area is the earliest area for the development of agricultural civilization.
Today, the core area of the Chinese Empire has been transferred to the Central Plains, and its territory has continued to expand to the west and south, but this area is still a densely populated area, full of pastoral areas, and connected by cities and villages. Of the thirty-two immortal caves that Taihao had told Huwa, the largest one was here.
Taihao also didn't say what the name of this cave was or what the situation was now, he just handed it over to the tiger baby to open the portal. Huwa suspects that this cave may have been opened by Taihao himself. In Taihao's era, many ancient immortals had nowhere to soar, and tried to create the so-called "fairy world" on their own in the world, leaving caves everywhere, didn't Taihao himself try?
The process of opening up the cave can also confirm the cultivation, for example, after Shennong achieved the true immortal, he went to the lower realm again, and opened up the small world of Shenpugang to cultivate various spiritual plants. Huwa hadn't heard of where Taihao had opened up the Cave Heaven Enchantment, maybe there was, but he didn't say it.
The cave here is in the land of Dongyi, where Taihao grew up, and the scale is so large, it is likely that Taihao opened up it for sealing and cultivating. But whether this is the case, the tiger baby can only guess blindly, maybe after entering the inside story, you can learn more about it. The scale of the cave here is not as big as the small world of Shenfugang, with a radius of about three hundred or less than four hundred miles, but it is also quite large!
On the plain there is a mountain range that extends into the ocean, and the mountains are flanked by dense people. However, in this era, no matter how prosperous the area, there are still large areas of mountains and wilderness in the suburbs, and the distribution of people is much sparser than that of later generations. The mountains and wilderness of this kind of place are rarely infested with powerful beasts and monsters, and often become a place for nearby villagers to chop wood, collect medicine, and hunt.
And in the depths of the mountains with steep terrain, it is also inhabited. Huwa and Xuanyuan came to the deep mountains, where the blue waves in the ocean could be seen from the top of the peak. The two of them fell into the valley, their figures suddenly disappeared, and they opened the portal of the cave and entered.
The first feeling of entering the cave was that he was in the wrong place, as if this was not the land of Dongyi, but the depths of southern Xinjiang.
At this time, the climate of the Great River Basin was warmer than that of later generations, while the Central Plains to the south, especially after crossing the Great River, the climate was humid and hot, barren and dense, infested with poisonous insects, and unsuitable for human habitation. After the defeat of Jiuli, they migrated all the way south and south, and finally entered southern Xinjiang, because it was a place that no one wanted to go in ancient times.
Now, after hundreds of years of reclamation and the vicissitudes of life created by various opportunities, the five major tribes of Li Min and the Baiyue tribes have transformed the place where they are located more and more suitable for human habitation. But in many other places, especially in the deeper parts of southern Xinjiang, the environment is still harsh.
After Huwa and Xuanyuan entered the Cave Portal, the surrounding area was a humid and sultry swampy area, the muddy water was covered with rotten branches and leaves, and the corpses of beasts stuck in the mud could be seen, with occasional bubbles in the mud, and the air was filled with a smell of decay.
There is a lot of wet soil outcropping out of the swamp, and the vegetation is very lush, and even the water has a lot of plants. There are many rattans hanging down from the tall plants, and the sun is not visible when you look up, and the air circulation is very poor. Not far ahead, there was a pale pink mist, and since there was no wind in the forest, this mist did not flutter, like a still veil, almost imperceptible, a poisonous miasma.
After entering the portal, the foothold was quite dry, it looked like a platform exposed to the swamp, and it was paved with square stone slabs, and these stone slabs were also full of cracks, covered with dead branches and leaves, animal feces, and bones, and there was simply no place to put their feet, and Tiger Baby and Xuanyuan were suspended in the air.
It is clear that there were buildings here, and judging by the rubble scattered on the platform and in the swamp next to it, there was once an arch built above. The arch was not damaged by external forces, but collapsed by the erosion of time, the entanglement of vines, and the erosion of weathering. This place looks like an abandoned place, but Huwa was surprised: "This cave still has a heritage. ”
When he came in, he had a feeling that the Immortal Family Cave Heaven Enchantment here was not ownerless now. In fact, as long as he is not the one who opens up the Cave Heaven Barrier with his own hands, he cannot be regarded as the master of the Cave Heaven in the full sense, and he is just getting his inheritance. The tiger baby only got the inheritance of opening the door from the Taihao Heavenly Emperor, if you re-refine this cave heaven enchantment, you can also completely control it, just like re-refining an artifact, but it is much more difficult than re-refining an artifact.
Tiger Doll is obviously not the only one who has obtained this Cave Heaven Inheritance, and there are still people here who control the Immortal Cave Heaven Enchantment, which makes Tiger Doll feel very strange. Because Emperor Taihao told him about this place, it was because the cave heaven here has been hidden in the world for a long time, and it has long been unknown.
There was a rustling sound on the surrounding trees and vines and among the rotten leaves in the swamp, and with a flick of his fingers, the invisible coercion was released, forcing all the approaching poisonous insects back, and the surroundings were quiet again. She obviously didn't like the environment here, and wrinkled her nose slightly and said, "Let's go out and have a look first." ”
The two cast a spell to break away the canopy and vines, and flew into the sky, and the tiger baby unfolded the immortal divine sense and looked at it, which further confirmed her previous judgment. This cave is not only inherited to this day, but also continues to be opened, for the tiger baby, now it is just a portal that can enter and exit, and the portal that can communicate with the outside world seems to have been forgotten.
Emperor Taihao told Tiger Wa that the scale of this cave was about more than 300 li in radius and less than 400 li, and now that Huwa had sensed it by unfolding the Immortal Divine Sense, the scale was close to 500 li in circumference. In ancient times, the so-called square circle roughly referred to the length of the side of the square or the diameter of the circle, that is, its area was almost doubled.
Of course, this is not a mistake by Emperor Taihao, it can only show that this cave was later opened up and expanded. Nearly five hundred miles in the Cave Heaven Enchantment, about one-third of the place, is the kind of barren and dense forest infested with miasma and poisonous insects, just on this side close to the Cave Heaven Portal, not to mention that it is not suitable for habitation, it is impossible for ordinary people to go deep even if they want to.
Leaving this area, the rest of the cave is a patch of hills and mountains, distributed with valleys, and there are actually inhabited villages in the distance. The buildings here are very primitive, with stone as the wall, wood and straw curtains on top of it, which looks very simple, but the houses are very high, almost more than three zhang.
Tiger Baby and Xuanyuan quietly flew closer to take a look, and found that the residents here had strange appearances, not ordinary humans. They have thick black body hair, adult men are about two feet tall, and women are also five or six feet tall, compared with ordinary people, the proportions of their bodies are very strange, and they have a pair of short legs, even shorter than ordinary people's legs.
With such a tall stature and such short legs, of course, the walking speed is relatively slow. But these people's arms are surprisingly long, and they can touch the ground without bending down, and ordinary people's arms are divided into two sections, the upper arm and the forearm, while their arms are three, and they are more flexible in all directions.
If you look closely, it is actually the wrist bones of these people that look different from ordinary people, not a piece but a long one, forming the third segment of the arm. Obviously, this is a demon clan, and it seems that it has been breeding in this closed cave heaven barrier for a long time, and many generations have passed.
All kinds of demon clans, the tiger baby has seen a lot, even the feather people with wings on their backs, the tiger baby has also seen two different genera and species in different places, and their origins are generally clear. The demon clan is the descendant of the demon king of the transformation realm, but it retains some of the characteristics of the original body of the monster. Their ability to reproduce is very limited, and the formation of demon clans is often due to the combination of close relatives between brothers and sisters, and usually does not last long.
It is the first time for Huwa to see such a large-scale demon community, there are dozens of villages in this cave Tianshan wilderness, with a total of 7,000 people, which can almost be called a small country.
The people here speak the same language as the outside world, but the pronunciation is very different. Even if it is the same language, if the pronunciation habits are different, it will be difficult to understand, but it is also difficult to help true immortals such as Huwa and Xuanyuan, who have gone around in various villages and learned the special "dialect" here.
Although there are more than 7,000 demon clans here, distributed in dozens of villages, there are no market towns or city outlines here, and there is no concept of currency, and they don't seem to need these, only occasionally there are some exchanges of barter.
But they believed in the gods, and every day when they returned to the village after their work, they would bow down to a circular platform in the center of the village, as if to pray or perform some kind of ritual, and put food on the platform. After this ceremony, the village leader will distribute the food to everyone. After eating, people danced around the platform, waving their long arms and pounding their short legs, and singing songs of chirping and wa-wah.
There are large fields around the village, but the crops they grow are different from other places, and the tiger baby has only been seen in the small world of Kamibuoka. This grain is very nutritious and tastes good, but it is only suitable for relatively hot and humid environments, and it has a long growth cycle and low yields.
But there are only more than 7,000 people living in this cave within a radius of hundreds of miles, and they do not pose much of a threat to survival, and they have opened up enough fields to grow this kind of grain to cover their stomachs. In addition to this, they also collect the shoots of various plants for food, even insects, and occasionally hunt.
Mastering the language used by these people, through their conversations, Huwa and Xuanyuan also learned that this demon clan called itself "Jiang Ben", which seemed to have no specific meaning, just a name or a pronunciation.
The Jiang people didn't know how long they had been living here, in their consciousness, they had been living here, and they didn't know the outside world, or that the cave they could see was the whole world. Interestingly, the Jiang people also have the concept of "country", and they call this place the Jiang Ben Divine Kingdom.