Immortal wind and deceit: the secret scriptures of the seven chapters of Xuanjun at the beginning Chapter 019 The killing intent, the dragon and snake rise to the ground
Chapter 019 The killing intent, the dragon and snake rise to the ground
Climbing down this mountain is not much easier than climbing up.
In fact, the two of them walked down the mountain path made by their predecessors, and actually connected directly to the huge stone path pressed out by the snake.
On the side of the stone path close to the mountain, there was actually a stone stack made of stone frame wood. The two of them did not understand the significance of the existence of this stone stack at first. As a result, before they reached the halfway point, the snake climbed up again.
He came up and curled up on this stone path to rest.
Wu Qiudao took the calico cat and hid in the stone stack. He watched the snake's body, which was dozens of meters thick, breathing and rising less than two meters away from them. Fragrant mucus was secreted from the gaps in its scales.
It also grew many trembling snake hairs.
Snake-haired horse horns are rare in the world!
The calico cat couldn't help but be curious, and took a sharp knife to cut off a piece of snake hair. I don't know whether it was a coincidence or too sensitive. The snake seemed to have been poked by a needle, and it quickly moved through the stone path, causing a stir in the stone path.
Strong wind.
Wu Qiudao quickly pressed the calico cat under him and firmly grasped the wooden railing with his hands to prevent the two of them from being blown away by the wind.
After this fright, the calico cat no longer dared to touch or move around, and only clung tightly to the corner of Wu Qiudao's clothes.
On the stone stack, a small stone statue will appear at intervals, wearing a robe and holding hands together.
Wu Qiudao asked curiously: "What is this?"
"This, it's the Taoist God, it's the one who blesses travelers a safe journey," the calico cat explained.
It turns out that in the ancient times of the Xia Dynasty, there was a custom of worshiping the God of the Road. The Daozu God is also called the Dao God, the Ancestor God, the Xing God, the Lu God, and the Lutou God. In the Zhou rites, the Xing God has a very high status, and is even the Seventh Sacrifice of the Emperor and the Five Princes.
One of the objects of worship.
"When we reached the Yishui River, our ancestors took the road and built it at high altitude. Jing Ke sang in harmony, which was the sound of change and conquest."
"Historical Records" refers to the activities of ancient people in the pre-Qin Dynasty who traveled far to worship the ancestors of Taoism.
When Jing Ke was leaving to assassinate the King of Qin, Gao Jianli and Prince Dan sent him to the bank of Yishui River. They first offered sacrifices to the road god, and then held a banquet. Gao Jianli played musical instruments and Jing Ke sang, leaving behind the allusion "The wind is rustling and the Yishui is cold".
As for who this Taoist god is, there are different opinions. According to "Historical Records", it is Leizu, the concubine of the Yellow Emperor.
"During the emperor's parade during the Zhou Dynasty, Yuan's concubine Leizu died on the road, and the emperor worshiped her as the ancestral god."
This means that the Yellow Emperor toured the country with his concubine Leizu of Yuan Dynasty. Leizu died of exhaustion on the road because she taught people how to sericulture, so the Yellow Emperor worshiped her as the "ancestral god" of the Xia, that is, the god who guaranteed safe travels.
After listening to the explanation of the calico cat, Wu Qiudao's first thought was that the calico cat was indeed a child of an official family. His Chinese education was so good at a young age, and he would be a goddess of academic excellence in future generations.
The second thought was that this is indeed the site of the ancient kingdom of Xiling. Lei Zu’s figure kept appearing on the way to the Xiling Crypt. The density was so dense that it gave Wu Qiudao a bad premonition. Could Lei Zu be this copy?
The boss?
Wu Qiudao asked: "I think this snake should often haunt this place. Someone even dug a stone stack here. In terms of time, it must be at least a year or two. How could you not know that there is a stone stack here?"
Where are the snakes infested?"
The calico cat pouted: "I don't know. I used to follow the team and only remember a few key road signs. The mountain road I took this time may be different from before. Plus, little brother, you are chasing me."
I followed the wolf and ran around to get here!"
Wu Qiudao nodded, and this snake looked very homely. It probably only went out to hunt for food, and usually squatted on the stone path of the mountain to rest.
In ancient times, the speed of information transmission was very slow, so there would be different winds in ten miles. If the mountain people who worshiped the Ba Snake here deliberately concealed its existence, a small group like Yaotong who was just passing by might not necessarily know that there was a Ba Snake here.
The cheap master probably knew about the Ba Snake, but Wu Qiudao thought that he couldn't defeat the Ba Snake, so he didn't let the medicine boys come to provoke it.
After climbing down the mountain, the calico cat turned around and looked around, then his eyes gradually turned red, and he cried loudly: "I... we are lost!"
So the two of them had to go back the same way and wandered in the mountains and forests for seven or eight days before finally reaching the Xiling Crypt.
Nowadays, both of them are unkempt and disheveled, but although Wu Qiudao is in rags and has a gray face, at first glance, people think that he must be a rich man living in the world, while the real calico cat from a rich family really just looks like a wild girl.
Wu Qiudao looked at the so-called "Xiling Crypt" full of potholes and asked curiously: "Where can I enter the crypt?"
The beautiful calico cat was still looking for a nearby water pool to wash her face. She raised her head and said: "You can enter at any entrance, because anyway, we are trying our luck when we go down to find silkworm spider eggs. The main thing is that we can come out."
So Wu Qiudao and the calico cat changed the drinking water in the water bag together, then randomly picked a pothole and jumped in.
The two of them brought a total of four torches, but Wu Qiu killed a lot of animals on the road, so they saved a big bag full of animal fat, and then picked up a dozen branches of suitable size and stored them at the entrance of the cave together with the fat.
If you run out of torches, come back and get them.
The cave is probably really connected in all directions. Even if they hold a torch, they are not afraid of using up the oxygen. Instead, there will be a breeze blowing in the cave, causing the flames on the torch to flicker.
After walking for two or three quarters of an hour, although there was ventilation in the cave, the cave was pitch black after all. It was too depressing to keep walking in silence like this. The calico cat suddenly said: "Brother, you know I'll cut it off."
Where is that snake hair?"
Wu Qiudao was watching the road and looking for silkworm spider eggs, and asked casually: "What kind of snake hair?"
The calico cat smiled and said, "It's the hair I chopped off from that snake. It's been seven or eight days and it's still moving!"
Wu Qiudao was stunned. He stopped and turned to look at the calico cat: "What? You didn't throw that thing away?"
"No, look, it's still twisting!" The calico cat put down his backpack and carefully took out the snake hair wrapped in a handkerchief. Sure enough, it kept twisting.
Wu Qiudao looked at this evil thing and felt a little scared: "Is it always moving so much?"
"No, it jumped very hard at first, but the further away from the mountain, the less active it became. But it started to become more and more active yesterday." The calico cat said, and the snake hair in her hand
He jumped so hard that he fell to the ground.
He was too active, he jumped to the ground! Wu Qiudao complained in his heart, and even felt his feet shaking! No! Why is the ground shaking?
The calico cat picked up the snake's hair and said excitedly: "Brother, it's so twisted now, it's almost the same as the day it was cut off!"
"Shh~" Wu Qiudao asked the calico cat to stop talking. He leaned against the stone wall and listened while saying, "There seems to be an earthquake, and it's getting stronger!"
There was a "rumbling" sound, and the two people's feet trembled for a while, and then Wu Qiudao saw a huge black pillar drilled out of the rock wall in front of him, gravel splashed, and fragrant mucus spread everywhere in the cave.
"F*ck!" Wu Qiudao's eyes widened and he shouted at the calico cat: "That snake is coming after me! Throw away that damn snake hair and run away!!!"